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"Bs Cot4 g w3PAMrtN SoUTH CAROLINA" Member of dh 'out C.r@A College Press Aiociation *ublished Weit b the V4rious itirary Societies of the -University 6f' South Carolina. erms--$1.50 a Year Entered at Seond-Clasi. Mail Matter at' the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on' November 20, 1908 Naws ITIMs may be handeO in to any member of the staff. EbITORIAL STAFF BURTOrN SHooK . . . . iditor-in-Chief Biuci WatT - . . . . Managing Sdifor SYDNEY HEYMAN .' . Associate dito' 'RALu Lawis . . . . Assocate fditor WHITNEY .THAREN . . Associate Editor En BALLZNGZR . . . Sports Editor MAYRE WAL.L . . . . Co-Ed Editot ASSISTANTS WIuLAM A. BRUNSON . . . . Cluba SURA WoW9 . . . . . Co-8d EUGENE CARMICHAEL . . . . Y.M.C.A. DixI= DAVIs . . Sports ERSKINS LiGTm . - . Faculty JosEPH KAREsH . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS James Pittiv,Elizabeth Hardy, Harold Funderburk, Jack Hanilton, Barron Bridges, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsPm DEnirc . . . Business Manager JosEP HioT . . . Assistant HXNRY WALKXR . . . . . Assistant JACK BATCS . . . Circulation Manager .W1L.LAM PARRISH . . s. . Asistant -,8Z9RWOOD SMITH . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1927 Gamecock Spurs By H. S.H., Some official of the University has just had the walks of the University filled in with gravel. Well done thou good nd faithful Savant. Basketball season will soon be here, bnt then it doesn't amount to much more than a drop in the basket. 6 3 - *. **-.* *' The fail receptions have started at the White House, And.Mrs, Coolidg.e can now.be called the first Lady of the Hand. The editor and the business manager of The Gamecock have gone to Clinton to attend the College "Press" Asso ciation. 'Wherever one goes you .can always see the other one. !iot that they don't trust each other, oh no, nothing like that. The School of Journalism is putting out this edition of 'lhe Gamecock and the co-eds know quite a good bit about the p.ower of the "press." A'certain college daily recently spoke of their football players as being of the tonsil variety, that is, they are always being taken out. A twenty-five dollar a week reporter of a Columbia newspaper broadcasts to the world everyday his wisdom, or his lack of same in a coiumn called "Grid Chatter." This modern Pulitzer can well afford to talk of other schools since he received his erudition at a mighty institu tion of -learning that sleeps so-peacefully amidst the corn fields up state. Wheniver. the Purple Hurricane Wins a contest, they blow too,.much about it. Room for More F rats Out of the husidreds of national. social, professional and honorary fraternities-installed in other schools throughout the country, only a very small percentage are being sought at the University. With a student body of nearly 1600 men and w.omen, it is discouraging that more groups are not formed to petition the particular national organization suit. ing the .requirements of the group.. The University has* a variety ,f;'local professional and honorary clubs which would be gladly received, upon proper application, into, natioal fraternities of like nature,, and cer-tainly there are numbers .f':men and women too, on the campus, who would be a distinct icredit to the national socIal fraternities having chaptgrs in- other schools. A .Pan-Hellonic council has been eformed of members of the g*oUig wyhich have been installed,' and others which have al-664y petitioned or expect to. petition. There is a standi~g faulty committee on fraternities, composed of five faculty members. One essential duty of these bodies is to alidpetitifoning locals in obtaining their charters. At school's -*here frAternities have been in existence for a lorig period-thie Pap HeHlenic council works assiduously and .in defatigah .to ~shiet'locals in securing aiational affiliations.: The counacili.reali!es the value of bringing another'national frateritlty on, its.-- camp.us, and spares no effort in thus benefitthig its school. Dejy In;petltionitsg ,the various nationals, when the pres ent st -of the University Is taken into account, materially dimin* 'the: loca's chazices of gettifig a -charter. *At schools -wher'e fraternities -are already .efatbtished Ia new group Is at a disadvantagre; but at the uniersty, with the movement still'is. is its infancy, pnly a few. ational frater nities installed, the ne* jroup Iai delided advantage if it will act befNre te ield bcpfes tqoctowded.. - Why can't we have more fraternities,of all kinds on the campus The Pan-Hellenic council and the faculty committee on fraternities will be: glad to inform and instruct new groups, and help them in any way possible to'obtain a . chapter of some nationai fraternity. Who'll Do the Buying "Ra% tap, tap,"-for the eighth time within an hour you are interrontd You divine what is coming and sing out testiiy, "Naw, we don't wanta - buy nothin'." The purveyor of his wares pays no attention to your remark. He bustles in with the air of an Alladin who is bringing the magic lamp for you to gain fortune with. "Aw; c'monv buddy take a chance-fifty-fifty break." already and he at length takes leave. In a few minutes the candy vender drops by. - Try as you tiight, his sweets are irresistible and you are separated from your last thin dine. You munch happily on your candy until six clothes cleaning solicitors in a row, followed by agents for the Well-Knit Socks Co., the Will Knot Tie Co., and the Watersoak Slicker incorporation, and numberless others again cause your ire to be aroused. And so it goes on for the rest of the evening. These ubiquitious amateur merchants are a good thing in a way, but too much of a good thing becomes exceedingly tiresome. Sometimes it grates on the nerves. The amazing thing is how anyone expects to make anything out of cam p'us peddling when everybody on the campus is trying to sell something to everybody else and nobody is interested. ---Use The Open Forum To the Editor fo the Gamecock: I am anpealjng to you to publish, somewhere in the columns of your piper,.an explanation (if it's fit to print) of the epithet "horse-doctor," which is frequently hurled from the lips of motorists speeding past the dormitories on Green and Pendleton streets. My room is in Ward Vw tenemeht, and several times a night, my slumber, studies', and lofty abstractions .are disturbed by this outlandish cry. Its echo, which immediately emanates from the recesses of Wardlaw, Woodrow and Burney colleges, is even worse. I know what it means, and I think it ought to be stopped. I can bear the yells of "Furman, Furman," or "Hooray Tigers' because I understand in them the spirit of exulta tion: but the words "horse-doctor" seem to have .a sinister and ominous mcaning, not connected with anything in the realm of realism. They affect me as Aome weird in~caniti tion, the remainder of which has been lost through the centuries, and which has as its intent, putting the "bad mouth" on the University. Several myths have been offer ed to explain this bizacre cry, but they, are lacking in his torical veracity, as far as I can ascertain. With the.risk of identifying myself. with the proverbial "brown eyes," who brings her am6rous anxieties -to the question. and answer depa-tment of various newspapers, I would like to ask you confidentially in what manner I can rid myself of these pests who rack my nervous sensibilities. Once I shattered a perfectly good unused jar of pneumonia salve in a vain throw to punish an- offender who shouted this profane and detestable word, but it didn't even intimi date him. Do you think it was"because he didn't know I had thrown at him-beg pardon, I .mean how can I stop this outrage which makes my life miserable? (Signed) Anxious Usc THE WEEKLY ORACLE Method in H er Madness By WHITNEY THARIN MY roommate THEY sparred * * * * * * AND I went . AROUND and did * 4 * * * * ON ONE of A CLARA Bow on * * * - 4.. * THESE double THE davenport. ** * * * * I)ATE~S th'e . WHEN they came e* * , OTHER night.' UP for air *4* * *4** HE TIED ip SHE whispered * * * *4** WITH .a co-ed .SOMETHING about * * * * * .. WHIL,ElIdre w A BIGdaneeand. * * *4 * A HIGH school 'HE made a date * *..* * * * KID. Seeing .that FOR the affair. *4*4 * * * SHE was too WHICH all goes *4** * 4-* YOUNG to understand 'U.0 prove that **4 * ;* * * 'l11Hk higher YOU can't get *MOTIVES of love I AROUND 4*4* * 44. 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