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Meet ) Jonathan Maxcy, first preside of USC, was born in AttleborouE Massachusetts, in 1768. You Jonathan showed an early inter< in the academic side of life, a graduated from Brown Univers: in 1787, reputed for his intelle manners, devotion to study, a honorable ambition. His valed tory address took the form of poem, only fragments of whi have survived. The Brunoni mentions that the scarcity of copi is probably due to Maxcy's ov< whelming modesty - he is believ to have bought up and burn most of his manuscripts. We quc the little that survived the c flagration: "Here must we go, and act a shc lived part BANAN A Banana-Vanilla Crushed Pineapple, Ch With Chocolate Sauce Covered With Fresh Topped With Whipped Maraschino Cherry. Noon 0 onAft %ROWM lemdmAk for Hngry Amer Corner of State and Blosson CAYCE, S. C. R. J. R.ynolds Te Doctor Amidst the various chance human life, Then drop the silent tear and clq our eyes In one eternal sleep. Then, m our souls, Borne on the raven wings of m night gales, Safe through the lonesome dres shade of death Up to the realms of life triumphs rise. Then will these bodies moulder the dust Lodged in the dark and silt house of death. But Oh! till then may some ki angel guard And keep us from the devic paths of vice. nt May all our actions virtuous de4 ,h, inspire, And every effort tend to bl -st mankind. nd With these, my friends, j ty brothers, must we part, et, And each to other bid a lo rd Farewell." ic- Maxcy received his doctorate a Divinity, and was nominated a ch served as President first at Brov an where he assumed his duties es the age of twenty-four, and th tr- at Union College in Schenecta< ed New York, where he succeed ,d Jonathon Edwards. n- Meanwhile, in South Caroli the legislature was meeting establish a College of South Cai rt lina. Progress came slowly. T buildings went up, and the scho4 IA ROYAL ce Cream Covered With ocolate Ice Cream Covered and Strawberry Ice Cream Strawberry Fruit; Then Cream, Pecan Halves, and .75 til Midnight ijous. isean" St. O ":J W what Upfrn-i'F L Rich, g lden to prcse frfl Maxc of was still without students or faculty. The trustees met for the s all-important job of selecting a ay president for the fledging educa tional institution. Dr. Maxcy was id- proposed by Dr. Richard Furman, an active educator, who like Dr. ry Maxcy was a Federalist. Opposi tion arose and a eandidate was nominated and his election urged;. nt because he was a Democrat. Colonel Wade Hampton, a trustee, to said that he "saw no necessary connection between politics and nt literature." The trustees wisely put prejudice aside and chose the nd man they believed would do what the act of legislature proposed, ,us namely, "advance the learning, promote friendship between young ds men from the different sections and advance the political union of .ss the state." The Union Alumni later wrote,: ny in a tribute to their former presi dent, "It was a unique experience ng before him as organizer and Presi dent of a southern State Univer . sity, after having been President in of two prominent northern colleges. nd There had been efforts to establish 'n, colleges in different parts of South at Carolina which had failed for lack en of sufficient support." ly Dr. Maxcy rose to the challenge admirably. His administration was at once a turbulent and expansive ta, one in the history of Carolina. r to Student riots over the Mexican 0- War were common, and the high he spirits of the young men made I >ol discipline a problem. A rather t amusing incident illustrating his ; method of government is relatedi< in the Union Alumni as follows: I "Several of the students resolved to drag the Doctor's carriage into the woods and fixed upon a night for the performance. The Doctor learned somehow of their inten tions. He got into his carriage and waited for them, permitted them to drag the carriage, with him in it, about a mile until they came to the woods and were about to leave it in a secluded spot, when the Doctor dropped the doorsash and exclaimed, 'So, so, gentlemen, you are going to leave me in the woods, are you? Surely, as you have brought me hither for your own gratification you will not refuse to take me back for mine. Come, buckle to, it's gettingr late.' So they drew the carriage back to his barn. He never calledil them to account for it." For sixteen years, Dr. Maxey served the University in the cause of higher education and in spite ER RBLENOD and only VW accos specially selected flavor in filter smoking. .....~ . . .. Our Belo The bug slithered through the larkness, its gleaming eyes probing irst this way and then that in .earch of the Unknown. Strange narkings, this creature, two small of failing health. The college grew >hysically and in academic strue ure under his steady, devoted ,uidance. On June 4, 1820, four lays after presiding at his last acuity meeting, he died. The students, faculty, a n d >rominent persons of the state iled through his room for a last ,limpse of the man who had stood Ls a noble example to them aU for o long. James L. Pettigru, in a semi entennial address, said, "Never vill the charm of his eloquence be rased from the memory on which ts impression has once been nade." The Brunonian, the publication f his old alma mater, wrote with he sentiment of a later time, "Though f o r fifty summers .outhern rains have wept above is grave, and for fifty winters iorthern snows have woven over iis funeral shroud, yet in the vorld of influence Maxcy is not lead, but lives to exemplify his )wn maxim, 'Do good to others or in so doing you will do the rreatest good to yourself'." counts inston has it! and specially ved Boys antennae in the rear on a white body, with a red eye, not unlike a lightning bug's . . . only used in cases of grave danger. What should be its wings are marked in black and glittering gold "POLICE." This is a friendly bug, though some still believe it to be an evil creature. Its very presence ac Itually wards off many evils that would otherwise beset its habitat -the campus. It and a mate roam the University area day and night . . . mostly it's routine. 54 . . . 10-20? Inside the "bug" is another species - Constabularius Campii - (commonly: Kampus Kop). He drives slowly through dark alleys and eases carefully through pile-4 of construction materials behind the new dorms. The slow routine of checking every window and door begins anew following a run out to the roundhouse and the stadium. "We have a better class of stu dents nowadays . . . they get better every year. Of course, we haven't seen this bunch in the springtime yet. It's amazing what a few flowers will do to the attitude of a student body. "Speaking of student bodies, I'll have to check out fraternity row . . . maybe tuck a few fellows in . . . chase away the shoeshine boys . . ." The city police radio crackles again: 54 . . . 10-20? (This can be roughly translated: "Car 5.1. where are you?") "Times have changed since the days when a statue was found atop the Muaxcy monument andl the ball was in the president's yard. Andl there w~as the case when we had to send( a man up in ai tree to cut downi the figure of a bandleader wvho was hanged in effigy because Carolina could not have major ettes." Times HIAV E changed! A nother message, this time from)f the c'ampus radio system : ars. Slears has a sick co-ed. Could you get her to the infirmary? All in the line of duty, ma'am! Tossing its h o o dI ornament p)roduly, the bug is off on an errand of mercy! Across campus, the other car on We all make maistakes.. ERASE WITH4 ON EATON'S COi Touch-type, hunt-and-peck, b.hind your back-it's easy on Corrisable. Because you Typing errors disappear like an ordinary pencil eraser. Th mark on Corrisable's special Corrisable is available in medium, heavy weights and C Skin. In convenient 100-sh~ packets and 500. sheet real boxes. Only Eaton makes Corrisable. A Berkshire Typewriter Pap4 EATON PAPRE CEORATamN( In Brass I night patrol has heard the mes sage also, but continues a Slow careful prowl around the confines of Mcaster school, then by Tivoli! and back to the campus proper for' another check of the dark corners. Routine, just routine. Surprising how few students know how to get in touch with the police at night! No trick at all really, just dial 200 and ask the University operator to send some one over . . . she'll he on the radio in a flash. "One of these day's we'll get a. real break! Maybe crack a ring of smugglers or something. Not just a little case, but something big like hour quizzes in Hydro dynanics 892 - none of this busi ness of chasing down English 11 r'lli'.s. "Oh. well, quit dreaming. It's time to make your call." (Once every half-hour the of ficer must go in one of the campus buildings and make a telephone call to the operator as a fire check procedure. Only one of the ears is assigned this duty.) Nothing glamorous, just the facts of life on a cold night, warm night. rainyf night . . . they're all quite the same. And then there're p a r t y nights ... niohtars, each with no set pat tern of patroling roam the campus day and night. The cars work jiust about around the clock, the men in eight-hour shifts. During the (lay (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) the bigge'st job is keeping the tragie C.ar'olina traffic a n d parking p roblem from getting (out of hand. Years of experience hav'e shown that t he familiar penc'il-in-hand form of' d iscour'agement is the most effecttiv'e ('un1ce of p)revention to over - sol id ificationr Jf vehicular rouitine i nvestigat ion of complaintsq a nd bin Iging the "'names I've beenr caflh'd in the line of duty'' file up t ae. TI'he norm'tal (lay shift is usmdu~Ily suppJlemented b)y the ample presenc'le of C am pus Pol0ice C'h ief Calie P undrick. (Chief Bundr'ick hras been qjuoted( as saying thaUt there are no cr-iminals onr the cam pus .a feeling shared by the )UT A TRACE tRIASABLE BOND type with one hand tied to turn out? perfect papers can erase without a traoe. magic with just the flick of cere's never a telltal, erasure surface. light, mlon INr r "%N PE'TTSVIEE.D MASS knd Blue rest of the force, despite all too frequent evidence to the contrary. Chief Bundrick has been the guiding I i g h t for Carolina's friendly storm troopers for almost nine years. When he came to the University in May, 1953, he was a veteran of fifteen years on the Columbia City Police force. Now he is also a veteran of several fires, abortive panty-raids, snow ball fights (with real snow), and the heckling cries of thousands of oppressed students. These things don't bother him. really, but one big pain in the neck is trying to hold a private con versation with anyone in his closet sized headquarters. No wonder it's not manned around the clock. An hour in the office makes the inside of the patrol car seem like the wide-open spaces. A growing campus has brought growing problems to the police force, but the problems are mainly physical - spreading, lack of parking space, construction pro.j ects --- not human ones. The real paradox of a police man's life is that the more effec tively he does his job, the less he appears to he needed. Yes, these Wyatt Earps of the New Frontier are modern martyrs in disguise. He PROUD to have themi autograph your next ticket! Ooh -La-La The Columbia Art Association, founded in 1916., provided the initiative which ultimately re suIted in the Art Museum. Int 1950 the M useuml of Art was created for the c'ity ot Columbia through individual contrib)utions, whichi mtadle Possible the purichase and dev'elopment of its property. The Art Museum of today, located on 1112 Hull Street, has grown to. include paintings and sculp)tur ke. a ,J unIior Museum C'en - tea library, and( a Jlunior Plan etarii um. On view at all time's is the .'x Ihibitioni of Italian Renaissanc'e p)ainttings fr'om thte collection of the Samuel 11. Kress Foundlation. The Mutseum now holds1 27 of these paintings but will soon ac quire 20 more, plus three pieces of' sculpt urie. The i ntr'oduction of fresh ideas is the basis for the temporary ex hibhits at the Museum. All histor'i cal and creativ'e art is shownt in the fornts of prints, paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography andl archItectural designs. On temporary exhibition at the Art Museum are two shows - the G;uild of Columbia Artists' annual spring show, and a primitiv'e art collection from Africa. The Guild of' Columhia Artists shtow is an exhibition of local talent. It includes oil and water colors atnd is of very high quality. The pr'imtitiv'e art collection from Africa consists of stone head portria it sculIptu re, carved woodeni head sculpture, and many~ other pieces representing primitive Afri can ar't. Some of the piece's are over 1000 years old and comie from places such as Nigeria, Ghana, and the Congo, For the Carolinta student the Art Museum can become a place of many hours of enjoyment, For those who like paintings and sculpture, the Museum galleries are open Tuesday through Satur day fronm 10:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Sunday from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. The Museum is closed on Monday. Admission to the Museum is free at all public hours. Why not drop by sometime?