Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Frosh Hear Dean Talk McKissick, Dean Of Journalism, Delivers Third Lecture On University History "The students of the South Carolina College were no ordinary group," observes John D. Wade in his life of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, the last ,of the presidents of the old college, and it is student life in ?that period, from 1805 to 1802, .that will be considered today," said l'rof. J. Rion McKissick, dean of the School of Journalism, in opening the third of the series of historical lectures on the University, Wednesday in freshman chapel. The students were much more restricted then than now as is shown by the rather amusing rules of that time. Some of the by-laws adopted by the trustees in 3804 were quoted by Dean McKissick. "Whilst in session, the students shall convene at 0 o'clock in the morning, in the college hall, to attend prayers; from thence they shall retire to their rooms, and continue at study until 8 o'clock; when, upon being summoned, they shall repair to breakfast; at 9 o'clock, they shall repair return to study, and continue in their rooms until 12 o'clock, unless summoned to recitations; at 1 o'clock on being summoned, they shall repair to dinner, and at 2 o'clock return to their studies, and continue at study until 5; and at 5 o'clock they shall attend prayers, and be dismissed until 9 o'clock; at which time they shall again return to their rooms, and remain within for the night; except on Saturdays, on which day they shall be dismissed until 9 o'clock in the evening." They were forbidden to play cards, appear in women's apparel, have firearms, bring liquor into the college without permission of a member of the faculty in advance, to smoke pipes or cigars anywhere except in student <t Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Class ![ J' Rlnos, Medals, Frat Pins and Prize ?? ?, Cups of the Better Kind. Moderate ![ |> In cost. Superior In Quality. > j! SYLVAN BROS. \\ ;> 1500 Main Sylvan Bldg. Cor. Hampton*I i| AUDITORIUM PHARMACY J; ![ As close to you as your phone ' > Bob Oollvie Shep. Jennings <! ?.,Drufl8~ Dru? Sundries?Cloars? Soda '! <, Water?Films?Magazines?Draught Beer ]' ![ FREE DELIVERY J? 1709 Taylor St. Phone 8153 <| | | $19.50 $24.50 $27.50 Others as Li NEW FAI $2.85 - $3 HOPE-Di Lady at ] I Story Contest To Be Held Magazine Offers Prize Story Offers Reward For Best a Contribution Among College g Students During Year s s Prizes of $100 and $50 respectively j, are being offered by Story, a magazine ^ devoted solely to the short story, for c the best story written by a college student, according to an announce- a] ment received by The Gamccock. ? The terms of the contest arc as fol- a lows: ? Stories submitted must be not less ^ than 1500 nor more than G000 words n in length. Each entry must be certified by a r< member of the faculty of the institu- fl tion, and no college or university may c submit more than two entries. r All entries must be mailed to Story tl on or before April 15, 1934. C The submitted stories are to repre- a sent the best selection, by qualified judges, of the work of students of the g school year 1933-34. Such stories may d be selected from the work done in h English courses or they may be drawn tl from a contest especially designed to afford a selection. The story may or may not have appeared first in a col- j lege publication during the contest. The editors of Story suggest the following procedure in the selection of stories to represent any institution: _ the English department or Literary I society or any other campus group or organization may hold contest to determine the selection. All stories must be legibly written, preferably typewritten, on one side of the paper. n The winning story will be published g in the September issue of Story. Si The stories should be addressed to y Story, 20 E. 57th Street, New York. a U. 8. O. c rooms, to make a bonfire in or near <1 the campus, to ride a horse or mule in g or near the campus, to visit a grog or ti eating shop, the penalty for this hav- h ing been suspension or expulsion. The I penalty for addressing a stranger, an- c other student, or applicants for ad- r mission to college, as "Fresh," was admonition or suspension. h Student outbursts were frequent, V1 such as: exploding firearms, tin pan b serenades in front of the president's ti house, whooping up the campus, v drunken students, and removal of c chapel seats, so that the dignified fac- e ulty would have to climb up a six foot 'i ?? n ? o t Beyond A SHADOW OF ?0 A DOUBT 1 Chapel Hill Clothes (by ^ Micliaels-Stern) for young ? c men are most popular among t] r those matriculating and r among those already grad- t! uated. In the one set the n selection shows a progressive s spirit, in the other mature f judgment. Chapel Hill Clothes wear well. We have a complete and most interest- d ii ing assortment. v v fl c s tl fl c t nv as $15.00 ! t f LL HATS 1 .50 - $5.00 ; t (WIS CO. r Main Street * t ^_ 1 ' =============== i Clariosophiai At Po: Being held-up at the wrong end oi 45 for a cigarette, in the State House rounds, is the experience of Clarioophoniores J. R. Bell and John Maservy, two guileless young men whe ave just found out that nice boys on't walk in the park surrounding tin apital building, after dark. "The hold-up man was a bootlegger lid he was drunk," Mr. Bell explained We were strolling thru the grounds fter the game Thursday' when this lan suddenly appeared from ambush, ourishing a gun, and pointed it a1 le." Saying this, Mr. Bell lovingly caressed his Blue Key, under which his oating rib is supposed to be domiiled. With a thrill in his voice as he clieved his hair-raising experience lie erstwhile ex-president of th< lariosophic Literary society went intc 11 the gory details. "He stuck me in the ribs with the un, but I was able to see that he was runk, so I decided to humor him,' e recounted, neglecting to say anyhing about Mr. Masservy's actions Russia Topic Of Address lecognition Requested aipatrick Requests Russian Rec ognition Address To Rotarians; Hitlerismn Scored After asserting that "there is nc ormal reason why the United States hould not recognize Russia" Profesor Emmett Kilpatrick went on to adocate immediate recognition in at ddress before the Columbia Rotarj lub at its regular luncheon last Mon ay. He said that Russia has now iven up its plans for world revolu ion and asserted that it is today per aps "the most stable government ir Europe." World stabalization, h< laimed is impossible without sucl ccognition. Kilpatrick went on to speak of th< istorical background of the question /ilson and others opposed recognitioi ecause of the world revolution doc rine but this doctrine was overthrowi /ith the ousting of Trotsky. At pres nt Russia supports the strongest gov rnment in Europe, lie said, because er government is that of a party am ot of an individual. He also pointe< ut the historically friendly feeling be ween the two countries. Switching to the question of tin litlerite dictatorship in Germany h< aid that he doubted if any govern lent based on "brute force" coult urvive. He added that the new re ime was based on the reestablishmen if Germany. "It is impossible t< lumiliate a people." "Hatred of the Jew in Germany i ased on the false thesis that German] /as corrupted by the Jews, that mucl f the revolutionary propaganda wa arried on by1 the Jews, and also tha lie Jews occupy too high a place ii nance," he continued. "What Hitle eally hates is France, but to display hat too much would not pay. Hitle ollows a policy of brute force. Hitle nay force France's hand if he gets < trongly united Germany. I am doubt ul whether anything built on bruti orce can survive." XT. H. O. idder. One student wrote in a letter th< lescription of a blackriding scene Friday night we had a beautiful sigh -a blackride on the campus. Then vcre four or five riders half maske< ,-itli their faces blacked, dressed in re< lanncl coats, with flaming torches o amphene in their hands. It was i plendid sight to see them gallopinj ip and down the campus, waving thei latnbeaux; and the students, who ha< rowded out, yelling at the top o heir voices." In 1859 students tarred the scats am [esks in the lecture rooms and chape or which 07 were suspended. Turke; tealing was indulged in to a large ex ent, the innocent faculty unknowingl; urnished the birds. Governor Drayton wrote from Char eston in 1809 to President Maxc> aying that some citizens "have seriou Ejections to sending their sons t Columbia, on account of the genera >ractice among the students of smok ng and chewing tobacco. They fca hat this smoking and chewing wi cad to other vices." In 1814 a rebellion broke out durin, vhich the professors were forced t emain in their houses. The militi vas callcd out to establish order. One he students refused to attend classe >ecause the regular class bell had bee emoved. The affair was settled b Hitting the bell back in its customar ^Ksa^mmsBaBBKmaasssacBBaaeasaBaBSBSf is Held Up int Of Pistol f "I pulled back iny coat and showed ; him my cigarettes. 'Help yourself, buddy,' I said." Mr. Bell also explained that by this > time he and his companion were safely i out of the) capital grounds. "I wasn't : wasting any time," he artlessly remarked. , "By now Masservy and I had some. what recovered from our fright, and > we saw that the man didn't really mean > any harm. He was just being playful. , After he had taken a cigarette he int vitcd us down to his place, insisting that we come up to see him some time.. Masservy and I haven't been > yet." His horrible experience had so un nerved Mr. Bell that he could not ? speak calmly of it several days after! ward. His symptoms were a remarked > tendency to glare wildly around and a nervous movement of the Blue Key : emblem. ? It had not been possible to interview Mr. Masservy on his part in the affair at the time 7 he Gatnccock went . to press. Newspaper On Exhibit [ Rare Copy In Library Should Be Of Especial Interest To Journalism And History Students ) History students and journalism stu; dents should be especially interested in a certain newspaper printed in New - York on June 26, 1780. A rare photoi static copy of the paper is in the South r Carolina room of the University li brary. r Its interest to journalism students - is obvious, since it is a typical example - of journalistic effort at that time. 1 However, the surprising thing about 2 this particular paper is that it contains J a letter signed by 203 of the "principal and most respectable Inhabitants" of , Charlestown, showing unmistakably . that four years after the revolution , began, these principal and respectable . South Carolinians were eager to rei turn to the status of British subjects. The gist of the letter follows: "we - the under-written ardently hoping c speedily to be readmitted to the characJ ter and condition of British subjects, 1 take this opportunity of tendering - our warmest congratulations on the restoration of this capital and province e to their political connection with the c crown and government of Great . Britain. 1 "Although the right of taxing - America in Parliament excited cont siderable ferments in the minds of the 3 people of the province, yet it may with a religious adherence to truth be afs firmed, that they did not entertain the ^ most distant thought of dissolving the ! union that so happily subsisted bes tween them and their parent country, t and when in the progress of that fatal t controversy, the doctrine of Indepenr dency (which originated in the more j Northern Colonies) made its appearr ancc among us, our natures revolted r at the idea, and we look back with j the most painful regret on the con. vulsions that gave existence to....a 2 rash democracy, which however carefully digested in theory, on being reduced into practice, has exhibited a - system of tyrannical domination, only to be found among the uncivilized part e of mankind of the dark and bar barous ages of antiquity." ' XI. 8. O. c place. | The students played numerous jokes on the faculty. Once they placed a goat in Dr. Thomas Cooper's chair in ^ his classroom complete with spectacles ? and an open book before him. Dr. r Cooper, upon entering and seeing the goat, said, "young gentleman, getting democratic in your ideas, elevating one of your number to the chair. I'll leave J you together." He marched out, locked I the door behind him, and left the y jokers confined until late in the aftcr noon. y There were no co-eds in those days but students were allowed to escort - ladies of the town to some of the atr, tractions of that day. The mother of s the young lady called upon probably o remained in the room during the il young man's visit. - No student was looked down upon r for his poverty. James and Joseph II I/Owry, the brothers who founded the Kuphradian and Clariosopluc societies g cooked their meals in their rooms, o Dean McKissick closed his lecture a with the words of General LeRoy c Youmans in saying that "neither time, s nor trouble, nor the dim eye, nor the n dull ear, can ever, while our lives last, y separate us from the love of the South y Carolina College." Teachers To Have Library Rental Service Planned Educational Topics On Various Plans Of School Work To Be Included Teachers who wish to read some of the latest books on educational topics, will have the opportunity to do so in the near future, announced Dr. O. F. Crow, dean of the school of education, rental library service will be inaugurated, from which books may be drawn by teachers. The list will include volumes dealing with teaching in the elementary schools, educational psychology, administration, supervision, athletic coaching, high school methods, and other subjects. The service will begin with only about twenty selected books, most of which have been donated, because of lack of funds in the school of education. A fee of ten cents for each book rented will be charged, and patrons will be required to pay the postage both ways. These fees will be used to pay the cost of the service and to purchase more books, according to Dr. Crow. "I think the idea of the rental library service is an excellent one," Dr. Crow declared. It seems unfortunate that many educators interested in selfimprovement have hitherto had little opporunity to better themselves^ This service will fill a long-needed want." Student Violinists Give Program The pupils of Madame Felice de Horvath, instructor in the violin department of the University, gave the first of a series of informal recitals in the campus studio on Saturday, October 28. The following program was presented: "Moto Perpctuo" (Bohm), Caroline Sutphcn; "Scene de Ballet" (de Beriot), Margaret Patrick; "Christ As Song, All is Still in Peaceful Rest," Margaret Smith; "Slumber Song" (Weitzel), Gus Williamson; "Autumn" (Henry), Jean Garrett;' "A Twilight Idyll" (Seaboeck), Margaret Purcell; "Souvenir di Wieniawski" (Haeschel), Lindley M'Cants; "Dream Fairy" (Seaboeck), Betty Thodc; "From the Canebrake" (Gardner), Aurundel Scay; "Hungarian Dance" (Heasche), Aubrey Dickert; "Long, Long Ago," Mary M'David; "Concerto No. 7, Allegro," William Humphries; "Romance" (Svcndsen), Lucilla Mikell. U. 8. O. Training Course For G-irl Scouts Completed Lectures designed as a training course in girl scout work were completed Wednesday by the education department. The lectures were given under the supervision of Miss Rey Mitchell, of the New York headquarters of the girl scout organization. The last meeting of the study group was held at the scout camp near Columbia. TOAL'S STUDIO 1435 Main Street Columbia, S. C. METROPOL "THE OLD THE STUDENTS' 1520 MAIN STREET CAROLINA DR1 !; Phone 8156 "IF IT CAN BE CLEAN! |! The Canteen and G THE STATE WE PEA! PARKER VAC FOUNTAIN PEN: WE CARRY Waterman, Parker, SI EXPERT FOUNTAl THE STATI 1224 Main Street We Print The Gamecock muvemoer o, xw& I" I I'M. . 1 , 1 I. I'M, ll'j. <rs Green Makes I Chapel Talk Dr. E. L. Green Delivers Address To Freshman On Historical Buildings / The second of the series of lectures on the history of the University was delivered on (October 18 by Dr. Edwin Luther Green, to the students assembled in freshman chapel. His talk dealt with the historic buildings at Carolina. In opening, Dr. Green said that South Carolina College was founded for the purpose.of educating the youth of the state and uniting the upper and lower sections of South Carolina. The idea was that a better understanding would result by having the students room together and eat at a common table. "At first the plan was to have one large center building with wings on either side. This was changed to two buildings similarly constructed, but smaller, facing each other at a distance of 300 feet. The plans, slightly changed, were taken from those offered by Robert Mills and Edward Clark." According to Doctor Green the erection of buildings was divided into three periods, beginning with Rutledge College which was completed in time for the opening on January 10, 1805, and following with DeSaussure four years1 later. The plan to let students oard at the various hotels soon proved unsatisfactory and Steward's hall was erected where Harper College now stands. The president's house followed which, with a few alterations, is now used as an extension building. Next came the double houses for professors, which face each other on opposite sides of the campus. In 1816 a building to house the library and the chemical and physical apparatus was erected across the campus from Steward's hall, as it was situated then. Soon thereafter followed a small observatory in the rear of Professor Davis' house. The second period followed with another double house for professors; Pinckncy, Eliot, Harper, and Legare Colleges; the library in 1840, which was the first separate library building in the country; the chapel, now the gymnasium and Flinn hall, 1860, the home of Dr. John LeConte. COPEiLAND CO. 1409 Main Street KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES $35 | JESSAMINE CLOTHE3 ' $22.50 LEATHER JACKETS $7.50 to $10 ! 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