University of South Carolina Libraries
Dean Smith Publishes Book On Teaching Literature New Text Is Result Of 25 Years Experience In Class-Room Teaching Dr. Reed Smith, Ph.D., Litt. D., Dean of the University Graduate School, is the author of a book, "The Teaching of Lit erature in the High School", which was issued around September 1, containing 485 pages with nine illustrations. This book is the outcome of 25 years of class room experience in teaching lit erature to approximately seventy-five dif ferent classes and sections of boys and girls divided between the American and English fields. Dr. Smith has also con ducted a course in "The Teaching of En glish in the High School" at both the winter and summer sessions of the Uni versity of South Carolina and elsewhere for twenty years. In the preface to the book he states that although there is more than one way to teach literature, he sincerely believes that the method outlined in his new text is a very successful way, and hopefully offers it to the increasing number of En glish teachers who are striving to bring order out of literary chaos and to act as guide, interpreter and friend of the high school expeditionary forces on their an nual pilgrimage into the Realms of Gold. Dr. Havilah Babcock, head of the di vision of English and American literature in the English department here, comment ing on the features of the new publica tion, remarked: It is absolutely one of the best that 1've ever seen in its field. Dr. Smith is author of a number of other books. " --V. 6. 0. Librarians Attend State Meeting Held In Rock Hill Professor Kinard Discusses High Lights In Pro gram The University library was represented by three delegates at the State Library Association meeting held in Rock Hill last Friday and Saturday. They were Professor Robert M. Kennedy, librarian; Miss Bess Glenn, librarian of the South Carolina Room, and Miss Edna Lent, el ucation librarian. Professor Kennedy spoke of several of the highlights of the meeting that im pressed him most. "Robert Jones, librarian of Presbyterian college, gave a talk on the progress that he had made on his union list of South Caroliniana. This list, when complete, will contain all known Caroliniana items from all states in the United States, and will be a great asset to those engaged in research on South Carolina. Miss Porter, librarian of the Greenville Public library, gave a talk on the present trend in periodical literature to the "little magazines," such as the Reader's Digest. "The magazine mentioned is fine reading but so many of these small magazines are distributed as propaganda, and are printed on cheap paper. In some instances the reading in them is dlangerous for the dem ocratic form of government that we have." During the meeting general discussions were held, and newv library lawvs were ex plained. Group discussions of the Uni versity, public, and school libraries were held. Louise McMaster, librarian of the Rock Hill Public library, and Ida J. Dacus, librarian of the Winthrop College library, entertained the visiting librarians. One thing that seemed to impress the librarian of the University with envy, if not with indignation, was the spaciousness and modernity of the newv library at Win throp College. Professor Kennedy ex pressed his feeling when lie said, "To see the vast reading rooms, both upstairs and downstairs, that accommodate the Win throp student body, the brilliantly lighted rooms, and enough shelving to take care of the needs of the college for the next 25 years, and then to think of the starved University library, with accommodations for about one-fifth of the student body, poor lighting, and shelf space terribly overcrowded and unable to take care of each year's acquisitions, one cannot help wondering why the legislature treats the University as a stepchild." Anyone Intereste String GUITAR, VIOLIN, MANIDO ORGAN OR ANY OTHEJ -Please R THE CHAPEL-Tt Or See Woo Boys Plentiful, At Reception For Columbia College Outnumber Fair Visitors By Two To One At Gathering In Flinn Hall This is one time the boys are two up on the girls, and mostly Columbia College dames, too. At least this was true last Friday night at the freshman reception when a hundred and forty-five fair col legians from the female institution at the other end of town disembarked at Flinn Hall to find about three hundred boys waiting for them. Approximately fifty co-eds figured in the occasion. Every girl desiring a boy had one on each arm, and most of theni desired one. As a consequence of those who did not desire to entertain double their own num ber, some had to tolerate three and even four of the University lads. Probably the large number of boys ac counts for the fact that 25 gallons of punch was consumed in the same number of minutes. But taking into considera tion the soprano voices that rose several tones higher than the boys' low, gruff, vocal sounds, during the pep meeting it seems that the girls must have had a hand in the punch also. -U. S. a. Cheer Leaders Select Aides Five boys and four girls were yes terday selected freshmen cheer leaders. They are: Sarah Harrison, Joe Bird, Virginia Stoddard, Bess Dowling, Charles Owens, Sarah Ahlgren, Johnny Campbell, Billy Spivy and Carter Por ter. Instead of having popular vote as originally planned, the freshmen left it up to Betty Horton and "Dink" Lodema Gaines, varsity leaders, to se lect them. This group will lead yells at the Biddie anes this year and at the end of the season, an election will be con ducted to determine the varsity cheer leaders for 1936-37. -U. e. o. Co-eds Plan New Contest A friendship contest for the co-eds is to be conducted next Monday and Tues day by the Y. W. C. A. The winner will receive $2.50. The object of the contest is for each girl to collect as many signatures of other co-eds as possible by six o'clock Tuesday night. The list of the signatures to gether with the name of the collector must be placed in a box provideLd for that purpose outside the dloor of the chapel. The name of the winner wvill be an nouncedl in chapel next week. Jennie Clarkson has charge of the contest. Scientific Society Will Choose New Officers Officers for the present session will be elected tonight when the LeConte Scientific Society holds its first meet ing at 8 o'clock in the geology lecture room of LeConte College, R. W. Mor rison, professor of pharmacy, has an nounced. "Synthetic Rubber" is the topic to be discussed by Dr. J. E. Copenhaver, main speaker of the evening. All students, member or not, are in vited to attend the meeting. -U. U. 0. LOST AND FOUND A textbook was left at the infirmary about ten days ago. The owner can se cure the same by describing it and giving the name. A freshman "rat" cap was also found and the owner can secure it by giving his name, which is partially printed on the inside of the cap. -U. . 0. New York University has received more than 10,000 books during the past few months through the activities of the Society for the Libraries. Princeton University administrators recently announced an expansion plan that calls for the raising of $7,750,000. d in Organizing a Band LIN, UKE BANJO, MOUTH STRING WNSTRUMENT oport To rESDAY NITE, 7:15 Irow Wilan Camera UXR NG HIS tNTIRE ( * FOOTBALL CAREER, TiME U. OF ILLINOIS' 'GALLOPING GHOST' CARRIED 'HE PIGSKIN 4,0I3 '1MES FOR 32,820 YARDS! I IN On4ER I11 WORDS HlS GAINS TOTALt.Eb 4r APPROXIMATELY SMILES ! l "A I I Modern Treni By RICHARD C. The Socialization of Medicine n Having considered the results of v Government control of the various branches of the medical profession, let v us now turn to a discussion of the L effects on the individuals. First, the < doctor himself The Doctor Much has already been said about the duties and possibilities of advance- < ment of the average doctor under the t new system. Nevertheless, it would < not be amiss to repeat, in concrete i foii, viAi u Lof i fcw Musi. i iiu iaui changes making the socialization pro- I gram desirable. Every man or woman u engaged in the profession would re ceive a financial remuneration equal to his or her value-value being deter mined in terms of training and experi ence and the minimum salary would be a good living wage (well over $1,000.00 a year in cash or its equivalent or both.) Here arises the question asked by many a young doctor today: Is the I premedical and medical education of today presented in the most efficient manner, or is too much left to the in dividual instructor wvho, in the majority of cases, thinks his own subject the chief among all and who may, uncon sciously, crowd the student's minds wvith irrelevant incidentalia to the det riment of the all-important fundamen tals? To illustrate the point made above, there followvs a quotation from Julian r P. Price's "The Young Doctor Thinks< Out Loud": . . . but the tendency to neglect the essentials is certainly evl- 1 dent in many courses as they are given today. Consider the questions wvhich< are asked in the average State Board Examination. Can anyone honestly believe that the successful answering< of such questions is an indication of a man's all-round ability as a practf tioner of medicine, and yet they reflect 1 the medical education as it exists in this Country today. Compare thenm with the comprehensive and fair ques tioning carried on by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the contrast is striking." Whether or not this condition is general, certainly it would be non-exis tent undler a standardized national sys tem, with all medical instructors quali-1 fying equally and remaining under con- a stant direct and indirect supervision by1 the medical leaders of the nation. Further quotation from Dr. Price's 1 book concerns the new and overpower ing problems confronting the young, doctor just beginning his practice: "AsI he goes into practice, problems im mediately confront him-problems of relationships with other doctors and wvith private patients, problems of fee splitting and what it involves, prob lems of medical advertisIng, problems of charges for services rendered, prob lems of the relationship which the practitioner bears to public health work, to state and industrial medicine, problems of medical ethics of all kinds, problems with which he has never been confronted In his training and with which he is not fully capable4 of dealing. Is there any wonder that4 Slants ACCOCDING -M WHOS WHO, 85 OF THE OUTSTANDING PERSONS IN THE U.S. ARE COLLEGE GRADUATES! t NILSON :ED FOCIMIJ. IESLGYAN U. - N 1@88 ANb 1 90. . Is In Science ARLINGTON nistakes as he starts out, mistakes which he will later come to regret?" Is there any one of these problems vhich would not be removed or solved >y the socialization of medicine? How an any clear-headed, sincere member >f the medical profession hold predju lice against a system which offers him o much? Will not every medical stu lent and young graduate, as well as hose already established, sacrifice his hance to become a millionaire special st in return for the assurance that he vili be ibe io provide for himself and is family all his life as he plies his niselfish trade? the Citizen and the National Medical System These two considerations, due to heir intertwined relations, are best reated under a double heading. Activ ties between these two units of gov rnment, due to the unlimited possi ilities and the decisive factors of hu nan nature and mass ignorance, must ecessarily remain at the level of ideal stic suggestions, for the present. At ny rate, any 'reforms in this direction vould be the last put into practice. -lowever, let's idealize As a headquarters over local center.s f information there could be a Na ional Bureau of Medical Statistics, a ort of glorified p)ublic health depart nent. Its duties wvould be to collect ase histories and other related infor liation from hospitals and smaller gov rnmental units over the entire nation. With this information filed and cata ogued, estimates could be made of the .dvance and decline of diseases of epi lemic nature. With the proper re earch methods and applied technique hey could doubtless be stamped out ompletely. Diseases peculiar to cer ain locations and traced to climatic znd soil conditions could be minimized y the proper action of other govern nient agencies, such as the Department f Agriculture, etc. Local headquarters could act as learing houses for the accounting roblems of the system. When a citi :en received treatment, his financial ondition could be investigated and a lefinite charge made him for the ser rices. This charge would be based on he value of the treatment received (on ,level with present-day rates and fees) empered by his ability to pay, and ollected by Government agents im >ued with an authority comparable vith that retained by Federal Income rax Collectors. Thus would a great art of the enormous expense be ap lied directly to its source, and justly ~o. As the infinite goal of this line of >lanning, there arises on the horizon >f reform the governmental war igainst ignorance, superstition, and ear-the innovation of the policy of ociety deciding the destiny of the in ividual, manifested through compul ory annual physical examination and :ompulsory treatment of all defects ound to exist. Such a policy, though radical to the xtreme, seems justified when consid ration is given to the inevitable re ChemicalFrat I Has Program ?resents Three Speakers C ligma Alpha Zeta Confers Honor ary Membership On Chem. istry Professor Three speakers appeared on the pro- k ,ram of Sigma Alpha Zeta, student chem- d, cal fraternity, last night in LeConte Col- h ege with President Gilberk Fulmer pre- C iding. ti "Chemical Interpretation of the First :hapter of Genesis" was the subject i< reated by Professor J. L. Moore, while j1 3ilbert Fulmer described the "Compo- tl ition of Everyday Articles," and Cecil tl leeks explained the "Electrolux Cycle in f he Electrolux Refrigerator." Recently plans were made for the com- 1 ng year and honorary membership was v :onferred on the professors of the chem- r stry department. r1 Officers of the fraternity are Gilbert I .ulmer, president; Cecil Meeks, vice-pres- t dent; Hamilton Warren, secretary; and t Ewen Robinson, treasurer. --u. ". o.- I Journalists Meet For Convention -amecock Represented A. C. P. Will Have Some Of Country's Best Known Writers On Program In Chicago Chicago, Illinois (ACP)-Famed news- J papermen and advertising experts from ill sections of the United States and for eign correspondents from the news cen ters of the world will address college newspaper editors and business managers who will gather here October 17, 18, and t 19 for the annual convention of the Asso- r ciated Collegiate Press, national college I press association. Heading the list of newspapermen who will speak at the convention sessions to I be held in Chicago's Medinah Athletic Club, are Leland Stowe, Parik enrrec- t pondent of the New York Herald-Trib- < tine and Pulitzer prize winner, ad Car- ] roll Binder, foreign expert of the Chicago Daily News. Among the outstanding speakers who will speak at the roundtable sessions for the convention which has as its theme Building the College Newspaper are: Harry B. Rutledge, managing director of the National Editorial Association; Dr. Ralph D. Casey, (lean of the Univer sity of Minnesota school of journalism; C. D. MacDougall, editor of the Evanston News-Index and lecturer in journalism at Northwestern University; Prof. Ken neth E. Olson, lirector of the Rutgers University school of journalism; aridt Chester Oehler, of the Lord and Thomas advertising agency. The highlight of the convention will be, the annual banquet of the association to be held in the dining room of the Medi niah Club on Friday, October 18. Grant I Olson, advertising manager of the Sheaf fer Pen Company, will be the principal banquet speaker. Subjects to the discussed by the speak ers range from the elements of advertis ing solicitation and news coverage to the latest developments in advertiser servic-i ing andl news photography. Howard Cooper aiid Atherton Whaley will represent The Gamecock at the con vention. They wvill leave Tuesday after --u. a. .. Heavy Lunches Doctor Condemns Philadelphia, Pa.-(ACP)--Y o u ' 11 dispense with heavy lunches if you want to be alert for your afternoon classes. That is, you will if you heed the advice of Dr. Daniel A. Laird, Col gate University psychologist. While on a recent visit here, Dr. Laird had this to say about the effect of eating large meals at noon-time. "Our experiments showed conclu sively the brain, or cerebral, anemia, caused by the digestive organs draw ing the blood away from the brain, is the cause of the sluggish mental con dition which afflicts office workers after the noon lunch period, and that this condition results in a definite im pairment of the speed and 'accuracy with which their minds work. "When the brain is adequately sup plied with blood, and literally 'in the pink of condition,' metal efficiency tends to be at its highest point. When the digestive system is called upon to digest a heavy meal and draws upon the blood supply of the brain, mental effieiency Is lowered. Fulmer Speaks To Law Classes )iscusses Presidency longressman Blames President's Assistants For Lack Of Cooperation The present administration has been ept from full success because the presi ent's appointees have not cooperated with im, Congressman H. P. Fulmer of South :arolina asserted Wednesday, addressing te law student body. He traced the tenure of the three pres lents preceding Roosevelt, pointing out ist how they had submerged interests of ie agricultural and laboring classes to ie demands of "the organized and well nanced groups of big business." "If we spend four or maybe seven bil ions of dollars of federal money to pre ent starvation and save this country from evolution, putting the burden of pay rient on the rich, it will be worthwhile. still have confidence in the administra ion and the country, and am sure that lie proper groups will take up the prob em of recovery after the administration as done all it can." Congressman Fulmer spoke under the uspices of the Law Federation, local or anization of the law students. He was ntroduced by Marshall Williams, vice resident of the student body. Soph Y Council Re-elects Riddle %.t Meeting Wednesday Villiam Gaston And T. E. Mat thews Chosen For Other Offices Ray Riddle was reelected president of lie sophomore Y council at the regular aeeting held Wednesday night in Flinn fall. William Gaston was elected vice rresident, and T. E. Matthews, secretary. Wilds Gillespie and Whitfield Cheat am were appointed as delegates to repre ent the council today and tomorrow at he Camn Ar.er retreit in upper Pickens ounty. Delegates from the various Y. Ii. C. A.'s and Y. \V. C. A.'s of the 17 olleges in this state are meeting at this amp to discuss the problems and plans of heir organizations for this year. Meetings will be held in Flinn Hall on :very Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. -U. Bf. O. Bible Questions Are Answered By Frosh New Wilmington, Pa. (ACP)-West ninster College freshmen put all they cnew about the Bible on paper re :ently, and here are some of the an wers: "The Epistles were wives of the kpostles." "Revolutions is the last chapter in lie Bible." "Lazarus is a city ini Palestine." ---. U. 0. "It is easy to talk in platitudes about liberal education, but every employer >f labor knows that the possession of good academic record is absolutely to guarantee that commercial success Curb Service A SpectaHy~ WE SERVE BEER Pick -Wick 1240 Hampton Street ATHLETIC SUPPLIES AND .SPORTING GOODS S. B. McMaster, Inc. 1228 Hampton St. Discount to Schools Hair Outs-25c Barbers: J. C. TILLON CLYDE WOODS GEORGE BRADHAM 00LTLE BARBER SHOP 1008 Sumter Street Phone 9308