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cot OaMCCot Publhishedu We(ekly ~ l ie En:I phraIlld ia at1tnd ClaIr ioso phIiev Societies. Terms $1.50 A Yeal r. Entered at. Coluimbia. S. C.. postoilice November 20. 1908 as second-eass tmail muatter. Columbiia, S. C., Dec. 10, 1921 A'di1or-;n - 'hh, f Mlary Fletcher Sftackhoulse. Lysihnmt Aditorx. Corneliai Ilu11gginis MiNarv (ravldon Emm111 Wilson Mary Fisliblrle Together we stick-dividel we aire stuck! Again-: merry Christmas and a happy New Year! The ciarm of society is the fel lowship of congeni,al spIlrrrs. i''m not denvin' the women are foolish-God Almighty *N1mle 'em to match the men.'' Rabbit-hunting on Christmas eve may be fuln for you, but it will stir no "peace an<, goolwill" in the heart of the raibbit. Now is the time to begin think ing of some friend you don't care much about to give titt. necktie to that you got last Christimis and didn't want. Co-eds Get a Beau! There is no more wholesome and inspiring infltuence in college life than the iterested and inter esting frien(dship of' the right sort of boy. By the right sort. we (o not mean the kinld who itters burning protestations o)f udyinr love every time lie .ills, nor yet the boring,I bash ful type who (ly sits and watches father's ious coal burn to bits, but timplv the courteous nmily* % tyNpe (realIy there are at few) wio; would meet with the famuily's a.1pprovad. We. at least, feel thAt it is possib>le to associate with such- n hv "withoti expecting or givinlg mlore thanJ genuine colmadeshlip. There areI two semlinarU ies here filled wVithl mn of the right typie. D)o not feel that you are beinmg untrue to 1Tom at lemisoni, or Dick at Furmanl, or' IIa rry at ('it adel, if you havie a few (lates ill Columbia. This5 is the s'cond~ largest city in tile state and1( there is no better lace ini wh ichl to be come ae<ita intedl with really nilce men. And, oh yes, we almost for got-there is 11o positive lauw against lovinlg thte una11ppreciated1 Caroiina stud(enits. Its onily a1 cuis tom of long staninltg, thioughu we fear that somec of you new girls have begun to thlink Otherwise. Think it over, girmls. Tile mlenilo ries of a leasau nt evenling wili maike the long college hour's pass5 more ouicklyv The Spirit of Christmas. The American people seei prone to abuse their holidays. lhanksgiving is fast coming to be another name for football and turkey; Easter has been convert ed into a festival for dress and new bonnets; while Christmas in imany homes is the occasion for as subtle andi thloroughi-goiig forms of self-indulgence as can be found in any pagandoin. To be sure, Christmas is the season for universal gift-giving. What a fine thing it is to give gifts! Bit even this itself may be the most monlumental selfishness in dis guise. Long before the days of festivity begi II many of us begin to Iake Imieioradiims of friends[ and relatves to whom we owe some obligation, and set down against their names the gifts we think they would like, and that they will be on a parity with the gifts we expect from them. Often instead of giving gifts to those who need them we niake them to people to whom costly gifts are but another luxury; instead of feeding the really hungry, we feed the already overfed; instead of providing entertainment for the friendless and the lonely, we entertain those whose nerves are already un11strung by social dissi pation. But the real spirit of the day is the spirit of giving, of self-sacri fice, of service, of making some body else happy. The uppermost thought of the season should be what we can give with no expec tation of receiving, in return. Af ter all, Christmas conies but once a year-inay Christmas of 1921 bring universal peame, goodwill, and happiness! Playing the Game. It has been a characteristic of people the world over to admire those who "play the gaie," and pla* it fairly and squarely. It 11mv be only a gaille of basketball oii t(0 ollge CaipIs, or a gaiie of gol f. the gaie of business, the game of play,-even life itself has beenl likelned to a1 gamlie. Bitt the i1ianl who gives and takes equally, who whenl he is knocked down canl get up1) aid go oi with a smile, or if defeated eanl be a good loser,-is the one who wins oir ahnirations n111d praise, aid we 1ejoic e to see the laurels of vitoriIy gi veni to him1. It 1s to that oneC that 'oimes aI great rewardt. The pratise of his comnpan ions is one type of rewvardl, or a cttph, a med'( a, or 01'ome1 othter tr'ophyi. Bit these arme not the r'eal prizes the victori receives; his real1 reward is the deep satisfaction, thet feel ing of work well dhone whthib c'omtes from a siuperior', wvorthy achievc imnt. The tr'ophly is onlhy an1 omut wvardt show, which in itself is grat i fyinhg, but there is nothing that tca com1 '111ipr to the inwaird feeling of haiippiness, the content mtent and1( satisfaction that comes to those who have "played the gmne" hionor'ably and1( sucecessfiulI ly. iiThis rulhe mnay be :appl ied toi our1 ('01lege ca2mpius--thiere aire niany rulies to be obser'ved aind if every onie lav'el fa irly ndl sutm'eh our campus would be a miuch nicer place. Play the game fai ly ! IIelp the other fellow by o) serving the rules and youi'll find lie will begin to "play the game", too. Co-education at Carolina. In 1894 the General Assembilv first a<lmitted women to the lni versity. U p to 1916 there were nI(eTIe m1ore thanl twenty-five woienl (111lled. In 191s-1919 there were seventy and Septem ber 1919-1920 only fifty. 1921-22 sees Co-education passing its h1igl water mark: there are L'iglty-six enrol led in the JTni versity this session--lets Imlake it two hindred hv 1925! The out-of-town enrollment of wonen is also increasing in -spite lf the fact that no accomioda tions are made for these stIldents. Up to 1918 a home for the girls w-as provided which accoiodated iix to eight. tho the nmnber ioietimes <windled to three or four. For onle year during the War when the male attendance lecreased the Trustees assiglled West Desaissure to the girls and this dormitory was very comfort lIbly and tasteflilly fitted up for Aheir accoiodationl. III June, 1 191, however. the Board of Iruistees discontintiued th is ar rangement becatuse of the pros pective increase of male stildents and because it was felt that if Lle University was to offer its ad valitages to tile women of the State it should provide for them l separate anld distinct dorimi .ory with a Dean of Women. Iln juiries addressed to twenty-one ,-o-educational State institutions reveal the fact that such provis ions for womniel are nmahe in avery one of them, with the re mit that inl nearly every case tile itteldance of the wonieni at these institutions is from twenty-five :o fifty per cent. of tle total en rollbuent. If the 1Universiy of -oulth Carolina had for women a -om1fortable and well equipped Milding and a capable Dean leir attemdance wolild inl a very iort time easily reach the 200 nark. 'Tlhe girls at the liniversi 'y leserve this recognition; their recordI iln and.l omut of the (class room has been of excepitionllhy n a rked refinlin g inftluenice. At~ the meeting of the ( ieneralI Assembly ini 191M a dleternlmined mt fruitless effor't wvas madle to secure a bumild(ing. It is evidlent :hat to succeed intellIigent and1( hml)oyedl by the alumnmlae. If wve -ani enilist theo inmterest arido sutp port of' the womlen's clubs, the sumff'rage league, and1( all the or .aniz/ationis for wvomen ill the Staite. success will)be assutred thio t lmay lbe sonme years yet. In the (lovernor's budioget re en'Itly nualeok publdic it will lbe riotedl tha~t lie inicluides $50,000) for hIe Womian's D)ormitory. In spite of all thme previous reverses, Lirls, now let's pull1 together for LIie future good of Carolinal amid L'o-ndluention. THE OPEb OF, BY AND FOR Editor The Open Forum: It1 has grieved me for some time that Carolina no longer cel ebrates that talitional fete known as C1as.Day. This ali ent institution lus as far as ily limited knowledge extends, been an important part ()f conmnence Iment Week alost from the be ginning. Tiditions are like bottles of fine wine, they have takeni too long in the Iaking to be lightly )roken. This is no less a tradition because it has a mirth provoking purposN instead of serious and weighty thought. Collnelncellelnt wevc is full of se rious aml weighty, and even soleIn thoughts. Breathes there the student with soul so dead that lie is able to refrain from bitter tears as lie hearkens to the strains of tlat grand old anthem "Where, oh, where are the verdant Freshman?" Where is the senior who call restraill his sobs as lie gazes for tile last time on the gray walls and envied towers of his Ahnua Mater? Canu anything, tien, which b)riigs hack smiles to solemin faces and lagter to trelml)ling lips be out of pl:Lce at this time? I cannot thinik that the faculty, if the matter were placed before them in the right way, would continue to frown upon an1 insti tiution whii gives so m11cuch inino Lent pleasue to their students. Indeed, I ai <iite sure that they themselves would eijoy it. If the stildeits promised that there woubl be no recurrence of the disagreeable incidents which not long ago forced the authori ties to put a stop to Class Day, I aim certain there cou1d be io possible objection to it. "Abracadabra DIum." Elditor "'le Open Forlm: Inl comparing tle differelt So vieties and organizations of the University of South Carolina with the oithier worth-while sch(ols, we seem to be lacking in onle thling--a drlaniatic (cllb. Jhust thiik what suich a club wohll d(0 fIr our school. We wold get the chance to study all the miodlerni plays and thenl to prodhhuce t hem, and1( whlo knows but that somle one woulld get ani " inspi ration"' anad write one? Surely we want to have a play for the class dlay~ or class nIight at commenecemienit andio to think how miuchi nicer it would lbe to giv aQ Uplay thaut was writtenl right here oni oulr campui )ls. Il'erhlap yo VlSay thlat it has al - read uy been triedl ou t here an found1( lacking-I amiu sure if the miembilers were to go inito it with hack it with all their mlighlt-anld mmost oif adlI work for it, that there wvoiuhl he no0 cause for it to fall thru. Maiybe you will realize more fully the tauulent for wr'it ig plays wvhe.n I tell you that already fif teen one-act p)lays hauve b)eeni hiandled in. WVho knonws hut I FORUM. THE STUDENTS there will develop among its ia second Barrie or a Lady Gregory! Now when we begin to dramnta tize theml, look at the hundreds. of people to pick from and real ize that under the assumed dig nified manner of the seniors there ma11y be the reality of a secon0d Charlie Chaplin. Among our Co-eds may appear a Bern hardt or a Nazimova. Thein wlien t play is given would be a fine timue for the two glee clibs to condense into one anid reiender a wonderfil musical program. Out of it all would be of course work, but then to balance that would be time enjoyment and pleasure we would all derive from a wvorth-while Dramatic Club. May it become a reality! "imiy Booster." Editor of 'Tle Open Forum': Receitly much comment has been aroused among the co-eds by the organization of the Scrib lers' Club. Although discon tinuied last year, in past years the clbi) consisted of three boys and three girls selected for their lit erary abilities and for their con tinmed interest in the college pub lications. This year ve were surprised to find that no Co-ed was awarded a place in the Club. On inquiring into the state of affairs, we were told that the Co eds were not wanted in the or ganization, and that for this reason they were left out, rather than because they did not de serve a place thrn literary merit. If such be the case, there tire maniy of us who do not believe that this club which is not open to the student body should take the place of the former Scrib lers' Clubi) of high stanlding, in which ability and not personali tY was the main re(Illireient. Tle Co-eds, for there a few .monig us, who feel that we have wOnl places as Scriblers, do not w%-isht to be admitted merelv for the htonlor of the thing, biut as constait and interested conltrib u1tors, becaulse it is right. If we have not the proper abil ity we (10 not believe thatt the ed itors of th ulienllittions would b)e cointinuaitlly calling on uts for mtaterial. If we tire itot onm a par with the Scr'ibbllers wvhy~ shtould we be catlled utpon in pmreference to them? It hats b)een suggestedl that a C'o-ed Scribblers' Club he organ izedl, buit we (10 niot feel caulled I1ponl to (10 so. We tire recognized1 its a p)art of the student body, and1( as such we should surely be allowed to win the same honors as well as shouIlder the sante res p)insib)ilitie.s as the boys. I hope that somte of the far sighted students wvill see the truth aind imp)ortaince of this, amid that they will help awavuken the rest of the stud(ents to the realizartion that the co-edls mire not ma mere sidie issue at the University. A Former Scrihhbe