The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 23, 1948, Page Page Six, Image 6
Rooster Pecking
By RUTH NEWELL
Exchange Editor
Furman
The Woman's College Chal
Choir of 35 voices made a tour
South Carolina April 17-20. Th
sang in the Columbia Music Fes
val Association program in t
Township auditorium and also
Summerville, Charleston, Sumt
and Lancaster. The band has ju
returned from a tour of Sou
Carolina.
It's .all right to compliment
girl on her ankles but don't cor
pliment her too highly.
Limestone
h'lhe annual junior-senior ba
quet and dance was given in hon
of the seniors on April 3.
Faculty and students are pr
senting a program over radio st
tion WFGN each Sunday afternoi
this semester from 4:30 to 5:0(
Florence Yellow Jacket
A June Bug married an ang
worl,
An accident cut her in two;
They charged the bug with bigati
Now, what could the poor thii
do?
Warriar's 'Prumpeter
I sit alone in the twilight
Forsaken by mice and by ma
And I murmur over and ove
I'll never eat onions again.
Opportunity knocks but on
but temptation bangs on the di
for years.
Winthrop
The Winthrop band played
the Azalea Festival parade
Charleston April 13.
Izetta Agnew, Lenore Orr, Be
Sue Blair, Johnnie Ulmer, Lou
Dickson, Cerribel Stever, Margu
ite Smith, and Elizabeth Be
played the piano in a recent
cital. Roxana Baker, Hannah K
dall, and Elizabeth Bolt sang.
The Florida Alligator
A pessimist is one who thii
all women are immoral. An ol
mist is one who merely hopes s
She: "Darling, did you ever
selling vacuum cleaners ?"
Ex-GI: "No, of course not."
She: "Well, you'd better at;
now, for that's my husband co
ing up the walk."
Ed: 'Can I take you home?'
Co-ed: "Sure, where do
live?"
Definition of a newv student: (
who thinks the Press building
the tailor shop.
Chapel Hill
A burning eross, cat tails, p1
ards and fraternity pledges che
inig for UMT greeted members
the "Committee Against Consci
tion" at a recent "Stop T1he Dra
rally. The meeting hall echoed w
"Stop Rassia Now" and "D
[Dead WVallace" cheers, showing
decided l'oan toward conutinu
the dIraft.
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inl The, annu11al area conference
inl the Lutheran Student associat
will be held this weekend at Ca
tty Barstow, 18 miles southeast
ise Columbia onl the Swansea hi
er- way. Representatives . from
amn Southern colleges and univei
re- ties are expected to attend the
an- treat.
Ernest Williams, chai-iraul
the committee onl planning the c
ference, reports that the retr
i ks will convene this afternoon v
>ti- registration hours between 4j
0- 6i p. ml. Instructions and probl
sessions- will be held through
tryV weekend until the adjournment
Sunday noon. Bill Sanders,
registrar for thet conference,
11rt pects the largest attendance e
m.- had for such retreats held in 1
area inl lecent years.
Speakers and leaders fcr
ou weekend conference include
SRev. George NMeetze, pasuir of
wilringel thWivekndC
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e-tie ar exectue Etortn h
ar-eSprinliames, lat, but,
. the cstets oak plantec
fe~ni, wel's hat taledret
its ilronene i feno
op.Heinnnguons and pnteobe
s ey, the wil e broughthoughd
mg Tweknd Meetilgo the Aijornmen
retrar o thpe ternvi
withpt thoe largest interndational
i-and forhuc reetet fhe inea
asex in theeli Sigma Chdrb
deaerd ganthedernis f10
weekentonerenc inclsuden
Springst folwnd he
nt toightwen S4igma
wilrhhl hei calSme alst ude
oft btuets.r though. The gle
toafo thwes date eears
ft"5*' h eailg Paradenti
Profhw eeor ofephe beirg
noed byothesompnd tfhameir
aMAtIN hoe o i nentoa
Chemistry Students
-hapter of Sigma Al pha Zeta, national
-ience building. (Pho to by Manning Harr
Students Ct
t Colleges F
of Lutheran Church of the Incarna
ion tion, Columbia, the Rev. Carl
ml) Caughman, Mission secretary for
of the South Carolina Lutheran synod
gh- and Miss Ingrid Nilsson, exchange
ten student at Carolina from Sweden.
rsi- Members on the planning com
re- mittee beside Chairman Williams
are Ernest Lineberger of the
of Southern Theological Seminary
and Miss Doris Rawl.
on- Representatives from the follow
eat ing schools will attend the three
day conference: Clemson, se
id Clemcon,
em Citadel, Winthrop, Georgia Tech,
e University of Georgia, Agnes
t Scott, Columbia College, Lutheran
the Seminary, Newberry, and Caro
lina.
ex
ver New President
his Olive Long was recently elected
president of the Columbia chapter
the of the association according to
the Miss Mildred Schaulkhouser, stu
the dent worker. She will succeed
Bring Renewal
Of Carolinians
ini thle classroom belowv him, ani
nouncing to his French class,
the "That's just Doctor Fitzgerald
ave hammering Spanish into his stu
at dents again."
smnd Three small boys eyeing the
er- polls5 last Tluesday and then de
ciding to vote. Unable to pay their
ual 1)011 tax or to interpret the consti
Ly's tution, they walked away in dis
tu- gust, not really caring who was
hat elected Garnet and Black editor.
ws Girls on the first floor of Sims
ex- being awakened from their beautyJ
sleep in the wee hours last wveek
tes by smoke and flames. No tasualty,I
ker though--just some burning coals
in had been tossed into a bucket of1
tu- gasoline.
>by Campaigning students blushing
on being toldl that the characters
life whose "aims they had twisted"
KG (including Professors Wardlaw and
ri- !Hollis) wvere merely youthful pro
fessors.
itie Summier school p)lanls disrupted
his for several students as they sweat
nts ed through the recent heat wave.
ave Campaigning Virginia Woodruff
overwhelming a passing young
man at the polls only to discover
an- that he didn't speak a word of
ing English.
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-hemistry society pose on the in
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>r MeetinA
Richard Hollinger as head of t
local Lutheran student organh
tion.
Other officers chosen by t
Lutherans included Grdy Free,
vice-president, Faye Dent, sec1
tary, Helen Creager, (reasur,
Fred Epting, publications, A
Roof, house planning and Doug]
Fritz. socials.
These new officers will take
fice on May 12 at the annual ba
quet of the LSA.
University Worshi
Program Directed
By Thomas, McCai
Isabel Thomas and Spruce N
Cain directed the university V4
pers program Sunday night. T
program was based on the val
of prayer. Ed Teague gave a sh<
talk.
Next week the program will
in charge of Beth Fillingim a
Blair Turner. Co-chairmen oft
YM.-YWCA Vespers committee a
Heleni Harbin and Charlie Gasqi
Programs are p)resented on Su
day at 7 p. m., in the Universi
Chapel.
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Next Dono- n
Reservations
To Be Placed
For Class Ball
Sales of tickets for the Senior
Ball will begin May 1, with* mem
bers of the class being contpeted
this week and next for advanced
tickets and reservations. The ball
1gill be held in the Field House
from 9 to 1 p. m., June 1, with
Woody Woodward, who was se
lected by class vote, furnishing fhe
music.
A buffet-banquet will be served
the seniors at intermission by
members of the university's Coed
Association. Tickets for the dance
will be $1.50 with ,date and $1
stag.
Plans are now being made for
the dance headed by John Nates,
dance chairman of the senior class,
in conjunction with a junior-senior
committee .making arrangements
for .the activities of graduation.
Plans now include the ball, a
luncheon June 1 for class members
given by the Alumni Association, a
baccalaureate sermon (revived this
year for the first time since the
war), and the formal graduation
exercises.
Al Bahret is president of the
University Mus
Shown In McA
By AUDREY CHAPMAN
A collection of the university
museum pieces are now on display
in room 200 of McKissck Library,
acgording to Miss Elizabeth Eng.
lish, assistant librarian.
he The exhibits include an unusual
a- coin collection, a primitive stone
axe from Tahiti, the wooden shoes
he of a Japanese Lord, a Japanese
war bond from a leper culuay, a
book containng the addresses ol
nn Abraham Lincoln and said to be
as the smallest book produced in the
United States, tablets from Ur ol
the Chaldees made about 3,00(
B. C. The tablets were bought by
Dr. E. L. Grcen, former univer
sity instructor in ancient language
P department, from Dr. Edgar J
Banks, an excavator.
Also included in the collection is
a pen staff made from an old yew
c- tree under which Thomas Gray sat
as he wrote "Elergy in a Coun
he try Church Yard." The pen was
,rt presented to the library by Dr. G.
A. Wauchope, former faculty mem.
be her.
nd
he Japanese Shoes
The display features the wooden
ushoes of a Japanese lord, as is
ty evident by their trim of rabbit
fur. They were discovered in Ao
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Announcer
Mackie Quave, instructor in Eng
lish and chief annguncer for local
station WIS, will be the announcer
for the nationwide broadcast of
the Southern Symphony Orchestra
from the Township Auditorium at
3 p. m., tomorrow. Quave is a na
tive of Asheville, N. C., and teaches
courses in radio at the university.
class and Barbara Dukes is vice
president. Secretary-treasurer is
Bettie Moore and Betty Ruth Ste
phens is historian.
eum Pieces
issick Library
mori, Japan in 1945 when the
USS Kershaw, along with other
ships, landed the first occupation
troops in that area. The shoes, as
well as a Japanese war bond from
a leper colony in Okinawa, and
several pieces of Japanese money
were donated to the museum by
Billy Walker, Carolina student on
board the Kershaw at that time.
The curios include a primitive
stone axe from Tahiti, Society
Islands. It was contributed by
Consul Julius D. Dreher, Port An
tonio, Jamaca.
I A cartoon on the secession days
showing a Richmond, Va. paper's
conception of Lincoln's position
(1861) may also be seen in the
collection. The eartoon shows :
cat (Lincoln) playing with run
ning rats labeled Alabama, Flori.
da, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and South
Carolina. One lies dead with an
American flag stuck lpright in
his stomach.
The museum pieces include two
love letters written by Joseph A.
Black, young Columbia lawyer, to
his fiancee, Martha Keziah P'eary
of F'airfield County, S. C., ini ( et.,
1830.
Anr example. of foredge p)ainlt ing,
in which the outside edges of the
book form a l)icture, are. found in
"The Pupils of St. John" by C.
NJ. Yonige. This particular t ype of
art is nowv almost extinct.
Tlwo primitive nooks fioma trPopi
cal islands may be seen in the ex
hibhition. The hooks are wvooden
strips similar to a Japanese fan.
Also inchidle< in the collection
is a photostat' of a diploma issuedl
by the Academy of Liberty Hall,
Mecklenberg County, N. C., 1778.
It was prsented to the university
by u .Hxe Davidson of Char
lotte, N.C.
An interesting munseumi piece is
a tiy hook containing the ad
(dresses oif A biahami Lincoln. Its
piublishers claim it to he the small
est book produced ini the United
States.
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Mackie Quave
WillAnnounce
NBC Program
Mackie Quave, instructor in Eng
lish and chief announcer for local
station WIS, will announce the
broadcast of the Southern Sym
phony Orchestra under the direc
iol ol' Carl hamberger tomorrow
at 3 p. im., over the National
Broadcasting Company's nation
wide network.
The program, annual broadcast
of NBC's "Orchestras of the Na
tion" series, is part of the Co
lunmbia Music Festival and will
originate from the stage of the
Township Auditorium through WIS
and WIS-FM.
The orchestra has been heard
on "Orchestras of the Nation"
since the program inception five
years ago, and over NBC annually
for three years before $at.
The program will be carried
over 124 stations with Quave, a
native of Asheville, N. C., as mas
ter of ceremonies.
On the program are "Short
Overture" by Don Gillis; the four
movements of Brahm's Symphony
Number 3 in F; VPolonaise Sym
phonique" by Karol Rathaus; and
appropriately, "Roses from the
South" by Johann Strauss.
Columbia is the smallest city in
the nation entering an orchestra
in the series.
Summer Graduate
Training Offered
With TVA Project
Summer training toward gradu
at(. degrees is being offered by
the Conference of Deans of South
ern Graduate Schools, becording
to an announcement received by
the University 'graduate school
this week. The offer is for fellow
nhips for students and faculty
memlIers interested in work in the
TVA area for the coming sum
liler.
The circular states that although
it was originally intended that
foundation funds be obtained, such
ha-v not become available there
fore students must pay their own
expenses. These are described as
nommal and consisting of "main
ly living expenses".
h'le information was forwarded
to heads of the Biology, Commerce,
Chemistry and- Economics depart
ments by Dean W. H. Callcott of
the graduate school. Interested
persons may obtain further in
formation by addressing Dr. Johni
E. ivey, .1 r., Executive Secretary,
Committee on' Southern Regional .
Studies and Education, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.
C. Applications for training must
le submitted by May 1, to receive
consideration.
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