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Alumni Bird-Furman I Held At H Claud N. Sapp Presides. Baker Graduates. Plans Abou District Meeting Of, Alumni of University of South Carolina gathered at the Hotel Columbia preceding the annual Carolina-Furman football game. There was a get-together of the former students of the University preceding the luncheon. Dr. W. W. Bradley, dean of the University, opened the meeting with a prayer. Short talks were made by Dr. L. T. Baker, president of the University; Tom P. Stoney of Charleston, Lieutenant Governor James O. Sheppard of Edgefield, A. C. Todd of Greenwood, M. A. Wright of Conway and Senator Brantley Harvey of Beaufort. The meeting was presided over by Claud N. Sapp, president of the Alumni association. The president of the University, Dr. Baker, outlined the plans of improvement contemplated at the University and stated that lie had applied for federal aid, asking the assistance and cooperation of those assembled. The meeting adjourned with the singing of the Alma Mater. The next feature on the program was the football game at the Fair Grounds between Furman University and Carolina. The sections reserved for the members of the Alumni association were filled to their capacity. This game closed the football season at home, and the alumni secretary is well pleased with the satisfaction of the members who have enjoyed the special privilege of having seats reserved in these sections. The supporters of the University of South Carolina, who attended the gdme with Furman, were well paid for their trouble and time in seeing one of the best played and cleanest games of football ever played in South Carolina. The game was thrilling from start to finish and full of exciting moments for the supporters of both teams. While the final result was 0-0, g? and a disappointment to the Carolina ^ supporters that there was no score, ? nevertheless there was no room for 3 criticism of the way that the Game> cocks played this game. ; Arrangements have been about com; pleted for a large district meeting of University Alumni, to be held in Florence, during the week ending December 9. The exact date has not been I set, but it is probable that the meeting will be held on either Wednesday, December 6, Thursday, December 7, or Friday, December 8. This meeting will include all alumni residing in the counties of Chesterfield, Marlboro, Darlington, Lee, Florence, Williamsburg, Horry, Marion, and Dillon. One of the largest attendance in the history of alumni meetings will be recorded at this meeting as interest is at a higher pitch than ever before. The meeting will be held in the city of Florence. Letter Explains Gray Uniform Belser Offers Story Alumnus Writes Babcock Of Contest That May Have Originated South's Colors It is possible that the origin of the Confederate "Grey," the color of the uniforms worn by the Southern soldiers during the war between the states, was due to a drinking contest. So it was, according to a letter written to Dr. Havilah Babcock, professor of English at the University, by William Belser, graduate of the University in 1932. In 1800 the Seventh Regiment visited Richmond and engaged in a friendly drinking contest with a similar group in that city, wrote Belser, as told to him by Colonel Tobin, present commander of the Seventh Regiment of the National Guards. The Yankees won the contest by putting a tube through their opponents punch bowl and continuing to insert beverages. The Confederates admired the Northerners very much, the colorful uniforms especially, and when war broke out they adopted the color of their drinking adversaries. U. N. o. At Connecticut College the use of rouge is distinctly a Senior privilege. That would be one way of telling Senior girls from Freshmen. Baston University has acquired a roof garden on top of one of its college buildings which will be used by the art classes of that institution. tv V Hold j i .Aincheon otel Columbia Outlines Improvement Plans To t Completed For Large Alumni In Florence Attending this meeting and representing the University will be Dr. L. T. Baker, president of the University; several members of the faculty; Dr. R. K. Foster, athletic director and faculty representative; Coach William L. Laval and his assistants, Coach A. W. Norman and Coach Whitey Rawl and Coach Curran P. Hughey. The president of the student body, James H. Gressettc; the captains of the football team, Buddy Moorchcad, Earl Clary and Joe Shinn; the Editor of Tlics Gamecock, William B. King, and other student representatives will be in attendance at this meeting. The object of these meetings, such as will be held in Florence, is to bring the alumni residing in the other counties of the state than that in which the University is located, in closer touch with the activities of the University. The alumni residing n these other counties are not in as close touch with every day happenings at the University as those, who live nearby, .and this opportunity will be given them in these meetings. They then can meet and hear representatives from all departments of the University. Such meetings have proven very valuable in the past and a continuance .will be of great aid in interesting the former students of the University in the activities of their Alma Mater. The Alumni association plans to hold meetings, such as the one that will be held in Florence, in all sections of the state between now and next June. The purpose of the organization of the alumni is to keep alive the interest of former students and, through an organization, allow them to serve the University. Individual interest of alumni has never been as effective in really accomplishing something for the University as has the concerted action of an alumni organization. IS the cig Annual I Coates Stresses Beatitude Values Addresses Y Audience Vesper Speaker Says That Christian Teaching Should Be Individual If men would live according to the teaching of the Beatitudes as the early Christians did in Rome, a new era would begin for South Carolina and the whole world, declared the Y. M. C. A. Vespers speaker, Mr. J. P. Coates, secretary of the South Carolina Teachers' association in the chapel Sunday. His title was "Love in Action." "When men lived according to the Beatitudes, the whole power of Rome was unable to^do anything with them," he said in the course of his remarks. The speaker went on to show that Christian teaching must be individual, saying that "the only way that a new era can be ushered in is through starting to work on the hearts of individual men." "Jesus in his work saw men trying to bring about a new era in the old world through the means of laws, through the means of violent revolution and other things of that nature. With h is clear vision he saw that these things would not work. His method was to reach the individual through creative love for him and show him that a different way of life was the only way." "This love was sufficient to kindle a new era in the hearts of those who came under Jesus's influence and through them so spread to other people," said Mr. Coates. "Children obey their parents not according to rules, or because of fear, but if they arc to become useful citizens they learn to do the right thing in their own homes through the love which their parents have shown to them." % Mr. Coates went on to show what type of persons Jesus thought was necessary to bring in the kingdom of God as was shown in the Beatitudes. ~ li^e c "I HUNTED al long... and just kno 'em cold. "I smoke Chesterfiel i the time and I'll tel ^world...they're mil arette that's MILDER Homea Astronomy Sti Count j Professor Coker Co-Operating Witl Takes Groups Of Mei Nights To Ob "Cooperating witli Dr. C. P. Olivier, of the University of Pennsylvania, groups of Carolina men spent three successive nights counting the November meteors last week," said Prof. E. C. Coker in speaking of the seasonal display of meteorites. Wednesday night, observing from midnight until 3 o'clock, the men counted 49 meteors; Thursday morning from 1 o'clock until 6, 170 meteors; and Friday morning from 2 until G, 154 meteors. 1 he last two vigils were on the site of the old reservoir at Camp Jackson. They found only 26 stars that merited their being graphed on the onstellation maps furnished by Flower observatory of the University of Pennsylvania. The stars were accurately timed as to occurrence and duration. Further descriptions of the more conspicuous meteors were entered on separate blanks. Students making the trips were as follows: Charles F. Davis, Woodrow Dunn, Waddell Reads Paper To Engineer's Society "The Pearl Industry in Japan" was the title of a paper read by C. W. Lee Waddell at a meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Wednesday night. The following are to be initiated into the society Friday: Harold C. Mauney, Columbia; J. W. Gambrell, Belton: P. H. LACHICOi DEALERS FOR FIF DIAMONDS?WATCHE 1424 Main Street SILVEI AT MODE WATCH AND JEV ragjj^HBggM KjR : :erfiei the cigarette that ' tniing E idents { Recent Meteors S i Dr. Olivier Of U. Of Pennsylvania, 1 On Three Successive P serve Heavens John T. Graves, C. I?. Harvey, Harold W. Huff, Sam E. McFadden, Mark Sullivan, Manning Till, Ralph Turner, Don Ham. Professor Coker explained that the ^ earth passes through a swarm of stars Ir of this type every November. As a !>' matter of record the shower has been p; especially heavy every 33 years. The ^ last large display was in 1899 and asronomers were somewhat disappointed n. in their prediction that either last year or this would witness another extraordinary exhibition. "The night the stars fell," is the * ' term usually applied to the astonishing tC spectacle in 18:5a, that created so much ht excitement among those who saw it. There was a noticeable shower in s' I860, and a small one in 1899. Profes- p sor Coker's conclusion is that the tl meteors are gradually disappearing, t( being drawn off by other planets. Several small specimens have fallen in this state. Dr. Taber has in his meteorology cabinets in LeConte College, a collection of the stones, one of which fell near Little Mountain. J. E. McNair, Columbia; James L. Obenschain, Lexington; R. S. Powell, Columbia; J. B. Urquhart, Columbia. FIVE POINTS DRUG STORE Drugs?Candies?Soda Phone 3165 We deliver promptly rTE & CO., INC. TY YEARS IN FINE S?JEWELRY?CLOCKS tWARE Columbia, S. 0. RATE PRICES YELRY REPAIR DEPT. d/ ^ PASTES BETTER ? *anquet 3row Appointed On Committee lelectedfTo P. E. P. W. ublic Education And Welfare Committee Selects Special Discussion Topic Dr. Orin F. Crow, clean of the school f education at the University, has cen recently appointed on a comlittee of "Public Education and Pubc Welfare," a committee of the deartment of superintendence of the ational Education Association, an rganization of the teachers of the ation. '1 he special topic of the committee f which Dr. Crow is a- member to scuss is, "What arc the schoofs doing > lift and maintain the American andard of welfare?" This is one of a number of general abject committees which are to reort at the Cleveland convention of ic National Education Association, > be held in Cleveland from February 4 to March 1, 1934. T HTNK O F I T ONLY $2.00 BUY S ONE SWELL ROOM PEEP -TL UMBER BED PRIVATE BATH RADIO MODERN 'OOO-room HOTEL HOTEL TIMES SQUARE [/MrOmtM VWm. S. Bravo TIMES SQUARE* NEW YORK -anWrittioroopiMofNcwYoiknn i took pocte*~ and**A 15.50** * "V XlMk-cntiaf Psn in New York" < ' I. 1933, Ligcett & Mykrs Tobacco Co.