Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Ga Founded Jan ROBERT ELLIOTT G< Published Friday of every week (luring the ^ University of Entered as second class matter at the post* Member of South Carolina College Press Assc Subscription Kate?$2.(10 per < Advertising rates fui Offices in the basement of Extensio KXEOl'TP William B. King Baynard VVhaley Frank Haskell, Jk. I.eon Pickens ----ASSCK Jghn C. Payne. llovce Craig, Josephine drill Sabbagha, Mark Dowtin and I'inckne; kkpok Mary Ford, news editor; Edward Chaffin, sport Elliott, fraternity editor; Mark Dowtin, Y. M. ( alumni editor; Elmore Martin. Jerry Glenn, Ha editors; Faith Brewer, co-ed editor; Evelyn Lips* editors; Atherton Whaley, Ellen Freeman, Werbei DesChamps. nisi Tliomas T. Moore, Douglas Pickling, assistant b C. W. ltuss, Fred Ellis, asi CROWIl A Better Carolina Spirit?Amon Student Activity Building?This is the can be properly cente fkh)AY7TAN FOR THE STUDENT BODYSERVICE ALWAYS With this issue the statT of The Gattteeoek sorrowfully presents only four pages?sad that its service to the student bodj' must be lessened but assured that the move that has been taken is a wise one. Even in this period of recovery, public works and inflation, the business men are not so anxious to buy advertisement during the slack season of the year (i. e. the winter months before Faster) so the business staff of The Gamecock is faced with reduced advertising contracts, and of course with that, reduced income. When this situation became apparent, it was evident that two courses were open to The Gamecock, it would have been possible for the staff to produce an eight page paper a little oftener than once a month, or it would have been possible for the staff to put out a four page issue approximately every week of the remaining year. Believing that a regular paper was more important than a voluminous one and that the happenings of the campus could be recorded in a four page edition if the staff took care to carefully edit all copy so that it would take only the space required, the staff decided that a regular four page issue would be of more service to the student body of the university. Perhaps as business picks up during the progress of this promising year of 1934 the advertisements sold will warrant an eight page Gamecock once again. If that happy situation comes to pass the students may rest assured that the, old form will be returned. tj. n. o. AN ALUMNUS SPEAKER Editor The Gamecock: As a devoted alumnus of the University of South Carolina I ask space to express difference of opinion with, the utterance of Professor Meriwether to the effect that Dr. Thomas Cooper and Dr. Francis Lieber were the two brightest intellects which have ever adorned faculties of the college and university. So far as Lieber is concerned it may be said that lie was a scholar with a vigorous mind, aggressive and continuous iti search of wisdom. lie was too ambitious for place and embittered because his ambitions were not satisfied?two elements of mediocrity. As for Thomas Cooper, the opinion expressed by Thomas Jefferson is pure hyperbole, in keeping with the talent of one of the greatest phrase makers this country has ever produced, and whose opinion I would value lightly even if I thought it were sincere. But Thomas Cooper himself! He, living, nearly ruined the college and, dead, his influence has been pernicious. I know admirable college mates and graduates of the university who have sent their sons elsewhere because they thought his spirit still hovered over the institution. In administrative ability he was a beginner in a business college compared to John M. McBryde. In versatility of talents he was a sophomore ?certainly not more than a junior? as compared to Dr. James Woodrow. As a logician, a personality and a speaker he was a flickering tallow dip to a 100 watt electric light, as compared to Dr. James H. Thornwell. In commanding character and helpful influence and dignity he was a ruffian as compared to Major Benjamin Sloan. Cooper taught chemistry and geology. So did Joseph Le Conte. They are not tp be mentioned in the same breath, Le Conte's accomplishments and dignity of character were so much superior. mecock mary 30, 1908 [)NZALES, First Editor collcge year by the Literary Societies of'the South Carolina vffice at Columbia, S. O., November 3), 1908 iciation and National College 1'resu Association College year. Circulation?2150 rnished upon Keenest n liuilding. l'hotie 8123?Extension 11 iK HOARD I Editor -? - - Business Manager - Managing Editor 1 - Circulation Manager I JIATES 1 fin, 1/onniel Gregory, associate editors; Philip 1 y Walker, associate managing editors. ] TOIUAIi s editor; Kreil HambriKht, feature e<litor; Miles A. and Y. W. C. A. editor; I.averne Hughes, ward Cooper, and Abel Manor, assistant sports ] xnnb, co-ed news editor; Miriam Ixuider, sorority r llryan, Catherine Turner, Dot Dunavant, Amelia ' NESS | usiness managers; J. C. Gregory, R. M. Brown, , *istant circulation managers. tfG FOR: | g Alumni, Faculty and Students. only way by which student activities . red and administered. 1 :=r==========rrr=r==== < IT Alt Y 12, 1934 < l MOLTING SEASON 1 With this issue of The Gamccock * the student paper of the University ' of South Carolina officially emerges ? from the guidance of the editors of ( the first semester and begins to be ' produced by the newly elected staff. The new staff is an able and effi- : cient one and the old editors assure ' the students that good service will be 1 rendered to them. The duties of a col- ' lege editor are difficult ones and the * most efficient, the most politic, the 1 most diplomatic will make mistakes, 1 so in passing the old staff can only ' give the newcomers their blessing and hopes for a successful year. U. H. C. ABSENT Where is the absent-minded professor of yore?* Not on the University of South Carolina campus, certainly. They can't afford to be. For the life of a professor is hard. Not only do they have to keep an eye on the ceiling, for fear that it will fall on them as it did on Babcock; they also have to give an imitation of the Man Without a Country. One day their offices are here, the next day there, and the third day, at this rate, they simply won't be. Absent-minded professors, eh? No, just absent. d. . o If one half of the time were given to the study of the lives of any one of these men as has been given to Cooper, the latter would be forgotten. They saw the world go by with poise and understanding. Cooper added to the racket of the turbulent times in which he lived. His public correspondence with men with whom he violently differed, and it was his violent differences which, I think, largely gave him his prominence, was on the scale of villification and abuse worthy of an ordinary politician. I agree with General Blair, a congressman from this state, and General Blair's utterances were justified by the low plane upon which "Thomas Cooper, M. D." had cast the public correspondence, that Doctor Cooper was an anti-Christ, a political prosti- 1 tutc, scouted out of England, driven from France after being the bosom friend of Marat, LeGendre, and the bloodiest of the bloody maniacs of Revolutionary France, and hooted out of Pennsylvania where the judicial ermine was torn from him. In other lands the governing classes would have none of his mad theories, but here lie found a limited* Democracy with the arrogant and fire-eating division of the governing classes in control. The equally well-born minority gave strong, but unsuccessful opposition, until it came to real fighting when their names went higher than those of the fire-eating majority because of their better intellects and sounder judgment. Cooper found as good fellowship with the violent talking ones here as he had with the bloody maniacs of Revolutionary France, who probably with more reason drenched their country in blood that followed from the theories advanced by Cooper and his patrons and inciters in South Carolina. Dr. Thomas Cooper is dead. May there be greater peace to his ashes than he gave to the world while he lived. I wish he could be forgotten j by the University of South Carolina. FITZ HUGH McMASTER. A University of Washington survey shows that the average college student carries more money in his pockets than the average professor docs, and that the professor's secretary carries more than the two of them combined. / Carolina To-day Frank Durham Glee Club Turns Green The honor of the Glee Club is at ? stake and to protect .it, the publicity manager has opened a fusilade of press notices the like of which have never been seen before or since. According to the newspaper reports all e the old ladies in Philadelphia, New F York, etc. are in quite a dither about f the musical ability of the boys from li below the Mason-Dixon Line; the F music critics in the aforementioned cities have yet to recover from the ^ hemorrhages caused by their aesthetic r, upheavals on hearing the Carolina w chantciirs, and the cow-callers on the n National Farm and Home Flour are j_ lecidedly discontented. jc Why, you ask, this outburst of ;s paens? Why is it necessary for the singers to remind us how well they rj :roon? Well, the spirit of national ai -ecovery is responsible. p Recently the CWA (whatever that s) has- let loose unnumbered throngs - >f gentlemen of color and allowed I hem to tear up the campus. With >icks, shovels, etc., they dislodge the lurf and toss it gaily about. Now, :he combination of four picks and four lcgroes always results in a quartet, J itul here on the campus they have lost :ount of the picks and shovels. We T lave a triumphal chorus. The minor vail of spirituals punctuated by u in pits is the picks strike home, fills the air, floats in through classroom windows ind disrupts the explanation, of what- G ?ver it is the professor is trying to w explain. The publicity manager of the C Glee Clul> is getting little sleep, the pi newspapers are not worrying about T filling space, and the writer of Carolina Today has one paragraph out of A the way. p ft Recovery Rhapsody aj All hail to the CWA! p The professors all cut every day. tl They have painter's colic. The stu- f, dents all frolic, While the government doles out the pay. d is Bows To Gregory We wish to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to Lemuel . Gregory'for his excellent sketch, "Adventure," which appeared in the first * issue of The Carolina Notebook. To us this seemed the finest bit of prose written by a college student since we have known anything about college ^ publications. Please, whoever reads " copy on this column, don't cut out * this paragraph even though it is about c; a member of the Gamecock staff. We very much want it to stay in. And p you, Mr. Gregory, why did you hide V your light under a bushel while we t< were in charge of combing the campus t< for literary efforts for The Carolinian? tl FAor this last we will never forgive C you. F We Nominate For Posterity: (j Kenneth ("Reynard the") F'ox, be- y cause of his untold found of informa- ? tion which lie so generously doles out f; to the oh-so-appreciative profs. Bart Withcrspoon, because, well, ? just because. * Dinner Is Ate We thought of the title of this paragraph all by ourselves, but the problem tl confronting us at present is what to a put under the title. That's the main K trouble with writing this kind of pil- t< lar?you think up a swell title with IT nothing to go under it, or you write t< a swell paragraph and the title sends " an aroma to high heaven. a Now for example, take "Dinner Is d Ate." It is suggestive of a lot, means 1< nothing, and arouses the interest of the reader. But after you read that title you expect something to follow which is at least remotely connected s< with it, something a trifle sprightly, with a nice crack or two?and look fJ what you get! ti Recovery Rhapsody All hail to the CWA1 n THE STATE B' WE PEATU PARKER VACU FOUNTAIN PEN H WE CARRY 5 Waterman, Parker, She; EXPERT FOUNTAIN THE STATE 1224 Main Street We Print The Gamecock I Profs Attend C; Libraty Meet Jlemson Conference ter to ttudy Needs And Appoint Com- 8CC mittee To Ask Legislature bu, For Appropriation Th Dr. Samuel M. Derrick, professor of ale conomics, Deati Or in Crow and Dr. J atterson VVardlaw were representatives scc rom the University at the citizen's brary conference at ClemsoiK College, j}a 'riday January 4. 23 The purpose of the meeting was to 21. iscuss an adequate library system for ural sections. A steering committee Ti ras appointed to make a study of the eeds and to present a request to the .egislaturc for an appropriation of not j :ss than $5,000. If the appropriation ^ ; received the group is planning to uCl lace library distributing points in vaous sections of each county with an itomobile service to the more isolated oints. Hj U. B. C Pour Initiated I By Alpha Pi Meeting Held Tuesday I hey Are W. G. Nelson, Jr., R. 0.1 Derrick, Cr. S. McCormick, And H. O. Harmon W. G. Nelson, Jr., R. O. Derrick, I . S. McCormick, and H. O. Harmon I ere initiated at a meeting of Alpha Pi 11 hapter of Kappa Phi Kappa, national I rofessional education fraternity, held II iiesday evening. Nelson, a junior in the college of I rts and Science, is a member of Kap- II a Sigma, and Kappa Sigma Kappa I aternities. He is also assistant man- I (*er of The Garnet and lilack for tlic 11 resent school year and a member of 11 ic Y. M. C. A. Council. Nelson is II rom Ellorce, S. C. R. O. Derrick, a graduate student I t the University received his A. B. II egrec from Newberry College. Hell > superintendent of the Lexington I ublic schools. G. S. McCormick of Columbia, S. 0., 11 ; a senior in the university. He pre- II iously attended Furman university. I le is a member of the Clariosophic 11 ocicty. H. O. Harmon, an alumnus of the I Inivcrsity of South Carolina, received | is A. B. degree in education in 1929. H Ie is County Superintendent of Edu- IH ation of Lexington county, S. C. ^ At the meeting a committee was ap- I ointed consisting of E. S. Skidmore, I J V. I. Lay ton, and Dr. J. A. Stoddard I | j consider nominations for delegates 1 3 attend the National Conclave of T ie fraternity to be held in Cleveland, J )hio, March 1 to 3, 1934. I ? I ?%* Officers of Alpha Pi Chapter are: T 'resident, E. S. Skidmore; vice-presi- I ent, J. H. Burckhalter; secretary, | V. I. Layton; treasurer, J. W. I trazelle, Jr. Dr. J. A. Stoddard is 1 iculty advisor. t U. B. O. I ^ * Notebook Magazine Is Praised By Printer] (CONTINUED FROM PAGE SIX) lie stall enjoyed the work, it is a pity 1 1 printed job could not be done and ive college students a better, chance ^ 3 expend their efforts toward learning lore about literature and leave mechanics I { :> those of our population not fortu- ^ ate enough to enjoy the privilege of ttending a university. Of course I o not mean this as a criticism, un:ss it is considered constructive." If you knock another person's faults, ~ ; only shows that .you are over concicncc of your own. Would you prefer to -be poor andjl; ice poverty, or rich and face uncer-ll! linty? I;| I. O. U.?C. O. D.?F. O. B.?and ![ ow N. R. A. IS1 OOK STORE | ph I r RE THE MATIC PEN I I ^ EADQUARTERS r BIG LINES I II affer, Wahl, Conkliri I i; PEN REPAIRING I L r COMPANY Columbia, S. 0. I I v; .. age Leaders Captures Five Foes In Row (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Following a victory over Presbyian, Wofford appeared in Columbia offer surprising resistance to the >ring rampage of the Carolinians, t were finally downed 44 to 33. eir persistency necessitated constant rtness on the part of the locals. 7reddie Thompkins has been high >rer in all games to date. He has intercollegiate points to his credit, na Henderson follows second with and Bennie Thompkins third with IT. 8. O. , .'iangulation Station To Be Established Here V triangulation station will be cs- 1 'lished on the university campus, ording to an announcement made the professor of civil engineering, bcrt W. Sumwalt, by William V Spring Starting next Mond will have on display Syles for 1934. On M( nesday and Thursday1 representative here a your visit during th days. The prices are the first to make your; BOYD J< Individually Tailored No. 12 Arca( Thos. Whiteside Can DUPRE PRINTING CO. ? ? ? ?' ? ?'.? > ? i? > ? , imm.f Dr. L. L. Toole DENTIST 1316 Main Street '1 THE LETTER SHOP MULT I GRAPHING?MIMEOGRAPHING TYPING Taylor Stroot Phono 9433 COLUMBIA, S. C. SENIORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS > plan to teach next year, are cordially' Ind to confer with j SOUTHERN TEACHERS' AGENCY South Carolina National Bank Building COLUMBIA, S. C. Evans Motor Co. Dial 8103 then count the ;! minutes ;! 24 HOUR SERVICE ;j tate House Pharmacy tone 9151 1007 Main St. DRAUGHT BEER AND WINE We Deliver Open from 8 A. M.?12 P. M. CAROLINA DRY Phone 8166 "IF IT CA'N BE CLEANE The Canteen and Oa mmi^w?? OUT PARKER RATE CENTRALI DKUOS 1204 Mai "THE REXAl .v ..v,' Palmetto Players To Give Comedy I (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) brought international attention to the I university. The Theater Arts Month. I ly magazine in a mid-summer carried I a full page picture of one of the im- 'fl portant scenes from the play, commending the players upon its presentation. ^'Saltwater", was produced by the author in the John Golden theater in I New York in 1929, with Frank Craven ? in the leading role. It is a hilarious modern American comedy which in- 19 vdves a company of fifteen players ' J and a large technical staff. According to Walter Winchell, Saltwater is something to cheer." Mr. Dean has selected a handpickcd vS cast of Carolina comedians who are fl capable of putting on a comedy of this kind. Bowie, chief of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 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