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Vol. X. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., JANUARY 16, 1917. No. 11. METHODISTS WON OPENIN CONTEST Hard Fought Game Goes to Wofford. Score 38 to 23. Long Shots by Visitors Respon sible for Victory. Waring and Talley Star. In a fast and exciting game, Wofford captured the initial con test of the Carolina basket ball season Saturday dight in the Uni versity Gymnasium by a score of 38 to 23. The game was hotly contested thruout and the Meth odists did not get away with as easy a victory as the score might indicate. The outstanding features of the contest were the long distance shots made by the Methodists,! Hines throwing a goal from the! middle of the court. Collins played well for Wofford and his work is worthy of mention. For Carolina, Talley at forward put up a neat exhibition, and Waring, altho in the game but a few min utes, did creditable work. The lineup: Carolina (23). Wofford (38). Bow?n R. F. Turner Talley L. F. Harris Martin C. Collins Sims L. G. Hines Fitzmaurice R. G. Hammond S. C. COLLEGE REORGANIZED 1835 Dr. Thomas Cooper resigned from the presidency of the col lege in 1833 and for one year fill ed the chair of chemistry to which he had been originally elected. Opposition, however, to his re maining was so strong that he was compelled to sever all con nection with the college. For months the cry was sound ed from the mountains to the sea, "'teorganize! Reorganize!" This W,111 done and the college opened in 1835 with a new faculty. A new chair, Christian Evidences, was added to counteract the rep uLation for atheism gained by the coilege because of Dr. Cooper's views. The holder of this chair was also to be chaplain. Francis Lieber was elected to the chair of History and Political Economy, an addition to the curriculum. Ion. Robert W. Barnwell was elected president. The college now rapidly recov ered and began to expand beyond its former size, so that new dor (cONTINUED ON PAUE TlRERR) GOOD GAMES FOR - I BASKETBALL YEAR Complete Schedule is An nounced for '17. P. C. Here Saturday, Clemson Jan. 24-Carol;na Five Hard at Work. The Carolina quintette is going thru stiff practice every after- t noon in preparation for the hard games to be played within the next month and a half. They. are improving every day and, Coach Foster is working won-, ders with the team. They were i defeated by Wofford last Satur day, but the Methodists will be( played again in February at' I Spartanburg and the Gamecocks < will have a chance to get re venge. PrEsbyterian Coliege will be E the opposing team for Saturday t night. The boys from Clinton I showed good form in their game I with Wolford and a hard fought I contest is expected. Clemson I will be played here next Wed- I nesday and the Citadel comes for their annual game in Feb ruary. Two trips will be taken < this season; the fist will be' through the upper part of South! Carolina and the other will end; the season with games with I Citadel and Charleston College i for their annual game after ex--I< aminations. The schedule in full follows: 1 Jan. 17. - Chas. College at Co-i lumbia. Jan. 20. --P. C. at Columbia. Jan. 24. -Clemson at Columbia. i Feb. 17.-- Citadel at Cohimbia. i Feb. 19.-Newberry at Newber ry. i Feb. 20.-Presbyterian College at Clinton. Feb. 21. Wofford at Spartan bu rg. Feb. 22.-Clemson at Clernson. I Feb. 28.-Newberry at Colum bia. March 2. .Citadel at Charleston. I March 3. - Charleston College at i Charleston. The University German Club and other members of the student body were the guests of the so ciety girls of Columbia at a de lightful dance, given on the night of the tenth at the Jefferson Ho tel. The dance began at 9:30. Sch umacher's orchestra furnish edl the music. At 1:30 the dance came to an end. Dr. and Mr's. Moore werei among the chaperons.b )ATES NAMED FOR I FORENSIC CONTESTS state Will Be Held at Rock j Hill May 14. ;everal Good Debates Arranged I for Graduates and Un dergraduates. The beginning of the second erm will usher in no less than hree inter-collegiate forensic -ontests and their accompanying >reliminaries. There will also; )e one intra-collegiate and the' iumerous intra-society cint sts. I The first in order is the "State < )ratorical preliminary'', to be( ield on March 12th. This isA >pen only to undergraduate stu lents. There is a medal offered )y the University to its repre i entative. The contest between he various state colleges will he eld at. Winthrtp College in Rock I -ill on April 20th. The men vho win first and second places espectively receive two of the nost handsome medals given i mnywhere in the state. The undergraduate triangubir< lebate is the latest contest to be tdded to our list. This is )etween Carolina, Cilemson and t he Citadel. The preliinii'ary vill be blil on March l6th and s open t titndergra:iiat st lents. Our regular triangular debate or which all students are eligible ias been somewhat changed this 7ear. Georgia has withdrawn mnd Florida has been secured to ake her place. The quie has I lot as yet been decided uipon oit LCcount of the delay caused by ,eorgia's withdrawal but the >reliminary will be held March 3rd and the contest on April'f 41st. Despite the death of the dona or, Mr. Robert E. Gonzales. of t :he medal for the best orator in :he University, the contest. will >e scheduled as usual. Tlhis nedal is to be continued it mem ry of 0111 ilustriouls alunminis. Phe contest will be held on May L4th and the preliminary as usual t short time before. altho the late has not been delinitely set 'led. The dates for the intra-society !ontests have not been decided pon1 but will he scattered thru he spring months. TIhese in ~lude declamat.ory, oratorical md debating medals for the best ndividual contestant in each 'OUNDERS HONORED BY THE UNIVERSITY knnual Occasion Was Great Success. 4oted Speakers Were Here. Afternoon Session Held in Chapel. The celebration of the one hun red and twelfth anniversy of 'ounders' Day on last Thursday ulminated in the address by :harles W. Dahney. president of he University of Cincinnati, on 'The South Renationalized," de ivered in the evening in the Hall f the House of Rvpresentatives. ;overnor Manning introduced he speaker. Dr. Dabney. who comes of an ild Virginia family. educated in he United States and Europe. a hemist and agriculturist of note, md formerly president of the Jniversity of Ten essee. is now )resident of the University of incinnat i, chairman of the con nittee of educators studying the ntiernal problems of Mexico. and iimself one of the for(most edii ators of* our cotuntr. "'My first thought as I stand(I ere. ,aid Dr. Dal evy, "is of he reat suvice wlich tfe Old ;outh (aroliia Collere has ren1 lered to the state and to the 1a ion." lie thell cailitld to iinId ()me of ari*a nia's tanu1101s s(Ils %ho wvere akers 44 hislrv in he past. "The second thing that im resses me as I stand here tiday s the wolderfil changes ti.at ave been wrouight ini South Car .i nasince the day: of theseg:ant s. outh Carolina is not only hack in he Union happy and free. but is aking a 1lace of jower and in luenee in the nation." 'T'his is rue o I the other Sout hern States Ls well as South Carolina. "Thru he villightelning m fiue ofe (e(dIi ation and the broadening x peri 11(( of indilstry, the South has >ec,omTe completely renational zed. I pet 1wople have become ational-minded rather than state ninded. "Our first duty as a retnational zed people is to nmintain our tmcient prinlciples, our loyalty md -levotion to home. cit . and tate. All national virtues and eirit.ies are fouinded on the haracter of the individual and he home. TIhe nation still needs he South, it still needs South nmrlina to keen it. true to the