Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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L TATE COUNCIL OLDS MEETING 3 AT FLINN HALL even Schools Represented at State Student Y Council Meet Hee ' FLETCHER BROCKMAN cd lo. A. Jeffers of Furman Elect = ed President for Next Year On Sunday an1d Monday January 9 and 10 the University Y was host to the State Student Y Council. Meetings were held at Flinn Hall. Seven schools were represented, The Citadel, Newber ry, Presbyterian College, \Vofford, Fur man, Carlisle Military Academy, and the Uziversity. There were twenty six stu dents present and six Y secretaries, am ong them being T. B. Lanham the State Secretary and Fletcher Brockman, As sociate General secretary and Associate Secretary of the Chinese Work. The Sunday morning session was fea tured with a talk by Fletcher 3rochman on "What Has Jesus for this Genera tion of Students ?" In the afternoon a very interesting discussion arose when the various schools presented the prob lems that they had encountered on their respective campuses. Each school told what they had done, what they were doing, and what they were expecting to do. R. G. Bell gave a very interesting talk on te "Supervision of the Y Work in the South" and Sam Ready of Caro lina gave a report on the Conference at Black Mountain, N. C. Monday, Secretary Leland of the Ci tadel gave a discussion of "Program Building." This was followed by talks on the Summer Corgference at Blue Ridge made by Boyd of Carolina and Seabrook and Brinker of the Citadel. These men showed the spiritual, intellec tual, and recreational aspects of Blue Ridge. The final talk was made by Geo. A. Jeffers of Furman and was an inspiring description of the Milwaukee Ccnfer ence which was held during the Christ mas holidays. Students from over thirty nations were gathered together to hear words of guidance and suggestions for thought from some of the foremost men of the country. After adjournment the entire conven tion were guests of the State Commit tee at a dinner givenj at the Marmac hotel. The value of this conevention lies in the fact that it offers an opportunity for the comparison of the work done on the various campuses of the state. Students are enabled to interchange ideas and take back to their coliege something that has proved successful somewhere else. This convention has also served to bind the colleges of the state togeth er in a Christsian brotherhood which will redound to the service of the state of South Carolina. All the meetings were presided over b~y the President of the State Student Cou,:cil, Samuel F. Burke of Carolina. The program was arranged by the F.x ecutive Committee cOIopose of tive members, R. G. Bell of Carolina ; Prof. Mlartin of Clemson; Major, of Wof ford ; Scott and Burke of Carolina. At the conclusion of the conventionl a business meeting wvas held an dthe fol lowing officers elected for the uext year. President: Geo. A. Jeffers oif Furman; Vice-President : F. S. James of Wof ford; Secretary-T1reasurer: Herbert Blake of Presbyterian Coalege. Members of the Regional Council: Sewell Hawkins, oif Carolima; Geo. A. Jeffers, of Furman. Executive Committee : Prof. Byrd, o,f Tlhe Citadel; R. G. Bell. of Carolina; Leslie Edwards, of Carolina; Herbert Bake, of Presbyterian College; Geo. A. Jexers, of Furmani. - u.s.c. - Let us help you plan Valentine Day in your home or school room. We have on hand a number of short plays, calling for simple scenery and cos tunmes; Valentine drills, recitations and songs; costumes and party suggestions and articles dealing with the orig'n of Valentine Day, all of which will be sent you free of charge except for the l-ayment of postage. Persons wishing use of material list ed above may obtain it by writ'ng or calling in person at the offices of the Bureau of Public Discussion, Univer sity Extension Division, University of Two More Teas to Be Given Through Y There will be two more Teas at the Y according to Sam Ready, chairman of the social committee for the Y. These will be on the next two Thurs (lays before examinations. The Y is prepare4 to run the Teas on thru the month of February if the students of the University would like to have them. Before this they have always stopped on the last of January. - U.s.c. - New Baptist Pastor To Speak at Y Meet John H. Webb, New Pastor, and Close Resident to Campus Heard by Students I)r. John Van de Erve, head of the (partment of Physiology of the Char leston Medical college is to be the speaker at the Y meeting Sunday night, January 23rd. He will speak on the opportunities of Christ in ser vice in the medical profession. Dr. Van de Erve is a speaker well known all over the state of South Carolina. He has spoken at a large number of the churches of the state and in Y meetings and other places. He had an engagement for the date on which he was asked to speak by the Y committee but changed the engage ment in order to be able to come to the University. A special invitation is to be issued by the Y conunittee to pre-med stu dents to hear Fir. Van de Erve while he is here. The Religiouss work committee of the Y announces at the same time that there will be regular meetings of the Y on Sunday night all during the examinations. - U.s.c. Dr. Van de Erve to Speak at Y Sunday Rev. John H. Webb, the new pastor of the First Baptist Church, is to be the speaker at the Y meeting in the chapel, Sunday night at seven o'clock. Dr. Webb preached his first sermon at the First Baptist Church last Sun (lay and according to the large num her of the University students who heard him he is a real preacher. He comes to Columbia from Monroe Geor gia, where he has been the pastor of the First Baptist Church for the last six years. It is reported from Monroe that he was a great favorite among the young people of that place. I)r. Webb lives across the street from the University campus and says that he hopes to make a large number of fr'ends aniong the University stu dent body. - U.S.c. - Several Professors Make Holiday Trips Coleman and Coker to Philadel phia-Keith, Williams and Babcock Go Out of State D uring the Christmnas holidays ser era mienibers of the faculty made vis its to) points outside the state. Sonie went merely to spend their holidays ini a new emvironmient or wvent honme while others miade special trips to at tend( scientiftic and( literary meet ings. P'rofessors (oleman and( Coker of the departmnent of mathematics wvent to Phliladephia, to atttend( the Americanm Associationi for the Adlvanicemenit of Science and A fliliated Societies. T's meeting lasted for five dlays. beginning D)ecenmber 27 and einding Deccember 31. Although this meeting wias primarily for mathei maticians and college and utniversity p)rofessors of math, repre sentatives from all departments anid braniches of science were in attend ance. Th'le program was wide and vai riedl, emibracing such subjects as the beginnings and history of mathematics amid science and some of the great p)rob)lemis of science today. Professors Keith, G. Croft Will'ams, and( Babcock, along with his wife, madt(e short trips to p)oints farther North. Professor Babcock and wife went to Virginia where they spent their holidays at home. Although several other members of the faculty left tIhe city for the holidays, all wet to places near the c'ty or within the stnte. ANNUAL BIBLE CLASS SUPPER FRIDA Y NIGHT AROUND 250 ELIGIBLE AU Men With Perfect Attend ance Records Asked to Attend Remson Bauknight, chairman of the Bible Class committee for the Y an nounces that the B'ble Class Chicken Feed will take place on Friday night of next week. There are about 25( men who will be eligible for the feed List of the men who have had per fect attendance will be posted at the post office and at chapel. The list are made from the records at the Y of fice. It usually happens that there are some few men who are not on the list that ought to be. Men who arv eligible but whose names do not ap pear on the list are asked to see thu secretary of their class and get the mistake corrected at the Y office a, soon as poss ble. All men who are eligible are asked to come to the Y office and get theit tickets to the banquet. It is probahl( that the banquet will be at the Prim rose Cafecria on Main street at eigli o'clock. By a margin of four points, tene ment seven won the Bible class contest which ended on December 14th. Th<. score for the winning class was 1140 Tenement 24 came second with a tota of 1136. On the last night of the serie< this class made a forward spurt and, ; the results show, almost overtook it rival. The winning tenement has had goo( classes for a number of years, but thh is the only time it has ever taken fir; place. Perfe :t attendance was once maintained for three or four years ir succession. Only a few absences wer< recorded during the ten weeks of thi series. The class won, however, by con tinually securing new members an' having visitors present whenever pos sible. Three classes lay claim to perfect at tendance records; these being ten; ment 24 placed second. while third wen to tenement 20, and the Bohemian took fourth. A number of other classe approached perfection in their attend ance, but no others attained it. Thirty-one classes were organize, on the campus October 5, when th, series began. Of this number, only disbanded before ten meetings ha' been held. A total attendance of 4,000 was recorded, the average attendanc< being 400. Two hundred visitors were entertained in the various classes dur. ing the series. For a person to be counted as a visitor it was necessar' that lie be from the city, or if from th< campus, not be a member of any reg ular class. Much interest was shown in some o1 the discussions. As a rule the Sunda, night meetiitgs in chapel introduced the subjects to be discussed, each time 0r the Sunday preceding the T1uesday fo' wh'lmch the subject was assignedl. Tlhe subjects discussed were chosen lby th.. imembers of the classes from a list sup) p)lied them at the first meeting. It this way sub)jects wvhich appealed to t h. studlents, andI about which they wante. sonmc information, were obtained. Trhe classes that have made linal reports and their scores are listed be low: Tenement No. Pointi Teneiment 5...................747 Tenement 6 .................... 956 T1enemnent 7...................1140 TPenement 10....................644 Tenement 12..........8 Tenement 14.........10 Tenement 15.........89 Tfenement 16.........13 Tenement 71.........94 Trieneent 18.........1 2 Tenement 19..........1 Tenement 20.........14 Tenement 22..........6 Tenement 23.........97 Tenement 24.........13 Tenement 25..........5 'I'eemen 27...................23 Tenemnt 2...................08 I3oheians................... 1026 - .. . .. . ...-1 A younghusban ...... .h... on2 evening tofind.his .ife.s.win som dainty...itt......thes. "My (le.-.r...hy.didn't.yo tel17m "Don't ....ll .." ....r....e. 1045~ is..........e........w869 "I understand Jane is fond of her dogs." "I should say she is. She won't go anywhere unless I call a taxi." 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