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MANY CONTESTANTS FOR SCHOOL DEBATE Sixty High Schools Register for Contest. With 60 high schools already registered for the South Caro lina High School Debating League, the university exten sion department, under whose auspices the annual debate is held, is now making special ef forts to bring the number of contesting schools up to 80. The present entry list is the largest in the history of the league since its founding in 1917, the high mark hereto fore being the record of 45 schools registered for the open ing contest. The entry lists are to be open until February 20, the first series of general pre liminary contests being staged probably on April 2. The widespread interest in the subject of government own ership of the railways which is to be debated this year is ex emplified in the number of re quests for copies of the univer sity bulletin on the subject pre pared by J. 0. Van Meter, as sistant director of the extension department. This pamphlet contains a carefull prepared symposium of the arguments on both sides of the government ownership question with com plete briefs pro and con. It is to be distributed free of charge to all contestants, and as long as the edition lasts, to any one else requesting copies. The demand for copies has been un usual for the first week since its publication, requests reach ing the extension department from men and women of all ages and all walks of life. Rail road men, business men, profes sional men all find the subject of vital interest, and are eager to accept this opportunity to get a thorough analysis of the reason, both for and against the many proposed solutions. Should the extension depart ment reach its goal of 80 schools, it has estimated that some 16,000 persons would thus be given an opportunity to hear the subject discussed in public when the various schools hold their elimination contests April 2. Should the influenza epi demic continue, the extension department will set new dates for the contests, although there is every indication now, the de partment thinks, that the pre liminaries can be held April 2, the final and semi-final con tests bringing possibly 20 teams to the university to be set for some rdate in April. In all DR.MORSE SPEAKS AT "Y" MEETING Gives Interesting Talk on the "Trend of the Times." Altho speaking on very short notice, Dr. Morse lived up to his reputation by giving a splendid lecture at the Y. M. C. A. meeting last Wednesday night. Dr. Morse took as his subject the "Trend of the Times." He pointed out that in all nature the faults and weaknes;3es are the places that break under strain. This same tendency is true in human na ture, and in the customs of so ciety, and in times of stress the weakest links in society will be the first to crumble. The world war revealed many of the most fundamental of the weaknesses and faults thruout the human structure. During the time of the war, under the stress and strain of the gigantic struggle, the strong in society, those things that were good and wholesome and high,-mortality and gen uine religion,-stood the stress. But the weak crumbled and fell. The first fault line to crum ble was autocracy. It is a fun damental human weakness when one man or a small group of men can, without the con sent or knowledge of the peo ple, plan unholy and unmoral combinations for the advance ment of their own outworn am bitions. The only remedy for such a weakness is world-wide Democracy. The other fault lines of so ciety pointed out by Dr. Morse were the fault of one nation ruling over another, race pre judice, national isolation, and autocracy in industry and the remedies were self-determina tion, toleration, national co operation in a league of na tions, and Democracy in Indus try. He ended up his lecture with an appeal to the men pres ent to take their place in the trend of the times as the fu ture leaders of the country. Another attractive feature of the program was a vocal selection by Miss Belk, of Chi cora. towns where the schools are closed at present on account of influenza, the university exten sion department is urging that in such schools as have not en teredi the league the debate be turned over to the department of English, and the time spent during the quarantine in pre paration for the high school elimination contest. ESTABLISHES FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIP Will Provide for Scholarship and Medal for University. Dr. W. S. Currell, president of the university, has received a check for $5,500 from the es tate of Miss Anna N. Keitt, of St. Matthews, which, under the terms of Miss Keitt's will, is to be used to gatablish a scholar ship and ai orator's medal at the univei'sity. As provided in the will, the interest of $5,000 of the be quest will be used to found a scholarship to be known as the Lawrence M. Keitt Scholar ship, after Miss Keitt's father. The scholarship will be be stowed upon some student from the old district which her father represented in congress. This district now comprises Orangeburg, Bamberg, Barn well, Lexington and Calhoun counties. The interest on the remaining $500 is to be to offer an annual medal to be known as the Lawrence M. Keitt medal, to the best orator in the university. The details of the contest are to be decided by the university debating council, which will set a date and ar range eligibility rules for the contest at fn early meeting. All students of the university, including graduate and law students, are expected to be al lowed to compete for the trophy, the first contest to be held some time this semester. 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