The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 11, 1924, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 1923
EDITORIAL STAFF:
McBride Dabbs................ Editor
Calhoun Thomas............ Associate
S. Wolfe Eichel............. Associate
Fred Minshall ..............Cartoonist
BUSIN ,
Frank T Meeks..............Manager
. A . W ilson................Assistant
3. . W illiams..............Circulation
GAMECOCK FEATHERS
Somilay. Tuesday, 'wednesday, Tihurs
day. Friday and Saturday are spent in:
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For exauinations are (lyil) two weeks
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THE ANNUAL
In recent years there Ilase been a great
'ack if co)operation of tile students with
the ann11ual stati Some have the crazed
Idea that it is a publicatioli fo)r the ben
Cit of the s tati and nit the U.niversitv.
After Iinch worrv andl many trying ap
ieals to the student body tile stafTs, iII
recent veaers. have succeeded ill getting
a well bIilee( puIbliCatinIj. This yei
Ih IjPe that lie pit falls (if the past are
gtinig to be av()ided and there will have
to be no ery to the students for co
4peratitn.
Ile clistoiln ftir the last few years
1as beo fo r tihe students to subscribe
tor an aiual While paying their tuition
iees. )ue t4 siIne mi.sIItderstanl ding
nlug the Iemlbeis ,f the staff this
IA;Is n1(it ([0nC whHen Lces were iIng
Iaid( eairlir in tile ear. 'le business
Inaagger pIp(),es ti have an assista.at
in the trk.*Illurs' "ilice whei the ices
f1wr the -eccmd term are leiig paid. All
who desirt. :4 tlariet anld Black for ie
ea 02.11 ir r*leLeId to pay this agent
hi- mu11 ie dIne li'en s) that the Bis
S.\i.l:::lr lay komw I ho,w m1a1Ny
'H11i:a t. Wder. It is InIIierstod that
tlie i 1 : 1 t ing to be a y extris this
1 '..i tile aunial (ild alit b;lre
myClub jilcturesc. Th'lis wa., preatly
dulk ti) hck f in1f.'rimatin fn thec part (pi
he s't iieiit. 'T is year it is IlI.ped
th1At all stlleit glps desiring piCtuIres
\%I1 rgaize ad be realy whea the
phltgrapher airives l Vlibruirv. The
pieturi will lie taken free if charge by
the aiinual photi graphler, but toi have
it tput ill tile \'ear Biiiik a playmlent must
bie ml:ile tio coei ico st ofi pulic iatioin.
Lat ear this coist was fifteeni dollars
: is explected to lbe about the same
:in. \\'ithi a few exceptiions every
<tunty iln tihe state is repireselite<l by
ta or ntlire students. L et themi get buisy
and1 iirgallize. lior the \iAnnua to lie a
luccess t hele 11m, t lhe a great any
cIb paijict ures.
lny stillents h eve failed to have
thei r pictures takenI. TIhe sittings were
;munilced but againi co-opieration llwas
ladiing. \Anoit her Iist, wvill be po~stedl
iud indilividujal no t ices are to lie sent toi
ceh stiudent enitit led to a pictture in the
;''aual. D)o not h(et this slijp yoiur at
tenitionI.
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New Student Program
Since the hlid (ays a new system has
been initrioduced toi Carol ina. It is ciuite
tihe 'stui" andl( we reiincmen it toi all
who have noit vet tried iit. hiis is the
daily program:
8 :30-10t :,3t ('lasses.
10:30 ---reak fast
1 :30 --Dinner
7 :30 -SuppIler
10 :30) -1 ,unch
11I:00) --Shave
Bet weenl houtrs sit tdent s can sttudy
and1( doi other 1odd( thinigs. In the morn
lig the sItudlent canl sleepl thruai the uIsual
break fast hotur. This plan is nowv being
triedl by a prominent senior and is wvork
ing 0. K. We suggest that others try
it.
DO STUDENTS THINK
An article by Mr. Herbert Gray of
England, who last year made a tour of
American colleges, written for the In
tercollegian and reported in the recent
Literary Digest and in which he has ac
cused the American colleges of turning
out a standardized piece of humanity,
has aroused a storm of comment in the
press of the country as well as in the
college papiers. Mr. Gray says that the
American college man is abundantly full
of life and energy but lacks the power
of originality of thought. He excepts
what is told him by faculty aid text
books as the last word on tie case and
does not think out a proposition nr
even have time for serious thought or
study. The students lead what he terms
a distracted life, and because of this
distraction he is not really getting an
education.
All of which makes us take thought
and consider ourselves. \Ve often con
tont that a campus course is worth as
much to a student as the work in the
class room. And the campus course at
the University is one with a full cur
riculum. There is football, baseball.
basketball, tennis, swimming, literary
organizations, subject organizations.
country clubs, social clubs, student body
organizations, annuals, Gamecocks,
Carolinians, the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C.
.\.. and a multiplicity of other organiza
tions, groups and activities that must be
carried on in college life, must have of
ficers to be competed for, places to he
won and honors to be attained. It has
reached a place that about th2 only time
that a man has for studying is during
his Freshmen year, and theni he either
does not know how to study or else is
interfered with by frequent "visits"
I 'iron upper classmen. By the time a
Ian gets to be a Senio)r lie is involved
in so many meetings, and has so much
"student activity" work that his class
ri)oni work is entirely a minor detail.
And vet this is the man who "suc
ceeds" in cqllege life. Ve ofton see
a man who is of the material of which
"Hoinor Clubs" should be, who has frit
tered away his college life on activities,
who gets a diploma on June and who
fiids that lie knows-nothing-when he
gets out-that he is an uneducatel mamn
vo:l tho he has a diploIImIIa. And wors
that ie has not acquired the p(iwer to
think iior the habit of careful thought.
Anid turning to the class room, we
Won1der how many men take the trouble
to look up a statement made by a pr,
I.essor to see where lie gets his authoritv.
\Ve wder how many of us would have
tle cira.ge to tell a professoir that our
''lini ln was dif fereiit from)ti his a;d set
->it 'ur opinion in a clear thiught (ut
stateient. :\re we moItilded inl a mould
lf ti professors' patternt. turined 'it as
stanldardize:I school teachers. standard
ized lawyers. e.-ieers. ';tandardized
e(lica tel min each year
D) we fall inlto tle (.erman gosestep
imi matters and habits of thight, i:n
dcas. amid o Ihiep ! p ! lepiiig !with
hL% rest h f tle e Iege 4' tile conI:
i in a drab, monotontus tread mill of
place lives ?
(Or is lie Amnericaii c''llege maii, ,is
con'lteinded by Al.\1fredl Zimmuermian of th
Unive'(rsityV of WVales. now teachling at
C"orniell, is thle A\merican c'olilege manl
brighteneitd and quickented anid miade eveni
m 're heter geiuts byv these same acivi
is?Mr. %/imlmermian says that the
activity with Itwhtich thle A mericant ;t i
dlent is bubbling over is the pr'c ius
miateriaiIlIof the university teacher's art.
All thait is nieedled us fo'r this atbumndant
Iactiivity to b le guided inito a channel for
work real work ;a.nd t ranIsliosed into an
other field o'f mental effort.
All of whlicht leaves us about whe(re
we started. Is this attempt at an edi
torial a stirring oIf a latent pwer of
thmiking on the part of the writer or
is lie goosestep)pinlg along wvith all the
other ciollege editorial writers inl the at
templjt to wvrite an editorial (il the pres
('nce oir Jack of 'fIntellectuial curiosity"
JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET
Is Carolina to have a JuntIior-Senlior
flanquet this year ? Some may say that
it is tooi early ini tihe year to begi.n ask
inig such1 a (question, lbut tnot soi. Last
year tIhe matter was not given due at
tention unt ii late iln the year. Naturally
as the miajority oif eleventh hotur stabs
do. it fiz,zled (lit. Two weeks before
the last term examinations a committee
was appointed from the two tipper
classes toi work ouit plans and goi for
ward wvith the btanqulet. But (due to
lack of co'-operat ion b)y tile students
things fell thru.
Sad, butt trute, Carolina has not had
a Juniior-Senuior Bananet for a numbe
of years. The writer understands that
they were done away with during the
trying times of the Great World War.
Ijut it was expected that they would be
revived with the cessation of strife.
Yet they have failed to materialize for
first one cause and another.
The first problem to be thrashed out
to the satisfaction of all is whether we
want such a banquet at Carolina. This
would have to be done at a joint meet
ing of the respective classes. But can't
we say that Carolina should give such
a banquet. The majority of the schools
in the state do so, and they are much
smaller institutions. With a larger
number of students we at the State
University should and must revive this
old custom.
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LECTURES
Now that football is over, we must
have new channels for our surplus ener
gy. Man is more than body and re
quires more than meat and drink for his
upkeep. Food for the mind is essen
tial, and there are few better methods
of getting it than by chapel lectures.
The college students of America have
been accused of lacking "intellectual
curiosity." Whether the accusiation is
justifiable or not, there is no doubt that
our minds would be more profitably
whetted if furnished with a variety of
grindstones. The writer is of the opin
ion that public lectures would furnish
the needful abrasive.
It has been a custom in the past to
give lectures at certain intervals to the
students of the University and to the
public at large, and there is no good
reason why this practice should be dis
continued. In addition to having visit
ing professors, as other large colleges
and universities do. we can have ad
dresses from members of our own fac
ulty, who are both able and willeg to
give us the benefit of their richer
knowledge aind experience. We believe
that the student body will stand behind
such a movement and we should like to
know the opinion of the authorities on
the subject.
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THE UNIVERSITY'S FIRE
TRAPS
"Fire'" "Fire!" were the words that
the ticcupants tf Le('are and Pinckney
Colleges heard ariund the hour of four
A'cl()ck Stimd l:y iimrning. Little did
those who heard that wierd shriek real
ize their peril us ci tndititin until they
thought of their od way o)f escape.
that of a narrow wooden stairway in
the ceiter (if tle tenement. 'What weould
have been the plight of those studeIts
if this only mens Of escape, the iar
rw woiden stairway, had beenl envel
Iile in flames \ We detest to think......
I but .1evertheless tle ali>ve inight have
been.
\ recent intvestiga.tioin o)f the d(irii
ttries shov that mollst (of themll are in
adeqIuately equipqed in case of fire.
Mluci ti t the "it1m de plume's" amaze
imen!t soi i of thtle d()rmit(ories were fitutd
to be toltally without imeans of escape
ill case flames had rendered the stair
ways tilupissiible (if access. or inl case
access to the stairway c1olld no()t he suc
cess fully painied. The recent survev
di scloses theit fo llhew ing per ious ad
hazai di is coiclit io n : )Out of the eight
dItormni tiries oni the campus o ne is ftountd
to lie adequately equiptpedl in case tof
fire. onie with only tine escape, antther
with only twot escap)es, another lacking
twot escapes.,and mnutch to our amaze
mnit we ftoundt that four oif the ST'U
DElNTI ) DOR\lITOR)IESl were totally
wit houit m.y escapies at all. Observa -
iion sheows that eout iof a necessary 37
escapets we have oly 1.3.
Whla t we nteed first tf all is not a new
classrn>mi il btii ldling ir a Ianidscaped caim
pits, but thle necessary prottect ion for
the lives oif ur students.
Gremtor.
FIVE O'CLOCK TEA
One of thec late.st addit ions to the stui
deits' program is an in forinal sociaul
affair which is being giveni every Thmurs
day between five aitd six in the eening
at Flinn Hall. The wives of the preo
fessors serve tea and cakes and the
students have the oplportunity tot chat
with them and with the p)rofessotrs.
They may come aiid go as they wvish.
This idea was originated by Mr. Hell
anid these teas have heen given since
the early part of D)ecembter. We feel
that they are very enjoyable occasionis
aiid they thlp the st udents and faculty
to become bietter acquainted. From per
sonial e'xperienice we cani say that the
tea is delicious.
"fthere wvere no(t rascals there wotuld
be n,o lawyers."--G. W/ttksvsky.
Well, George, we wouhdtn't expect
that from a lawvye
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