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^ ^ Page 8A ? GAMECOCK ? August 25,1981 Carolina Moves Into The 1900$ ... continued from previous page student disorder and public criticism, McCay submitted his resignation in 1857. Following an investigation, it was a nnounced that Augustus Baldwin Longstreet had been elected president. He had at various times > i - ii _ i Deen a legisuaior, writer, judge, minister, and college president. In the dark of night, five half-masked horsemen, their faces blackened and their scarlet capes blowing in the breeze, galloped furiously through the quiet campus. The torches they waved and the beating of hooves hroncFht out sleeping students to cheer t hem on. Perhaps the night of "black riding" would end with "tin-panning" in the yards of an unpopuia r professor. Such noisy pranks of the students seemed to be only a small outburst of the fiery spirit thev were sunoressine J A I ^ until the impending war finally came. THE "GUARD HOUSE RIOT" of 1856 was the foremost Ke==J p r= kink.c nate noti copies, business a person km *CLj T example of built-up hostility. When a student named Niles was jailed after a fight, support was there. The battle cry of "College!" brought the students off the campus and they came rallying in defense of their peer. Several beat their way into the guardhouse with clubs but were chased away. The next day 100 revenge-seeking students armed with rifles from the cadet arsenal marched to the guardhouse only to find themselves face to face with 200 pistolcarrying townspeople. Before any violence exploded, however, former President Thornwell was summoned, and promising the students revenge he led the way back to campus with the cry of "College!." The faculty forthwith disbanded the Cadet Corps. The unpopular Charles McCay, president of the college at the time, realized his lack of discipline and resigned after only 18 montns in oince. Augustus Longstreet's replacement of McCay was a relief to kinKo'x > S Ckingk'Oz) n. 1. mental ions. 2. a place of reproduc binding film proc., rub cards, etc. -kink'y adj. -kinJ employed by Kinko's. We also have: Stationery Greeting Cards Mugs Pads Located at 9311 Main 1 Block From USC L3Si-lk^jp^I_Ja ==z:I-; (f% the faculty. Longstreet ' had the rare gift of befriending the students while retaining firm control. When the students demanded a holiday for John C. Calhoun's birthday and were refused, they tarred the classroom benches so that classes were forced to be cancelled. Longstreet suspended 100 out of the 180 students enrolled. The college's Cadet Corps was reorganized after heated debate by the faculty ~ they wanted to preserve the college at all costs -but the students wanted to prepare to fieht a war. At the news of the fighting at Fort Sumter in 1861, the cadets were eager to join in, but under faculty regulations they needed Longstreet's permission to go. He refused; at a secret meeting the students decided to disband the Old Corps and form a new one with their own rules. They left the College, marched down to the railway station and paid their own way ,to unariestown. ?~~~\' Js Mill TJjII[ ?=%M wists: obsti- I rtion; Kodak I ber stamps, H k'oid (Slang) ll GEN. PIERRE BEAUREGARD placed the cadets on Sullivan's Island where they could drill and watch the battle and remain safe from actual fire. After three weeks they returned to Columbia as heros and ?i 1 suiiuui me icauuicu iui about a month until war fever overtook them once more. The gradual loss of men reduced the student body to75 by the fall. Upon hearing the news of the Union's capture of Port Royal, the Cadets sought faculty permission to leave. They were given a firm 4'no," but they replied "yes, and left anyway. Entrance requirements were dropped to gather a class for January, 1982, but only 72 students came. Instead of risking the draft after "Jeff" Davis called for more troops, the majority of these students signed up for service too. A student could choose ivTc i I COLUMBIA'S izocUCalvit O.P. D6G Ci vanderb Bu Mei mm ! Cornt of Lady Assembly i \ 8:30 6 Wooirich Out Herman Ci Blutchers*! Iwilderne $2.00 C this ad. Lir mammmmmmmamMuum?mmmmmmmmmm his own course and c upon completing the t requirements would * receive a degree in t that field. To receive a 1 B.A. degree one had to i complete two literary schools, two science schools and two other * schools of his choice. t THE UNIVERSITY < opened on Jan. 10,1866. i In the preceding years 1 the buildings had been \ used as hospitals, a prison, shelter for ; slaves and the 1 freedman's bureau. 1 Many refugees from < the fire in 1865 remained housed on I campus until 1869. In < spite of the dilapidated ( condition, the old college buildings were in better shape than most of Columbia and the students came. By May, 1866 there were 48 on roll. In general the new students were more mature and welldisciplined as compared to their predecessors. However, when the U.S. Army built a garrison DE LEVV DOWNTOWN HEAt i Klein BirdwelN ee Ladies Lee Je; ilt* 100% Cotton I r-\ . ... Aw.r < Liun uuwn uxrorc ns, Bovs, Ladies, Ci MOt LEWS Brness Static and f irS/j streets A Outdoor Gear oo erwear* Gerry Do jm Shoes and Boc ents* Packs *Sle ;ss Experience/Alf )FF Book Pack; nit one perci >n tne present site ot he Russell House, the ebels-turned-students >ecame infuriated. Phe same blue miforms they had >pent four long years shooting at now^' narched in front of heir campus every iay. The professors vere forced to rpnpatprflv warn thp I V/J^/V/Va VVV?* J TTM* ?l VAAV students that killing a Yankee in '64 was justified by war, but killing him in '74 would be an i 11 e g a 1,, assasination. The University was growing and its only acedemic setbacks during the first years were the losses of two colleges. The School of Acfrnnnm\/ u; n c i & U t 1 V/ m m V/ AAA J TV M W discontinued after the theft of the telescope, and the College of Medicine, which* received criticism from the Medical College in Charleston saying one medical school in the state was enough, was ended when funds ran out. continued on next page... 'S ' QUARTERS tSundek ' ins* Gloria Khakis js rls :? 1 I wn Jackets >ts Sir-Gal ?ping Bags Denlite I 5 with I istomer. |