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^ The Gamecock \ . i . 1 ' == 1 Founded January 30, 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 class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 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 Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123 Extension 11 Executive Board Allen Rollins Editor J. Wiley Bbown - Business Maiingei Lemuel Gbegoky ----- Managing Editor L. W. Epton Circulation Manager Associates Louise Edwards, Helen Middleton, W. B. King, Jack Payne, Boyce Craig, Josephine Griffin, Frank H. Wardlaw, Jr., Associate Editors; Frank II. Haskell, Jr. and Leon Keaton, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Philip Sabbagha, News Editor; Irwin Kahn, Sports Editor; James Chaffin, Bob Friedman, Assistant Sports Editors; Plnckney Walker, Alumni Editor; Joo McCallum, Fraternity Editor; LaVemo Hughes, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. O. A. Editor. Genevieve Reynolds, Co-ed Editor; Faith Brewer, Co-ed News Editor; Evelyn Lipscomb, Sorority Editor; Mary Ford, Feature Editor. Lewis Brabham, J. W. Cox, Jack Crawford, Charlton norger, Andrew Hill, Frances Lybrand, R. W. Muckcnfuss, E. R. Robinson, Jam Schaffer, Dorothy Thornley, Paul Wateroff, Jean Wicliman, Sid P. Wilkenfleld, Assistants. Business George l>avis, L. C. Grant, Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Man agers; Robert Brown, J. R. Gibson, Judson Gregory, Leon Pickens, As aistant Circulation Managers. CROWING FOR: A Better Carolina Spirit Among Alumni, Faculty and Students. Student Activity Building This is the only way by whict student activities can be properly centered and administrated. Hjk Football Stadium A needed addition to the University*! equipment. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933 = j Why Be Different? i Mystery, smoldering silence, inscrutability, subtlety, charm, and intelligence are the predominant traits which combine to make woman glorious, according to one authority. Glamor, says Webster, is a charm on the eyes making objects appear different from what they really are. With all these i qualities, why on earth should a woman want tc appear different from what she is? Two parachute jumpers out in California engaged in a contest to see which one could drop nearest the ground before opening his parachute j The man who won the contest lost his life. c. a. o. : A Budapest reporter brought a libel suit on his paper by publishing a story which said a certain person conducted a jazz orchestra in a cabaret To be called "Cab Calloway" is probably a justifi able motive for murder. u. a. o. BaBha, we are told, is a Turkish word, signifying father, which originated, like papa, in the firs! efforts of children to speak. Bhoo Bhoo is an j American word, which, although it does not mean father, probably originated in the first efforts o:i someone to speak or maybe they thought it was his first efforts. The most implacable foe of progress is the closec mind. The closed mind comes from restricting th( world's knowledge to your own thoughts, believ ing yourself a creature of divine omniscience anc exulting in the solitude of your own thoughts anc company. Louis B. Seltzer. U. 0. O. Since the publishers are putting out Who's Whc in America, someone suggested that it would Ix perfectly proper to issue a little volume called "Who's Through in America?" The earth 500,000,000 years from now will be populated by a whole new class of creatures which will trace their ancestry back to man, if man's past is any guide to his future, according to a recent report before the American Association foi tho Advancement of Science. After caring for lions, tigers, leopards and othei animals at a zoo for nearly thirty-three years, a man suffered severe injuries to his hand from r meat grinder. u. a. o. Fashion kings in Paris have named a certair color Roosevelt red because when the Presidentelect was in Paris during tho war as assistant secretary of the navy he was very fond of Tuscan} wines, especially Chianti. And Roosevelt red is the exact color of Chianti. If ho weren't so glad to get a job of any sort the fellow who has just been graduated from one of the biggest colleges in the country would stop to reflect upon tho ironic stroke which sends him tc work for a rich man who quit school when he was in the sixth grade. One co-ed blamed her beautiful physique and complexion on the fact that she takes sitting up exercises. She sits up with a different boy every night. V. P. I. students received Christmas cards of varying degrees of joy last year when the registrar's office mailed out report cards so they would arrive on Christmas morning. Yates Snowden "I shall be loyal throughout my life." So ran the motto ascribed to "A Carolina Bourbon" in exquisite verse' by Yates Snowden long ago, but it was also the keynote of his own life. Like the "relic of the old regime," he, too, had q "A heart of nature's noblest mould, | By honor tempered and controlled." * Yates Snowden was loyal always to his family, A to his friends, to the University, to his duty, to the l highest standards of honor. Loyal throughout his h life to his State, he embodied for us more than any 01 other man in our time what was finest and noblest and best in the South Carolina that was. To those who knew and loved him he was the pattern of the jj true South Carolinian, of the gracious gentleman c< of the old school. 3 He was loved and admired by both students and ! faculty for a generation. To know him was to love him for his charm, his kindliness, his freedom ^ from meanness, littleness, and jealousy, his end- w less thoughtfulness of others, his cheerful outlook, c< his readiness to serve his fellows. s' Faithful to his convictions, he never compro [ mised them, nor hesitated to speak them. C His service to the University and to the State si was not limited to teaching. He built up our col- S) ; lection of South Caroliniana. He helped and in- g spired students and colleagues and others to g carry on research of lasting value, and from man)' 1 of them received grateful public acknowledgment r< t of his aid. He was a scholar in the history of c>. South Carolina who has had few peers, and as la such was recognized throughout the republic. ^ 1 He will live on, in the traditions of the Univer- tc ; sity. Anecdotes of him and his sayings will pass T from generation to generation, for the faculty has s contained few such original, striking, and lovable individuals. His impress upon the institution is C< lasting. , lie will live, too, in the hearts of those who were li honored and blessed by his friendship, whose 31 > minds and lives have been made brighter for his presence. "So Valiant-for-Truth passed over, and all the />< ' trumpets sounded for him on the other side." b rr. a. o. a Change Not Immediate > Students who read with alarm the announcement tl that the faculty council had changed The Carolin- s< iany for two years a literary-humorous publica- E tion, back to its former status of a literary maga- n 5 zine were needlessly excited at least if their fears l were based on the prospect of an immediate . change. The resolution passed by the faculty, which decreed "That The Carolinian be restored to its former status as a predominantly literary magazine, F retaining, if possible, some of the pictorial inter- ^ est of the publication in its present form," may ^ bring about a change in its style some time after ii ^ January, 1934, but for the remainder of the pres5 ent session and the first of next The Gamecock p anticipates with pleasure a continuance of the " bright and sprightly publication which has proved { itself far superior in the estimation of the student / 3 body to the morbid, literary publication of the . self-styled campus intelligentsia, deposed in 1932. > I The point was wisely made in the faculty meet- 11 I ing that the above resolution might operate to in- I terfere with existing contracts made by The Caro- F linian with advertisers. Therefore an understand- 1 ing was had that such a development could and | should be avoided through conference and agreement of the faculty committee on publicity and student publications, the director of student ac- j s tivities, and the editor and business manager of The Carolinian. c j The resolution does interfere with existing con- ^ tracts, some of which extend through the first J three issues of the 1933-34 semester. It is there- j fore assured that The Carolinian will continue b being a literary-humorous magazine until that F time. After that, the probability is not unlikely l that the faculty will have forgotten all about re- ^ i storing the magazine to its original status. At any rate agitation for its restoration will be far less acute a year from now than it is at present. jA College Politician n A college politician is a person who bullies a r group into believing small issues are major problems. He speaks of whether he will support or op- s pose a certain issue as if the fate of the University a hinged on his stand. A few believe his stand is u 4 this important and some think they do. These v > compriso his party. A vast majority of the stu- n ( dent body, however, looks on with a detached in- d s terest knowing that whatever the politician does it will have little or no effect on their personal c life and only the remotest possibility exists that [ it will affect the future of the University. This a majority finds it a source of mild pleasure to ask 7 itself this question, the answer to which is always <1 in the affirmative: "Should the politician sud- v denly leave school, would the University continue ~ to exist?" 0 The absent are never without fault, nor the pres- ^ ent without excuse. Benjamin Franklin. s< / \ Carolina To-day rALLOWAY SPEAKS The State Legislature may have its lemper Cooke, that king of filibustered, ut the University has its Jim Galloway it a recent meeting of the Clariosophic .iterary Society, Galloway is reported tc avc talked for approximately four ant] tie-half hours. Mr. Galloway's remarks lust have been worth hearing, for memcrs of the society brought mattresses nd pillows into the hall that they migh stcn to his pearls of wisdom which eased falling at the witching hour oi :30 in the morning. ONTRACT BRIDGE A news article in The Seivancc Pur\e states that Dr. Gaston S. Bruton, Seance's contract bridge authority, is tc antribute a scries of articles on thai jbjcct to the college paper. The Pur pit oes on to say: "Dr. Bruton's mode ol lay combines the best aspects of th< ulbcrtson system with original revion by himself." Those original revions are the trouble with most people's ame. NOWDEN, NONPAREIL The tragic death of Doctor Snowder ^called to a group of students an inter>ting anecdote in connection with th< ite professor. It was about 2 a. m octor Snowdcn, on passing a group ol ightly tipsy students parked in an au >mobile, was greeted with a "Hi, Doc.' urning and bowing graciously, Doctoi nowden said: "Good evening, gentleten. Won't you join me in a cup oi >ffee?" He told a group of Kappa Signu ledges that there were just two thing: c would not allow in his yard: dog! nd sophomores. >IRT DEFIED A recent issue of the Harvard Lam yon, the humorous magazine, was banne< y the Cambridge, Massachusetts, posta uthorities on the grounds that it waj obscene and plagiaristic." However, the editors announce tha ley will deliver the magazine to all sub bribers if they have to do it on foot ty the recent action of the faculty com littee, the editor of The Carolinian nee< ot fear such a problem. Being literarj as its ood points. IYSTERY The local papers recently announce< iat for the premiere of the Palmett< 'layers' production of "Edgar Allai 'oe," Columbia was to be visited by Ed ar Allan Poe, Jr. and that he wouh e entertained in the home of a prom lent Columbian. Literary history show; liat the marriage of the poet yielded n< rogeny. The "prominent Columbian' lust care very little about the conven ons! ILLIE AND RUDY Allie McDougal had never liked Rud; bailee. Allie heard Rudy play in Co umbia the other night and after the pro ram he changed his mind. He wen ip and told Rudy all about it. He shool ludy's hand. Rudy played in Raleigh ?he people shook their fists. There i nly one Allie McDougal, it seems. ICOTCHISM The editor of The Gamecock receive lie following letter a few days ago Cola., S. C, Feb. 17. To Ed. Game ock. Dear Ed., 1 of yr newspaper' dlines in last edition fascinates. It ab rev'd thus: 'Babcock Has Photo o listoric Va. Paper; Carried Decl. o nd.; Prof Was Editor'; etc. That' est examp. of Scotch lit I've seen 'osit. Stunning in simplicity. Why no ius : 'Babcockphotohistvapape; Car icdcclofind.' ? That's Bolshie alphabet rs. Tr'ly, Wm. St.J. M'Tavish." We'll take vanilla. >ECEASED EQUINE The Erskine students seem to have ; lorbid sense of humor. They have deco ated one of the college buildings witl lie skull of a thoroughly deceased horse ?he skull is said to be visible from an; cction of the campus and to add to it ttractivencss the students have rigge< p a little system of pulleys by means o 'hicli the jaws of the skull may lx loved up and down. When in motioi lie skull is said to take on an air of th< eepest meditation. >RIGINALITY There seems to be a dearth of poet! t Salem College. Their newspaper he Salemite, however, is not to b< aunted; they run a poet's corner any ray. In this poet's corner appear selccons from the works of Robert Loui tevenson, Robert Bridges, and even th< Id one about "Gather ye rosebuds.' he Salemite evidently thinks that sinc< ley have no poets, America has none > they went to England. Highest Tribul Snowden ] i v * . i (CONTINUED FR( members of our faculty. By virtue of 1 this fact he was of course well known 1 and highly respected by all of his ' colleagues. In fact these words do : not express their feeling. He was ' loved by his associates. We all es' teemed him for his warm, genial, open1 hearted nature, jovial in good fellow" ship, frank in his expressions of J opinion, often waxing warm in argu1 ment, and yet never uttering a word, 1 which could wound. ^ Probably his outstanding characteristic was this fine gentle nature which could not give pain. He .had an understanding heart which guarded him . against unwittingly wounding the feel. ings of others by awkward remarks. , He was one of the first members of t the Kosmos club and was for two dep cades its moving spirit. His fine j flashes of wit and his brilliant conver, sation earned for him the epithet, "The . most interesting man in South Carolina." j He was the embodiment of the old South, small wonder that when the strains of Dixie burst on the air, he applauded vigorously with the others. Small wonder that he poured out his 1 life in praise of that stalwart old sol' dier Benjamin Sloan. One could hardly think of a happier ending for ; him. But we who are left behind feel 1 ourselves immensely poor that such a | fine spirit has taken its flight. J. Rion McKissick: Yates Snowden was one of the most admired and be' loved personalities in the long history of the University. He embodied the charm, the kindliness, the grace, the i exquisite feeling, the thorough culture s of that 'old regime' which was so i dear to his heart. South Carolina has lost one of her noblest and truest sons. As for the University, Ulysses has gone from Ithaca, and there is none - left that can bend his bow. J R. M. Kennedy: Ever since I assumed office as librarian in 1912, Dr. 3 Snowden has been a member of the library committee. He loved books t and his knowledge of their real value proved at all times most helpful to his colleagues. Particularly was this true of all literature by South Caro1 linians or about South Carolina. His ' knowledge of this subject in all its minutest details was simply amazing and we relied on him for the "last word" in all purchases of "Caroi liniana." He will be sadly missed. 5 Dr. Taber: Dr. Snowden inspired n love in everyone with whom he came _ in contact. He was the best loved man i at the University, or in Columbia. As - with most great characters he was bes loved by children as wfell as by adults, 3 and all the children living in his neigh" borhood regarded him as one of their . especial friends. Dr. Wauchope: Dr. Snowden's passing was in its sudden taking off, the occasion and the place that he himself y would have wished. It was fitting that he should have fallen in full . armor with mental powers unimpaired, t dedicating a memorial to a former col^ league. I can think of no one who so , completely incarnated in his own pers sonality his native state. Yates Snowden was a Carolinian to the manner born. None so uniquely represented her dauntless spirit, her heroic history, her noble traditions. Carolina journalism will feel the loss of his veteran edi' torial pen; the Kosmos club will sadly miss his brilliant wit and sweet fellows ship; the University faculty will not " look upon his light again; and his admiring students will be bereaved of his eloquent and informing lectures on 3 the history of his beloved state, which will forever revere his memory. r~ the state ] . GOOD PRI Schools, Colic y l We can [please i Binding, Engraving and Office Supplie S THE STAT1 ^Printers, Sfationex COLUMI 9 ; Wt Print The Gamecock 9 :e Paid To 1 By Colleagues f 3M PAOB ONE) J. A. Stoddard: It was never niv ( good fortune to be a student of Dr Snowden's, but living near him as a -i neighbor for almost twelve years I have learned to value him as a lovable friend, a wise counsellor and a charm ng, highminded gentleman. Dr. Patterson Ward law: A fac mating personality, everlasting youth ' manly though graceful individuality' faithfulness to friends, the soul of 1 honor, loyalty to his state next to his duty to God, the incarnation of what was highest and most characteristic ' in old South Carolina that was Yates Snowden. His own place is forever empty. . Dean Walter E. Rowe: The sudden f and unexpected death of Dr. Yates Snowden, while commemorating those'like himself who had contributed to I the prestige of the University, has re moved from the active life of the University of South Carolina one of the greatest characters connected with the institution during its entire history The University of South Carolina is one of the oldest educational shrines in America, rich in history and traditions, and all because such men as Doctor Snowden contributed their life work to its welfare. R. L. Meriwether: Professor Yates Snowden has enriched the University ' -J and the state by his personality and peculiar genius, but his associates and students of the History Department have always in a special sense claimed him as their very own, and it is with poignant regret that they lose him. Reed Smith: There was only one Yates Snowden, and there will never be anyone else like him. It was a pleasure to know him and a precious privilege to call him friend. He grew dearer to all of us as he added years to years and new depth and sweetness to an already deep and sweet character. An aristocrat may be defined as a person in whom the best and highest qualities rule. In this sense, as well as m the usual sense, Yates Snowden was an aristocrat from head to foot. Ihe choicest qualities of choicest Southern manhood met and mingled in him. Always cheery, always sympathetic, 5 intensely alive and alert, every visit from him or to him was a delight. I have always thought of him as the friend who never bores. He knew and loved South Carolina as few men have ever done. No one can realize how generously and unstintedly he put his splendid first-hand knowledge of the state's history and literature at the disposal of any and every one -who requested his help. His sudden death was a tremendous shock to his friends and loved ones. But what an ideal way to gol One instant, in the full possession of his magnificent mental and spiritual faculties, speaking noble words of praise in honor of a dear friend; the next instant, greeting that friend beyond the veil. xt. a. o. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT The quiet of the night was fractured recently on the Krskine campus by loud screams of "Let me out let me outl" When an investigation was made, it was discovered that a prominent female member of the faculty was unwillingly incarcerated in Carnegie Hall. No explanation of the method or motive for incarceration has as yet been uncovered, but many students have expressed the opinion that it was a good idea. . Some politicians have no ax to grind, while others sharpen the ax and lop.off useless expense. BOOK STORE NTING for ges, Business you in Printing, > Books, Stationery s. s company Office Turntture 1XA.S.C. Expert Fountain Pen Repairing I I