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i' Castcoc PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.50 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 13. 1919 Editor. Annie Cornelia Huggins. Assistant Editors. Dorothy Vaughan. Gennie Revelise. Isabel Legare. 1arv Wingfield. Shirley Black. Cecile Huggins. I'earle Fallaw. Louise Jones. F'elie Clark. Edith Llyes. Eleanor Hall. Pansy Fox. Roberta ('amak. Ellen Glenn. "Make the men sit down." John VI, 10. All success is measured by the nearness of the attainment approach to the ideal, but the higher the ideal the more worthy the success. Co-eds and College Spirit. Since the time that Co-eds were first admitted to the Uni versity, there has been some doubt in the minds of the other students whether the girls were really interested in Carolina, or merely taking advantage of the higher and broader educa tion offered them. Probably this was because the number of ('o-eds has never, at any time been large enough to permit them to take an active part in the college life. The Co-eds at all times have been as deeply interested in Carolina as they would have been in girls school, but only for the last few years has the number of girls at Car olina been large enough to form an organization, and to let the other students see the interest we feel in the University. We come to Carolina with the earnest desire to do our share in upholding her high ideals and we want the Univer sity to feel that it can depend on the Co-eds for their loyal support and co-operation in all college activities. Columbia's Opportunity. Would a University for girls be desirable in Columbia? If so, why not have it? Why not establish it? Tphe city of Spartanburg is setting on foot a campaign for the expansion of Converse Col lege. A great campaign for the improvement of Agnes Scott College is in progress. For all the church colleges, campaigns are in motion to raise money. Nearly thirty years ago Co lumbia had the opportunity of securing Winthrop as a perma nent institution. Withrop had been founded in Columbia in 1886. Columbia threw the op portunity away... 4I About 1884 the General As sembly opened the University of South Carolina, then called the South Carolina College, to women, but neglected to pro vide accommodations for them. Since that time a few young women have availed them selves of the advantages of the institution. Many years the number was scarcely more than a dozen or a score, but the last three or four years it has con siderably increased. Last year the enrollment of women was above fifty, and it will be as large this year. These students are nearly all Columbia girls. Most of them live at home or with friends, attend the lectures and take the examinations. They scarcely have a part in the college life. There is no woman's building to serve as a center where young women can meet, no col lege home in the sense that one is enjoyed by the male students. Although the University is by law co-educational, it is not al lowed to invite women students -for there is no invitation worthy of the name where cor dial hospitality is impossible. In spite of this condition, more and more young women each year are endeavoring to get into the University. At the. beginning of the present ses sion, girls came to Columbia from other parts of the State to matriculate in the University and were compelled to tramp the streets and plead to be ad mitted to boarding houses. The three or four score wo men who have been graduated from the University in the last luarter of a century are proud of their degrees. They are con fident that in educational cir cles their diplomas count for more than do those of most of the schools for girls. Columbia has the same kind of opportunity in relation to the University that it had in relation to Winthrop in 1891. A woman's building with dor mitories for a hundred girls, with the necessary kitchen and dinning rooms, reception rooms and halls, would be filled the first season. Indeed, there is no reason to believe that, with the accommodations provided, the University would not be as attractive to women as to men. The University has the land, on the site south of Gibbes Green, separate from the old campus on which buildings to house any number of studlents might b)e erected. Unless the people of Colum bia believe that a University for girls would be of value to the city, there is no reason for them to bother their minds about it. At present, the church colleges do not give to young women educational ad vantages on a plane offered by the University and they will not be able to do so for a number of years. In tf e southern cities are not more ^ban seven or eight colleges for women whose standards are equal to those of the men's colleges, and of these probably not more than one is in South Carolina. If it be said that it iM the business of the State to provide the facilities for girls in its co educational institution, the ans wer is the State is not doing it but probably would do it were the city of Columbia to exhibit a substantial interest in it. Were the city to offer to the State a sum sufficient to erect the first building, the General Assembly would certainly ac-1 cept it, and, thereafter, the State would be committed to giving whatever was needed to develop the woman's side of the institution. The matter presents itself to Columbia as a simple business proposition. Cities smaller than Columbia are raising sums of $200,000 or more for girls' colleges. As the Columbia in stitution has the state at its back, Columbia would in time gain as much by giving one (1ol lar as another city would by giving two or three. While we are not sanguine that this suggestion will be act ed upon, we lay the main facts before the people. Experience of recent years is convincing that girls would be at the Uni versity in numbers were proper housing offered them. The opportunity is as valu able as was the Winthrop op portunity which Columbia let siip. The University might have in 25 years as many stu dents as Winthrop has now. The State. The fair has come and gone, but it left a lot of sick grand mothers, and other relations dead to the heart of every Kollege Kid, who turned up Monday morning with one of those mysterious epistles. Of course, they were not counted, the registrar is not hired to do the work of three men, but as far as can be calculated, only 213 casualties were turned in to the Dean's ofliice recently as the degredating effects of the late fair. Our relations are funny be ings, anyway, especially grand mothers-and is not it queer how many of them become suid denly ill at the same time-and so conveniently too--right after the fair. Of course we excused Sea, born and a few other Fresh men, including a certain Mann, but when Walter Bryson and James Sifford elbowed thru the :rowd at the Dean's office late Monday night and filed a -rumpled bit of evidence con cerning the health of a grand mother, our patience waved there's a limit beyond which even our domestic troubles can not pentrate, and even at that, its not a bad thing to come back to school after all-the fair and two days holiday, included. "Jot It Down" Have a fountain pen and notebook handy. Make your notes in ink so they will be permanently legible. Yo can carry " MOORE in your side coat pocket-anywhere, any way. When closed, is can't leak-when open, it ts ready to write, without shaking or coaxiig. Better buy a MOORE For s"to at all eefbr.a k stoes. drugglet. weter and stationera THE MOORE PEN COMPANY UI Devanshire Str,t Boeten. Maw. We furnish the Football Teams Watch the Equipment It will lead them to many a victory. S. B. McMaster, Inc. Globe Dry Goods Co. College Boys' Trade Solicited LOAF AT GITTMANS' BOOK SHOP Nothing but Books