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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONEAL,ES, First Editor Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of Soutt Carolina during the college year except during examinations and olidays Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, s. 0. November 20, 1908 Subscription Rate-2.00 per college year. Circulation-1800 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in Tenement 16, University campus Phone 8123 1935 Member 1936 Rssociated Cole ,iae Press Distributor of Colle6iate Di6est Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERITISING .lE1tVICE, Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston-San Franciseo-L,os Angeles-Portland--Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD MILES ELLIOTT- - - - - - - - - - -- - Editoi ATHEETON WHALEY - - - - Business Managei HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - Managing Editoi DEPARTMENT HEADS Francis Williams, Sports editor: Katherine Taylor, Society editor; Heler Cooper, Co-Ed editor; Fred Ellis, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Jack Killea, Shannon inims, Eleanor Wiedeman, James Lynch, T. T Moore, May Andrews, and iDon Causey, associate editors; Ed Harter an. Francis Williams, associate maairging editors; Ray liargeron, Alber< Douglas, Felix Green, and J. M. 'olattie, assistant business managers Sam Cleland, Tom Willis, andl Bill ltrockington, associate circulatiot managers. STAFF WRITERS Polly Pendleton, Crawford White, Vivian Lomas, Marybelle Higgins, St Clair Muckenfuss, W. L. Lamb, Charles Lee, James O. Willis, and Grace Toney; Harold Prince, Jimmie Thomas, S. li. Bass, and R. F. Lindsay, spoits writers. FRI1)AY, MARCH 6, 1936 Exams And Marks One of the lost sensible propositions ever made to the faculty was suggested yesterday by the committee appointed to work out i solution of the cheating problem. 1)r. Ilavilah Babcock sug gested that the life-and-death attitude taken to ward most exams is the cau1(se of many moral breakdowns, and advanced the opinion that exan should no longer be used as a sole indication of a student's knowledge of a course. If a professor does not ask questions in li classes and keep a record of the answers, if he does not give quizzes at least once a week, he is forced to depend on the exam mark alone. Ii some classes this has not been done; several Chem. istry classes, all Biology classes, and several it the History, English, and Language departments are regularly quizzed and questioned, but in man3 others the exam has counted almost everything Why is this done? Can there be any cause othel than laziness or in(liflerence on the part of t.h professor? Many of the faculty members have declare( that an exam meant little to them, because the3 already .knew just about what each student de served on the course. These professors have nad( it their business to make the class work and t< keep an accurate record of each student's dail3 or weekly performance. Suippose that a. mati student is sent to the board tla' after day withoti working a prolemll correctly, and1( shows nio ab)il ity to grasp tihe sublject, and( 110 evidence of an) effort to learn. Tn sup1pose that this same stu dent is allowed to stand the exam and mnakes arl A. The professor' would( know at once that h<l cheated. But suppose the miath p)rofessor's never gave th< class any prob)lemus to wor'k, nlever asked question in class, never made any effort to find out who wa: learning tihe course and wholl was not. Every stul (lent inl the class wouIld know this, would knov that if he p)assed the examIf, n1o one would be th< wiser, and no one would have any grounds foi suIspicion. The incentive to cheat would be to< strong for many to, resist. Many of our courses are conducted in just suci a haphazard fpshion. The facility has admitted or at least b)een advised by the faculity committee that tlhis is wrong, and will doubtless tak(e step: to mnuinimize the importanlce of examns. The committee is to be0 comnmended for bring ing thlis fact to light. It is no ordinary occulrrenc< for a group to place any blame on itself ; the stul (lent body shold now delve into its own machin ations and see what can b)e donle to make the infan try back up the artillery's fir'e. Bull Shooting A Carolina professor' said1 last niighit that he ha<l learned more in bull sessions than all his course comb)ined. Hie is about as well informedl as an' man on tile faculty; bull sessions ulndoubtedi' played a big part in his educational program. Today more time is wasted here and at an3 other school in bull sessions than in all the poo games and ping pong tournaments ever played Let three or four students happen to find a littli time on their hands and a bull session is as in evitable as high tide on a 11ul1 moon. Usuall they begin with an argument over some politica or religious question-so far, so good. In flyv minutes at the most the topic is lost in a mass o verbiage that soon degenerates into pure trash and what might have been an inspirational and ed ~' ucational discusion of a. worth whila subhec winds up like a powwow among a bunch of hoboes in one of their "jungles." From whence comes the evil influence? Inevitably some low-minded nit-wit strolls up with no thought in his head other than his latest Lil' Audrey story, which in itself is harmless enough, Lil' Audrey having made a name for her self by her unfailing insight, but these innocent witticisms so often lead to tales that cannot be classified as merely off color. Anyone who likes an intelligent bull session should always have somebody of the Tarzan type close at hand, so that the first violator of the rules of decency can be put in his place, which is in this instance outside. If this Were done to every corrupter of uplifting conversation, bull sessions might once again be recognized as indispensable to a well-rounded college education. As long as the undesirables remain unquieted our bull sessions will remain, as far as value to the participants is concerned, as unprofitable as Ma jor Hoople's light bulb scheme. "Aye-Tear Her Tattered Ensign Down-" For more than a hundred years the brick wall around the campus has been a traditional land mark of the University, as much a part of Caro lina as the bell in the chapel. Through all the strife and turmoil that Columbia has undergone in wars, storms, floods, and even earthquakes, the wall has stood intact, a resolute guardian. For some reason, the wall around any campus is always the source of a great.nany traditions and stories. The famous zig zag wall of the Uni versity of Virginia has a curious history. It is said that Thomas Jefferson, who designed the wall and most of the campus buildings, was looking at the work as it proceeded, and evidently under the influence of mint juleps or some other southern delight, decided that it \tas not being built straight, so he marked off the zig zag course. Today the wall is a masterpiece of architecture, the angles being so truly figured that very few modern designers can equal the performance of the julep-inspired Jefferson. The addition of the new buildings makes it neces sary to tear down a great section of the century old boundary on Pendleton Street. Such is prog ress; traditions, customs, and sentiment cannot be allowed to interfere with the ruthless march of civilization, but nevertheless, many of Carolina's oldest alumni and professors are looking askance at the gaping hole created by the building pro grain, wondering what the axe will fall on next. General Nuisances The fellow who is forever and eternally just out of cigarettes. The bird who dleservedl an A, but busted because the professor was down on him. The grouch who resents other people's high gradles, and tells the world at large that so and so had a dingle. Thle campus sheik who carries on three hour telephone conversations with some nit-wit in town. Co-eds who won't (lance with all the boys at girl-breaks. Trhe guy wtho is just before using his book when you wanmt to borrowy it. A hack that is always running out of gas. The prof who puts you to sleep and gets mad when hie wakes you up. All classes that come before eleven o'clock. Chapel. P~eople wvho watch you for ten minutes and then ask what you're doing. Picture showvs that end five minutes after you sit dlown. Books that cost a lot of money, are discarded after one year, and have to be sold for a song. The rule tha.t prohibits smoking in th'e library, where more concentratin'g is done tihan anywhere else. The fellow who shakes hands like he would reach out to tease a cobra. The skeptic who wants to know where you got -the idea for your favorite brain child. The guys (two nuisances) who have "just started" when you walk in for a game of ping pong. .Members of the gravy colored species who flock across the campus twice daily. I The fellow who studiedly remarks "what hap-1 pened then?" after you have concluded your best joke. The "er-ah" orator. "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round." L"The Brolken Record.", Ticker Tape By TRIBBLE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) week the footballers in the class of the Polk Lore Society last applied to Bill Harth for the six bits admission fee-and got it! We are not condemning the practice of subsidization of ath letes. It is our personal opinior that the boys should be paid, openly and substantially, for the work they do. Athletes at the University are not paid openly and substantially, Maybe they are given no aid at all. Maybe we're wrong. Maybe, A Duke University senior has .wr en a novel titled "Hangover-193t ust another guy airing his headach Storyette Her name might have beer Linda. She wasn't beautiful.... except as a miniature. Five-feet. one and ninety-four pounds is doomed to "cuteness" - nevei beauty. But she had what it seems to take and her bathing. suit was filled out in the right places, so she got along okay without worrying about height and weight and such small stew, And he loved her. For a good part of his eighteen years he had gone about "loving" one lass of another, but somehow he had at idea this might be the real thing Love was like a lottery, he fig. ured. If you stick around long enough, sooner or later you're bound to hold the winning ticket And he had stuck around.... . But one of his frat brother didn't think the fraulein was sc hot. Bill Brown, let's say hi: name was. Bill thought the maic was poison.... and he said so "She's the n. g. type," declaree Billie. "She'll string you. to x fare-ye-well and let you dowr cold. Her heart's the size of one letter on a pin-point-written pray. er. Drop her!" So he did.... Because of a brother who probably knew what he was. talking about. Becausc of Bill Brown. He didn't forge1 the gal entirely, but graduatior afforded distance and distance de stroyed association and the affaii revolved into nothingness. Months passed.... a year, per haps: He might never have noticec the announcement if he had not read the newspaper more thor. oughly than usual. It was brief hidden, almost, in a corner of the society page; reading simply "Mr. and Mrs. wish tc announce the marriage of thei daughter, Linda, to Williarri Brown"-and the date and plac< of marriage. He read the item twice, laughed and took his frat pin from his vest. For days he had intendec polishing it. Rust had corrode< the finish! Even without names it's too gc lot to print. We can vouch fori uthenticity of the story as this c ecr was around when it happened It seems that a University stud< isited in a neighboring state receni nd while there he met a girl. (TI Iways do.) This lassie was differ< rom the usual run. She was th ughly modern--but only to the fou Irink. Then she stopped complet vith a tale that she "got that wa >ecause of her secret affection for ocal married man. The boy offei uis sympathy and suggested a trip Jolumibia to help her forget. But . . . yesterday, after three wel sad elapsed and the University ad all but forgotten the entire ti ame a letter saying: "Dear - have reconsidered and will be ohlumbia as soon as you find a si ble apartment." Any suggestions? -U. 8. 0.. OPEN FORUM ditor of T he Gamecock : Mrh3 May I have space in your columns all'the attention of the student body ertain consequences of breaches of lonor Principle? The observance of the Honor Princi s traditional at Carolina. In matters 'ehavior the students have been as) o exercise their sense of duty and to a accordance with the principles of hoi und shame. Present national and world conditi< ave resulted from and in a general Ic Capus EZs HARVARD HM A UTL B CK INDIAN COLLEGE FROM 1654 '0 1698 BIJT ONI.Y ONE INDIAN GRADUATED I it S.0 ss CHRISTIAN U. HAS AN EXHIB1f OF 11BL-S WlalcI INCWDES SOME PRINTED A5 PAR BACK AS WHAT'S WHAT IN UN By Camil "I Discovered the Orient", by Fletcher 1 S. Brockman. Published by Harper and ; Brothers, 1935, pages 211. Though Dr. Brockman married the eld est daughter of a distinguished citizen of Columbia, the late General Washington Clark, and has for years had a country home "Silver Dune" near Columbia, he i is less well known,. though admired, in this city than he is in China and all through the Far East. He went out to China, while still a young man, for the National Y.M.C.A. as Foreign Secretary International Committee Y.M.C.A. As sociations in 1898 and soon became Gen eral Secretary National Committee Y.M. C.A. Associations of China until 1924 t when he was made Administrative Sec retary of National Council Y.M.C.A. As sociations of United States for the Far East, which he still holds, his office be ing at New York headquarters. Unless one traveled through the Far East and heard everywhere of him (as did the writer while Dr. Brockman was on this side- of the world at.the time) one cannot realize the power and , influence of his position as a traveling Ambassador of good will for the Far East. There was no one more admired or more beloved for his generous, broad-minded Christian spirit' for the Far Eastern people he was throwvn with unless it was the late Bishop Brent of the Phillippine Islands fame. It I is good that he is living and well and can I wvrite such an interesting autobiography I of his experiences in China and through-1 out the Far East. There is so little of Dr. Brockman however, andl so much of the people he worked with in the truest Christian missionary spirit that it cani odhardly be called an autobiography. He t odwas a friend of the highest and the low- r he est, he guided and introduced most of the t >r-- famous lecturers and teachers who visited I China and Japan and other Eastern coun-i ~nt tries, he helped Chinese in their fight for greater literacy, he wvas and is the friend 'y of the best scholars of China and Japan, ey and his experiences wvere varied and of I nt vital interest to his readers. The man andi >-World War. It is popular today to disre- I hgard law, both civil and moral, if it in- r lyterferes with selfish desires. Wrong do-< ying does not seem as bad as it used to ai ed appear. The mistake is often considered to to lie not in the. deed but in being caught. A sense of honor and honest character ~ks are developed by their exercise. Weakness< lad of character often begins and develops I P' from a failure to reflect on the conse quences of unfair and dishonorable prac it- tices and behavior. Students who cheat on quizzes and exams often (do so be cause they feel that they will gain some- j thing thereby. Suppose we examine a breach of the I lonor Principle such as that of cheating. Who is benqitted by iti 36. 1. Not the studenzt whIo cheats. H is t character is thereby warped and weak- I, to ened. He takes the easy way, failing to to (develop his own abilty andl power of I the self-reliance, lHe loses his own self-re pespect and incurs the low regard andi con .tempt of his fellow studlents. He en-t ed courages by his example other weak stu- - act dlents to take the easy way. lHe places ior himself in such a position that his teachers C and fellow students cannot recommend 0 ms him for any responsible position. *w- 2. Not the teacher. His heart is sad the -dened for he feels ta in a meaur OF OREGON A .SIUDENT lJ VEL.O AWNE 1700 MlL.ES FROM Si(A ALASKA, 'IN A l6 FOdT. DORY/ A~N' rh _. em. O A.C"r. fIVERSITY UBRARY la Sam. is book should be studied and his social nterest and missionary spirit' should be mulated. A group of books on the South and iouth Carolina have been recently added D the Carolina room in the Library which re of real value for research and for nterest, though they can only be ihen ioned briefly here: First among these to e especially noticed for its timeliness on resent time problems in South Carolina olitics is: "State Alministration in South Caro ina" by James Karl Coleman, Associate rofessor of History and Economy in he Citadel, The Military College of S. . Published by the Columbia University ?ress, 1935. "This study" says the author n his preface, "is an attempt to present descriptive analysis of existing state dministration in South Carolina and to uggest certain changes in the light of nodern political science for its improve nent." He discusses Child Labor, and 'The conflict between States themselves. )ne State exercises one kind of right, nd other states exercise another kind. tate rights against State rights". He Iso discnsses such pertinent problems as us and highway laws from the point of 'iew of "State against State" again. "The Old South; The Geographic, eco Lomic, social, political and cultural ex ~ansion, institutions and nationalism of he ante-bellum South" by R. S. Cotterill, 'rofessor Southern H-istory, Florida ;tate College for Women. Published by '1. HT. Clark Co., California, 1936. The uthor says of his book, which is most nterestingly and attractively writi en, "If here be a theme at all, it is the develop ment of Southern nationalism." He men ions and praises the South Carolina Col ege (p. 285) which "owed both its ex stence and location to the determination f the tide water planters to unify the tate and to its teachings and influence vas due in considerable measure the po itical unanimity of the South Carolin ans." ailing in his task of training students to nleet fairly the stresses of life. His task f evaluating the wvork of his students s made more difficult, since quiz papers lo not in all cases represent honest effort. 3. Not the honest and honorable stu rents. They feel that they must meet un *air competition andl not have their honest ~fforts properly rewarded. They knowv hat their diplomas will be cheapened and heir degrees dliscounted because the un leserving may receive equal or greater ewardls. 4. Not thae University. It acquires an nsavory reputation, for a .school is udged by the students it sends out. 5. Not the State. For educated crooks re a positive menace to civilization and - ood government. Student, the next time you are tempted a violate your sense of honor and to wer your moral standards, reflect on hese facts, and remember that you can Ot sow a breach of honor without reap ig at some time the fruit of loss of self espect, a weakened character, a bad in uence oni others, the low regard and con 'mpt of your associates, and a measure f dlisgrace on yourself, your Mother and ather, the University and your State and nuntry. Will it be said of you through.) rut life: "lHe cheated i'n college"? W. A. WHITESELL, Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry. UnIversity of. S. C