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LD By Marg EXCHAN The naked hills wanton to the breeze, The fields, are nude, the groves ,unfrocked, Bare are thp limbs of all the shame . less trees; No wonder the corn is shocked. -Technology News Student: "Too bad about old prof. Shellback. He died of that backache he was complaining about." Second Student: "Died of a back ache?" Student: "Yeah, some new nurse rubbed it with alcohol and he broke his neck trying to lick it off." -Alligator * * * * * "We had a fifth at bridge last night." "Don't be silly, you never have a fifth at bridge.X "Okay, then, it was a quart." -Technology News * * * * * *Couple at dance: "Do you play requests?" Bandleader: "Certainly, what would you like to have us play?" Couple: "Pinochle." -Technology News * * * * * Bright student: "In Canada you can't hang a man with a mus tache." Fall guy: "Why?" Bright student: "The law says you have to hang him with a rope." -Yellow Jacket * * * * * A New England cemetery epi taph reads: "Here lies an atheist, all dressed up and no place to go." -Technology News * * * * * In search of an 'A' a friend of ours rhymed on a return-with mark postcard to his professor: "In class you were steadfast, you never did sway, For your mark in advertising, you received an . -. ." But the prof, a wiley one, re plied: "In class you were steadfast, you never did sway, I've never seen anyone sleep so soundly that way, But when for the finals, we roused you from slumber, By dent of sheer guessing, you hit quite a number. Your poet-ent 90 didn't win the , class wreath, But you did make an 'A' by the skin of your teeth." -Syracuse Daily Orange * * * * * "I won't marry you and you know why." "I can't think." "Yes." S * * * * * Man in restaurant, upon order ing a cup of coffee, trying to start a conversation with the waitress, says, "Looks like rain, doesn't it?" "Well it tastes like coffee don't it?" --West Wind , * * * * * A little Hugarian coed is re reading her English dictionary af ter asking a football player if he was the "centerpiece" on the Ben gal eleven. -Parley Voo * * * * * After weeks of lending his his tory notes to the inevitably cute little blonde, a stern male' asked her, "Why don't you take your own notes in class?" Without hesitation, she purred, VIL SOX'S STE - Special $1.00 ' Short And Sa 723 Salnuda EG nerite Webb GH EDITOR "If I did that when would I have time to write my letters?" -Daily Reveille * * * * e* Testing the theory that a cer tain history professor didn't bother to read reports, but graded them on a scale, a sophomore inserted this in the middle of his report: "If you read this far, I'll buy you a Coke." He got the report back marked: "C - - - I did, is 4:80 this after noon 0. K." -Daily Reveille * * * * * "All the girls tote little cases Designed for making up their faces I wish they had some other kinds Designed for making up their minds." -New Mexico Lobo * * * * * Workers earn it, Spendthrifts burnit, Bankers lend it, Women spend it, -Forgers fake it, Taxes take it, Dying leave it, Heirs receive it, Thrifty save it, Misers crave it, Robbers seize it, Rich increase it, Gamblers lose it, I could use it. -Campus Collegian * * . * * * While in New York on a vaca tion trip, I hailed a taxi and told the driver where I wanted to go. He raced -off wildly and went careening down the street, sway ing, bumping, and giving us sev eral anxious moments. Noticing our concern, he shouted over his shoulder, "Don't worry folks; I ain'L going to land in no hospital, especially after spending a year in one overseas." "How dreadful," I said sym pathetically. "You must have been seriously wounded." "No," he replied cheerfully. "Never got a scratch. I was a men tal case." -Technology News *. * * * * "What have you done?" St. Peter asked, "that I should admit you here?" "I ran a college paper," the editor said. St. Peter gravely shook his head and slowly touched the bell. "Come on in old man," said he, "you've had enough o1f hell " -Alligator Evening Post Names Columbiani Associate Editor .Ashley Halsey, Jr., for three and one-half years head of the Satur day Evening Post News Bureau in the advertising and promotion department, has been promoted to associate editor on the Post edi torial staff. Halsey is a native of Charleston, and once worked on the Columbia Record. Halsey served in the Navy dur ing the war, returning to .inactive duty in 1945 in the rank of lieu tenant commander. Joining the Post promotion staff in September, 1945, he organized the News Bu reau, revived Inside Information and established the Observation Post, a monthly intramural publi cation. He has been a frequent contributor to the Post and other publications. SIT AK HOUSE izing In - STEAKS Orders mdwIches 5 Points Th~ This is a scene from the Alpha sorority portrayed a silent film ent Drunken Daddy Who Used the Boo: Representatives Of Westminster Meet This Week The annual Westminster Fellow ship Convention of South Carolina Presbyterian college students is be ing held at the First Presbyterian church, in Spartanburg, today through Sunday. The theme of this conference is "Chnooa Ye Thia Day: Whom.1 Why, Where Ye Will Serve" with Dr. W. M. Boyce of the First A.R.P. church Charlotte. N. C.. as the main speaker. Other speakers are Dr. Harry Goodykoontz, Di rector of Student Work of the Gen eral Assembly, and Dr. LeRoy Burney, coordinator of Presby terian Program of Progress. With Converse, Wofford, and Spartanburg Jr. colleges as hosts,' representatives will come from colleges of South Carolina. The registration begins today at 3 p. in. There will be three key note addresse, given by Doctor Burney with discussion groups on pertinent subjects led by outstand ing ministers of the Synod. A ban quet will be held Saturday night with the installation of officers for next year following. Dr. Darby Fultoni, moderator of the General Assembly, will conduct the regular church service Sunday morning. Chester fiel4 Lovely lasses Jo Stafford (left) and tune-up for weekly appearances or show. The top gar singers alternal fifteen minute five-a-week NBC eve, COGBURH The Business Men Choice at Quality ai Original Try One of Our]1 And You'll Be 1317 SUlM Next Door to ti Aam %valacucoca e Perils Of Pentelo *OV Delta PI skit which won first place itled "The Perils of Poverty Strick :e to Chase the Blues." The skit w Ken Leland Talks On Honor System To ASME Chapter The honor system was the sub ject of a talk by Ken Leland, me chanical engineering student at the student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers meeting March 9. Leland stressed that honor sys tems have failed not because stu dente were dishonest but because they were not well informed about the honor system. He also attrib uted part of the failure to instru. tors who did not wholeheartedly support the system. A motion was passed which will provide for the appointment of a guidance committee. Duties of this committee will be. to aid freshmen and transfer students in scheduling courses and in other matters per taining to the student's curriculum. B. J. Russell, chairman of the society, stressed the importance for members to transfer from student to junior status when graduating. Members eligible for junior mem bership were given forms. On May 25, 1865, United States troops took possession of the build ings and grounds of South Caro lila College (now the University). It was used as a prison, a Freed man's Bureau, a hospital, and a court. 1 Warbiers Peggy Lee compare warblings In Chesterfild Supper Club radie e with Perry Como on this top ing show. 'S GRIL and College Boys' All Times d Variety e Here )ellcious Lunches Back for More. TER ST. m FireSation pe at sorority stunt night. The ADPi m Penelope" or "The Case of the as replete with villain and hero. Math Department Members Attend Alabama Meeting The following members of the mathematics staff of the univer sity are attending the annual meeting of the Southeastern Sec tion of America at the University tion of America at he University of Alabama today and tomorrow. Mrs. Buren Buffkin. Nelle Doug las, Prof. and Mrs. E. A. Hedberg, Prof. J D. Novak, Lillian Perkins, Prof. L. V. Robinson, Mrs. A. B. Rabon, Betty Weber, Prof. W. W. Weber, and Prof. and Mrs. W. L. Williams. Thirty-one papers are to be given at the -neeting. Three of these will be by members of the mathematics staff of the univer sity. Professor Hedberg will give a paper on "A Novel Approach to the Addition Formulas of Trig onometry"; Professor Robinson will give one entitled "Algebraic Methods of Extending the Multi plication Table"; and Miss Per kins will give a portion of a thesis which she recently has completed for the master's degree at the universiLy. Her subject will be "The Radical Axis of a Pair of Conics". The Southeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America is composed of units in the states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Prof. L. A. Dye of The Citadel is president of the local section, and Professor Williams of the uni v'ersity represents the section on the board of governors of the na tional organization. Coeds Make Plans For Weekend Visit By Hi Schiool Girls The Coed Association wvill meet March 23, at 5 p. mn. in Euphradian Hall to complete plans for the High School weekend to he held April 1, 2, and 3. Coeds are urged to at tend. Coeds are needed to escort the high school girls around the cam pus and to aid in their entertain ment that weekend. Keys, paid for by the organiza tion, will be available to Coeds who have contributed 15 hours to coed service, Laura Speed, president, an nou nced. On ante-belluin days recitations wvere held here at 7 and 11 a. nm. and at 4 p. m. Classes were dis missed at noon on Saturday. Seniors had two recitations a day, and lower classmen had three. In 1939, the University infirm ary wvas given a branch library and a micro-film viewer for the use and amusement of the patients. CENTRAL DRUG CO. OPEN 24 HOURS. 5197--PHONES-5..198 1204 MAIN STREET STUDENT OF Are you in favor of the i rangement for next fall's fom Yes If you are not in favor, sti State substitute plan for you disagree: Note: There will be a me seating arrangement. Printe as set forth by the ticket co; in PO Lobby.) Student Cc On Seating In order that students may proposed seating and ticket Student Council February 24, as outlined so that those desi the poll above will havv coml to base their opinions. Seats will be awarded on a seniority basis in the following order: (1) academic seniors, grad uate student, and juniors and zeniGr; i. Law School, (2) aca demic juniors and freshmen in Law School, (3) sophomores and (4) freshmen. Credits as shown in the registrar's office will determine the class in which an individual is placed. Each seat will be assigned for the entire season, with the under standing that students will be able to swap with each other for any game if they so desire. Dates and Date Tickets If a student desires to date another student at the games, he or she must pick out that person at the time the tickets will be is sued and go get their seats to gether. This means that they would have the same seat for all four home games, unless they could swap dates with somebody else. In case the two students are not in the same class, the seats will be assigned in the section of the one who is in the highest of thee four above named categories. For A T T HE 1 * NEX'T a,. Su.thru wed. Moonrise Sun-* and I A O f ouse Acro The Bay George RAF S.e lMan ..I Entertainment I Health andi Page Seven INION POLL oroposed student seating ar otball games? No de reason (or reasons): point or points with which eting today, concerning the I below is the complete plan mmittee. Drop ballot in box uncil Plan ; Disclosed be fully acquainted with the ,rrangements as adopted by rhe Gamecock prints the plan 'ing to express themselves in ilete information upon which example, a senior and a sophomore would sit in the senior section. Those who date non-students, would purchase the seat next to theirs at a cosi o 41o4.40 ior the block of four tickets. Proponents of the plan have stated that a chart with the names and numbers of each student's seat as it looks from the air will be placed in a convenient loca tion to aid in the swapping of seats. The ticket committee which drew up the plan disclosed that the stu dent section would begin at the 50 yard line and extend to the goal line. Seats will be of the same size as those sold to the general pub lic and cases of lost tickets will be handled through Student Council. According to the plan, the seats will be assigned on a date after registration. Individual tickets for each game will also be issued at this time. These would be in addi tion to the student activity card issued each semester, but the lat ter~ wo.uld also be required for ad mittance to the games. H EA TRES WEEK . e* Shockproof . ,. eb Whipering~ Alan DMA-A Thurs. tISat Rloanl Fri. and. Sat. Cr-ashing~ Through Fri, and Sat. Key LargO Fun and FanlcV Free q Watt DISNEY'S Essential to Good Happiness!