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!i3' Qass et t iII1-JI: W:.EEKI.Y BY TiE LITERARY Soc"Iru-:s. T.:nuis $1.50 A YEAR. 'ntered at Columbia. S. C. postofflce November 20. 1908, as second-class mail matter. Columbia, S. C., May 19, 1921 EDITORIAL STAFF A. Leslie Wells ........ ditor-in-Chief J. C. Buchanan......Associate Editor BUSINESS. E. P. Gaines................Manager 0. S. Ulner................Assistant CIRCULATION. 1). .J. Jenkins ...............Manager L. B. Cox .................Assistant REPORTERS' CLUB. S. ). Ervin E. Ii. Folk W. C. Floyd C. E. Haselden G. II. Wittkosky T. E. Ilorton '. It. Harvey W. I.. Brannon J. F. Quinn MNry Graydon COMMENTS l.xam1s. lIxans. ther all. 1Ie who knows that he knows nothing has the foundation of an education. )n(e week more and the excite m)ent begins-too miuch so perhaps for manty of us. The thought of vacation in a few weeks should instill in us a deter nination to complete our work in such manner as will enable us to get the most out of it, without any thought or worry of tasks unfinish ed before leaving college. The men whom I have seen suc ceed are those always cheer ful and hopeful. who went about their bisiness with a smile upon their faces and took the chances of this mortal life like a man.-Kingslev. As we near the end of the ses sion we feel that we would like to see next year even greater success than the present. 1very student has 01p ortinities to make it so if he or she will appreciate them when they afford themselves. \len and women of the Univer sity were presented with a new type of student last week when the adult students were brought here for a visit by the illiteracy commis sion. While we cannot view such a condition without a feeling of shame, we are gratified to see the step)s the State is taking to remedy c'ond(itionis amonig the growvn-up) il literates. May SouthCarolina con tinue in her dIrive to wipe illiteracy from the State. At commencement Carolina will bie hosts to many visitors who will l)e on our campus for the closing exercises. Every sttudent should take adlvantage of this opportunity to show the real Carolina spirit, andl these visitors should be given every courtesy and attention. The imp)ressions created at this time can he of an indelible nature, and we have a splendid oppIortulnity to make them favorable ones. Th'le recent v'ictory of the UJni versity in the annual Carolina-Clem son-Citadel dlebate cdoses with a per fect score our efforts in (de cessful in years. This should im press upon every student the fact that there are too many hig things in university life to work for to al low petty differences to creep in and (lestroV our aims and ambi tions. This should never he if we are to repeat our record from year to vear. To read the "yellow sheets" of the Garnet and Black convinces us that we have good talent on the campus which would make possi ble the publishing of a good comic magazine. We feel that this is well wvorth the while of those students who are interested in this line of worh;. and we woll(l like to see a gcld comic publication at Carolina. IN PASSING With this isste of The (;1me rock the staff retires from the stage and "hibernates" for examinations. We realize that we have fallen far short of what shoul(1 constitute a tlniversity newspaper stalT'. never theless we have done our best and the criticism showerd upon uts we accept without a murmtur. We hope that if our efforts have been a fail tire the student body will profit by them in its determination to im prove the publication next year. We thank those who endeavored t4 help us, and may we take this occasion to extend our appreciation to those few members of the fac ulty who were willing to give us suggestions from time to time. Our administration has been handicap ped thruout by lack of sufficient finances, which fact has made it im possible for us to appear regularly in f ull-sized issue. I Iowever, our obstacles have not been along the line mentioned above alone. We must say in frankness that we fail ed to get the support of the student body that we expected. but we feel that with the growing interest that is being manifested toward campus activities in general The Gamerock will come in for its share. 'l'o pub lish the best weekly in the South should be the determination of the students of 1921-22. GREATER 1921-22 We are carrying elsewhere in this issue an appeal from Coach Metzger for cooperation on the part of students in making possible a winning football team for the coming season. Tlhe p)lea comes to us as a straight hleart-to-heart talk, and( should arouse the dletermina tioni of every trute Carolina man. Tlhe p)resent session rapidly dIraw ing to a close has been the most suc cessful in many ways since the founding of this historic institu tion onie hutndred and twenty years ago. This has b)eeni miade possible by the sp)irit manifested-the es phrit dei corps. lDue to the wonderful work of Coach Metzger last fall we had oneC of tile best football teams the University has lput out in years, andl no0w whlen we have an even greater poss5ibility of "a clean sweep)" it shlould b)e thle duity of very student to see thlat lhe (does his p)art to make this a reality. Only by concerted action call we accomp)lish those things whlichl mean most to our uni versitv. Next year there will be more high school and "prep" school grad uates entering college than ever be fore in the history of our State. Many of the State's most promising young athletes are planning now, and will be (luring the summer, their college course and where they expect to take it. \Whether we get these men will depend on the man ner in which Carolina students go about it during the summer. E v ery student should see to it that the high school graduate of his own home town is acquainted with the a(lvantages ofTered by his State un iversity and a consistent effort should be made to get these boys with us next session. The recent high school and "prep" school meets held at the University have been a great means of forming such an acquaintance, but this will have to be followed up by indivi(d ual work if we are to succeed prop erly. We are expecting the greatest athletic season in years next ses sion, but whether or not we are suc cessful will depend on the work of students both on and off the field. 14et's leave for vacation with a de termination to make 1921-22 the greatest ever. VALUE OF S. I. A. A. We do not deem it necessary to hold a brief for sports in order to convince the present day reader of the real benefits resulting from football, baseball, basketball, track and other athletic games. It is our ol)ject to present briefly the aims and ruling principles of the South ern Intercollegiate Athletic Associ ation. The pur pose of the Asso ciation as stated in the constitution is to "stn(l various important phases of collegiate athletics, to formulate rules governing college athletics, to promote the adoption of measures in order that athletic activities in the colleges of the South may be maintained on an at cal plane in keeping with the high purposes of education." There are certain temptations and besetting evils against which our athletics must be safeguarded. The attention of the colleges has been called to some of these influ ences recently by the President of the Association, R,ev. Henry D. Phillips, of the University of The South. He appeals for the mainte nance of our collegiate sports ac cordling to strict amateur rules, calling attention to the dlangers re suIting from the commercializing of a sport, and citing the conse quences of commercialism and pro fessionalism upon horse racing and b)oxing. Tlhe following are briefly the p)rincip)le rule intended to safeguard the eligibility of p)layers. The pur poseC of each is of such a nature as to require no explanation. TPo Participate in an intercollegiate contest the individual shall: 1. Be a bona fide student (1o ig regular work in a course to wardl a dlegree. 2. He an amateur athlete, that is, must not receive money for his service in the sp)orts. 3. During his first year shall sat fy fuill entrance requirements, or in other years shall have passed at least twvelve college hours dutring the preceding year. 4. Not participate in a college (luring the first year if he has pre viously participated at another col lege. 5. Remain in college at least six months in order to play the year following. 6. Not participate more than four years. 7. Not have played on a base ball team recognized by the Ameri can Sports Guide. The officers of the Association do not constitute themselves a grand jury for prosecuting stuspect violations of the rules, but each institution is primarily rsponsible for the proper certification of play ers. It is only on the basis of mu tual understanding and confidence amongst the institutions subscrib ing to the general principles and specified rules, that we may expect to foster clean, manly sports, which will be a vital moral factor in the life of the community as well as of the individual. STUDENT BROTHERHOOD In former years. American col leges and universities were quite independent of each other, and the spirit of the respective student bodies was one of more or less jealousy, and sometimes studied en mity. Smaller schools envied the larger and the larger institutions met the smaller with patronizing condescension. F'requently whei represent::tives of various colleges met in athletic and forensic con tests, the feeling was bitter and the competition marked with vengeful attitude and actions. That spirit is practically a matter of the past except perchance in a few isolated instances. Today there exists between the various higher institutions within a state, and be tween certain representative schools of different sections a spirit of the finest comradeship. It has been well said that there is no fraternity like the brotherhood of college and university students. Several factors have served to bring this about. The increase in intercollegiate athletic competition has probably been the most widely used factor. The larger number of oratorical contests and debates have brought together men of com mon interests which were not su bordinate to the mere fact of com petition. The democratizing in fluence of the war contributed much to a feeling of fraternity af ter the war. In recent years, the organizations of the editors of col lege and university papers for the purpose of (discussing common p)rob lems has (lone much to yield a good influence and to cement student groups by a wider knowledge of the history of the various institutions. In this same connection the organ ization of intercollegiate news bu reauis has furnished an incentive to combine friendship with completi tion. The growth of the ideals of good sportsmanship has helped to bind rival schools more closely to gether. But one factor, tho it has not been given as much p)ublicity as somne that have already been men tioned, which has had a really deep er in fluence andl possib)ly a larger one, has been the allegianice of select sttudents generally thruout the coun try to larger civic and moal ,oe ments. Chief of these have been the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the Intercollegiate Prohibition As sociation, and the Student Volunteer Movement. Meeting together in periodic and large conferences to discuss the work of their respective organizations and to respond to the inspiring challenges to service for the highest civic and moral idealism, gave a tremendous impetus to the feeling of kinship. Larger com munity interests absorbed the stu dents to the exclusion of petty ri valries. Spiritual brotherhood, as it were, became firmly established, and now permeates the colleges and universities of America. This same spiritual brotherhood is the goal of the students of the world. It will be attained not only by having baseball, track and foot ball teams compete in international competition between the universi ties. It will be attained not alone by evolving world-wide organiza tions for social fellowship. It will he attained not alone by the ex change of students and professors on educational foundations. It will be attained more largely by the com mon giving of service to such great causes as the anti-alcoholic move ment. International st'ident friend ships. in large degree, hang upon such tasks. American students de sire to contribute their part in al legiance to world causes.-Intercol legiate Statesman. THE STUDENT IN CIVIC AF FAIRS BY IRA LANDRIrI For what high thing is intellec tual accomplishment had ? Well-developed mind in sel f-ser vice is blasphemy. Influence, which culture always enhances, often mul tiplies. is the sacredest of all divine trusts. Stupidity and ignorance might be pardoned for selfishness. ''he college man who devotes his gifts to mere self-advancement, or who in complacency and cowardie silently sees his weaker and 1ess favored neighbor end::r,' great wrongs is a beast--no less a hog because an educated one. Of all the pharisiasm that ever wrapped its robes about it and shut away from its vision the nearby needs of others, intellectual plar isaism is the meanest and least par donable. Faithfully to give your upport and your personal hlelp to tile ef forts which are making to elevate and purify tile social life of the worl--thlat is what it meanls to have salt in your chlaracter. Henry Vail Dyke. Inl a recent survey at tile Univer sity of Kansas, it was found thlat tile average expenlses of tile average studlent was $827.29 annually. It was found thlat fifty per cenlt of tile students earnled all tile monley thley spent, anld seventeenl per cent earn edl all whlile in school. Students of the University of Michigan receive free medical at: tention from tIle University Health Service, whlichI is supported by a portion of th estudents' annual fees. A staff of five phlysicians, including one woman, two nurses, and assis tants, dlevote their whole time to the hecalth of the stents.