Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KjRX * ----- -j ' 1 TWO DEBATES | FEATURE MEET MACK, WINDHAM SPEAK Debate Whether Freshman Co-eds' Hair Shall Be Clipped or Not With an excellent program the Clariosophic Literary socicty held its regular meeting last Tuesday night. The first speaker of the evening was J. J. Mack, who made an address on "What Carolina Needs Most." Mr. Mack pointed out the great need of financial backing for the University. He advocated a great centralization of activities at the University as partial means of restoring Carolina spirit. J. M., Windham, the next speaker, gave an informative and convincing speech on "The Legislature Should Have Biennial Sessions." He advocated biennial sessions for the legislature as a means for saving the State great sums of money. The query for the debate was, Resolved : "That a law should be passed prohibiting the publication of such magazines as 'Whiz Bang' and 'I Confess.'" The affirmative side of the question was upheld by J. Sam Taylor and John A. Bigham, who were opposed by H. E. Cone and J. Ii. Glenn. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative side. An interesting and amusing feature of the program was an impromptu debate on the query. Resolved: "That freshImen coeds at the University of South Carolina should have their hair clipped along with male freshmen when they enter the University." Jim Galloway and Bill Latham spoke for the affirmative side and C. W. Cox and Woodrow Lewis upheld the negative argument. ||i y < ::: v : ; iSSIHSk'^jiI WE CONGF Mr. John Bo ON BEING ^ Most Pop IN THE STATIS1 h ; SPONSO The Ga BERG HATS AN CLOTHES HAV1 NIZED BY STUI MOST POPUL/ CLOTHES ON ' See our New S next time you HOPE-Dj f>; Main a . * JOE HIOTT, Cam] ' I ffl. X t ;/. /! % . . ?HELMTwSoP 71 CONTEST ON APRIL 17TH Announcement Comes After Meeting of Executive Committee at Jefferson The State Oratorical contest will be held at Winthrop College on April 17. < This announcement came- as a result of a meeting of the executive committee of the South Carolina Oratorical Association, which met in the Jefferson Hotel last Saturday morning. Delegates from every boys' college in the State were present. The University was ^presented by Wilson O. Weldon, substituting for Nigel A. League, who was absent from the city on a debating trip. It was decided at this meeting that the order of the speakers should be as follows : Presbyterian College, Erskint, Clemson, Citadel, Wofford, Furman, Carolina, Newberry, and the College of Charleston. Officers and delegates present at the meeting last Saturday were Joseph H. Marshall, College of Charleston, president ; John A. May, Wofford, vice-president ; Wilson O. Weldon, Carolina, acting recording secretary; B. B. Dunlap, P. C., corresponding secretary; Joe Adams, Clemson, treasurer. Others at the meeting included T. B. McBride, Erskine, H. O. Farr, Citadel; N. R. Beacham, Furman, and W. S. Gnann of Newberry. No definite announcement has been made locally concerning the elimination contest to determine Carolina's representative, but it is expected to take place sometime during this month. tATULATE It Culbertson /OTED THE ular Man riCAL CONTEST RED BY \ mecock i ID HOPE-DAVIS ' E BEEN RECOGDENTS AS THE \R HATS AND THE CAMPUS. firing Stock the come up town. WIS CO. t Lady )us Representative ,K , ' V ... ... . . ' L. -V. , ^goncernSK > - v : ''Hydrogen and oxygen ignite (BAMI) with an explosion." This1 was a favorite trick of the late Dr. W! B. Burney, to make an explosion and tell his class about it later! When a man has served on the faculty of a university for a period of fifty years, jt is only natural that many anecdotes and amusing stories should be built up around his name. So it is with Dr. Burney, beloved member of the chemistry department from 1880 to 1931, Dr. Burney lived to see- the University of South Carolina grow from a small school of only seventylive students to the large institution which it is today, with a student body of seventeen hundred. When he first arrived here as a young professor, fresh from his studies at Heidelburg, he had acquired many foreign mannerisms, and wore his beard parted in the middle and brushed sportily back on either ^sida. He often told the tale on himself that once when he was traveling on a train in England two girls, in the same compartment, thinking him a foreigner, started discussing his personal appearance in English 1 Dr. Burney was always mentally alert; he never stood still while lecturing but strode up and down his classroom with a funny little prancing walk. He had an uncanny faculty for knowing when students neglected their work. He used to keep a telescope up in the lab and once he looked through it and saw a man whom he had put to work setting posts out at Wales Garden asleep on the job. That man thought he was a magician! In faculty meetings Dr. Burney was always for the individual student t rather than the rules. His favorite expression for an unruly student was, "A little leaven leaveneth a whole lump." All of his students remember how when he got thoroughly disgusted with them in their lab work and wanted to get away he invariably had to "go down town and see about that note at the bank." I His students declared that he always managed to ask on the cxamina| tion, either directly or indirectly, everything that had been covered in the course. His lectures were clear and precise; he illustrated everything in the textbook .with experiments. His I desk was always covered with extensive apparatus. Dr. Burney once saved the life of a lab assistant who had been badly scalded by breaking a carboy of sulphuric acid, by neutralizing the acid with ammonia. He was always kind and sympathetic; once when the son of Professor Davis' cook fell down the CLASSIC ACTORS GIVE HAMLET Ben Greet, Shakespearian Players, To Come Under Auspices Of The Palmetto Players The contract with the Ben Greet Shakespearian Players has been definitely completed, according to an announcement from William Dean, head of the JUNIOR-SENIOl I * Name Address Do you expect to come to the recept If so, will you bring a date? If so, check which of the following ; Junior? Senior? All juniors and seniors are respectful at their earliest convenience and giv to be put in box 84. WE WELCOME CAR CAPITAL ] 1213 Gervais . Snooker, Carom, a M & M RECREA 1216 Main \ ^drbuwJey steps and broke his arm, he gave hhn the money to pay the doctor. Modern bobtleg has nothing on the old state dispensary whiskey, according to Dr. Burney. He was chemist for the dispensary and analyzed the whiskey. He used to tell the boys that it'was "rotten stuff, poison 1" He kept his supplies on the third floor of the old science building, the present gymnasiurp, and the students once climbed in and raided his stock. Raiding Dr. Burney's chicken coop was a favorite ' sport for the college boys. He had one fowl whfch he referred to as "Willie's Bantam," Great was the sorrow when1 the bantam's neck was wrung one dark night. Dr. Burney did not often give advice to students, but when he did it Was usually carefully heeded. One senior was having a gay time at college not paying much attention to his studies. He met Dr. Burney on his way to a date one night, and the professor said, "If I was a betting man, I would bet two hundred to one that you don't get your diploma." The student was dismayed, and the doctor went on to explain that his case had been discussed in a faculty meeting and the general opinion was that he would fail to graduate. The senior settled down to work, and said that if it hadn't been for this advice he would not have gotten his diploma. One of Dr. Burney's chief characteristics was his fondness for accuracy. He gave his third-year chemistry students a practical examination; giving them a small amount of some liquid to analyze. One student who had been admitted to the class without the proper prerequisites, and who was in some danger of flunking, could only find seven .or eight substances, whereas most of the class found about thirty. The student was a senior and his diploma depended on the chemistry course, so he worked on it for a week, and finally guessed at a few and turned them in. When the grades were posted, this student found that he was rated second in the class. He went to ask about it, and Dr. Burney told him that he had only guessed at a few substances whereas the other students had guessed at -from ten to twenty. He had received a better grade because his paper was more accurate. Because he was so fond of his work Dr. Burney attended classes during the last few weeks of his life, even when he was physically * unfit. The students would often advise him to go home and go to bed, but he stayed on the job until the very end. department of dramatics. The players wiljkbe at the Columbia Theatre April 10, sponsored by the Palmetto Players. They will present as a matinee, "Everyman," and that night, "Hamlet." It is expected that an especially combined program of 'the University Symphony Orchestra and the boy's glee club will also be presented. One representative of the Ben Greet Players is to come early to assist in the preparations and to give the students a general idea of the production and the work of the players. R RECEPTION S Phone ion? your date will be: \ * Outsider? Ily requested to fill out this coupon e it to Mrs. Moon at the poutoffice < OLINA STUDENTS DRUG CO. 'Phone 22968 nd Pocket Tables TION PARLOR Columbia, S. C. A ! - - '. -J S New "Y" Officers Inst Jed Monday . , a? TAYLOR ASSUMES DUTIES \ ? Chairmen on Council to Take Up Work For Next Year At Same Time * At its regular meeting on next Monday night the Y. M. C. A. council wilt install the officers for the "Y" for the coming year. Those who will be inaugurated are: president,^-J. Sam Taylor; vice-president, Sam Galloway; secretary, Alton'Brown; treasurer, Jack Hall; and assistant treasurer, Luke Williamson. In addition to the inauguration of these officers the installation of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet will take place. The members of the new cabinet and the committees they will have charge of are: R. M. Newton, Sunday nig^ht meetings; R. L. Keaton Bible discussion groups,; C. W. jCox, church and Sunday school programs; Buford Worthy, socials; Wallace Thomks campus services; Troy W. Stokes, world , Christian education; Ellis Craps, inter- , racial work; Fred Graham, conventions; Jim Galloway, honor principle; L. L. Hamilton, membership. There will also be two other committees, freshman and Carolina Christian Service club, the leaders of which will be announced later. Each leader of a committee will select his own assistants. CHI DELTA PHI HOLDS INITIATION Six new members were initiated into Chi Delta Phi, national literary sorority, Friday evening. They are Rowena Jones, Willie Rudd Fuller, Mrs. Robert Patten, Mrs. D. B. Manley, Alice Smoak, and Millie Taylor. After the initiation service, which was held at the home of Mrs. G. Flavic Cooper, Jr., a banquet was given the initiates at the Rosemary Tea Room. Honorary members are: Mrs. O. L. Keith, Mrs. Julius Taylor, Mrs. F. W. Bradley, Marguerite Abel; the active members, 'Mary Bcgg Ligon, Ruth Ellsworth, Dorothy Penland, Annie Laurie Mitchell, Darice Jackson; alumnae members, Mrs. G. Flavie Cooper, Jr., Mrs. N. T. Hammet, Bobbie Ellsworth, Foy Stevenson, Gennie Revelise; and Marion Finlay, pledge. DRAMATIC MAP OF STATE IS DRAWN A dramatic map of South Carolina has been done by F. Griffiths of the School of Engineering. It shows the towns serviced by the Bureau of Dramatic Activities. This bureau was started last year, and over fifty towns have been assisted. The demand has been so great that Mr. Dean turned this department over, to Wilinot Jacobs. Enquiries are so numerous that Harriet Connor has been engaged as secretary. According to "Hap" Edens, treasurer of the German Club, the last date for payment of dues is March 4, next Wednesday. After that day all names of those who have not paid will be automatically dropped from the roll. Dues may be paid to either Jack Foster or Mr. Edens. t 1 ~ CENTRAL 1204 Mai OPEN AL1 DO YOUR CLOTH Let us help to keep you spotless small and the l The Canteen and the Ga THE CAROLINA DI Phone 8156 UNIVERSITY CO-O] v The Ca University I Gamecock Pi Operated for the Students and O Profits go into Stude v If we haven't what you war "The Center of [ student fds~1 notes of 18531 ' ' '' WRITING OP YORE NEAT j J. P. Cain Finds Notes On MetaPhysics, Lecture Of Dr. LaBorde * J Notebooks were evidently 0f more value m thp days %f our grandfathers than they are now, and much more care went into their makeup, if the latest find of the^ history department is typical. Also, it seems that students co-operated much more?openly than they do now. . 7 v J. P. Cain, a junior at the Univer- sity, has contributed to the history department's collection of old South Carolina documents a beautifully written metaphysics notebook that was used by at least four students othtt than the one who compiled it The book is entitled "Dr. Maximilian LaBorde's Lectures on Metaphysics,"* and the original owner inscribed across the whole breadth of one ot the first pages the following legend: "William Lowndes Daniel, April, 1853, South *' Carolina College." On the same page is also the following: "R. & Ri ; W. L. Tompkins, Senior Class, S. C. College, 1855." Both Daniel and the'*'^ brothers Tompkins wrdte their names many times on the blank pages, with jPi bold flourishes and curlicues. And off in a corner on the inside of the cover, \jj as simple and straight forward as Greek epitaph, this inscription:* V; Joseph P. Cain from R, A. Tompkins." In the back of the book, howl$ ever, we see the following: "Sacred to ';<! the Memory of Joseph Palmer Cain, . Who Departed this College, 3rd December, A. D. 1856." The name of one W. I. Trenholm ^ also appears. There may have been others, but Cain was the last owner * of the book. He gave it to his grandson, who in turn presented it to the ' history department. It is now to be \ seen at the library. U. s. C. |j booklet issued under babcock ; 'What Can The University Do For Me." Sent To High "iM School Graduates m "What Can the University Do For'.-j Me"? a booklet issued quarterly under\r .3 the direction of Dr. Havilah Babcock | has just come from the press. It will be sent to over 3,000 high school gradu- , , ates. Hie bulletin .contains information on opportunities for professional trainlBfc *. j offered by the University and the helpV1 offered in preparation ior^ a degree.,*' Brief descriptions are given of the varir'' ous schools and student organizations j// of the University. ~ ' ?^ | JESSAMINE CLOTHES $22.50 Suit $6.00 Extra Pant? i 'H 4' Kupponhelmer Suit* $40 to $65 $/<; COPELAND CO. 1515 MAIN ST. L?.? =*': tojgcot j? n Street Sjl ^ NIGHT es get dirty? tj and well groomed. The cost is eward great fl mecock are our agents IY cleaning co. i 1608 Barnwell St perative store 1 nteen ' look Store \) 'easing Club wried by the Student Body. All I nt Activities Fund it, tell us, and we'll get it I the Campus" ?