The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 05, 1933, Page Page Four, Image 4

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Mwawii?q??a?g??w?mkmw???????i?i?? ' ?? The Gamecock Founded January SO, 1908 ROBERT ELUOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of South ^arolina Entered as second class matter at the postoillce 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?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 Executive Board Allen Rollins Editor J. Wiley Bkown ... - Business Manager Lemuel Gbeookv ..... Managing Editor L. W. Epton - * - - - - Circulation Manager Associates Louise Edwards, Helen Mlddleton, W. B. King, Jack Payne, Boyce Craig, Josephine Oriffin, Associate Editors; Frank 11. llaskell, Jr., Leon Keaton and Frank Durham, Associate Managing Editors. Reportorial Philip Sabbagha, News Editor; Irwin Kahn, Sports Editor; James Chaffin, Ed Banov, Douglas Sturkie, Assistant Sports Editors; l'inckney \Valker, Alumni Editor; Joe McCallum, Fraternity Editor; LaVerne Hughes, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. 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, Charlton Ilorger, Andrew Hill, Frances Lybrand, E. R. Robinson, Paul Wateroff, Jean Wichman, Fred llambright, Mark Dowtin, Miles Elliott, Assistants. Business George Davis, L. O. Grant, Baynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers; Robert Brown, J. R. Gibson, Judson 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. FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933 Inevitable Competition The matron in charge of the co-ed dormitory at Southern Methodist University lias such a charming personality that students who go to the hall for their dates frequently become engrossed in conversation with her and forget about the girls they came after. u. s. c. Three blonds debated three brunettes at Wittenburg concerning the relative intelligence of the two types. The brunettes won. Minnesota co-eds are liable to a $10 fine or six days in jail if they are found wearing a fraternity pin. Because of a dispute over the election of a May Queen, Westminster College substituted for her the King of May. TJ. 0. O. Nothing hypnotises a woman more speedily than noble sentiments from the mouth of a man.? William Lyon Phelps U. 8. O. The University of Tennessee school librarian has discovered that a man's beard grows exactly .000GG part of an inch an hour. tJ. 0. O. ' The president of the Bartender's Union in Chicago will open a school for new members. "The art of tending bars can't be acquired by an ordinary 'hash slinger' by changing his uniform", he says. "Drawing a glass of beer looks'simple, but it is an art." ??U. 8. O. The Columbia Spectator has started a campaign to permit girls to visit in the men's dormitories. ?TJ. 8. O. Every man on the campus of Los Angeles Junior College is carefully analyzed by the co-eds, and the results may be found in a little black book carried by each co-ed. TJ. 0. O. This epic, entitled "Ode to America" is from the Massachusetts State college publication: Ode to America $3,863,650;, 000 By France. "What this school needs," the student yawned, "is more classes so we can take more cuts." U. 8. O. "The success doctrine means nothing more than to win at your neighbor's expense", a professor at a large American university said recently. IT. 8. C. Ability to swim, to speak in public, cook, typewrite, drive a car, dancc and speak a foreign language were included in a recent compilation of "skills" which every man should possess. tr. 8. c.? A Michigan school teacher has devised a machine for correcting test papers. Maybe they'll do away with professors entirely. TJ. 8. O. Football men work their way through school at Oklahoma City College by serving on the city fire department. ?TJ. 8. C. Some smarty said that 09 per cent of college students are journalists because they write for money. xr. n. o. The person who asked "where do we go from beor" had the same low sense of humor as did the one who, when asked for a sentence with the word "swain" in it, replied: "Never the Swain Shall Meet." College Influence Replies to the National Student Federation questionnaire on the state of employment among college graduates indicate that less than 20 per cent of the class of 1932 have been able to obtain selfsupporting qobs. Of the 140,000 students graduating this June, it is estimated not more than 15,000 will be successful in finding gainful employment. In an open letter to the Class of '33 distributed through the Association of Unemployed College Alumni, John Dewey says: "While one ought not to disperse the golden halo of senior days by shoving the future under the noses of the class of '33, the Association of Unemployed College Alumni would be derelict in its duty if it did not point out the cheerless prospect for the graduate. "No one yet knows exactly how many unemployed college alumni there are. The Association has written to deans and chancellors requesting information and they have written back saying that they would be very interested in any statistics we might accumulate, since they had none themselves. Conservative estimates place the number of unemployed engineers in New York City from 5,000 upwards. Unemployed teachers make up another 75,000 in the country. . . . The student who graduates this year may just as well hang around the campus taking graduate courses, since it will do him no good to hunt a job. . . . "College graduates are the most pitiful group of workers in this crisis. Lawyers, engineers, doctors, teachers, highly-trained business men?unemployment has caught them all unorganized and with no technique for combating the organized agencies of retrenchment. ... Be it because of too great self-esteem or of a tradition of lone-wolf independence, until now the college alumnus has neglected associations that might give him effective bargaining power." With such a small percentage of college graduates able to find work, it is surprising to note that students continue to attend college in increasing numbers. Although there will probably be 125,000 graduates leaving school this year unable to find work, it is also surprising and interesting to note how few will express regret over having attended college. Personal improvement and advancement have much to do with this. The college's is a stimulating and cultural atmosphere. There is more to it than preparing one for a life's work. The Year-Book The college annual is fast losing ground. The University of Chicago recently abandoned the publication of a year-book entirely, and at South Dakota State College, the board of deans recommended that the annual be discontinued because of the high cost of the book to the students. Other colleges and universities over the country have taken similar action. A common charge against the college an iual is that it is filled with hundreds of pages of material which does not reflect actual college life, a beautiful and expensive book signifying nothing, and portraying college life no more accurately than the average movie scenario. The Garnet and Black, University of South Carolina year-book, is probably as guilty of this charge as any annual in the country. The Gamecock. cannot bring itself to believe, however, that it should be abolished. Money spent on a year-book now may sem to come hard, a small fortune spent on something which, because of the immediacy of all it represents, we cannot possibly appreciate fully at present. Place this same book in the corner somewhere, and every year which steeps it more and more in dust will be one of inflation. The book will grow in value. It is filled with memories, as much so as the family album. What The Gamecock would like to see come to pass is a reform in the election of The Garnet and /Hacks stall rather than its abolishment. Election of the annual's stall' should, like that of The Gamecock and Carolinian, rest with the Student Board ot Publications, composed of two representatives from each of the two boys literary societies, one from each of the two girls societies, the dean of the School of Journalism, and the head of the undergraduate English Department. Under the proposed plan, the staff would submit nominations for the various positions to the board, final decision resting with this body. Thus the publications board could study the staff nominations from all angles, familiarize itself with all the facts in the case and arrive at fair and just conclusions. An informed board may be "politicked" but not to the extent an uninformed student body can. IT. B. O. Data compiled from 200 students entering Iowa State Teachers College indicated that the student having little previous work in high school in a certain field of subject matter gets better grades in college on that subject than the student who has had much previous work in the same line. "I'll pass this quiz," said the student resolutely, "or I'll bust in the attempt.'7 / i / Carolina I To-day 4 NEW RACKET? al One of the most famed campus poli- in ticians whose record of coup d'etats is s< convincing, has discovered yet another E way to reap profit from student elec- n tions. Recently he was seen perched b on the wall and announcing that he s< was willing to bet with all coiners as to how any man on the campus would 4! vote in the coming Student Body race. c< TRAGIC NOTE^?' Sidney Green, grand old man of y the University and one of the campus q land marks, should know better. Tucs- g day he was seen nonchalantly stroll- OJ ing down Pickens Street clutching jy soinething in his hand. Upon closer c| investigation it was discovered that the ^ object in Mr. Green's grasp was none other than a real live baby rabbit of the most minute proportions. Mr. _ Green looked sheepishly at the ground "j when questioned on the subject and J murmured half audibly, "I'm taking it to a lady friend." Mr. Green is a student in the law school, that most dignified and respected department of the University. ^ WHY, MITCHELL! h The present era of literature is tt principally distinguished from the C others by the fact that its chief aim si is to infuse into creative efforts the ai quality of stark realism, the utmost w verisimilitude; but it is also an acknowledged fact that many of the c modern novels and stories are taboo s| in mixed company. sj Mitchell Morse is a confirmed old ai realist who stops at nothing to achieve tl the semblance of truth. Mitchell is H taking a course in short story writing R and in this course he has made quite p a name for himself. Recently he arose to read one of his brain children which Q dealt with a rather delicate situation. v Realism pales at the thought of deli- c, cacy. As has been said, Mitchell is v a realist. Dr. Babcock paled at v Mitchells realism. The young ladies ^ of the class, however, bathed nary an jcyelid. c IF YOU CARE? ? 1 To stop all arguments if any should R arise on the subject, there are 25 * Smith's, 17 Brown's, and 12 Jones's 3 listed in the campus directory. It must * be admitted that included in the 11 Brown s there are a couple of * Browne's, but what difference does * that make? Therefore, locally, it is not a case of "keeping up with the ~ Jones's", for the Smith's have the lead by a good majority. All of which should prove something or other. WHAT'S IN ApNAME?? Those who saw the motion picture Rasputin and the Empress" will remember that Rasputin was not the kind of person one would like to have ^ lolling around in the drawing room. ^ His manners were not of the brand turned out by young ladies' finishing 1 schools. Well, it seems that the local * chapter of Sigma Nu adopted a sad 1 specimen of caninity and honored him a ; with the cognomen of "Rasputin". The J animal must have seen the picture for he certainly attempted to live up to 1 his name. He was not at his best 1 in the house. Larly Wednesday morn- t ing Jack Gasque might have been seen ( sorrowfully shipping the animal to 1 parts unknown. WEEKLY SERMONETTE? \ A letter from the office of the prcsi- ] dent recently announced the next c semester it is probable that all fra- I ternity houses will be required to have ( house mothers in residence. Loud t and wild were the shouts that went up from the local Greeks. Fraternity houses on the campus do not serve meals and one house mother would take up a room which would normally he rented by from two to four boys. If Carolina were a large college and its fraternity houses mansions, such a ruling would not be unexpected, but such is not the case. The ladies are all right in their place, but their place is not in a fraternity house. These houses are homes for the boys and most emphatically not "sinks of iniquity" as some of the less enlightened consider them. Instead of a moral influence the house mother would be a financial drain. U. 8. C. SOLUTION? "I married my teacher and my present occupation is loving her," was received from one former high school student in answer to a questionnaire sent out by Lawrence Gary Bailey in 1924 from the University of South Carolina. He was gathering statistics for his Master of Arts thesis. His subject was "A Study of the Problem of the Elimination of Pupils from the High Schools of South Carolina." The ques- , tion answered was why the student had dropped out of school. I } 1 * > I f , 1 Many Inquirie Concerning ? Inquiries are coming in daily from II over the state concerning the com* ig session of the University summer :hool it was announced this week by lean Stoddard. As yet not a large umber of applications have come in ut it is expected that the summer! :hool will have a large attendance. I This year there will be a faculty of i professors and a wide variety of aurses will be offered. Courses in ic following subjects haVc been lanncd already: Latin, Art, Bible, iology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, ommerce, Economics, Education, nglish, French, Geography and Geol?y, German, History, Library Science, latheniatics, Music, Physics, Psylology, Hygiene, Sociology, Spanish, dditional courses will be offered if icrc is sufficient demand for them. Dr. Stoddard asked that it be pointed High School V ' Proves V State high school week closed last aturday with the finals of the state igh school track meet after one of ic most successful sessions ever held. >ver 350 students from all over the tate were entered in the contests and ccording to the judges the contests ere the closest ever held. The contests, held by the South arolina High School league under the ponsorship of the University extendi division, attracted wide attention nd included contests in athletics, and ic following academic subjects: Engsli, Geometry, Algebra,- Debating, iology, History, Declamation, Exression, and Latin. A feature of this year was the giving f laurel sprigs to the winners in the arious classifications as well as the ustomary medals. These laurel leaves jere cut from two trees on the Uniersity campus reputed to have come rom the graves of Dante and Virgil. )r. Havilah Babcock, director of the xtension division says that several of hese sprigs have been planted on the rounds of high schools throughout he state and great interest lias been roused in them. He plans to make he granting of these sprigs a pcrnanent institution provided that the rees on the campus can sustain coninual cutting. Dr. Babcock said that it was the Black And M< Named La H. Briscoe Black, Jr., was elcctcd (resident of the Senior Law class, and ohn P. Mozingo president of the unior Law class at recent elections. Other officers elected by the senior aw'yers were: vice-president, Louis *osen of Charleston; secrctary-treasirer, Berlcy Havird of Silverstreet; md historian, Horace W. Sawyer of Johnston. The Junior Law class elected H. E. {ctchin of Winnsboro, vice-president; Jill Outz of Columbia, sccretaryreasurer; and Sarah Calhoun of Georgetown, the only girl in the class, listorian. , Black, whose home is now in Coumbia, is a member of the Clarioiopliic Literary society and of Sigma Mpha Epsilon fraternity, is president >f the Seidell society, and lias recently >ecn elcctcd president of the South Carolina chapter of Phi Delta Phi, 11aional legal fraternity. THE STATE GOOD PR! Schools, Colic We can pleas< I Binding, Encjravini and Office Suppli TELE SlATE Printers,Sfafione " G>I,UA* We Print The Gamecock ' tr s Come In Summer Termfl out that though the summer school!! is held primarily for the convenience of teachers throughout the state it'l offers a spendid opportunity for stu ^ dents to get ahead in their work and I possibly to save the expense of an 'l additional year's work in the Univer- || All degrees offered at the end 0f the regular session of the University ^ may be obtained in the summer school $ll and especial attention is Riven -vsi graduate courses. t0 j| Two types of students are eligible H to enter the school, regular students ^1 and special students. The latter mav not work toward degrees but are eligible to attend classes in which thev arc interested. Regular students must comply with the entrance requirements H set down for regular students in the ; regular session. rr i" 4? veek Here -9 ery Successful I impression of the judges that thilf papers handed in this year were the 1^' best any of them had ever seen sub-"!! mittcd by high school students All'^ of them were of such a high grade 1 that it was only with great difficulty % that the winners were finally decided. The contests were conducted this year with no expense to the University. Previously large sums had been expended but this year with the taxing of all contestants and the cooperation of the Columbia townspeople the University spent no money whatso- ? ever. A large part of the success of the meet can be attributed to Dr. Babcock who made the various arrangements and had general charge of the program and of registration. This week Charles M. Lockwood, M secretary of the league wrote Prcsident Baker the following letter of Mi appreciation for the efforts of the University in furthering the meeting: J! "The South Carolina High School!! league is most grateful to the Univcrsity of South Carolina, to you, and to more than fifty members of your,.?! staff who worked untiringly last week M to help us put over the best high J school week we have ever had. We ^ greatly appreciate every courtesy and | assure you that we shall always re- $( member the fine spirit in which everything was done." ? uJ 3zingo Are w Glass Heads j Mozingo, junior president, graduated from Clemson College. He iiM a member of the Euphradian Literary V society, and has taken a prominent ; part in campus politics. He lives in H Darlington. Rosen, a Carolina graduate, is a member of Phi Beta Delta fraternity, f) Havird, secretary-treasurer of SeniorM Law, is a member of K. S. K. The Junior vice-president, Ketchinjk graduated from Duke University. He is a member of Kappa Alpha frater- | nity.^ Bill Outz is captain of this |f year s baseball team. He is a mcin- $ ber of Phi Pi Phi. IT. 8. O. I he passion play enacted by the 'Sr Bavarian peasants every ten years is the fulfillment of a vow made in 1033. Aside from sheep and horse raising hay is practically the only Iceland agri- J cultural pursuit. ??????________________. BOOK STORE j| iNTING for | sges, Business il s you in Printing, J, Books, Stationery es. : Company j Ts.Officc fiirnifurc JJIAjS.C. Expert Fountain Pen Repairing i I; ? / - .1 V j J