The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 15, 1920, Page 4, Image 4
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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
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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.
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