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PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES Terms $1.50 a Year - Entered at Columbia, S. C., postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. SATURDAY, F'11. 17, 1923. EDIrORIAL STAFF. S. T. Sparkman Editor G. H. Wittkowsky Associate J. E. Millard Associate BUSINESS. J. S. Nunamaker Manager. Topics in Brief. Well, the old basket ball team is hold ing up pretty well on the State games. An even break thus far, with most of the other games to be played on the home floor. Captain Chisholm Wallace has been showing some of the best floor work that he has done since he joined the Birds four years ago--and that means he has been going good. One of the scrappiest little players on the squad is our little towheaded for ward from the metropolis of Sumter. Jack is giving his guards lots of trouble this year and ranks as one of the best forwards in the state. And maybe old Skeet Gasque hasn't been heaving them through the hoop! This has been his best year, and the way he was shooting in the games with Citadel and Wofford would have made Vollett turn green with envy. Coach Crawford faced quite a prob lem with a bunch of raw material for the guard positions but he has sure got Ed Lillis, Dick Baker, Billy McSwain and little Hollin Abrams going like a house afire now. "Buck" Floyd has been one of the big surprises this year, and now that he lias gotten started, lie's going to play good ball for Carolina before he is through here. Have you been down to the legislative halls lately to hear our big guns in ac tion? If not, you've missed something, for Bill Holland, Claude Chewning and the rest of them are keeping the ball roll ing merrily. How about the mid-winter prepara tions for next fall's football team? It's a whole lot easier to get those who are in school now to pass their work than it is to hunt up new players during the summer. Have YOU done all that you can to help get things in shape for a first-class annual this year ? If not, "Better late than never." Here's the best of luck to Troy Beas ley and his staff! They have a hard job ahead. Let's give them a lift when ever p)Ossible. How abiout that Co-ed basketball team? Winnning right along and we -expect thenm to p)ick up another pair oif victories wvhile they are in Charleston this wveek-end. A good manager and a :good team, isn't it ? Just ask Tommy. Thue week's best joke: One of the in comiing freshmen stated that he is carry ing five subjects. These p)roved to be Mlath, History, English, French and Library Methods. Second best joke: It is alleged that Professor Snowdlen flew into a violent rage wvhen Dr. Green attempted to bor row his patented scales. The gentle man from the City by the Sea says that lie has beeni using the '"numbered step'' system nowv for almost two years. andl dlefies anyone to dlisprove its accuracy. At the last Chanticleer meeting, Charlie Fishburne adopted one of D)r. Currell's four syllable wVordls with dis astrous results. For full p)articuilars see Charlie in person, or any member of the Chanticleers. S. The Abney Library. Trhe gift to the University by Mr. John Abne'y, of .the Abney Lih*dry, stands out as one of the greatest events in the history of this iinstitution. Dr. Melton has characterized it as the great est single gift ever made to the uni versity. Mr. Abney deserves the high est praise for his generosity in this mat ter. Every Carolina man should feel toward him a debt of gratitude. With the Abney library and the Uni versity library at our disposal there is no excuse for Carolina students failing to put in some good reading. It seems to us that it is a grave mistake for a college student to put all of his time on his regular courses to the exclusion of outside reading. If a man doesn't culti vate the habit of independent reading in college the chances are that he won't do so later. There is a difference between putting in time doing parallel reading and doing independent reading. College life won't last all the time, and after the sheepskin has been won there wouldn't by any "parallel reports" at the end of each month to force us to do the requir ed three hundred pages. Good marks on class work mean a lot but they don't mean everything. The man who spends all his time boning over the daily as signments, afraid to take an independent excursion into the realms of literature. history, sociology or similar lines, isn't getting the maximum of good from his college course. W. A Greatly Needed Organization. Apparently we are living in an age of organizations of all kind. This spirit has permeated the halls of our national legislature for a number of years. There we have all kinds of blocs, the farm bloc, liquor bloc, trust bloc and many others too numerous to mention, each having some special end in view or pur pose to accomplish. In the past fort night this spirit has become evident in the chambers of our General Assembly, with the organization of a farm bloc in the lower house, patterned somewhat after the one in congress. Others are hounld to follow in the wake of this one. Why not have a University bloc? There are at the present writing forty or more Carolina alumni and stu(lents included in the membership of the legis !ature, all of whom are deeply interested, or should be, in the future welfare of their Alma Mat;r. If these men were organized as they might be, our appro priations would no doubt be considerably augmentel and such things as not being able to secure funds for intensely needed dormitories and equipment would be facts of a by-gone day. The erection of the long-talked-of Woman's building would not be an uncertainty if our pro posed organization were a reality. Such an organization would not only be a boon to the University, but to the entire state of South Carolina, from the mountains to the sea. The influence of Carolina men plays no unimportant role in constructive legislation in our state, and surely if their influence could be welded the Palmetto State would once more assume her former proud and in fluential position among the states of the Union. The ship of state would always ride the waves smoothly were there ever ready a highly organized group of well educated men to take the helm when storm clouds appear on the horizon. B. Athletics. The time has come for the colleges of this country to decide on a defiite policy in regard to athletics. They should either frankly accept the new regime of millionaire coaches and salaried players or they should get busy and clean up house. Only those wvho refuse to see fail to p)erceive that so far as football is concerned amateur college athletics is a thing of the p)ast. TIhose wvho refuse to h ide their faces in the ground like the p)roverb)ial ostrich realize that in prac tically every school in the country there are paid players. It matters not wvheth er they are paid by the school or by the alumni. TIhe salaries are forthcoming in) either case. I f the colleges (of the country really think it all right to tuirn football into a gladiatorial game let them say so. Pos sibly colleges are willing to submerge there real functions and turn themsch~ es into centers of amusement for the pub lie, allow their names to be usedl by a gang of sports living in the vicinity of the college. If they dIon't object to this sort of thing, let them say as much. lBnt in the name of sincerity let us break away from the conditions wvhich now (obtain. There is noi use for the colleges oif America to claim that their football teams are composedl of bona fide students when every thinking man and wvoman who knowvs anything at all about thn situation realizes the falsity of such claims. W. Alex Waite to Asheville. Carolina has suffered a loss. No. don't be alarmed, nobody deati or any thing like that. Alex Waite has dlepart. edl from our midst to try his fortune in the fields of pedagogy. About tw< weeks ago he left for Asheville, N. C. where he is now (directing youthfu minds through the mysteries and mazes of high school Spanish. We are indcis sorry to see Alex leave, and he will be greatly missed about the campus, and especially on the basket ball court and on the athletic field when a track meet is pulled off. However, we predict that Alex will make good in his profession as a pedagogue for he has certainly left behind him at Carolina a record that any one should be proud of. Undoubt edly Alex carries away the best record in athletics that any graduate of Caro lina has ever held. He has been on the varsity foobtall, track and basket ball teams ever since his freshman year. He has held the positions of manager of the track team, captain of the 1922 Game cock football team, and, in addition to this, he was captain and manager of the swimming team in 1921. Why, Alex has enough block "C's," stars, etc., to cover two or three sweaters. He holds a letter, three stars and a crescent in foot ball, a letter and two stars in basket ball, a letter, two stars and a bar in track, and a letter, har and crescent in swim ming. Some record, ch? Besides all this he has broken a southern record or two in track meets and won second place in one or two others. Besides his ath letic activities Alex received his Bachelor of Arts degree in three years, and re turned this year to work for his Masters degree. And he has all but obtained it. lacking only two or three subjects; these he intends taking at the summer school during the coming summer. Alex took an interest in all campus activities; he was an industrious worker for the Y. M. C. A., being a member of the cabinet for two years. So, Alex, oid boy, here's to you, and with this glorious record already ac quired, your Alma Mater wishes you the best o' luck, and hopes that your record in the future will be as enviable as that of the past. M. Baker Heads German Club for Second Term. At the first meeting of the German Club after examinations, "Dick" Baker was elected president for the ensuing term. The other officers elected are as follows: Macbeth \Vagnon, Vice-Pres ident; C. A. Sherrill, Treasurer ; Joe Wheeler, Secretary; V. Clarke Floyd, Senior Leader, and ron Funderburk, junior Leader. 13. McMillan Goes on Advisory Board. The student body, at a meeting last week, elected "Johnny" McMillan, of Mullins, to fill the vacancy on the Ath letic Advisory Board created by Alex Waite's withdrawal from college to be come instructor of Spanish at Asheville Hi. "Mc" has been a member of the varsity football team for four years, always playing a consistent game, and he is one of the best guards that ever hit the dirt on a South Carolina grid iron (apologies to none). We are con fident that he will make a very able representative on this important board. B. Frank Lim Laundry 821 MAIN STREET Good Work Guaranteed, Prices Very Reasonable The Hollyhock TEA ROOM Breakfast, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Supper 1221 Gervais St., Next Door to Post Office ii The Y Home o 1604 Bryan's Bool 1440 r Southern Columbia. S. C. Chanticleers Hear Dr. CurrelL. D The Chanticleer Club was treated to a U literary feast on February 7th in the a form of an address by Dr. W. S. Currell th on "Literature and Life." The meeting was held at the home of Professor and ax Mrs. Dabbs on Green street. The ad- Ju dress of Dr. Currell was heard with w( the greatest interest. Dr. Currell pointed ki: out the immeasurable benefits to be de- cs rived from literature and plead for the C( cultivation of a good taste for literature cO on the part of the young man. He point ed out the fact that English literature presents a more varied and finer range of reading than the literature of any other people. At the conclusion of Dr. Currell's specch there followed a round table discussion which was joined in by those present. During the course of the evening Prof. Dabbs gave several vocal selections, ac companied by Mrs. Dabbs on the piano. The Club also enjoyed the refreshments served by Mrs. Dabbs. At this meeting the new officers took up their duties. Mr. Karesh was suc ceeded as president by Mr. Thorne Sparkman. The other officers for this term are J. E. Hankins, Vice-President, and MacBride Dahbs, Secretary. W. U. D. C. Medal Won By Miss Marguerite Abel. The medal conferred annually by the Wlade Hampton Chapter of the United Florsheim .... .... I............ It doesn't hap only betwveen se: mark down all I Shoes at this lo, an event worth --worth taking at once. \Ve'v styles, all leathez J. L. Mimne r te n Overland and The twvo greatest Motor Car value Our new home is close to the cam 1Overland - C( Corner Sumter IR. D. L A MBE RT, President oung Mew f COLLEGIAN CLO Main Street COLUM BIA, S. Store' and Pi Vlain Street, Columbis 1 Teacher's COVERS THE SOUTH Chtnnana Tenn. iughters of the Confederacy to a iiversity student for the best essay7n ;ubject relative to the struggle between North and South was this year arded to Miss Marguerite Abel, of the nior Academic class. Miss Grace King In secon(d place, and J. Erskine Han is third. The subject chosen for this ;ay was "Writers of Books During the nfederacy." Last year this mcdal was nferred upon Miss Louise Graham. B. 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