Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FRESHMAN BREAKS E SOPH ME The usual tales of freshmen buying chapel seats and reserving class seats by good-loking girls have gone their rounds, but now comes the one of the sophomore so anxious to start an 8:00 class that he 1 rushed to Sloan at 7:00, even missing his breakfast in his eagerness. f Billy Wetmore had an early class, so < told "Buck" Bradley, a fellow Phi Sigma i Kappa, to wake liim up. When Wetmore < was awakened at 7:00, Joe Coker, a soph- 1 omore from Rock Hill, turned over and i lazily asked what time it was. Wetmore 1 informed him that it was almost 8:00. Joe, having a quiz at that hour, jumped i out of bed, half dressed in two minutes ( and rushed to class. j After waiting ten minutes and seeing that none came to meet the class, Coker decided that the professor had cut and ^ gone. So he rushed back to the fraternity ^ house where he was soon informed of his blunder. 1 * It is not known whether or not Joe met the class. WIMBERLYPLAYS; NEW LUXURY FOR , BOYS' CAFETERIA ? < Piute Wimberly and his "Carolinians" < are the latest addition to the University i mess hall. The presence of the orchestra .1 for supper last Friday night came as a pleasant surprise to the patrons who seem 1 to need good^usic to digest their food, i Since then Piute and his boys have been ? playing every night from six to seven o'clock. For breakfast and supper the diners are entertained by a Columbia < phonograph which is holding up well ] considering the strain and hardships to which it is subjected. An announcement of much interest was made to patrons of the mess hall last Tuesday night. On Friday of this week Piute and his "Carolinians" will play for a dance to be given at the mess hall from six-thirty to seven-thirty. Everyone is invited and each fellow may bring a girl for the extremely low price of 50 cents. Those in the orchestra beside Piute AVimberly are as follows: Bob Warren, Red Richardson, Paul Rich, Billy Brooker, Bullet Remington, and Hunter Wood. STUDENT REQUESTS ATTENDANCE AT CHAPEL AT WILL 1 LaBruce King Files Petition i With Dean; Much Interest Evinced ( t Stating that it was against his personal j religious convictions to be required to aftend the regular University Chapel ex- j crcises, and that the rule was contrary 1 to the constitutional principle of religious > freedom, LaBruce King, a sophomore, ? recently presented a petition to the Dean < of the University, asking that he be ex- \ cused from attending chapel. ? According to King, the Dean refused j to grant the petition, on the basis of "insufficient grounds." The petition was then carried to the President who denied the petition, refusing to give grounds for < his denial. 1 Recently there has-been much discus- I sion about forced chapel attendant and much interest is attached to the above petition, inasmuch as the result will carry with it a test of the present rule. LOCAL TOMJNISTS MEET FIRST TIME HOME OF MRS. L. C. MOLTZ Columbia Violin Club Holds Session Monday Evening On Monday evening, October 13, the Columbia Violin Club held its first monthly meeting of the school year at the home of Mrs. L. C. Moltz. Mrs. George Ropp assisted as joint hostess. After the business Madame Felice de Horvath, councilor of the club, talked on the equalizing of the right and left hand in violin playing. Schumann's "Traumerei," having been divided into phrases, was reassembled, studied and played by the club. The next meeting of the club is to be held at the home of Miss Sarah Bolick. The Columbia Violin Club is composed of violinists of Columbia, especially the pupils of Madame de Horvath. This year, Mrs. I,. C. Moltz is president, Miss Liller j Sears, vice-president; Miss Sarah Bolick, , secretary, and Leon Keaton, Jr., treasurer. , INDOOR FAIRS AT 1 LOCAL THEATERS ; i I This is, indeed, a week of theatrical en- i tertainmcnt for Columbia people. The 1 theaters called this "Fair Week" and had a total of five changes of program, whereas, formerly they had four changes. ' The Palmetto Players gave a revival 1 of the "Baby Cyclone" Wednesday and ' Thursday nights, the Town Theater is < having "Holiday" Friday and Saturday nights and a matinee Saturday afternoon, ' and the Columbia Theater is having "Strictly Dishonorable" Friday and Sat- * tirday nights. I \ (l. >a Sk CLIPSEDAS ( IETS 7 O'CLOCK CLASS ' Exchange Comments | ] From the Johnsonian: A delegation of Winthrop college ?irls atended the King's Mountain :elebration. This delegation traveled n automobiles on which 'was pasted in Official Car" sign. Not only did j they have this but also they had a , jolice patrol to lead them through the traffic. The Gamecock wonders if this escort ivas the result of feminine wiles or ? >rders from headquarters. Probably the j former. Brigham Young University of Utah j prepares to go light on its "rats" in the ] :uture. They will only have to obey t freshman rules for ten days. Then s :omes the "rush" with the sophomores. < [f the freshmen win, they doff their I :aps and assurfte all the privileges of < jpperclassmen. I On the other hand the University of ' Florida plans to strictly enforce all < ules regarding freshman conduct, such * is speaking, wearing their "rat" caps, < Jtc., for the rest of the year. If freshmen Jisobey, they are brought before the ' student vigilance committee and if 1 :ound guilty they are punished. 1 We thcfroughly agree with the "AN 1 ligator's" plan and think that the University of South Carolina, should have a 1 similar system. Freshman letter in the Florida Alligator: j Dear Ma and Pa: ! i went to tampa to see our fighting ! jators trim them air wolfs from North :arolinie, and they sure did it by the core of 27 to goose egg. it was some * fame it wuz. This here Red Bethea 1 iure can tote a ball, he can. Some good 1 ooking girls were there from Eboe :ity and other places. That is the place vhere they talk different from us an * vhere you get good eats and beer like ] >a makes. They charge more than he loes. U oughter see us freshmen with 1 >ur rat caps on. we sure did look good n them and sure did make tampa look food, me and some more boys went o a struggle at the Colsium and did we lave fun. Mor little girls from the dime i itores and cigar shops wuz there. Pa 1 >ughta ben there to see them shimmy 1 ike your jello. and they had plenty of iat feeted cops ther.to keep us behaved t >ut they got drunk themselves. They < iidn't like any of the boys whiskey and j hey pored it out. What they didn't t iore they drunk. , Say ma i fell in love with a little gal i n Eboe city, she couldn't speke our j anguage and i couln't speke hern, but ; ve has a wondeful time, we did. i am t studing hard and am going to be stable 1 iergent fore long if im good and chew :obacco they says, i hav a cold cause iom guy stol my suit of drawers so pies send me another suit. Tell everyone hello and feed my hog, yer sun samuel. ? - 1 ? ? i COCK-A-DOODLES I (Continued from page Six) 1 ieemed headed straight for parquet row ' in southern football, but Kentucky 1 bobbed up suddenly on Turkey day and knocked Tennessee out of a chance 1 :>f claiming the southern and possibly the national championship by holding the Vols to a 6-6 tie before 20,000 spec- 1 tators in a driving snowstorm. This is the most recent close call to a defeat which the Neylanders have experienced but unless a few of Tennessee's famed cripples snap out of it right soon, it might well be said that a certain student body at Knoxville is due for a period of mourning. i For years and years past, the outcome of the freshmen game between Clemson and Carolina, a little classic >f its own, has strangely related to the final score of the Bird-Tiger affair. With few variations, the winner of the big game is chalked up according to , the way the Cub-Biddie battle turns 5Ut. So marty years has this been thrown up to the fans in general and he student bodies of the two schools taking part in the fair game in particular, that, in spite of its absurdity, much importance has been laid on the freshman game. If the Carolina freshmen can trim the Cubs handily this year, and the most ardent Clemson < fan must admit that the Biddies have j good chance to do just that, it might be said that the triumph with its psychological effect will be a moral victory in itself for the Birds.* Jimmy Dehart's Duke University lilue Devils will get into action for the i first time this year on foreign soil ' Saturday when the annual feud between the southerners and the Naval I Academy will be renewed. The Blue < Devils , will remain on the road until s November 8, when they return to their ' swn stadium to play host to Ken- < tucky's Wildcats. I ] * u n x SOCIETY STAGES I BECTO MEETING EUPHRADIANSHEAR REESE Bitter Controversy, Hard Fought Debate and Extemporaneous Speeches Feature Program A particularly hard-fought debate, a Jitter controversy from the floor, and nunerous extemporaneous speeches, conributed to a hectic meeting of the EuJhradian Society last Tuesday. The debate, Resolved, that the compul;ory chapel attendance rule now extant at the University be rescinded, was hard fought and was not settled until after several had taken it up from the floor. UBruce King and J. J. Brown upheld he affirmative, while the negative was ibly upheld by Lewis Wallace and Isalorc Bogoslow. The most hotly contested J >oint revolved around the fact that stulents of certain faith wernot at the iresent time required to attend chap?L The debate ended in* a stalemate, the :ommittee deciding in favor of the aflrmative, and the house by a margin of I jnc vote in favor of the negative. / ? | Romulus Reese, a alumnus of the so-iety, delivered a short speech in which I ie defended politics, and plead for statesmanship. He accused those who do not I ake an interest in politics and govern- I mcnt of being slackers. He pointed to he part played by the young men and former literary society members in the state election this summer. There was much discussion from the floor during the business session in which I speeches of Atkinson, Grimsley, Williamson, Goodstein, and Hall featured. LaBruce King was on the job to see that parliamentary procedure was carried out J .o the letter. Much of the argument cen- j tered aroulhd just how Roberts' Rules of Order" were to be interpreted. u. s. c. NO PLACE CHOSEN FOR ANCIENT HOUSE ? Wardlaw Home Must Be Moved, But Location Cannot Be Decided On Where will Dr. Wardlaw's home be noved? That was an unfair question jecause not even the gentleman himself cnows?nor Dr. Coker, nor Dr. Douglas. The home will have to be moved in he near future to give place for the new iducation building. Dr. Douglas says the jlans for the building will soon be laid, herefore, the house must find some other "esting place. It should feel strange in a I lew location because it has been in its present one a long, long time. It was used is the infirmary when our dads attended :he University. Dr. Wardlaw, himself, las lived there for twenty years. PROMINENT MEN REPRESENTED ON GAMECOCK 1909 ELEVEN (Continued from page six) Greenville; Wardlaw Smith of Spartanburg, who excelled as a baseball pitcher as well as a football player; Jack Reeves, deceased brother of George Reeves, a business man of Columbia; Theo Croft, Clint Graydon, Columbia attorneys; I Robert Cooper, treasurer of State fair association; Bucky Perrin, of Abbeville, who at present is practicing law there; and Dorsey Sligh, prominent attorney of Darlington. Also are shown Buster Murdaugh, J present solicitor of Hampton County, Wessinger, Dr. Haywood Gibbes, promi- J nent diagnositician of Columbia.* Irvin Belser, Columbia attorney, who last year I taught in the Carolina law school and whose nephew, Kd Belser, is a member of the Columbia High School football team, Dubbs Dargan, John Blackburn,! a present Presbyterian minister in Georgia ; Robert Gonzales, son of the pres-1 ent editor of the Columbia State; Polly Parrott (holding the mascot) ; Bill Perrin of Abbeville; and Ben Beverley, grandson of Major Benjamin Sloan, who r>ne time was president of the University. During the world war he died of influenza and was buried at sea. I lie mascot is the son of Professor I Bain, who at one time instructed in the foreign language department here. This picture was taken in front of the Steward's Hall on Green Street. u. s. c. GRIMSLEY NEW VICE-PRESIDENT (Continued from page one) Brunson, Burchell Moore, students; ind Dr. Babcock and Professor J. M. McFaddcn from the faculty. Of this number Dr. Babcock was the only one re-nominated for this year's cabinet. The social cabinet has the responsibility for all the social affairs spon?orcd by the University. Two dancc3 ire given by them each year, the l'hanksgiving and the May Queen iances. They also have charge of the May Queen coronation. UJbV/U W A. CARO LINES I BY E. G. ? Two weeks ago, when the Army defeated Furman and GeorgiarTech defeated Carolina, a prominent newspaper in the lower part of the state took the opportunity to publish a little editorial of interest to the students of this institution. It questioned if the , students of the two defeated institu- , tions were more interested in scholastic than in athletic pursuits. And they continued that if such were the case, something should be done about it, etc. After careful consideration of the question, we reply that we believe scholarship is taking a more advanced , precedence over athletics. Students realize the woeful conditions of politics | and press in the state, and they are ; studiously preparing themselves in order to eliminate these conditions and raise the standards of both. Newspaper headline: TRANSPORTATION STEPS BACK A NOTCH AT WELLESLEY Girls at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., have gone in for bicycle riding in a big way, this means of locomotion being handy for jaunts about town, or in traveling to and from classes. Soon we'll be singing that song so popular two or three decades ago: "A Bicycle Built for Two." fire-water It was back in 1880 B. P. (Before Prohibition). The Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina: "I insist, sir, that you try some of our North Carolina 'mountain dew.'" And the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina: "I insist, sir, that you try some of our South Carolina 'swamp water.' " So they compromised and called for two cups of coffee. First Blacksmith: "Where is that helper of mine?" Second Ditto: "The police took him down to court to see about some forgery work he had done." Orator: "And now, my worthy friends, I ask of you, is there a body or group on the campus, in the city, or in the state, more distinguished, more intellectually brilliant, than our eminent faculty?" Voice in the rear: "The Sophomore class 1" In high school he was: "Oswald Lancaster Jones, Jr." At college he is: "rat jones." u. s. c. THE PRISONER'S POEM By No. 34679, Cell 49 / (Fingerprint No. 63) He who says? "Walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cell," Is the biggest liar on earth, For I've tried to get out like h-11 Yes, Mr. Roscoe, I'm a man who takes part in big things. Day before yesterday, I built a new million-dollar plant. Yesterday, I bought two steamships to transport my own goods. Today I have a new ten-story office building under consideration. Yes, it keeps me pretty busy all the time. But say, let's play some miniature golf this evening. Once upon a time there was a poet who wanted to write an ode, so he got out his pencil and paper and wrote: "Owed to a Tailor." Before the wave of Scottish popularity passes completely, we would like to ask a question. Did a Scotchman design the rat cap? QUESTIONS AND RETORTS Conducted by Uncle Billy Uncle Billy B. P. (Bachelor by Preference) is a walking encyclopedia of valuable information on all topics, be it love, finance, mechanics, blondes, brunettes, etc. Uncle Billy's motto is: "Live and learn?and howl" Note: Uncle Billy refuses to disclose the name of the co-ed who accompanied him to the dance. Dear Uncle Billy: "How old are you ?" Inquisitive. Dear Inquisitive: "You darn right you are! But as an old maid writes on a personal information card, I'm 21 plus." Uncle Billy. Dear Uncle Billy: "Do you believe in love at first sight?" Blue Eyes. Dear Blue Eyes: "No, love at first sight usually turns out to be an optical delusion." Very sincerely yours, Uncle Billy. I RIDGEWOOD SCENE OF PAN-HELLENIC " FOR ALL FRATERNITY MEN Over 200 Present For Gala Opening of College Social Season The social season was opened in earnest Monday night when the Pan-Hellenic Council entertained fraternity men at a dance given at Ridgcwood in honor of the new pledges. Over 200 guests were present. The dance floor was appropriately decorated with the colors, banners, and pennants of the fifteen fraternities having membership on the council. Music was furnished by the Gamecock Orchestra. Dr. and Mrs. D. M. Douglas, Dean and Mrs. L. T. Baker, Dr. and Mrs. T. F. Ball, and Dr. and Mrs. Ralph K. Foster, and other members of the faculty and their wives were invited to chaperone. The committee in charge of the dance consisted of Kenneth Grimsley, William Verner, Tom Ketchin, Sidney Green, and Jamerf Fowles. u. s. c. "Have you any social prestige?" 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