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Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, September 25, 1923
No. 1
OFFER $200 IN PRIZES FOR NEW S. C. SONGS AND YELS
Allen T. Archer, Member of U. S. C. Alumni Offers Prizes for Contest
TO END NOVEMBER 1
$100 Offered For Best Yell; Same Amount For
Rest Sons:
: MAKE THREE SPEECHES
First Group of Student Assemblies will be in Charge of U. S. C. President
For the purpose of affording a stimulus for students to bend their efforts toward creating new songs and yells for U. S. C., Allen T. Archer, prominent member of the Alumni has made ar offer of a $100 prize for the student originating the best U. S. C- song, and a prize of $100 for the student writing the best song for U. S. C.
“SCHOLARSHIP" KEYNOTE
Large Enrollment Makes Shortage of Chapel Seats Possible; New System in Vogue
•‘Requirements of Scholarship” is to be the subject of Dr. Von Klein Smid’s assembly address *it 17. o'clock this morning. The pr^sL’en:. of the
in compliance with the request of university is to have charge of the
ENROLLMENT S MADE
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FIRST
Registration First Day is Largest Ever Known—7,800 Enroll on Opening Day
ADD 17 NEW PROFESSORS
Executive •Committee Holds First Meeting; Committees Formed
Mr. Archer, the contest will be closed November 1, 1923, and on that date a special committee will meet to decide he winners of the two prizes.
The offer was made in a letter from Mr. Archer to Comptroller W. B. Bo-va*d during the early part of Septeir- I t ber. Mr. Archer said in part:
“I am going to ask you to appoint a committee to formulate content rules for the prizes 1 am going to offer, as follows:	«
MAY USE OLD MUSIC “On November 1st. 1923, a commit-lee will decide the winner of a prize cf $100.00 to the student originating the best college yell, also a prize cf $100.00 for the best college song. The music of other college songs would be eligible but of course the words would have to be original. The same would apply to the college yell. It is my wish to develop good songs and veils.”
The cash is now in the office of Comptroller Bovard and will be available whenever the committee sees fit to award the prizes as stipulated.
Acting on TivtfhorJly given Mtrf tn Mr. Archer's letter, Mr. Bovard appointed Henry “Hank” McCann.' Yell King of U. S. C. as chairman of the committee to formulate contest rules for the prizes. Members of the committee which has been appointed were nominated by Cheerleader McCann for the approval of the authorities.
COMMITTEE OF STUDENTS
It was the request of Comptroller Bovard that the commitee be composed largely of students with one or two faculty members and alumni to be included. With this in mind. Cheerleader McCann has appointed a committee, composed of the student presidents of every College of the University. or a representative.
The contest starts immediately and anyone matriculated in the University of Southern California is eligible to fnter a yell or song in the contest.
The reason for closing the contest November 1. is that the great game cf the season takes place in Los Angles, November 10. With ten days practice on the prize veH and song, and whatever other songs and yells which are suitable for use, U. S. C. should be able to spring some surprises ou California in the bleachers k.s well as on the gridiron on that day of history.
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
fin three meetings of thc assembled student body, and campus sentiment ;rricates that the stude:iir> are await-iv.:: his messages with interest.
At the third of these meetings, on October 2, the men and women are meet separately, the forrrer gathering on the bleachers of Bovard Field, while the co-eds meei in the auditorium. Dr. Von KieinSmid will speak to both groups.
Considerable interest hT^ bsen manifested in the new chapei seating *ar-rangemer.t which is no longer alphabetical. The seats are given out to the students as they come, and while the c’ass sections are the s ane as before, students have a certain amount of choice as to where they want to sit. Where it has been possible to accommodate them this has been done.
Something of a problem has been caused by the increased number of students since it seems very likely that there will be more stuaen-s than seats, according to those in charge. What will be done if this is th* case has not vet been decided.
PROF. ROY THOMPSON,
ORA FRITH MARRIED
Professor Roy T. Thompson of the English department surprised the University this semester by returning to the campus a married man.
When asked to confirm the report,
Professor Thompson evaded answer replying, “Do I look that way.” Professor Thompson appeared quite well.
Mrs. Thompson is a U. S. C. student formerly known as Ora Frith.
Miss Frith belonged to the Friendly Bunch and Quill Club. She was an English major.
According to eye witnesses, the marriage was a symphony in many colors staged cn the summit of Mt.
Rubidoux at sunrise. The bride wore a white dress and a red coat. Mr.
Thompson wore white trousers and a blue coat. The ceremony was per- Turner will be secretary of the Y. M. formed at 6:30 in (the morning after ! c. A. and Dr. Karl T. Waugh will oc-which the couple and guests retired: cupy the newly-created deanship of
the College of Liberal Arts.
Enrollments to Date Equals Highest Figure of Last Year Classes Started Monday
Seven thousand eight hundred students signed away their liberty last Wednesday when the University of California opened its doors for the fall semester. The registration for the first day was the largest ever known, according to H. J. Stonier, executive secretary, and official estimates compiled from the Registrar’s office show the enrollment to date to be as great as the highest figure reached last year.
When the Registrar’s office opened at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, the Administration building corridor was lined with students standing two abreast waiting to enroll. Standing In line became the order of the day, and before every door and every window crowds waited patiently to have their registration “check-books” signed. Many were forced to make a two-day job of it, and consequently on Thursday there was almost as large a mob ?.s on the previous day.
A new system of registration was used. Books issued to each student contained separate blanks with information for various departments, and these had to be taken to the department, filled out and torn off, leaving the receipted stug. When this was accomplished, the student wearily carried his book back to the Registrar’s office, where he left it and returned later, when it had been checked, for a permanent registration card.
Classes started yesterday and held sessions only long enough for the professor to sign _each card and assign the text-book for the course.
To care for the increase in the student body, 17 new professors and 8 teaching fellows have been added to the faculty. These are: Philip S. Biegler, professor of mechanical and electrical engineering; Arthur T. Connell, instructor in Spanish; L. N. Cat-lin, instructor in botany; Clarence M. Dane, professor of physics; Elmer D. Fagan, assistant professor of economics; Rosalie Keen, instructor in physical education; Frances S. Lucas, instructor in sociology; Agnes L. Mil-gaard, instructor in fine arts; Julia Norton McCorkle, instructor in English; Carl Naethin, assistant professor of English; Mary G. Peabody, instructor in religious education; A. S. Raubenheimer, assistant professor of education; Mildred C. Struble, instructor in English; Sumner N. Spaulding, assistant professor of architecture; Max von Lewen Swarthout, professor of piano and head of the piano department; Roland A. Vandegrift, instructor in history. Glen E.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
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W’ith a largf number of matters to be brought t»P for discussion and action, the Executive Committee of the Associated Student Body will meet in Room 250 Hoose Hall at 7:30 o'clock this evening.
Harry Silke, president of the student body, is anxious that every member of the'committee be present tonight.
“There are rjany preliminary matters which wej must discuss,” Silke said yesterday; “We have a hard job before us tjnd we must get started at once. The extra early start of the football season this year makes it necessary for us to get the ball rolling no%'.,,
NEW PLANS, FOR COMMITTEES
Harry Silke' is instituting a new plan in carrying out the work of the student body. <in former years, com mittees, consisting of members of the Executive Committee, have been appointed to be in charge of the various matters. > j
This year, 3ilke is forming his committees from from the general student body, ^-ith a member of the executive committee at the head as chairman. This method makes it possible to re^ch talent in different lines which could not be obtained by the old method. Members of the student body who would otherwise be left out of things, will have a chance to serve their Alma Mater.
This plan will be carried throughout the year, r Silke states. Whenever a committee is needed, it will be formed in this manner.
The various committees for the school year will be announced by Silke before the end of the month.
Silke Creates Student Committee To Take Charge of All Rallies During Year
WILLIAMSON A T HEAD
To Aid Cheerleader McCann With Bleacher Stunts—Boost Trip To Stanford
for the wedding bieakfast in the Mission Inn at Riverside. Breakfast was served k la Hollandaise.
Though the announcement of the marriage of the Thompsons was a The committee on rules and regu- surprise to many, it has been learn-
WOMEN’S CLUB GUEST DAY
ed that the couple had been secrete-ly engaged for ten months. The Thompsons have settled in Inglewood.
lations for the contest will meet Wednesday in the office of the Student Body President in the journalism building, McCann said yesterday. The
meeting is called for noon. McCann	_
believes that with a representation Send the Trojan to the home folks from every college, the committee w-11 Let them know what is going cn at te more likely to get the opinions of ,hc University
< verycme interested in the welfare of ___
the University. Rules will be made at this time.
It is imperative that all preliminary matters for the contest be arranged and the contest started this week.
McCann says.
The yells and songs which are given the prizes, will probably be adoDt-ed as the official yells and songs of Stonier, Henry Bruce. Gwynn Wilson. U. S. C. to replace many of the old Harry Silke. and two members of the ones, which have gone out of date. j student body to be chosen, the Asso-
Already'some of the scribes of U. i ciated Students Store has opened for S. C. have begun to create yells and business. Its location is in the Jour-songs. Announcement will be made nalism building, directly across the later this week as to where these yells street from the Administration build-
The University of Southern California Women’s Club will hold Guest Day in the President's Suite, Bovaid Adimnistration Building. at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, September 26. Students and friends are cordially invited, and Mrs. R. B. Klein-Smid, president of the Women’s Club, is anxious to have a large number of guests at the event.
Students’ Store is Ready
For Business on Campus
LAW SCHOOL OPENS WITH 400 STUDENTS
Library Moved to Fifth Floor Leaving Fourth Floor Space For Assembly Room
and songs may be submitted. POPULAR WITH STUDENTS
Students at U. S. C. fell that this is one of the greatest things that has
ever been done for the school in the the needs of the student body and fac-way of promoting unified and a higher ulty for text books, stationery, sport-type of cheers in the bleachers.	j ing goods and jewelry. Inkwells, blank
U S. C. has been sadly in need .A checks, and pencil sharpeners are at yells and songs, it has been said in ! the disposal of the students. Sm:ill the past.	checks will be cashedj
Under the joint direction of the Uni- It is financed by the Associated Stu-versity of Southern California. Harold dent body, and its credit is guaranteed
by the University. All student body tickets and sales will be carried on in the store, which has space set aside for such purposes. Six or eight students are employed as part-time help.
A rebate system is to be used by which a cash register check will be given writh every purchase. At the end of each ‘semester any surplus above running expenses will be paid back to the students in proportion to their purchases.
“Prices will be as low as possible and still be consistent with business principles,” says Dean Fiske, manager of the store. “The more business we have, the better the prices will be.’
ing. The Y. M. C. A. book exchange, with Earnest Judson in charge, is there this semester.
The purpose of this store is to serve
Early reports from the registrar’s office of the Law School show a record enrollment of nearly 400 students. Twenty years ago this month sixty students registered without meeting any requirements whatsoever. Now the requirements are two years of accredited college work. Next September the entrance requirements will be given another boost when it will be necessary for the embryo law student to have had at least three years of pre-legal work. W7hen these entrance rules go into effect the law school requirements will rank with those of Harvard and Yale.
Paul W. Jones, formerly instructor of law at Drake University, has come to U. S. C. and will teach Evidence and Insurance the first quarter of the year.. Mr. Jones is a graduate of Northwestern University and Northwestern Law School.
Mr. Tappan is starting a class in Historical Jurisprudence which he will give to the incoming Freshmen.
During the summer months the library was moved to the fifth floor leaving the space on the fourth,' which it formerly occupied, to be used for an assembly room which will meet a great need of law school. The moving of the library, which has 11,500 volumes, to its new home, will benefit the students who now have more quiet working quarters. Mr. Whitney, the librarian, stated that the library is not only complete for thorough research purposes, but that there are also certain’old prints in the collection which date back into the old Roman days. Perhaps the rarest of these is Bracton's Delgibus which is an original in the Latin.
Mr. Millikan, assistant to the Dean, predicts that the Law School will this year turn out the best giade of work that it has ever done. The faculty will be able to exercise more exact supervision over the students from the standpoint of scholarship. There will be four members of the faculty with offices in the school to give the students a greater opportunity for personal conferences, it is also expected that the law school will this year undertake a definite program of service to the practicing lawyers wL:ch will be of unlimited value to .he students as well as to the profession in general.
Mr. Dawson, president of the student body, has been working on plans for student activities
For the purpose of creating a unified system of handling all student rallies this season, a student committee, headed by Harold Williamson, has been formed to take charge of all these matters throughout the season.
It will be the duty of this committee to arrange for and stage all rallies during the athletic year. These rallies will be managed by the committee and all stunts will be passed upon by the committee.
The committee will serve as an advisory committee for Cheerleader Hank McCann in arranging yell fests and bleacher stunts. It will have charge of the try-outs for cheerleader assistants which take place in the near future.
TO BOOST STANFORD TRIP
Hal Williamson and his crew will have charge of the sale of student body athletic tickets and tickets at the games. The matter of making the Stanford trip a reality will become one of the duties of this comnfit-tee. This trip will be entirely managed by the group appointed to serve cn this cimmittee.
The committee was appointed by Harry Silke, president of the Asso-* ciated Student Body. Following his plan of utilizing the efforts of the stutdents who do not hold positions on the executive committee, Silke has formed a committee of ten. Hal Williamson, of the executive committee, will head the committee, as it is Silke’s policy to place at the head of each committee one member of the executive committee, who are elected annually by the student body.
TEN ON COMMITTEE
The entire committee is composed of: Hal Williamson, chairman; Hank McCann, cheerleader; Al Wesson, Liberal Arts; Ruth Seaver, Speech; Harold Roberts, director of band; Mary Taylor, Music; Marjorie Rice, Liberal Arts; Boyd Welin, Pharmacy; George Boeck, Commerce; and Eleanor Rogers, President Associated Woman Students.
The committee is now working to secure a time for a student rally. At present, both chapel period this week and next are taken up for other purposes. Ten minutes will be devoted to a yell fest Thursday. It is planned to have a half hour rally Friday noon in preparation for the game with California Tech.
The committee announces that a rally for the Sophomores will be held this noon, and one for the Freshmen tomorrow noon.
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A. S. B. TICKETS ON
SALE TOMORROW
Associated Student Body tickets will be on sale tomorrow for the sum of $5.00. The possession of one of these books entitles the owner to admittance to all the football games with the exception of the one with California, and a fifty cent reduction on this one. Every loyal Trojan is expected to buy one of these books.
0. S. C. BAND PREPARES FOR GREATEST YEAR IN HISTORY
ALL
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ON 10 CAMPOS
Coaching Staff Has New and Enlarged Workshop
GREEN SHANTY REBUILT
Varsity and Freshmen are Well Cared For in New Building
‘ Trojan Hall’’ may be a new term to many students, new and old, but it will rapidly become familiar to everyone because this is the name that graces the brand new workshop of Coach Henderon and his ten associates. During the summer a certain little green “shanty” then known a the training quarters was raised and in its place has been built a 1923 “model” of a university training establishment.
After passing through the Mission Type door one comes upon the reception or conference room where the several coaches receive their guests and also devise ways and means of getting the most out of a little. Off of this main lobby is the office of coaches Cromwell and Henderson. Leo Calland maintains a private room on the opposite side from which place he directs movements of the 3. C. youngsters.
In the main section of the ‘“L” shaped building both the Varsity and the Freshmen are housed in separate rooms with modern showers adjoining each department. Dividing the large rooms is the supply department where new shoe strings, belts, adhesive tape, etc., are commissioned out in cases of necessity.
The building in its entirety !s new from the large red gas meter to the chairs and tables in the interior. To say it was badly needed is to put if. mildly and to say it has met with favor is to put it unanimously.
Mgr. Roberts Makes Call For Talent to Try-Out Tomorrow* Evening:
STANFORD TRIP SURE
Membership in Band Gives Credit—New Uniforms Are Ordered
Annual ‘ 1 ’ Stag Do to\be held Thursday at Men s Gymnasium
Held annually in the men’s gym, the “Stag Do” is an affair to which every man in the university looks forward. The Freshman men are especially urged to come as they are expected at this time to become imbued with the Trojan spirit and “pep.”
Thursday night, September 27, has been set as the time for this frolic of the men. Although he'd under the auspices of the Y. M. the Sophs are expected to take an active p3rt in the entertainment and promise a rip roading good time to every one that comes.
Justin Dees, in charge of the event, announced that there would be a tug-of-war ad a jazz band there, “What else there will be,” he said, "No one knows, not even I, myself.”
MORE ROOM NEEDED
Facilities for housing classes have become so crowded that the University authorities are planning to utilize several vacant buildings in the neighborhood as temporary quarters. Many of the freshman classes will be divided into two or three sections to take care of the increase in numbers.
Annual Freshman Reception Will 7 ickle Frosh on Friday
Friday night, September 28, is the date set for the Annual Freshman reception given by the Y. M. and Y. W. C -A., instead of Thursday night, as first announced. It will be given av the home of Dr. and Mrs. von Klein-Smid at 801 West 28th Street.
Although called a Freshman reception, this affair is really in the nature of a \yelcome to all the new students on the campus. This will bu the first opportunity the old and new students have of meeting each other in a social way. All students coming from other colleges and from the high schools are urged to come out on this night and meet the president, the student body officers, and the old students here.
Helen Morton Hall, social chairman of the Y. W. C. A., and Justin Dees, social chairman of the Y. M. C. A., are in charge of the program for the reception, and are planning a few musical numbers to be given during the evening. Other plans are being worked out by the committee and will be announced later.
Special efforts have been made to have a reception committee that will make everyone feel right at home and acquainted with everyone else. The members of the two cabinets will act in this capacity, and after a short program the rest of the evening will be devoted to seeing that every newcomer in the university feels that he or she has friends in the college and is Dart of the active student body.
With plans laid for one of the greatest seasons in the history of the U. S. C. band, Harold W. Roberts, student manager and director, issued a call today for material to make up the organization.
Several important announcements were made by Director Roberts today, among which were:
Bert J. Teazle, former director of Manual Arts High School band, ha3 been employed to te3ch band instruments at the college of music.
Work in the band will give one unit of credit.
Premier rehearsal, enrollment, and tryouts will be held in the Old College at 7:45 o'clock tomorrow evening.
A thirty-piece band will be taken to Stanford and perhaps to Washington I for the football games.
Fifty new uniforms have been ordered.
ON SOLID FOUNDATION
The Trojan band is on a more solid I foundation this year than it has ever I been since its organization several I years ago. It is backed by the 3tud-l ent body through the General man-j ager, Gwynn Wilson, and already has money with which to function.
Besides the student director, the | following officers have been chosen for the band: Edwin Kendell, president; George Shindler, vice-president; and Cassatt D. Griffin, secretary and librarian. Griffin was president last year, and returning for graduate work this year, has taken over the clerical work for the band.
An alumni committee has also been chosen. This committee is composed of Judge Kenneth C. Newell; J. Paul Elliott, former director of the band and the man who was largely responsible for its organization; and H. R. Day, manager of the band last year, and the man who brought the band to the front.
R03ERTS ABLE DIRECTOR
The band has secured one of the best student directors in the state in Manager Roberts. This musician came to the front at U. S. C. with his spectacular handling of the baton last year. He is also director and manager of the Hollywood Legion Band which won the championship of the south at Music Week which was held last spring. The Fire-Pollcfi Band was second in this contest.
Bert Teazle, who will be faculty in-j structor, will have charge of the band at rehearsals and try-outs, but Roberts will direct the band at all con-; certs. Mr. Teazle was solo-cornet in 1 Grauman’s Metropolitan Theater or-i chestra this summer. He formerly | conducted the Manual Arts band, as i well as several other high school bands in Los Angeles.
ENROLL AT ONCE
In order to get credit for work done in the band, men will have to enroll with Manager Roberts in the Old College before Wednesday Try-out will be held tomorrow evening. Refreshments will be served.
The band will feature popular music this year and will work toward a concert later in the evening. Small sections of the band will be used throughout the season at all student rallies, and the entire band will be on the field at tbe games. Members of the band will be drilled in marching | and in formations 3uch as those used j last year.
The Stanford trip is assured. Last June the band gave a concert at the Long Beach Exposition, for which the organization received $200. This is | now in the band’s treasury as a nucleus for the trip. Students will be | asked to donate toward the trip later j in the* season. Popular subscription on the part of the student body sent the band north last fall.
MAY TAKE CONCERT TOUR
If the students want the band to | go to Washington for the game wi'.h Washington University, the band will go, Manager Roberts says. It is now the plan for the band to start out a
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