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. Englis News Ii German All students interested in Ger man are invited to join the newly or ganized language club Goethe Ver hindung. This organization will meet each Friday night at eight o'clock in room 101 of Legare Col lege. TY. 11. Rawl is president of the or ganization. Diploma Applications Due All members of the graduating class of 1939 were notified this week that applications for degrees must be filed with the registrar on or be fore Dec. 1. Application blanks will be sup plied in the registrar's office. Can didates for certificates were notified to apply for their certificates during November also. The University will award this year for the first time certificates in secretarial science. Geological Society Meets The Carolina Geological society will meet at the University of South Carolina on Nov. 12 and 13, accord ing to Julian J. Petty, associate pro fessor of geography at the Univer sity. The group is composed of geolog ists of North and South Carolina. They will cover the State of South Carolina in a series of field trips. Professors Stephen Taber, L. L. Smith, and J. J. Petty compose the local committee malding arrange ments for the meeting. Drama Club Plan Play The University Players, Univer sity of South Carolina dramatic group, will present "Class of '29" early in December, it was decided at the last club meeting. Co-directors Woods and Stephan held try-outs for the parts last Monday, and casting will begin im mediately. Class of '29 is a drama of the graduating classes of 1929 and the depression into which they were thrust. This will be the first pro duction of the year. Library Given Photographs The University of South Carolina library was recently presented with 70 beautiful phoographs of the statuary in the celebrated Brook green Gardens near Georgetown, S. C. The donors were the Brookgreen gardens trustees. The pictures are to be placed on exhibition in the library museum room. Safety Test Constructed The Personnel Department of the University of South Carolina is col laborating in a program of highway safety instruction in South Caro lina schools under the auspices of the S. C. Highway Dept., the National Conservation Bureau and the State Dept. of education. The Personnel Dept. has constructed a S. C. Safe Drivers Test which may he scored by machine. Music Set Moved The Carnegie music set is now lo cated on the top floor of Flinn hall and is available to students accord ing to an announcement by Prof. W. S. Woods this week. Students may hear the records played from 3-6 p. m. and from 7-10 p.m. On Saturday the hours are 3-6 p. m. only. NYA students are in charge of the set, and persons wishing to hear certain selections may do ro by f ill ing out a slip of paper giving the title and composer. Library Features Chairs One feature of the University of South Carolina's new $657,000 library Lubrication - Washing Oars Vacuum Gleaned Esso Motor Oil Essolube Caughinan & Bush E880 SERVICE Across From War Memorial ROLLS I A.y .i.e ioU bodok Aeight .be4devele BUSIN ESS IS ESSENTIAL TO EVE] 00LLEGE MEI~ DIAY, NIGHT, AND DRAUGHON'8 BU 1218 Sumter Street :-: h Depc ,i Brief ure to make a hit with students will e the provision of comfortable chairs. I President J. Rion McKissick, in a t -ecent address to University students, ,aid the provision of comfortable r :hairs was one of two features he had I ?ersonally suggested. He said he had worked in many libraries, but the only ne which had comfortable chairs was :he Wisconsin state law library. The other feature suggested by the University president for' the library was the provision of a typing room, where students might type long ex tracts from books and periodicals, ob viating the necessity of their copying these extracts in long-hand and typ ing them later. Smith is Contributor Dr. Reed Smith has contributed one of the major articles in the new 1 "International Cyclopedia of Musi- t cal Literature." Dr. Smith's article is on Southern folk music. Dr. Smith has written two books and numerous articles on this subject. He is a regular contributor to the Cyclopedia. Phi Betas Lead Four out of five Phi Beta Kappa graduates in chemistry of last year's class are now pursuing grad uate work at Northern universities. Marvin Armstrong won a schol arship to the University of Illinois and is doing graduate work there. R. A. Feagan is engaged in grad uate work at the University of Michigan. J. E. Swearingen is an assistant at Carnegie Tech and is doing graduate work. Atherton Whaley now has a po sition as assistant at Ohio State University, where he is doing grad uate work. W. B. Gaston, the only member of the Phi Beta Kappa quintet who is not taking graduate work, has a position teaching general science at Hand Junior high school in Columbia. Society Amicale Meets The Societe Amicale honorary French club of the University, met Friday at 1804 Green street. Plans for a moving picture and lecture by a French woman were discussed. The French Club of Columbia, headed by Mrs. Rowe, is working in cooperation with the University in producing the lecture. Philson Collects Piants Four years ago Prof. Paul J. Phil son, of the Biology Dept. of the University of South Carolina, be gan a collection of plants from South Carolina and other South eastern states. Today his herbarium contains over 3,000 different species, and is still growing. Mr. Philson always collects four or five of one species, putting one in his herbarium, and swapping the remainder with other universities in this part of the country. Last week 150 new plants were exchanged with the University of Georgia; other ex changes have been made with Duke, the University of North Carolina, the University of Missouri, and Fur man University. Other exchanges, Mr. Philson said, wvill be made in the near future. Players Hold Audition Auditions were held last week for students who wish to take part in the plays which the University Players are to present over WIS each Friday at 8 P. M. Miss Marion Zula, director of these radio presentations, has re ported that up-to-date each one of the forty or fifty students who par ticipated stands an equal chance of being selected for a part in one of the plays. Directory Issued Last week the mimeographing bureau issued a directory contain ing the name of each member of the University staff, his office and home addresses, and his telephone num ber. All members of the University staff have been mailed copies of the directory. Anyone else can se cure a copy from the University bookstore. EVELOPED iJ1MS 10 FFfTlXo.. TRAINING LY0NY, PARTIOULARLY AND WOMEN SPECIAL. CLASSES BINEB8 COLLEGE T.eehoneu 5951 and 6817 WM. L.YKES, R,. ViceFaseldnt mW, 8ertary-Teurer irtmen Twenty-one Given Six C As a result of special action by the .nglish department in a meeting of he University Council on Oct. 11, 1 freshmen, exempted from fresh nan English earlier in the year on asis of entrance examinations, were ,ranted six credits for the courses kipped and allowed to continue in ophomore English. Other changes included the removal >f 49 deficient students from sopho nore classes to special sections for ndividualized instruction in their veak points. Credit will be given as f they were taking the regular ourses but the content of the class york will be shifted to suit the in lividual. Both of the changes will be made >ermanent and applied each year, the nglish department announced. No danger of wholesale exemption hreatens under the plan adopted by he department. Each case is horoughly investigated. High school ecords, results on all tests, and per ,onal character must pass muster. If tll tally very high, credit is given. It was estimated by Dr. Havilah Babcock, head of the English depart 'nent, that the lowest of these 21 ex mpted -freshmen was better in English than 80 per cent of the sophomore :lass who had finished the work. The 49 sophomores shifted to spec ial sections were found by tests to be so deficient in English grammar that it would have been impossible for them to successfully pursue any Eng lish course higher than the one they had just completed. Instead of the regular sophomore work in literature, they will devote two days a week to grammar and expression and the other to reading. Sophomore credit will be allowed on these classes which will be taught by instructors with special training for the work. The system is to be applied only to Mrs. Roosev Gamecock IR By Dot Polan Mrs. Roosevelt doesn't, as a person slowly dawn on you, she literally bursts upon you. Now she isn't here, now she is. It's like magic, and you feel a thrill as you see her approach ing you. That was my observation as I stood in corridor outside her sitting room at the Jefferson Hotel, last Friday af ternoon. One moment all was silent, tlien suddenly the clang of elevatoi door announced that a passenger was alighting. A porter came toward us with bags, then-what! no G men, Secret Service men, not even one body guard? No, just two very thrilled and im portant looking Boy scouts, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt walked briskly )ehind them, followed by her secretary, Mrs. Malvina Thomas. Mrs. Roosevelt wasted not a second, but quickly posed with her two young scout secorts, then went right into the sitting room to meet the members oif the Board of the Woman's Club and to have tea with them. When it was over, and Mrs. Roose felt asked that the press be brought in. I immediately slipped in the door way before anyone else, waving my entree, an envelope bearing the white house address, and containing a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary giv ing me permission to be present at the press conference. I went straight to Mrs. Roosevelt, shook hands with her and told her how very happy I was to meet her. She smiled, said thank you, and turned to greet the other members of the press. Frequently, during the interview, many of the reporters had great dif ficulty in making themselves heard to Mrs. Roosevelt, but I didn't seem to stuffer in that capacity; for for tunately, she heard me every time. So, between asking questions my self, writing fast and furiously the answers to others' questions, and his tenling to her, I gleaned the follow ing interesting facts from our 'First Lady:' She is a life member of the Red Cross; dislikes the limelight, be :ause one can't really know people then, and she really likes people; can :ook, but rarely has the opportunity to prove it ; dresses to suit' Eleanor Roosevelt ; has no hobbies, but loves to swim and ride horseback; was very McGREGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 Main Street PRESCRIPTIONS SODA - CIGARETTEFS TOILET AETICLES Call 2-3308 For Prompt Delivery Service SERVING THlE PUBIUO BINOE 1890 Metropolitan Cafe "The Old Reliable" WHERE STUDEN'TE MEET AND EAT Air-Comnduioner,d OPEN Au. NIGHT 152O Main St . -Phone 7849 t rCin Freshmen redits the English department and then only t to the mechanical courses where the f results can be measured. % Professor H. C. Davis said that this t step had been taken after much con- t sideration of the matter by the whole English department. He feels, he said, that the credits will be an in centive to the more well prepared stu dents, who might otherwise feel that they were being shorn of an opportuni ty to make the high marks they could expect to attain in lower English c courses. Also, Professor Davis said that the promotion of well prepared students tended to distribute the stu dent body over a field more compati ble with their individual abilities. Dr. Havilah Babcock, head of the literature division of the English de partment at the University, said that he believed the recent step taken by the faculty in granting credit to stu dents of a4vanced preparation to be one of the greatest innovations at the a University in recent years. He pointed out that the English department was making an honest ef fort to discover deficiencies and to correct them and an equally honest s one to ferret out unusual proficien cies and reward them. "Any enter ing class of 400," Dr. Babcock said, "naturally shows a wide variation in the individual abilities of the students. It is often just as easy for one stu dent to complete his degree require ments in three years as it is for another complete his in four." "As far as is practicable," he went on. "we are individualizing ingtruc tion, that is adapting the program to the students' present needs. What counts is what a student has learned, not where he has learned it. If an entering student is markedly superi or in a certain subject, obviously that superiority should be recognized. That's not only good pedagogy but common morality." elt Thrills ,eporter much saddened on a recent trip to Charleston by the sight of the beauti ful and venerable trees blown down and killed by the recent tornado; likes Charleston, however; has been no farther south than Birmingham, Ala bama. She receives approximately fifty let ters a day; thinks the present style trend in hats rather foolish, but that it all depends upon the person wear ing them. Mrs. Roosevelt thinks that a wom an could, if she had the physical stam ina, be president of the United States. She finds life as the president's wife fascinating, interesting and very ed ucational; she likes politics, and even if her husband weren't president, she still would be interested in them, be cause, she says, "You need politics in order to achieve almost anything." She did not definitely state what President Roosevelt really intends do ing in the future. She thinks that the country needs national dlefense, but that surely the money spent for it could be used much more constructively; that living in the White H-ouse gives one a feeling of awe and dignity, and calls to mind the ghosts of former illustrious "ten ants," their lives, and what they ac complished; that the terrific strain of the social season is the hardest thing about being the .wife of the president, and that during that season, she "just can't have a headache ;" that she will never run for president; that the cor rect pronunciation of her name is "Rosevelt," not "Ruzevelt." I was the last to leave, staying be hind purposely, to see if I could ob tain her autograph, but to no avail, as she "never gives autographs." So, instead, I had to be content with holding out my right hand and saying, "shake the hand that shook the hand," and retaining the memory of a very lovely, gracious, charming and most cordial "First Lady of the Land." PEP MEETING HELD TONIGHT Mathew Poliakoff, chief cheer leadler, predicts the largest turn out of the year for the final pep meeting to be held in the University chapel at seven o'clock tonight. The band will be there to do its part. Professor WVilliam C. Baldwin, will lead the men's glee club in an introduction of the newest Carolina fight song. The student body shall decide whether the song will be adopted ot- not. All the cheer leaders ask every body to attend to learn all the songs and yells for the remaining games. MIDNITE SHOW SUNDAY Doors Open 12:01 P. M. EDWARD G. ROBINSON "TEUNDER IN THE 01TY" Don't -Forget It! TAMe Sunday Mid sight At T ke ST RAND THUATRE ts Ore Baptist Attend Conference Once every four years Baptist'stu. ents from colleges and universi ies over the South come togethei or a colossal program of spiritua -alues and of world-wide propor. ions. This year, in accordance witi he traditional date, the conferencq vas held Oct. 26-31 in Memphis 'enn. The speakers for this program in luded: Dr. George W. Truett, pres lent of the Baptist World Alliance )r'. 4. R. Scarborough presiden f the Southern Baptist Convention diss Edna Geister, internationalla amous recreational leader; Dr. T 3. Dunning, London; Richard E 3yrd; J. Edgar Hoover; Dr. Johi Hill; and some 500 students. Another feature of the conventioi vas the parade of over three thou and IDaptist students down Maih treet in Memphis on Saturda fternoon. The students from Carolina wh< ttended this meeting were Jeaw ksbill, Roxie Bell Parker, Sara] 'weatman, Sara Craddock, Kath rine Rector, Rebecca Mack, Ro: )avis, Earl Robinett, Fulton Mas ingille, Harold Moore. Miss Mami ,awton, director of Baptist studen vork.in Columbia, accompanied th tudents. --U. U. 0.- ' Nine Gallons Of Cough Syrul The Student Health Dispensary o he University infirmary, operated u1 ler the supervision of the school c oharmacy, filled 1,590 prescriptions i he 1937-38 scholastic year, accordin o Professor Robert W. Morrisot egistered pharmacist in charge of ti lispensary. Other preparations manufactured b he dispensary for students include wenty-one pounds of miscellaneot )intments, ten gallons of liquid anti eptic soaps, nine gallons of coug yrups, twelve gallons of niiscellaneou nedicinal preparations such as eyi ,ar, and nose drops, throat mops, acti tnd other 'skin lotions. Thirtee housand cold, fever, and quinine cal ;ules were prepared. All prescriptions written by the Uni rersity physician and his staff of cor iultants are filled by the dispensari which furnishes erdinary medicines t itudents without cost, charges bein nade for special preparations such a ;erums, vaccines, and accessory vita nin food products. The department, which has been i )peration since 1929, also prepart nost medicines used by the athleti issociation. Over five hundred prescriptior iave been dispensed to students ar laculty since the opening of the fa ;ession, Professor Morrison assert -1. 8. Q. Dorsey Pulls For Carolina By JANE CROUT At least we've got one fan fc Carolina. Jimmy Dorsey, when ir terviewed Tuesday said he hope we "beat the stuffings out of For< ham." Bobby Byrnes, the hot tron bonist, said that football players g around with their chests stuck ou even out of football season. Ani D)orsey had at least six Carolir co-ed fans. They came for the fire show, and when the swing lead< looked around at the last show an hey were still there, he asked, "Sa: iin't you hungary?" Jimmy Dorsey was practical] horn with a silver sax in his mouti [His Dad was a music teacher an Jimmy took up with a band whil still in high school for the paltr sunm of ninety dollars a week. Tl iame of the band was the "Scrantc Sirens",'but Jimmy didn't let thi stand in his way. Hia first re; recognition came while paying wit Paul Whiteman. Later, he and h brother, Tommy, joined togeth< b'ut couldn't agree on the tempo< the number "I'll Never Say Nev< Again Again." Tommy left Jimn with the band and organized hi own. Dorsey considers himself usual every way but one. He only has birthday every foutr years as I was born on February 29. He married and has a six year old gi named "Julie Lou", a good ol Southern name, and by the way, I thinks Southern gals and drawls as cute. His manager, Mr. Burtoi adlded that he thought the girls Columbia were the most beautift he had ever seen. Mr. Burton cel< brated his birthday here Monida night and was impressed with ti hospitality of Columbians. Some of Jimmy Dorsey's we RELAX! - UNBENE Do What You Want To E When You Want To Do 11 0 0 JUAN DIp N e URIC SLOR L CILLE SELL * WARREN HYME lASt 7110 TODAY dits To Dean Leads I T. B. Associatior Dr. J. Nelson Frierson, Dean of the University of South Carolina law school, was yqster4ay elected I president of the South Carolina we Tuberculosis association at its 21st I i annual meeting held at the Trinity cO parish house. The meeting was at tended by 250 enthusiastic persons un from all over the state. Cie Other officers elected 'at the meet- 80 - ing of the board of directors were: no first vice-president, Dr. W. Atmar esi t Smith of Charleston; second vice ; president, Charlton DuRant, Man- in r ning; secretary, Mrs. W. P. Vaughn, to Greenville; and treasurer, Ames but Haltiwanger, Columbia. rej Carolina's President J. Rion Mc- Tb Kissick as chairman of the 1938 to i Christmas seal drive, outlined his co - program. He showed the great ad- of i vance made against tuberculosis in PO r the last 30 years but stressed that Of there was so much more 'to be done. of --a. s. a.- ou ol Lyles, Hartness, a] Lead Discussion : e The Euphradian Society held an th t interesting discussion on the p*os e and cons of compulsory military M training at the University of South tw Carolina at its last meeting last bc Tuesday night. re The affirmative side of the dis- gi cussion was led by A. , Lyles, and the negative was led by fr George Hartness. . Also support- m ing the affirmative were Alex Mc- be Arthur, John Morris, Jimmy Gal- c" loway, Jimmy Wilson, and Dan 1o n Hollis. And on the negative were or g Currie MacArthur, Lee Baker, re ' Frank Jordan, Bernard Bass, and th e Charles Gibbes. The affirmative side brought out P' Y the fact that military training 14 - would prepare the boys of the Uni s versity for service in case of war; - they would probably be able to be I 1 officers instead of privates. Also, s the wearing of uniforms would aid !, greatly in developing a strong e school spirit, and in getting dates n with co-eds. of The negative pointed out that Sc the University is the only state- th, supported school in the state which th, does not have compulsory military in training. Many of the boys of m 0 the state are morally opposed to g war, and should therefore not be br s required to take military training. th The school is very badly located sy n for military training. Being close vii -s to the center of a large town, ihe an Ic University could not mhake a suc cess of military training. or -U. a. C.- fo Is Field Laboratories Held d Dr. W. E. Hoy, head of the bi 11 ology department at the University "a s. of South Carolina, said recently the co department is now conducting some of its laboratories in the field. "For a study of the various plants a and flowers that are taken up in D, some of our classes. we are now observing them in their live state p and in their natural habitat," Dr. at Hoy said. Previously, these plants M ir had,been studied from pressed ye specimens, but this plan was un- i, d satisfactory. The rapid growth of Columb,ia , has caused some difficulty, he con otinued, as certain specimens hitherto t, found on a few lots close to the U niversi ty are no longer available. aThis is due to the fact that struc ttures have covered the lots and the rflowers with them. d known compositions include "It's 4 the Dreamer in Me," and a new one, "Anytime at All." HIe rates Duke y Ellington as a top notch composer i. and musician, and considers Benny d Goodman the "king of swing." le After his tour is over, he has an y engagement at the Hotel New York e er. His last words were, "Pray that n I get a commercial program, gals." is i Look Whenever s~ Emblem So n e COLUMBIA Merchants Association TOGETHER AGAIN! Ginger Fred IROGERS -ASTAIRE in S"CA REFR EE" WITH NEW SONG HITS By IRVING BERLIN NOW PLAYING STARTING MONDAY "The Great Waltz" Luie Fernand rmIIi. RAINRR* -GraAVUTr -a mOJU Fros Mublications loard Acts rhe Board of Publications thi ek acted to place themselves ' ore active control of The Game -k. rhe paper has been technicall der control of. the literary s ties ever since its beginning ov years ago, but in recent years ha t exercised its control to the fulj. extent. At a meeting last Monday night, the Law building, the board voted require a weekly report from t iness manager of The Gameco rarding the amourit of advertisin e paper was allowed by the boar continue publication of a sevena umn sheet, so long as the amount-. advertising warrants such j licy. Prof. DePass of the schow .. journalism championed the cau" the seven column paper, pointi t its advantages in appearance a vantages to the advertiser. [t was voted by the board to forr" committee, the duty of whick' mld be. to exercise control over, y extraordinary expenses which, staff might deem necessary. The Board of Publications is ide up of three faculty member4 o representatives from each of thi ,ys' literary societies, and one repl. Bentative from each of the tw' ris' literary societies. The board also voted to exclu )m its meetings all persons mbers of the board. Staff m rs of The Gamecock and othes ncerned with the paper will be al' wed to present their argumen ' recommendations, but they mu4 tire from the meeting room whili e board deliberates. Only one member of the Board of iblications, Theresa Tenore, is a mber of The Gamecock staff. )aniel Honored ly Tennessee Dr. J. McTyeire Daniel, profew*or cducation at the University of uth Carolina, has been retained by ! department of administration of ! state of Tennessee as consultaO establishment of the state unemplop mnt compensation commission. Doctor Daniel will make several ief trips to Nashville to advise as to e proper installation of the mer* stem for the commission, and to .w work done in setting up an ezr iiation program. The University professor was Mc. imended as the besi. available ma r this work by the federal social curity board when the state depart. .nt found it advisable to bring h highly qualified technician on a nsulting basis." The plan to be followed in Tenni. e is somewhat similar to " lopted in South Carolina, where ,l aniel served as supervisor of ex&4' tions for establishing a registerAl o.spective emnployes. During the a riination period here, Dr. Daniel u iss Isabel Watkins, also of the . rsity staff, were in charge of * rk. 15o Matihee :.: Nit. 201 TONIGHT 9 P. M. "Name - A - Song" CONTEST. Come Down and Identify the Titles of Various Songs --AND WIN $2.00 or $5.00 To Be Broadcasted Over RADIO STATION W. I. S. Direct From Our Stage ON THE SCREEN That Two-Fisted Swashbuckling He..Man . Wayne Morris 'The Kid Comes Back" MON..- TUES. - WED. ALICE FAYEN George Murphy "You're A Sweetheart" THUR..- FRI. - SAT. The MIRACLE Picture ol this MODERN Age! "Snow White ;' i". Seven Dwarf s"~ "Make The MI SHOP Your Sho CALL 9308K For Quidek DeZMuerV