The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 25, 1920, Page 4, Image 2
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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., Mar. 25, 1920
STAFF
Editorial.
l lerbert It. Smith......Editor-in-Chief
S. M. Derrick ........ Associate Editor
Business.
Jos. It. Bryson............. Manager
L. N. Connor...............Assistant
Circulation.
13. E. Littlefield............ Manager
W . C. McCall...............Assistant
Assistant Editor.
J. C. Webb 0. S. Ulmer
W. L. Refo Morris Marcus
II. M. Lightsey J. J. Stevenson
1). .1. Jenkins J. R. Sullivan
C. E Ilazeldon J. F. Quinn
Isabelle Legare.
EDITORIALS.
Spring is here, so is spring
fever.
The automobile show is near
us, likewise is the class room.
This is fine weather for base
ball. How about letting the team
do the knocking and you do the
boosting?
Perhaps the time is not far
off when college students will
have the power to fashion the
constitution of South Carolina or
even impeach the president of
the United States.
We often wonder if it would
not be a good idea for the Uni
versity Library to make a com
parison in point of regular at
tendance on the part of college
students with the pool rooms of
the city.
It seems that many college stu
dents could very appropriately
have the following sign on their
doors: "Office Hours: 1 :00 a. m.
to 9:00 a. m."
WHO WON THE DEBATE?
We carry in this issue an ac
count. of-one of the most impor
tant events of the college year.
Last week the triangular debate
between Carolina, the Univer
sity of Fl oridla and the Univer
sity of Te~nnessee wvas held wvith
remar~kab)le success. In this clash
of debating talent Carolina dlid
well. \Ve should be proud of
ou r representatives. But the
question seems to loom large in
our mind : Are we?
WVe have been struck by the
lack of interest shown on the
part of the student body in re
gardi to this nnarticulnr phase of
college work. At thel contest
that was held here in Columbia,
out of our large student body
not more than fifty men were
present. And what is more de
pressing, many students didn't
even know that such an event
was to occur. After the debate
it was common to hear students
ask: "What debate ?" "Who
won ?" "Who were our repre
sentatives?" Let the cause
of this lack of information
be what it may, the fact
remains that students do
not have the information
about the activities of the Uni
versity that will make them in
telligent and vigorous partici
pants in college life.
However, it may be that we
are too busy with our books and
love them too well to busy our
selves with the literary activi
ties. Perhaps we don't believe in
exercising the power of expres
sion, and would rather devote all
our time to athletics. It may be
that the world of affairs requires
quickness of muscular movement
to a greater degree than mental
alertness and charity of expres
sion, or it may be that many
of us are so frail in body that
we have to spend all our time
in exercise. We say that this
may be the case. But this po
sition is shattered hopelessly
when we observe the rushing
business that is being done by
our places of amusement. The
conclusion that we are forced to
draw is that we are not serious
enough in our verbal expression
of college spirit. We are doing
lip-service. Its high time that
we cease chattering, and live !
And here we would remind
our readers that within the next
few weeks Carolina will send two
debating teams against Clemson
and the Citadel respectively, and
also a representative to the State
Oratorical contest. If you don't
know what these events are and
who is to represent us inform
yourself. What about having a
student body meeting and send
these men who are to do us credit
off with a heart strong enough
to win. Give them the conscious
ness that Carolina is behind
them 100 per cent. And when
they return, whether they win
or lose, give them expressions
of your gratitude for the serv
ice they have rendered to Caro
lina. Stop talking about wvhat
ought to be (lone, get out and do
something!
WOULDN'T IT BE FINE
We Want the Sentiment, Not
the Money.
"What a fine thing it would
be if President Currell, at
exercises tomorrow morning,
would call attention to the fact
that because three Wofford
College graduates voted right
in the State Legislature there
might not have been any chapel
exercises tomorrow morning,
and sould'name Profesor Yates
Snowden, whom we helped to
raise, and .Professor Patterson
Wardlaw;'who hails from old
Abbevill'e, to pass around a pa
per looking to the endowment
of one .of the Bleachers, or a
cross section of the Grand
stand on' the Snyder athletic
field at Wofford College in the
name of the South Carolina
College? It is not the money
we want-it is but trash; but
the sentiment, Yates and Pat
terson, the sentiment!"
SPLENDID START
FOR BIBLE CLASSES
The M. S. G.'s started on
their race last4 Friday night.
The score of the classes is as
follows:
East Thornwell, Legare,
East DeSaussure, Woodrow,
West Thornwell, Harper-El
liott, West DeSaussure, West
Rutledge.
The classes will meet again
Friday night at 7 o'clock. In
the last race East Thornwell,
lead by E. B. Smith, lead the
race and came out winner by
a small majority. East Thorn
well is again leading, but illur
murs of dire happenings are in
the air, and some men have
been heard to say that Thorn
well will have to go some.
"DAMMIT, HE'S DEAD."
Abilene, Texas, Feb. 15.
Six hundred students and the
entire faculty of Simmons col
lege here attended the funeral
of "Dammit," a white bulldog,
which for four years had been
the college mascot. "Dammit"
was buried in a casket on the
college campus. A band
played and a student delivered
the funeral oration on "Every
Dog Has His Day." Over the
grave was placed a marble
headstone, bearing the inscrip
tion, ")ammit, lie's Dead."
"If you can kid professors into
believing
You're a studlent deeper
than the sea;
If you can sling the bull, and
thus, (deceiving,
Make the profs with your
own thoughts agree;
If you can use youjr head and
never falter
Nor show the profs that you
are stalling thru,
And1 lne(l the latie plainly by
a halter
And garner 90 where a No.
D would do;
If you can take your notes and
never waver
Tho touched by sleep and
wooed by other thought,
And listen to the monotones
that savor
Of lullabies with breath of
poppy fraught;
If you can think of "her" and
not start dreaming,
Nor trace her picture on the
sheet you scan,
Nor still indulge in just a little
scheming
Why, you're my definition of
a man."
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