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Vol,. X. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1917. No. 15. VARSITY BASEBAI ANNOUNCED I Thirteen Out of Nineteen Gai bia. All Others within Si Manager Kerr of the baseball team has given out the 1917 schedule of the Gamecocks, which includes nineteeen games, thir tcen of them to be played in Columbia. Every game will be played within the state because of financial difficulties which the athletic association has been up against. Contrary to custom the first games of the season will be play ed away from Columbia. The Gamecocks will travel through the Piedmont section, meeting Wofford and Newberry the latter part of March. The first half of April will find the team playing at home meeting some of the strongest teams in the South. April 16 and 19 the team will again be on the road, playing Clemson, Furman and Erskine .on their home grounds. The rest of the season will be in Columbia. The students are indeed fortunate in having so many of the games here. The schedule in detail i.s as foll6ws: March 30-Newberry at New berry. March 31-Wofford at Spartan burg. April 2 and 3 ---Clemson at Co lumbia. April 4--Furman at Columbia. April 6 -Newberry at Colum bia. April 11 and 12-Stetson at Columbia. April 16 and 17-Clemson at Clemson. April 18-Furman at Green ville. April 19-Erskine at Due West. April 21--University of North Carolina at Columbia. (Pending) Anril 23-P. C. at Columbia. April 28-Wofford at Columbia. April 30 and May 1--Guilford at Columbia. May 3 and 4 -Erskine at Co umbia. Captain Bowen to Play It has just been determined that Captain Bowen, of the bas ket ball team, will be able to play against Newberry tomorrow night. His finger will be put in a plaster caste. With all the regulars in the line up, look out, Newberry. CAROLINA V 1L SCHEDULE oY MANAGER KERR nes Scheduled to be in Colum tate. for Financial Reasons LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GUESTS OF UNIVERSITY Good Program Announced for First Annual Meeting March 14 and 15 The South Carolina Library as sociation will hold its first formal meeting on March 14 and 15 at Columbia. The University of South Carolina will play host and the meetings will be held either in the chapel or in Flinn Hall. An attractive program is being arranged, which will be publish ed in full later. There will be an address of welcome by Dr. Cur rell, a brief review of library conditions in the state by the president of the associat Ion, a pa per on the "The Problems of a (CONTINITI> q1N 1'AM.l: ,IN.) MID-WINTER (ERN MOST FESTIVI German Clubs Fancy Dress I tended by Large and One of the most delightful of the season's events was the Mid Winter German given by the Uni versity German Club last Tues day evening at the Jefferson Ho tel. Quite a number of visitors were in town for the occasion, and the gayly costumed couples waltzed around to the excellent music of Schumaker's Orchestra. The figures were led by "Dick" Kerr, president of the club, as sisted by Miss Mary Corlsar, of Rock Hill and Roger Heyward assisted by Miss Ch ait Ate Capes of Washington. Many varieties of costumes were displayed. In dians, Hawaiian dancers, Rain bows, Serving Girls, Trained Nurses were among the charac ters impersonated by the young ladies while the masculine forms were bedecked with styles rang ing from Summer to Winter, Irish Pat to Emperor William. A re freshing ice was served in the course of the evening. Among those (lancing were: Misses Fran ces Robertson, Grace Earle, Lila Mae Mimnuaugh, Louise and Eliz abeth Rucker, Lynn Richardson PaS N En WERRYgena LEGISLATURE GIVE UNIVERSITY F Appropriation Bill Gives Muct cluding Complete Ranc GAMECOCKS HAVE MOST DISASTRORS ROAD TRIP Championship Prospects Go Flying When Lose Four Straight Games The state championship pros pects were sadly depreciated when the basket ball team re turned last Friday after having lost four consecutive games on foreign soil. Ne wberry. Presby-! terian College, Wofford, and Clemson wN,ere the victorious quintets in order. The Game cocks could not get on to the small courts of the colleges play ed; and the condition of several of the men also added to the hard luck story. Newberry. The Lutherans had things al [AN SEASONS ENTERTAINMENT )ance at Jefferson Hotel At Enthusiastic Number of Greensboro, North Carolina, Lila Currell, Minnie Williamson, Charlotte Capers of Washington, D. C., Lorenzo Wannamaker, Dorothy Horne, Jane Tucker Fisher, Elmira de Graffenreid, Jacqueline Cooper, Sarah Cain, Gladys Cart of Orangeburg, Ada Hand, Mary Wilson of Rock Hill, Jessie Green, Katherine Bryan, Marion Fripp, and Messrs Kerr, Heywvard, Williams, Tomp kins, Hagood, Prioleau, Johnson, Moorman, ng,man, Coopier, Sim. rill, Gill, Moore, W. W., Moore, J. H., Moore, W. C., lenderson, Barton, Craw ford, Childs, Clark, Waring, R. I., Sims, W. C., Wy man, Langston, BrCwning, Cox, Brown, Wells, R., de Loach, W. B., de Loache, J. Bryan, Bla<k, J. B. and others. Among the chaperones were: Prof. and Mis. Moore, Prof. and Mrs. Oscar 1, Keith, Mr. and Mrs. J(ln 1. Sch uler, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Cay Mr. and Mrs. Will Murray, Mr. and Mrs. I ouis Murray, D r. and Mrs. William Weston, Mr's. Fischer and1 Prof'. and Mrs. Rucker. TOMORROW S $40,000 TO [R LAW BUILDING k Needed Improvements, In ,vation of DeSaussure After years of persistent ef fort, the University has at last been given tie funds with which to erect a law building. The leg islature, during its closing hours last week, finally voted $40,000 for this purpose, $20,000 of this amount to be paid this year, and a like amount next year. Along with this appropriation goes $14. )00 for the renovation of DeSaus sure College. From the time of its origin in the Ways and Means Committee ,f the House, until its final pas sage, the law school item had an uicertain career. The Senate at all times seemed to be favorably isposed toward the matter, ap parently realizing that the pas sage of the appropriation was a necessity. The House of Repre entativ,es, however, made sev eral attempts to kill the appro priation, and it was only the prospect or extending the session t[hat caused the lower houise to vield. Students and faculty alike are -reatly pleased v:ith this action >f the General Assembly. The meager accommodations now in ise have long been outgrown ind likewise have become alto gether out of keeping with the :lignity and importance of the law school. The one class-room ised by three professors, and fit ted with dilapidated desks, has become nothing less than an eye 3ore. The entire campus feels that the law-makers have render d the state a service in increas ing the facilities of the law de partment. sinie it will be possible o carry on a higher grade of work with the improved equip ment. There has been considerable liscussion among the students As to where the building should be located. Some think that the proper situation is the vacant lot belonging to the University on Lower Main street: while others -ontend that a better location would be on Gibbes Green. The prononents of the former situa Lion argue that the building on Mainl street would be an impres sive advertisement of the U11niver *dity; those favorinug the latter location hold that the lawv school NIGHT 8-30.