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Garne USC Annua 'National Dh Garnet And Black 14 Most Outstanding N The 1940 edition of the Ga the unusual honor of being ch< nuals in the country and being of the Year Club". The Univ4 in the South to be so distingui University of Alabama. Each year the National Scholastic4 Press Association chooses what it considers the best Annuals in the country and gives them an "All American" rating. The Garnet and Black was one of thirty-two given this rating last year. From the books making "All-Amer ican", ten are chosen for the "Book of the Year Club". The selection is based on personality, above all, which makes the books really interesting. "As they have studied the 1940 books, and particularly the All American", said the officials of the Press Association in the November issue of "Scholastic Editor", official publication of the Association, "NSPA has felt that some special honor should be paid to those All Americans that are personality stand outs-books that the light casual readers who don't know a thing about the individual school-yet feel as though they were right in the school. "They may be top-scoring books or they may be border-line All Americans, but to NSPA they have that which makes a year-book a real delight. . . . Congratulations to their staffs on their achievements. It must have been fun for them to turn out these charming books." The Garnet and Black was the only year-book in its class (of enrollment from 1,000 to 2,499) in the entire country to be made a member of the "Club". Dr. R. B. Mowat To Speak At I RC Meet Visit Is Sponsored By Carnegie Foundation The International Relations Club will hear Dr. R. B. Mowat, visiting Oxford professor at its next meet ing, December 5 at the Music room of Sims. Doctor Mowat is professor of His tory at Oxford and Bristol Univer sities and his visit to the Carolina campus is sponsored by the Carnegie foundation for World Peace. He is an expert on modern Euro pean history and diplomacy, and his meeting with the I.R.C. is expected to be of an informal nature. Nu merous interested faculty members are expected to attend this meeting, and Charles Horton, president of I.R.C., invites any students who wish to come to hear Doctor Mowat. Two University Students Finish Marine Course Headquarters of the Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., has announced that Charles H. Moorefield and Tol son A. Smoak, University of South Carolina students, have successfully completed training in the Marine Corps reserve and will be eligible to apply for a commission as second lieutenant in the reserve immediately upon graduation from the University. Robert S. Clarke, John M. H-end ley, Julian Henning, Jr., George S. Saussy, Jr., and Leroy Strasburger, also Carolina students, have success fully completed the first period of training and are eligible to return for the senior course during the summer of 1941. The educational clinic of College of the City of New York has trained 22,000 "problem" children since its founding in 1913. Carolina Life Insurance Co. Sells a Policy Suitable to the Needs of Each Member of the Family ZNDUSTRIALr-OLD I.NE "IT IS UETTER TO HAVE IT AND NOT NEED 31T TNAN TO NEED IT AND NOT NAVE ITe. t And I Receives tinction Listed Among Ten earbooks In Nation -net and Black has been given )sen as one of the ten best an made a member of the "Book 3rsity annual was the only one 3hed, with the exception of the Student Survey Shows Opinions On Class Cuts Good Majority Takes No Cuts But 38% Are Absent Weekly By Student Opinion Surveys Austin, Texas, November 26. How serious is the problem of class cutting? Are many college students wasting their time by failing to ap pear at lectures? How often does the average student cut a class? Those are questions that have per haps been answered locally in many schools, but a national study, as far as is known, has heretofore never been possible. Student Opinion Sur veys of America, leaving the field of social and political issues this week, has used its coast to coast structure to measure the extent of class cutting going on today on the American cam pus. The survey reveals that a good majority (62 per cent) during a typical week in October attended all their classes. The remainder of the students interviewed (38 per cent) declared that they had cut at least once. But over half of these (20 per cent) missed class only one time dur ing the week. Here are the national tabluations: Cut no classes during week......62% Cut one class ......................20% Cut two classes ........................10% Cut three classes ...................4% Cut four or more classes ....o4% Less than one per cent of the stu dents refused to answer the question or did not remember. Tests con ducted by the Surveys have shown that on questions such as this very few students fail to give truthful answers; so the results above should give a satisfactory indication of con ditions over the nation. The entire United States is represented because the schools in which the polls are conducted, including the University of South Carolina make up a pro portionate sample of all types of ed ucational institutions as listed by the U. S. Office of Education. In connection with this poll, it may be recalled that last February 64 per cent of the collegians in a Survey expressed the opinion that compul sory class attendance should be abol ished. Although the frequency of atten dance is quite uniform from one .se tion of the country to another, New Englanders and Southerners appear to be at the two extremes. In the north-east corner of the nation cuts are at a minimum, only 25 per cent of the students having missed one or more classes during the week of the poll. In the South over half of them, 57 per cent said they had cut at least once. EVANS MOTOR CO. for ?4-hour service DIAL 8103 then cownt the minutes TERROR T Your Teeth Will Chatter Your Knees Will Clatter Your Skin Will Creep Your Heart Will Leap MU MMY'S DICK FORAN - PEGGY th RITZ Mon. & Tue. Black Alumni Association Plans Another Meet Of Former Students Get-To-Gether To Be Held In Charleston Before And After Citadel Game Another alumni meeting is being planned by former students of the University of South Carolina, this one being scheduled for Charleston on December 7. The meeting will be held in the Francis. Marion Hotel during the Saturday of the Carolina Citadel game. From 11 a. m. until game time the Carolina Alumnae will hold open house in the Francis Marion. After the game the meeting will reconvene and last until 7:30 when the Alumni banquet will get under way. Speak ers at the banquet will include Dr. J. Rion McKissick, president of the University; John W. Crews, presi dent of the Alumni Association and Rex Enright, varsity football coach. Heading the entertainment commit tee for the Charleston meeting are: Dr. R. M. Hope, General Chairman; A. E. Gray and A. R. Hanahan. This meeting will include four counties, Charleston, Berkeley, Dor chester and'Colleton. The Alumni met this week in con junction with the BAM club in Charlotte, Wednesday night. A great many North Carolina members were present at the meeting and heard short speeches from Dr. McKissick, John Crews and Coach - Enright. Colors were given to the members and copies of 'The Gamccock were distributed. The same plan is to be used in Charleston next week. Hall Leads Seminar For Mission Week Will Also Address Classroom Sessions Dr. Warner L. Hall, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Tusca loosa, Ala., will lead a student semi nar on the Bible during the Univer sity of South Carolina Christian Mis 5sion's week of religious emphasis, November 30-December 6, Dr. Wy man L. Williams, executive chairman of the mission, announced yesterday. Doctor Hall also will speak at one of the daily convocations during the week and will lead several classroom discussions. Doctor Hall, former minister of Leland Methodist Church, Leland, Miss., is a graduate of Southwestern University, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, the University of Edin burgh, Scotland, and the University of Berlin, Germany. Hie was graduated with honors from Southwestern. 'While there he was active in campus affairs, holding several student offices. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, social fraternity. Doctor Hall was connected with the I?ational University Christian Insti tute during its two years of experi menting with religious weeks on col lege campus. Under its auspices he WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OP SHAEFFER'S - PARKER'S WATERMAN'S FOUNTAIN PENS ALSO A GOOD CHEAP PEN FOR Si; LEATHER BRIEF CASES *a.5O TO $B: LEATHER NOTE BOOKS 65c TO $3. The R. L. Bryan Company 1440 MAIN STREET ANYTHING NEEDED IN vHE CL.ASSROOM H AT W A ITE D 3000 Y EAR S "THE SH AND" ith - LORAN - WALLACE FORD - Also - Color Cartoon Travelogue La test World News Mad4 University Players Will Present Next "One Mad Night" Faculty Also To Give Presentation Of Force In Drayton Hall Soon The next student production of the University Players will be "One Mad Night", Professor M. G. Chris tophersen, director of that grouL, announced today. "'One Mad Night' is a 'who dun nit' ", Christophersen said. He add ed that such a play had not been done in a good while by the Players, and that it was selected for that reason. It will be presented after the holi days. The University Players will pre sent a melodrama starring members of the faculty on December 16th, 18th and 19th. It is entitled "Curse You, Jack Dalton." The group has been presenting a radio sketch every Friday night since the beginning of the semester from station WIS. This -week's play is "The House of Greed." Lipscomb Makes Rubber By Formula Chemistry Prof. Has Well Equipped Plant Among the professors at the Uni versity of South Carolina there are several who have their own private enterprises, among which is Dr. Lipscomb of the chemistry depart ment. Dr. Lipscomb with the aid of In structor Lincoln Moore has com pounded a secret formula for the preparation of synthetic rubber. This product while not on the market ex tensively as yet, has many possibili ties as a revolutionary product in rubber industry. A small plant is being utilized by the professor and his assistant with hopes, that in the future this plant will grow with the progress of their product. helped conduct weeks of religion at s e v e r a 1 schools, including the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. He is a trustee of Lees College in Kentucky and has been interested in college students for a number of years. In addition to his ministerial af filiations, Doctor Hall is a member oi Kiwanis International and several local organizations of his state. His recreation consists mostly of chess, golf and stamp collecting. Doc tor H-all admits that lhe's "pretty good" on the links. Doctor Williams said yesterday that the Carolina mission chose 1hall to help wvith its religious wveek be cause "he is a well-rounded man as well as a Christian gentleman." The Year's Most From The Direc "GOODBYE, OUR'I 'WILUAM HOLDEN FAY BAINTER *BEUAHI1 GUT KCIBBEB - STUART E -*.a..d by sAM wC> FIRST COLUMI FIVE POINT Monday an Technicolor's Grc Crowded with romance and and laughter-your singing tri,'mnh! - II: NOEL 00WAR1 I DI TECHNICOLOR. flANDER8eiHUNTER *BS Late Show SATURDAY N also STARTING MON[ - COMING 1 CLAUDETTE COLBEF "ARISE & "Bo Students Who Can Fit Budget Lack of lucre need no longer keep students from literary pursuits. The University Book Store has filled Its shelves with a number of -popular works, both fiction and non-fiction, at low prices. The Book Store, which formerly handled only textbooks and reference books, started last year to include in its stock a few books of popu lar interest. This met with such approval that this year they went at it in a big way. The stock now includes over two thousand copies of reprint fiction and non-fiction, ranging in price from ten cents to two dollars. Wienefeld Announ( Foreign, Current Ev Library Has Also Place It Can Buy With Help The library has received a num ber of new books, Dr. R. H. Wiene feld, acting librarian, announced this week, mostly in the field of for eign affairs and current events. . Now available are the following: Shotwell: What Germany For got. Monroe: Mediterranean Politics. Loewenstein: Hitler's Germany. Florinsky: Toward an Under standing of the U. S. S. R. Macartney & Cremona: Italy's Foreign and Colonial Policy. N. Y. Times Correspendents: We Saw It Happen. Adams: March of Democracy. American Studies in- Honor of W. K. Boyd. Myers: Foreign Policy of Herbert Hoover. Whittaker: A History of Eco nomic Ideas. Edwards: Evolution of Finance Capitalism. Adler: How to Read a Book. Branscomb: Teaching with Rnnkq. The library has also placed its first order for books that it is en abled to buy through the generosity of .the Carnegie Foundation. The following books have not yet ar rived but will be made available on the shelves as soon as they come in and are cataloguel. Armstrong, Trelawny: A Man's Life. Allen: Since Yesterday. Alvarez del Vayo: Freedom's Battle. Angus: Canada and Her Great Neighbor. Anshen: Freedom, It's Meaning. Aubry: The Second Empire. Unusual Picture tor Who Made MAR. CHIPS" Playby Thorntoa MHdr -d MARTHA SCOTT oND! e THOMAS MfCHIEL, *a FRANIK CRAVEN 31A SHOWING S THEATRE d Tuesday atest Spectacle! adventure-gay with songs weethearts in their greatest IGHT (gfgk lAY HURSDAY - T - RAY MILLAND LY LOVE" ok-Of Languish For La To Buy Books Fiction is more popular with Carolina students than non-fic tion, according to book sales, but the one best selling book is a non-fiction work-"How To Win Friends and Influence People"--of which forty-five copies have been sold since school opened this semester. The selection of books is de signed to meet all the different tastes in literature; there are books of mystery, adventure, romance, crime, fantasy, poetry and bioiraphy. If you're in clined to like the more intellec tual works, there are essays and philosophical books and even a complete encyclopedia. :es New Books; ents Are Subjects I Order For Books That Of Carnegie Foundation Barnes: Society in Transition. Beard: Foreign Policy for Amer ica. Brandi: The Emperor Charles V. Brooks: New England: Indian Summer. Buchan: Pilgrim's Way. 'Cash: The Mind of the South. Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Supplementary volume). Fiske: The Letters of John Fiske. Foerster: Europe and the Ger man Question. Gaer: Consumers All. Golding: World I Knew. Griscom: Diplomatically Speak ing. Johnson: I Married Adventure. Josephson: The President Mak ers. Lengyel: The Danube. Millis: Why Europe Fights. Neff: A Revolution in European Poetry. Nevins: John D. Rockefeller. Prescott: A Spanish Tudor. Sforza: Fifty Years of War and Diplomacy in the Balkans. Tolischus: They Wanted War. White: Shelley. Wolfers: Britain and France Be tween Two Wars. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Harvard law student and son of the Ambas sador to Great Britain, was a dele gate to the Democratic National Convention. CAROLINA ENGRAVING CQ. Why studei in classrooi 1. Because the lectur 2. Because they're go 3. Because they're w underwear. We can only cure thle t1 that you stock up on t fortable shorts: Arrow; patented seamless crot< seats, they never shrink cause they're Sanfori shrinkage less than 1% have grippers instead to sew back on! See you Arrow Shorts, 65c AIRj/' UIA Year.. ck Of Lucre At USC Store For students who wish to give books as Christmas pres ents the store offers this ser vice-any book bought for a dollar or more will be mailed to any part of the U. S. free of charge. The book store offers a num ber of works at almost any price sought. Pocket books at twenty-five cents offer a wide range of titles. Reprints of popular copyright fiction at thirty nine cents include best sellers of today and yesterday. There are various library bound editions at slightly higher prices. Hillel Club Reviews Bo9k By Sholem Asch The Hillel club heard a review of the recent book by Sholem Asch, "The Nazarene", given by Rabbi Sid ney Ballon at its bi-monthly meeting Wednesday night. A good discussion was held after the review, and the society also de cided on a date to hear a Christian Mission speaker. Plans for future meeting were an nounced, with one that is looked for ward to much, being a talk on Vo cational Guidance by Max Baer of the B'Nai B'Rith. DeHovarth Addresses Columbia Music Assn. Madam Felice deHorvath, head of the violin department, addressed the last meeting of the Columbia Music Teachers' Association. Madam de Horvath spoke on "How to Start a Beginner in Violin." Also on the program were Gus Williamson and Lucile Crosby, who rendered a violin selection. The University String Ensemble played before the Afternoon Music Club at the home of Mrs. Boyd John ;on at 230 King St. on Monday after ioon. Paper of the Week: An Asymp totic Formula for the Average Sum :>f the Digits of Integers. (By Dr. Laurens E. Bush, College of St. rhomas). SnRVING Thu PuBmo Snen 1890 Metropolitan Cafe "THE OLD RELIABLE" WHERE STUDENTS MEET AND EAT AIR-CONDITIONED Open All Night 1520 Main St. - Phdne 7849 Its squirm us:. e is dull. ing to be called on. maring uncomfortable uird case! We suggest le world's most corn Shorts. They have the hl, they have roomy out of perfect fit be zed-Shrunk (fabric ). What's miore ,they of buttons--nothing r Arrow dealer today! Arrow Tops, 50e VDERI/FAf R q