Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES. TERMS $1.60 A YEAR. Entered at Columbia S. C. postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 22, 1920 R. C. Thompson..............Editor J. R. Bryson ....... Business Manager Strange, isn't it, why so many professors visit the extension office more than they used to. According to the constitution of the Gamecock, a new board of editors must be elected twice each year. The editors for the second term have been chosen and will assume their duties im mediately after examinations. The present staff will retire with the publication of this is sue. One thing lacking at the uni versity is a good glee club and orchestra. We can't have an orchestra this year, but we can have a glee club. Let's get to gether and organize. Dr. Smith is willing to help in every way he can, and it is now up to the student body to co-operate with him in putting the job across. Many pleasurable evenings have been missed because we haven't put forth an effort to combine the musical talent of the campus into a club. Other schools thruout the country have made use of their talent and can boast of such an ad vantage. Then there are the trips to girls' schools we are missing; if you have never tak en such a "vacation" your col lege life hasn't been completed. So there is a selfish motive, purely legitimate, and an al truistic motive in the organiza tion of a real good, worthwhile glee club. If you can carry a tune just even a little bit, tell Dr. Smith; if you have had any experience, so much the bet ter-tell Dr. Smith; if you are interested and can't possibly try, then tell somebody that can to tell Dr. Smith. LET'S GET TOGETHER AND ORGAN IZE. On Retiring From Office. No human voice or human pen ever expressed the real meaning of the word pleasure; no mortal bard has ever sung with absolute truth of the sources of the fountain of free dom and rest. Many have ex perienced such emotions, but none have ever been able to give verbal expression to them. We know. We have had feel ings of ease, of comfort, of un mistakable joy, of bliss--all of these in the last few months. For years past we believed that writers, of glorious emotions knew how to put feelings into words; our own poor minds at tempted often to do the same. But we have found at last the futility of such effort; we have experienced that real pleasure, and now-we know. It is im possible. Ye editors of college publi cations, bear me witness to this fact; testify to the absurdity of such useless effort, scorn him who believes it can be done, laugh at him who profits only by experience. No one has ever described those "little mo ments of happiness" that come to a college editor when the pa per has just been "run off," those few brief moments when he can rest his mind, and, for getting the labor and toil and worry that accompanied the preparation of the sheet that expresses his work, glory in the thoughts of a task performed. Those brief moments-they are brief, but glorious-when he can lose himself in blissful dreams and dwell in the realm of undisturbed fancy. Their true meaning has never been known except to college editors, others cannot even truthfully imagine them. Yet, they are but minor fac tors in the life of an editor; they constitute the almost neg ligible quantity. Days and weeks of distress and worry are matched against those little seasons of contentment. Many have been the times when we worked into the dead hours of night, exhausting the scant re sources of our brairi in the mad search for something to fill space; often have we longed for that "balm for hurt minds" which others seemed to get so freely, but which to us never came. And now, they are gone-gone never to return and with them, it seems, the last remnant of despair; may they rest in peace. We are free to study and to glory in the memory of performing a task in the best way we knew how. W. Perry Brandenburg, of Columbia was elected editor of the Gamecock by the joint meeting of the Clariosophic and Euphradian Literary So cieties held in the chapel last Thursday morning. Mr. Bran denburg is a member of the Clariosophic Society and is a special student at the universi ty. He will assume the duties of this office with the beginning of the second term in February. Cuthbert Johnson, a junior law student, and a member of the Euphradian Society, was elect ed editor of the Carolinian. Mr. Johnson is also edito o+' the Garnet and Black. He wil begin his new office with the February number of the maga zine. The retiring editors are: J. E. Norwood, the Carolinian, and R. C. Thompson, the Gamecock. APSTASY. Berton Braley in Life. I've run about lately with folk intellec tual, Minds that are flashing And clashing In strife. Making me feel like a worm ineffectual, Only much slower And lower In life; In such a rarifled air I've been tenri fled, Reft of opinion, A minion So small That-it is risible-I am not visible Under the eyebrows Of highbrows At all. So I am homesick for lowbrows Or nobrows, Average people of standard design, Down with supernal minds! Mix me with vernal minds, Ladies'-Hoine-Journal minds Something like mine! I am exhausted by flights conversa tional, r Wearied by phrases Like blazes Of fire, Take me away from these tests cere brational, My brain is spinning, Beginning To tire; Perish such vertigo; back I prefer to go With those who shine not SHEPPARE 1423 Ma CALL ON SYLVAN B When you want something REAL ance in the Lines of DIAMOND JEWELRY, WATCI Our stock affords the LARGEST SOLID AND GENUINE GOODS. We also make up special designe Mail orders always have our per to please. SYLVAN E Jewelers, Silversmiths a Cor. Main and"Hampton Streets HABENIC] McDOUGA Athletic 4 And pine not A jot, Dull, unsulphitic folk, non-analytic folk, Minds of the kind that I find that I've got. Yea, I am joyously spurning All learning, Gaily forsaking the heights I've been shown, Farewell to super-minds, Come, let us group our minds, We who are frankly bromidic in tone; All us stagnating folk Non-coruscating folk Talking of common place -things we have known. Give me benighted minds, Harold-Ben?-Wright-ed minds Sluggish and static minds, Calm and phlegmatic minds, Unacnobatic minds-just like my own! "Think on These Things." Men and women are illiter ate not on account of any de sire on their part, but because of circumstances over which they have no control. Many worthy drives are go ing on, but in working for this, you will work for them all. Illiteracy is a family trait the older members failed to get an education; therefore the children and grandchildren have suffered. These neglected people have lost faith in themselves; failing to get an education when chil dren, they have built a wall around their lives which can only be penetrated by a capa ble, sympathetic understanding friend and teacher. 1S STUDIO n Street ROTHERS ELEGANT in Quality and Appear IES, AND STERLING SILVER ELECTION, in the State of ALL in medals and class rings. sonal attention with a guarantee ROTHERS nd Diamond Merchants Columbia, S. C. 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