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clot CAMCCeOVUs ;PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LI'ERARY SOCIETIES Terms $1.50 a Year 1intered at Columbia, S. C., postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. FIDAYl:\, N()V. 10, 1022. EDITORIAL STAFF. S. T. Sparkman Editor G. H. Wittkowsky Associate J. H. Millard Associate BUSINESS. J. S. Nunamaker Manager. The Spirit at the Sewanee Game. L.ast Saturday we lost to the Uni versity of the South in a game that was close and hard fought and heart-break ing at the finish. But we enjoyed that game more than any game we have ever attended on Davis Field or else where. for the spirit of the Carolina student body showed tip to better ad vantage than ever before. A number of times it has been brought -to our attention, as editor of the Gamecock or president of the student body, that the kind of cheer ing that we do on the football field is partly in had taste, and partly "high school stuff," and both criticisms are true. The "horse laugh," "Genesis," "E,xodus," "Agriculture. Horticulture." .and that kind of thing has always ap pealed to us as being a bit childish and crude for a college to get off. We spoke to Billy )oar abit this be fore the Sewanee game and he agreed to leave these things off. We believe that the result was the best cheering that we have had either this year or lEigt, in Norman -Iuckabee's regime. We believe that in the future we will get better cheering if we stick to the "ryh" and the "rah" in their innumer able combinations. i Ts, the bit schools do not indulge in any child's play and horse play and we can get along with out it--do better without it. Our other point is that we can get just as much emphasis, with a much better effect, by yelling for the "Team" as we cai by yelling for the whole "Whole dam team." There are times when DAM rolls from the mouth of a man with a certain force and impressi'e4ess, that we admire, but the football field is neither the place nor the occasion. Our yells would be much better if we would drop the profanity entirely. We would like to congratulate the student body and the cheer leaders upon the wonderful spirit shown at the game with Sewaik-e. We have heard much favorable comment upon it and we can only hope that in the future we may live up to this stand (lard and perhaps improve upon it. This the kind of thing that makes for a greater and a better Carolina tn( and it is therefore the kind of tling that we should strive after. COURTl SV TO TIWl,P; ( )SNG TIlBAM AND) SCHOOl,. AN UN D)YING CO(NFIDE)lNCE IN OUR OW N. With this as our watchwvord on the bleachers we can make a lot of implro veimnt ini thle k ind of cheering wet have don'ie in the past. S. College Activities. One of the biggest quiestions whbich con fronts a imn on his arrival at col lege is the one of college activities. Ju tst how tumchi time should a man take fronm his stutdies and put oni the various forms of college extra-class room ? In the e'ffort to answer this qluest ion studlents go to both extremes. S('me confine their efforts strictly to their books, get good marks and let the rest of college life go by. Others plunge desperately into athletics, deC bating. college journal isnm. anid \"'so ciety'' and neglect 'their (class 'room week.. It is evidlent that liet ween these two ext remes there imist 1he a golden meain. The finding of this mid-path is indeedC( an impiortant task for the col lege student. Iseems to us that a safe rule wvould be for every man to enter at least one line of college activity. It is more difficult to fix a mnaximumi. Indlividl ual cases differ greatly. Howvever we suggest three as a limit for the aver age man. It goes without saying that the wvork of a college is done principally in the class room. How ever the matn who goes to college and ab)stainis from participation in college activities is greatly the loser thereby, W. The Opportunities of College Life. It sometimes seeis to us that the average man inl college all too oftel loses sight of the golden opportunity that lie ir wasting in failing to make the most of his -iine and energies while there. Wie are too prone to ac rept the things that are offered to us as a matter of course and fall short in appreciating their real worth. In every college a boy owes it to himself to derive the greatest possible good from his stay there, and owes a little debt to the parents who are iak ing it possible for himl) to have this chance; in our school we further owe a debt to the state that is shouldering a large portion of our expenses while we are in school here and which ex pects that we make good the invest ment by becoming useful citizens when we go forth into the work-a-day world to make our mark. We have this duty, a threefold one, to make the most of outr time at Caro linla, but it would seem that every man here, aF a matter of course, voul( be conlstadtly exerting his most strenlu fils efforts at all times if lie had noth ing more than his native anbition to spur him oin. We can get reams of statistiCs on tihe actual number (if (ol lars each ear of education is worth t4'a man in after life, but the most Igilorait man;111 on the outside cannot fail to see his haidicap in competing with men who ki.(iw low to think, act, ;mid "get across" their ideas to others. .There are two main ways inl which he college imian1 beinefits by his life on a campus and these two are very dif ferenlt fundamentally. In the first place a man call receive a technical training that will stand him in better stead thanl the experience lie might amnass ill twenty or thirty years oif practical experience oil' the "out side. In actual cash returns, the val Ie o( f this side of a technical college (dIlcatioll is hard to over-estimate. On the o(ther hand the man who goes into every phase of college activities w%ithi a vim is given a training in comlipeti tion with his fellows along every pos sible line. He learns to speak, tie ac<lui-es tle social polish that is in valuiable to every ,man 11d wvomiAl, constant contact oil every si(le rolulds and evens Ilitm off iitil he is a finished product that is ready to take his place alongside of any man and fight on eveil terms with any. He has become the kind 'If mian1 that America is re lying n(1 to pull tier through tile dlark days that seem to be ahead-he is the kinld Of 11manii who has tile bright and checery outlook that faces any drlfli culty with a smile and is willing to fight to the last ditch in any good W'e lear inl every school of the mai wh1o takes tle "campus course", anl somietilles, of course, he merits tle slight sneer that usually accollpallies tle' terill, but is it not a fact that lie I)iggest tihing that a ian carries away from college is a iew outlook on life, a new ideal i% the distance before him, a real izat ion that li fe is a blattle inl whlich e'very mail ha s his chance and most win his spurs, a 'onlvict ion thlat tIhe fighlt is to* the hold0, aind a dleterminma tion that, if he fail, it will not he for want (of t ryimng? These things are the real prizes that are woni by the colle'ge mani an iiniot thle little golden med'(als thus, keys. and atll the rest (If it that hat is ini the makinmg of the10 cotllege are' scat te'red atbout so pro fusely. Thlese traiil'd lilani. /\ mail's iimid is sharenii tea rned' in the classroom, imlportaint ats lr, and thlese thliings are not to be are theO t hinigs t hat are' wo(rthI striiviing cod ini the c'lassrOooml, andi( by the per petuial ') "honing" and it is o ftenltiines (drudgery, reqiired by hiis couItrses, lint it is by his associations andL outside chaI~rac'ter' is mladle and~ thle einerg ies of his t rainled indi tuirnied inlto tile proper room41, are we do(inig the kind o~f thinmgs Ini oiur college life oultsidet the~ class aind associating wvithi the kind of peoi 111e that wilI mnake' us what wve shouldl be' (onet, two, three or four years froii now~ ? I f inot, whly not ? S. The Function of a Goal. Have you ever trmedt to visualize a football game without a goal line to lit crossed ? Have your fanicies ever without the two rinigs through whtich the hall swises for one or two points? Hlave you ever p)icturedl to youirsel f the hundiored yardl dash without that tape at the endo whic must lhe snappedl relax and enjoy his wvell-earnied rest ? by the straining runner b)efore lie may Have yoi1 ever attempted to paint inl your mind's eye the likeness of a col lege man who is spending the four most valuable years of his life at some fine school and there is merely ambling along with no objective in view, his highest ambition being not to "bust" French Il? I f yott haven't, you can save yourself the trouble by just look ing around you. The campus is cov ered with such men. There can be two causes for such an attitude: 1.ither the main is ab solutely lazy and good-for-nothing, or else lie has never gotten started in any particular direction, but is just drifting, willy-nilly. This is the little chance of self-extrication. Indiffer nceIC is a dangerous state of inid for ;myone to fall into and this is the natural result of not getting tie( up to looking to, or, better still, that is look some particular thitig that you are ing to you. The tinfortinate feature of this thing is that it would be diflicult. if not impossible ,to finid any man iIn college who could do credit to himself and his school in some branch of college activitv. That little feeling if im lortance that comes from the realiza tion that there are a number of things that are calling for your attention at Me and the sane time, that little pro wictary air, if you please. that comes from the feeling that you are being lepended upon for somCetliilg, the feel ing of respotisibility that accompanies tly diuty of an executive nature. These ire the things that lend an added zest to college life. the things that give it its distinctive flavor, the things that turn out men, and real men, from the walls of our colleges of today. As we say, there isn't a single man who cannot find something to do that will be of interest and that will benefit both himself and school. And time iioner the man gets connected up with Ahe job the better it is for all con :ernied. ''he very liest advice that can ie givenl to a new man coiming into a school for the first time is:, "Become IcItuaiitel. and then find somethinig to d outside of your classroom work. Vou'll be happier for it and will make i better citizen of the catmpus you ive on." And ow to return to our muttons (or oals. if you wvish.) No one cani ac -oimplish very much uless Ie or she ias a goal or mark to shoot at. Do you want to become president of co'r literary society ? Then work so that if you are not elected the loser Xill not he yoI, but the society. Do vout wish to make the football team? T'lhen dig hard every afternoon in that lust and dirt. give your best efforts Il the way through. and then at the "Ild of it all if yon have not made the am. you will he a better man for rying as hard as you could. It's not tle final recognition that builds o(ly tnd brain and character, but it is the ;teady grind that imakes tie real man. ''lh loser, often struggling under ieavy handicaps. is found many times (1 emerge from the contest a better nani than thme winner. HeI has fought lie good fight and will not lie without uis reward. 1 lave ytiu ever no(t icedl how imanty inmes. in the last year in college, a mnii will stepi out to the front in the race when at year. or two liefore he would hiave been picked for a sure los r?This is usually the kind oif mani who ihas plutgged alonig, shooting al - watys at siiiie lofty goal, with sonie >hjective biefore him, the kind of man whto ive retones his hiandoicapm whilec the eadler is basking ini tIme glory of lion irs al readty wonii and makitng no piro vision for the mnext trial of strength. The A merican sportinig spirit and( raditihoms revel ini the triumph of the Iinder-dhog, aimd agin t and againi on the Wingf You can get it at The i pages of college history is written, "The fight is not to the strong, not to I the brilliant, but to the persevering.".1 In the 6ianifold intricacies of American co!!ege life there is a chance for every- I one. 'Tle man who makes the most of his chance is the one who starts early and works hard. S.I _ooo_ Coliege Oratory. 'Tie signs of the time, the aspects of nature, the autumial forests, turn- I ing red and gol under the brush of I the Master Painter indicate that the I season coneth When the college ora-11 tors will blossom forth in all their t glory. These outpourings of fervent eloquence are as much to be expected as the diurnal course of the sun across the heavens. According to that cus -toi of would-le Cicero's which 'is "grey an( holy withi antiquity." the young orator will he soon spending sleepless nights and laborious (lays preparing discourses to prove that the I Panama toll should he repealed; or that protection is a better policy than free-trade; or that the closed shop is dqsirablc. Having, thus spent these t precious hours in fevered preparation. they will solemnly rise before six (possibly seven) hearers and soar to the lofty heights of eloquence. Each speaker having called his opponent all sorts of naughty names with a fine show of justified wrath, the lucky man t will then he presented with a shiny t disk of metal about an inch wide and t an inch and a half high. While he goes his way rejoicing the defeated candidates will hie themselves to their tents and explain to loyal followers ju;t wihy the fates were against them this time and howv many medals they intend to win lefore the year is out. Let the cold cynic turn up his nose inl scorn if lie so desires and call this vanity and striving after wiind. Nev ertheless each year brings forth its quota of contestants. And where is the college orator who doesn't enjoy the game to the fullest? If any man think, that the college year will pass without at least six "che-ildren of hu manity heing duly slain" lie is sadly mistaken and will soon be disillu sionedI. V.. An Obaervation. it While looking through the various college publications of last week the writer chanced to come across a copy of that worthy publication, The Tiger, published at Clemson Agricultural Col lege. It happened that this copy was of the issue following the Carolina Clemson game of Fair Week, which the Tigers managed to annex inl the last minute or so of play by the work of the toe of one of the backs. This issue of The Tiger was fairly running Over with aftermaths of the game, boosting the Tiger team to the seventh heaven and giving valuable ( ?) ad vice to tle Carolina coaches and team. - There was also a glowing write up of lhe game, and several equally brilliant edlitorials. Far lie it fromi ime to underestinmate the ability of the Sporting lEditor oif 'The Tiger, lbut it is very apparent in his writeup oif the game that lhe either dhidnI't see the contest, or his knowledge andu understanding of the gridiron game is sadly ini need oif impilrovemenit. For instance he says: "he three to nothing scoire can niever tell how comn lhetely the Tiger out fought and out wittedl his opponient ini ever'y depiart ment of the game." The wvriter of this article was evidently laboring unt dler some great misunderstanding w,,hien I he peinned those ines, foir aniyone who I saw that game, and( who is competent o if j udginig football wvillI say that the Gamnecock team was never outelassedl leld's Drug 1443 Main Street ~tate Book In The State Nesanpe- B.uildin t any stage of the game by its op onents. Ileven first downs the Birds ccuiulated while the Tigers were craping together four; it matters not viether these downs were "by inches" or by yards for there was ten more ards to make after first no matter if tie ball went over by iiches or by ,ards. We agree with the writer in lie Tiger when lie says that "games are tot won by first downs" but we do beg o call his attention to the fact that the nimber of first downs rung up by a cam cast a great deal of light uponl he ability and driving power of hat team. Once again we vish to all attention to a small error ii the l'iger; this is the paragraph which peaks of the "proud boasts" of the ,amecocks evidently this is another ase of misapprelieisioi on the part f the writer, for lie certainly heard nore in .1ungle town, than was ever icard iii the Gamecocks own home aip;; perhaps though lie got the oasting tangled up a bit. We are much indebted to ",GI" or his weekly letters iii The Tiger. hey are a sIlce of much am,usement o all who read tliei and incidentally hey cast a great deal of light upon ke remebiiher rightly in one of the iforeientioned epistles the ,writer losed by saying that lie hoped he'd iake as good a mark on his calculus s the Tigers were going to make on he Gamecocks. We extend our hear iest sympathy to him, for flunking is ruly an aw ful thing in college. Ii his otter last week lie seemed to be in an iquisitive frame of mind; we will not ttempt to answer his questious as they vere not a<kdressed to us; buit 1we vould just like to ask "EGP" one imple question, and leave it for him L ponder over: Why did Tech play forty four men gainst the Tigers last Saturday; in ther words the varsity, scrubs, squirts, nd everything that was left after the quirts??? M. E. J. Request For Holiday. At a meeting of the student body, vIr. Calhoun Thomas suggeFted that n attempt be made to have Saturday f Fair Week declared a holiday. His emarks were seconded by Mr. H. .13. )rams, who gave the motion a hear y endorsement. . The student body elcomed the idea. Accordingly a com iiittee was appointed, consisting of viessrs. Calhoun Thomas, H. B. Ab ans and Billy Doar, to present the equest of the student body to Dr. Jelton. At a subsequent meeting of the stu ent body, Mr. Thomas reported that )r. Melton had given the committee respect ful hearing and had decided Jter consultat'ion with Dean Baker, hIat it would not be wise to grant the equest. Mr. Thomas expressed the esire that the student body abide by )r. Melton's decision and not attempt o take the bit in its teeth. "Let's how Dr. Melton that we are behind tim by attenidinig classes ,Saturday," leadt Mr. homas. His remarks wvere reetedt wtith appilause. And so it came to pass that the heel s of education continiued to turn ii Saturday of Fair \Veek, the youths f the intitutioni receivedt their daily lose of knowledge and cuiltuire, and hemreby was a t ime-honoredt custoni 'here once was a young city slicker Vho dearly loved his corn likker. hIlt one iiight in his cups, le gave it all uip, ~ayinig, "God knows I have never been sicker." --Sibik. 'Store Store