Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Too Much Stre OnAttaini Childs Airs Views History Professor Says High Marks Are Over-Emphasized At Carolina "It is very tragic, I think" St. Julian Childs, professor of history recently de clared, "that an absurd emphasis is placed on grades at Carolina. The system, how ever, is not peculiar to this institution, but is employed by most colleges. "An honor list is used to glorify those who make high grades, and this reflects discredit upon those who do not make the highest grades. This is unjust. Some students are well founded in a certain course before they take the course in col lege, and therefore they make better grades in it. Professor Childs believes that grades are a matter of luck and that teachers can only make wild guesses as to how- much a student knows. The honor list is only one premium placed on grades. Special privileges are given those making the highest. Even the assistantships in the various departments are given out on this basis. This causes one to work for grades and not education. "Working on this basis, the student tries to spot the teacher and memorizes a few facts instead of connecting the facts," he asserted. "The fact is the goal of one working for grades; the principle behind the facts is the goal of one who is COLUMBIA OMMERCIAL OLLEGE OFFERS COURSES IN Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Typing, Comptometer, Burrough's Calculator, Filing, Etc. C. B. SUTTON, Pres. Ph. 2-3288 1556 Main Business Training is Essential to Everyone, Par ticularly College Men and Women. Day, Night, and Special Classes. Draughon's Business College 1218 Sumter Street Telephones 5951 and 6317 STATE HOUS: MAKERS OF SHEA Hot Dogs .................................... 5c Hamburgers ..................................lOc 8arbecue ...... ...................10c Chicken Salad For more than 90 years we have I Community with their B3c "Any thing Needed THE R. L. : 1440 Main Street The Gamecocks are ( COLUMBIA DAIRIES i Phone 3171 COLUMBIA Special Rate: [F THEY LEAVE THEI LA BY 12 O'CLOC 1323 Taylor Street -WHEN Y( STEIN-KING E You Are Assured Of The ig Possible to Mi STEIN-KING IS OLDEST BREW! --DMAND THE BEST ss Placed nent Of Grades A.E.D. Holds Open Meet Movies Show Operations Methods Of Skin Grafting Among Demonstrations For Pre Med Students Alpha Epsilon Delta, national honor ary pre-medical fraternity, held an open meeting Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 P. M. Members of the fraternity and guests were entertained by motion pictures of Epidemic Meningitis, E.ramuination of the New-born, and Plastic Surgery. An explanatory lecture was made by Dr. I. Schayer. In the first picture was demonstrated Epidemic Meningitis, showing the symp tons of the disease and the treatment, which consisted of removing fluid from the meninges of the brain or spinal cord and injecting a serum in these regions. Dr. Schayer explained the manner in which the infection occurs. In the second picture, Plastic Surgery, operations on two patients were shown. One had a large opening in his cheek, about the size of his mouth, which gave a monstrous, double-mouthed effect. This opening was completely patched up by grafting skin which had been removed from the chest oito the cheek. In the other case was shown the reconstruction of a hand which had been crushed in a train wreck. This operation made use of skin which was taken from the abdominal region and grafted onto the exposed or unprotected part of the torn and mangled hand. The third picture, E.ranination of the New-born showed the proper method and technique of making thorough physical examinations of infants. Dr. Schayer emphasized the importance of such early examinations as preventive measures to avoid more complicated developments later on, explaining that simple deformi ties which can bc easily corrected in early infancy may become of a very serious nature in later life, causing complicated physical, mental, and psychological con ditions. -U. .. O. working for education, and when he has learned the principle, he forgets the facts themselves. So, working for grades is working for show rather than for sub stance. "Students who are working for educa tion rather than for grades are robbed of that goal ; they come to college for one E PHARMACY LY SANDWICHES Roast Beef ............................. 10c Roast Pork .............................10c Baby Club ......................................15c >een supplying the Students of this oks and School Supplies. in the Class Room" BRYAN CO. Columbia, 5. C. lame because they use ILlK AND ICE CREAM 917 Main St. LAUNDRY To Students UNDRY AT THE 0AN~TEEN K EACH DAY Telephone 4954 )U DRINK EER AND ALE chest Quality Drink That It Is Lke-ecauso MADE BY THE :RY IN AMERICA FROM YOUR DEALER-.. Juniors Have Over $100 In Dance Fund Cothran Tells Of Plans Out-Of-Town Orchestra Will Prob ably Play For Coming Junior Senior Hop Approximately $100.00 was taken in by members of the Junior class for the annual Junior-Senior dance to be held in the next month or so, according to Jim Cothran, president of the class. Those members of the Junior class who have not yet contributed their $1.00 as sessment for the dance will be approached in the near future, Cothran asserted. No orchestra has been chosen as yet but some out-of-town band is expected to get the call. The affair will probably be held in the University gymnasium. --v. ". 0. Flying May Be College Course Government Considers Funds May Be Allotted For Pur pose Of Giving Flying Lessons In Colleges Amherst, Mass. (ACP). There is a distinct possibility of a government sub sidy for college aviation, in the opinion of W. D. Strohmeier, Amherst senior who made a request appearance before the Ilouse Committee on Military Affairs last week. According to information Strohmeier received from Rep. John J. McSwain (Dem.. S. C.). the committee is consid ering a bill to authorize the appropriation of federal funds for the encouragement of college flying, and provide for the for mation of a junior air reserve corps made up of college fliers. Strohmeier said he did not believe the bill intended anything resembling a regi mented military organization. Congressman John McSwain was re cently elected a trustee for the University. -u. S. o. 'Y' Discusses Current Topics On Thursday Afternoons Y. W. C. A. Members Meet In Chapel For Regular Open Forums The YWCA is planning a series of open-forum discussions on current topics to be held in the chapel every Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock, beginning on Feb ruary 20. Discussion leaders will be provided, but all members are urged and expected to join in. The topics for the programs will be announced in advance. Anyone who finds a newvspaper clipping pertinent to the subject is asked to bring it to the mneeting. The chapel bell wvill be rung at 4 o'clock on the days of the meetings to remind the members. Annual M.E. Conference Will Be Held Feb. 21st The Annual South Carolina Methodist Student Conference will be held at the Buncombe Street M. E. Church in Green ville, February 21-23. Registration be gins at 3 :00 o'clock Friday. The program will include wvorship, ad dresses, discuss ion groups, business meet ings, and social hours. The event is a follow-up of the recent Memphis con ference. Among the leaders will be Dr. W. T. Watkins, Emory University; Dr. Harvey C. Brown, Nashville; R. G. Bell, Executive Secretary University of South Carolina YMCA ; and Dr. J. W. Shack ford, Rock Hill. Tfhose desiring further information about the conference may consult Mr. James F. Walsh, Miss Sara Hathcock, or Rev. Wilson 0. Weldon. -U. 3. 0. thing and get something else. I am very sorry that this is true of the University, and urge that you try to escape this par ticular policy of your institution. Put grades out of your mind as much as you can. Of course you can't do it altogether becatuse the University won't let you. Study with your minds rather than with your memories, working not for show but for the improvement of yourselves." -U. U. 0. It's not a myth. According to physi cal education department statistics from several universities, the average fresh man gets lighter and shorter every year. Education note: Joe E. Brown, screen comedian, holds a D. M. degree from Whittier College. D. M. allegedly, is Doctor of Mirth. S. C. Room At Librury Gets Papers Aid Research Students Copies Of Old "News And Herald" Date Back To 1865 The South Carolina room at the Uni versity Library has recently acquired a valuable collection of newspapers publish ed in Newberry and Aiken, S. C. Included in the collection is a forty volume file of the Newberry "News and Herald" running from 1865 to 1929 with only one break. Also, ten volumes of Aiken newspapers ranging from 1880 to 1900. The South Carolina room is rapidly building up a file of representative news papers from the various parts of the state. These form an important source of information to research students. This section of the library has also been presented with a typewritten copy of Neil Steven's biography of the famous South Carolina biologist and horticul turist, H. W. Ravenel. -U. U. 0. Groups Meet Tuesday Night Leaders To Be Chosen [ce Cream Supper Will Be Awarded Winners Of Discus sion Meets On Campus "Christianizing Our Soci-d Order" will )c the topic for the new discussion groups :o be organized 'Tuesday night. At the nd of six weeks an ice cream supper will )e given to all members of the winning caim and other members who have at ended all six meetings. At the organizaticn of the groups ruesday night a leader and president will >e chosen. If the groups are interested in having a professor lead their group they are asked to get in touch with Mr. Bell in Flinn Hall. Mr. Bell will have an ivailable list of interested professors. -v..s. 0. Booth Will Lead Sunday uass James T. Booth, a juninr at the Uni versity from Conway, was recently elec ted president of the men's college class at the Sunday school of the First Baptist Church. le succeeds Harper Welborn, >f Pendleton. Booth has been very active in this kind of work. The other officers who were elected ire: Harper Welborn and Herbert Fincher, vice-presidents; Joe Camak, treasurer; Wilson Stringer, secretary; and L. L. sreene, reporter. Mr. A. C. Flora, superintendent of the Columbia city schools is teacher of the :lass. Sumwalt Submits Paper To Engineering_Society "Suggested Course of Study to be used in H-Iigher Surveying in Engineering Schools in This Country" is the title of a paper recently written by Prof. Robert L. Sumwvalt as part of his work on the Committee on Surveying and Mapping for the Society for Promotion of Engi neering Education. This article, along with other articles of the Committee, will soon be issued to its members in bulletin form. Amateur Shows Nothing New To Old Columbians Amateurs may be the rage all over the country right now but they are nothing new to Columbia. The Capital city had its first amateurs over one hundred years ago. While searching through the files of the "Southern Times", for 1830, Mrs. Susan Fickling discovered an account of an all-amateur performance given in Co lumbia. The program included a drama, a song specialty, and what the "Times" termed a "very laughable interlude." The amateurs, all men, were banded together as "The Young Gentlemen Ama teurs." Notice of the discovery has been for wardled to Major Edward Bowes, of the well known Sunday amateur hour, by Miss Bess Glenn, head librarian of the South Carolina Room of the University Library. -U. S. 0. Best-known trick play in history was pulled by the Carlisle Indians in 1903, Pop Warner coaching. The ball was carried 105 yards through Harvard tucked under a player's jersey. The University of Wisconsin and Brown are two of the few American col leges which maintain handicraft work shops for their students. Giant Snake Is For Corti ASCE Shows Movie Soon Will Illustrate Power Principle That Makes Hydraulic Brakes Possible To Be Demonstrated t The age-old fact that a liquid cannot r be compressed is the subject of the third in a series of Movietone Educational pic- t tures being sponsored on this campus by C the American Society of Civil Engineers. This picture will be shown in room 102 of Sloan College at 5 o'clock on the after noon of February 18. This fact, though known for centuries, b has only in modern times been converted by engineers to use in every day life. It b is now the principle behind the operation t of automobile brakes and, prosaically, the lifting force used in barber's chairs. The mechanism of hydraulic brakes, c one of the main factors of safety in mod- ( ern driving, will be shown by the pic- f ture, and the principle upon which they operate is to be explained by a commen tator. BAD WEATHER RUNS a STUDENT TO CITY s State College, Pa.; (ACP)--Com- p pared to his wall tent with its kerosene s lamp and sturdy army cot, John Clen denin, Penn State freshman, doesn't think much of the room in town that snow and colder weather have forced him to move into. Until just the other day Clendenin was camping in the woods outside of town, doing his own cooking on a small wood stove, and studying by lamp-light with no sound to disturb him except the rust ling footsteps of an occasional small animal. "It's not so bad here," Clendenin said - at his new residence, "but I liked my tent better. I wasn't so cooped up." He will go back to the woods in the Spring, Clendenin said. -U. S. o. "Y" Elects Crawford As Sallenger Resigns Tom Crawford, Cheraw, senior in the School of Arts and Science, was recently elected assistant secretary of the YMCA by the Board of Directors of the organi zation. Crawford is to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Ed Sallen ger. Crawford is a well-known student and has been actively engaged in Y service since his freshman year. During the past year he has been treasurer of the senior Y council. ALWAYS SEE E 1500 Main Strect, HEfmakingo purcha of th We sell the Only standard adopted class rI all standard Frat pIns. To spend your sound busIness logic. METROPOI "THE OLD R THE STUDENTS')3 1520 MAIN STREET It's tihe way to A Iast-mlnute pause is o nate before th, day's work begin.1 can make this pause refrehn; Sjust add Ic.cold Coca-Cola. COCA-COLA BOTTLIN( Cnlumhia 8 0. Mascot ell Frat Home Reptile Housed In Box )wner Plans To Add Peculiar Pet To His Collection At Scout Camp Ithaca, N. Y.-(ACP)-Snakes have een seen in fraternity houses before this, ut Josephine, young imperial boa con trictor now doubling as a pet and scien ific guinea pig for a Cornell fraternity ian, is real. Non-poisonous, too young to hug after lie fashion of her kind, but plenty old nough to bite. Josephine was a gift from )r. Harry Eno of Colon, Panama, to rank Trevor, a senior from Syracuse, d. Y. Boas thrive in a temperature of around 0 degrees, and until his roommate re elled, Trevor kept his quarters at tropi al temperature. He solved the problem y building a snake box with an electric hermostat. Petting soothes Josephine, but left alone lie hunts for a tree. As a substitute she " limbs whatever furniture she can find. )nce she was lost for two days. Trevor ound her asleep in a waste paper box. When Trevor graduates he plans to ake Josephine to Camp Woodland, a 3oy Scout organization, where he is ature director and where he already has snake house with 300 specimens. -u. ". o. The directive principle of education bould be directed toward a more efficient arenthood, says Dr. William A. Shimer, ecretary of the United Chapter of Phi leta Kappa. University of Akron students are fined ive cents for being late to class. 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