The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 19, 1932, Page Page Four, Image 4
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
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Entered as second clans matter at the postoffice at Columbia, 8. O.,
November 20, 1908
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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,
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Pinckney Walker, Rudolph Warner, Sid P. Wilkenfteld, Fred K. Youngblood,
Floyd Rogers, Evelyn Lipscomb, Thomas Kirby, Assistants.
Business
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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Carolina
To-day
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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).
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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
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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. The team
jlected was:
Hende rson ( Citadel) ?end
Laurer - (Carolina)?tackle
Porter (Carolina?guard
James (Citadel)?center
McMillian (Carolina)?guard 1
Bell (Presbyterian C.)?tackle
Hill (Carolina)?end
McMillian (Clemson)?quarter
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