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CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Famous Pianist To Pla HereSpring Practice UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Volume XXIX No. 13 __COLUMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938 Four k Charles Cadmc Her Carolina Singers On Nationwide Hook-Up During Folklore Meet Famous Composers And Ballad Authorities To Come From All Over South A piano recital by Dr. Charles Wakefield Cadman, America's most outstanding composer, recital by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Hadley, folklore au thorities, and a National network broadcast by the Carolina Folk Singers of the University will be the high lights of the second annual meeting of the Southeastern Folklore Society to be held at the University, February 28-29. Maurice Matteson, head of the University Department of Music is president of the society. Another feature of the meeting will be the musical illustrations which will be furnished by the ballad singers of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. F. A. Church, of Konna rock, Va., famous ballad singer, will be the outstanding artist on this pro gram. He has given a large number of recitals at the White House. Dr. Cadman will appear in recital at Drayton Hall Friday night, Feb ruary 28 at 8:30. He is the composer of the familiar and famous songs "At Dawning," a n d is internationally known for his brilliant and inspiring recitals. The NBC broadcast of the Carolina Folk Singers will be put on the air from WIS Saturday morning, Feb ruary 29 from 11:30 until 12:00. Mem hers of the organization are: W. B. Atkinson, R. R. Behney, William Bruce, William Brooker, Louis Cain Bryan, Edward C. Bowen, William Carmack, Samuel B. Cartledge, Jr., John A. Crawford, Eddie R. Elkin, Charles C. Fuller, Evans N. Guyton, George Jeffrey, Harry Mims, Thomas McDonald, Hassel Ross, Leonard D. Rosen, Eugene Sasser, Theron S. Skiles, William Walker, John L. Wig gins, and McIver Williamson. A tentative program follows: Friday, 4 p. m., address of welcome, Dr. Leonard T. Baker, president of (Continued on Pane $; Column 2) .-U.S . Eleven Pledged By Sororities Eleven new students were pledged 'this week to six sororities at the Uni versity after a week of open rushing. Delta Zeta came out ahead pledging 3 girls and re-pledging one who has returned to Carolina. Delta Delta Del ta and Alpha Omicron Pi tied for sec ond place with 2 each. Alpha Delta Pi, Clhi Omega, and Zeta Tau Alpha each pledged one. Sigma Kappa and Pi Beta Phi have not had pledge services to date. The following girls wvere pledged: Delta Zeta, Sara Harrison, Elizabeth Mosely, Dumas Harris, and Margery Collins (repledged). Delta Delta Delta: Caroline Gog gins and Ray Graves. Alpha Omicron Pi: ElIea n or Hatchel and Mary Lillian Walker. Alpha Delta *Pi: Betty Lumsden. Chi Omega: Louise Arington. Zeta Tau Alpha: Katherine Web ster. Feb. 19th Is Deadline For Late Registration February 19 will be the last date for registration at the University, ac cording to the registrar, and will be the last day for making any changes in registration. After this date no student can en ter under any circumstances, and no fee will enable a student to change any course already made. Since registration is still going on, no figures will be published until next wee. tuden ts mn Plays e This Month Society Installs New Officers At Tuesday's Meeting Harper Welbourne Assumes Presi dency of Clariosophic As Foster Retires Amid a haze of cigar and cigarette smoke, the Clariosophic Literary So ciety installed new offices Tuesday night. "We want to continue our policy of rigid economy, but not to the ex tent of obstructing progress," Harper Welborn asserted in his inaugural ad dress. Among tentative plans, he said, is a society banquet at one of the ho tels when a guest speaker can be se cured. Richard Foster, untiring president announced that he will introduce a res olution favoring government owner ship of power facilities next week. The society adjourned early so that members could attend other activities T' on the campus. --v. s. a.-- E Block'C' Club Will Enforce m Training_Rule t J< Given Power To Expel 1 Coach McCallister And Mr. Harth a Agree To Turn Over A~ thority To Letter Club S< As a result of a recent agreement dc between Coach McCallister and Wil- C( liam H. Harih, the Block C Club has sh been given complete disciplinary S powers over all University athletes. tic Not only will the Club make the wv rules to be observed during this year's v spring practice, but will see that these rules are carried out. For some time, one of the Block C members declared m recently, it has been known that quite a few members of the football team have been breaking training, either by R smoking or other minor offences. The nA club has been given the right to ex pell any athlete if it considers the of fence of so serious a nature. Fromn now on, any player who vi- D olates training rules during spring - practice will be responsible to this - organiiz tion, which has already taken1 action in a case that arose last week. None of the punishments admin istered by the club will be made puh lic. Campus Figure H Almost Four Score Uncle Fruit, the grand old man of gr the campus, was 79 years old this ti< week. Mr. Tinman, a colorful charac- sil ter, has served as a subject for artM studlents on many occasions and has Jc frequently been the inspiration to Eng- Ca hish students in writing a personality P< story.w Uncle Fruit had a lovely birthday cake with 79 candles for the occasion. M In fact, it was such a very fine cake mi that Uncle Fruit had a hard time th persuading himself to cut it. da Gardener of the University for the so past ten years, Uncle Fruit has be-- o comei as much a part of the school as eight o'clock classes. Born in Corn- re: well, England, lie came to South Caro- at lina via Mass. as a stone cutter. He th first came to Columbia to work on clh the granite for the State Hlouse when ex construction was resumied after the U: Civil War. n Students have painted several ex- th cellent portraits of the English garde- be ner, one of which hangs in President RBaeer's onfie. Shippeo Rival Society Harper Welbourne, left, and Walter esidcnts of the Clariosophic and EUplar S'eniors Head All 'A'List welve Reach Top ( ght Seniors Attain Highest Av- I erage, With Only One Junior And No Sophs Twelve students in the academic der-graduate school at the Univer- I y made all A's for the first semes- r , according to figures released by hn A. Chase, Jr., registrar. Of the a 'elve, eight are Seniors, three are c eshmen, and one is a Junior. Two '1 from out of South Carolina. No v phomores attained an A average. n May ieyward Belser, Arts and s ience, senior, Columbia, S. C.; Ran- e lph Bradham, Commerce freshman, i >lumbia, S. C.; Peter Collin Cogge all, Education, senior, Darlington, t C.; Boyd Francis Dantzler, Educa- t in, senior, Parler, S. C.; Charles Ed- il rd Lee, Journalism, freshman, Ashe- ' le, N. C.; Knowlton James McIver, t mmerce, senior, Gaston, S. C.; a )bert Henry McLaughlin, Com- Si rce, senior, Central, S. C.; LaRue c erida Medlin, Pharmacy, junior, I nnettsville, S. C.; James Albert t chardson, Pharmacy, senior, Gar- t tt, S. C.; Blanche Hazel Wilson, ( ts and Science, senior, Bowman, s C.; Edith Egleston Woodruff, Ed- i ation, senior, Baltimore, Md.; Irvine f vitty Welling, Commerce, freshman, ii mrlington, S. C. '(Continued on Page 5; Column 1) t Vew U.S.C. Pr Deluged I undreds Of Wires And Letters Fr States Congratulate On Ele Several hundred letters and tele- I ams congratulating him upon elec-i n to the presidency of the Univer- g y have been received by J. Rion cKissick, dean of the School of a urnalism, from every part of South Lrolina andI from other States. ManyF rsons have also extended their good shes in person or by telephone. Without stenographic help, Dean a cKissick expects to answer all the assages in an individual way, al :>ugh the work wvill require many ys. Since their receipt he has had many demands on his time that 0 far he has been unable to reply.a Probably wvithout precedent was the ;olution passed by the legislature its recent special session in whichI trustees were commended for their oice and in which the opinion was pressed that "the leadership of the liversity has been entrusted to a tive son wvho is fully worthy of high position to which he has en called." Amiong the messages was one from i wis H. Gault mayor of Union, -- JBySS Presidents Solomon, right, recently installed adian literary societies, respectively. Heavy Water On Exhibition Pared For Cautiously .atest Chemical Wonder Recently Received By University Chemical Department A bottle of "heavy water," the test chemical wonder, was recently eceived by the University's chemical epartment, and is being cared for with 11 the caution that would be bestowed in an equal amount of precious metal. 'he water was received from a Nor reigian firm bearing the formidable ame of "Kvaelstofahtreselskab." The ample is kept in a small test tube, nclosed in a nickle container, which carefully packed in a wooden box. Having nothing else to do, one of he boys in the chemical department ook a defective glass bottle, weigh ig about six ounces, and put a "heavy ater" label on it, along with instruc ions to handle with care, and above 11, not to remove the stopper. The lid glass was shown to several people n the campus, all of whom com iented on the heaviness of the "wa er," and several even went so far as D wonder if a man could pick up a uart of it. One student's sight was o keen that he detected air bubbles i the "water," and observed that a sh would have a hard time swimming I it. Imagination is indee, , wonderful hing. esiden t Vith Telegrams Dm All Over The Eastern United Dolonel McKissick stion )ean McKissick's native town, declar 1ig that the "entire citizenship" con 'ratulated him, the State, and the in titution. Geo. T. Keller, president f the Union Merchants' Association, ent a similar message. The Colum ia Chamber of Commerce, the Co imbia Merchants' Associaition and its 'rade Promotion Committee likewvise College and university presidents 'ho tendered their congratulations ecre: Frank P. Graham, University f North Carolina; John Stewart Bry ni, College of William and Mary; Pr. Shelton Phelps, Winthrop; Dr. .P. Pell, ex-president, and Dr. E. M. wathmey, president, Converse; Dr. )avid M. Ramsay, ex-president of ie Greenville Woman's College; Dr. . . Geer, Furman; Dr. Henry N. nydler, Wofford; Dr. E. \V. Sikes, lenmson; Dr. Francis P. Gaines, Vashington and Lee; Dr. Robert Wil n, Medical College of the State of outh Carolina; Dr. R. C. Cranberry, imestone; Dr. S. C. Mitchell, former (Continued on Pana Si Clumn 1) tudent ACTION END EXAM-STEA Flu And Mumps Harass Students No Cases Serious Fifteen Men And Two Co-Eds Confined In Infirmary During Week Seventeen students have been con fined in the infirmary this week be cause of light attacks of the flu and mumps. The mumps victims are Bruce Littlejohn and Josh Gee, both law students. Two of the patients are co-eds, Martha Harmon and Caro lyn Smith. The number of flu patients is only a little more than the average for this time in February, according to Mrs. Madden, and none of the cases that all of those in the infirmary are eating three square meals a day, so there is nothing to worry about. A bag of fruit was anonymously sent to the sufferers, who wish tc take this opportunity of thanking their benefactor. Of course the pat'ents were not hinting for anything, but they made it plain that all the fruit is gone. Those who were still in the infir mary yesterday are: Roy Johnson Paul Wateroff, Billy Ney, IHarold Prince, Henry Creighton, Dinky \Vil liams, Charlie Owens, W. T. Mal phrus, James Williams, Robert \Vau chope, Ted Ninestein, Bruce Little john, Josh Gee, and Martha Harmon Ticker Tape (Formerly Carolina Today) By TRIBBLE Elegy Now that we both have shown our hand Let's not resort to masquerade.... The patterned paradise we planned Could not survive the tcsts we made. In retrospect my idle dreais Recall the bliss of days we spent And nights we shared-so that it seems A pity now our paths were rent. But-though forgetting brings dis may Forget I must, for I recall 'Twas my neglect that caused decay WVhen F.den's walls began to fall. (The only thought I ponder on Is that when I reneged, you had to pawn My frat pin!) -Gun gad it, -Or Checkers, Perhaps By a 6-4 vote, officials at the Southern Conference meet last week adopted the widely discussed Graham Plan which is calculated to restore Southern Conference athletics to the "do-or-die-for-dear old - whosis-not-one-cent-. for -pay ment" basis. If the member schools abide by the regulations of this plan-as no doubt they will (laughter)-it won't be long be fore the only way to distinguish a football man from the rest of us common people will be by the Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain. (Sudden thought: Wonder how much it would cost to cover the football field out at the sta dium with soft pine boards of the mumblety-peg variety?) Dr. Frank P. Graham, U. N. C. head, should be proud of his brain-child. Once there was a guy named Franken stein..., .but he was a sissy! Storyette It happened during the Christmas holidays. She was a University fresh man, overflowing with her own im Council S LENGTHY LING PROBE Deliberate One Week Two Expelled Outright; One Indefinitely Suspended; One Suspended For One Year Four University male students were dismissed from school by the Student Council yesterday after noon after they had been found guilty of stealinz and selling cop ies of the questions during the re cent examinations. The official announcement re. leased by the council yesterday ex clusively for The Gamecock is as follows: "As a result of an investiga tion, the student council of the University of South Carolina dis missed four students for illegally procuring and selling examina. tions. On January 31, charges were made to a joint meeting of the faculty and student council of the theft of examination questions from departmental offices. The re port was referred to the student council, the duly authorized agen cy in such matters, with power to act. "The council concluded its in vestigation after a week's delib eration, and hereby announces the expulsion of two student;s, the in definite suspension of a third, and the suspension of a fourth for one year.' Individual Rulings The two persons permanently ex pelled by the council are dishonorably discharged with loss of credit. The only punishment imposed upon them is declaring them ineligible for future registration, since they had failed to (Continued on Page 5; Column 1) Frats Take In Eighteen Men Pledging eighteen new men, the so cial fraternities of the University wound up mid-term rush week Mon day. Under a new arrangement the men met at the chapel at one p. m. instead of seven-thirty p. in., as has been the custom. Pi Kappa Phi led with five men of the eighteen pledged. The following are the names of the pledges and fraternities: Sigma Chi, John McCullough, Co Itumbia, Ralph Dearth, Portsmouth, Ohio, Frank Lovern, Charlotte, Paul Taylor, Spartanburg. P i Kappa Phi. James 11arr, Green ville, W. M. Ross, Springfield, W. R. Gettys, Camden, WV. H. Carrigan, Sunm nerton. Kappa Alpha, Billy Miller, Colum hia, and Moffat Willie, Clover. Sigma Alpha Fpsilon, G e o r g e Bunch, Columbia, Tom Pearce, Co lumbia, D). R. Tomlin, Collingdale, Pa. Sigma Nui, Asbury Sallenger, Flor ence, and Courtenay Carson, Colum bia. Phi Kappa Sigma, Simpson Hyatt, Columbia. Phi Sigma Kappa, Cecil Dorn, Co Ilmbia. Chapel Seats Posted In Lobby Today Chapel seats for the current semes ter will be posted on the official bul letin boardl in the chapel lobby on Friday, February 14, according to the registrar, and will become effective Monday, the seventeenth. Students are cautioned to look on the Monday and Tuesday lists to see if their names is on either, as they might have been transferred because -of conflicts in scedules.