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0JI (amnark Member of South Carolina College Press Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATE-41.50 A YEAR. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice oni November 20, 1908. 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 will be published in the Open Forum as submitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF JOHN MADISON YOUNGINER . . . . . . . . . Editor-in-Chief HARRY E. i)eP.ASS. J.. . . . . . . . . . . Managing Fditor STAFF ROBERT H. ATKINSON . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor ASHLEY HALSEY. JR. . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor EUGENE CARtMICHAEI . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor CALHOUN (LEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor MAYRE WALL.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Editor LEROY WANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. News Editor 0. 1) BLACK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spurts Editor WILSON O. WEIl)ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Editor ROBERT H1. ATKINSON . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Editor J. R. ANI)ERSON . . . . . . . . . . . Y. M. C. A. Editor S. EVANS BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feature Editor JOHN WHITE Joke Editor CO-El EDlITORS DOROTHY PENI,ANI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor VIRGINIA MULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . .. News Editor FOY STEVENSON -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Society Editor EMILY SUY11AM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feature Editor ROSALIE TU'ItNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sports Editor ASSISTANTS W. 0. JetTords; Harold W. Funderburke; C. L. Jones; J. I. Krawchek; anid Mitchell Morse BU'SINS S I)EPARTMENT JOSEPH C. IIIOTT....... . . . . . . .Business Manager LAWSON SC(Yl'T, BERT KARICK . . . . . Assistants WILLIAM PARRISH...... . . . . . . Circulation Manager CARL BROWN, EVANS BROWN . . . . . . . . . . Assistants TUESI)AY, APRIL 9, 1929 Spurs A great many students were offended because their names were not in the Yellow Sheet. The Euphradian Literary Society has an antique table same as new. Spring elections are now warming up. The mud is as bad as the smoke. Boys can give us cigars, but what about the candidates for May Queen? After a co-ed graduates she teaches school-her first stepping stone to marriage. The campus lawn will not need any fertilzer next week-we are going to make the freshmen go bare footed. If college is a "Weary River"- poor fish! -U.s.o. Freshman Barefoot Day Spring has come in all its splendor. The season should be celebrated. We believe it would be a good idea to celebrate it with a freshman barefoot day. The weather is now getting warm, and the celebration should be held soon. A very suitable day for the unusual, interesting celebration would be the day of the May Queen election. It is a day when every freshman at Carolina is expected to pull off his shoes (leave them off from the night before) and go about the campus all day barefooted. K. S. K. and several organizations about the campus will promote the program. All upperclassmen are in favor of the plan. Don't forget that the official freshman barefoot day is the day of the May Queen election! "What is so rare as a day in June?" But MAY we have a rare day in APRIL also! -U.s.o. Standing For Service There are approximately 250 University candidates who have made application for their degree in June. This is perhaps the largest college graduating class in the State, with the exception of Winthrop. We are proud of the service that our University has rendered to the State and country. We have made a study of the situation and find that the conduct of University students is as good as the best in any college in South Carolina. Out of a stu dent body of over sixteen hundred there are a very few who miar the integrity of our standing. The University of South Carolina is an inter-denomi national State institution, and despite this fact there are at least fifteen young men on the campus who are dedicating their lives to full-time Christian service. We believe there are few denominational colleges that can show a better record. --U.S.o. College Criteria Of all the divers and diverse categories into which students may fall, the two most distinct are perhaps these: the solicitous popularity enthusiast, and the scholar. The actual number of each is relatively small, the majority of students representing innumerable gradations and mixtures of the two. "Honor" has today become a word of such extraordi narily common occurrence that we hesitate to use it. It is applied so promiscuously, so indiscriminately, that one is at a loss to know how to interpret it. Time was when the glitter of gold upon the chest and the sheen of official raiment bespake excellency and achievement. Today it speaks more often of political dexterity and adroit sycophancy. However, we wonder which of the two types of students mentioned above is the more worthy and deserving of distinction, and by what standards are we to judge them. There are students whose criterion of honor consists of the ability to be conspicuous. Their aim and ambi tion is to be recognized and celebrated by their con temporaries. They speak disparagingly of erudition; they brand the student who strives toward scholarship a bookworm; they thirst for a sip from the cup of celebrity, though it be of doubtful pedigree and con taminated with the dregs of spuriousness. Then there are those who come to college for a different purpose-for an education. Their criterion is one of mental training and cultivation. They are serious about their work. They have chosen a college course because of the advantages for association with richer and more mature minds, for guidance and sound leadership, and for the sympathetic and inspiring at mosphere of intellectualism to be afforded by the faculty. To a student of this sort popular heroism is a thing that lives for a day and then like all things ephem eral fades into oblivion; education, a blessing that lives forever. This student considers popular distinction a secondary thing-a by-product of legitimate labor. Whether or not a student is graduated with highest honors in his class does not matter. All things are relative and only one can be the best. However, the student who works conscientiously and untiringly to ward the fulfilment of his ideals can upon the comple tion of his course look back with a great deal of per sonal pride and satisfaction at a thing well done. It is believed that the above is exact-a critical esti mate of two somewhat extreme but certainly existent types. And it is a matter of conjecture which of the two is today the more admired. It is certainly a matter of sufficient importance for one to ruminate at length before choosing his standard. -v.s.c. Stamndards Side-Tracked Within the narrow scope of our range, we have seen standards broken and changed. Even life is based on a standard. And what is it? Within the walls of every habitation there is often the temptation to lower a standard. At present, it appears that a freshman can be elected as president of the college student body; scholarship is not considered when electing a valedictorian; the girl with the most sweethearts is elected queen of May not the most beautiful; an unqualified friend is elected to membership in the honorary fraternity; and an ordinary jackass can mount the rostrum. What are we going to do with standards? -U.9.. OPEN FOR UM To the Editor of The Gamecock: In the edition of The Gamecock of two weeks ago appeared an article entitled: "Mixers and Book Worms'. or as one student facetiously (and perhaps correctly) put it, "Book Mixers and Good Worms." In the effect the article said the "weeping demand" of "Big Business" is "good mixers" and not the scholar. The mixer's personality, the editorial further stated, is not a matter of achievement but of inheritance. The article observes in conclusion that. the ability and personality of the mixer are as much in demand as is a good education. Now we do not set ourselves up as spokesmen for either Big Business or Phi Beta Kappa. In the first place, we are not closely enough connected either financi ally or otherwise to speak for the former. And as for the latter, that organization has a record of achieve ment in both the business and literary world that speaks to all who take the trouble to inform them selves. The article assumes in the very beginning that one of Phi Beta Kappa calibre is not a good mixer and further that he is invariably a book worm. This, no doubt, is trite with a number of the group attacked. They love literature and are not ashamed of the pas sion. A large number, however, are not only good students but leaders as well, and.(if the trite expres sion be allowed), are also "Good Mixers." An observation of the fraternity since its installation at Carolina will suffice to prove the above statement. Among the members have been presidents of the stu dent body, and presidents of the literary, scientific, and language organizations of the campus. One must be ignorant of conditions at the University not to know that it takes "good mixers," even politicians, to achieve a record like that. In conclusion, Big Business seems not to have shunned these students whom Phi Beta Kappa chose. The General Electric Company, the American Bridge Company, a large chemical company are among the Big Businesses which demanded men of scholarship who have graduated from the University in the past several years. Others of the group have chosen to work independently as lawyers, accountants, writers, etc. The business of training and instructing the youth, which Dr. Melton once called "America's Biggest Busi ness," has chosen quite a number. Considering that the University is a seat of learning, it is our humble opinion that high scholarship should be encouraged rather than made an object of adverse criticism, and the Gamecock, being the mouthpiece of the school, should take the lead in boosting the scholar ship standing. F. Warren Wood. ROSE-MARY OVER WINGFIELDS The Rose-Mary Invite We are prepared to tak< and Parties, 1 ATTRACTIVE M What We Sai Russow Je School and Colle FRATERNITY PINS AND MO? 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