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BURTOrN SHooK . . . . iditor-in-Chief
Biuci WatT - . . . . Managing Sdifor
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'RALu Lawis . . . . Assocate fditor
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En BALLZNGZR . . . Sports Editor
MAYRE WAL.L . . . . Co-Ed Editot
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ERSKINS LiGTm . - . Faculty
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REPORTERS
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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.
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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
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AND I went . AROUND and did
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ON ONE of A CLARA Bow on
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THESE double THE davenport.
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I)ATE~S th'e . WHEN they came
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