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VOL. XI. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C, MAY 28.. 1918. No. 17 WISCONSIN 3 TO DELIV Dr. Charles Foster Smith Commencement Speaker EXHIBITION DRILL ON MONDAY AFTERNOON The Rev. W. H. Miller, D. D. to Preach Baccalaureate Sermon Final preparations have b*en made for the commencement exercises at the University of South Carolina. Although they will not be as elaborate as last year, the program will be up to the usual standard. Exercises will begin with the .baccalaureate sermon at 8:30 p. m., June 9, at Trinity Epis copal church, by the Rev. W. H. Milton, D. D., of St. James Parish, Wilmington, N. C. An exhibition drill by mem bers of the R. 0. T. C. will take place Monday on the campus green from 6 to 7 o'clock in the afternoon. That night the intersociety celebration will be held in the chapel. The following speak ers have been chosen for this night: Clariosophic, McK. Barr, valedictorian, and C. B. Seaborn, junior orator; Eu. phradian,.G. E. Shand, Vale dictorian, and E. P. Hodges, junior orator; Hypatian, Miss Jessie Chapman, valedictorian; Miss Lottie Vaughan, junior orator. Final neeting of the board of trustees will be held in the .library Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock. The reception to the gril uating class by the alumni as sociation will be given that aft ernoon. Grafuating exercises will be held in the chapel Wednesday morning. The address to the graduating class will be deliv ered by Dr. Charles Forster Smith of the University of Wis consin, J. H. Martin of Foun tain Inn and F. B. Simkins of Edgefield, both members of the graduating class, will make ad dresses. Dr. Charles Forster Smith is a native of Abbeville county and a graduate of Wofford college. He has studied at a (CONTINUED ON Pit.1E THEE.) DUCA TOR R ADDRESk CHICAGO PROFESSOR LECTURES AT CAROLINA Comedies of Aristophanes Subject of Address by Dr. Paul Shorey The theory that there is noth ing new under the sun receivec convicing emphasis in an inter pretative address on the come, dies of Aristophanes by Dr Paul Shorey, professor of Greek at the University of Chi. cago, delivered in the chapel o1 the University of South Caro. lina Thursday morning. Th( new woman, new education radicalism and corruption ir politics and other phenomena supposed to be characteristic o1 this age engaged the minds o1 the Greeks some several cen turies ago. The comedies of Aristophanes, biting lWits of sa tire on the fads and foibles 01 his age, show clearly that thesE were among the familiar ques tions of that early 'day. Dr. Shorey is one of the most distinguished classical scholare in A.merica. His translations of ancient Greek literary works are accepted as standard. In the field of Aristophanes' com edies he has done much of hiE research work. His lecture on Thursday abounded in quota tions from his translations of those comedies. The sprightly wit and satire of the old Greek was not lost in the translation and the audience that filled the university chapel laughed at the quaint jibes which the comedian took at the charac ters of his day. Dr. Shorey pointed out that the mechanics of the stage have developed wonderfully since the days of the ancient Greeks, but that the nature of :omedy remains practically un !hanged. Local hits, jokes at the e$pense of public figures, :lever songs reciting in bur lesque fashion the acts of would-be heroes-those were part of Aristophanes' stock in rade and the theater-goer of boday is treated to much of the same sort of mental pabulum. BRILLIANT 1 -CLAIME TWENTY UNIVERSITY MEN ATTEND CAMP To Get One Month's Military Training at Junior Plattsburg Twenty men, chosen largely I from the senior and junior - classes at the University of South Carolina, have been se lected to attent the R. O. T. C. training camp to be held dur ing the month of June at Platts burg, N. Y. The men are ex pected to report at the camp June 3. The list of successful candi dates as announced by Cl. Henry C. Davis, professor of military science and tactics at the university, follows: B. R. Earle, G. R. Galletly, S. W. Os wald, J. G. Riley, G. E. Shand, F. B. Simpkins, B. R. Baker, D. B. Canady, Pr., H. R. Evans, W. S. Lindsay, Jr., W. H. Prio leau, H. W. Rikard, J. P. Sif ford, C. B. Stewart, W. W. Wannamaker, A. L. Wardlaw, W. Winstead, Jr., E. B. Smith, J. J. Stevenson, C. H. Vaux. The following alternates have been selected to take the places of those who do not go: William Weston, Jr., F. P. Mc Gowan, J. W. Means, R. E. Al lison, H. B. Edwards, R. Mac Donald, A. Kohn, Jr., and P. M. Allison. When the war department first determined to send stu dents of the R. O. T. C. to camp at Plattsburg the selection was confined to those who had com pleted the basic course of two years' training. On this call the university had no candi dates as the R. O. T. C. had been organized but one *year. Other institutions, however, received their quota. As this call did not bring in as many students as was desired the re quirements were lowered and the additional number needed to fill the camp was divided out proportionatel yto the in stitutions. Under this last al lotment the university's quota was 20. ILUMNUS D BY DEATH James D. Brandenburg Died Last Saturday RECOGNIZED LEADER IN STUDENT AFFAIRS Delegation From University At tends Funeral in Elmwood - Societies' Resolutions James D. Brandenburg, for a number of years a leader in student affairs at the Univer sity of South Carolina, died at the home of his parents, 2321 Park street, May 18. The young man had been seriously ill but a few cys. The fun eral was held at the Arsenal Hill Presbyterian church, con ducted by the Rev. Mr. Meb bin. Interment was had in Elmwood cemetery. Mr. Brandenburg was one of the most promising young men in the community, and hundreds of students of the university throughout the State, who knew him, will be distressed to hear of his death. He was 28 years old and a member of the Red Men. The funeral of J. D. Bran denberg was held Sunday aft ernoon with services at Arse nal Hill Presbyterian church, by the acting pastor, Rev. Mr. Mebbin and interment at Elm wood cemetery. Attending the funeral was a committee from the Clariosophic Literary so ciety of the University of South Carolina, the deceased having been one of its presi dents during his collegiate ca reer. The pallbearers were: Active-H. C. Morgan, M. A. Wright, J. H. Martin, S. P. Schneider, P. M. Mooney and Dr. C. E. Owens; honorary: Professors A. C. Moore, Josiah Morse, Patterson Wardlaw, E. Marion Rucker, Dr. W. S. Cur rell, Yates Snowden, George A. Wauchope, L. T. Baker and John J. McMahan. Mr. Brandenburg while at tending the university was ranked as one of.the foremost college orators and debaters of the State and was for several years a valuible memI>er of the university's intercollegiate debating teams. He repre sented the college in tie trian (('ONTINI'I?) ONV I'AOER I'IVR .