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Vr " ; ALUMN] Alumni Plan To Carry 0\ The Alumni Association of the University will soon commence its winter program of county and district meetings of the alumni, which will be held / throughout the- State and in nearby states. Meetings will be arranged for all alumni of the University residing in the counties in which the meetings are to be held and, in the case of . district meetings, from the surrounding^ counties. 'These meetings have been. held for the past three years, and have served to bring the alumni, residing in counties some distance away from the University, into xloser contact with the officials of the University and, at the same time, tfye purposes, aims and ambitions of the Alumni Association have been explained to the alumni in personal contact. ! It has been customary, in the past three years, and the same procedure will be followed this year, for Dr. D. M. Douglas, President of the University; Dean L. T. Baker, and other faculty members to represent the Executive Department of the University. Dr. R. K. Foster, Director of Student Activities; C9ach Laval, and the captain of the footbztll team represent the Athletic Department. The president of the student body and officers of different student organizations represent the student body. This year, Yates Williams, president of the student body, and captain-elect Miles Blount of the football team, along with other students, will make these trips. George Bell Timmerman, president of the Alumni Association, and Barney A. Early, executive secretary will represent the general Alumni Association. In this way all phases of University work and alumni work arc presented in these meetings to the former students of the University. The purpose of the alumni, interested In the Alumni Association, is to form a compact organization of former students of the University, which shall be representative of all the former students of the University. It is a well-established fact, by the experiences of other large ^Universities^ of the South and the nation, that the only way that the alumni can successfully become a useFRESHMAN CO-EDS PREPARE BASKET After Vain Search For Needy Associated Charities Receive Food A group of freshmen co-eds started out Thursday morning to carry aid in the form of a Thanksgiving basket to the poor and needy. After traversing many muddy by-paths in the outskirts of Columbia, the expedition returned, still carrying the basket. Having failed to find the family, they presented the basket Jto the associated charities, which, according to Marian Finlay, chairman of the committee, they did quite "thankfully." The basket was the gift of the members of the Freshman Y. W. C. A. Cabinet. u. s. c. * REDUCED DUES OFFERED ALUMNI ARE CUT TO HALF PRICE Association Desires To Keep. Younger Alumni In Touch With U. S. C. The members of the classes of 1928 and 1929 are eligible for membership in the Alumni Association at half price, the amount being $2.50. This rule of the Alumni As^ociatioiy affects any student for a period of two years after leaving college. The rule was made retroactive to take in the members of the class of ^928, who are still eligible for membership at the reduced rate during this fiscal year. The Alumni Association would like to get the interest of the younger alumni as Nvell as those who have been away from college for many years, and feels that this inducement will serve to assist the younger alumni in maintaining their contact with their Alma Mater. SEND IN NEWS All alumni are requested to send in to the Alumni Office any news, which wlU prov? of interest to the alumni, wh? read "The Gamecock." ' . V ... I NEWS | t Meetings ut Programs ? \ ftil* factor in the life of the University 13 by organization and doing things as an organization. It is hoped that dunn& the present alumni fiscal year, which begins July 1st and ends y that the membership will reach the coveted goal of one thousand. . When these meetings were started out in the state, it was hard to work up interest in them, but during the past two years the greatest interest has been manifested. This was specially demonstrated in the case of Spartanurg. Mr. Claud A. Taylor, of Spartanburg, while attending the Alumni Home-Coming meeting, stated that he had a great deal of difficulty in working up the first meeting for Spartanburg county. The second meeting was with a great deal of less effort, and today the "Spartanburg alumni arc among the most interested in the Alumni Association and its benefits to the University. This has proven the case in many counties. Meetings are planned for this year at Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, Orangeburg, Rock Hill, Florence, Darlington, Bennettsville, Sumter, Union, Aiken, Charlotte, N. C., Asheville, N. C., Atlanta, Ga. These meetings will start in January and last through April. In order t6 perfect a well-rounded Alumni Association, it is necessary to have tHe general interest of all alumni in the State, and, not confine the interest to any particular county or section. For. this reason, every effort will be made until,every section of the State is thoroughly organized and working through the general Alumni Association. Individual arid group alumni work and interest are appreciated, but they can never perform the real service for the University that a united, well-organized Alumni Association can and will render. Efforts will be continued to bring the University of South Carolina alumni into the Association, and, while it has beeti. realized that the conditions during the past three years have not been ideal, yet those in charge are by np means discouraged and will continue until the results are accomplished. In union there is strength. marriages i MEW-HIOTT The wedding of Loraine Mew of Varnville, and Lloyde Hiott of Walterboro, was beautifully solemnized last Wednesday evening in Beaufort, S. C. Mr. Hiott attended the University of South Carolina last year, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. / U. 8. C. DeCAMP-McMILLAN The marriage of Ruth DeCainp to VVylie Roger McMillan was aiyiounced Monday by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. DeCamp, of Gaffney. ' The bride took her M.A. in sociology at the University last year after she graduated at Limestone College. The groom is the son of the late James K. McMillan and Mr?j. McMillan, of Conway. He received his education at Carolina. / uss. c. ORCHESTRA GIVES WEEKLY PROGRAM The University Orchestra was heard over WIS again Wednesday night, when they broadcasted a Tschaikowsky program during University hour. Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, retiring dean of the School of Education, discussed "Scholarship." \ fhe/selections chosefi for this audition by Madame Felice de Horvath, director of the orchestra, were from the delightful "Nutcracker Suite." After Mr. Mattcson sang the Alma Mater as an opening, the musical unit played the march, with much vivacity and precision. This was followed by the interesting "Danse Chinois," and "Ea Danse des Mirlitons." The program was brought to a close with an adept rendition of the "Valse des Fleurs." u. s. c.-? Stadium To Be Classroom Because a heavy enrollment has placed j classroom space at a premium at the University of Oklahoma, officials are considering using the large space underneath the seats in Memorial Stadium as J extra classrooms. CONTEST HELD FOR STUDENTS Students of the University of South Carolina ar& eligible for a contest on the League of Nations, sponsored by the Educational Committee of the League of Nations Association, which- offers as a first prize a trip to Europe. The first prize wilH be awarded to the writer of the Ibest thesis on one of seven subjects listed, all of which concern a discussion of some one phase of the work of the League of Nations. The eligibility requirements are few and can be met by almost any registered student. Registration for the contest must be completed by February 2, and papers must be in the hands of the committee by March 2. Anyone interested can receive additional information from Dean Baker, who is on the association's national advisory council. Debating Schedule I^Being Arranged The Intercollegiate Debating schedule is beingjarranged by Troy Stokes, secretary of the Debating Council. The first debate of this season will probably be held just after the Christmas holidays. Dates for try-outs will be announced as soon as definite plans ,have been formulated. The subject of the query which will be used generally this year is, Resolved, "That the Nations Should Adopt a Policy of Free Trade." Students planning to enter the try-outs can begin preparing their debates. The schedule for co-ed debates is being arranged by Sarah Davis, co-ed secretary of the council. Definite announcement concerning* queries and dates of these debates will be made in the near future. WIVES ENTERTAIN COLLEGE WOMEN Yale Secretary To Speak To Columbia Branch of National v Association The Columbia branch of the American \Association of University Women will (hold an open meeting Saturday night at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Walter Rowe, president of the local branch. Assistant hostessess will be Mrs. Havilah Babcock and Dean Irene Dillard. A talk will be given by Miss Margaret Corwin, secretary of the Yale graduate school. Miss Corwin represented the A. A. U. W. at the council meeting of the International Federation of University Women held last summer at Prague. She also represented the United States at the millennial celebration of the founding of parliament in Iceland. METHODIST CHURCH WILL GIVE SOCIAL Young Peoples Department Sponsors Entertainment; Methodist University Students Invited The Young Peoples department of Washington Street Sunday school will give a party on Saturday night in the education building on Washington Street. The social will begin at 8:00 o'clock. All Methodist students of the University are invited to attend. Columbia College girls will be present, along with a number of students from the business colleges and the Golumbia Bible College. J. C. Dowlinfc, a student at the University, is on the committee of arrangements, and urges Carolina students to come out. An interesting program has been arranged. DID YOU KNOW? 1. "Bru" Boineau, star halfback on the Gamecock eleven, hates to wear a headgear? 2. Coach Laval doesn't approve of having sponsors for the football team? He says that the boys will look at the girls and neglect their playing. 3. Jack Cn^vford, gym instructor, is a World War veteran and that he lived in Germany after the war with the Army of Occupation? 4. Patsy Leardo played center on the Barringer High School of Newark, New Jersey, the year that they won three major titles? His substitute was Oscar Schneider, who is the mainstay of the Brown University line this season. 5. "Kid" Brewer, star fullback of Duke University, has a sister here? She is the youngest co-ed at Carolina. 6. Jones and Woodruff, Clcmson flankmcn, never played football until they attended college? 7. Davidson College has a live and ferocious wildcat for a mascot? v. ?. c. "Why do you say beer is like the sun?" "Because it rises in the yeast and sets in the vest." . V >' V\-.v ' . - ' i: i MINIATURE COURSE , LOCATED ON RUG Golfers' Petite Heaven Pound At Local Y. M. C. A., Built By Former Student Found I Columbia's most interesting golf course. I he most miniature of all* courses, and one probably unique, is that located at the Columbia Y. M. C. A., the handiwork of Evans Cannon, for-' mer Carolina student. The course is played on a rug, and is 20 feet by 10 feet. The longest hole is 12 feet, the shortest 5 feet. The fairways are 6 inches wide. Although par is 21, and the course record, held by the inventor, is 16, over 100 strokes have been taken over the nine holes. As many as twelve players have played the course, at the same time, which, considering its size> is in itself a record. Evans Cannon, the inventor, is now the Boys' Work secretary of the Columbia Y," and is the youngest man who has ever held this position. He attended Carolina in '26 and '27. While here he was in the School of Commerce. He was secretary of the Sophomore class, and held several offices in the Euphradian Literary society. ^ CHICKEN-HEARTED CO-EDS FEED CATS There are many prospective members for the S. P. C. A. on the Carolina Campus. Their tender-heartedness is often brought out by the biology department. Monday night some of the co-cds of Professor Penny's Histology " class went up to the laboratory, where they found two scrawny little kittens in a cage, awaiting a bright sunny day for their last rites to be performed. The co-eds, softened by the meek meows, went down to the Canteen, procured milk and crackers, and fed the cats. .While they were there some boys came in also bearing gifts of food, so they (all sat down and enjoyed a feast while (the kittens romped and played around the room. ,, u. s. c. Why do you call the new gym dance 'The Fumble' ?" "Because it's anybody's ball/1 N. CONG! We ( v the B1 in the NATIONAL ( v. BELK'S DEPT. STC 1503 Main St. *1-' COPELAND CO. 1535 Main St. METROPOLITAN C "The Old Reliable" 1544 Main St. SEARS, ROEBUCK & 1704 Main St. UNIVERSITY CO-OP < Campus YOUNG MEN'S SH 1438 Main St. COGGINS & JOHN 1800 Main St. I. t WELDON PROMOTED IN CHOSEN FIELD TO SUCCEED YOUNGINER University Student To Be Supply Pastor At Palmetto Methodist Church Wilson Weldon, a senior, was last week appointed student supply pastor at the Palmetto Methodist Church on Rosewood Drive, to succeed John Madison Younginer, who was made pastor of the Whitney Methodist t Church near Spartanburg. The appointments were made by Bishop Candler at the annual Con-. ference held in Spartanburg last week. Younginer has served at the Palmetto church for the last four years, while attending the University. He is a former editor of The Gamecock, and graduated in the class of '30. The church is usually served by a student who is studying for the ministry, a% the congregation is not large enough to support a full time preacher. Weldon received his local license a year ago. "Y" COUNCIL ELECTS PRINCE TREASURER At its regular meeting on Monday* night, November 24, the Y. M. C. A. council, elected Roy Prince treasurer. Prince succeeds V. M. Williamson, retiring. Williamson will graduate in February, having completed his course in the School of Commerce in three and onehalf years. I Throughout his years at the University, Prince, who is now a senior, has been a very prominent worker in the Y. He is leader of one of the discussion groups. His extra-curricular activities have extended to other fields also and he is Circulation Manager for The Gamecock and vice-president of the Euphradian Literary Society. Prince is a member of Blue Key fraternity. j? US 'I Flowers That Ixist" ^o * Telephone i 20 H? Main St. - /it fW 1 i&SS riONSH aff of I ' Vvv Hj OC/[ I I ;-;5 ,EKLY ' I at the ' -"1 i 'w ONVENTION 4 5N-CULLUM SHOE CO. 1513 Main St. R. KINNEY CO., INC. 1021 Main St. SYLVAN BROS. 1500 Main St. * KINARD'S 1523 Main St. R. L. BRYAN CO. Mil/term of "The Gamecock" 1440 Main St. ' APITOL DRUG CO. Phone 22968 HOPE-DAVIS CO. 1250 Main St. - ,t? - Editor in Hot Water - Pitted on one hand against a dean who denfands censorship of his paper's editorials and articles, and on the other hand, against a group of influential students who object to his editorial policies, A. S. Koscielny, editor of the Detroit Collegian of the College of the City of Detroit, is between the devil and the deep, blue sea. At the present time the student editor is very capably holding his own against his two combatants. Practically all of his fellow undergraduatesv are on his side in both the censorship battle and in his fight to edit the paper as he wants to. The argument started when an independent newspaper published under the auspices of the Kappa Chi fraternity claimed that the Collegian was giving too little space to sports and too much to other campus events which they considered less important. Koscielny replied editorially, stating that he would run the paper as he wanted to as long as he remained editor and that when everyone wished that the college be known and run as a country club rather than an institution of learning, he would not only retire from the Collegian, but from the college as well. SNOWDEN SPEAKS ON STATE HISTORY Dr. Yates Snowden deliyered a series . of( lectures last week to Dr. Meriwether's sophomore history classes. The subject of his talks was, "South Carolina in the Eighteenth Century." He also reviewed and showed to the'classes many old and valuable books by South Carolina authors on South Carolina history. After taking the city address and the denomination of each student, he gave them references to books on the history of their localities and on their churches. u. s. c. Students Not Any Younger The widespread belief that student* are now entering college at an earlier age than in the past is not substantiated by the available facts, says the dean of the University of Arizona. Although comprehensive figures have never been compiled, the trend in many universities appears to indicate that freshmen are as old, if not older, than in college generations of the past. RATULAl Congratulate the St, \ / on Being Voted EST COLLEGE WE UNITED STATES COLLEGE PRESS C \ \ >re sax< g. 1 afe / t CO. store pul " V , ' iop c son \ i . f < ,