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VKilpatrickCo Confederatt During . Chapel Talk Prench Professor Declares South ern Courage Hardly Equalled In History "The Confederate States died ' in 1865, but the government did not fall until the president was captured," de clared Dr. Emmet Kilpatrick, Pro fessor of Romance Languages, Wed nesday morning when he gave one of a series of talks on the history of the University. Dr. Kilpatrick contended that Southern courage can har4ly be equalled in history. There are only two men in history who are equal to General Robert E. Lee. They are Hannabal and Napoleon. During the war, the University was closed and made into a hospital for both southern and northern soldiers. When Perry was appointed governor, he wanted to establish a University from the South Carolina College. His plan failed and he was succeeded by R. K. Scott as governor. During Scott's term the State was ruled by 'Northerners and negroes. They were extravagant spending $1,600 for cus pidors alone. Scott was followed by Chamber lain who was a good man but who could do nothing with the carpet baggers and scalawags, the speaker commented. Before the college becime a Uni versity, there were negro trustees in the college. This caused the enroll ment to fall off rapidly. In 1880, by the efforts of Wade Hampton, the University was established and it has been running ever since. Dr. Kilpatrick declared that most histories of the Confederacy have been written by Northerners. He urged students interested in reading a his tory which deals with things as they were to read the book written by Dr. Wallace of Wofford College. He closed his talk by quoting Alexander H. Stevens: "Times change men of the times change but principles never change." -U. s. . Library Gets Babcock Stories From Sport Magazine Books Placed In Current Reading Room For Students To Consider The University library has recently rcccived from the publishers a number of copies of magazines containing stories by Dr. Havilah Babcock, head of the Department of English litera ture. The magazines have been placed in the current reading room downstairs. Other magazines have benpromised by the publishers. Among the stories all of which have an outdoor background are "Indian Summer" "Billy and the Big Boss," "Puppies, Inc.," "Calling on My Neighbors," "The Second-Rater," "Irish," "'Possum up de 'Simmon Tree," "Three Legs," and "Sandhill," the leading story in the current num ber of Field and Stream. A national outdoor magazine re cently advertised one of the author's stories as "the greatest in the history of . outdoor writing," and editors and critics have compared his style with that of Archibald Rutledge, Herbert Ravenel Sass, and - Van Dyke. Dr. Babcock has published more than forty stories and articles since he be gani magazine writing three years ago. Before coming to the University, where he has been for ten years, Dr. Babcock was Professor of English at William and Mary and editor of the Virginia Gazette. Minneso~t Stdents Get Money In Gold Mines Gold mining is one of the methods used by students of the University of Minnesota to earn money during summer vacation to attend college, according to Dr. Stephen A. Taber, head of the Geology Department at the University. The boys are employed principally as manual labor. They handle large .water hose and wash the muck offI the pay gravel, earning anywhere from two to three hundred dollars above their expenses each summer. . Tenement 19 Leads Groups With 711 Points -Tenement 19, with a total of 711 points, is leading all other groups in. the discussion contest. Tenementa S is runner-up with 649 points. The group winning the contest,r which will end with the meeting next Tuesday night, and those members c in oth er grou. who have p..fst ;ments On Government Boxing Team Meets N. C. Elere January Eleventh Pugilists Are Doing Roadwork Every Morning To Get In Trim The 1986 Gamecock pugilists have itarted training in earnest for their irst fight which will be held in Co umbia on January 11 with the tar teels of North Carolina. Workouts in the ring are being eld three times a week under the lirection of Coach DeMars. The men ire receiving ,individual instruction very day. Footwork is getting ipecial attention,. and deception is also )eing stressed. The boys are doing roadwork on he track every morning. Everything s being done to have the team in the >est possible physical shape by the first bout. A new addition to the squad was nade last week in the person of Jack Fennel. Spanish Maidens Love Battles Between Men And Bulls 3enoritas Dress Up In Best Out fits For Afternoon In Bull Pen While American girls "dike out" in heir very best clothes for football games, Spanish damsels save their inery to wear to bull fights. Attired in fancy dresses, ancestral nantillas, and picturesque combs, Spanish girls spend an exciting after noon watching some manly brute lodge a bull around an arena. Bull ights are among the few events that he girls in that country are permitted to attend, according to Mrs. Grace . Sweeny, associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages it the University. - U. s. 0. 17 Kinds Of Snakes Are Poisonous In U. S. The United States has seventeer types of poisonous snakes according to John A. Crawford, physical director for men at the University of South Carolina., Some of the poisonous variety have fangs in the forward part of the upper jaw, and others iave fatrgs in the rear. Lizards, from which all snakes are descended, are non-poisonous with the exception of the Gila monster, whose fangs are ound in the forward part of the lower aw. -U. .. 0. Dr. Hoy Entertains Visitor From China Dr. W. E. Hoy was swept back hirty years to his childhood days in China, when he recently conducted iis former Sunday-school teacher >ver the University campus. The for ner teacher is now Rev. A. M. Sher nan of Cincinnati. The one-time pu i1 of the little school in China is iow head of the Biology Department it the University. Touth Can Take It Declare Ohio Officials Columbus, Ohio (ACP) Modern routh can "take it." At least that's the verdict of promi lent Ohio State officials who were isked to comment on published state nents of Dr. William P. Tolley, presi lent of Allegheny' College, to the ef ect that young people "Can't take it >ecause they have never been trained o do it." The colleges* and universities are full fstudents who are proving their bility to weather tough going, the )hio State educator said. They cited xamples: a boy who works from six o midnight every night in an out-of own industrial plant; a student with 10 income whatever, entirely depen lent on a board-and-room job (there re lots of these, and they don't all iave jobs for both board and room) *nd student members of police and fire lepartments. According to Dr. B. L. Stradley, 3hio State examiner, modern young eople aren't going to college merely o be going. "They are coming to earn and to improve themselves," he aid. -U. U. 0. ttendance, will be guests to a chicken upper immediately after the Christ sas holidays. Dr. 0. F. Crow, dean of the School f Education, is leader of the leading moun. Tsn UA& Bids Open Next Monday For New Buildings Dormitories And Extensions To Thornwell Will Be Added To Campus Bids for construction of the new buildings provided for the University under a recent government grant will be opened and considered at a meet ing of the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees next Monday at 11 o'clock in the library. Included in the list of anticipated new structures for the University are a student activities building, dormi tories, extensions to Thornwell, and a few other minor projects. Members of the Building Com mittee are: President Leonard T. Baker, ex officio chairman; David R. Coker, Dr. R. 0. McCutchen, Hames H. Sullivan, Cyrus L. Shealy, Edwin G. Seibels. -,u. a. 0. $71,000 Legacy Takes Students By Surprise Detroit, -(ACP)-Two weeks ago he was supporting himself on the meager profits of a news stand in down town Detroit, but today William Dix, 27, is ready to finish his medical edu cation at Harvard. He has $71,000 for the purpose. Dix was totally unprepared for the good news that came to him with a notice that an uncle has left him the fortune. He said he didn't know what to do with the money except to repay his landlady for some of her kindness and finish his medical education. Several years ago he completed four years of pre-medical work at the Cin cinnati School of Medicine, but there were no immediate means to finance his further education. Two years ago Dix's father died, and his mother died two months later. His uncle, the late Dr. Robert C. Mil ler, offered to help him then, but he decided to make his own way. He'll be "careful" of the $71,000. -U. ". o. Folk Singers Leave For Southern Tour :OONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) to Columbia December 20. Thomas McDonald of Pamplico and Charles Fuller of Greenwood will serve as soloists for the organization, and Eu gene Sasser of Conway as pianist, as sisted by Henry G. Martin, Jr., of Co lumbia. Last December the Folk Singers made a tour of the middlewest which ended in Chicago, and in 1934 a tour of the east which terminated in New York. Through out their successful career the singers have been favorably received and con structively criticised by th- American Press. Much favorable comment was received by the Club. Francis D. Perkins in the New York Herald Tribunae said, "The South Carolinians gave a likeable per formance: well drilled unity, and precision --laudable spirit, pleasing an audience that filled the hall." The New York Tim,es: "The Southern voices of fine natural quality were blended to advantage." The Mlusical Courier: "New Yorkers nowadays expect a well sung program and they wvere not dis appointed. Professor Matteson, director of the club for tenl years, has accom plished unusually good results wvith the chorus this year." Eugene Stinson in the Chicago Daily News: "The young singers performed with a style now amusing, now stirring, but always likeable.... those present found innumerable occasions to express their well justified delight." Samuel Lacier in the Philadelphia Public Ledger : "The Carolina Folk Singers sang with good tonal quality and spirit." Alice Eversman in the Wadsaington Star: "A full house yesterday at the Fri day Morning Club for the return en gagement of the Carolina Folk Singers ... .responded immediately to Mr. Matte son's shading from loud to Pianissamo." Sidney Dalton in the Tennessean: "The music was sung in a simple, unadorned manner, retaining the folk flavor and a certain genuineness in the manner of pre sentation. The singing was marked with enthusiasm and discipline." George Harris in the Ridsmond Times-| Dispatch : "Especially interesting werel Mr. Matteson's arrangement of the folk songs." Mrs. Maybelle Wall in the At lanta Journal: "They were particularly successful and were royally received." Savannah Morning -News: "Naturally good voices, admirably trained in choral effects." The Florida Timne--Union, of Jack sonville: "The singing of the young men not only came up to, but exceeded ex pectations." The Palm Beach Post : "The excellent singing of the University of South Carolina Folk Singers was re ceived with continuous applause-display lug excellent musical merit. Xs.000K Letter From The annual Thanksgiving battle be tween Furman apd Clemson which was played in Greenville this year in a sea of mud was attended by the sports editor's secretary, Ino Much, who sent in the following report: Dear Sports Ed.: Here I am at the game. The stands are jammed to overflowing and all available space has been taken. Over 15,000 shivering fans are now waiting for the tilt to begin. The press writers in Furman's spacious press box are waiting with .pencils poised. The teams are coming on the field. While the squads are warming up (mudding up) the cheering sections on both sides of the field -are going wild. Clemson's rooting section are shaking white handkerchiefs in the air and cheering while the purple and white backers are releasing toy bal loons by the hundreds, all of different colors, which sail up into the dark and damp zone. The Furman band is blowing off its head while the Cadet musicians are playing, "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonite." The gridiron warriors look like trained seals in a circus as they obe diently splash around in the numerous pools of water. Their uniforms are losing their bright hues and both teams look like troops from the Con federate army. Sitting behind us is a rabid Furman supporter in the form of a lady who seems to have a boy playing on the Purple team. Clemson boys are com ing in the gate with "Wreck the House of Magic" signs on their caps. "Beat Clemson" mottoes are plastered everywhere. The American Legionnaires are guarding the gates, fer.ces, and are vainly attempting to quell some of the fights springing up in every sec tion of the stands. Some smart business men are sell ing 25 cent oilcloths for $5.00 rain coats and we bought one. Oh, dearl The gamc is beginniingI There goes a Clemson score. But wait a minute. Furman has also scored a safety. Then here they come again. Another score for the Purple Pala dians. The gun sounds for the half. The Clemson crack platoon that is marching on the field does not look Literary Society Reads Play "When the Cross is Made," a play by Eugene O'Neal, was read at a meeting of the Euphrosynean Literary Society Thursday. The principal characters were: Captain Bartlett, read by Ruth Hair; his son Nat, by Ruth Barber; his daughter Sue, by Edith Woodruff; and Dr. Higgins by Francis Revere. Cherry Dell Kelly, critic for the society, was in charge of the program. ---. a. o. Chattanooga Architect Visits USC Observatory Clarence Jones, Chattanooga archi tect who has charge of plans for the erection of a municipal astronomical observatory in that city, visited Mel ton Observatory -recently. Mr. Jones studied the dome and the driving mechanism to help. him in the design ing of the Chattanooga building. He was very interested in young Bob Lewis, University freshman, who was first in America to discover Nova Hercules. Federal Aid Reduces Ranks Of_Unemployed Minneapolis, Minn.-(ACP)-..Had it not been for federal aid given univer sity students, many of them would now be a part of the "missing generation," says Dean Malcolm M. Willey of the University of Minnesota. "Denied the chance to enter colleges and Universities, there are thousands upon thousands of y'ouths in this country who, nowv doing nothing, would normally have trained themselves for business agriculture, and the professions-they are the missing generation," Dean Willey explains. In the fact that federal aid has pre vented a disastrous increase in the ranks of the "missing generation," Dean Willey finds ample justification for the pro gram. CAROLINA STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AT CAPITOL CAFE 00LUMBAS OLDEST A Spectator very appropriate in their white ducks and white shoes. There they go. Splashing through the puddles of water and by the time they finish their formations they will exemplify the sentiments of the entire Clemson supporters in their soiled and bed raggled condition. The second half begins. Furman is decidedly the best team. The punting of Roy Stevens has kept Clemson in their own backyard the entire game. The final quarter is being fought. Clemson is lost in a fog. They are throwing the ball aimlessly around while the impenetrable line of Fur man holds them securely. Clemson is getting rough. One Furman player has been knocked out and Clemson is receiving a 15 yard penalty. Fur man is on their way to another touch down but the whistle blows. Furman has won the state cham pionship 8 to 6 and no one who has witnessed the game can deny they deserve the title. The lofty old oaks surrounding the Furman field are now shedding their -human spectators at the rate of five from a limb. Drunks are trying to arise, but failing, sit serenely back. The Clemson water boy that was knocked down by a blow from the fist of some mysterious person in a dark overcoat is the only Clemson fan with a swelled head. The unkown fan that stood under the goalposts, raised his hands to heaven and cried, "Come to me, Fur man" turns out to be a man from Columbia. Carolina students are seen on every hand. One fan quietly remarked that there are as many Carolina students as there are drunks which totals a cozy few. Now for the first time during the afternoon, the sun comes out, spread ing its shower of gold over the de parting throngs and adding a perfect setting to the torn field, the autumn leaves whiliig about, and the weary but happy Furman warriors sloshing to their dressing rooms. Furman has won and to "the boys on the hill" goes the highest credit for their great fight and deserved championship. Your Stenog., Ino. The romance of a Co-ed who tried to mix politics with petting 'R MON. TUES. N GIFT For The Girls To Give To Men -- -- -- -- For The Men To Give To Girls JAMES L. Page Five Spanish Frat Has Banquet In Jefferson Hotel Each Pledge And Active Called On For Speech During Evening A banquet was given by Sigma Delta Pi. Spanish honorary fraternity, at the Jefferson Hotel recently, in honor of its new initiates and pledges. A speech was made by each pledge and initiate of the club. Officers of Sigma Delta Pi are: Mrs Marguerite Abel Brooks, president; vice-presi dent, Marvene Walker; and secretary treasurer, Virginia Timmons. The initiates and pledges are the following: Marvene Walker, Sarah Rector, Boyd Dantzler and Virginia Timmons, initiates; Elizabeth Liggon, Doris Liggon, Mary Culbertson, Gil bert Colino, Louise Roper and Teresa Smith, pledges. Princeton Firshmen Seem To Want Little Princeton, N. J.-(ACP)-In the opinion of the serious-minded class of 1940 at Princeton, things to be desired at that university are music with din ner and dinner without scrambled eggs, larger cream pitchers at aU times, the addition of co-eds and abo litioin of classes. Hair Cuts-25c J. C. 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