Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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%Ae GA4Gcoc "Best College Newspaper in South Carolina" Member of the South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Terms-$1.50 a Year Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter, at the Columbia, S.C. Postoffice on November 20, 1908 News Items may be handed in to all members of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF HAROLD H. HENTZ . . . . Editor-in-Chief BRucE WHITE . . Associate Editior BURTON SHOOK . . . . Associate Editor ED BALLENCER . . . . Sports Editor MARGUERITE JOHNSON . . Co-ed Editor WILLIAM A. BRUNSON . . . Managing Editor A S S I S T A N T S E. CARL THoMPSON . . . . . . Clubs KENNETH GRIMSLEY . . . . . Y.M.C.A. DOUGLAS JETER . . . . . . Faculty JOSEPH KARESH . . . . . . Forensic WHITNEY THARIN . . . . . Features ARTHUR MEDLOCK . . . . . Exchanges MARY SAYE . . . . Y.W.C.A. SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . . . City News ERSKINE LEGETTE . . . . . . Sports H. W LINK . . . . . . . Humor REPORTERS Jack Hamilton, Ralph Lewis, James Pitts, Thomas Wofford, Gladys Lawton, Elizabeth Lindsay, Mdyre Wall, Ray God shall, Elizabeth Hardy. W. B. Moore, Sura Wolff, Dixie Davis, Gene Carmichael BUSINESS STAFF JOHN R, PATE . . . . Business Manager JASPER 0. DERRICK . . . . Assstant M. C. WIL.IAMS . Circulation Manager SYDNay HEYMAN . . . . . Assistant FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1927 Gamecock Spurs Patronage of home industries has oft been the subject of many. * * * 'The oniy way to get next to some people is to get as far away as possible. * * * Why not ask the Postmaster General to install a real postoffice on the campus? It can he done. * * * if the blue laws don't put Carolina on the map, our athletes will. Step on it U.S.C.! * * * Congratulations! Dr. Parkinson, and all the rest who assisted in preparing the latest Aluni Directory. It is i great piece of work. * * * Here's hop.ug that the I GOI'TA [NICK-I., and L KEREPA CO1B and the other Alpha to Omegas are let through the bars of moral turpitude. * * * Many thanks FRIGIDAIRF. Now we can keel) cool these summer months while Calvin is in the west. where men are cowboys, and women open the doors of the jails. * * * Although some one has saidl that it is dlangerous to tam uer with mean corn and mean cows, it should also he said that it is nto wise thing to play with things called rye and calves. * * * The state of South Carolina should feel p)roudl of what she is dloing in her high schools af one as to judge from what the various schools have sent to the University io represent them in high school wteek at Carolir,a. * * * There is always that kind of old fossi,ized maid who ethinks she knows everything and all the world must abide by her doctrine. if these sweet "patooties" would wake uip occasionially they would finid that they' not onaly have no doctrine or philosophy but that they are old1 foggies who can't enjoy life hecauise they are sour as 'possum grapes, and furthermore, they want nto one else to enjoy himself. Of cuiorse there are none at Carolinaa. --U.S.C. Welcome to Our Campus To those high school stuidents wtho have beeni guests of the University before, any wordls of welcome must seem unnecessary. Carolina has always tried to make your stay here as enjoyable as possible, and it believes. with success. 'flo you The Gamecock can merely sat, "Make yourselves at home." Tro you who are cominig here for the first time The' 'Gamecock, on behal f of the Uniaversity, ext:endls a n",., cordlial welcome. The studenat body ;a anxious to make your two days here the fullest and happiest o)f your life Enjoy Carolina to the fullest, take advantage of everything which is offered you wvith the assurance that it is joyftully given. Carolinia feels that youi are more than guest-.. that you are close friends, whom in the not-distant fuitur What's A Chapel, Anyway? A special student in the University. having heard much lamentation of freshmen compelled to go to chapel, has entered the doors of Rutledge not a few times in the last several weeks, only to come away on each occasion more in sympathy with the complaints of the sufferers. Borne forcibly in upon the attendant is the thought that chapel as now conducted is an outworn institution, a deteriorated means of getting students together for an nouncements, a something to be gotten off as quickly as possible. It has long since lost the spirit that must at one time have characterized it, that was once the reason for its being. The professors who attend wear an air of extreme martyrdom and resignation. They are there to uphold the honor of tl'e school. They are frankly bored and pitifully few in numbers. Compulsion or an announce ment to make is the only excuse for going to a meeting so devoid of interest or reverence. If the object of chapel exercises is to provide a means of circulating atmouncements, a large and attractive bulletin board erected at a central point on the campus would serve as well. Students might then improve these minutes, now often utterly wasted, with study. which, judging by the downcast eyes and open books in chapel meeting, they sorely need. If the object of chapel is to instill religious precept and to foster culture, let us have chapel meetings charac terized by leisure, reverence. solemnity and dignity. No one, though he be of high ideals and of an introspective type of mind, will carry with him through the day thoughts tossed from an auditorium platform in a ten minute meet ing where the time is taken up with getting seated, the Doxology, Bible reading, talk, prayers, a hymn, announce ments, and a wild dash to get to the doors. Many uplifting things are said in our chapel meetings, but they don't register. 'lie atmosphere is not in keeping with them. MaAnifestations of religion are as numerous in kind as are classes of people. We look to the educational center ol our state to manifest itself religiously in far different ways from those of the camp mecting. The University by making provision for interesting, longer, and more dignified meetings of students, even though these meetings may have to be less frequent, will institute, or revive, a custom which will have a real, an active, function in University life. -U. S. C. Bravo! Social Cabinet To the Social Cabinet, Miss Fthel Ann Mclure, S; Siedeman and Tom Craig, is due the credit for the admir 'able way iti which the lay Queen coronation and dance were conducted. Decorations for the dance in honor of the Queen and her maids, and a great deal of the actual work of putting .the gym in shape for the dance and the Field House in shape for the coronaticn was donie by the members of the Social Cabinct. This organization has worked hard all during the year. The largest series of dances that any group has ever given on the University camus was given this year under its auspices. These (anices have all been well attended and have all be enjoyable. 'lie Gamecock as the voice of the student body, wishes to thank the members of the Social Cabinet for their efforts in brightening the scholastic year with their enter tainments and wishes to congratulate Miss McLure and Messrs. Seideman and Craig upon the delightful manner in which all of these entertainmeits have been conducted and most especially for the manner in which the M1ay Queen coronation and dance were handled. -- U. S. C. -- A Better Commercial School The curriculunm at Carolinia is sadly incomplete in onie resptect-our s.hoo l of Commerce is without a typewriting andl shorthand dlepartmenlt. It is probably one of the few state business schools that is without these dep,artmnents. No business course is complete without typewriting ability If we are to hw,e a school of Commerce, we shouldl have a complete onte. Typewriting should be comppilsory for al: commerce and journalism students b)ut everyeone should be allowecd to take it. This would ntot mean an extra burden on the University, for the cost of the typewriters could be borne by the stu dlents taking it. The typewriter comp)anies offer liberal rates to schools. something around $5 per month, so the extra cost to the students taking typewvriting wvould only be around $2.50 per mionth. Since the cost of the machines would fall upon the sttudents, the University could wvell afford to hire several typewriting instructors. Simultaneous with the establishment of the typewriting dlepartmlent, courses in shorthand should also be established for commerce, journalism, and other students. Shor:band should be allowved to be substitutedl for freshman mathe matics, for aside from its disciplinary value, it has a l?ractical use, anid more students would be better eqjuipped to hold a position a fter gradtuation. The ability to take down lectures verbatim would certainly be an aid to stu (dints--graduate students especially. Tlhink how the commercial subjects wotuld greatly im prove themes, reports, nlotebooks, etc. If s:udents had the substance of many courses typewritten in notebooks, they co ulel retaina what they learn for use and enjoyment i;. tufter-college (lays. If enotugh students demand it, the commnercial courses urwill surelyo he ashishe, so talt t p "The Hese of ova*ty* Established in 1844 The R. L. 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