Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r UNIVERSITY AS UNIF In the early days of South Carolina there was real antagonism between the "Up" and "Low Country" popu lations, and the leaders of thought and politics of the State all recognized the need for some unifying force. It was from this need that the idea of a State University grew. The agitation by these leaders re sulted in the incorporation of the South Carolina College by an act of assembly Dec. 19, 1801. The chairman of the committee recommending the act was Henry W. DeSaussure. It was not until more than five years later, Jan. - 10, 1805, however, that the college opened, and then with a faculty of only two. Maxcy First President Under the first president, Dr. Maxcy, the college grew in faculty and curri culum. Upon Dr. Maxcy's death in 1820, Thomas Cooper, a professor of chemistry, succeeded him in the presi dency. Cooper had been radical and revolu tionary since boyhood, and his ideas were far in advance of his time in many fields, a history of South Carolina re veals. His teachings gained for him the opposition of the clergy and or thodox Christians throughout the State. There was an investigation by the legislature in 1831, and he resigned in 1834 under charges that he had made the college a "hotbed of atheism." The college went along more or less smoothly under a succession of presi dents until the days of the war. In the latter half of 1861, however, excite ment was too great for students to -pursue their studies quietly in col lege halls, and they offered their ser vices to the State for active duty in Virginia. In 1862 the college closed. At the close of the war, it opened again undet' an amended charter as GOODALL PALM BEACH SUITS $1 6*3 Sold EXCLUSIVELY At SEE PAGE FIVE For Goodall Advertisement HOPE-DAVIS CO. MAIT1 AT LADY gTg, Odaumba's Choice 'III Prioe Theatr~ ugural ScE 1-I. Rin Me1bk.k , to be o--ally g preWeat ot the Univeroity of eSti Care ina April 6, 1931. $-Ol p resmts hem , new '1'""0s* b"lId, erected Wn 1N7t. 3-Mon0am0t t" Joathan Ma.y, Alt presIant of Uni eruity (186-133), b eenter et CaroUinmspes FOUNDED YING FOR CE the University of South Carolina. The Reconstruction period followed, and uhder Republican misrule the Univer sity was opened to negroes. White stu dents and faculty left immediately. When white rule was restored under Governor Wade Hampton in 1877, the college was closed for a time, but was reopened as the "College of Agricul ture and Mechanic Arts" in 1880. Ir 1882 the old title "South Carolina Col lege" was restored. In 1888 the insti tution was opened as a fully organized university, with six distinct colleges of departments. The "University" was short lived due to the founding of Clemson Col lege. By act of legislature in Decem ber, 1890, the University ceased to ex ist, and the South Carolina College was reorganized with four courses classical, literary, scientific, and law In 1894 teachers' courses were added and, by act of legislature, women were admitted to all courses. In 1906, the collge was again reor ganized, this time becoming knowr as the "University of South Carolina.' The schools then established werc Arts, Sciences, Teachers, Graduate and Law. Under the administration of Dr. Cur rell, from 1914 to 1922, the educational standard of the University was great ly improved. The School of Com merce was added, instruction in Bible was instituted, and stress was laid or the development of ' the Graduat School. Dr. Currell was succeeded by Dr. William D. Melton, under whom the physical equipment of the school was built up. Dean L. T. Baker acted as president from the time of Dr. Melton's deatli in 1920 to the close of that year. Ir January, 1927, Dr. Douglas became president, only to have his plans dis rupted by an economic depression. De spite the handicap, however, he carried on the tradition of improvement unti: his sudden death in 1931. Dean Bakei was again brought to the president's chair as acting and permanent presi dent. Dean Baker had from the beginning of his appointment asked that his ten ure last only until the trustees deter mine upon a man for the position. Ir December, 1935, the trustees electet Wingfield's Drug Store --Phone 3144 1433 MaIn Street --Deliveries Made L OOK I PRTRIIES AND CLUBS Por Your Next Party Call 8240 For KIRBY'S Potato Chips and Delicious Salads SPECIAL PRICES To Parties or Banquets LAST DICE and his TEl Popular "WITH4 Sally ELIERS 'iIiz "y8 Junior-Senior Dance Comes Thursday With Buster Spann furnishing the rhythm, the annual junior-senior ball will be danced in the gymnasium Thursday night from 10:00 to 2:00. Scholastic seniors will be given free tickets, and all girls attending will be given favors. Prof. J. H. Matthews Speaks Of Crime "Prompt apprehension, speedy con viction, and proper use of the parole system are three of the best deterents to crime," declared Prof. J. H. Matthews, nationally known authority on crime detection, in an address to University students in Drayton Hall Tuesday night. Professor Matthews, who is being sent to different schools by the Ameri can Chemical Society, told that twenty six different methods are used to fol low up clues. He also stated that modern methods of crime detection had helped' to decrease the crime rate and to bring those guilty to justice. By the use of slides, he showed his audience a cross section of a gun barrel which showed clearly the spiral grooves which mark the bullet and make it possible for it to be identified later as being fired from that particular gun. He explained that different man ufacturers used different numbers of grooves in the rifling, and that the pitch and depth also varied. "No two barrels are alike so no two bullets will be alike, and because the grooves also vary, the mechanical im perfections registered'on the bullet will be different, and that enables us to tell almost to a certainty which gun a bul let wvas fired from," Professor Mat thews stated. The speaker also explained the work ing of a special machine that measures the width of a bullet's grooves to one one thousandth of an inch, and showed those present a picture of a compound miscroscope that enables a person to compare bullets under high magnifi cation. Shot guns shells, though fired through a smooth barrel, may be iden tified by the impression of the firing pin on the shel'l. There is only one chance in 17,600,000,000 that two firing pins will be made that will be exactly alike, and the rifles for these pins if placed end to end would reach to the sun and back, Prof. Matthews said. "Guns are numbered by the company that makes them, and often criminals try to evade the law by cutting these numbers off. However, these attempts fail to accomplish their purpose be cause when acid is added to the metal it restores these numbers, he added. .--u. 5. 0. J. Rion McKissick, Dean of the School of Journalism, President of the Uni versity. Dr. McKissick entered upon his new duties July 1, 1938, "Florida for flowers" DANCE DECORATIONS I-I CORSAGES SORORITY AND FRATERNITY WORK GIVEN SPECIAL. CONSIDERATION MISS FLORIDA KOTTE PHONE 49 2309 PARK ST. TIME TODAY! On Stage :HARTMAN NESSEE RAMBLERS On Screen )UT ORDERS" --with -.Robert ARMmavamm Carolina State Many Fields In Commerce Economic Knowledge Accountig, Insuranoe, Marketing, Finance Careers Offered In Commercb School The University school of commerce offers the student courses of study pre paratory to a career in practically any of the various business fields. The gradu ate may elect not only accounting, but 'insurance, banking, marketing, finance, or any other phase of our complicated eco nomic,structure, as a profession. As a. pre-law course, commerce cannot be sur passed, for the lawyer needs not only a knowledge of law but also a knowledge of the economic principles on which it is based. Students who find it impossible to spend more than one or two years in 1 college have an opportunity to receive sufficient knowledge to pursue careers as secretaries, bookkeepers, and other po sitions in the business world. The demand for graduates is steadily increasing due to the rapid expansion of business as a whole, and to.recent legis lation of our national and state govern ments. In the past three years, 88 per cent or more, of the graduating classes have been placed in positions within ten days after graduation. Many of these graduates arc now with such firms as Firestone, Goodyear, Gen eral Motors, Commerce Credit, Univer sal Credit, Price-Waterhouse, Arm strong Cork, Liberty Mutual, Proctor and Gamble, Arthur Anderson, Stand ard Oil, and others. Still others are practicing public accounting with an es tablished clientele. Word was only re cently received that two students who were graduated four years ago have been granted certificates to practice as Certified Public Accountants in New York and Detroit. A study of commerce and business ad ministration offers a person not only a profession, but also an opportunity to equip oneself with a knowledge of busi ness law, practice, and procedure. -U. U. 0. Religions Professed Out of a total enrollment of 1.551. only 21 students at the University have no. church preferences, figures released by John A. Chase, Jr., registrar, reveal. Students of the Baptist faith predom inate, 'numbering 438. Sccond in num ber are the 419 Methodists. Nineteen religions are professed by Carolina students. There are 241 Presbyterians, 177 Epis copalians, 96 Lutherans, 51 Catholics,4 and'*57 Hebrews at the University. Other church preferences are: A.R.P., 19; Christian, 7; Holiness, 4; Christian Science, 2; Universalist, 2; Congregation-4 alist, 1; Church of Christ, 1; Dutch Reformed, 1; English Church, 1; In ternational Bible Association, 1; Mor man, 1; and Unitarian, 1. Depository Is'Helpful Ninety-two students have availed them selves of the facilities of the cash de pository operated through the University treasurer's office during this session. Individual deposits vary considerably. The largest single deposit uip to the pres ent time amounts to $382 and the smallest $2.75. Total funds deposited to March 12, 1937 amounted to $7,242.92. An average of slightly more than $78.30 for each stu dent using it. Withdrawvals may be made at any time for the full amount on deposit or as little as the student desires. A number of stu dents check out as little as $1.00 at a time. No charge is made for this service and it saves the student th% regular ser vice charge $1.00 a month made by the local banks on accounts under $100. The special withdrawal checks are pay able only at the treasurer's office and can be used in the same manner as bank checks. Students are given receipts for the amount they deposit, the receipt be-. ing arranged so as to show the date and| amount of each withdrawal. When the full amount is withdrawn the receipt is WEDNESDAY ONLY "ALONG CAME LOV! -with IRENE HERVEY CHAnLEs avannTT [s The 01 Supporte Alumni Assn. Aids _Carolina Wright Is President Domplet&on Of One Year's Work Here Makes An Ex-Student Eligible For Membership The Alumni' Association of the Uni rersity of South Carolina is organized :o weld the alumni into a workable gency to promote the general educational t nterests of the state in the confident be- o ief that the development of an educated :itizenship is one of its high aims and v fussions. To promote the development of the u Jniversity of South Carolina to meet the d ieeds of the state for an institution of S iigher education; to encourage the main :enance of its scholarship and high tra litions; to promote good fellowship t4 imong the members of the association; o foster understanding and good feel- b ng between the alumni and the student to ody of the University of South Caro- tl ina, and the alumni and student bodies 6 )f its sister institutions within the state o s its aim. a Any graduate or former student who ias completed a full year at the Univer ity of South Carolina is eligible for u nembership in the association upon his I icceptance and compliance with the pro- tI isions of the constitution. Wright Is President C Marion A. Wright, Conway, president g >f the association, has prepared a bul etin entitled "A Proposal of Activities t for the Alumni Association." Several housand copies have been mailed to . ilumni. Major activities upon which the " issociation has been working, the pro gram having been endorsed at the annual fleeting of the association in June, are: C The re-establishment of the extension s lepartment of the university. The establishment at the university of, ti it least, three or four fellowships for tr tdvanced students whose principal occu >ation would be research in all fields of C )eculiar interest to South Carolinians. ti The establishment of a bureau of leg slative information, so that all material lu for the formation of an intelligent opin- a on should be assembled carefully and c< nade available to members of the Legis- cl ature. , u A masterful address, "What Can I, b s An Alumnus, Do For The University" 'I .vas delivered at the annual meeting by c Doctor Patterson WVardlaw. It was sent nt >ut in bulletin form to the alumni.f The association embraces the fourteen udicial circuits of the state, with a vice )resident of each circuit. Each year, neetings are held throughout the state. 3arney A. Early, executive secretary, has 4 >lans arranged for meetinigs in the vari >us circuits before June this year. The ti >bject of these meetings is to get alumni g ogether and interested in working for c hc university. I During the year, the alumni office has :ompiled a list of the names of all stu- I lents who have attended the university n ~ince publishing of the directory in 1926. g rhis preliminary work is being done with lil he hope that in the near future it wvill be tI ossible to publish a supplementary di- C -ectory. a Gives Effective Cooperation The association has cooperated with Prof. E. C. Coker in the interest of an irboretum for the university, and has teld itself in readiness to cooperate with ~very and all departments. ti "The House of Wonder", under the di- p: rection of Prof. T. F. Ball, is another b ictivity of the association. This exhibit ti is being carried to the schools throughout the state, providing a necessary contact. sI Records have proved that a well or- ci ganized alumni association, functioning for the good of the university as a whole,a is vital, and the association has worked a untiringly with this object in mind. It b is interested in all phases of university work, and has stood for the advance ment of its best interests. --U. U. 0. cancelled. Withdrawals are made on g special forms and are similar in wording to regular bank checks. .--U. S. 0. The amount of nose Ohio State Uni versity students put into thei- voices can now be determined by the "nas-[ ility indicator" in the phonetics labora tory of Derby Hall. THURSDAY ,,'SING ME A I --wit JAM*ES MELTON-: HUGH HRBERRT ZAU PITSN_ ra dest d Schooi F'ounded, 1801 Opened,_1805 ionor Much Disputed ithough Others Opened Earlier, - Carolina Was First Solely Supported By The State Which state of these sovereign 48 can uthfully boast of having established the dest state university? Dr. Orin F. Crow, dean of the Uni rsity of South Carolina school of ed. :ation, says that South Carolina can, espite the rival claims of most of her outh Atlantic sisters. The key to the whole controversy, hich has raged for years, is the in rpretation of the word "oldest". What," asks Dr. Crow, "do you mean r that? Is a uniVersity's age to be de :rmined by the date of its charter, by ie date of its constitution, by the date its opening, or by the double factor when it came under complete control id support of the state?" Five Are Clalmants There lies the hitch. For, depending on which interpretation you accept, the >ary mantle of distinction should go to ie University of South Carolina, North arolina, Georgia, Tennessee, .or Vir ma. "The University of Georgia was char red in 1785 and opened in 1801," Dr. row explains. "The University of North arolina was chartered in- 1789, opened 1795, while South Carolina College >riginal name) received its charter in 101 and opened in 1805. East Tennessee ollege, chartered in 1807, was not under ate auspices until 1820." The Univcrsity of South Carolina was ie first institution to be completely con oiled by the state and completely aanced by the state treasury, says Dr. row, who maintains that this should be e true criterion of antiquity. "From the first, the university in Co mbia has maintained closer organic re tions to the state in both support and mtrol than any other claimant.. In the bartering act it was provided that the niversity should get $6,000 every year, sides the appropriation for buildings. he board of trustees was to consist of rtain high state officials and 13 other embers elected by the general assembly >r stated terms." First Private Institution Of the other contenders, Dr. Crow )ints out that none were directly con :cted with their state governments in ther support or control. They were ac ally no closer than was Harvard to the :neral court of Massachusetts Bay, he mntends. They were begun privately, and ter evolved into state institutions. Dr. Crow extends a conciliatory hand, )wever, to South Carolina's southern ~ighbors. After all, he reasons, Geor a had the first charter; North Caro a had the first opening; Virginia added e first professional department; South arolina was the first to be controlled id supported by the state. --U. S. 0. tubin J. Gambrell Awarded Prize Rubin J. Gambrell, art student in le University, has been awarded a -iz of $5 for his design for the Ia 31 of the South Caroliniana Collec on for the library. His design consisted of a unique Eetch of the library and some very editable printing. The South Caroliniana Collection is collection of old records and books out South Carolina, and Mr. Gain ~ell's design will not only be used r a label but also for a letterhead. Other students submitting designs ere: Nathalie Fitzsimmons, Betty ouche, Jane Bradley, L,ucille God ey. Shea,ly Sandwiches SOLD 'AT CANTEEN Price 10c -FRIDAY ROVE SONG" PATRICIA ET.L-S &LIEN JENKINS T PENDLETON