Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Gamecock Life Of Ur By CARROLL Managing The first issue of The Gai editorship of Robert Gonzales on the University of South C Football, discontinued by th propriate as a sport of y4 born in 1907 and the Garnet as the only undefeated squai he editor praised the rebirth ked forward to the greater In January, 1908, Dr. E. S. yner, who nad been one of the E ost beloved of the older campus I ofessors, was selected by the rnegie Fund as one of the re pients of its awards. His retire ent from the faculty was be oaned by the infant publication. The legislature that year appro riated $36,000 for the mainte ance of the university and the aper expressed gratitude. Editor onzales also represented the uni ersity in the state oratorical ontests. October, 1908, heralded a new resident of Carolina. Dr. Samuel . Mitchell succeeded Maj. Benja in Sloan. Dr. J. N. Frierson, ow dean emeritus of the law chool, and Dr. H. C. Davis be ame faculty members. Doctor )Davis's was not a new face on the campus, for he was returning af ter previous service to the uni versity. Christie Benet, one-time South Carolina senator, was the football coach of a team called the Gar net and Black, which was praised . for showing . the "gamecock spirit." Carolina contributed $30 to the campaign of William Jennings Bryan for president. Both Bryan and the football team knew the bitterness- of defeat, while Doctor and Mrh. Wauchope held one of their famous campus teas. Team Christened In the November issue of 1908, the university football team was first referred to as the Game cocks. Previous to this time, the eleven, had been called the Garnet end Black, or just plain varsity, and the name was given the ath letic squads through the pages of The Gamecock. 1908 also saw the YMCA get its first general secretary and students labored over ten hour long examinations! The campus also celebrated the appropriation by the General As Side Reflects iversity L. GILLIAM Editor necock appeared under the in the great era of building irolina campus... e Board of -Tustees as "in yung gentlemen," had been and Black team of that year I in the history of Carolina. of the now classic sport and days to come. embly of $85,000 for a science ouilding (LeConte.) Five dollars was offered "in gold" for the best hort story on college life. Students in those days were re iuired to attend Chapel four days iach week. Editorial columns con ildered this "somewhat harsh, for -eligion is not drilled into a col ege student." Pres. William Howard Taft, 'ather of the current hopeful from )hio, visited the campus in 1909, ind took time out to make a ipeech from the president's front porch, while editors of The Game iock scouted around to organize a 'german club" to raise funds to pay for publication. t:nter (ymnasium In 1910, Dr. Reed Smith, long time head of the Carolina Eng li.h department, joined the fac ulty while the students were thrilled over a new gymnasiun1 (the present one.) The "science hall" would be re fitted into a gymnasium which would be "the finest in the South east." In 1910, it probably was the finest. Students thought carefully anc then decided that Caroina did not need three literary societies, while some wondered if there was a ne cessity for them at all. Calhoun's statue was unveilec in the Hall of Fame, and loya South Carolinians gushed histori cally and then became vehemeni because water did not gush or the campus. It seems that the Marshal's of fice was the scene of a commor drinking cup, from which al quenched their thirst. The edito: did not consider this a healthy practice and wrote: "Fixture, have been invented so arranged that by ,turning a faucet, watel rises and flows into the -nouth." "Why don't we have them?" hi aked. ight* James F. Byrnes and Harry for the dedication of the ne ad of the federal governm Like the present-day cam publications, The Gamecock manded a room for all pubi tions. And the YMCA moved i a building all its own-F Hall. The student practice of cros: the campus in their bathr4 came in for criticism from a ter writer. "You know, this one of the main thoroughfare. Columbia," he wrote, "and conduct is disgraceful." "With each package of Fatii you get a popular actress' ph graph and a pennant coup< For 25 of these coupons, the dent of 1910 could get a Caro pennant. Davis College was built, a: 0. Sheppard, current senator f Chesterfield county, became tor of The Gamecock. North Carolina was only " to win by 23-6" while stud -demanded that their kathers in General Assembly give thei new Chapel. The fathers won First Streamer The first streamer to appeal the front page of The Games in 1911, as Fatimas were chk ;lnII Hopkins visit the university campus W swimming pool. constructed with Dnt. pus ing only 15 cents for 20 cigar de-ettes, with ten thrown in. iea nto The editor editorialized "thai Inn the janitors are very erreful that any dust they stir up settles on somebody's desk or chair." The ing university employees, he thought, bes closed all windows before sweep let- ing, so that no dust could get ou is of the rooms. of uch Thomas Nelson Page, well known Southern writer, spoke ir the Chapel before a serious au nas dience, and the University YMCA to- issued its first Handbook, whici n." has come to be one of life's lit stu- tle necessities to Freshmen. ia Students began to raise fundi on their own to build a law school 3 . building for Carolina, while the rom extension division pioneered witi edi- night classes. A club was formed on the cam able pus in conjunction with a nation mnts wide college movement to furthei the the candidacy of Woodrow Wil. n a son for the Democratic nomina. tion for the presidency. Thi venture was more successful thar the Bryan affair. on At the same time, tears wep oek over the mobbing of the univer rir- sity athletic director during- tha Jsc, game with The Citadel. The Carolina mentor was acting as referee and his decisions did not suit the Ashley river boys. No bones were broken. Editor Latimer S. L. Latimer, Jr., now editor of The State, became The Gamue cock's editor in 1912 and began organizing a . Southern Collegiate Press Association. The college editors met at Carolina in April, and the organization was more successful than that attempted by The Gamecock In 1948. Mrs. R. B. Perkins reported that she was the first woman graduate of the university to cast a vote. Her ballot was dropped in a California box in April, 1912. Thornwell, McBryde and Coker were begun in 1914 as the world readied Itself for a war. Dr. W. S. Currell became president of the university, comigg south from Washington and Lee. College night was held with conspicuous success. At this time all students gathered to show the freshmen' the college yells, cus toms and other more interesting phases of Carolina life. Fatima was offering $500 for the best advertisement of their product as, the Carolina enroll ment reached 420. The Gamecock reported that an "ex-safecracker, a reformed crim inal" would sneak at the YMCA and the Press Association revived tself December 3. Freshmen were wearing green h,ata .0 ;hw their insignificant rank, and upperclassmen appro priately punished those who neg lected the custom. The legislature, the villain in the old days, was asked to appro priate money for a new fence around the athletic field. The old one was eulogized as a guardian of Carolina's great athletic pst, and another ex-convict, this time "Philadelphia Johnny," arrived to point out the horrors of crime. Bows To Coock "The Gamecock will no longer fight the coeds," the editor said. Thus did the paper bow to the inevitability of the discovery that women were here to stay. Leg'iRiators came up with a. sur prise. They would appropriate "$25,000 for the fence If the stu dents would built it themselves." The students agreed and the fene was built. The editor plumped for pro hibition at Carblinal bThe 511 students were given the opportunity to compete for