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/77 Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT RLIaOTT GONALES, First Editor ed welyby the Literary Societies of the University of South Carolina uring the college year except during examinations and bolidays Itered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 0., November 20, 1908 Subscription Rate-$2.00 per college year. Circulation-1800 , , Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in Tenement 16, University campus Phone 8123 1935 Member 1936 Associed CoLte6iate Press Distributor of Colle6ite Di6est Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston--San Francisco-Los Angeles-Portland--Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD HOWARD COOPER - - - - - - - Editor ATHERTON WHALEY - - - Business Manager T. T. Mooa - - - - - - Managing Editor FRANCIS WILLIAMS - - - - - Sports Editor MAY ANDREWS - - - - -- - Society Editor ELEANOR WIEDEMAN - - - - - Co-ed Editor Fwm ELLIs - - - - - Circulation Manager ASSOCIATES Miles Elliott, Jack 'Eilles, Bob Hemphill, Shannon Mime, associate editors; Ed Harter, Hunt Graham, James Lynch, associate managing editors; Ray Bargeron, Zack Sabbagha, Felix Greene, assistants to the business manager STAFF WRITERS Donald Causey, Helen Cooper, Annette Benson and Bruce Littlejohn, STAFF ASSISTANTS Joe Camak, S. B. Bass, assistant sports editors; Sam Cleland, James Walsh and Robert Brown, assistant circulation managers FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1935 You Have Adopted An Honor Sys tem. Now Do Something About It With practically no discussion and with very few dissenting votes, the University student body adopted a new draft of the Honor System at a meeting Tuesday night. Now that you have chosen this method of class room conduct as your own, are you going to see that it is enforced or are you merely going to sit idly by until next year when you will pass it again? Past practice indicates that the latter will be the case. The success of the Honor System is dependent, not upon one, or two, or five classes adopting it, but upon every separate class in the University. "Resolved, that for the purpose of administer ing the Honor System in all classes and on all tests and examinations, the individual class shall be the unit." To insure a successful enforcement of this pro vision, each individual class must organize, not next spring or next year, but now. You must appoint some definite committee to handle breaches of the system, an "authoritative committee" in the words of the amendment. Action against some member of the class is not to be -secret. Instead it is to be reported to the dean of the University, after class officials have consulted with the instructor. If you have been convicted of some breach of the Honor System by the committee, under the amendment you are automatically dropped from the course with a grade of "E". Convicted of a second offense upon decision of the class youl are to be dismissed from tihe University. It is hard to understand how tihe last provision will be enforced. How is one class to know that a stuldent has been ejected from another? Evidently it would hlave to be passed on through tihe instructor or tihe dean. But this wouldn't be according to the system, be cause the individual class is supposed to do the judging, and only to be advised by tile instrucetor. According to the action you took Tuesday night you are in favor of the Honor System. You are honor bound to go back to your class room and formulate some definite program of procedure. Is that what you mean to do, or have you already forgotten that you passed such an amendment? We Need A Museum To House The Valuable Geologic Specimens Now Stored Uselessly Away In The Attic There is a very (definite need for a museum building at the University to house the many val uable geological specimens at present scattered over LeConte College. Handicapped by the limited facilities for pr'o tecting and displaying specimens collected in thleir Sround of study, professors in that department have been forced to place their finds in corners of the rooms, in a few glass cases on tile three floors, and even in their desks and over the stu dents' tables. yMany of the specimens acquired by exchange, former students, and the professors themselves, .have been placed in boxes and stored away where ;they are never seen. ~While other buildings are being contemplated for tub University, through government grants, it 'ould be advisable for authorities to consider this iie. Once a museum is provided the present col ~; ectonwill be increased by interested persons who *the assurance that their possions will be c1 ared for. Shut ,Your Eyes And Vote. That Is The Way Your May Queen Will Be Chosen If Proposed Amendment Passes I? the plan for electing the May Queen that was proposed at the last student body meeting were t< go through, the set-up would be this: students would go to the polls to vote for the queen. Sup pose three fairly good looking and popular girls are chosen for candidates-certainly not more than sixty per cent of the voters would have ever heard of or seen more than one of the candidates. Now consider one of these students who goes up to cast his vote. le looks at the ballot, recognizes one of the names, and immediately decides to vote for that girl, unless he happens to have some per sonal feeling against her. This leaves two others on the ticket, neither of which makes any impres sion on his mind. One of the constant poll watch ers sees him hesitate, and correctly concludes that -the voter does not know the candidate. A few well chosen words in somebody's behalf, and the vote is cast that way. The third girl is left in the cold, simply because that particular student did not know her, and her opponent's vote-catcher was on the job. Obviously, that is not fair. Bad as the old plan may be, it gave studemnts a chance to meet all the candidates, or at least time to look them up and form an opinion. Under the new system proposed, it would not be improbable for a girl who has no beauty, no personal appeal, no semblance of queen ly bearing, no wit, no anything, to be elected May Queen because no one knew her and she had an expert politician on the polls. Let's try to avoid this. The names on the ballots would leak out to a select group, that group being the one most friend ly to the person in charge of the printing. Thus supporters of a particular candidate would band together, dig up some indifferent voters, turn on a little pressure, and when election day rose out of the dawn it would be no surprise to them to find the name of their f.vorite on the ticket. Under the system used last year, names of the candidates are revealed in time for pictures to be published in the papers. In this way, those stu dents who have never met the girls are enabled surely to form a better opinion of their physical beauty than if the faces were unfamiliar. Try anything once-but for heaven's sake, don't have three strangers for May Queen candidates. -U.S.a. The Man Who Maps Out His Own Course Of Life And Is A Failure Deserves More Praise Than The Person Who Is Forced To Be A Success A freshman entering the University of South Carolina. finds himself thrown almost entirely ulpon his own discretion. He may come and go as he desires. le is more of a free man than in other institutions of higher learning in the State. le has paid his money; he can receive full value if he will. In p)rob)ably more instances than in any other of South Carolina's colleges the student "works his way through." lie is face to face every day with the necessity of carefully p)ortioning his time, money, and activities. When he has finially tucked the sheepskin into his p)ocket, turned up his coat collar, mentally resolved to hit Life with all he is worth, he is better prepared for the buffets of an indiflerent civilization than the student who sp)endls a cloistered four years in training for the grind of wresting bread and butter from obstinate nature. D)o not jump at the conclusion that because ti University student necessarily makes his o (decisions he will be a failure. In fact, that ne sity tendls to produce the opposite result. HeI may not b)e the most brilliant graduate, the most edu-i catedl man who ever received congratulations at commencement, but he is four years ahead of his contemporaries in the art of rubbing elbows, HIe is not afraid to exp)erience opposition. It merely sharpens his mental faculties, leaves him better prepared for the next trial, lHe welcomes them with an open mind, in much the same way a de tective seizes an opp)ortunity to solve some diffi cult criminal problem. Thme person who as a child, as a student, and as a graduate has been accustomed to having his guardian angel solve his problems, fix his eating hours, tuck him in bed, steps out into the chilly, damp fog of reality much as an unsuspecting babe approaches the fire. The 'first mild wind of ad versity bowls him over and he lies whimpering in the gutter of humiliated surprise. Another cou ple blasts and he has a serious case of inferiority complex. He flaps about aimlessly, like a broken arm. After a harsh period of disappointment and disillusionment he gives up in despair, only to be come a parasite upon the man who outlined his own life. It is easy to have some other person dictate to us what we should do. It is decidedly more satis fying to make an individual choice of the way in Carolina To -day (OONTNUED FROM PAOE ONE) AfteriAath Jackie, the young son of Jack Evans, manager of the mess hall, recently approached Spot Mozingo and asked how th Clemson-Fur man game came out. Spot, who has lost 'his last shirt on the game, sadly informed his questioner of the outcome. Comparisons College has been compared to a washing machine. You get out of it what you put in it, but you will never recognize it. Love is comparative to poker. It takes a pair to open; she gets a flush; he shows diamonds; and it ends with a full house. Salesmen Beware College men are too different and refined to make good sales men, according to Charles C. Knight, an English business exec utive, who addressed a meeting of sales managers recently. Correspondent During the past week Professor Bass has been able to talk to seven Au stralians, a number of Spaniards, and several amateurs in various parts of the United States. His sending and receiving sets are among the best in the best. Far Piece Off Carnegie Institution astronomers are conducting studies of a very faint nebula said to be, 1,330,000, 000,000,000,00,000,000 miles away. This is about the same distance that a college student's mind is from the lecture on Monday morn ing. Get The Axe! Freshman Nuisance, he of smarter set, recently objected to doing outside reading because during the cold weath er he preferred to be indoor. Can You Dance? A criminology class at Syracuse University has discovered that the feeble-minded can dance as well as, if not better than, most people of normal mentality. Moral: Watch out for these self-styled Fred Astaires. Clemson Beauty Proving the old tale that "grass is always greener on the other side of the fence," editors of Clemson's an nual have selected Miss Betty Horton as one of their beauties for the cur rent edition. We consider this a com pliment to the University. Man About Town A horde of Freshmen was being shown through the Bucknell Li brary the other day, when a so licitous librarian noticed one bored youngster hovering around the the edges of the throng. She ap proached him and inquired, "Have you been around?" With a coy glance the freshman replied, "Yes, I've been around. Have you?" Good Answer . A professor at the University of Southern California recently gave an unusual assignment to his class. One of the students, disgusted, said, "WVho invented wvork, anyway?" "You should worry; you will never ' nfringe on his patent," retorted the professor. Beauty And Brains At a recent meeting of the stu dent body a number of girls were present. This is unusual in itself. But the most unusual thing about the entire affair was that all the girls stuck together and tried to kill everything that the boys brought up. A number of the co eds admitted afterwards that they had no objections to the proposed amendments, but that they were merely trying to be different. On the contrary, we think they were trying to be as they usually are. McCallister Takes Blame "Never has Coach McCallister blamed us for losing a game," de clared Ernest Stokes, Gamecock cen ter, who was selected by many sports writers as the best in the state. "He always congrat'ulates us on the game, whether we win or lose, and adds that we played a good game. 'Put the blame on me,' he often says." --u. a. o. Prof. R. H-. Sherill of the University of North Carolina, school of commerce, took on five New York thugs recently when one of them took 30 cents from him. Although three radio patrol cars finished the thugs after Prof. Sherill had bnocked out one of them, he is credited with a moral victory U.OFN NW MD CEMIER PL.AN BANGrU GAA AL11OUGH HE ON FN ARI 40 ? ;' WHERE nME TEA"M RAOc COUI DOES N A RE FAG ALL INS GIVEN - HARVAf @A C.R WHAT'S WHAT IN UlN By Camil The main interest at the Univer- E sity Library this week is the full t and fine exhibition of its own rare and t early editions of the Bible in honor of the Four Hundreth Celebration of the first Bible printed in English. ] M'st of the University Library Bibles r shown are rare treasures among first < editions of. the late Fifteenth and ear- l ly sixteenth centuries. There is also t a beautiful exact reproduction of the l title page of the oldest English printed ( Bible edited by Myles Coverdale with I reproductions also of the text as sample pages. This was published in 1535 and it is this "Coverdale Bible t which is being honored by this year's celebration all over the English speak ing countries of the world. This re production is shown on the large Bul letin Board to the left as one enters the Library with other reproductions. The University Library, however, s owns some great treasurers of Bibles, especially the "Geneva Bible" as old as 1560, which is exhibited in the glass case nearest the door. This was the edition that the Puritans brought over and perhaps they were the ones that objected to its being nicknamed "The Breeches Bible" as the passage in Genesis on the first wearing of clothes was translated "They sewed figg leaves together and made themiselves breeches." "The LeJay Polyglot Bible in seven volumes of which only two are exhibited, and in eight 1 tongucs, is shown also in that case ' and wvas printed by Vitre, and calledi by its editor, in 1645. These are won- 3 derful specinlens of the printer's arti in the clear old English type, fine paper and binding of leather. t This and the Walton's Polyglot r Bible in six volumes, published 1653- 1 57 and the Roycroft Polygot Bible,i 2 volumes, printed in 1677 which are( also owned and shown in the Univer- < sity Library besides other valuable 1. dliscoveries were rediscovered by its I Librarian, Robert M. Kennedy not I long after he came into office, from t under a pile of old forgotten books in an out of the way corner of the t Library where they had long been overlooked and their value and age 1 forgotten if ever known as they had never been catalogued. Mr. Kennedy wrote a very interesting paper for the J Kosmos Club which was most en. joyed and which should have been published as it gave much valuable] information on these discoveries and I other'rare and important books in the library. One of the most intcresting of thei University Bibles is the little onei translated by Eliot of Massachusetts known as "The Apostle to Indiansi of America," which was published in Cambridge, 1680. Few reproductions of great Biblical r BUY YOUR 0011 De Loache-R as "Flowers For A 115 Mn.In St Camera/I SA RMONT FOUNDED THE 1T STAT NIVERSITY (1791). AND LOUISVILLE ME& IA UjNICIPAL UNIVERSITY, 5(837) "WE ANYk LIFFE EGE OT HAVE SIDE )L.TY . 1RUiON IS BYTHE ' CD TEACHING STAPF ! fIVERSITY LIBRARY La Sams >ictures could be secured for exhibi ion by the Art Department, though here are shown some fine photo ,raphs of the great American Sar ent's' "The Prophets" of the Boston .ibrary, and some of Blashfield's mu als especially those in a Philadelphia hurch. The English poet and painter Ilake is represented not only by a eautiful book of his Biblical pictures ut by some of his best woodcuts. )ther English well known artists like ?urne Jones, Rossetti and Holman re represented in small reproductions. There are more interesting Bibles, ut one should see them to fully ap reciate their historic and religious alue. The notes on the reproductions nd those attached to the originals re authoritatively prepared by the ibrarian, Mr. Kennedy, and the As istant Librarian, Miss Elizabeth En lish, and the whole exhibition is re narkablc for any State University. fistorical Geology of the Antillean Caribbean Region, or The Lands Bordering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. By Charles Schuchert, D. S.C., LL. D., Pro fessor Emeritus of Paleontology in Yale University. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1935. This is, perhaps, the largest and niost authoritative as well as the latest 'ook on this most important region vhich lies between the two Americas rom not only a geological point of 'iew but for commercial and historic nterest and value. The Yale Profes or plans this as his first volume on he Historical Geology of North Ame ica which it is hoped he may conm lete. In any case it is of especial nterest to the University of South 2arolina, and pride, that Dr. Schuch rt depended much on our nationally :nown Professor Stephen Taber, for e quotes him frequently on various ines. And he also willingly admits hat "most of our knowledge of the ~eology of Southeastern Cuiba, and of he significance of the Bartlett Trough, ve owe to the work of Stephen Ta er (1922, 1931, 1932, 1934)." The Bartlett Trough" subsiderice, by the vay, led to the separation of Haiti and amaica. "This faulting," the author ays "we now learn from Taber (1934) vas most marked in Pleistocene time." -le also refers to Dr. Taber and quotes him on Puerto Rico and the Bahamas nd other West Indian islands and iving Dr. Taber credit of quotation n the bibliography for several articles a Geological magazines and from pa ers read at national Geological meet- re rigs. The book is beautifully and help ully illustrated by a fine series of maps and with good photographs. SAGES FROM vi Floral Co. ii Occasions" Phone 47ed