University of South Carolina Columbia - Garnet and Black Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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sloping . walks GUY F. LIPSCOMB, Chemistry, B.S., M.S., Ph.D. • Tal s houlders . . . imperturbable . . . patience personified . and measures his desk as he lectures . . . Simple reaction, very simple reaction . . . Doc to everyone . . . influential . . . spends countless hours with his research whether the faculty likes it or not . . . teaches freshman chemists in spite of high school exposures ... a recommendation from him is always gilt-edged security. Too many cooks CHEMISTRY an Ji it a not alt hot ait i tli eilfiet. It is a source of constant amazement to many fresh-air fiends as to how so many students and a department staff could survive so many years of work without some more serious consequences than an occasional freshman succeeding in getting the fire department around to put out part of the chem- istry 1 1 lab. Dr. Lipscomb still keeps his depart- ment going, and recently, until nine at nights, in STANDING: CAMPBELL, STOKES, SAM, KUBLER • frantic efforts to meet the required demands of the increased student body. Most chemistry students remember the Doc as he walks to and fro and erases explanations ashe writes them, or the fidgety and energetic lectures of Dr. Whitesell — with his rugged labs, in which he amuses many with his gum-chewing antics and en- cyclopedic memory. SEATED: BAUKNIGHT, WHITESELL, DAVIS, LIPSCOMB

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CHARLES F. MERCER. Physics. B.S. in Civil Engineering, M.A. • Tireless worker, and tells everyone about it . . . exacting in teaching and grading . . . lectures keep his classes and passers by awake . . . watches over the seismograph . . . plans commencement each year . . . never able to coordinate with the weather man ... his scrapbook is his constant companion . . . plugs for Carolina during on and off hours ... his physics classes receive few As. CRYMES, RAGSDALE, MERCER, BARRE, TROTTER Y I J J . . . the i Ukui aitJi ?H-ew t la itieaiute tL em It is almost impossible to separate the intricate subject of physics in the University curriculum from many of the amusing anecdotes coming in and going out of the department. Of course, physics is an un- fortunate requirement for engineers, and in the B.S. degree — if you choose physics. Almost any after- noon, along on the Pickens street side of Sloane college, you can hear a lecture, certainly loud enough to catch initial interest — and there is no charge for stopping. Herein, are future pharmacists, pre-meds, and engineers being given the second or third de- gree in Physics 11 or 12. Few As ever saunter forth from the department because not many A students enter therein. Seriously, no one course or courses are as closely related to our present frame of reference in the scientific world as is physics, one of the proud but penitent forbears of the atomic age. FREQUENCY OF SOUND FROM AN AIR COLUMN INCREASES AS LENGTH OF PIPE DECREASES c It 15 1 fresh-air departm wort wit ar occai istry II mat :;

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MATHEMATICS WYMAN L. WILLIAMS, Mathematics, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. • Stiff bearing . . . methodical to the last logarithm . . . military bearing . . . seldom smiles . . . keenly interested in Carolina ' s religious atmosphere . . . always turns in a good job when he ' s responsible . . . presides over one of the University ' s largest depart- ' ments . . . Favorite dish: Formula on toast. Abetted by increasing interest in related fields and the bugbear of some math being a partially required subject, the University ' s math department has literally outgrown itself under the precisive lead- ership of Dr. Wyman Williams. Now everyone from the puzzled freshman who never understood high school algebra anyway, to the ambitious engineer and future math instructor may be accommodated within the offerings of the department. In fact 28 instructors, mostly full time and part family, now of- fered some 25 courses ranging from the sub-uni- versity math and geometry to the intricacies in- volved in Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable . Various teaching methods from the keeping of notebooks in trigonometry to daily pop quizzes were used to convey to all who partook the exact- ing logic of their chosen course. Increased interest and stimulation for finer work came with the award- ing of two cash prizes of twenty-five dollars to the toppers in the departmental competitive examina- tions, and the honorary departmental scholarship DEPARTMENT FACULTY A trifle of time 30