The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 13, 1921, Page 2, Image 2
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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.
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