Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r1jg ( amercock UNivERsIrTY of SOUiTH CAROLINA PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. pogtoflice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Sept 25, 1919 R. C. Thompson, Editor-in-Chief J. R. Bryson, Business Manager L. N. Connor, Asst. Business Manager "Pep" is the keynote of suc cess. Get PEP. Why can't we have an or chestra and glee club? How strange it is that all the mistakes in a girl's letter are due to the.eight or ten in the room! "What's the world coming to?" asked Rupert Hughes. Coming to its senses pretty soon, we hope. Our Leader The new president of the University student body is a man well deserving of the honor placed upon him. Ad judged the best football player, the best baseball player, the best orator, the best all round college man that's Seaborn. Giving his aft ernoons to the college teams, studying at night to make dou ble stars and taking time dur ing it all to represent the Uni versity in oratorical contests. An active Y. M. C. A. and liter ary society worker, a man of striking personality and ability as a leader. We know of no student who could better grace the office of a student president than Seaborn. Stick by him and watch Carolina go. Sunstroke It is claimed that one afflict ed with this malady loses all consciousness and motive pow er. Said pitiable person is thus placed in a peculiar plight (pardon our use of allitera tion). Sometimes the effect is overcome, and the converse is also true. To be plain, how ever, he is a dead weight to himself and to his associates while in this condition. It's un fortunate that he was struck perhaps it could have been pre vented, but suppositions are not in order ; a remedy must be found for the existing condi tion. Many college men suffer from sunstroke--not the usual kind, but one that renders them just as helpless ar.d makes them greater burdens upon their associates. The blinding glare of the public limelight has caught many off their guard and has struck them beyond a point of recov ery. Students as a rule think more of the honor attached to an office when they accept it than of the college spirit and sacrifice necessary to its suc cessful completion. Conse quently, we have men grabbing for every available honor, thinking that they can be great without serving. And they find too late that "he who would be first shall be last." Their mo tive is sometimes selfish, and sometimes born out of the de sire to help the college, but very seldom do we find a loyal student who will not limit him self to only what he can do. College offices must be filled, college honors must be bestowed-it is only fair to the whole college that this be done in the best way. The best way is to limit the man who won't limit himself. A man who will attempt to edit two publica tions at the same time, either fails to realize his inability from 'the standpoint 'of the greatest good or else holds the honor higher than the correct performance of the duty of an editor. We say with all earn estness and with the good of the college at heart, that no man can at the same time suc cessfully publish two publica tions at the University. Nor can any one manage two athlet ic teams at once. We believe this is a reasonable conclusion, and refer you to any college editor if you doubt it. Our conclusion not only holds good of publications and athletic teams-it includes every phase of college life. With a student body of four hundred and fifty, we can find a competent man for every activity and still have a surplus left. Loyal students will not accept more honors than they can successfully grace. An ounce of prevention is a good way to start. A student who insists on remaining in the light longer than he ought to should be protected by the stu dent body. He's weak and needs help. Prevent sunstroke - that's the best remedy. Avoid having "dead" weights--they pull us down. Upon seeing Buchanan and "Shorty" Sifford together one is reminded of the photographs that accompany the advertis ing of a well known .*health building remedy : ''Before and after taking." Has It No Friehd? At the commencements of Princeton and Yale, as well as those of most of the colleges and universities in the Eastern States, "wet goods" were in evidence, though that' is not saying that any alumnus or stu dent had more aboard than he could conveniently and com fortably carry. As it was the last commencement before na tional prohibition is to set in, the "'oys" old and young, "celebrated" and much more has been said of heir merriment than usual, over-indulgence in strong potations having long -ago gone out of fashion among educated men. Now, conceding that the drinking of whiskey, wine or beer, is useless, unhealthy, wasteful, that their consump tion is and of right ought to be abolished, we summon all of our courage not yet oozed to inquire: Does or not the prohibition of alcoholic beverages condemn a part of the American people to a loss of enjoyment, of pleas urable excitment? Mark, we have not said a "net" loss. We have not asked whether or not the loss will be offset by the gain. Is there no good, at any time, in any ctrcumstances, upon any conceivable occasion, in a mint julip ? We put the question for that, in all the rancorous and tumul tuous discussion of ribald years, in which some of the ribaldry has been as dry as dust, no one has had the temerity, so far as we have observed, to ask it. Why have the champions of "the drink" been ever apologe tic, ever indirect, ever squeam ish, defending it only under their hats with a whispered tale of a glorious jamboree or of a moderately jubilant fishing trip? Not even has the suggestion been made that a monument or a series of memorials be erected to the honor of- the "Manhat tan cocktail" in Broadway, when that definitive institution shall have departed, as in a few days it must-and leave not a smell behind. Shall neither "storied urn nor animated bust" commemo rate the vanished glories? The State. Bible At The University. Greenville Piedmont. Not many weeks ago Colum bia University announced that hereafter the Bible will have place in its curriculum. Now comes the University of South Carolina, which has ceated a special professorship for the teaching of the Bible. This is not an innovation, but a revival, for a course in the Bible was given at the University up un til 1873 when the institution was closed because of condi tions which existed in the Re !construction era. The chair was 'first established at the South Carolina College, now the University, in 1835, because of the heretical views of a former president, Mr. Thomas Cooper, who had secured his position through the good graces of Thomas Jefferson. William Capers, afterward a great Methodist bishop, was the first occupant. The next was the Rev. Stephen Elliott of Beau fort. The institution's greatest professor of Sacred Literature and Christian evidences was Dr. James H. - Thornwell, aft erward president of the college one of the commanding person alities in its long history. The last to fill the chair was Prof. J. L. Reynolds, who served from 1865 to 1873. The Bible should have its place in the university curri culum. It is the foundation of our system of ethics and moral philosophy. It holds fi"st place in literature and yet in many State colleges is omitted in the literary course. It is the corner stone of jurisprudence. Daniel Webster said in his oration at the dedication of the Bunker Hill monument: "The Bible is a book of faith, and a book' of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of spe cial' revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual respon sibility, his own dignity and his equality with his fellow man." Yet many a young man has re ceived his diploma in this State who was unfamiliar with the Book of Books and remains ig norant to this day of its suprem acy and sublimity. Those in authority at the Uni versity display not only wisdom but farsightedness also in re storing the Bible to its former position in the course of stud ies. Be on the bleachers Satur day and yell till you can't then some. Some one called number 21 last night and asked for Buck anan. "Can't get him now, he's locked up," came over the wire. Perhaps this acounts for his continued absence from the campus. When's the Annual coming lout?