Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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EXda4t Nrwa items NEW YORKERS CHOOSE NO HIGHBROW READING "True Stories" Lead As Popular Sellers at Columbia Univ. Newsstands (Special to The Gamecock) What does the undergraduate read? From Columbia University: Within a few hundred feet of the great library which shelters a world famous collec tion of 800,000 volumes under a two er of masonry, a spectatr discover ed that. a campus subway neys dealer disposes of 600 copies of each issue of "'True Story," while he finds it un profitable to keep a single copy of the "Bookman." While 150 people walk out of a certain book store, near the campus, with "Snappy Stories," "Adventure," etcj, but 75 purchase 'intellectual" magazines. It is inter esting to note that among the latter class the "American Mercury" ranks first, two times ahead of publications similar to "Dial," and the "Atlantic Monthly" comes second. - U.S.c. LA. STATE PRESENTED VALUABLE COLLECTION Museum Recently Begun-Loans Made By Friends and Patrons (Special to The Gamecock) A novel collection of donations were received by the history department of the Louisiana State University, which recently started a museum. One diary of the Civil War is remi niscent of the war-time feeling of the South. It is of unbound blue paper and contains several pieces of music copied by hand and poems, many of them in French, of the trials and hopes of the Southern people. A list of 81 negroes who had left the planta tion is another feature. Some were noted as "since returned" and one as "gone again." The secrets of the post-war Ku Klux Klan are revealed in a ritual loaned the University. The ritual is in French. A land office receipt for $40 issued in 1856 is one of the donations. R. C. WILLIA1 Incorpi FURNITURE, RUGS, LINOL 1638 Main Street Colum E. A. RC Repress, YES! TWO.PA $30.00 -PSs. And these Coats to the minute, th style of today tomlorrow--.we to show you. C things "Dress Well Marshall-Tati Corner Main and Hanmton St+. It shows that land in Louisiana c'ould be bought at that time for 25 cents an acre. Other articles loaned or donated are: Three pieces of Spanish money dated 1814, 1819, and 1831, and a copy of the Planterd' Gazette of jaquemine in 1844. --U.s.c. EDUCATION BY RADIO IS NOVEL EXPERIMENT When John or Mary wish to go to college in 1930, the only expense entailed will be the purchase of a radio set; if they wish to change colleges, that can be accomplished by changing the wave length. Radio schools have already been established from Germany, and the stat es of Georgia and Kansas. Berlin-A radio university has recent ly been started in Berlin. Its faculty is to be composed of the most famous scholars of Germany. It is to be called Hans Brelow School, in honor of State Secretary Dr. Brelow, who was very in fluential in spreading radio throughout Germany, and it has been formally open ed in the presence of representatives of the German government, as well as of the University of Berlin and several high schools of high. standing. Kansas State Agricultural College has established a radio college which will broadcast forty college extension cour ses during the next eight months. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, will offer a series of four college courses Pupils in the radio classes will be asked to send in their names, reports on home assignments, and requests for additional courses. -The New Student. -U.S.Ce Bates Chooses Mascot Bates undergraduates have chosen the Bobcat as the official mascot of the college. All of the Maine colleges now boast mascots of the quadruped family: Maine, the Brown Bear; Bowdoin, the Polar Bear; and Colby, the White Mule. - U.S.C. A donation of two thousand docu ments has been received at the Uni versity of Chicago. These are of great value since they were former ly the pvoperty of the famous Bacon family of England. MS & SONS wated rUMS, SHADES, PILLOWS bia, S. C. Phone 5815 ~BINSONH stative PITS SUITS I0 aB$40.*g and Suits are up ey are cut in the, Lnd a touch of tre always glad ome in and look over. and Succeed" urn Company Colunbia, . C. YALE CALLS SNOWFIGHT NEEDLESS VANDALISM Some Yale freshmen started a snow ball fight to divert their minds from the mid-year examations. It started on the evening of Jan-:ary 26th. -The next morning it broke out again and the snow ball barrage was not lifted until all win dows in- all the freshmen dormitories were broken. University authorities could not view the incident in any other light than as "the most unwarranted bit of vandalism that has ever been effected by members of the student body."-New Student. - U.S. BROWN STUDENTS DOWN COMPULSORY CHAPEL Brown University students voted 460 to 290 against compulsory chapel which has been in force there since 1754. A vote was taken concerning the inaugura tion of afternoon classes on the schedule this present semester. By a vote of 600 to 154 they indicated their desire to re turn to the old schedule. Their objection was that mon working their way through college have found late classes a hard ship and that the football coaches last year complained that Brown would be without an adequately trained team un less the members of the squad found it possi'le to report before 5 o'clock. - U.s.c. California Adds Training Quarters The new training quarters at the University of California were recent ly completed. In addition to a shower room accommodating fifty men, a lec ture room, a supply room and a steam room, the building contains a dining hall for the use of the athletes as signed to training table. Men, Buy Perhaps this analyze the bai "just like it." I save your mone qualities that a well as correct 11 Two Univer our windows la display. One lii One, "there is oi and that is, they styles and prices lower than else, University Mei Men's Shop. Think it over in right now an opportunities in now offering.] should you not r J.L. M Colui KENT A NEW CAR IV IT YOUREsRLF - Special Rates to University Students - Where to Go - How to Get There - And You Drive It 11'ord and Nash Cars - Open and Closed Models OF COLUMBIA, Inc. Centrally Located 1216 Lady St. Phone 3386 Meet Me At Tap p's Meet Me At Tapp's -FOR OVER A GENERATION This store has been the bulwark of the buying ublic for Ladies' Roeady-to-Wear, Gent's Furi 'w, Piece Goods, Notions and Ladies' Accessories. FGo over twenty years the good people of the State of South Carolina have been "Meeting at Tapp's," and buying dependable quality merchandise. QUANTITY WITHOUT QUALITY IS FALSE ECONOMY The James L. Tapp Company COLUMBIA, S. C. I Where Do You Your Clothes? place or that, without really stopping to ;is of your preference except that you tut clothes cost money! And the way to y is to choose your necessities from the re soundly-made and service-giving as ri style. sity Men were standing in front of one of st week, discussing an overcoat then on ced it, the other did not. "Well," said No. ie thing you'll have to hand Mimnaugh's have the values." Good clothes, snappy a little lower and sometimes a good deal where-these are advantages which the ri may gaini by coming to Mimnaugh's -'before you buy your spring suit, or come d profit by the wonderful money-saving winter suits and overcoats, which we are [f Mimnaugh's has the the values, why articipate in them? We put it up to you. IMNAUGH & Co. nbia's Leading Men's Wear Store