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Social Cabinet ToF Honor Football Tream Pnn Stat ea SWith Dance Tomo rrow (Story on page 3) . (Story on page 5) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Z676 Volume XXXV. No. 7 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1941 Fudd10 No New For -Uni Present Allotment May Be Curtailed Official word from National Youth Administration- division of student work this week announces that no new. students can be ap proved for jobs in the college work program, and that a cut in the allot ment for the program at the Univer. sity is likely to be made, it Was re vealed toddy by Ottis F. Kelly, as sistant treasurer and director of stu dent aid at the University. Lynwood Smith, director of the NYA division of student aid, said in his letter to Kelly, "Only those students whose names have ap peared on time cards prior to Nov. 21, 1941 may be paid for further services rendered under the pro gram." !)efinite information concerning the expected reduction in the appro priation for the program of student aid at Carolina has not as yet been received, Kelly stated. But Smith wrote that the cut in funds is ex pected at an early date. The new ruling concerning the approval of new students for the NYA jobs and the looming action to reduce total allotments to col leges and universities applies to all institutions in the nation. A.C. Moore At Placque Late Dean Was Biology Dept. Head Exercises at the main gate of the University botanical gardens were held yesterday afternoon for the unveiling of a placque in memory of the late Dr. A..C. Moore, former head of the University biology de partment, and also former dean of the school of arts and sciences. The placque, as well as the main gates of the gardens, is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Keenan, Jr. 4 It is attached to one of the gates, which are named in honor of Doc tor Moore. Dr. Moore, besides serving as head of the biology dlepartment for many years and acting as dean of the school of arts and sciences, served on several occasions as act ing president. An outline of the development of the botanical gardens was pre sented by Prof. E. C. Coker, in charge of them, after an introduc tion by Dr. J. Rion McKissick, presiding. Dr. Leonard T. Baker, dean of the faculty and former president of the University, spoke briefly on the life of Doctor Moore. The Keenan family of Columbia, who presented the placque, was rep resented by their son Andrew Moore Keenan, who pulled the cord unveil ing the placque. Mrs. W. J. Kee nan is a niece of the late Dr. Moore's wife. -Kinder<garten Children Exami'ned By Infirmary The University infirmary has just finished making complete examina tions of 20 children in the kinder garten being run in connection with the University school of education, Doctor Margaret Bryan, University physician announced yesterday. The tests were adjus'ted to the age of the children and thus differed slightly from the freshman examl nations, she said. The kindergarten pupils were examined for diphtheria while freshmen were not. O)bse NYA Aid I tersity Rental Library Of Student Union Is Opened Monday Long Lost Collection At Last Finds Place To Settle In Library The Student Union' Rental Li brary, which, since the beginning of the year, has rested useless in the cellar of Wade Hampton, College has been moved to the shelves of the new library and will be open to the students next Monday, Dr. R. pro H. Winefeld announced today. Pri "The rental books," continued Dr. Te Winefeld, "will be placed on the shelves just back of the circulation desk on the second floor, and may C be examined by students and taken out for five cents a week, which is H a nickel less than was charged last year. A fine of two cents will be imposed for each day the book is kept overdue." "The Rentai Library," he con cluded, "fills a ready need in that it makes available present day fic- v tion and non-fiction which, because VIC of its policy and the expense, the the University Library cannot supply." tiol Books for the Rental Library are 12 paid for out of appropriations made lii by the Student Union board from ter funds qbtained from the Student Pull Activities Fee. Honored dlei Unveiling th< Seniors Apply a For Diplomas a Must Get Applications pa In Before Dec. 1-Chose 1u1 "Please point out again that now ses is the time for degree applicants to get their applications in," John A. Dr Chase, Jr., dean of administration of the University of South Carolina, Re said today. Quitc *a fewv seniors have yet to Dr apply, Mr. Chase said, and, as was ogi pointed out in the last Gamecock, it;n would be to every senior's adlvan- thec tage to apply now to avoid the bol perennial rush when the time is about to expire. ina Mr. Chase reiterated his state- an< ment that Dec. 1 was the last date an< on which seniors may apply for sta degrees without paying a late fee. gr< Most important reminder to be ~~ given was, Mr. Chase announce, that all applicants should pay the ir diploma fees at the treasurer's of- 4 fice before making application at the registrar's office. Pirouettes Dance At Chapel_Program hii Ca Light Opera Presented ity By Carolina Ballet Co. b Featured at the chapel program this week were the pirouettes of the Carolina Ballet Company. The pro- shi gram wvhich consisted of the ballet a light opera, "The Gypsy Baron," nu was held at Drayton Hall, Tuesday, to November 25. . gra The Carolina Ballet Company is hi~ under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. fi4 L. Foster who are also the instruc- tut tors in }th e Foster School of Dance. Fost(r, said during his curtain del speech, "We want the Carolina Bal- dei let to develop into something that en< will have the same artistic inspira- Pa tion of the Russian Ballet operas." lat rves A Speakers To Pictured above are three of the sr >gram, which will be observed next w .sbyterian church, Knoxville, Tenn.; c nn.; and right, Rev. John A. Pinck arolina To Be p ost To Papers News Convention Will i Begin On December 12 t was learned today from the Uni sity of South Carolina News Ser that the third annual institute of Palmetto Weekly Press Associa i will be conlucted on December at the University of South Caro i. Most of the program will cen aroundl circulation probleins andi Alic relations. 3ruce R. McCoy, ianager of the < uisiana Press Association andt na ially-known expert oin circulation )blemus of small newspapers will iver the principal address at the titute. T antern slides and posters I be usc(l to illustrate his talk. Vembers of the association and ir guests will attend a luncheon guests of the University. Dr. rry Clark, extension professor an(l turer of the University, will speak the luncheon. Fhe program will consist of three -ts: the morning session at Sims I liege, beginning at 10:30; the cheon at Stewards Iall, beginning 1 :!5 p. a brief business sion following the luncheon. . Petty Preparing port For Magazine for the fifth consecutive year, J. J. Petty professor of ge aphy at the University is prepar a report on South Carolina for National F.ncyclopedia Year- a >k. 'he report is to contain a prelim- c ry paragraphi relating to the area I population of the state; rankC i population of leading cities; and tistics as to important racial >ups.] allcott Awarded Joh 2 Lectureship_In D University Latin America Chosen To Deliver Lectur< 3r. W. H. Callcott, professor of tory at the University of South rolina and widely-known author on Latin American affairs, has nr awarded the Albert Shaw Iec eship in diplomatic history for ~2 by Johns Hopkins University. Jnder the Albert Shaw lecture p, which was established in 1899, ipecialist in some field of diplo tic history is selected each year deliver a series of lectures to duate students at Johns Hopkins. studies to be published in book m at the conclusion of the Iec es. ['he lectures, six in all, will be ivered in April to graduate stu its of history and political sci :e, through the Walter Hines ge School of International Re na at Johns Hnnpeins. nnua Lead USC's Empl eakers who will play prominent 1 eek. They are: left, Dr. Clifford enter, Dr. Julius Mark, Rabbi of riey, head of the Episcopal Stude JSC Gets 3ig Xmas -lolidays Students Will Get 'Til Jan. 5 To Recover From New Year's Celebra.tion University students are as >remature with their Christmas mnticipations as the big-uptown lepartment stores. At least, that's a fact, that [ohn A. Chase, Jr., dean of ad ninistration pointed out today. Mr. Chase announces that here has already been some in juiry about the coming Christ nas holidays. So he points out heir beginning and insing lates for any student who likes o count the days. Christmas holidays will begin donday, Dec. 22 at 8 a. m., and vill close on Monday, Jan. 5, t 8 a. m., on which date classes vill resume. Fact not pointed out by Mr. 'hase's proclamation was that he late return date at the end f the holidays (Jan. 5) will low New Year's eve students lenty of time to wash laundry, amely three sheets in the wind, nd clear out gill passages. Mind at ease, the University f South Carolina student body an now settle back to wait in 'eace for Christmas. ..Aided by mechanical Jingle kells. ns Hopkins Honor iplomatic History n Affairs Authority SSeries Next Spring Reli iasis Week rts in the Religious Emphasis week E. Barbour, pastor of the Second the Vine Street Temple, Nashville, nt center at Clemson College. Students Hear Wilkins Talk Orient Is Subject Of. Chapel Address President J. Rion McKissick called a special inecting of the stu dents at a chapel program today so that they might have the opportu nity to hear a lecture by Sir Hubert Wilkins, famous polar explorer of twenty-five years' experience. He lectured on the Far East Situ ation. Sir Hubert has just com pleted a four-month trip through the Far East during which he visited Japan, Manchukuu, uccupied pm tions of China, Chungking, the Bur ma Road, Burma, Thailland, Singa pore, Dutch and British East Indics, and Australia. During the trip he held consulta tions with many of the leading po :;tical. industrial. and militarv n ures of the countries visited and is now engaged in a transcontinental lecture trip. He is also renowned as the first mian to use the submarine in pl(ar explorations. Sir I lubert will also speak before the Colimbia Execu tives Club this evening. Pilot Grads Place In Randolph Poll Seven fledgling pilots from the alumni of the Univ ersity ot SouthI Carolina garnered runner-up posi-. tion at Randolph Field, Texas in a recent statistical poll of college gradutates in training there. The University of WVest Virginia. set the pace for individual schools b)y furnishing eight former studenflts in a class of 261. Clemson College contested runner-tup honors with South Carolina by an equal contr i- I bution of seven graduates. Ov'er 161 institutions of higher edlucation were representedl in the statistics. The future aces of Uncle Sams' army air force are beginning the secondl ten-week phase of a thirty-week training course required to earn "wings," and second lieu-t tenant commissions in the Air Corps Reserve. McKissick, Daniel Go To School Meet President J. Rion McKissick and Dr. J. McTyre Daniel will rep resent the University of SouthI Carolina at the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools in Louisville, Ky. next wveek. Doctor Daniel, professor of edu- , cation, will attend the session of 1 the commission on secondary schools of the association. Presi dent McKissick will attend the meetings of the commission on in-i stitutionns of higher educatin. ;ious' Program Be, Breakfast Oi Classes Will Run On rhrough Week; Spec By DONAL The third annual Religious Eir he University will begin Monday [all for leaders and committee !ontinue throughout the week v -eminars and forums, with the ob ;ity student, R. G. Bell, YMCA s Classes will run on chapel sch( ;o that the convocations can be he] 5peaker at the convocations will b, or of the Second Presbyterian el Alumni Group Will "n Award Scholarship ; In 13th District Y e Lewis Tells Carolina's Part In Defense Effort At Greenville Meeting V At the- !arg-zt meeting of Carolitn mni,.ever held in the 13th Judi :ial District, a four-year scholarship 9 .o the University was established I his week. f1 The Scholarship, valued at $100 P i year, is to be given to a student d :hosen from high school graduates n the 13th district showing the " iighest scholastic abilities. a Ralph Lewis, executive secretarv )f the Alumni Association, returned o the campus Monday night from he meetingr where he was the prin- a a ipal speaker and declared that the c cholarship was assured by money aised there. f; Lewis' talk to the gathering re- 6 iewed the part that Carolina has \ >layed in the national emergency. p nd the changes in Altmni member- s hij) cause<i by the drait. The meeting, held in Greenville, vas presided over by Nfr. J. A. u lenry, vice-president of the general lumni Association. Ilesides Lewis' pecch, the members heard a piano olo by Luther Andrews. and joined n1 the singing of Carolina's Ahna lfater, led by Mr. 1'. P. lollis, su >erintendent of Parker Schools. Mr. Ilenry displayed copies on lie Alumni publication, and the new (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) student Body To Ho At Second Annual Bai USC Boosters Sponsor Fe Student Tickets Cost 60c; %ormer Editor Is MIow In Air_Corps1 Gamecock Alumnus Will F F Train At Kelly Field N. Hunt Graham, of B3amberg, a ormer edlitor of the Gamecock at t he University of South Carolina, d vas indlucted Nov. 12, with 1972 F ther cadets, into the first class of t4 < adets to receive flight training att lhe new Air Corps replacement ceni- c er (Aircrew) at Kelly Field, Texas. Cadet Graham attended the Uni- h 'ersity from 1934-37 and was editor v i the Gamecock during the school b cear 1936-37. He was also a mem- s ecr of the Blue Key, Kappa Sigma y Cappa and the Euphradian literary ociety. At the replacement center Gra- t am will go through five weeks of 6 >reliminary training before being e ent to a primary flying school where ( te will start his flight training. Upon completion of the course t ladet Graham will enter one of the 8 primary flight schools located in t he Gulf Coast Air Corps training f Xeek gins With ri Monday Chapel Schedule kers To Be Heard D LAW iphasis week to be observed at with a breakfast in Steward's members. The program will 7ith a series of convocations, ject of reaching every Univer Dcretary, said. dule from Monday to Friday d at the regular chapel period. Dr. Clifford E. Barbour, pas mrch, Knoxville, Tenn. Speaker in the forums and semi ars will be: Dr. Julius Mark, Rabbi f the Vine Street Temple, Nash ille, Tenn.; Dr. Lee Sheppard, astor of Pullen Memorial Baptist hurch, Raleigh, N. C.; Rev. John L. Pinckney, head of the Episcopal tudent center, Clemson College; )r. Mildred Morgan, dean of Vomen, Asheville College, Ashe ille, N. C.; and Rev. and Mrs. :laude Evans, Washington Street fethodist church. Columbia. General theme of the week's pro. ram will be "Foundations of Faith ,or a Time of Crisis." In the rums and seminars students may resent any subject which they wish iscussed. "The Jew in the World Today" ill be the subject of Doctor Mark's ddress to a faculty luncheon Wed esday in Steward's Hall. Dr. osiah Morse will preside at the mncheon. Doctor Mark will also ddress a lunche6n of the interfaith Diiittee Thursday. Doctor Barbour will address a iculty luncheon Thursday. His abject will be "Education-For Ohat?". Prof. Charles Elliott will reside. Doctor Barbour will also ,peak at the general meeting of the Nl CA Friday in Flinn Hall. Below is the daily schedule of the eck's program: :J)0 ltrua),ast ................S teward's Hal .eadt-rs and Committee Members (every :30 conjocation ...........'niversity Chapel "What lo You llelie%e is the Truth .\hn--t L.ift .."................ D.Ir. Barboujr :n0 Allha I)eit. Ili.............Air. Vinokney :(N) TIenemvnt, 25 .............. I.l,.pr :30 Kapp a AlIa................. *fr. Evans (CONTINUED ON PAGE b) nor Football Tecim iquet, December 11 ast; Promise Speaker; 550 Seats To Be Sold The studlent b)ody of the Univer ty will hold its second annual bani uet in honor of the football team 'hursday evening, December 11. he banquet will he held at the Co mbia Hotel this year and it will egin at 6:30. A prominent after-dinner speaker as beven promised by the Carolina ooster Club which is sponsoring ie banquet this year. Elmer Lay eni was contacted early in the week ut it will be impossible for him > attend. Attempts to get Frank ,eahy have been made but it is iought that he will be unable to ome also. The dining room at the Colm-. ia Hotel wvill seat 550 as comparedl rith the 400-seat dining room used ist year. Tickets were sold out everal days before the banquet last ear. Each dinner plate will cost the arolina Booster Club $1.25 but 'ckets will be sold to students for 0. No outsiders will be admitted xcept the guest speakers and BAM lub members. The BAM tickets vill cost $2 in order to help balance he actual cost. During the program, the football eamn will elect its honorary captain or this past season. Kirt Norton w'as honored thus last year.