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CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA "^^"1 rf/** fwA LAST ISSUE CHRISTMAS! //tC i IN 1930! UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Volume XXIV, No. 11 * ' COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930 Founded 1908 ' I 1 LOCAL STUDENT GAINS HONOR RHODES SCHOLARSHIP Robert Wauchope Competes For Famous Honor In Atlanta; Represents State Robert Wauchope, prominent senior who was chosen along with David D. Caroll, formerly of Bennettsville, to represent this state at the district meeting of the Rhodes scholarship contest left Tuesday morning for Atlanta to compete for the scholarship on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. , . Four of the twelve who are competing at Atlanta will be awarded scholarships to Oxford University in England, which allows them $2,000 for each year they attend the institution. The winners will be announced December 12. Wauchope is the son of Dr. G. A. Wauchope, head of the English department of the University, and is known as one of the most prominent, versatile, and best-liked students on the campus. He >yas editor of the Garnet and Black last year, being the first junior to edit this publication in a number of years. He is at present the editor of the Carolinian, and was recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, honorary fraternity. . He is president of the Sigma Upsilon literary fraternity, and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, and Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity, a member of the Euphradian Literary society, and a member of the Y. M. C. A. In a contest conducted by the U. D. C. last year, he was awarded a medal for the best essay. Mr. Wauchope was selected from among ten South Carolinian competitors by the South Carolina Rhodes scholarship committee of whom 'Dr. D. M. Douglas, president of the University, is chairman. PALMETTOESWILL GIVE PRODUCTION COMEDY GIVEN SOON "Plots and Playwrights" by Edward Massey to Appear Early in January The next production of the Palmetto Players is to be a popular comedy, "Plots and Playwrights" by Edward Massey. The play is now in rehearsal and will be ready for presentation early in January. For this comedy, William Dean has chosen a cast with infinite care. It includes William Broughton, Sarah Quattlebaum, Frances Keith, Harriet Plowden, Tiny Mozingo, C. F. Price, Alberta Jenkins, Joe Faulk, Sarah Heyward, Louise Taber, J. C. Dowling, Jack Hall, John Scholenberger, and John G. Azar. "Sonny" Drake and Carlile Courtenay will stage-manage. "Plots and Playwrights" is an unusual comedy. The first part of the play is played in the up-to-date style of acting which moves into a burlesque of the old melodramatic style in the second. "He ain't done right by our Nell" and "Hearts and Flowers" will hand you many a laugh. WEEKLY CALENDAR SUNDAY 7:00?"Y" meeting in chapel. v MONDAY 7:00?Senior and Sophomore "Y" Council meet. TUESDAY 7:00?Bible discussion groups. 8:00?Euphradian and Clariosophic meet. WEDNESDAY 2:00?German Club meets. 4:15?Euphrosynean and HyJ patian meet. 8:00?O. D. K. initiation and banquet. THURSDAY 7:00?Y. W. C. A. meets in Sloan. 7:00?Freshman "Y" Council meets. 8:30?"Gamecock" banquet. FRIDAY 5:00?Cotillion tea dance. 10:00?Christmas German at gym. 1:00?Christmas holidays begin. ^ , . - DEBATING TEAM WILL BROADCAST MEETS BOWLING GREEN Try-Outs Will Be Held Next Thursday In Law Building The first debate on this year's schedule of inter-collegiate debating will be held with a team from Bowling Green University of Ohio on Monday night, December 29. The debate will be broadcast over Station WIS from 8:30 to 9:30, according *o an announcement made by Troy Stokes, 'secretary of the Debating Council. The Bowling Green team will be on a tour of the South and is reputed to have an extraordinarily good team. The Carolina team will uphold the affirmative of the query, Resolved, "That the nations should adopt a policy of free trade." This will be the first time that a debate has been broadcast at Carolina in several years, and all students who are interested are urged to tune in on that night and hear the forensic artists of Carolina. , Try-outs to select the team will be held at 4:00 o'clock on Thursday afternoon in the Law building. All contestants will be limited to a period of ten minutes in the try-outs. Two men will , be selected. Names of those trying out fiiust be . turned in to Troy Stokes, secretary of , the Council, ^)y 6:00 o'clock Monday afternoon. His telephone number is 22610. This debate was arranged at the time because this was the only time that they, could be met, and because of Bowling Green's reputation. The entire schedule l will be announced shortly after the . Christmas holidays. Negotiations are now under way with Tennessee, Florida, Ohio Wesleyan, Loyola, North Carolina, , Duke ami others. FAMOUS SPEAKER TALKS IN CHAPEL JOHN TYLER HEARD Evangelist Tells Of Many Adventures In Foreign Countries and at Home John Tyler, noted evangelist, spoke to an assembly of students in the chapel Sunday night. The subject of his speech was "An Amazing Story," which was a review of his own life. Mr. Tyler's address was given under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. at the regular Sunday night service of the "Y." Beginning with his birth in Richmond, Virginia, as the son of Virginia's richest man, and the grandson of President Tyler, he told how he had squandered all of his wealth and had become a beggar and a moral weakling. Then he told how he was converted to Christianity when at the point of suicide. And last he related the story of his work as a messenger of the Christian gospel. Some time after his return from a French university where he had squandered a great deal of his father's money he was called to the death bed of his father.' "Before my father died," he said, "I was called to his bedside and learned that I had been disinherited for fifteen years! Before his death, however, he added a codicil to his will; reinstating me in good , family standing and to my share of the inheritance." He sold his part of the inheritance and moved to New York where he quicklysquandered it. Then he bpcame a vagabond and began roving over the world. "In my travels are included thirtyfour trips across the Atlantic, twice as a gentleman and thirty-two as a bum; nine times around Cape Horn; once through the Strait of Magellan (where cannibals in their skin-bark canoes followed the ship in the hopes that some unfortunate being would fall overboard) ; ten times around the Cape of Good Hope, and twelve times through the Suez Canal. For six years 1 was a bushman in Australia." Thus spoke Mr. Tyler on some of his travels. The depths to which he sank are shown by the'following statement; "I was committed to jail in Rio de Janeiro on a charge of vagrancy, and was put in a ward with seventeen other (Continued on fage three) 1 . i- -.A "GAMECOCK" 1 IN COLLEi For the sixth time out of the last seven consecutive years, the Gamecock won Cc first place in the.contest sponsored by the Fi South Carolina College Press Association, iiij This announcement was made at the mi closing banquet of the convention which b> was held last Friday night in Spartan- vc burg. w All of the college papers in the state di were entered in this contest. The Parley- bi Voo of Converse came second. cc The Winthrop Journal was voted the w best college magazine, with the Converse g( Concept taking a close second place. The Carolinian was not entered in the con- n< test ar The Gamecock's news article written y< by Lewis H. Wallace was awarded first G place. tli TRUSTEES DECIDE B DATES FOR BIDS MUST BE IN DECEMBER 16 * No Decision Reached Concerning C Name Of Woman's Building The bids for the erection of the new education building must be in the office of the treasurer on or before December 'I1 16, the Board of Trustees decided at its ^ regular meeting held Wednesday morn- 11 ing. Carroll Johnson, the University archi- ^ tect, and Dr. Orin F. Crow, dean of the School of Education, outlined to the c< board the latest plans for the construc- " tion of the building. The details are left largely in the hands of the building committee, which will meet December 17 to openathe bids. The building committee consists of Doctor Douglas, D. R. Coker, J. Gordon Hughes, James H. Sullivan, and W. H. Keith. The board also considered a name for the Woman's Building, L'.it nothing def- ? inite was done. j Members of the Board of Trustees who were present include: David R. Coker of Hartsville, James H. Sullivan of Laurens, g George M. Wright of Great Falls, Cyrus n L. Shealy of Lexington, James H. Hope of Columbia, and Dr. R. O. McCutchen sj of Bishopville. c| In the absence of Governor Richards, hi Mr. Coker, the senior member, presided ai over the session. ORCHESTRA GIVES ( CONCERT PROGRAM L James Burgess Awarded Scholarship in Violin Department For Second Semester The University symphony orchestra, ni under the direction of Mme. Felice de C Horvath, gave the second in the winter b< series of four concerts on Thursday night si at the First Presbyterian church. This U was a Christmas program and presented te many well known and well liked com- oi positions using the full resources of the orchestra, together with pipe organ and ri piano, making a beautiful combination, ai The soloists were Miss Marguerite gi Adams, violinist, who played the Viotti A concerto; Mr. William Jaquins, tenor, da who sang "Night of Nights" with or- ni chestra; Mr. Fred Parker, organist, who J? gave "The Bells of Ste. Anne de Beaupre" th and the Columbia Violin Club, which appeared in two ensemble numbers "Trau- 8C merei" by Schumann and "The Swan" 8r by Saint-Saens. The third concert will 8' be given the first week in March, at ^ which time the orchestra numbers will be the Overture to "Tannhauser" and the ^ suite "A Day in Venice," by Nevin. Lu- ^ cilia Mikcll, violinist and Mr. and Mrs. w' Robert LaFaye have been engaged as tr< soloIc,s. The University symphony orchestra as- 01 sisted at the Elks' Memorial service on W( Sunday. This is the fourth consecutive 8t' year they have played for this service. w" Mme. de Horvath gave as a violin solo "Nocturne" by Chopin. Miss Lindley M'Cants broadcasted during the children's hour Saturday and Miss Marguerite Gramling will represent Jhe University during Junior hour this Saturday. She will play a "Romance" by Svendsen. James Burgess has been awarded a scholarship valued at $60 in the violin department for the second semester. .' it (y. v ' .? WINS FIRST ( GE CONTEST The Association met at Wofford and ^ mverse colleges last Thursday and iday. An interesting program, includ- < K addresses by prominent newspaperen of Spartanburg, welcome speeches ' representatives of Wofford and Con:rse, and many social entertainments, ere given for the delegates. Separate ) scussions were held for the editors and t isiness managers, at which problems t >mmon to them were discussed. Ideas t ere exchanged, and as a result much 1 >od will probably come. < The Association will meet in Columbia ] ;xt year as the guest of the University id Columbia College. Officers for next ar will be elected by the staffs of the amecock, Carolinian, and Criterion in le near future. iabc0ck speaks to rotary club lVOID satiety, theme longratulates Service Clubs On Part Played In Promotion Of Public Health "The true formula for attaining genuie happiness is to make others happy, fappiness consists not in receiving but i giving." So declared Dr.? Havilah Babcock, rofessor of Knglish, in a speech before ie Columbia Rotary Club. Dr. Bab- ' ack's address mi "Health and Happiess was part of a special program held t the Rose Mary Tea Room Thursday fternoon at 2 o'clock. The professor gave this advice: Quit before you get enough; applicale alike to work and play. Avoid satity! Conserve sufficient zest for the next me." The American millionaire," continued ie speaker, "does not enjoy the exercise f his wealth so much as he does the onquest in his acquisition of it. So, by ie same analogy, we really do not en3y good health so much as convalescig. For the person who is always in ood health the question of health is on-existent." Dr. Babcok concluded his talk with incere congratulations to the service ubs on ministering to the collective ealtli of the communities of which they re a part. ;lee club Toes on chicago trip .eft Monday In New Bus Under Direction of Maurice Matteson harly Monday morning twentyine members of the University Glee lub left the campus in the club bus )uud for the Windy City on the ' lore of Lake Michigan, Chicago. ( nder the direction of Maurice Mat- 1 son, the director, the club started ' i the biggest trip planned this year. After a good ride the party ar- ' ved in Asheville Monday afternoon id presented a very successful pro- ' am there the same night. Leaving 1 sheville the motorcade spent Tues- i iy night in Corbin, Ky.; Wednesday 1 ght in Louisville, Ky., and then urneyed on to Evanston, III., where 1 ey will arrive some time Friday. ( Friday night a program will be prented at Evanston. After the pro- ! am a delightful reception is to be ven members of the party by the thletic Club of the city. } Saturday the party will arrive in hicago and present their program ere. This is to be given at the Sherood School of Music and will be a eat for music lovers of the city. During their stay in Chicago the J lee Club will broadcast over a net- , ork of radio stations. After a short ay the return trip will begin, the * arblers hoping to be back in Co- * mbia in the next few days. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS , J . i Christmas holidays will begin i at 1:00 P. M., Friday, Decern- i ber 19, and will continue through January 1. Classes will be resumed at 1:00 o'clock on Fri- I day, January 2, according to an announcement by John A. < Chase, Jr., Registrar. j ) D K SELECTS I MANY NEW MEN WILL BE INITIATED SOON Sixteen Students And Four Faculty Members Chosen By Fraternity Sixteen prominent students and four taculty members have been elected into < nembership of Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fraternity, I : hrough its Chi Circle here. These will < Je initiated at a banquet to be given I Wednesday night at the Rose-Mary Tea Room. Mr. Frank F. Welbourne, Treasurer of the University, Robert D. Bass, professor of English, Professor William Dean, organizer and director of the Palmetto Players, and Professor W. H. W icker of the Law School were chosen from the faculty. Students elected are: LeRoy Want of Darlington, William "Monk" Shand of Columbia, Frank Bostick of Marion, J. C. DuPre, Columbia, Patrick H. Nelson, Columbia, Edwin Farr, Columbia, Billy Woods, Chester, W.^C. Herbert, Pelzer, J. Sam Taylor, Columbia, Badger Baker, Florence, J. J. Brown, Jr., Rock Hill, Marion B. Holman, Batesburg, Woodrow Lewis, Darlington, Yancey McLeod, Columbia, Bannie L. Stewart, Dillon, and James A. Porter of Dillon. | Want is an associate editor of The Gamecock, president of Sigma Delta Chi journalistic fraternity, secretary of I Euphradian, and vice-chairman of Debating Council, Shand was alternate captain I of the football team this year, is president of German Club, and all-State football tackle. Bostick is captain uT rhe track team, member of football team, and member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. DuPre is captain of the basketball team, fraternity editor of The Gamecock, on track team, and member of German club. (Continued on page seven) MANY THINGS ON FOR CHRISTMAS Various Organizations On Campus Will Give Dances And Banquets Soon The Chrsimas spirit has hit the Carolina campus, and many festivities will mark the closing days of 1930. The last week of school is to be celebrated by many dances and other social activities. First on the program are the Nondescript Tea Dance and the Damas dance, given by co-ed clubs, on Friday. Several buffet suppers and dinner parties J are to be given before the Damas. Wednesday night Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary fraternity, will hold its initiation and banquet at the J Rose-Mary. The Gamecock staff will hold its I annual banquet at the Rose-Mary Thurs-| day night. A small dance will be held afterward, for staff members and their Jates only. On Friday, the last of school, the Cotillion and German clubs will have their Christmas dances. The Cotillion Tea Dance will be held at Ridgewood Club in :he afternoon, and the German at the J gymnasium that night. Wiedemer will )lay. Many out-of-town guests will be here for the dances and the collegiate year >f 1930 will close in a blaze of glory. u. s. c. Staff Has Annual Banquet Thursday Will Celebrate Recent Victories; Dean McKissick and Others To Speak 1 The Gamecock Staff will hold its an- j uial banquet Thursday night at 8:30 at he Rose-Mary Tea Room. This banquet las been held every year for some time, is a farewell to the retiring staff and a greeting to the new members. The banquet this year will be of espial significance, since it will celebrate ilso the honors which the publication has received, in being chosen the best college ivcekly in the State and national press neets. Dean McKissick, of the School of Journalism, and several of the staff mem>ers will speak. After the banquet, there Will be a small lance for members of the staff and their fuests. -rrfA* X.'V< V. ;>jfl . .. fcv>; ? FRESHMEN CLASS TO PUT ON TALKS | ON VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE Will be Given in Chapel Every Wednesday After Christmas The officers of the freshmen class working with members of the Personnel Bureau are planning to put on immediately after Christmas a series of vocational guidance talks in the chapel every Wednesday. The program has grown out of and is developing from questionnaires given out to the freshmen class asking them to check the profession they were most interested in. This information has been compiled and from it there will be chosen speakers from the fields that appear to be most popular with the students. After the chapel talks specific group meetings will be held in the Personnel Bureau where students will have an opportunity to talk over with an authority any problems and ask any questions in regard to the particular profession. After the specific group meetings personal interviews will be arranged for those persons particularly interested in a specified vocation. If, after the personal interview and a talk with the authority on that profession a student is still interested in pursuing it Mr. Bell, of the Personnel Bureau, will make a vocational analysis of his aptitudes. If it is found that a student has ability along some certain line which he likes they will be encouraged to spend some time in the office of some person pursuing that particular profession. In that way a student will come in direct contact with the problems and difficulties as well as the pleasures and enjoyment which are to be derived from that profession. And then if, after having thus far made a study of the profession the (Continued on page three) NINE INITIATED BY COMMERCE GROUP Delta Sigma Pi Takes In Two Faculty Members and Seven Undergraduates Two faculty members and seven undergraduates were initiated into Delta Sigma Pi, national commercial fraternity, Friday afternoon. Frank F. Welbourne, treasurer of the University, and Frank T. Meeks, associate professor in the School of Commerce, are the new initiates from the faculty. The undergraduates taken in were: Herbert H. Taylor, Clarence Meeks, W. W. Lewis, Robert J. McCaskill, R. A. Bedenbaugh, Perry, Crandall, and Ed Sykes. A banquet was held at the Rosemary Tea Room after the initiation in honor of the new men taken in. THIRTY-EIGHT MEN ELECTED TO KSK INITIATION LAST NIGHT Nine Prominent Faculty Members and Twenty-nine Students Selected Thirty-eight men, including nine faculty members, were elected into Kappa Sigma Kappa, honor-service fraternity, Thursday evening, December 4, at the regular semi-annual election. Initiation took place Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Euphradian Literary Society hall. Faculty members elceted were: Prof. F. W. Bradley, Prof. Henry C. Davis, John A. Chase, Jr., Prof. E. C. Coker, Prof. Kershaw Walsh, Prof. Havilah Babcoclc, Dean J. Rion McKissick, Prof. S. N. Derrick, and J. A. Crawford. Student elected into membership were: Henry Foster, J. A. Giles, W. B. King, Robert McCaskill, Ralph Derrick, Robert Killingsworth, C. E. Bedenbaugh, William Ouzts, W. S. Stork, Tommie Whiteside, J. A. Hanahan, Hunter Woods, Lynwood Smith, C. F. Price, L. O. Wilson, John Denny, Paul Turkett, William Harley, William Martin, Emmett Bell, Sam Faile, Lewis Wallace, Lamar Be(Continued oh page seven)