VOLUME II
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7,1923
NUMBER 10
INTRODUCING-
(By Ruth Canary)
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It was at a recent meeting of the Los Angeles Rotary Club. Luncheon was over and the company of business men settled back in resigned silence for the usual speeches. They were to have another university professor that dav. However, they had gone through
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a similar ordeal before, and were prepared for the worst. For some few* moments there was much business of stifling yawns, subduing sighs, and masking bored-lookmg countenances with an expression that registered a fair degree of intelligent interest. Then Dr. von KieinSmid arose and introduced Dr. Edwin Mims as speaker of the afternoon.
In another live minutes every trace of boredom and resigned endurance had been dispelled from the room; every man present was leaning forward in his chair listening with keen interest to a flow of real old southern eloquence, ana Dr. Mims held his audience in just that state of spell-bound attentive ness throughout his address, until the moment he sat down amid a roar of applause. Dr. Mims had, beyond question of a doubt, set the Rotary Club rotating!
At this morning’s chapel hour (11 to 12) in Bovard Auditorium, students of the Summer Session will be privileged to hear this same noted speaker discuss “The New Challenge to the American Teacher.*’ To some it may seem that such a subject could be of interest only to those who teach or plan to teach, but you may be assured that this vital matter will be so presented as to appeal to the “taught” as well as the “teaching.” Dr. Mims has a happy faculty of being at the same time enjoyable and inspiring, and never fails to have something to say that will be of some benefit and interest to every person in his audience. So if you have been in the habit of “cutting” the summer chapel hours, you will find in today’s assembly a chance to do a most unusual, almost unheard of, thing, i e., a chance to turn over a new leaf and iictually enjoy it!
Those of you who are enrolled in Dr. Mims’ summer classes in “Contemporary Poetry” and “American Literature” can, no dougt, well understand how he has come to be known as one of the most beloved professors in Vanderbilt University, where he has been head of the English department since 1912. Dr. Mims has also taught and lectured at Trinity College, Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville), and in the summer schools of Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, and at Chautauqua, New York.
Equally as successful as a professor and lecturer, Dr. Mims has won additional recognition for his writings, particularly his “Life of Sidney Lanier.” He has also written numerous sketches and articles for magazines and for the Encyclopedia Americana, and has edited “Carlyle's Essay on Burns,” “Southern Prose and Poetry,” a volume on southern fiction in “The South in the Building of the Nation,” “Carlyle’s Past and Present” and several others.
\ et, in addition to all his academic and literary interests, Dr. Mims is essentially a live, keenly alert, practical citizen, and a great lover of the South, where he is well known as a leader in anti-lynching campaigns, and is prominently interested in civic improvements. Since he has been a member of the U. S. C. summer faculty, Dr. Mims has had opportunity to see U. S. C.’s great future as a real center of learning in the Southwest, and realizing its possibilities for growth and expension, he has gone out in the interests of the endowment campaign to address such widely influential organizations as the City Club, the Rotary Club, the Friday Morning Club, the
COMMITTEE FOR SCIENCE MEETING CONVENES TODAY
Members of the committee on arrangements for the September meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will meet today at 3:45 in the office of the executive secretary, H. J. Stonier.
Arrangements will be made for receiving and entertaining the delegates and members who will attend the annual meeting, wThich will be held this >ear at the University of Southern California.
The following members will be present this afternoon:
L. J. Stabler, general chairman, dean cf College of Pharmacy, University of Southern California. /
H. J. Stonier, secretary, executive secretary, University of Southern California.
Warren B. Bovard, finance, comp troller, University of Southern Califor nia.
Albert B. Ulrev, entertainment and excursions, professor of biology and director of marine biological station, University of Southern California.
Howard De Forest, reception and registration, professor of botany, University of Southern California.
Frank P. Brackett, professor of mathematics and director of the Observatory, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.
Robert D. Williams, professor of philosophy and experimental psychology, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.
F. H. Billings, professor of botany and bacteriology, University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif.
H. E. Marsh, professor of physics and engineering, University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif.
Lucien H. Gilmore, professor of
U. S. C. STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS INVITED TO PREVIEW PICTURE
Ebell Club, and the Los Angeles and Pasadena University Clubs.
Dr. iMims divides all citizens into three classes. He says: “There are knockers who never fail to discourage any movement that means progress. Then there are boosters wrho limit their activities to idle boasting and bragging and are just as harmful in their way as the aforementioned knockers. Then last, and finally, are the builders, who are ready to give real active service in support of civic improvements. It is the builders who appreciate the advantages of good educational facilities in their community, and it is to Los Angeles “builders” that I appeal, for they are the ones who will see the U. S. C. endowment campaign through to its $10,000,000 end.”
Dr. Mims has a charming wife who came with him to California, and as attending various lecture courses here at the university. Dr. Mims is also justifiably proud of his son, wiio is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, England.
“These last few months in California have been wonderfully pleasant and enjoyable in every way,” said Dr Mims yesterday, “but I frankly admit that I’m terribly homesick for the good old hills of Tennessee. Yes, I love the South, and my one great plea to all with whom I come in contact is this: Don’t associate the South merely with hookworm, ignorance, negroes and backwoodsmen, but think of it as one of the really progressive sections of the country. It is my belief that the South is going to have great things to contribute to our new national life in years to come, just as it did in the early days of the nation during the period preceding the Revolutionary war.”
Of course we are glad to commend such sincere faith and loyalty, yet we hope that Dr. Mims won’t so com-peltely lose himself in the cause of the South that he will forget about U. S. C. and the invitation that has already been extended him to “come again.”
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U. S. C. FACULTY INVITED TO AT TEND FIRST PRIVATE SHOWING
OS ANGELES TO BE CENTER FOR PRODUCTION OF PEDAGOGIC MOTION PICTURES
Plans are now on foot to establish jOs Angeles as a center for the production of educational films. Mr. Sol esser, prominent figure in the film w'orld, is taking the initial steps in this visual instruction work. Mr. Les-ser’s recent discovery of Louis Tol-hurst, a young microscopist, who has many scientific achievements to his credit, has revealed a new process in the photography of microscopic life.
Mr. Tolhurst has overcome the elements which have heretofore baffled scientists engaged in photographing with a motion picture camera the minute life that surrounds us and which is ordinarily invisible to the human eye.
Mr. Lesser, through the office of Mr. Stonier, has invited the members of the faculty of U. S. C. and those students interested, to attend the initial private showing of Mr. Tolhurst’s first successful films, “Secrets of Life.”
The exhibition will take place on Friday evening, August 10, in the Ambassador theater in the Hotel Ambassador, and ticekts may be secured through Mr. Stonier or the Trojan office. Members of the faculty of the southern branch of the University of California and the Academy of Science will be preserit.
Mr. Lesser has established young
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Tolhurst in a laboratory here, and leaves for Europe in a few weeks, where he will interest educators and scientists on the continent in the screen as a new factor in education.
“No argument is needed,” says Mr. Lesser, “to establish the great power of the motion picture, nor is there any dispute as to certain faults and defects. While I do not concur with many who claim that the screen will, in large part, supplant the textbook in the schools of the future, I am convinced that the screen will play an important part in the education of the children of this day and generation.”
MORE PLAYERS NEEDED FOR THE WAYFARER
A call for 4,000 to 8,000 actors, both professional and amateur, was issued today by “The Wayfaier” production committee for enrollment in the great dramatic pageant, which will be staged in the Los Angeles Coliseum September 8 to 15. Headquarters for “The Wayfarer” have been opened at 410 West Ninth street.
With the arrival of Montgomery Lynch, director-in-chief of “The Wayfarer,” interest has been quickened in the coming production, especially from the artistic angle, as Mr. Lynch will sit with the judges in the try-out which will be held in the Coliseum next Saturday afternoon, August 11, at 3 o’clock, for the speaking parts in the pageant, and also the solo parts in the chorus.
Amateurs will be quite as welcome as professionals, and semi-professionals are not only to serve in the pageant groups, but to try out for the ppeaking parts as well. This is so planned to create a community interest in the big drama and to bring various city groups together in the great open-air stadium, in itself a civic institution, as were the coliseums and stadiums of old.
All contestants will be given a number and called by number. The judges will be on the opposite side of the stadium and do their voting from that distance. This is deemed fair to the contestants.
For the groups, the mobs, and the crowds at least 4,000 are needed, and these are asked to enroll at headquarters. Mem and women of all sizes, and children, may enroll whether or not they have had experience. Two hundred beautiful girls are wanted for the babylonian captivity scene alone. Men are needed for Roman soldiers, shepherds, wise men and others.
Groups from clubs, societies and organizations are asked to join and to take part as a civic responsibility.
A beautiful woman is needed for Brittania, another to portray Joan of Arc. Types are needed to portray Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt. There are numerous minor roles which have important pantomime to portray for both men and women.
physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Luther E. Wear, associate professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Frank J. Smiley, professor of botany and geology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.
John C. Shedd, professor of physics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.
Loye Holmes Miller, associate professor of biology, University of California, Southern Branch, Los Angeles, Calif.
William Conger Morgan, professor of chemistry, University of California, Southern Branch, Los Angeles, Calif.
R. D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, University of Southern California.
Gilbert E. Bailey, professor of geology, University of Southern California.
Allan E. Sedgwick, associate professor of geology, University of Southern California.
John H. Montgomery, registrar, University of Southern California.
John W. Todd, professor of psychology, University of Southern California.
Emory S. Bogardus, professor of
COMMITTEES IN
SESSION TODAY
sociology, University of Southern California.
Arthur W. Nye, professor of physics, University of Southern California.
William R. LaPorte, professor of physical education, University of Southern California.
C. W. Lawrence, professor of civil engineering, University of Southern California.
Arthur R. Maas, professor of pharmacy and toxicology, University of Southern California.
Emery E. Olson, assistant director, College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Southern California.
A. W. Olmstead, director of extension, University of Southern California.
Myrtle Emily Biles, dean of women, University of Southern California.
A. D. Howard, assistant professor of biology, University of Southern California.
LeRoy S. Weatherby, professor of chemistry, University of Southern California.
To determine the most fitting way for Los Angeles and her institutions to observe the burial day for the chief executive of the nation, two committees are meeting today at 11 o’clock.
The executive committee which was appointed to welcome President Warren G. Harding on his proposed visit to Southern California, will convene jointly with the city Board of Supervisors. President von KieinSmid is chairman of the former body.
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INAUGURATION BOOK READY FOR DELIVERY
Containing the transcript of all the addresses given in the Pan-American conference and the inauguration of Rufus Bernhard von KieinSmid as president of the University of Southern California, the inauguration book has recently come from the press.
The printing is on sepia paper with the pictures in brown ink. The covers of light brown and the binding of dark brown harmonize with the printing and photograph tones.
A copy will be sent to each university in the United States and one to each delegate to the Pan-American conference and representative at the inauguration of President von Klein-Smid.	*