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Vol,. XIII UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., MAR. 4, 1920. No 17 SEC. KNOWLES COOPER ADDRESSES Y.M.C.A. Speaks of Advantages of Y. M. C. A. New Officers Elected At the regular weekly meet ing of the Y. M. C. A. Wednes day night, Mr. Knowles Coop er, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.. at Washington, D. C., spoke on the Y. M. C. A. as a life work. He stressed the necessity of making a de cision early in life, and urged young men, before making that decision to ask themselves the following questions: "Is the work that I expect to take up of use to human society? Will it permit the development and enrichment of my life? Does it pay sufficient income to permit me to rear and educate a family?" He then discussed the opportunities that the Y. M. C. A. offers psysically, so cially, intellectually and reli giously. He characterized the "Y" gymnasiums as "great halls of health," that give city boys advantages that country boys have, and teaches them how to live morally as well as physically. In the educational feature of the "Y" he mention ed the fact that the education al directors are well paid. He gave examples of how the "Y" appeals to the underclass which the public schools do not touch, and of the part the "Y" plays in Americanizing foreigners. The education fea ture of the "Y" in Washington employs 70 members on its faculty, has several thousand pupils, gives C. P. A. degree and has 1,200 men in its cla.s of accounting. Its law school is of the highest standard. Officers of the Y. M. C. A. for the next term were elected as follows: Guy A. Gullick of Greenville, President; Z. L. Foy, of Saluda, Vice-President; W. H. Thomas, of Sumter, See retary, and O. S. Ulmer, of Four Holes, Treasurer. All of the new oflicers, with the exception of Mr. Gullick, who is a mem-' ber of the Junior Law Class, are members, of the Junior Academic Class. These new officers will go in office April 1, and serve for one year. The one thing common to all systems of theology is passing the plate. SEABORN IS WINNER IN ORATOR'S CONTEST Awarded First Place in Final Preliminaries. In the preliminaries Tuesday night in the chapel, C. B. Sea born, of Pickens, whose subject was "The New Era," was chosen to represent the univer sity in the State Oratorical Con test to. be held in Greenwood in April. The Clariosophic Society ex perienced a complete walk away, when C. B. Seaborn was awarded a medal by the judges, signifying hi's superi ority of talent and his choice to the first honor, and E. B. Smith received second place. There were six contestants for the honor as follows: E. B. Smith, Clariosophic, whose subject was "Our Her itage;" D. J. Jenkins, Euphra dian, "The New Age;" C. B. Seaborn, Clariosophic, "The Era;" J. B. Belk, Euphradian, "Constructive Statesmanship ;" J. J. Stevenson, Clariosophic, "The Hope of Nations," and Cuthbert Johnson, Euphradian, "The Divinity of Discontent." Mr. Seaborn has been here tofore recognized as one of the best orators at the university, and the decision of h ocsitt confirmed the statements, of those who said he was the best. "Wild Bill" Seaborn, as he is popularly called, represented Carolina in the State oratorical contest in 1918. "Colie" is not only prom inent along literary lines, but has shown himself to be a live wire in football, baseball and track. The university should feel confident that it will be well represented in the future contest to be held in Green wood on April 16th, and ex pects its representative to bring back the laurels of form er days. The universities of Switzer land face a unique problem. The country has always been an international center, and this has rendered difficult a dis tinct national university devel opment. In the north the uni versities incline to German in fluences; in the West, to the French. Most student move ments use both languages, pub lishing two edlitions of their journals and holding twvo con ventin. PROF. GEO. HOWE GIVES SERIES OF LECTURES Exchange Lecturer from Uni versity of North Carolina. Five years ago the University of South Carolina, the Univer sity of North Carolina, the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University entered into an agreement to exchange among themselves one of their professors each year, the visit ing professor to deliver a course of lectures before one of the departments of the host in stitution and one lecture to which the public was to be in vited. The universities were to alternate the institutions to which the lectures were sent, a professor from North Carolina speaking at the University of South Carolina one year, the lecturer from Vanderbilt the next, the cycle closing with the University of Virginia. In ..accordar:ce ..with this agreement, Prof. George Howe of the Department of Latin, at the University of North Caro lina, has been delivering a se ries of lectures during the past week to the students of the An cient Language Department, and on Thursday night gave an address in chapel to the stu dents and the public. Prof. Howe is a son of the late Dr. Ge'orge Howe is a son of the late Dr. George Howe and a grandson of Prof. George Howe of the Columbia Theo logical Seminary, the historian of the Presbyterian Seminary, the historian of the Presbyte rian Church. He is also a nephew of President Wilson, and one of the leading classical scholars of the South. CO-ED DELEGATES TO CONVENTION. Three Selected for Volunteer Convention at Coker. At a meeting of the co-eds Saturday morning three were elected delegates from the uni versity to the State Student Volunteer Conference to be held at Coker College on March 12, 13 and 14. Miss Glen, Miss Langley and Miss Jones were elected to repre sent the university co-eds. The Y. M. C. A. has not yet elected its representatives. It will send about seven dele DAV DSON TEAM WINS FROM CAROLINA FIVE Fatigue of N. C. Trip Plays Big Part in the Defeat. After a strenuous trip on the road for the past week, during which time they played five hard games, the Gamecocks returned to the home court last Thursday and without a m-o ment's rest, went into action against the Davidson quintet in their last game of basketball on the university court this season. Carolina lost only after a hard fight, by the score of 28 to 18. The Gamecocks showed fa tigue after their trip, but play ed a good game notwithstand ing. The Wildcats showed up well and played a fast, snappy game of basketball. Carolina started the scoring and held the lead for a few minutes. Soon, however, the North Carolina Presbyterians got together and started ring ing up baskets in rapid succes sion, at the same time holding the Carolina lads. The former soon had the lead and held it to the end of the game. The end of the first half found the score 12 and 5 in favor of the Wild cats. Here the crowd was enter tained by a couple of boxing bouts. Teal and Flemming faced each other for a trio of rounds, while Thompson and Greenfield pawed at each oth er and shimmied around for two rounds. The bouts termi nated in a no-decision. The second half opened with the Wildcats starting the scoring, and they soon had a substantial lead on the Game cocks, which they held to the final whistle. The Carolina quintet developed speed at dif ferent stages of the game, and it looked for a time as if they might be able to overcome the lead of the visitors. But the fatigue of the past week as serted itself, and while they gave the Wildcats a hard fight, they were unable to shake their losing hoodoo and the game went to the visitors by the score of 28 to 18. Skinner, Waite, and Foy did the best work for Carolina, while Roberts, Romefelt, and Brice played the best ball for Davidson.