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Prof.. Rucker Dies At Home This Summer Elbert Marion Rucker Member of Law School Faculty for Si'teen Years BEEN LONG IN .ILL HEALTH Public Spirited Man With Long Legal and Political Career Succumbs During Last Vacation Carolina has lost one of her most valuable and most beloved faculty mem, bers. A vacancy has been made in the law faculty which will be hard to fill. A more vacant place is in the hearts of the students which only time can fill. Elbert Marion, Rucker, professor of law, University of South Carolina, died at his home on the campus. He had been in ill health for a number of months, but his cond:tion had im proved and he started recently to Monteagle, Tenn., where he was to deliver a series of lectures. Reaching Hendersonville, N. C., he found that his strength would not permit his pro ceeding, and so turned back, returning to Columbia. He had been ill only a short time and was thought to be improving. A turn came for the worse and a few hours later the end came, quietly. For 16 years, Professor Rucker had been on the university law faculty. He was an attorney at Anderson when elected and in accepting the professor ship gave up entirely his private pract ice that he might devote his full time to teaching. He was also a member of the general assembly at that time, being chairman Qf the powerful ways and means committee of the house and this he resigned, also, upon goingi to the University. He represented An derson county in the legislature for ten years, having a large party, among other things, in the abolition of the state dispensary system. Lectured Often Having his summer available for work other than in his classroom, Professor Rucker did not remain idle, but each year lent to some platform his talent as a lecturer of unusual force. He gave special series at the summer schools of the universities of Georgia, Kentucky, Miami, Cincinnati and South Carolina; at Winthrop college, at Illi nios State Normal college. He lect ured for several seasons for the Rad cliffe chautauquas, speaking on the constitution, one of his favorite sub jects of thought. His last addresses were at the recent summer school of the University of South Carolina, where he spoke in chapel on the constitution and on marriage relations. It was this saine series that he had hoped to de liver at the Monteagle assembly. Pro fesso* Rucker was a close studenti of entertaining manner. He was recog nized as one of the state's best orators. Professor Rucker came to the Uni versity with a background that fitted him for his position. He had been educated at Adger college, WaIhalla, and at Carolina, so he was returing to his alma mater, where he had taken both academic and law degrees. For four years he was assistant United States attorney, department of the interior, Washington. He practiced his profession for 13 years at the Anderson bar; he gained lawmnaking experience in his decade in the lower house. So in the class room at the University, he could draw from a wealth of practical experiences to illustrate the point he was driving home to his students. His connection with the University was mdi-ked by his love of the students and his zeal in futhering their various acti vities, especially football. He was for several 'terms chairman of the athletic advisory board of the debating council and of the social cabinet. He was al ways helping the individual student with his problems and didn't forget the student after graduation, following closely his career and urging.him for ward. Mr. Rucker therefore, kept a contract with his former student that was beautiful. World War Work Duringr the World wa, Presso.r Soph Expresses His Puerile Impressions kt Sight of Pretty Co-eds Crowd ing University Campus and Buildings Below is recorded the feeling of a would-be-sh'k of a sophomore upon the sight of the pretty freshmeh co eds. Evidently they make quite an impression on him. The writing is his own and we disclaim all responsibility for the grammar or feelings. Stop: don't crowd. Take it easy. Here they come. "Ain't they sweet.,, Long, tall skinny dnes, short fat, stum py ones whose longitude equal their altitude. Just think they left their happy homes to reside here amid the intelli gensia (?). Nevertheless, here they come, an avalanche of future suffra gettes descand upon us. We accept them for better or for worse. We hope that in their stay at the Un .versity they will become educated both theoretically and practically. We accept them upon their face value, cosmetics or natural, so they won't have to pay "sir" tax. Rucker delivered over a hundred lec tures throughout the state and else where in behalf of the Red Cross, Liberty bonds and other causes incident to the successful operation of the con flict. He was a member of Chi Psi fra ternity and during the last college year was elected a charter member of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at the Univer sity. He was a member of the Kos mos club, and of the First Presbyterian church df Columbia. He served often as speciral associate justice of the su preme court. Professor Rucker's friends are legion and his death will cause sadness thru out the state. Born in Anderson, March 15, 1866, of distinguished parentage, Professor Rucker was 60 years of age a few months ago. He was the son of El bert Marion and Sarah Frances (Whitner) Rucker. His paternal grand father was Joseph Rucker of Ruckers ville, Ga., and his maternal grandfather Joseph Newton Whitner, life judge of equ'ty court of South Carolina. Mr. Rucker was twice marrried. His first wift was Miss Bessie Kinard of Co lumbia, who died December 15, 1913. His second wife, who survives, was be fore marriage Miss Mary Martin of Florence, Ala. He leaves two daughters Mrs. George R. Norris of Columbia, and Mrs. W. W. Moore, Jr., of Dan ville, Va., and a sister, Miss Bessie R. Taylor of Anderson. 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His father's grandfather, Alexander Doug las, was a native of Ireland, having eningrated to America in 1790 to settle afterward at a place six miles west of Winnsboro. His mother's maternal grandfather was Thomas McCrea, a Revolutionary soldier, who marrying Catherine DuBois, had introduced a strain of Huguenot blood into the fam ily. Douglas entered Davidson college, from wh?ch he was graduated in 1895 with the degree of bachelor of arts. He began his studies for the ministry at Louisville Theological seminary of Louisville, Ky., and then, continuing his wcrk at the Columbia Theological seminary, was graduated as a bachelor Following his father's footsteps, Dr. of divinity at Columbia in 1899. While at tiie- theological seminary he had en rolled as a graduate student at the University of South Carolina and in 1899 had also received his master's de gree. 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