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ale camevtocu PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES Terms $1.50 a Year Entered at Columbia, S. C., postoffice Noveml,er 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. FRIDAY, FE,BRUARY 23, 1923. EDITORIAL STAFF. W in. T. Beasley.................Editor J. E. M illard.................Associate D. W . Spencer................Associate CONTRIBUTORS: Miss Marguerite Abel, Miss Eizabeth Beasley, "Bill" Holland, Calhoun Thom as, Charles Fishburne, Judson Ready, Holin Abrams. BUSINESS. J. S. Nunamaker Manager. Salutation. With this issue we, the new editorial staff, assume the manifold woes and weal of putting out The Gamecock for the second term. In taking over our new duties we do so somewhat with a min gled feeling of pride and regret. Some of us are neophytes at the editorial game, others more or less veterans, but nevertheless, we poignantly realize that filling the positions once occupied by such shining lights as "Bob" Gonzales, Broadus Mitchell, Marion Wright, R. C. Thompson, Thorne Sparkman and many others of like fame, will never be an easy task. We will doubtless make mistakes, but then you must remember that we are only human. Always we shall strive to give you the best in us. The Gamecock is the organ of the student body of the University in spirit at least if not in actuality; consequently, any student is always at liberty to write news articles, editorials, jokes or poetry for publication herein, whether he or she be a member of the staff or not. In fact, we urge you to do so, and any member of the staff will be ever ready to receive such material. Constructive criticism will be welcomed by us at any and all times, but as for chronic knocking we cannot use it, no matter how minute the quantity. With the earnest cooperation of students and faculty we hope to make The Gamecock as much of a success in the next few months as it has been in the past. A Demise. Not so far from Greenville, at a school whose principal studies are the rudiments of milking cows and throw ing old Daisy's badly treated husband, the faculty is walking about with heads bowed in profound sorrow. They are grieving for a dear departed friend, who had filled their ears with sweet tales of victory and revenge in large quantities. He had told them of his "system" which had never gone down in defeat and had promised that the proud blasts of the Purple Hurricane would be stilled and that the tail feathers of the proud old Gamecock would be painfully and per manently extracted and never again would the hearts of the student body of C. A. C. be dlowncast in defeat. He sang this siren song to the faculty and he then strolled over and prima dlonnaedl the song to the student body, and the meeting broke up to the tune, "We Will Ride Carolina on a Rail." Dowvn on the mourners' bench were "Bull" Lightsey and Rhett Turnipseed, who swore they were converted, and that they wvordd immediately enroll in school so that they might dIrink from that won derfutl cup of Victory and Revenge. Mr. Stewart (for that is the name of the dear departed one), sang this song so often that at last he really believed it himself and there's where the hurt comes in. 01(1 "Doc" was an artist at the game of "make believe," andl when he started talking lie held the accelerator wide open 9.nd all brakes off. It occurred to him that after lie had won the state chiamp)ionshiip of South Carolina for two or three years he wvoukd then take his bunch of man-handlers west and show the boys out there a few things. After stopping off at Occidental College to ex ercise his wvar-horses in a sixty-minute scrimage with their team, he intended to take. boat at San Francisco and run over to the Hawaian Islands for a game out there. It all sounded fine, and it was a toss up to see who fell for it the hardest, the faculty or student body. The first year "Doc's" plans went fine until his bunch of cake-eaters, averaging 200 pounds, came, saw and failed to conquer Carolina at the Fair week game. "D)oc" then went back and told the school that his team would realy et going the next year as he would have "Bull" Lightsey and Rhett Turnipseed to help him mop up the state and all this called for more talk and t promises. f However, the next year when his n bunch of cow-boys harely fluked out on t the Gamecocks 3 to 0 and later on lost L to Furman, who had been soundly trounced by Carolina, the situation be came bilious indeed. "Pop," his air sl castles crumbled, and "flop," his pride d took a back hand flip, and to make matters worse, "Bull" Lightsey wasn't as young as he used to be and an injury t( that he received when playing against an c< All-European team brought over by Co- L lumbus in 1492, was worrying him and L he decided to retire to the seclusion of s4 his farm. K) Then, too, Rhett Turnipseed didn't take to cows so readily; and to round out "Doe's" hard luck, Rhett sprained his al milking hand and had to quit school. ti So "Doc" resigned as head coach at o Clemson ! We must congratulate "Doe" t upon his nerve and the student body up on its fortitude in face of ovetwhelming disaster, for we expected "Doc" to re- o sign a year ago. And if "Doc" had not b talked so much we believe he would p have. And the faculty walks about with " their chins upon their chests and the F clean, white dairy has no attraction for the students. Athletically speaking, "Doc" is dlead. If the truth were known "Doc" g died a couple of years ago, but Clemson si just failed to bury him. Good-bye, a "Doc." We wish you success in your new undertaking. May there be no Hur ricanes or Gamecocks in Texas to dis- K turb your pipe dreams I k Spring Holidays. 't Holidays should always be looked for- p ward to and remembered as the red letter days, the shining spots on the calendar. The Christmas holidays usual- n ly are. Everyone has a big time, because i, everyone is given time to plan and ac complish some one thing that he or she a especially loves to do. So much for the C Christmas holidays, but alas, we have several other one-day holidays that, in stead of being looked forward to as great (lays and remembered likewise, are regarded as an extra burdensome day to "kill,' an unusually hard day to pass away the time. Could there not be a solution? We think so. Many other schools have spring holidays-starting i on Easter Monday and lasting for from three to four days. Why could not we have our one-day holidays posponed un til this time and be granted these accumu lated holidays as a spring holiday? Far more interruption to the smooth t course of instruction occurs by three short breaks than would be occasioned by one longer one. Everyone would be v more satisfied. Those who wished to v rest could really get a rest; those who wish diversion could have time to plan and execute it. The interruption caused by the Easter dances and general social t functions which mark the closing of ,ent would be submerged into the one inter ruption of spring holidays-the only in terruption of the term. The plan is feasible. It is in harmony with the wishes of all. It is not detri mental to the routine of college ork. WhIy niot then do away with the one day holidays from niow on and have regular spring holidays? With tbe Alumni. Many (If the lawv school gradluates from all sections of the state attended the meetings of the South Carolina lBar As sociation held on the campus during the past week. Edgar T. Thompson, '22, is teaching ini Plant City, Fla. "Charlie" Beck, '21, popular man ager of the football team that beat Clem sonl 3-0 two years ago, holds a respon sible position wvith tihe American T1rust Company iln Charlotte. "Q" Marshall, member of the lawv class of '22, has recently assumed the dluties of magistrate of the City of Co lumbia. We wish Justice Marshall the best of luck in this important office. August Kohn, Jr., popular member of tihe senior academic class of '20, is pur suing his legal studhies at Harvard. "Sqjuash" Qual ttlebaum, '21, Farra Van Metre, Dexter Evans and several other once familiar figures on the caim-1 pus1 are dissecting "niggers" at the Southj Carolina Medical College in the City by the Sea. "Chink" Gee is taking wodrk in the School of Commrece at the University (If .. Pennsylvania, leading to his masters dhe gree. "Chink" expects to sail for China 'ere many moons have passed. "Tfack" Hortoni, '22, editor of last year's Garnet and Black, is connected with the Ford Sales Service in Char lotte. Intercollegiate News. The University of Cincinnati and Ke icky Wesleyan are to play a game 4 )otball on the night of September 29t ext. Experts say that this is to I ie first night game ever played in ti nited States. A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was ir ailed at Davidson College last Mot ay. The University of North Carolina i > send a debating team to the Pacif )ast to debate a team representing t1 niversity of Southern California i os Angeles. This debate will no doul !t a new pace in intercollegiate d< iting circles. Baseball practice is already under wa Trinity College. Eight pitchers an vo catchers reported on the first da F practice. Apparently Trinity expec o put out some baseball team. WofTord has been boasting lustil rer her recent defeat of our baske ill team. The following headline al !ared in the Old Gold and Blac< Arofford Terriers Make Gamecock cathers Fly." The University of Kentucky bati ave a program over the broadcastir ation of the Louisville Courier-Journ; lid Times on February 6th. The Southern Intercollegiate Baske all Tournament is to be held in A nta beginning February 26th, and las ig for five days. Approximately thirt: ve of the best quintets in the south wi articipate. Plans for a South Carolina tennis tou ament, to be held at U. N. C., are b ig formulated. The Tar Heel say It is a matter of doubt as to whethi nt invitation will be extended to Soul arolina." Harry Garrity, one time all-Americ. alfback on a Princeton eleven, w lected director of athletics at Wal 'orest at a meeting of the board rustees of that institution on Februa d. The Gamecock predicts a good se on for the next Wake Forest footb, iachine under the tutelage of this at oach. Twenty co-eds at the University Ilinois signed up for boxing a sho .me ago. A debating society at Boston Ur ersity recently held a debate by radi ihich is supposed to be the first of i ind ever attempted. The basketball team wants a new ru allow Salesman Sam Gasque to we is cap during the game. 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 Phone 7311i Thel1 Home 160 Bryan's Boo 1440 Souther Columbi, S. C. Smoke-house Corner. rl. STYLE. I Kink Style is a dictator, rigid, exacting, Full of perversity, always contracting Laws that are whimsical, Often most flimsical, Subject to change in the very enacting. Some that are lovely and artful in fea- E ture, Some so revealing they can't help at *s tracting ic All of the masculine down thru the e preacher, Some of them pleasing, > Others are teasing, Some most absurd and a few quite dis tracting. 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