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CROWING FOR AGREATER CAROLINA ___________________
Z676 Volume XXXV11, No 10 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942 Fudd10
EDIT(
One Question Rem
Establishment of the Naval Pr
here doubtless means the salve
increasingly difficult war years
By and large, the spirit of t
kiificent in meeting the situati
handled with much less confusi
the comparitively simple mattei
to the whole hearted cooperatio
tration.
Class schedules have also be(
misunderstanding. Only one q
a will not be answered without ou
Where shall the students eat
Two places at least have bee
since these places will not acc
dents, they must use some of th(
To find an eating establishi
level of'cleanliness as the Univ(
lem. It is only when such an
stitution is denied them that stu
have been in having it.
The City of Columbia recent]
Alaifed01 them with A, B, or C
of their cleanliness. Many res
jority were classified B. or C.
Several places close to the 1
How many of these places ha
that time is not known, but c
have not.
Now that the student is no
to whether he should patronize
in these commercial places, tl
ask the City that something -be
usual course of action is to all<
ments to clean up or close up.
Boarding houses do not fall
which are open to public meal
on. Some boarding house it
much less the preparation of fo(
We appeal to the City of Colu
The University has long been a
Christmas Program
Men's And Women's
Audience Joins Program
With Singing Of Carols
A Christmas program was held in
the University of South Carolina
chapel Tuesday, December 15, at 10:30
a. m. The program was under the
department of music, Prof. Hugh
Williamson, director.
Prof. 1-. R. Murchison opened the
musical program with prayer, after
which the entire assembly joined In
the singing of the carol, "Joy to the
' World."
Mary Isla Crumpler played "Wind
in the Pine Trees" by Clokey on the
chapel organ.
The men's chorus, under the direc
tion of Prof. Williamson, sang
"Praise God In His Holiness" by
Shaw and "Angel's O'er the Fields
were Flying", an old French carol
arranged for a male quartct and
men's chorus by Prof. Williamson.
The men's quartet was composed of
Owens Killingsworth, tenor, Billy
Lawton, tenor, Dean Clary, baritone,
and Armand B3odie, bass.
Bach-Connod's "Ave Maria"~ was
sung by Marie Hodges.
Mrs. Hugh Williamson directed the
women's glee club in the singing of
the spiritual "Rock de Cradle. Mary",
*arranged by Francis De Burgos.
The University Chorus sang "Jesu,
By Thee I Would Be Blessed" by
Franck, and "Jesu, Joy Of Man's
Desiring" by Bach, Mrs. Williamson
directed.
The program closed with the sing
-~' ing of "Hark, The Herald Angels
Sing.",
Accompanists for the program were
Mary Isla Crumpler and Robert Mob
ley.
Library To Remain Open
On December 21-24, 26. 28-31, and
on January 2, the library will be open
from 9:00 a. mn. suntil 1:00 p. m.
On December 27 (Sunday) and
January 3 (Sunday) It will remain
open from 2:00 p. m. until 5:00 n. mn.
Prepv
)RIAL
iins
eparatory Flight training school
tion of the University for the
1e student body has been mag
on. The rooming change was
on than generally attends even
of registration. This was due
a of both students and adminis
mn shifted with little noticeable
[uestion remains unsettled, and
tside help.
I
n provided on the campus. But
mmodate nearly all of the stu
. facilities nearby or uptown.
ient which maintains the same
,rsity Mess Hall will be a prob
efficient and money saving in
dents realize how fortunate they
y inspected all restaurants and
licenses, indicating the standard
taurants, in fact the large ma
Jniversity were classified as C.
re raised these standards since
bservation reveals that several
longer at his own discretion as
;he mess hall or take his chances
te University has the right to
done. It is understood that the
>w six months-"for the establish
under this inspection. Those
s should be rigidly checked up
ehens are unfit for habitation,
>d.
mbia to help us in this problem.
a asset to the City.
Tuesday Features
Glee Club Chorus
Students To Move
By Noon Tomorrow
Three Dormitories Are
Affected By Situation
Two hundred thirteen students have
been required to find new sleeping
quarters by 12:00 tomorrow to make
room for the Naval Pre-flight cadets
who will arrive after Christmas.
All men 'in Preston, Burney, (Ten
ement 29), and Snowden (Tenement
25) Colleges must find new room
mates before the deadline. Students
who do not select their own room
mates will have their names placed
in a container and, as they are drawn
by Louis Sossamon, president of the
student body, each will be assigned a
room.
At the first of the week students in
Coker (Tenement 21) were required
to move and those in Woodrow (Ten
ements 26, 27, 28) and MacBride
(Tenement 24%2) were warned that
they might have to vacate their build
ings. However, roomers in all three
Colleges have been declared safe un
til further notice.
Players Present
Original Playlet
"The Bishop Waits In His Garden",
a one-act tragedy written by Prof.
Merrill Christopherson, professor of
English at the University of South
Carolina, was presented at the meet
ing of the University Players, Wed
nesday, December 16 in Drayton Hall.
The play, under the direction of
"Frog" Green has as its cast, John
Clements as "Anton", Irving Rion as
"Marcie", Bob Disbro as "Phillip".
Keitt Harris as "Sister Helen", Bev
erly Nininger as "Lady Gondar", Jake
Land as the "German", and Jimmy
Hill as "Father Tohn".
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Farrow Rece
E. PREDENT OF TRE SIDE
PU*IbSQ\NT TO ACT Or CNG
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Lieut. William (Billy) Glover Fa
ticipated in the heroic raid on Toky
the Distinguished Flying Cross cert
ceived by his mother, Mrs. Jessie
Economic Warfare in Washington.
companying the photographs, Mrs.
so much. It was like another home t
Two Hundred Hymin
Chapel Out Of Con
Activities Group Hears
And Discusses Projects
Several student activities received
aid from the student contingent fund
this week. An obligation of The
Gamecock to the fund for several
years was written off the books and
two hundred hymn books were
bought for the chapel at the request
of the chapel committee.
Other projects received by the ac
tivities group were introduced and
discussed. Chairman W. Frank Tay
lor, Jr. presided and introduced the
request of the chapel committee in
behalf of its chairman Dr. R. B.
Davis.
The hymnal which it was decided
to approve purchase for, is a very
popular collegiate hymnal used by sev
eral colleges throughout the country
and was recommended as suitable for
the chapel program use by Prof.
Hugh Williamson of the music de
partment.
Several years ago the student sink
ing fund, which has been renamed
and enlarged as the contingent fund,
advanced eleven hundred dollars in
payment of back printing costs of The
Gamecock for a period extending over
a number of years.
This money was accepted by The
Gamecock business managers as a
debt obligation of The Gamecock to
the sinking fund. But since the con
tingent fund is set up primarily to
pay for legitimate extra debts and
needs of student activities, the com
mittee approved a motion to remove
the obligation from the bonors.
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ificate of award which has been re
3. Farrow, now with the Board of
In i letter to the Alumni office, ac
Farrow writes, "Bill loved Carolina
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als Bought For
tingent Fund
January Plans For
KSK Are Told
Elections Included In
Post-Holiday Business
Elections of new members and the
election of a new president for Kappa
Sigma Kappa, honorary service fra
ternity, will be held in addition to reg
ular business in the January meetings
of KSK it was announced today by
President Frank . Sloan.
A special meeting will be held
Tuesday, January 5, the second day
after Christmas holidays, to begin the
election of new members, so that the
new men may be initiated before the
examination schedule begins.
President Sloan told that members
of the group last week that he would
be inducted into the army late in
January and that KSK would be re
quired also to elect a new president
in time for inauguration ceremonies.
KSK officers are normally elected in
May to serve for a full year. The
war has made special elections neces
sary in several cases in the past two
years.
Members of the group held their
banquet Tuesday night in the crystal
room of the Columbia hotel and were
advised that the special elections meet
ing would be held.
The banquet was closed with the
recognition of guests who attended
the oecasion.
ivy FI
Drastic Revisions
In Class Rooms For
Second Term Made
Callcott Praises High
Degree Of Cooperation
Displayed By Faculty
Abandonment of Davis College as a
University classroom by the end of
Christmas holidays and further dras
tic changes in classroom assignments
at the beginning of second semester
were announced today by Dr. W. H.
Callcott, in charge of relocation of
classes. The changes will be neces
sary as a result of the Naval Flight
Preparatory School's demand for 25
University classrooms, Doctor Call
cott said.
"Members of the faculty has dis
played a high degree of co-operation
in providing rooms for the classes
which formerly met in Davis," Doc
tor Callcott said. He pointed out
that numeroti professnrt havp enn
verted their offices into classrooms
and also their laboratories, at the risk
of having valuable laboratory equip
ment damaged.
While only 200 cadets will arrive
on the campus in the first contingent,
they will be followed by 200 more
four weeks later and an additional
200 eight weeks later, he said. Only
Davis college will have to be vacated
by University classes before the be
ginning of the second semester.
To make room for the 400 cadets
arriving during the second semester,
the second and third f f De,sc -
sure and the third floor of Sloan
college will be converted to pre-flight
classrooms. No offices or drafting
rooms will be taken in Sloan college,
Doctor Callcott said.
Doctor Callcott stated that five
classrooms in the new library have
been made available to the classes
which formerly met in Davis for
full-time use, as well as three rooms
of Petigru and four in the \Vardlaw
college. This was accomplished
through the co-operation of the fac
ulty by crowding the other rooms.
He mentioned the fact that several
classes will be held in the homes of
professors.
In the emergency schedule to be in
effect between January 4 and the be
ginning of the second semester prac
tically no afternoon classes will be
necessary, Doctor Callcot said, but
the additional changes next semester
will make it necessary to have ap
proximately 75 classes in the after
noon.
Students' Reserve
Status Remains In
Doubt, Mercer Says
Prof. Charles S. Mercer, head of
the faculty committee on army reserve
enlistment, said Wednesday he had
received no information from the War
department to the effect that student
reservist will be called to duty with
in the near future.
The announcement by Professor
Mercer followed a statement Tuesday
bya War department spokesman in
Washington which disclosed that "the
army's reserve corps will probably be
:alled to active duty within a few
weeks." The official said orders tak
ing student reserve corps men into
service probably will be issued shortly
after the first of the year.
According to the Associated Press
lispatch from Washington which re
orted the War department statement,
fficials of the Navy and Marine
:orps said they had received no in
formation of any similar action to
be taken by those services.
Professor Mercer said that, where
as he had received no information
on the matter, it is possible that the
reservist will be called into service
after Christmas. He estimated that
92 University students will be af
fected if such a plan is carried out.
Included in this figure will be 37
seniors, 20 juniors, 25 sophomores and
ten freshmen.
0S
ight S
McKissick Announc
Meeting With Studc
Class Rooms, Dormitori
In Part To Training Ur
The establishment of a 600 man Is
University was announced by Preside:
ing at a special meeting of the entire s
sity field house. President McKissic
school will greatly relieve "the extra<
the University caused by the steady
The Navy is not taking over the I
of its facilities and staff, the Presider
Drives Instituted
To Collect Plants
For Fort Hospital
Greenery Contributions
To Be Placed In Chapel
For WPA Sponsored Move
Students were urged today by mem
bers of KSK to contribute to the
city-wide drive to collect potted
plants for the decoration of the Fort
lackson station hosnital for the Christ
mas holidays. Plants may be placed
in the foyer of the old University
chapel through tomorrow.
Sponsorcd by the war se vice di
vision of the Recreation division of
the WPA, the drive in Columbia is
expected to net enough potted green
ery to provide for the entire 3,800 bed
hospital. This large structure will
demand thousands of the plants.
In announcement to the student
body at a meeting in the Field House
Tuesday, at which President McKis
sick spoke about the navy, KSK told
students that those who had plants at
home that might be given to the drive
should bring thcm to the Univeisity
chapel.
Students Advised
To Lock Up Goods
University Won't Take
Blame For Student Loss
While every precaution will be tak
en to keep thieves from breaking in
the dormitories during the holidays.
students are requested to lock all of
their clothes, books, radios, etc. in
their closet or trunk, as the Univer
sity, aecording to an announcement
sent to all occupants of the dormito
ries December 11, cannot assume re
sponsibility for their property. All
dormitories will be locked at three
p. m. on Sunday, December 20.
Tenements one, two, and three will
be usedi for students who are working
and desire to stay on the campus dlur
ing the holidays. A storage room
will be provided in each of these ten
ements so thlat theC present occupants
can store their trunks,
All whlo wvished to remain at the
University were required to till out
an application at the Miarshal's office
by 12 o'clock last Monday and to pay
a fee of $5.00.
Student Responses
Please McKissick
In connection withl thte stdent body
meeting Monday morning. President
J. Rion McKissick, University of
South Carolina, issued the following
statement today to tile students:
"The most inspiring and glorious
display of loyalty to the University
and of love to our country by our stu
dents that I have -observed in 41
years of association with thle Univer
sity was given at thle meeting in tile
Field House Monday after I had
announced establishment of a Naval
Flight Preparatory School here andl
after I had made it plain that many
of our students are to undergo in
convenience, less comfort, and some
changes from their accustomed way
of life and work here so that they
and the rest of the University may
mnake a greater contribution to our
nation's defense.
"Let me avait myself of this op
portunity to express to you the heart
felt gratitude of the University and
of its president for your great aid
and for your splendid soirit
chool
es Plan Monday At
nt Body, Faculty
3s Will Be Turned Over
it; Also Use Mess Hall
laval flight preparatory school at the
it J. Rion McKissick, Monday morn
tudent body and faculty in the Univer
k said the addition of the pre-flight
)rdinarily serious problem confronting
decrease in men students."
Jniversity, but is simply utilizing part
t emphasized.
Two hundred of the cadets will ar
rive January 7, 200 more a month
later, and another 200 two months
later. Each group will be given 12
weeks' training on the Carolina cam
pus. The school will be continuous,
running throughout the entire year.
President McKissick made the first
announcement of the approval by the
Navy department of the flight pre
paratory school to the students and
told them that many will be incon
venienced temporarily. Men living on
the campus will have to double up in
their rooms for the time being, he
said.
President McKissick said he was
positive that all students and faculty
members will be glad to cooperate
to the fullest extent.
"What are the discomfort, the in
convenience, the change from our ac
customed way of life which will be
caused by this program compared
with the privations, the hardships,
the sufferings undergone by the sons
of Carolina on land and sea and in
the air, in camps, in prison camps,
on. ships and battlefields far from
home?
Proud of Opportunity
"You and I are grateful and proud
that the opportunity is now given us
to increase our part in the nation's
defense . . ." the University president
declared. Ile received a prolonged
ovation from the student body when
he had completed the announcement.
President McKissick declared that
the demands made by the Navy for
the pre-flight school were "stagger
ing" but that the University will meet
them fully.
Among facilities which the Univer
sity will provide for the exclusive
use of the cadets will be: Steward's
Hall, the University cafeteria, 25
class rooms, probably including an en
tire class room building and five dor
mitory "colleges including rooms in
Preston college not now occupied by
XII Army headquarters, Snowden
college and Burney college.
All students now rooming in dor
miitories which will be occupied by the
Naval cadets will be reqnired to
move to other dormitories by Satur
(lay of this week, President McKis
sick explained.
I Steward's Hall Closed
The 01(1 coed cafeteria in Wade
Hampton college will he reopened and
a number of other students will eat in
the University high school cafeteria
after Steward's hall is closed to Uni
versity students, Doctor M'Kissick
said.
The Navy will require the Univer
sity to provide 28 full-time teachers
to instruct the cadlets, Doctor McKis
sick said. In some cases, members
of the regular University faculty will
he used, some additional instructors
being engaged. Salaries will be paid
by the Navy department.
Subjects which wvill be taught in
chude: mathematics, physics, naviga
tion, principles of flight, aerology, air
craft engines and communications and
reception.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
NROTC Frosh Uniformed
The 90-odd freshmen in the Naval
ROTC unit have been issued their
uniforms, which were worn for the
first time last week in the regular drill
period, and were inspected by the of
ficers of the unit, according to Capt.
R. C. Needham, commandant of the
unit.
He said the only difference between
the new uniforms and the old ones
was that the caps of the new uniforms
have a leather chin strap instead of
a gold one. "This will be replaced
later by a gold strap." he stated.