Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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As' examinations draw closer campus doings of the past few been.more balanced than in the imposed by the student activiti After dwelling on the orgy o tions appear to be less of an o however, was unusually succes Dink Gaines, and Margy Collins Council. Fsollowing rush week, the Cof ership of Martha WitNfers, issu which has proved to be a great Dancing--and Carolina stud< start too. The Social Cabinet, chairman, put on a series of da a chance to have their fling. The Delta Sigma Pi Cabaret from the usual "straight" da: dancing upon this occasion had bones she's supposed to have. The Pi Beta Phi formal the : sorority ball of the season, an4 Omega formal in January. : 8 formal the last of January. .I ject of dances, the Alpha Kappa first dancing class sponsored 1 Thursday and Friday, under th classes are taught in the lobby Whether students come to the pleasure of dancing, they are st The Christmas Damas was, ( season. Then there was the 0. ] sponsored by the German Club. certainly not been neglected. Getting down to more seriou girls wqre entertained by the ol banquet. The affair proved qui annual event. More than 350 c W. C. A., which fostered the bi Hall. Mrs. Julian Petty's six weeks women relations, also sponsore popular as well as educational. Then came the election of Di: of Alpha Kappa Gamma at the Hill in the fall. The local chi Dorothy Crow, Virginia Webb Highlights in football for t the Homecoming Game with Ge< Game-but why speak of that? Kay Kayser featured Carolina s the Fordham game. Getting down to the present, is' to be given tonight in the dance is a general get-together cil is conmposed of two represen Delta Sigma Pi initiated six last week. William G. Acker, Anthony Smoak, Forrest Croi Eleazer, Carlyle Russ, and Jack group is having a banquet at th Alex MacArthur has been nar for the second semester. Othe vice-president; Knox Livingstor treasurer.. Pete Blackwell is the new Ph: Harper, vice-president; 0. H. RI treasuruer. .For Phi Sigma Kappa, new a dent; J. D. Hoyt, vice-presidei Hugh Lester, treasurer. A rec Anthony Walker. Alpha Tau Omega new office> Jack Brown, vice-president; Al -Doster secretary. Irvine Welli, Ge~e Club To. Sing Saturday University of South Carolina Glee Club sponsored by the Sophomore Class of Columbia College, will give a concert at 8 o'clock Saturday even ing at Columbia College. A few selections from the program are: Gloria in Excelsis (From "Twelfth Mass") by Mozart; Dear Land of Home (From the Tome Poem "Finlandig") by Sibelius; Lord's Prayer by Mellette-Dies, also selections from Beethoven and Dvorak. The program will also include negro spli-ituals by Bartholomew, Newell and humorous -numbers arranged by tb;e members of the Glee Club. A state-wide tour in the early spring, is being arranged by the Ulni versity Glee Club. The Director of the club is.William C. Baldwin. Thte officers- are as fol lowb: Evans N. Guyton, President; Jack 0. Brown, Vice-President; A. Arms; David S. Parker and Thomas H. Walker, pianists. ---U. U. @. SThe world's largest "ioo" is the Krue Natonl Park, Souths Africa. It covera an area about the ai. of R416an1m., -we pause to ireflect upon the months. Social Activities have past because of the restret,ns board. E sorority rush week, examina rdeal than usual. Rush week, sful, thanks to the efforts of , president of the Pan-Hellenic bd Association, under the lead ed its first Coed Handbook, hel'p to Carolina girls. mnts do love it-got an early with' John Dargan Rodgers as nces which gave the jitterbugs Dance was a refreshing change ces. Billie Coffee's acrobatic us wondering if she has all the Irst of November was the first I this was followed by the Chi till to come is the Tri Delta Lnd while we are on the sub Gamma group inaugurated the. y a university group. Every e direction of Marion Graham, of the Student Union Building. class to learn or just for the ill fun. >f course, the spotlight of the ). K. formal and several dances Yes, Carolina's social life has s talk, for the first time, new I girls at a big and little sister te successful and it is to be an oeds were the guests of the Y. g-little sister idea, at Stewards discussion group on men and cd by the Y. W. C. A. proved ik Gaines as national president r annual conference at Chapel ipter took in Sara Harrison, and Maegaret Rollins. Iie coeds who sponsored were >rgia and the annual State Fair Carolinians got a thrill when ongs in his broadcast following the annual Pan-Hellenic dance University gymnasium. This ~or all sororitiies since the coun tatives from each group. boys and one faculty member professor of economics, and ich, Kit FitzSimmons, Holmes Wallace. Tomorrow night the e Jefferson. ied president of the Kappa Sigs e~ officers are Tom McCutchen, ,secretary, and David Traylor, i Kappa Sigma president, J. W. todes,. secretary, and C. G. Bass, ificers are Hubert Wells, presi.. it; Tom Willis, secretary, and ent pledge of their chapter is 's are Andy Marion, president; ert James, treasurer, and Bob ig is the outgoing .preside,nt. New Course Ini French Offered A course on the history of the French language will be offered during the next .semester, accord ing to an announcement by Prof. A. M. McLeod of the French de partment. ,This course will trace the devel opment of the French language from the earliest times to the pres ent. The various influences, for eign and native, which have affected the language will be studied. Modern syntax will be explained as far as possible in the light of historical development. This is not an advanced or technical course. This course will be classified as French 122 and will meet Mondays at 9:00. Blackwell Goes. To- Convention' Pete Blackwell attended 'the an nual conventio'n of. 'Phi Kappa Sig ma fraternity held ditting 'the Christmas holidays in New Orleans. Blackwell .attended the: Conven tion as delegate of Alpha Eta chap ter of Phi Kappa Signa. The land cpie*iTy the pbIc roads of the United States Isal to the area of the whole stt of In MARJORIE COLLINS These girls are officers of t 1 o'clock Friday evening in ti Miss Webster, secretary, and eBuster Spann and his Gam one other representative. Thi Fashion. Big Suc In the setting of a smart Fi: Y. W. C. A. fashion show tool fessional model performance la ton Hall. The irate parents of a daughter who was trying to select her col lege wardrobe were ably performed by Louis Searson and Lois Jeter. The young daughter was played by Mackey King. Proprietor of the exclusive salon for madamoiselle was Bernard Hester. Costumes modeled . by twenty Juniors Plan Annual Ball sThe annual junior-senior ball early in March, will be open. to all juniors and seniors and their dates. Lowerclassmen will be admitted stag, upon payment of a script of one dollar. Script will be charged the juniors, whether boys or girls. The dance will be informal, and re freshments will be served. - These arrangements were made at a meet ing of the junior class Tuesday af ternoon. Officers of thd junior clas, who are sponsoring the dance, are as follows: Tom McCutchen, presi dent; Jimmy Tomlinson, vice-presi dent; Polly McKenzie, secretary treasurer, and Leola Garety, his torian. Paper Gives Forum News Forum News Notes, a paper con taiing neCws on the~ forurn demonst ra tion program, is the latest publication of the University Extension division. The publication will appear twice monthly. The paper contains four pages and is published to supply information about the forum movement now being sponsored by the United States Of fice of Education and the University extension division. Among the contents of the paper are an editorial by Director W. H. Ward of the extension division and news notes on local forum meetings. Since the first of October more than ten thousand people have at tended forum meetings conducted by the extension department. One hun dred and three such meetings have been held during the past three months. The meetings are led by Dr. LeRoy Bowman, formerly of the social science department of Columbia Uni versity. Dr. Bowman also conducts a course in group leadership every Tuesday afternoon in DeSaussure College. Forum meetings are held regularly in B a t esb utg, Brogland-Cayce, Blythewood, Columbia Htigh School, Dentsville, Shandon, Hyatt Park, St. Matthews, Orangeburg, and Gaffney. Studes. Take To 'Cycles When the day's work is over, thoughts of University students nowadays turn to' bicycling. Late every afternoon the shaded walks and roadways of the historic campus are turned into speedways for students on "wheels"--students of both sea;eh, singly, in pairs and in laF B. "hitey RawI, iftanager of the University cooperative stores, had no Idea what he was starting -? w~rvw ?w~ W W " AF Pan Heller RANNAH HEYWARD he Pan-Hellenic council at the Uni LO university gymnasium. Miss Co Miss Overton, treasurer. icock orchestra will play. Pan-Hel a dance is to raise money for the c Show cess !th Avenue shop, the sophomore c on all the earmarks of a pro st Wednesday evening in Dray charming coeds were lent through the courtesy of Lisbeth Wolfe, Haltiwanger's, Loft Shop, and Al lan Shop. In charge of arrangement for the fashion show was Maude Burns Chisolm, who was ably assisted by Jane Cox, Betty Crosby, and Jac queline McCutchen. Green Takes Club Office Albert Green, recently re-elected president of the Carolina Chris tian Service Club, was installed into office at the weekly meeting of the club Monday night. Harold Prince, president of the Y. M. C. A., ad ministered the oath of office. In his inaugural speech Presi dent Green stated that he felt it one of the greatest honors of his college life to be elected president of the club twice and that he would attempt to serve the organization in the best possible way. Following his inaugural address the president then installed the other officers. Those being install ed were: vice-presidents, John Murray, Albert Harvey, Ruby Lown, Carolyn McCrory, Joe Lynn; secretary, Virginia Fewell; treasurer, Lynwood Powell; pub licity chairman, Jimmie Wilson; sergeant-at-arms, Junius Rowe; pianist, Elizabeth Stuckey. Members of the club sponsor weekly programs at the Industrial School, the Confederate Hiome, the Veteran's Hospital, and the alms house. Woods Still Lives, But No Dances "Uncle Billy" Woods was "al most killed by a meb of raving maniacs" (as he put it) when a group of enthusiastic students de manded to be given a dance in the Student Union lobby last Satur day. Announcement of a Student Union dance after the has letball game last Saturday night wa ?made over the public address system in the field house. The announcement was made by mistake, and students appearing at the Student Union building and finding no dance in progress made the demands. "There will be no more dances this semester," Woods declared. "It's too close to exams, and be sides, I don't feel like giving a dance tonight. Now ,please go home and let me sleep." The Student Union building is at present undergoing a renovating program. Painting and minor re pairs are being made and plans are complete for re-covering basement floors as soon as material arrives for this work. The floor material will be similar to that in the can teen. several weeks ago when he obtained several bicycles and placed them on hire. - The fad caught on quickly, and the stock of bicycles had to be increased rapidly to meet the de mand. A "bicycle built for two" was obtained, and is in constant de mand. ic Officers CATHERINE WEBSTER versity of South Carolina which i Ulins is president of the council; I lenic council is composed of the I entral scholarship fund for need: YWCAHears Of Doctrines The chief doctrines of every re ligious faith represented at the Uni versity were explainod in a pro gram of two-minute talks at the general Y. W. C. A. meeting Thurs day afternoon. Made by members of the Y, these talks were intended to pro mote a better understanding by the students of the beliefs of kll lead ing denominations. Following the talks, sacred music was rendered by a trio composed of Lavinia Lyles, Grace Kilgore, and Jpne Webb. Those taking part in the program and the reglions they represented were: Marion Zula, Roman Catho lic; June Webb, Baptist; Marjorie McBribe, Morman; Ellen Verner, Presbyterian; Rose Poliakoff, Jew ish;, Nell Berry, Lutheran; Edna Greene, Episcopal, and Mary Cecile Brabiaim, Meiodisi. Joint vesper services will be held again Sunday at 7 p. m. in the chapel. Currie MacArthur, vice president of the Y. M. C. A., will preside and present the program. --U. 5. 0. Crow Hopes For Chapter' Organizatinn of a field chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, professional education fraternity, will be taken up at the state teachers' meeting in Columbia this spring, it was an nounced by Orin F. Crow, dean of the school of education. Groundwork for the organization was laid at the meeting of mem bers of the fraternit yfrom over the state in the education building of the University held in Decem ber. This meeting was called by Dr. Crow, who is state chairman of the field organization committee. Named on the committee to pre pare for organization were: Dr. Shelton Phelps, president of Win throp colege and former national president of the fraternity; Dr. J. McTyeire Daniel, education pro fessor at the University, and W. D. Dixon, state high school super visor. The fraternity is connected with coleges and universities of graduate rank maintaining outstanding grad uate departments. CrowU Heads Lit Group Dorothy Crow was re-elected president of the Euphrosynean Lit erary Society at a meeting held Wednesday afternoon. Other offi cers elected were: Vice-president, Mary Cecile Brabham; secretary, Miriam Marshall; treasurer, Har riet McBrayer; critic, Margaret Thompson. Dorothy Crow, a senior, is a member of the Chi Omega social sorority and Alpha Kappa Gamma leadership sorority. Harriet Mc Brayer and Mary Cecile Brabham are seniors and members of Alpha Delta Pi social sorority. Miriam Marshall and Margaret Thompson are both juniors and members of Delta Delta Delta sorority. The literary society holds its meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, and all girls mak ing a minimum grade "B" on English are eligible for member ship. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING DURHAM, N. C. The Diploma of Graduate Nurse is awarded after three years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing for two additional years of approved collee work before or after the course laNursink. The entrance requirements are intelli ec,character and gaduation fromn an accredited hig school. After 1939 one year ofcollege Wrork will be required and twd years ofcollege iwork thereafter. The nnua tution of *100 covers the cost of uniforms, books. student gov,ernnient fees, etc Catalogues, ap~plication forms an~d taformation be oind from tim - Admiinata -Exarx RAY OVERTON a giving a danoe from 9 until diss Heyward, vice president; mresident of each sorority and r students. Woods Acts On Socials Prof. W. S. Woods, acting as chairman of the committee recently appointed by President Mckissick to investigate campus social condi tions, last week mailed to all fra ternities and sororities a question naire asking for information on their social activities. President McKissick appointed the committee at the request of the Board of Trustees but added that the action did not mean that any change in the existing set-up would be made. However, the president and the bQard are anxious to find exactly what conditions are. If the committee finds that there are abuses of social privileges and that conditions are not what they should be, they are to make recommenda tions to the president for correct ing and improving such conditions. The questionnaire mailed by Mr. Woods asked for tihe following in formation: name of organization, date of party or dance, place where party was held, amount paid for place, name of orchestra, cost of orchestra, guest list, chaperon list, hours of party, any other expenses, script. Many Visit Observatory Visitors to the University of South Carolina observatory during recent weeks have been very much interested in seeing the beautiful planets of Jupiter and Saturn, which ar conspicuous in the early evening sky this winter. The observatory is open to visi tors every Monday and Wednes day nights when the sky is clear. Usually there are twenty or thirty visitors each of these nights, some of them out-of-state people visiting in the city. Professor E. C. Coker, teacher of astronomy at the University, says that if one looks early in the morning, the brilliant planet Venus may be seen. It shines high up in the southeast part of the sky about 8 a. m. Many students have been able to enjoy this rare sight of see ing a planet in the sky in the day time. ---. 3. 0. New Courses In Education Three new courses will be offer ed by the School of Education for the second semester, it was an niounced this week by Dean John A. Chase, Jr. These courses are designed to prepare students to teach in ele mentary schools, and will be taught by Dr. Ellison M. Smith. The names of the courses are as follows: Education 122. Materials of Instruction in Elementary Schools, three credits; Education 124, Teaching of Reading, three credits, and Education 262, Curri culum Problems in the Elementary School, three credits. McGREGOR'S DRUG STORE 1308 Main Street PRESCRIPTIONS SODA - CIGARETTES TOIET ARTICL.ES Call 2-3308 For Prompt Delivery Service BUSIN ESS IS ESSENTIAI. TO UVEU C0LL.EGE N naY, menH, noS DRAUSHON'S BU~ 1218 Sumter Stret : FRANK W. LYKEA PmeMeet asna, , y,Agung9g Pan-H Gives Dance Tonite Bus Spann Will Play For Hop The Pan-Hellenic Council Is giv_. ing a dance in the University gym nasium tonight from 9 'til 1. This is the second annual dance given by this group to raise funds. Bus ter Spann and his Gamecocks will play. Officers of the organization lead ing the grand march are Marjorie Collins, president; Rannah Hey ward, vice-president; Catherine Webster, secretary; Ray Overton, treasurer. During the evening there will be three no-breaks, in addition to the special no-break for members of Pan-Hellenic and their dates. Pan-Hellenic Council is composed of 16 girls, the president of each sorority and one other representa tive. They are: Margaret Rollins, Ray Overton, Pi Beta Phi; Mar garet Ashe, Rannah Heyward, Delta Delta Delta; Frances Smith, Cath erine Webster, Zeta Tau Alpha; Beverly Bates, Jeanette Watts, Chi Omega; Virginia Webb, Leila Mayes, Alpha Delta Pi; Helen Kronrad, Natalin Lifchez, Kappa Kappa Kappa; Mary Alice Porter, Majorie Collins, Delta Zeta; Cor nelia Yoder, Mary Alice Gardner, Sigma Kappa. Decorations will be in sororit colors, and sorority insigniat wi be featured. Chaperons include Dr. and Mrs. J. Rion McKissick, Mr. W. Flinn Gilland, Dean and Mrs. John A. Chase, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Julian Petty, Dr. and Mrs. Kershaw Walsh, Mr. Frank Wardlaw, Dean Arney Childs, Dr. and Mrs. George Sherrill, Prof. and Mrs. Roy James, Mr. W. Frank Taylor, and parents of council members. Script is 75 cents and proceeds will be given to the coed central scholarship fund. Players Choose Gaskin For New President Gladys Gaskin was elected presi dent of the University Players Wednesday night, and Mamie Thomas was chosen vice-president. Others elected were Marion Zula, secretary; Eva Wilson, treasurer, and Jacqueline McCutchen, his torian. Catherine Rector gave a mono logue on a woman at a baseball game, then as an encore, a negro preacher. There will be a play produced next semester called "There's Always Juliet." There will be a call for talent for the varsity show immediately after ex aminations. --U. .. 0. Snakes range from tropical lands to Iceland, are found in deep for ests, arid deserts, salty seas, fresh water .ponds, and marshes, and spend their lives in trees, under-ground, and on the surface. "Flowers For All Occasions" CAROI.INA'S FLORIST Corsages - Plants - Cut Flowers DeLoache, Inc. Florist Next Door To Western Union--Phone 2-2187 CHINA WATCli)!! SYLVAN BROS. 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