Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societics Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908, as Second-Class Mail Matter. NEWS STAFF S. W ol.r-. Eic1Ei. ..................Editor-in -Chief ISADORE POLIER ...................Akanaging Editor W. LEE CROCKER .............News and Club Editor FRED MINSHEALL ......................Sport E,ditor JIMMY BALDNIwN ....................IFeaturc Editor Miss EI.LEN HOUC1 ..............Co-Ed Editor C. B. W ILLIAMS .........................Editorials REPORTERS W. 0. VARN, A. W. HOLLER, HAROLD HENTZ, F. A. WOOD, JAMEs HEARON, ROBERT BASS, D. H. EARGLE, CHARLES CUTTINO, VIRGINIA DOAR, MAUnE ELLIs, CATHERINE PHILLIPS News ITEMS may be handed members of the Staff, left at Box 444 Canteen, or phoned to the Editorial Ofces at 907 South Main Street, Phone Number 4109, between 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 .. .................Aaay.-r ERNEST B. CASTLES ......................ASSiStalit SA?a. L. READY ........................... Assistant JOHN R. PATE .........................Circulatio:t Advertising Rates Will Ile Furnished on Request. Apily to Business Manager. FRIDAY. MARCH 13,1925 Gaterark Opur When it "Rains" in Columbia it will probably pour Carolina students into the roost. * * * The Junior Class of the Woman's Building wants it to "Rain" men to their tea this afternoon. Easter is coming soon-have all good Game cocks bought their new "comb?" * * * This balmy spring weather nakes us want to throw aside the blue pencil and paste box and go fishin'. * * * Has the spring fever germ bitten you yet? Better not cut classes though for the Dean has it too. * * * A holiday Easter may give a few of us a chance to catch up with some work.-Maybe! * * * This spring fever is an awful thing, we hate to get up, we hate to go to bed, we hate to work, vr. hate to stay still. - U.S.C. Our Goal in Sight ? In its last issue THE GAMECOCK carried an announcement that a student body meeting had appointed a committee to look into the ad visability of securing for Carolina a post office sub-station which is so badly needed. We take this opportunity of congratulating that body upon picking such a committee, but we want an ans wer to this question: Shall this committee go the way of others ap pointedl in the past let the matter for *which it was created drop by not investigating? THE GAMECOCK thinks that this will not be the case, wve feel that the need of a sub-station is felt too strongly at Carolina to be dropped from disuse. Many of our sister institutions, some with less students than we. have long had such service. One of our neighbors in fact has it down', so well that letters are addressed to the man's room and dormitory and dleliveredl in each tenement. Sure ly if they can get individual delivery we can get one centralized post office. But this committee needs the individual aid of every member of the student body. Do YOU as an idividual want a campus post office, with parcel post, registry, stamps andl insurance win dows? You will all say yes of course, but the committee wants to know how much you want it. If you want these things strongly enough, tell the representatives recently appointed and if suf ficient pressure is brought to bear wve will soon have our p)ost office sub-station. U.s.c. -- Co-Eds Save the Day The Junior Class of the Woman's Dormitory this afternoon begins a series of teas in the re ception ball of~ that Dormitory. This new venture cannot be commended too highly and if enter ed into with the right spirit on the part of the male students should accomplish much good. The Woman's building is fact coming into a place especially suited for It-that of being the center of social activities for the student body at large. With Its conservative yet dignified and home-like tone it does much to cement friend I ships already made and to inspire the organiza tion of one large family that the University of South Carolina has always been and will always be. THE GAMECOCK sincerely hopes that every student will drop in at the Woman's Dormitory for these teas and is sure that he or she will en joy themselves and yet derive much good from them. - U.S.c. THE OPEN LETTER To the Editor of the Gamecock: My attention has been called to the criticism made recently as to the "Y" placards on which sometimes we have "stunts and eats" emphasized. The three fold triangle of our Y. W. C. A., stands for the "Social, religious, and recreational" side of life. First, Social: doesn't that take in "eats?" I think if a few refreshments would increase the number of our members, then we should have refreshments. Second, Religious :this is, and should be stress ed, but everyone knows without emphasizing the fact on a placard, that the letter "C" stands for Christian or religious activities. Third, Recreation: Why not stunts? Is there any church in Columbia that ha not some stunt or religious pageant to help carry out the idea more clearly to the audience? To see something acted out usually impresses the student's minds more, so lets have these religious stunts. We do not want anyone to have the impression that we want our Y. W. C.A. girls to be "stunted" or "cated" into our organization, for there are these three things combined. "Socials, religion, and recreation." These have and always will make our organization a wonderful body. Elizabeth Lindsay. THE WEEKLY ORACLE A Tightly-Closed Mouth Catches No Flies By I.M.P. HE'E just UNDERSTAND," * * **** A GREEK who HE said, * * * RUNS a cafe. "FOR WHY you * **** I DROPPED in HEVVA sucha loafers LATE the other night FOR a * * **** FOR A BITE REPRESENTATIVES" OR so I thought that AND he came over HE WAS a TO TALK to me. LITTLE, previous * * **** IN the last IN his criticism. * * *I HELD back COUPLE OF years WE'VE become** * * *FIAL,aa FRIENDS. ** ** * * THE FELLOW began H iihd * * * TO QUIZ me on"UTAeti * * *.* * TIHE constitution IAgo onr l * * * - AND government of MOEG Dpeps ** * * THE COUNTRY. THNbdwn *** * * * MORE THAN once "YSsr * * **** I was stumped.CUS OFE - * * * *** BUT EVERY time COIG * * **** HE knew H ett * * ** * * THE ANSWER.FILTEodr HE told me ADwe * * **** TEHAT HE wasIrembrwa TAKING out his H ATsi * * **** CITIZENSHIP papers Itk f * * **** ANDMYHTt * * **** HIS CHEST swelled. AN MEIN . * * **** I can noUNDtERSAnD," ..BY JIMMY!I The Old, Old Story t knew something would happen if I went to church an)l believe me, something did 1 I tried to sit away in the back, but some kind man sporting a dove-tail collar was determined to place me nearer the seat of action so I found myself occupying a perfectly good pew space nearer the front. "Something, I think it was the sweet essence of Dier-kiss, told me that my immediate co-wor shipper was a member of the fairer sex, but I determined not to pay any attention to her. She evidently, saw that my religious training had been taken in a correspondence school, so she began helping me out by handing me the right text books. Of curse, if she was going to act in this man ner, I had to give her a little time and thus began my first lesson. By the light that peeped through the many colored panes in the windows. I saw that this brown-eyed, black-haired baby was a sleeping potion-in other words, a knock-out on the ber ries, and the more books she handed me the more convinced I became of this fact. By sheer luck we were introduced and, of course, to be nice I invited myself over to see her on the following Tuesday. All that afternoon and the following day my head was buzzing with thoughts. They were hap py thoughts though, for 1 reasoned that here was a find indeed; you know, one of those old-fashion-h ed girls who would invite you to her home and feed you chocolate cake and would want to spend a quiet evening looking at the family album, the moon, the stars, etc. Just think of the picture I painted. A big piece of chocolate cake in one hand and a piece of divinity fudge in the other, seated, not alone, on one of those perpetual motion divans-oh, boy I As I made my way to her house my mind was full of brown-eyes and chocolate take, my heart began to race and I, had a devilova a time getting it back to normal. I raced up the walkway and rang the bell; perhaps thirty seconds elapsed be fore she stood before me dressed in furs with her hat on and her gloves in her hand. "Where will we go?" she said. T sighed for it was then that I realized that she was only one of our Modern Maids. -- u.s.c. -- INTIMATE GLIMPSES - of CAROLINA HISTORY Carpetbagging Days During the 50's the question of changing the South Carolina College into a university had been agitated, but the effort failed. When the war was over, the friends of education in the state were anxious to reopen the college which had been closed since the summer of 1862. After considera ble opposition this was done; but the revived institution was to be a university modeled on the plan of the University of Virginia. The bill creating the university was signed by the governor on December 19, 1865; the doors of the institution were, opened for students on the 10th of the following January. Both dates were the same for the months as when the college was first opened. Many of the students had seen service in the army; for all money was not easy, so that life on the campus was much more simple than in former days. In May 1866, Professor Barnwell reported to the board of trustees a "strong desire to obtain an education-indicated by regular at tendance, great order and attention, and a good degree of application." A student ot that day wrote: "There were a number of the boys who had only one arm, some were on crutches with only one leg, while a large number had been seri ously or slightly wounded, and some had Ian guished for months in prison'. The experiences through which many of us had p)assed gave Lis a decided advantage over the ordinary greenhorn we nowadays find at college.'' The students rapidly increased in number till the incoming of the negro legislatures after 1868 began to threaten the existence of the U'niversity as a white institution. Professors began to leave; the first to go were the Leconte brothers, who went to the University of California. Then ne groes began to appear on the board of tru';tees, whose influence elected strangers to the positions left vacant in the faculty. When the session opened In October, 1873, Dr. LaBorde was the only one of the old professors left on the faculty. The registration of a negro, Henry R. Hayne, secretary of state, in the School of Medicine brought the resignations of Professor LaBlorde and Doctors Talley and Gibbes. The whites with drew, and the University became a negro Insti ttion. Charlie & Monroe College Students Hair Cutting a Specialty Polite and ffficient 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 Bestr Quality Excellent Service 1210 MAIN STREET ENTERPRISE Hardware Co. 1324 Main St. Phone 4026 We Welcome You to Our City Foot Ball and Basket Ball 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 LWe Serve a Vegetable Dinner SNAPPY PIPES FOR COLLEGE MEN Meerchaum Pipes Bakelite Socket Pipes French and ,Italian Briar Pipes Cherry Wood Pipes Crego_Pipes SALE . AGENY Dunhill (Londea) Pipes You will asN 'o the enjoy ment of your pipe if you smoke Pinkussohn's Pot pouri Tobacco. J. S. Pinkussohn Cigar Company 1309 Main St. SYLVAN BROS. Jewelers and Diamond Merchants CLASS RINGS AND PINS OF THE BETTER KIND 1500 Main Street Corner Main and Hampton Streets. COLMBIaA. S. C.