The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 28, 1936, Page Page Three, Image 4
New Frosh
Pull Boners
At Waldorf College
shelly Accused Of Drowning
While Playing In The Gulf
Of Leghorn
Forest City, Ia. (ACP)-Freshmen at
Waldorf College here have invented a
lot of new facts for scientists and edu
cators. Recent examination answers re
vealed the following new facts :
1. Shelly unfortunately died while
drowning in the Gulf of Leghorn.
2. Dido means the same, and is usually
represented by Dido marks.
3. Romeo and Juliet are an example of
an heroic c'ouplet.
4. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost ;" then
his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Re
gained."
5. Keats is a poet who wrote on a
greasy urn.
6. Robert Louis Stevenson got married
and went on his honeymoon. It was then
he wrote "Travels with a Donkey."
7. Robinson Caruso was a great singer
who, lived on an island.
8. A yokel is the way people talk to
each other in the Alps.
9. Rural life is found mostly in the
country.
10. A corps is a dead gentleman, a
corpse is a dead lady.
STANDERWAS ONCE
STUDENT AT N. C.
Lionel Stander, who played the part of
the humorous athletic trainer in the mo
tion picture "Milky Way" which was
shown at the Carolina Theatre recently,
was at on'e time a student at the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
It seems that Dean Francis Bradshaw
went to see the movie and recognized
Stander's face on the screen. When he
went hack to his office he inoked in the
registration files, and there, surely enough,
was "Lionel Stander, attended the Uni
versity of North Carolina in 1926 and
1927, born 1905, and home, Mount Ver
non, N. Y.
Oklahoma Court Rules
Fraternities Untaxable
Norman, Okla. (ACP)-Fraternities
and sororities located in the state of
Oklahoma are no longer subject to tax
ation, the Oklahoma supreme court has
ruled after a fight by two University of
Oklahoma fraternities was carried to the
state's highest tribunal for settlement.
The supreme court pointed out in a
unanimous ruling that the fraternities
were educational, non-profit making insti
tutions and were not subject to taxation.
-U. H. C.
LYNCH
James Lynch, University junior, is ill
in a Spartanburg hospital, according to
a letter received by a student from his
mother. The letter stated that his con
dition was considered serious by physi
cians in charge.
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$1,000 Prizes
To Be Given
By Readers Digest
Magazine Offers Big Money For
Original Non-Piction Articles
Sent Before May
In an effort to unearth new writing
talent and subject matter in the non
fiction field, the March issue of the
Reader's Digest announces five prizes of
$1,000 each- for unpublished non-fiction
articles by persons who never have con
tributed to national periodicals. In ad
dition to these prizes, $500 will be paid
for each manuscript judged acceptable
for publication.
"There are people in all walks of life,"
according to the announcement, "who,
thanks to unusual experience, observation
or reflection, might well write magazine
articles of lasting interest and signifi
cance, but for lack of encouragement have
never done so.
College students are cited by the Di
gest as offering particular promise.
"An illuminating experience, a special
knowledge of some phase of American
life, or an unusual opportunity to ob
serve human nature may be had by indi
viduals in any occupational field, ranging
from students, teachers, housewives or
chemists, to reporters, nurses, clergymen,
clerks or engineers." In order that such
new and unexploited talent may be
brought to light, the only persons not eli
gible for competition are those who have
already contributed to a national maga
zine of the "general interest" class. Full
details of the competition are given in
the March issue of Reader's -Digest, or
will be mailed upon request by address
ing the editors at Pleasantville, New
York.
It is felt that this encouragement of
new, non-fiction talent will be justified.
It was the Digest, it will be remembered,
that encouraged a young writer, at the
time largely unknown, to prepare the now
famous article-"And Sudden Death"
one of the most widely discussed articles
ever printed.
The Digest editors state that this com
petition, which closes May 1st, in no way
affects the continued reprint folicy of
Reader's Digest.
--v. ". o.
French Fraternity Will
Take In New Members
Pi Nu chapter of Beta Pi Theta, hon
orary French fraternity, plans to initiate
ten new members sometime this week,
according to Edith Woodruff, president.
The initiation was to have been held last
Thursday night, but was postponed on
account of the Interfraternity Council
dance.
Y. W. Plans Meeting
For Co-Eds On Friday
A new constitution is being framed by
the University Y.W.C.A. The members
of the committee in charge are Dink
Gaines, Chairman; Josephine Philson and
Frances Lybrand.
One of the new features of the organi
zation is the general meeting for fresh
men andl uppler-classmen every Friday
afternoon at four o'clock at chapel. An
attempt is being madle to reach more co
eds through the Y.W.C.A.
-U. S. 0.
"'rhe professor or the student who
is notably pious is an exception, some
wvhat embarrassed by a prevalent sus
picion of enfeebled intellect." D)r.
Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College
dwells on the passing of the religious
collegian.
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CAROLINA STUDENTS
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COLUMBIA'S OLDEST
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e eI.
Sugar-Ma kin
Expla me
Professor J. I. Moore Accompanie>
Purifies 2,500,000 Pounds
More water than is used daily by the
city of Columbia is used every twelvt
hours by the Savannah Sugar Refinery
in the process of purifying 2,500,00(
pounds of raw Cuban sugar for domestic
consumption.
This and many other interesting facts
were revealed to the group of univer
sity chemistry students who recently vis
ited the sugar refinery and Dr. Herty's
paper plant at Savannah, Ga. and th<
Standard Oil Co.'s plant -as Charleston
S. C.
The raw sugar in lots of 30,000 bags
each weighing about 325 lbs.-is sample<
by the U. S. Customs officials for duty
purposes, about $22,500, being paid to th<
government each- day.
The sugar is next mixed with syrup
and sent to the centrifugal .machines
where many of the impurities are re
moved. The sugar entering is of a (lar<
brown color but the sugar leaving is of
a light brown or yellow tint.
This light yellow sugar is now melted
with water, heated and run through th<
filter presses. Here all mechanical im
purities are taken out and the liquor
comes out very brilliant, stesilized and of
a light amber color.
In order to change the light amber col
ored liquor to a beautiful white, bone chai
is used. The bone char is in cisterns, eacl
contaitiing 60,000 lbs. of char. After
slowly trickling through a filter of this
bone char the sugar liquor comes out witl
Texas Prof.
Fools Class
Baffles Greek Students
Learned Pedagogue Declares No
Such Thing As A Zero
Year
Austin, Texas (ACP)-Did the 20tl
century begin Jan. 1, 1900, or Jan. 1
1901?
A University of Texas professor baf
fled a class in Greek history with thi
question the other day. HIal'f the clas
voted Jan. 1, 1900, while the other hal
wouldn't comment.
The learned pedagogue finally told th
boys and girls.
"There's no such thing as a zero year,
he said. "I)id you ever stop to think o
the year I A.D.? Now think about 10
A.D., and you'll see only 99 years passe<
between Jan. 1, 1 A.D., and Jan. 1, 10(
A.D.
Therefore,. Jan. 1, 101 is the date tha
marked the exact passing of the first cen"
tury after Christ, and the 20th centur:
began Jan. 1, 1901.
--Ul. s. C.
Author Praises
Slang_Phrases
To College Students
Anderson Describes Expressiox
"Oh! Yeah" As
Eloquent
Newv York (ACP)-Twvo slang phrase
of the hour-"Oh, yeah ?" and "1 Ie cat
take it"-were lauded by Robert Gordot
Anderson, author and newspaperman, it
a recent address to I lunter College stu
dents.
"'Oh, yea ?' is not ridliculous," Ander
son saidl. "It is tragic in its implications
It is as eloquent of wvorld weariness a
the bitterest cry of the disilltusioned fror1
Ecclesiastes down to D)reiser and Lewits
"It bristles with challenge, as the young
men cry :"Why have you slain our il
lusions? Why have you killed ou
faith?'"
Nor w~as there anything newv in "1 b~
can take it," Anderson dleclaredl, point ing
to the analogy betwveen it and the spiri
the Victorians applauded in Hienley's line
"Beneath the bludgeoning of chance, mia
head is bloody but unbowed."
University Players To
Start Casting On Play
"What-Ho the Bride," was presente<
at a recent meeting of the University
Players. The tentative east included
Martha McDaniel, D)orothy Platt, Ed
wardh Harter, Sami Cart ledge, and
Charles Earle Simons.*
Casting has begun on "Redemption"
which will be prodtced by the Players in
the near future. Tom Rogers Drake,
newly elected president presided over the
meeting.
--U. U. 0.
The ideal University of Utah man
wears striped clothes and loud socks,
co-eds voted. Then they picked a
:onservative dresser as "most popu
lar man."
Marvels
d To Students
Class To Savannah Factory Which
Of Sugar Every 12 Hours
no chemical impurities and absolutely
colorless.
The now pure sugar liquor is boiled
under a vacuum and after leaving a special
set of centrifugal machines and drying
granulators, it becomes sugar as we know
it, see it, and eat it.
At Dr. 1-lerty's paper plant, the much
talked about method of making all kinds
of pulp and paper out of southern pine is
being consistently and successfully de
veloped through much hard work and
extreme patience.
Barked and sawed pine logs are fed into
a chopper which reduces them into small
er pieces. These are then finely ground
by pressing them against a wheel of ex
pensive carbortidun. This material is
made into pulp on a paper machine after
it has passed through a beater and a re
finer.
To make paper the fine wood fiber is
first digested in sufite or sufate solution,
to remove the lignin and leave the cellu
lose.
This suspension is beaten, refined and
placed on one one of the paper maker, an
expensive, highly specialized machine, and
the finished paper is wound on rolls at
the other end.
The students making the trip are: Cul
len Capehort, William Gardner, Soloman
Kahn, Cecil Meeks, Ewen Robinson,
Jimmy Goggans, and Altherton Whaley.
They were accompanied by Prof. J. L.
Moore.
Helms Talks
At Vespers
On The Causes Of War
New Series Will Run For Six
Weeks, Stressing Social Im
provements
i Beginning last Sunday and running for
the next six weeks the Vespers commit
tee has planned a series of talks on social
and economic problems of the courntry for
the Sunday night services. The meetings
will be held in the chapel and are open
to all students. This series is in con
junction with the discussion group meet
ings held in the tenements each Tuesday
night.
The series will be as follows:
Feb. 23, Needed-A Christian Social
Order, Dr. James W. Jackson ; March 1,
The Causes of War, Dr. Clyde Helms;
I March 8, Preparation for Neutrality;
Miss Rebecca Reid; March 15, What
should be the Christian Attitude toward
other races, I)r. forse; 'March 22, A
Christian Economic Order, (Speaker to
be chosen) ; 'March 29, Christ or Chaos,
Wilson Weldon.
Each man selected by tie committee has
been selectedl because of his known and1(
expressedl interest ill the subject assigned
to him. All memlbers of the student body~
are cordially invited to attend the ser ies.
Music Department Head
Didn't Practice Much
Cheer note, to be read to your little
brothers andl sisters:
It's quite all right if they dlon't like to
practice at the piano for their regular
half hour a (lay.
IProf. Carlyle Scott, head of the music
dlepartment at tihe University of Afinne
sota says it's quite all right. In fact, Mfr.
Scott broke down'u and conlfessedl to a re
porter that whlen~ he was a youngster he
usedl to set the clock ahead and cl imb out
.the window.
Thirteen Yal ut'pelassmlen will
spend( a wveek in Washington this
Sprinlg in supervisedI studyv of gov-.
ernmental operations.
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Son Of Governor Of Iowa State
Writes Classical Letter For
Funds
Paunchy, bald Clyde i lerring, governor
of our most literate state, Iowa, is a
blofT, straight forward politician. But like
so many such, Governor IlIerring has to
be approached with stealth and circum
spect ion.
And that is the way his youngest son,
a student at the University of Iowa, ap
proached his father while asking for
money recently. The student's letter went
like this
"Well-beloved father : I have not a
penny, nor can I get :iny save through
you, for all things at the university are
so dear ; nor can I study in 'ny code or
my digest for they are all tatteted. More
over, I owe 10 crowns in dues to the pro
vost and can find no man to lend it me.
I send you word of greetings and of
money.
"The student hath need of many things
if he will profit here; his father and his
kin must needs supply him freely that he
be not compelled to pawn his books, but
have ready money in his purse, with
gowns and furs and decent clothing, or
he will be damned for a beggar; where
fore that men may not take me for a
beast, I send you word of greetings and
of money.
"Food is dear and other god things;
I owe in every street and am hard bested
to free myself of such snares. Dear
father, deign to help me ! (rant my sup
plication for I send you word of greetings
and of money.
"Well beloved-father, to ease my debts
contracted at the inn, with the doctor,
and to pay my subscriptions to the latun
dress and the barber, I send you word of
greetings and of money."
Commenting that the letter "apparently
shows profound study of classical style,"
the governor remarked, "the screed hath
netted him 10 wheels, but it will he folly
for him to try the dodge again.
-v. S. C.
AIEE Meets
At Clemson
Ball, Black, Litman, And Lambert
Will Present Papers For
Carolina
Representing the university at the an
nual convention >i the Sttudeit 'tinier
ence of the American Institute of 1:1ec
trical Engineers, District No. 4, which
will be held at Clemson, .\pril 17-18, are
T. F. Ball, professor of enineerimg,
Shepherd Black, and Sam L_itmntt, in
structors, and R. I). ILambert, sentiior in
the school of electrical engineering.
Lambllert, wio has recen tiy acceptedi a
poi sit (itt as operatior at the new WNIS
broadcastitng stat iint. will ptresemi a ptaper
at t he convention.tt
D urintg the last part of .\piri Shtephterd
Black, Sam Lit man. anti R. I . L attnbert
wsill attend thIe Si ith It(ar!linta A\cademty
of Scientce tot bte Itld a( t Wimbr h'p Col..
lege.
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Mistake Made
By Austrians
Learning Basketball
Foreigners Try To Dribble Oval
Ball Because Of Mistrans
lation
A strange tale of the consequences of
1 mistake made in translation of a liook
mn basketball rules is brought to the Uni
versi(y of Minnesota by a student, Carl
Hlensel, who has just returned from the
University of Vienna.
Hensel said he found the Austrian stu
lents playing basketball as they learned
t from an American rule book. But in
ranslation they thought they were to use
in oval ball instead of a round one. So
iight after night, before cheering throngs,
he Austrian college men fought around
he wooden floor, tripping over one
mother while trying to dribble a foot
)all. Eventually they came out on the
:ourt with a round ball-but whether the
ranslator's mistake had been found or
heir own ingenuity was responsible, Hen
;el did not know.
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