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tjc Ca uccoct 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., Jan. 15, 1920 R. C. Thompson..............Editor J. R. Bryson ....... Business Manager When in doubt, ask Socrates; HE knows. Big aircastles can be built in a very small fire. This is one New Year we didn't begin with good spirits. Next to a woman scorned, hell hath no fury like the pro fessor whose class we've neg lected. Miss Sara Frances Fickling When Miss Sara Fickling re signed as Treasurer of the Uni versity, we lost one of our most loved and efficient officers. The place she has made for herself in the life of the University, its students and faculty will be hard to fill. We feel unable to express in words our gratitude for the excellent service she has rendered while here. Her work has been of the most ec cient and commendable type, her efforts to enlarge the scope of the University and to in crease the benefit of all con cerned cannot be measured by: a pen. All we can offer is the assurance of a duty well done, a trust fulfilled. Miss Fickling came to the University in 1907, acting as: treasurer and secretary and clerk to the President, Major Benjamin Sloan. Upon the ap pointment of a Dean several years later the Treasurer was relieved of all the duties out side her immediate office, with the exception of the records of the Board of Trustees; the Treasurer is also secretary to the Board. Miss Fickling has served as Treasure.i under three presidents, Major Sloan, Dr. Mitchell, and Dr. Currell, and also under acting presi dent, Dr. A. C. Moore. In 1907, when Miss Fickling came to the University, the en rollment was 285, and the State appropriation for that year was $64,038.93. The present enrollment is 550, and the 1919 appropriation, $136,800. In Regard to Our School. The University of South Carolina was chartered in 1801 as the South Carolina Col lege, the third State University in the United States. In the minds of its founders it was to educate the youths of the State and unite up-country and low country into one harmonious whole. South Carolina became remarkably homogeneous. This result was in large measure, if not chiefly, due to the South Carolina College. In Carolina were gathered the choice intellects of South Carolina's sons, whether rich or poor, for the State fostered tal ent wherever found. Thus it was enabled to make up for its small size and in the nation to occupy a commanding position. From 1824 Soath Carolina led the South, and the alumni of the college, with views of gov ernment fashioned in their stu dent days, led the State. Who shall say that they did not lead her well? They manifested their faith at Fort Sumter; sad ly the remnant limped home from Apomattox. New founders, alumni of the old college, secured a charter for the University of South Car olina, which opened its doors in January, 1866, only to be closed seven years later in the black despair of reconstruction. The alumni of this brief period have been the State's formost citizens. When the college was again established in 1880, there was apparent the same high pur pose of citizenship in its foun ders, and the same high resolve in the young men who have sought her halls of instruction. Time nor space suffice to give the names of teachers and stu dents familiar in the house-' holds of the State because of their service to their fellow men. Huger could say of the young McDuffie in the House of Representatives that the State would be well repaid for all the money she had spent on the college, if it had educated only George McDuffie. A hun dred years have passed, and the historian could call the names of alumni of this day of whom it could be said that the State had well spent all the University had cost, if only alumni had been educated by her. A Question of Honor. Everybody has a contempt for the man who won't stand by his college in everything that happens for the good of the col lege ; he is a traitor to the one important thing in the wvorld thait can elevate him to the higher forms of life. Every body despises the man who will lie to his personal advantage and who will seek to get credit for work that some onens does; he is a traitor to his own honor, a man void of the true principles of character. So also with the cheat, the thief, the slanderer, the blackguard, the practiser of low vice. Yet, such persons as these are found in every clime, in every city, and in many colleges. We do not say that representatives of all these classes are present at the univeritity, but recent events have proved that there are some men here who are weak in certain of the above respects. It is very unfortun ate for us that such should be! the case and all our efforts; should be exerted in the en deavor to remedy this evil con dition. We have an 'honor system' at the university, but what kind of 'system of honor' have we? That is a hard question to ans wer. It might be stated that we have not yet reached such a state in which a whole year passes without the Honor Com mittee being called upon to judge whether or not some per son is "fit" to remain here as a student. There has usually been at least one man a year called before this body to ans wer charges of questionably, character." 'Tis true, 'tis pity."' A person who stoops so low as to break the fLydamental laws of honor as outlined by the student body is unworthy to associate with the men who uphold the traditions of this university. We pride ourselves upon the fact of our right to free speech and thought, we .power n - Ele the I D"t- , 1., .Igl- ,t,tiot are .rd paun .i q.W ith I -. motor - -The Cr . .:..througt 10. 000 40 electric d.. - malir on . oa fe " ?lory in the word democracy; yet, we sometimes neglect to ;ee that there are those among as who do not shun an oppor tunity to violate these princi ples. The time has come when all those who have the best wel Fare of this institution at heart must unite in an effort to make )ur rules of honor perfect in Fact, as they seem to be in theory. This means that when one student sees another vio lating these rules, he should re port the fact to the Honor Com mittee. That is the only way to protect the university from those who tend to destroy its principles. Read a copy of the honor system andthink it over. It's better to report such a person and be a MAN, than to allow such a thing to become deeper rooted into our system because of the fear of the term "molly coddle." Back up the honor system because it is worthy of your support. IT STANDS FOR YOUR HONOR as well as for the honor of your college. We grow accostumed to fail ure. There is never a success but is built upon a dozen fail ures. There is no man so wise, so strong, so good but his path is marked by many a failure. Wise men are not wise enough, strong enough, to avoid failure ; and many a story of failure is sad and tragic enough, and "ometimes the failure is a fail ure of love and friendship and truth, and this is the worst of all. I I s rMhtkeu M IRwf.Mtff0tpplyi-g powe. ( fo " magnet tricity laster Force in Manufacturing marvels of electricity have revolu iized our manufacturing industries. ,eltt. and pulleys replaced by electric i operating automatic-almost human hines, many a slow and tedious oro as been elirainated. mne Co. ipany's plant at Chicairo--clctricr.I lout-is a mod.l of induc*rial efliciency. Its horsc-power of driving energy is brougit by nail wires from a distr.nt power plant. Then ity drives the mnchin, ry which handles the r heating, cuta the steel. sifta the sand and ia material-in fact doca everything from na the floor co winding the clock. n institution is marvelous - superhuman - hius by the mnn-muiltiply ing force of elcc. 'Im heiGeeral E lectric Company has been cni ni ini efTecting this evolution, by develop. ient electric generating and trannission op andir by assisting in the application of electsi *g muihitude of needs.