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Teacher Trial System Looms Bradley Favors It Teachers Work In Conjunction With Their Alma Mater For Seasoning Selection of teachers by the system of a trial year is destined to become more in fashion in the preparation of teachers, according to Dr. F. W. BradIcy, Dean of the University of South Carolina when discussing the subject recently. The system whereby the tcachers, working in conjunction with the schools in which they gained their degrees, teach for one year on a trial basis to see whether they are tempermentally equipped for the work and whether they have the necessary training and equipment, has been going on in Germany for a number of years, Doctor Bradley pointed out. This general method has been used by Prof. O. L. Keith, head of the department of Romance Languages at the University, for sometime. By allowing graduates to teach in his department he has seasoned them for high school work, thereby greatly benefiting both the students and the schools employing them. In a recent note to Dr. L,. T. Baker, president of the University, Professor Keith commended the system very highly. In this time when teachers arc having such difficulties and there arc very gjfcfew openings for those just entering Bthc field, this system is destined to be ^^^Jan important factor in the successful administration of the schools. Trenchers Are IB Given Positions Five hundred and eighty-seven new I teachers were elected to positions in 212 schools last year through the Bureau of Appointments, state bureau I for placement of teachers in the public I schools, according to a recent report I showing the number of positions filled I through this agency. Three hundred and thirty-six of these were placed in grades 1-7 and 251 in grades 8-11. During the past I I three years almost 1,500 new teachers I have been placed by the bureau. Bc I ginning teachers last year numbered I 131 in elementary schools and 105 in I high schools. Of the 587 new teachers elected last I year, 55% of the first contracts with I applicants were made through direct I application to the bureau by the posiI tion seeker; 18% through efforts of I the various superintendents; 11% I through college appointment agencies; I 9.5% through commercial agencies; 2% W through the State Education Associaticm; and about 5% by other methods. U. H. O. College Head Praises Bible The Bible is the greatest textbook for teaching young people to meet discouragement and despair, declared James O. Van Meter, president of Lec College, Kentucky, at University of South Carolina chapel services recently. The ideal of education has been too much for happiness and pleasure and not enough for preparation for the real hardships of life, the speaker added. u. H. c. Woodin and Hull are members of the cabinct. Wise crackers will get a dozen demerits for connecting the two names to read "wooden hull." COLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. "EVERY OFFICE NEED" Office Furnlturo, Filino Cabinets, Safei Printing and Rubbar Stamps 1112 Lady Street 'Phone S163 METR0P0L "THE OLD THE STUDENTS' 1620 MAIN STREET ' .... CAROLINA DRY Phone 8156 "IF IT CAN BE CLEAN! The Canteen and ( < i .0 "The House THE R. L. BRTi BOOKS, STATIONERY ' 1440 Main Street 3TvV.' ' 71 $ RL'i irJUV * Education Hope McGowan Says Old Letter Unearthed Famous Justice Upholds Education In Letter To Gov. Hagood . "The hope of the State is in the higher education of her rising generations, and especially the sons of the poor," declared Samuel McGowan of Abbeville, associate justice of the supreme court of South Carolina, brigadier general in the Confederate Army, and one of the leading Carolinians of his time, in a letter written July 20, 1886, to Gov. Johnson Hagood, expressing the jurist's regret that duty prevented his attending a reunion of Citadel graduates. In his communication, recently found in files in the University of South Carolina library, Judge McGowan thus voiced his whole-hearted support of higher education: "I consider it proper at this time to support those who are struggling in the good cause of education. 1 have thought that I could see a sort of unrest among our people. There is no doubt that at this time there is a general depression in business, especially perhaps in agriculture, the main industry of the country. This, however, is not confined to our State, but is general, extending to the whole country and to Europe as well. Such periods occasionally occur, without our being able to trace clearly the causes, and under such conditions there is always danger of mistaking ; the cause and of doing that which will : not cure, but may onljr aggravate the trouble. It should be remembered that all changes is not necessarily reform. "I have been really grieved to observe a tendency to attribute the evil of 'hard times' to the administration of our Government, and especially to the educational institutions founded by our fathers. In my humble judgment a greater mistake was never committed. The idea that the small amount annually appropriated for the support of the State University and the Military Academy is the cause of, or even contributes to the present depression in the State, is, as it seems to me, not only a mistake, but one which, if not corrected, may do us great injury. The hope of the State is in the higher education of her rising generation, and especially of the sons of the poor. They are our 'seed corn' for all future harvests of prosperity and usefulness. I wish I could be with you at your reunion to assist, at least in an humble way, by my presence, in holding up the hands of those who arc struggling to enable that class, especially, to obtain such an education, at least to put it in their reach. And I may say thus struggling against all opposition for no selfish purpose, nor for any purpose whatever other than the prosperity and honor of our dear old State." it. a. o. Reed Smith To Review Ballads "The traditional Ballad," a book . written by Gordon Hall Gerould, and published in 1932 will be reviewed by . Dr. Reed Smith, Dean of the University Graduate school. Dr. Smith is well acquainted with the ballad as a form of literature, having written several books on the subject, and also a "Folk-Lore" column which ran as a Sunday feature in The State newspaper. Two interesting and important books that Dr. Smith has written are: "South Carolina Ballads With a Study of the Traditional Ballad To-day," and "The Traditional Ballad and its South Carolina Survivals." If You Want Service Call University Drug Store 1204 Green St. Phones 4331-4332 ITAN CAFE 1 RELIABLE" MEETING PLACE PHONE 7849 CLEANING CO. 1608 Barnwell Street ED, WE CAN CLEAN IT" Jamecock our Agents ' of Quality" rAN COMPANY STUDENT SUPPLIES Columbia, S. 0. v v . University Stu< To Nations Frances Cardwell, Darice Jackson By Alpha Kappa Gamm Convention Held Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary leadership society ?elected I three University of South Carolina co- I eds to national offices as its conven- ( tion held at the University recently. ' Frances Cardwell, Columbia, was < elected national vice-president; Darice i Jackson, Spartanburg, was elected c historian and Josephine Griffin, Co- i lutnbia, editor of the "Torchbearer," 1 national publication of the society. t Miss Cardwell is president of the 1 local chapter of Alpha Kappa Gamma t and Miss Jackson is an alumnus of the ( chapter; she received her A. B. in 1 Journalism in 1932 and is how taking i her M. A. degree in English. Miss ( Griffin is a junior in the school of ] Journalism. ^ Most Students Choose Teaching Teaching is favored as a prospective vocation by the largest number of stu- { dents at the University of South Carolina, according to data compiled by John A. Chase, Jr., registrar, on the ( prospective vocations of students. 1 Vocations chosen by the students are as follows: ( Teachers, 442; lawyers, 186; accountant and general business, 171; physician, 133; civil engineer, 72; journalist, 1 f>8; electrical engineering, 05; chemist, '< 50; pharmicist, 41; chemical engineer, j 30; social worker, 22; artist, 19; libra- ( rian, 15; dentist, 11; minister, 10. . . . 5 Author, 8; musician, 7; secretary, C; biologist, 6; technician, 5; banker, 4; stenographer, 4; insurance, 4; mission- < ary, 3; actor, 3; designer, 3; statistician, 1 2; broker, 2; advertising agent, 2; , diplomatic service, 2; farmer, 2; avia- j tor, 2; nurse, 2; architect, 1; interior , decorator, 1; mechanical engineer, 1; mining engineer, lj economist, 1; chiropractor, 1. , y Three hundred and sixty students , are undecided as to the profession they j wish to choose. 1 tj. 0. o. j Very Old Coin Sent To U. S. C. ! Battered and worn, a penny minted in 1801, the year of the founding of ] South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina, was recently sent to the president and faculty of the latter by A. N. Breneman, Battles Wharf, Alabama. The old coin is larger than a 25 cent piece, though not quite as large as a half-dollar, and has a liberty-head, surmounted by the single word, "Liberty," on the face side. On the reverse the words "One < Cent" are circled by the vine and leaf design still used on pennies, and the date is stamped at the bottom. Part of Mr. Breneman's letter follows: "I ant enclosing you a coin.... Looks as though it has seen hard usage, but is the best I have. I am bordering on 81; born in Lancaster, Penn., June 12, 1852. A manufacturer of boots and shoes; then moved to So. Carolina, (1806) to Oconee County, midway between Walhalla and Westminster, along the "Coneross." Lived there happily 11 years, 10 miles from Clemson College. "May you live long and prosper." u. s. o.. Co-Eds Have Unusual Names Among the unusual given names of women students at the University of South Carolina are: Mcrna, Marine, Wava, Khtel, Lyrita, Ura Velle, Lodcma and Swannic. Others arc: Pcrnctta, Culic, Colic, Thetus, Norplet, Honora, Motie, Eulee, Valree, Ebilec Myrl, Carmen, Melvina, Jewel, Opal, Nila, Loren, Lcola kobania, Marja, lima Anita, Elna Emaline, Eddie, Elaine, Zela,?Joy, Zelma, Juanita, Eba, Jacquelin, Mazel and Meldona. V. B. P.. State Produced Great Biologists Hoy Says South Carolina has had its part in furnishing the world with leading figures in the field of biology, according to Dr. W. E. Hoy, professor of Biology at the University. Among the men claimed by South Carolina arc Agassiz and Lc Contc, famous naturalists. U. 8. o. In these days of unemployment and hardships we should draw consolation from the poor movie stars, baseball players, singers and comcdians who are forced to cut down expenses to around $50,000 1 a year. ? ?. ients Elected il Frat Offices And Josephine Griffin Honored a Delegates At Recent At University Delegates for the convention came from Queens-Chicora College in Charlotte, N. C., and from Virginia State College for Teachers at Farmville, Va. They were entertained at the annexes 3f the woman's dormitory of the University. The program for the two Jays consisted of business meetings, ound table discussions, luncheons, a janquet, a theater party to see Corlelia Otis Skinner, famous actress in icr "Original Sketches," a picnic, and alks by Dr. Josiah Morse, professor >f psychology and philosophy at the Jniversity, Dr. Henry D. Phillips, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in ^olumbia, and a welcoming address by Dr. F. W. Bradley, Dean of the University. Chase Shows Parent Work Parents of students at the University of South Carolina follow 78 diferent vocations, according to figures :ompiled by John A. Chase, Jr., regis:rar. The . numbers of parents in various :allings are: Farmers, 324; housewives and widows, 193; merchants, 157; retired md unemployed, 104; railroad employees, 97; salesmen, 70; physicians, 52; federal employees, 58;' deceased, ?6; teachers, 52; insurance, 48; lawyers, 17; ministers, 34; brokers, 32; auto Jealers and service stations, 26; contractors, 24; bankers, 24; textile, 20; mechanics, 18; real estate dealers, 18; pharmacists, 18; city employees, 18; :ounty employees, 23; manufacturers, 15; State employees, 15; carpenters! 15; secretaries, 15; lumbermen, 12; elephonc anfl telegraph employees, 10* stenographers, 10; dentists, 9; bookkeepers, 8; civil engineers, 8; accountants, 8; journalists, 8; dairymen, 8; marble, stone and gravel, 7. Hostelry and boarding houses, 6; icwelers, 0; printers 5; laborers, 5; electrical engineers, 5; advertising agents, 5; electricians, 4; tailors, 4; butchers, 4; live stock dealers, 4; plumbers, 3; nurses, 3; seamstresses, 3* missionaries, 3; laundrymen, 3; barbers, 3; librarians, 3; bakers, 3; blacksmiths, 2; architects, 2; ginners, 2; opticians, 2; bottlers, 2; social worker, 1, detective, 1; interior decorator, 1 chemist, 1; cobbler, 1; osteopaths, 2; florist, 1; miller, 1; landscape gardener, 1; cafe, 1; dry cleaner, 1; teamster, 1; painter, 1; foundryman, 1; masseur, 1drayman, 1. it. . c. Clemson Prof. Collects Insects Collection and tabulation of more than 3,909 insects in South Carolina has been accomplished by Professoi Franklin Sherman of Clemson College who spoke recently before the joini session of the South Carolina Academy of Science. Of these insects, the grasshoppers and their kinsmen, of whom Professor Sherman has collected over 1G8 species m South Carolina, are the more nearly completely tabulated. Sherman declares that he and his assistants have made only a fair start on the other groups such as the butterflies, bedbugs, flies, and other fauna. The record of these South Carolina insects was started in December, 1925, and the Clemson professor is still making new captures for his collection. Since there are over 20,000 species of insects known in the United States Dr. Sherman feels that he has a great deal more to do before he finally completes his collection. U. 8. O. Baptist Students Lead Other Religions Here The Baptists, with a total of 494 students, and the Methodists, with 474, lead all other religions in membership at the University of South Carolina according to a recent survey by John A. Chase, Jr., registrar. Other religions on the campus and the number of students represented arc as follows: Advent, 3; A. R. P., 3,; Catholic, 45, Christian, 10; Church of Christ, 1; Christian Science, 5; Congregational, 6; Episcopal, 215; Friend, 3; Hebrew 69; IyUtheran, 115; Methodist, 474. Presbyterian, 271; Quaker, 1; Uni tar,an, 2; Universalist, 1; Buddhist, l No preference, 21. I Social Council Picks Callcott I' Professor Is Honored Social Science Group Will Help ^ In Solution International I Problem* Dr. W. H. Callcott, professor of History at the University of South Carolina, has been named as one of y fifteen men from twelve states by the v Social Science Research Council com- ^ . . ll prising an institute for the purpose of r fostering international relations. d This council met recently at New York to approve various projects for 1 social science research work and to ^ recommend these to wealthy organiza-. tions such as the Rockefeller or Car- a negie institutes. The purpose of the 1 group is to prevent overlapping in the 2 work of colleges and foundations who \ foster expeditions along this line of v work. . y To get at present day underlying 2 difficulties is the motive behind the re- r search. The United States group is 7 working jointly with those of Euro- v pean countries. 2 U.S.C. Alumni 3 Are Governors = . \ Among famous alumni of the Uni- t versity are seventeen governors of \ South Carolina and five governors of other states. . f Governors John Murphy, class of 1808, and John Gayle, 1815, served the a State of Alabama; and Fountain S. I Winston, 1815, was governor of Mis- c sissippi. Georgia also is represented j in the list of states governed by men \ trained in the University, Charles J. McDonald, 1816, having served in that capacity; John B. Floyd, 1829, was J governor of Virginia. ? The seventeen governors of South Carolina who were educated in the ' University and the years of their J graduation are as follows: Stephan D, c Miller, 1808; Richard I. Manning! 1811; George McDuffie, 1813; William Aiken, 1825; James H. Hammond, 1825; A. G. Magrath, 1831; John H. Means, 1832; M. L. Bonham, 1834; Wade Hampton, 1838; John L. Manning, 1837; W. D. Simpson, 1843; j Thomas B. Jeter, 1846; and John Peter ] Richardson,'1849. F. J. Moses, Jr., of , the class of 1855 left school during his , freshman year. John Peter Richard- . son, Sr., 1819, left school in his senior year, as did F. W. Pickens, 1827. Wil- . liam H. Gost of the class of 1827 was , also forced to leave school, doing so in,his junior year. IT. 8. C. Wauchope Goes To Maya Ruins , Robert Wauchope, son of Dr. George A. Wauchope, professor of ] language and literature at the Univer- ( sity, who graduated from this institu- i tion in 1931, will conduct an archaeo: logical expedition to the Maya ruins in 1 i Guatemala, Central America next 1 winter. i The Carnegie Institute at Washing ton is sending out this research party 1 to study the prehistoric house mounds ' in that Caribbean country. An ex- \ 1 pedition to the same region was made ' February 1 until June 12, 1932 and an ' account of its work has recently been published in the Yearbook, Number 31, of the Carnegie Institute of Wash; ington. This article- lists Mr. Wauchope as one of the party of three who 1 carried on the excavations. When Mr. Wauchope returns from the trip he will write a report of it j for the Institution as his Doctor of Philisophy dissertation to be presented to the school of Anthropology at Harvard University. u. a. o. ; University Gets Plants Prom Lexington Home Interesting plants from "Still Hopes" country home of Miss Mary Guig^ nard in Lexington County, were re' cently presented to the University of South Carolina, according to E. C. Cokcr, professor of astronomy and chairman of the grounds and buildings committee. k - BURNETTS 1 Carolina Seals, Jewelry, E | Carolina and Fra 9 One Block Prom Campus Corner Main and > ' '.../ Chase Gives Oat Statistics ii Boy Youngest Freshman llnd Average Age Of Students At The University To Be Twenty-Two During the school year 1931-32, the oungest freshman to enter the Uniersity of South Carolina was a boy, i^teen years of age, according to igures released by John A. Chase, Jr. egistrar. The youngest woman stulent was seventeen years old. ' The figures show that there were 2 men;and,10 women, who' were 17, 1 )ther statistics shown are: 101 male students and 70 women tudents were 18 years old; 170 male nd 116 women students were 19. here were 233 men student's who were 0, and 135 women; 188 men and 95 "omen were 21; 156 men and 64 vomen were 22; 98 men and 36 women vert 23; 82 men and 12 women were '4; 38 men and 9 women were 25; 14 nen and 9 women were 26; 9 men and women were 27; 6 men and 3 women yere 28; 4 men and 10 women were 9; 7 men and 1 woman were 30. Of the total number of 1801 students, 5 men and 70 women were over 30. The average age of the Student Body it the University of South Carolina vas 22. Of these, the average age of he male students were 21.6, and of the vomen, 22.7. The average age of classes arc as ollows: Men Women Total icademic Students 20.7 20.2 20.5 -aw Students ... 23.8 22.5 23.8 Special Students.. 25.7 35.1 31.8 en students .... 2L6 00.0 21.6 Vomen students . 00.0 22.7 22.7 The percentage of men and women itqdents at the University who were !1 yeafs of age was 53. Of this figure, the percentage of men 11 the student body who were 21 was >5.2. The percentage of women stulents was 48.8. tr. a. o. Honor Is Given U.S.C. Glee Club "Outward Bound," a musical composition by HTcrbert J. Wrighton, wellcnown contemporary composer, h?s ecently been dedicated to the University of South Carolina Glee Club ind its Director, Maurice Matteson. This unique distinction was gained iy the club last year, when Mr. Wrightson, who had previously heard :hem sing, asked if he might write 1 number for them sending the manuscript shortly before they left for New York on their annual trip. The song, one of a group dedicated to the glee club, created much favorable comment on the trip and is the first of the group so dedicated to be published. Noteworthy among the other numbers in th<? group are several adaptations of Southern spirituals specially prepared for th-e South Carolina singers by Mildred Kolb Shultze of Washington. Another interesting number dedicated to the club is "The Question," composed by Meta Schumann of New York, who honored the club by accompanying their rendition of this number at their concert in Steinway Hall, New York. *7. s. o. G-irls Glee Club Rated Best By War Veterans Disabled soldiers at the U. S. Veterans Hospital in Columbia have voted unanimously to pay the transportation costs for the Girls' Glee Club of the University of South Carolina to return to the hospital and give another program for them. The club gave a ( free concert at the hospital not long ago, which was enthusiastically received by the veterans. When they were asked recently whom they wished to entertain them next, they voted unanimously for a return trip by the co-ed glee club. < | ? ? ? ? ? ?. -Ei II - - 1 I, EMIL W. SYLVAN WATCHMAKER 1315 Senate St. Columbia, S. C. )RUG STORE f >rugs, Drinks and Cigars ternity Stationery Phone 3191 1 I College Street \ ' .V-j ''.A. - < '. ... J