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(r* v v*- w ^PfPjfPlJ CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Blue Key _/-'W Fifteen Men Elects Three CM^^COC/fj Make ODK WiP^JT ? 1 UNIVERSITY OF J| SOUTH CAROLINA Volume XXVIII., No. 14 COLUMBIA, S. C.f FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 Founded 1908 BLUEKEYIN PEARLMAN A TRECEN', Henderson Also Elected Dr. Gordon Baker And R. E. Dennis Are Made Honorary Members Two students and two honorary members were initiated into the Blue Key Thursday night, February 7, at the Columbia Hotel, at which time the semi-annual banquet and initiation was held. Those being initiated were Gus Pearlman and Arthur Sams, students, and Dr. Gordon Baker and Senator R. E. Dennis, honorary. Gus Pearlman, Charleston, is a transfer student from the College of Charleston, at which institution he was president of a debating fraternity and second honor graduate. He is now president of the freshman law class at Carolina. Arthur Sams, Columbia, is a member of the social cabinet and a representative of Pan-Hellenic from his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi. He was also historian of that group last year. Dr. Gordon Baker, Florence, is a member of the state house of representatives and now a candidate for associate justice of the supreme court of South Carolina. R. E. Dennis, Bishopville, is a senator from Lee County. Dana Henderson, oiar Carolina basketball player, has been selected for membership into the organization, but due to his having to take part in a basketball game in North Carolina at the time of the initiation, he was unable to be present and initiated. The banquet was presided over by Jonnic Bowden, senior in the Carolina law school, who is president. Among the speakers of the evening were Dr. Charles Mercer and Dr. Em(Continued on Paga ; Column 1) Debaters Choose Affirmative Tearn. Several Trips Planned Bradsher, Simons, Foster And Stokes Win In Tryouts. Jordan Made Alternate Julian Bradsher, C. E. Simons, Richard Foster and Ray Stokes were selected as members of the University affirmative debate team Wednesday night, February i:$, in the Euphradian Literary society hall. Frank Jordan will be the alternate. The query was: Resolve that nations should agree to prevent international shipping of arms and ammunition. Eight prospective debators tried out for the team. Several extended trips have been planned. Teams expected to be here for debate are: University of Miami, WolTord Colloge, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia. University of Florida, Duke, University of North Carolina and the University of Oklahoma. The date for the selection of the girl's team has not been decided upon as yet, but will be announced at an early date. Seven Vacancies In ERA Filled Seven E.R.A. vacancies, occurring at the end of the first semester due to failure of various students to meet with Federal scholastic requirements for E.R.A. appointment, were recently filled, according to R. (?. Bell, executive secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. One hundred forty-nine students were reappointed to continue their work under the E.R.A. plan as applied to University students. The allotment from the Federal Government to Carolina's E.R.A. is $2,250.00 per month, the same as it was last semester. I'ailure to comply with required duties was not outlined as a cause for the vacancies. (Contlnuod on Page 5; Column 4) JTIATES B1 AND SAMS T CEREMONY * HIGH RATING MADE Co BY SIX STUDENTS McCall Gives Results ] Six New Students Rank In Upper Twenty Per Cent Of Entire < Freshman Class ? Names of six new students achieving < high ratings in the aptitude tests given t to this semester's matriculates Satur- i day, February 4 were given out this 1 week by Prof. W. C. McCall. These students rank in the upper ( twenty per cent of the freshman score j based on figures compiled from grades made the large number of September ' entrants. 'as H t The fi ve freshmen and one transfer , , hoi student rated at the top arc Lucy Car- SCI olina Cooper, Columbia; Pierre Fab- is ; ian LaBorde, Columbia; Melvin Lev- sor koff, Columbia; William C. Simpson, ^ Columbia; and a transfer, Mildred c'u Alice Ward, Columbia. Those making exceptionally high C' showings in the general scholastic ap- T *. titude tests are Lucy Carolina Cooper, ^ Sue Irwin Caughman, Lexington; | Thomas Mitchell Daniel, Columbia; ' J Pierre LaBorde, Melvin LevkofT, Albert Gallatine Martin, Columbia, and f Mildred Alice Ward. ?r pre Nine of those tested stand high in y English usage and vocabulary showings. They are Lucy Carolina Cooper, . Sue Caughman, Albert Martin, Pierre , LaBorde, Leonard Lanoway, Melvin LevkofT, Ernestine Love Malone, Monty Skiles and Mildred Ward. Only four stood out above the crowd on the French tests. They are JT Lucy Cooper, Orin Lang Hogan, Co- 1^ lumbia; William Simpson, and Mil- r dred Ward. J? On algebra, a course considered rather tough for freshman, seven of tjj those quizzed took first ranking. They are Lucy Cooper, John Benson Dominick, Columbia; Ida Lawton Graham, Columbia; Pierre LaBorde, Melvin 1 LevkofT, Charles William Murtiashaw, bee Columbia, and William Simpson. itie Knowledge of contemporary affairs ten was noticeably lacking, only one person showing up well in this phase of ,or the tests. He is Monty Skiles. New students arriving late will be u ' given the tests after registration period ?* 1 closes, according to Professor McCall. M>" ?u. ?. o.? urtl Five Make ^ "A" Average "u. Three seniors and two juniors are Col on the straight A list for the past \lil semester according to figures released A by John A. Chase, registrar of the Ga. University, this morning. Shepherd A. Black, of Columbia, a 44 senior in the School of Engineering; Robert I). Lambert, of Columbia, a junior in the School of Engineering; Sam.Litman, of Columbia, a junior in the School of Engineering; Nellie Simpson Pearce, of Richburg, a senior in the School of Education and George W. Tomlin, of Collindalc, Pa.. a senior in the School of Commerce, were the five making straight A's in nuM all their grades. , des Lens Being Resilvered and For Melton Observatory ^ The Melton Observatory will be are closed for several weeks for repairs. *'^IU The lens of the telescope arc being *'ns removed and sent to Cornell Univer- w'u sity, where they are to be resilvered. I>re: A new, more permanent process will be used on the lens. Under the old ori^ process of resilvcring, the lens had to ^,n be taken out and resilvered at regular *'ay intervals. The coating of silver will t,on be removed and the new process of con' chromium and aluminum will be ap- U plied. Eve Cornell is the only station in the azin eastern United States that is equipped the to do this type of lens plating. stoc l EAUX ARTS BALL 1 WILL BE DANCED FEBRUARY 27TH ralker To Be Hostess 1 nfederate Motif To Be Used; i Belle Of The Ball Will Be Selected A joint resolution to allow the Beaux Arts Club of the University < o use the State House for their ] innual ball, passed by the House i if Representatives and awaiting ; iction by the Senate, was with- < Irawn yesterday at the request of i officers of the club. It was stated :hat the withdrawal came as a re- ; suit of apposition by University ( mthorities. Following the with- i Irawal officers of the club said I hat arrangements had been made i x> have the ball at the Jefferson lotel where it was held last year. i I Miss Marion Walker was selected I t Tuesday night to act as "hostess" 1 the annual Beaux Arts Hall to be f d February 27. Miss Walker is a ; lior and is from Columbia. She ] a member of the Delta Delta Delta i oritv. , Recently elected members of the ; 1) arc Betty Carlisle, Beverley Jones, I na Crosland, Henry Martin and f ddy Johnson. I Vs hostess Miss Walker will assist c m Gregg McMaster, president of 1 club, in a grand march, and will j 0 stand in the receiving line. c ^t the meeting of the Beaux Arts c ib Tuesday plans were definitely t mulated for the ball and a tentative c gram approved. t Vs previously announced a Confed- ( tc motif will be used this year, c long the plans for entertainment is > Virginia Reel and the selection of Belle of the Ball from among the 1 Is present who are not members of s (Continued on Page 8; Column I) iUSH PERIOD HEDGING NE GHTEEN MEN PLEDGED AI NIGHT; FIVE GIRLS TAKE IN INF0RMA1 ?ightecn boys and five girls have n pledged by fraternities and soror- I s this semester. Pledging by franities took place at Sloan College 1 mday night at 7 o'clock. The in- 1 inal rushing of the sororities ended 'inlay afternoon at "> o'clock at C ich time the sororities notified each 'I er of their new pledges. Rush sea1 for fraternities ended at noon Sal- I ay. 1 'i Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi and Sigma >ha Kpsilon got the greatest num- v of boys, while Chi Omega got larger number of girls. 1 "hose pledged are as follows: 'hi Omega, Ida Lawton Graham, u lumbia; Nancy Turner, Columbia; dred Ward, Walterboro. u Ipha Beta, Charlie Karley, Augusta, h Dilemma Of L Crow ning D in Flynn, Well Known New Yor Makes Vital Address To Thursday We have on one side the govern- ai it drifting into policies which are ai lined to destroy democratic society ' on the other side various groups posing all sorts of ill-digested fines. But the great liberal groups .. helpless because they arc confused. . 1 it is this dilemma of the liberals, j utter abdication of the liberals eh is the crowning danger in our ?ent situation," said John Flynn, (j I known New York writer on final matters, in his address to versity students in chapel Thursat noon. He was met at the sta- c< by Dr. G. Croft Williams, and ducted to the campus. c has written for the Saturday a, ning Post, Colliers, and other mag- (( cs. 11c was chief investigator for U. S. Senate at the time of the p k exchange investigations and is ? LAW STUDENTS REORGANIZE SELDON SOCIETY Ytoylo Elected President Society Will Meet Bi-Monthly To Discuss Old English And American Law Reorganization of the Seldon So:iety by the University law school February lil revives an institution dormant for a year, after a full year of activity following its inception two years ago. Samuel B. \loyle, junior in ihe law school, was elected president. The purpose of the Seldon Society, is stated in the constitution, is to encourage the study of the beginnings of the English and American law. Membership is limited to the students of the law school of the University. The new president plans to further the ends of the group by arranging for two papers to be read at each bi-monthly meeting. The first will )e on the career and contributions of amous English or South Carolina lawyers or jurists, the second on some phase of the law studied from a his:orica! standpoint. The Seldon Society is named after in organization in England founded >y Professor Frederick \Y. M ait land, amous legal historian, for the pur>ose of finding and preserving the old :ases and other works showing the listory of the English Common Law. \s a result of the work of that so:iety, more is known today about the arly development of the equity courts ban was known by Blackstone, the :ommentator whose work is familiar 0 many laymen. The only Sout~h Carolina member of the original Sellon Society is P. C. Cothran, a lawfcr of Greenville. Mr. Moyle's title is "Chancellor." rurner Logan, a freshman in the law chool, is vice-chancellor; Miss Sarah (Continued ot Pas* I; Column t) ? ENDS WITH W STUDENTS 1 SLOAN COLLEGE MONDAY N BY TWO SORORITIES ^ RUSHING Delta Zeta, Carolyn Gunter, Coluni>ia; Pringle Leonard, Charleston. I'lii Kappa Phi, F. G. Auld, Jr.. Coumhia; T. II. Auld, Columbia; E. B. 'arker, Rock Hill. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, C. L. Eord, Columbia; \V. C. Capehart, Boykin; \ F. Dial, Columbia. Sigma Chi, T. M. Skiles, Columbia; loward DeBerry, Florence; John )ouglas, Columbia. Kappa Alpha; Lamar Bryan. Conway; Ben Wyinan, Columbia. Phi Sigma Kappa; Sam Wheeling, 'lorencc; J. II. Wells, Columbia. Phi Kappa Sigma; J. T. Busbee, Colmbia; William McDaniel, Charleston. I'lli Epsilon Pi; M. LcvkotT, Colmbia. Kappa Sigma; W. (). Xey, Jr., Colmbia; Mclver Williamson. liberals anger "-Fly mi k Writer On Financial Matters i Students In Chapel Noon uthor of two books, "God's Gold," nd "Securities Speculation." lie was Iso accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. nines Derieux and Mrs. Flynn. "This confusion of the liberals grows ut of certain historic circumstances, or the last hundred years in Engind and in America liberalism has cen a politcial cult. Its accepted role as to win for the great mass of the f the people a fuller participation in ic control of their political lives and fuller enjoyment of the political and vie freedoms of our society. They ere not primarily concerned with :onomic problems. In so far as they ot around to them at all, they beeved in pure welfare measures, health nd educational and hygienic measures > ameliorate the lot of the poor. "But political liberalism has comleted its role. Our political liberties (Continued on Page ; Column 2) TAPPING SER TO BE CONDI OMICROND DAMAS PERFECTS "7> ROTATION SYSTEM ' At Tuesday Meeting Entire Club Adopts New Plan For Rotation Of Affairs 1 f I'lans for the new system of rotation of officers for tlie Damas were passed Q at the la*t meeting held Tuesday after- a noon in the University chapel. The t( following system was adopted by the entire club: To hold an office, there must be at X least five girls from that sorority in Damas at the time; or at least ten (' non-sororitv girls in order for one c of them to be eligible for office. The sororities shall hold offices according to the time they were installed on the campus. That is, the sorority j which was first installed in Carolina shall have one of their members as president, the second shall have one ^ of their members as vice-president, etc. Each semester, the sorority holding the office for the semester before . shall move to the end of the line and ^ the other sororities shall, in their turn, . have the opportunity of having one of their members for president. When there are ten or more nonsorority girls in Damas, they shall p he included as a club and their time s to hold office will come last because \ there is no date for their installation r, on the campus. Sororities not now having five mem- C hers in Damas shall fall into line h when five members are included ac- o cording to their date of sorority instal- c lation; and if the number of sororities tl and non-sorority groups is more than the number of officers, there will be a i a waiting list of the extra sororities ii for their time. If there are less groups p than there are offices, the vice-presi- o dent and secretary will be chosen a from the same sorority. If, when the time comes for a soror- % ity to hold office, the sorority docs not J put up a ^irl to fill it, Damas will have the opportunity to select a girl from that group. All officers must be ap- i proved by the club before they can be ? installed. The officers for the Damas are to be S changed each semester in order to allow the sororities to have more times ] tor president. Prior to this, the of- | (Continued on Phqu 8; Column 1) 1211 Enroll !; 2nd Term ' j h Registration figures through Thurs- tr day evening reached the total of 1211 j r< I as against the figures of 1232 of last! semester. This is a decrease of 21 ^ students from last semester. The dc- ^ crease is not as considerable as it iv' would seem as there are several stu-1 it dents who have registered but have I p not completed paying their fees and thus the total number registered is! below that of last semester. P' The registration figures by schools was not available as the Gamecock went to press, but the registrar expected g to have these figures for release in next week's issue. Shocks Charted On Seismograph u 1*' The seismograph located in the basemcnt of LcConte College was one of tl the few seismographs in the cast to record the recent earthquake. 31 Although the earthquake was nearly . 111 .'{,000 miles away, a complete record of ni all the shocks was recorded by the in- ul strument. One heavy shock was fol- vi lowed by a series of lesser shocks. A complete chart is now on display s< in I-cConte College. Visitors are also pi invited to visit the seismograph room in the college on Tuesdays and Thurs- c] days. tr 'VICES JCTED BY ELTA KAPPA fifteen Men Chosen fames Of Those Selected Not Divulged; Understood To Be Leaders Of Campus Fifteen prominent students will be apped by the local circle of Omicron )elta Kappa, national honor-leadership ratcrnity, at services to be held in lie chapel Tuesday morning at 10:00 'clock. 'I his will be the regular seminnual tapping conducted by the fraI'rnity. '1 he names of those to be tapped vc-rc withheld from publication by nembers of the local group but is unlerstood that the list includes leadrs in practically every phase of cam>us activity. The new members were lected at a meeting shortly before he end of last semester and comprise he largest delegation taken by the ocal group in recent years. The tapping Tuesday will take the >lace of the regular fall tapping genrallv held in December. This year it i'as found necessary to postpone the lection until after the Christmas hollavs and at that time so short a time itervened before examinations that : was decided to postpone the actual apping and initiation until the presnt date. At the tapping Heyvvard Clarkson, resident of the local group, will preide. Other officers of the group are: 'ice-president, Bill Humphlett; secetarv-trcasurer, J. Frost Walker. lo be eligible for membership in )micron Delta Kappa a man must ave gotten 100 points based upon an fficial point list compiled by the local hapter. He then must be elected by lie members of the chapter. Omicron Delta Kappa was founded t \\ ashington and Lee University i HM4 and has from that time exanded throughout the country. Most f its expansion has been in the South nd Southeast. (Continued on Pane 5; Column 3) ECatz Made Head Delta Phi Alpha )ther Officers Elected itoddard And Walker Honored By Honorary German Fraternity Joe Katz was elected president of )elta Phi Alpha, honorary German -aternitv at a meeting January 8 in >avis College. Other oil icers elected were: Susan [ing, vice-president; David Stoddard, easurer; and Marvin Walker. secMary. I.llie Campbell, Bob Conrad, Joe .atz, Susan King, Howard Golden, larv Yerner, Frances Wallace, Marin \\ alker and Alice Brackett were litiated at the meeting by Dean rancis Bradley and David Stoddard. Due to the absence of the former resident, Robert King, David Stodard presided. >ate Set For Annual Banquet The date of the annual banquet of ie freshman law class was fixed at ebruary 22 at a meeting held early lis week, Gus iVarlman, president of ie class, announced yesterday. Several prominent local attorneys, liong them Alva Lumpkin, president f the state bar association, have been ivitcd to attend the meeting. Pearllan further announced that the facty members have been extended intations. Professor Benjamin D. Hodges will >rve as master of ceremonies. The otTicers of the class, headed by resident Pearlman, have charge of rangements. Three members of the ass have been appointed to supplcicnt the work of the officers.