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Melton and Metzger ad Carolina! Carolina! University of South Carolina VOL.-XV. - COI,UlI\lIA, S. S., S'>T.\ BEl, 22, 1922. N I 1 THE UNIVER. SOME OF I By William 1). Melton President. Dr. Melton Gives Op portunities of Car olina Men. "Knowledge is not a couch upon whicl to rest, Nor a cloister in whoch to promenad< alone, Nor a tower from which to loot down upon others, Nor a fortress from which may re sist them, But a vast store-house and treasury For the ennoblement of man and th< glory of the Creator." As I take in my hands the reins of new beginning in life, and, visualizing the object of my affections, look for. ward to the end to which I am dedicating my efforts, I see in the lines which I have quoted a description of the Uni. versity as I conceive it to be. The University opened its doors mor< than a century ago, with two professors including the President, and nine stu dents. Now it is an institution of 4( professors and 621 students. The pop ulation of South Carolina at the tim of the founding of the University wa! approximately 345,00. Now it is approx. imately 1,7000,000. Th6 University i! now beginning its 118th session. Dur ing the period of its existence the Uni versity has had eighteen presidents, ol whom seven are living. A number ol those who served the State as Presideni of the University have retired from of. fice with wounded hearts, notwithstand ing they were men of outstanding abil ity and rendered faithful service. ''h( usefulness of the University has beer seriously impaired by its having becomt at times the foot-ball of politics. Dem. agogues have from time to time beer permitted to further their nefarioum schemes by reflecting on a great insti tution and desecrating a sacred shrine. Such seems too often to have been the course of human affairs. "Truth for ever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne."It is therefore not um natural that I should at this time be speak your earnest cooperation and sup port. \Ve are not separate, you one and I another. You and I together are one and that one at present is the University. I am its head and you and the faculty are its membcrs. Each is necessary to the other, and in order to succeed we must have mutual aims, mutual pur poses, mutual aspirations and make inu tual ef forts. Let us therefore work to gether for "the ennoblement of man and the glory of the Creator." As the head and one of the older me-m.. hers of our union wvhich I venture to hope wvill be "one and inseparabule" let me dlirect your attention to a few of the "good things'' which are to be had from the University store-house. The great majority of you have come fr-onm the high schools of the State. Your p)rob lemis are now changed. You are no longer children to deface the walls, mu tilate the furniture and play at childish pranks, now are you aged men and wo meni to walk with wvrinikled browv and sombre mien. You are really at the most heauti ful period of Ii fe, young meni anid wvomen on the verge of y'oung mani hood and yqung womanhood. "'Ilow beautiful is youth, how it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams." TONIC 5ITY AND TS OFFERINGS The University is above everything else an institution of learning. The purpose of its existence is the infusion of education. Learning and education are broader terms than knowledge, for they embrace wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom 1ften have no connection. Knowledge is proud, wisdom is humble. 1)israeli said that "to be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." Some individuals po ssessed of vast knowledge are incapa ble of exercising even ordinary discre tion. As Tennyson wrote in Locksley Hall, "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." But most often knowledge is the foundation and strongest ally of wis domi. Here in your great University, if you will but apply yourself to your tasks you may learn not only to know but how to act and do. Almost every branch of knowledge and learning is covered by the courses of instruction of fered. You may learn to become famil iar with the trees and shrubs and flow ers as you walk every day upon the streets of your capitol city, or at night looking at the firmament you may learn to call the eternal stars by name. In all the languages, in all the sciences, in his tory and economics, in philosophy and ethics. in law and commerce, in almost every department of human knowledge and human ingenuity and action you may receive instruction under able and efficient professors and teachers. In one of his Satires Juvenal wrote "Our prayers should be for a sounild miind in a healthy body," or to use his own language "Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano." I have given the English as well as the Latin notwith standing the fact that I am fully aware that every student can read the Latin with as much facility as the average graduate canl read his diploma. Seneca said that the ancient Romans "kept their yotith always standing, and taught them nothing that they were to learn sitting." 'he ancient Greeks used also to parallel their courses of instruction in letters and philosophy with instruction inl the gymnasium. And so here at the Uni versity every sort of physical iistruction is providedl and encouraged. Our ath letic records are among our proudest boasts, so Much so that I dare assert that we have in our time produced ath letes who could have tile delivered the message of victory after the battle of Marathon without having to give his life to the effort. Every student in the University ought to join one or the other of the literary and debating societies. Bacon wrote that "Reading maketh a full ian; con ference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Ie left a great deal un said. He ought to have written into the sentence something to the effect that inl order to make an all-round man it is neccessary to learn "to thiiiik oi your feet." If any stndent does not avail himself or herself of the great benefits of the literary and debating societies he wvillI regret it hut once and that onice will be the b)alance( (If his Ii fe. Matthei(w Arnold saidl that '"Religion is imoral ity tinged with emotioni." A cou10rse' in hible10 stutdy is (If fe red anmong the courses of the University, blible classes are organIized in the varions ten emnents of lie University and also in the various chiunces in the City oIf (Coutm hia. The Y. M. ('. A and the Y. WV. C. A... of theo Un'ivtersity arc act ive organmi z/a titonms.. l'very studecnt is welcomne and shiold take' adlvantage (If thlese (If fer ilngs.. IDon't forget your rteligioni--thie religion you1 lea rned at your mot her's knees.. It is not a childlish or e ffeiminate thing--it is manly aind elevating and en noblinug.. It lifts yon up from earth to heaven, from humanity to God. Continued on Page 2 H TIS Football Prospects The Gamecock Pre pares to Crow. F,verything points to this being the best year thaif Carolina has ever had itpon the gri(liroln. In this issie of the Gamecock our head coach, Sol Nletger, gives his opinion as to how the situation sizes Ip at this date and tho it does not pay to be too cocky aliead of time there seenis little doubt that our teai will he better than the splendid eleven that represented us upon so many hard-fought fields last year. There is a large squad on1 hand now and quite a number of the men reported for early practice and are already hard as nails and ready for action. It's a cinch that when the first whistle blows Captain Alex Waite will have a first class team at his side to carry the colors of Carolina to victory. Among those out for early practice last week were Meyer, Ervin, Fair., Dicket. Waite, Wood. lliuds, NI C Niillan, Parsons, Shotar, James, Gorman, Barre, Lightsey, Kelly. Simmons. Prick ett. McKee. Osborne, Swink, Holland. Ambs. Snipes, Baker, Parler, Rhame, Boatwright. I,egare. Green, Jef fords. Knight, Wheeler and Chappelle. Coach Metzger, with the able assistance of Brock and Dr. Bruce (Red) Edgerton is hard at work with these men and those who have come in later and the the squad is fast rounding into shape. It does not take a crystal-gazer to see that we are going to have a cork ing good team this year--we have both the material and the coaches. But this fact places the Carolina men in general 1111der the obligation of standing behind the team and backing it to the limit. T'lh best support for the men on the field is a student body back of them that talks, thinks and lives football from the first of school to the time of the last whistle. We are facing a schedule that is calculated to try the spirit and en (uirance of our ilen and every sipporter of the cause of the Garnet and Black on the gridiron this winter should conim across with all moral support and the leather-I11inged cheering of which lie is capable for this year there is no (Iles tion (if holding down the score or of being glorious in defeat-we are going after every game and going a fter it good and strong-just as mich so with Centre as the opposition as when oir Men] face P. C.. Clemson. Wof ford, Fur man anid Citadel. This year the Garnet and Black team is going to make a supreme effort to place Carolina in a prominent position among the football teams of the colintrv. I If we lick Centre, Sewanee and1( Northr Cariol ina-andI we cani-we will have a I recordl that will comlipare favorably withr that (If any schioot ill the South. Wet have th chanillce and( we caii make goodl if I every redhleaded,. frecklefacedl farmer1 in thiis st udenit boI dy and( eve ry solemni( st aet lylyocrite ini tIhe law schi(oo wit Iv' fIorget ('(tlunihia ((olle(ge anid Chiicoraf (durinig the football season and( tIe on tIlei football field duinlg the houilrs (If tprac- h ice --tireferatbly ill uni form but if not ill the mol(Ie-skinis, att least oni the bleach- " ers tol iiake some1( noise whienever- one oif p ourW warriorms of thle gridliron dtownis Rocky Siies oir gets away froii the f, dleadly clutches (If Alex Waite. . p L et's remiemiber this: We have six teen gamies schiedulledt for the11 va rsity' andi Freshmani teams this y ear and we ill Continuedion Page 2 V CO LL; CAROLINA'S F OUTLC LAST YEAR'S RECORDS IN MINOR SPORTS Director Van Meter Tells of Good Work in Department of Physical Education One team winning a state champion ihip. three teams wiining the state championslp by default and two teams winning third place in the state chain pionship contests, is the record of the six teams in the Physical Department for 1921-22. Ihe addition of a nunher of assistant instructors insured individual attention aid resulted in a class of work far su perior to that of previous years. Every niebnher Of the boxing squad of 1920-21 returned last vear and this made possible the best boxing squad in the history of the University. The final c()ltest to settle the hoxing champion ship Of the University was a splendid exlibiti)on Of amateur boxing. Wrestling has been taught at the Uni versity longer thaii boxing and the in terest -has always been great. The men who were out for wrestling last year did hard and cOnlsisteit work. FEvery mem her of the 1921 team was back and new material was plentiful. This team was One of those unable to find compei'intin in South Carolina. The University tennis team called out a large squad of men. While more stu dents played tennis than in previous years, the class of material was not as good. However, a foudation was !aid for the 1922-23 tennis team.. It is hoped that the increased interest in tennis miong the High School boys and girls wvill produce a better class of material. A telilis chlb was organized last year and this Orgalizationl will continue uinder inl Creasingy efficient management and it is thought that the n1um)er of teilnis ,oirts on the camipus will be doubled. In 1921 for tlie first time in its his ory, the UiiiversitY of South Carolina mt mit a swiilning teai. Ax Waite N. Amlbs a-d i.ryl\chlc ono h iticlens (if a goo d sw%imminiilg sqhiad and t ye tile llec"sarY ent litsiasm and efft)rt o produce a swiimimilig team that in t,0 t irst initerc(dlegiate swimmling meet, won )y a goodly margin, tle chainpionshilip f the state. All of these mein are back t oil the campus this year, and plans have lready been per fected for hilding the t tate championiship meet the latter part I f .lanlary Or tle first of lehriary. L,ast year's cross-country teaim pro Llied( the best itidiividtiial cross countriy imnier in the state. Plans are al readly mattuiring for the annual cross contiry I lim which is held at N ewherry or CL:a rn1 in conniection with thme Th'lanksgiving 1resbyteriani-Newhberry football game. 'he long distanice riii from Columbia ~ llege to thle Uiniversi ty Gyninasium a 'ill lie revived this year and everye-h I rt to liut across counit ry ruminig in s t radl itial pilace iti acadhemic- life wvill c ima.de. I)uiring~ thle last five years, gyimnasiim . -rk ha s occulpied a v'ery prom'innenlt lace in Uniiversityv circles, wvith thme re - lit that last year's gynm. team wvas man >r miani far superior to aiiythinmg in the (C in, n co4urtesv should keep us from um ing too( dlogma tic about mani's dhescemt thi it thle monkey's assent.n E GE N 'OOTBALL 1OK FOR 1922 H y S~iol *Methiyer.. Did and New Men Hard at Work for Carolina's Greatest Year. Ile otlmk for the football season ttrikes ie as being not unlike that of ast season. We have practically the ;ame material as appeared on the field ast season. The varsity men back and vorking under Captain Waite, one of lie best athletes in the Sith, are Wheel .r. center; MeM illan and Lightsey, uards: Waite and Chappelle. tackles; leyer. end Holland, quarterback; iiipes. fullback ; and Ambs, half back. Sizemore, of last year's team has not .eported. The coaching staff is greatly n need of him becatise of his experi Ine. as they are also in need of Fulton, 'eville and \Woodson, experienced play 'rs now in the University and eligible for the eleven. Certainly no improve 1i1lit in the standard of play can- be Sk ed for 1nor can the eleven represent be ftll strength of Carolina if the full trenigth i of Carolina is n141t on the field rying for the teamn. Brice. a former Wof ford back; -Os orne a former Wofford guard; Dick ,rt, a guard from last year's Freshman cam; Simons, a tackle, who was not .hizible last season: loseley, Rhame, ari-er, james, Wood, P>rickett, Kelly, 11aker and McKvee, all either on the Preshman or Seend elevens of 1921, iorm the balance of the s<uad, Carolina tackles the hardest schedule t has played in many years. In a<ldition o the annual encouiters with North "arolina, Clemson, Furman and,''the .itadel, tie elvven has taket on Sewa,e mid Center. What is most needed on the Field will be available substitutes and Ie coaches and captain Ir!e all eligible t4idents who have played fotthall to 'time Oit forit the team. Th' eleven will als) need the stanclh tippirt o)f the stuodenit bi)dy at games m( li aithed wayv as welI. Most the (illad lives on the canililus and a foot iallplayer needs sleep. You felI>ws who ive there sholild see tI it that there is lifficient (tIliet to insire slep diui-ing he night. Get bllind(I the tvant this year with all he pep you have. Get tle old Game ock spirit anI pIt it into the lplayers. V\ want every stu det at every game in e cleering stanld. Fortuniately but 1vec gaeits arc playci away from homle ic Nmrth Carilina contest at thel fill, tle Citadl. gatne at tle Orange ug Fair. and the Center ganie at ])an.. ille. Kenitticky. Thanksgiving I)a Thiis season mirks the beginig of ie l'reshmtan titile. C onisequenitly,, the reshnmani elass wtIillI have a tetatm of its wit tind play a fie e' ighlt gaime scithdule. 'hese mIe will be ably co achedc in or stem o'f play by Illeywatrd lrackiniton, t(d rush thle piast i twi iyears and( a for tier aptaiti. Th'le rh"t'~mati will also drilledl as well lby the varsity toaches, every efitirt will lie madet tto (develop leti to till the plaicts vacated by grail iittin iof muat Iarsity5 imeni inext sprinig. IIlteshmiani of size, especially those ithl tiottball Iexpeirieniec slititld report i t'ac'tace at once. I tab-.\ y dob ctor sayIts t hat i f I keepi iworkinig at this piace, I shall be a rt'ck at foirty- five. Wi fe--Never miiind, dear, by that timie IGHT !