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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA While I Live I Crow" PUBLISHHD WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. EDITORIAL STAFF J. H. MARTIN..........Editor-in-Chief G. A. BUCHANAN,....Managing Editor BUSINESS MANAGEMENT H. J. BLACKMON. .. . Business Manager G. E. SHAND, JR. . Asst. Bus. Manager H. D. STEADMAN. .Circulation Manager REPORRS. Evans, H. R. Stevenson, J. J. Thompson, R. C. Smith, E. B. W. E. Ackerman Rogers, S. D. Wardlaw, J. P. Lindsay, Wm. Columbia, S. C., April 9, 1918 Senior Exams. In a number of colleges thruout the country, in which the system does not already prevail, seniors are petitioning the faculties to exempt seniors from final examinations in courses in which they have a term standing of B-i. e. about 85. The idea has much to recommend it, not particularly as a war measure but rather as a permanent policy. Among other things may be mentioned the added induce ment to do thorough and faith ful work during the last one of eight terms in college. Most seniors are usually interested, during the last few months of their college life, in other things than classroom work. This fact is accounted for by the burden of other campus ac tivities and the distraction caused by thought of what they are to do after college is over. Another course is the amount of work carried by seniors. Most of them carry only three or four courses. Under those conditions the tendency is to be satisfied with a passing grade. We might mention further that it seems no more than sim ple justice that a man who has a perfect college record for three and a half years and an 85 term standing for the last half year be exempted from final examination. We think it a move, the ad visability of which the present senior class might very well consider. S. C. Food Bulletins. Elsewhere in this issue ap pears an article on the food situation which was sent to the Gamecock by the South Caro lina Food Administration. These articles are prepared and sent out regularly by the administration with the re quest and expectation that they are to be published. At first the editor of The Gamecock hesitated whether to use The Gamecock space for this information. Hesitated, not from any unpatriotic motive but because of a doubt of the practical results to be achieved by publishing this information in a paper read almost entirely by college students who are en gaged, at present at least, in literary pursuits. But aside from the practical results to be achieved in an persons, there is another side to the question-the influence which we as members of families and communities may exert. That considerably over half of the men in the Carolina student body were born and raised on the farm is a safe estimate. And as one of Carolina's recent alumni has remarked "you can take the man out of the coun try, but yon can't take the country out of the man." Each one of us who come from homes in the country have a direct and powerful influence if we but choose to exert it. The growing and conservation of foodstuffs is so vital to the win ning of this war as scarcely to need pointing out. And if the publication of these bulletins only induce even half a dozen Carolina men to exert their in fluence toward the planting of an extra acre of foodstuffs the effort will not have been made, nor the space used, in vain. Campus Speech. The following editorial taken from "The New Yorker" of University Heights, N. Y., on "Campus Speech" is so timely and well put as to merit the serious attention of us all: "In listening to different men talk while engaged in ordinary conversation on the campus, one is struck by two obnoxious features prevalent in the speech of certain men. Some men em ploy language which is usually ascribed to long-shoremen and ditch-diggers, while others go to the opposite extreme and use a most stilted and affected style in their every-day speech. This latter fault is almost nau seating to a person who uses a correct, simple, and sincere style in addiressing his fellow man." "The college man is expected to speak English well, ndr his method of expressing himself ought to serve as a model for the man without his advantage to guide his discourse by. A large part of a college man's time is spent in ag 4uiring a correct and forcefdl way of expressing himself in his native tongue. A man's training and breeding are disclosed, more than most of us think, by the way he talks. It is no mark of cleverness to allow one's speech to descend to the level of that employed by the lower classes of society." "Pedantry and affectation are also extremely undesirable in our talk. 1L is well to remem ber that people who know, judge a man's brain power to be inversely in proportion to the number of syllables in the words he uses, The man who constantly employs elegant metaphors and lofty diction in his conversation is considered very much an ass, while the man who expresses himself clearly, correctly, and simply, is very much admired and re spected." FUMBLES By Gab 0, Discipline, what crimes are committed in thy name! Could you call a fast girl a bold-she-vic? There's little waste or waist that we can see in the Easter styles. And by the way, the wind's showing some form for such early season tryouts. Long distance also lends en chantment to the view-have you ever seen that little hello girl? * ** The poor boob who failed to move up his clock will soon find that he is more than an hour behind the time. * ** 0, Prohibition, Where is Thy Sting? "Life's not so bad as you may think," Says a history prof. we know; For says he, "You don't have to drink Water when we still have our bevo!" Free Verse. by A. Frieman Oh, bygosh ! I'm feeling weak And I ought to be They do not speak To me Since that whitewosh. WASH AT CAPITAL CITY : The Rig 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 Min St. SHOE AT 'D 'MEN'S SHOP W A L T E R S' BOYS' "Best Styles for Young Men" 1420 Main Street Columbia, S. C. The New IBroadway( Open 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. For Coal and Wood Call Reamer Fuel Co. Jellico Soft Coal JOHN SCHNEIDER Campus Agent Phones 3770, 3771 THE UNIVERSITY BARBER SHOP Tenement 4, Room 3 (Opposite Law Building) Open Daily from 2:30 to 6:30 P. M. All Up-to-date Work Give Us A Chance "If we please you, tell your friends. if we don't tell us. P. D. W911.cI, GEN. MGR