Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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First Gi Robert E. < Was Wide 4 Achieved Prominence Both At University And In After Life By John A. Giles Robert E. Gonzales, the first editor of The Gamecock, was one of those students who achieved prominence while at the University and national prominence in after life. It was only natural for him to be selected as the first editor of The Gamecock. Before the establishment of the paper lie had twice been editor and once business manager of The Carolinian, editor of The Garnet and Black, and was president of the South Carolina Press Association. He was looked upon as the most capable journalist on the campus and the 1909 Garnet and Black truely prophesied "Bob will someday make a name as an editor." I When graduated from the University in 1909 Gonzales intended going on to Harvard Law School but due to ill health he was forced to change his plans and soon became a paragrapher of The State. As a paragrapher he attained national reputation and J. Wilson Gibbes, present clerk of the House of Representatives, speaks of him as "the premier paragrapher of his time." Robert E. Gonzales, was born in Col- ( umbia, AfJril 18, 1888, the son of William E. and Sarah Cecil Shiver Gonzales. In half a decade he had by his work on The State made secure his place among the foremost few practitioners of the fine journalistic art of paragraphing. It was with the deepest regret of the press all over the country that they heralded his death from pneumonia late Tuesday night December 19, 1916, at El Paso, Texas. At the time of his death he was an officer in the South Carolina Infantry then on GONC The Silver The GA lished at ;; Carolina ! i years. : ;i v lege papi nized as I Weeklies I'? * " i - : < j i'1 . ? * H um H I amecoct Gonzales ily Known j First Gamecock Editor j Robert Elliott Gonzales patrol duty on the Mexican border. While at the University Gonzales not only took a prominent part in the journalistic activities, hut was also captain and tackle on the football team, president of the athletic association, president of the Clariosophic society, corresponding secretary of the South Carolina Intercollegiate Oratori:al association, class historian and poet, and member of the German Club. He also won the Carolinian medal for poetry. u. B. o. Park Officer: Hey, come out of that pool. Don't you know that people have to drink that water? Bum: Aw, dat's aw right, offiser? I ain't usin' no soap. We hasten to point out that while every man has his wife, only the iceman has his pick. WE iRATU GAMECC on this its ' Anniv MECOCK has t the University i for the last tm It is an outstanc, ?r, and has bee one of the Bes in the Unitea the j!L j'' ' * . ,fV v- * - . . k Head * \ \ * * . . t . ^ ''' ' < I ??? ' 1 ? Hill Addresses Teachers Meet Making- a plea for less fault finding and more fact finding concerning the causes of the present depression, Professor Guy H. Hill, addressed the Orangeburg county teachers association last Saturday. Professor Hill said tlfat teachers should get off the defensive whep criticism is made and use the criticism as a basis for study. f U. 8. O. Yates Snowden The incarnation Of the Old South was he, Clad in the black cape of the old Regime, Erect and handsome, Picturesque and dominating. Oh! There was dignity there! Just a touch of Hauteur Bespoke the aristocrat of Plantation days. An easy courtesy completed His charm. He was the breath of the culture of v Old Charleston. What would have been prejudice In others, In him was the culmination of a Delightful provincialism. I drink to him From a Crystal goblet, The Wine of Life! ?Raymond B. Mitchell in The Blue Heron, annual publication of the Scroll club, Easton, Pa. (Mr. Miller, formerly, for two years, associate professor of economics in the University of South Carolina,' is now a member of the economics faculty in Lafayette college at Easton, Pa.) LATE ! )CK ersary | been pubof-South verity-five ling Coln recog- i t College ill I States. e | * 11 " Ill n j Had B \y '> * s * Carolina Ranked As Nations Best Files Of Hollands Magazine Reveal Lofty Standards Held By University "In 1862, the University of South Carolina's requirements were as high as those of Harvard and Yale, and ai>parently higher than those of Columbia. Sometime previously Thomas Jefferson had sent his grandson there in preference to all other schools in America," the December issue of Hollands Magazine says in "Notes to Remember." The article, .which is written by the editor of the magazine, deals with the leading universities and colleges, their early history and foundations, and their scholastic standings. In speaking of the University as the first university of the nineteenth century the author says that under adverse conditions South Carolina undertook the establishment of a school with requirements as high as any in the United States, and for which all South Carolinians should be proud. "Thus did the South build, and thus did she lay her scholastic foundations in the face of revolution and strife; and this the foundation upon which there stepped forth, as though a herald of what was to come, the South's and the nation s first university of the nineteenth century: the University of South Carolina, at Columbia," the author states in conclusion. U. 8. o. Collegiate lippings A recent report by the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching, states that collcge seniors have about GO per cent of the normal educated person's vocabulary. ?"Quaker Campus." Tennyson's old house at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, is to be open to the public this summer. It contains many interesting relics of the poet. ?"Quaker Campus." Mary Baldwin's representative at the Buffalo Convention of Student Volunteers, led a discussion on the question of disarmament according to the request of the convention. Mary Baldwin ?Collcge students voted unanimously in favor of the measure. Accordingly a telegram was sent to Washington, petitioning "that a student representative be included in the United States delegation to the World Disarmament Conference at Geneva." ?The Salemite. ? And last, but not least, "Mush" Dean, former star Mustang line-man stepped out and showed the sporting world a fbw tilings by grabbing off a Rhodes scholarship?thus proving that football players can do more than collect mud and tote a pigskin. ?Western Gazette. Statistics reveal that sixty former college athletic heroes are now presidents of colleges and universities in the United States. ?The Alchemist. "Tun is the most important thing in college, was said to the Northwestern University freshmen by Prof. Franklin B. Snyder. Friendship, facts and faith were the other three fruits of a collcge education as stressed by Prof. Snyder. He defined "fun" as exercising the "muscles of the mind." ?The Alchemist. According to Case Tech, students who "borrow" electric light bulbs, break doors, and commit other crimes which are opposed to the conventions of society, are to be subjected to a psychoanalytical examination. The purpose of the test will be to determine why students do things in college which they would not do at home. ?The Alchemist. A strike at the University of Wyoming was broken up by the police. What was it about?the students demand an apology from the president of the university for his interference with several private "petting parties" during the intermi^son of a university dance. v / ?Gonzaga Bulletin. The revised basketball schedule of Long Island University includes a game with the University of Mexico on the Long Island floor. ?The Purple and Gray. V-J; >: M&U A: U tl ,. ,s /. rilliant Sallenger Wins Harmon Award 4 Scholarship Given Carolina Freshman By National Scout Foundation One of the fifty Harmott scholarship awards to Boy Scoots with exceptional records was given January 19 to Edward D. Sallenger, Ja freshman of Carolina from Florence. The Harmon award is awarded to Eagle Scouts and the record of the award is not only based on Boy Scout work, but also on school,, church, and community service work. The awards approved by the national scout cxecu^ tive board in New York at its recent sesson entitle each winner to $100 toward an education and the right to borrow without endorsement other sums from the Harmon Educational Foundation. Sallenger entered the University in September and is on the freshman basketball squad. u.?. a. In The Good Old Days Copied from Files of The # Gamecock of 1912 February 10,. 1912 This was the first issue of The Gamecock under the newly elected staff: Sam Latimer, Jr., editor; J. B. Murphey, associate; W. H. McMurray, M. A. Shuler, M. V. Hoffman, W. J. Robbins, H. C. Brcarly, M. S. Brohun, and M. C. Foster, assistants. Acting oh a resolution from the students the faculty modified the rule on absences from class, whereby students would be allowed two (2) cuts on each class. Heretofore, the rule had been that two points would be taken off the term grade for each uncxcused absence. The reason the action was taken was because it had been found that too many students were failing due to unexcused absences. The German Club announced that it would* hold its mid-winter dance in the Field House at an early date. D. C. Heyward, Jr., was recently elected editor of The Carolinian and A. G. Hart, business manager, Other staff members were J. N. Farris, J. A. Foster, M. A. Wright, S. A. White, associate editors; and C. W. Covington, assistant business manager. U, 8. O. This year a co-ed was chosen for the first time, as honorary major at the University of Nevada R. O. T. C. Military Ball.( A long and honorable record at that. ?Gonzaga Bulletin. The tempo of American life eventually will result in the shortening of words in American speech, according to Richard Borden, professor of public speaking at the New York University College. ?The Yellow Jacket. A?....,..., . . . WE CONGI THE GAI OnTI Silver A n WE SHALL NC OTHER COLLI BURNETT'S DRUG STORE 829 Main Street NEW SHOE HOSPITAL 1345 Main Street ( ? * tk m '\ & # A . ' Career ; German Frat Installed Here ' i il Sigma chapter'of Delta Phi Alpha, ' national honorary German Fraternity has been establiBhed here at this University upon petition of DER DEUTSCHE Verein, until recently a local German Club. , Sigma is the eighteenth chapter of the national organisation. This association of German students seeks to J honor excellence in German and to give students an incentive for higher < scholarship. The fraternity aims to promote the study of the German language, literature and civilization, to' further an interest in and a better understanding of the German nation, and to foster a sympathetic apprecia- ' tion of German culture. 'J The local chapter has arranged a tentative series of programs, many of which are to be open to guests. It is being planned to conduct the private meetings in German. The program at the last meeting, Tuesday night, consisted of an entertaining review, given by the president, Ellis Crapps, of a German book, "Die ' Insel Felsenburg," by Johann Goderfried Schonebel. U. B. O. Weekly Calendar i Friday 8:00 Varsity vs. College of Charleston, in Charleston Saturday 8:00 Freshmen vs. Pacific Mills, at the Field House Sunday 7:00 Vesper services in chapel Monday 5:45 Gamecock staff meeting 7:00 Palmetto Players rehearsal in chapel Tuesday 7:00 University Band practice in chap?l 7:45 Clariosophic and Euphradian literary societies meet Wednesday 4:30 Hypatian and Euphrosynean literary societies meet 7:00 Palmetto Players rehearsal in chapel 7:30 Gamecock staff meeting Thursday 6:45 Freshmen Y. M. C. A. Council 7:15 Kappa Sigma Kappa 7:30 Gamecock staff meeting U. H. O. LOST: One Latin interlinear "Ovid" in Sloan 303. Fijider, please return to No. 8, University Campus, phorfe 21393. FOUND: Five fountain pens. See Mrs. Moon at Post Office. IATULATE VIECOCK lis Its niversary >T ENVY ANY ;GK WEEKLY | BELK'S 1 J WE SELL IT FOR LESS 1501 Main Street CAROLINA ENGRAVING COMPAQ Ulsl/2 Taylor Street ' ' . . jj I . ,