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Editor..............................-Dad Lynn Freeman EDITORI4L TAV * News Editor ........................Harry Jenkins Associate Editor--Helen Pride Craig, Cite Roberts, Jimmy Brockman. Co-ed Editor..................... Joe Thompson Eooloty .4itor................Margret D. Jones Sports Editor......John Reese, Chpriie Sanders Monoging Editor....Kotherine Armido Jennings Something New In Courses, And Authored By Students At That! What do you think was the flaw that even tually immobilized the League of Nations? Don't answer; for, you see, we wouldn't know what you were talking about. Perhaps it's ignorance of that sort that induces us to give as our reasons for fighting this war such simplified explanations as, "Oh, the gang around the drug store, convertibles, nylons and -and the chance to make a better world." We grasp those reasons; savor theni for their tangibility ! And yet, the basic squabbles that put us where we are, the defects of former plans that collapsed under pressure, the "inner workings" remain the exclusive property of statesmen and history teachers. A. few weeks ago a student approached us with a plan. Strange, unbelievable, but a stu dent had an idea for a course. Like all the rest of us, he would like to know a little better what to expect six months after the war, without majoring in history. The course will be based on courses of former wars, racial differences, old peace plants. This will be supplemented and conpared with cur rent events and propose( post war solutions. The backers of the plan don't want the lecture, note taking combination. Class sessions would consist primarily of discussion forums. There would be no text books. Subject matter would be garnered by the professor with voluntary reading by the tudents on the sideline. The nucleus of backers have talked to other students. The response has been all the authors wanted. Only one objection holds up its adop tion. The history lepartiment feels that after the initial fluirrv of enthusiasni, the coirse would die out. 'lie discussion forumts fell through. they say. A(dnitte(ly- the coi'se. over a period of tie. woul lose sonic of its attractions. Still, where volhmtary foirumis would( become dlormnit. a credit course wvoul d thrive like ani oasis. D)rop the cred its fromt anyi history cou rse. and see what hiappenis! Our scholastic vitality is indexed lhv our progress and experimentat ion ini cuzrrieuii. WVe .Ahrow ouri weight solidly behind the miove. Concert Series Is Over, But, Like Coca-Colas, There's Another 'Round The Corner The festivities arec over, and a fter a weekend of concentratedl culture. we take the "long hair'' glint from ouri eye, stop) huiutning the Brahmis concerto and( retur n to I Ia rry Jamies nickel-a-disc atmiosphaere. Not that we havye eveni an optinmistic inikl ing that our edi torial last week was thle open sesamei which released V-1L for the Friday evening conceit, it was chieerinlg to see somei body with the same idlea. Fifty men were per Jmittedl to go-more would haive like to. D)uring regular l iberty over the weekend more sea-faring students soaked u1p all the series had to offer. The festival is all the indication nieedled to pr~ove thatI Navy men woul d likew the opportu niity to hear concerts in the forthcoming season. Last week our p)lan had one flaw: We said let every mian show his season's pass as a basis for getting liberty. We forget men are rarely hecre for a~ full season. When V-1'2s wvere grantedi lberty last Firi day evening, the V-12 executive of ficer secured tickets for the men. This obviated need for further check upl. It was a laudable move on the part of V-12, a worthwhile thing to continue. Member :ciated Colle6iate Press ' Distributor of ROB Cylle&iate Dieest Im~~ CaIrnlnna Entere 8. 0.. 1 A Horse Shoe Pit, A Horse Shoe Pit, Our Kingdom For A . . . Outside of the V's pool rooml, the most popu lar spot for recreation is the Y's single horse shoe pit on the south side of Flinn Hall. Ex perts at the tricky art are beginning to form chow lines queues while waiting to play. Since we are passing through an era, in which the paraphernalia necessary for the game is increasingly pl.entiful, we nmight as well take advantage of iC. ,Just across the walkway from the present pits is a vacant plot that could be used for three or four more pits. Oh, and not to mention names, it sounds like a project for the Y ! Letter Shatters Quiet On P. O. Front At Last; Note On Tennis Courts Eureka ! now we can saunter past Mrs. Moon with restored confidence. No longer can she threaten to revoke our box rights. We have a letter! Evidently the endeavor of an old salt, (you see we have gone over it carefully. Rare thing for us.) It is written in perfect nautical style. Maybe the university has forgotten that many of us don't go home on weekends nowa days. Perhaps it was just oversight. Whatever -there is no reason for the Sunday curfew. If the everthoughtful legislature hasn't put ia statutory ban on Sunday tennis, we will find the man with the key. Fron: A V-12 student Subject: Tennis courts located in Maxcy Gregg Park I would like to call to your attention the fact that for the past several Sundays the gates to the tennis courts located in Maxey Gregg Park have been locked. AS %-ol I1141obtedly kn(1W. there are too few colrts ont the caluls for the nuul)er of students. And when part of this simall num ber is (lenied the use of anyone on Sundays, one of the few timles (luring the week when solue studen(-,ts can get oitsi(le, I feel that some thing should be done about it. Is it breakinrg a Carolinra tradition to h.av.e these courts mradec available to tire students ont Sundayv alfternoonts ? W~orrhl your lbe ind enroughn to~ i nvestigate the situattion ? Jt, worbh b ie greatly applreciated1. lIesp)ectfutlly submrritted. A V'-12 StudenQrt. "Would You Like To Be Known As 'Miss 347th?' . . Hmm?" "Sre yo iennar lead out this little space, ol 0o. fo* the la;st tirre You'vye goithia wrrite ii (e ed(i torialIs." W ere lejected -fIive incIhes an n11tot even ind~u f inrich idea. Tihen j ust ats we bega n toying wah I tIre vision (of hremleek and11 Hades our' resele icatse. Ourr salvat ion camtir n Kthak(iedl-person of a llun igarrianr ed it or. Th'Ie Fort J1acksont Target. Still abi sotrbed in my li wn ~iIilerra we dIid n't get tire j ist, at onc(e. Conhl1( you i lcet' runI a p(en-oop girl?" "Ch Iase a girl ? 1'll have you know... "'Chrae a giril" 'll Irav you k0n lIow... Whrat-whrat-er-ees her nrame ? "No, nro, yo; nto foldlow mre-eet e .-; i .'/ory on a pinir-oop gi rieonrtest thIe 8 17 th di vision ('es hrav ing. W~ell. we talked wvith hin unitil ouir ownI necenrt bee(': nie colored with tire old country, andt dleciphrted tire facts. ThIe 47 th i nf anltry p)lans to chroose a "'Miss 8347th" front pictotrial e'ntrties. Th'le boys are draniwinIg thirr conrtest anits froim hrome town girl fiendt(s andI Columnia belles. Thie enltries munst lbe sent to tIre 347ith inf. by3 May 81. Thie editor sanid Ire woul make a special IConcession to the Carolina girls. "Threy can eithrer send( t heir pictuires to tire Target 347th in)f., Fort Jackson or dispatch threir 347th broy friend with thIem. "Thirat's a lott a boy frienrds we told imi even for ai Carol ina; girl, but for a Crienrd any thimr. so snsiden ar yo too, cinsidr.it,...e.. l'he Gamecock Founded January 30, astiDir ERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, First Editor ceaf.A 4*0 MADISON weekly by the student body of the University of South CNICA4o " 9osTON . Iuri'ag the college Tear. 1 as cond"clse matter at the poptffice at Columbia. nvy. E0. 1t'08. 64 lI J,B, WONtPs tio be ai Lawyer when he grows up -- spetiahizi-Ag n divovrces "/ J.B. HEIBEL resident o ihe Student uaayp J. 13. as past- presidelt OF the. Boosters CLub, c.hmaa1 OF 'MC.H deputiions committee and Presidevit oF I{App Sigra fra1enity //' FREE-LANCING By HARRY JENKINS * Half A Tradition Half a tradition, half a tradition, onward! So a columnist sounds off, lamenting the sorrow fuil demise of Clean-ip Day, or, if you may-May-day. Now, it seems, there is to be a May-day tomorrow ! Or to be absolutely correct, half a. May-day; and in addition there is to be no clean-up. Several features of the original day seem to have been re tained, however; namely the faculty-student softball clash. "Brooksie the Bombshell" Marshall has two co-ed teams which will play, the winner to battle the faculty feinmes. More power to those behind this May-day, but-there re mains only half a day and half of a blossoming tradition. Ii consequence, the conlunist \w%as onlv half wrong. * McKissick - Mercer, Judge And Attorney A little less than a decade ago, President J. ion McKissick imdc( Professor Charles Mercer took leading parts in the Town Theatre production of "The Trial of Mary )ugan." The Colonel p)layedl the role of Judge Nash ; Mercer carried much of the lay's burden inl the parit ofi District Attorney Gawley. Imnaginle, if you please, Mercer as a -snarling DA. McKissick, whien asked about his part, chuckled and said sumil ing: "The last timue I was in a play 1 was the dhwarf ini Rip Van Winkle." Mercer a DA :McK{issiik a dwarf !Rip my hearid and call tme Winkle. . . .this are too meuh ! Tlake mec back to tihe talxi lerm ist! * Headline Wh 1ilet perunlsin g the bc ack files of this illustrious jounal, 1 chanced acro(ss this choice head line: "Two IIundred Admnire Venus." Only two hundred ? IlImnming and thought-rambling, II wandered on: "Many Saw Rare Occulation by the Moon Last SuInday IErening." Oh,. the temptation to change one letter' . . . to read "oseulation' inistead of "occulation.'" Ihanishi the thlougrht! * The Naughty '35's Nautght d id the naulghty '90s have on thle Caroliuna '3.)s, or Carolina iln May, 19)35. 'Twas thlen that Tlenmements 17, 18, and 19 hung out the following signs, respectively: "I Phelta Thi," "T1ap1pa Niu K'eg," and1 "lot a Eata Pi."' Tlsk, tsk ! Such were the antte-bellumi days! * Notice C:oneh Frank D)emars was instrnuctinlg his 12 o'clock p)hysic'al fitneIss class on the finer points of pugilism when the telephone jangledl raucously. "Thriiow that blamed thing out the window !" growled D)emars. Note: Anyone stumbling across a st ray telephone outside the gymlnasium, please return to Coach D)emars. * No Soap: No Hope Bob, I lope has visited many p)laces in his indefatigable sup p)ort of the war effort, hilt lie hasn't been on the USC camIpus yet. Or so it seems. Dean S. C. D)ePass was lectulring to his .Journalism 24I class W~edneitsdauy when suddl(enly a female stuck her head through the dloor, inquiredl sweetly: "Is Bob Hope here ?" "Is Bob H ope here ?" DePass iterated. "No. I'mf afraid not." T'o conclud(e the story would, perhaps, ruin it; hut thme girl was searching for one Bob Holen, got Ihope. There was, it nnnears, n-n hoann lusiness Manager .......................... Silly Murrqy News Stot Lb Fva a, Irving Hl6n. Virginia RaysQr, VIe. for Barr t, Bobby. Williams, Eleanor $oaC , NATIONA. AQVj TSIiN9 a Jackie atson, Jeune Good, Jodi" Mireh5l . ll l 'Inc.June Dasupier. Julie Bull, Ernest Davis, Zelda wY31 Berlin, amilton Simpson, Rita Steinhardt, Lee seo wyesu.as iLorick, Anne Searson, Chuck Valght, Harramon Va. New YoRK. N. Y. Perry."1 L os A seILe .AN I.ANOSco Business Staff-Ed Tea , Mete Boykin, D. D. Salloy il. Jane Nicholson, Bill Hutchinson. Circulation Manager....................George Delay Asst. 'roulatlon Manaper......Katherine Dawson Upon My Word By LEE LORICK * So Much Time Already people have begun to talk about hlow iany days there are left in this semester. We've seen several people muk ing calendars in classes and carefully counting the days. Other various mathematical schemes have been used by the more numerical minds. As far as we can estimate, there are exactly thirty-nine days from today until exams start. * Remarkable The other day at a parade that the V-5's had one of the future birdmen was, due to an injury to his foot, standing on the side watching. To a rather nice looking girl standing nearb.a he re marked: "That lieutenant over there is ugly enough to scare a regi. ment of Japs." The girl's eyes flashed fire, as she replied: "Do you know who I am ? I'm that lieutenant's daughter !" a He: "Do you know who I am?'' She: "No!" le: "Thank the Lord !" * Definitions A mint julip is a. depth bomb with a southern drawl. Rationing is less and less of niore and more oftener and oftener. * Breakfast As Usual The other day we heard of a mother who to help the acute egg shortage mailed her son in England hard-boiled eggs. The soldier reported that they arrived safely and were delicious. If this is true, we don't understand why more families don't send eggs to boys overseas. Since an egg weighs less than eight ounces, no letter of request is required. * This U. S. In a neighboring state a city court of ficial spent considerable time explaining the history of the American flag to a group of aliens seeking citizenship. As a final test lie asked: "Now what is always flying over this city hall ?" "And one alien blinked a minute and replied: "I'eejtins" * The Versatile Marine A lieutenant in the Marines told is that he was taking with him to the Pacific copies of: War and Peace-Tolstoy. Seven Pillart's of Wisdom-Lawrene, Declinlie and Fal of the Roman Enmpi re-G ibbont, andl Ulysses--J oyee. IHe explained that he would never' get arountd to readling such'l tombts inI Amer('icaI, but t hat lie thioughtt he mtighit fittd timne oveir thlemre. * General Disorder fThe new ord(erly dulstedl the of ficer's, desk. wipled of f his chtair, arrnged his bJooks and tidied up~ genmeral ly--evrt hinig was tip top) except the floor'. "Prmivate," remarked t lhe officrl. "wasn 't t his floom' s wept ?" "No," replied the soldier'. "No, WIIAT1'?" exclaimed thet irr'itatted officer'. "No br'oomt," said the private mteeklyv. * A Man's Opinion A young lady with literary~ amitions recntly' was ver"y proud # to receive in the mail hter fiirst ('heck for a story. Open ing thle envelope site found ther'e was a note enclosed from the man whlo had bought her brainchild, and this is what it said: My dear: IIere is the ten dlollar's. You have earnedl it and I hope this will h)e the begintning of a dleluge of many', thu will come your way. 1ou have a fluair for words,.I Iowe'ver, a ('areer is not to 1)e compairedl with a nice husband. Always remtemiber' this. * Precarious One of the most terrifyinig experienices we've had lately was one (lay when we walked thtrough the corridlor by the mail. boxes in Maxey between classes, balancing au tennis racket, a coke, eigar'ettes and matches, a hpair of sun-glaisses, arnd a volume of Shakespeare. TIhe~ prestidigitation was miadle worst by people dlartinig in andl out and the bad lighting. * The-Joke-of-.the-.Week SA bheait i fti .young lond li ig was watching drill one day. SiIldelya mi le olly angou. \ith ma sur iprised scream, the lovely young lady shrank back directly', into the armis of a young pr'ivate, whvlo was stand ing belhinudhlie. Oh,i ' s te st m e r d "' t I s t , "a s so f rig h te n e d ~ b yj a"Not at all, not at all," spoke ill the quick-wit tedl private. "Lets go over' and watch thle artillery." * And So To Press A frantic telephdone just eamine to its fr'omiaKmthI. .Jennintg asking julst wh ere ini the (CENSOREDl) was this columr Somrehuow the Gamecock is on a sp>eed-up > -a i hi ems ta <demnams copy to be in on timie and1( we (10 mean it. So hvc 'til next week,. ....... .