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VOL. XXIII. COLUMBIA, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1930 No. 16
Senior Class 1
Write-Up
Individual write-ups of seniors will
be retained in the 1930 annual provided
practically all of them are turned
in to the editors before March 1, it
was decided Saturday at a meeting of
the senior class. A new senior editor,
R. H. Atkinson, has been appointed by
the editor-in-chief to help with the
write-ups.
Called at the request of Robert
Wauchopc, editor of the Garnet
and Black annual, the seniors debated
the advisability of doing away
with the personal paragraphs. After
Wauchope stated that the meeting
had been called when he found only
half the senior write-ups ready for
the printer, Frank Buie, class president,
asked the seniors' opinions on
the matter.
Motion was made by Ashley Halsey
that the write-ups be published
in the 1930 year book, especially since
features such as sponsors had been
eliminated. In case the senior class
failed to cooperate with the editors,
STATE ORATORS
IN ANNUAL MEET
CONSTITUTION AMENDED
State Contest To Be Held At
Winthrop College On
April 18
The a inual executive meeting of the
South Carolina Intercollegiate Oratorical
Association was held Saturday
morning at the Jefferson hotel. A. J.
1 amsberg of the College of Charleston,
vice-president of the association,
presided over the meeting.
The meeting discussed the association's
constitution, which was changed
and amended in many places. Perhaps
the most important of these
changes is the fact that from now on
the treasurer of the association is to
be bonded for the amount of $250.
This amendment was introduced by
R. H. Atkinson of Carolina, secretary
of the association. Several changes
were made which provided mainly for
the betterment of the organization
and the way of holding the annual
contest.
A change in the constitution was
offered by A. T. Cooksley of the Citadel,
association president, which provides
that contestants in the annual
contest must be no more than four
year men at any college. The amendment
was heartily adopted.
1 he first part of the meeting was
given over to the reports of the officers
of the association. Mr. Cooksley
reported on finances of the organiza(Continued
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U.S.o.
CAMPUS TREES
BEING- PRUNED
Pruning Begun Last Year But Not
Completed Due To Lack Of
Funds
For the first time in the history of
the University, all the trees on the
campus will be completely pruned in
order that their future growth will not
be^ hindered.
The pruning was begun at tins time
last year but was not completed due
to lack of funds. This year every tree,
except those that were attended to
last year, will undergo the operation
of having every obstructing and dead
limb removed. The wound formed
will be treated with a specially preP'Jjcd
paint to prevent decay.
1 his work is being done by the
Armstrong Tree Service Co. of
{oughkeepsie, N. Y. The company
boasts of the fact that they have
never had a man killed on the job.
However two men have fallen and one
Was never able to return to his trade.
*ach man is insured for $10,000 against
any injury that may befall him in the
Performance of his work.
I he Armstrong company assigned
lis work to three capable young men
Who, as some students expressed it,
*'e as agile as the squirrels that inlabit
the trees.
The guy-wires which were placed
on the trees following the disastrous
September storm of 1928 have been
removed.
Vets On
s For Annual
Halsey's motion callcd for the elimination
of the write-ups after a date
set by the editor-in-chief. The motion
was passed unanimously by the eight
seniors present in chapel.
Wauchope yesterday announced
March 1 as the last date upon which
write-ups would be received. Unless
the great majority are submitted by
then, none will be used in the annual
this year.
"Only about 55 per cent of the seniors
have turned in write-ups," the
annual editor said. "To make the
book look presentable, every senior
should have a write-up under his or
her picture." Blanks for the writeups
are available at the Garnet and
Black office, under the Extension
building.
Atkinson, editor of The Gamecock
last term, is qualified by experience to
take up the office of senior editor. He
also edited The Palmetto, Carlisle
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JOURNALISTS TO
INITIATE SOON
BEFORE PRESS MEETING
Sigma Delta Chi Plans Ceremony
In Conjunction With State
Convention
Initiation date for South Carolina
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi journalistic
fraternity has been set for March
19, night preceding the annual meeting
of the State Press Association in
Columbia. Five students and several
prominent journalists, including Dr.
VV. W, Ball of the Charleston News
and Courier, first dean of the School
of Journalism, are to be inducted at
the ceremony.
This is the first initiation service to
be held this year. It was to have
taken place the middle of February,
but the date was changed to coincide
with the meeting of the Press Association.
Ashley Halscy is president of
the local chapter, only one in the Carolinas.
Other officers are H. L. Hingson,
vice-president, Oscar Black, secretary,
and F. L. May, treasurer.
Student pledges who are to be initiated
arc N. VV. Brooker, LeRoy Want,
Mason C. Brunson, Melvin Karcsh,
and Julian Krawchek. Frank Harvin,
pledge, plans to drop journalistic work
in favor of appointment to West Point.
Members of the School of Journalism
and all other students interested,
will be invited to attend the meeting
of the State Press Association to be
held in Columbia March 20 and 21, one
mouth later than the date previously
set.
Senator Frederick I). West of Abbeville,
president of the association,
will preside at the meetings. Prominent
speakers include David Lawrence,
well known Washington correspondent;
Gen. Bryant, grandson of
William Cullen Bryant, and a member
of a prominent New York advertising
firm; W. F. Gonzales, editor of The
State; Robert L,athan, editor of the
Ashevillc Citizen.
Two associate members of Sigma
Delta Chi who will take part in the session
arc Senator West and Mr. Gonzales.
GARNET AND BLA
OPEN TO
The beauty section of the 1930 Garnet
and Black will be one of the most
interesting features of the book, according
to Robert Wauchope, editor.
All pictures must be submitted to the
editor by Saturday, March 8.
Only Carolina students will be allowed
to submit pictures. Inasmuch
as the Garnet and Black is the Carolina
yearbook and is supposed to depict
phases of University, it is urged
that pictures of as many co-eds as
possible be turned in. However, there
will be no preference shown the coeds,
and pictures of other beauties may
be submitted.
Mrs. Burnet Stoney, prominent society
woman of Columbia and wife of
Professor Stoney, who has posed for
many of the most prominent artists
FRATERNITIES PICK
PLEDGES OF TERM
MONDAY EVENING
EIGHT MEN PLEDGED
Mid-Semester Rushing* Season Of j
Fraternities Culminated
Monday Night
Fraternity rushing season for the
second semester culminated Monday
evening at 6 o'clock, when the freshmen
gathered in chapel to proclaim
their fraternal choice.
. The silent period began Saturday
evening at 12 o'clock and ended at f>
o'clock Monday evening. A total of
eight men were pledged to the various
fraternities.
As it is the custom these men have
been entertained by the fraternities,
for the past few weeks to impress the
new students with fraternity life.
Several of the men are undecided
at present and will signify their choice
later in the semester. The following
have been pledged:
Sigma Chi
Hagood Woods, Gable;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
David G. Ellison, Jr., Columbia;
Phi Beta Delta
Manuel Berger, Columbia; Herman
Poliakoff, Anderson; Jacob Zalin,
Walterboro; and Sol Newman,
Beaufort.
Phi Kappa Sigma
H. C. Mazyck.
Phi Epsilon Pi I
Jerome F. Bihari, Columbia.
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Norris Elected
Head Blue Key |
i
HESTER VICE-PRESIDENT
1
E. Boyce Norris of Calhoun Falls i
was elected president of Blue Key, <
honorary leadership fraternity at a
meeting last month. He succeeds J.
C. Hiott.
The new president is a member of
the senior academic class, taking his
major work in English. He has won
numerous debates and declamations
on this campus and in competition with
other universities and is a member of
the Clariosophic literary society. He
is also a member of Eta Sigma Phi,
language fraternity.
Other officers elected were E. E. ,
Hester, who is a prominent member
of the senior class and who has been
a member of the Carolina Scientific
Society for several years, vice-president.
Nigel A. League, chief cheerleader
and one of Carolina's most active students
was elected secretary. Mr.
League is also a prominent member of 1
the Clariosophic literary society, and
has represented the University a number
of times in intercollegiate debates.
John Bolt Culberson who was
elected treasurer, is president of the
junior class, has represented the University
a number of times on the debating
platform, and during the last
semester he held the position of circulation
manager on The Carolinian
staff.
CK CONTEST
STATE'S BEAUTIES
in the country has been asked to
judge the pictures.
Herself well acquainted with pictures
and the realm of art, Mrs.
Stoney once posed for Leslie
Thrasher, cover designer for Liberty
magazine. She was the original Lit iii
"For the Love of Lil."
She is capable, as she has taken
many leading roles in theatre productions
in New York, and is really able
to appreciate Southern beauty. Mrs.
Stoney will be asked to select the nine
girls most representative of Southern
beauty.
Year before last, Richard Dix,
movie actor, served as the judge.
It is requested by the editor that the
photographs be in black and white
glossy finish.
Enrollment Ls
1700 Stu.
All previous records for registration
in one semester were surpassed
yesterday when the 1700 mark was
reached with the enrollment of D. B.
Werts of Prosperity, states John A.
Chase, registrar.
Registration last term totaled 1574.
Last year the total registration was
1638. Within the last 10 years the
student body has increased to three
times its number in 1920, when the
University had only 578 students.
The unusually heavy registration
began February 3. A late registration
fee of two dollars for the first day
after Feb. 4, and one dollar for each
additional day, did not deter applicants
for enrollment. The added total
for late registration for anyone who
registers Wednesday, Feb. 19, the last
possible day, will amount to $16.
Day Bedenbaugh Werts enrolled in
the University to take advanced work
in Sociology. He graduated from
DEBATE COUNCIL
HOLDS MEETING
KEITT CONTEST MARCH 13
Prof. Wittkowsky Asked To Act
As Debaters Coach For Rest
Of Season
At a meeting of the debating council
last Thursday afternoon, George Wittkowsky,
professor of public speaking,
was elected as coach of debating for
the rest of the year.
The council, realizing that someone
was needed to help the debaters in
preparing their debates, took this step
in hope that the trustees will elect a
coach regularly. The debaters may
report to him for aid although it will
not be compulsory to do so. Professor
Wittkowsky has shown a very active
interest in intercollegiate debating,
and made quite an enviable record
while in college.
At the same meeting of the council
March 13 was set as the date for the
Keitt Oratorical contest. Students
who have not won this medal or the
Gonzales medal are eligible to compete
for it. Before that date both
literary societies will select three men
each to compete for it. It is given
annually by Miss Anna Keitt in honor
of her father, former Congressman
Lawrence M. Keitt.
The next intercollegiate debate will
be with the University of Florida and
University of Tennessee in the Big
Triangle on March 3. Also on March
:& a team will meet N. C. State at
Raleigh, and Wake Forest on March
4. Tryouts arc being held on Wednesday
night and Thursday night respectively.
U.H.O.
STUDENTS HURT
IN AUTO WRECK
NO SERIOUS INJURIES
Shaken from his shoes by the force
of an automobile collision, a Carolina
football player suffered a broken finger
which will keep him from spring football
practice the rest of the season. He
and a co-cd were thrown from the car.
A second football man received cuts
about the face and head, and is out of
practice for about a week.
"Monk" Shatid had his finger
broken, Sarah Quattlebaum was
slightly bruised, and Bill Brigham's
face was cut when the Shaud car was
rammed by a speeding sedan at the
intersection of Barnwell and Hampton
streets Friday at noon. The sedan
was driven oti the left side of the
street by a negro chauffeur.
Struck on the left rear wheel and
whipped against a telephone pole,
Shand's car leaped high enough tc
catapult Miss Quattlebaum and himself
from their scats. Brigham received
a slight back injury in addition
to his cuts. The force of the blow
knocked off Shand's shoes.
The sedan which hit Shand's cai
was going north on Barnwell street
at a high rate of speed, and on the lef 1
hand side. Shand, headed south or
Barnwell street, had his car damaged
to the extent of $100. The other cai
was only slightly damaged.
irgest Yet;
dents Register
Newberry college in 1929 with the
bachelor of arts degree and is now a
student at the Lutheran Seminary in
Columbia.
The distinction of being the first to
register at Carolina for the second
semester rests with three students:
Lerlena Reynolds of Columbia, a
special student; C. H. Frick of
Chapin, senior in engineering; and
Richard T. Hallem of Pickens, law
student.
With the recent increase in numbers,
the School of Arts and Sciences
leads in enrollment with approximately
720 students. The School of
hducation is second with 280. The enrollments
of the other schools are as
follows: School of Engineering 123,
' ?c|100 of Commerce 225, Graduate
bchool 152, School of Journalism 64,
School of Law 90, School of Pharmacy
46.
: Several of these schools were
i tounded since 1920.
LEAGUE TO ROCK
HILL IN APRIL
SUCCEEDS R. H. ATKINSON
Cheerleader Wins Election Over
Culbertson And Pinckney
At Joint MeetingNigel
A. League was elected at a
joint meeting of the Clariosophic and
huphradian literary societies to represent
the University at the annual
meeting of the State Oratorical Association,
which is to be held at Rock
Hill the third week in April.
i k?a?ue was opposed in the election
by John Bolt Culberson and Roger
1 inckney, both of whom polled a good
vote.
League is a junior and is a member
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STUDENTS SWORN
INTO STATE BAR
McTEER AND SEIDEMAN
Charles William McTcer of Hardeeville
and Jules Seideman of Newark,
N. J were sworn and enrolled as
members of the state bar, Tuesday
morning by the South Carolina Supreme
Court on motion of J. Nelson
rrierson, dean of the law school of
tlie University.
Mcleer and Seideman graduated
and received their diplomas at the end
of the first semester. Students graduating
from the law school at the end
of the first semester are allowed to
get their degrees in order that they
may enter their work without having
to wait until June.
A number of students working for
their academic degrees also completed
their work. They will return in June
tor the regular graduating exercises.
U.8.C.
WEEKLY CALENDAR
Tuesday
7:00?Y Discussion groups
8:00?Euph radian Reception
7:45?Clariosophic Meeting
Wednesday
10:00?Dr. T. F. Ball speaks in
chapel
4:15?Co-ed Literary Societies
Meet
5:00?Gamecock Staff Meeting
7:30?Debate tryouts for Big
Triangle
Thursday
7:15?K. S. K. Meeting
7:00 Y. W. C. A. Meeting in
Sloan College
I 8:30? Carolina?Clemson Boxing
' Friday
8:00? Chanticleer Club Meets
8:30? University Symphony
1 Orchestra in chapel
Sunday
7:00?Y. W. C. A. Meeting in
chapel
1 Monday
t 7:00 Y. M. C. A. Promotion
I'orce Meeting
I 7:00? Gamecock Staff Meeting