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PUBLISHED 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, JANUARY 23. 1925 EDITORIAL STAFF C. Braxton Williams..-.....Editor Clyde L. White.------Associate Isadore Polier-------Associate Kershaw Walsh, Editorial Writer 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. THIS, T HE LAST ISSUE WELL 11111 With this issue the present staff passes the banner on to other hands. We have worked, we have learned much, we have enjoyed it. We would not, however, say watery goodbyes and sad farewells for no one is going anywhere. The ones who are not on the new staff know that any time they find that they have a "hankering" to do newspaper work, they will gladly, and only too gladly be given assignments. The staff would like in passing out to thank the following: J. A. Henry, W. L. Crocker, Fred Minshall, Ellen Hough. D. S. Westberry, Tom McCutchen, H. H. Hentz, Arthur Cornwell, Emily Hughes, Delle Evans, Harold DeLorme. D. -1. .argle. Dr. W. W. Ball, Dr. E. L. Green, and the others who have con tributed from time to time. That's all. - U.S.C. BULL-ITS VIRTUES AND ITS VICES There are several forms of student activities which do not receive the at tention that they merit, and without a doubt the most noteworthy of these is that much maligned art know in the vernacular as "bull" shooting." It ex ists undler a great variety of guises and seemis to flourish everywhere, al though none can deny that there are more cabbages than carnations. Amnong the chief sponsoring institui tions are the literary societies, the class rooms, and the student body meeting.. The first of these leads by a large score. In these August (often hotter) assemblages we find on one side ar gumentative hairs split into well defin ed portions of nothing, and on the other a silvery effluvium of silken ver bosity which would draw tears from an iron Apache on the death of his ene my. Here, if a member fails to acquire a ball-bearing tongue and an intre pitude of hard boiled carborundum, it is his own fault and the Lord help himn. In the d~ass room the situation is rath er di-fferent, although many similar principles are involved. Trhere is very little encouragement iii mathematics and science, but in History, English, and some educations-they are regular gar den plots for the flower (or vegetable) of "bull." There is no inte.muon to in siuate that these subjects do not re quire work, oh, far from it I But the spinner of words always has the advan tage. How many ideas of vaporous con sistency have been mAde to burn likc the scriptural pillar of fire by. the magic of words will never be known. The professors do not keep a record. For surely they are not deceived. It is mere ly that they are awed, overwhelnied by the display of ignorance endowed with such potency, such irrefutable convine. ingness, such logical absurdity. Now, in the student body meetings again there is another plant. In its col orful sporadicity and high procreative qualities it resembles the red poppy which blooms suddenly and spreads rap idly, the pathological effect of which is first intense stimulation and excitement. then a profound torpor and often a state of coma. Affairs of vast importance are handled in a manner which usually makes it incomprehensible to the voter. Matters of small moment often cost a great deal of time and effort. But "buIl" is king and can be overcome only by himself. The medium in which the airy art at tains its most complete and unobstruc ted expression is that extremely flexible congress known as the "bull session." Whether convened in a cafe or a cam pus room, this vagrant body has con summated the most debased and the most exalted of human traits. Anec dotes that would make a drunken Nero blush with shame are narrated with un shrinking levity. The extremities of the universe and the profundities of theological dogmas are disposed of 'y THE FABLE OF It Pays to Advet In the Bes (By I.2 TlHERE were * * * * THREE MAIDENS come * * * * FROM AFAR from the * * * * HICKVILLE ACADEMY for * * a * YOUNG LADIES of quality. * * * * FOR MANY months * * * * THEIR CHIRPINGS had * * * * FILLED THE air and * * * * BORED EVERYONE with * * * * CHATTER OF their * * * * 'BEAUS IN the great * * * * UNIVERSITY and of * * * * .\NTIICIPATED good times. * * * * SO MAYBE it was * * * * QUITrE NAT1URAL that when THEY WENT into * * * * ECSTACTES over the * * * * I[DS to the prom and -* * * * EVEN TrRIED to kiss TrHE POSTMAN. and he a * * * * FAMILY MAN. * * * * AFTER TWO weeks of * * * * FIXING UP dloo-dlads and * * * * ALMOST RUNNING a * * * * D)IGNIFIED academy into ** a * THE GROUND the * ** * THREE DEPARTED. *a. * * 'TWAS A great Prom, the * * * * BEST EVER and the * * * * TrHREE DAMSELS were * * * * MET BY their andsomen Lilliputian philosophers with the same ease that characterise their athletic predictions. At times a rare person with brilliant loquacity induced by contra brand spirits will keep his hearers spell bound with hunting stories that Sinbad or Munchausen would have choked over the telling of. Repartee, the wit and bite of which scintillates like powdered glass in sunlight is often passed over with scarcely a smile. But the sky dimmeth with approach ing thunderclouds. Get out your um brellas and save your breath, for the equinoctical storms approach next week. and methinks "'Twill blow a rainy hur ricane which will wreck many a poorly foundationed dwelling that now holds secure." --U.s.Ce Why wait until you're old and bent? The wise bird took 'em as he went. "Can't I get off tomorrow, Boss, for a wedding?" "Do you have to go?" "I'd like to-I'm the bridegroom." Speaking of the Coolidge reserve, a reporter attempted an interview, "Do you wish to say anything about prohibition?" was the first question. "No." "About the Farm bloc?" "No." "About the World Court?" "No." The reporter turned to go. "By the way," added Coolidge, unexpectedly call ing him back, "don't quote me."-Bos ton Blobe. rHREE VIRGINS -tise-But Only It Papers WI.P.) LOTHARIOS, a gridiron * * * * WARRIOR, a trackster and * * * * A COWBOY. * * * * TAKING IN the town at * * 0 * A IZZY clip the * * * * TWO TIMES three parted * * * * TO M ET again for * * * * THE BALL. * * * * THAT NIGHT the first of * * * * THE DAMSELS did( cleverly * * * * DERVISE her attack; to * * * * EACH PARTNER she * * * * WHISPERED nothings * * * * ABOUT "YOUR divine * * * * DANCING etc.," and * * * * TlHE SHIEKS smiled * * * * POLITELY. The second * * * * DID TELL stale quibs * * * * TlHATI HAD been dragged * * * * FROM THE depths of * ** * COLILEGE HUMOR. * * * * THEY WERE fizzles. * * * * NOT SO the third * * * * LITTLE MISS, she * * * * TrALKED little but * * * * HEEDED HER (lancing. * * * * CAME intermission and * * * * SHE GOT 'steen bids; * * * * AND THE foolish virgins * * * * WONDERRED. 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