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Read and Study Do Nont o Ohf Comite FI To Vote .0fComiteeOn Constiuto University of South Carolina VOL. XIX. COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1926 PHI IL Constitutio To Reorganize Government Honor System Vote Planned Next Wok to Sound Out Opinion of-University Stude6t Body. ENTIRE REPORT ADVISORY Urge Students to Cooperate With Committee in Considering Probable Proposals At least two vital changes in the present student body constitution are suggested in the first re'ort of the con stitutional committee appointed at the student body meeting March 13. The entire report is advisory and its discus sion of the organization of a student council and the reorganization of the honor system are, according to Laurens Mills, chairman of the committee, cal culated at evoking discussion upon spe cific propositions. The suggestions, however, are not in any sense final either in the settlement of the two particular problems or any other questions of the student body affairs. In the next column is printed a series of ten questons regarding the suggest ed changes in the constitution. Secret ballots similar to the questionaire will be held Wednesday and Thursday, April I and 2. According to the committee report, it is felt that as representative opinion as can be secured should deter mine the specific changes to be made in the constitution. By 'iblication in The Gamecock of the ballot and the opinions of the committee, it is believed that each member of the student body will be given the opportunity to study the prob lem and influence the selection of consti tutional changes. Gamecock Announces The March 20 issue of The Gamecock announced that on the following week the report of the committee would be published. The committee is composed of: John Laurens Mills, president of the student body; James Hicks, chair man of the honor committee; and Isa dore Poller, former editor of The Gamecock and now editor of the Carolinian. The portion of the report not sumarized above follows: It apears to the committee that the studen body has grown to such large and unwieldy proporions that there is an evergrowing necessity for a small, rep resentative group or council to transact all ordinary business of the student body. There is always some correspondence to be carried on between one student body and others, and the Council, as the com mlittee conceives it, should have charge of such correspondence. During the year it is usual that several matters of a bus mess5 nature come up before the student body for consideration; it is the opmnion of the committee that such business as does niot by its nature necessitate action by the student body, should be left to the Student Council for action. Several Elections Tlhere are several student body elec tins held each year, hut under the pres ent system only a few students partici Pate in them. The committee suggests that only nominations be madec in the studlen't body meetings, the vote to be (Continued to page eght) 'TA K nal Commi ANSWER THESE Below is printed in substance the questionnaire which will be submit ted to the student body ballot Wed nesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2. Space will be allowed on the ballots for comment or opinions. 1. Do you favor the inclusion of the Law School in the student body? F 2. Do you favor a representative student council for the purpose of transacting student body busi ness? 3. Do you think a student council should have any disciplinary v power? 4. Do you favor a unified honor committee fQr the entire student body? 5. Do you think there should be b any faculty participation in the c selection of the Honor Com- t mittee? 6. If you favor a unified honor committee, do you favor its elec- t tion by the entire student body? s 7. Do you favor modification of the requirement as to the number of witnesses necessary to re- a port infractions of the Honor r Principles? 8. Do y6u favor making less strin 0 gent the requirements as to the c number of votes necessary for d conviction upon trial? 9. Do you favor a lighter penalty for freshmen? 10. Do you favor a definite pro- C vision for the right to appeal to 0 the student body? ti c SINGERS SCORE h WELL IN FIRST l WEEK'S TRA VEL t( ORCHESTRA MAKES TRIP tl tl Give Varied Program-Dance the " Charleston and Classical of Oriental Dances is The Carolina Glee club gave its init- ti ial performance on Monday evening at the Columbia College auditorium be- al fore a large crowd. For the first per- is formance, it went over well, and the lil performances in the lower part of the n state have been well received. h The introduction is catchy, the or- n chestra being on the stage and play ing while the club files in and the porters take their coats. Bill Otis gives vi an exhibition of the Charleston, and pl the group sings "Lets Wander Awhile," r< accompanied by the orchestra. Iil Guartette Good C Probably the part that was best wvas ai the xylophone solos by Carol Abrams. d< After the selections on the xylophone, st lhe responded to an encore by playing on a "Tumbler Phone," made from an~ old table, and a row of tumblers filled with varying amounts of liquids. Trhe quartette was good, and was forced to respondl to several encores, finally having to leave the stage with the audience clamoring for more. The "Dixie Land String Band," com posed of Shunders, Stone, Hall, Wim berly, and Otis also received much ap plause, the selection, ' Say, Whose That Baby Doll," being esp)ecially good. (Continued to page five) APPA.k. ftee Recom 'ibbes' Green To Be Site of New 'College' AT GREEN AND PICKENS ireproof Addition to Library for Valuable Books-Mess Hall To Be Enlarged Permanent improvements at Caro na to the extent of $127,500 are pro ided by the appropriation bill pass d by the General Assembly last week. A new classroom building costing 75,000 is to be erected. Only one alf of this amount was appropriated y the last legislature but the Board f Trustees was authorized to borrow he other half and proceed with the ,ork. This new building may be erected at lie corner of Green and Pickens treets and will probably hold a pos ion corresponding to that held by )avis collec " with respect to Green nd Bull streets. Such a position will etain the symmetrical apprearance of ibbes Green better than will any ther, though it will be somewhat less Dnvenient for the majority of the stu ents than if placed at some other oint. Similar to Davis If the building is similar to Davis )llege, 12 new classrooms and eight I ffices will be provided. Such an addi on will largely relieve the crowded )nditions now existing and classes eld in the chapel, and in other unsuit )le and inconvenient places, will be !tter provided for. These plans are, of course, merely 19 ntative for the final decision rests in e hands of the trustees and until cir meeting no definite announce ent can be made. It is hoped that :tion will be taken at an early date in der that the structure may be fin lied and ready for use by next fall, cc lien room will be needed even more as an it is at present. w An appropriation of $17,500, with ht ithorization to borrow a like amount, provided for enlargement of the e( )rary. It is tenatively planned that bi w wings shall he built, retaining so as .r as is possible the beauty and sym- di etry of the present building. h< To Be Fireproof a Trho additions are to be fireproof and thi iluable books which cannot be re- II acedl are to be given preference in se arrangement. Many books in the M >rary, especially those in the South a arolina alcove, are almost priceless, da fire in the piresenit building would ~stroy one of the most valuable of the Iin ate's p)ublic buildings. Realization of A1 (Continued to page eight) hi DANCE SATURDAY NITE '" ____________th A dance will be giveti by the Ath etic Association Saturday evening t iromi 9 :30 until 12, with the Game :ock orchestra playing. ye Members of the faculty and their vives will act as chaperones and he samie price prevail. These dan :es have been going on for the p)ast t rear and are becomiing more and T nore popular. th jCTED o Changes Initiate Eight A t Ceremony Here April 8 First Chapter to be Installed in a South Carolina Educational Idistitution PROMINENT MEN COME Chapter Granted at Natioal Con. vention in New York Last September on Formal Application Eight members of the senior class of the University of South Carolina: Isadore Polier, James Hicks, J. L. Mills, D. H. Eargle, R. D. Bass, J. F. Allison, Caroline Voigt, and Miriam reever, are the first undergraduates o receive the honor of election to Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha chapter will )egin its life in the University of South Carolina with the initiation of the nembers, active alumni, and honorary, amd installation of officers, on the af ernoon and evening of April 8. The University chapter is the first of he famous old society to be chartered n the State of South Carolina. The -eremonies of April 8 will be the out tanding event in academic circles of he year in the state, and they will be neemorable in the history of South Ca nlina in scholarship. Prominent Men ''hey will be attended by scholars ,f prominence, representing chapters n Virginia, North Carolina. and other tates. Letters have been received rom a number of these saying that hey expect to attend. Dr. J. A. Chandler. president of William nd Mary home of the mother chapter, ill be present, and members of the enate of the society and officials will ome from New York. In the evening Iere will be a meeting of the chapter, ,ith its first president in the chair, nd he will deliver an address ex laining to the audience the nature nid aims of the society. The names f the recently initiated will be read, nd they will be introduced. An ad ress will be delivered by a repre ntative from one of the neighboring hapters, and a special address by a p)resentative of the Unit.ed Chapters. The names of the alumni and lhon rary members of thme chapter wilt be inotunced at a later date. Granted in September The chapter was granted at the nat 'nal convention of the society in New ork last September on the formal >plication of ten memibers of the fac ty, who were already members of her chapters, namely Professor corge Armstrong Wauchope, Oscar .Keith, Stephen Taber, William S. Lrrell, J. Nelson Frierson, Edwin 1L. reen, Reed Smith, Perry M. Teeple, lillard A. Whitesell, and Thomas F. all. These, together wvith President Pm. D). Melton, and Professor Leon d T. Baker, Wmn. B. Burney, Patter n Wardlawv, Andrew C. Moore, and ates Sniowden, the ranking members the faculty in seniority, constitute e foundation members, and are (Continued to page eight) SELl mends Tw HIGHLY HONORED Following are the names and some of the honors of the men and women who have been selected for the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at the University of South Carolina. Isadore Polier, Aiken, S. C., Mag na Cum Laude. Editor, The Gamecock and Caro linian- president Euphradian socie ty, member Honor Club, secretary Debating Council, and Chanticleer club. James Hicks, Columbia, S. C., Magna Cuni Laude. President of Honor Committee, Honor Club, Chanticleer club, busi ness manager, Carolinian, and Chanticleer club. J. H. Mills, Camden, S. C., Magna Cum Laude. President student body, Honor Club, and Chanticleer club. D. H. Eargle, Columbia, S. C., Magna Cum Laude. Scientific Society. R. D. Bass, Gresham, S. C., Cun Laude. J. F. Allison, Newark, N. J., Cum .aude. Scrub Faculty. Caroline Voigt, Columbia, S. C., Magna Cum Laude. Miriam Greever, Columbia, S. C., Magna Cum Laude. 7ALUABLE FIND OF OLD BOOKS IN UN. LIBRARY BOTH ARE HISTORIES lisa English, Assistant Librarian Discovers Them Unclassified t -Investigation Follows ( A library may seem a musty place to v me people but sometimes out of the s ry "dustiest and mustiest" place will c me forth a treasure-long forgotten, t leep for ages, and when it does the v hole romance and thrill of treasure- a mnting is known. This extreme pleasure was experienc- a Friday morning at the University Li- o -ary when Miss Elisabeth Engiish. a sistant librarian, found two old and d isty volumes which had no place on r cataiogue list. It was while moving c shelf of larger hooks to another place at she sawv the twvo old-lookinig vol-r nes and she did not ever remember eing them. On further examination, iss English found that she has made a real "discovery." Both are Histories. The1 two boo0ks are histories, written quite simpjle Latin, by the celebrated berti Krantz who was born in Hami- a rg, Germany, in 1540. The books u -re putblishled twvo years after his death0 1517 and the ones in the library are ese first editions, oe printed in 1519, other in 1520. It is p)resumedl that C se volumes were b)ought in Germany C an agent who was sent by the Uni-V rsity of South Carolina when it was undled, to buy books from foreign V mntries about 1805. ai D)ne is a history of the Vandais and s< other is a history of the Saxons. Y e author, Alberti Krantz, studied law, 0t eology, and history at Rostock andl tl (Continuedto pagne rmve