Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Brief Review Given Of Eight Recent Novels Of the eight new books in the Blue Star Collection in McKissick Library, two are concerned with religious theiies. The other six range the gamut from humor to teaching. Scott Hartt's "Eight April Days," evolves around the heroine Old Pine whose occupation is ped dling supplies to the Confederate Army. On her astounding adven ture she is accompanied by Baker, a small, infirm man whose tenacity was shattered when he was wound ed. At the climax they become en veloped in a domestic tragedy in an old mansion. The book is a novelette in length, tersely and ef fectively told. "Mary," written by Shalom Asch reveals the intimate story of Mary, mother of Jesus, and vividly pic tures a devoted family life. Joseph Nelson entertains his reader delightfully in "Backwoods Teacher" as he relates the teaching experiences of a young man sin cerely interested in community life and in imparting to his pupils the art of thinking. His experiences in the Ozarks at the time of the de pression engulfs the accounts of humorous superstitions and folk !ore. Novelette, "The Plum Tree," written by Mary Ellen Chase is concerned with a single day spent in an old ladies' home which is un der the supervision of two benig nant nurses. Thomas Contain again exhibits his picturesque, romantic style of relating historical events in "The Conquerors," an account of the rulers of England beginning with William the Conqueror and con tinuing through John. "Please Pass the Hostess" is a new collection of Whitney Darrow's cartoons which have been reprinted from the New Yorker. Dorothea Canfield relates ith sympathy and understanding the short stories about Vermonters, ty pical inhabitants of small towns and of farms surrounded by in surmountable mountains in "Four Suuare." "The Waters of Shiloe," written by Thomap Merton, author of "The Seven Story Mountain," tells of life in Trappis Monasteries in the 4' United States. 'Y Begins Plans For Freshman Reception Feb. 2 "The university is expecting a fairly large group of new students next semester and as a general cus tom, the Y.M.C.A. will give a re ception for them Thursday night, February 2 at Flinn Hall," R. G. Bell, director of the Y.M.C.A., has reported. The number of new students could not be revealed by Bell but he termed the figure "large and highly satisfactory." Each semester the Y.M.C.A. holds open house at Flinn Hall for new students, both freshmen and transfers. Old students are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and a square dance will probably be held for the occasion. LEARN THE WAY Men's Finest Clothing * Kuppenheimer * Kingsrldge e Alco. SUITS and TOPCOATS NEW FELT HATS * Stetson * Schoble CLASSY FURNISHINGS COPELAND CO. 1409 MAIN STREET "The House SThe R. L Br - Z ENGRAVED INVITATION RECEPTION & A 1440 MAll Columb Saturn Seen Close To Mars In January By KEN POWELL Students here will be able to wit ness a close approach of Mars and Saturn at Melton Observatory throughout this month, Prof. L. V. Robinson of the astronomy depart ment has informed the Gamecock. Robinson said that Saturn and Mars are appearing in the eastern sky, and Jupiter and Venus are dis appearing in the western sky al though there is no planet in direct view at this time. There are other interesting stars coming into view, especially Orion. This group of stars has one star so large that if it were as near the earth as. the sun is, it would be 17,000 times as bright as the sun. The sun and its planets passed through Orion about eight and one half million years ago, and it is thought that the sun might have picked up its planets in this way. Disappearin Bicycles, Pr4 By JEM NEWBURY It is indeed surprising how stu dents disappear from the Univer sity of South Carolina campus these days. The other night, a friend and I went over to the local pub for a cup of hot chocolate before bed time. Returning from our repast, we walked down the alleyway be tween the South Caroliniana Ii-. .rary and trncment 19. It was raining and as we started to cross the roadway which circles the horseshoe, I pulled my rain coat collar high about my neck and pulled my chapeau down over my eyes. Mid-way between the road way, I sensed a whistling noise by my side- a noise comparable to that of a weighted body hurtling through space. I chalked the sensa tion up to my imagination and the rainy night and continued up the walkway to Legare college, all the while carrying on a one-siddd con versation with my cohort. It was not until I reached the chapel that the rain slacked enough to fold down my wind resistor. It was then that I realized that I was alone. Very alone. I retraced my steps back over to the South Caroliniana library but Horace was nowhere in sight. I screamed out his name. No answer. Then I saw a pair of hands lying on the pavement in the roadway that circles the horseshoe. The hands belonged to Horace. He was luckily still attached to them, too, I discovered at a later investiga tion. He gurgled for help and I ran~ to his rescue. He had fallen into the deep, macadamized hole in the pavement in front of the library. After much tugging on the part of myself and the judge, we were able to extricate Horace but he was limp and lifeless from his or deal in the water. To add to his misfortune he had lost his French "pony" In the black abyss of svjrling waters. Horace wanted to go back after his trans lation. He had real guts but the judge said no. There was no telling what might lurk beneath that sub surface cave-in. As we stood there by the grass waiting for Horace to get his breath, the rain filled the hole in~ the cement up to the brim, thereby camouflaging it perfectly. Horace was cold and shivering but he did not want to go. A fiendish look came over his face and he began to wring his hands in anticipation of the hole's newest victim. I, too, was becoming some what of the cynic but the judge of Quality" van Company S ANNOUNCEMENTS T HOME CARDS I STREET Student -4 Sought Fc By ROBERT M. FLOYD A program is being instigated by the Honor Board at the University of South Carolina to stimulate in terest in the honor system on the part of both Faculty and students, according to Ken Leland, Chairman of the Honor Board. "We believe that a lack of un derstanding on the part of both faculty and students is the main factor that has to be overcome if the honor system is to work effi ciently," Leland said. * Leland said that each Council member had been assigned a facul ty group or a national sorority or fraternity on the campus in order to stimulate interest and bring about a better understanding be tween the faculty and students. "We believe that the honor sys tem is working here at Carolina,' Students, >fessors, Fou would be no part of the scheme and grabbed the good doctor before he fell into the cavity. He tottered or away in the mist toward the in firmary. Something should be done. Un. less, of course, there is som method in this madness. Horace swears to the heavem that some used car dealer is rent ing the black hole from the Uni. versity in order to enrich his stock supply. Some claim that it is the only sensible way to solve the horseshoe parking problem. If this is true and the hole ir the pavement by the old library is being rented, then by all means the students should be warned. 11 the blinker light system cannot bc used then miniature grappling hooks should be installed nearb5 with an alarm cord and moderi respirator equipment. By all means, the students mus be saved. Classes in bobbing an< extended broath holding should b conducted on a campus wide plane Freshmen should be alerted. May be this is the answer to the ques tion of, "where are our alumni? You're worried about Horace Well, he's all right and then agair he isn't all right. For the las three nights now he has been i1 the Library reading an article b; H. G. Wells about hurtlin~g througl space. He keeps mumbling some thing about there really being sue] a place as Atlantis, the city unde the sea. It worries me when h, reads "The Decent Into the Mael strom" and keeps nodding his heat in approval. Horace really isn't a strong boy He has a wonderful memory an: is much too stubborn to be lef wandering around alone in th vicinity of the library. The visio1 of the lost French "pony" Is stil etched in his mind. Only las night I noticed that he is takinj regular doses of Hadacol an< Sealf's Indian River Medicine an< I fear that he is strengtheninj himself up for a second try at th, man trap. If a used car dlealer isn't reall: renting the hole, then what is thi solution ? It has been here so long I know the repair men know o its presence. I've heard talk abou some contractors up town wantinj to bid on the contents of the cavit: should it ever be drained ani cleaned out. Maybe this is th' answer. Horace wants to write a boo] now. "Adventures In a Rainy Man hole." It might sell too, but writer~ shouldn't have to endur such misfortune to find the urg COOBURI The Busnes. Mei Choice al Quality a Origina Trvy One of Our And You'll Be 1317 SUM~ Next Door to a =a XAM U G 'acuilty Inte. or Honor Sj Leland said, "but there is room for ir much improvement." ii Leland said that the board had p agreed that the best way to instill the spirit of honor in the students a was through the Professors and f< that Professors were being urged L to expound the principle of the hon- p or system more frequently to their p classes. "One of the main purposes of the t] Honor Board," Leland said, "is to t4 instill a feeling of honor and pride b into the student that he will prac- t tice after he leaves the university. p By putting confidence in the stu- f: dent while he is in school he be comes confident of himself and has f a feeling of honesty which he will t carry into his everyday life." t Leland said that in the past the u Honor Board had received splendid & cooperation from the faculty but s that it was necessary that a more p Autos, md In Hole to write. It might affect Horace's mind. lie mumbles all the time now. Mutters something about booby J traps and not having a chance and J walls falling in and high room o rent. Id I am enlisting your aid to help c fill up these gaps in our Univer- i sity. Horace was a fighter and t was imbibed with a strong cup of hot chocolate. You might not be -; lucky. Thv hole s stI there. Poultry Highlights Are you interested in raising birds? Gamecocks for instance! Then read your campus newspaper THE GAMECOCK. But don't be misinformed as have numerous people across the U. S. and some Latin American countries who have requested such information from your campus publication. The recent request comes from Cleveland, Ohio, for subscription rates and other information de voted to Game Cocks. As yet no Poultry Bureau has been established. So far Clemson has control of animal husbandry in spite of the fact that our Garnet and Black birds still predominate over the roaring tiger. But disregarding the glorious past and the pending possibility , of consolidation of higher educa b tion, it may be probable that the Iadministration will allow a poultry secretary to handle correspondence for information about fighting birds._ P AT R ON E'S University Quality Cleaners and Dyers - Pressing b While You Wait 1209 Pendleton St. Columbia 1 Telephone 3-3442 b TODAY'S MEMO - ONE-DAY DRY CLEANING t. ALL WORK GUARANTEED ARROW CLEANERS 1209 Gervals Phone 6471 N'S GR IL t and College Boys' All Time. nd Variety ste Here Delicious Lunches Back for More 'ER STREET thea Flue St.ain rest rstem itensive program be inaugurated the Honor system was to be im roved. "The Honor Board is working on uniform procedure that the Pro !ssors will be asked to follow," eland said, "and we hope that the rogram will be successful in im roving the honor system." Leland said that the attitude of ie students toward the honor sys !m was consistently improving. He ased his assumption on the fact iat more offenders have been re orted by students recently than rom any other source. "Without-the cooperation of the sculty and students the honor sys !m would be completely ineffec ve, and we hope that the contin ed cooperation of the faculty and tudents will serve to improve the ystem of which we are justly roud," Leland said. ibrary Books Will Be Due )n January 19 All books loaned from McKissick temorial Library after Thursday, anuary 5, will be due Thursday, anuary 19 because of the ending f the semester. Following this ate, all students who have no harges against them may take ooks on a short term loan until he end of the semester of January 7. The library will be closed on unday, January 30 and open from ine until five during registration veek. The regular library ached le will be resumed on Saturday, 'ebruary 4. No student having overdue books harged against him will be al owed to register for the second emester until the books are re .urned or charges for them have >een settled with the library. This iction is in accordance with the 3olicy decided by the discipline lommittee of the university. NEW caree in the U, OFFICER In this era < flights, the __ navigator ha -. creasingly ii The U. S. .now offers tunities to men betwee 20 and 26%2 who are sia qualify for such training. if you can meet the high educational standards (at I of college), and are selecte among the first to attend year navigator training coi ton Air Force Base near H< A new class begins each m, Air Force officer proc to explain these care details at y'our nean Recruiting Station, Attention: Aviation4 AViation C;adet I ew able tO 1 ee abou and 26 1/2. ab te b assjgnr',(nts bee" SUCh tinlie bas tbvee.tvainIed souni regUI4 corn Wesley Group Installs New Officers Sun. ' Installation of recently elected officers of Wesley Foundation will be held Sunday morning at Wash ington Street Methodist Church. Alternating between the univer sity and Columbia College, the new leaders include Arlen Cotter of USC, president; "Tootsie" Springs, Columbia College, Secretary; and Mary Denny of USC, treasurer. The vice-president from the uni versity will be Jack Goldschmid and representing Columbia College will be Sylvia Best. Persons filling vacant positions on the council will be Jane Kirk, David Creel, Ken Creel and Clif ford Graddy from the university. New council members of this Methodist group from Columbia College wiii ne Anne Hatchet 'and Anne Rast. Supper is served to college stu dents on Wednesday nights at the Washington Street Methodist Church at 6:30. Drake. Students Will Contribute To Registration DES MOINES, la.-(I.P.) Drake University students will have a voice in planning for the spring semester registration. In a letter to the student-faculty coun cil, Roy W. Bixler, registrar, re quested the governing body to ap point a five-member committee of students to assist the regietrar and faculty in making plans for the 1950 spring semester registration. Council members agreed that SFC approval of the plan indicates a desirable trend in getting student reaction and assistance on matters in which they are so vitally con cerned. SAY... "I saw it in THE GAMECOCK" r opportunitie S. AIRt FORC AND NA! f long range You'll be an role of the Cadet! And, sbeoei- ceive the besi isbcm n tramnig --mcl nportant. hours in the Air Force ''Flying Clasar new oppor- Then, graduati ruglee wmn your w ougclee navigator. n the ages of commission as ragle and can the Air Force with pay, you' physicl and assignments as physcaland fafthous comm east two years Force. Your d, you can be office" of migh the new one- transports! irse at Elling- Be among the a U. S. Air F uston, Texas. new navigator onthi key man on ti urement teams are visiting many col er opportunities. Watch for their 'si Air Force Base, U. S. Army a' rby writing to the Chief of Sta adet Branch, W ashington 2 5, D. C. WIN youR n 0 ,aload . 4 age o" 20* ONI Page Five Old Tenements Called Firetraps; Threaten Lives CHICAGO, Ill.-(I.P.)-Unfor tunately there will be another fatal fire in some col!ege residence hall in the nation, the 87th National Safety Congress was told recently. "But there need not be if colleges will take the necessary steps for fire prevention and control," John J. Ahern, director of the fire pro tection and safety erqineering de partment at Illinois anstitute of Technology, told delegates. "Unless colleges provide at least minimum safeguards, a wave of re strictive legislation, brought down by parent's wrath, will cripple cam pus housing. Colleges must assume greater fire precautions or face having them forced upon them by public opinion and governmental control. "The fire record of schools has taken a serious trend in recent years. There have been a number of serious fires in college buildings such as dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses resulting in serious loss of life. No college should feel smug and point to the unfortunate institutions that have suffered these catastrophies. It could happen to any school. All are faced with the same problem, and almost none is prepared to cope with it. "Only chance has saved the rest, and they must now act quickly be fore their luck runs out. The prob lem is a serious one. Relatively large numbers of students sleep on upper floors of residence buildings. College residences, with few ex ceptions, are traditional types in herited from the last century and earlier. This type building was built to burn and burn quickly," Ahern said. SPECIAL RATES 20 Cents 'Til 6 P. M. 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