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Crow Elected ToCommittee On Education American Legion Each Post Appoints Committee To Cooperate With School Authorities The Richland~post of the American Legion has recently appointed Dean Urin F. Crow of the school of education of the University of South Carolina to a committee on education. Every post of the American Legion must appoint a standing committee on education .to co-operate with school authorities, and to pay particular attention to the bugctary condition of our schools, to the end that education may not be hampered by reason of the present financial crisis " one of the by-laws of the American Legion, was the reason of Dean Crow's recommendation to this committee. v. a. o. Poet Laureate Post Discussion Enlivened Do you favor having a poet laureate for S. C.? South Carolina has a University she has a General Assembly, and all 'that is needed for her further and complete glory, they feel, is a poet laureate. 1 hey don't propose to give the winner of this popularity contest, so to speak a,^f ?f ,WinC SUCh 33 is (,onc hy Soocl old British tradition. Applicants might mob the committee of selection if this were suggested. Apparently all the lucky man will get will he a little free publicity, and a chance to have all his poetry published?no mean consideration in itself, we understand in limes like these. Doctors Baker and Bradley think the idea of South Carolina's having a poet laureate is a good one. Doctors Smiths, Wauchope, and Babcock don't think so./ One group maintains that the creation of a poet laureateship would cause an avid interest in the cause of more and better poetry; the other, that it would stifle the poetic urge. There is even a suggestion going the rounds that someone who wants / Always i L_sr Copyright, 1034, Tho Aiuor Gamecock Is Praised By College Student Believe It Or Not I A recent visitor to the Gamecock office said that in a conversation with a student at Randolph-Macon he learned that at that institution The Gamecock is regarded as the cream of perfection in the way of student publications. The Randolph-Macon student declared that a Journalism class there had studied The Gamecock as a model for two days. It might he added that the issues of 7he Gamecock which are held in such veneration are those published the first semester of 103233, when John A. Giles was editor and 1' rank Wardlaw managing editor. u. n. a Cheatham, Winner Of Medal, Gives Resume Bessie Cheatham, junior, who won the Irene Austin medal given by the Columbia chapter of the U. D. C. recently gave an interesting resume of her prize-winning essay, "Diplomacy of the Confederacy." The medal was presented to Miss Cheatham by Dean Bradley at the Robert E. Lee birthday celebration at Drayton Hall. u. a. o. University Graduate Given Promotion Dr. William J. Gaines, Jr., an A. B. graduate of this University in the class of 1922, was recently promoted to a full professorship and made head of the department of romance languages at the University of Richmond. U. H. O. to be it is causing all the agitation in the Legislature now. But they all arc having a nice time airing their views in the dear old C olumbia Record, the official proving ground for Gamecock graduates. The Gamecock isn't committing itself. Why worry about a South Carolina poet laureate when we have our campus poets?Frankic Durham, Giraffic James, and Philip Space? Poet laufeate? Haw I the Finest Tobacc limn Tobaooo Company. x an u A Thesis Describes Roman Weddings Edna Bick Makes Study Shows That Roman Women Were Either Married With Or Without "Manus" What arc the two kinds of marriages? Perhaps in this day they arc happy" and "unhappy," but from a thesis presented to the University of South Carolina for a Masters degree >y Kdna L. Beck, entitled "Roman Womanhood," we find that in ancient Rome they were the kind with Manus" and the kind without Manus." "I" the former the woman was brought into the absolute power of her husband, that is, placed in the position of a daughter to him," the thesis reads. "All goods that she owned passed into his hands, so that she could no longer possess anything at all in her own name. "In marriage without "Manus" only the dower became her husband's, and she remained mistress of all her other belongings and all that she might acquire. During the last centuries of the Republic, in all the families of the aristocracy, marriages were contracted in this form until married women had Rained their independence." U. 8. o. Campus Is Being Improved By C. W. A. The University of South Carolina campus will have an entirely regraded and remodeled lawn. The Civil Works Administration has put to work approximately fifty unemployed men, reworking and resodding the grass. The campus, which was formerly sparsely covered with grass and rose to different levels, will be a smoothed surface that gradually slopes down from the Extension Building to Sumter Street. Pathways, which were once made by students who took the shortest way to ?! The Gamecocks are G ii COLUMBIA DAIRIES I i; Phone 3171 and only the ( MECOOK Engineer Directors Fix Date For Summer Meet The board of directors of the South . Carolina Society of Engineers held its first meeting since the selection of ( new members February. It was decided to hold the summer meeting in Columbia during the third week in June. The members decided to send let: ters to Congress urging prompt aci tion on the public works project in South Carolina. A number of appli. cations for membership were selected. R. L. Suimvalt of Columbia is president. C. W. A. Stuccos Walls And Grades Terrace C. W. A. workers are stuccoing the walls and grading a terrace in front of the Woman's Building. The terrace provides a walk by which the students may reach the cafeteria without climbing a steep embankment as formerly was necessary. Removal of the scaffolding from the f north and east sides of the dormitories 1 reveals the improvement in appearance that the new finish provides. U. 8. o. t their destination, arc now cemented walks which take the place of the old paths, reducing the dangers and incon- 1 vcnicnccs of muddy holes and puddles I of water that originated with a day's : rain. The ancient brick wall, which sepa- j rates the Law Building from Davis t College and which runs the length of one block along Bull Street behind I the Extension Building, is being re- j duced in height. ] Considerable work has been done i by the C. W. A. workers on the foot- j Have Your Next Banquet At THE ROSE MARY TEA ROOM 1128 Hampton Ave. Phone 3207 Catherine W. Gaillard?Hostess tame because they use !; M AND ICE CREAM jj 917 Main St. ?! > c. FiNTE TURJ From the Diamond HorseShoe of the Metropolitan Opera House F Saturday at 1:45 P. M., Eastern Standard Time, over the Red and Blue Networks of NBC, LUCKY STRIKE will broadcast the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York in the complete Opera, "Faoat." ^ Center Leaves jS A Student Asks Return Of Stolen Case If the person who removed my camera case from the wall of Tenement 18, where it was placed for the purpose of receiving films brought to me for the purpose of developing, will return same in any manner whatsoever I will either Rive a better box or will buy it back from him for fifty cents and charge the loss off to the school of experience in which 1 am rapidly learning that Diogenes had the right idea, after all. Nothing will be said or done to the person returning the case. I hate to lose it, as it just fits my camera. If so desired, just leave it where found and arrange the reward over the telephone. R. C. ARLINGTON, Tenement 18, Room 3. ?. 8. O. Dr. Patterson Wardlaw, dean emerius of the school of education of the Jnivcrsity of South Carolina fccently lclivercd an address to the. Educa:ion Association of York county using is a title, "The Schools Under Fire." XJ. s. o. >all and baseball stands on Melton leld. The iron framework and board >cats have been repainted. New cemented sidewalks have been placed along Sumter Street, bordering the uiiversity. Termite eradication is be| Diamonds, Jewelry, Watches, Class ![ } Rlnjjs, Medals, Frat Pins and Prize ' ? , Cups of the Better Kind. Moderate i! > in cost. Superior In Quality. <> I SYLVAN BROS. \\ > 1500 Main Sylvan Bids- Cor. 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