Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Bxs Cou.ox NxwspAR IN SoUTn CAnoLwA" Member of thm 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, South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 1908 Nxws ITsus may be handed in to any member of the staff EDITORIAL STAFF BUTON S1OOK . . . . Editor-in-Chief Bauci WarTE . . . . Managing Editor STDNXY HEYMAN . . . Associate Editor RA.pa Liwis . . . . Assocsate fdigor WalTNEY THARIN . . . Associate Editor ED BALLENGR . . . . SPorts Editor MAYMR WALL . . . . Co-d fiditot ASSISTANTS Wu.tAu A. BRUNSON . . . . Cluba SURA Wo.U* . . . . . Co-ld BARRoN BRIDGES . . . , , Y.M.C.A. JOS%PK KARXSR . . . . . Forensic REPORTERS James Pitts, Elizabeth Hardy, Dixie Davis, Erskine LeGette Eugene Carmichael, William B. Moore BUSINESS STAFF JAsr=a DamRC . . . Business Manager JosEf HwOTr . . . . . Assistant HEOaY WALKM . . . . . Assistant JACK BATEs . . . Circulation Manager Wn.UAu PARRISH . . . . Assistant SaX=wOoD SuIT1 . . . . Assistant FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927 Gamecock SPurs By H. S.H. Football has just sung its swan song and basketball is about to( be ushered in. Back up your team. Up ou your legs, ye loyal supporters. A friend boastfuily remarked the other day that his ancestors came over on the Mayflower. He's lucky, the immigration laws are stricter now. An ad in a South Carolina paper: "A refined gentleman to drive and milk Ford truck"-milk from contented cans. 0 * * 0* Speaking of -narrow minedness, have you heard of the guy whose ears touched? Those that appreciate this will get the Croix Despaire: -I detest bologna but liver wurst. TAe next- time that Messrs Tunney and Dempsey meet we trust that Senor Jack will be given the benefit of the clout. A co-ed that resides at the Rembert house asked that the following be run in this column: "Some co-eds are so fast thaf they ought to go out for the track team." We have read worse. but it is impossible to remember where; we are still looking for blunt instruments. If this co-ed hands any more like this in, an "X" will mark e spot where the body was found. Students in Western Universities are all parting their hair in the middle. Possibly to balance their brains. What's wrong with this picture: "I've busted all my mid-termi quizzes and the home-folks are delirious with joy." A Grain of Salt A brief survey of the football scene at Carolina shows that she has just fiiaished one of the most disastrous sea sons in her history and the season is better ended. It is particularly unfortunate that this should have happened during the first year of Harry Lightsey's regime. Lightsey has been the victim of most unusual circum stances andi plenty of hard luck has come his way. Inju ries and flunk-outs have crippled his efforts at every turn. In spite of these handicaps, the Gamecocks have turned in some very creditable performances this year, although lacking consistency; this fault havitig been common to Carolina teams since Ye Humble Editor entered this insti tution in 1924. The Gamecock thanks Harry for his untiring efforts this year artd extends its heartiest support to him during the coming season.. Carolina's freshman team was a distinct disappointment and somewhat of a puzzle. A fine backfield and a fair line failed to co-ordinate and games were lost. This situalton jogs one's memory and recafls the two seasons preceding this las,t one. Worlds of material of every conceivable type were brought together and nary a championship team was produced. One thing was brought forcibly home to observers of freshtnan football, to wit: a good high school player is not necessarily a good college football player, and to use a man because he ought to be good, or because he was once good, is fatal to the best interests of the team. Comparisons are always odious, therefore the Gamecock cites Billy Laval as exhibit A of a coach who uses the best man for a position, reprdess of record, dope, or previous condition of servi The footbat season a4 a whole brought to.light -.ap,0st disagreeable tendency, one which; as -editors, are supposed to say, "we view with alar'n." 'Iis was the tendentey to pass the buck, or fix the blamle 'for every defeat suffered. The usual cry raised-waM, "The students at-e not cheering as they should." 'They are not supporting the team as they should." This is bunk* of the .prest ray. In the four a football seasons that the Editor of the Gamecock has been at Carolina, he cannot remember any year when the cheer ing has been so well organized or so determined. The idea of fixing the blame for a defeat is in itself a fallacy. For a great many defeats there can be no 'one to blame, the answer is simply: the better team won. When this idea sinks in, a lot of energy spent at the Alibi Club can be turned to playing the game as it should be played and games will be won. - UC Congratulations, Mr. Dean Congratulations are most certainly in order in regards to William Dean and his first serious production in Colum bia, "A Doll's House." This piece of work more than merits the hearty' reception accorded it. The Gainecock does not profess to be eiigible to judge things histrionical, nor to be able to give a minute analysis of the good points of the production, but the smoothness of this work and fidelity to details must impress even. the uniniated. Again, congratulations to Mr. Dean on his success, and to the Columbia Stage society and the University on having his services at their disposal. . -USC What Price Frats The action of the South Carolina Baptist convention in abolishing fraternities at Furman university should sound a note of warning to fraternities and their friends at Carolina. Frats at Carolina will be watched with very critical eyes during the next few years. Theirs is the task to prove to the state that a fraternity is a valuable social unit. that it is a force for good, and that it is an elevating influence on 'any campus. The so-called snobbishness of fraternities must be avoided; only the highest type of men must be taken in or they will lay themselves open to every charge which ignorant and bitter opponents can level at them. The insidious thing about the opposition to fraternities is (not halitosis) but the fact that it is silent, stealthy, hard to run down and still harder to combat. This fact only places the greater resnonsibility on the shoulders of the Greek letter men on the campus. Vague murmurings can only be dispelled by open and above-board action and the Gamecock thinks that fraternities are well worth the Zffort necessary. -. Usc | The Open Forum To the Editor of the Gamecock: Please allow me a few lines in your dignified sheet to express a few sentiments of my own, aid I feel, of the student body as a whole. We are deeply indebted to, you and to your learned staff for the Gamecock and we appre ciate same but the appreciation would be infinitely deeper, greater and more sincere if we received the Gamecock on the time that we are supposed to get it. Now it 'does not take a journalist to know that news is not news aft'er every body knows about it and after it has been circulated on and around the campus. Because of a matter of tradition the Gamecock is in a habit of alpearing every Friday night between .the hours of eight and twelve. The staff of this term feels that tradition, custom are things to ne relegated, and that the Gamecock is to be distributed at any time that the aforementioned staff sees fit The Gamecock mentor figures that progress is not founded upon1 tradition and that as he is of the modern school of thinkers (?), this old form of procedure must be done away with and therefore the paper is not to make its appearance on the appointed time but later, the later the better. If by any chance the Gamecock would be put out on time, that would mean that the student body would receive two issues at once, the present issue and the one of the preceding week. Another thing that needs to be remedied is the fact that the Gamecock is not being distributed in the right manner. It does not take an advertising expert to see this point. As a matter of fact my tenement has not received its full quota of issues this year. I realize that this is not the .fault of the editor, but of the circulation department. How ever, the Gamecock is an integral part of the University and I think that the student body has a right to receive it, on the time that it is supposed to appear and also that the full number of the papers should be distributed when it comes out, be it ever so late. Now, this may seem like biting the hand that feeds you, but these facts speak for themselves and as a member of the student body, I deem it my privilege to bring these facts to sight and hope that some action will be taken on them. -A. Nonymous. FEDITOR's NoTE.-Most learned critic I bow before your vitrolic outburst and on bended and threadbare knees beg your humble pardon for the terrible injustice that has been done you. May I point out that the only time that the Gamecock has been edited late was on Saturdays after Thursday holidays and there was no time to get the issue out on Friday. All other sins must be laid at the door of the circulation department, which is separate and distinct from the editorial department. 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