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flr Gassettet P\IiSHD EIEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES Terms $1.50 a Year Entered at Cohun1bia, S. C. postoffice November ?o, ioo8 as second class mail matter. Columbia. S C., Oct 13, 1921. EDITORIAL STA FF. Edgar T. Thompson ....... Editor Edwin Folk .........._........ Associate BUSINESS. Julian A. Cave ....... ...Manager George Wittskowsky . Assistant CIRCULATION. Fant Kelly .......... ...... Manager J. M. Dabbs .............Assistant The North invades the Solitl T o armIs, ye Gamecocks! A New College Spirit. Much has been written about, that "tangible" thing called col lege spirit. Every college has it. more or less: every college wants more of it. We at Carolmna who boast of our college spirit must he careful lest we fall and in fall ing influence those who must be depended upon to guide student affairs in the years to come, the Freshmen. When older men. Juniors and Seniors, walk out when student body meetings are called with ap parently no attention to the iin portance of the meeting, and when they stroll past their fellow- stui dents and even their professors without a sign of recognition, they are setting a dangerous pre cedfent to the new men. In days past these things were not tolerated, but at the preseit time when respect for order and authority is at low ebb, they pass unnoticed. A college cannot have the highest degree of college spirit when it permits such a state of affairs and suen cannot be reledied by action of the Board of Trustees or by the fac ulty. Out of the student body must arise a spirit of pride, pride in the University and its tradi tions, an( pride in its ability to turn out real citizens. A new spirit horn out of the student body can alone foster the right kind of college spirit. That oirl college spirit is flil Yig to manifest itself is well re cognize by( alm iinost everyone andi is causing leaders much anxiety. Our football team is suffering by the failure of the student body to back it up. As Coach Metzger says, the team takes its spirit from the stud(enlt body so it is uip to the stud(ent b)ody to see that its sp)irit is right. Cheering alone isn't enough. This Thing of Knowledge. You can always tell a Fresh man wvhen you see him but you can't tell himi anything. It takes a i<>ng time for them to realize that the fourteen, fifteen, or' six teen credits which they receivedl from high sc'hool is really very little evidence of knowledge after all. But why blame the Fresh men ? We were all that way wien% we first canie to college. Sometimes this feeling of wisdom conit inutIes on inIIto the college 111111's Sophomore vear hut by the itiie e I becollies a .111101 lie be gills to feel doulbtful wihetier le knows more than his fellow-stu <lents or nlot. And in his Senior Year hll is covinlceed that le doesn't. Illis tlilg of knowledge is elisive. Now we have it and now we don't. The wisest of us are so ignorait. It takes oIIINy one visit to the library to iipress that fiact. We were realing Dr. Frank Crallies editorial the other day oI "Stralngers aw1 Pilgriins' ill which he says: "After all is said and Ione ve ire strangers in a strange world. "The scientist probes the sell., the earth, the Iind. Ile is like a I lottentot wanderilg in New York. IIe sees a1111N curious things and ilexl icable. IIe en deavors with Iis lilite<I intelli gence to classifY theli. "For what we call knowledge is not at all apprehension: it is classification. iIe sees things act ill tle saie wayN twice. three tiies, an1d poz claillis a la w: he has not the Slightest idea why it actedh ill the fii-st place." "Oh. what's the Ilse," we sa,v ",this conista lit seeking af ter know ledge." We are un11able to Ilnderstilld "the grandellr of 1 life colisecrated to knowledge." Buit if we can't learn it all we can learn soiletling. And that something will at least Iake uts realize olr place ill a world of mien and keep its froni beng coil Veited over virtles wvhich we do not have. The Conduction of Student-Body Meetings. Thruout the coining year many student body Ieetiligs anld elec tions will take place. The pro veedinigs are suipposedly) parlial mlienta r v inl their nature a1d in ie vorlance with proper regulations. Like. all other organiizatioins. the stildent-body lias its formial dhe clariatioln of purl-pose. and, prestulm ably. a writeli set of rilles, where by it is governed inl all its acts. ()ne of the iost illiportalt steps in alnv of the ldoings of the student b ody is the aictul Iconsidlera tion of its businless--hiow anid ill what mnlner it is ca rriedl on. Are the affairs of the stud(ent-bodiiy treatedl and1( takeni Iup in the proper wayl~, or are they' more or less 1ialsedI ? As is well knlowin and( to be ex pieted no0 b)ody can1 sit and pOI~ er formn its fIuctionis ill a1 11111ner aLt 2111 timies sedate and1( unruflled1. No biody~ of mein hais ever con venedl andi( gonle into its wvork without somie lack of dlecorum:I th ere is a limit to humliani dignity. But this (does niot juistify ain excess of mis behavior or a total hack of r'e str'ainit, and, if a nythiing is to be accomplie, too muich levity at impor't anlt occalsions should lie forthith on be a wayv with. Levt. ty is to be desir'ed at times, buit to make it the sole existing order is too mnch. And thereby hangs our com plaint. It seems to us that the predominant note struck at the majority of tle student-body ieetings in the past has been one of litter disregard and indiffer ence toward matters of vital im portance that have been brotight up1) for lisCUSSiol. IAt alone the apathy and sluggish interest that have so often been displayed. Ou student-body meetings have beeTn featured by a spirit cha racterized by excessive restlessness and tur bulance. It is disagreeable for us to recall the i(boisterou,; temiper that prevailed it So lanY Sttoldent body ieetings last year. We re collect too often the coercive cries of "sit down" or "Stand 1u)" that go floating arotilld during the course of balloting, not to men tion the ear-splitting deionstra tions of approval or disapproval that greet anntncements of one sort or another. And we squirm in disconifort when we think of Freshmen voting blankly and with the inen of sheep for ien in whlom they do not know and vo-eds casting their ballot for the best-looking and most handsone 1111111 every time instea(l of using, a little reflection. To go on with an enuierationA would be too much, so we let it go with ad in/ finitu11 ad vu'seal. Silflice it to say, such abluse of privilege is certain to produce.' harm. The fault lies in the lack of a proper appreciation of the importance of stident-body meet ings. As long as a majority of the student-body persists in the delusion that student-body meet ings are a source of entertain ment and all occasion for m11irth making, so long will the activi ties of the University as a wholei fall short of their goal. It can not he iipressed too strongly that thru regularly constituted student-h)ody channels the most vital part of campus work is carried on. and that an abuse of these powers and privileges, tends to handicap activities as a whole.. In view of all this, we would welcomkle a determined effort to have the Stlldent-bo(y meetings condcted properly. President Lightsey of the student-body is to bie (ongrlatulllate(l uiponll his vigor ()ils efforts to attain that end at the initial meeting of the year, nInd we are looking to him to es tali sh a standallrd that muist be~ coimipliedl with--one of sanity andl (irder'. TIhe frivolity and lack of' se'rioIus initereost that have t(oo often been evidlent must lbe ban ishied if we arle to have a healthy stud(enit-b)ody, a student-body of reflectivye men a nd woimen, not unlcoollled 1and( shaul low schmool childr'en. The aff'air's of the stu dent-body mare too( imiipor'tanlt to be iallo(1wed to b ecome the 1)1ay - things (if the whims and1( caprice oif the indi fferent, the superficial a1nd the noisy. There must b)e an insistence upon more sober mneth ods of pr'ocedurI1e and1( mfore ser'i 01us interest and1( considerationi if there is to be anything woirth w~hile here, and to that end wvell minded students of the Universi THE FRESHMA By N. M. I PAW 5. Q. W'hat is C. .? A. C. C.'may mean diffierent things-chocolate coated, cheerful Charles, (Charing Cross, cross cut, charming chicken or Columbia College. To Freshmen it means Columbia College, the home of recitals, beautiful mnusic, ex<ilisite singing, college vaudevide, and girls. (Of course the Freshimleni wonder why girls are placed last. Merely, ver-danit hoimes, in obe dience to the universal statue: "The first shall be last. and the last first." And in the second place, oh garcons verts, we must pull the vottonl over the eyes of their faculty. Now (o yOu real ize that there woild not be so imany recitals if the inhubitants of Dr. Currell's forty acre pasture 1iid not tuiri out inl suen large n11umhers to pay their respects to Menldellsohn,l Chopinl, IBeethovenl, Listz, Mlach inallilofl, and Irvinlg Berlin? We recomillend logic to the doubters. Consult Professor oorse. There is where the boYs of ', 23, '24, and '25 will flock on re -eption day anld Monday nights, provided they don't have a quiz I'iesday. The Colmbia Railway las and Electric Company de -lare dividends on Tuesday if the "ollege Place conductor has ever mauled the sons of Carolina be ror.e. If he has not, the company )perated at a loss and forthwith there is a re(luction in the wages if the employees. Freshmen will fin(d the Liberty Bllc uilding ill imposing edifice to look at onl un1ldays after church. A visit to Columbia College means much to the first year maln, it is probably the first time lie has 'Ver speen So mui1ch beaulty in the 3ame space. Ile will write home to his father and probably tell him of what he iats seen. And be ing so deeply impressed will for et to ask for his clieefl-until the post script. The habit will stick and if there is 110 other cause, tle Freshman will go back from force of habit. One graduate of this institution has been known not to miss but 1)ne "open house" at C. C. during his four years withl us. Thalit time the craze of throwing lpenies to a line had hit the Campus and lie along with everyone else was"bo ken" b)y a fair gentleman with a (lark name. TIhe R. 0. T. C. had a b)attle at C. C. last year. TIhe local grocer was badlly dhefeatedI. You will meet C. C. at Methodist Socials, Euphirad iain and1( Clario sophie receptions and Friday afternoons at Win'gfield's. Example: Take a College Place car at the Wigwani at 8:15. 6. Q. What is Chicora? A. Chicora is derIivedl from two college wordls-chiic-mea ninrg dlemure, petite, lbeau tifiul, attrac tive, and irresistable, and Oro, the school girl's godd(est of love (Oro had bobbed hair). Chiora is not LN CATECHISM IUCKABEE as accessible ats C. C. being strict Presbyterian and just across the street from the Seminary where imost of ti P. C. boys go after finishing their preparatory coure. If you don't meet the Chicora girls at the Freslmnan reception, join the squad iat the popular cor ner on Monday mornings if you ha1ve no classes, by afternoon it may be too late. "When good Americans die they go to Paris", said Oscar Wilde. "When good Carolinians (lie they go to Chicora," we say. Bit you had better not wait until then. The opportunity presents itself in May, a whole week being dedlicated to perpetuate the mem ory of the old masters who died from having to meet so many notes (not music notes either). If one doesn't go every night one will miss a great deil. And the cho rus mnay sing "Carmen" if the Spanish Legislature (oes not abolislh bull fighting by then. Nevertheless, go anyway, they have a pipe organ whose beauties you will marvel upon and you may be able to squeeze into the iu(litorium if you have ever play ed football. The coming genera tions will be able to get a seat when they cast their lot in Colum bi. "Greater Chicora" may have two music weeks then. Vive ! Dr. 3urney. (N. B. Consult records of the greater Chicora campaign. Keep watch for the opening of the basketball season. You can then enter the grounds of the col lege (for two bits) and enjoy a basketball game. Yes, their stu (lent body turns out. You can find out the score and the name of the opposing team from the time keeper or read in the "State" the next morning. With plenty of good references you may go out oI Saturday afternoons-if you (lont get tangled up in red tape. Example: Upper classmen can show you the way. 7. Q. How could we do witl oit C. C. and Chicora? A. Personne ne suit. II "TMy lips are ashlen with passion." III "Ashes to ashes." --Life. Gli Art f4iup HORINE'S, Inc. Picture Fremers Artists' Supplies Art Goods 1517 Maim Street Col...bia, S. .