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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
"While I Live I Crow"
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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. 1). STEADMAN.. Circulation Manager
REPORTERS.
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 30, 1918
PULL TOGETHER
Occasionally one hears, on
the sidelines during a baseball
game, sharp criticism of players
on the team. They are indica
tive of a spirit that should not
exist. The man on the team is
doing his begt. He is doing
more-he is fighting our bat
tle. If we could play the posi
tion better, we ought to be out
there at it instead of occupying
a seat on the grandstand. For
the time being he is a part of
ourselves and we ought to be
doing all we can to help him;
not trying to belittle his efforts.
VANDALISM
The theft from the library of
reference articles, maps and
debating material is nothing
short of the purest vandalism.
Every year cases of this kind
happen. Two notable cases
have come under the editor's
observation this year. Out of
an encyclopedia there was cut
a sheet containing an article on
Alsace-Lorraine widely used by
the histor yclasses; a map being
used by all the French classes
disappeared, and at the time it
was most needed.
Such acts are worthy only of
a typical Hun soul. We hang
our heads in shame to think
that there is among us so de
praved a human being.
What is the remedy? There
are bound in the nature of the
case to be other students who
know of the theft. We can call
it nothing less-of these
articles, If the spirit of the
student body as regards an act
of this kind was sufficiently de
veloped to make the thief feel
the evil of his act keenly
enough these things would not
be constantly reoccurring.
WANTED I I
There are many things that
the university wants-many
things that the university
needs. But of all things that
we want and need the most
outstanding and the most
pressing is a constructive de
bating policy.
Athletics at the university
are on a more or less firm
foundation.. We have won one
championship this year and are
on a fair way towards winning
another. The class room work
is efficiently taken care of by
an able faculty. The spiritual
life of the college is cared for
by its Y. M. C. A., under the
leadership of a consecrated
and earnest secretary. But as
for the forensic activities,
they seem to be--rather neg
lected. The reasons we do
not know. But it is apparent
to any observant student that
we need improvement and
need it badly.
Last week Carolina lost both
ends of the big triangle debate.
No discredit to men who repre
sented us but rather credit for
doing as well as they did. The
Gamecock knows that these
teams had less than a week's
preparation and they were pit
ted against teams that had
been training for a month un
der hired coaches.
Let us put our heads togeth
er on this question and see if
we can not evolve a system that
will bring us to the front in the
forensic as well as the athletic
world.
THE END
This is the end.
Success or failure-which?
If success, credit the staff ; if
faiure, blame the editor. We
would write a farewell edi
torial but ve don't know what
to say. Something has been
said to the effect that the evil
men do lies interred with their
bones while the good they do
lives after them. Let us hope"
that such will be the case with
the present staff--provided al
ways of course there is any
good to live after.
To our successor we leave a~
hard task, a task more or less
thankless. But a task which
'will satisfy his soul's inmost
craving and his heart's secret
yearning for work. A task in
which he may bury himself in:
a sackcloth and ashes or cover
himself with glory. A task,
from the completion of which
he may come forth a sadder but
a wiser man. We wish for him
all the joys, the disappoint
ments, the successes, the fail
ures and the satisfaction that
he has in store. May the best
of his predecessors' work be
the lower limit and the sky the
upper.
As a final word we wish to
pay a word of tribute to the
staff, who have been, in the
main, unusually faithful. If
there has been any success, the
credit is due them for it.
FUMBLES
By Gab
Is there no end to Democ
racy?
How can we say that a game
has gone to Hades and still ad
mit that it was because the
pitcher went up!
Cause and Effect.
"Enlistment of college men'
on increase."-H e a d 1 i n e
exams coming-fact.
Chef in Paris (according to
Columbia State) : Garcon, put
General von Hindenburg's din
ner back in the oven." We
would advise the garcon to eat
it-it might spoil waiting.
Names is Names.
We venture to say that the
highest ranking private at
Camp Jackson is Major John
son, 371st. (col.). At any rate
he has good company in his
corporal-President C I e v e
land.
1acakward, turn backward, 0, Time, in
your flight
Give me my cits again just for tonight.
* * *
Our Weakly Conservation
Poem.
Now Mr. Iloover sho knew his rights
When he invented sleepless nights
As someun
Has said
But who in Hades begun
The first genuine hairless head?
More work---plus F'raneais
I)oes Prof Beziat
Think that we
Have only time to geziat
Lecons Francais?
CLARIOSOPHICS ELECT
The Clarisophic society held
its regular election of officers
Saturday night, April 13. The'
following men were elected to~
serve the followving term:
President, C. B. Seaborn ;
vice president, C. D. Barr, Jr.;
secretary, J. T. Waits; literary
eritic, J. J. Stevenson; treasur
er. L. S. M artin ; sergeant-at
arms, J. P. Sifford; recorder,
W. S. Miley; monitors, A. D.
Mann and E. R. Smith.
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