Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?tfe (Samwnrk Member of South Carolina College Pre** Association Published on Tuesday of Every Week by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?J1.D0 A YEAR. Entered as second class nail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina Postoffice on 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 muBt be signed to copy. Articles will be published in the Open Forum as submitted, with the name of the author signed. STAFF ASHLEY IIALSEY Editor-in-Chief LEROY M. WANT Managing Editor ASSOCIATES J. A. CATHCART Associate Editor W. FRANK TAYLOR Associate Editor WILSON O. WELDON Associate Editor W. Q. JEFFORDS Associate Editor N. W. BROOKER Associate Editor FOY STEVENSON Associate Editor DOROTHY PEN LAND Associate Editor J. MITCHELL MORSE Assistant Managing Editor W. I. LATHAM . ... Assistant Mannging Editor EDITORIAL STAFF LEWIS II. WALLACE News Editor MELVFN KARESH Sports Editor WILLIAM OEDD1NGS Alumni Editor JACK FOSTER Fraternity Editor JOHN WHITE Y. M. C. A. Editor MASON C. BRUNSON Exchange Editor J. ROY PRINCE Joke Editor CO-ED DARICE JACKSON Editor CLELIA K. BLACK News Editor LOIS FISCHER Society Editor FRANCES BLACK Feature Editor ASSISTANTS W. B. King, Lester Hamilton, John A. Giles, Ethel Galloway, Sarah Agnes Jackson, Vera Jones, Frost Walker and John McKnight BUSINESS C. L. SCOTT Business Manager J. J. MACK Assistant Manager W. C. HERBERT Assistant Manager CIRCULATION CARL BROWN Circulation Manager R. H. BISHOP Assistant Manager J. ROY I'RINCE Assistant Manager TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930 CROWING FOR? Football Stadium?30,000 Capacity. Press Bureau?Absolutely Needed. Student Activity Building. Paved Sidewalks. u.s.o. In High Spirits Columbia newspapers have recently mentioned a common collegiate habit of singing, the impetus of their comment having been a letter of protest from the neighbor of a fraternity house. The letter writer whose ears were irked by melody just before 8 o'clock classes in the morning is to be condoned with, but further sympathy is impossible, certainly insofar as the cessation of vocal harmony is concerned. It is as natural for students to sing as it is for mockingbirds to chortle. Any student who has the raw, iron nerve required to arise early and sing before an 8 o'clock class is to be applauded. 11 is musical efforts should be well received, for they indicate natural courage and high mental spirits. If University men and women felt like singing before early morning classes during the dreary winter dawns just past, it would probably have been beneficial to their general feeling of liveliness. Nor is it necessary to take a cold bath in order to raise vocal refrains, though this is the usual stimulus for song. College students in past years have been noted for the spontaneity with which they broke forth in song. From the earliest days of the Universities of Paris and Bologna, students have been described and depicted in open-mouthed chorus. American colleges have been prolific contributors to the hoard of college songs since first "Fair Harvard" opened its portals to education. The list runs from student hymns in a high pitch to student drinking songs in a low, inebriated bass. The "whiskey tenor'5 is said to have evolved through process of nature in Southern colleges. The soft, sweet note of song is still heard rolling from within college walls, but students are often "too busy" to sing. Carolina has the Doxology sung in volumes of echo at every chapel exercise, and Furman University opens every day with a choral of hymns. Organized singing in glee clubs is popular yet, but these are not the truest forms of song. In its warmest note, song flows from the lips at any time, under any circumstances of work or play. It is an effusion of the heart. More songs of this nature would help the spirit of any University. u.s.o. Strike Up The Band Coming out of a winter's hibernation, the University band made its first appearance of the year Thursday night in the field house. Its martial blare was a fitting accompaniment for the boxing matches held there, and the band added much to the occasion. No depreciation in trumpet note or saxaphone symphony could be detected. The band is up to its usual standard. It is to be hoped that the appearance in the field house is only the first of a series of public concerts to be given during the spring. Last year, open air concerts were received with high applause when staged on the greensward of the University campus. A similar program would undoubtedly be as welcome this season. A Battle Royal Under the eyes of a majority of the State legislators, who sat in the University field house like nobility at a Roman gladiatorial fight, coaches, fighters, seconds and spectators mixed in a wild melee of fisticuffs during the sixth bout of the Carolina-Clemson boxing match Thursday. What the legislators thought is not recorded?perhaps for the best. Whether the welter of blood and bruises created by representatives of the two colleges whose appropriations they recently cut intimidated the law makers or made them firm in their resolution to reduce the funds of the scrapping institutions is not known. Presbyterian College, Duke University, and the University of Florida all sent teams to box Carolina in the field house this season. One of these teams was badly beaten. The others whipped the Gamecocks decisively. In no instance, however, was there any brawling or disorder. That did not occur until the Clcmsonians rode their cow ponies into the ring. When the referee Thursday night declared a Carolina man winner on a foul blow, the Clemson pug who had hit coming out of a clinch not only howled. He struck the referee. Enter the Clemson coach. Did he calm the irate fighter? He did not. Instead, he headed across the ring hell-bent for the referee. Clemson and Carolina men crowded into the ring on his warpath. Fists flew, for the most part ineffectually. The Clemson coach, a spectacle of passion, was conducted from the field house by a uniformed policeman and the campus marshal. He was locked out, but no sooner got back in than the fight broke out again. Meanwhile a Clemson man, after walloping his Carolina opponent thoroughly, rushed him after the Gamecock had slipped to one knee. Blind to all the regulations of the ring compiled by and since the time of the venerable Marquis of Queensbury, the Clemson "Tiger" hammered his downed enemy. When the referee, fortunately unintimidated by the previous scuffle, called the Carolina man victor on a foul, the Clemson head coach, a master strategist of baseball, leaped to his feet and complained in honest indignation. Apparently he had never heard of such a rule, or did not believe in it. What the legislators thought is not known. We know what we think, but cannot say it in print. No words arc fit to describe tliat oTW, o?Cf '(very old) Clemson spirit! IJ.H.C. Needed, A Speaker's Stand A speaker's stand is needed very much in the Chapel. More than once has this been evidenced, at times to the embarrassment of those who have invited men to deliver public addresses and talks in the chapel. Many speakers have notes and papers for reference, and need a stand on which they can put them. It is also apparent when an inter-collegiate debate is held. Those in charge of the debates have to run and try to get one of the literary societies' stands. These are very old, in feeble condition. They cannot stand very much moving about. Besides, why should the literary societies have to allow their stands, which arc something over 100 years old, to be moved to the chapel? The University authorities should place a speaker's stand in the chapel for all such occasions, if one of the leadership or service fraternities does not contribute such. Take note, all organizations of that nature. U.8.O. Open Forum To The Editor The Gamecock: The odor of rotten onions is sweet?and the aromatic fumes of hydrogen sulphide are to my delicate nose holes, like frankincense and myrrh. But the smoke of animosity that went up from the meeting of the University Debating Council last Friday, and from the meeting of the South Carolina Intercollegiate Oratorical executives last Saturday, smothers me too much. Here's what caused the "fire": A member of the debating council wishes to compete for the Keitt medal in a few days, and for this personal reason, managed the council to rule the writer ineligible for the contest, on the grounds that the writer is already a winner of the Gonzales medal. But, only last year, a member of the debating council controllingly won both medals. Here's what really stifles:?Carolina's representative on the executive committee of S. C. I. O. A. wishes to speak for Carolina this year. For this personal reason, he had a motion passed by the committee last week, barring the writer from competing for the honor this year, on the feeble grounds that the writer was Carolina's speaker last year. We want Carolina to win. That's the only thing that really matters. O, with the immortal words of Patrick Henry on my imprisoned tongue, my fainting lips would quiver, "Give me liberty or give me death." JOHN MADISON YOUNGINER. 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