The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 15, 1935, Page Page Four, Image 4
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Founded January 30, 1908
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1935
Precedent
The editorial department of the Gamccock for
a number of years has varied with the change in
the editorship of each semester. An irregularity of
editorial policy therefore has characterized this
department of the Gamecock excepting the past
semester when probably for the first time in many
years a concerted editorial policy was pursued with
respect to a single phase of the University makeup
that of the spoils system. In an effort to abrogate
this deficiency of the past years and to continue
somewhat with a certain definiteness of policy. The
Gamccock announces the establishment of an Editorial
Board consisting of four members of the
Gamccock stall and the editor. The object of this
board is to establish a greater degree of cooperativeness
between the students, the faculty and
other organizations on the campus through the
medium of the editorial department of the paper,
in Crowing for a greater Carolina.
The chief characteristic of this policy will be a
constructive approach of all problems concerning
the University, and to endeavor to remain unbiased,
non-partisan, and unprejudiced in its attitude
toward them in every way possible. The
establishment of this board, which the Gamecock
hopes will be continued as a definite part of the
paper's make-up, will create not an individual attitude
toward certain problems but will deal with
them in such a way that the editorials will reflect
in a greater sense of the word the policy of the
paper, suscribed to by a majority opinion of the
staff, in a manner such that the editor will be the
guiding figure of an attitude somewhat consistent
from semester to semester.
This board will always keep in mind the ultimate
benefit of the University and intends to establish
a frank and fearless policy and to carefully
weigh the situations in an endeavor to draw
a safe and sound conclusion.
1 he Gatnccock is the chief organ of the University
as well as being the organ of the students.
As a newspaper its news is watched with interest
outside the state as well as in, and in that respect
is one of the most important representatives of
the University.
It is an ambassador of good-will to those off the
campus. It is an informant of the University to
the students and people of tlie state and it is the
training ground for future South Carolina journalists.
Therefore if the Gamccock is to take a hand in
championing, furthering and crowing for a greater
Carolina, it must do so without restraint, or fear,
in an effort to influence conditions for the betterment
of the University, whose interests it holds
of the first importance.
n. 0. o.
War prophets are generally those interested in
war profits.
A man ahead of the times never has the people
behind him.
Helping Hand
The advent of a new student dramatic organization
upon the eainpus is a clear-cut indication that
tlie desire for dramatic expression and student
participation in the arts of the theatre, has not
entirely left the University even though that particular
division has been officially eliminated from
the curricula.
The leaders of this new group are to be commended
for jtheir courage to venture forward in
this endeavor especially when artistic reception on
the campus lacks the degree of warmth necessary
to sustain it.
The Gamecock will be the first to lend" its aid
to this all student affair, by way of encouragement.
The need for such an organization is acute.
No university fulfils its first important duty unless
it provides and sustains the desire for artistic expression.
That sustenance consists of the practical
provision of physical facilities with which to make
the satisfaction of that desire possible. It is no
impractical feat to be accomplished. It requires
no great financial inaneouvering or dexterity in
handling figures 011 the part of the University
to provide for and maintain such an organization
011 the campus. The first step in realizing an ideal
of this nature is a real artistic desire for such.
1 he students of this new group have gone further
than merely desiring dramatics. They have
gone a step forward by giving that desire expression
which is taking .definite shape. When it is
met by the University with a helping hand, the
second step toward providing the school with an
art needed to help enrich the sum total of education,
will become a reality.
U. 0. O.
A Freshman Speaks
freshmen, like the poor, we have always with
us. Advice, counsel, and warnings rain on their
heads like manna from heaven from the dav they
set foot 011 the campus. Inarticulate, silenced by
the avalanche, the first year students have little to
say for themselves, nor would the sages?the blase
collegians to whom all of life is an open booklisten
had they anything to offer by .way of reply.
lint listen?a Freshman speaks his mind:
UI come to your school expecting great things.
To me college is new?an adventure tinged with
the romance of the unknown. I bring with me the
fresh courage of youth. I have ideals and ambitions.
I wish to be known and respected by 1113'
fellow students, to serve my University with the
best that is in me. I believe in clean play, sportsmanship,
and reward for merit by elections to responsible
positions in the student body."
And what of these ambitions and hopes, what
of the romance of college life, what of sportsmanship
and reward of merit by student elections?
After the fanfare of welcome dies and the normal
routine of the University is resumed the Freshman
finds in student elections the practices of
outside politics. A well organized minority can
control all officers 011 the campus and merit is
unknown in the politician's vocabulary. A hike
warm student body cheers vociferously for Carolina's
winning teams and damns losers with lack
of support. The oldest social organization on the
campus is controlled by a smug and complacent
group of fraternities. Our literary societies with
their long and honorable record of continued existence,
are torn by internal strife and have come
hardly more than associations for political bickering.
In all of campus life reality casts its pall
of self ambition that repels the honest, straight
forward, idealistic Freshman.
What then of our newcomer? For the most part
11 is ideals fall away from him like an outworn
cloak. In a little while he, too, is graspingly ambitious.
His keen purposes and loyalty to the University
have been stifled and his high hopes of
unselfish service have withered and died?crushed
out of existence by the force of circumstance that
hems him in on every side and bears to earth
much of what was good, clean, and honest within
him.
May this University, some day, welcome some
farsighted student leaders of men whose goal is a
far, clear star of hope, and courage which will
lead him and his fellow students to some happier
solution of the problems now extant on the campus.
May a time come when ideals, ambitions,
and unselfish service to the school will take their
place in the minds of a majority of our student
body.
\
Carolina
To-day
Tsk, Tsk.
One of the most woeful spectacles
of the week was the picture of the student
in the magazine room of the
library being cussed out by a library
attendant for taking one of the papers
out of the holder. His face was red;
her expression was something like that
of a first grade teacher as she gently
admonished him never to do it again.
Some time we are going to take a
symposium on the average age of
Carolina students as figured up by the
library workers. It will probably be
around two years and a half.
Devotion
A staff member reports that a
yo-yo enthusiast was seen Wednesday
night half-way out of a
third story window yo-yoing in
the rain. That's what we call devotion
to an art.
Immorality Over the Phone
"Naw, I don't want to get drunk,
but I would like a bottle of beer," said
a young man over the Gamecock telephone
Wednesday night. It was not
learned whether he got the beer.
Note to the Tiger
Our old friends the Clemson
Tiger burst into print the other
day in no less an institution that
the Columbia State, when the pictures
of the incoming and outgoing
editors were printed. We
hear from a cadet that the Tiger
engoyed very much the fight carcried
on with this column last
semester. So did we.
Beware of the Dog
Sallie Bailey says
^ that she never
thought she'd have
I to worry about a dog
w^cn came to
rivalry. But her
pooch, affectionately
V-A lit e r m e d "Quecnie"
I l R Hll \\f?l'owcd her to
i^^^Jl^lfMJBschcol one day last
week and attracted
so much attention that the Sigma Nus
made a date with her (Queenie) that
afternoon.
P. S. They gave her (still Queenie)
a bath.
"Nurtz"
An English class recently was
considerably enlivened by the professor's
quoting with great gusto
a section from "The Daring Young
Man on the Flying Trapeze," that
containing the information that he
thumbed his nose, sneered, and
said "Nurtz."
Mystery
Who was the girl rushed so frantically
last week by the Pi K. A's? 1
One of them had a date with her Friday;
another Saturday, still another
Sunday afternoon; yet a different onr.
Sunday night; and a few more Monday
afternoon. Is that power! But
whose?
Economic Note
The magazine stand men should
rise up in a body and bless Doctor
Babcock. Every year he advises
his short story class to go down
town and buy up about six pulp
magazines for the course, for
which no text book is used. And
the Argosies. The Love Stories
and the Blue Books lend a note
of color to the campus for the
next semester.
Murderers at Large
That same class is filled with embryonic
criminals, as well. Practically
BEAU'
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TUESDAY NI(
MUSIC
SPON*
WHAT'S WHAT IN UP
By Mrs. Stanhope S
R. E, LEE a
By Douglas Southall Freeman, Vol. 1
III, 555) pp; Vol. IV, 594, New York:
Charles Scribncr's Sons $7.50.
3
These two volumes, with the two first |
published a year ago, finish what is ad- a
milled by the critics, whether from the i
North or South, to be the nest biog- t
raphy possible of the greatest Amen- ^
can General, North or South, Rob- f
ert E. Lee. The brilliant writer and
careful historian, Dr. Douglas ,
Southall Freeman, has given through his |
"superb biography a complete portrait, (
solid, vivid, authoritative and compell- ,
ing" of this ideal soldier and man, %
writes one critic. The rest of them, (|
that have reviewed it agreeing for once, c
are handing Dr. Freeman, in advance,
the 1935 Pulitzer prize for the best j
biography of 1935. a
So unbiased and united arc the critics ?
in their judgment and praise of General I
Lee himself that that famous old Re- t
publican daily, The New York Herald
Tribune gives its front page in this c
last Sunday "Books" weekly section i
to a large picture of Lee and an en- t
thusiastic criticism and tremendous 1
praise of the Southern General. And s
this is written by Stephen Vincent Bcnet,
the poet who wrote "John Brown's \
Body" not so long ago. Old Horace \
Grcely, famous Republican Editor of I
the Tribune (as it was then) who i
fought the South and everything con- 4
cerning it so bitterly, would turn over in
his grave if he knew his own paper t
could give such honor and praise to a f
Southern General, even if it was Gen- a
eral Robert E. Lee, the hero unapproci- t
Twenty Questions
Merely Routine
Twenty questions arc nothing in
the life of a telephone operator at the
University of South Carolina where <
queries like the following arc merely
part of the day's routine.
This is a typical example:
The phone rings.
"University?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"8123?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"University of South Carolina?" t
"Yes ma'am."
"I want a man in the boys' dormi- t
tory."
"What dormitory?"
"The boys' dormitory."
"If you'll tell me whom you want, (
maybe I can tell you."
"If you'll just ring the boys' dormitory,
I can get him." *
"We have a number of boys' dormitories.
If you tell me whom you want, ?.
I can look him up."
"I want the man who docs the buying."
all of the first stories written contain
at least one murdered man, and several
of them more. And two of the villains
are named "Philip."
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ams (Camilla C.)
ible. For Benet says of the Freeman
>iography of Lee:
"Here is something to restore one's
aith in Biography. Here is the truth
ibout a great man as far as it can
>e found ... It does not read "like
i novel"?it reads like a man's life,
^o fact is distorted to fit a convenient
heory and the research goes very
Icep. . . But not once is the central
ignre lost in the background. . . Not
mly do yon see the workings of his
nind, his strategic hopes and plans,
>nt here, just when you had begun to
hink of him only as a mind, is the
nan himself, riding Traveller. . He
vas, on all sides, a man?and that
leeply harmonious character tasted the
xtrcmes of life. And with Dr. Freenan's
biography he takes his true place
n our history, both in his greatness
ind in his humanity. . . There is a
nonument?and a line one?to Robert
I. Lee at Lexington. But this one, 1
hink, will last as long."
The New York Times Book Review
>f the same date, February 10, begins
ts equally enthusiastic review writen
by Charles Willis Thompson, of
this wonderful biography with (lie
ame comparison that Benet ends his.
'After reading Dr. Freeman's final
'olunies you rise from the completed
vork with the conviction that here is
^ee's monument. Granite, bronze or
liarblc cannot so visibly?the word
visibly' is here meant almost literally
?present either the man or the soldier
o the man's eye. It is only as this
?reat work nears its end that one fully
ppreciates the immensity of the sculpure."
"Buying what, please?"
"Buying the" eats for the boys."
" I hat will be the boy's mess hall.
You'll have to dial that."
"Won't you ring that, please?"
"No, you'll have to ring that youriclf."
"My goodness, they just don't try
o help you out down there."
* * * STOP * *
Ring-Buz,
"I want to ask you a question."
"Yes'uin."
"Where do the boys spend most of
heir time between classes?"
"They go to the library, hang around
he canteen, or sit around the cani>us."
Well,?will you look out the winlow
and sec if you can see John??"
"No, I can't."
Looks like you could if you wanted
o."
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