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Only Few Weeks To Final Examinations
Vol. XV
Los Angeles California, Thursday, January 3, 1924
Number 36
U. S. G. ON SCREEN IN
Trojan Representative in Peking University Sees Trojan Scenes in Movie
CELEBRITIES VISIT CHINA
Books by Dr. Bogardus Being Used by Sociological Dept, of Chinese School
The thrill of walking: Into a moving picture theater in far away China and suddenly being confronted with views of U. S. C. buildings and vicinity as the background to a feature picture, is told by Harold V. Harris. Trojan representative in Peking University in a letter sent to the Trojan this week Harris also writes of the popularity of Dr. Bogardus’ books in the sociological department of the Chinese University. The letter follows:
Nqv. 21, 1923. Dear Editor, the Trojan and Fellow Students:
The “Trojan'* is on the job as usual (his year, bringing us the news out here of what is going on at U. S. C. I always feel as though I had received a fresh start in life after | reading the “Trojan” and realizing that this proposition that we are working out over here is but one more aspect of “La Vie Trojan.”
1 promised myself and the gentleman who guides the destinies of this illustrious journal that I would attempt to appear rather frequently in its columns this year, so that you
Trojans ' ’ Delivered To Houses If Desired
Copies of the Trojan will be delivered to fraternity nouses if sufficient interest is manifested by the fraternities within the next few days, and providing some practical plan for carrying out the scheme is devisee. There has been considerable agitation for the idea, but so far no definite move has been made toward actually having the Trojan delivered to the 'houses. Kenneth Stonier, business manager of the Trojan, is willing to consider any plan which may be suggested. Those who are interested should either see Stonier personally or drop their suggestions in Box 1 or H of Mr. Huse's office.
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Purpose of Questionaire to Establish Purchasing Power of Students
MERCHANTS BACK MOVE
If Succesful Advertising Space Will be Increased and Trojan Enlarged
TICKETS FOR JUNIOR PROM ON SALE ON CAMPUS MONDAY
Two Hundred Fifty Tickets to Biggest Social Event of Year to be Apportioned to the Various College of the University
Tickets for the muc.l-hei aided Junior Prom will go on sale on the campus Monday, according to Ed Monroe, business manager. Only two hundred and fifty cardboards have been printed, and it is an assured thing that these will be quickly snatched up by the eligible purchasers. This system prevents any such sad occurrence as that of the U. C.-U. S. C. dance on November 10, when a hundred applicants for tickets stormed the doors and crowded into the already packed floor. "Comfort ’n everything” is the motto of the Prom. The approximate distribution of the tickets will be as follows: 110 for the campus colleges; 80 for the Law School, and 60 for dental students. This is based on the ratio of the
upperclass students who are eligiblec-
io l.uy tickets. This number is 1400 ; |ff|Tfim*T /1ATITIT PH in all, 300 of which are in dentistry, | RjlN J< I Y I IIIJI^I I* S
AT JUNIOR PARTY
Large Crowd Attend Affair at Wilshire Country Club on Night of Dec. 19
By Madge McConnell
Ninety couples started their celebration of freedom from the grind by attending the Junior Dance on the night of Wednesday, December 19, I and a sweeter rest for the weary could not be imagined. The slick floor of the Wilshire Country Club
450 in law, and 60 in the campus colleges, thus giving the distribution of the tickets as 60 for Dental, 80 for Law, and 110 for Liberal Arts, Commerce and the other colleges located here on the campus.
Cnly for the first three days of the sale, however, wLl the tickets be restricted to Juniors and Seniors. After that, any remaining admission slips will go on sale to *t,he students at large, whether upper classmen or not.
Ed Monroe and George Orme will handle the sale on the campus. Ralph | Miller will be in charge of buyers; down at the Law School, and Fred
How often have you been forced *o Olds may be sought for the tickets * out Hollywood way and no crowd
go without your copy of the “Trojan?” In the future every student will probably feel sure of securing his copy without fail everytime, that is, providing every student does his part would ihe informed as to all the gos-, jn helping the management of the sip and scandal over in these partR., “Trojan” in rather simple matter.
If all I have written you so far is any measure of what is going on here you would think that Peking was as dead as Gopher Prairie.
Kenneth Stonier, business manager of ft,he “Trojan,”’ is putting out a questionnaire which should establish the purchasing power of the student
“SPRING MAID” TO BE GIVEN BY GLEE CLUBS THIS SPRING
Famous Operetta Will be Presented Next Semester; Opera Association to Stand as Sponsors for First Musical Production
UNIVERSITYLEADERSHiP
Profs. Austin, Schulz and Connell of U. S. C. to Conduct Tour Through Europe
TO LAST ALL SUMMER
Professor C. Scott Williams, of Extension Dept. Will Also Direct Trip
Rarely have students of U. S. C. been offered more attractive oppor^ tunltles for travel under the leadership J Robert B. Smith, from the German cpera by Julius, and A. M. Willner. The of members of the faculty than are music is the work of a Berliner, Honrich Reinhardt. The production was called to one’s attention from posters first presented at the Liberty Theatre in New York on December 28, 1910. and notices of tours which will start Here it scored an instantaneous hit, because of its delightful music and
as soon as the last final examination its great charm and refinement. -	_
's over in June and will be concluded! Chrlsti’e MacDonald, the Broadway! just in time for tlie beginning of work star, made a great hit in the leading j in the Fail.	j role. The New York success was re-
Professor H. D. Austin, head of the peated on th« road. The Coast com- i Department of Italian, with Mrs. Aus-; pany was headed by Mitzi who was ; tin .and Professor R. E. Schulz, head , then known as Mizzi Hajos. It is the I of the Department of Spanish, will common opinion among critics that 1 Membership Numbers Nearly sail with a party of university people Mitzi has never since appeared in a Three Hundred Undergrad-
BY CHET MACKIE
‘ The Spring Maid” has been chosen by the Opera Asociation of the University for its first production this year, according to an announcement made recently by Howard Coy, chairman of the organization The operetta is in two acts and four scenes, and was adopted by Harry B. and
NEW FRATERNITY IS FOUNDED IN THE EAST
uate Students
will be visited, and to present an additional and most unusual feature.
allotted to the dentists. These assistants will be responsible to Ed Monroe, who is business manager of the Prom.
An interesting and novel feature of the dance is the barring of flowers for the fair maidens, introducing a new precedent at U. S. C. but it is a precedent that has found favor at all other universities, and it is hoped that St, will be received in the same spirit here. The prime object of the committee in making this move is to avoid any unnecessary expense on the part of the students. An urgent request has been
But Peking could never be dull if body. The information is necessary it wanted to and life here is never to convince downtown advertisers uninteresting. If everything else fails ! that they should increase their ad-to iQterest you all you need to do J vertising in the “Trojan.’ However, is to go out and lose yourself in the success of the plan depends large-1 made that the men do not send cor-the ever changing life of the streets j ly upon the co-operation of the stu- j sages to their partners as they will be and alleys. Or turn to the columns dents.	j expected to attend the dance without
of the morning paper and see what If the students do not fill out the j flowers, are the latest developments in the questionnaire it will be impossible to great game of politics. You must estimate the actual purchasing power, have heard of Tsao Kun, the new j of the students convincingly, and the president, elected recently by Par- business men of Los Angeles must liament. Each member who cast a be thoroughly convinced before they vote for him received a “gift” of; will enlarge their contracts.
$5,000 so said the paper the next At present only 3,000 copies of the day—and for some strange reason ‘‘Trojan” are printed and distributed they weren’t suppressed. Or turn ! 0n the campus. About 2.000 students over the pages of your paper to are actually forced to do without the see who is the latest foreign celeb-1 "Trojan" every time it appears. If ritv to arrive in Peking. I made a Stonier's plans carry, enough copies list the other day of some of the of the “Trojan” will be printed to ac-visitors of importance in Peking (be- j commodate every student, sides ourselves) since September of The questionnaires will appear last year. It is a strange conglom- either tomorrow or in the early part eration: Henry Fairfield Osborne, i of next week.
SPANISH FACULTY HOST TO STUDENTS
Departmental Club is to Repeat Program Given to the Plaza Children
what could be more perfect? All those who leflt the Elite and the Biltmore affairs breathing curses behind them would have had their hearts Hladdened by the experience of a This will be University dance where there was comfort as w^ell as everything else.
Music which was declared “all the tomatoes,’ was furnished by Bill Thomas and his trained animals, and those who had been looking forward to hearing the Arlington Five, which was first engaged for *t,he affair, could not find cause for regret. The latter orchestra was suffering under an enforced absence due to a contract which took them to a radio studio, from whence tl>t;'y broadcast the music that, is in their hearts.
Judge and Mrs. W. M. Bowen and Dr. and Mrs. Flewrelling were the
from Montreal on the twenty-ninth better vehicle. In facL the produc-of June for a tour of Europe. All of tion w'as so well r*eceived that a re-
the most fascinating cities of Eng- turn tour was made Che following	KNO^VN AS PHI KAPPA PI
land, France. SwMzerland and Italy, year.	Delegates Fro^Eighty-Five Lo-
Its most captivating number is “Day	cal Greek Organizations Are
Dreams,” a song that was the sensa-	Meetin tr three weeks will be spent in sunny tion of a dozen yean} ago and u ig
Spain. The par,y will sail from Cher- Df sufficient importance alone to bring	^ new college fraternity, with chap-
bourg for New YOrk on the third of succ.ess to operetta. “Three	ters extending from New Hampshire
September. j Trees* and “Two Littl e Bees” are	to Iowa and Nebraska and
For those who may wish to spend among its oth<;r	Mts
the entire summer in Spain in travel!
and in study, particularly at the Uni-| deIjcate story_ ^	one of| representati.es of college local, at
are; w iwwa ana meorasKa and with a membership at the outset of nearly Besides all this, there is a quaintly ^ undergraduates was formed by
Grimm’s fairy tales. The comedy ele- i t*ie National Inter-Fraternity Confer-
versjdad Central in Madrid Professor!
Schulz is offering the fatuous “Ortega	„ „road „ot offensiTe j ence which ended its sessions in New
Tour, under the official sanction of ;	1 York December 1
the Instiuto de las Espanas and the ^ four se<.s are out of doors; and
personal direction of Mr. Joaquin v’hen P^ented at the Liberty, green The new Greek letter society was
was the prevailing shade used for tentatively named Phi Kappi Pi. Its both costumes and scenery. The sec- chapters will be located at Penn ond scene of the second act is a State, Illinois, Iowa State College, beautiful forest picture, and a panto-1 George Washington, Bucknell, New mimic dance of classic poses is here Hampshire, Stevens, Worcester Poly, introduced.	Davidson, Temple University, Nebraa-
The cast calls for twelve promi- ^ ^ ftsleyan and the L nlversley of nent parts, besides a large chorus.
The operetta is to be presented sometime next semester, the com-bind Glee Clubs with the co-operaUon of the School of Speech taking the leading parts.
Ortega of the University of Wiscon-| sin. The priveleges and contacts which these parties enjoy are such as are available to no others.
If one prefers an insight into Span-ish-America before visiting the mother country and Europe, abundant opportunity Jis offered in two tours to Mexico. Professor A. T. Connell of the Spanish Department, will take a party from Los Angeles on June 30th, visit the Grand Canyon, Chihuahua, Vera Cruz, Pueblo, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, allow six weeks by water from Manzanillo to Port Los Angele.’-
Jane Addams. ex-Senator Newbury, Fritz Kreisler. Jascha Heifetz, Chas. A. Baird, Sherwood Eddy, Kathleen (Continued from page 2)
FROSH MUST TAKE INTELLIGENCE TEST
LAW GETS “RAZZ"
Law students who have been unab.e to secure copies of the Razz Trojan were disappointed through no fault of the management. Copies were taken twice to the Tajo building, but each time no students w*ere present, due to various reasons. However, some copies have been left at the Uw School and may be easily secured by all who are interested.
All freshmen who have not already taken the Intelligence Test have finni | opportunity to do so Thursday after-! noon, January 3rd. at 2:15 p. m., in Hoose Hall, room 206. This includes all freshmen in campus colleges. Registration is not considered as com-j plete and no records will be released to these students for the first semes-l ter until the Test is taken.
J. H. MONTGOMER	a
J. H. Montgomery.
Registrar.
Faculty members of the Spanish Department will be at home at the Y Hut to all of the several hundred students of Spanish in the University, Friday, from 3 to 5. The Christmas program presented by the Spanish Club. La Tertulia. before four hundred and fifty Mexican children and their parents at the Goodwill Industries, will be repeated, two pinatas elaborately decorated and filled with Spanish sweets, specially ordered for the \ j ocasion, will be broken and other re-! freshments wiil be served.
The men students of the depart- j
chaperones in position only, for they A somewhat similar
trip returning oy CTDfDFC	HOI 0
entered into the spirit of the evening j raJ1 wm be undpr the guidance of 0\j A1DL J 1V UUL1/
DINNER NEXT WEEK
as ioyfully as any of the students.
This dance is unique in more than its delightful comfort and congenial atmosphere. Here was a dance which will shed benefit on the eritire class which sponsored as well as on those who attended, for it was such a success financially that the Juniors will
guidance
Professor C. Scott Williams of the Extension Department.
NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY
Europe and Elsewhere, Mark Twain. Theodore Roosevelt. Lord Charm-wood.	%
Woodrow Wilson’s Case for the be exempted from dues for the semes- ? League of Nations, ter. Hurray, let’s have them often! j Best British short stories of 1923.
---' Storv of the Bible. Hendrik Van
ALUMNUS COMPLETES COURSE Loon
H. A. Cordes, University of Southern California, ’21, has completed the Students’ Training Course of the General Electric Company at t'he | Schenectady Works and has been j transferred to the Los Angeles office of the Company, where he is engaged in sales work.
A son at the front. Edith Wharton. North of 36 Emerson Hough.
The Rover. Joseph Conrad.
JUNIORS ATTENTION!
Juniors will gather ’round in the
Chattanooga.
When organization plans are completed in six months, locals at other colleges and universities may be admitted but, representatives at the Conference decided, applicant locals must be in good financial standing, must possess or lease their own home and have two years’ standing as a college fraternal body at an institution of learning at which at least five recognized national fraternities are located.
MORE FRATERNITY MEN Formation of Phi Kappa Pi came as the result of a policy laid down early iu the year by Conference officials to Finai plans for the annual News- foster establishment of one or more paper Day which is to be held at the i new national fraternities is order to University January 17, will be formu- extend to more college men the ad-laff.ed at a banquet held by the Press vantages of a nation-w de Greek let-Ciub at the Green Lantern, on the ter organization. Delegates from evening of January 8, according to eighty-five locals throughout the coun-the announcement made by Cecil. try attended a special meeting hald Carle. Trojan editor, yesterday. Mem- concurrently with Conference ses-bers of the Trojan staff, and of the , sions.
advertising club of the University., “As a system, we have been accus-
Plans for Newspaper Day to be Completed at Second Press Banquet
A married man is glad that there
ment contrib i ' od seventy-five dollars is no place like home when it is filled tcw-ard a Christmas tree and stockings from cellar to roof with his wife’s for the Gocdwill program, and the ! folks.
women students filled bountifully two ' --
hundred and seventy of the Christmas stocnings. The “At Home” is an expression of appreciation from the members of the faculty of the department of the generous response on the part of the students.
Old Chapei at the usual hour for as- will also attend the banquet, am? ed of snobbishness, exclusiveness and serrbly today, and plans for the Jun- tickets will be sold for $1.25. acording the desire to be an aristocracy,” Chair-:or Prom, as well as oth^r important to the statement made.	; man John J. Kuhn told them. “The
business, will be discussed. Every member of the class should be present, as this is one of the most important meetings of the semester.
Plans Being Formulated for Big Annual Newspaper Day
STUDENTS URGED TO HAVE PICTURES TAKEN
ASILOMAR DELEGATES RETURN FROM NORTH
Only Five of Twenty-Two Troian Representatives Arrived on Campus Yesterday; U. S. C. Men Take Second Place on Stunt Night
Five tired, sleepy, yet happy Trojans dragged on to the campus Wed-
All students who have not yet had r^sday morning to tell ihe story cf Asilomar Y. M. C. A. Conference
their pictures taken for El Rodeo are near picturesque Monterey, which began Dec. 26, and ended yesterday.
Newspaper Day is no longer a dim, i wisdom and advice which they are ! given another opportunity to have this The remainder of tho some 22 U. S. C. delegates are expected to come in
unfor-unate event which will take expected to scatter 'round. The plans done, as the Gentry studio has again one by ono for the rest of the week. Asilomar is known as the “resort
place sometimes in the distant future- for ^ese two futures remain a deep opened in the journalism building. Al- j beautiful,” and is the rnecca for “Y” representatives from all the colleges
....	. . .. ,	. secret but promise to be a real nov- thoueh there were a great manv pho- and universities in Arizona, Nevada,O-
it has become b vivid reality of buzz-	^ , . .	. I „ ,.»	, TT	„ ’
elty when they are released.	tographs taken during the holidays, t California and Hawaii. During every
ing p rtns and pre,urations, for the Profesfsor Good)now, head of the there are many more which are Still Christmas vacation, the young Asilo-
li;g day of Januarv 17 is bift two Journalism department, and his as-; to be taken.	n'ar delegates meet there for recrea-
weeks away. On that occasion the ; sistant professor. Miss McCorkle, are > jt takes only a few minutes for a tion, Bible study, and inspirational as-
most prominent men of the newspaper	in charge of Newspaper Day, and student to have the picture taken and | ^ciation and friendship w'ith the i place wi
world of Southern California will be	under their supervision numerous Sjnce all appointments are made be- waders in collegiate work. The very j night,”
the guests of the University for a	committees are laboring to make this fDre hand, there is no waiting. The fuH program followed this year as
day. and special meetings of all jour-	day a truly memorable one in the book can not go to press until more! follows:
nalism s udents will be called for the	minds of the students of the Univer-! pi^ures are taken. “The sooner the	—Breakfast,
purpose of hearing the messages and	sity as well as of the guests.	pictures, the sooner ihe El Rodeo,”
the experiences of these men.	Speakers have been selected from is the motto of the editorial staff, who
Invitations *t(0 all the editors and	the most prominent of the Southland's are working over time to make it the
business managers of high school	journalists, and they have been asked biggest and best book ever.
papers are being sent, and these rep-	to deliver forty-minute talks on the_______
resentatives from every prep school	various phases of their work. Oppor-	CLASS MEETINGS
around Los Angeles and as far north	tunitv for the students to ask any Class Day is to take the place of
as Santa Barbara, will visit this	questions they may wish will be pro- the regular Chapel Services today,
campus.	vided, in order that everyone wPl The different classes are to meet as
Entertainment and a special lunch-	have the chance to learn the inside follows: Seniors in room 206, Juniors
eon will be offered the professional	dope on any branch in which he is
7:30—H3lf hour for meditation.
S: 00—Bible Discussion.
10:0—Morning Lecture.
10:00—Meditation.
12:30—Lunch.
5:30—Dinner.
and visits to the elaborate scenery around Monterey, and points of historic interest, including a ship wreck on the coast. U. S. C. took second ith her trick showr on “stunt acording to the audience. Stanford won first. Stan Wheeler gained the title of the “handsomest waiter,” during U. S. C.’s turn at serving, because of his skill in culinary dexterity. Trojans attending were George Jordan, Don Cameron, S^an Wheeler, Floyd Reeves, Les Heinman, Ralph Cummings, Kenneth Stonier, Ned Lewis, Max Buenefe, F. Carino.
No announcement as to the prin- college fraternity system should be cioal speaker of the evening has as big enough so that any worthy stu-yet. be?n made, but it is expected that' dent who desires to join a fraternity Marc N. Goodnow, instructor of jour- j of national and enduring nature w 11 nalism, will secure some prominent' not be deprived of the benefits and Los Angeles newspaper man, to ad- pleasures our membership gives us. dress the club.	i because the fraternities have failed
A:rangemcnts for Newspaper Day, to enlarge their facilities sufficiently.” r.re being rapidly pushed forward, fol-1	KLAN IN COLLEGES
owing the resumption of school, and Nearly 400 fraternity officers and frdications are that the event will be delegates heard Dean Thomas Erkle a complete success, according to the Clark of tfce University of Illinois replans of t.he committees w'ho are port that the Ku Klux Klan, “what-now at work.	(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
College of Music Provides Xmas Joy for Unfortunates
In place of the usual Xmas party student s name soon appeared after
at the College of Music, where each the name of each child. In net
there were not nearly enough chil-
year it has been customary to gatn-
dren to go around among the stu-er, have a tree and exchange gift.>. dentg wjjQ deSjred help. A col-
the Student Body this year decided	lection was taken at recital hour
to carry the Xmas spirit down among	and $25 raised which defrayed the
those less fortunate. They picked	cost of trees, oranges, canes, etc. out the St. Elizabeth Day Nursery The plans were in charge of .Vlary
with one hundred and twenty chil-	Taylor, President of the College of
dren and the Baptist Mexican Cen-	Music Student Body. Assisting her
ter with fifty-six poor little tots, both	were Ruth Nelson. Elizabeth Mot-
places located over east of the river	tern, Helen Dosh, Marjorie Thomas
and near First Street. For each	and Arch McGee.
place they provided a tree with dec- The splendid spirit of unselfish
orations and for each child (176 in	cooperation that prevailed among aH
6:30—Forum by international lead-	Leo Karganilla, Dick Sorick, Bruce	a11^ a canc^y cane, an oranee and a	the studems of the College ah-l the
ers	Ellis, Walter Gilbert, Jeoffrey Smith,	new	A list of the children,	joy and genuine satisfaction experi-
g.oo—Evening lecture.	Willard Schurr, Glen Turner, Norman	Siing name, sex and age uas posted	enced in successfully carrying out
Every aftemcon was spent in play-	McKenzie, McCrillis, Dr. J. G. Hill.	on the Student Bulletin Board, call-	such a plan has inspired the desire
in Old Chapel: Sophomores in room ing inter-collegiate basketball and	Other Trojan stpries concerning	ing for volunteers to provide gifts,	to make this a yearly event—in fact
men ir return for thn goldem words of particularly interested.
305, and Freshmerf in the Auditorium, baseball, by long hikes, motor trips, Asilomar will follow later.
j The response was immediate and a a College tradition.