Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literarry 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, 190J. 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 JEssE A. RUTI.EDGE . . . Edstor-in-Chief SYDNEY HEYMAN . . . Managing Editor $oa SPARKs . . . . . Associate Editor MANNIE STEWART . . . Associate Editor HARRY L. HINGSON . . . Associate Editor V. L. MAY . . . sports Editor $IL. GAINES . . . . Feature Editor MAtmE WAL. . . . . Co-Ed Editor UuURIS BROCK . . . . Joke Editor ASHL.Y HALSEY . . Exchange Edito' 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 Penland, Ann L. New; L. M. Want; James W. Pitts. BUSINESS STAFF JosEPa HioT . . ~. . Business Manager I.,AWSON SCoTT . . . . . Assistant 1tERT KARICK - - . . . Assistant WILLIAM YARRISH . . Circulation Manager CARU. BROWN - - . . Assistant EVANS BROWN - . - - . Assistant TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 1929 Campus politics are like bath tubs, don't mind having "em" but object tp being seen therein. Giving a woman driver a generous share of the road isn't courtest, it's discretion. Woman came from a bone and they've been pulling them ever since. I found out the family skeleton, Christmas; but the folks made no bones over it. u sc---- - Exchange Marks Progress Possibly the greatest innovation on the campus and one having the potentialities of doing the most good for the largest number is the new telephone exchangc. In times past it was practically impossible to locate any student living in the University dormitories by tele hhone. This deplorable state of affairs existed even until the beginning of the current term. The idea of placing a telephone exchange on this campus is not one of recent date as the proposition was to monumental to be accomplished within a day. This exchange proves more than anything else, the goodl of Honor Service fratrnities. The credit of ac complishinig this feat is dlue to Omicron Delta Kappa who by this act has placed the worth of service frater nities beyond question and above reproach. This makes the second outstanding service the frater nity has rendered the University since its installatIon a few years ago. The other, a very ornamental sundial erected in front of Petigru College, marks one of the few attractive places on the campus. This telephone exchange will also employ several operators, which will give an opportunity to several de serving students to help defray expenses while at the University. Stnan innovation does something more than the aforementioned elements, it marks an increase and a rapid growth in the University. Ten years ago such an idea would have held its originator up to the ridicule of his associates, today that idea is certainty. Such is the phenominal growth of the University, due in a large measure to the Service fraternities that we have on the campus. USc The Time Arrives Thursday afternoon many of the regular activites on the campus will have a sort of stillness not known before this year will reign over the dormitories; and all atten tion will be turned to examinations. Students will find themselves trying to sum up several months' work with in a night. Important topics; that has not been consid ered as such in ordinary study; will be discovered; and an attempt will be made to digest these. Then a com mon result will.be a terribly confused mind; a smatter ing knowledge of the course; viewed as a whole for the first time. Examinations are sometimes considered as a kind of war between the professors and students, in which the former has all the implements of battle needed to win the contest, and the latter is left bare-handed at his mer cy. This is hardly true and a great many instructors give examinations as a matter of necessity and in keeping with the rules of the University. Accordingly professors do not find it an easy task to select questions which, when answered will indicate the students' ability to demonstrate his knowledge of the course. It is a well defined art on the part of any per son who can select and devise questions that will eithe' fail or pass a student, and at the same time be represent ative of the whole course. It is an art developed afte many years of questioning, of being questioned; antd numerous hours of lecturing and study. However, thow, professors who attempt to give questions which cover every possible angle of a course and expect the students to answer them exactly as they should be answered, is extremely in need of taking an examination themselves Students very often find it difficult to ascertain from the questions exactly what the instructor desires. Au thorities contend that there are many who fall short of this fundamental element of procedure. During examinations the student very often writes al probable answers, links up these with related thoughts and in this way attempts to throw in all chances to get the correct result. It is for this reason that students often consider mathematics and other subjects which require concrete answers to related questions as the most diffi cult to pass. Most authorities contend that the best way to go about an examination is to arrive at the classroom well on time and to become calm before reading the questions. When this is done the question which seems the easiest to answer should be begun first. With this done the worst of the examination will seem to be over. UsC Hear Them Shoot! While the campus rocks and reels under the blasts of hot air from political bull shooters, it might not be amiss to mention that the gal game of government is going on at our very doorstep practically unnoticed. This is not as it should be. The University more than any other state supported institution can and should take a very vital interest :n the meetings of the state legislature. Nor should it be only the marked interest of suppliants doomed to watch the appropriation bill battered and trimmed almost be yond recognition. Rather, students at Carolina should remember that on them as future leaders of the state must fall this thankless task and on them the common wealth puts its hopes for a more efficient government. It is a drab business and one about which no college man entertains illusions of glory. Yet these illusions rightly used, are not such bad things after all. South Carolina needs men who can dream broadly politically, economically, and educationally and have the ability to do things accordingly. The young men of the state who have been educated largely at her expensc should not forget that all privilege entails obligation. In our case, we should have learned to realize the tangible economic value of an educated citizenry. Nearly every legislative trouble of South Carolina revolves around finances. Now the condition of the state treasury is dependent on the size of the taxes but taxes are in turn limited by the amount of taxable wealth. If money is to be had, there must be a prosperous peo ple. What makes prosperity? The fact has been de monstratedl over and over again-education. Europe thought Cavour was a madman when he insisted that a bankrupt country should not save but spend-on pro jects which would increase national prosperity, and the school system stood high among them. Europe laughed but Cavour made Piedmont a flourishing nation in a de cade, while the rest of Italy floundered under backward reactionaries. This is the sort of thing that graduates should re member when they come to be voters or representatives. It is for this reason that students should watch legisla tive proceedings whenever possible. Perhaps, in providene's good time we shall have a meeting of the General Assembly In which economy in education is at last seen as the grross extravagrance it is. SYLVAN BROS. MERCHANTS JEWELERS .AND DIAMOND Most complete stock of sterling silver prize cups in the Carolinas. 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