The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 21, 1924, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
HANKINS TO REPRESENT
UNIVERSITY IN ORATOR
ICAL CONTEST
The preiminaries to the State Ora
torical contest were held in Chapel Mon
day night. John Erskine lankins, of
Lake View, was clioso to represent
Carolina in the annual contest to bc
held in Greenwood at a later date.
Mr. Hankins is a senior at the Uni
versity, a member and ex-president of
the Clariosophic L,iterary Society. He
is editor of the GaItN:T AND BLACK, a
mileter of the Ilonor Club anld is very
popular among his fellow s4uents.
Mr. Earle 'M. Black, a sonior law
student aid member, also ex-president,
of the Euphradian l,iterary Society,
won second place.
Mr. .Hankin's subject was "Twilight
or Dawn." 'Ir. Black spoke on "The
Ian of Vision." Other contestants
were R. 1). Bass, of 'the Clariosophic.
who spoke fn "Woodrow wilson" and
i'urley T,iimpki,ns, of the Clariosophic,
whose subject was "The Call of Our
State."
The judges were the Rev. R. A. ,aps
Iey. Jr., J. C. Townsend and Prof. E..
Marion Rucker. T. I. Dowling pre
sided over the contest while Lambert
DePass acted as chief marshall.
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THE EDITOR HIT AGAIN
St. Patrick's Day
In the Morning
Dear Tid
Tommy was a P) I G to make you
share your date, Whv4en lie had one all by
himself. Onl the other hand, I don't
know what to think of you-breaki,ng
my (late. even for your editor-in-chief.
I wasn't going to make any more re
marks, but since ye editor insists-well,
the Office Dog isn't very much of .
reader, but week before last lie had a
woliderful time chewing the ankles of
the "budding scrubs" in the editor's
oVui colyum, atid last week he helped
CHASE THE NEW REGISTRAR
on the front page.
Beware his vicious tooth! Marshall
Tatun's LA'TES'1' CREATIONS IN
FAIJ, SUITS is still running.
A CAT.
Editor's Note: Tid has uot worked
til) any scheme yet whereby we are go
ilig to get somothing more in the way
of eats. Getting pretty hungry thcse
days.
Many thanks to the "Cat" for noting
the errors in the heads, etc. There is
plenty of room for improvement, but
whein eight o'clock Thursday evening
rolls around and there isn't enough ma
terial on hand it is a wonder that half
of the articles Inve heads at all, much
less poorly written ones.
If there is some energetic student on
the campus who has nothing more to
(ho 0t,han Stan(d around the \Vigwam,
would care to spold those idle moments
at a good job, please drop by the press
andli help with heads onl 'hliirsdays.
Many thanks for all help in the past.
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Time Changes but it Brings No
Changes
"I'dI like to1 spend( the night wvith (one
(If you boys,'' said a senior as, about
midnhiighit, lie eniteredl Number 5 WVest
Rutled(ge.
'"You can get in my bed in the do r
mitory-thtere's 1no room'i for you here,''
camte the answer from the floor, liter
ally fromt the floor.
On a mat tress, on the floor, und(er
quilts, close together, lay the occupants
of the room, a senior and a j unior.Th
fact is they were seared. So was the
visiting senior-perhaps a trifle more
scaredl.
Across and( over the mattress sat the
little round( pinie readIing table, so) that
lhe boards of the table wvere between
the heads of the gentle sleepers and
the plastered ceilinig. In another part
oIf the roomi was another table like it
and( imdler it was a kerosene lamp (no
e'lectricity in those (dys) tutrnie<l low.
Th'le top of the table was bletweeni the
Ialamp and thle ce il ing. The1 1light in the
roomui was dim enough for the shad
caws to take on grotesque shapes.
All this wvas in 1886, 37 years ago
and a few mioniths. August 31, pirecedI
ing, a little lbefore 10 o'clock at night,
Scouth ('arolinaa and nieighboring reg ion s
had beent badly sh aken; in C'harleston'I
ho uses had beeni shaken clown, and
chimneys elewhlere. Nerves A cre
shakent, too. It i- very lislmeatly re
mt(uhebred no w t hat, follow ig -t.he
great earthquake, came, for weeks and(
m< .ithls, for mnore' than a year, other
shocks. Ase time pnsedn, telesstaened,
in) severity but they contiuited to shake
nlerves.
Retuirning to cOllege inl September,
the last week. stideits saw, in class
roms an1d sleeping roonis. spots in ceil
ings, hig and wvide, where plastering
lad beenl repaired. I.I soIle roomis a
fourth oi the plasterimg was ltwn dand
repairs had not beenl iiade.
InI one or two of the old buildings
Mle COUld see iron braces and I was
told that they had been placed to steaedy
the walls after the "great earthquakc
of 1811." U.til then one had thought
little of the age of the buildings a,nd,
as for earthlinaks, title was concerned
with them only in examillatiin week, inl
Dr. James WOodrow's room.
(Oi this day there had been rather
"stiff shocks" in the mor,ning and shar
per shocks in the afterion. The visit
ing senior's roommate had left the
canmpus aild flile visit"ir sitillply (did ntt
like tile O1tion1 of sleepilng ;alone it) his
'ooli. lie Was folid of C41tilpally, ally
way. 1To recall that dim!y lighted pie
ture in Ntumber 5 West Rutledge is
ftyty iw--hbit it wasi't flmlillv then.
Tlle visitor was positively disapptiitel
whl there was nlo r(oti ftir a third (iII
the tnattress tinder the tab.le. :\n ywy,
fte slept inl the dtrinitory of his friends
coveriig his head with the (Itiits aiid
blankets. And the plastering (ild not
fall that tight.
Not everyone on the callis was
scared-,i4t all the students. for that
matter. A day or two later one lay
in the titin on the grass oil the terrace
a few yards from the Mlaxey iimnul
Itmetit and talked with a riend. TullIp
a aimSe. tItiip--a lauISe--Ote felt the
green sward, like a great oeart. swell and
tilOh, gently beieatl his bidy. A 1114
ntit after tie third thtmi1 a tmrrelit
itf stiletts Ilitred from tile center Of
a hutiklitig wlcre. On lie ground flmir,
I the two sides Of :a hall , were class
room011s. The tIir(d m1ani to get Ott of
the building was tht professor.
From the other class oo il came not
a tual, "Yotu see," a freslimati explatin
ed, "I was at the board, drawing a fig
tire in geometry, and when I felt that
seconld shock I was abotut to dart for
the door. Just as I had onute foot lifted
ULoicle Bienny. ymi know how lie speaks
inl that low, (iick. Curt way, he caught
my eye and, 'Sit (iwil, sit !' he said.
and down I sat antd thiught I was slit t.
And dowi we all sat and we ftrgOt all
about earthquakes."
'Ile freshMIIaI's explalattion waS sif -
ficient. Everybody knev that Nlajor
1leijamin Sloan. West Poi.nter and C('on
federate. would never alltov a class in
IatheIatiCs to be disturIbUd by a1 ir
dinary earthquake.
Certainpersoni.
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PARKINSON ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF TEACHERS'
ASSOCIATION
Professor ParkinsOn, head of the
lIxtensin Department of the Univer
sity was elected lprcident of the Stati
eIachlers' AssociatioIn at a ieetiig last
week. President elect Parkinksn acted
as secretary and treasuretr duinitig tlhe
past year. Tider his leadersi the
heattiart ers totlice wvas estalishied ini
C'iolumbil ia. lIe suicceedled ini securintg
3900 pa1id membiners duiring thle past
year. Thle cionivetiont held ini the city
last week was onte tof the best anid larg
NEW BOOKS ARRIVE
The ftotltowinig are aiio ng the tnew
booti ks recetly received bty thle Untiiver
sity I,ibrary. Adldiuiional lists will lie
ittitilied inl thle niext f ew issiles. A
comp111lete list o4f recenit accessit nis is
potstedl 44n the I lbrary butlletini. StudientIs
andi( thers ate invited to inisptect andt
use thI ese' lititoks. There are imatny very
in1teres.tinag wyorks, btesides thot se that
wve ar icIistinig. ivery studttenit shldt
findt somitel tig attractive tt him atth
library.
('lark, "lInfluence o f Sea Potwetr an
the Ilistotry tf the Romilan Repubilic";
Coot k, "'Ctolon'iai Newvsptapers, 17(14
1750"; I ilinrg, "Ouit of m:i~y ,ife";
)rpien. "Outlinte otf Art, v.1; I )rinkwa
le's Shiadowi Ct atha , "'I,tst I,.a<ly''
woodi, TIheodo re Rittosevel t ; 1)4 toe4tvsi,
Itroithers INaramozti/v; iekenurtodte, J ei
fersoll I)avis; lirazetr, ltodk l,tre in ()ld
Tesi,tine,lt, 3 v; Ihart, Anitrtoe I )te
trie; NI asefield, 1Ki ng's IDauighter;
Nichay and lay, l,ife otf ,inictlni Il
v; NeiIsion1 & Th'o rind ike, Wo'trks of
Shiakesitere' 3v; I,arnied, New Ilis
totry ftor Readly Re ference 8 v; Stuts
League of1 N:ations; Sahatier, life of
Caesare Borgica Sa,wik. I How to
S tudyI ad( l \\ hat to Stu(ly Temperle-v.
11istoryv of 1'eace Ci,n1ference in 1a,ris
v; \'arri. SupretIe Cort inl the U.
'. I1 i-tory.3 v; \\'ebster, listory (if
I ar 1:.at ; \lIart.i. Sonl at tile Front;
\\ilsfi. Ahle \Iel.angblit.s.
The co-cds are tttrning fron basket
hall to itnnis. SoIe 1relty gid pla
ers aine.:Ig tile girls. \\'hy niot work ip
a tournainent for them?
Summer Positions for
Students
Stuldelnts to Wtork inl the interest of
Religious Idlcatioll ill the Home
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tig several tilnes as much. Last
SIIItIme-r several 41.udents earned
aver $1.w0.1 (iting vacatin. No
capuital Ir xperience eess.arV.
-sit f)ppIrtuIniIy to travel and all
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