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UNIVERSITY MEN PAY HONOR TO FOUNDERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) ple." Governor Cooper was in troduced by Dr. W. S. Currell, president of the University and toastmaster, as a man who would go down in history as one of the great educational gover nors of the State. P. A. Willcox of Florence, an alumnus of the University as a member of the class of 1887 and for many years a member of the University board of trustees, was the principal speaker of the "Founders' day" celebration. "The only objection I have to U ed c IT In packages of 20 protected by special moisture-proof wrapper. Also in robsnd AIR-.TIGi-T tins of 50. the founding of the University century old University can be more than a century back," Mr. said to have only reached its Willcox said, "is the great care- mature youth. It is not a way lessness of not founding it earl- ward youth. It has precocious ier. Our privilege now is to iy done marvelous things. It has hurry the growth of this neg- a balance of good performance lected youth to such an educa- to its credit. A university tional strength of body and mind which, before it reached the age as will enable it to more amply of maturity, could have given pay back the sacrifice which we in'spiration to McDuffie, Thorn have made. Let us educate the well, Legare, Preston, Carlisle University, that it may with re- and a host of others, who Le n.ewed power educate us." "The University," the speaker Roy F. Youmans said were 'as ntinued, "is in a sense eternal. numberless as the ships of It lives as long as the people live Homer' can not be said to have who support it. It can not die been a wayward child in the ed from old age. That is why our ucational family." With acknowledgments to K. C. B. f Qood wheeze Lleave ioo I LOVE the ladies. BUT LIKE most men. I OFTEN guess wrong. ON WHAT will win. A SMILE from them. I ALWAYS say. IT'S BETTER to laugh. THAN EVER to worry. SO ONCE, when. THE DAM broke, and. A FLOOD hit town. I THOUGHT I'd just. CHEER UP my wife. AND SO I said. "IF THE worst comes. YOU CAN float down. * r . THE RIVER on. THE FAMILY music-box. AND I'LL accohnpany you. ON THE piano." WHICH WAS all wrong. POOR H U MOR, she said. WAS OUT of place. IN TIME of danger. SO KIPLING was right. "A WOMAN is only. A WOMAN, but a good cIgar. IS A smoke;" only. HE SHOULD have made it. leesochiet1'ks; MY CIGARETTES because.metctbcohamnycn YOU'R E BOUN D to get. sv,cnth-oidCetr A SMILE from them."soe"Y,ansmthg * boe-yo thewta cgte that. THE AWAS satsf."hoestly t"bathatmoeysca * efieiadyogea CIGARETTES Approves Bond Iisue. Mr. Willcox recommended a bond issue to provide for the permanent development of the institution. "Unfortunately in this' State," he said, "the ex tremes of wealth and financial depression accompany each oth er rapidly, which means that the normal growth of the State activities, including the Uni versity, where they depend upon permanent plans, at times suf fer because dependent upon the current revenue derived from annual taxation." The speaker also favored the granting of funds for the proposed woman's building at the University in or der to destroy the difference in accommodations, which, he said, was without any excuse, found ed in intelligence or fairness. Protection for the priceless vol umes in the University library, preserving the history of the University, and largely of the State, was a suggestion, Mr. Willcox thought, that should re ceive most favorable considera tion. "In matters educational," the speaker said, "South Carolina may now occupy a small part in the great scheme, but the Uni versity, as far as the State is concerned, should prepare itself not only to keep up with but lead the procession." Others responding to toasts were: E. B. Smith of Mullins, representing the student body, on"The Wisdom of the Found ers;" Mrs. James A. Cathcart, "The Woman's Building;" Lieut. Gov. Wilson G. Harvey, "The University Bond ;" Thomas P. Cothran, speaker of the house of representatives, "Builders;" August Kohn of the board of trustees, "The University's Fi nances, Past and Present;" Gor don Hughes of Union, president of the Alumni Association, "The Alumni and the University;" Woods Dargan of Darlington, "The University and the World War," and Randolph Murdaugh of Hampton, "What the Uni versity Eas Done for Me." Heed Voice of Women. Col. O. J. Bond, president of the Citadel, ( responding to an impromputi toast, brought the University "hearty good VKshes for unending years of service," and called upon the legislature to "heed the voice of the women and present the University with the needed woman's building as a birthday gift." An announcement was ma.de at the banquet of a gift of a $1,000 bond to the University from W. T. C. Bates, for many years a member of the University board of trustees. The interest on this under the terms of the gift will be used to provide a. gold medal to be awarded an nually to the student who con-. tributes the best original liter ary production to the Univers ity publications. The medal will be inscribed with the names of the donor and winner and will be awarded by the English department The University quartet, Messrs. McGowan, Harper, Sul livan and Clayton, contributed largely to the pleasure of the session with a number of vocal selections, interspersed among the various addresses. UNIVERSITY GAINS NATIONAL RECOGNITION The University of South Car olina is one of the thirty-two colleges of the South listed by the Commission on Institutions of High Education as "approv ed colleges." This list was made by the commission at the recent meeting of the Associa tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the South, which is recognized thruout the United States as the standardizing agency for colleges and second ary schools in this section. In order to gain a place on the ap proved list, a college must meet certain standards adopted by the Association, the most im portant of which relate to en trance requirements, require ments for graduation, training of faculty, library and labora tory equipment, financial sup port, and standing in the edu cational world as evidenced by the record of its graduates in he greater graduate schools of the nation, such as Johns Hop kins, Harvard and others. To gain a place on this list means much to the University, and its alumni, in that hereaf ter its certificates and diplomas will be valid, credit for credit, at any American or European University in which students of the University may enter upon graduate, professional or tech nical study. To maintain its place among the recognized colleges of the first rank the University will have to rigidly apply the stand ards. In so doing, especially in th. enforcement of that requir ing a four-year high school course for entrance, the insti tution may suffer a loss in the number of matriculants for a few years, but the enforcement of this rule will conduce not only to the high standards of the University, but also will aid materially in the development of a strong high school system in the state. STOP THIEF. Often when a store is robbed in Newberry, or "something like that," we are asked to keep quiet about it, as publication might put the rogues on their guard. People wvant the news. A rogue knows he stole and call ing attention to it will not make him change his movements. Newberry Herald and News. "That's the r'eason there is no crime wave in Newberry as there is in New York," said E. A. Brooks, as he read the above article. "We have an efficient press and a vigilant police force where I come from," he added.