The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 14, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
VPgliAT3WINTHROP
SFor ,a number of years Win
S tl op College has foll wed the
tl -cy of having all the new,
:students, and all old students
aho are desirous of passing off
conditions or of taking exami
nation for advanced standing
,v hr sorme subject, report at the
college several days before the
date for the regular opening.
hus it is that on last Thurs
day, September 9th, the first
faculty meeting of the session
was held and the following day
sorge five hundred students, in
eluding the new ones, the Stu
dent Government Board, the Y.
W. C. A. cabinet and commit
tees, and old students desiring
to take examinations, came in
ready for work the hext- day.
This plani makes it possible for
much preliminary work to be
accomplished and the classifi
cation of these students to be
completed before the large
body of old students arrives.
On Wednesday morning,
September 15th, the regular
openiig of the twenty-sixth
session of Winthrop College,
since its removal to Rock Hill,
took place in the auditorium.
Every seat' was occupied, for
eleven hundred students had
been admitted.
Dr. Johnson read the twen
ty-fourth Psalm.
Rev. Alexander Martin, pas
tor of the Oakland. Avenue
Presbyterian.. church, led in
prayer, and Miss Davies, of the
Department of Music, rendered
very delightfully two vocal se
lections.
Dr. Johnson gave a word of
greeting, encouragement and
inspiration. He said in part:
"It gives me great pleasure
to welcome you to Winthrop
College as students for its
twenty-sixth session at Rock
Hill, and for the thirty-fifth of
its existence. I rejoice to have
the old students with us again
and to have so many bright,
the Holy Spirit." '
new faces among them.
"I hope the old students will
take special paina, as they usu
ally do, to help the faculty and
myself make our new-comers
speedily feel at home, and I
wish to assure them and all of
our students of the readiness,
willingness, and desire of .my
self and every member of the
faculty to serve them at any
and all times in any way in our
power.
"I trust we are all here with
renewed strength and vigor as
a result of the summer's rest,
and are ready and determined
to do the best year's work of
our lves. I hope we may en
tpr upon the work with high re
solve, and that the end of the
nine months will find us with
broader injnds, higher ideals,
and stronger in faith, hope and
80pt3te, imposes iptbgw
lrien greater duties and responj
sibilities while bestowing
greater rights. It behoo es wo4
men to make Jretter prepara
tion than ever before to per
form these greater duties and
meet these greater rseponsibil
ities.
"Are you here this session
for earnest work, to prepare
yourselves for unselfish service
of the highest order? Are you
here ready to make sacrifices to
secure this preparation? Are
you here to maintain in college
the best traditions of the Amer
iCan Christian home? If you
are here with such high ,aims
and . noble, patriotic purposes,
I need, not urge you to so. con
duct yourselves as to guard
jealously the honor and repu
tation of the college ; I need not
urge you to read and conform
to the rules of the college and
the Student Government Asso
ciation; I need not be anxious
about high moral and Christian
standards being maintained at
the college; I shall feel sure
that all the good work of the
college will be strongly and
loyally supported ; that , :the
good spirit and good feeling of
the Class of 1920 will be caught
up and carried on; that the
moral and Christian side of
your education, more essential
than any other, will not be neg
lected; that you will secure
that training and development
which will insure right idea1,
strong character, fine efficien
cy, and a high Christian char
acter as you go out from us for
the duties of life.
"Let me commend to you as
a great help toward living the
life we should live here Bishop
Vincent's 'Morning Prayer and
Resolve,' with the hope that
you will adopt it as your own
for each day of the session. I
shall post it on the bulletin
hoard."
It reads:
"I'will try this day to live a
simple, sincere, serene life, re
pelling every thought of dis
content, self-seeking and anx
iety, cultivating magnanimity,
self-control, and the habit of
silence, practicing economy,
cheerfulness and helpfulness;
and if I cannot in my own
strength do this or even with
the hope of success attempt it,
I look to Thee, 0 Lord, my
Father, in Jesus Christ, my Sa
viour, and ask for the gift of
When Dr. Johnson had fin
ished, he presented 'Mayor
Blankenship, who briefly but
whole-heartedly welcomed the
folk at the college.
He was followed by Rev. J.
W. Speake, pastor of the St.
John's Methodist church. Mr.
Speake, in pddressing himself
to the students, spoke of the
college as a divine instiution,
having .as its .foundation the
c irc. He. said it was be
~ ~e. tr~setedthe
ben doing classi& work onT
since the opening of the session,
is now getting down to brass'
tak.The unl,forms arrived
last week and the men were as.
signed to their '-respective pla
toons and compenys on last Fri
day, regular drill now being
helt every morning from 8:80
to 9:80.
Capt. W. E. Duvall who is in
comand of the R. O. T. C, is
well liked by all the men. Re
was .ii charge here last year
also, taking Major A. W. Chair
sell's place at the opening of the
session of 1919-20.
About 150 students are enroll
ed in the R. O. T. C. this session,
a considerably larger enrollment
than last year. Quite a number
has 'recently entered from the
Citadel.
J. F. Williams, a senior of the
University, is adjutant of the
battalion. Mr. Williams was at
the Seniqr Plattsburg Training
'Camp during the summer of
1918. Intensive training was
administered to the men of this
camp and Mr. Williams knows
his business.
The R. O. T. C. is expected to
turn out men who are worthy of
being commissioned 2nd Lieu
tenants at the end of four years.
Under the able instruction of
Capt. Duvall and his assistants,
the University is hoping to be
the alma mater of a large num
ber of commissioned officers in
the U. S. Army.
FACTI DE ALUMNIS.
Guy Meares, '16, is a dental
student at the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
H. E. Moore, LL. B., '16, is a
Imember of the law firm, Felder
& Moore,' of Orangeburg.
Robert D. Waring, C. E., '17,
is a civil engineer with the South
Carolina State Highway Depart
ment, Columbia.
Solomon Blatt, LL. B., '17, is
an attorney at law at Barnwell.
R. Alvin Beymer, '18, is an
electrical engineer with the
Power and Mining Department,
General Electric Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
McKendree Barr, A. B., '18,
is at Leesville, where he is en
gaged in farming and the prac
tice of lay.
At the regular meeting of the
student body on last Saturday,
the following men were elected
from the student body to the
social cabinet: i. M. Lightsey,
L.~ N. Connor, L. B. Cox and
Dave Robinson.
concerning church attendance.
These exercises having
c(osed, the visitors withdrew,
and the rotitine matters of oi
ganization proceeded. The~
4t&ssificatio3> pof the eaT-re stu.
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