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CONSTITUTION OF THE GAMECOCK With Article Three Revised and Amendment Incorporated Giving Business Manager Compensation for Ser vices The Joint Assembly of the Clario sophic and Fuphradiain Societies at a joint meeting held on last Tues day adopted the amendment to Ar ticle III of ''he Gamecock proposed by the present Editor, allowing compensation to the Business Nlan ager. ARTICLE I. Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the Game cock. Section 2. It shall be controll ed and operated by the Joint As sembly of the Luphradian and Clar isophic Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. ARTICLE II. Section 1. The terms of office of the Gamecock staff shall be two in number, the first beginning with the opening of the school session and continuing until the first of February ; the second shall begin with the close of the first and con tinue until the close of the school session in June. All officers shall be elected two weeks before their term of office begins. Section 2. h'le staff of this publication shall consist of an Edi tor-in-chief, an Associate Editor, , Business Manager, an Assistant Business Manager, a Circulation Manager, an Assistant Circulation Manager, and eleven assistant edi tors, to be selected as follows: Two from the society to which the Editor-in-Chief belongs, three from the other society, one from the Law Association, one from the Athlet ic Association, one from the V. M. C. A.. one from the Student lody, one from the Co-ed organi zation, and one from the Student Body to act as Social Editor. All these except the Assistant Editor from the societies, the Y. M. C. A. and the Law Association shall be appointed by the Editor-in-chief. The organization electing their as sistant editors shall elect twice the number required. From this num ber the Editor-in-chief will then select his staff. Sec. 3. The Editor-in-chief shall be elected by the joint assem Sbly of the lEuphlradian and Clari sop)hic Societies an(l shall continue in office for one term. The Eu p)hradlian Society shall be entitledI to the officer for the first term in each year and the Clarisophic So ciety shall have the officer for the last term. I-I shall be resp)onsible to the p)oinit assembly only and may lbe dismissed from office only by that bodly. The Associate Editor shall be chosen from the Clarisoph ic Society the first termi each year anadl from the Euphradian the last term. T'he first term Associate Ed itor shall be - member of the Se :,ior class, the second term Associ ate Editor shall be a member of the Junior (class. The joint assem lily will elect this officer at the same time the Editor-in-chief is elected. Sec. 4. Tlhe Business Manager, ~\ssistant Ilusiness Manager, Cir culation M\anager, Assistant Cir clin Mnagmer salil ben elect,d by the joint assembly and shall con tinue in office for two terms or for one collegiate year. ARTICLE III. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Editor-in-chief to make all assignments, to see that the paper is issued on time, and to supervise the work of the Staff. He will be held responsible for the success of the paper. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Associate Editor to act as the direct assistant of the Editor-in chief. and to edit the paper when the latter is unable to do so. Section 3. It shall be the duty of the Business Manager to secure all advertismeents for the paper, one-half of which shall he procured (luring the summer preceding the opening of college. He shall also pay all bills and attend to all finan cial duties to and for the publica tion. He shall inform the Editor in-chief from time to time as to the financial condition of the paper. The Business Manager shall he en titled to ten per cent of the funds collected for advertisenents. pro vided, sufficient advertisements are s-cured which together with other income enable the paper to appear in eight page issue regularly once weekly. 'This to be paid the Bus iness Manager by the Faculty Man ager of Student Activities, and charged to The Gamecock, only after said Faculty Manager has been satisfied of the fulfillment of the above requirements. Section 4. The Assistant Busi ness Manager will act as direct as sistant to the Business Manager. It will he his duty to assist the Business Manager in collecting for advertisements. Section 5. It shall be the duty of the Circulation Manager to see that the paper is properly distribu ted to all students, advertisers. sub scribers, amd exchanges. lIe shall have charge of the subscription de partment and shall be responsible to the Husiness Manager for all funds received. Section 6. The Assistant Circu lation Manager shall act as the di rect assistant of the Circulation Manager. Section 7. The Assistant Editor shall work under the supervision of the Editor-in-chief and shall re port on all work assigned to them. They will be required to attend all meetings of the staff and will be responsible to the Editor-in-chief for the correct performance of their offices. ARTICI4E IV. Section 1. The (late of publi cation of the Gamecock shall be every Tlhu rsdlay, with the excep)tion of the following weeks: Thanks giving, Christmas Holidays, Ex amination 'We,ek in February andl the Commencement season. Fail - uire to pub)lish an issue each week will make the Editor-in-chief suib ject to the censure of the joint assenmbly. lHe may however, with the consent of the staff, (delay the p)ublication of the paper for a num her of days not exceedling three. ARTICI4E V. Section 1 . This constitution shall be read before the joint as sembly at the lbeginning of every term andl later before the new staff. T1he newly electedl Editor-in-chief shall be resp)onsib)le for the (arry ing out of this ovision. Section 2. A two-thir(ls vote of all the members present at any meeting of the joint assembly will be necessary to amend the consti tution, and that only after three readings of the amendment or aniendments have been made be fore the joint assembly. Tar Heel Modesty "\\Ve-e-el, colonel, I'll tell you," said Bill. "You see, our brigade was on them big rollin' hills I was tellin' vou about, and just about day in the mornin' General I,ee rides up, he did, and he said, '\Vhar is General Il oke ?' A nd General 11 oke, he says, 'I iere I is, general,' said lie, and General I,ee, he says, '( eneral H1 oke, who is the bravest man you've got in your brigade ?' A(lnd General I loke. lie says, says he, '(eneral, Mr. Bill Tucker is the bravest man I ever see(l,' and he says, 'Call him here,' and Gener al I loke, he says, 'Coie here, Mr. 'Tucker, if von please,' and I coie I did, an' I tuck oiT my cap, polite like, and I says, 'G:ood niornin,' Gineral i ee, good nornin' (.iner al I loke,' and they both says, "Good mornin' Al r. Tucker,' and General I,ee, he says, says he, "I'hem Yankees is a contin' after me agin,' and I says, '(Gineral, I'm power ful sorry, 'case somebody's bound to git hurt,' and he savs, says he, 'a r. ''ucker, they tell me you are a brave man, and you must help me ; here's a bran' new bel chin' rifle and a box of explosion halls, and I want you to get out yonder behind that thar wall, and (on't let 'em come on tile, \lr. Tucker.' And I says, 'Gineral. I'm gwine to do my best, but, Gineral, don't you let 'em flank me,' and lie says, says lie, 'Mr. 'I'Tucker, you can count on tme doin' my best, and I'll tell Stonewall Jackson to look out for von too.' "'ell, sir, I went out and laid lown behinl that thar wall and I tuck out my explosion balls and I laid them handy in the cracks of the wall, and himeby, about sutin rise, Gineral Iloke, lie hollered out, he did, and lie says, says he, 'I,ook out, Bill, they're comin', and here they come, and I laid thar all (lay, an' I shot 'em with that belchin' rifle and the mexplosion balls, a goin' and a comin' I tell you. Al binieby, along yon(ler, just afore night, onie great long, high Van kee, lie waived his handkercher till I - stoppe(l firin', an' lie got up, lie did, an' lie says, 'Mr. 'Tucker, geat Godd(letmighity, is vou gwinie to kill us all ?' An' while I was a foolin' talkini' to1 him, somle one crep up and( shot tie itn the arm, atn' I wvas bore off fromi the field, atnd two, South Carolinia atid a Virginia reg imetnt was sent up to take my DEAN FRIERSON HON ORED BY HOBART COLLEGE J1. Nelson F'riersoni, D eanu of the 1Law School of the University, will receive the degree of Doctor of L aws frotm his altia mlater, I [obart College, Genueva, N. V., at the an tnual cotmmenicement w hichi will lbe hel in Junte. Mr. Friersoti gradutatedl from I Iob)art iti 1896, amid will attend( the alumni reutnion thiere this Junie. 1\lrs. F'riersoni will accomlpatny hiim oni the tin In notifying Professor Friersoni Charles M. Spruhan, Virginia of the college's intention to confer 'Military institute's football mentor, the honorary degree upon him, he who developed the Institute's was told that the trustees voted to wonder tl eleven last fall, has (lo so because of "distinguished signel a three year contract with service as a teacher, lawyer, and oanoke College. clhtrchman.'' MrI. riersoli's inflt ence for good among the students of the college while he was a stu - it l'orto eont team wil tor 'oro Rcothis summer dent there was also commented on by the authorities, who stated that present plans of the athletic his conduct had been very material willeben m ateli aftrip in raising the standard of the school. mencenent and will conume about 'Il aly frields of PIrofesso,r Frierson rejoice in the recognition of his high character and ability A ttans clothes reveal his tailor by his 01d alma mater, a Soman's, herselu rg THE ARCADE BARBER SHOP ROOM 3 ARCADE BUILDING WANTED-our friends and the boys at the Univer sity to know that we have left the Palmetto shp and have purchased the Arcade shop, where wve are srepared to give the very best service. Give us a trial LEO and ALBERT MAYFIELD PROPRIETORS Have this car with the wonderful records dem ". onstrated to you. You rest as you ride in an Over- * dOverland Columbia Company R. D. 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