The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 10, 1939, Page Page Four, Image 4
GEOROE ZUCKERMAN...........d.r........*dftr
DEPARTMENT VEADS
Richard FrIck, Sports Editor; Irene TaBorde, Oo-ed
Editor; Katherine Hines, Society Editor; Reed Boyd, Pau
Exchange Editor. Pattel
STAFF WRITERS Franc
Deward Brittain, Jim McKinney, Bernie Bass, Ray- night,
mond Davis, Helen 4len and Paul Sansbury. lahan,
COIT HENDLEY..............Managing Editor
Welcomne Alumni
Changing Scene
Greets Old Grads
Tomorrow, men past their roaring twenties
-men who are not professors or PWA work
ers-will walk and saunter along the paved
walks of the campus that were not paved when
they donned rat caps or assumed sophomore
sophistication.
And there will, indubitably, be heard the
myriad muterings of "times have changed",
"It was different when I was here" and other
mauldin clinches coined like pennies in a mint.
They who are old and wise will thank some
one or something that college of their youth
has a newly and brightly chiseled countenance
with more and useful lines. They will be glad
to know that the federal government, with its
generous grants to the University, has made
democracy a tangible fact.
They who are old and senescent will prob
ably deplore the apparent loss of atmosphere,
the destruction of the hazardous but historic
old buildings and walls. They will - rebel
against the note of modernity and utilitarian
tempo of architecture.
They who are old but yet young will mouse
trap some old acquaintance and tell of time,
long ago, when he and some other Carolina
boys whipped the hell out of Clemson. They'll
tell you the game has changed, and it's all not
like yesterday when men were men and women
were not co-eds.
Memories will rise like mist in the morning
and gala garrulity will rule the day of home
coming.
Meanwhile, we the students, will be stared
at as if we were the tenants of heaven.
Lest you' forget, we, unlike the trees and
buildings, will in short time pass from this
campus.
We soon will also be alumni, and we, too,
in that hour, hope to come home for a day.
Front Page Course
BabcocktProposes
"Current Affairs"
Evern once in a short while, someone, within
the cloistered walls of the campus, emerges
with a vivacious idea. Many are impractical.
though interesting, and are disbanded with the
ticking anxd fleeing hours.
But this week we heard a suggestion, a very
pertinent one in these turbulent times, which
is indeeCd Ipractical.
It concerns thme add(ition of a new course
to the 1University's curriculum.
Before you stop) readling this and turn to
MusRIcIln' In, we had better inform you that
the course should be as interesting as your
daily paper ,or magazine, especially if you
don't read the comic strip)s. Bumt it is highly
probable that even Popeyc and Alley 001)
will be the subject of a lecture if someone is
ale to interpret their jargon as songs of so
('ial significence.
Prmof. Havilahm Babcock is the sponsor of
the new course, the tentative title of which is
"Current Affairs".
Experts in politics, scence, literature, jour
nalism, and ed(ucation will be invited to lee
ture before this class.
As Babcock said today, probably more so
thaun any time in the history of man, events
are rolling faster than the newspaper presses.
History is clicking from tIhe teletype machines.
If we are to confine ourselves to the study of
things past, things very cold, we are missing
the b)lood and thunder around us.
We a're students, iind the most vital subject
is: the world today. These are our times and
we should know something about them.
Heavy scholastic programs prevent many
students from reading the daily newspapers
or the weekly news magazines. And the fear
of grades and credits stifles, for four years,
many a natural interest in t,he world about us.
We believe the addition of such a course
wvould not be regarded as a radical, step in
education. Courses of this type are offerrd in
the best universities of the nation.
We hope there is enough initiative around
the campus to transform the idea to a fact, to
a page in the catalogue.
A680bIATES
1 League, Jane Coz. Philip Wilmeth. G A
son, Elliott McCants, Dan Henderson,
es Meeke. Business Associates: Bil Bauk.
Otto Laier, Aille Pritchard, Lewis Cal
Mackay King and Dick Ward. ROBE
Entered as
Parade Of Opinion
(By Associated Collegiate Press)
Texts
Definitely valuable is the following sugges
tion from the Midland of Midland College,
for long have students talked about the text
books that add to their scholastic miseries.
So we pass on to you the editorial "Carrying
a Heavy Load".
"Ancient and honored is the. tradition
among textbook writers that a book must have
weight to have value. Therefore, those fat
volumes you see under the arms of students
aren't encyclopedias or congressional records.
Rather they are four or five pounds of assort
ed literature, history, philosophy and what
have-you.
"We don't mean necessarily that the larger
the book the more stuffy it is. In fact, most
texts are attractively written and very read
able despite the fact that it would take years
of stuly for most mortals to assimilate them.
"Because the amount to be covered in a
semester demands large daily assignments,
most of us skim over 30 or 40 pages and are
left with a rather vague impression, much like
a passenger on a Streamliner after a 100-mile
an-hour trip across country.
"The day is not far distant, we hope, when
textbook authors will boil their subjects down
to the meat, flavor them spicily, throw in a,
little sauce and serve in succulent, tasty dishes
to culture-hungry students."
Parade Opens
Despite depressed business conditions in the
current decade, American college and uni
versity attendance in this period has shown a
gain of 22 per cent, Dr. Raymond Walters,
president of the University of Cincinnati, re
ports in a paper on "Recent Trends in Student
Enrollment".
Factors contributing to the maintenance of
college and university attendance from 1930
through 1938, according to Dr. Walters, in
cluded "the sheer circunstance of a lack of
jobs"; financial help in the form of more than
$38,000,000 in a typical year given by the insti
tutions themselves to 330,000 students as
scholarships, grants-in-aid, loans, and similar
assistance, and in the form of $16,000,000 the
same year from the National Youth Admin
istrat ion to 180,000 studlents; and the students'
own dlesires to attain objectives "which tran
scendl statistical appraisal. The intellectual
and cultulral enrichment of their lives and
finer service to America".
Pres5ident Wal ter's warned, however, that
studencit bodies in institultions of higher learn
ing may not continue to increase or even main
ta in their present numerical level.
Other p)oints stressed by President Walters
as being of special significance included the
following:
College and university attendlance showed a
general dlecrease first in 1932, reachled its all
time low in 1933, and began to climbi again in
1934, when the United States Government
made available student aid funds through the
Federal Emergency ReliefC Administration,
which later were supplied by the National
Youth Administration. The gain has been con
stant since 1934.
Publicly controlled universities since 1930
have b)ecomne the overwhelming leaders as to
numbnlers, with a group increase of 30 per cent.
More than one-third of the full-time students
in 569 app)roved colleges and ulniversities in
1938 were in 55 public universities.
The independent colleges have not fared
b)adly since 1930. Their freshman increases
gauging more accurately the immediate re
sponses to economic condlitions than upper
class enrollments-since 1934 have been larger
than those of other groups of institutions.
Such colleges account for 26 per cent of the
total college-university enrollment.
Privately controlled universities rank next
numerically, with 23 per cenf of the 1938 at
tendance. The independent schools of engi
neering and technology have grown 40 per cent
since 1930 in the size of their student bodies.
The greatest recent advance in collegiate en
rollment is reported in the section comprising
Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas,
with other newer and less heavily populated
sections also showing larger percentage in
creases than the older, more populous East.
Although their proportion is decreasing, the
numerical leadership is still held by liberal arts
cou1reR.
THE
LMECOE
Founded January 30, 1908
.T ELLIOTT GONZATS, First
second class matter at the tffice at oolumI
November 90. wato
Campus Ca
50.ANNVERSARY
'Il PMi D - MN O RI
BALL 0WMES UP WITH HIS 50"
COLLEGE 1EAM THIS FALL /
STAGG BEGAN HIS CAREER
PLAYING END AT YALE AND WAS
SELECTED ON HISTORY'S FIRST
ALL-AMERCAN 1TAM IN 1889.
HE 0DACHED FOR WO YEARS AT
SPRINGFIELD G.LEGE,41 YEARS
AT CHICAGO AND IS IN HIS 7" YEAR
AT THE COLLEGE OF 'MAE PCIFIC.
HIS TEAMS HAVE PLAYED
525 GAMES, WINNING 31., LOSING
179 AND T1YNG 34 FR A .6'55
WINNING AVERAGE!
HE INENTED 1HE
FOMRARD PASS!
COACH A.A.
*Question
What do you think of the M
A. C. Fennell, Jr.-"I'm agan
of it good."
Curtis Coleman-"Some is boi
Myra Brennecke-"I think i
very, very boring."
Tom Perrin-"I'm agin' it."
James Bryant--" I think it's s
Edward Barnwell-'I think
there's the idea of being made -
Oscar Mims-"I see no use in
is no recognized in any other im~
as credit is concerned.''
David Fowler-"I think the c
would be en.joyed if the student:
that they must take and pass it
Irene Chitwood-'"It makes a
David Fulmer-"It's fine te
U. S. ,C. but I don't like its be
resentment on the part of tile si
Betty Gutheridge-" It gets im
George Saussy, Jr.-'"Need I
Readers Right
-Dear Editor:
After reading your edIitorial re
gardling the Garnet and Black's
mercenary attitude, I'd like to take
this opportunity to clarify a few
points that might be misunderstood.
A letter and contract was sent to
every organization on the campus
regarding the pages in the annual
even to Phi Beta Kappa.
As you know the appropriation
for the Garnet and Black is small
in fact, 75 cents per student per
semester which makes it necessary
to charge organizations for their
pages. It's true that it costs $1.50
to have your picture made, but (1o
you realize that besides the picture,
glossy prints have to be made as
well as the cuts. We get $2.00 for
the annual, but the profit from that
dloesn't warrant free pages for or
ganizations-especially when the
covers alone cost 62 cents each.
Besides the above there are
numerous pages that we give free
now, such as the faculty section, the
beauty section, athletic section, and
the snapshot section.
A's to the free publicity, I would
like now to express my appr'eciation
for that service. However, for the
Colk
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-ing but some is helpful."
b is entirely unnecessary and
mply a waste of time."
t has its good points but still
:o come."
giving a University credit that
titution. Waste of time as far
ourse as a whole is helpful and
were not givenl to understand
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good study period."
know of the history of thc
~ng compulsory. It establishes
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the way of my dates."
ay anything?"
And Write
benefit of those students who are
not aware of our policy I'd like t<
say that we do pay you for the
adlvertising in youtr paper.
WVe try to use the $35.00, the cos
of your two pages, in advertising.]
think that is to your advantage foi
we dIon't have much use for tha
much advertising.
If you have any other suggestioni
regardling the management of th<
Garnet and Black we would deepi:
appreciate them.
I'd also like to say that Phi Bet
Kappa authorities have been ap
proached on the subject and the:
WILL have a page in the 194i
Garnet and Black.
I hope this letter will clarify ou
position in the matter since most o
the students think that we have al
the money necessary to publish ai
annual.
May the day come, and that no
far off, when organizations will n<
longer have to pay for the annua
pages.
Sincerely,
Mac Singletary,
Busine Manage.
A. W. "DVCV_. 4WRATMAPSI R9P
Member I
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)istributor of Iued Wekly by the Uterar Societie at the Uni".
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MUSCLIN' IN
Elmer Tuck has begun to look around for a new roommate
since his present one is contemplating leaving him . . . Marion
Glenn, Camden's olive skinned girl friend is now serving as the
object of one of Laurimore boys' affection . . . Quite capably
taking care of the other one is Orangeburg's lovely child, Seren%
(Sirena) Foreman . ., Or is it the same one in both casesI .
Probably the two most worthless people (As far as having
anything to do) at the Carolina-Florida game were the two
Flordia cheerleaders who made the long trip just to lead the
'Gator players in a few mumbled yells . . . As usual, one of the
band boys had to do something screwy at the game . . . About
a minute before the affair a Sousaphone tooting lad was sega
walking down the sidelines . . . He had lost the band when i
assumed a new roosting place near the top of the stadium.
Harriet Williamson, to whom love does funny things, ad.
dressed two letters recently . . . One to The Citadel, Clemson,
S. C. and the other to Clemson College, Charleston, S. C. .
Milton Marcus offered two passes to the wrestling matches if
lie could get his name in the Gamecock for at least twice dut.
ing his collegiate career. . . Ken Rokie, Rockford, Illinois' gift
to the bohunk squad, is the Paderewski of the football aggrega.
tion ... Mary Mathis, rated as charming by one prof, was really.
not talking to Dumas Turmer in astronomy class, as accused
. . . Dr. Murchinson enjoyed the publicity in last week's Game.
cock so much that he had it read aloud in class, much to Murrel
Smith's displeasure.. . Acrobatic Paul Posey turned one flip tog
many in gym the other night and busted his ankle . . . The
Romeo (Horatio Traylor)--Juliet romance is causing the male
principal considerable loss of sleep . . . Annie Lee Hope and
Ann Prentis Moore of Coker's publication stopped in at the
Gamecocks offices on the way to Clemson press convention.
Snag Legare's many friends are glad to see him back in ae
tion after suffering from some strange malady ... Bubba Ness
and girl friend stood idly 'and innocently by while generous
"Pinky" Kramer rushed to buy the tickets'. . . Betty Mercer hit
the Jackpot at the Orangeburg fair and won twenty-four pounds
of shortening ... Just for guessing how many frankfurters were
on a string . . . Arnold Muir and company turned Tuesday
night's play practice into a jam session when he found several
instruments belonging to the band and orchestra in the vesti
bule of the chapel ... Preston College's open house comes one
week late to one fair lass who innocently ventured up one flight
of steps and was advised that further wandering was both un.
advisable 'and unhealthy.
To Paul Sansbury: Your attention is called to the biggest
story on the front page . . . After running the Carolinian suc
cessfully through the first issue Paul is now advising the staff
in regards to front page lay-out . . . The Dave Lyles-Harvqr
Dubose midnite coffee sipping parties are going strong in Pres.
ton's room 341 during mid-semester exams . . . The ditch across
Davis Green might give one the impression that war is going
on here on campus . . . War, however, might be considered
pleasant in contrast to some of the exams originating in Davis
College . . . From a deep dark corner of Drayton Hall came the
feminine voice of charming Sarah Davies, then later, masculine
peals of laughter . . . But no joke was in the process of being
told and the merriment camne from the contents of a eletter
addressed to the aforementioned beaut.
The four eon omy inclined lads who invited one lass to a
church flower show lbecause they thought it was a free affair
were taken b)ack a notch or two when the (1001 attendant asked
for a twvo-bit (donation from each . . . Dick Anderson, hero-to
be of "Captain Applejack'' production turns sissy in tihe play
so now he has to practice for the part by becoming campus
dude number one . . .One of tile severest critics of this colun"
is a likely candidate for president of the student body m .
year . . .It seems that lhe must protect the righlts of his poss"
constituents . . . Apologies to Zeta Tan Alpha for the r. ,
pub)licity handed them last week . . . Even Walter Winchiell
makes mistakes occasionally or he wouldn 't need his staff of
twventy-odd lawyers . . . and anyway we were misinformed.
Mac Singletary and Marion Whaley have fipally discovered
that Columbia College exists . . . Muselin fI was in error when
it rep)or.ted that Jimmy Thomas was permanently residing at
Sim's College . . . *We meant only part-time residence . . . A
personal note to Clara Lou Carstensen of Notre Dame College
in South Euclid (Cleveland) Ohio: We appreciate your rating
our paper among thme leaders in the collegiate press field . ..
Far famed Burke Davis, Sports Editor for the Charlotte News
camne down for tile inside dope on Carolina's upsetting victory
over Florida . . Rex Enright's continual reference to the "No
vemnber offensive" led one enterprising sports scribe to suggest
that future football gamnes with Clemson be scheduled in the
middle of this monith. . . Professor Cannon apologized to two
of his students for talking so loud that it disturbed their sleep
. . . Gamecock's yarn, about King George's refusal to pick the
Carolina beauties made front page in several of the big papers
from coast-to-coast . . . The 'luesday night mixed discussion
group is a perfect example of what a dignified bull-session
shouldn 't be . . . F~rom across the sea in London came the ex
pensive shoes thmat adorn the feet of our junior class president
S..Another note to Cadet Onley, The Citadel: Mackey King
I will leave Jack Brown's side long enough to attend the dances
with you.
Glimmer gal Maxine Forbes, who leans just slightly to the
overweight side, calls boy friend Eston Marchant "Snuggle
Bunny " . .. Failing to get the connection, we wonder why...
When Rannah Heyward missed the first tea of her collegiate
life those present began to solicit funds for her funeral know
ing that only death could be the cause . .. Really it was be
cause of a ate with a boy friend