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CHRISTMAS! //tC i IN 1930!
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA |
Volume XXIV, No. 11 * ' COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930 Founded 1908
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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