Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CHAR E .Cha,r gmbers of Tau Bets P1, national honorary eagineer. lit @ociety, at the installation of the society on the University eampus tly, are (left to right): Stephen Wi Trewhella, USC faeulty; Wfred JL Crujaley, Paul M. Kruemeke,James E. Smith, George D. Ballentine, John N. Beard, Jr., George W. Baxter, Carl W. Covington. Second row (left to right): Donald R. Itarrison, Olin D. Haynes, Roger L. Hill, Wilfred K. Humphries, Everett N. IMPORTAT S6"m. Nw..&. s....=..~..M,.I:.. ON'CAMPUS Student spending an hour making out an elaborate exam schedule in Old English. Coed walking through hall of Sims Dorm singing "Wake Up Little 'Oozy."' Bored male suggesting to another, "Let's play KKK and Indians." Greek emerging from pledge meeting to find his car frozen fast in a mud puddle. * * * Sign outside frat man's door: "Caution, Men Drink ing. * * S Unshaven midnight oiler propping his eyes open during final exam * * * Coed tripping on "Keep Off '- a a The Grass" sign in front of Russell House. - . . . Two male students crossing horseshoe under umbrella har monizing on "Julie." Playboy putting fresh Kris py Kreme doughnuts in Sim's lobby -vase last October. Coed witness to the act finding the doughnut in one aged piece early in January. * * * Male student receiving cloth- ' ing bill for $0.03. Male student dropping a pre- . scription jar full of pennies on steps of Russell House. * * e Uncomfortable coed at basket ball game using her shoe to ham mer down a nail she'd been sit ting on.* Coed driving down Green Street with five inches of pink skirt caught in door, flutter- ~'~ ing beneath car. * e e w ftema motn t Student falling down, eteps n tdim Riel os,o w'hile hurrying to class,.uigwoeamnsrto h -Male student doing eAo6xesivsem-ufrpikes on pipes near ceiling of bed- btsmhw4,0 epem foo allTime rordthe oth Cportntsi MAKEYOU REadum.RVATICHus,p Weklrerieate cNetro Inervtenrtd Coveiet Servic,00pee Loc LINEN SERVICE Ro SECOND S (usdmy) (Wednesday) (Thursda See Our Representative Foi A 0M BIAUENU * . PHONE AL 3-7044 "N.lpig Keep Carolina 4 S OF TAU WPA P. Infinger, Telsa F. Johnson, and Willifm R. Housholder. Third row (left to right): Thomas W. Kerlin, Philip W. Koetmch, Charles E. McDonald, Walter Mergner, Fred ,M. Morrell, Jr., Gene E. Owen, W. Gordon Ramsey, C. Martin Stork, Janies L. Talbert, C P. Thomas, and Bryson E. Epting. (USC News Service photo by Mann-Teal) iT UNIVERSiTY STRUdrURES ?........... . . . ...... .... ...' "M~ k.. 8...........'.... 2:2'' -actres on the Carolina campus are the Russell House and the Caro ned three years ago and named in honor of the presidential family building was built, is currently being expanded with facilities for ents being provided. Carolinam Stadium was expanded this summer due Seating capacity is now 42,000, largest football stadium in the state, aged to shove themselves inside for the Carolina-Clemson, setting an a athletic events. (Photos by Munn-Teal) INS NOW Pbi far SEMESTERFoNetYr -Reasonable fisadpbi evc aer - whSwllreeiethireA i Jn havebeen offdaiprtuit toapyFo ellowships openud felowsip grat $1Ye0a ya airin ls anpubl feser ecaer whBieegin thei .i June loswl Prsthav bee or ffeprtent n opprtuity o schoaply seson teywllohp tk grad ) ( h rd yate crses d afeet teUniversities The fAllowshmp grness1,50 a year trainning erid Jnles fellows wil asereiwicte in pulic adinstrha D El V IC Et ovnmn. Thc n beawred a19a8-9 schoos dertesither ofl tke trad uniecorses upo themUnestig of theianbma,essgee,anatin. Clen"the iComtion tetv moths wte degree datiherao threer University of Alabama.. Adi During the a ifty y6iu In hich Thi Gemeeek has 6ieen on he Carolina campos, many metk iave.filled the office of'niveristy president. When the first issue of he paper appeared Major Benja ain Sloan's tenure of office was !oming to an end. He was to be present on the campus for. only tbout three months of the paper's ie. Benjamin Sloan, better ktiown ks "Major Ben, was born In Pendleton and gradusted from West. Point. After serving as a najor of ordnance In the Confeder kte army he became professor of nath In the South Carolina College f Agriculture and Mechanics. On rune 12, 1902, he was named Act ng President, pending the selec ;ion of a permanent executive, but n January, 1908, the board's presi lential committee reported that 'the logic of the situation points ;o Acting President Sloan as the man who should now be elected..." The most notable event of Sloan's six-year term was the chartering Af the third University in 1906. By he "Act to convert South Carolina Oollege into a University under the same of University of South Caro lina" the college became a state iniversity. Major Sloan submitted his resig mation on April 14, 1908. This resignation read: "I wish to retire ecause I am painfully conscious hat the interests of the University !an far better be served and pro noted by a younger and more igorous man. Although I leave it, my love for the old institution is undying, and I wish I could live bo see it become the great univer sity which South Carolina must save." Following Sloan's retirement, a blow was dealt to the presidency when Henry Nelson Snyder, presi lent of Wofford College, was alected and declined. Soon after ward Samuel Chiles Mitchell, pro fessor of history at the University Df Richmond, was elected, but was granted a year's leave of absence because he was already committed to teach at Brown University. Andrew C. Moore, professor of bi ology, was mdde Acting President during this year. Mitehell's Presidency President Mitchell was born in Coffeeville, Mississippi, and was graduated from-Georgetown Col lege in Kentucky. He was an en thusiastic disciple of H e n r y Grady's New South and of South ern progressivism which had be gun to stir in the South. Mitchell's two objectives were to rally the people of South Carolina to the support of the University and to relate the institution to the "larger movements" in the regton, the na tion, and the modern world. Dur ing his term in office, President Mitchell traveled over the state, making speeches at crossroads towns, preaching at churches, and addressing gathepings of clubs.and organizations. Governor Coleman Livingston Blease did not approve of some of the actions of President Mitchell, and he introduced a resolution de manding that President Mitchell resign. The trustees defeated the resolution, but President Mitchell soon resigned when he was offered the presidency of the Medical Col lege of Virginia. Dean Moore again became Act ing President when Mitchell re signed, but the trustees later, an nounced the election of 'a new president, WilliAm Spenser Cur rell, professor of English at Wash ington and Lee University. Presi dent Currell, a native of Charles ton, was inaugurated on Founder's Day, January 28, 1915. The Uni versity's dual problems of raising standards and securing mnore stu dents during an era when South Carolina was just beginning to de velop a system of high schools was one which President Currell hail to deal with du~ring the tenuation of his office. World War I With the beginning of the First World War, students began with drawing from school to join a branch of the service. The enroll ment dropped, under the adminis tration of President Currell, to ai4 students at the end of the aca dlemic year. Later a group of students petitioned the trustees to lemaud the resignation of Presi rt To Sunwah alseed the petitlo, and Governor 4. Cooper addressed the qtudent Wy, t%l1ig iem that te board had "no Intention of perinitting the students to dietate who shall be president Currell, with the feeling that his'efforts had been unsupported and 4nappreciated, submitted his resignation in Decerhber, 1921. Prosident Currell was succeeded by William Davis Melton, a iave of Chester County, who ia'd at tended the University of Virginia. He received his LL.B. from the South Carolina College. Thq new president's greatest efforts weke exerted in an aggressive campaign to popularize and strengthen the University. The Columbia State greeted the beginning of Melton's administration as the "dawn of a new era." Melton upbraided the men in the State House for their meager support of the University and acquired greater appropria. tions than ever before. Melton charged that: "Neglect and dis crimination against the University have been the rule during its long and honored history. It has been the proverbial step-child of the State, the ugly duckling which now begins to give promise ... " In the fall of 1925 President Melton suffered a heart attack which confined him to the. bed for over a mdnth, but he recovered sufficiently to resume activities during the winter. In May he had a relapse which was followed im mediately by his death. At this point in the history of the University, the trustees asked Dean Leonard T. Baker to serve as Acting President, but they soon announced the election of Davison McDowell Douglas, president of Presbyterian College, as president. This new president was more in terested in the caliber of instruc tion than in the number of stu dents enrolled. Just as the South was beginning to feel the full impact of the de pression the death of President Douglas took place. The selection of Douglas' successor exemplified also the tendency to name outsiders to the presidency during periods of prosperity and to elevate members of the faculty during times of eco nomic stress. Baker Appointed Professor Baker was again ap pointed to serve as Acting Presi dent, and he informed the trustees that it would be necessary to re duce drastically the size of the fac ulty and to cut full professors' salaries. The University, however, did not reach the depths which the president had predieted. Early in 1934 the University received its first benefits from Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, aed the en rollment again began to climb and appropriations began to increase again. On Dec. 19, 1935, the trustees selected James Rion McKissick to succeed Acting Present Baker. Be fore coming to the University as Dean of the School of Journalism, he had worked as editor first of the Greenville News and then of the Grreenville Piedmont. Presi dent McKissick was a native of Uriion and a 1905 graduate of the South Carolina College. The theme of his first reports to the board and also of his inaugural address was the need to better the moral reputation of the University and to combat popular hostility and In difference. .Presideng McKissiek It was during the administration of President McKissick that Maxcy College, Preston, Sims and several other dormitories were erected. President McKissiek also estab lished the University News Service so that the public might haveac LIas: curate Information of Univere affairs. On the death :o P0s4ent --X. Kissick daring the sammer of 1944, the trustes authorised' his burial on' the campus, and, on th rem. menda.tion of, a faculty committee, the new library was named in lits. honor. President Smith In the following December the board elected Admiral Norman M. Smith to serve as president. Presi dent Smith was born in Williston, S. C., and was reared in Barnwell County. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1905, and received the degree of Civil Engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1909. The immediate problems facing Presi dent Smith were the conversion of the University to a peacetime basis and the preparation for the influx of veterans enrolling under the liberal provisions of the G. I. Bill of Rights. A new science building was built during the administration of Presi dent Smith. The new building' was given the name LeConte, this being transferred from the building now known as Barnwell. In June, 1952, Admiral Smith retired from his position, and the trustees named Dean Francis W. Bradley Acting President until Donald S. Russell could assume the duties of the of fice in the following August. President Russell President Russell was born in Mississippi, but lived in Chester, S. C., during most of his child hood. He received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University and he entered Into -itie general practice of law first in Union and then .in Spartanburg. President Russell was Instrumental In obtaining legislation in 1953 permitting the University and other state institu tions to issue tuition and dormi tory-revenue bonds to finance per manent improvements. During the administration of President Russell m a n y new buildings sprang up on the campus. These Included a women's dormi tory, a men's dormitory quad rangle, an engineering building, a new building for the School of Business Administration, and the ultra-modern student union build' ing, which was named for the president and his wvife. Upon Russell's resignation, which becanie effective on Dec. 1, 195'7, Dean Robert L.- Sumwalt was named Acting President by the trustees. Dean Sumwalt has been a member of the University faculty since 1926. He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering and the profes sional degree of Civil Engineer from the University of Delaware. And now the fiftieth anniver. sary issue of The Gamecock leaves President Sumwalt to carry on the work which was begun and con-' tinued by so many other presidents,