Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w? ga: Published on Friday of e % the Literary Societies under the si Univcrsi|y Entered as second class mail it postoffice on Member of South Care ?a?\ t . ; ? - News articles may be contributed by i in by Wednesday night before Frida; double-spaced, and must be signed by be published at the discretion of the submitted, with the ?? SUBSCRIPTION RATE CIRCULATI Advertising rates Offices in the baseme Gamccock offit Wilson O. W el don J. Mitchell Morse ... ASSOCL Lewis H. Wallace LeRoy M. Want Dorothy Penland Darice Jackson William I. Latham John A. Giles EDITO Lewis H. Wallace a*. W. B. King EX. Allen Rollins Hi Ray AntlEy i Mason Brunson, Jr. J. C. DuPre ----John White - - Robert Rooers . I Assistants: Catherine REMLEY, S-> Names of heelers d i Frances Black, I Ethel Galloway I W. C. Herbert Sam Taylor i J. W. Rrown - - 1 CIRC I J. Roy Prince Lester Hamilton Melton Goodstein Hugh Hamilton < CROV I News Bureau?"It pays to advertise I Student Activity Building?Student I of such. I Student Mass Meetings, and Voluni Football Stadium?Large Universal Paved Sidewalks?Just think of met will be convinced FRIDAY, C ' , neededDuring the last four years r campus, and practically every orp modeled in some way or another, which has remained intact for tl today is sadly out of date. The Student-body Constitute service to the students, and in hai statement of facts as to the stiu visions concerning a student coun or if there does happen to be somi function. The stipulations as to tli honor committee are old?indee adopted last year is not included other matters should be revised ii up-to-date Constitution which wt of the student government. In order for any constitutio they must be true. Some action s stitution up-to-date. According to in This Gamecock during the ea feels that it should be revised ai order to do this a meeting of the Freshmen are being showere* in their honor, that no doubt ma heaven already. But just wait u and in a stentorian tone that im] ledge, ^oom five, tonight." Then he readily realizes that reality is ir books-books? dollars! dollars As one looks at his pocket-bo( now and compares it with its com tion when school opened, lie w quite readily find that for some, re son or another it has been draini considerably. And most likely, tl sole and specific item?textbookshas been the largest item to bene from this drain ; or rather we shou :say those who have sold them. The point we are making is simp this: The price of textbooks is t< high, and in many instances excee ingly out of proportion to the cost < other items necessary to a collej student here at Carolina. True, ii deed, that books are expensive publish, but is it true that a publish charges so much that when a book sold here it must retail at the ave age price of three and a half to fot and a half dollars? It may be, b after a little figuring, and de< fathoming into the realm of thougl we are not so ready to agree that tli is the case. Towards the close of the last se sion it was announced that the Un versity would take direct charge ar supervise the selling of the tex books which are used here. Befoi MECOCK . .. . very week during the college year ipervision of the Board of Publications of the of South Carolina. latter at the Columbia, South Carolina, November 20, 1908. \ >lina College Press Association. , any member of the student body, but must be y's publication. All copy must be typewritten, ' the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will Editor and in the order in which they are name of the author signed. ?$1.50 PER COLLEGE YEAR ON? 2100 COPIES i furnished upon request nt ,of the Extension Building re phone?8123, No. 11 STAFF ------ Editor-in-Chief ----- Managing Editor ATE EDITORS Associate Editor ----- Associate Editor ------ Associate Editor - - - Associate Editor Assistant Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor RIAL STAFF News Editor Assistant News Editor - - - Sports Editor Alumni Editor ----- Exchange Editor Fraternity Editor , - - - Joke Editor i Y. M. C. A. Editor ] lKaii Agnes Jackson, Sanders Guignakd. o not appear in mast-head. . 1 CO-ED ----- News Editor , - - - - Feature Editor j ISINESS J ----- Business Manager I ----- Assistant Manager ( ----- Assistant Manager J IULATION 1 ; - - Circulation Manager - ? - - - - Assistant Manager ( Assistant Manager j Assistant Circulation Manager ^ /ING FOR: \ ? < Activities are actually suffering for lack tary Chapel?"Eventually, why not now?" es could then be included on our schedule, sting classes on a rainy day, and you, too, of their need. )CTOBER 3, 1930 j -A REVISION ! nany changes have taken place on the \ janization has been re-organized or re- t But there is one tiling on the campus i le last several years, and consequently t 1 )n as it. stands now is of practically no t rdly any part of it can be found a true 1 lent-body government. There are pro- f cil, which has long ago ceased tb exist, 2 sort of a council, it certainly does not t le honor system and the working of the ? d antiquated. The system which was ( in the Constitution. These and several t n the constitution, making it a modern, ( >uld be in truth a real exemplification j 1 n or rules of agreement to be binding, j liould be taken so as to make our con- i one of its provisions, it must be printed < rly part of each year. Tin-; Gamkcock c id corrected before it is published. In < student-body must be held. i U. 8. C. f d with so many receptions and parties ( ny of them think they have landed in J ntil a proud uppcrclassnian walks by, dies obedience, says, "Freshman! Rut- t those illusions fade into oblivion, and x i full sway. I IT. S. C. then, the book-store was managed by , ><1 students, and supervised by private individuals. During that period, . there was often and heated state>k ments made by students about the ? li- exorbitant cost of books. And with i ill the coming of the above announcea nient last spring, it was hoped by ;d many that relief would be in order. But not so, seemingly.. May we of? fer one question for consideration ? fit Why should the University sell the Id books, and the profits supposedly go 1 into the student activities fund, if * . they arc not going to be sold at a re- c y duced rate, whereby the student- *' j body would benefit ? Why not let in- x , dividual students continue to handle f them, and thus give some who really 3 need that help to benefit, instead of 1 the profits going into the student ac- < tivity fund, as they are supposedly ? . doing? If that is desired, why not \ increase the student activity fee even t r greater, rather than try to squeeze it f ^ out of them under false pretenses? J " In other words, we believe that c "P books should not he the medium of t ' profiteering, and the students the t 118 victims. The right, the fair, the logi- 1 cal, and reasonable system is to sell 1 s- the books at their flat cost. If this j i- was the system, perhaps the Caro- t id lina student body would come to the r t- point where they would quite readily c e think the authorities were in sympa- \ thy with them, and could without urging and persuasion have faith in their motives, which is largely not the case at present: Yes, we need books, and more of them, but must we suffer such extortion, and falter on with so little sympathy ? -?u. s. c. HELP THOSE WHO HELP US / It has always been the custom of Carolina students to patronize those business men of Columbia who show their appreciation of Carolina trade. Carolina students have realized the advantage of following this timehonored precedent. Advertisers, too, have become aware of this means of awakening an undercurrent of feeling toward their business either for good or bad. - 1 he student activity fee pays for the greater cost of publishing Tin-; GamKCOCK. The advertisers pay a minor portion of the expense of publishing. For this reason, any advertiser who conscientiously vfants to reach Carolina students finds The Gamkcock advertising rates verv reasonable. It is only when an advertiser thinks he has a monopoly of Carolina trade that the old spectre of Greediness looms up. When a business man insists that the ad rates are J unjustifiably increased, we concede him the inborn right of personal I 3pinion. However, when that person refuses to expend as much for advertisement in The Gamecock this ^ear as the previous one, one can I perceive the true reason for h?s objection : he does not wish to odver- I isc at all; he zcHints to take all and /ivc nothing! His pretense of objecion to increased rates is too flimsy: lis true attitude is exposed ! Let's hope that a new drug store, I lesirous of backing Carolina insti-1 utions for consideration given it by I Carolina men and women, will open 111 the corner of Main and Hampton I Streets! WHO WILL LAST? It is estimated that about 45t),000 students have entered colleges and I Universities all over America during I he last several weeks. Judging from he past and what happens every I > ear, about five out of every seven of I hese will never graduate. In fact learly 10.000 of these will not finish heir freshman year, if the j>ast can 1 >e considered indicative of the fuure. Imagine one-ninth of this vast lorde of young men and women I iunking out while still freshmen. I I his may not mean very much to J he casual observer, but if one will I (top to think, it purposes to be a seri ?us problem, and one that should denand the attention of {educators, and rollege students everywhere. If onelinth of those who are entering colcge this year will be unable to com- I )lete the course prescribed for their irst year, there must be something exceedingly wrong with the modern educational system in practice today, )r else the youth of today are lackng vitally in ability or detennina-J ion. However, we are not ready to say that either of the above is the rntli, although it may seem both 'videtit and probable. Our observa-1 ion, and the explanation that we vould offer is that too many people lave been trying to go to college; or ather we ought to say that too many )t the wrong type have been going. ( low many there are that would be a housand times letter off back on lie farm, or out in some other phase >f the business world. Unless one las some definite aim in life, an?l uness lie has the determination and vilJ-power to put first emphasis up>n the carrying out of this purpose, t is very probable that he should lever matriculate at any college. Perhaps, if more care, and stricter emulations in regard to admittance 0 our colleges were adopted, an in:rease in the quality of learning, and 1 greater interest in scholarship vould be forthcoming on the part >f students at large. If the above estimations prove to >e true this year, then there will be juite a few of those registered here is freshmen, who will fall l^y the vayside, and not be able to finish leir first year, for there are about lve hundred freshmen registered, if the members of this class wish to hange what has been happening for he past several years, then it is in heir power to do so. If they would ike to see none of their meml>ers fall >y the wayside, it is largely in their >ower to do so. There is practically 10 boy or girl who has finished a ecogmzed State high school, that annot make the course if he or she vill put forth a little extra effort, | s ' and deny himself or herself certai pleasures. The University has established Personnel Bureau to assist evei freshman. They are holding stud classes with instructors to assist air one who desires aid, five nights ot of the week. This and many oth< things lend much invaluable aid 1 those who are behind and need a: sistance. You can stand the tes freshman, if you Only make-up yoi mind that you can do it. It can L done! U. s. c. OPEN FORUM "O Tempore, O Mores, O Hell 1" The three upperclassmen wh made the boasted "great and unusu; collection of freshman autograph as a "preliminary intelligence test deserve congratulations! Only me of unusual ability could have pi over such a stupendous intellects undertaking! How daring the adventure! Hon brainy, brawny, and brassy the he roes! Five hundred freshmen, mos of them on their first visit to the Uni versity, had been directed by th University authorities to report f'< the University chapel at 5 o'clock September 15. When these five htm dred new students arrived, thre young men impersonating Uni versity officials?a crime in itself? seated at a desk in the chapel en trance, with pen and paper readv demanded that everyone enterinj sign the roll. All did- so until th University officials discovered th situation and cleansed their tempi of the Pharisees. In this bold, chivalric iindertakinj there was no need of the strategy aiii craftiness used in selling chape seats, bath room tickets, and radiato rent. 1 he students had been directed to the chapel, everything else wa done in the name of the Universit by her officials, and so why not this Only the unprepossessing looks an< unsavory reputations of the princi pals could have caused doubt, whicl it did in the case of the upperclass men. Tlie freshmen were not belov normal in mentality. The perjxjtra tors were merely above normal ii sopho-moronic sophistication! ?"Uppcrclassman." DrinlC S7C ~ Delicious and Refr Your goo for to l.ISTEN I Crantlnnd HiCo??? Sport* Champions ? % ? Orche?tra-*~~Every ' 10:30 to 11 p. m, g, g_ Coittio CooaNUCNei / . 9 Million a day. i i : . y.. ' ^ The Sweet Shop for Carolina Students ' DIANA y CONFECTIONERY 'y 1437 Main y- ' at ;o COLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. a. "EVERY OFFICE NEED" i Office Furniture, Filing Cabinets, Safes ' Printing and Rubber Stampu ir H12 Lady Street 'Phone 6163 DICTIONARY OF CHEMICAL EQUATIONS . Contains twelve thouRand completed i Iand bnlanced chemical equations, classified and arranged for ready reference. It i? no more difficult to find a desired equation in this book than it is to find a word in the Standard Dictionary. CAMPUS BOOK STORE ? Diamonds ? Watches il Jewelry (? Silverware |S # | ( Established, over U5 Years n P. H. LACHICOTTE " & CO., Inc. '' Jewelers v 1424 Main Columbia, S. C. Watch and Jewelry Repairs I i !' -JJ e 0 Good Food Plus E THE CAPIT e "At the Same Location for Ov NICK'S I ? Best Hot Do{ e Opposite Y. e e ??? ?? 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