Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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All A Students Not - Exempt from Exams Only Certain Professors Will Al low Students Privilege Granted Exemptiorx from examinations for students making a grade of "A" is only arbitrary and not compulsory as was stated in The Gamecock last week. At a recent meeting of the faculty several professors asked for the privi lege of examination exemption on the grounds that their courses were such that examinations were unnecessary and could not be given with justice to the students. Because of this request it was decided to allow the professors to exempt students where it was deem ed advisable. Last week's announcement has caus ed much confusion so, any brilliant 'A' student who has built hopes of getting out of exams had best find out if his professor is adopting this system. -U. S.C. - FIRST FENCING MA TCH OPENED AT UNIVERSITY -_TEAMS WELL MATCHED Professor Keith Presents Medals to Winners of Last Year Fencing in the South this year was formally opened Friday night in the Euphradian society hall. It was fitting that the University of South Carolina, the birthplace of the revival of South ern intercollegiate fencing, should op en it. The hall was almost filled in spite of the fact that "Spoon Rivar" and a basketball game were going on at the same time. From the view point of the audience it was a tremen dous success. Members of the fac ulty and town people constituted the majority of those present. Judging from the applause given, the audience was well pleased with the exhibition and wanted mpre of it. The teams were well matched. Both were weakened on account of injuries. Griffin was out -on the Cavaliers' side and Reese on the Gamecocks. The great offensive of the Cavaliers struck a stone wall when it hit the defen sive machine of the Gamecocks. The Gamecocks were never in danger and during the second period had their second team in. It was only by a desperate comebock in the closing min utes of play that the Cavaliers tied the score and not until the last second of 'play was it possible to decide the re sult. Here is how it happened: Charles Cuttino, Douglas Jeter and Harold Finkelstein represented the fencing club and Foster, Coker, Wil liam Moore, Crane and Seigler, rep resented the varsity. the first match between Jeter and Foster was won by Foster by a 6 to 2 score. The next match between Coker and Cuttino was won by Coker by a score of 7 to 3; the third between Moore and Finkelstein ended in a 3-3 tie. This match was featured by quick and ad roit fencing, but many fouls were made. In the fourth match between Jeter and Crane, Crane won by three points, the final score being 10-7 in his favor. Cuttino defeated Seigler 8 to 12 in the fifth match, which was rather ex citing, both fencers beoming fiercely offensive. In the sixth match, Finkelstein de feated Moore 6 to 2. Finkelstein scor ed the first touch and continued his lead. At the end of the sixth match medals were presented by Prof. 0. L. Keith, of the Departnient of French, to the winners in the club tournament for 1925 and 1926. William R. Reese re ceived the gold medal for the club championship last year and Charles Cuttino for this year. R. B. Hilder brand received the bronze novice me dal for this year. The medals have the club's emblem, a visor and two crossed swords, engraved upon them. Moore defeated Jeter by a 6 to 2 score in the seventh match. In the eighth match Cuttino defeated Foster 4 to 3. This was a hard fought mnatch. Finkelstein defeated Coker by a score of 5 to 4 in the ninth match. Judges for the contest were W. R. Reese, R. B. Hilderbrand, and Atk5n sn,n University students. LARGE NUMBER IN JOURNALISM SAYS DR. BALL 82 Are Enrolled in Five Clas.es -Forty Are Candidates for Degrees SCHOOL GROWING RAPIDLY Dean of Journalism Urges Ac quisition of Elenients of Ac curate Scholarship "Forty students have been enrolled in the school of journalism in the Un'2 versity of South Carolina this year. Many of these stuednts have more that one class, so that 82 students have been enrolled in the five classes." So said W. W. Ball, dean of the school, in answer to questions of a reporter. "By io means all of these students," he continued, "expect to be newspaper men and women. Some of them take only one course or two as electives, and they are not candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in journal .Sm. "When I say 40 have been enrolled, the reference is only to members of the junior and senior classes and spe cial students. In the freshman and sophomore classes the studies are not technical, the courses do not diverge widely from those taken by other can didates for the degree of A.B. With the members of the two lower classes registered in journalism, the school in cludes upward of 60 students. It is growing rather rapidly. "The further I go," said Mr. Ball, "the more I am convinced that in pre paring students for newspaper work the stress should be laid on the stu dent's acquiring the elements of a wide and accurate scholarship, rather than on the technique of newspaper writing. All the schools of journalism are very young, scarcely one is 21 years old, 'they have been feeling their ,way, trying to find themselves, and I think the drift in them is to the conclusion that the need is for soundly informed men and women who go on reading after they leave college rather than for those who can write a balanced headline or construct a convent-onal newspaper story. "The United States has long had the best newspaper technicians in the world, but England, Scotland, Ireland ,and other European countries have had writers as a rule far better inform ed, far more capable of handling sub jects that call for a thorough-going knowledge of basic subjects. "By this I do not mean to say that journalism should not be taught. The undergraduate working for the A. B. degree gets as much general cultural tra'ning in the journalism courses as from other courses and, incidentally, saves at least a year in technical train ing besides. That is to say, the apt graduate in journalism has already learned about as much of technical newspaper work as he will pick up in a year of experience in a newspaper office. Some of thenm have learned more. "The dlanger in teching journalism, and it is a real one, is that the stu dent will get it into his head that having learned how to write a 'lead, what constitutes libel, how to con struct a headline, how to recognize news values, and a few other things, he has learned enough. That is only the beginning. As an undergraduate he ought to get the habit of reading huistory, some facility in reading at least one foreign language, and famil iar'ty with at least one objective science, as botany or zoology, Of course, he should know how to spell, punctuate and put together plain Eng lish sentences-he should know that when lhe leaves high school. Not all students do know it, and some never learn it."--The State. - u.s.c. Material Available For Feb. 22 Program Material consisting of short plays, readlings, and magazine and newspaper :lippings, for use in observing Wash ington's birthday is now available thru he Bureau of Public Discussion, Uni versity of South Carolina. Persons wishing use of the above may ob)tain tfree of charge excep)t for payment of postage, by writing or calling in person at the offices of the Bureau of Public Discussion, University Exten ion Division, University of South Car >lina. Columbia, S . C. Triangle Debate With Furman and Wofford Three Schools Will Argue Inune diate Independence of the Philippines Among other new debates tu be held this year is a triangle with Furman and Wofford. Furman has never been debated by Carolina before. Wofford was, until two'years ago, a member of the little triangle. The query for the debate, which will probably be held around April 1, is "Resolved: That the Philippine Islands should be granted their independence immediately." The affirmative team will most prob ably go to Greenville while the nega tive makes the trip to Spartanburg. The most important references on the subject, along with those on the prohibition question, have been placed on reserve in the southeastern corner room, second floor, of the library. Lack of space prevented the reserving of the less important references and these were left in their places in the base ment. A list of the periodicals reserved may be obtained from the librarian. Preliminaries for the b:g triangle will be held Monday night, January 24, and the finals on February 12, the negative team going to knoxville and the affir mative to Gainesville. Each speaker will be allowed 25 min utes in the preliminaries, which will be gin promptly at eight o'clock. Affir mative debaters will meet in the Eu phradian hall and those on the negative in the Clariosophic hall. 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