The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 19, 1933, Page Page Four, Image 4
The Gamecock
Foundejl January 30, 1908
ROBERT ELLIOTT OONZALES, First Editor
Published Friday of every week during the college year
by the Literary Societies of the University of 8outh Carolina
Entered as second class matter at the postoflice at Columbia, S. O.,
November 20, 1908
Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National
College Press Association
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Phone 8123?Extension 11
Executive Board
Allen Rollins Editor
J. Wiley Bkown .... Business Manager
Lemuel Gkegouy Managing Editor
L. W. Epton Circulation Manager
Associates
Louise Edwards, Helen Mlddleton, W. B. King, Jack Payne, Boyce
Craig, Josephine (JrifTin, Associate Editors; Frank II. Haskell, Jr., Leon
Keaton and Frank Durham, Associate Managing Editors.
Reportorial
Philip Sabbagha, News Editor; Irwin Kahn, Sports Editor; James
Chutlin, Ed Banov, Douglas Sturkie, Assistant Sports Editoro; Pinckney
Walker, 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 Horgcr, Andrew Ilill, Frances
Lybrand, E. It. Robinson, Paul WatcrofT, Jean Wichman, Fred Hambright,
Mark Dowtin, Miles Elliott, Assistants.
Business
George Davis, L. C. Grant, Daynard Whaley, Assistant Business Managers;
Robert lirown, J. It. Gibson, Judson Oregory, 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 19, 1938
Free Speech
The philosophy prof, talking of the boring speech
of a modern freethinker, asked a student if he'd
ever heard a fellow talk for an hour without saying
anything. The student looked at his watch
and said, "Sure."
U. B. O.
Students at Ohio Northwestern, after 01 years
of having dancing barred in the college, recently
held their first dance since 1871.
u. n. o.
One student at Utah State College has brought
a covered wagon to the campus in which to live
so as to eliminate the cost of carfare and save the
usual board bills. Two students at Rutgers are
living in a houseboat for the same reasons.
In the first place we are a senior, in the second
we are punctual and in the third it might not be
a bad plan: One of the University of Texas professors
has a very effective way of punishing
habitually tardy people?lie submits them to onehour
quizzes. '
At one college in Louisiana, three co-eds have
completely shaved their heads to prevent them
from having too many dates with boys.
u. a. o.
In the University of Nebraska yernacular, coeds
are squaws, muddy plows, oil cans, and ice
wagons.
U. 8. O.
There is a student at Baylor University who can
disjoint both her arms and hips, has double knees,
has an eye in which the muscle is paralyzed, is
minus a rib, has a cracked skull, has one toe cut
off, and yet looks perfectly normal and participates
in many sports and activities.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For leok
at the yawning void of the future, and at that
other limitless space, the past.?Marcus Aurelhts.
A student at the University of Colorado recently
wrote in to the editor of the college paper protesting
against the cigarette advertisements appearing
in its columns. He objected primarily to the
pictures of chorus girls in the ads.
U. 8. C.
A survey recently conducted at Emporia college
revealed that the students are more intelligent than
the faculty, that they stay at home more, and that
they devote more time to their work than do their
educators.
Few speeches which have produced an electric
effect on an audience can bear the colorless photography
of a printed record.?Karl of Itoncberri/.
u. a. o.
It may reflect the desperate plight of teachers
and then again the whole story may be so much
hokum. But the exchanges tell us that a senior at
Wisconsin, finding himself without the intellectual
equipment to pass an exam, pinned a $5.00 bill
on his paper and wrote: "Let your conscience be
your guide." lie passed the exam.
c.?. o.
When the students at the University of Pretoria,
South Africa, chose as the subject for their inter,
varsity debate "Resolved: that we should return
to a communism among wives as advocated by
Plato," the Rector decided not to make the hall
available unless the subject was changed. The
debate was held therefore, on the query "Resolved:
that any subject is fit for debate."
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In Conclusion
With this issue, The Gamecock concludes publication
for this school year.
The Staff regrets deeply that it was forced to
reduce the number of issues due to low finances.
The depression hit not only The Gamecock but college
publications all over the country who suffered
a sharp decrease in advertising, both national and
local.
The business department has worked faithfully
and earnestly in the face of these odds. This has
probably been the "hardest" year for The Gamecock
of any in recent times.
With the sacrifice of several issues, also went the
foregoing of a trip by the editor and business
manager to New Orleans during Mardi Gras as
representatives to the National College Press Association.
In previous years The Gamecock has sent
representatives.
U. H. O.
Congratulations
The success of this year's elections and the eflicient
manner in which all student business has
been handled w'ill stand as a tribute to the student
body president, Leonard A. (Laike) Williamson.
rl he Gamecock congratulates his successor,
Tooley Gressette, whose brother also waa once
president, and trusts he will serve in the same fair
and considerate manner in which Mr. Williamson
has.
U. 8. O.
Honor System Again
I he ever-debatable honor system is under fire
at Tulane University.
It has been declared unsatisfactory and is undergoing
a thorough investigation by a faculty
committee.
Blame for the conditions have been placed by
the committee on the failure of students to offer
sufficient cooperation.
Three possible courses have been suggested as
being open to the faculty ai\d students: One, to
letain the honor system in its present form; two
to cultivate a student attitude against cheating,
inv olving the substitution of personal honor for
formal enforcement; and three, to discard the
honor system as ineffective and undesirable and
substitute some form of proctorial supervision.
1 he Gamecock neither defeiyls the Honor System
at Carolina as a success nor attacks it as a failure.
It does look upon the system as a vital part of the
University, a departure from which would be almost
equivalent to changing the name of the
Unhersity. No matter what the change, complete
satisfaction cannot be attained. Then why change?
"There may be danger in the deed, but there is
honor, too."
U. 8. C.
Deliverance Squad
A gioup of students at Ohio State University
ha\e started a war against beer drinking by undergraduates
and cigarette smoking by co-eds.
J he group calls itself the Student Betterment
League, but its critics already have dubbed its
sponsors the Purity Squad.
1 he Gamecock would like to see such an organization
formed at the University of South Carolina
but with different objectives. Instead of fighting
beer and cigaretts, it should fight political combines.
The great majority of students at the University
are non-participants in politics, except in having
their flexible voting strength wielded by
"campaigners." Organized, they could defeat any
political group or groups on the campus. With
intelligent leadership, they could stamp out political
bosses. Such leadership would have to be
vested in one who is not interested in self-gain,
otherwise only a shifting of political power would'
take place.
Ilcrc is truly a fertile field for someone who
would like to render the University a great service.
U. 8. C.
Teaching Favored
leaching is still the favorite profession of
American girls, according to a poll taken recently
by the Girl Scouts. Of 10,575 girls between the
ages of 11 and 18 interviewed by the organization,
9,0(52 said they expected to support themselves!
Sixty-four per cent of them wanted professional
careers, and the majority planned to become teachers.
Nursing came second in popularity in a list
which included writing, dancing, window dressing,
interior decorating, newspaper work and acting in'
the movies.?llhuj-Turn Phi (;Y.<S'./<\/l.).
IT. 8* C. ?
One co-ed out of every five has contemplated
suicide, according to a recent survey by the Oklahoma
college paper.
U. 8. C.
A survey conducted by the New York Times disclosed
that the chief effect of the depression on
colleges in this country has been to reduce the
number of student automobiles and the amount of
campus gayety, and thus to focus the attention
of the student bodies on their studies.
Carolina
To-day
FEARLESS YOUTH? I
A poll was recently taken at Colum- '
bia university to find out the students'
attitude on the subject of going to war.
The results were rather surprising in i
that they expressed the opinion of the I
average person, his true feeling which
he usually is ashamed to admit. Four
hundred and sixty-four students declared
that they would rather go to (
jail than to war, four hundred and '
ninety-eight felt that war was never '
justified and the rest lied. Cells are 1
less dangerous than shells.
LITERALLY ALLITERATIVE?
Alliteration has its place in poetry, j
but Parker Hamlin, news and headline
writer, was evidently feeling particularly
aesthetic when he concocted the
following head in a recent issue of the
Duke Chronicle: "SENIORS
SLOWLY SUBMIT SO SOLONS
STAY SUPREME SEIZING
SLOVENLY SCUFFLE; Arbiter
Abused, Fans Facetiously Flay Fore?man
1* or I<erocious Fleecing; Wannamaker
Wins; Jordan Jargon Jumbled;
Rank Rankin Radiates Rage; Rabbi's
Rancid Rancor Rankles Rabid Rivals."
The heat must be much mor<! sensible
at Duke than here, or perhaps the
brew is more potent.
INGENUITY?
Since the weather in these parts has
been growing more and more oppressive
the number of girl-break or
leap year dances has been steadily in-v
creasing. First it was (he Kappa Sigma
Kappas who struck upon the brilliant
idea and now various and sundry
sororities are following suit. It seems
that the girls have found that continuous
dancing at this time of year is
not one of the pleasanter sports, so
they have turned that little pastime
over to the stronger sex. At one of
them recently one of the "Beaux of
the Ball" was heard to announce that
it was the wettest affair he had attended
in years. To prove the fact
he wrung out his handkerchief.
HE COULDN'T TAKE IT
It is doubtful of "Psychology"
Smith will in the future be so avid in
his investigations of the vagaries of the
demented. On a recent trip with his
class to the State Insane Asylum he
was questioning one of the inmates.
The gentleman declared that he onced
ruled Asia, Europe, and America. In
fact, he said that he had once been a
great man as those things go. Dr.
Smith asked why he had been brought
to the asylum. The man did not
know. In the hope of getting an in,
teresting reaction, Dr. Smith declared
to the man, "I still think you are a
great man." His hearer smiled archly
and coquettishly replied, "If you were
a woman, I would fall in love with
you." There were no more investigations
that day.
ANTICIPATING THE SEASON?
June is the month of orange blossoms,
brides, mosquitoes, etc., and at
least three former students of Carolina
will walk down the aisle to the
strains of the march from "Lohengrin".
I hese three who have announced this
intent are the Misses Susalee Belser,
Jessie Coleman, and Nancy Harrison.
The latter two are Tri-Deltas and Miss
Beiscr graduates from Sweetbriar this
June. She attended Carolina- during
her freshman year. This column
wishes to take this opportunity to extend
to them its best wishes.
TIME FLIES?
Four Alpha Tan Omegas and a
Sigma Nu were seen calmly sitting
around in a local cafe the other night.
I hey were neither eating nor drinking
nor was their any evidence that
they intended to order anything.
Suddenly from the kitchen emerged
a man rolling a large keg of beer.
It will be about ten minutes before
you can get any," announced the
proprietor. The philosophically inclined
A. T. O. responded, "What's
ten minutes?' I've been waiting fourteen
years."
GOODBYE, FAREWELL, ADIEU?
Since this is the last issue of The
(tamccock this year, through logical
reasoning we have decided that this
is also the last appearance of Carolina
Today this season. So with little effort
we summon the necessary tears to,our
eyes and bid one and all a fond farewell.
Also we wish to thank you for
reading this far.
U.S. C. Library
Research!
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The University of South Carolina Library
has been designated as one of the
two centers for the collection and preservation
of social science source material
and Dr. R. M. Kennedy, librarian of the
University, has been made chairman of
the state committee to be selected by i
liim to inaugurate and push this work
forward.
In 1930 the Social Science Research i
Council started a movement to designate
in each state one or two libraries to undertake
the collecting of complete files
of government and other documents
originating within the state that would
be of assistance to the research worker
in the social sciences.
The idea is to develop an active movement
in this vastly important work, (1)
by enlisting the assistance of certain libraries,
institutions and persons in the
preservation of the primary source materials;
(2) in locating existing source
materials that have been neglected and
lost; (3) in setting in motion machinery
to collect and preserve this material in
centers where it will be readily accessible
to scholars; (4) by diffusing information
regarding all available material
of this kind and where located.
Realizing that this was essentially a
library function the Social Science Research
Council turned the work over to
the American Library Association which
has assumed full responsibility.
At the recent meeting of the South
Carolina Library Association in Charleston,
Dr. Kennedy brought this matter
before the general session and the college
section and got very reassuring
promises of help from certain librarians.
He could not at this meeting get in
touch with all the librarians of the state
but will try to do so later.
The first step in this important work,
Dr. Kennedy says, is to find out where
this material is in each county and to
have organized the county committee, acting
with the local librarian, who will
make a survey for that section and urge
that all this material be preserved and
filed, if possible, in some fireproof building.
Of course, where local facilities
are not sufficient, it is hoped that as
much of this matter as possible can be
gotten into the designated centers.
Briefly, the type of material worthy |
Communications
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aflreo with any opinion or vouch for
any facts stated herewith. While th*
writer's name will ba withheld If requested,
It must bo known to the editor.
Articles will be published at the
discretion of the editor and in the or*
der submitted.
To The Editor,
The Gamecock.
Dear Sir:
At present we are hearing a great
deal about the so-call "forgotten man."
This same term may, in a certain
sense, be applied to the University
Track Team. By this I mean the
lack of candidates for the cinder path
sport.I#ast
year the University team won
the State meet. It was hoped and
expected that this would arouse enthusiasm
among the students and
create a new interest in the sport.
Enthusiasm and interest were aroused
but only from the spectator's point
of view. The students turned out for
the meets and supported the team but
few came out for actual competition.
The season just completed has
shown clearly that the track team
should have more men out for positions.
' Almost all the men on the
team had to compete in two, three, and
even four events. In many events,
especially in the field, our team had
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of preservation may be listed under the '
following heads:
(1) Official published documents of 'ij
the State.
(2) Semi-governmental or unofficial I
voluntary state publications such as those
of political party committees; chambers yj
of fcommerce; state welfare bodies; state ^
bar and press associations; farm bureaus;
religious, fraternal and other organizations.
(3^) Local county and city official ,
publications.
(4) Local non-governmental or semigovernmental
agencies, civic and social.
(5) Newspaper files (this is one of
the most important).
(6) The records of colleges and universities
and of Schools.
(7) The records of religious bodies
?city, county, and, state, including letters
and diaries of preachers, etc.
(8) Records of the industrial, finan-lj
cial, and agricultural activities in the
community. These include annual reports
of corporations, audits of banki,
records of old business firms, plantation . .
and farm records, and convention proceedings,
(industrial and commercial )
(9) Biographical material, especially
genealogies,. directories, and family papers?diaries,
letters, photographs, and
portraits of those personalities that have
shaped the history of the community, '
the state or the nation.
(10) Local histories, maps, and atlases.
It will be readily seen that much of
this material is not copyrighted and not
on the market and a great deal of it is
of an ephcrmeral character. For this
reason it is obvious that unless the collecting
of this material is gone about
systematically and thoroughly and
promptly much of it that might yet be 1 ^
saved will be lost as has been such a' v
vast amount of irreplaceable value in the
past.
Dr. Kennedy, as chairman of this com- vmittcc,
would Welcome any offers of assistance
from those who see the great
importance of this movement. Volunteers
would be welcomed and all libra- *j|||
rians are urged to secure the cooperation
of committees in their respective
communities to at once set about this
work.
only one man available. Meets with m
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Clemson and Davidson were lost by ^
narrow margins because of too few
entrants in the events. Our chances
of retaining the State title were badly ,,
hurt for the same reason. The team
performed brilliantly but were just .M
simply too few men entered.
I feel sure that there is a wealth v v
of workable track material among the
students of the University that is going
to waste. Many have the idea that'
there is no place for them, or that
they haven't enough speed or ability
to try for the team. Some think that
because they did no track work in
high school that it is too late to begin. ;i>:
Others are disappointed by their fail- . ure
to make good in thejr first year
and so drop out. For the benefit of &>]
those who feel this way I should like
for them to look over the roster of -iyj
this year's team and see how many sH
have developed since entering theViUniversity.
Hoping that this may fine some place
in your columns, I am
Very sincerely yours,
BEN WOODRUFF.
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