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---fr" ~ ' I The Go Founded Ja ROBERT ELLIOTT G Published Friday of every week during tin University of Entered as second class matter at the pos Member of South Carolina. College Press As: Subscription llate?$2.00 per Advertising rates f Offices in the basement of Extensi EXEOUT Lemuel L. Gregory ... Thomas T. Moore Philip C. Saiiuac.ua Leon Pickens ----asst John O. Payne, Frank II. Haskell, Mary Ford, and J. \. Hicham, associate editors; Mark Dowt ing editors. IlEPO Pinckney Walker, news editor; Klmore Martin Atherton Whaley, fraternity editor; Ellen Fieei Conard, alumni eilitor; Howard Cooper and Jac co-ed editor; Miriam Lander, coed news editor vant. and llcnnic Oreve Lewis, assistant sororit champs, assistants. BUS Douglas Kicking, assistant business manager; Ellis, assistant circulation managers. CROW] A Better Carolina Spirit?Amo Student Activity Building?This is tl can be properly cenl FRIDAY, M RELIGION ON THE CAMPUS Chapel has been resumed after a laps< of over a month. Monday morning, whei the youth of our state once more enterei the portals of inspiration, one should hav noticed a general air of degeneracy. Tin faces should have borne looks of dissi pation, the eyes should have been filtne< with the nearness to Hell. One shoul< have noticed the wan eagerness will which they grasped again*at the source o their salvation, religion. Had they not beei without it for almost forty days? Hai their lives not been left entirely to th guidance and dictates of the Devil? They should have trouped eagerl again to the old Chapel. Well, they di< troupe eagerly toward it, and they di< crowd around the bulletin board. Bu were they looking to see if they had seat near the front, where they would hca every word of the illuminating speaker No, they searched the board for an en tirely different reason. They were look ing to see if by any chance their name had been omitted from the list! The; looked closely and clearly, and their eye wore no film over them. They did no bear a look of dissipation, and when the; entered the historic old building it wa not with an eager anticipation. Now that compulsory chapel has beci resumed, religion on this campus open itself to serious questions. By allowinj such a time to pass without making pro vision for the religious life of the stu dents, the faculty have shown that afte all, even though .they make attendanc obligatory, they do not consider chapel necessary part of a student's life. Hav they made any effort to hold the exer cises anywhere else, say in the Fiel House or in Drayton Hall? Or have the in any way offered religious service fo those who really want it? They hav not, and by that omission they condem themselves. They finally have confirme what we long have suspected?tha "Chapel" is now a mere administrate exercise, and excuse for gathering stu dents together to hear announcements, pure sham ! We don't like to see our religion tra vestied. We love our forms of worsbij we love our music, our psalms, our pray ers, our Bible and our Hymns. We hav a chaplain, a man most able to presid over religious exercises, a man who is i close enough touch with student life an student thought to enable him to lead u in truly helpful worship. Many of u would attend, without being forced tc and those who attended would enjoy ii It is not the religious exercises that w object to. The great objection to an thinking man is that he hates to see hi religion so misused. Of course, no 011 takes the religious services seriously, eve: though he may pay polite attention. Why some even sit down and gape about durinj the hymns, when everybody is suppose* to be praising God! And during the lonj prayers, everyl>ody shifts nervously. Th whole atmosphere betokens disrespect fo religion. This makes all the student lacks respect for it, and indeed it kill any spark of religion that may have ac companicd them here. And then, to mak this situation worse it is forced upoi them! There is no healthy religious fcelini in chapel. Then where can we go 01 this campus to find a type of rcligioi that will not repulse us? Let us tr taking a course in Bible. Here is painless sort of dose, as far as work i concerned, for it is one of the most pop ular "crips" in the curriculum. All ou best football players take it, and all o our worst students. To take Bible is t acknowledge that you want to get some thing without working for it. And fo your purpose you study the basis of ou religion. So we turn from the Bible, an try the last resort, the Y. M. C. A. Her we find that there seems to be a rej zeal among the members, but usually w prefer to say, "Well, the Y's member imecock nuary 30, 1908 GONZALES, First Editor f college year by the Literary Societies of the 1 South Carolina tofTice at Columbia, S. O., November 30, 1908 sociation and National College Press Association College year. Circulation?2150 urnished ujmjii Request on Building. Phone 8123? Extension 11 IVE BOARD Editc - Business Manage - - Managing Editc - Circulation Manage KJIATES Josephine CrilTin, Faith Hrewer, Edward ChafTi in, Miles Elliott, Fred Ilumhright, associate tnana KTOR1AL , sports editor; Evelyn Lipscomb, feature edito nan. Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. editor; Joi k Killea, assistant sports cditois; Ixiverne llughc ; Catherine Turner, sorority editor; Dorothv ltun y editors; Claude Starr Wright, and Amelia 1>< >IN ESS J. C. Gregory, It. M. llrown, C. W. ltuss, Fr [NG FOR: ng Alumni, Faculty and Students, ic only way by which student activitu :ered and administered. ARCII 9, l<m A DARK SECRET E The University authorities refuse ii release the names of those students \vl J arc receiving CVVA aid. Previously ? had been announced that the list wou _ be published. There was no reason giv< 1 for this reversal of policy. 1 What is there to hide and what is tl 1 reason for this refusal? Can any stude be afraid of it being known that lie h; ,j gotten an honest job? We cannot b e feel that the students would like to lie; the answers to these questions. We lea' y the authorities to answer them. J 1 he reason for publishing the list :1 perfectly obvious. The faculty conunitti t has made a splendid job of filing the a] s pointments but in any job of this kit r it is almost impossible for members < ? the faculty to know all the facts aboi _ every student. In plain language it - more than possible that the name of moi s than one "chiseller" may have gotten c yr the list. Financial inability has be< s fained more than once before as tho t who remember the days when free tuitic yr was granted will recall. The studen s themselves know more than a little abo the financial abilities of their fellow sti u dents. Certainly they could give grc s aid in the weeding out of those who < ? not really need employment. Publicatic _ ?f the names of those who have been a _ pointed to jobs can do nothing but goo r It will help to weed out any undesirabl e that may have passed the inspection < a the committee and cause their jobs to given to those who r&lly need aid. If there arc none on the list that < d not need aid the publication of the li y will take away the suspicion that now c r ists that such umvorthics may have be< c let in. I f there arc those who do n n need aid on the list the publication w (1 help to weed them out. it ? xt. m. o. c QUAGMIRE i_ Anybody who has walked from t 3 main campus to Davis College on a rail day has had his spirits dampened and 1 _ shoes almost ruined by the red quagmi } that serves him as a path. On clear da this path is good enough, being made < the best South Carolina clay. Iiut ( c those rainy days, it is a true slough n despondency, a sticky quagmire, abomination, and a useless one. It is small matter, but a festering one. s Without much trouble it could be alx , ished, now that the University has plen t of men and materials to make necessa repairs. PWA funds are repairing buil ings, seeding lawns, and putting in sid s walks. Why not include this Path? is certainly important, as far as studcr tl are concerned, and is used much mo r than the sidewalks along Sumter Stre ' These walks were put in by the PWA h ^ the walks that all students and professo y l,se have been allowed to remain in ? highly uncomplimentary condition. It not too late to act, the expense wou be comparatively small, and the benef incommensurably great. O. (. o. e ship is rather restricted, and I think I leave it so." Our search for religion ended, we'll j ? back to compulsory Chapel, because > i have to, and we'll get that sham religii rj which is really a mere administrative e y ercise, and we will have to admit tli a religion on the campus of the Universi s of South Carolina is dead. >- The students are intelligent enough r realize that some sort of regular meetii f is necessary if the student body is to o kept a unit. They also realize that su gathering is the only way to keep in co r tact with the faculty, with the preside) r with the Dean whom everybody likes d see and hear. But they do have a jt c complaint. They object to having r d lig:on forced on them as an excuse f e getting them together. In short, they o jeet to their religion being made a sha mmrmmrnrnm THE SPORTS SITUATIC Battling against overwhelming < the fate of the Carolina man wisl _ do his bit for his school in athletii pecially is this true of men not qui to make the varsity teams. Because a handful of varsity baseball, and basketball players ar< _ the field house lockers and showt intra-mural teams arc forced to d the gymnasium. Leaving there, th ? the risk of sickness by going to tl house in their uniforms, and ret hot and sweaty, after the game, meantime, any valuables they ma ... sess are left entirely unprotected. >r This is unjust for a number of r< ^ There is no precept or maxim that varsity man on a pedestal. Ilie she " no more privileged than the men in mural sports. Certainly the varsil ? are in the minority. Eighteen rt r; for Coach Norman's basketball tea fall. Candidates for intra-mural I a- ball numbered three hundred anc And surely the three hundred odd ; ? more representative of the Univer e?l South Carolina and the Palmetto _ than the varsity five. Again, the Athletic Association right to monopolize the field hou -S varsity teams. It is the right of ; __ dents of the University to use an; versity equipment in their athleti ~ suits, varsity or intra-mural. Th varsity man has spent not a cent I to the upkeep and maintenance of tin tition than have the teams so ca coddled by the Athletic Associatioi Shower and locker rooms arc no crowded. Rather they echo hollo in the footsteps of the eighteen basl and the' handful of baseball and i candidates. Each varsity man locker. There is ample bench and lit room for the intra-mural men and as ers for all. ut Authorities and students can *r have shut their eyes to the rapid , ^e of intra-mural sports on the c Each year sees greater enthusias js more candidates for the teams. ec and more the student body has p. from semi-professional footbali Kj basketball exhibitions to the trul legiate amateur competition offei ut the intra-mural sports program, is Backed by the might of one thir re enrollment of the student body a >n fitfht of the hard cash they have pa ?ii the coffers of the Athletic Assoi sc intra-mural men may well demand )n deal. The Gamccock has faith ts Athletic Association. Surely they ut sportsmen enough to give the intra u. men a fair showing and their jus at in the use of University Athletic lo ment. )n xj. m. o. p. TRAINING THE RULEI I(j A school of public affairs, ma es possible for students to get firs sf contacts with the processes of j ')C ment has recently been installed by ican University in Washington. , The plan is indeed a wise one a ISl x_ that has potentially the power t< en sounder and more efficient sys ot government. Our government has for a Ion been cluttered with amateurs. indeed has a politically trained mr he thrust into the machinery of govei ny Only recently a professor on 01 us campus remarked that one of the j rc ,g troubles of our modern governr Qf the failure to understand the an dependence of economic and diti< tors. n This situation should b nmca helped by the School of t ^olic j_ it is a definite step toward cd in politics. ry In his recent address in Was (j_ 011 behalf of the American Unr |c_ David Lawrence, expert p It writer, said, concerning the its school: re "Above all we believe that frc et. group of progessively trained you ut and women students the Governmei rs may some day draft the aides a will inevitably seek as problems is ministration grow increasingly im ild to the successful operation of ne its and public undertakings." T7. m. o. _ Joe Miot Elected ? Head Of Caroli ' (OONTINUKD FROM PAOE ONI ve The new issue of The Carolim f>n be distributed Wednesday, accor< x- the editor Joe Miot. iat Subscribers will be mailed theii ty and only a limited number will be on sale. to Anyone desiring to subscribe ng so by getting in touch with Joi be Frank Haskell, or James Walsl ch price of a subscription for the n- the semester is only fifty cents. to John D. Rockefeller's grands 1st quit Yale to become a Stands e- tfuck driver, so probably in ti or company will have a presider b- will have risen from the ranks m. Columbus Citizen. \ ??pw??P? ? ??????? )N f? ItCarolina cs. Es- rwi I te able jf O-QCiy track 4 . ' (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) , ; using :rs, all deplorable state of affairs. After J rcss in weeks of slaving a cast has to play . cy run to a house that really yawns with le field emptiness. However, we think we ^ urning have the solution. After looking ' In the at the large number of people emy pos- ployed backstage to put every- 5 thing in readiness for the show, ( easons. we feel sure that while the per- 4 sets a formance is going on they must )uld be surely clutter up the backstage tntra- terribly. Why not fill the audiy men torium with a large and especially iportcd enthusiastic audience composed of ini this stage hands? basket 1 fifty. Sings of Spring . ire far When it was recently announced ( sity of that the second issue of The Carolina ( ? State Notebook was going to press, many suprising things were unearthed. A lias no few worthy souls have in the past ise for broken out into poetry, but there < ill stu- number was few. But when this is- : y Uni- sue's copy was looked over before c pur- making up the magazine the follow- ) e noil- ing literary gem was unearthed. We , ess for are not allowed to divulge the name . 5 insti- of the author, but you would never , refully suspect him of being a poet....even ( l. after reading his effusion. Here it is t over- (the foot-notes are the author's): wly to Poem About Robins What cetcers, Come in the Spring I track Spring is here, and now the Robing has a Over the campus comes a-bobbing. ( hanger show- His coat is blue, this pretty* herd And oft his pretty** song is herd, hardly , growth Now for winter shed a tear ampus. For the pretty* spring is hear. " in and More *Very poetic. turned **Highly poetic. I and ly col- Miot, The Literary Light < Sometime in the near future i The Carolinian, much discussed, 1 d male cussed and praised magazine of 1 nd the an(j humor will make its ap- < nd into pearance on the campus. This 1 ciation, new jssue cf journal or is it i a new periodical, will be unique in that ' 111 lt s its new editor is the first member ' will be of the school of engineering ever 1 i-mural to such a position. Illiteracy t s lare gouth Carolina is decidedly on equip- decrease. This pioneer is none 1 other than the redoubtable Joseph ' Davis Miot, who started his creaking it t've career as a j?ke clipper and t hand reviser when the writer of this column had something to do with govern- t^e Carolinian. So adept was Mr. Amcr- Miot in slightly revising jokes from other magazines, just a md one slight change so that they may be d build labeled original, that he rose rapidly from the ranks until totem o day he sees his name upon the masthead of The Carolinian. ig time tr. s. o Rarely Tri Delta Leads In .?been Scholastic Average rnmcnt. . (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) ir own greatest ^11 Non-Fraternity and Nonnent is Sorority Average 2.90 inter- A" Fraternity (Men) Average 2.94 :al fac- KaPP? Sigma (F) 2.94 Phi Kappa Sigma (F) 2.94 surably Sigma Chi (F) 2.94 affairs; 12, Dc,ta Zeta (s) 2.95 ucation Phi Reta Dcl,a (F) 2.95 All Men's Average 3.05 hington 13. Mn Mu Mu (L) (F) 3.06 yersity, Phi Pi Phi (F) 3.06 olitical Phi Sigma Kappa (F) 3.06 new 14 Alpha Tau Omega (F) 3.09 All Non-Fraternity (Men) >m this Average 3 11 ng men b it itself Kappa Alpha (F) 3.21 that it 15. Sigma Phi Epsilon (F) 3.33 of ad- 16. Pi Kappa Phi (F) 3.34 iportant (p) means Fraternity. (S) means SoW ItlWS . rority. (L) means Ix>cal. Summary Academic Average 2.86 nJan Fraternity and Sorority Average 2.81 Fraternity Average 2.94 M Sorority Average 2.61 Ian will Non-Fraternity Average 3.11 cling to Non-Sorority Average 2.40 Non-Fraternity and Non-Sorority * copies . : placed Avcra?e - ? 2-?> can (lo Brown Chooses Topics c Miot, For Vesper Service i. The rest Of (CONTINUED FROM PAQB ONE) Albert Sidney Johnson, president-elect of the Y, will preside. Fred Ellis will ofon has fer prayer, and Doug Dudley will read ird Oil the scripture. me the Students and Columbians are cordially it who invited to attend the services, which are ' ?The conducted by University students each Sunday evening in the Chapel. University Debaters "I Win From Wofford . (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) lere; March 20, Charleston here; March 16, Richmond at Richmond; March 27, Wl Wake Forest there; March 28, N. C. ^>< State there; March 28, Bucknell here. April 3, Alabama here; April 9, Ga. rcch. here; April 11, Richmond here; in Vpril 11, Emory there; March 20, Mercer lere. w The four members of the affirmative "i iide arc new to the squad but the negative sc lebaters range between 2 to 4 years in c> jxperiencc. h; u. B. o. w Baker Places Ban On d( University Cafeteria tc (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) 111 p :afeteria has advertised in local papers nul has sponsored several radio programs sj and it is claimed that numbers of people 'c( outside the University have been eating there. C( The other reason assigned for the new jj ruling was the competition furnished by ca the cafeteria to the University Steward's a liall. The Stewards hall has been suffer- Cl ing from the small number of students aj eating there and the move, it is felt by jj, University authorities, will help the hall j.j to continue its service. It is alleged that i large number of students have been j)( drawn from the Steward's hall to the p| :afeteria. Distinguished List Announced By Chase u (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) SJ [jeorge Trenholm Daniel, Cooper; Lin- sa lell Eugene Davis, Columbia; Eleanor A. j1; R. Dew, Latta; James Franklin Drchcr, C( Lexington; Watson Boone Duncan, Co- ^ lumbia; Dora Lena Dunlap, Columbia; a, John Ingram Fishburne, Columbia; r( Susan Reynolds Forbes, Columbia; Mary aj Durisoe Ford, Columbia; Kelley Gilles- C( pie, Columbia; George Lucretia Goodwin, New Brookland; Edward Dewey ^ Griffith, Orangeburg; Francis Frederick _ Liriffiths, Oceanside, N. Y.; Clinton Bcrlard Harvey, Greer; Sallie Coles Ilcyward, Columbia; Roberta Lee Hudson, 111 Denmark; Margaret Allelic Huggins, ^ Columbia; William James Humphries, Columbia; Joseph Logan Irvin, Americus, Ga.; Albert Sidney Johnson, North ; Sarah Allen Johnston, St. George; Curtis Charles Jones, Columbia; Landon Cald- ^ well Jones, Jr., Columbia; Duncan Mc- w Rae Lang, Camden; Sam E. Litman, Co- h lumbia; Julian Turner Lyman, Colum- h bia; Willie Gertrude McDonald, Columbia; Sara Alyne McNeil, Waterloo; Sue ? Holcomb Moss, Fort Valley, Ga.; Mary P Estelle Murray, I larleyville; Sol Neidich, tl Beaufort; James Luther Obenschain, ai Lexington; Miriam Francina Parrott, Columbia; Nellie Simpson Pearce, Rich- J burg; Sara Pearjstine, Olar; Elsie Claire c Prince, Easley; Motie Lea Purvis, Co- v, lumbia; Jane DnBose Register, Orange- if burg; Ceceile Richman, Beaufort; Ruth f( Sanders, Columbia; Patience Bonham n Sliaiul, Columbia; Earle Lewis Smith, f Anderson; William Oglesby Sweeny, Jr., Columbia; Betty Sylvan, Columbia; p Sarah Adele Taylor, Gaffney; Sarah j Emma Tinsley, Chester; George William Tomlin, Jr., Collindalc, Pa.; Lois Helen j. Turnbull, Graniteville; Bessie Vigodsky, Westminster; Charles Otis Warren, Columbia ; Emma Eleanor Watson, Columbia, and Mycr Robert Wolfson, Gaff- w ney. a "Dad" EUiott Will ! Speak Here Soon " (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) O student days he played end 011 the football team at Northwestern University at which time he was selected as an all con- ^ ference end. He was captain of the _ track team, president of the Y. M. C. A. and took a prominent part in other activities on his college campus. At the end of his junior year lie was elected Deru, the senior honorary society, in recognition for the services to his Alma Mater. In 1903 he become the Executive secretary for the Middle Western division of the Y. M. C. A. and while in this position promoted and built the Geneva Bay conference ground, which corresponds to our own Blue Ridge in the South. During the War "Dad" headed up the work in the S. A. T. C., the training work for students in the war. He served in Camp Dodge, Grant, and many of the other camps in the middle West. During the last few years he has given most of his time to developing the "Religious Emphasis" series in the colleges of the country, having spoken to more college students and on more college campuses with better results than almost any other man in this type of work at the present time. When Dad goes to a campus they always want to see him come back. Dad was at the University for a similar series in 1928. It is a distinct tribute to his personality that every student who heard him on his former visit remembers him distinctly and is anxious to hear him again. During his last visit, student groups had him spend all his time talking to fraternities, tenement groups, etc., Saltwater" Delights Appreciative Audience By Philip C. Sabbagha A small but appreciative audience itnessed the latest production of the ilmetto Players, "Saltwater," written ' John Golden of New York, last uesday and Wednesday a week ago, Drayton Hall. The cast made up of mostly players ho appeared for the first time on ' c University stage, acquitted them- ' Ives well considering their lack of cperience and the fact that they were itidling a keen Golden play that as full of laughter, situations which mianded careful execution in order produce comedy. Bill Glenn, as Jack Horner, first late of Betty Jane Savacool, as ansy Horner, whose one aim was to j c a Captain of a big ocean going lip, and around whose ambition the ! Dinedy centered, executed his role in ich manner as to receive special mimendation from many in the auence in view of the fact that his role tiled for more, acting, more lines, and burden of carrying the plot. Glenn ime up well in various parts, notice)ly confusing only one important ne that the audience soon forgot, [c appeared weak in the first act of ic play, hut gradually gained his real ' Dsition and contributed much to the lay. John May, as a salty sailor, played bout the only really convincing role i the play. He seemed more real lan the others. May was the only layer really acting. The audience relonded to his acting. He was a tilor, and although he did not exactly ave a true sailor's vocabulary, which :>uld hardly be expected from Mr. ray, he made one realize his sailor's ctions. This was Mr. May's first )lc as an actor. He doubted his own )ility at first but showed what he mid truly do with the part. Next in appeal to the audience, was ctavius Amato, as Nick Dominick, :alian boat owner, whose ship Horcr was trying to buy. Amato pleased lany in the audience with his charactrization of his role, as crafty-looking alian, unfamiliar with legal contract liraseology. His role offered many opportunities ) bring laughter from the audience, hey occurred rather often but there rere opportunities for more. However, e appealed to the audience watching ini and that was his success. Betty Horton as the nagging sister f John Horner, proved effective. She layed her part well, it was not one lat would receive special attention nd sympathy from the audience. Betty Jane Savacool, the wife of ohn Horner knew her lines but she ould have added a great deal toward appealing to the audience more she had used her voice more efictively, changing its tone when ceded, and otherwise getting away roni some pitch throughout. The other minor players, Dr. Bonn, lasil Whitener, Bruce Littlejohn, Elizabeth Thomas, John Rodgers, all dded toward making the play dcightful and each seemed to play his r her part effectively. It must be noted that this is written nth the understanding that a very mateur cast presented the show and s such it is reviewed. it. m. a. without any suggestions for such confernces from the Y offices. He will be pen for a few such conferences while ere 011 this visit. Following arc sonic comments by those 'ho heard him on his last visit. (Continued on Page 5; Column 1) NewJP^ WViteTTways -Filled by Vacuum ' Holds 102 % more Ink* No increase in size "Vacuum Filling"?an utterly naw Idea la fountain pens?haa }uit born perfected by Parker. 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