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Chinese Club Presents Philosophy Of Living Editor's Note: For the purpose of acquainting Carolina students with Chinese cidture, the Chinese Student Club at USC has prepared for The Gamecock a selection of Chinese literature. This week's selection is "The Half-and-Half Song" translated by Lin Yutang. By far the greater half have I seen through This floating life-ah, there's the magic word This "half"-so ridh in implications. It bids us taste the joy of more than we Can ever own. Halfway in life is man's Best state, when slackened pace allows him ease. A wide world lies halfway 'twixt heaven and earth; To live halfway between the town and land, Have farms halfway between the streams and hills; Be half-a-scholar, and half-a-square, and half In business; half as gentry live, And food half epicure's, half simple fare; And have a house that's half genteel, half plain, Half elegantly furnished and half bare; Dressed and gowns that are half old, half new, And fool half epicure's, half simple fare; Have servants not too clever, nor too dull; A wife who is not too ugly, nor too fair. -So then, at heart, I feel I'm half a Buddha, And almost half a Taoist fairy blest. One half myself to Father Heaven I Return; the other half to children leave - Half thinking how for my posterity To plan and provide, and yet minding how To answer God when the body's laid at rest. Who half too much has, adds anxiety, But half too little, adds possession's zest. Since life's of sweet and bitter compounded, Who tastes but half is wise and cleverest. Student Signs Honor Pledge On Final Exam By TOM PREWETT tion. Bill reasoned with himself Feature Writer that there was really nothing left to do. This would put an end to all Bill sat quietly in the straight, his troubles, worries and care. It hard seat in the large, hot room must be done. He gripped the with the lofty ceiling. BeRds of pointed instrument more tightly, sweat which had so lately popped and quickly, firmly plunged it out n hi carwor forheadbe-home to its target. out oni evaeorn firreseabe Peace now reigned over the soul gan o eaporte s afirmreslveof Bill. Oh, blessed relief. He had took the place of the sickening signed the honor pledge which fear which had wracked his body closed his final exam. and soul. This was it. There was nothing left to do. Bill eyed coldly the sharp, pointed instrument which he held in his right hand. He passed it to his left hand and ran his fingers - over the smooth, cold, shiny sur face until they reached the sharp, cruel point. He passed the instru ment again to his right hand and grasped it with a warm, sweating palm but with a cold determina DEADLINE The deadline for copy for the society and feature pages Is Monday afternoon . . . mews turned in earliest will be given priority. eiTHE BRAVEST MAN I EVER MET by Rev. Martin Luther King * THE AMERICAN THE RUSSIANS AMPAUD * NOW TO ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT - AND SET IT * CAMP IN COMFORT THIS SUMMER PAGEANT reflects the world about us. Each smonth It brings you timely ar Rides ndpicture storIes - some in rmative, some controversial, some humorous, lbe June Issue sparkles with users tham 30 stImulatIng features. PAGEANT AMERCA'SLIVEIESTHow to look good on any TNOUHT.ROVOINGand wear knit that stays MAGAZINE too. An extra-Iong back ta stanout colrs .e PicDi "You have your fin and I do meam 'The Deat And The, By LEWIS LEVY Feature Writer The idea in itself is simple: you are going to sit down and write a story for the feature page of the )aper. That sounds easy enough, Ioesn't it? It would seenm so, but somehow it never quite is. For one thing you have to find a topic. This is essential since every story has to be about something. But what? That's the question! Finding a topic can be a time consuming operation. You cast about, trying this or that and finding none of the things you have tried will make really inter esting reading. Then, usually aroundl midnight, when you are just about to quit in disgust, you get the faintest glimmer of an idea-not too different from all THE VAN Styling 0Hair Styling 0 Tinting 0 Reducing 1113 Tayl Phone AL golf course: play it bold with Arrow's fresh and crisp to the eighteenth an il keeps down while you swing. Many out a fw at yunr Arrow retailer's S exam today line App -e' Work others - but one that just might pan out. And so you write it down and think about it. If finding a subject is the hardest part of writing, developing it comes second in the order of difficulty. You sit and think a bit more and then you pick up your pen and start writing. The story takes shape. From one point on it just begins to flow naturally, as if it could do perfectly well without your help. If it is good it will seem to connect itself without effort. It will be topical, interest ing, and in an easy, flowing style. As a matter of fact, it may be come so interesting to you that you have to keep writing just to see how it will come out. This can be dangerous, however, since it's fairly easy to become so engrossed ITY BOX Salon 0 Waving Frosting and Tipping reatments or Street 4-4308 NEWV Mr. Golf, the Decton wash i beyond. Stays tucked-in, -ARROIK Carolin In Arts Carolina coeds are skilled at many skills and arts which com promise the spice of life. Without fluttering an eyelash they can purr like a defenseless Persian and growl like the king of th( jungle in the same fraction of L. minute. As some of the more discerning USC male students might have perceived by this stage of thc game, the little ladies at Carolint are also exceptional in the game of deception. Deception Vital Techniques of deception are a necessity in any woman's life, according to the popular senti ment prevalent among USC fe males. In the first place, there are techniques that may come in handy in the pursuit of some very moral goal, like breaking a date with a Poacheth' To Do that the whole thing runs away with you. In that case you'll find you've written not a feature story, but an essay on whatever your topic may be. This is no good; it can't be used because it's too long and can't be cut, you feel, without destroying some essential part of it. Using just enough restraint, you keep going. The words just come and everything fills out and falls into place. On you go until you pause and suddenly realize that you're finished. 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In the second, more important >lace, a talent for deception is not only a female perogative, it is a downright feminine necessity .or Carolina coeds. For the coed who, as yet, has not quite mastered the various echniques of deception or "tact full deception," here are a few hints. Breaking Daitr If the young lady in question wishes to break a theater date, a dental appointment or a record of perfect job attendance, and it is too late to do so with any decency at all, there is still hope. The chic thing to do is find a pay phone, call the party in ques tion, and - the moment he says hello-drop an appropriately noisy number of nickels and dimes down the slots. The lady in distress can then explain that she is unavoid ably detained in a neighboring town (or Hollywood or Nome, Alaska, if she cares to really get dramatic). Af/e fooJ yo tocledfin 4p .SU P Iar/]*fby F..a RiA by Excel eption Strategic Esape Despite the popular conception of Carolina parties, one can at times find oneself at a dull party or at least in a dull position. Leaving dull parties or (lull groups at parties require; sole special techniques, but as u-,ual the USC coed is prepared. An example of such a situation may be when a girl has been standing for 15 minutes listening to two not-very attractive men discussing ice hockey. The prepared miss may exclaim something like, "Oh, dear" and rush off mysteriously. If she can't handle that approach, she can al ways say she must make a phone call to check in with her house. mother. Tactful Exit& If the whole party is boring, she may just say that she has con tracted a rare disease of South Carolina malaria. It's romantic and its attacks can be mild and conveniently unheralded. Monnnu cleosis is good, too, but she might end up in the infirmary for a year. 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