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VOL. XII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C, JANUARY 13, 1919. No. 2 MEMORIAL FOR MEN KILLED IN WAR f4Y ERECT ON CAROL j Also Be Used As Uni versity Chapel JILL FILL GREAT NEED Money to Be Raised Largely by Private Subscriptions. Agitation has begun at the Univer sity of South Carolina for the erection on the campus of a suitable memorial to South Carolinians, who have made the supreme sacrifice in the great war. It is suggested that the memorial take the form of a building, artistic in de sign, permanent in character and com prehensive in scope. It is also sug gested that the building be erected both by State appropriation and volun tary subscriptions, and utilized as a chapel. "It should not, however, be made entirely a matter of voluntary contri bution," says the statement from the trustees of the University of South Carolina. "The State should contrib ute by appropriation of a reasonable sum to be used only in construction and after the entire fund is available, to give the memorial the character of the unified sentiment of the State. While the memorial should not be made a building of utility, it should be so made to the extent of fitting into it, by means of a State appropriation a chapel of such artistic construction as will dignify the idea to be memo rialized. Such a limited purpose of educational utility will not be inap propriate." Suggestion is also made that in the construction alcoves or sections be provided -for each county in the State, that the particular county might in its own record the deeds of its glorious dead. The names of all those who paid the supreme sacrifice would be carved on the walls, and space would h^ provided for tablets, statuary and complete record of the part South ('-rolina had in the war. A committee from the faculty of the university has hvcn appointed to present the matter. The following are members :Governor Mann!ng, John E. Swearingen, State "uperintcndcnt of education; P. Alls ton Wilcox and August Kohn. The following outl'ne of the plan has been given out from the trustees: There is no question of the desire of South Carolinians to perpetuate the glorious part this State has played in the world's war. In anticipation of suggestions that are likely to be made and to present a concrete plan, Governor Manning as chairman authorizes this statement: (CONTINUED ON PAGE PIVE.) BUILDING rNA CAMPUS UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS KILLED IN FRANCE Lieutenant Reynolds Dies From Wounds Official confirmation of the death o: First Lieut. John S. Reynolds, a grad uate of the university and a forme; news editor of the Columbia State, h hocn received in Columbia. This in .ormation was contained in the fo :owing telegram to W. W. Ball, edito. of The State, from Adjutant Genera Hlarris in Washington: 'First Licut. John S. Reynolds, 4n. tantry, died October 10 from wounds received in action." John Reynolds graduated from the university in the class of 1907. John did not take an unusual part in the socalled college activities if we wer to except his work on the college pub lications. He was at one time the vice president of the Euphradian Lit erary society and again the represen tative of the university in the South Carolina Intercollegiate Oratorical As sociation. While yet a college studcn' he begun work on the staff of Thr State and shortly after his graduation he was in charge of the telegraph an I State news departments of that paper. The telegram confirmed news that had been received from other sourc' r and destroyed all hope that fricn!s and loved ones had been entertaining since October that the young lieutcn ant might yet be alive. Only a few days ago letters came from comracr of Lieut. Reynolds telling of reports of his death but pending official new: hope had not been entirely abandon^.d Lieut. Reynolds was news editor or The State when the war b,gan. 11 made an effort to get into the first of ficers' training camp at Ogiethorpc but was not selected. He succeeded. however, in getting into the second camp and won a commission as first licutcnant. He was assigned to the 30th infantry, which, at that time, was training at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. Licut. Reynolds was with this di vision whc n he received the wound which pxoved fatal. Ha participated :n some of the hardcct cngagemnts of the war. John was a faithful and brillian' newspaper man or in the words of his follow worker, the editor of The State, "Among journalists that we have known he was one of the half dozen most accomplished. In South Caro lina, in any profession, few men were his equals in sound knowledge and at tainmcnts and he was worthy of the :ellowship of the ablest, without re gard to their age or reputaions." (cONrINUEl'D ON P.\(IE TIIItEE.) MILITARY T SECON FOSTER TO COACH UNIVERSITY TEAMS Popular Coach Gets Four Year Contract W. Dixon Foster, former athletic coach at the university and at present a seaman in the United States navy. has been signed for a three year con tract to coach the football, hasketbai and baseball teams of the university. Coach Foster expects to get his dis charge in the near future and hop;s to reach the university in time t take up the work of coaching thc basketball team . Cdach Foster cani to the University of South Carolina in 1916 from Porter Military Academy to coach the university's first fresh man team. Here at the university he went about his work quietly turning out a team that swept all before it among the prep schools of the State and defeated the heavy Clemson fresh man team. Foster was then elected varsity basketball coach and thcn baseball coach and by the next year was head coach in all three of the ma jor sports. Foster has proven a mas ter hand in developing raw iater:a. in a minimum of time and such has always becn the problem of the uni versity coaches. His football teams show good interfercnce and overheat, work while his basketball teamis havt a style of play uncqualled in th. State. Foster enlisted in the nav3 last fall but even in the short time he had been with us he had found time to give tho university one all State champion team, the 1917-18 basketball team. Foster is a fighter and all of his university teams have shown their full proportion of ighting quality tinctured with an unusua. sense of fair play and genuine sports manship. Coach Foster is a Virginian and got his first taste of colicge sport and three letters his freshman year at Hampton Sydney. Here lie was award ed a letter in basketball, baseball ana football for four years and was twice captain of the varsity baseball team and once captain of the varsity foot ball team. With this wealth of play ing experience Coach Fostcr cnLercu the coaching field and is today one o. the best all aroun coi.cge coachts in the State. All members of the scnior class are requested to go to Sargeant's Studio as soon as possible and have their photographs made for The Garnet and Black. H. G. Brearley, a graduate of the university and a former instructor in the English department, has been dis barged from the army and is now tehinge in the Columbia schools. RAINING D SEMESTER Major A. W. Chairsell To Be In Command ONE HOUR EACH DAY Men to be Quartered in Thorn well and DeSaussure. The Reserve Offleers' Training Corps, reestablished by the action of the board of trustees at their I)ecem ber meeting, will begin work at the beginning of the second semester, ac ording to an announcement made yesterday by Maj. A. W. Chairscll. The University of South Carolina was one of the original colleges hav ing R. O. T. C. units. The change from th R. 0. T. C. to the S. A. T. C. was made at the request of the war de partment with the understanding that the R. 0. T. C. would be reestablished if the university authorities so de sired. Acting under this privilege the trustees of the university at their meeting December 20, 1918, unani niously decided to reestablish the R. 0. T. C. making the military training compulsory for the freshmen and oi,Iionatrs. Maj. A. W. Chairsell, the cfflcicnt commandant of the university studcnt army training corps unit, will be in chaige of the R. 0. T. C. unit. Major Chairsell has made an especially nota ble record in his work at. the unvir sity and has won for the university S. A. T. C. unit the position of one of the most eflcient units in the cntire country. Students who have had one year of the R. 0. T. C. at the university or -lscwhcre and in addition the miiitat ,raining afforded by the S. A. T. C. or ty the various training camps w.i not be required to take the military training or the courses offered uncr the It. 0. T. C. It is to be hoped, ho,v ever, that many thus excused will vo'untarity avail themseives of til3 advantages afforded by the R. 0. T. C.. not on.y for their own sakes but .or the sake 01 the morale and clih.. u y of the corps. New reguiations are bcing prcpared to govt in the nw I Sev. V .. - 1'." traln;ng corps un:ts, so ts to permit tn:ts to Fpceia:ize ;n train.ng .or tli.' v:,riouc corps of the army, sus h as ar tilicry, c ng.ne. r, signal corps, ord a nce, air ba rvicc an I metli. al (Oti s, .n:t:iad of the uni.oriu tia.n.ig oi pre w.ar dLys. A special commzbsicn h::s bc'tn created in th , war p.an u. vision of the gcnaral staff to 1a.a ter the reserve oillers' tra.n ng .o, p.. Major Chairsell has announ -d th it he will pick his studcnt otilecrs large ly by their past records in the It. c. T. C., the S. A. T. C. or cisewhcre in the service. IIe has also planned to arrange all mecn wvho intcndl to take ..N siNtThI (N I' .(R FIVE.')