Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Member .of South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908, as Second-Class Mail Matter. NEWS STAFF S. WoLiP. ETCHEL ..................Editor-in-Chief ISADORE POLIER ....................Managing Editor W. LEE CROCKER ............. .Ncws and Club Editor FRED MINSHALL ......................Sport Editor JImmy BALDWIN ....................Featurg Editor MIss ELLEN HouGh .................Co-Ed Editor C. B. W ILLIANS .........................Editorials REPORTERS W. 0. VARN, A. W. HOLLER, HAROLD HENTZ, F. A. WOOD, JAMES HEARON, ROBERT BASS, D. H. EARGLE, CHARLIES CUTTINO, VIRGINIA DOAR, MAUDE ELLIS, CATHERINE PHILLIPS News IT9MS may be handed members of the Staff, left at Box 444 Canteen, or phoned to the Editorial Offices at 907 South Main Street, Phone Number 4109, 5etween the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 10 to 11 a.m. or 2:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF FURMAN R. GREssETTE ....................Manager ERNEST B. CASTLES ........................Assistant SAM. L. READY ............................A ssistant JOHN R. PATE .........................Circulation Advertising Rates Will Be Furnished on Request. ApVly to Bcsiness Manager. FRIDAY MARCH 6, 1925 (amarark Opurs Final call for baseball men comes Monday throw away the football and basketball uniforms and oil up the glove. Soon we will hear the swat 3f the horsehide and willow.. * * * The band concerts should be a welcome diver sion, come out and give your support for the first concert. -U.S.C. - Shall the State Scoff ? The following is a clipping from the columns of a recent issue of the Greenville News: "The Gam.ecock,' University of South Caro lina weekly paper is waging a campaign for the establishment of a Government Post Office Sub-station at Carolina. Many other Uni versities here, have such sub-stations and their establishment has made a marked improve ment in the postal service offered students." - For the past month thro.:gh its editorial col umns the Gamecock has endeavored to point out to the students of Carolina the deserability of such a postal sub-station. Our student body of over 1200 deserves some specialized mail service, the time has come when, with the eyes of the entire state upon us, we must take some definite action toward this end. The Gamecock believes that Carolina students want the service. If such is true then a student body meeting should be called and a committee appointed to look into the advisability of securing our greatest need. Those now in authority are doing their best with the limited means at hand, but think of only walking to some point on the campus to send reg Isteredl or insured mail, buy stamps, receive mail on several deliveries and attendant advantages. Shall the rest of the State scoff at us? -U.s.c. - * A Man-Sized Job The success of the administration of the new president to be selected by the "Y" Sunday night will depend on the men whom he chooses to help him as council members and cabinet members. He will be between the horns of two dilemmas when he goes to choose these men. On one hand he will have a number to tell him that he ought to se lect "representative" men, men who have been and are presidents and officers of the other or ganizations on the campus so that a roll of the "-Y" council will read like a book on "Who's Who on the Campus." They will tell him that the "Y" ought to appeal to all classes and that to do so. he must have the big men on the campus behind him. They wil. urge him not to let the "Y" get narrow and be confined to a small class of men. "The campus wide Y" will be their motto. On the other hand there will be those who will tell the president, if he asks their advice, that the thing for him to do is to ignore the big men of the cam'. pus socially and politically and to get the "devout" men to serve as officers. They will point out to him that some of the so called big men have em barrassed the "Y" in times past by their personal conduct and that even where they have done their job, still the "Y" is a religious organization and 'there are certain spiritual -factors that must be present in order for the "Y" to be more than a welfare organization. To .which the first group wilt reply that no one will listen to a man who Is merely "devouf" and has no qualities of leadership and even if the conneil is filled with them te. "vn will not be a force. So the argument will go from one side to the other. We vre hoping for the new president, whoever he may be, the great est success in that hard job and we hope for him that he will be able to find the nien on the campus who will combine the two qualities of "leader ship" and of "devoutness," that they may be "rep resentative" men and that may be spiritual men. - U.S.C. - To Tea, or Not to Tea . Say buddy have you lost your pep? Seems as though we just let the good things slip through our fingers and content ourselves 'with sweet memories. Remember those "Y" teas we had a few weeks back? Remember the co-eds and fel lows who gathered together for a social hour? If you do, haven't 'you wondered why they stop ped? For we want the teas again. The refresh ments were appetizing and the company congen ial. We are a little world of tenements, and, sad to say, Thornwell and Woodrow are at times, as far apart as York and Beaufort. But it isn't be cause we don't like each other's company-it is simply the condition natural to a large student body. It's just that get-together idea shown at the teas that has kept Carolina's spirit tip-top. The "Y" secretary says we can have more teas if the students want them. So, if you liked the refreshments, if you liked the company of the faculty and their families, if you liked the asso ciation of your fellow-students then tell someone -tell everyone-you want more Thursday teas.. -- U.s.c. -- Smoke This in Your Pipe Professors are men-Not freaks. As men they teach more than as Professors. The professor does his greatest good when he tpeaks a word of encouragement to a student; when he fires the ambition to accomplish something. Don't fool yourselves, worthy pedagogues, the substance of your teaching will much too soon be forgotten.. It is the little bit of yourself that you give to the student that helps him carry-on. You will be remembered long after the Latin, the Greek, and the Math have been forgotten. To be the greatest teacher is to be human. -- U.S.c. - INTIMATE GLIMPSES -of CAROLINA HISTORY Shadows of War Th- coming war cast its shadow across the cam pus. A senior wrote to his mother in October, 1860: "We are all so much excited here about the state of poltical affairs, that many of us are mak ing by no means diligent preparation for the com ing examination. Our men-those of my class, I mean-are anxious to be at home, either to join companies already organized, or to aid in organiz ing new ones." The coliege company had been disbanded in 1856; but the trustees now permitted it to be formed again, with J. Gary as captain; Iredell Jones, First Lieutenant; H. M. Stewart, Second Lieutenant; S. M. Richardson, Third Lieu tenant. When Fort Sumter was fired on, the company through its captain applied to the college authori ties for permission to offer its services. This be ing refused, the members of the company secured dismissions from the college ana were received by the governor as a new company, leaving the cadet arms in the library. The company, number ing 141 men, was stationed on Sullivans Island, where it remained for three weeks, when the gov ernor ordleredl it back to Columbia and to study. During the summer many of the students saw service in Virginia and elsewhere; the majority returned to study in the fall. All went well until Port Royal was attacked, when the students left in a body and were sent on to the coast by the governor. This was two days before senior exami nation. At the request of the trustees the faculty prepared diplomas for the 31 'absent seniors to be delivered on application. This company never went farther than the race-course at Charleston. The college reopened on the 1st of January, 1862; but on March 8th the order of the governor and council subjected all but 12 students to con scription, so that they withdrew and volunteered. Only three or four remained. The faculty tried to carry on the college work, but, after advertis ing, could gather only nine students. On the 25th of June the confederate authorities took over the buildings, except a few rooms and the library, for a hospital. No a student failed to answer the call; the professors were also en gaged in war work. The old college was at an end. When Sherman's army laid the city of Col umbia in ashes, the college buildings escaped. Many families whose homes had been burned took re fuge here, where the rooms were not occupied by wounded soldiers. The Alumni of the South Carolina College were in the Confederate armies from private to lieutenant-general. Fourteen generals called her Alma Mater. Scarcely a battlefield was there in any part of the South that was not made sacred for us by the presence of a South Carolina College student. BY Im1mY'l The Morning After Didja ever leave the party in the early, wee hours of the morning feeling as though you were on the apex and wondering how anyone could feel otherwise, and'then walk in the general direc tion of home with a light and airy step and a gay spirit ? After i'oing about half way, did your steps be come unsteady, and did you reel like a sailboat in mid-ocean? Did you, after a time, stop at a house, that you thought was home, and work diligently and faithfully with the key in the lock until you were ordered off the premises by the owner, then after some moments of dificient thought you discover that your home was next door? Did you find that your bed was as un steady as a feather in a whirlwind and that you had to jump in as it came by? And did you wake up the next morning with your head "busting" open and see your clothes in every part of the room with the exception of your shoes, which you still had on? And did you scramble over to the water and drink, drink, drink, and reaiize that tvater never had a sweeter, more thirst-quinching taste than then.. If you have, ole top, don't say "I've never had too much,"because you certainly have. -U.s.c. Freshman Heaven ? Freshman violators of the campus code at the University of Colorado are dealt with by a regu lar court composed of upper-classmen. They are tried in a court composed of older men, sentenced to a certain amount of punishment, and this is dealt out to them by a line of upper-classmen brandishing convenient weapons in the form of planks, belts or other such things. The old men line up and the "Rats" are forced to run the gaunt let, much like the old Indian styV of punishment. The policemen of the campus are the "right hono rable" sophomores, who report any misdemeanors to the regular court which then takes the case in hand, dealing with the culprit in the manner des cribed above. - U.s.c. THE WEEKLY ORACLE IHe Who Hesitates, Seldom Pays the Rent (B Y I. M. P.) SHE was pretty "SHOULDER arms" * * 9'* 'FACT SHE was AND the longer *9* * * DARN pretty. I HESITATED the ** * * AND WHEN she came ** * * INTO the room I * * * LITTLE lady seemed. WHERE the guests * * * JUSTas HAD LINED up to * * * OLD NICK prodded MEET the host MY HEART ALMOST dropped out INOato * * **** OF my shoes.SH tundao. * * * ** THEN, somehow, WEloe *9* *9 SHE slipped in A AHohr *9* *9 FRONT OF me. SEwsa yfl *9* *9 BY THE time ATRAmmn * 9* * * I came outSH blsean *9* *9 OF theSAD *9* 99 TRANCE WYyur *9* *9 I noticed the NTm *9* ** PRETTY matron was "HSADanfld *9* *9 SNUGGLING 'up to Iherhr MY shoulder. LUH 'COURSE in order Iwodri TO be polite TEjk' *9* 9* I DIDN'T move away. ONHRome MY head keptPESNLY HUMMIN' THE old Ifelikth 9*9*9*9 ARMYcalESOTAE th Charlie & Monroe Colhg. Stadent. Hair Cutting a Specialty Polite and ?ficient Service to all University Men Opposite Jerome Hotel Next to Woman's Exchange 1128 Lady St. Phone 6061 The Savoy Cafe. "Open All Night" Food of the Best Quality Polite Attention 1327 Main St. Columbia, S. C. Students Are Welcome Capital Cafe "Nearest Restaurant to University" Your Patronage Will Be Greatly Appreciated Food of Best Quality Excellent Ser"ice 1210 MAIN STREET ENTERPRISE Hardware Co. 1324 Main St. Phone 4026 We Welcome - You to Our City Foot Ban and Basket Bal Uniforms and Supplies "Special Prices to Students" Health is necessary if you expect to make the Varsity-your health is assured if you eat at BILLY BULL'S "A Meal a Minute" 1211 Gervais St. Phone 8502 Pure Milk 10c per pint All Kinds of Sandwiches We Serve a Vegetable Dinner SNAPPY PIPES FOR COLLEGE MEN Meerchaum Pipes Bakelite Socket Pipes French and ,Italian Briar Pipe. Cherry Wood Pipes Crego_Pipe. SALE AGENCY Dunhill (London) Pipe. You will add to the enjoy- s ment of your pipe if you smoke Pinkus.ohn's Pot pouri Tobacco. J. S. Pinkussohn Cigar Company 1309 MainSt SYLVAN BROS. Jewelers and Diamond da Merchants br un ed CLASS RINGS AND PINS OF bo TH-E BETTER KIND Sii Co| the 1500 Main Street ~ in Corner Main and Hampton Streets brn COLUM BIA, B. c. 4to