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Ir (amnwrk Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Litcrarry Societies of the University of South Carolina. Subscription Rate-$1.50 a Year. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia South Carolina Postoffice on November 20, 190d. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Friday night before Tuesday's publication. Hand in copy typewritten and double-spaced. Names must be signed to copy. Articles may be published in the Open Forum, but will be printed as submitted. EDITORIAL STAFF JssE A. 1.UTLEDGE . . . Edstor-in-Chie. SYDNEY HiEYMAN . . . Managing Editor BOB SPARKS . . . . Associate Edior IANNIE STEWART . . . Associate Editor HARRY L. HINCSON . . . Associate Editor F. L. MAY . . . . Sports Editor tILL GAINES . . . . Feature Editor MAYRIE WAIL . . . . Co-Ed Editor CURTIS BROCK . . . . Joke Editor A CI.Rv HALSEY . . Exchange Editor ASSISTANTS Roy Gathings . . . . . . Y.M.C.A. 1'oY STEVENSON - - - - - Co-Ed O. D. BLACK . . . . . . . Sports REPORTERS Elizabeth Marshall, William Broughton, Ashley Halsey, J. Robert Anderson, Dorothy 'enland. Ann 1,. New; 1,. M. Want; J ames W. Pitts. BUSINESS STAFF JOSEPu Hxot . . . . Business A0anage' LAWSON SCOTT . . . . . Assistant BERT KARICK . . . . . Ass:sttnt WrLLIAM PARRISH . Circulation Manager CARI. BROWN . . . . Assistant EVANS BROWN . . . . . Assistant TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1928 Will Growth Continue? The University of South Carolina is not, comparatively a large school. Yet in the last five years it has about doubled its matriculation. If the necessary funds are forthcoming, it is an easy guess that it will repeat this gesture within an equal period in the future. Then aoout the time when Herbert Hoover is hoisted into the White House for a second engagement, this University should have attained mature dimensions. In keeping with its exterior growth, its internal animation, i. e.. the "spirit" of the place should have enlarged and broadened commensurately. The estimate is to physical augmentation is a safe one, but what of the intangible amplification of attitude, so essential in buttressing the superstueture of objective increase? -That the one will not necessarily follow as a corollary of the other is ob)vious. Tlhat it should so do is just as evident. WVhether this consummation so glevoutly to be desired will b)e achieved, is a question the answer to which is hidden in that (lark and awesome repository of deferred issues-the Future. But we cannot resist speculation thereon. That the student body of this University is almost ex cluisively local in its derivation is an inescapable fact and no imputation of provincialism. That the mooted next five years will see no material alternation in this tircumstance is a justifiable belief. That the said space will see a staggering increase in the ratio of girls en rolled, we also count inevitable. Thus we havse tage situation: The expected growth will not adld diversity of citizenship, but wvill increase the female contingent. then if cosmopolitanism is attained it must be from the inside and from the local produc,t varied only by femn inine addenda. - - dI(ications of a progressive andl expanding spirit we ,tane to b)e the following : -- A demand for a more elastic curriculum-a widenmng of the range of electives so as to permit more facile combinations in A.1g sW6ws; a cry orT rea er voJime ~; and diversity of owrrent4books 'tii is utriresent'.Gr nished bv the .ibra'ay bncessroI;of .pol& 1 rsa tive to the co-ed-and concomitantl, recognition of the idea that as a college item eh isnt'er ly' Sart to the campus fauna-neither to be pooh-poohed as trahor anyone violentlivuii RtWeVin J#fi'al athletics tolera tion by both faculty and student of incipient intellectual.. ity and divergences from the accepted norm; more articulate expression from the "intelligentsia" group; freer concourse between the professor and student' as human beings-in brief and in earnest, the evolution of the "laissez-faire" idea which we think is integral with the idea of a real "University," and which permits every man resorting thither to follow his own conceptiin of "education" with minimal official restraint and without any personal derogation of his efforts-however they may differ from his neighbors. At present, we see Carolina only as a large college. But we think we see, implicit in its fiber, incohoate as yet, those elements which expanding and unfolding as the school grows, will raise it to the status of "Uinver sity," after the sense in which we have spoken. Even if the beatific elements of appreciation of independence, charity of spirit and toleration of ideas do not flower as we hope; even if Carolina, growing along the lines we believe it will take, 'does not reach the stature we have indicated-we are indigenous enough South Carolinians to declare the fault to be outside the personnel and lodge in the problem itself. But why shouldn't Caro line be a University in spirit as well as in fact and name. Echo-or whoever the Republicans have appointed in their place, answers, "There is no reason-she should." -~U.S.C. OPEN FORUM 'o The Iditor of The Gamecock: Last week the student body, by an overwhelming vote, decided to discard the present class ring for a more 'collegiate" one. The change may or may not have been desirable. It is not the purpose of this article to argue that point. We do wish, however, to -point out the dangers likely to be involved in such action. The student body had been officially notified through The Gamecock Wednesday morning of action that was to take place Thursday morning, but due to the discretion of the president of the student body, the v,ote was de layed four clays. With a scratch of the pen on Monday morning, the student body, after only five days ronsideration, dis carded the classic ring that for a generation has been worn by Carolina alumni. A desire for a change, for a breaking away from traditions, seems to have seized the student body. The proponents of the change stated )as their major argu ment that the new ring would be more beautifhl. That itself, is a matter of argument. There are two general classes of beauty: one, the simple classic art, represented by the world famous Grecian school; the other, the more ornate, intricate type, as represented by the Arobesquc or Moorish architecture. The old ring comes in the cartegory of the first, the new ring represents the latter in all its modern exaggerations. Another reason for the introduction of the new ring was that other colleges are changing. Should we fol low these other colleges in introducing such mometous innovations, or should we solve our problems As befits our peculiar situation? In announcing the vote to be taken -to determine whether or not the change should be made, local papers stated as one of the advantages of the new ring that it would be convenient to engrave fraternity' letters on the garnet (?) stone. We c1jallenige the propiiety of plac 'ng fraternity letters abo,e' the Univeityity seal. The ring is supposed to symbolize a' bond existing among the mlemibers of the gratuating class. The placing of in dliv'idual fr-iterniity letters wvould destroy this character istic. Fraternity keys, pins, and rings, should suffice to satiate.the passion for display of dlotibtfuil honors. Sonic reasons that might have been: conisidered' for * . -et ion of ithe( old ring ai-e: 1. A large number of students have already bought 1929 rings. 2, A class ring is symbolical- of the, school- and the seal sliould therefore be predomiAant. I' 3. A stone ring is impracticab)le due to its fragility. 4. The carolina ring will lose its individuality, be cominjg just' ariothei-- college ring: A mnarked rsema~ blance is .aeen twheen :fhe new (n and (go Nb~ be 19y, Wofford.P. C. agI Furnul - This arguient is iiot d.irectedl with any howe of. re vertiiig'to the' old Sing, ~ - Is> ed 'solely af e f6r' more maature deliberation on future problems that shall surely arise. ,... ... . SYLVAN BROS. MERCHANTS JEWELERS AND DIAMOND Most complete stock of sterling silver prize cups in the Carolinas. 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