VOLUME II
TUESDAY, JULY 17,1923
NUMBER 4
CLAIMS DR. GOETZ
COLLEGES COMBAT MATRIMONY? NO!
National Meeting To Be Held At U. S. C. In September
Scientists from all over the world • are preparing to visit Southern California to view the eclipse of September J 10, under the unusually favorable condition of climate, accessibility and equipment offered.
Immediately following the eclipse the American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold its seventy-seventh meeting in conjunction with affiliated societies at the University of Southern California from September 17 to 20.
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN September 10, 1923
h. m.	h. m.	h. m.	m. s.
Conception ......... 11 24	12 50	2 12	3 02
Del Mar............ 11 31	12 58	2 20	1 56
Ensenada. Mexico... 11 34	1 01	2 23	3 34
Hueneme, Mexico... 11 26	12 53	2 15	0 41
La Jolla............ 11 32	12 59	2 21	2 26
Lakeside ........... 11 32	12 59	2 21	1 02
Lompoc ............ 11 24	12 50	2 12	2 30
Los Angeles......... 11 29	12 55	2 17	*...
Mount Wilson....... 11 29	12 55	2 17	*...
Pasadena .......... 11 29	12 55	2 17	»...
Point Loma........ 11 12	12 59	2 21	3 00
Santa Catalina Is... 11 30	12 56	2 18	2 51
San Clemente Is____ 11 30	12 56	2 18	3 36
San Diepro.......... 11 32	12 59	2 21	2 43
Santa Barbara...... 11 25	12 51	2 13	0 47
Tia Juana ......... 11 33	1 00	2 22	3 00
*	99 per cent totafc eclipse: all	other	cities total eclipse.
The solar eclipse of September 10, 1923, will be of especial interest to astronomers and other scientists because of the unusual opportunity it will afford for undertaking investigations with exceptionally powerful and corn-instrumental equipment. This is due to the accessibility of much of the area within which the eclipse is total. The path of totality passes close to Los Angeles and over San Diego and many other towns which have excellent transportaiton facilities. Furthermore, the eclipse occurs at a season of the year and at a time of day when the prospect of clear skies is very good, as is shown by records extending over many years.
The area within which the eclipse may be seen as total is a zone about 105 miles wide which extends approximately northwest and southeast. At the center of this zone the duration is longest, about three minutes and 35 seconds, and the duration falls off from the center to the edge of the zone
where the total eclipse is momentary. Outside of the zone the eclipse is partial. The time at which the total phase begins depends upon the location of the observatory, but is about 1 p. m. Pacific standard time, for the points in southern and lower California. The sun rises eclipsed in the North Pacific ocean and sets eclipsed in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the accompanying table and diagram are shown the data for the eclipse for a number of places in California and Mexico, and the path of totality across Southern and Lower California. The names are arranged alphabetically and the successive columns in the table give the time when the moon’s image first touches the edge of the sun (first contact), the time for maximum eclipse (total for all except Los Angeles, Mount Wilson and Pasadena), the time when the moon’s image leaves the sun (last contact), the percentage of the sun’s surface which is eclipsed and the duration of totality. The last values are accurate to within about five seconds of time.
To illustrate the use of the table, San Diego may be selected. Here the eclipse is total and the total phase lasts two minutes and 43 seconds, the time of the middle of totality being 12 hours 59 minutes, Pacific standard time. The first contact is at 11 hours 32 minutes and the last at 2 hours 21 minutes, so that the entire duration of the eclipse, including partial and total phases, is two hours and 49 minutes.
At Los Angeles, Pasadena and Mount Wilson the eclipse does not become total and a thin crescent amounting to about one per cent of the sun’s surface is still visible at the time of greatest obscuration.
The diagram, in addition to showing the center and limits of the zone of total eclipse, illustrates the form of the shadow of the moon for a given instant. It is elliptical in shape and the length of the chord of this ellipse, taken parallel to the central line, gives the duration of totality relatively to that at the center. During the eclipse this shadow moves southeastward at a rate of twenty-five miles a minute.
Among the astronomical institutions of the United States which are planning to send expeditions to olaserve this eclipse are the Lick, Lowell, Mount Wilson, Steward and Yerkes observatories. Many others from the United States, as well as from Canada and Europe, will doubtless be represented.
The painting of the eclipse in 1918, by Mr. Howard Russell Butler, who accompanied the Naval Observatory expedition, will be on exhibit at the president’s office, University of Southern California, during the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science, September 17 to 19, together with sketches which Mr. Butler may make of the eclipse of 1923.
Societies Affiliated With the Pacific Division, A. A. A. S.
American Physical Society; American Phytopathological Society, Pacific Division; Astronomical Society of the Pacific; California Academy of Sciences; California Section, American Chemical Society; California Section, the Society of American Foresters; Cooper Ornithological Club; Cordil-leran Section, Geological Society of America; Intermountain Section, thc Society of American Foresters; T or-quin Natural History Club of the Southwest Museum; North Pacific Section, the Society of American Foresters; North Intermountain Section, American Chemical Society; Northern Rocky Mountain Section, ihe Society of American Foresters; Pacific Coast Branch, Paleontological Society: Pacific Coast Entomological Society; Pacific Fisheries Society; Pacific Slope Branch, American Association of Economic Entomologists; San Diego Society of Natural History; San Francisco Section, American Mathematical Society; San Francisco Society, Archaeological Institute of America; Seis-mological Society of America Sierra Club; Southern California Section, American Chemical Society; the Ecological Society of America; Utah Academy of Sciences; Western Psychological Association; Western Society of Naturalists.
Will Head
Activities
at College
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA STUDENTS NAME MANAGER
As part of the increased activities of the student body of 7,000 of the University of Southern California, a department of student activities has been created by the college, and Gwyn Wilson, a graduate, was named as its head.
As member of the university staff he will have charge of all* athletic schedules and finances and will come in contact directly with university officials, students in their activities and the public. Wilson also will have charge of the Trojan, student campus publication, as well as El Rodeo, annual book issued by students at the cost of several thousand dollars. He also will manage the handling of the large crowds which attend the star athletic events of each year.
The new position will carry with it large financial responsibility, including a control of funds ranging up to $300,-
000,	as well as organizing various departments growing out of activities of the general student body.
Wilson was graduated in 1921. He was president of the' student body and captain of the university track team. He is a record holder of the 440 and 880-yard runs and an all-round athlete.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS ON CRIMINOLOGY
Dr. R. B. von KieinSmid, president cf the University of Southern California, gave the first of a series of lectures on “Criminology,” yesterday afternoon, when he spoke on “Crime and the Personal Equation,,r at the University of California, Southern Branch.
“Why aie our colleges old-maid factories, turning out a product which is 50 per cent unmarriageable ? Why, out of 50 per cent of college graduates who do marry, do 30 per cent never have a single baby among the lot?”
So	questions Marjorie Dorman in an article en^tled “Weeping Storks and Puzzled College Cupid,” which appeared on Sunday in the magazine section of a Los Angeles newspaper.
The article continued to rail against modem educational methods for many paragraphs, dealing wordy blows particularly against universities and colleges, accusing them of leading women away from matrimony and home life and exerting anti-racial influences.
Dr. Alice Goetz of the University of Southern California department of physical education, when questioned as to her views on the subject, said: “The statistics appearing in Miss Dorman’s article I regard as entirely without basis, and I believe she would have a hard time to prove them. As a member of the Association of American University Women I have seen just such wild assertions disproved time and again by statistics which we compiled ourselves from records and figures in forty-six leading universities and colleges in this country.
“In the first place, when women contemplate matrimony it is a purely primitive instinct, and education has nothing to do with it. In the second place, it is well known that there is a plurality of young marriageable women in the United States, so that many young girls lack matrimonial opportunities. It is for just such girls as these that we find education of particular benefit, for by educating her w’e are supplying her with the power of sublimation; that is, wre enable her to transfer her physical desires into other channels and provide her writh another field of creative interest. With her mind or her hands she may produce something of great value to the world in the place of a child. Many times these unmarried girls become teachers, and it is widely admitted that teachers are the best mothers some children ever had.
“So the universities are old-maid factories, are they? All I can say is that one glance at the enrollment records will reveal a large per cent of the women students who are already ‘Mrs.’ and a little investigation among the girls themselves will show that most of them are either engaged or dying for the chance to be.
“I admit that education does aim to make girls more particular and discriminating when it comes to choosing a mate, and it seems to me that such influence is the kind to be encouraged in the interests of the next generation.
“Old maids we have always had with us and probably always will, but the superfluity at the present time is not to be blamed on the universities, for it is, perhaps, not so much a matter of lack of inclination as a lack of opportunity.”
This statement also appeared in the article: “No word is said apparently in the college courses of the fundamental position of the family in our scheme of things.” Right in this very institution one of the most popular courses in the sociology department is one on “The Family as a Social Institution.” To be used as collateral reading in this course is Dr. Willystine Goodsell’s latest book on the education of women, in which he makes these very comprehensive statements: “Let women be trained according to their individual needs to fill a large and useful part in all phases of life. Educate woman in a broad understanding of life, train her in knowledge of the family and the home beautiful, and then leave her free in working out a career within or outside of a home of her own.”