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The Gamecock Founded January 30, 1908 ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALEB, First Editor Published weekly by the Literary Societies of the University of -South Carolina during the college year except during examinations and holidays Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Columbia, S. 0.. November 20, 1908 Subscription Rate-s2.00 per college year. Circulation-1800 Advertising rates furnished upon request Offices in Tenement 16. University campus Phone 81,23 1935 Member 1936 Associated Cole6iate Press Distributor of CoL[e6icde Digest Sole and Exclusive National Advertising Representatives NATIONAL ADVERTISINO SERVICE. Inc. 420 Madison Avenue, New York City Chicago-Boston--San Francisco-Los Angeles-Portland-Seattle EXECUTIVE BOARD MILES Euorr - - - - - - - - - - - Editor ATHERTON WIHALEY - - - - Business Manager HUNT GRAHAM - - - - - - - - Managing Editor DEPARTMENT HEADS Francis Williams, Sports editor; Katherine Taylor. Society editor; Helen Cooper, Co-Ed editor; Fred Ellis, Circulation Manager. ASSOCIATES Jack Killea, Shannon Mims, Eleanor Wiedeman, James Lych, T. T. Moore, May Andrews, and Don Causey, associate editors; Ed Harter and Francis Williams. associate managing editors; Albert Douglas, assistant business manager; Sam Clelani, Tom Willis, and Bill Brockington, associate circulation 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. B. Bass, and R. F. Lindsay, sports writers. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936 The Faculty and Politics Giving the world at large some inside dope on politics in American colleges, a contributor to Liberty's Vox Pop declares that "too much can not be expected of the rising generation when the colleges are so often as shining examples of rotten politics as Tammany Hall could ever boast." This writer signs his letter "professor," and says that he has had ten years of experience in teaching at several schools, and knows whereof he speaks. Among the crooked deals he has seen pullml is that of a college presilent appointing high school suierintendents to his summer school staff simply to get his graduates. IIe cited an instance in which a brilliant professor was refused pro motion over his mediocre associates merely be cause they had been teaching longer. A woman was kept on the. faculty be-aui e of her political influence in town. Various members of T/w Gamecock staff have been around Carolina several years, and not once have any such occurrences been reported, nor even rulnored. Things like those mentioned might have ilappeneti, but they couid have hardly been put across without a single student hearing at least one murmur of discontent. The faculty's business is kept pretty well covered, but somewhere there would have been a slip, some sign of resentment, some careless remark that would have spilled the works. Nothiing like this has b)eenl heard( b)ecause Caro lina is~ not run that wai,. So acculstomed have we become to tile faculIty's sp)irit of cooperation and goodl feeling that we haive always taken this for grantedl. Only hy3 an insight into less fortunate institultions can we appreciate this phase of our wvell being, andl pity thlose laces where the fac ulty is only a squlabbling bunch of cult-thiroat 1pol iticians. If one of our professors were to distingulish hlimf self enough to get a $7,500 grant for research, wouIld he be held back because less gifted men hlad been teaching longer? At Carolina the idea is preposterous; at other schools it may be, and is, probable. Even this is not as haid as keeping any professor because of his or her political ifluence in town. Such a teacher wouldl not last here any longer than it took the studlents to find oult that the teacher was incompetent. SomeC students may have a gruldge against some of our p)rofes.sors, but they always preface their comfplaints with "lhe knows the subject, all right, but-" The rest is usually some trivial difference that inevitably arises where there are a great many teachers and a great many studlents. As long as our faculty stays on the up and1 up as it has (lone in the past, as long as things are run as fairly as they have been, nO Carolina stul dent can say that he learned crooked politics from his professors. The surprising thing is that the faculty members have not absorbed a few of the student methods. But they haven't. Stop, Look, And Listen Fair warning is hereby given that after Monday the new honor system begins, and every person will be liable to a joint council for any questionable conduct in a class, quiz, or exam. Just to be on the safe side, students should not even look like they will ever think about cheating, because the pledge signers mean business. All the actions taken by the students and faculty have been duly published, and every student is familiar with the plan that goes into effect next week. Accordingly, no one should act surprised if he is caught and summarily dealt with, no should he harbor any grudge against whoever re ported him, if he happens to find out who did it The reporter was merely abiding by his oath ir signing the pledge. What the Council will do to the offender if h is proven guilty remains to be seen. Any volunteers to find out? -u. B. 0. Common Sense When the faculty requested the pledge signers tc adopt the Blue Book and other changes deemed advisable to starting the new system right, sev eral students protested that this was nothing bul a proctor system under a new name. They are misconstruing the purpose of the committee's re quests. This business of everybody having to leave the room every few minutes is first grade stuff, and should have been left behind with Baby Ray and the little ducks. The only sensible reason for any one leaving an exam is to smoke, and this is to be provided for. Students may say what they please, but if a man leaves an exam and runs across a well-informed friend or a book, the temp tation is almost irresistible, and many a well laid plan has resulted in the book being in just the right place. As Dr. Ball said, this is a matter of common sense, which has been conspicuous by its absence in other honor system plans tried here recently. The other changes have been discussed at length by every student here, and need no defense. No honest reason can be given for anybody wishing to stand an exam while huddled in a mob like a flock of chickens in a cold rain. Common sense also demnands that all the space possible be given each student, and no one will kick on this except those who want to pick up anything they can. As for the Blue Books, they should have been used before, regardless of the honor system. They have been proven the most satisfactory means of keeping papers together and on file, always af fording the student or professor a reliable basis for settling disputes over the last year's marks. The faculty committee has promised that as soon as the new system is well under way, the students will be given full control, and may throw out any of these rules they find unsatisfactory. The Gamecock will lay odds that nothing will be changed when the opportunity comes. --e... 0. Lost, Four Years And $2000 Two hundred and forty-three students, about a sixth of the total number enrolled at Carolina, have listed their prospective vocation as "unde We have been told time and time again that college is a place to acquire training for some line of work, to learn something well enough to make a living doing it. Imagine the difference in the peace of mind of a student who has some definitc goal to wyork for and one who is in school because he has nowhere better to go. TIhe chemistry sharks for examplle, go ab)out their business in a self-sat isfied way that sets them apart from tihe rest ol us. They have their test tubes and bottles, and nothinig else matters. Thiey wvant to learn chem istry, andl care nothing for English and History or anything useless in their chosen field. Edu-. cators might dleplore this, but from a practical standpoint it is the right thing to do. Those men will have no vague smnatterinig of knowledge of a dozen different subjects when they graduate-they will know chemistry, and know enough to wvalls in somebody's laboratory and go to work. Sherlock Holmes was not ashlamedl to tell WVat son that lhe did not know tihe sun stoodl still andl was circledl by the earth; lhe was not interested nor did he wish to be. Hius line was catching c?im inals, and lhe had enough work doing that to keel: him busy. Nothing else mattered; Holmes mighi have b)een tihe world's worst astronomer but he was nevertheless the best dletective, and1 not once (did his lack of astronomical knowledge hold him back College students who have not yet decided whal to (10 might well start thinking it over. Many oi them are hloping for something to turn up, am] the goddess of fortune will doubtless provide foi a favored few in such a manner. But the ranli andl file will find that the day of graduation ih upon them before they have had time to take stocla of their resources, and when this happens the stocle will prove very slim indeed. The cupboard will be like Mother Hubbard's. How many of our graduating class thlis year will join the ranks of drifting degree holders? hiov many seniors ill be able to say thlat they honestly tried to learn something worth thleir time and money? iHow many of them will be loafers wh<. ill be a burden on thleir families and a discredil to Carolina simply because they were "undecided' during the crucial years? Verily someone spake a parable whlen he said that "God helps those who help themselves." Ticker Tape By TRIBBLE (CONTINUED mEom PAoE o14E) Looks like a good year for the amateur safe-crackers. Dr. Philson, biology professor," blooms forth with a statement that corn, contrary to popular belief, is a fruit. Now we know why the refresh ments at that last fraternity party were called "fruit juicel" What with Kelley's weekly nightmare of ill-concealed rub bish, and Milo's little-else-but blank verse, the poetry situation on this sheet is becoming acute. All wonld-be poets are requested to submit their stuff-to somru other paper! Only this corner's versifying is appreciated. Just came a card from a co-ed who thinks our lines are HEAVENLY. She writes: "Rat" Kelly's no Shelley, His poetry is smelly.... But yours-My God! All of which should prove some thing. * Kamera Kloseup of a Campus Kutiel Essentially a go-get-em gal,' she knows all the answers beginning with yes.... but is iiever asked the ques tions. She weaf long frocks to hide the typographical error of parenthe tical legs... .hoping that some poor sap won't know the difference' in the dark. Her hats are the sort of fiery red that suggests bull-fights... .or bargain basements. The canteen is her favorite classroom... .and her fav orite prof a dope with the price of one. Her ideals are as high as a strato sphere balloon.... filled with com pressed lead. Life to her is a joke and she likes to live... .she adores dirty jokes! When you're away I feel so lonely, Sad, dejected, only I-ier's th rub, my dear, I feel the same when you are here! -Rejected. We have a hunch that what ye ed itor meant in his editorial about the room-leaving rule is that when you gotta go, you gotta, but that once every three hours should be suffi cient. Unless, of course you've had an overdose of sweet milk, or something. With the risk of overcrowding the poetry corner, we feel that jack Payne's advice to Gedney Howe deserves an audience. Ad vice follows: If you stick a stock of licker in your locker, Be quick to stick a lock upon your stock, Or some slicker who is quicker will trick you of your licker.... Though you snicker, you'll be sick er from the shock! Be a picker, though your roommates mock and bicker, For like brokers round a ticker they will flock To your locker full of licker, and your stock will vanish quicker, If you fail to lock your licker with a lock! Carolina 10 Years Ago The mrost successful Clariosophic reception of the year was given Tues day night in honor of the present of ficers. For the first time ever, the hall was decorated for the occasion. After spilling half the punch into the lap of an unoffending co-ed, one of the waiters hastily withdrew to parts unknown, and a substitute had to be pressed into service. Newberry and Sumimerland Col leges were consolidated last week at a meeting of the Lutheran Synod of South Carolina here. Summerland will remain a junior college and Newberry a four-year institution. The merging was (lone as a result of a movement to bring -the two colleges up to re qluirenments of the Southern Associa Ition of Colleges. The Clariosophic hall is haunted, ac cording to the testimony of one of the society's members. He returned to the ,hall after the reception Truesday to see that no one had left anything, and heard voices. He found no one in the anteroom, but saw evidence that someone had been in the hall ihi the last minute. Being alone, he left has tily. The~ next night the same mem her went up op a different mission. He saw an overcoat in the hall and began to investigate. The lights snapped off. This being the second unexplainable mystery he had wit nessed there, he left again with the speed of the winds. Campus SANTA ANA J.C. COED HAS GONE UP IN AN AIRPLANE NINE TIMES -YET SHE HAS NEVER LANDED IN ONE ! lc,MA C141 FRAERNITVi HAS REINSTATED U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSi1E WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, AFTER H6s OUSTNG 55 YEARS AGO FOR A COL.E6E PRANK! WHAT'S WHAT IN UI By Camil Biographies. "With Napoleon in Russia, The Memoirs of General de I Caulaincourt, Duke de Vicenza" from t the original Memoirs as edited by Jean Har.oteau. Abridged, edited and I with an introduction by George Li baire. Published by William Morrow amd Co., New York, 1935, with fire I illustrations. The Duke was a pro- J fessional soldier and he therefore ] writes with authority of Napoleon's Russian caiiipaign especially as he was l closest to him on his staff of Generals, he speaks very freely his own opinions f as well as those of Napoleon. Li aire in his introduction quotes the ( Duke of Vicenza saying that Napo"e->n :omplained, "I beat the Russians i every time, but that doesn't get me anywhere." But M. Lebaire adds that the end of that famous Russian 1 campaign is nowhere more clearly de scribed except possibly in Tolstoi's 1 "War and Peace" than by Armand, first Duke of Vicenza. "Sir Phillip Sydney" by Mona Wil son, Oxford University Press, is most charmingly written. The author is I the writer of much praised biography I of William Blake also. "Life of Sydney Lanier" by Lincoln 1 Lorenz, published 1935 by Coward McCann, is another contribution to< the biographies of our fine Southern< poet wvho died too soon. "Life of Inigo Jones" by J. Alfred Gotch, with 34 illustrations of archi-| tectural works, published by Methuen and Co. London. This is a beautiful book and a very interesting biography of the famous architect. "The Story of Snuff and Snuff Boxes" by Maltoon M.'* Curtis, for merly Professor of Philosophy Wes- I tern Reserve University and Memberi of Royal Society of Arts, London, is1 another lovely book to look at with: its 119 ilustrations of the finest speci-- I mens of snuff b)oxes which are real works of art lent by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. This < was published in 1935 by Liveright who presented a copy to this Univer sity Library, a most artistic addition.] Another valuable gift, though only] in pamphlet form, is Rev. Edward1 Legare Pennington's study of "Francis 1 ~CAROLINA. By DOn Over 100 years ago the honor system was shamefully condemned by the presi-t lent, who being a Yankee, could not ap-1 preciate the Southern youths' honor. He t set up his own system of espionage in stead of the students' "police" system, which he regarded as a combination to shelter one another. He also remarked that no successful college could be main tained below the Mason and Dixon Line. Shooting guns during chapel carried af heavy penalty. Two students were pun shed for this offense by having to reciter 50 lines of Vergil's Aeneid before the faculty meeting. The skies were anxiously watched overj the college in the nineteenth century by the students who would not attend classes < if the weather was too inclement. It was a common occurrence for an innocent looking cloud to be mistaken for a badt storm. A general ebellion once broke I Camera * .tt t. *A C-0 9 - BUCKSKOT -Il OmIO STATEs5 DIREI,TORY REVEALS TNAT 676 S1UDENTS WILL ANSWER WHEN -ME NAME ROERT 15 CALLED! IIVERSITY LIBRARY lIa Sams LeJau's Work Among Indians and Vegro Slaves." This is a reprint from he Journal of Southern History and vill be kept in the South Carolina loom. Rev. Mr. Pennington of South 'arolina lives in Florida now. "The History of the German Friend y Society of Charleston" by George . Congaware, Pastor of St. John's .utheran Church in that city, is mother valuable addition to the Caro Ana Room". i his old and generous ociety famous .both for its social wel are work and its membership com )osed of many of the highest type of Charleston men, was founded in 1766 mnd has continued to this time. It s a handsome book well and thor )ughly written with historical sketches > some of its most prominent mem )ers who contributed not only to the ;ociety and church but to Charleston iistory in early times, and, with a ull index, adding to its value for esearch. One should mention here the great rogress made in the new catalogue or the South Carolina Room on Caro iniana, which has been so ably pre )ared under the graduate trained li )rarian for that room, Miss Bess lenn. It uses the most modern and :fficient Dewey Decimal system of :lassification and Miss Glenn has de reloped also the making of an "ex ension" under this system for the South Carolina history number, as vithout this extension- books would iave been thrown together in one arge group arranged alphabetically by mthor without regard to time or place. r'his makes it possible for history )ooks of the various periods in the listory of the State to fall together n chronological arrangement which wilI make it a great convenience for esearch and saves time for the Ii >rarian also. In addition provision is nade for local histories enabling his ornes for one piarticular county or :ity to have its classification number md to be grouped together. This south Carolina Extension as made by Wfiss Glenn has been submitted to W{iss Dorkas Fellows, editor of the )ewey Classification System and has >een approved by her. Gausey oose because the students were called pan to attend classes when it was cloudy. t required "friendly expostulation" on he part of the faculty to end the affair. The dashing Romeos of this college 75 !ears ago often niired fiddlers to serenade uis Juliet. Once while serenading Bar uamville, a famous school for women, a gay band of students of this school was ired upon by the Barhamville principal. rhey tried to return his fire but'their nuskets failed to go off. Present day discontent about the mess all is no new problem. In 1827, a ma ority of the students signed a petition to eave the hail. The "revolt" was quelled >nly after the hoard suspended most of he seniors. Only 12 seniors remained Liter the affair. The board then allowed lhe students to board at houses that had ~ men approved bthe k fac.ult.