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Vol,. XII. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C, MARCH 25, 1919. No. 4 UNIVERSITY HAVE CA) Plans For Next Year Fully Discussed TO HOLD CONVENTION Board Will Make Visit to North Carolina A special meeting of the board of trustees of the Univer sity was held on the campus last Tuesday, March 18th. Gover nor R. A. Cooper, ex-officio president of the board, pre sided. Matters of much im portance, not only to the Uni versity, but to nany outsiders, were discussed, and plans were made for the management of the college for the coming ses sion. The president of the board. was authorized to call a gene.r al educational conference of the presidents of all the State colleges and the boards of trus tees of these colleges, to discuss educational problems in the State. The conference is to be held some time this spring or summer, and will be one of the most important educational meetings ever held in Colum bia. The suggestion of the conference met with hearty ap proval by all present. The trustees decided to visit the University of North Caro lina at an early date and in spect the work being done at that institution. Lieut. Charles Mercer, form erly of Camp Jackson, was elected associate professor of physics. Lieutenant Mercer has been assistant in the depart ment of geology since last fall, and will retain his position in this department along with his work in the department of physics. The trustees delegated the committee on organization, with power to act on the new commercial school to be estab lished at the University within the next year. This committee is to investigate and study other schools of similar nature and select a head for the new school. The committee is com posed of J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of educa-1 tion ; C. E. Spencer of York, and David R. Coker of Hartsville. (Continued on page ten) TRUS TEES _4L MEETING CAROLINA TO HAVE BASEBALL TEAM Students Come to Aid of Athletic Association Carolina will have baseball this spring at whatever dost. Such was the decision of the student body Monday morning when a meeting was held in chapel for the purpose of rais ing $700 for the sport this sea son. Athletics at the University are under the control of the Ad visory Board and the board thought best to let the students decide what provisions were to be made. Prof. J. B. Jackson, secretary of the Athletic Asso ciation, and Dr. Reed Smith pre sented the facts as tpey were. The amount asked was easily raised by the subscriptions of the students who responded gen erously. FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1919 ANNOUNCED Gamecocks Play Many Strong Teams "Muggsy" Hennig, manager of the Carolina football team for 1919, has arranged an ex cellent schedule for next year. He has been hard at work on this for some time, and the re sults of his labor are shown in the quality of the teams he has secured games with. The sea son will begin at home on Sep tember 27th with Presbyterian College. One week later Ers kine will play here. The other games come as follows: Octo ber 11, University of Ga., at Athens; October 18th, David son at Columbia; October 30th, Clemson at Columbia (Fair Week) ; November 8th, Uni versity of Tennessee at Colum bia; November 15th, Washing ton and Lee at Lexington, Va.; November 22d, University of Florida at Columbia; November 27th, Citadel at Columbia (an nal Thanksgiving game). Be sides these, there will be several games for the scrub team. With such a well arranged schedule, and with Coach Foster for a guide, Carolina can hope fora good season next fall. BUY W. S. S. BASEBALL P BEGINS A ORATORICAL CONTEST WON BY THOMPSON Preliminaries Held in Uni versity Chapel R. C. Thompson won first place in the State oratorical preliminaries held in the chapel on last Monday night. The subject of the winning oration was "The Search for Men." Mr. Thompson is a member of the Junior Class and the Eu phradian Society. He will rep resent the University in the final contest to be held in Greenwood on April 18th. D. J. Jenkins, also of the Euphradian Soc.. was awarded second place. The program was as follows: D. B. Stover, Euphradian, "To Whom Merit is Due"; W. R. Johns, Clarioso phic, "Old ' Glory"; R. C. Thompson, Euphradian, "The Search for Men"; Richard Winstead, Clariosophic, "A Fourth of July for All the World"; D. J. Jenkins, Euphra dian, "America's Ambition"; D. L. McCormick, Clariosophic, "A New World." The judges were: Dr. Pat terson Wardlaw, Prof. Mc Cutcheon, Prof. Rector, Dean L. T. Baker and Dr. Andrew W. Blackwood, C. D. Barr, Jr., of the Clariosophic Society pre sided and Robt. Moorman of the Euphradian was chief mar shall. CAROLINA MAN DIES IN FRANCE News was received several days ago of the death of Lieut. Carlisle Herbert, a former Car olina student. His death was due to pneumonia, which de veloped from an attack of influ enza. He had been with the American forces overseas for several months before his death occurred. Before coming to Carolina Lieut. Herbert attended Wof ford College, where he gradu ated in 1916. The following year he began the study of law here and continued until he en tered the 0. T. C. at Ogle thorpe. His many friends, both here and elsewhere, will be grieved to hear of the ending of such a promising. life. RACTICE T CAROLINA Gamecock Nine Makes Good Beginning MANY OLD MEN BACK Pitching Staff Proves to be a Strong One Coach Foster is fast bring ing a somewhat raw bunch of recruits into the appearance of a crack baseball nine on Davis field at the University. Coach has several old men who are known to be able to furnish the goods, and he also has several new men he is expecting to up hold the traditions of The Gamecocks this season. Regular practice each after noon with plenty of coaching is expected to develop a Game cock team that will compare with the best to be met this year. The young and old Game cocks are working hard in daily practice now and good results are expected in the next few days. Manager L. E. Laughlin has a tentative schedule that means the Birds this year will face some of the strongest teams in years. Although no complete schedule has yet been arranged by the manager, he has announced that two games with strong camp teams will open the season next week. The college season opens the first week in April. Coach Foster is rather non commital about his prospective team, indicating that he will spring a surprise when the first game is played. Lana Sims, i. clever second sacker, has been elected captain of the 1919 Birds. Lana played good ball around second in 1917 and fel lows of the Garnet and Black are expecting great things of him this year. "Bob" Moor man is a close contender for the second bag position. Over at first Major, who played this po sition part of last season, is hav ing a merry fight with Byrd and Porter for the honor of covering the initial sack. "Steve" Evans, last year's crack shortstop, is again contending for that position, Kohn, Mir mow and Wilson are having a row of their own over third base, which seems to be an other coveted corner. "Rube" (ontinnued on pae nine)