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I The Gamecock K1 1 1 ' I. 1 ' ' . , , Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by th? Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C., November 20, 1908 Member of South Carolina College 1'ress Association and National College Press Association .? Subscription Rate?$2.00 per College year. Chelation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon Request gSsf- Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 Executive Board John A. Giles - Editor J. Wiley Brown - Business Manager Frank H. Wardlaw, Jr. - - - Managing Editor L. W. Epton ----- Circulation Manager Associates Louise Edwards, Helen Middleton, Allen Rollins, W. B. King, Associate Editors; Boyce Craig, Lemuel Gregory, Leon Keaton, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Jack Payne, News Editor; Allen Schufcr, Sports Editor; James Chaffin, Bob Friedman, Jerry 11. Glenn, Irwin Kahu, Assistant Sports Editors; Jane Schatler, Alumni Editor; Frank Haskell, Fraternity Editor; Philip Sabbagha, Y. M. C. A. Editor Josephine GrilTIn, Co-Ed Editor; Genevieve Reynolds, Co-Ed News Editor; Faith Brewer, Sorority Editor; LaVerne Hughes, Feature Editor. Charlotte Coker, Jean Wichman, Elizabeth Duke, Susan King, Frances G. Lybrand, Joe McCallum, Dorothy Thornley, Paul Wateroff, Pinckney Walker, Sid P. Wilkenficld, Evelyn Lipscomb, li. \V. Muckenfuss, Mary Ford, Lewis Brabham, Charlton Iloger, E. R. Robinson, J. \V. Cox, J. A. Crawford, Assistants. __________ Business George Davis, L. C. Qrant, Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers; Robert Brown, J. R. Gibson, Judson Gregory, Leon l'ickens, 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. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER .11, 1932 IWanted-Grid Games For 1933 When we picked up a copy of a daily paper the other day and saw the streamer on the sports page: "Gamecock Grid Schedule Released," we turned eagerly to the article, expecting to see a list iriculding many of the strongest Southern Conference teams, a "big time" schedule for a "big time", team. One glance was enough to tell us how wrong we were. Here, staring at us from the page, was a pitiful little six game schedule, accompanied by apologies on the part of its makers, and a promise that several other games would probably be booked. Why was the schedule released before it was completed, if it is NOT complete? Does not a team which is now being developed into one of the BEST in the South deserve a better fate than this? Is their opportunity to make a great record for themselves and for Carolina going to be spoiled because of negligence and unpardonable procrastination on the part of these in whose hands the task of booking games has been placed? The schedule as released, constitutes a PITIFUL plea for games. It is a disgrace to Carolina and her football team. We cannot help but believe that the publication of such a schedule was ILLADVISED and positively injurious. The time for completing the 1933 schedule is now. Carolina is deserving of a good, ^ell-balanced Southern Conference schedule. We should do everything in our power to book such teams as Alabama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, L. S. U., Tulane, and at least one intersectional game. There is no other way for South Carolina to gain recognition in Southern football than by playing big Southern Conference teams. The time has come for us to make what showing we are going to make in the Conference. Win or lose, we will gain some recognition. u. m. o. Three Cuts,?And Back To High School From Chicago University comes the report that one year of voluntary class attendance has raised the general scholastic average to 10 per cent above the average of the three years preceding. All over the nation, universities and colleges are reporting increased interest in class work and attendance. The students of 1932 want an education and are willing to strive against obstacles to attain it. The University is no exception to this as is indicated by the recent report from the Registrar that there are fewer withdrawals here than ever before. When a man comes to the University ho has graduated from compulsory education and he should, and tho figures seem to indicate that in these times does, want an education and know when and where he should be at the proper time to get what is best for him. When the Faculty changed the XJniversity student's total number of cuts from six to three they apparently had the University High School in mind. Such a system would work well there whero the students are not yet old or matured enough to know the true value of an education and how to conduct themselves. By the time the present day college boy succeeds in accumulating the horsehide, the pigskin, the coonskin, and finally the sheepskin, poor father hasn't much hide left either. ft ! Co-Operation, Not Competition That the church and independent colleges of South Carolina are making progress and accomplishing a tremendous amount of good, and that these institutions are not only contributing to the spiritual and moral welfare of our State, but also to its social, intellectual and financial welfare, is known to everyone with the least , perception of the college situation in South Carolina. But those who are working in these colleges should not feel, and The Gamecock believes that they sincerely do not, that "the current is against them", as one of our most distinguished educators once.put it. Every college has its place in the welfare of the State and each should recognize the part the other plays. Every college has its place in the State and the attitude of each should be that of co-operation and not competition. Those in the denominational and independent institutions who still think that "the current is against them" would find that it is an easier matter to go over the country and raise money to build a new dormitory thin to go before the Legislature and secure money for needed improvements. And yet, the Legislature is the only source of money < the state institutions have. At one time free tuition was given to many in the state institutions who did not deserve it. But things have changed in the last few years, and now the State Tax Commission investigates each applicant's ability to pay. Their records of investigations are open to the public, and very few, if any, get free tuition who do not deserve it. No free room rent is given at the University of South Carolina, and we believe that this applies to the other state institutions, too. Where the impression came from, that free room rent could be had at state institutions we do not knowu Certainly it did not come from the institutions themselves. ' Because of the sacrifices they have made, because' of the services they are rendering, because of their spiritual and moral influence, South Carolina is justly proud of her denominational and independent institutions. She is equally proud of her state institutions who are rendering a great service to the state, who are educating many who haven't the money to pay for their education, and who are equipping young men and women for the various professions. The ljst of alumni of both the denominational and independent institutions is most impressive. The list of alumni of the state institutions is most impressive, too. Whether he goes farther in life than the other fellow is left entirely up to the individual. Both graduates are trained well. There should exist a more cordial feeling between the different colleges in the state. Each is working for the welfare of the state itself, and each should have admiration for the other. By co-operation and not competition can the purposes of all be accomplished. Without Comment The University of South Carolina varsity coaching staff consists of head coach Billy Laval and assistant coach Whitey Kawl. The latter is a former pupil of Laval's. Louisiana State University's coaching staff, or that contingent which made the trip to Columbia, consists of Head Coach Biff Jones, Assistant Coach Burt Ingwerscn (former Iowa head coach), four assistant coaches, a trainer, a director, three negro assistants, three statisticians, and the publicity director. Louisiana State defeated the University of South Carolina, (> to 0. Justice To Students | A few years ago "politicians were picturing the University of South Carolina as something of a playground, in which boys and girls danced by night and slept by day", but The Gamecock, student newspaper... .is happy to find that the truth is coming to light. Last summer's campaigns helped, The Gamecock\ says numbers of young men who had worked their way through the University, having made races in various counties and having attracted attention to the serious-minded students whose numbers prevail on the campus. The student weekly cited especially the case of Nigel A. League, of Greenville County, who died in the heat of a promising campaign from overstrain and whose sacrifices and earnestness at the University in student days had become well and widely known? Numbers of colleges have had to contend with charges similar to those of a few years ago against which The Gamecock complains and existence of a semblance of fact in some of them has made the battle against them difficult. But the truth does prevail, as the ancient axiom insists, although it is sometimes discouragingly slow about it and needs the help of earnest agencies like this Carolina weekly.?The Greenville Daily\ Piedmont. / Carolina To-day (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) elected. Rudolph Warner bet that amount on the President some weeks before the election claiming that he had a "sure thing" and adding that when he won he was going to contribute his winnings to the Republican campaign fund. Useful Clock The lack of a clock in the. gym is now being met manfully by the students. They merely go out on the portico and look at the clock in the front of Drayton hall across the way. Even the students are finding a way to fight the reduced appropriation bill. No Bad Eggs "Strange as it may seem, we haven't had a single roughneck, 100% cut up, and show taff, in the freshmen chemistry class this year, as far as I can see," declared Dr. Whitsell of the Chemistry Lab. lie seemed extremely surprised, for, as he intimated, each freshman class before now has generally contained a cut-up, or inattentive student or two to amuse or irritate the professor. "But the general attitude towards work is seriousness on the part of all students from what I have observed so far this year," he added. Bouquet for Gamecock There are some that appreciate the virtues of The Gamecock as witnessed by a paragraph from The Bamberg Herald. "Decidedly the best college paper we have seen in South Carolina is The Gamecock, published at Carolina. It is printed in modern newspaper style and is a jamup good paper in every respect," says The Herald. ^ Lucian, The Goldfish Of the two goldfish which were left over last year when the Georgia Glee Club wjls eating them alive, one is still to be found at the Zeta Tau Alpha house. He is an old bachelor and is named Lucian. Much has been done to develope his manly character including letting him jump out on a porcelain sink, and giving him hot baths which he didn't seem to enjoy. He now leads a quiet bachelor's life? getting fed once every two weeks and his water changed every month. We Liye And Learn At least we can say that we got attjionorable mention in the Wofford Old Gold and Black, though they seem to have gone some distance out of the v/ay to compliment us, when in commenting on co-education at Furman this year and the improvement in The Hornet after the addition of the co-eds, they said: "The co-ordination has produced one of the neatest, most attractive, newsies^ largest, and most literary newspapers in the state. It puts a num. ber of the papers in the shade, including The Gamecock." Influence! More and more we see the healthy influence of the fighting Gamecocks' showing against Tulane and L. S. U. Football is being regularly indulged in by the men in Thornwell and DeSaussure. They have transformed the campus between their domiciles into a "sand-lot" football field during the past two weeks, and seem to get a real kick out of playing the game again. The men show a lack of training, but still have possibilities. Basketball Managers Dave Ellison, basketball manager has issued a call for wouldbe assistants to help in the basketball cage during the current season. All those interested in this phase of student activity are asked to get in touch with manager Ellison or report to the Field House on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. Big-hearted Teachers may be absent-minded, but some of them are big-hearted, as is seen by the exploit of one co-ed who dashed into a 9 o'clock class as the bell was ringing ten, and didn't get a cut! The co-ed had been to P. C. to a dance last Friday night, came weaving into Columbia at six a. m., and caught a little sleep before her 0 o'clock class, after setting two alarm clocks. Imagine her surprise when awaken at ten minutes to ten! She tripped into her class, exactly one hour late. And the professor didn't count the cut! But she didn't attend the football class that afternoon, for she was gently slumbering. And the next time she is going to set at least fifteen alarm clocks I Faculty Memt Early G By Dr. S On January 10, 1805, when the South Carolina College opened its doors to students, there were only two men on the faculty, Dr. Jonathan Maxcy, the president, and Professor Enoch Hanford. Dr. Maxcy had come from Union College, N. Y., over which he was presiding, and to which he had been called from the presidency, and to which he had been called from the presidency of Rhode Islahd College (^rown University). He was regarded as one of the country's leading educators and ranked among the most eloquent divines. To him Professor Henry attributed the introduction of the honor principle into the discipline of the new V- J ^| I Communications any facts stated hcrowlth. While tha nui??U uam* ?'u b* w'thheld If 1 o The Editor of The Gamccock : I'or the past twenty-five or more years, I have been very much interested in the growth and development of the old South Carolina College into the modern University of the higher rank that it holds today. ^1 have been in close touch with it during all this time and have kept myself informed as to all activities affecting it. Knowing as I dc* the splendid record of achievement behind this the oldest college in the state and among the oldest of the nation, b am, to be frank, somewhat surprised and grieved, to hear all of the small town criticism existent concerning the University as a whole and our athletic organization in particular. There seems to be no realization among the critical ones of the fact that for the first time in its history the University is becoming recognized throughout the nation as an A-l institution in every way. It is on the upgrade in spite of its handicaps of the past. Now as to athletics and football in particular. It is a well known fact throughout the South that up to a few years ago little was known of football at South Carolina College or later at the University of South Carolina. Carolina s schedule each year was made up of opponents for the most part in South Carolina, North Carolina or Virginia. It was considered a great feat for our football team to hold Ucmson, University of North Carolina or the University of Virginia to a c ose score, and in those days it was really a great feat for we were a small college with a small student body. But today it's different and we want to take our proper place in the foothall of the South. We hold membership m the strong Southern Conference and will in time take a high rank m it. We have been steadily advancing during the past six years and our football team is more widely known than at anytime in our history. With even stronger schedules in future we are bound to continue to improve our position in Southern football. So why not students, alumni, and friendly supporters, determine that from now on you will boost Carolina and pay no attention to small criticism of those who are not interested in Carolina and do not care to see it go forward? "Alumnus." I THE STATE WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATI Thin- Paper Edition WEBSTER'S NEW IDEAL Dictionary FUNK AND WAGNALS' P Standard Dictionary WINSTON'S SIMPLIFIED Encyclopedic Editic WINSTON'S SIMPUFIED Practical Edition ... If you need a Diet The stat Printers, Sfatione COfcUMi We Print The Gamccock >er Gives | irolina History i ). L. Green college, found in the first by-laws f which he drew up in 1804. - * Professor Hanfbrd had been a teacher in the St. David's Academy of So^ *| ciety Hill. He did not remain long but entered the practice of law. He : married a Miss DeWitt. One of his daughters was t^e mother of Son Per- % dicearis of Raisuli famfe in Theodore ' Roosevelt's time. Another was the mother of chief justice Henry Mclver. South Carolina Cpllege was chartcred on December 19, lsoi, and the first college ready at its opening on H January 10, 1805, was Rutledge Col- i lege. The building Opposite DcSaussure was not ready for opening until ^ 1809. I ; I Introducing ? | Each week The Gamecock will carry a wrltoup of a member of the Unlve?. ?lty faculty to that the itudenli mav become more familiar with the truly Lp";"."bVm,n *"dwi"1 THOMAS- FAUNTLEROY BALL, ^ professor of electrical engineering, was born in Richmond, Va., April 18, 1894. S He obtained his B. S. degree from the % University of South Carolina in 1915 M and in 1919 he was granted a M. S. % degree from the University of Virginia. Mr. Ball has devoted his life to the teaching of engineering and science and to the development of'science. He has been recognized for his work and ' $ ^s a member of a number of important scientific associations. Who's Who in Engineering, a directory of the leading figures in the engineering field, contains a lengthy write-up of Mr. % Ball. Mr. .Ball has lately been made a '? member of the American Association '1a of University Professors. He is also a member of the following organizations: American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Society for the Promo- * tion of Electrical Engineering, American Chemistry Society, American ..Physics Society, South Carolina Academy of Science (he was a fellow in $?< this organization), and the EeConte Scientific Society. He also holds membership in Zeta .'J, Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Omicron V' Delta Kappa. In 1915 Mr. Ball was made head instructor of physics at the University. He held this same position at the University of Virginia in 1916, and that institution made him an assistant professor of physics in 1918. Since 1925 he has been professor of engineering here. ' He is secretary and treasurer of the LeGace Engineering Company in Columbia; has been a constant consultant in connection with numerous patents; and has acted as an expert witness in several large law suits. He is also the author of several scientific articles which have been published in local newspapers and scientific journals. For recreation Professor Ball likes tennis and golf. The clubs in 'which he has memberships are the Biltinore Forest Country club, Biltmore? N. C., Forest Lake club and the Cotillian club, both in Columbia. His hobby is mathematical physics. D. 8. o. Among the qualities that distinguish man from the lower animals is his astonishing capacity for being a damn fool. BOOK STORE ) ?? I DICTIONARY i ?Now $3.50 m I - 2.00 RAGTICAL r .* 5.00 DICTIONARY >n 5,00 DICTIONARY 3.50 s ionary, we have it. 4 e Company J r?. Office Tumi fure BIA.S.C. J . We Repair Fountain Pens * ?,