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Boxers Look Ahead To Opening Bout See page 4 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Volume XLI, No. 17 * COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER 7, 1946 Fudd10 CaroIindar SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 Student Center, 7:30 p. m., " ashIgtoi St. Methodist SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Wesley Foundation, 10 a. m., Washington St. Methodist ureh. Vespers, 7 p. m., Chapel. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Freshman Y Council, 1 p. m., Flinn Hall. B. S. U. Devotions, daily at 1:45 p. m., McCutchen, Room 25. Inter-Fraternity Council, 5 p. m., Flinn Hall. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10 Student Assembly, 12 noon, Chapel. Pan Hellenic, 5 p. in., Tri Delt Room. Debating Teani vs. Clariosophic Literary Society, 7 p. m., Clariosophic Hall, Legare. Euphradian Literary Society, 7 p. in., Euphradian Hall, Har per. Kappa Sigma Kappa, 8 p. m., McKissick Library, Third Floor. Omicron Delta Kappa, 9 p. in., McKissick Library, Faculty Room. Speaker Noted Author To Address Student Assembly Dec. 10 By PEGGY TREXLER Edgar Johnson, author, critic and anthologist, will be gues speaker at student assembly, De cember 10 in the chapel. Editor o the first anthology of the world' satiric masterpieces published il English, Johnson combines full; informed and accurate scholarshi with a broad philosophical under standing. A native of New York, Johnsol graduated from Columbia Univer sity in 1922. After teaching lit erature and composition at Colunm bia for two years, he abandone his boyhood ambition to be an at chitect, and decided that he ws more adept at handling words tha: bricks. Johnson is a former member o the faculty of Washington Uni versity and Vassar College of th city of New York. His first novel, Unweave Rainbow, published in 1931, wat followed six years later by Th Preying Mantis. In the field c literary history and criticism, hi One Mighty Torrent: The Dram of Biography, was judged one c the best hundred best books c 1937. In 1941 he edited A Treas ury of Satire, which is still re ceiving widespread attention. Johnson has been a frequeni contributor to such publications a The Saturday Review of Litera ture, North American Review, Th New Republic, Accent, and Ken yon Review. Administration Prepares Plans For USC Radio Program Over WCOS Plans are being made by Presi dent Norman M. Smith and menm bers of the faculty, to.present half hour radio show once a weel over radio station WCOS. The program, which is still il the formulative stage, will includi approximately 15-20 minutes o music and from 7-10 minutes o discussion. According to the presi dent, no definite time has beei set as yet for the program, but I will probably be presented froni 9:80-10 p. m. each Monday. Rich ard Goode, public service directo: at WCOS, will prepare the scrip and handle the show. Letters have been sent to all de partment and school heads askini for suggestions or subjects to b~ presented by each department ani school. Sweetheart of Block "C"' Mrs. Rex Enright, wife of Caro lina's head coach, was announce< as the Sweetheart of Block "C" al the Block "C" winter formal hek Thnrsday night* Students Must Make Room Reservations Applications for room reserva tions for the 1947 spring term will be received beginning Monday, December 9, at 9 a. m. and ter minating Saturday, December 21, at 1 p. m. This applies to both men and women students and to fraternities now having dormi tory accommodations. Each student must pay the treasurer $10 and present the treasurer's receipt to the marshal (men) or to the office of the dean of women (girls). This deposit will be applied to the room rent for the 1947 spring term. Girls have first choice for their present room until December 21. Vacancies in Sims will be filled by request from residents of Wade Hampton and McKissick Wauchope House. Second semes- I ter freshmen now in Maxcy may I apply for vacancies in McKissick Wauchope House and Wade Hamp ton. Town girls and graduate students will be assigned rooms after all others have been placed. t Any male student now rooming - on the campus and who fails to - f complete his reservation during the dates specified above will for feit his room at the end of the current term and will be placed on the waiting list for re-assignment. Men on the waiting list will re - ceive notice through the university postoffice between January 3 and 1 January 10 in the order in which their names appear as dormitory vacancies occur. No names will be added to the present waiting list until January 13. 1 The above procedure will apply c - to all fraternities now occupying I space. Reservations have to be t made on an individual basis and in each individual's name. No reservations will be made on a group basis. Those failing to com ply with the regulations will for feit their rooms. 1 All students with type AB 3 e blood who wish to become blood 1 f donors, are urged to report to the Infirmary. (This does not mean types A AND B, but AB. a f University Students -Engqged As Ballet ~ Russe Participants - In the supporting cast of the a e Ballet Russe production of "Sche- r herazade," presented at the Town- a ship Auditorium recently, were nIine psychology students from the University. The participants, who portrayed c Schaz's warriors and committed c murders in the protection of his ' harem were: Loyal Lancaster, R. E. Lee, William Love, William SMcCurdy, John Baker, J. L. Kly, R. A. Fletcher, Tommy Fulmer,I and O'Ryan Chaplin. Professor Lenneau Foster, of the psychology department, who .was asked to furnish this cast, o selected the men on a voluntary vi basis, accelerated by a bit of "psy- c chological salesmanship." He told 0 the class: "Anyone may have the7 privilege of seeing a ballet from a the audience at popular prices, 8 but to see It from backstage one could not buy a ticket for $1,000." t Then a sheet of paper was passed among the students, and quickly a filled with signatures of volun- 1 teers. According to Professor Foster, ~ the students who took part in the performance agree he was , right. n 3owI ( A 'ictured above is the Reverend Clat darriage and Home" during the Reli Zeligious Empha: New Record For NROTCAndNACP * Applications MustBe ; n By December 17 a According to a statement made 1 y the chief of Naval Personnel v T n Washington, Tuesday, Decem er 17, has been set as the day a y which applications to the Naval teserve Officers Training Corps co r to the Naval Aviation College P 'rogram must be in the hands of ct t< he Examining board. All appli- w ations should be mailed to the laval Examining Section at 6 'rinceton, New Jersey. it Nation-wide competitive exami- w ations will be given January 18, 61 947, to select several thousand m oung men for the Navy's new col- tc ge training program which will 7 ive trainees the opportunity for commission in the regular Navy C r Marine Corps. To each man selected, the Navy C offering a college education and ommission as an officer. He may1 hoose the field in which he would ike a bachelor's degree, and also may be able to go to the college E r university of his choice. The n ~overnment will pay tuition and s' ormal fees, buy necessary books L nd uniforms, and give the stu- t< ent $50 as a living allowance. di In the NROTC trainees may rork toward a commission in the t< egular Navy as line or staff corps p: fficers, or in the regular Marine ti orps. The student may earn his ii rings of gold and a commission ir s a Naval aviator in the NACP. Aid-Semester Grades At few High; Veterans In .ead, Says Dean Childs At the end of the first half of te fall semester, only 7.9 percent t the total enrollment of 4,000 ere failing nine hours' work, ac rding to Mrs. Arney Childs, dean f women. Veterans, with a percentage of 3 failing, are rated slightly bove non-veteran students with .8 percent In failures. Mrs. Childs pointed out that this arm's grades were apparently tuch Improved over those of pro lous years as the usual percent go of failures Is between 10 and 2 percent. iniversity Coal Shortage ... John Kelley, university marshal, id yesterday that there was S nough coal on the campus to lasth ntil the. first .f Faerary. Seminar Scene ide Evans as he conducted one of igious Emphasis Week program. ;is Week Sets Attendance As of Wednesday of this week, ie attendance at the Convoca ions conducted by Religious Em hasis Week leaders, had sur assed the whole week's attend nee of last year. The grand to il of attending students for the D45 week was 6,780 for the con Dcations and seminars combined. hat figure was reached this year n Wednesday, one day before the .tivities ended. Daily attendance, with the ex ption of Sunday night's ves srs, was also larger than the pre ding year. Last year's Sunday tal reached 250' as compared ith 150 this year. However, on Monday morning 10 students were present to 625 1945. The other comparisons ere: Tuesday morning, 643 to 10 for last year; Wednesday orning, 660 to 550; and Thursday orning, 640 to 525. The grand tIl thus compares as 1946, 2, !3 to 1945, 2,550. :nglish Section Of southern M. L. A. -leaded By Seigler Professor M. B. Seigler of the nglish department was last week amed chairman of the English ection of the Southern Modern anguage Association, according an announcement made yester ly. Professor Seigler was elected head this section which comn rises one-fourth of the associa on, at the annual convention held Atlanta, Georgia, on Thanksgiv g day. Mr. Ai ryant Meeks has been hailed as tli tates in the Associated Press Alls as one more year of eligibility ahi ad. it. heartiest cangratniatlnn. off, s G 1] in anm Me cal] ~ ad fa ist Ti Sc the seminars on "Preparation for (Photo by Manning Harris). a. gui WKIX Will Carry ta Tenth Anniversary da Of WBRU Airer A program celebrating the tenth b anniversary of WBRU, campus ra- lal dio station of Brown University, da Rhode Island, will be broadcast m over station WKIX Sunday, De- sc cember 8, from 7:30 to 8 p.. m. all WBRU was the first campus sta- tel tion of the Intercollegiate Broad casting System, a network of col lege radio statious. UJ The broadcast will be of particu lar interest to Carolina students, Tc since the University's own radio station, WUSC, is expected to be-TI gin operations sometime after the first of the year. Si Puli sent One More Day Given in For Subscriptions To t=r '47-"Garnet And Black" M repi Subscriptions to the 1947 sity Garnet and Black will be sold once again, Monday afternoon gra from 2 to 5 at the University Con post office. It was reported Lou that sales are being reopened to will enable veterans who have just received their delayed checks, to Mrs subscribe. stud At the same time, re-appoint- whi) meats will be made for pictures deni for those who have paid, but who, because of shortages of wail film, have not had their pic- S1 tures made'.tu According to Vic Barrett, edi- tu tor of the 1947 annual, the $3.0 progress of the book is running Mrs to schedule. More than half of mar the pictures required for the that entire annual have been taken. With approximately 400 pages, tick the '47 book promises to be one mdi of the largest annuals ia Caro- pern lina history. -Sti 11rilCa Re the soci, Scam noul T] day, Mrs 2> of i T: fere oni) deni ing tion atte buil "1 e second best center in tha UTnltrl hel; amerlea team for 1946. "Meatba." ad of him. The GAMECOCK ex t tsr lys Ei amecocks Accei illanova, But E ueTo Coal Shor 'he University of South Car the Dixie Bowl on New Ye iounced yesterday after he ] rnphis officials stating the ed off due to the coal short xtra Days o Be Given t Mid-Term Students will be granted two ditional holidays between the 11 and spring semesters, Miss riam Holland, assistant reg rar, announced yesterday. e revised registration period hedule is as follows: January 28, Tuesday, 1 p. in. rmitories open. January 29, Wednesday, 8:30 m., Drayton Hall, testing and idance program, etc. January 30, Thursday, con uation of testing and guid ce program. January 31, February 1, Fri y and Saturday, Registration r second semester. February 3, Monday, classes gin (regular one hour sched !) Monday, additional fee for e registration. February 4, Tuesday, Last te on which a student may ike changes in registration or tedule an cxtra course with t payment of 50 cents pen y. April 4, Friday, 8 a. m. Eas holidays begin. April 9, Wednesday, 8 a. in. isses resumed. iiversity Students Appear In Town eatre Production ate Of The Union, the 1946 tzer Prize play, will be pre ed at the Town Theatre under direction of Robert Dale Mar beginning Monday evening at p. in. The production will run ugh Saturday, the 14th. embers of the cast include four esentatives from the Univer Louis Searson, a Carolina luate, will play the part of Jim ver, the political boss. Archie s, professor at the University, appear as Senator Louterback. Mary Byrd Viehmeyer, USC ent, has been cast as the maid, e Cliff Hardy, another stu ,will be seen in the role of a er. udent tickets are .60c each; ent membership books are DI each for six performances. Elizabeth Belser, business ager of the production, states the purchaser may use all the 3ts of one book for as many viduals for admission to one ormance. Ident-Faculty Teas ~umed As A Weekly :ial Affair At USC ans have been made to revive student-faculty teas, a weekly i1 activity on the University pus before the war, Mrs. By Childs, dean of women, an iced yesterday. ie first of a series of student Ity functions will be held Mon 5 to 6 p. mn. in Flinn Hall. Julian J. Petty is in charge rrangements. te teas will continue in dif nt buildings each week, with the teaching staff and stu a taking courses in that build invited to that particular fune ,In some cases students may nd teas in several different lings on the campus. t is hoped that these teas will the instructors and their enuts to know each other bet Mrs. Child. said. iright t Bid To Play iame Called Off tage In Memphis olina Gamecocks will not play ar's Day, Coach Rex Enright had received a telegram from t the Bowl game had been age. Wednesday the Gamecocks were invited to play Villanova in Bir mingham, moved from Memphis. However, Wednesday night, a tele gram was received saying that the game had been cancelled because of coal shortage. Memphis, then, decided to take the game back to that city. Another telegram late Thursday night stated that Mem phis, too, had decided to call it off. "The team had voted to play," said Enright, "and we would prob ably been Dixie Bowl bound on New Year's Day had the game remained on schedule." Enright also said that the Gamecocks had received a bid to play in the Memorial Bowl, locat ed in Houston, Texas, against the University of Texas team. How ever, when that bid was received, the Dixie Bowl was still pending, so no acceptance could be made. Bridge Tourney Nets $221 For McKissick Fund Benefits from the bridge tourna mnent sponsored by Kappa Sigma Kappa, honorary service frater nity, recently in the naval armory Lotaled $221. This amount will be added to the McKissick Memorial Scholarship, a memorial to the ate president of the University, announced Marion Powers, presi lent of KSK, today. The first prize, a $35 compote, was awarded to Mrs. Mary Burns of Columbia. The "Gamecock pin," a gift to Mrs. McKissick from her husband, was won by Sam Baker, University student. Approximately 250 people, in eluding spectators, attended the tourney. News Notes Vice-president of Boosters Club.. Bill Keith was elected vice president of the Boosters Club at a meeting held Wednesday after noon. He is former chairman of the stadium decorations committee. * * * Deputation Team .. . The deputation team of the YWCA-YMCA will conduct the resper program at Clemson Col lege tomorrow night. Jean Hull is in charge of the program. * * * Vespers Program... Vespers will be held tomorrow right at 7 p. m. in the chapel with Bill Patrick in charge of the pro gram. Picture projections are to be used during the program. * * * N*ew Political Science Course... The political science department will offer Political Science 119, a political theory course, for the first time since the Civil War. Francis Lieber, father of Interna tional law in the United States, taught this course during his stay at the university from 1840 to 1861. * * * Faculty Coffee Hour .. . The faculty daily coffee hour has been reot-ganized under the leadership of Mrs. Norman M. Smith, president of the Faculty Auxiliary. Each morning at 10:80, coffee and cakes are served In Flinn Hall to members of the fae izlty. Mrs. Stephen Taber heads the committee for arrangements at present.