Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"BtsT Cou.Aqt NEwsPAPEa IN SoUTZ CAROINA" Member of the South Carolina College Press Association Published Weekly by the Various Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. Terms--$1.5O a Year Entered as Second-Ciass Mail Matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 N%ws ITZMs may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BURTON SHooK .. . ditor-in-Chief Bauct Wnry .. Managing Editor SYDNIY HYMAN Associate Editor RALPH Liwis . . . . Assoctate Edtor WHiTNEY THARIN . . . Associate Editor ED BALLENGMR . . . Sports Editor MAYRR WALL . . . . Co-Ed Edito, ASSISTANTS WI..IAm A. BRUNSON . . . . Cluba Suua WOLF. . . . . Co-Ed EUGCNE CARMICHAEL . . . . Y.M.C.A. DixiE DAVIS . . . . Sports Eas]NE LaGaT -- - . . . Faculty JosEpm KAmsn . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS James Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Harold Funderburk, Jack Hamilton, Barron Bridges, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsPEa DEaRc . . . Business Manager JosoPn Hion . . . . Assistant NENaY WALKOR . . . . . Assistant JACx BATxs . . . Circulation Manager Wu.:.1A PARRISH . . . . Assistant SHERWOOD SMITH . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1927 Gamecock SPurs By H. S.H. 'Tlhe faculty of a western university has gone into a huddle and decreed that there is to be no more necking on their campus. Another disarmament conference. Ballad All classes of fools, all classes of asses Spoke in chapel before all the lasses; And' spilled hot air in order to determine The fate of a mn who bet on Furman. 'lhese self-appoiqted judges fumed and fussed, Stated anol debated with minds full of rust; As the best kind of torture they'd prefer For the fate of a man who happened to err. These legal lights, their royal highnesses, Let the gentleman apologize out of human kindness. It would aid their case and their sins atone To mind their own business and let his alone. -Heady Guess 0** The Sate of New York has made another home for dependent children. From all accourts that we can gather the experiment has turned out to be a "howling" success. The Carolinian seems to be a bit belated, but then it takes geniuses a long time to think and the muses may be either on a ten day leave of absence or getting off work. The physics students seemed to enjoy Professor Mer cer's talk in chapel last Sunday night, to judge from the hilarious laughter that greeted his jokes. The Editor says that the space must be filled. And he has such a large head. T olerance The recent studenit body meetings brought to light the fact that there are some students on the campus who regard .the University in the light of small college experience and who believe that college spirit can only be shown by hysteri -cal rahl rabs! and shouting of team! team! teast These worthies lose sight of the fact that college spirit can best be shown In carrying out of the traditions and true purposes for which the University was founded. -- Obviously the University was not founded by men who thought that meddling in the affairs of others was a true test of loyalty to their alma mater. The ac$ion of the small group of men, acting in the zame of the student body, was at best, interference in an affair which did not concern them, as a body; and at worst a meddlesome attempt to pattern the actions and thoughts of another after their own imperfect models. And some South Carolinians have the nerve to laugh at Tennessee and Boston! The spirit of a true unIversity Is one of complete toler ance, the creation of a state of mind which allows other people to think and talk (iwthin limits) as they see fit, without anyone crying treason. Just how much such a spirit was fostered by the recent affair is certainly open to debate. Just why a certain employee of the University should be singled out for such treatment must remain one of the mysteries of the war. It Is especially puzzlipg when the fact Is considered tliat there are bora fide students of the University who are gulty of the same "crime." An ..pla nation may be furnished in the fact that the gentleman is earning his three square meals per day working for the University, and gentle coercion could be applied to him most effectively. The gentleman's "offense" caniot be classified as any thing worse tha bad taste; and in the light of what has Just happened the University will vpot soon be in a position to criticize the taste of anyone. We'll Be Satisfied The Gamecocks carry the hopes of Carolina's students into the game against Furman tomorrow. Needless to say every student is pulling with all his soul for Carolina to win. But the University as a whole accepts as final the statement made by Coach Harry Light sey when serenaded Wednesday night, "I cannot promise a Carolina victory, but I cars promise that every .man on the field will be giving his best." No more than-this can be asked of anyone. If every man gives his best tomorrow, and he undoubtedly will, the student body will boast of its football team, regardless of the score. .The Open Forum To the Editor of The Gamecock: Are we to sit placidly by and listen to scurrilous re marks from every conceivable source anent our "school spjrit" Someone must take the initiative, it is often said; but quite a few have done just that and have succeeded in discovering a scanty number of converts to follow them. Most of us are so damnably conceited that we will follow no one for fear it will be thought we are admitting we didn't have brains enough to father the original idea, when, as a matter of fact, we are simply too lazy. Are we going to loaf about and allow an enthusiastic few to show us up for what we are, a collection of egocentric animals, who are interested in nothing that does not directly bring us material gain? Pep meetings and parades are worse than sparsely attended. Freshmen feel that they are being forced into something, and accordingly avoid them if possible; while upperclassmen, having run the gamut of experience and become yawningly blase, feel they cannot sacrifice a certain dignity by whooping it up among the simple freshmen. Such petty seifislpess is decidedly not upbuilding to any institution or principle. Tom Craig, with trousers rolled up and shirt-tail flying, led the parade Monday rnight, and if he did not lose dignity by it, which he did not, then who will? Until we discard petty prejudices and become a trifle more large-minded we wil never put our university on a par with the other col leges of the country, whose school and class spirit is unimpeachable. -W. B. Moon. ---Us To the Editor of The Gamecock: Will you allow me a small space in your paper to say a few words of congratulations to the officers of the junior class? Last week you were kind enough to publish my letter in which I decried the '1ractice of a certain campus organization charging the alumni a $2.00 admission fee to the gym dances. 'lhanles, also, to you. My eye has, this week, been struck by placards an nouncing in bold letters, that the junior class is sponsoring an Armistice Day dance in the gym Friday night-and here I come to the crux of the whole matter-and that students with althletic tickets and alumni With association cards will be charged $1.00. To be concise and to the point, the officers of the junior class have recognized the blunder committed in the past and are determined that they will not be guilty of such an error. The plan of the officers of the junior class is commend able. Those, who argued vigorously that the alumni should be charged $2.00 because they paid nothing to the Univer sity while the students paid their valuable hard-earned money for their athletic tickets, and while the alunmni reaped the same benefits as those of the students, need only focus their attention upon the two words "association cards," which are emblazoned on the dance announcements. An association membership card represents the separation of the alumnus with $5.00 of his money and more impor ,tant than that demonstrates conclusively that he is vitally interested in the University. The officers of the junmor class were well aware of this fact and by laying it down as essential that only Alumni Association members shall be granted admission for the sum of $1.00, have with one sweet of the hand relegated into desuetude the only sane argument as yet to be advanced in favor of the extra $1.00 exacted from the graduates of this institution. My hat is off to the president of the junior class and his able and wise committee who are conducting the dance. My sole and burning regret is that they were not the ones to conduct the dance on Alumni Homecoming Day when the alumni received an exceedingly sharp setback, in the presence of the shocks and rebuffs of domineering hostile natures. The wrong done cannot be wholly righted. The juniors have wedl done their share. Again congratulations, success, and a packed and crammed gym tonight. Respectfully, -S. C. Will Be Back Soon DEAR Students: LET ME assure AGAIN I have YOU that it BEEN shoved "WON'T BE LONG OUT of the NOW." 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