Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DR. TOMPKINS NAKES INTERESTING ADDRESS (CONTINUEUD FROM PAGE ONE.) will go completely to the devil or you will come back a big ger man than when you went in. It is a fight, fight, fight, to maintain your manhood. Are you going to be loyal to the principles for which your na tion and Jesus Christ stand. The men in the trenches are wanting to know about these three things, God, Jesus Christ, and eternal life. Are you go ing to be loyal to these three?" Dr. Tompkins closed by re lating the story of the old Frei:ch woman who wrote to l her son in Canada, saying "your four brothers have gone to the front. I'm not saying for you to come back, but if you don't 6 come now never come," and vi quoting the challenge of Josh ua "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve." Then appeal ed to the men to choose now to be loyal to Jesus Christ and his cause while there is need for it or never. CAROLINA SPEAKERS IN GENERAL FAVOR, Prof. E. Marion Rucker l spoke Friday night, November a; the Hopkins school. The following day Prof. Rocker ad dre3sed the first monthly meet ir g of the Calhoun County Teachers' Association at St. Matthews. Prof. Henry C. Davis will address the meeting of the Williamsburg County Teach ers' Association at Kingstree on Saturday, December 8: Prof. Victor E. Rector will speak before the Kershaw County Teachers' Association at its monthly meeting Decem ber 8. On December 14 he will speak at the Union School in Anderson County and on the following day at the Hopewell school in the same county. He will address the Dillon County Teachers' Association on Jan uary 26. President W. S. Currell ad dre;sed the Horry County Teachers' Association at Con way on November 24. PERSONALS J. A. Knight. LL.B. '17, coun-' ty .s iperintendent of education of Chesterfield County, saw the Gamecocks win Thursday. Lana Sims, who played star baseb ill and football at Carolina last year, attended the game last Thurs'lay. He is now with the coast artillery located at Charles ton. THE PROBLEM OF COLLEGE . STUDENTS. -BY Hon. Newton ). Baker, Secretary of War. (From the Patriotic News Service of the National Committee of Patriotic So cieties, Washington, D. C.) When 'the call to national service arose, spirited young men everywhere of coursej wanted to be employed in a patriotic way, and I suppose there is scarcely a young man in any college in the country who has not very anxiously ad dressed to himself the question, "What can I do." I think that there is no gen eral answer to this question. Even in those cases where it would be obviously better for a young man to stay at college and prepare himself for later and fuller usefulness, yet if the young man in so doing acquires a low view of his own courage, and feels that he was electing the less worthy course, the ef feet on the young man of that state of mind toward his own actions probably would be so predjudieial that it ought not to be encouraged. To the extent that the men in college are physically dis "tualified, or to the extent that they are too young to meet the requirements of the depart ment, it seems quite clear that in the present state of the emer gency their major usefulness iies in remaining in the college, going forward with their aca demic work. The knowledge that the students will acquire at college will equip them for subsequent usefulness if the! emergency lasts until their call comes. But we do not want to chill enthusiasm. We want to pre serve enthusiasm and cultivate it and use it; but we do want to be discriminating in our enthu siasm, and to prevent people getting the notion that they are not helping the country unless they do something different, which very often is not the case at all. The laigest usefulness may come from doing the same thing. Now, it is not unnatu ral that there should be these ebullitions of feeling, this de sire to change occupation as a badge of changed service and devotion to ideals. Our col leges can exercise a steadying influence in this regard. We are going to have losses on the sea; wve are going to. have losses in battle; our com munities are going to be sub jected to the rigid discipline of multiplied personal gr iefs scattered all through the com munity, and we are going to search the cause of those back' to their foundation, and our feelings are going to be torn and our nerves made raw.' There is a place for physicians of public opinion to exercise a curative impulse. The young men who are in our colleges, who go to their homes from our colleges and make up a very large part of the direction of public opinion, can exercise a :urative influence by preach-1 ing the doctrine of tolerance, by exemplifying the fact that it is not necessary for a nation like the United States, which is fighting for the vindication of a great ideal, to discolor its purpose by hatreds or by the ntertainment of any unworthy amotion. EUPHRADIANS MEET IN REGULAR SESSION The Euphradian Literary So !iety held its regular meeting Saturday evening in the society iall. The readers for the even-I ng were Coker and Lemon. Porcher, the extemporaneous ;peaker, spoke on the subject of "Our Debates." The query for the debate was, Resolved: That the members of the president's ?abinet should have a seat and voice in congress without a vote." Prioleau and Trotter up held the affirmative, McGowan isd Van Meter the negative. 'he decision was won by the negatiue. THE STATE BOOK STORE IS NEAREST TO YOU Carolina men are invited to drop in here for Pens, Pencils, Ink, Rul ers, Examination Pads, or anything in Stationery. We carry a stock of Fountain Pens and feature the two best lines made. WATERMAN'S IDEAL, THE CONKLIN AN) PARKER PENS We do Printing THE STATE BOOK STORE In the State Building The University Press Gives Work to Students. Ten Students now Em- l ployed. All Kinds of Printing The University Bulletins, The Gamecock, The Carolinian, Stationery, Cards. THlE CLEMSON AG;R1 South Carolina's School of FOURE YEAR D)EGREE COUJRSI Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, neering, Textile Engineering, A rchitc SIIORT CURSES-One Year Course in Textiles. Summer courses for farmers and oth For information regarding scholarshi W. M. RIG;GS. VISITING CARDS. 50 FOR 75c. 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