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45TH YEAR 1A OF PUBLICATION64 .4 O U CAIONSELVY TOMORROW UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ___CROWING FOR A GREATER CAROLINA Vol. XLVI-- NO. 18 COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 19, 1954 Founded 1908 3tuaent *teais j Maxcy Ball On Horseshoe The 127-year-old Maxey Monu ment ball has evidently become the victim of a student disillusioned by service at the depository. It was stolen sometime last week, according to the campus police. Police Chief C. A. Bundrick said that the ball was first missed Thursday morning. It was in its pizt-e Wednesday, he said, and was probably dislodged from atop the monument sometime Wednesday night. L,ETT,'1ERS GIVE' REASON A letter to the editor of the Gamecock Friday stated that the ball was unharmed and would be returned "when and if efficient servict' is instituted at the (epos itory." Another letter Saturday stated that the thief "sorely re grets Mr. .Russell's discomfort concerning the Maxcy ball." It went on to say that the (Iced was done with no malicious forethought and was not intended as a personal affront to President Russell. Both were signed by "Mr. Chips." (See letters on editorial page.) NO CLUE Chief Blundrick said Wednesday that no clue as. to the identity of tno thief had been uncovered. le intimated that the administration nor the police department was tak ing the matter too seriously. "We believe that this is some sort of stunt," lie said, "but we hope that whoever took the hall will bring it back." The ball on Maxcy Monument has long been the object of student pranks. At intervals, since the monument was unveiled in 1827, it has been painted a rainbow of colors. A bout 1909 the entire m1onumnt was painted a bright pink. Just last semester the ball was taken down and given a gold polish at a cost of about thirty-five dollars. .t<W 4;"illME r WH IA H BL ha4e At'l beivdtohv en tlnl ca\ hisl Mr hp" ash an orcu eviei eundt by LadsPry Students From Twenty States Attend USC 11. 0. Strohecker, registrar, an nounced that there are a total of 498 new students at the univer sity this semester. Of this total, 437 are from the state of South Carolina with 19 other states being represented. Four students are from other countries. The total enrollment now stands at 3,250 which is an increase of 280 over last spring semester. Of this grand total 701 are female students and 2,459 males. The breakdown of new students is as follows: Alabama 1, Connec ticut, 1; Florida, 3; Georgia, 4; Illinois, 2; Indiana, 1; Kentucky, 2; Michigan, 3; Mississippi, 1; Missouri, 1; New Jersey, 5; New York, 5; North Carolina, 14; Ohio, 1; Pennsylvania, 4; rennessee, 4; Virginia, 2; Washington, 2; West Virginia, 1. Students from other countries include China, 1; France, 1; Jordan, 1; and Puerto Rico, 1. Young Democrats' Meeting Planned Next Wednesday Ross Anderson and John Duffy were recently appointed temporary co-chairmen of the "Young Demo crats of the University of South Carolina," Izzy Lourie, Young Democrats state president, has announced. A meeting of all persons in terested in joining the Young Democrats has been called for Wednesday, February 24, at 8:00 p.m. in Clariosophic Hall, third floor of Legare College. The pur pose of this meeting will be tc set up a permanent organization. NOTICE The Block C Club calls atten tion to a school regulation that allows only USC mijor or minor block sweaters to be worn on camp;!q. Only Block C mem bers are allowed to wear these monogrammed sweaters. onigs on top of Maxey Monument? st Wednesday night. A student who ,ill retun the hall "whent efficient the depository." (Gamtecock photo "LADIES" OF THE CHORUS Night Tiesday. The "girls" are Bi They were dancing in Kappa Alphu Phi Kappa Signa, and Kappa Sigm University 1 To Publish In Letters The third volume of "The Letters of William Gilmore Simms" will be the first spring publication of the University Press. Edited by Mary C. Simms Oliphant and T. C. Duncan Eaves, these 318 letters cover the year 1850 through 1857. Among the correspondents of Sims mentioned in this book are John Pendleton Kennedy, novelist; Ienry Rowe Schoolcraft, Indian authority; Francis Lieber, political economist; Rufus Wilmot Griswold, author and critic; William Cullen Bryant, poet; Bayard Taylor, author; John Esten Cooke, novel ist; Evert Augustus Duyckinck, critic and magazine editor; and Benson John Iossing, historical writer. In addition, there are many prominent South Carolinians in cluded. SECESSION MOVEMENT Altogether, those letters give a revealing picture of the State dur ing eight years when The Secession Movement was increasing in force. Besides literary matters, they deal with affairs of industry, agricul ture, and political significance. In the most recent issue of The American Historical Review, a survev of the first two volumes of The Simms Letters was wvritten by C. Vann Woodward, professor of history at JIohns Hopkins Uni versity. That the USC Press volumes will result in a newv and more accurate interpretation of the South Carolina author is empha 4ized by Dr. Woodward, who notes: -'In the sixty years since it alppeared, William Peterfield Trent's little biography of Simms rhas been the standard reference, aithfully echoed as the final tuthority on the sub)ject. The )a tronizing applroach andl Victorian utlook of this scholar of the New South school have aroused some 4uspicion regardling his interpreta tion of Sinmms, but these two volumes of letters reveal how much fa travesty Treat actually per petuatedI. MYTH'I DISSOLVED) "The myth of the poor boy of humble birth snubbed by high and mighty aristocrats and the legend of a gre'at talent truckling for favor and perverted to narrowv Law Federation Will Hear Callison T. C. (Callison, attorney general of South Carolina, will speak to the Lawv Federation in the audi torium of the Law building Feb ruary 25 at 11 a.m., announced Ross Anderson, president of the Law Federation. Mr. Callison is the first in a series of noted speakers who will talk to the Law students during the sprincr semester. execute a high kick as. they dance iI 11y Smith, Sam Crawford, Marvin I 's skit, "Moulin Rouge," which won a came in third. (Ganecock photo 11 ress Plans trd Volume of Simms ends and unworthy purposes are forever dissolved by the evidence of these letters. Instead there emerges the picture of a man who thoroughly 'belonged' in his so ciety, a completely integrated creative, and refreshingly salty personality highly worth knowing. The scholarship of the editors of the first two volumes is admirable. The notes are full and explicit and the identification of personalities and events ample. In each volume is a calendar of letters, and in the first volume is an illuminating critical appraisal of Simms by Donald Davidson, a scholarly bio graphical study of the novelist by A. S. Salley, and a most helpful collection of sketches of the lead ing correspondents of Simms." In November, 1856, Simms began a lecture tour in the North but had to give it up as his pro Southern bias produced ai most un welcome reaction on the part of his audience. This lecture will be printed as an appendix to the volume. NOTICE The University Ticket Office and the Honor Hoard would like to renmind all students that in Saturday night's game with Furman University, they should be sure to take their idenitifica tion cards and their athletic hooks because athletic books will be checked at the game. Students are also reminded that selling the athletic book for this or any other function is against University rules. Maxcy Group Chooses Officers, Makes Conistituhion Campus birothy'rhood, school sp)irit andl social fellowvship for the residents of 3Maxcy D)ormitory are the aims of the newly organized Maxcy Brotherhood. At its regular meeting on Thursday night at 7 o'clock p.m., January 21, the 35-man organiza tion elected as presideint, L awton WNiles; vice-presidlent, Ben Bass; secretary, Teirry M iller; treasurer. Oscar Moore, .Jr.; h istorian, Jack Penda rvis. The const itut ion of the brother hood, adlopted at this meeting. provides for other secondary aims and purposes, as well as a screen ing board for qualification and admission of newv members. The group now plans to have a dIrop-in next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the lobby of Maxcy College, and tentative p)lans have been madle for -a (lance during the week following- th ropn-In. 4 CLIn-Call at tie Fraternities' Stunt ukes, Charlie Pyle and Bill Doar. first place. Second place went to y Will Middleton) Law School Orientation Is Established lZoss Anderson, president of the Law Federation, announces the leaders in the new Orientation program for freshman Law stu dents. William C. Fant will serve as chairman of the program. The advisers will be Walter Reiser, Edgefield; Paul Barnes, Marlboro; Alvin Coleman, Pamplico; Louis Cox, Dunean; Fred Blackwell, West Columbia; Lester Bates, Co lumbia; Mitchell King, Greenville; IJesse .ay, Piedmont; George Lee, Columbia; Vance Drawdy, Sum lervilie; Dexter Hamilton, Dillon; Alvin L. MeElveen, Moncks Corner; Clyde Turner, Charleston; Jack Drawdy, Stunnierville; LeRoy Smith, (ireenvillh; Albert Dooley, West Columbia; James Watson, Bishopville; Robert Holmes, Co lumbia; Don Laney, Bishopville; lobert Thomas, Iarlington. Thesv advisers are juniors and senior- in the .aw School. Each will give individual attention to the twenty freshman law students. ''lhey will assist the freshman in learning low to brief cases, how to prepare for recitations in class,. t andl how~ to wVrite lawv exams. c Law Quarterly ,s Published T he curren t issue of the "South I C'arol inma Law Quarterly,'' pub I lihed quart erly by the South C'arol ina lHar Association and theI *'niver'sityv School of L,aw, has just been ret'leaed. Featured in this issue of the iunarterily arme articles enti tled "Restrmaints on Trade and Unfair~ 1ompjet ition," by E'dw~ardl P. H odges of the Unaited States D)e partment of do stice, an(l "'Capital aimns anad Los5es " by F'rederick L. 'earce of the D)istrict of Go lumbia lBar. Irving . Carlyle, Winston Sal em , N. ( ., and Wallace C. Alurchison, Wilmington, N. C., give evaluations of law~ schools in wo articles which arme writ ten fr'om a law graduntec's point of niew. Rioger G . P ie'rson, Jr., of Old Lynme, (Conn., and William C. Davis, Jr., of Columblia, S. C., both law st uents, contribiutedl to the notes in this issue. Also contained in this publica tion are reviews of recent cases by Dexter Hamilton, D)illon; William H. Ballenger, Walhalla; Clyde H. Turner, Charleston; James M. AMorris, New Zion; and Leroy M. Smith, Greenville. Janitor Is With Steal FromUni A colored janitor arrestE Admitted that he had stolen since last November, Police Wednesday. Bundrick issued a word o part of campus-dwellers. He Prof. Arndt Of Australia Joins Faculty Heinz Wolfgang Arndt of Can berra University College, Austra hia, has joined the universit. faculty as visiting professor oj economics for the spring semester Dr. S. M. Derrick, dean of th< school of business adininstration has announced. A specialist on monetary an( trade cycle theory, Prof. Arnd1 holds the degrees of Bachelor oj Arts, Bachelor of Literature, an(, Master of Arts from Oxford Uni versity. lie is the author of "The Ecoon'ie Lessons of thu 11.930's. publiShed by the Oxford University Press. Prof. Arndt is professor and head of the economics department it Canberra College University and was formerly a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Sydney. lie is teaching at the university as recipient of a fellow ship and travel grant provided under the Smith lundt and Ful bright ACts, supplemented by a stipend from the university. Prior to eiigrating to Australia, Prof. Arndt held a research fellow ship at the London School of Eco nomics and later was a research Assistant at the loyal Institute of [nternational Affairs. Hle was also i lecturer at Manchester Univer ity. le is a member of the Royal "conomics Society of Australia and ;ew Zealand, and the Australia tnd New Zealand Association for he Advancement of Science; and ie is author of numerous articles ,n economics published in profes ional journals in England, Austra in, Canada and the United States. Naval Club Elects Seiester Offics At a recently held meeting of he Compass and Chart the follow ig officers for the spring semester ere elected. James Schulker of Vilmington, N. C. was elected aptain for the coming semester. Iso elected- were: Leonard laranski of Detroit, Mich., as vice resident; Jim Martin, Greenville, .C., as secret-ary; Eddie Shin olser, Tampa, F'lor ida, as treas r-er; and Matt Stephenson, taleigh, N. C. as first lieutenant. ELDER STATESMAN Bernard 1 liscussion in Dr. HIavilah Babeol RunselH and anvcrt nesrs... ..... Charged ling Money V. Students d Saturday by campus police two watches and $147 in cash Chief C. B. Bundrick said r warning for vigilance on the said that evei-yone should be particularly autiOuIs about leaving valuabi( lying around in their room , as the foreman can't watch 41%elv crew. "VE don't say that all t he janitors will tike things that don't belong to him," lie said, "But there's no use taking chances. Aid we know for sure that jani tors aro,n't the only ones who take things not belonging to them." AltREST MADE A report Saturday of 32 dollars nissing in Tenement 27 led to the iarre-t of Henry Shiver if Gaston, S. C. Another arrest was made !ate Wednesday after another janitor had fallen into a trap set by students and police, but no details were available at press zme. The report Saturday was made about fifteen minutes after a cleaning cirew had left the building. After the crew had left, the stu dent told Bundrick, he noticed that ne janitorN was still wandering about the dormitory. Bundrick inimediately rounded up the entire crew and questioned them. Upon further questioning, Shiver coifes"id that he had taken the money and hid it with a silver clip in the bottom of his trash bag. At the city jail he signed a statement and after more question ing revealed that he had stolen 1!$1-1-7.00 dollars anid two watches inee November. The watches wer recovered fr"m his hone in Gaston. After a hearing in Recorder's Court Monday iorning he was biound to the Court of General Sess in uinder a $,.000 bond. Univ. Professors Attend Meetings Held This Week Faculty members from the de l partments of English, education arid (-ngineering at the university are attending meetings of profes sional organizations this week. Doctors J. R. Welsh, J. E. White s,!. and G. W. Smith of the Eng lish departmient will attend a meeting of the Southeastern Col lege E,:nglish Association to be held at Winthrop Friday and Saturday. Dr. Welsh is one of the associa tion's four elected givisors. "In dustry and the Liberal Arts" will be the theme of the meeting. Professor P. L. Baker, professor of engineering, attended a meeting of the University Research Reactor Conference at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Wednesday and Thursday. laruch is pictured during an informal i's English class Monday. President pn at. e. talk.