Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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%e GA4ccoc1 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 PoLER .....................Editor-in-Chief W. LEE CROCKER ..................Managing Editor W. 0. VARN .........................News Editor FRED MINSHALL ..................... Sports Editor Miss ELLEN HOUGH ................Co-Ed Editor Jimmy BALDWIN .................Feature 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, Elizabeth Hardv Catherine Phillips, Elizabeth Lindsday, Ora Jackson. NEws ITEMs 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 .. ...........................M anager J. R. PATE ...............................A ssistant R. B. HILDEBRAND ........................Assistant SAm READY ...........................,Circulation FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925 Gamecock Spurs An I. W. W. is a packer who puts an extra sar dine in the can in hopes that his employer will lose money. . * * * Freshman Smith says that his course in a tough one, carrying a heavy subject all the time. * * * * Another one wants to know why so many pro fessors wear suspenders. Somebody tell him, quick! An exchange says it isn't what a girl knows that bothers him, but how she learned it. * * * * ~ With all the conflicting testimony in the She vandoah trial, we confess most of it is over our heads. * * * *. So we can conclude safely that the probe of the S-51 will be deep stuff. We hear that the girls at Randolph-Macon have raised a fund to buy an awning for the sun-dial. The latest wrinkle of an old prune: Man accused of bigamy pleads insanity. A young lady in the bleachers Saturday wanted to know why they wrapped the goal posts. We told Per it was done in fear of a cold snap. Gus reports that he was saved by a neck when both buttons on the back of his trousers ppped of f. Dumbells were probably invented when the naughty school boys first swviped the clapper out of the chapel ding-dong. * * * History tells us that the mighty athletes often dis played their prowntess in throwing the iu1!. Now the drug-store cowvboys hold the honors. - U.s.c. - Listen, Freshmen ! There are times when a more experienced person wants to give a bit of advice, but hesitates. While four years or three years at Carolina (do not make us wise men, they do serve to show us things that you will learn, often painfully. Out of the freshman class, a considerable numher have already conceived the idea that speaking to those they pass on the campus is a lot of apple brtter. If you wvant to go throrgh Carolina entirely to yourself, we congratulate you on your precedure. If you want to be one of us, to grow into the feeling of comradeship and loyalty, then you are making a serious error. But pass in silence and you are at once placed in thecategory of a snob, a self-centered per son. And you'll need four years to live it downi. Try the habit of greeting. It pays enormus divi dends. It helps the freshman to grow into the feeling that he is a member of the student body, that he is a part of the Universiy. It helps to chase away those touches of homesickness. And, most important, it makes possible your change from a freshman to "an old Carolina man9. Now that we said our say, we will sit back and .see whether you will take it seriously. We of fer it to you to help you over one of the rough spots in your 'enllege li fe. TListen freshmen, thik t ovr.. Picking Up Threads Rome was not built in a day, and Carolina's stud ent activities building will not be under construction tomorrow. It will be built. We need such a build ing to gather the multitude of loose threads that are lying about on the campus. County clubs will have a place to meet, and, consequently, a place to do something. Club life depends upon activity; other wise they atrophy. They must meet and hold their socials, enjoy the feeling that they are an organi zation. Then we can expect them to exert real in fluence when they go home. That's one thread that has to be picked up. The student who lives in town often has a vacant period between classes. He may want to spend it studying, but he usually spends his money at the drug store instead. Let him do that, it's his business, but it is everybody's business when he can not find a good reading room to study in quiet. In the library there is too much noise, too much going and coming for the best conditions- and the capacity is limited. We need a study hall. In fact we need the student activities building tr gather up a lot of other threads. And because we need it, we are going to get it. - U.S.C. - Voices of the University From the heading it might be inferred that we spoke of orators and public spirited men who have gone from the University into the world of affarirs. All glory to themt; but we speak of the voices of the multitudes, the most honorable bleacherites. Worlds may wage wars and diplomats soothe the wounds with soft words but come the first portents of winter and the bleacher fans rise into their own. So, had we been entirely and brutally frank, we might have begun with the phrase "room for im provement." The cheering at the game last Satur day was, in a great many respects, satisfactory. The volume of noise issuing from the Carolina section did not perceptibly diminish after we assumed the pos jtion of "back-to-the-wall". That's fine. But there was at no time as much cheering as a student body bur size should produce. There is but one way to remedy this. Students must go to the pep meetings. You can not expect to fit in any organized effort unless you attend the re J1earsals. You must get the swing of the crowd. Cheerleaders do 4iot expeat to develoU a cheering squad in the half hour before the game. - We hope that at all future games the "Gamecock Cheering Section" will hold only cheering Game cocks. We expect every man and woman to be in place and ready to respond to the Cheerleaders sig nals. - U.S.C. - Essaying the Impossible Trying to fit a asqv-are peg in a round hole is a .hopeless task. Yet. thousands of college students are .wasting the major portion of four years essaying .that very undertaking. No differation is necessary ,in this statement to apply it to large and small stud ent bodies. It is, as we see it, inherent in the Amer ican system of education. For our laboratory we have only to enter any class room in which a technical subject is taught: be it language, science, drama, or a multitude of others. A none too minute analysis will reveal a varying amount of deadwood. Men and Women would, even in a life time, never begin to grasp intelligently the fundamentals of the wvork. In time,. in accordance with the holy formula. they conltinue in more advan ced courses. Then, with suf ficient credits amassed, they are turn~ed out as educated men and women. What seems a grim jest at the expense of these students is when viewed in the perspective, an in justice to the more capable members of their classes. With the arbitrary limitation of four years for col .legiate preparation, education must 'be geared to ai .hi.gh speed. The common conception is that college is the terminus of a man's conscious efforts to broad en his mental field. Therefore the teacher must accept the handicap of fits and misfits that fall his lot. To express his thoughts, he must contrive in some manner- -too often distressing, to convey his meaning to the "low er level". It is deadening to the'grofessors, and to the "fits" inadequate. Trhere is no antidote, no corrective for the evil. "Give us credits, less we die,'' is the cry of the her d. Like sheep they rush through the lane, four years at college. Their objective is a sheepkin: the insig nia that, they hope, will account them of the itel ligensia. Clouds of dust rise in their p)ath, so heavy that the men and women of caliber are stifled. And it must be. Score Our Contemporary Our history tells us, that the Assyrians, as a race, perished thousands of years ago. How surprising then, was it for us to read in the Columbia Record last Sunday that a survivor of this race was to preach in one of the local churches. *How much more sur'arising, also, to learn that a member of such a warlike race should be preaching in a Christian church. THE WEEKLY ORACLE Serious Reflections of a Student Who Is Oft Foolish-Minded (By I. M. P.) .SOME FOLKS think WE surveyed THAT these FOR THEM. PECULIARLY broken A cotton mill LINES are just WHISTLE blew HERE TO portray AND the convicts THE BITS RESTED to eat OF LIFE which THEIR mid-day meal. CONCERN ONLY WOMEN who THE campus. WLki. and BUT our MOT1ERS cane * * * CAMPUS is the FROM nowhere WORLD, OR, AND PRODUCED * * * AS MUCH as MArIC bunal.. of WE SEE of it. FOOD. * * * AND when 4 vatched them * ** * 'YOU HEAR sage 1AUGH AND TALK * * * OLD PROFESSORS LIKE \EN and * ** * WHO have lived WOMEN do hen * * * AND seen * sNO PRISON walls LIFE with LIFE.withHAVE shut away * ** * SEEING EYES HUMANITY. ** * * LISTEN that you ANOTHER whistle * ** * MAY view SOUNDED, IT * * * THE cross-section SEEMED to shriek. * ** * OF humanity WORK began again. WITH sympathy GONE WAS rest AND understandling. BUT the smile IT was OF companionship LAST WEEK as REMAINED. I passed thru "TWO months more THE STATE [icuic AND I'LL be out GROUNDS where MIRANDY". I stopg~ed Ihad s * ** * 'TO WATCH the Iwle wy FIGURES in ADteel STRIPED SUITS. B lnynf THE darkies were POSMindtrs ** * * HUMMING their tu:nes FRT epm ** * * WHILE they IOTf'go" * * * * RAKED AND cut ADo ** * * THE grass.IWN''t AND then PRIIS OK ** * * I THOUGHT WIHTLSo *. * * ,HERE were men BTO a JUST MEN who MN 1-IAD slipped * A ere ** * * A peg along N C o 5 * * * * THE RAD tht FOrin TH E. ing though te rye" Our i-mnthy nanial STEn blews ta thebat-tiketmaret s Asil athe "bullics" Crowson Printing Company Dependable Printing PHONE 4109 907 MAIN "The House of Quality" Established in 1844 THE R. L. BRYAN COMPANY Books, Stationery. Printing, Bind. ing, Office Furniture & Specialties Columbia, South Carolina For Sun-Kist Drinks -VISIT - HAMPTON'S FRUIT DRINK Home-Made Candies Only Place of Its Kind in the City 1218 Main St. Columbia, S. C. DANNELLY'S BARBER SHOP Barbers-Tom and Charlie Everything Sanitary - Up-to-Date Ladies' Hair Cutting a Specialty CAROLINA MEN INVITED Rear Coggins & Johnson 1205 Lady St. Phone 6027 BILLY BULL S - A Meal a Minute ! 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