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%e GA4GcoC1 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 ISADORE POLIER .....................Editor-in-Chief W. LEE CROCKER ..................Managing Editor W. 0. VA RZ..........................News Editor FRED MINSHALL .....................Sports Editor Miss ELLIN HOUGH ..................Co-Ed Editor REPORTERS Thomas Wofford, W. J. Thomas, James Hearon, Harold Hentz, A. W. Holler, Robert Ingram, E. R. King, J. L. Murden, W. A. Brunson, Jimmy Baldwin, Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Lindsday. Nzws ITEUs may be handed in to members of the staff, or phoned to editorial rooms at 907 South Main Street, Phone number 4109, between the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and 10 to 11 a.m. or 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. BUSINESS STAFF C. W. SCOTT ..............................Manager J. R. PATi ................................ssistant R. B. HILDEBRAND ........................Assistant SAM READy ............................Circulation FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1925 Gamecock Spurs Dr. Morse says that his car is psychologically ailing. The engine it seems does not respond to the stimuli. We suggest putting some gas in the tank. * * * Have you met the freshman who tried to buy laundry slips at the canteen? We fear the rush of accomodating sophomores rather shook him uo. * * * The bleached blondes are not the only ones that sit in the bleachers at the football games. And that isn't the reason they got that way. * * * Remember, you new men, the height of an insult is to mistake a sophomore for a greenhorn. As ,they say in old England: It isn't done. We nominate for the hall of great men the fam ous general who first issued the order, "Shoot the zip. Infirmary records show there is no danger of bursting your lungs cheering at the football games. * * * The most fitting justice we can imagine for the man who sold leaky hot water bags to the army, is for him to die of cold feet, * * * An optimist is an army bugler who thinks he can get into heaven as an understudy for Gabriel. * * * Then the pessimist must be the trombonist who committed suicide because lie couldn't play a harp. * * * According to the American Legion Weekly, the nut who stands up in the movies when the Star Spangled Banner is played is the same sap who used to cheer at the 'op of his voice when the sol diers saved the settlers from the Indian attack. - U.s.c. - Efficiency vs. Individuality Big business, and big business methods are in their heyday. And the tendency is for the diffusion of the same standards in the field of education. Big bus iness seeks big meni. It of fers huge salaries to ex perts, those who have specialized their study andI work. "E~fficiency" has become the shibboleth of in dustry. Personality is wanted, only so far as it serves to speed up the machine. All of which is very well-for big business. But educators are not, and can never be, ef ficient to the exclusion of individrelity. If they become highi geared machines merely turning out a product that has learned so nmuqh of this subject and so much of that, their finished goods will smack of rote. Men and women, who are personalities, are needed to turn out thinkers. Whether the schools look like so many finely-polished, easy-running factories is a matter for demagogs to discuss. Dig men in education may seem, at first glance,, to be those who wrap themselves in covering huge slices of the eduational field in the comparatively shore space of a student's collegiate life. The picture is one of two: A mistaken idea of what constitutes the ideal college-bread student, or, you are misled by the re sults themselves to misjudge the methods. War is on: efficienoy vs. individuality. Let bus iness claim its b)anner, for us, let their be men who arealnwaysthemselves Enlarge the Honor Club With the announcement of the chartering of a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa at Carolina, the ques tion naturally arises in the minds of the student body, "What will become of the Hanoi Club?" The Game cock is of the opinion that the Phi Beta Kappa is neither designed to, nor can, stipplant a local honor ary society. Universities that have awarded the prized key for years maintain, and, are proud of, their school hon orary distinctions. Membership in Phi Beta Kappa rests upon scholarship adopted often under a differ ent standard prevailing at the school. But those men who by their work in class room and student activ ities show themselves leaders of their class should be distinguished as ot-tstanding men of the University of South Carolina. The honor that attaches itself to membership in -the Honor Club should remain local in character. It is distinctive of a man's rank at Carolina. But there in the difficulty arises. Membership restrictions to five of the senior class is one of the most astounding archaisms existing on the campus. It is a relic of the days when the enroll ment was less than half of that today. As a result every year sees men graduate with the highest schol astic standing only to be excluded from the Honor Club by abitrary limitation of members. Eight men graduated last year with "nagna cum laude" v.pon their diploma. The University can show no more merit for scholarshti. Yet only three of these men were members of the honor club. Counting in student honors it was impossible to award the Honor key to but five students. There is no dout that the Phi Beta Kappa key will mark the goal of s:holar's ambition. But, we repeat, it does not do away with the need of a Carolina hon or society. Still if we persist in refusing to listen to a plan to adjust the Honor Club to the size of the senior class,'we will in no short time make it so im .possible to make fair awards that it will die of itself. As we see it the relation between the Honor Club and the Phi Beta Kappa is best stated thus: The Honor Club marks at the end of the jnior year, the students who merit distinction; at the close of the ,senior year some of these men, and, perhaps others, show records which will earn for them the coveted key. But, again, the Honor Club must be sensitive to growth in order to remain a vital part of student honors. - U.S.C. - The Reason Why A student asked us the other day why we continued our "agitation", as he put it. for so remote a pos sibility as a student activities building. If his attitude is typical of the students, then, we confess, that we are speaking to the deaf ears. But the statement "a remote possibility" is, in it self, the fallacy of this man:s attitude. Of course no one expects to see a student activities building under construction in the next few weeks, or months. In fact there will be no reason to expect it at all unle,s the strdent body evidences its wish for just such a bMilding. Only when we come to realize that something must be provided to help maintain school spirit in these (lays of rapid growth can we expect results. Carolina is enlarging every year. The natural tendency will be for students to see and know less of each other. No such condition has developed yet--and we don't want it to. So we keep hammering away: trying to make you see the need for a building which will be the oenter of campus activities. A place where clubs can meet and enjoy a real club life; a place where town stud ents can find a study hail; a place to house all or ganizations. What we wvant is a focus of Carolina life. We are "sold" on the proposition. Are you in the market for some stack in Carolina Unlimited? - u.s.c. - The Forum THE FORUM welcomes all signed communications (your name need not appear in THI GAMECOCK) expressing opinion on student affairs. A department established as a clearing house for ideas. Address your letters to the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE GAMECOCK T he Laundry_Problem This is a clean proposition we are talking about. It seems that this year in which so many of the students of Carolina have had their incomes curtailed due to short crops that the laundries have seen fit to raise their prices. In the past years it. r.sed to be permitted for neg ro women to oome on the campus and take the stud ents' laundry. Two years ago this was forbidden, the reason being given that the laundries had agreed to do this work at tp.ratically the same prices. Now, the laundries, having a monopoly, are raising the prices. This, while at first seeming to be good business will gradually cut down their business. There are many boys on tihe campus ,who, when forced to do so ,are well able to do their own lau:i dry, and will do so. We think that both for our own and the laundries good they should reconsider their action in raising prices PERIODICAL COMMENT Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis latest novel, Arroinsinith, is pri marily a satire on the unintelligent commercialist in the profession of medicine. After reading the novel, one certainly has the impression that the medical pro fession is, for the most part, made up of ignorant quacks and business men instead of altruistic scien tists. True scientists such as Professor Gottlieb, have a distinctly contemptuous attitude toward the practicing physician. Probably Mr. Lewis has ra ther overdone his satire. The novel follows the career of Martin Arrow smith through the medical college, then as a county physician and finally through various developments until he becomes a trying scientist, a searcher for the truth. Arrowsmith's wife, Lenora, who faith ft4ly follows him through his fluctuating fortunes, is an excellently drawn picture of a real woman who neither nagged or criticized. Max Gottlieb serves as the light by which Martin is lead to the true paths of science. One of the most interesting features of the novel is Mr. Lewis' excellent and vivid sketches of many of the minor characters. The Tozer family, irritat-. ing and inquisitive; Doc Vickesron a drunken coun try quack; Doc Pickerbaugh, the goetic politican; Clif Clawson, the boisterous and vulgar oil salesman Dr. Tubbs, the ignorant but successful director of the .McGurk Institute. All these reveal Mr. Lewis' genius. In Arromisith, Mr. Lewis writes of life with which he is less familiar than that of M4ain Street. Consequently Arrowsmith is not Mr Lewis at his best. However parts of it are extremely well done and all of it is most interesting reading.-Crimson and White. - U.S.C. - THE WEEKLY ORACLE A Stitch in Mine Is Worth Nine in Thine To Me (By I. M. P.) YOU know ONE a little FOR MANY days GREENER and I have wondered YOUNGER WH.ETHER with THAN usual. *** , *4** ALL OUR growth SO, with the WE too PRIVILEGE of the HAVE PERHAPS PRESS *** *** LOST a 9girit I stopped to ,**4 THAT MAKES "LISTEN in". EVERY man on WHEN he asked THE CAMPUS feel THE YOUNGSTER AS if HOW he was *44*4** HE WERE a MAKING out *4* 44 BROTHER byIpekdu ** *4* COMMON interest MY EARS. TO every other ASTE-a **4** MAN IN thePASDo SCHOOL. *-HE SAID, AND the matter "AND if you SORT OF ARE EVER in 444 RANKLED in my TROUBLE just MIND. ,,,DROP IN and YESTERDAY SE ,,. 44* * * 4 I chanced to HE left the *4 *4* BE PASSING FRESHMAN a THE amdinistratior IATTLE wondering BUILDING and AND me a I SAW GRE.AT DEAL. A prof. stop ASHAMED of. A FRESHMAN, MY misgivings. 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