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P-UBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES Terms $1.50 a Year Entered at Columbia, S. C., postoffice November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter. FRI)AY. MAY 4, 1923. EITORIAL STAFF: wm . Beasley................Editor J . illard .................Associate D. W . Spencer................Associate CONTRIBUTORS: Miss Marguerite Abel, J. E. llankins. M. K. \\ alsh, S. W. l-.ichel and "Iilly" )oar. BUSINESS. J. S. Nunamaker Manager. The Spring Drive Let all who are faced by the impend ing doom of coming examinations take heed and profit by the advice of a com panion. Less than six weeks remain. Start reviewing now. Don't put off what youl can do today. But fight that natural desire to go lie on the grass in the cool shade, and put in some extra time in study, and the effort will be remunerative. You will do better on examinations, and above all you will have the feeling of satisfaction that al ways remains after real honest effort has been made in a worth while pursuit. Think what it will mean to you to be able to say to your folks in June that you not only passed all of your classes, but that you did it with a safe margin because you really studied. The reward is worth the effort. Buck up and nake Editorials No part of a newspaper or magazine is so painstakingly prepared as its editorials, and no part is so little read. And it can be truly said that in a meas ure they fail in their object for that very reason. Those people who read the editorials are stiliciently interestd in the various phases of college life and ip-to date issues to give the matters their qnsideration without reading what the .fditor has to say. -ditorials have a purpose. They are not intended merely b fill up space. In the last analysis, ed itorials are a conscious attempt to stim tate thought and mold opinions. And it is cruelly ironic that the class of read ers which would protit most by the Jerusal of the editor's columns consider 6iem instead a waste of time. The edi bor knowing this is excuseably ofter kmpted to forego the efTort. The only appreciation .f this department comes from the students who think for them selves, and it often happens that they ind the editor's expression exactly ii1 point with the ideas they have already formed. It is conceded that there must a mutuality of efTort on the part o: th editor and reader, that is to say at the editor must work to produce (-di irts which are readable aid of in .erest. This is ain efTort that hec is at ay imakinag, and it remains for1 the aerto do his plart, for only he whc I eketh shall find, and onily he who wilh shall know. A Wise Decision Thel action of the Clarioso4 ph3ic am Euphlirad ian 1Lite rary societ ies ini regart to havinag the Annual Inater-soie(ty de Iate oil May 21st or 22nd wais ini deed a wise decisi~on. This dlehate which should be the most initerest ing forensic conltest (of the year, has here hi tofore a r(oused very little interest (due t< the fact that it has always been heb during commencemniit when only a smnal pretage oflunderelasmen remlain o S the camputs. The resuilt ill previou: yrs has beeni that the audiences a (ese deates have been rather meagre dy ao few seniors and interested pr0 ~ssors being present. I By having it before commencemen ~ s impo4rtanlt conotest can b)e madle whma should and no( doubllt a large auidienic< I" IIl)( be resent whien it co mes off. Wasted Opportunities ~ai More years ago than lie likes to admi 'writer entered the University. Bacd ur wvas a repetition of the one tha r d~ goie before. Classes were a sid<( e. to the campus course. Superf'icia ~thblings in various activities were pro. O ective of hut negligible results. Look. t Jgbackward there is a sharp regre S1at a passion for bull sessions, loafins hd idleness spread over the years, tool< place of a thirst for k,n,m,le,ge There is a regret that classes were then considered as routine work toward grad uation, and in themselves valueless, and that the library was merely a place where they had fiction amagazines. As true as the old adage is it that all play and no work will also make Jack a dull boy. With the above as background the wisdom of experience desired to be pass on is that at the University there are )pportunities for the development of the student which if taken full advantage of now, will ever be a source of stimula tion, and if not heeded will imbue with lasting regret the man who passed them by. Boost loost your school, boost your friend, itost tle society vout attend, Boost the dormitory where you live, Boost your class, no other will. Boost the people round about you, h'lley can get along without you. But success will quicker find them I f they know that you're behind them. Boost for every forward movement, Boost for every new improvement, Boost the teacher for whom you labor, Boost the classmate and the neighbor. Cease to be a chronic knocker, ('ease to be a progress blocker, If you'd make your school better Boost it to tile final letter. -E:x. Dr. and Mrs. Melton Give Recep tion in Honor of Freshman Football Team, Co-Ed Basketball Team and Honor Club On Friday evening, April 20th, the members of the Honor Club, the fresh man football team and the Co-ed basket ball team were tendered a beautiful re ception by President and Mrs. Melton at their home on Pendleton street. Tle lower floor of the pretty home was thrown open and decorated in dog wood and pink roses, and during the evening a delightful buffet supper was served. Members of the faculty connected with student organizations and their wives were present as well as the officers of the various campus organizations, mak ing in all about one hundred and forty guests. The presentation of the silver foot balls to the freshman football men, the basketball letters to the Co-eds, and the newly designed medals to the members of the Honor Club was the chief feature of the occasion. Tlie footballs were pre sented to the men winning them by Harry 1,4litsey. student manager of athletics; the basketball letters were given to the Co-eds by Prof. E. Marion Rucker and the medals were presented to the Honor Club by Dean L. T. Baker. Evangelistic Party from Univer sity Y. M. C. A. to Hold Re vival Campaign Among High School Students of Eastover An evangelistic party from the Uni versity will go to Eastover for three days, May 11, 12, 13, for the purpose of con ducting a revival among the Presby terian. Baptist and l4piscopal churches of that place. The most work will he done among the high school boys and girls. One of the chief purposes of the campaign wvill be to show the people o,f the conununity an all-round church life. A number of baseball games, a track meet and a hike is being planned for the stud(enlts of the Ikastover school under the (direction of this party. The churches of IBastover are cooperating heartily with the Y. M. C. A.. and Mr. A. Scarb)orough, of F.astover, and a lawv , tudencit att the University, has bleen ap poinltedl as chiirman of the committee from the churches of lEastover. It will l)e recalled that two years ago I a party from Carolina held a similar meetig at Olanta where a great deal Iof interest was manifested by the peo pIe of that town and wvhich proved very successful. As a result of it 37 boys and girls joined the church. The personnel of the party to go to lEastover has not yet been announced, bt,bt Secretary Blell, of the Y. M. C. A., will have charge of the party. (Continued from Page One) bIur H-ook, of McColl, and William flyers, of Rock Hill, were awarded sec ond and third places respiectively in the boys' dleclamn.tion contest. The winners of all of these p)laces receivred medals. The final contest for the boys wvas held in the University Chapel, and the girls' in the High School Auditorium on Thursday night, the preliminaries hav ing been held in the afternoon. The next contest staged was the type writing contest held at the Masonic Tern. pIe. In the team contests Coltumbia won first place and Charleston second. Like bia, represented by Frank Sutherland, won first and Rock Hill, represented by D. C. Youngblood, second place. The track meet, beginning with the preliminaries on Friday morning and winding up with the finals in the after noon, was one of the most successful and interesting ever pulled off by the high schools of the state. Times and distances, where records were not broken, were either equalled or were very close to previous marks. One world's record was broken, another equalled; two state high school records were broken and two others were equalled. Miss Alva Stevenson, of Winnsboro, broke the world's record for high school girls in throwing the discus 31.7 feet, the pre vious record being 81 feet. Another young lady, Miss Irene Richardson, of Winnsboro, tied the world's record in running the fifty-yard dash by sprinting the distance in 6 1-5 seconds. Odell, of Pickens, by clearing the bar in the pole vault at 11 feet 6% inches, exceeded the previous mark by almost one foot. Allgood broke the other state record by hurling the standard twelve-pound shot 42 feet 87 inches, bettering all previous records by more than one foot. Foster, of Seneca, equalled the state high school record for the hundred-yard dash by stepping off the distance in 10 2-5 seconds. Hutchinson, representing Rock Hill, ran the 120-yard hurdle in 15 2-5 seconds, equalling the state high school record in that event. Liberty High School, with a total of twenty-two points, was given first place in the track meet ; Pickens, with nineteen points, second, and Thornwell Orphanage School, with a total of eleven points. third. The Huff Trophy cup, given an nually to the school scoring the highest number of points in the meet, went to Liberty High School. The individual star of the meet was Odell, of Liberty, who won nineteen of his teams twenty-two points, winning the Reach-McMaster cup, which is awarded annually to the contestant scoring the highest number of points. Adams, of Pickens, was second in the individual scoring with eleven points to his credit, and Foster, of Seneca, third, with ten points. Twelve schools were represented in the place winners, these schools being as follows: Liberty, Pickens, Thornwell Orphanage, Rock Hill, Ninety-Six, Cedar Spring, Anderson, F.asley, Fort Mill, Mc Coll and Columbia. Other schools com peting in the meet were Clio, Chester, Clinton, Central, Cross Anchor, Greely ville, Johnston, Kingstree, Marion, Sal ley, Honea Path, Sumter and Greer. All records made in the meet will be official Frank Lim Laundry 821 MAIN STREET Good Work Guaranteed, Prices Very Reasonable I "Let's Pull a Party, I But where'll we get the Eats? Why, Cohen's1 IDelicatessen, Of course, that's the only place PHONE 5832 1229 Hampton Ave. Souther Columbia, S. C. The Y Home o 1604 Bryan's Bool 1440 t ly recognized throughout the countr; Coach Walter Johnson, of P. C., rei ereed the meet; Prof. C. F. Mercer wa field judge, Prof. J. B. Coleman, finis judge, and Prof. George Olson was off cial timer. The last event of the week's activitie but far from being least, was the banqu< given in honor of the visitors at Stew ard's Hall on Friday evening. A d< lightful dinner was served the four hut dred guests who were present by tI University Co-eds. The banquet tabl< were tastefully decorated with tulips an ferns and each guest was presented wit a colored paper hat. Dr. Melton wa toastmaster of the occasion and he we comed the students to Carolina in h usual pleasant manner of speaking. M H. T. Shockley, of Spartanburg, new elected president of the High Scho( League, responded to Dr. Melton's a< dress of welcome. The chief speaker < the evening was Dr. Henry Phillip rector of Trinity church and president c the S. I. A. A. Dr. Phillips' addres "The Ethics of Athletics," was very ir teresting and was enjoyed immensely 1 all hearing it. "Pat" Murphy, one < Carolina's most wide-awake alumni, w also heard. 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