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irlI Camerot UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA "While I Live I Urow" PUBLISHED WEEKL,Y BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.00 A YEAR. BOAlID OF EIlTl1O10%. I'dior-ih-'hi ef. J. M. WELLS (Clar.)Wilnington N. C. Managing Editor. J. C. KEARSE (Clar.).............Olar J. H. MARTIN............Fountain Inn Ixxixlill 8ifi'.q Alin yer. R L. BOWEN................Anderson (irculahwn Manager E. P. Hoi(;F.s.............Lancester Address all business con ImlUnications to the Business Manager; all others to the Editor-in-chief. 'ntered at Columbia, S. C. postoffice Novemb'er 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., January 23, 1917 WELCOME TO LEGISLATORS As we go to press we find it possible to include in this weeks circulation a copy for each member of our Honor able General Assembly who is the guest of the Univer sity at Dinner today. We welcome you to our campus and hope you will see our University as it actually is in everyday life. Our wel fare and existence are in your hands. May this small phase of our campus life help you to understand and appreciate our great love for the institution. Just about a week more of grace. We consider Paderewski a man of great note. We would suggest that the basket-ball management secure an extra supply of uniforms for future occasions. "Slim" Mar tin came very near giving us too much of an exhibition on last Wednesday night. STUDENT ACTIVITIES With this week's issue the newv staff takes charge of THlE GAME COCK. We feel uIneqlual to the task bult will strive to the very best of our ability to keel) the paper upI to the high standard set by our' predecessors. This we cannot do wvithout cooperation and we take this opportunity of appealing to the student body as a unite andl as indlividluals for is not ours, it belongs to the stu dent body, we are only its repre sentatives. Make 'yourself in-! formally one of the staff, Jdok out for news, and bring, .it in, whether a two line personal or a front page story. Don't blame us until you have done your part to make the paper a success. While we are appealing for help and cooperation for THE GAMECOCK let us also say a word. for other campus activities. Mr. Reader, have yor done your part towards making the undertak ings of the student body a suc cess? If you take no active part do you back those who have? It is mighty easy to sit back and pick the other fellow's attempts to pieces, but it is a different proposition to get busy and do something yourself. As -a Uni versity we are judged from the outside by these activities. Do not sit by and listen or adhere to the criticism, but do your part towards remedying the defects. . 0 1 EXISTING CONDITIONS s Governor Manning in his inaug ural address made an appeal to the General Assembly for ipi provement in our school system. Statistics show how much we need improvement as compared with our sister commonwealths in the Union. The University of South Carolina needs improve ment more than some of the other units. Comparison may be odious but we cannot help draw ing the contrast between the great state universities of other states and ours. We know our State is not wealthy nor are many boys who enter the University but why should they be taken out of homes where comfort abounds and be denied even the necessities of life? Our honor able Brard of Trustees has plac ed our budget for the coming year before the Committee on Education. No one who is famil iar with conditions can claim their re(uests exorbitant. Our buildings are in such a condition that we cannot even go to bed knowing that the plastering over head will remain "staid put.'' Many have had their night's rest so broken and their lives endangered. Oftimes we are compelled to study w\rapped in overcoats either because we have not the time to spare from our work to haul coal up to the third story or because a small tire place is not sufficient to heat a large room. In our gymnasium we are con fronted wvith similiar conditions. We have a compulsory physical training course and absoluiitely no equip)m nt to take it with. In taking our baths we are constant ly filling our feet with splinters. Let's wake up and make known conditions to the honorable mem hers of our General Assembly andl( hun them rmedied. e.c MOUNTAIN tops seen in a mist. a mountain o' kroul pears in a cloud o' Velvet smoke. SHORTIl Shorthand and Bookkeeping are the Ste and to the big positions with big pay. The opens up to you the quickest, shortest ani advancement and promotion to the manageria with the large saleries. 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