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A Greater A. A. E. For U.S.C.
Vol. XIII
Los Angele*, California, Wednesday October 5, 1921
No. 6
S. C. Welcomes Annual M. E. Conference
A. A. E. Recruits Membership
HOW THEY LOOK AND WHERE THEY HANG OUT.
At the Upper Left is the A. A. E. Bench, to the Right the House and Below the Engineers Themselves.
Pledge Pins And Ribbons Rampant On Campus Co-eds
Pledging Breakfasts Mark End of Formal Rushing Season.
SORORITIES SMOKE PEACE PIPE
Zeta Tau Alpha and Alpha Chi Omega Each Pledge Ten Girls.
NOTICE
Because of the improtance of football from this time on, the coaching staff urgently requests every U. S. C. student to leave Bovard Field exclusively to the use of the varsity and freshmen squads. Spectators will not be welcome from now on, but we have every desire to give the students all possible chance to see the team in action. For this reason the varsity will hold regular scrimmage on Tuesday evenings, which will be open to all students, free of charge.
In view of this and because of the necessity for secret practice it is again urged that absolutely no one aside from the coaches watch the teams on any other days.	(Signed)
E. C. HENDERSON.
NOTICE
As a courtesy to the Southern California Annual- M. E. Conference, which is to be entertained ,joint]y by the University Church and the University of Southern California from October 5th to 10th, inclusive, the cafeteria will be open to Conference members only during that period.
Students are requested to either plan to bring their lunch or eat elsewhere. The cafeteria will be open to students as usual October 11th.
The University Administration will greatly appreciate the cooperation of the students in this matter and in their again supporting the cafeteria on and after the 11th.
Signed BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
When the smoke of battle clears away, it is then possible to discern the one who has been the victor in the strife. In this year of 1921 the laurel wreath is to be shared jointly by Alpha Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha, who each pledged ten enchanted Freshmen at the end of the formal rushing season.
Rushing has been rather long this year, because of the large number of sororities on the campus. Twelve groups engaged in the fracas, the opening engagement of which took place on the day school began while the final contest closed Wednesday afternoon.
Kisses and hearty conratulations ran rife on the campus Monday morning, for pledging took place either Sunday >r Monday. Many of the sisters arose n the “wee sma hours” and pledged heir new members by candle-light, on londay morning. Pledge breakfasts •ere then the order of the day.
Many pledge ribbons were in evi-ence, for the former bouquets are ow taboo. They are undemocratic, ou know. Hence the flurry in the rib-n market over the week-end. How-ver. off the campus, corsages blos-orned as of yBre.
Second honors go to Phi Mu. who nferred nine shining new pins upon is many smiling young ladies.
“To the victor belongs the spoils" the demure Freshmen who are now earing the Zeta Tau Alpha ribbon .re: Lucille Brentner. Gladys Camp. Sllen Douglas. Louise Fitzer. Isabel Zollister, Alta King. Ida McGeary. immm Moelk, Florence Moss, and 'iolet Vermilvea.
Those who will one day be Alpha hi Omegas are: Eleanor Ames. Jane angsund, Katherine Cattell, Helen ine. Edith Haggman. Frances Kel-gg, Lillian Layne. Elizabeth Ordw'ay. nd Mary Taylor.
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S YOUR AGE BETWEEN
THREE AND EIGHTEEN?
ARE YOU GOING TO CAL?
Persons wisniug reservations on the Yale, which leaves for Berkeley the I day before the California game, should I see Gywnn Wilson in the graduate i manager’s office.
It has been definitely decided that i the steamer will be chartered, and it I is desirable that those going should make their reservations as soon as i possible. There are a number of I joined compartments, admitting four ' persons, which may yet be reserved, i though the ordinary stateroom is for tW'O.
The price of the trip is $30, iuclud-! ing meals, and a ten-dollar deposit is I necessary for those making reserva-j tions. Those coming first will receive first choice.
CARDS STILL SOLD
Student cards will be on sale until the California-Tech, game next Saturday. closing at that time. The professional colleges are to have a chance at the cards during the remainder of the week, while the students of the Coljege of Music will be allow'ed to buy them there today only. They may-secure them on the Liberal Arts campus, however.
According to Merle McGinnis there are a great many Liberal Arts students who have not yet secured their tickets, and in view of the bargain offered financially in addition to the assurance of increased college spirit through a heavy sale, tt is felt that every one now without one should take advantage of the opportunity.
Today and Friday the cards are obtainable from 10 to 3 in the booth. Thursday they will be for sale from 12 to 3.
JUNIORS HOLD CONFAB
The office of the registrar wishes to j inounce that, according to the new : ate law, all students at C.S.C. under ' years of age must fill out minor I »gistration blanks, giving full infor-ation regarding time spent in school. , employment, place of residence and her data to be filed at the State j -pitol at Sacramento.
According to Miss Russell, assistant | the registrar, it is imperative that j 1 persons at U.S.C.. between the ages j 3 and 18 years appear at the office I the registrar in the new building ! d obtain one of the blansk. w hich i ust be filled out by them.
Registration of the minors w ill con-; nue for ten days.
Juniors are requested by Roy Wolfe, president, to meet in rom 306. Hoose Hall, immediately after chapel. Thursday. October 7.
EPISCOPALIANS IN 201
Today at 12 o’clock the Episcopalian Club will hold a business meeting in Room 201, Hoose Hall. All members are urged to attend.
“This isn’t an opening it’s a riot” is the way in which Dr. Lewis E. Ford, Dean of the College of Dentistry, describes the opening of the division of the Dental College work in the Science jand Technic building. All classes w^ere ! organized last Monday and the work i is now in full swing. There are 185 Frosh and 150 Sophs registered.
According to Dr. Ford the building is ' full to overflowing, the inrush of so i many students being entirely unex-; pected. There is a large waiting list ■ and the administration officials are ' working under a system of “first come, j first served,” in admitting students to l classes.
Dean Ford stated that he is doing ' his best to get the students arranged j and things runing smoothly but that 1 there are so many hopeful young dentists that he feels like buying a lot, fencing it in and then turning his “worries” loose therein. When Dr. Ford built the Clinic at 16th and Los Angeles streets he never expected to live to see the day when there would be so many young men interested in dentistry work in this city. The Dean expected at some time to have 250 students in the Dental College.
In view' of the fact that so many young men are becoming interested in dental work in the south and thereby boosting Southern California institutions Dr. Ford said that the University is entertaining expansion ideas to further these ambitions. “Los Angeles is an ideal place for a university and with the interest shown in education the last few years there is no reason wrhy U.S.C. cannot become one of the largest universities in the country.”
Dr. Ford stated that it is a very good thing for the University to have the first two years of the Dental College w’ork so near the campus. The Dental students can become an integral part of U.S.C. life and carry with them to the Clinic a feeling of unity with the University as a whole. The dentists are expected by the Dean to enter all social and athletic activities of the school and work for a greater Southern California University.
Local Engineers Strive To Gain Enrollment Cup
C. E. Drayer Addresses Men at Chapter,. House This Evening.
Grid Huskies Churned Water With Wet Gobs
Gloomy Gus’es Proteges Outpad-dle Sailors in Bovard Ooze by Scores of 62-0 and 35-0.
VITAL YEARLY CONVENTION IN SESSION NOW
Southern California Conference Gathers at University Methodist Episcopal Church.
TWO GAMES PLAYED
U. S. S. Arizona Drowned Mud; Dreadnaught U. S. S. New York Captured Goose Egg.
CAFETERIA RESERVED
Many Important Matters to Come Before Meeting Headed by Leonard.
NATIONALLY PROMINENT
By Maxwell Stiles
Arizona Chapter Won Cup Last Year by Small Percentage.
DENTAL COLLEGE
SENIORS MEET TOMORROW
Senior Class meeting in Chapel at end of hour. Thursday, October 6. at 12 o’clock.
MURRAY B. HEICHFRT, President.
CERCLE MEETS FRIDAY
Le Cercle Francais will hold its first meeting at 7:30 Friday night, October 7, at the Y. M. C. A. Hut. Any interested in French are invited to attend. The dues have been reduced to 50 cents this year, so come and bring a lot of members with you.
In an attempt to put over the biggest membership campaign in the history of the University the U.S.C. chapter of the American Association of Engineers has set aside today for the beginning of the final drive for new members. In this connection the local chapter is to be honored by the presence of the National Secretary, Mr. C. E. Drayer who will speak to the Engineers at their chapter house this evening. Mr. Drayer is nationally prominent in the engineering world and he will speak on some of the leading engineering questions of the day. He is at present making a tour of the United States studying the economic conditions of the country from an engineering standpoint.
The American Association of Engineers is a national organization with a large membership. It is an organization that is at present accomplishing great work, and with its present rapidly growing membership, greater attainments may be expected in the future. The A.A.E. holds the same position in the Engineering profession as the American Medical Association does in the medical profession. The objects of the Association are to raise the standard of ethics of the engineering profession, and to promote the economic and social welfare of the engineers.
According to C. C. Miller, president of the local chapter, the membership campaign which opened September 27th and will close October 17th is an attempt to enroll one hundred per cent of the engineering students eligible to membership. All the university chapters in the United States have entered in competition for a loving cup which is presented to the chapter enrolling the largest percentage of University students. The U.S.C. Chapter lost to the University of Arizona Chapter last year by a very small percentage but intends to gain possession of the cup this year. The winning of this cup brings national recognition to the University. At present over fifty per cent of the new students have made application for membership, and M. S. Robb who is directing the campaign reports a hearty co-operation among the members.
The U.S.C. chapter is the largest and livliest chapter on the Pacific Coast and is the only chapter in the United States which has a permanent chapter house, affording living accommodations for a number of out-of-town students. The house also serves as a meeting place for the business and social functions of the chapter. The wearers of the Monad have adopted a standard shirt by which the wearers may easily recognize each other on the campus.
The Association takes care of the engineering students in a social way. The Engineers’ Smoker, the Engineers’ Picnic, week-end hikes and the big Engineers’ Hop are all functions that are given by the Association and give the engineers a chance to get out with their own gang and have a regular time. Also the Chapter here, work-in in conjunction with the Los Angeles Chapter, enables the engineering students to obtain employment during the summer months or after graduation in their particular line of engineering.
It is the duty of all engineering students to make it a personal matter and see that his name is among the loyal. Everyone is urged to be present at the meeting tonight and get acquainted with some of the big men of the engineering profession.
Elmer Henderson’s grid prospects outswam and outpaddled a youg fleet of gobs in the ooze on Bovard Field, last Saturday. The features of the meet were covered with mud, and the stars of the game twinkled merrily in the fish ponds located about 30 yards N.E. latitude.
Charley Dean churned the wrater like a speedboat in the Balboa mud-banks, and Phil Tiernan resembled a shot of hootch playing tag with Fatty Arbuckle. Not a sailor of the seas could catch Phil, and so the score of one game was 62 to 0, the other. 35 to 0.
It was the U.S.S. Arizona that succumbed to the tune of the former score. The U. S. S. New York—not the team that’s favored to win the World’s Series—put up a good fight, but was outclassed all the muddy way.
Two-Game Puzzle
Henderson put one team on the field against the Arizona, played the 10-minute quarters, an dthen whistled for a second Trojan eleven. The New Yorkers accompanied thi steam on the field, and from then on alternate halves were played. Trying to keep the scores of the twro teams separate was like juggling higher mathematics with a pawnbroker's price scale. You got all bawled up an dthen decided that it didn’t make any difference, anyway.
Although the double-header was merely in practice, a fair-sized crowd of what a certain sporting writer w’ould call “fish,” turned out to ogle the other eye at the team that hopes to play here New Year’s Day. This sporting writer was noticed in the bleachers, but it is taken for granted that he was not a “cash customer,” and cannot be included with the fish.
The first game started like a whirlwind and kept on whirling until the timekeeper interfered. Arizona kicked off and Tiernan ran the ball back to the 25-yard line.- An unsuccessful center buck was followed by a wide run around the Arizona right end. Tiernan carried the ball and followed his interference perfectly. He navigated 50 yards of mud before a dreadnought brought him down. Kincaid made three yards. On the next play, Tiernan skirted right end for the first touchdown.
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Beginning today and continuing for one week, the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will meet at the University Church in the regular annual business and devotional sessions. The con ference is composed of both pastors and layment from all the churches in the south from Fresno to Mexico and extending east into Arizona. The conference proper, made up of ministers only, will probably number 350.
Due to the nearness of the church to the University. U. S. C. will have its full share in entertaining and being entertained by the leaders of the church which is directly responsble for its existence and which determines its policy.
Cafeteria Closed to Students To provide a place where the ministers can dine near the scene of thefr work and recreation, the Board of Trustees has requested the students of the University who are in the habit of using the cafeteria for meals, to give to the members of the conference this sole right for one week, closing October 11. The first cafeteria gathering will be held there at noon today Bishop Leonard Presides Bishop Adna Wright Leonard will preside over the conference sessions and will be one of the principal speakers. Business sessions will be held both morning, afternoon and evening in order to transact the affairs which come before the Methodist Church during the year.
Discussions of doctrine, committee reports, statements from the eight district superintendents in the conference, social service, education, and various other activities of the church will receive a full share of the time of the delegates.
Of Importance to Ministers The conference is the most important affair of the year in Southern California Methodism, as it is at this time that every minister in every one of the three hundred odd churches making up the section either receives an appointment to go back to his charge for another year or is transferred to another church. The bishop makes the appointment s after con ference with committees and delegates, the system being more arbitrary on paper than in practice.
The wide scope of the Methodist Church is indicated by the fact that the conference discusses public ques-! tions and morals as wel] as its own j government. Last year at the Long
UNIVERSITY BAND OFF
TO SUCCESSFUL START
VESPER SERVICES HELD SUNDAY IN AUDITORIUM
Vesper services were held again ]ast Sunday at 4 o’clock in the Auditorium. Dr. Dillon Bronson preached, his subject being, “His Body the Church.” Music was furnished by Mrs. Mary Louise Perry, who sang “Angel’s Song” by Scickles, and Mr. B. E. Ballard, who played the organ prelude.
After the religious services the second five o’clock tea wras held in the parlors of the Administration building.
Making the best start of a varsity band the University has even seen in years, the first practice was held Monday evening. About forty men were present desiring to give their best to make this organization a success.
Although the instrumentation is well distributed there is a shortage of bass and alto players. The president of the band makes an S. O. S. call for men who can fill these places. No band can be complete without having a bass to hit the low' spots.
Mr. Bert Teagle, well known at the local high schools, many of whose bands he directs, is leader this year. Under his leadership a varsity band is being formed that will truly represent U. S. c.
In the past years the band has been handicapped by lack of uniforms and equipment, but now' that difficulty is surmounted. Last year Mr. E. L. Do-heny, Jr., gave to the University uniforms for a band of forty men. With such encouragement there is no reason why the U. S. C. Band should not make the best appearance of any on the coast.
Before the practice Monday a short business meteing was held and the following officers lected:
Cassatt Griffin..............President
Walter Bradley........Vice-President
Harry Holton..............Treasurer
Albert Haase ..............Librarian
Albert Butterfield ..........Manager
Beach conference moving picture cen-i sorship was approved and resolutions passed on many proposed laws coming before the people the following Novem ber. The church has always manifested a keen interest in all mass movements for the betterment of society, emphasizing general morality more than intricacies of doctrine. At the same time the church as a positive force standing firmly by its creed is emphasized with due importance.
Districts represented are: Fresno. Long Beach. Los Angeles. Pasadena. San Diego and Arizona Mission.
Pew Reserved for Students
New Episcopalian students are invited by Miss BeeTS, faculty advisor for the IJ.S.C. Episcopalian Club, to attend Sunday church service with members of th club at St. John’s Church, on the corner of Figuproa and Adams! Pew number 42 has been reserved for U.S.C. students. The pew is held ip reserve until 10:55.
BAND UNIFORMS READY
An extra band practice will be held Thursday evening of this week at 4:30, in the Auditorium. All men who have signed up may get their uniforms Wednesday or Thursday afternoon of this week, from 12 to 3. The band room is under the stairs near the entrance to the cafeteria.
NOTICE
Delta Upsilon Beta Meeting
The first meeting of Delta Upsilon Beta, interfraternity fraternity, will be held 8:00 P.M., next-Thursday, in the Phi Delta Phi rooms, 6th floor, Union League BIdg., second and Hill Sts. AM members are urgently requested to be present.
BALDWIN M. BALDWIN President