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tlle autioc&i UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA "While I Live I Crow" PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERAR SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. poqtoffic November 20, 1908 as second clas mail matter. Columbia, S. C., March 25, 1919 J. T. Wates, Editor-in-Chief. R. C. Thompson, Bus. Mgr. J. P. Sifford, Assistant Bus Mgr. Wanted-A gas mask. Why do the best-looking girl invariably wear veils? Another war hero-the dis charged soldier who refuses thi $60 bonus. The saddest words were evei aired-'Professor, I am unpre pared." Who broke that freshman' heart-the one who whistle "Aloha Ohe" so sadly? A woman believes that if sh takes care of her "P's"--pow der, paint and perfume-he "Q's" will take care of them selves. BACKING THE TEAM. The student body has come t< the aid of the baseball tean in a financial way and has guar anteed the expenses for the com ing season. This support, al though necessary in order to pu out a team, is not all that is re quired to make a good team. The student who feels that hi has done his duty to Carolin. by making a contribution to thi Athletic Association is sadl' mistaken. He has only made i possible to have a team to sup port. The first way a man can badl the team is to go out for base ball practice. If any student ha ever played or tried to play base ball he should go out on the fiel< and make somebody work t< keep him from holding down position on the team. There i room on the team for a numbe: of new men and any man wh< has the makings of a basebal player in him will have a chanci of getting a place. However, only a small portioi of the studentbody can be memi bers of the nine and it is up t< the many to give their smmnor in every possible way to the fa vored few. There is not a man in the student body who cannot help in some way. Go to watch the practice. Speak a friendly word to the candidates. Talk up the prospects for a winning team at every chance. Although these acts seem small in themselves, they will be of incalculable bene fit when the umpire calls, "Bat ter up !" There has never been a team that could win without the liberal support of its back. ers and these are the methods of inspiring the team with the confidence that it is being backed to the last inning. Let every - true Carolina man do his utmost to show the nine that he is be hind it. BUY W. S. S. JOIN A SOCIETY. The sentence above will very probably seem out of place to the casual thinker. There is a general opinion that the begin ning of the year is the only time to join a literary society. But if a man will only think for a few moments along this line he can not fail t oreach the conclu sion that the advice is not so out of place as it would seem at first glance. This advice is primarily for those students who intend to be come members of a literary so ciety at some time during their college careers. There are un doubtedly many men in this col lege who did not join immedi ately after entering college but ~ who intend to and will join later. This article is written for the! purpose of inducing such men to become members of one of the literary societies on the campus I as soon as possible. - If a man ever intends to be - a public speaker, a literary so - ciety is the best place in the t world to acquire knowledge of - this art. And now is the time. There are opportunities at every meeting for a man to get on thn i floor and to learn the principles and practices of parliamentary r bodies. Every meeting that a t prospective member lets pass: - without joining means golden opportunities that have passed CIforever. - The man who thinks that it is 3 best to wait until the beginning - of another college year is mak I ing a sad mistake. If he joins > now he will be accustomed to 1 proceedings of the body by the 3 end of this year and can take: r~ his place among the old mem > bers at the beginning of the next; ' session. If he waits he will be as a green as the proverbial fresh man when he does enter. As a result of his inexperience he will* - be forced to spend valuable time ) in learning the customs and t methods of proedure in ogue in his particular society-time that he could be spending to much better advantage if he had already learned these rales. / If you intend to join a literary society, do so at once. The re maining few meetings of this year will be of greater value to you than any other of the usual ways of spending Saturday nights could possibly be. DOES EDUCATION PAY? STUDY OF THE CLASSICS. Out of the entire student body at the University, there are about forty students regis tered for a course in the De partment of Ancient Lan guages. Of these, not more than ten are * registered in courses above the sophomore year of the language. This handful of students is a rather pitiful showing for this department. The old-fash ioned student who sticks to the classics at Carolina is becom ing so rare as to be regarded as a freak by some. Space does not permit us to go into a discussion of the rea sons why a student who is try ing to get the most out of his courses rather than merely to "get by" should study the classics. Nor is there any oc casion for such a discussion here; the reasons are too ob vious to anyone who will give the matter a little thought. We do not contend for a min ute that every student should study Latin or Greek or both. But we do hold that a much larger number of our students who are seeking a liberal edu cation-as the majority of our men are-should include Latin or Greek in their course. In these days when one of ten hears men of the so-called practical school attacking the study of the classics, it is re freshing to hear what the presi dent of the United States thinks: "We should have scant capi tal to trade on were we to throw away the wisdom we have in herited and seek our fortunes with the slender stock we our selves have accumulated. This, it seems to me, is the real, the prevalent argument for holding every man we can to the inti mate study of the ancient Classics."--Woodrow Wilson. And likewise the opinion of that great American citizen, Theodore Roosevelt, is of inter est: "A cultural education must include the classics. It must not be based only on the clas sics. With one or the other, and if possible with both of these two classic languages and lit eratures, every liberally edu eated man shou1r1 be familiar." We are very much gratified at the number of exchanges we receive, but still there is room for improvement. Several schools in this State have failed either to publish a paper or to exchange with us. We hope to receive more exchanges in the future. THE COMING HIGH SCHOOL MEET. In the last issue of The Game cock there was an announce ment of the plans for the State High School oratorical contest, athletic meet, and debate which will be held at the Uni versity on May 1st and 2d. This is a wonderful opportu nity for Carolina to show these fellows why they ought to come here next year. These young chaps are the leaders in the high schools of our State. They are the stuff out of which college leaders are molded the men who furnish the driving ilower for athletic teams and literary societies. We want these fellows at Carolina and a lot of them ought to be here next year, too. .It is a bit humiliating to Car olina men to know that the at tendance this term is under 300, all told-a rather pitiful show ing for the State University of South Carolina. Nor do we like to see one big dormitory on the campus .still and deserted. We want 600 men at the Uni versity next year, and we can get them, too. Why not? With the generous support of the legislature, our excellent build ings and facilities, our splendid faculty-we should take our place side by side with the State universities of our sister States. But there is much for the sons of Carolina to do. Write back home and find out what fellows are coming to the meet from your town. Then writ a personal letter to one of the fellows who i3 coming and ask him to be your guest dur ing the contest. Offer to get any information or material for him from the extension depart ment. It hasn't been so long since you were in high school yourself, and those young chaps appreciate a thing like that. Write that letter today, be fore you forget!. It was a wise guy who put the Freshmen and Sophomores in the Infant-ry. "The Gamecock, published by the University of South Car olina, arrived last week. Better late than never. Your paper came in a few days ago. You started late, but you have a bus iness-like publication."-Flor ida Allig-ator.