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McKiss Friends of the University were pleased with the election of Dr. J. Rion Mc Kissick, dean of the school of journalism, to the presidency of the institution. Dean McKissick will go into office the first of July. Until then he will conduct his classes as in the past. A meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held before the end of the year to elect some one to take his place in that department, Frank Welbourne, secretary of the board remarked yesterday. The new president assumes the office of president with a background of in tense educational and newspaper service. He is a son of Colonel Isaac Going and Sara (Foster) McKissick of Union and was born October 13, 1884. At the age of 21 he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University and for the following three years attended Ilarvard Law School. Attending several summer sessions at the University of Wisconsin, he received his M. A. degree in Journal ism in 1933. In 1927 lie married Caroline Virginia Dick of Sumter. She is a graduate of Winthrop. ie reported for the Union Progress for some time and was busi ness manager of the Union Times in 1905. lie served two years as reporter and assistant editor of the Richmond Times I )ispatch. and was chic efditor;al writer for that paper from 1911-14. Ile was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1914 and for some time practiced in Greenville. lie was contributing editor of the Greenville News in 1916, and served as editor for the following three years. From 1919-26 he was editor of the Greenville Piedmont, and for the fol lowing year lectured on South Carolina history at Furman University. Since September 1, 1927, lie has been dean of the school of iournalism here. succeeding W. W. Ball, present editor of the Charleston News and Courier. lie was a member of the staff of Gov. Richard I. Manning and Code Com mander of South Carolina from 1916-18. Ile was a delegate to the National Dem ocratic convention in 1924, and a trus tee of Greenville Woman's College from 1923-32, becoming trustee of the Uni versity in 1924. lie is a member of the South Carolina Hlistorical Society and F. D. R. Heard By Journalists McKissick Is Visitor Roosevelt's Private Office Is Scene Of President's Representatives of the Anmerican As sociationl of Schools and D)epartmilents of Jotirnalismi anld mlembers of tile American Association of Teachers of J ournlalismI, hioiding their joinIt anniual conlventio,n at tile National Press Club in WVashinigton last wveek-end, aittende d a special "press coinferencee" witih President Roosevelt ill the White House. It was the first gathering (If thlis kind ill history. J. Rion McKissick, (lean of tihe School of Journalism and( presidlent elect (If the University represenltedl South Carolina at tile mneetinlg. Tile press conference withl President Roosevelt followed immlnediately afiter tile P'residients regular semi-weekly press conlferencee and was an "'off tihe record"' affair. For more than hlaif an hourf. 1Presidlent Roosevelt dliscussed frankly tile relations of the presidenlt witih the WVashiington correspondents and answered the questions asked him by these men and womn~ci who are en gagedl ill training somei of the cor respond(ents of the future. Dean MctKissick was accompanlied on tile trip to the nlationl's capiital by iis wife andl Professor and Mrs. R. L. Sumwalt. Thley conltinueid to Newv York where they spent part of the holidays. Four New Men Taken In By Kappa Phi Kappa Four new members were initiated into Kappa Phi Kappa, inational ed tication fraternity, at a recent meeting. Those initiatedl were: R. M. Nel son, Havana, Ark.; F. J. Blowers, Co lumbia; F. HI. McIntosh, Wakefield, Mass. and J. G. Cook, Hopkins. Mr. Nelson is a graduate student; thle others are seniors in the School of Ed ucation. -tr. 0. 0. Enrollment in Hiaverfords' courses for the college janitors and kitchen men jumped this year from 11 to 25. Subject include civics, French and algebra. ick Su O Dean J. Rion McKissick, president will assume his duties as president in . Association, and past president of th University of South Carolina Alumn Association. IIe has also served as pres ident of the South Carolina Press Asso ciation and is a member of the Americai Association of American University pro fessors, and ex-president of the Citizen: l''ducae tinpl A ssocitaon. Other organizations of which he is member include the American Associa. tion of Teachers of Journalism, Soutl Carolina Teachers' Association, Kappz Alpha fraternity, liii Beta Kappa, Tat Kappa Alpha, Sigma Upsilon, Omicror Delta Kappa, Sigma I)elta Chi. Ile i a member of the Haptist church. Hotel Revelry By Falling Inmates Of Famous "Little Louisi Morning After Too I They had a room in the Columbi iuotel. They were having a party c one sort or another. ft mu.st hav h)een a good party for milk hottle were cluttering up thme room and cig artte andl cigar smoke hung over thei heads. Gednecy H-owve hmad ab)out rumn out conversation, Buster Watts was tire< of listening andl the other members c the party had ret iredl to the 101)b) An air of benevolence mingledl wit the smoke. "What say, we push up a window, 'iuggestedl thme Chmarlestoniani. it was 0. K. with Hluster. Sinc WVeasel Carpenter was not present,i must hav'e been all right by him toc So Gedney aptproached the sill, raise< lhe wvindow, and started mingling wit1 the sc reen. lHe must have been a lit t too hasty for the fly excluder swirve on its hinges a couple of times an then took a flying leap for the pave umnt. twelve stories b)elow. (Gudney commenced beating h I gums, or chopping his chin. or lasi ing his tongue, or something. H1 couldn't talk fast enough. In fact he couldn't 'mave talked at all in hi present condition. lHe rushled to thm elevator, rang the hell until the hat teries nearly wvent dead. andh then tor out dlown the -stairs. After what seemed to him to 1 several hours, he reached the groun floor, swished by the clerk, skidde around the swinging doors and picke up the fallen object. Then lhe thought. "Should I tak~ this thing hack into the hotel? The might charge me for breaking th furniture. No I'll hide it around thi corner and wvhen the managemem finds it, we will have checked out, he was thinking to himself. That's exactly what lie did. Hie re turned to the room and told his com panions that he had fixed everythin; all right, Hie related to them in de tail what lie had (lone. Everything went on all right uinti the next morning when the party wa awakened l)y a loud knock on the door It was the manager. He wanted t< know if they had kenckedA ou ..sc cceeds elect of the University of South Caroli1 uly. lHe is a member of the Kosmos ci le will continue to make his home on t1 - University campus. Beginning the afternoon of his ete tion )ean McKissick began receivii - letters and telegrams of congratul tions from all directions. They a stilc ing in. As president-elect he has already b - gan serving the University. Along wi Doctor B3aker, president, he appear< before ithe Ways and Means commi tee Wednesday afternoon with a sti ring appeal for an increase in the Ui versity appropriations. Broken -Screen's Cras) ana Tenement" Add Another Awf Uready Impressive List a the night before They realized th I were caught and admitted that th "WNell, there is a man in the hiospit r who was hit by a screen thati fronm a windlow in the hotel." Their expressions fell. Th'e era 1couldl lie heard by Gus Pearim; y Gedney's roommate, who lay asleep .Little Louisiana, tenement 18, to yc ht iIe rushed to the scene of action, p tip a bo01( front andl told the mat ger that lie wotuld b)e respontsib)le f their shiowi'ng upi in court. 'Thisw e satisfactory. tFor several (hays, members of I .party wvere on the endl of their nervi I They thought of everything: how I hi newspapers wvould play tip the fa e that Uniiversity students had mali I ously thbrowit a screeni from the 1: I flooir of a hotel to kill a man, howv th -paretts wouild feel about the mtati anid how~ thtey would lie thirown c s of thle University. - The other day, Gedney goit a phet e call, le was shiakinig, to sayt least. II is knees were knockinig li a a pair oif (lice. e "Is t his Air. 1 lowe," the v'oice av lite phiione asked. "It is." e "Well,this is the manager (if IColumbitl ia ho itel and( I hav~e julst call y1et11t to tell youtt that thle little in ldeitt that happened the ot her itighit settledl. In fact, there never wvas itant hutrt. We just wvantedh you to a little mtore careful with our prop< ty ini thle fiittire.'' --U. s. 0. ,Junior Class Assessed One Dollar Eac F.ach member of the Junior cla - of the Untiversity wvas assesedl g dlollar at a mneetinig of the class yt - terdlay mo(rning to meet the expens of a JIunior-Sentior Banqumet ne I sp)rmg. s This amount is to be paid upon re .istering at the University in Februai > James Cothran, presidenit, presid 1 over the meeting. Baker Dr. L. T. Baker, president of the Un na will expire in July, will be succeeded by Dr. Baker will assume the duties of Dea b. Dr. Leonard T. Baker will have com Ie pleted four years as president of the University when he assumes the duties e of dean of the faculty the first of July a- this year. re He was retired from the position of head of the college at a reccnt meeting e- of the Board of Trustees. He had re quested that someone be elected to suc cd ceed him on various occasions but until the last meeting the Board had pre t- vailed upon him to continue in office. r- He was made president in 1932 after i- serving as acting president for two years previously. His election as presi List Compiled Of Best Sellers u H. B. Wright Tops Rest Famous Romance Author Succeeds In Selling Over 300,000 Copies ey Of Three Novels cy Harold Bell Wright wrote four of aapproximately thirty books produced by American authors, that have sold elI 300,000 copies or over during the last fifty years, according to a list of sh "best sellers" compiled by- Dr. Reed ni, Smith, Dean of the Graduate School ini at the University. "- "The Winning of Barbara Worth" uit wvas the most famous of Wright's a- best sellers, but his "Calling of Dan or Matthews," "WVhen a Man's a Man," as and "Shepherd of the Hills" all sold over half a million copies. he Two of Gene Stratton Porter's s. novels, "Freckles" and "Laddie," sold he over a million and a half copies, et while "In His Steps," by Skelton, ei- surp)assedl all other sales, with eight th million. Mark Twain's "Tom Saw eir yer" and H uckleberry Finn" have er both gone over the million mark, andl ut the sales of both books are still miounting. ne Other books wvith high sales are he "We,'' by Colonel Lindbergh; "TIhe ke L-ittle Shepherd of Kingdom Come," by Fox ; Stevenson's "Treasure Island ;" Re er mnarque's "All Quiet on the WVestern Front;" and Hlaliburton's "Story of the Bible." lhe edComnplimnents of e; GERVAIS STREET PHlARMACY is PHONE 4347 1 a ECONOMY DRUG CO. >e PHONE 8119 Friendly Cafeteria 130 Ha,mpion Avenue (Opposite First Baptist Church) BEST COOKED FOOD IN TOWN ne Mrs. J. H. ope Mrs. L. H. Spann es xtEvans Motor Co. Dial 8103 then count the minutes ry. ed 24 HOUR SERVIOZ As Pr iversity of South Carolina, whose terr Dean Rion McKissick, president-elec n of the Faculty. dent was with the understanding tha a successor would be chosen as soo as it was possible to find one. For the period he has been in offic Doctor Baker has very sincerel handled the affairs of the institution. A son of Ed :rd .'d Maxine (Blar chard) Baker, he was born in Charle5 ton January 22, 1868. At the age of 2 he received his Bachelor of Arts degre from the College of Charleston, fiv years later his Master's degree, and i 1926 the degree of LL.D., all from th same college. At the age of 27 he married Lucreti Professors Go To Convention Dr. Clyde M. Ferrell and Dr. S Julian Ravenel Childs, members of ti History Departnient of the Univers ty, went to Chattanooga, Tenn. du ing the Christmas holidays for the at nual Nationial HIistorical Convention. At one timie dluring' the meeting til South C arolina p)rofessors had breal, fast withi Professor D)avis IIarris California, and Professor Curtis WVih us of WVashington, 1). C., bo0th formt membecrs of the university faculty, an with Professor Wifred Calcott< D)uke Univ'ersity, who is on leav'e p)resent from the University of Sout Ca:rol ia. Central Drug Co. FOR DELICIOUS 25c--PLATE LUNCHES--25c --Served at all hours DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR Consists of Potato salad, chicken salad, lettuce, tomatoes, cold slaw, p)ickle and choice of one meat Phone 5197 ( COR4 With Can CORONA STERLING CORONA SILENT - - - CORONA STANDARD - (Prices Includ GIBBES TYPI 128 H'Er.. esident Douglas Lang of Camden. His second marriage was to Ellen Deas Lang, a sister to his first wife. He has one daughter, Lucretia Douglas, by his first marriage, and another, Harriet Ker shaw, by his second. For nine years, 1889-98, he taught in various high schools of this State, and for the following eight years was su perintendent of schools. In 1906 he was made professor of history and administration of education at the University, and in 1914 was made dean of men. He served in this capacity until 1926 when he became acting president, succeeding the late Dr. W. D. Melton. In 1932 he was made full president, continuing in that capacity until the present time. Dr. Baker is a member of the Na tional Education Association, and was president of the South Carolina State Teachers' Association 1908-09. He is a member of Chi Phi social fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity, and Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity. He has been very active in educational and social organizations. He is a member of the Democrat party, the Espiscopalian church, and the Masons, a secret or ganization. He is also a former presi dent of the Kosmos club, and a mem ber of Columbia Rotary. He will con tinue to make his home at 817 Sumter street. -U. M. C. 'Carolina n t. 10 Years Ago .t To aid the high school publications a of the State, editors of The Gamecock have agreed to issue three bulletins to be sent to each high zchccl in the State. The first bulletin will contain a style sheet, the second will deal with proper heads for small papers, and the last will tell of the standard prices for advertisements and the business 0 policy of papers. e SApproximately sixty Clariosophics started the new year off iight Ly at 1 tending the meeting Tuesday night. e Six men were expelled for delinquency in dues, after having been notified the a required number of times. USE ALOX TOOTH POWDER YOUR RETAIL DRUGGIST WILL SUPPLY YOU Distributed By - McKesson-Murray d Division MCKESSON & ROBBINS, INCORPORATED Lt "COLUMBIA'S MOST UNIQUE" Opposite the Jefferson Hotel Open All Night Phone 8754 )NA TYPEWRITERS Famous Floating Shift Be Financed As Low As $1.00 A Week -- -- -- -- --$2.50 -- -- -- -- --$7.50 ----- -- -- -- --$49.50 e Car'rying Case) WRITER SHOP ptan Aveanna