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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor Published Friday of every week during the college year by the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. C. November 20. 1908 Member of South Carolina College Press Association and National College Press Association Subscription Rate?$2.00 per College year. Circulation?2150 Advertising rates furnished upon Request Offices in the basement of Extension Building Phone 8123?Extension 11 executive BOARD Lemuel L. Gregory - Editoi Thomas T. Moore - Business Matiagct Philip C. Sabbagua - Managing Editoi Leon Pickens - - - Circulation Managei associates John C. Payne, Frank II. Haskell, Mary Ford, Josephine Griffin, Faitl Brewer, Edward Chaffin, and J. A. liighani, associate editors; Marl Dowtin, Miles Elliott, Fred Hambright, associate managing editors. REPORTORIAL Pinckney Walker, news editor; Elmore Martin, sports editor; Evelyt Lipscomb, feature editor; Atherton Whaley, fraternity editor; Ellei Freeman, y. M. C. A. and y. W. C. A. editor; Joan Cfonard, alumn editor; Howard Cooper and Jack Killca, assistant sports editors; Laverni Hughes, co-ed editor; Miriam Lander, co-ed news editor; Catherine Turner, sorority editor; Dorothy Dunavant, and Bennic Greye Lewis, assistant sorority editors; Claude Starr Wright, and Amelia Deschamps, assistants, business Douglas Fickling, assistant business manager; J. C. Gregory, R. M. Brown, C. W. Russ, Fred Ellis, assistant circulation managers. CROWING FOR: A Better Carolina Spirit?Among Alumni, Faculty and Students. Student Activity Building?This is the only way by which student activities can be properly centered and administered FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934 To The High School Seniors Of South Carolina You students of South Carolina's high schools are approaching a crisis. For the past three years you have been pursuing advanced study in the security of your home, you have participated in the lives of friends you have known from childhood. You have had little to worry about, and the farthest you have had to look has been no farther away than the end of your high school careers. You knew, most of you, that your parents would see that your further education would be provided for, and that there were colleges and a university in your state which are supported by your state government for the one purpose of making you useful citizens. That makes the next four years seem secure enough, doesn't it? Well, the next four years of your lives, if you are graduating from high school this year, will be the most important period you have ever spent. They determine to a large extent the trend of life you will have to follow when you are cast upon the world and left to yourselves and your attainments. After college you will be your own maker, and the result of your workmanship will mirror the wisdom of the choice that you must make now. That is why you are facing a crisis, students. That is why you must go into the matter of selecting a college with both eyes wide and your brain atingle. The question is not to find a painless way of spending the next four years, but to find a secure way of living the next fifty years! Perhaps you think the only way to find it is to study hard while you are in college. That, of course, is partly true, but only partly. If it were the whole truth, then the University of South Carolina might perhaps find some rival in the state. You can study anywhere, and even the dryest of professors can din dull facts into the ears of attentive students. But here you find scholarship alive, animated by healthy companionship with the activities of a hustling civilization. Four years in the University of South Carolina is the best possible orientation course for active life. The University is located in the heart of Columbia, and Columbia is in the heart of South Carolina. From the University go the traditions that constitute South Carolina; and from South Carolina radiates the spirit of the South. The nerve center of South Carolina, where the pulsations are felt at their beginning; the state capitol, the large newspapers, the business houses; all tend to help the young man find his place in the world. The University is the Melting Pot of South Carolina. To it come boys from the farm and boys from the cities, from the low country and from the back country; and from it go men imbued with the spirit of toleration, broad vision, and gentle manners. Local prejudices are forgotten, and even the pet grievances of South Carolina seem less harsh when discussed with students from other states and even from foreign countries. You leave here feeling that you are at home in any society, able because of the presence of co-eds at Carolina to deal easily with that fearsome beauty?the Southern lady. You will have seen all types of men and women in action, and therefore will be able to look behind their words and faces and understand better your relation to them. South Carolina is a proud state. This is nowhere better illustrated than by the way in which . Sophomoric Erudition 1 Maybe we sophomores aren't faintly pink - around the gills now! Everyone admits, however, that the examina- lo tion on general culture which the sophomore class had to undergo Saturday was a terror even rt - for an examination and even for a sophomore, m We have yet to see a single sufferer who finished p< it, or one who had the faintest idea that he had - passed. ol And, whisper, it is even said that a certain ? English professor who took it didn't make such a flatteringly high mark. Another professor, this time in one of the scientific schools, declared that if sophomores could pass it, they were bet- oI [ ter than the faculty. pa All this is just to lead up to the point, which < is that The Gamecock is sponsoring a shelf of st books on general cultural subjects, which have st , been selected by an expert and set aside in the G ? Reserve Room in the library. 31 So, you sophomores, don't be discouraged. It's ?f never too late to go highbrow on freshmen and th senior law students! of o. b. o. lit Swan Song T<, It is now one minute past 12 o'clock. St , The vestige of what was once a hardy staff? m say at 8 o'clock?is sprawled around over-turned c,< chairs and battered desks. The floor is littered Co with papers stricken into sad heaps by scram- cn bling feet. The atmosphere is laden with cigar- Sc ette smoke, and through it floats a babble of Cf voices, raised stridently in query, weak and dis- ^ gruntled at the stubbornness of headlines that pr refuse to fit. P, The Managing Editor droops dolefully, his last w| dreams of having a really good front page, al- co ready pigeon-holed. ca In just one hour the last Gamecock for this B semester will be put to bed. ^ For some of us it will be the last issue. We tremble as we think of going out into the more sedate bustle of real life. 3,1 Note, gentle reader, the pathos. If our nu strength were not already spent, we should weep. j*n And now if you will go back 17 lines, you will tin find the caption over this stuff. Swan Song, ist The end. The closing of a book, or a door or a ch life. Like a bottle from which the last nip has been coaxed. In( Swan Song. G' by'. ? m, A Curious Reporter Theodore Dreiser, described by Llewelyn co Powys, as a writer of extreme curiosity recounts an in the May issue of Esquire, an incident paradox- ,1C ically opposed to this trait. Dreiser, who during the early nineties as a S reporter on the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, had been sent by his city editor, Mathewson, to get complete details on a train wreck in which an engineer had been killed. Dreiser went first to ta the home of the trainman's widow, inadvertently ' saw her standing over the coffin, crushing the dead man's clothes to her body and sobbing vi- an olently. Without a word he went back to the pi; office, wrote a short paragraph on what he had 1,1 seen?no more. - 1,1 50 U. 8. O. Choosing A Course Every year one-third of the matriculates at th the University have not the least idea of what fr they intend following as a life work. The fac- qi, ulty advises such students to register in the vi. School of Arts and Sciences. Then, under the capable leadership of Mr. R. G. Bell, the Per- !h sonnel Bureau considers the case of each stu- !ts dent individually, and in a private interview ad- ()i vises him as to which studies to pursue. wl This service is free. The only recompence the m Personnel Bureau gets is the satisfaction of shaping advantageously the work of the Uni- Li versity students. ar TJ. 8. O. ? the professors of its University have devoted w? their whole lives to training young men and vil women to be fine citizens of their state. The University's professors are as good as can be ' found anywhere. In several departments there are men who are recognized all over the country ? as leaders in their field. South Carolina is not 4 a wealthy state, cannot hope to pay those men I as much as their service is worth. But they do i> not ask for high salaries. All they want is the $ : opportunity of contributing to the culture and | intelligence of the state of which they are proud. There are few institutions in the entire country that inspire such self-sacrificing loyalty in their professors! We invite you to come to the University this fall, believing that you will find here a tradition of rich achevements unsurpassed in the state or in the nation, and believing also that you will find a broad and tolerant comradship that will !! aid you in building an inner temple from steel i; that will not crumble. |I The University will gladly welcome you as |I i a member of its student body. !; V-I 11 May Queen Coronation Is Held Tuesday Night (CONTINUED FIIOM PAOE ONE) isa Ferguson, Margaret Stevenson, and Harriet Lever, in blue; Eulee Lide, Sallie Bailey, Aileen Morton, Mary Smith, Jitninie Lou Bishop, and Eleanor Woodcock, lavender; and Mary Wright Shand, The maid of honor, Cornelia Jackson, Sumter, wore a dress of poppy-colorcd chiffon. The May Queen, Margaret Usscry, wore white, with a pink train. Other attendants in the court were the following: Heralds, Kellsey Foster and Stephen Taber, Jr.; flower girls, Helen Carr and Cary Bryan; atid train bearers, Sidney Cave Gaines and DuFaye Barber. After the queen had been crowned, a trio of dancers from the Marion Dean studios gave a program of toe and interpretative dancing. They were Mignon and Shirley Brown and Sylvia Stern. Buster Spann and his Gamecock Orchestra played for the coronation exercises. U. 8. C. Information Given On Next Fall Registration (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) New students will report on September 17 at the University chapel, at 5 p. m., for the beginning of "Freshman Week." At that time they will receive instructions outlining the program for Tuesday and Wednesday, when conferences with professors and deans of the various schools will be arranged. Thursday and Friday the new students will register and the first classes of the semester will be held on Saturday, September 22. ?IT. B. c.? Intelligence Test Given Sophomores Saturday (3K0 aovd HOH.J aaflNIXNOO) Lasting for hours, these tests are designed to aid the students accumulation of insight and information to throw light on educational outcomes so that better guidance for further study may be possible. In order to supply statistical data needed by the Cooperative Test Service, 1933 forms were given to one-half of the sophomore class and 1934 forms to the remainder. The comparability of the two issues of the test will be determined from the respective forms issued in this manner. 1 he University Personnel Bureau will prepare full reports for the benefit of both students and faculty advisers. Because of the appalling number of low grades on these examinations, which seem to indicate that few University students have a passing knowledge of subjects of general culture, the books which have been reserved for sophomore use are those dealing mainly with art, music and history and government. The following books have been suggested for rising sophomores as well as for those who stood the test and would prove of cultural value to any who will find time to read them. "Art Through the Ages," Helen Gardener; "Primer of Modern Art," Sheldon Cheney; "Modern French Painters," Jan Gordon; "Apples and Madonnas," Bulliet; "How Music Grew," Bauer and Peyser; "The Story of Music," Paul Bekker; "History of Greek Literature," Knight; "History of Roman Literature," Fowler. "History of German Literature," Robertson; "History of French Literature," Wright; "Classic Myths," Gayley; "Age of Fable," Bullfinch; "Ancient History," Breasted; "I history of Western Europe," J. II. Robinson; "Social and Cultural History of Modern Europe," C. J. Hayes; "The Rise of American Civilization,' C. and M. Beard; "History of England," G. M. Trcvelyan. PROFESSIONAL I CAREER Hundreds of college men and women h?T? found a pleasant and dignified career as optometrlcal eye specialists! The Penmjrlvanla State Collefte of Optometry. a class "A" school, offers a de1 tree course. KitensWe clinical facilities complete laboratories and equipment, wellknown faculty. Pennsylvania State College of Optometry Far eatalsg writ* Registrar. 0.x C, Spencer Aw. and Twelfth 8t., Philadelphia, Pa. ' * ' " * Have Your Next Banquet At THE ROSE MARY TEA ROOM 1128 Hampton Ave. Phone 3207 Catherine W. Oaillard?Hostess r CLEANING CO. 1608 Barnwell Street !; 3D, WE CAN CLEAN IT" a-inecock our Agents J; ilcCrady, Mayes In Second Race Monday (CONTINUED FROM PAOE ONE) wed by La Verne Hughs with 63 votes. [argarct Patrick, the third candidate, iceived 23 votes. The run-off election will he held next [outlay from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m. The )lls will be located at the sun dialThe officers to be elected will take Tice next September. Lcquaints Students In South Carolina Facts (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ina literature is studied in the Deirtment of English. The History Deirtmcnt offers a full year's study of ic social and political history of the ate. The physical resources of the ate arc studied in the Department of eology, and the social problems are talyzed in the Department of Socioljy In addition to these formal offerings, c University library has a vast store material dealing with South Caroua life in all of its phases. Here is i almost inexhaustible source of inrmation and opinion on the Palmetto ate?the state that South Carolinians ust know if they would be intelligent .izens. The University offers a special urse in South Carolina Citizenship ibracing Public Finance, Political ience, Economic Survey of South irolina, Public Hygiene, History of>uth Carolina, Literature of South irolina, Agencies and Institutions, oblems of Citizenship and Social oblems of South Carolina. Students lio satisfactorily complete these urses are awarded a special certifite in South Carolina Citizenship. IT. H. C. laker Lists Carolina Advantages In Message (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) d chancellors, 5 bishops and a large imber of noted clergymen, 25 who taincd the rank of general or admiral military and naval service, 50 distguished men of medicine, 44 journals, several hundred in education iniding 21 presidents of colleges, 72 ans and professors, 80 school supertendents, and 3 state superintendents education, and in late years, in reonse to the special needs of the age, any notable leaders in engineering d industry. The University invites you to bemc a member of this noble family id aspire to maintain its traditions of mor and service. L. T. BAKER, President. tadium Steel Work Is Nearing Completion (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) kc place next fall at the Carolina, M. I. game and elaborate ceremonies e being planned. An interesting feature of the new steel id concrete structure is that it is so ;iced that the 'sun will never be in e eyes of the players. At mid-season e sun will shine directly across the yard line. At the beginning and end the season it will shine diagonally ross the field from one 45 yard line to c other. A 40 foot road is being constructed otn the main road to the field and adelate parking facilities arc being proded. When completed the stadium will be e largest and most modern structure of ; kind in the State and one of the best the entire South. It will replace the d wooden bowl at the fair grounds liich has been used in past years for ajor games. Architects for the new structure are :ifaye and Lafaye. Rowc and Sumwalt e engineers. SENIORS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, 10 plan to teach next year, are cordially In:ed to confer with SOUTHERN TEACHERS' AGENCY South Carolina National Bank Bulldlno COLUMBIA, S. C. RICHLAND | DRUG I 1304 MAIN ST. I COLUMBIA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. "EVERY OFFICE NEED" Offloe Furnltur?, Filing Cablnete, 8?fe? Printing and Rubber 8tampi 1112 Lady 8treet 'Phone SIM ?############^################### CAROLINA DRli Phone 8166 "IF IT CAN BE CLEAN] The Oanteen and G Personnel Bureau To Conduct Study Hall (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the progress of the students, especially 'If those needing cooperation and advice The Bureau will provide vocational $| and educational counsel without any expense to the student. The com- If mittee in charge consists of Prof. \y ? C. McCall, Dean Irene Elliott, prof R. L. Sumwalt, R. G. Bell, and Keri 1 shaw Walsh. Information Given To Registering Students (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) Sophomores may be obtained from "W the Dean of Women, Mrs. C. B. El. m liott. In conclusion, if you are interested 31 in attending the University next year do the following things: 1. Write to the Registrar for application blank and catalogue. 2. I-ill out application blank, take it to high school principal or super- 4 intendent for necessary information, M and have him send it in to the Regis- | trar. Do this as soon as possible after $ commencement. 3. If you are perplexed by any | application procedure, write to the Registrar for further information. 4. After notification that applica- M ti?n has been accepted, report at the 'w University chapel at 5 o'clock Mon- $ day, September 17. Write Mr. John A. Chase, Registrar, | for any information you wish. v| Y Is Impourtant In College Man's Life I, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) I ceivc the new men, as they come to jy the University campus this fall. The Y. M. C. A. plays an important part in the development of University students. It is of interest to note that among the former leaders of this organization are a number of men who | . are now judges, members of the legislature, lawyers, and doctors, who are now doing valuable service to the < state. Since 1919, 123 ministers, 11 $ missionaries, and 12 Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. secretaries have been educated at the University of South Carolina. Walsh And Littlejohn Win Debating Contest t (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to serve the present-day civilization. He furthermore said that a substantial amount of power should be taken from Congress and placed on the shoulders of the President. llyman Reuben, awarded second place in the debating contest, talked on the subject "Resolved: that the Kssential Features of the N. R. A. be adopted as a permanent policy of the United States government" * * je The judges for the contest were Wer- ^ ber Bryan, T. I). Lide, and Oliver Rice, members of the society. C. The Virgin Islands were bought by the United States front Denmark for $25,000,000. ill i/jBrw / jm shop for a sack less t! m Vil B MliJvl P*n . . . $5.00 and II31 lU B fFjUysl more. Other Conkm<3B B Vr#> 11ns $2.75, $3.50 and lAaff \ / rtore. Pencils $1.00 I K y ,/ up. Ask your dealer. \HR^7hc6onklin Pen Company ClhlMfo Toledo San FrancUco Pro red hj over 2 years of general public u?e. Conklki NOZAC ^ * ma.?.i. *at. . gAT! Si ACTIO C U A R. A NT BED I Sold At THE STATE BOOK STORE 1224 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA, S. C.