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Unkvre ty_' Ctrolina N. VOL. XV11.m THE HANDS0] ELEGANT R ISIIlNGS IN CO-ED DOMICILE DEAN DILLARD IN CHARGE Girls Like "Mother Mid"-Miss White Is Head of the Cafeteria The handsome new Woman's College has already been filled to overflowing and 18 of the newcomers have been domicil ed in "the annex" on Divine street. Never in the annals of this institution has anything quite so elegant and well arranged as the Woman's - College been erected -on the Carolina campus The interior decoration and the selec tionof furniture was left entirely in the hands of Mrs. Melton and Miss Marion Green, well known Columbia decorator, and they have indeed succeeded in mak ing the 'co-ed college pleasing to the eye and homelike in every detail. Large, deep, upholstered sofas in cocoa and maroon and French colonial chairs are conveniently arranged in the recep tion hall, and here is also a handsome escritoire and a sweet toned Steinway piano. The grandfather clock is in the reception hall and its musical chimes ring forth every quarter of the hour. Dr, Melton must have ordered especially sweet chimes so it won't be so hard to say goodbye at 10.30. The rugs are woven in a Parisian de sign in blue and are in perfect harmony with the general color schemerLanpA and end tables complete -the fixtures and there is a particularly fine Greek urn and several old masterpieces in oils. But most ittraotive of all are the senior and graduate pariors where the serious minded upper classman caa have thoir serious minded dates. The furniture ik wicker, upholstered in rose and each roorr has an attractive desk with a desk set to match,and, if anyone thinks the girls won't be happy in such surroundings he certainly has another think coming. Miss Irene Dillard; dean of the women students is a Ph. D. graduate of Peabody and the University, Dr. Melton thinks, has been very fortunate in getting her here. Besides taking charge of the stu dents Miss Dillard will connduct a class in the drama. The new dean is a charm ing and enthusiastic woman who has al ready endeared herself to the hearts of the girls and with her to back them the co-eds will surely be stepping out. Mrs. Middleton from Clemson is al ready well known on our campus. All the boys who have ever been to Clemson remeber her affectionatelly as "Mother Mid" and this term of endearment has already become her nickname among the girls at the Women's Building. Mother Mid." is matron and general advisor to the girls. She is to take the place of a mother and indeed after you know her it is not hard to see that she posses all the endearing qualities that are implied by that name. One of the girls remarked a taken charge of the cafeteria and is serving all sorts of good 'things to the girls. The rumor somehow got about that a limited number of boys would be allowed to eat at the cafeteria and appli cations hav'e been pouring in at a fast rate. Needless to say none have been accepted. One of the most interesting features of the Woman's Building in the co-ed canteen which is situated right next 'to Miss Dillard's office. Four of the co-eds will take charge. They are Virginia McSwain, Lillian Barrow, Minnie Lee Freeman, and Leila Dillard. Pennants, stationary, candy, home made cakes, Carolina belts, kodaks and all similar artice s lem sold E NEW WOM Just Wi 0 THIRTY MEN ANSWER ROLL CALL SUNDAY ENTHUSIASTIC OVER NEW PROGRAM Secretary Bell a Boys Back Again-Frank ka Presides Thirty men answered the first roll call at the Y. M. C. A. Council meeting at Flinn Hall Sunday afternoon. All the men seemed to be ready to get down to work and were very enthusiastic about the program mapped out for the coming year. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Frank Meeks, the president. All the men engaged in a few minutes of sentence prayers and then Mr. Bell welcomed the men back an told them of the work plan ned for the next few days. Harold Delorme asked the cooperation of ail the men in helping his committee in get ting the new men straightened out. He appointed the following men as heads of committees to see that the trains were met: Patton, Scott, Joye, Wilson, Mont gomery, Gaston and Hearon. After these preliminary reports were over, supper was served and for a few minutes "King Dog" reigned supreme. It was decided to* keep a strict acount of the amount eaten by each fellow, but after some reached 8 or 9, Mr. Bell, fearing a collapse, decided to stop trying to count. The plan was at last adopted to have each one give his word that he would not eat over ten. Even then, some might have continued had they not been reminded di the Honor System. Sunday evening, Dr. Phillips gave .a talk to the group. on "Epistles". After this, a model discussion group was har ried out and then the meeting was sd.' journed. . Monday morning, Mr. B. A Schnell, talked to the council about the work tilaa was to be .acomsplished by 'organ1*a. tions all over thestate. He 'id his ldje tune by giving sonme conkde examplies of how actions express n a~hn wordp. AN*S BUILDINt iding In Program of Student Affairs FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH College Night MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 8 P.M. Social for Freshmen by Clariosophic Society TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 7 P.M. First Baptist Church Freshman Banquet (Free) [Get Tickets for Banquet at "Y" Office Not Later Than Moiday Night] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 TH Flinn Ha/U "Y' Meeting-7 p.m. Social for Fres men by Euphradian Society-8 p.m. FRIDAY, SEPTIliMBa 20TH, 8 P.iI University Gymnasium Freshman Reception, by, Y.M.C.A S$CRET PRACTICE -NOW" bEING DONE RY TI-E GAMSWI Football pratice will be 'secret on T4esday, Wednesdays and Thursday Vof each wreek. N~o one will be admitta. ed-on these U*V. he other three dayps anyone Isa ae*d to watch the gane. SIS OPENED President Melto Tells of 4i NPROVEMENTS MADE ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS Renovations Are to Be -Seen on All Sides-Even at the Mess Hall GYM ENTIRELY DONE OVER Freshmen Have Separate Locker From Varsity-Trouble by Bad Echoes Eliminated Many of the old men coming back on the campus have to rub their eyes and pinch themselves to see if they are not dreaming or shifted to a part of the country far distant from the old "Game cock Roost". From the splendeid work of art, the portico of the administration building, to the Mess Hall, there has been a complete rennovation. When ye scribe droppd in to chat with Marshall Caitey and began talkinng about the improvements on the campus during the summer, he was surprised to find that so much could be accomplished in three shont months. First,,e; .PGymnasium has been com pletely gone over and fixed up. The base ment has been repainted and many new showers added. The Freshman have a separate locker room from the Varsity, thus keeping down a great deal of con fusion. Going up stairs, one finds that the walls have been painted in an ali,ctive color scheme of brown and cream. The walls have been lined with felt over spread with burlap. This seems to have eliminated some of the trouble by the bad echoes. There have been large and roomy balconies added on each end, thus giving the building a much greater seat ing capacity. This building is one of the prettiest buildings in the state, and now, it will be an easy matter for Professor Van Meter to secure victims. The Stewards Hall has also had its share of improvements this summer. New tables have been put in, and strong chairs have replaced the flimsy things that would tilt over if there was a slight breeze stirring. The ceiling and th% walls have also been re-painted in a preity color scheme. The best part of the work has been in the lobby-it has been en larged about twice its former size. This is a helpful because before many of the fellows would get wet while waiting in the rain. Harper College has been throughly rennovated, and new showers have been installed. Both Harper and Elliot have >een re-painted. These two buildings have een made two of the prettiest on the ampus, and many of -the boys who left t for other places will certainly regret t when they see the improvements. Coming up, on the north side of the :ampus, one finid'dd handiserrre residence eing made ,out of what was just last rear a very- dilapidated building. This >uilding has been thoroughly made over,' making an additional attraction to the amnpus, and also making one of the pret lest residences in this section of the city. DsSaussure College has also been ractically built over, and with its new oat of paint appears to be-a.new build ng. New 'whowers have leen installed, 1i4 'rooms repaired, and gn,* attractive itt' has been put on the W'alls. The ad nilaistration- bhilding has been repaired iso. Of course bavas (eollege has beert un le rtunfron t e,btt THIS SESSION n in Letter m of University CAROLINA ENTERS TODAY UPON iTS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY - FIRST SESSION Head of School Wants Students To Regard Him As Adviser Not a Ruler to Be Feared (William D. Melton, President.) The doors of the University were open ed on the tenth of January 1805. We are now beginning the 121st year of its existence. It has rendered a valuable and noble service to the State. You, young ladies alid gentleman, from every part of the State, have come to take an active part in its affairs. You are wel come to its sacred precincts. Recalling the purpose for which it was founded, here let us dwell together and mingle with one another in unity, without distinction between rich or poor, high or low, with out cliques or classes, with special privi leges to none and equal rights and opor tunities to all, in a great. democratic fam ily, imbued with the love of our State, striving to prove worthy of her history and traditions, and eager to promote and secure her future prosperity and hap piness with becoming dignity and honor. You have my profound respect and you shall receive my hearty encourage ment and cooperation In,your undertak ings. Your problem is three-fold. You are undertaking to train yourselves for life's battles, physically, intellectually and spiritually, in body, in mind and in soul. The joys of the undertaking beck on you forward even though you realize that there is hard work ahead, 1nd al though there may be something of appre hension, something of disappointment,. and something of failure, with stout hearts you have determind that the effort is well worth while. There seems no good reason why any of you should fail to reach your goal; and yet of the many who have come this road beforz you stat istics show that more than two-thirds of their number have failed. The most prolific sources of failures are lack of preparation, lack of funds, lack of effort, and lack of appreciation of the real value of a college education. In these days when the high schools of the State have reached such a high degree of efficiency and when financial aid is so easily ob tainable by deserving youths the first two causes of failure-lack of preparation and lack of funds-may be considered negligible. You may therefore in the great majority of cases hold yourselves responsible for your failures. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that we are under lings." Some unkown writer has character ized youth as a "deep river, dividing childhood from manhood; a river, which like the river of death, must be crossed, wihtout bridge or boat; through which each soul must go, into whose turbid wa ters the child must descend alone, know ing well that beneath their flood his child hood will be buried to rise no more; a streari both broad and turbulent, not to be crossed in a day or in a year ; whose bouyant waters will Indeed bear him up, but not without his efforts; whose cur rents will land him somewhere on the cther shore; but, oh, so far 'down the stream on the dusty plains of sordid, siuftd. manhood, far out of sight of those gleen hills -of childhood that were so near heaven. just as the foundation is the most im portant part 'of eYery structure so youth is the mst impotant part of ljfe, for n ortinned to Page 5)