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d 'Oj r6a se eeo ri UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ry While I Live I Crow" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia, S. C. pogtoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. EDITORIAL STAFF H. L. JOHNSON ........ Editor-in-Chief G . A. BUCHANAN, .... Managing Editor BUSINESS MANAGEMENT J. C. KEARSE..... . Business Manager G. E. SHAND, JR..Asst. Bus. Manager H. G. STEADMAN.. Circulation Manager REPORTERS. H. R. EVANS, R.C. THOMPSON B. GETSINGER, it. WLNZTEAD A. B. MURCitSON, E. B. SMITH J. F. SUTHERLAND, J. P. WARDLAW Miss M. G. SLEDGE Columbia, S. C., Dec. 11, 1917 Ebitnrial! This may be the last issue of The Gamecock until . after the holidays. A Christmas editorial would be in order but it would as well wait. Meantime, merry Christmas. The Home for Girls. The petition that the executive committee of the board of trus tees of the University will make to the legislature asking appro priation of money with which to erect on the campus a dormitory for women students offers to the State an opportunity to do justice to this heretofore neglected insti tution. Aside from the fact that such a building would satisfy a strongly felt need, it is an un deniable truth that up to the time of the erection of Thornwell and Woodrow colleges and the subsequent provision for a law building and remodeling of De Saussure the appropriations of the legislature for the University have barely provided for main tenance. There has been no mon ey for extension in any depart ment. The authorities have al ways been forced to niggardly extremes to make allowances suf fice. Previous to the remodeling of l)eSaussure all the older dormi tories were in a state of delapida tion the roofs were leaky, the windowv sills andl floors were de caying, lplastering had fallen and dirt and grime covered every thing. And the conditions are practically the same today, save in the eastern end of D)eSaus.. sulre. The money that hns ben available for repairs has been used, so far as it would go, to re kalsomine walls, replace fallen plastering, and do general house cleaning in summer, never being sufficient for permanent improve ments. Yet the legislative committee of the general assembly has nev er failed to make its annual visit of inspection. Contrasted with' these condi tions at the University are the excellent provisions for Clemson and Winthrop. Ample funds are always available to carry on the work of their various depart ments. Their dormitories, it is said, are in excellent repair; their campuses are spanned with pav ed walks; their laboratories and libraries are modern and grow ing. In the case of Clemson, permanent provision is made for annual expenditures, and appro priations make up deficits. Win throp has been generously sup piied with means for all neces. sary additions, its greatest need at present being additional dor mitory space. The Gamecock would detract nothing from Clemson or Win throp. Both are doing valuable work-work the University could not do except at enormous ex pense. What the University would have is equally so gener ous support as is given other State institutions. The proposed home for women is a growing demand of the Uni versity. That the majority of girls who have been students here have resided in Columbia is due solely to lack of a suitable and reasonably priced home. The necessary expense at Carolina and Winthrop is approximately the same, and when a girl is turn ed away from Winthrop because of lack of dormitory room, or be cause she perfers training that Winthrop does not provide, her next choice would be Carolina. If the University has no dormi tory accommodations to offer she must go to a more exp 'nsive col lege, stay at home, or go outside the State. Winthrop is the only moderate ly priced girls' college in the State. Its literary standards are certainly not the equal of Con verse, Chicora, or the University, nor would its bachelor graduates be given the same rating at Johns Hopkins or Columbia University. Many girls go to Winthrop when if conditions would permit, they would perhaps choose Carolina or Converse. They want college training and can afford to spend only a limited amount for it. The appropriation, then of $75 000 for a home for girls would do two things: It would open to women a place that offers uni versity training not provided else where in the State. It would make amends, so far as that be possible, for pas neglect "What Matters It?" Contact with students in and out of the class room shows thai the bustle and change every where in evidence as result 01 war does not create an atmos phere suited for study. ThE work being done appears to bE of a most superficial nature, at tempted without enthusiasm. While every one realizes thai the work of the student should be undertaken with even great. er zeal than were we not pre paring for participation in the war the attitude in evidence i, one of pessimism-that it is on ly a matter of weeks beforE they too will be called into ser vice and that this probationary period may as well be gone through with as much ease as j possible. Everything is uncer tain except the imminence 01 the call to arms. Thg students who were here last year have not recovered from the demoralization re sulting when work was practi cally discontinued following departure in the spring of so large a number of the student body for various departments of service. The new student fell immediately into the same frame of mind. Now all are taking their ease together. "What matters it," say they, "if we get - a low grade?" "What matter if professors think us irresponsi ble? Our record here will help us little if we never return from field of battle. If we de return-well, we'll make a new one." But uncertainties are far from certain. It is the better policy to take the long chance and make industr:ious use of present opportunities. Even the supply store ap pears to be Hooverizing. We know several men who ought to be rated as coeds. * * * The term "Up in Arms" is misleading to say the least. * * * Congress is not-warming us, not-"eating" us and next it will be not-riding us. * * * We would like to have those Florence and Winnsboro lade with us for keeps. * * * TheC Chicora girls are unus Lally subdued this year. Are they knitting, too? * * * "Life is what we make it," should be revised to read: "Life is what she makes it." * * * Revolution is becoming care less of the company it keeps Mexien. Rnssa.n Pmr.nern WASH AT CAPITAL CITY The Big Laundry on Main Street . H. E. WESSINGER, Campus Agt. *. MENS' SHOES TO FIT We carry sizes and widths, and our salesmen know how tofit them Nethlar's, Hurleys and Educators THE BOOTERIE 1225 Green St. Phone 2162 "We 'Press for Men of 'Dress" J. W. BRUNSON Merchant Tailor Rates $1.00 Per Month J. S. PINKUSSOHN CIGAR .CO. The Oldest Tobacconist in Columbia College Mens Headquarters CIGARS, SODAS, POCKET BILLIARDS 1307.1309 Main St. The New .0.4 li" roadway : Open 11 a. m. to i p. m. For Coal and Wood Call Reamer Fuel. Co. Jellico Soft Coal JOHN SCHNEIDER Campus Agent Phones 3770, 3771 oE W A I T E R S' MENS I"Best Styles for Young Men" 1420 Main Street Columbia. S. C. THE UNIVERSITY BARBER SHOP Tenement 4, Room 3 (Opposite Law Building) Open D)aily from 2:30 to 61:30 P. MI. All tip-to-date Work Give Us A Chance "If we please you, tell your friends; if we don't ell nu.