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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1906 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published on Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publications of the University of South Carolina Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoffice on November 20, 1908. Member of South Carolina College Press Association. Member of National College Press Association. News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by nine o'clock Wednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be typewritten, double-spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which they are submitted, with the name of the author signed. SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$2.00 PER COLLEGE YEAR Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 Executive Board WnxiAM C. Herbert Editor J. Sam Taylor Business Manager Allen Rollins Managing Editor Associates Louise Edwards - - - Associate Editor J. H. Galloway - Associate Editor John Giles - - - - - - - - . Associate Editor William I. Latham ..... - Associate Editor J. Mitchell Morse ..... - - Associate Editor Millie Taylor ...... - Associate Editor Frank Durham Assistant Managing Editor R. L. Keaton, Jr. - Assistant Managing Editor Frank Wardlaw ...... Assistant Managing Editor Reportorial John A. Bigiiam ......... News Editor Alan Schafer - Sports Editor O. H. Skewes Assistant Sports Editor tfj&L John C. Payne Alumni Editor Genevieve Reynolds ....... Exchange Editor Boyce Craig Fraternity Editor Belvin IIorres Y. M. C. A. Editor I Katherine Cathcart Joke Editor Co-Ed Ethel Galloway - - - - . Co-ed Editor Josephine Griffin - News Editor ... I Marian Finley - - - Society Editor Faith Brewer Feature Editor Assistants Bonnie Kate Barnes, Lemuel. Gregory, LaVerne Hughes, Annie Huitt, Donald McIntosh, Jane Shaffer, Sue Kibler, and Jean Wichman Business J. W. Brown Assistant Business Manager L. C. Grant ; Assistant Business Manager Baynard Whaley ..... Assistant Business Manager . i Circulation , : R. H. Bishop -- - Circulation Manager , L. W. Epton Assistant Manager ! Wilbur Jones - - - Assistant Manager i Leon Pickens ........ Assistant Manager V ! ! Kenneth Prince Assistant Manager CROWING FOR: " News Bureau?Even a great University must advertise. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administered. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. Paved Sidewalks?Not only a need, but an immediate necessity. j FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932 What is $50,000 compared to a life? The newspapers have found an answer to that in their circulation figures. A Colorado University student who was caught drinking was JP sentenced to attend Sunday School for three years. u. a. a.?? Now's The Time To Buy Bricks, Seniors! The two main arteries of the brick sidewalks have been completed. But there remains a number of connecting links that could be placed between the two. There is yet something over $100 to be collected to settle the cost of laying the walks already completed. It will cost something like $150 to locate a six-foot walk across the campus in front of the Extension building, bringing together the two main walks at the head of main campus. This, in brief, is how the brick sidewalks movement stands at the present time. The senior class meets this afternoon, and the matter of making a gift to the University will be brought up at that time. Whatever other suggestions may be made, none will be as paramount as the need that is ever obvious for a better walkways system on the campus. Few gifts will stand out as an achievement as worthwhile and as permanent as a sidewalk placed at the head of the campus with the numerals "1932" carved in white bricks in front of the Extension building. While the movement is receiving the support of other groups, and thereby assuming the proportions of a campus-wide awakening to the need, now is the time for the senior class to come in for its own particular recognition as a body that wishes to show its spirit of co-operation and, first of all, love for the institution that has opened tip many educational channels for the enlightenment of that class. Seniors, imagine the pleasure and the thrill of having done something of a permanent nature while here that will come over you each time you return to your Alma Mater and see the "1932" engraved in your sidewalk. How do you think you will feel someday when you come back and show your friends a feat that few graduates are able to boast of. You will be able to speak of this work as well as the many dances, the innumerable entertainments, the initiations and pranks, and the other hundred and one things that you did while here. Your extra-curricular college life will have one aspect that few other men and women have experienced. You will have given something that was more valuable than just a tablet or a beautiful but only ornamental monument: You will have left a permanent and useful mark at the University that will make future graduates your beneficiaries. (NSFA)?"If all the people who daily come into Manhattan from the North could be placed into a single line, that line would stretch from 59th Street to the waters of Hudson Bay in Canada," declared Harold M. Lewis, executive Engineer for the regional plan of New York City. K&-; bl ' The University, Beneficiary Of ... ? The appropriation bill, raised to ten million dollars by the Senate, is in the hands of the Free Conference Committee now. It will probably be returned for approval of the two houses within the next three weeks. r Since the House sponsored an appropriation of some $8,000,000.00, while the Senate would increase this to $10,000,000.00, it is evident that a compromise must be reached before the House will allow the bill to go to the Governor's office for approval. The Senate raised the University's appropriation from $299,000 to $325,000, favoring turning the sum over to the University authorities to be used at their discretion. There are many departments that receive their operating expenses from this appropriation bill. Many of these have been recommended for cuts. A few of these along with the University have already suffered cuts in the bill passed last year. However, there remain on this appropriation bill several departments which serve no greater purpose than the University, that in some cases mean not as much to the State as this institution, yet these same departments have suffered comparatively much less in the appropriation lop-offs. * If every single department represented on the appropriation bill was reduced proportionately with the suggested decreased appropriation for this school, there would not be the slightest trouble in getting the bill within the $9,000,000 limit favored by the House. As long as the student qualifies for entrance, the University authorities have no right to keep any son of tax-paying South Carolinians frojn enrolling at the University of South Carolina. At the same time, the appropriation bill would provide salaries for a less number of professors of the present quality on the faculty to instruct these men and women. The University has facing it several undeniably powerful influences: 1. A drastic reduction of appropriation. 2. Intimations from full-time members of the faculty that they will seek positions at other institutions, since they will be unable to keep up everyday living expenses and a semblance of dignity in the face of decreased salaries. 3. Increasing number of inferior instructors due to inability to demand first-class professors. 4. No decrease in size of student body, yet a decrease in appropriation to take care of that same number. 5. Loss of standing along with first-class institutions, thereby lessening value of diploma to graduate. These influences, of course, are all evolving from the decreased appropriation recommended each year. Some of Carolina's professors have had offered them positions that were higher and with better salaries, but these have preferred to live in the state of their choice with a smaller income. As long as the doors of the institution remain open, there must be people to teach the more than 1,700 students enrolled here. Instructors who will accept a small fee necessarily are placed on the faculty. And, a fact that seems to have won little consideration from the law-making moguls is that the student body has decreased only 32 this year from the figures of the preceding session. Since the institution cannot continue to uphold the academic standards that have been shakily withstanding the ravages of the lawmaking body in the last two years, it will be impossible to remain in the Association. One of its requisites is that a certain number of highly-trained professors be on the faculty, stipulating the minimum to be paid these educators. J $370,000 was furnished the University last year in the appropriation bill. This year only $325,000 has been recommended as a maximum. It would seem that "depression" will cost Carolina $45,000, or that the loss of 32 students has justified a cut of over 8% in the school's appropriation. U. 8. O. (NSFA)?A perfect example of irony is the fact that the offices of the company supplying and manufacturing munitions to the fighting nations is on the same street and opposite the building where the Peace Conference is held. ^ U. 8. O. David Edward Finley: A Carolina Man "The University of South Carolina cannot fail to exert a favorable influence over the life of anyone who comes into contact with her, and no man would go wrong in selecting her as his Alma Mater." The above was made by one of Carolina's most distinguished sons, a real national figure, and a man who has kept, during the stress and strain of a long political career, the ideals and principles instilled in him while a student at Carolina. We refer to David .Edward Finley, former first assistant secretary of the treasury and recently appointed special assistant to the American Embassy at London, England. A statement like this, typical as it is of the attitude of many old Carolina men, makes us believe that Carolina spirit is not in as deplorable a condition as many pessimists would have us believe. Not all spirit is shown by cheering sections; the megaphone and hoarse throats are not the true symbols of love for school. They are only the outward manifestations of that spirit and, as such, are often mistaken for the school spirit itself. We believe firmly that the work of the many wonderful men who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of Carolina has not been in vain. There is an influence ever present on this historic old campus which is eternally working for the advancement of civilization, for the fitting of Carolina's sons for real service to state and nation. v. a. o. (NSFA)?In a paper on "The College Graduate in Business", read at the recent Personnel and Office Management conferences in Pittsburgh, Pa., the following significant statement was made: "The demand for college graduates up to the year 1940 will be lax. The outlook will be unusually bright for the' exceptional man because it is estimated that by 1940, 57 per cent of staff positions paying $4,000 or more a year will be held by college graduates, as com>pared to 35 per cent in 1930." (NSFA)?"When you wish to cross the streets of Chicago or New York City with safety, you must walk just behind a lady, as Americans will not run over a lady", is the advice of a Japanese student at the University of North Carolina. i The Faculty. A number of seniors were arouse spring fever recently when the fac ments for cum laude and magnt Registrar .Chase released for the las ''Beginning with the graduatini graduate with a ratio of 2.75 to points and the number of semest laude; and that a graduate with j laude." With no warning whatsoever, the this increase over the ratio annor body of statements and regulatioi student body in the past as binding year. Formerly a ratio of 2.5 to laude and 2 to 1 for cum laude. three honor points for each semes "C" counts one. No honor poin with a grade of "D'\) Even if seniors have looked forv graduate with honors, even if mai crowning achievement of their a already told their closest associat< distinction, the faculty has said t the spur of the moment; at least n involved or the interested student It is understood that some of til number of credits required for | was only fitting that this more rig have said further that there have in the past. Maybe all of this is tr to those seniors who have hoped t petitors for the position just by tl: The Gamecock contends that th preparing students to become usefi fitted for some profession. It slio and the finer things in life. Is this being done when the fa* face of this year's graduates by su< that they had earned according 1 taken away from them? It is too referred to to go back and build raised level for honors. Will the students thus sadly mi of love and respect for the faci if that body of intelligent gentlem ,"I will not get cum laude as 1 senior co-ed, "although my averaj hurts me most of all is the fact tl I would graduate with honor anc he will probably give me a teac record." What will that person do now? of her right to employment, just w U. 8 How lucky Adam was. He kne no one had ever said it before!? IT. B It takes the tact and diplomacy patience of Job, the blindness of a of a press agent to enable a woma: U. 8 For. life to be at all bearable, o and men as they are.?Mme. du E c. a Wauchope, Reed St Differ in Critict Difference of opinion appeared when Dr. G. A. Wauchope, Dr. Reed Smith, and Dr. Harry Davis, all English professors, were interviewed on "What do you think of the present day tendency to employ slang more and more?" . Although Dr. Wauchope says that by use of slang we show alertness, we should not use too much of it, thereby agreeing partially with Dr. Smith. Dr. Davis, however, recommends the "mastery of good English" with small reservation for slang usage. Dr. G. A. Wauchope "I haven't made any special study of the advantages or disadvantages of slang. I think that slang is one of the natural methods by which a language grows. It grows like a tree. It is inevitable. Language is like a leaf. Leaves fall off and new leaves come on. Therefore I welcome slang. Slang is a company of words on probation. Professors and students are down on slang, but high-brow people use it. "I believe a little slang is excusable in college lectures. I like to use a little slang. By a smile and the tone of one's voice, he or she shows that they are apologizing for using it. By using a little slang one shows up-to-dateness and alertness. If a slang word expresses a finer shade of meaning than any standard word we have, we should welcome the slang word as a contribution to our language. Scientific words such as telephone, radio, airplane, and others are invented words, not slang. " 'Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.'" Dr. Reed Smith "Slang is like strychnine?a little stimulates, too much kills. Appropriateness is more important than oppor Acts Quickly id from the lethargy of premature 5ulty decided to raise the requirei cum laude. The statement oi t issue of The Gamecock was.: ? class of 1932 the diploma of *' 1 between the number of honor er credits will read magna cum a ratio of 2.5 to 1 will read cum ! faculty decided suddenly to make meed in this year's catalog, that is that has been accepted by the : and permanent for the particular i 1 was required for magna cum (A course grade of "A" counts iter credit, "B" counts two, and t is granted for a course passed mrd to the time when they would ay have worked hard toward this cademic life, even if some have es that they were in line for this hat it wished to alter all this on o intimation was given the seniors s in general. e faculty have said that since the graduation had been reduced, it id rule should be adopted. Some s been too many honor graduates ue, but it is not a consoling factor 0 locate a job and win over comlose few Latin words. e University's greatest work is in | il citizens and aid them to become uld also create a taste for culture culty throws a wet sponge in the Idenly depriving some of the right to the catalog, but suddenly had late for these particular students up a higher average to meet the sused have left in them one grain ilty, and thereby the University,' en accords them such treatment! the ruling now stands", said one ?e comes up high in "B". What lat I told Supt that 1 he gave me to undei^tand that ;hing position largely on such a Should she be deprived.suddenly hen she is about to graduate? \v when he said a good thing that Mark Twain r of a minister extraordinary, the bat, and the suavity and optimism n to make a success of matrimony. ?Dorothy Dix . o. ne must take things as they come effand . O. nith, and Davis ism of Slang Usage tunity. 'Father,' 'Papa,' and 'Dad' are all three right. So are a dress-suit, a business-suit, and pajamas. It all depends." Dr. H. E. Davis "Slang illustrates the ordinary processes of things. It employs metaphors, etc.; as poets and great writers are accustomed to do. Slang represents a tendency to he facetious, noval, witty without succeeding. A great weakness is that a slang word or phrase is substituted for a thought. It is opposed by the conservative tendency which should not be ajlowed to change. "Some slang, such as freeze it, bet your bottom dollar, you can bank on that, is very effective. Slang will never go out of fashion, you can bank on that. "It's a good characteristic to be a little varying in your speech. Life, vigor, and energy, are superior in conversation to mere correctness. "Slang ordinarily is used deplorably inane. That's where the trouble begins. It's wrong. I recommend the mastery of good standard English first of all. Slang will take care of itself. "A new scientific word will be born with the silver spoon in its mouth. Others are born in the gutter and will remain there. Words like mob and boycott were opposed at first. "Slang should never be substituted for good English. One excellence of slang is that it enables one to counceal thought when there is nothing there. Examples of this are Oh yeah, sure, O. K., and says you. One may use any figure that's striking, whether it's slang or not. One shouldn't use much slang. There's a grammar inheritance of words and we should make use of them."