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AYpd The6 WCdimeT By A"se Vaft Adthe coes came to campusl It seems - If the coes' appear anee -mad* quite a difterene on the campus life of-the collegiate male, but you will have to,admit *bat they,dId liven the old plase Up a bit. These are a few tidbits from coed life on campus,- at eported by The Gamecock through' the years. Oct. 7, 191 "The first meeting of the Co eds was held Tuesday morning, Sept. 27, in the girl's study. The following officers were elected to seve that organization during this year: President, Miss Mary Boykin Heyward; Vice-president, Misi Francis Wannamaker; Seo retOy.Treasurer, Miss Thelma Peo . Oct. 18, 1921 "The Co-eds gymnasium class was organized Thursday after noon with about 50 girls and Miss Sara Godbold as Instructor. Since Physical Education has b e e n made compulsory for women students at the Univer qity quite A bit of enthusiasm has been manifested in all the gymnasium work." Oct. 28, 1921 "At a meeting held in the Girl's Study Friday morning, a question that has been brewing among the Co-eds for sometime came to a definite conclusion. The girls appreciate the spirit the boys have shown In reserving the places on the bleachers for them and it was decided that the Co eds would sit as a body In the place reserved for them . . . under their enthusiastic leader ship the girls are already manI festing much interest and "pep." Oct. 28, 1921 "The Hypathian Literary So ciety held a short literary pro gram. . . . other members on the program being absent, business was postponed until the next meeting on ,account of. the early - hour of the game." Mar. 3, 1922 "That 'Tackey Party' of last Saturday nig%t was a jim, jam, Jazzy, jamboree enjoyed to the nth degree by the old, young, and middle aged of the Univer sity community. If you missed this affair, sit down and knash yur teeth, and grind them in des pair, for It was the ONE incom parable social event of the col leg* year. If you were there, SOUTH CAROLI Announces 'l Third Colun * MAIN AT i * FIVE POIN1 AND NC * AssEMBLY Drive-In Complete Bani From 32 State SOUTH C NATIONI Serves Sou* Cainpwus! verily you had your reward. "Professok Stephen Taber, who woild - havi thought it canie dressed as Simple Simon, and what's more he looked the part!" Mar. 24, 1922 "-.--. Hypatian candy-pull, were suddenly transformed into joy ous kids. We gleefully- joined hands and played drop-the-han dercbief.". Feb. 23, 1923 " the German Club gave its annual mid-winter Gernian at Ridgewood Club, The ballroom was tastefully decorated in a color scheme of green. . . . The affair was easily one of the best and most enjoyable mid-winter dances. of years." Oct. s1, 1924 "A mid-night feast was given last Friday night by Misses Mar guerite Johnson and Delle Evans in honor of their visitor, Miss Virginia Bradham. Nov. 7, 1924 "Miss Irene Dillard motored over to Chapel Hill to see the game there last Saturday." Jan. 23, 1925 "The goddess Athene has ben% invoked again by a student or ganization. It is hoped that she will look kindly on the "Athene Club," recently formed at the Woman's Building. It's purpose is for mutual, social, and educa tional advantage." Feb. 20, 1925 Euphrosynean Literary Society. . . The subject of the afternoon was "children." . . . Readins from a child's library forty years ago were given." Sept. 23, 1927 "The University is glad to an nounce the completion of a new co-ed athletic field, which if di rectly opposite the Woman's Buildirg. It will be used for the first time this fall, hockey oc cupying the fall season, soccer the winter, and probably track the spring." Feb. 17, 1928 "A marriage of campus wide interest was that of Miss Ethel Ann McLure of Cheater, S. C. and "Sy" Seideman of Newark, N. J. Both, have bee# prortnnt. is campus activities as well as ath letics. Mar. 9, 1928 "'The hatless, garterless lad is no longer collegiate.' A bomb shell dropped into the midst of the Euphrosynean literary so ciety could have given no greater (Continued on Page 12) INA NATIONAL rho Opening ibia Branch NIASHINGTON .s AT COLLEGE Branch king Facilities Wide Location. IROLINA LL DANK h Carolina FLINN HALL . . For mahy remembered, took place here. USC ORCHESTRA Music Ch4 By Bob Grosse Music Analyst One of the surest indications of the conditiQn of a nation is the condition of its music. This rule works for college campuses too; let's take a look at the past and see how music has serve*d as it barometer here at Carolina. Back in 1908, when the first issues of The Gamecock were rolling off the presses, music was a much more sedate and gentle art than it is now. Just after the turn of the century, that was the era of the Sousa bands, of "The Man on the Fly ing Trapeeze," the barber shop quartet, and of a new invention called the "gramaphone." Carolina, back in 1908, was a gentleman's college where about 500 young men studied Latin and Greek, cheered lustilg for their "Galine Cdoeks" on'Big 'Thursday and escorted young ladies to the cotillion dances on Saturday night. The Carolina German Club balls had already become an in stitution and the club's formals, held at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter gave the city folks a chance to look at the latest fashions of the beaux and bells. Immoral Music But even in that leisurely age, there were signs of discord and of -coming changes. Minstrel shows and traveling piano play ers brought ragtime to town and wanderers from down in Lou isiana began talking about some thing they heard in New Orleans called "ss." Dr. D. W. Hollis reports in his history of the University that by 1918 matters Hi, Youngster! 50 Years? Wonderful! Say we at Kohn's, who - like the Gameb,oeka - stay young . ... you with each class that enters . .. we with each new style we show! We're 89 years young attested to by our outstanding new spring cottons for co-ed.. See our delightful collection .. . $5downs holds up to 5 dresses on our layaway. ~ .~r' S years Flinn Hall was the center of It was also the home of the Young unges Wit] had gotten so far out of hand that "the professors refused tc permit the 'one step' to be danced at the Christmas Ger man Ball because they felt the new dances were '"essentially immoral"'." By the time World War I came, everything was changed The good old days had gone the way of the mandoline and the mustache cup. The player pianc was an installation in every home; R. C. A. Victor's little dog had everyone listening to "his master's voice"; and the Orig inal Dixieland Jazz Band, King Oliver, and a youngster fronr New Orleans named Louis Arm strong were spreading the gospel of Dixieland jazz throughout the country. Fox Trot While at Carolina the strains of "Over There" were leading away most of the student body, those left behind were now hold. ing their dances at the venerable Greek temple-gymnasium at the corner of Green and Sumter ATd what dances they did! The good professors now threw up their hands in horror while the younger generation did the bunny hug, fox trot, and a Soutb American import, the rhumba. Roaring Twenties Came the Twelties, the Roar ing Twenties, and with It, th ukelele, six-day bicycle races Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow, prohibition, and a new me dium, radio. It was the "Jaz2 Age" in full flower-the age ol goldfish eating, flagsfole sitting, The League of Nations, Mali Jongg, "Twenty-three skidoot" and the speakeasys. Those were days when Charleston became the main port of entry to New York for Canadian exporters, when Warren G. Harding won an election on his handsome ap pearance, when -athletes like Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, and Red Grange strode the Earth In spiked shoes, and when cares were in the past and the future was years away. Music and Singing At the beginning of the decade, Keith's Vaudeville at the old Opera House was a big attrac tion to Columbians; Carolina's first marching band was organ ized in 1921 and there'*ere 24 members; and the Glee Club started the same year with Mr. Maurice Matteson, a professional singer, director and only mem ber of the Carolina Music De partment, as conductor. The 1958 Officia Bachelor of S $24.00 THECAII campus life. Many parties, long Men'o Christian Association. 4 Carolina Gamecock reports tell that for their audition, prospective mem bers had to sing a chorus of "Ain't We Got Fun." 1924 came, bringing "Silent Cal" Cooledge to the White House, Will Rogers to Broad way, and coeds to Carolina. The first women's dormitory, later named Wade Hampton, was built in that year and Miss Irene Dil lard was appointed Dean of Women. Coed Glee Club The same year, a new dance, the Charleston, came up from tha low country, swept the Carolina campus, and went on to become a favorite of flappers and shieks all over the world. The Carolina Music Department was enlarged to two instructors when Mr. Mat teson married his accompanist; a coed Glee Club was organized; and the girls had a short-lived fling at putting together a di staff brass band. 1927 came along to mark the peak of the Jazz Age. The Babe hit 60 homers; Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney exchanged courtesies at Madison Square Garden; Paul Whiteman, Gene Goldkette, and Ben Pollack were big names in music that year; and the young man with a horn, Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beider becke, was nearing the peak of his metoric rise. USC Jazz Carolina had its own jazz band then, "The Gamecocks," and they were a big success. For two sum mers, they toured Europe and were featured at the famed Deauville Casino on the French Riviera. The Carolina Marching Band played for the State Fair shows, and our Glee Club em barked on tours of the South, winning prizes and medals every where. On campus, the Black Blottom was all the rage; Kay Kaiser, Jan Garber, and Ted Weems appeared at campeis dances; the Music Department now had four instructors; and the Matteson's had two children. Soon, however, dark storm clouds began to shape on the horizon and on "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929, they hurst in a deluge of financial panic and economic chaos. The golden Jazz Age became a memory; vaude ville disappeared from the thea ters, a victim to the "talkies"; radio the baby of the Twenties, became a giant in the early Thirties; and on Broadway, musi cal comedies became popular with Rodgers and Hart, Cole I Class Rings cience Degrees Plus Tax PUS SHOP anul Reaui _ By DIANE WOODSIDE . Bill Cain sent in an an spirits a little during this ex of which Bill is dance chairi April 25 in the new Wade i Best Congratulations and bes among them are Beverly I Miller and Lowell Fulenwide Melvin, Dotsy Gunnefs and J and Jimmy Cathcart, Beverl; Davis and Butch Williamsoi Peace, Dale Hawkinson and and Danna Sample, Tommy Francis Pinckney and Diana The above same salutati have become pinned: Charlie O'Dell and Georgia McMahar Daniel, Curtis Jones and Lir and Alex Garner, and Betty Bridge, Bridge during exam weel Jane McGowan, Sue Sande Cutcheon, and Barbara Holli diversion. KA's and dates partied al recently; the group incuded Cloud, Legare Millette and S Norma Hearne, Kay Lloyd Price and Julie Petoskey. Porter, and the Gershwin's sup plying the words and music. The jazz bands faded from the scene as the sweet bands took over; meanwhile, something c a 11 e d "swing" seemed to be develop ing among the Harlem musicians Depression ' At Carolina, austerity was is the air. Enrollment dropped fron over 2,000 in 1928 to 1,100 in 1933; organizations found thei allocations sliced neatly in half; government agencies and the Carolina Placement Bureau tried to find part-time jobs for the students. Things grew so ba that in 1934, The Gamecock re ported that there was a cam paign underway "to gain funds to supplement the regular meals for the football players." I USC Orchestra The Carolina Symphony Or. chestra, started in 1929, had be. come firmly established and, in 1932, played a program consist, ing of Weber's "Oberon Over ture," Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," and "several popu lar pieces featuring a mirimbe solo." The Gamecock Jazz Or chestra was playing regularly at campus dances, and a sister, all-girl group called the "Dame cocks" had organized also. Dances at Carolina at that period were still a major social event which even the Depression could not dim. Dr. Hollis tells of them being ". . . as lavish a. festooned crepe paper, the music of local bands, home-amed even ing dresses, and ill-fitting, bor rowed tuxedos would m a k e them." However, there were some breaks in the soutine; the fine bands of Isham Jones and Glen Grey and his Casa Loma Orches tra visited Carolina in 1984, and two new dances, the lindy hop and the shag, enlivened campus parties. The later Thirties were hap pier; F. D. R. and his New Deal were running things in Washing ton; Clark Gable was making the women fgrget Rudolph Val entino; and in music, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, the Dor sey Brothers, and Glenn Miller had risen phonex-like from the ashes of the Twenties to bring a new spark to American musie. Swing Era Once ag a in at Carolina, campus social life was gay, light, and undisturbed. The swing era brought a whole new set of cus toms and traditions, and soon Carolina students danced the Big Apple and the Susie Q and jitterbugged all over the plae The Gamecock Jass Band, nou the Gamecock Orchestra traveled over the entire South playing dance dates; the Carolina Band enjoyed an era of prosparity and increased appropriations; and the University Symphony gre into the Columbia Symphony later into the South Carelinu Symphony. The years froma 191 to 'eWI were too grim for' meus to be of much impertanes. We iemum ber the warthee smp "Prsb The Lard asud Pn. s a. / nouncement that should boost am week ... the Cotillion Club, nan, will hold its spring dance ampton Ballroom. Wishes ,t wishes to all the engaged; 'river and Bob Ratliff, Marty r, Nancy Estridge and Ronnie immy Fuller, Charlene Griffith 7 Parler and Larry Ford, Wray i, Salters McClary and Estelle Pam Eastburn, Major Pearman Yon and Sadie Lou. Catoe, and Brown. mn are, extended to those who Jacocks and Ann Banks, Jack , Gerald Fisher and Trudy Mc ida Kennedy, Betty Lane Wise Sacks and Arnold Fram. Anyone? , anyone? Mary Vernon Clary, rs, Sybil Kendall, Emily Mc ns seem to find it a satisfying 'ter a Saturday night ball game Beaver Hardy and Rhett Mc ue Sanders, Robert Selman and nd Pat Moss, and Edgeworth nition," "The White Cliffs of Dover," and Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." For Carolina students, wartime restrictions cut down on text book supplies, professors left campuses to serve in the Armed Forces, and "Anchors Aweigh" became as familiar as the Alma Mater as the Navy took over ur campus for its -V-12 programs. 7 a.m. Classes Finally, it was all over and the veterans began flocking back to Carolina. The post-war years were indeed busy ones; classes began at 7:00 in the morning; seven temporary buildings were erected as class rooms and hous ing as the rollment soared close to 5,000; and Maxey College was built (1948) to serve as a fresh man women's dorm and student union center. Delta Omicron Musically, Carolina grew once again. The national music soror ity, Delta Omicron, located its Delta Mu Chapter here in 1948; radio station WUSC b e g a n broadcasting popular music to the students in 1947; and the Carolina band, back in operation after the war, sported a new sot of uniforms during the 1948 foot ball season. Local trumpeter Eddie Helms reorganized the "Gamecock Band" in 1947, and, as an indication of the doubt still prevalent concerning jazz bands, the 1947 Gamecock carried this announcement: "The recently or ganized Lucius Weather, Combo will play for the dance Thursday . . . the orchestra will specialize in slow music." Growth and Improvement con tinued to be a Carolina theme through the next decade. Le Conte College was built in 1950, replacing Barnwell as the science building; Freshman Center was built the same year to relieve the housing shortage. The new En gineering Building went up in 1952 as did the present Adminis tration Building. 1954 saw the new Freshman Dormitory fin ished, and in 1955, the Student -Union Building end the Pratern ity Quadrangle were added. 1956 gave us the new Busines Ad ministration. University enroll ment rose from 3,000 in 1950 to almost 5,000 this year with out sign of slacking and plans for future continued in en op timistic spirit of prosperity. .Transformations In music, Carolina and the en tire nation have seen several major trensformation. The rime of the 45 rm end L. P. records have boosted canned music sales many fold since the Vhr; dis Jockeys have replaced network radio shows and given the re. ord boom added Impetus; Jam. has comspletely revised its in the past 15 years and bn gained an amount of persg and popularity auburn bdsise and, finally, that base of gi4. Imation, Rek ad 3d., has y cdueaaanputta apakmtu