TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1923
NUMBER 6
INTRODUCING-
(By Ruth Canary)
With the Summer Session fast com-j ing to a close, we ire beginning to realize that we haven’t allotted ourselves half enough time or space in which to present to you all of the famous personalities acquired into our midst for the time being. However, we’re going to do our best to get them all in, but before wre can go rushing ahead we feel that there is one person around here to be brought forth immediately from the depths of his own department and classroom into the limelight of general campus recognition. So, allo\V us at this time—Dr. P. Orman Ray.
Dr. Ray comes to us from Northwestern University it Evanston, Illinois, where he has I>een for some time professor in th** political science department. Previous to that Dr. Ray taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
As a member of the American Political Science Association Di. Ray is actively identified with the work of that organization and has come to be known throughout the country. He has written an “Introduction to Political Parties and Practical PolTtics,” and was co-author with Professor Ogg of the University of Wisconsin in publishing “An Introduction to American Government.” Both books have proved very popular and are extensively used.
In the Summer Session Dr. Ray is giving courses in national, state and local government. Thinking that these were the only subjects that Dr. Ray would like to discuss with us, we ap-
ART PROFESSOR EXHIBITS WORK IN PROTRAITURE
John Hubbard Rich, professor of art at the University of Southern California, has received much commendation proached him with a tactful question,] on his present exhibition of eighteen
modestly working in a query as to how California compared with the other states, governmentaily speaking.
California! We had said enough. In another moment Dr. Ray was voicing most complimentary sentiments, giving evidence of the fact that he had fallen a ready victim to that famous Southern California disease known as “boosteritis.”
We gathered that what Dr. Ray likes most about us and our country is our climate (especially the cool nights) our fine boulevards and highways, our variety of scenery, and general atmosphere of hospitality.
“I am immensely pleased with Los Angeles and with the University of Southern California,” said Dr. Ray. “This city appeals to me as being well organized and well governed, and as far as progress is concerned—well, Los Angeles just can’t be beat!
“I have collected many stories to carry back with me to my eastern friends about the phenomenal wonders of Southern California, but the best one I’ve heard yet was told me by some highly respected and worthy faculty members of this institution. It has to do with the ‘Buried Magnet.’
I am told that out Hollywood way you can drive your automobile on a certain drive that goes slightly uphill. Halfway up you can turn off the engine and the force of the ‘buried magnet’ will pull your car to the top of the grade! WThew! I claim that’s a whopper; but I’m willing to be convinced, and the worthy professors insist that they can prove that they have not been telling me a wonder tale. How I shall enjoy telling that story to my Evanston friends!”
Dr. Ray felt the earthquake the other night, too; but he is still enthusiastic. “About the first morning I was here I woke up and saw a little bird perched on my window sill, and actually, it was singing and chirping as plainly as can be, ‘Come again, come again.’ Now, who could resist an invitation like that?”
By the way, Dr. Ray is to be the speaker at this morning's assembly from nine until ten o’clock, and now that you have been “introduced” you’ll be sure to want to hear him.
MT. LOWE SCENIC TRIP ARRANGED FOR SATURDAY
portraits and figure studies that is held at Connell & Chaffin’s to July 28.
One of Professor Rich’s most successful pictures is hte large portrait cessful pictures is the large portrait dent emeritus of the University of Southern California.
Professor Rich was a prize student in the Boston School of Art. He came to Los Angeles more than twelve years ago, remaining a few years, then left for New York and Boston, where, he thought, opportunities for portraiture were better than here. But he came back in due course of time, and he has not left us—and probably never will. For several posts of dignity and influence as instructor of painting were offered him and accepted, and portraits are now coming his way with encouraging regularity.
There is only one portrait of a man, but we find one or two women, for Rich paints lovely women (and their lovely clothes) with much distinction, in the present exhibit. It follows as a matter of course that a good portrait painter must also be a good painter of still life, and Rich’s still life is invariably intriguing in its color as well as in its rendering of textures.
His arrangements when he paints the figure, whether his picture be a portrait or a study of some attractive model, are always carefully made, and the result is invariably a picture, a thing of esthetic beauty. His chief fault is some self-consciousness in his sitter. Occasionally, however, especially in the cases where he finishes his picture in one sitting, as with his study of a Chinaman, “In American Clothes,” he is very easy and spontaneous— though here the model is not, naturally enough, quite at ease in his coat and cravat.
But Rich is a technician first, last and all the time, and it is in the consummate beauty of his brushwork that we take the most joy, though it is joined to a keen sense for character. His portraits are always good portraits, even when they are charming pictures. You find this able characterization in the lovely “Augustina” (lovely as a painting, I mean, for the
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For the students of the U. S. C. Summer Session a special rate trip has been arranged for Saturday, July 28, to Mt. Lowe.
Leaving the Main street Pacific Electric station, the special U. S. C. cars will leave at 8:30 and 9:30 a. m. for the mile-high scenic trip.
The journey begins in Los Angeles and lies through Pasadena with its beautiful residences and great tourist hotels, to Altadena, another millionaire colony overlooking the valley, and plunges into the wild beauty of Rubio Canyon, pausing at, the foot of the great incline, where the second stage of the journey begins.
The incline is three thousand feet long, and in that distance the traveler rises thirteen hundred feet, on grades ranging from forty-eight to sixty-two per cent.
At Echo Mountain, the top of the incline, is located the Lowe Observatory, which will be open free to the
students. The three-million-candle-power searchlight is also on exhibition.
Changing cars at Echo Mountain, the third and most picturesque stage of the journey is begun, a scenic trolley ride of five miles, passing around pne hundred and twenty-seven curves and over eighteen bridges, climbing to an elevation of five thousand feet above sea level on a maximum grade of only nine per cent.
The trail terminates at Ye Alpine Tavern, a hospitable inn, where luncheon and dinner is served at popular prices. All trails radiate from Ye Alpine Tavern.
At 7:15 p. m. a special train, in addition to the regular 2 and 4:40 trains, will leave the tavern, stopping at Mt. Lowe Observatory.
Tickets must be obtained in advance. Reservations for luncheon or dinner may be made when tickets are purchased. These reduced rate tickets may be secured at the treasurer’s office for $1.60 round trip.
UNKNOWN U. S. C. GRIDIRON HERO LOSES DIGNITY
A football hero of the University of Southern California underwent a harrowing experience recently at Crystal Pier Beach that startled the mermaids out of their lethargy and brought every policeman to the water’s edge. The football hero threatens to shoot anyone using his name.
He hired a bathing suit—one with two buttons—and plunged into the surf. Out a hundred yards he felt something give, but swam on unheeding. W’hen he reached the last large comber on his way to shore, he shot up out of the water, but the bathing suit headed for the open sea.
He stood speechless in the same raiment he greeted the world in twenty-five years before. The hero headed for the open sea and probably never would have returned, but friends reached him with a barrel. The police were satisfied with an explanation; the bathhouse proprietor insisted on payment for the lost suit.
DR. RAY TO BE CHAPEL SPEAKER
Dr. Perley Orman Ray, professor of political science, Northwestern University, will speak at the assembly of the Summer Session students of the University of Southern California tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock on “The Form of Presidential Nomination Methods.” The lecture will be preceded by a twenty-minute organ recital by Dean Walter Skeele of the College of Music.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock Dr. C. A. Ellwood, professor of sociology, University of Missouri, will speak on “The Problem of the Reconciliation of Social Classes.” This lecture will be given in Room 206, Hoose Hall of the Bovard Administration building. Both lectures will be open to the public.
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC IS PLAN FORJ. S. C.
To- more truly meet the music needs of the southwest, campaign headquarters has recently announced that their development campaign for $10,000,000 soon to be staged, includes a large item for the erection and equipment of a conservatory of music. The projected conservatory will be the last word in music training equipment, according to the instructors who are assisting in the preliminary plans.
High praise of the University School of Mu^p and a prophecy of a great future were voiced recently by L. E. Behymer, of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Mr. Behymer pointed out the excellence of the work now being done and declared Los Angeles to be the proper site for a great conservatory of music, adding that Southern California has already established its right to foster such an institution. In part Mr. Behymer said:	r
“The expenditure of $200,000 for a conservatory of music at the University of Southern California would mean that that institution would be the only one on the coast entitled to the name.
“The University of Southern California is the logical educational institution on our coast to carry out such a pretentious plan. The climatic conditions, the physical and geographical conditions all tend in that direction. The fact that Schumann-Heink and others have degrees of Bachelor of Music from this university insures the foundation for a roster of instructors amply able to carry out the curriculum laid down or selected. Added to this is the tremendous advantage of having-allied arts, such as the drama and the languages in the same institution.”
YALE IS SEEKING SONG
DR. MIMS ROTARY CLUB SPEAKER
Dr. Edwin Mims, visiting professor of English from Vanderbilt University, is to be the speaker at the Friday luncheon of the Rotary Club.
The subject of Dr. Mims’ address will be “The New South.”
Opens New Contest When First One Fails
Failure of Yale to find a suitable song out of 162 manuscripts submitted in a recent contest resulted in the announcement of a new competition for the} $1,000 anonymous prize. Yale desires a song to supplant “Bright College Years,” the tune of wrhich is ‘Die Wacht am Rhine.”
The donors hope that a song of the anthem type will be brought out by the competition.
Noah H. Swayne, ’93, of Philadelphia, is chairman of the committee of awards.