Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Four Universil Seek Va< To Replace Townsend Bellinger, Moorman, Fowles, And Whaley Will Meet Assembly In January The natnes of four University alumni will be presented to the General AsIsembly when it meets in January a$ candidates for the circuit judgeship left open since the death of Judge W. H. Townsend, last summer. They are: G. Duncan Bellinger, probate judge; Robert Moorman, %Sr.; James H. Fowles, clerk of the Senate; Judge M. S. Whaley, judge of the Richland county court, all of Columbia. Bellinger is a graduate of the Uni\ versity law school and of the Clem son academic school. He has served continuously as probate judge for Richland county since the year after I he graduated from the University in 1011. Mr. Moorman was graduated in law from the University in 1893. For sev' eral years he was associated with R. W. Shand and later with Andrew j Crawford and Jacob S. Muller. His only venture into politics was in 1900 when he was elected city magistrate, which office he filled for six years, resigning. He was appointed special referee in the $425,000 suit brought by the South[ em railway against the state tax commission and has served in the same capacity in other similar cases. In / March, 1920, he was named referee in bankruptcy for six counties of this [ vicinity. Mr. Moorman served for ten years without pay on the state board of public welfare. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the g Columbia hospital and the Church g Home orphanage at York. During the ?? World war he was chairman of the exemption board for Richland. He is J president of the Homestead bank, o Mr. Fowles is clerk of the Senate. ? He was graduated in law from the 2 University in 1904. He was city mag3 istratc for several years and for a j short time the next year served by j appointment as solicitor for the Fifth . Judicial circuit. As receiver of the Columbia Savings Bank and Trust company, he paid to depositors 80 per cent, within 18 months. Mr. 1"owles was assistant clerk of the Senate from 1917 to 1925 when he was elected clerk, having been reelected continuously since. Judge Whaley is a gradute of the University of the South, and of the University of South Carolina law school. In 1917, when the Richland county court was established, he was made its first judge and has served continuously in that capacity ever since. He was defeated for reelection in the primaries during the primaries in August. N. I. P. A. Offers New Scholarship Students at the University who have made a special study of political science and related subjects will be eligible for a course of advance study of the subject under a scholarship being offered by the National Institute of Public Affairs. Juniors, seniors, graduate students, and recent students arc eligible. Successful applicants will go to Washington February 4 for a two months course of study under experts who are. thoroughly familiar with the workings of the government. Training will be in the form of a laboratory of political science, based on the apprentice system. The committee in charge of selecting the University's applicant is composed of Dr. S. M. Derrick, Prof. J. Rion McKissick, and Dr. R. H. Wicncfeld. From the candidates submitted by the various colleges the successful ones will be selected on a competitive basis, allocated according to the distribution of student population. The national institution, according to an announcement received by Doctor Baker, is a non-partisan, nonpolitical, privately-financed and selfgoverning organization enjoying the co-operation of the federal government in its study program. Exhibition of Prints Held At Drayton Hall ^ A collection of prints made by the Cleveland priijt-makers will be on exhibition at Drayton hall until October under the sponsorship of the South Carolina Artists' Association. Paintings done last year by artists working for the P. W. A. will be shown for the first time beginning with "cxt week, also at Drayton hall. The association plans to hold various exhibitions throughout the year. ===*===! ?a ty Alumni pant Judgeship Spruil Has fine Record Won Rhodes Scholarship New Law Professor Graduated From University of N. C. In Three Years > Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford, are some of the features in the interesting scholastic biography of Prof. James A. Spruil, newly appointed professor of law, in the University's Law school, who replaced Prof. Carlisle Roberts, out oti leave of absence this fall. Professor Spruil began his career, entering the University of North Carolina in 1925. He graduated from the University of Chapel Hill, in three years, without going to summer school. It was while he was in there that he was honored with election to Phi Beta Kappa. Leaving the University of North Carolina, Professor Spruil came to the University, here, in the fall of 1928, remaining here for two years during which time he won the Rhodes Scholarship. During his two years at the University he was enrolled in the law school. While here during this time he was general committee clerk in the South Carolina Senate, and also did some work toward obtaining an M. A. After Oxford, Professor Spruil returned to the University and completed his senior year in law, thus having obtained an A. B. at the University of North Carolina, an A. B. at Oxford, and an L. L. B. at the University here. While at the University of North Carolina, Professor Spruil was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa and was a member of Thcta Chi fraternity. He is also a member of Sigma Upsilon, literary fraternity, and was a former member of the old Chanticleer club of the University. Professor Spruil is the son of former Senator J. A. Spruil of Chesterfield county, who was a prominent member of the committee on education. Professor Spruil who comes from Chcraw, is the grefat grandson of Judge Josiah J. EvVns whose pitcure hangs in the western end of the library and which reveals a striking resemblance to the law professor. Historic Society Stand Removed From Hall The historic stand of the Clariosophic society disappeared last summer and members of the society are now trying to locate it. This stand I I /Roti cut to St and t Alumnus Is On Campus Returns Between Trip After Extensive Tour Of Lati: America, Visits Campus To Write Results of Work Robert Wauchope, '31, son of D George A. Wauchope, has /cturned t the campus after spending seve months in archaeological research i Guatemala and Yucatan. Two years ago while studying fc his M. A. in anthropology at Harvar University, he was granted a leave < absence and went on a Carnegie Ii stitute expedition to Central Amcric to do general excavating with a grou of other archaelogists. After receiving his Harvard degrt he was sent to Guatemala and Yuc; tan to work alone. On this last assigi ment, which was also financed by tli Carnegie Institute, he made a.specii study of modern house types A< cording to Wauchope the theory that modern Guatcnialatecons, the customs, and language have change little since the days of the Maya civi ization. Consequently, by studyir modern types, lie hopes to be enable to better interpret future Mayan di covcries. At the present time Wauchope pausing between expeditions Ion enough to write an extensive and con prehensive report for the research i. stitute. U. fl. O. has been used by the society in coi nection with its initiation rites for century and a quarter and the men bcrs therefore, are, extremely anxioi to recover this valuable relic. Twent seven new men are to be taken i next Tuesday night and the* stand needed for the initiation service. Any one knowing the whereabou will please get in touch with Harp Welborn or Julian Bradsher. I ^^YOXJR STORES || 1 I THE CANTEEN ||| |i i Sandwlohee, Cold Drlnke, Toilet ArtlolM, College jp ? | J,"'iry rM |:|j UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE ( 1 \ I'll Th# Boo't Store f fig CAROLINA PRESSING For fine dry cleaning j White It, / ?the ben / forsmo / in apipe Jlt'lfe ? Jf; 'gh Cut j) the right way / nokc cool f ast longer f the pipe tobtu the pipe tobacc ggg=g=g^?? I . I ? Galloway To 1 Head Alumni N s Heads Wash. Chapter i n Carolina Graduates In Capital City Hold Meeting On October 1 r The Washington chapter of the Uni- ^ o versity of Soutli Carolina Alumni association selected Charles M. Galloway, of the legal staff of the conipn trollcr general, as its new president according to recent news dispatches, of >r Octobcr 2. Galloway was elected at a meeting in Washington, October 1. >f Other officers arc: Charles Jackx_ son, deputy commissioner of fisheries, first vice-president; Dr. John R. Pate, of George Washington University's P medical faculty, second vice-president; James H. Galloway, of the AAA, :e treasurer, and I). Whitney, of the i- publicity staff of the AAA, secretary. The chapter will hold another meetj 'nK October 22 to make plans for entertaining the South Carolina football . team when it visits Washington in route to the Villa Nova game, Noveni,r ber 10. d l- nBHnHHHMnnmnH ig :d ' BELK'S "1| - MEN'S STORE ai in is Captaii ts Students Slacks cr Double Pleated Front ALL WOOL $2.95 $3.95 and $4.95 Sweaters All Wool in all Styles Zipper?Button, or Pull Overs $1.95 and up BELK'S, SOUTJ3 Mbfc#? y jw mi WMH WfrTrnraBffifl , tetegagH ?keeps t hand/1 ~co that's MILD fiolin Recitals Given By Madam d'Horvat Seven violin recitals were given fadam Felice d'Horvath this p; utnnier in Philadelphia, Wilniingti )el., and Maryland. They were lie form of lecture-recitals, and wi iven at various musical and liters lubs. Madam d'Horvath is head of t 'niversity Violin department. yfir?he Quick of/nformatio fifWebster'! 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