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Co-Ed Glee Club Tomorrow Nite Presents In Chape "Say Arabella" Don t Miss University of South Carolina VOL. XIX. COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1925. NO.1 Intra-Mural is Latest Trend Of Athletics Tenements Will Place Teams Under Eligi bility Ruling TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY Trophies To Be Awarded Winning Teams, Highest Scorer and Best Individual Players Athletics For All," is now the slo gan of the University of South Caro lina, though first carried out at the University of Illinois. Next week begins the intramural athletics here, and after the varsity season is over, or while it is going on, the different tenements on the campus and the town students will be staging a contest of their own for the cham pionship of the college. A cup wi1l be presented to the team winning the most games, to tie tene ment capturing the most honors, and the individual making the highest scor ing record in the various sports. A later announcement from the office of the director of physical education that if a sufficient number of clubs enter the! intra-mural contests they will be awarded a cup to the winning organization. 'Doc" Burnett has offered a hatidsome forty dollar cup to the victorious tenement. Games Start Wednesday Football begins Wednesday of next week, and each tenement must have the names of the players and the fee deposited by Monday. Registration will at the offices of the physical de partment. Any student at Carolina is eligible provided he has never made a varsity team in that sport, or who has not made a freshman team that season. Committee on intra-mural athletics is composed of Mr. Van Meter, Dr. Shayer, "Hick" Mills, and the captain of the varsity team in that particular sport. Officials will be selected from the varsity by the competing teams, subject to the approval of the con mittee. Rules Prescribed For the football tournament, the re gular rules will be used except that the actual time of play will be short ened. The game will consist of four ten minute quarters, with a 15 minute rest between halves, and a five minute rest between quarters. Since the report has been spread, the manager of the canteen reports that the sale of cigarettes and sweets have decreased to a great extent. Everywhere on the campus, in the af ternoons, can be seen groups of mod estly (?) clad lads calling signals, punting, passing, quarreling and cuss ing as in the regular game Cheering sections will be organized in each tenement andl any one who has asp:rations for Jimmy Baldwin's job will have a good chance to "show his stuff." Here's for the championship of the college and may the best tenement win! - U.s.c. - CYM TEAM ENJOYS OUTING AT BARONS Baron's Pond was the scene of a party Wednesday evening by the gym team. A large camp fire was built on the side of the lake and weinies were toasted. After the meal, games were played and later dancing was enjoyed. Co-eds and girls from town and the other girl's colleges were guests of the MEETING TUESDAY . OF STUDENT BODY Laurens Mills, president of the Senior Class, announces a meeting of the student body in Chapel Tuesday morning. Besidse other business to come up, candidates will be nominated for managerial positions on the va rious athletics teams. These names will be sent to the Advisory Board. Tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock, the sophonore class will complete the election of officers. The members of the class are urged to be present. - U.S.c. - RECEPTION FOR CAMPUS STARS ON WEDNESDA 1' BY DR. AND MRS. MELTON Annual Event for Honor Club, Football Teams, Organiza tion and Publication Heads Wednesday night at eight o'clock Dr. and Mrs. Melton will entertain at their home on Pendleton street. The guests of the evening will be members of the Honor Club, freshman and varsity foot ball teams, class officers. and the heads of the campus publications and crganiza tions. Music for the evening will be fur nished by the men and women glee clubs of the university. Invitations have been mailed out by Mrs. Melton. Each year Dr. and Mrs. Melton have entertained at their home. The reception is one of the ottstanding events of the social calendar. A galaxy of campus inotabl s assembe that can never be matched at any other event of the year. Present Honors During the evening Dr. Melton will present the Honor medal to the members of the ;recently elected Honor Club. Gold footballs will be presented the men given their letter at the meeting of the Advisory Board last Wednesday. Men bers of the freshman team will be given silver footballs. The Honor Medal is considered the most beautiful and cherished honor that is awarded at the University of South Carolina. It was designed by Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope, head of the Eng lish department. Upon its obverse side it bears the great seal of the University; upon the reverse side is a five-pointed star, emblematic of scholarship. A buffet luncheon will be served the guests. Those students who have been fortunate enough to attend these recep tions in the past retain pleasantest memo ries of the hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. Melton. - U.s.c. - TRYOUTS FOR RODDEY DEBATE MONDAY NIGHT Preliminaries To Be Held in Clar iosophic and Euphradain Halls-Finals Dec. 19th Prel:nminaries for the Roddey Medal debate will be held Monday night in the halls of the Euphradian and Clari osophic literary societies. The finals will be held in the University Chapel the following Monday, December 14. Each society will choose two repre senatives, one affirmative and one nieg ative speaker. The decision of th' jud ges in the finals will select the best in dlividual dlebater am4 the winning team. The subject of the debate will be, "Re solved: that the mnil:tary and naval air forces of the United States be united in a separate and indlependlent dlepart mient with a minister in the Cab)inet." It is usual that the Roddey medal contest opens the forensic season. This year's promises from information given by the Debating Council to be one of the most ambitious undertaken by the UIniversity. Discard Idea Man Fighting Brute --Morse Fighting Instinct Denied By Science States Psychologist AT "Y" MEETING SUNDAY Traces Human - Fundamentals That Prophecy Success of a World Court Movement Age-old theories that man is a fighting animal were thrown into discard by Dr. Josiah Morse, head of the department of psychology and philosophy at the Uni versity in an address to the University Y. M. C. A. Sunday night in the Chapel. Dr. Morse spoke on the World Court revea;iig the fundamental and basic ele ments of human natrre that prophesy the achievement of srch a goal in interna tional relations. Dr. Morse said that the best psychol ogists seemed to be dropping the re cent idea that man was a combination of instincts for a better theory that man was plastic psychophysical or ganism, conditioned largely by its sur roundings. Thus the socalled fighting instinct was merd y the hates and suspicions and ideas of the past in stilled in the youth from the cradle up. Power in Ideas and Ideals Dr. Morse opened his address by saying that the greatest power on earth was the power of ideas and ideals. The destinies of nations are determined not only by the enomic pressure but even more largely by the ideas and ideals !ehind the nations. He toid of the idea that the Chinese had that .they could never equal the excellencies of their fathers and said that this one idea of this wonderfully smart race had kept them from making any progress in the last 200 years. Therefore to control a nation it is required to control the ideas of the nation. The speaker told of the ideas of Rous seau, who thorgh himself a degenerate, had a passion for cleanliness and truth and purity. Rousseau said that every thing was good and pure as it came from the hand of God but degenerated in the hands of man. So children are pure and good to start with but as they grew up and get their educatk i in the ideas of man they become bad. There is. of course another idea that all children are born bad and must be taught up to good ness by man. There are many conflict ing ideas about human nature. Some of the latest are that man is a collection of faculties, each faculty having to be train ed for use. Instinct Theory Abandoned The latest idea of the psychologist has been that man is a collection of instincts. if one knows instincts, one knows man. In trying to bring about peace iln th1e wor:dl men have said that man had ai Iightinig instinct and that he could not help it-. Th'le only wvay that man could ever hope to bring about peace would b)e (Conti-nued to Page Eight) - u.s.c. - CLUB NOTICE ! Any club wvhich desires a page and p)icture in the annual must not ify Harry Bryan or Fred Minshall at once if they have not done so. Club p)ictures mlust all be made by the beg'n:ing of Christmuas holi days, leaving the only time for the White's Studio artist to make the pictures next week or the following Club p)residlents are asked to coop erate with tile annual staff in ar ranging sittings and gettinlg club members out to meet aponmtments. WORLD COURT VOTE HELD NEXT WEEK The campus ballot on the World Court will probably be held Monday morning. As the Gamecock goes to press, the New Student has not sent the ballots but they should be here by tomorrow or Sunlay. While voting will be later than the scheduled date, a iarge response by the students will most likely be ac cepted by the New York offices of the New Student. The result of the bal lot will appear in the state papers and in the Associated Press stories. Polls will be provided on the campus. - U.S.c. - ALL PLANNED FOR CHRISTMAS TREE AT "Y.M." PATE TO PLAY SANTA CLAUS Co-Eds to Sell Tags to Raise Money Among Students Is Annual Custom Johnny Pate will brave the edict of fash'on December 18 when he dons a pair of red flannels knickers. But John says that all the Santa Clauses he ever saw wore them. Pate will be Santa Claus to the fifty children who will be given presents by the Unversity stu dents. Plans have been completed for rais ng funds for the Christmas tree. Mon day the co-eds will sell "tags" to the students to raise the money for he an nual custom of providing gifts for the poor children of Columbia. The fol lowing girls will tag: Misses Helen Hilb, Ethel Ann McClure, Catherine Phillips, Ellen Hough, Leila Robbins, and Elizabeth Lindsay. Fifty Youngsters Invited If the student body contributes lkb erally Friday, the 18th will be a happy day for fifty youngsters. Students will bring them to Flinn Hall in automo biles and carry them home after they have reveived their presents. At four o'clock a large Christmas tree will be found loaded with toys, fruits, and candies. A few minutes later they will be in the hands of fifty happy children. Pate has promises not to diet unt I Christmas, and, he hopes that he will be big enough to fit the costume once designed for Bob Hope. Success Depends on Students With the growth of the University the number of children who were made happy, has increased. Fifty represents the largest number invited to Caro lina's Christmas tree, and the success of the day will depend on the response of the students. The larger the con tributions, the more the youngsters will get. - U.S.C. - ERROR MADE NAMING ASPIRANTS FOR AWARD Wade Hampton Graham Fourth Man Instead of Nielsen To Choose Soon The attention of the editor of the Gamiecock has b)eenl called to an er ror ill a story enl faculty nonminlationls for Rhodes Schlolarsh'p men appearinig ill th? issue of October 9th. At tile time lI-e story "broke" it wvas impossible to ascertainl the official nlominiations and the accouInt as it appearedl in the Gamecock stated that tIhe li-st given was unofficial. Wade Hanmpton Grahlam was tihe fourtn membler nlominatedl to represent the Uni versity of Southl Carolina ill tile exami nlatiot; to choose the South Caro1inian to go t') Oxford next year. Mr. J. V. Nielseni wh1ose name was inclulded ill the nlews iteim informed the editor that he w~as not am(og thlose nominated atld did nlot make application. Labor Expert Speaks Here December 15 Paul Blanchard of New York City Invited By Dr. Morse TRAVELLED MANY LANDS Noted Authority and Lecturer on Labor Problems in Vari ous Countries Though the influence of I)r. Josiah Morse the students of the University will hear Mr. Paul Blanshard, author and lecturer. Mr. Blanshard will speak in the Chapel December 15. He is a noted authority on labor problems and conditions in the United States and abroad. His subjects for lecture include the observations of a lifetime spent in scientific study of the world labor and its many facets: Labor and the Church; British Labor Conditions; Education of American Workers; La bor and the Government; and, several treatments of Public Ownership Paul Blanshard has had a uni:.ue ex perience as lecturer, author, factory worker, labor union officer atd world traveller. He has just returned from a trip around the world and brings irst hand, vivid pictures of social move ments in Japan, Soviet Russia, Dcn mark and Great Britain. He has ,. ured during the past two years to more than 75,000 college students in almost every leading American university and to hundreds of churches. service clubs, labor organizations, forum and womens, groups. Mr. Blanshard graduated from the University of Michigan with Phi Beta Kappa honors, did two years' post traduate work at Harvard and Colu mbia, served as pastor of a Boston Congregational church, and then en tered the labor movement. He becam. organizer for the Amalgamated Tex tile Workers, and organizer and edu cational director in Rochester for th's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, one of America's most progressive unions. During h:s three years of educational work with the unions of the American .-ederation of Labor and the clothing workers of Rochester he developed many valuable experiments in workers' education. Mr. Blanshard is the author of many magazine articles and pamphlets and of a recent book, "An Outline of the British Movement." He has visited Europe three times, making special studies of the British labor movement andl the Italian Fasc'sti. He is a mem ber of the Congregational Social Ser vice Commission. -- U.S.C. -- CLARIOSOPHICS DEBATE WORLD COURT ENTRY Sonmc said we should and some said we shouldn't; and the niays had it. From which statement it is not to be understood that the practice of pet ting was under discussion l)y the Clar' osophic literary society Tuesday night . Messr. Batnknight and Felder present ed the negative s:de of the dlebate up on the entrance of the United States into the World Court, and won the judlges' decision Reports from the society indicate that the discussion was of the finest order. At the conclusion of the liter ary program, the parliamentarians ex tended the meeting by .ma,, .,,:e.