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Body)..Gramling GUY MEARES (Clar.).........Ft. Inn J. -1. BOULWARE (Euph.).. Winnsboro ROY McGEE (Clar.)..........Columbia D. S. POLIER (Ath.)............Aiker L. W. WEEKS (Euph.) .... Orangeburg S. M. HUNTLEY (Y. M. C. A.) Cheraw Columbia, S. C., Oct. 19, 1915. We are going to play Clemson a Riggorous game. It is a violation of law to Tip erary. The biggest bill that France has met is the Kaiser. Regjes regorum has got many a fellow's angorum. When anything occurs down in Louisiana they raise cane. The slickest trick that we ever bit on was okra. An insane person cannot con tract. How about a disease? The most uplifting person we have in mind is an elevator boy. The draw back to rook is that there are too many black hand deals. Yesterday, today was tomor row; tomorrow, today will be yes terday. Milk was well pasteurized the past year because of the grass crop. Laugh and the world laughs wvith you; cry and the world laughs at you. The files in the editorial room are used to sharpen the minds of the editors. We wonder what the Chinese wear at night, as they wear their pajamas in the day. You hardly ever see a class but what has a man who thinks he is spokesman for it. The objection to some lawyers' practice is that they practice on their clients. A freshman says that he is kept so busy meeting classes that he doesn't have time to study. Fite('s) College Algebra you say? Well don't let him do it, For his time will be thrown away And he'll surely rue it. PUBLIC SPEAKING Coach Edgerton, -in his talk College Night, offered to the presidents of the two societies a suggestion, which, if adopted, would increase the membership in each society and materially help the student body. His plan is that the faculty and trustees require each man, before grad uation, to make a public talk. Dr. Edgerton says this is requir ed at Davidson, and in their sophomore and junior years those who otherwise would not join a society take an active interest in preparation of their debut into the circle of public speakers. We believe this proposal should be adopted at the University, not because *we want to com pel men to join the societies, but because of the experience. The purpose of the University is to turn out men as nearly com on a par with the best trained men in the country, and head and shoulders, intellectually, above the average man. A man who cannot make a creditable speech fails when the test comes. Hle cannot present his facts nor a proposition, no matter how good, in the face of opposition. We know that one, two, or more public appearances by a student will not make fini-hed speaker. But to make a lecturer a man must start somewhere, sometime. The University is the place to make that beginning. Even the best society workers would profit by making an appearance before a new audience. We hope the University will adopt the suggestion. S ISU CLASS INSURANCE The members of the graduat ing class of 1916, at a meeting Monday, set on foot a movement looking toward the erection of a great movement to their class. Mr. Wade of the senior law class outlined a plan by which the graduates can donate to the University at the end of ten 'years, at which time the class will hold a reunion, a large sum of money to be used for what ever purpose the dlonors see fit to vote. The plan is to take out an endowment pnoc on a ong 1F ev'ry man's: him as well " name describes I know would the legislature. member of the classupto whatever amount can be raised, and make the institution the beneficiary of the policy. It was decided at the meeting that the amount"to bepledged by each man should not be over $5. This would be payable each year during the life of the policy. At the end of the tenth year, Should the insured be alive, the bene ficiary would receive the face value of the policy which would be used for whatever purpose the alumni of the class of 1916 elect. The class of 1915 at Furman adopted this plan and took out a policy of $5,000, costing each member $18.50. The class at Furman is mzuch smalleitr ini num ber than here, and if they can carry a policy of this size, there is no reason why Carolina should not hold one just as large and each man not pay more than $5. If the class of '16 carry out these plans they will do them selves great honor and establish a precedent, which, if followed, would place their alma mater on a firm financial position. The value of the policy may be used to endow scholarships, to erect a new building, to establish a new chair, or numerous other depart ures. If each class for four years, the college life of a man, will carry $5,000 policies, at the ma turity of the last there will be a sum of $20,000 raised by the members of the four classes, a sum that can be raised from the present student body. A class cannot do itself more honor, or do the college more good than by having issued an endowment insurance policy. It will not take ten years to reap benefit from this undertaking. 'After a few years the loan value on the policy will amount to a big sum. The instrument may be used as security for a loan. The names pinned on at the reception were just pin names, you know. -91 name described as VELVET'S it, a lot of folks 0 be applyin' to BARBER SHOP Why not patronize the two best equipped Barber Shops in the City? 603-4 Nat. Loan & Ex. Bank Bldg. Phone 1220 MAX FRIEDMAN. Prop. Jefferson Hotel Barber Shop J. S. DOWNEY. Mgr. Special Attention to Children's Hair Cutting OPEN ON SUNDAY 1345 Main St. Phone 372 The Savoy S. W. WESBERRY, Prop. 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