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The Gamecock Founded January 80, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina ?. Entered as second clans matter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. O., November 20, 1908 Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National College Press Association Subscription Rate?$2.00 per College year. Circulation?2160 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Cilices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8121?Extension 11 Executive Board n A. Giles ------- Editor Viley Brown - Business Manager ink H. Wardlaw, Jr. - - - Managing Editor W. Epton ----- Circulation Manager Associates i.ouise Edwards, Helen Middleton, Alien liollins, W. B. King, Associate Editors; Boyce Craig, Lemuel Gregory, Leon Keaton, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Jack Payne, News Editor; Alien Schafer, Sports Editor; James ChaiTin, Bob Friedman, Jerry 11. Glenn, Irwin Kahn, Assistant Sports Editors; Jane Schaffer, Alumni Editor; Frank Haskell, Fraternity Editor; Philip Sabbagha, Y. M. C. A. Editor Josephine Griffin, Co-Ed Editor; Genevieve Reynolds, Co-Ed News Editor; Faith Brewer, Sorority Editor; LaVeme Hughes, Feature Kditor. Anne Huiett, Sue Kiblcr, Jean Wichman, Elizabeth Duke, Susan King, Frances G. Lybrand, Joe McCallum, Dorothy Thornley, Paul Wateroff, Pinckney Walker, Rudolph Warner, Sid P. Wilkenfteld, Fred K. Youngblood, Floyd Rogers, Evelyn Lipscomb, Thomas Kirby, Assistants. Business George Davis, L. C. Grant," Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers; Robert Brown, J. 11. Gibson, Judsou Gregory, Leon Pickens, Assistant Circulation Managers. CROWING FOR: A Better Carolina Spirit?Among Alumni, Faculty and Students, Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administrated. Football Stadium?A needed addition to the University's equipment. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932 O Temporal O Mores! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) remedied as it undoubtedly should. Now, any drastic action will only serve to divide the Student Body and injure materially our chances for victory. The Gamecock begs that you go ahead and purchase your ticket to the game as usual. Any other course could not be interpreted in any other light than disloyalty to the football team, rivaling that shown by some present at the gathering Monday night. There is no power on heaven or earth which can enforce this motion. In the first place the meeting was illegally called and therefore its proceedings t not binding in any way. Adhesion to the principles adopted by the socalled Student Body meeting can only mean publicity of the most undesirable kind. Out of loyalty to the school, her ideals and her good name, and of loyalty to the team, The Gamecock begs that each student be reasonable in this matter and do the only fair thing that can possibly be done?buy your tickets and stand back of the team to a man. IT. S. O. Beat Clemson By the time our next issue comes from the press the Carolina-Clemson annual classic, the thirtieth meeting of the two school?, will be history. The Clemson game is'not merely a football game. It is an event. We would rather play the Tigers than any other team. Of all the games played in our recollection they have always showed good spirit, win or lose. It for these reasons that we get out a special issue of The Gamecock. When Gamecock meets Tiger it is always a attic to the death,?a good, clean fight in which evious records mean absolutely nothing. Many ve been disappointed with the showing of the ds so far this season, but they may be certain t the boys will be in there tomorrow, fighting for they are worth. T P.OOITOW. High noon. The shriek of a whistle. ^ hall soaring high. The thundering of cleated feet on the turf.' The day of days. Two mighty gridiron machines locked in death combat. It is worth waiting a whole year for. Get in that old game and fight them; give them everything you've got. We are behind you to a man, the glorious traditions left by many fighting Gamecock teams is also behind you. The spirit that has made Carolina great and her sons real leaders is also behind you. Get in there and GIVE 'EM HELL 1 The Carolinian The Gamecock wishes to congratulate the new editor of the Carolinian, Frank Durham and his able assistants, upon the quality of the first issue of that publication which has just come from the press. / ' The Carolinian has been steadily on the up grade since it was changed from the strictly literary form , to the semi-literary, semi-humorous publication that it is today. The wisdom of that step grows more apparent as time goes on. And things got so bad during the summer months that we had to lay off one of the hands oto out watch. 1 An Apple A Day 7? . .. . , The faculty has been engaging in its perennial pastime of discussing the honor system, recently re-affirming its faith in the practicability of tKe principle at the University. Members of the faculty have on all occasions sought to inculcate a sense of lio^or, and have cooperated in every possible way with the student body ini its efforts to make the principle effective. Is it not possible, however, for a faculty to be overzealous in such a matter ? Should not the principle be a spontaneous thing proceeding from the students themselves, should it not come from within rather than from without? "The faculty has the honor, and we have the system," wags have remarked. A faculty may resolute till the cows come home, and re-affirm its faith time and again, and yet accomplish dubious results. "We talk the honor system to death", one professor was heard to comment. Another was heard to observe/. "I do not remember hearing the honor system alluded to once in a. faculty meeting at Washington and Leo in twenty years." Washington and Lee is always regarded as a paragon of excellence in this respect. But there is a difference between precept and example, and students get the idea now and then that the attitude of the faculty is something like trusting in God but keeping your powder dry. Therefore the laboratory test recently conducted by a member of the faculty was an interesting and revealing experience. Yes, we refer to the barrel of apples. "I nm tired of hearing about the impeccability of Washington and Lee students. The surest way to create trustworthiness is to surround people with an atmosphere of trust. I am going# to find out something even if it leaves me holding the bag", a faculty member remarked, and straightway bought a barrel of apples and left them unguarded in the center of the campus. A placard attached to the barrel read: "Drop a nickel and take four apples, make your own change." An open cigar box was used as a depository for the money. Students congregated around the barrel and stared incredulously. Some of them offered wisecracks about the intelligence of whoever had paid for the apples. Well, the short and long of the matter is that the apple barrel did a land-office business, and the cigar box yielded up $7.73, a profit of nearly sixty per cent, on the investment. Seven dolars and seventy-three cents is only seven dollars and seventy-three cents. There are a good many things you can't do with that amount of money, but as a practical demonstration the incident was worth considerably more than seven times that amount. It was a complete vindication of the professor who was suspected of fathering a crack-brained trick. The surest test of the work-; ability of an idea is whether it works, and this one worked. Now the professor has several applicants for the copyright. "I am convinced from this one clinical experience that students of the University have as fine a sense of sportsmanship and fundamental integrity as have the students of any institution anywhere," declared the man who conceived and executed the idea. D. 8. O. A collegian is he who knows what she wants when she wants it. Experts say that a man can live on $5.00 for a long period of time, but they don't say where the five bucks can be found. In case of a wreck, should the gentleman precede the lady through the windshield? You can wreck all of your battleships, and throw away all of your guns, but you can't change people's dispositions by signing pieces of paper. "He had just graduated from the Freshman class, where he had spent the happiest years of his life." n. m. a. Campus Courtesy 1 I On the University of South Carolina campus practically every faculty member and student greet each other with a "Good morning" or a "Hello" when passing. This custom, one of Cauolina's most cherished and one that is now more rare than ever, draws editorial praise from The Gamecock, student newspaper , and it is hoped that in calling attention to it in this manner will help encourage the spread of the idea. "No member of the student1 body", says The Gamecock, "is too good, or in a social strata so far above the others, nor is any member of the faculty so aloft in the wisdom of the ages that it is impossible to say 'Hello* to another he or she meets on the Carolina campus. May Carolina continue always to enthrone courtesy and friendliness in the manner that this custom indicates they are emphasized today?and as smaller institutions of the state emphasize them. ?The Greenville Daily Piedmont. >5'$, * V . ! '' V. '-y . \ ' ' '" \ \ ' % , 1 . Carolina To-day (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Buster Spann That Buster Spann and his Game- , cocks made a splendid impression dur- x ing their recent jaunt to Virginia we may be certain, for the Virginia Tech, weekly newspaper of V. P. I., compliments their performance most highly. "The South Carolinians may be expected back on the campus (soon for they made many friends among those who danced at the Cotillion." V.P. I. Again To go back to the Virginia , Tech again, we notice with great amusement that there is an or- , ganization on the V. P. I. campus v called the "Northern Neck" club. | We read further that the Northern Neckers hold their meetings j in the Y. M. C. A. building and that they are planning a dance soon. We wonder if an orchestra \ for the occasion might not be superfluous. ? < Striped Shorts ' \ If Tommy Parler doesn't pass a certain English course it will be because j a certain professor has no esthetic appreciation for a pair of striped shorts. Last week the professor in question ' had the misfortune to drop his cast- 1 ing outfit overboard in Lake Murray. Tommy Parler, who was acting as ^ bo'sun, immediately proceeded to di- 1 vest himself of that with which he had been invested, and gallantly dived to ! the rescue. Having retrieved the casting outfit, Tommy invested himself ^ with that which he had heretofore divested. In the meanwhile, however, his multi-colored shorts had slipped ^ overboard and dropped down to Davy Jones' locker. It is somewhat prob- j, able that Tommy missed the aforesaid shorts, but deemed it imprudent to bring so commonplace a matter to the attention of his professor. The incident had an interesting \ sequel. A few days later another pro- j fessor who had been present on the \ previous occasion, was casting in the ( same cove where the mishap hap- ( pened. Chancing to see in the limpid recesses of Lake Murray an object re- 1 sembling nothing he had ever seen i in Lake Murray before, the second pro- c fessor threw out and brought in the object on his casting plug. And what j should it be but Tommy's shorts I ] The object d'art was returned to its ? lord and master and now the afore- j said Tommy has presumably been re- t invested with that 'of which he had been divested. Service There are a surprising number of young people over the state who want to be collegiate, or rit least that is the way that it appears to The Gamecock. Since The Gamecock has been sent to all public libraries in the state and most of the high school libraries, many requests have been coming in for University of South Carolina stickers, information, etc. Although there is no fund provided for filling these requests of high school students who are prompted by reading The Gamecock, several have been sent at the personal expense of members of the staff. "Wanted: Workers!" In a recent number of the Furtnan Hornet, weekly publication put out by the Greenville boys, appears an appealing little request on the front page, reading "WANTED: WORKERS!" It goes on to tell how those that can write and like' to will be given positions on the staff of the newspaper. It is good to know that the depression is really lifting and that a poor college boy can get a job somewhere. And, incidentally, if The Hornet is able to find any of those rare birds, that can write and like to, The Gamecock might also be interested in making them a proposition. , Well? Pound: One perfume atomizer in alley back of a fraternity house in Maxey Gregg Park. Owner can have same by making known his (or her) name in this column and posting suitable reward with the editors. Religious Battles How is this for a piece of eccentricity. Believe it or not the Birds seem to be in for quite a tussle with the various religions. The Gamecocks schedule called for playing the Episcopalians first (Sewanee), the Catholics second (Villanova), the Baptists third (Wake Forest), and fourth the Methodists (Wofford). .'Aiv'< \ v.- . .. ft&raUfe&TO! ' VaLj ..I 1.11 i '' University Sci Kept By J By W. B. King I Goliath was hit by the pebble. "You * miserable little runtl" he screamed. "I've ei good mind to sever athletic relations * with you. They \say you played two years with Nineveh College, anyhow, be- c fore Israil University got you." .! So runs a short paragraph clipped \ from The Columbia State of 1915. It p refers, no doubt to strained athletic re- v lations between the University of South d Carolina and Clemson College whidr ( was finding mucH publicity in the papers o of the state following the annual contest li that year. , c The paragraph and a full write up of e the Carolina-Clemson game of 1915 ap- t pears in the first of ten volume scrap ix)ok of newspaper clippings kept by \ John A. Chase, Jr., University registrar, ( lince lie took up his position here in 1924. b On taking up his duties as registrar 0 it the University, Mr. Chase learned ( .hat there was no effort being made to r >ave clippings from the papers of the state referring to the University, so he v immediately got permission from Dr. a W. D. Melton, who was then president v jf the University, to keep the scrap t) jooks. v jt Mr. Chase began his work here in s 1924 but it was thought wise^to begin a he collection of clippings with the be- d ginning of Dr. Melton's term of office, vhich was July 1, 1922. Permission v ,vas obtained from The Stale to consult 0 heir files" for those two years and clip q ill articles pertaining to the University g n any way. This courtesy on the part C >f The State Company make the scrap a jooks of much more value. p "The publicity in regard to the Uni- C; fcrsity has increased a great deal since [ began the work," said Mr. Chase in b emarking on his work, "When I first e )egan one volume would hold all of the _ rlippings for a year and a half, but now w me volume will hardily last one year." g The first of the ten volumes, of what " night properly be called contemporary n Jniversity history, is probably the most C] nteresting. In addition to the clippings from papers of 1922 there arc a number Sj )f articles of an earlier date and also b; )thcr mementoes of the University. CJ The ten volumes have been lent to the S( Jniversity library, where they are kept n the South Carolina rook locked se:urely in a fireproof case. Upon opening the first of the ten >ooks we find a manuscript of Dr. Edwin L. Green's on the history of the Univcriity. Part of this is typewritten and >art is in longhand. The first entry in he book is an article, "The Church and Recommended by the Ei UNIVERSITY OP S( See it at yowr^(7o//e^e Bookstm |^^^6cC.MERl THE STATE B( WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE ] Thin Paper Edition? WEBSTER'S NEW IDEAL f Dictionary FUNK AND WAONALS* PR Standard Dictionary WINSTON'S SIMPLIFIED D - Encyclopedic/Edition WINSTON'S SIMPLIFIED D Praotioal Edition If you need a Dictio: THE STATE ^Printers, Sfattoneri COL13MDI l We Print The Gamecock J*, ... , . >*' - ' up Book ohn A, Chase' :? ?,?- J state Education" by the Rev. J, M. steadman, and was clipped from the Southern Christian Advocate of November 2, 1916. Pinned to a nearby page i? a four and ne-half column editorial from The >tate of February 10, 1913 on the instigation of Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, resident of the University. Dr. Mitchell vas charged with advocating the,expenditure of money, meant for Winthrop College, for the education of the Negroes f the state. He was completely exlonorated after an investigation by a ommittee of the general assembly. The ditorial from The State was favorable 0 Dr. Mitchell. Made humorous in the light of what ve know today is an editorial from the Greenwood Daily Journal of September 17, 1915, in which an attack is made n a statement made by the mayor of Columbia that prohibition would bankupt this city. The book also contains several letters written by Dr. W. S, Currell, during his dministration as president of the Uniersity. One, dated August 17, 1915, is a the editor of the New York Times, 1 which he said the need of the puhlic chools of the South is longer, terms I nd better paid teachers. "Better conitions are expected," Dr. Currell said. The first mention of football is the /riteup of the Carolina-Clemson game f 1915, which ended in a 0-0 tie jnd a uarrel between the Two schools in regard to the eligibility of--some of the Carolina players. The writeup, a long nd colorful one was accompanied by ictures of the Carolina stars with such aptions as these: Bub Langston?elusive Gamecock ack who made trouble for the Tiger nds in the game today." "Jerry Porter -Carolina center whose down-the-field rork was one of the features of 'the rpat Caroliha-Clemson battle today." Jack Morrison?fighting Carolina! h'nelan who cut down many Clemson playrs in game today." Four University players made the all tate football team of 1915 as selected Y TJie State. Luther Hill, Carolina end, aptaincd the all-state eleven. 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