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3Epe mas#etet PUBUSHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered at Columbia, S. C., postoffice on November 20, 1908 as second class mail matter FRIDAY, DECEMBER11 5, 1924 EDITORIAL STAFF C. Braxton Williams-----..Editor Clyde L. White.------ Associate Isadore Polier--------Associate S. W. Eichel-------.Sport Editor BUSINESS Furman R. Gressette...- -Manager Ernest B. Castles.. _-Assistant S. L. Ready-----------Assisant J. R. Pate----------Circulation Advertising rates will be gladly fur nished on request-Apply to Business Manager. KEEP A DIARY Diary-keeping is aui irksome task to a great number. Mark Twain was speak ing for this division when he called the undertaking, and it is for the greater part, a doomed resolution. But many do find a special kind of pleasure in the daily effort entailed by an up-to-date journal of such entries as one's personal tastes dictate. The college student by all means should pursue the course of diary-keeping. There are obvious reasons: (1) The dairy is a more certaidt record than the ordinary memory book. In it are in scribed each (lay pictures which are not susceptible of 111ming. Your inner self, which is of more moment to you than outward appearances, does not bare it self before the camera. But in the writing that you do in your minute book you preserve real snatches of yourself, which, as time goes on, despicts you in a more or less analyzed way. Knowing one's self is a helpful means in attain ing some of the ends one might have ained at. All in all the diary regis ters the owner's trend, together with just the type of curve he is unconscious ly trailing. (2) But ii the diary should fail in the irbt particular, it holds out the further advantage of practice in one of the most powerful of arts, writing, and an art which every man, regardless of his call ing, may at some time use to advantage. Not a few of the celebrated names in literature practiced arduously in their chosen field, employing years of labor in achieving .master pieces. h'Vough the average student does not contem i)late entering the literary field, he will be rcequiredl by circumstances, time upon time, to use his pen. He should accus tomu himself to the wvielding of it. (3) Tfhere is another reason why the dairy shotuld not be neglected. It may carry records and ideas of real value. No one would say that Carolina would not he richer if there were avail able student diaries of the past. Some might ask if there be any virtue in knowving the happenings and problems of a century ago. But if there is bright ness to the p)ast it lighutens the future. Furthermore, one's ideas might not be valueless, either to him or to others. Sometimes there is clear waste of ideas. The fact that they are one's own should not detract from thema. --U.s.C. FOOTBALL-EXAMINATIONS The footha!! clouds have passed over the horizen. In last Thursday's game, nearly 5,000 spectators witnessed the cur taini descend and end the footb)all sea son almost as abruptly as it began. The curtain now rises to a season of harder and more important tasks than Lootbal-Examinations-They - are not far off. Every student will have to par ticipate in that game. Every boy and every girl that walks the campus of every University in the cour*try represents a sacrifice, some where, somehow, sometime. It requires no stretch of the imagina tion to picture the widow, struggling under her double burden, tryingr to give lher son a flying start in life. Can't you see the tired little father chained to a routine of drudgery, plug going along with the one hope of giving his boy the big chance to escape his dreary lot? Look at the boy working his own way. His tired eyes, his frayed coat sleeves bespeak a similar story. Sacrifice-all sacrifice. Even the pampered daughter or son of rich parents is profiting by the sacri fice of the person who laid the founda tion of the present prosperity. For every boy or girl who goes to school, some one has done without sacrificed. These sacrifices are for edu cation. Of what then does this educa tion consist? Atheltics have an educational value. Of that there is not the slightest doubt. 'The social life around the campus has its value too. All the campus activities contribute to education. But-the foundation of it all is the classroom work, the studies. All the ,)ther things amount to but little tiless there is a good foundation, unless one intends to take up the profession of coaching or dancing teacher. The training that one gets from regu lar, consistent, daily scholastic work can be gained in no other way. That train ing is the great objective for which all the sacrifices are made. Shall the sacrifice be in vain? Each individual student must answer that ques tion to his own conscience. -U.S.C. .6purs Kwitcherbelliakin about your mid term marks and get down to business before it is too late. Senior: "Who is she ?" Junior: "She's Helen Carrs." Senior: "Zat so? How is she on a davenport ?" If you know a girl well enough to hold her hand don't waste your time doing that. Some girls are like cigarettes-not very stimulating until they are lit. Women know the value of love; most men only know its cost. A fool attempts to read between the lines of a woman's letter. A wise man reads the lines in her face. "No-I won't. You can guess my weight without my sitting on your lap." What makes a husband angry is not the fact of a man staring at his wife, 'mt the fact that she enjoys it. They are calling flappers boiled pota toes now because they are so easily mashed. "Listen, girlie, compared to you, a mai lble statue would be a wild woman." I,ove is blind, they say. Perhaps that is the reason why a fellow has to de pend( so much on his sense of touch. He: "Would you be very much an noyedl if I hugged you ?" She: "Annoyed-I should be simply furious ; how dlare you suggest such a thing. If you try anything like that I'll never speak to you again, and be sideCs, this isn't a good place anyhow You may tip the soda clerk a wink, hut you can't tip a Pullman porter that wvay. She: "Dear, are you with me or against me in this dance?" He: ''Both, darling." "What (10 you think we are out on the beach f or ? To discuss Shakespeare ?" Professor Mercer: "What is ordinari ly used as a conductor of electricity ?" Student: (About half asleep) Whey er Frofessor Mercer: "Wire, Correct. Nowv tell me what is the unit of elec tric power?!" Student: ''The what, sir?" Professor Mercer: "Exactly, the watt. Very good, that will do." Little smells of cigaretts, And little .smells of gin, Tell a nosy Daddy' Where his little girl has been. "Who was the first book-keeper?" "PI'l bite." "Eve with her loose leaf sym.", u4r WPky .rart THE LAST RAYS of * * * * T H E dying * * * * NOVEMBER SUNLIGHT cast * * * * LINGERING shadows * * * * OVER the gridiron * * * * NOW flanked by * * * * CHEERING THOUSANDS of * * * * LOYAL spectators. * * * * JERSEYED FIGURES moved about * * * * .IKE parts of * * * * SOME \WONDERFUL MACHINE. * * * * WI I'TE-CLAD officials * ** * SCURRE) about. * * * * THEN * * * * THE sharp blast * * * * OF THE referee's whistle split * * * * THE AIR. * * * * THE GAME WAS OVERI * * * * FROM one side of the field -* * * * THE HAPPY CROWD burst UPON the field * * * * AND BORE away the * * * * TRIUMPHANT WARRIORS. * * * * ON the other side * * * * THE LOSERS were leaving SILENTLY but determined to come * ** * BACK THE NEXT year and * * * * CHANGE the end of the story. * * * * UNDER the showers * * * * THE TIRED mei * * * * LOAFED and soaked in the * * * * REFRESHING bath. * * * * THE TALK among them was OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT footall. * * * * TrHE last signal had been tCALLED FOR the year * . * * AND the last rooter gone home. * * * * TOMORROW WOULDN'T bring THE CALL for ANOTHER PRACTICE. WHEN * * * * THE PLAYERS came out * * * * THE little door * * * * OF THE LOCKER-ROOM * * * * THE LAST of the sunbeams * * * * HAD fled before THEIR APPROACH. AS ONE MAN passed the old ATHLETIC FIELD tears * ** * WELLED up in his eyes. * ** * HE PASSED ON. HIS LAST GAME on the FIELD HAS finished. BUT BUCK UP OLD MAN * * * * THE BIG GAME'S jst begun "As Copelanj Goes, So Goes the Fashion" LEARN THE WAY CLOTHING Stylish Clothes for College Men who $25.00 to $55.00 want quality as well as style. HATS The New Shapes and Colors most de $3.50 to $10.00 sired always in stock. FURNISHINGS Manhattan Shirts, Van Heusen Collars Everything That's New Cheney Neckwear, Munsing Underwear. Full Dress Suits Copeland Suits Made to For Rent Measure Company 1535 Main Street Columbia, S. C. College Styles AUTHENTIC AND CORRECT-NOT IMITATED Cricket Sweaters in Carolina Colors .................. $3.50 up New Brogue Oxfords ............................. $7.50 up Grey and Blue Flannel Sport Pants ................ $6.50 up Light Grey Two-Pants Suits English Models ... $30 to $35 up FASHION PARK CLOTHIERS Tuxedos For Rent - This Store Has Been Carolina Headquarters for 17 Years - HOPE - DAVIS COMPANY f LADY AND MAIN PHONE 6213 CLASS RINGS CLASS PINS - WATCH REPAIRING - Our Watch Repairing Department is well-known all over this section of the country for its efficient and accurate work. We give you the best work at very reasonable prices P. H. Lachicotte & Company - Jewelers - 1424 Main St. Columbia, S. C. COLLEGE MEDALS TROPHY CUPS Welcome University Students -TO BURNETT'S DRUG STORE DRUGS, DRINKS, CIGARS, STATIONERY - Agents for - Whitman's Candy and Eastman's Kodak Supplies One Block from Campus Phone 3191 Cor. 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