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BfiAN CURRELL IOUNDING OUT 5 TWELFTH YEAR Co*ected With University Since V1914-Head of Graduate School Since 1922 NATIVE OF CHARLESTON Long Known for Prominence in Educational World-Honor to School and State Dr. William Spenser Currell, Dean of the University Graduate school, is now completing his twelfth year of the great work of scholarship at Carol-nj. Every article written n regard to'him must necessarily be in the vature oi an appr-ciation, for in Iis long yeair of service in the educational world, every step persued by Dr. Currell has brought forth successfull results. We are al most tempted to speak of h-m as an ;;l chemist in the field Qf education for ri some ways much of the material com ing for his heart and hands to mold, would have to be classed as dross whereas the finished product returned was as gold. Surely our state is great ly enriched by having the most faith ful years of one of its greatest sons of the present day being put in educating South Carolina's youth. It is in keep ing such Carolinians as Dr. Currell that South Carolina is extremely selfish, we could not afford to spare him for a sin gle month. Dean Currell is a native of Charles ton and, in h mself typlifies the quali ties of culture and rare scholarship for which our metropolis is famed. Dr. Currell was born May 13, 1858 and was educated at various schools before en tering college. At the age of twenty he was graduated with the degree oi A.B. and B.P. from Washington anti Lee University. He also received his master's degree from the same institu tion the following session. Cont'nuing his advanced work, Dean Currell was awarded his doctors degree in 1882. Dr. Currell's work as an educator be gai as soon as his advanced collegiate work had been completed. He was professor -of English at Hampden-Sid ney College, Virginia, during the years 1882-1886. In the ten year, 1886-1895, we find lim occupying the chair of English and modern languages at Davidson College, North Carolina. He held this same position at his Alma Mater dur ing the years 1895-99. When the scope and work of the University had become so extended that it was to enlarge the corps of instructors, Dr. Currell was promoted to the position of Professor of Engl*sh. In this capacity he remained until called upon to assinue the presidency of the University of South Carolina in 1914. It would be superfluous in an ar ticle of this type to point out and to demonstrate the spec'al successes of Dr. Currell in the work in these sever-l places of activity. The very rap)id an.I continluedl promotion is sufficient to show his great work and satisfying service rend(ered. When Dr. Samuel Ch'Ies Mitchell resignedl as president oi the Univer sity of South Carolina to assume a sim ilar posi.tion at the University of Dela ware, the trustees of the former college began casting about for a successor. They had already heard of Dr. Currell, his record at Wash'ngton and Lee and accordlingly madle sonme inquiries. As their inquiries progressed,. so did their belief that he was the best man for che work became more surely grounded. Anxious to again res'de andl work with in the borders of his native state, and in a city where friends and relatives residled, lhe accepted the offer and h'. caine president of the University of South Carol'na in the summer of 1914. Here, a school, a rich history and :ra dlitions of the noblest and steeped 'a. the high ideals and influences of a gloriomi civilization, gu'ded l)y a scholar o& the rarest intellect and judlgment, was to see in the next eight years a wonderful and inspiring development. This in itself would have sufficedl Ma a muonumenlf'it for Dr. C'urrell '.:s th< state had yet the need oif h's ser"'ces in a newver and higher field. Up until 1922, Carolina had granted some M.A. degrees and one Ph.D. de gree, but it could not be saidl to haveu had a regularly constituted graduate department. In 1922 the board ol trustees formed a Graduate School anu' placed in charge of this most imnportanu1 State Oratorical to Be Held on April 15 Craig Represents University of South Carolina in Executive Meeting The Executive Committee of the South Carolina; Collegiate Oratorical Association met at the Jefferson hotel on February 19th. Tom Craig repre sented Carolina at this meeting. The date for the contest this year, as de cided upon by the committee, will be April 15th. Carolina's representative in the con test will be the third speaker upon the program. There will be nine speakers, representing as many institutions. All contestants must send their ora tions to the recording secretary, B. R. Unger, Newberry College, Newberry, S. S., by March 20. An attractive member ship certificate will be given to all who participate in the contest, this year, also medals to the first and second place speakers. The State Press Association has agreed to give its hearty cooperation and state-wide publicity will be given to the contest this year. The contest was held in Florence last year and the "Gate City" is making a bid for the contest to be held !here again this year. The place for this year's contest has not been de"ided upon, but among the other cities beiiig considered by the committee in charge are Orangeburg and Rock Hill. -u.s.c. University Selects Triangle Debaters Simpson, Karesh, Godshall and Finley to Oppose P.C. and Citadel W. D. Simpson, Joseph Karesh. A. R. Godshall, and T. R. Finley, were chosen Monday night to represent the Univer sity in the annual Little Triangle de bate with the Citadel and Presbyterian College. The subject for debate is: "Resolved : That the primary system of elections in the United States should be abolished." Finals will be held Mon day night March 14th. S'mpson and Karesh, both of Co lumbia, will uphold the negative, while Godshall, who is from Union, and Fin ley, who is from Laurens, will debate the affirmative. Tihe negative teaam will go to Charleston where it will oppose Presbyter'an college's affirmative and the affirmative team will go to Clinton to meet the Citadel's negative. Citadel's affirmative and PresbytertVin college's negative will meet in Columbia. Simpson and Karesh debated last year on the "Big Tr'angle" with the University of Florida and this year they were again on the "Big Tri,ingle." Simpson debating in Gainesville al,a'nst Tennessee, and Karesh in Knoxville against Florida. This is S-nyson's third y,ear on the "ILttle Triam.; c." He is a senior. andl vice president of the Clariosophic society. Karesh h;i. rem-e. sentedl Carolina in a dutal debat-t wvithi P'ittsburghi Univers'ty. He is ai soph' miore and a member of the Fuphradlia I literary society. This is Godshiall's second year on the "Little Triangle." Finley, although he has never competed in intercollegiate dlebates, has been prominent in oratori cal contests. L,ast y'ear he wvon the Ganzales miedal for oratory. Godshall and( Finley are both juniors andl are miemblers of the Clariosophic society. wvork, D)r. Currell. At this point it : appropriate to insert the words of H-ad (loln. 1,1.B. 101l5. i nregard to D)r. Cur rell at Carolina. "Now from tinme iimmiemorial 't has been required of the executive head of the University that lie be first and fore most, a scholar and a gentlenian. But William Spenser Currell, Ph.D., is even iiore t han that He is a Southerner;: in~ dleedl, his inanediate forbears wvere South Carolinian, wvhile lie hiinself was born at Charleston, a little seaport towni tore or less adjacent to thle state of South Carolinia. And he miarried a Virginiani ! H-aving accomplished wh' ch bold( task lie, either consciously or un consciously rendered himself 'ab iniito fit for anything and( unfit for noth'ng. Indeed this is true. "Carolina believes in Cunrrell-andi joinis with Washington and Lee in say ing of him that he is 'a man of the highest character, lovable dlispositioni,a fine speaker, and( ha the ustmost cont JOHNSON WINS THIRD CONTEST TUESDA Y NIGHT Wins the Right to Represent North and South Carolina in Spartanburg JOHNSON LOCAL CHAMP Will Work for Scholarship to University of Texas, Duke or Southern Methodist ,Speaking on "Tihe Forgotten Man," J Walter Johnson. studeit of the Uni versity, won the Caroiina "Know Metho disin" Oratorical Contest, held under the auspices of the Epworth League, at the Hawthorne Lane Methodist Church at Charlotte the past Tuesday night. By virtue of his victory Johnson will repre sent the States of North aid South Carolina in a contest at Spartanburg on March 4th to determine the champion Methodist Orator of the South. Johnson defeated Charles Moody Smith of Duke University, Durham, rep resenting the Ecastern North Carolina Conierence; Earle V. Best of Marion, also a student of the University of South Carolina, representing the low South Carolina Conference, aind Robert Smith of Gastonia, representing the Western North Caroiina Conference. Johnson has thus far been victorious in three contests. In his first tryout, lie was declared the champion orator of the local Epworth League. Last week he won the South -Carolina Upper Metho dist Conference and Tuesday night the champjonship of North and South Caro li. For his victory in the South Caro lina Upper Conference Contest, he was awarded a scholarship to Wofford Col lege. Should Johnson win the Southern con test, he will receive a scholarship to Duke University and the right to con pete in the fina, con,test to be held at St. Louis on March 18th to determine the winning orator of the entire Metho (list Episcopal Church of the United States. The winner there will receive a scholarship, with all expenses paid for four years, to either Southern Methodist University of Texas, Emory of Geor gia, or Duke University of North Caro lina. Johuson is from Greenville. He is a juniol in the academic school and a member of the Clariosophic Literary So ciety. -U.S.C. CO-ED INJURED IN AUTO CRASH NO FATALITIES Miss Ida Johnston Cut When Hurled Through Wind shield of Ford OCCURRED AFTER GAME Wheel Torn off Coker's Car Which Was Parked on Green Street A Ford sedan containing three co-eds, Misses Florence Parker, Ida Johnston, and P'hillis Earles, driven by Miss Par ker, crashed into another Ford sedan containing some university boys, on the corner of Bull and Green~ streets Satur day night shortly after the basketball game with Carolina and D)avidson. The car cotainin)g the boys and drtiv - en by Allan Coker seems to have beeni parkedl on the side of Green street to let some one out, and while thus parkedI the car with the girls turned the corner at a fast spec-I. WVhen they saw the thter car it was too late to stop ; they crashed into it, smashing one wvheel comn pte~ly off. Miss~ Johnston was hturled through the wvind shield and wvas cut 5evere'ly. She was rnshedl to the In imary where a surgeon. sewved up the ent which reqtuired ten stitches. She is st;ll in the Infirmary but is steadily im No other injuries were sustained, and en*tsidle of a wheel being torn off and the wind shieHl of the girls' car being brok sit. there was r,o further apparent di fidence and admiration of all wvho have ever been associated wvith him while h's 'hoys' are ent husiast ic a bout him.' * --U.s,C. His Girl-I thought of vou all (lay yes terday. H-arrisoni--How~ nice. 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