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which These struo 0 n, k66 n 1ow, Administri.. 4ullding,FreatnkMa Women's Dormi ttry and the now in's D&rnitory. Th Gameeck's fiftieth Annversary is,an appropriate time to recommend that several of these "nameless" buildings have their dis placed persons status changed. In keeping with the University's policy of naming buildings for former Presidents (Mclryde, Woodrow, Maxcy, etc.), faculty members (Snowden, Davis, Burney, etc.), and alumni (Preston), we offer the names of three men that should' have' been proudly gracing buildings for many years. No building commemorates the memory of the South Carolina college President de Ocribed by Thomas Jefferson "as one of the ost brilliant men ip America." The fame of this man, along with that of Lieber, Thorn well and the LeContes kept the ante-bellum South Carolina College abreast of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia. As controversial as he was brilliant, he in curred the wrath of the Presbyterians of the state and finally left in a wave of contro versy. The bitterness he left behind him was apparent as late as 1925. For in that year when'Dumas Malone came from the Univer sity of Virginia to deliver a series of lectures he found President Melton very much con cerned, lest the reaction among certain re F1tieth AiV4 The Gamecock has outlived both the chicken and the professor who fifty yeari ago remarked, "May The Gamecock survive longer than any chicken I have been able to keep on the campus." In celebrating our fiftieth anniversary we are indebted above all to the Carolina stu dent body who make this publication pos sible. For many valuable suggestions and the The ies Are 4i The majority of students were pleasantly surprised with the registration procedure Monday. The long lines predicted by many materialized only in a few instances. Many students felt that their registration time had been shortened since it did not cover the normal one and one-half day period granted by the University in previotis y.ears. Actually with registration materials able to be picked up last week the time period re -President' D By Jim Fuller H. Barnwell, Ph Special Writer' and many other]1 (Editor's Note: Acknowledge- CarolEEAns ment is made to Dr. Daniel W. Foseray Hollis' College To University, school teaeher volm. Hi as a reference source.) and Camden, an The death of Andrew Charles mingham, Alabar Moore in 1928 brought an end to a college profesi a career of service which had public school tea< enriched the University for more t enroll as a grad than a quarter of a century. He the Universityc had witnessed, participated in served there as and greatly accelerated the trana an instructor in sition of Carolina from the in- of biology, coma fant, 600 student South Catolina the requirements College to the forerminer of the ate. He failed, hi Present university. .- plete his disserts A. C. Moore was born in Spar. of which was l tanburg County in 1868. He en- the Botanical Ga: tered -the $'outh Carolina College In 1d00 he ,joi as a student in 1888 and matri- of the South Ci ceulated with the illustrious class where he assun of 1887, which included Charles responsibilities fA GA 4co cIOWING VOR A GREAE UNiVERSITY OF SOUTIE CAROIJ Nmb. .1g ae..ed cessl.e i,e, EIORto ............................. MANAGING EDITOR .. ... ....... ..........J DVSWRS88 MANAGER ................ Lela NEEE flDITOR ................ e Ann Stoke., Brucie Lennon Boslanid, Gerald Pleyd, and atngadverttsing e an E1 b$n th s etkonor the honored of ThoRpas Cooper. Of all the new structures the Administration Building is the modt apoprIat" to bear li, name. Nor does any building bear the name of the President during the late 1850's who taught history, political philosophy, economy and elocution at the South Carolina College and is better known to the world as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, author of "Georgia Scenes." Another former President, an enthusiastic disciple of Henry Grady's.New South, who made the Third University a reality, has also been forgotten in the roster of campus build ings. His two objectives - to rally the people of South $arolina to suppQrt of the University and to relate tlie Institution to the "larger movements" in the region, na tion, and world - he partially accomplished. As part of his program to build up public confidence in the University he traveled day and night into ever nook and corner of-the State speaking anywhere and to anyone who would listen. As part of his efforts to relate the insti tution to the "larger movements" he brought Charles W. Eliot of Harvard to the campus to lecture and President William Howard Taft to the University to speak to the stu dent body. Neither must the name of Samuel Chiles Mitchell remain unused. It is incumbent upon the University of South Carolina to honor the men who have honored her with the best of their talents. Drsary Thanks use of his manuscripts for. research we thaik Dr. Daniel W. Hollis, University historian. For the use of its picture files and other ma terials we are grateful to the staff of the Caroliniana Library, especially Mrs. Robert L. Meriwether. To the ex-editors and the others who helped with the countless details involved in this undertaking we also express our ap preciation. Irowing Shorter mairied approximately the same. Football tickets and registration are per ennial problems which always remain with the administration. One aspect of the regis tration process will be to speed up registra tion in freshman subjects which were the main weak point in the total process Mon day. This will develop into a major problem in the fall if not corrected. uring Paper's Early 'llip .A. .Wilicox ment of biology, geology and rominent South mineralogy, as an associate PIRATIO , professor. Mayville W. Twitchell, IRTOS n 1905, assumed the separate ears he was a chair of geology, leaving Moore in Spartanburg with a lightened load of botany, di later in Bir" zoology aand physiology, to na. Aspiring to name only a few. In 1909 Dr. sorship, he left Asbury Coward of the State thing in 1898 to Board of Health joined the de uate student at partment as a "Lecturer on Bac f, Chicago. He teriology," but several years t fellow and as elapsed before an additional in the department structor was required. This ileting most of staggering professorial load, for his doctor- however, did not prohibit Moore's owever, to com- - finding time in 1905 to compile ition, a portion the Roll of Students -of South or published in Carolina College, 18O5-190I5. lette- Upon the resignation of Ben ned the faculty jamin Sloan as President of the arolina College, University on April 14, 1908, ied~ the heavy A. C. Moore was elevated to the f the depart- acting presidency of the institu tion. He served in this capacity for the academic year 1908-1909, during which time ho was active in the rejuvenation of Carolina's YMCA and its permanent instil lation in Flynn Hall. It was during this time, too, that The Gamecock made its initial ap NA pearance on the campus. ADMINISTRATIVE DUTY a se af,Under the presidency of Sam eenseeuel Chiles Mitchell, who spent __asm much time traveling about the is .asmas state as a lecturer, Moore handled much of the administra Loy Williams .tive duty in his position as Dean eVfry Sanders of' the.University. This position karr Stuckey was created for A. C. Moore in Billy Mishoe June of 1909 in recognition of rom IEcLean his outstanding service as in Sct ai terim president and paid an an Anne Vaones nia salary of $2,500. The corn Annes Valley bination of Mitchell and Moore larriet Clare Was an effective one, indeed, and even received comment from a ditor; Cathy legiqlative committee in 1911. Bill Handel, President Mitebell himuilf read oh Gress.' ily admitted the extent to which W V -R4bert,the fro awspaper 140Y....Xis - A* , 4nd- Wd w, te*nal grandfather before him, as well as two uncles, 'were widely known, journalists and he, himself, gained a national reputation as an editorial paragrapher for The. State though he died when only 28 years old. A literary person, Bob was interested also in The Carlinian, for years a monthly student magazine, and in The Garnet and Black, the annual, which he edited. To both of these he con tributed poetry and prose; some of these and some of his editorial quips are contained in a book issued in 1918 entitled "Poems and Paragraphs." But Bob donzales' campus activities were not limited to writing and editing. He was president of the Clariosophic so ciety, in which he took a great interest, he was captain of the 1908 football team, and held various other college honors. No wonder that he saw the need of and took the lead in establishing a weekly publication to chronicle the happenings on the campus and through which there could be editorial expression. One of the great obstacles to overcome in establishing The Gamecock was sponsorship, Fin ally; the literary societies agreed to back the paper, though their support from a financial stand RONALD L. BER Effigies being hanged crosses being burned . . . inno cent people being beaten and intimidated . . . and people throughout the world sneering at the South ... my South. I have lived in the South all of my life and have found reason to be proud of this fact. I have been proud of her genteel tradi tions, her manners and her peo ple. I have been proud of her schools, her culture and her cit ies. I have been happy with the South. New a dark cloud emerges out of ignorance and fear and soils rears the work of A. C. Moore facili tated the success of his admin istration. The Acting Presidency again became Moore's in 1918 upon the resignation of Mitchell. During his second term, Moore succeeded in mollifying to some extent' the uneasy relations of the university with the state legislature, which had been heightened by the feud between President Mitchell and Governor Colman L. "Coley" Blease. Blease, at least, was not personally antagonistic to Moore and even though his gen eral hostility to the University remained, his attacks on the ad ministration and the trustees were less frequent. RIEIGNATION The trustee., on July 14, 1914, announced the election of Wil 11am Spenser Currell, professor of English at Washington and Lee University, as the new President, at a salary increased to $5,000. This choie was a great disappointm#nit to Moore, whose success as President on - two occasions had caused many to urge his election, including Governor "Coley" Blease. The trustees, however, were deter mined to bring in new blood and Moore, feeling that, his presence in the administration would be embsrrasing to the hew Presi dent, resigned his deanslip. In doing so, he sacrificed $500 per year, a considerable sum to a college professor. He was succeeded as Dean of the University by Leonard T. Flaker, but continued to render valuable service as a professor of biology until his death in 1938. He never again, however, asserted the leadership in uni versity affairs that .he demon. atrated during the years from 1900-191t. rst Of ehstne by exteuding rIit. for the priating, the 0oject might not haie 4een possible at that ROBERT ELLH Spokesmen F my South. Bred out of ignor ance and fear, the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan have arisen from the ashes of some obieurely necessary organization which was outdated 100 years ago to terrorize people who are al ready afraid. Ignorant people hiding their stupidity behlin robes and mob rule have banded together In the name 6f Segre gation and disgusted their towns men and friends with their ter. rorist antics and their lurid cos tumes. The citizens of Marion have reviled the "Reverend' Cole 'for his leadership in the recent unwarranted racial situa tion at Pembroke, where the Indians, Colored and White have led a peaceful co-existence for many years until the recent in cident which Cole led there. Cole Is happy for the, recognition. He.has in the past been a carni val worker, a faith healer, a peddler of patent medicine, 'an evangelist, and now a self styled leader ,of the Klu Klux Klan. All showmen like recognition. FAME CLAIM The people of Marion have also laughed at Cole for his claim to fame as a preacher and a leader. It seems that this is his first successful venture.- The Indians at Pembroke are not laughing. The department of Justice in North Carolina Is not laughing. Both are waiting for Cole's return to North Carolina. There are many people who are NINETTE POTOs A P Recently there was eviiaence of the growing student unrest which has inflamed the campu.. StW dents demonstrated against the slow progress being mad.e on the new undergiaduate library being built on Davis Field by burning a large geometric shape there in an attempt to intimidate,work-. men. This manifestation of stu dent irritation at the delay in the, construction of Improved library facilities was perhaps misinterpreted by the press and the general publig. Citisens, unaeqesainted with the temperament and emotion of the serious student, may be ex eased on the grounds of their ignorance. Only the aequisItive The. Gameco took abapt every Engli*h Universlty offeryl while try gU p,ss math, In 4hich he could see qo good and ,for which he had no time. After M k .w 'i f....... )TT GONZALES or The South not laughing. The Negro farmer from the Greenville area who was beaten for taking care of a White neigh. bor's children while the neighbor visited 'his wife in the hospital is not laughing. The Negroes whose houses were dynamited in Clinton, Tenn. are not laugh ing. Many intelligent South erners who are being associated through proximity with these situations are not laughing. I'm not laughing either! There are many reasons for such organizations as the Klu Klux Klan. In this situation, I feel sure that the misguided members of the area schisms of the K.K.K. have risen under the leadership of demagogues such as Cole and John Kasper because they are afraid that the Negro will displace them in their job. if he Is given a chance. They are not really afrg of mon grelization of the races (a. Kasper 'so eloquently' put it i the Clinton integratio'n incident). They are afraid for economic rather than sociological .reasons, They are primarily the class of people who fear the Negro aa an equal. SPEAK FOR SOUTH ,These people assuage thei own fears by intimidation and violence visited oi those whomi they fear. These are the people who are speaking for the Southi . .-. for you and I. I prefer to speak for myseli with words not bred of fear and ~KY . .. lea For Toler nature and natural desire of stu dents for increased knowledge could have furnished impftus for such a drastic act; for it is a well known fact that students are too sensible to be swayed by an ignoble motive or mob tactics. Surely youthful im patience and unrestrained dis pleasure can be pardoned when they represent such . admirable aspirations. To those who are still skep tical of the motives doncerned in the incident, let me offer further proof to testify to the Innocence of those involved. The revered name of Davis Field, so called for the illustrious hero Jefferson Davis, would never b p.raned g wo that hs ilQgrtu.46: of ;1athemattes( pisit hiOjutt t6 get hi'e out of school since math tbe* ap required for degree.' $ut #hg Bob may' have lacked in aptit4 for that field, he more tlhan'ma up for in brilliant aehievom"t' in others. He had .a oier sense of humor which stood -him in good stead not only in Cologe but when doing his paragraphs for The State. He liad . happy faculty of making a poh without a sting, --but let no one ,think - he could not be firm when the occasion demanded it. HT had wide interests, a prerequisite for an editor. In 1916, when Pancho.-Villa /raided Columbus, New .1exico, and the President ordered a c.n centration of troops on - the border, Bob left his desk and joined the Columbia Machine Company as a private, expecting, of course, to return to his work in time. But he contracted pneumonia and a career, already filled with 'accomplishments and with great promise for the fu ture, was cut short. The body was brought from El Paso and rests today in Elmwood Ceme tery, Columbia. No death in a long time shocked Columbia as his did. Tynity Church was filled for the services, friends from far and wide sent condolences to the -fam ily (his father was at the time United States Minister to Cuba), and the press of the country paid tribute to him as a man and as a journalist. God rest his noble soul! ignorance, and I do speak and I will speak. I am. not an inte grationist, neither am I a violent aegregationist. Somehow beat ing an old Negro man doeSn't g appeal to me. Neither does detonating sticks of dynamite in the homes of in noce'nt people appeal to me nor the frightening of people who are already afraid. Hanging and shooting and burning a man be cause of the color of his skin hardly bespeaks the Democracg which we so assiduously cry in the face of every international crisis. DISSOCIATION For these reasons, I wish to hereby dissociate myself from that part of the ' South which hangs and shoots and burns. I frish to dissociate myself from that part of my South which falls under the leadership of ig norance and fear and hate in the form jof men such as John Kasper and The Reverend Cole. I feel that my personal views on the sociological expediency of Segregation do not enter into my dissociation in any way. Men like Cole who hide behind robes as they beat helpless peo pie disgust and sicken me. Will the acrid smell of gun powder and burning crosses and the intimidation of women and children be the South's purile stand against integration? Will the ugly intonations of hate and .fear mouthed by ignorant pee ple bespeak the South in her fight to maintain Segregation? Will the mobs..of uneducated men under the leadership of men like Cole speak for you? I sincerely hope not. onCe for any base activity. Further-. more, at this time of impending exams students were too eli groused in thq exercise of studiea to bother with senseless frivolity. They would no* desert the 1i brary for any trivial reason, To. suppose that, the incident of the Wednesday evening campfire was occasioned by anything other than ,. student exasperation at Bricklayers Local 101 would be to question student toleranee, integrity, good judgment, mid faith in university prosedure. Would not such a display of baA faith be sMbversive and us. American? I ask the publia's indulgence in- consideuing .this matter.