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S-atel BY MARY BEI Another week-end, another football game as an excuse fqr much socialit ing (this time with home coming an additional alibi), another society (bragging) column. Sorta on the side we'd like 'to say right quick that we're sorry the Satels have been -neglected for the past cou ple of issues. But, you see, a few pages of the Cock had to be con verted into railroad tickets so that Headmen Hunt and Ray could rep resent this great sheet at the National Collegiate Press Convention in. Louis ville. And when there's no space, there's just no space. BaUing First of this week-end's functions will come off tonight when the Alpha Delta Pi's stage their annual formal in the Jefferson ballroom where Maes tro B. Spann and his boys will har monize and rhythmatize. Susan G. Sparks has designed the decorations. Biddie FitzSimons, president of the Pi's, and Lucy Lewis, head Pi pledge, will be leading ladies of. the evening with, of course, their fellas. Carolyn Monteith, that bearer of the torch, will be starring, too, when she sings "Alpha Delta Girl" for the special no break, even as she did so beautifully last year. Dropping When the beastly battle of the North and the South of Carolina is o'er to morrow, many of the fraternities are planning open house for brothers of the visiting team and their own alumni, who'll be back for all the going on. The Sigma Chi's have a couple of fel lows on the team who will be among those present at their house, and the Pi Sigma Kappa's, also holding a tea session, are expecting many out of iwli gust. These are the only two to be an nounced but probably more will crop up before it's all over. Cabinet With several darn good dances chalked up in their favor, the Social Cabinet is swinging another gym af fair after this last home game. Both football team :re 1nvited, as always. But ordinary citizens, as always, will be asked to pay a small admission. This time it's 75c,. tax included, which will leave the lad who has just one buck enough for two dopes, two pack ages of Shacks, and a few pennies on a cigarette board. Hod Williams, Columbia broadcast ing artist who is now working out of Charlotte now will sway with much music from nine 'til twelve. This Mr. Hod Williams comes to us after a win ter in Chicago and a summer at Wrightsville. (We're no press agent, just friends of Mr. Bill Bochman.) Billie Bochman, Joab D)owling, and Joe Campbell are still the cabineteers. Blue Key That group of leading citizens which comprises the University of South Carolina Chapter of Blue Key Honor Fraternity steps into the social lime light with a banquet tomorrow evening in the crystal room of the Columbia H-otel at eight bells. For the first time dates will be allowed. - -Ceneral Dick Foster, is the commit tee in charge of securing a speaker, 'which he has not announced to date. Also somebody had a brainstorm and insisted that steaks, not chicken, be served. So the boys can enjoy the evening without working themselves to death trying to ease. a taste of meat from half a hen. Coming Attractions Another formal looms. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon's are announcing their big affair for December 11 (unless they can persuade Pan-Hellenic Coun cil to let 'em have it on the 18th). Of this, more next week. Also: Trhose girls of Sigma Kappa will dance at their house on Mondlay. And: That ole Grill Clubbe is slating a house party Thanksgiving week-endl some w'here in the mountains of North Caro lina at Boots Fishburne's place, wve think. Note to members or dates: If you wvill drop by the Pi house, the soc,iety edlitor will gladly teach you all twenty seven verses to the "Martins and the Coys" so that your party can get that particular variety of mountain spirit. Marguerite Baldwin over at the VW. B. also knows a swell song about a poor lonesome mother and somebody who "has fell" by the way. You want to (d0 this mountain business right. Scoops of Day Before Yesterday What with all the weeks that have passed since anything social has been crowed about by the 'Cock" that many prominent affairs haven't been men tioned. One of these was the Pi lite tes LE HIGGINS that lived up to Pi Beta Phi traditio from what we hear (we never coul persuade 'em to give us a bid-to smart they are). Then there was that really unusu; affair which the S. P. E.'s pulled i honor of the Pi girls,, the first of series of such. They are plannin to party the Chi'Os next, and lat the Delts, and so down the sororit alphabet until they've gotten the who darn bunch in. Incidently featurc that evening of the Pi party was a exhibition of the "Magnolia" and ti "Big Apple" by Misses Shag and "M Timothy, the great butler, and of own canteen Willie (quite the duc in stiffly starched white jacket) tappe and trucked a bit. And that Hallowe'en party whic the Pi Kappa Phi's pulled was goc stuff. Everybody really went to ti trouble of rigging up costumes wil gratifying results.. Most of the tin we're just too darn lazy to go in th; sort of fun. The Kappa Sig's at the Phi Sigma Kappa's both ha swing sessions on that night, while tl Sigma Nu's had a sweater dance which the boys were comfortable wit] out coats and the girls too, were hap[ in their very best (or their best friend very best) knitted suits. All this happened the same weel end that the Z. T. A.'s roughed it Camp Marion with camp fires, outdo< cooking, and all those back to natui stunts-but they had fellas to boot. Scoops of Yesterday More recently, in fact, only la Monday, the pledges of Zeta Tau A pha were honored with a drop-in the home of Mrs. Earle Crosby (v don't kriow just why it is, but som, times we feel a genuine, accepted si ciety column phrase like that comir on). And only last week, the pledg< of Alpha Tau Omega partied the big lodge brothers round at the hous Other things happened last week, to The Sigma Kappa's had their grar national president, Alice Wigg, drc in for a visit, the K. A.'s had a lunci eon with their alumni at the Unive sity cafeteria, the Chi Omega's had buffet supper. Pledge Officers Pledge officers of Z. T. A. are: L line Harmon, president; Barbara Jo; ner, vice-president; Ellene Hill, secr tary; and Constance Harmon, trea urer. Fresh News On Wednesday the -Pi Beta Phi had a house (lance. On Wednesd, the Pi Kappa Phi's had-a house part Which is pretty good, considerii we're only two days atter with tl news. --U. 3. 0. "College boys go social too soon," said. "Girls and parties ought to tal a back scat while a boy gets ready to something important. You can't mix gr wvith a career; one of them is bound suffer." In an effort to restore the honor s) tern, jeopardized by the recent discove of wholesale cheating, University South Carolina students have signed honor pledge. Three Catholic schools, Duquesne Us versity and Xavier and St. Bonaventi College accepted ROTC units this yeal Can It Be The Breeze Dusk wvas just making its ap pearance when the boys breeze< into the fraternity house. As usual they hung their coats on the ha rack and eased into an anti-roon wvhere they found X Harter, cus todian of the frat's money strings sitting by Peggy Stoddard. Since this was nothing unusual the boys started up stairs. Bui one of them glanced at X and 3 glanced at Peggy. X turned ret like a beet. So did Peggy. Th< boys hesitated, wondlering wvhy th treasurer b)lushedl so freely. One of the lads walked over t< Peggy and noticed that she was sewing. "Oh, you guys get otut of here,' pleaded X. That was the signal. They al rushed over. There sat Miss Stod dard sewing buttons on Harters shirts. Player's Shoz The Breezi n With the presentation of "Enter Unc d Hal" Wednesday night, the Universi Players have definitely set about esta lisiing a reputation for themselves without benefit of a whole lot of c n operation from the student body. a "Enter Uncle Hal" was a darn go< show. Sam Cartledge as Uncle H r hobbled, and shouted, and said gri y things to an appreciative audienc le Lucy Lewis was the natural, tende d touchy bride of David Webb, a co n vincing enough groom. Professor St e phan has demonstrated that he knov ,, how to cast a play as well as dire ir it, and even The Gamecock report le could recognize excellent direction. d As for the support-those scenes b tween Louis Searson, movie report h with a touch of Searson thrown in, ai d Leonard Kaplan, best friend of tl e bridegroom, ex-suitor of the bride, h. h the audience chuckling and chucklin e *We thought we detected quite a fe It lines-good lines-that those gentl d men had written in themselves. d Rosa Wilder, Jane Crout, and M ie dred Doe composed the rest of th it fine supporting cast. Miss Wild i- turned out to have a doubl'e persona y ity, appearing in the first scene 's Maum 'Phibby, and in the grande nale as Uncle Hal's long lost g - friend. at "Enter Uncle Hal" is perhaps t r best thing the club has produced 1 -e to date. They had a good crowd Columbia crowd. We're sorry y, missed it. D.K.A. Plans New Societ2 g Delta Kappa Alpha, a professior s fraternity for students going into t ir ministry, Y. M. C. A. work or sor e. other form of Christian education, being reorganized at the Universit d according to R. G. Bell. A meetii i was held Monday night at 7 o'cloc .in F lynn Hall, to plan arrangemen r- To be eligible for membership a st a dent must do some form of this wo and have a good scholastic recor Hawley Lynn is the only member the campus at present, ali the othe - having graduated. V' The chapter was organized in 19 e- by Wilson Weldon and john Whi s- In 1932 it was made a national frat< nitv. It now has chapters in P. ,Wofford, -Furman and Textile Ins tute. s i\\. C. Keller of P. C. is nation y president and R. G. Bell is natio secretary and treasurer. About e young men are now being consider for membership. L..ibrary Add :BI biograph Th'e University library is quite ri s- in famous old bibliographies, t ry strange to say, the most noted og American bibliographies was r Sbought in the good old (lays wvh money was more plentiful, name Sabin's "Dictionary of Books Relati .to Amieric'." re Of thi getwrk in twenty v, . umes it has been said that it is "t .10st exhaustive bibliography of h torical Americana in existence and work so monumental that it is r likely to be superceded for many g< erations." For many years this library has bc trying to buy a set of Sabin. It I been almost unprocurable andt price has been prohibitive. Hlowev within the past tew wveeks, Goodspe I Boston, has advertised a complete; at a p)rice which the library cor;nmitl thought to be reasonable and so ti extremely valuable reference wvork 1 just been' added to the Universit -collections. No longer wvill it be nmec< sary to go to other libraries in oth states for complete authoritative formation about Americana. -U. 3. 0. Nurses Send Letter Mrs. Arney R. Childs, clean women at Carolina, has received a 1 ter from South America addressed the matron of Columbia Universi Columbia, U. S. A. TIhe letter caine from a class unurses in a hospital at Valparia 'S. A., wvho requested a picture Florence Nightingale and informati about her life. The director of t school wrote the letter in precise E 'glish as the spokesman for the gra nating class of nurses. The letter was addressed to N< York City and as there is a departm< of nursing at Columbia Universi Mrs. Childs sent the letter to them. ' Scoops le Fives 7 "Fives" was one of the favorite d b, games in the up-country of South - - Carolina in 1802, according to Dr. tl E. L. Green of the ancient language b< >d department at the University. b< dI, This game was played with a "ball jc ff battery and an alley." The battery ai e. was a smooth wooden wall approx- Ir r, imately 40 feet long and 30 feet in p; a- height, while the alley was of cor e- responding length. The alley was al- it vs ways carefully leveled, tightly packed c< ct and cleanly swept. This was the tc er forerunner of handball in this state. h According to Dr. Green, large sums e- were often wagered on the outcome o er of the matches played with other vil- b id lages. t< ie d Invitations ti g. Invitations for the annual meeting tj w of the Department of Superintendents e- of the South Carolina Educational ' Association have been sent to regis I- trars of all South Carolina colleges, at according to John A. Chase, dean of er administration at Carolina, and J. G. j_ Kelly, state high school supervisor. as November 20-21 has been set as the s 11- time for the conclave which will be rl held in Drayton Hall. c< Faculty members of Carolina have b, he been invited, especially to hear two a< ip addresses by Dr. Herbert A. Toops s1 -a of the department of psychology at S >u Ohio State University. ti Professor cl J. Wylie Brown, professor at the c< University, threw off his dignity this ti week and trundled a pretty lass down Main Street because he picked the c wrong team in a recent football clash al in which the Gamecocks were defeated. e After much reluctance, the girl c1 hnwrtl n anrl domanror that.h^ is wager be settled. - y, The latest reports have it that Pro ig fessor Brown was forced to submit to is k. violent massages of his back at the fl rs. infirmary to get over the sorcncss. bi u- Professor Brown is a former legis- li: rk lator and is now teaching public speak- lil d. ing at the University. n el rs Skulls tr Phrenology, the study of the con- ci 26 formation of the skull as indicative Ic e of mental facilities, and palmistry are r- placed in the same category, that of d, -. "being beliefs of the ignorant and i ti- the superstitious," according to Ker shaw Walsh, professor of psychology al at the University. al "When the theory of phrenology 19 was propounded it had a vast amount ed of popular vogue but has never gained any scientific support," Professor Walsh pointed out. "At the present time, phrenology hasn't become as discredited in the public's eyes as palmistry although it should be." "A few years back when a palmist was about to set up a shop in the chi city, police warned him that palmists ut sv'ere not allowed in town. Neverthe less, the person put up his tent and otplaced a sign in front wvhich read on 'Phrenologist.' Strange to sr';, police lynever bothered him," Professor WValsh said laughingly. Chi Delt. Plans for organizing the Carolina lie chapter of Chi Delta Phi, national s- honorary literary society are being a made by Margaret Hawkins. otThis group was active on the cam pus last year but all the active miem bers wvere graduated in June except eni Miss Hawkins. All those interested in becoming a he mnember must submit an original piece dof wvriting to Miss Hawkins, which will be judged. Members wvill be sub tmittedl from the best stories handed in. isThe final deadline has not been de as cidled on as yet but promptness is l' requested of the authors wvho intend s-to submit articles. er a. Graduation Patience and endurance were nec essary qualifications of audiences at gra'duation exercises at the University aroundl 1810. of Commencement exercises at Caro :t- lina held in 1816 included 10 orations, to andl numerous debates and talks, ac y, cording to The Telescope, Columbia newvspaper of that day. of The salutatory address was made o, in Latin, and talks on the feudal sys of tem, duelling, despotism and debates non the comparative advantages of his he tory and chemistry were given. d- Called The Rev. Pierce Cook announces w that the party that had been planned nt for Friday night by the Young Peoples ty, Department of Washington Street Church has been indefinitely called nff. Flat Heads Once Lauded If a person calls you a flat-heat >n't hit him! According to information found i e library, Waxhaw Indians believe at flattened heads caused them t come better hunters. If a baby wa >rn naturally flat-headed, great re icing would be made over the fac d the father would invite all th embers of the tribe in to see hi ipoose. In case the baby had a round head was. placed in a vice and slowl )mpressed until the head became flat ned. This torture made the infant' ad elongate and his eyes to bulge. Because of this practice, member this tribe were called "Flat Heads the surrounding tribes and the; ok the title with pride. This was a common practice by en re tribes and not the work of one o vo fanatics. -v. s. 0. nterviews Given To Applicants Interviews for applicants who passe, aminations for the positions in th uth Carolina Employment Servic< ider the social security act will b mnducted by two special travelinj ards during the next two month! cording to Dr. Sam W. Derricl< >ecial representative of the Unite, rates Department of Labor. Only successful applicants for posi ms above those of stenographer an, erk will be chosen from over 1,00 )ntestants who stood the examina :ns will be given interviews. The examining board, starting a reenvilkc, Deceiei 7, wil1l move ii iccession to Columbia, Charlestor d Florence. Interviews will be con uded by the end of December. -U. S. 0. Train "If that ain't hell in harness, wha it?" asked an Trishman when th -st steam train appeared in Colum a in 1848, according to "Memorabi ;," by Julian Selby in the Universit; )rary. There was much excitement and ccl )ration created by the arrival of th ain on its first run to the capita ty. A barbecue was served on th t adjacent to the depot. Crowds went to the station eac1 ty to see the train come in from it hour trip to Charleston. The New Boote .a dapper new Paris Fashion boot that looks TWICE THIS PRICE! It's the perfect shoe for school ... sports or business wear...and comes in SEVEN COLORS! 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