Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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But state administrator Pinckney refused to accept this verdict and made a special trip to Washington to intercede for the University. His efforts were successful, and last year news that a swimming pool had been granted was flashed to stu dents in a special extra edition of The Gamecock. Work was begun on it immediately, and although slight delays have been unavoidable, the construction has proceeded at a satisfactory rate until its comple tion this week. As Harry Hopkins gives his dedicatory address, he will bring to students the falfillment of a dream of some years back, a desire for Carolina to have a swimming pool which should be worthy of the University and should be the "finest in the state." Repairs Are Urgent Needs It would take several reams of paper to list the "needs of the University", but among the most urgent would be money for repairs to the physical plant. Most of the buildings are in a deplorably delapidated condition and are in bad need of general renovation and modernization. For the past several years, buildings which were known to be dangerously weak have been used because there was no money to repair them. Dormitories on the campus have been in use more than 100 years, and during that time there has been no major overhauling on them. Termites have wrought extensive damage to the foundations, leaving only shells for sup ports. The Extension building was abandoned this year be cause of its unsafe condition. It had already been con demned for a number of years before it was vacated. It was estimated by engineers that a total of $100,000 was needed to make repairs to the heating plant, and only a small part of this has been done as yet. More than 150 feet of steam line adjacent to the Ex tension building gave way last year and had to be re placed. The engineer who replaced the line was of the opinion that the condition of that particular line was typical of the whole system. Appropriations from the state legislature in the past have not been adequate to finance the repair work that needs to be done, and there is danger that, if neglected further, South Carolina will have to bear the burden of constructing entirely new buildings in the next few years. Signing Off For Semester As this issue goes to press, another chapter has been written in the history of ,The Gamecock and,.another staff has completed its work. The next issue which will come out the first week of the second semester will be under a new .regime. In trying to give to Carolina students a modern pro gressive newspaper, many mistakes have been made by the staff writers and the heads of the staff. No newspaper, however, has ever been perfect and we ask the indulgence of students for our shortcomings. For the first time, The Gamecock increased its size from six to seven columns, and an effort was made to secure a schedule of typography comparable with pres ent day tendencies in makeup. An effort has also been made to present the news of b the campus in an unbiased way without undue recog nition or space to any one organization. Personal prejudices have been kept out of the col -umnns of The Gamecock, but no attempt has been made to supproe news or comment which was honestly crit-. Ie of any group. If The Gamecock this semester has pleased the stu dept4 in any way, credit should be given to members of the staff who work almost entirely without recognition or rewardr To theem belongs any praise of the paper for with&out them its publication would ihave been impoisible. 4 tM v : 7A $ ews4ema%t1l aft~ sp4sak Ruth anar, Ku. ftr mut.:m; o.te spr tor e: Watt *oft 0ftt,]P=ed aary 80, 1906 On",ROBERT .tT GON%AraS First cta Sq., wpletate Campus Cameca AFR A DAY N THE CLASSROOM, OF BLMSBU (PA) ST. TEACHERS COLLEGE TRAINS PONS AND TIGERS FOR REST AND RELAXATION - HORACE MANN 1796 - 1859 IS CALLED IHE FATH4ER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. w FOMDED THE FIr STATE NORMAL L140t IN AMERCA! J/ N W o0 'U.SA ATHLEE, WEARS SIZE 1*. SHO9 ! uVAIY STAR1 PRAEMMS LM AS P. n_HA..O WA M It VW fIL -- '- - MAD SHM OB ' ~oARN& *Question-of-Week "What do you do to prepare for exams." Currie MacArthur: "I go to Hjkel's with my professors. M. D. Putnam:. "I try to spot the professors' questions." Tom Nix: "Cram like hell!" Albert Hill: "I let nature take its course." John Stinson: "'I study like hell." J. C. Kirtland: "~Wait until the last minute." Bob Mathews: "'I've been studying, but I'm going to try praying." Emmet Cox: "I put in time studying." 5EA~<NNi OP SAPG'Ty ~--WHEN BOAT ' 1RACes8A -~ 'TS Tf4R%LLNG -' RAces B~ WHEN HORSE RACES 14ORe 4TlS TH SpoRT OPKIN4GS" RACeS -rRAtN -.LS S1..D ____ cbKee Mitor Nationa1.AdveM Pdho can saasu ColleCt By George Zuckerma . DISSA AND DATA* Now that the swimming pool is ready to -be filled you recall It was Juit2about ohe winter ago that the Oaihocock printed the first and o4ly extra in the history of the paper, the head line of which cried, in type re served for the resurrection, POOL GRANTED, and scooped both lo cal dailies "on the story.,.'he in side parallel to the yarn is that the 0amecock 4xtrA was almost floated down the Congaree River.. .At that hectic hour the football situ ation was -as hot as Dante's per manent winter resort... Acting on the campus grapevine rumor that the gridders were going to kidnap the edition, Gamecock editor Dinky W11amt called in a flying squad r6n of local police who guarded the freshman circulation crem... One week and no news from mathema tician Tribble... The old dark house of the campus, the one time ex tension building, startled the cam pus recently by coming to life with lights once more. Cause, as it was later learned, was not a remnant Christmas tree or a dormant light ning rod, but the reoccupancy of the house by the fajnilies who re sided in those wood houses on Green street, torn down to make way for the new men's dormitory ...Hamlet's melancholy -Cannon will leave her pet Carolinian to Hennig Cohen and Dan Misapa ...Out this February goes journal ist Cannon to bombard city edi tors for a job... Gamecock readers ( were surprised to find last week, in the space reserved for genius Louis Searson, a column by a stranger named Niles Borop...one campus cynic suggested that if Niles does another column to ti tie it: Burped by Borup... Rumor also had it that Louis Searson was one of the leading candidates lor the Supreme Court post recently given to Felix Frankfurter... But, it-was said, he was turned down be cause it was feared the law would go from bad to verse... you're right, that pun is as old as Chinese checkers... Latest in the ever changing cycle of campus sports is bicycling. . .It might not be a bad idea to have a faculty six days bike race around the campus, beginning Janualy 2Oth...Logical favorite would be English prof. Wagefter who pedaled his way around Eu rope and Germany last summer... All of which reminds you that some student, housed in tenement 'twelve downstairs,- has his walls decoratedj with large swastikas... University Players, plaything of Stephan and Woods, are thinking about, I "There's Always Juliet"... Because Romeo might feel slighted, the Players had better -make another choice... In fact another play, any old play, would be better-even if Rornieo didn't care... How about a new play, like East Lynne... The Carolinian, which has been the graveyard for the great works of the 1937 short story class, went one step further and published a work of Professor Thesaurus Bab cock who conducted that class... After the exams the Gamecock will run a "missing persons" column... They almost had to call ofl one of the intra-mural football games this week because there wasn't a quo rum in the stands.. .Also absent, and very notably, was. the Notre Dame shift..,Yes, you know, the gridders were old enough to shift for themselves... Society editor Rollins has so seldom appeared in the Gamecock office this semester that she has been dubbed the Bull Street correspondent... And yes, you also know, Musclin' In is writ ten by a local choruspondent... Pugilistic professor Frank, not F1rankle, DeMars, reprimanding a local sports scribe for something written by one of the University'. spjorts publicists.. .Tri Itchy ftater ty evicted a pledge last week... [t was discovered that he was son fan exterminator... The Game-. cock will publish an ultimatum on February soth giving the lite!ary societs twenty fou s hours to re linquish their claini of ownership .If the demands are refused the Glamecock will. sell out to Hearst ..'.Yes, from bad to. HeArst... Garrulous Ed McGrath says he will be rich byv the end of 'Rebruary.. all of which is -a good start for Ed to beeoie richest man in the teniste:%',..With 4vlation in drtttori IeW ibeing offered to stu leats, colleg@ educatjpu seems to bgetting'hlgher.-. 3Ugted be ;innlng to asu Onn es1. future '&1ipg rp~)Mt that man's ~ *Mt~t~epitaph: ~ ihwas a col 0'A - t Pr ofe0t d d e neusuratloe to p c 14rcU ?agersAist prpery frmtogtesaiVaeesdsre ~OD YM 42.' On. PAIM 1ROCkIITON#.C ft tudeints M ove 0o ProtectPop y Significant action Was taken at a joit meeting of XSK.and Alpha Kappa Ga&ima this week wh~en it was decided to make plans for a p t Versity property from thoughtless and careless destruc. Blue Key, ODK, andAthe Co-ed Association have also2 joined in this move, and a committeb representing all five, organi ,zations is now *orking on the problem. Few students"stop to.think that one reason for the scat.city of money at Carolina is the unnecessary waste sometimes entailed by those who 'are not careful about the way they use University property. An excessively large number of Yindow panes has to be bought each year, because of their being broken out; grass around the edges of walks has to be replanted several tunes, and a clear cut walk has been worn in one place on the campus. But the action of these organizations which'corabine a large rAumber of students is indicative of an under current of disapproval of abuses to the campus. This opinion is probably shared by the majority of students ,who have considered the matter, and it will be endorsed by those who consider the welfare of the Uni versity at all. Student cooperation in this move will do a. great deal to lower expenses of running the University, and will in turn make more money available for other stndent purposes. lartia Summation )f Objectives To sum up all the editorials of the semester would be impossible and unaccountably boring, but there are sev eral well-defined objectives for which the University and Carolina students should work in the future. (1) A larger appropriation for the University to build up a school which shall be foremost among edu cational institutions. (2) A reallocation of the student activity fee to revise the individual allocation and include the Catolinian. (3) Use of the Carolina stadium for large track meets, and if possible, for the state track meet. (4) An additional man in the physical education department to adequately hanidle the 600 students in the gym classes. (5) Emancipation of The. Gamecock from the liter ary societies to the Carolina students. (6) A swimming team and a state meet to make use of the pool which opens Tuesday. ~choes From Tine Press iberalism Or ~adicaism (Reported From Los Angeles Collegian) During the past five years there has been a definite. trend toward radicalism in the'United States. Number of radicals, that is, persons who voted as members of radical political parties, .reached an all-time high in 1936 and is likely to increase by 194Q. The questiofn, "Who is a radical?" has long been de bated. Lincoln, Wesley, Luther, and other reformers were known as radicals in their time and the wisdom of their actions was not realized 'until after their deaths. Communist, Socialist, progressive, pension, and a score ' of Utopian parties are generally conceded to be radical in the accepted sense of the word. Webster defines a radical as "one who advocates sweeping changes in law ' and methods.of governmegnt with the least possible de- ! lay." The World war ended with economic radicalism very much to the fore in Europe. The Bolsheviki had seized power in Russia, and the Republican party ruled Ger many. The Labor,.party was gaining in Great Britain. Socialism flared in America but disappeared when the railroads were returned to private ownership in 1920. Nineteen twenty-one was Communism's biggest year of that decade but the theory had lost many followers and dropped far back by 1930. By 1932, at the dawn of the Roosve eanitato, the radical trend was almost The'ew ealand its many changes, especially those proposed in metlhods of gov'brnment, stirred the embers of radicalism again and the liberal outlook of the ad ministration fanned the political flame. After the very ~ high radical vote of 198, the Democrat jtdministration again brought forth new changes with the ame ap- ~ parent result as before. Many new political afgiliations sprang up, foremost of these being the pension plans and the newly constructed Progresive pairty. The 1940 elee ~ tion~ will be the first absolute barometer upon the ltst tiss of the trsn4 towad ralal.u.