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r1bc Camecoc1 UBIvEKSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. .C. pogtoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 2, 1919 Editorial R. C. Thompson, Editor Business Staff J. R. Bryson, Manager L: N. Connor, Assistant Circulation B. E. Littlefield, Manager W. C. McCall, Assistant Assistant Editors ( u. . Hnter, E. B. Smith J. J. Stevenson H. B. Refo E. P. Gaines S. D. Rogers Suggested query for debate: "Resolved, That Columbia Col lege is the best school for girls in the State." A point for the affirmative Because it is near Carolina. Professor Davis drank thir teen glasses of punch at the re ception last Thursday night and it didn't unbalance him. But you know, the Y. M. C. A. was host of the occasion. I wrote a poem and called it "Stream ;" Ye ed, he made great fun of it. He said it was so good a scheme He could not catch the run of it. A Case of Seeking and Finding Not. A popular song appears and makes a hit with society. For a short time only does it enjoy fame and then it becomes a thing of the past, is converted into jazz music or takes its place among the volumnes of forgotten lore. It seems . to some that this is proof of the contention that when a thing is "run in the ground" it ceases to be. But we beg to differ with the mass of this mind and call your attention to the fact that there is one song, or theme if you wish, wich made its ap pearance last April and is at present enjoying even greater notoriety than when it started. It has a doleful tune and when ever sung is always accompan ied by sad music. It fascinates its listeners, making them feel that air of anxiety and expect ancy that exists in the soul of the singer. Beginning with the well known line, "When are the annuals coming, my love," and winding through beautiful verses of excuse and fault find ing, it finally reaches the key that ends it all and the closing words "the time is not long" leave the singer in no better mood than when he first began. We have endeavored to find some means that would put a stop forever to this popular bal lad but our efforts have failed. We can rely only upon the kind hand of fate and trust to the destinies that control our ends that truly "the time is not long." It is hoped that the originator of the melody will soon tire of its so frequent repetition and see fit to reserve all rights of its publication. University and State In his letter to Gov. John L. Manning in 1853, Dr. James H. Thornwell used these words: "The South |Carolina College has made South Carolina what she is, has made her people what they are. Nothing is so powerful as a common educa tion and the thousand sweet associations which spring from it and cluster around it to cher ish the holy brotherhood of men. Those who have walked together in the same, paths of science and taken sweet coun sel in the same halls of learning, who went arm in arm in that hallowed season of life when the foundation of all excellence are laid, who have wept with the same sorrows or laughed with the same joys, who have been fired with the same am bition, lured with the same hopes, and grieved at the same disappointments - these are not the men in after years to stir up animosities or foment intestine feuds. Would you make any commonwealth a unit? Educate its sons to gether. This is the secret of the harmony which has so long remarkably characterized our State. It was not the influ ence of a single mind, great as that mind was; it was no tame submission to authoritative dic tation. It was the community of thought, feeling and char acter, achieved by a common education within these walls. 'Here it was that heart was knit to heart, mind to mind, and that a cormon character was formed." In the three score years that have passed since these lines South Carolina have come to realize their truth more and more. All of our colleges are crowded to the utmost and many who can not gain admis sion are endeavoring to fit themselves for- the great era ahead by attending private schools. The systems of edu cation now followed in our State enables every youth, whe ther rich or poor to find the best that is in him and to find ways to develop his talents for the use of humanity. The Uni versity of today is the State of tomorrow. Boys make friends at school that will later on be with them in the framing of the State's destiny. And very true it is that if this common wealth is to live and thrive as a unit we must educate her sons together. Co-Education at the University In 1894 the General Assem bly first admitted women to the University. Up to three years ago there were never more than twenty-five women enrolled. The banner enroll ment was seventy in 1918-19. This session there are fifty up to date (September 26.) The falling off is due to the fact that there are no dormitory accommodations for out-of town girls. Up to last session a girl's home was provided which accommodated six - to eight, though- the number sometimes dwindled to three or four by the close of the session. Last session the Board of Trustees assigned West DeSaussure to the girls and this dormitory was very comfortably and tastefully fitted up for their accommoda tion. In June, 1919, however, the Board of Trustees discontinued this arrangement because of the prospective increase of male students and because it was felt that the University if it was to offer its advantages to the women of the State, should provide for them a separate and distinct dormitory and a Dean of Women. Inquiries ad dressed to twenty-one co-edu cational State institutions re veal the fact that such provi sions for women are made in every one of them, with the re sult that in nearly every case the attendance of the women at these institutions is from twenty-five to fifty per cent of the total enrollment. If the University had for wo men a well equipped woman's building and a capable Dean their attendance would in a short time easily reach the two hundred mark. Winthrop and the other women's colleges in the State are full to overflow ing. Further, the University of. fers at moderate cost excep tional advantages to women who desire a thorough cultura] education or advanced courses in pedagogy. The girls at the University deserve this recognition. Their record in and out of the class room has been exceptionally marked refining- influaen nn high, and they have exerted a the student body. The revival of the girl's home is inexpedient and the use of any of the existing dor mitories is impracticable be cause of the ever-increasing male enrollment. The only real solution, therefore, of the co educational pr.oblem is the one reached by all high grade -co educational State institutions the erection of a well equipped women's building and the ap pointment of a Dean of Wo men who shall supervise their class work and direct all their activities, thus affording them I the wholesome and interestin,g college life which every ambiti ous girl craves. At the meeting of the Gen eral Assembly in 1918 a de termined but fruitless effort was made to secure such a building. It is evident that to succeed intelligent and persis tent propaganda must be em ployed by the Alumnae. The University authorities and all who have at heart the interests of the instit;ution and the higher education of the women of our, State. If the womens' clubs, the suf-' frage league, and every other organization for women in the State had their interest enlisted in this great cause success would be assured. SUBSTITUTES. In those dear days before July A certain bar I knew full well Each evening, say at seven; But now the world's unfeig n'dly dry I seek "The Blessed Damosel" And "the gold bar of heaven." According to expert advice At that well-known Pierian spring I court intoxication; I've tried more oft than twice or thrice If "Alexander's Feast" would bring A second-hand elation. So recklessly I quaff and deep, And on the jocund Muses call For comfort and hilarity. The derned things put me straight to sleep ! The final sad oblivion's all I see of similarity. --The State. Some one from Coker was in town last week, which perhaps accounts for the three absences recorded against B. in one day. Samson went at a rapid pace after he ot that gate on him.