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Need For R University By Harold Prince Provided in this year's Universit3 budget (1937-38) is $20,000 for repairs On January 1 of this year the Univer sity had overdrawn this sum by $42.20 leaving absolutely no money to takc care of repairs arising between noy and June. The money already spent has beem for repairs of an emergency nature $1,600 went to repair a broken stean line near the Extension Building; $3, 000 went for the remodeling of thi Steward's Hall, which had had n< major renovation since its erection ii 1902; $400 was spent to repair a fall ing roof; '5,500 was used to convert th dormitory space of Harper College int< classrooms for the use of the new Sec retarial Science School; the remainde of the fund was used in such necessar' repairs as the replacement of fallei plaster, the fixing of clogged plumb ing, the replacement of rotten floor boards. Listed below are some of the maii buildings of the campus aid the re pairs that they need: Extension Building: This building i occupied by the offices of the registra together with the University's mos valuable files, the offices of the grad uate school, the Personnel Bureau, th offices of the Dean of Women, the of flees of the Business Manager, th< School of Journalism, and contains twi classrooms. The building has had n substantial remodeling (other than th lifting of the roof and the adding of new front porch) since it was built ii 1807. In spite of the fact that the build ing was condemned in 1924 it is stil being used because there is no othe place on the campus available for th use that it is now serving. 1)uring th past semester the plaster fell from th upper hall ceiling. If it had fallen dur ing the daytime it would have probabl: hit one of the one hundred and fift students that pass through the hal daily on their way to class. In the up per hall are piled stacks of old news papers owned by the Journalism De partment. In a condemned buildinf with only one narrow wooden stairwa: and no fire escapes they constitute grave fire hazard. The papers remaii there because there is no other plac for them. In the Journalism classroon students find it necessary in colc weather to stuff their coats and note book paper against the holes in th wall to keep out the wind. Chapel. The Chapel rebuilt in 185 after fire had destroyed the old Soutl Building has a seating capacity of 48t There are 1,547 people in the studen body. Because there is no auditoriun available on the campus set aside fo religious purposes, the University i unable to carry out to the fullest ex tent the building of the moral side o the student. The most solemn exer cises of the University, including th University Extremely With 73 alumni included in the ] University of South Carolina placed found Harvard University far in the Following Harvard on the list w<i "Big Three"-Yale and Princeton. Tlhis index furnishes a newv yardsti contributions of colleges to the Unite Using the standard that colleges r foremost biographical cyclopedia ar "leading" institutions of higher learni veals that there are only 55 colleges persons judlged as having made suffic civilization to be included in the Dicti Colleges with the largest number c Rank College 1 Harvard College ............... 2 Yale University ............... 3 Princeton University........... 4 University of Pennsylvania.. 5 Columbia University ............ 6 D)artmouth College ............. 7 Brown University .............. 8 Union College................ 9 Amherst College .............. 10 Williams College.............. 11 University of Virginia .......... It William and Mary College ... 13 Bowdoin College .............. 14 University of Michigan .......... 15 Washington and Jefferson Colleg 16 University of South Carolina .. 17 University of North Carolina .. 18 New York University ........... 19 Hamilton College .............. 20 University of Georgia .......... 21 Dickinson College .............. 22 Wesleyan University........... 23 Cornell University ............ 24 Oberlin College ............... 25 Johns Hopkins University ... 25 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 27 Transylvania College .......... 28 Middlebury College ............. 29 Miami University .............. 30 Rutgers University............ 31 College of the City of New York. 31 Georgetown University .......... 33 Maryland University ............ 33 Washington and Lee University. 35 University of Wisconsin ......... 36 University of Vermont ......... 37 St. Mary's University ........... :38 Uuniversity of Rochester ......... 3'J Hampden-Syd'ney College ....... 39 Lafayette College .............. 41 Massachusetts Inst. of Technolog 42 Center College.................. 42 Norwich University ....... epairs At )utlined Commencement Exercises, have to be held in the Field House which is used for basketball and boxing during the spring season. Drayton Hall in the Educational Building has a seating capacity of only 600 ancL must be shared with the stu dents of University High School. Dormitories: No dormitory on the inner campus was built after 1848, the year before the California gold rush. The first dormitory built in 1804 is still in use. Since their construction no major renovation has taken place. In spite of the new wings to Thornwcll College and the use of the dormitory space provided in the Student Union Building, there are only five vacant rooms on the campus. Last year the walls of the rooms were repainted and some of the floors replaced through r federal, not state, funds. General Conditions: Plaster is con stantly falling from the 1 walls of the rooms in the old dormitories. Instead of replacing the whole wall when it is needed, the University has been forced to do patching work. Because of the overdrawn repair fund, money to carry out repairs of this kind must come from some other source. In numerous cases termites have eaten out the sup ports under the rooms of the buildings. A professor one day stepped through the floor of his office. A professor's wife did the same thing in her Univer sity-owned residence, yet she pays rent for her home to the state and has the right to expect decent maintenance. A similar case occurred at the University Infirmary where the legs of one of the beds recently went through the floor. The University is unable to replace termite-eaten beams and floorboards i before they fall through, it has to wait and then repair the ones that happen t to give way first. C Plumbing at the Woman's Building < 1 and at the Gymnasium has become so corroded and congested that it is al- _ most impossible to force water through it. Cornices have fallen from sonic of the buildings on the campus, including the Field House, and in many cases have not been replaced because of in sufficient funds. The gymnasium, one of the most beautiful of Columbia's buildings, and - the one most.seen by the out-of-town visitor, has not been repainted in at least fifteen years. The University does not repaint because it does not have the money to buy the paint. The art department has its class rooms in the attic of an old residence no longer used by the faculty. r The Extension Division of the Uni versity has found its quarters in the - Extension Buildiig too cramped for f its needs and has been forced to take - over the bottom floor of one of the e dormitories. warded 1gb Rating )ictionary of American Biography, the sixteenth on the compiled list which lead with 823. re the remaining two members of the :k with which to ascertain the historical d States. :presented by 20 or more alumni in this e entitled to be considered as among the nig, a survey made at Union College re and' they contribute 4,988 of the 13,633 iently original contributions to American onary of American Biography. f alumni in the D).A.B. follow: N umber alumni Present in D).A.B. enrol. Location . 8231 7,870 Cambridge, Mass. . 647 5,096 New Haven, Conni. . 295 2,569 Princeton, N. J. . 207 7,585 Philadelphia, Pa. . 191 30,899 New York, N. Y. . 178 2,458 Hanover, N. H. . 167 1,240 Providence, R. I. . 143 800 Schenectady, N. Y. . 133: 839 Amherst, Mass. . 129 827 Williamstown, Mass. . 108 2,391 Charlottesville, Va. . 108 1,198 Williamsburg, Va. . 93 602 Brunswick, Me. . 90 10,401 Ann Arbor, Mich. e 81 474 Washington, Pa. . 73 1,463 Columbia, S. C. . 71 3,010 Chapel Hill, N. C. .70 31,266 New York, N. Y. . 69 460 Clinton, N. Y. .66 2,9131 Athens, Ga. . 64 600 Carlisle, Pa. . 59 675 Middletown, Conn. .56 5,910 Ithaca, N. Y. . 55 1,703 Oberlin, Ohio . 53 1,459 Baltimore, Md. . 53 1,146 Troy, N. Y. . 52 504 Lexington, Ky. . 51 645 Middlebury, Vt. .43 2,746 Oxford, Ohio . 41 2,579 New Brunswick, N. J. .40 22,092 New York, N. Y. .40 2,19.7 Washington, D. C. . 38 3,241 Baltimore, Md. . 38 954 Lexington, Va. . 37 9,617 Madison, Wis. . 36 1,324 Burlington, Vt. . 34 416 Baltimore, Md'. . 33 1,806 Rochester, N. Y. . 30 350 H ampden-Sydney, Va. . 30 850 Easton, Pa. y 29 2,540 Cambridge, Mass. . 28 424 Danville, Ky. . 28 245 Northfield, Vt. eolumebie. d First Gamed Above is Robert E. Gonzales, first a this issue of the paper that he helpe hirtieth anniversary of the paper, ce' utstanding student. Besides being ed f the Carolinian, organizer of the first f the football squad, and founder of t I I s:1 for si Ifin I more ple cigarette And if: ting plea S cigarette well quit Chester, 6 . . .they'v. $$ smokers lia everything MORE PL Co'aith 1954. LzonarT & MYnRA To! coek Editor C d a C S r11 a c h t. 4l t c 14 a editor of The Gamecock. Elsewhere d to found is an announcement of the lebrated this week. Gonzales was an itor of The Gamecock, he was editor track team at the University, member he Gonzales medal of debating. Sa ygood ra noing terfies d they give me isure than any [ ever smoked. i man isn't get sure from his, he might as smoking. Selds are milder e got a taste that ~e. . . they have to give a man ASURE. IndersonStudents Entertain Solons The Anderson County Carolina Club t ntertained the Anderson legislative t elegation at a dinner in the dining hall f the woman's building on Tuesday vening, January the eighteenth at - even o'clock. Arthur Holman, president of the I lub, acted as toast-master. s Members of the delegation, all of 1 hom attended and' spoke informally, re Senator J. B. Pruitt and Reps. E. '. Epting, Rufus M. Newton, Chair ian of the House Committee on Fdu ation, W. R. Harris, J. P. Fellers, I). . Scarborough, and Thomas B. Kay. )ther guests were Martin Crenshaw, use sergeant-at-arms, Solicitor Rufus 'ant, and Mrs. Carrie McCully Pa -ick, chief of the engrossing depart tent, all of Anderson County. Dean John A. Chase, Jr. represented he University at the dinner and con luded the speeches of the evening with iformation concerning the University nl its objectives. Membership in the club includes rthur Holman, president; Will Ham t, secretary-treasurer; Laurens Bruce, )errell Fant, Albert Harvey, Joe cese, Bruce Johnson, James McCon Columbia's Most Mode: Shoe Repair Shop... -EXPERT WORE -SATISFACTION -WE CALL FOR , Leave Your Worl New Shoe "Everything F 1345 Main St. Columl Weekly Radio Featm LAWRENCE TIBBE1 ANDREa KosTELANI PAUL. WHITEMAD DEEMS TAYI.OR PAUL. DOUGLAS sterfic UNIVERSITY UBRARY ATTRACTS VISITORS Among other visitors to the Library luring the past two weeks were thir een out of state residents. The visitor he farthest from home was Mr. Chomas Kimbler from Los Angeles, alifornia. il, Frances Thomas, Hal Tribble, tobert Vandiver, and Edwin Patter on, Anderson; R. J. Gambrell, Harvey Iobson, Charles Horton, Marion Og urn, Tom Singleton, Belton; Eva lerron, Starr; and Charles Welborn, Iarper Welborn from Pendleton. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DURHAM, N. C. Four terms of eleven weeks are given each year. 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