Homecoming
Issue
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alifornia
UAN
olume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, December 5, 1924
Number 29
OUTHERN CALIFORNIA WELCOMES ALUMNI TODAY
YRACUSE, TROJANS AWAITING GREAT GRID CLASH TOMORROW
icket Sale Indicates Crowd of 75,000 Will Attend *the Season’s First Intersectional Game In Coliseum
TROJANS ARRANGE OXFORD DEBATE
Barber, Lewis and Brennan Will Represent U. S. C. in Contest
By JACK OLDS
Representing the East's best football and in wonderful condition for their ig intersectional game to be played in the Coliseum tomorrow against the jwerful Trojan football eleven twenty-two tanbark heroes and their coach-ng staff from the University of Syracuse disembarked from the Los Angeles imited at the Santa Fe station yesterday afternoon in fighting trim for their igantic task of upholding the prestige of Eastern football.
Four thousand wildly cheering foot-p ill fans met the big Orange aggre-ition at the sooty old statiou amid a ot of color and prolonged cheering, d it was with difficulty that they ere hustled away to the Coliseum here Charles “Chick” Meehan whose-xagetic cunning has made the Salt ity team one of the greatest in the ition, put them through a light work-lit.
The Syracuse eleven made a wonder-il impression on the few who were ?rmitted to watch their antics on the oliseum turf last night. Appearing brilliant Orange jerseys with purple d orange socks the Easterners were sily the most colorful outfit that has i>peared in the southland his season.
Tumbered among their ranks were )me of the finest and shiftiest play's along the Atlantic seaboard. In-^cations point to a mighty spectacu-and bitterly contested game tomorrow as the Trojans bearing the lors of the West are in excellent iape and have apparently reached the sak of their condition.
Coach Meehan stated last night that 3 will start the same lineup against e Trojans that defeated Columbia in spectacular game at New York on thanksgiving day.
Captain Roy Simmons, considered jae of the brainiest signal callers east the Mississippi will direct the team (lay at quarter and t.ii, starting backed will consist of Jim Foley at left (alf, Chester Bowman, the Olympic rinter at right half and John Me-Jride, considered by many authorities All-American, at fullback. McBride one of the deadliest place kickers ji the game and an exceptionally fine ,unter.
The big Orange hued line that will tart against the Southern California jarsitv and that has a reputation for ts weight and charging ability will lie Jansen and Rugg. ends; Starobin and 'aldorf. tackles; Fivaz, center, and and Bailey, at the guards.
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0-EDS TO WEAR FLOWERS AT GAME
That a huge gold chrvsanthymum ith a cardinal S. in the center will e as necessary a part of the equipment of feminine rooters at the Syra-use-U. S. C. game as a powder puff, the announcement of the Y. W. C. A. mmitte managing the sale of flowers t the big game tomorow.
Tomorrow will be the first time dur-ng this football season that, flowers ave been officialy worn, and for that reason, together with special honor o alumni and Syracuse guests, it ill be nothing short of compulsory for campus women sitting in the root* -rs’ section to wear the cardinal and old flowers.
Chrysanthymums and college football games are almost inseparable in their traditional significance and it is the plan of the committee to see that the wearing of flowers at the game tomorrow is widespread, especially among campus women.
“The efTect from across the field will be marvelous,’ says Helen Green, president of Y. W. C. A. ‘“It will make a regular Trojan flower garden If every co-ed is equipped with a chrysanthemum.”
While no bleacher stunts have been planned for the flower brigade in tbe women's rooting section, the effect will undoubtedly be an impressive and lasting one, and any Southern California co-ed who attempts to sit through the game minus a flower will find herself morally ostracised, continues the flower committee who have ordered three hundred Chinese beauties.
Final arrangements for the big Oxford (England)- Southern California debate have just been completed by Ray Brennan, Trojan debate manager, Coach Alan Nichols and the Oxford authorities. Previous plans called for the big event to come off on the night of January 8, but this date has been set a week ahead, making January 15 as the night. The debate will be held in Bovard Auditorium.
Coach Alan Nichols, in making his selections for those to take part in the debate, has used care and precision, and feels that those he has picked are fully qualified in experience and ability. Captain Bill Barber, Ned I^ewis, and Bernard Brennan will represent Troy in this event.
Bill Barber, captain of the 1924-25 debate squad, is recognized as one of the leading debators on the Coast. Bill has taken part in 22 inter-collegiate debates, sixteen of which he has won. In others he has taken second and third. He is a member of the Skull and Dagger honorary society, Sigma Sigma, and Skull and Scales, Delta Sigma Rho, and is prominent in each of these organizations. He is at present attending Law school, where he is president of the freshman class. His first attempt at collegiate debating was in his freshman year at Liberal Arts, when he won one of the highly coveted Bowen cups in the ex-temporeaneouF contest sponsored by Judge Bowen.
Ned Lewis, second speaker for Southern California, is known to every student in school for his recognized leadership and executive ability as (Continued on Page 8)
Frosh Surprised By Sophs
In Drive on Disobedients
THREE THOUSAND EXPECTED TO RETURN TO ALMA MATER TODAY
Golf Tournament, Dinners, Fraternity Open Houses, Dance and Game on Program For Entertainment of Old Grads
ALUMNI TO ATTEND HOMECOMING DANCE
Few Tickets Are Left For Senior Prom in Basketball Pavilion
By BOB WHITE
As in tales of olden times, told by the master Homer, this day will hundreds of Trojans, urged to action by a patriotic devotion to their Alma Mater and inspired with fond reminiscences of college days extending forty years in the past—this day will they rally to the mandates of their beloved Troy and return three thousand strong to participate in the First Annual Homecoming of the Alumni of the University of Southern California.
And Troy will welcome them! Elaborate preparations have been completed to that end in the shape of a varied program which will offer some
^ event of interest for every old “grad’’ from the time of the silverhaired Alumnus of 1884 down to the sophisticated shieks and shebas of 1924. No effort has been spared by the committeemen to make this first Alumni welcoming a real Home Coming, a Home Coming which will mean all that the words signify.
Of the 4500 bulletins mailed to the Alumni announcing the occasion, responses made to the Alumni Editor’s office indicate that a crowd of between two and three thousand will avail themselves of the opportunity to renew old acquaintances and friendships and observe the progress of their Alma Mater.
The fifth and sixth of December, 1924, will be memorable dates in the history of the University of Southern California. They mark a new era of achievement, a new step forward for the school. The Alumni of this school have long contested for one day each
Since the number of tickets for the Senior Homecoming Dance is limited and the Seniors have no desire to stage a mob scene, a very few tickets remain. These tickets are on sale at the Associated Students’ Co-operative Store and at the south window in the Arcade. Alumni may buy tickets from Harry Holton.
In establishing the new custom of campus dances on the campus, the committee for the Senior dance has spared no pains to put over this Homecoming dance in the most successful informal iway.
The floor is larger than the Ambas- year jje set aside in their honor.
Here They Are
John McBride, fullback, kicking from placement; James Foley, half, holding the ball; Chet Bowman, half back is at the top. Photo courtesy L. A. Evening Herald.
By BILL STEWART
Justice at last has been served, and
youth has had its fling! The freshman has at last been brought to the grave realization that traditions were made for some other reason than to be disregarded. Last Wednesday, the Sophomores banded together, and dealt penalties right and left with dire results for the disobedient yearlings, and the results were refreshing to the onlookers.
An understudy of Marc Anthony was to be seen, bath-robe and all. standing in the center of the street, directing traffic as if his life depended upon it. Another group of fractious pea-greeners were portraying “The Gleaners” on the front lawn, with dandelions playing a brilliant part as gleanees. Their garb was a cross between a suit of knicker-bockers and a
mode of entertainment it is to be hoped that there will be many more like it. "This method of serving the freshmen their just dues was frowned upon by all concerned, at the first of the semester, but the babes grew up too fast, and almost threatened to run the college; so the Sophomores took it upon themselves to make them tighten up on their safety pins, and teach them to walk correctly,” said Van Johnston, chairman of the Justice Committee.
“This action was not taken to cause any antagonism between the two classes, because the Sophomore class had no intention of starting anything that would cause the estrangement of the two classes. On the contrary, it was the feeling of the second-year men that any such action taken in the right spirit would act to consolidate these
As the Pi Delta Epislon Razz-berry iwas taken off sale at noon yesterday it will again be offered for sale at the Student Book Store today. The second day of the sale is for Alumni, and those students who do not have classes on Thursday.
Russian dress suit, but probablv i classes, and the progranj carried out could be made to look like a suit of Wednesday was given more in the school clothes, if arranged as orig-| sPirit of anting to help, than that of inally designed to be worn. The offi- want*n8 t0 be the bully, cial motto of this dress seemed to be I All such actions will be left strictly "no metal can touch you,” judging j to the Trojan Knights, in the future, by the Parisian exhibition.	but it was the feeling of the Sopho-
One youth proposed to every young I mores that thinS« were SettinS out of lady that chanced to pass his way. and now will have to spend the rest of the week explaining to the ones who accepted him that it was all a mistake, and truly in jest. This bringing of
J.A. MYERS TO FURNISH CUP FOR FLOAT WINNER
J. A. Meyers, jeweler and prominent Trojan advertiser; is to give a cup to the winning fraternity or sorority which takes first place in the parade tomorrow’ afternoon.
The parade, made up of floats from all fraternities and sororiues on the campus, will assembly tomorrow afternoon in front of the Administration building and proceed south on University avenue to Exposition park. The parade will enter the huge bowl and make one round before the thousands of spectators who will gather to witness the Syracuse-U. S. C. game.
The floats, according to those In charge, will be of a humorous nature burlesquing different phases of college life.
the freshmen to judgment offered much amusement for the upper class-
the hands of the Trojan Knights, and that intervention was advisable.
PROGRAM SELLERS
All men who signed to sell the Pigskin Review at the Syracuse game tomorrow, are asked to report to the Trojan business office, Journalism
men, and being a very appropriate j building, today. U
QUILL CLUB INITIATION
Omission of William Scotten’s name was made Tuesday when names of those elected to Quill Club was announced. Scotten will be one of the fourteen initiates who will he taken into the club Thursday evening at the home of Dorothy Herriman, 820 S. Wilton place.
sador and perfected system of check ing has been devised that th** committee hopes will do away with long lines waiting to check and uncheck wraps.
The music will be furnished by the Arrowhead Orchestra with whom the Seniors negotiated through Bud King. For the past three years the Arrowhead Orchestra has been well known on the campus and dancers need have no suspicion about the merits of the music.
The punch committee, Marguerite Matson, Bill Delphey, and George Orme, have announced that the punch won’t have a watery flavor, but a genuine tang of fruit juices.
“The Pavilion will be decorated in a way that is unique and attractive,” said Harold Dougher. “In spite of the fact that there are three girls. Lissa Baker. Dorothy Haldeman and Jeannette Cecil, the scheme of the decoration is still a secret and will be a
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Vari-Hued Pajamas Will
Feature Big Pajamerino
Other large universities initiated this tradition into their yearly programs in
their early history. The U. S. C. Alumni will welcome the news that tueir Alma Mater has inaugurated this important custom into its program and the future will see a closer relationship between the Student Body and the Alumni Association as a result of its action.
The First. Annual Home Coming will officially open with a luncheon for the golf teams representing the Dental and Law Alumni, which are to compete in a tournament immediately following the luncheon.
The luncheon will be given at tho Wilshire Country Club at 12:00 noon, today, and the tournament will start promptly at 1:00 p. m.
Two teams of ten golfers each will compete, and the interest which has been evinced in this event suggests a probable crowd of two or three hun-(Continued on Page 8)
Pajamas, fireworks, speeches, dances, and many other modern improvements for which, this age is famous, will be found at the gigantic pajamerino that is to come off in front of the old race track grand stand in Exposition Park tonight at 8:15 in honor of the first eastern team to come West for an intersectional struggle in football with the U. S. C. Trojan Varsity, mainly the Syracuse football team.
Silk ones, pink ones, indestructible ones .trick ones, plain ones, big ones and little ones, in fact every kind of pajamas that can be found will be on display by the Freshmen of U. S. C. in the light of a giant bonfire tonight. The Frosh are scheduled to put on a dance of dances, and, according to members of the Sophomore class, the present crop of Frosh are capable of almost anything. However, the Rally Committee wishes to announce that the pajamas will be worn over the regular clothing, as the committee does not want to be responsible for any ac-idents happening to the participants.
By TERREL DE LAPP
music, yells, A huge Frosh hat will be burned in effigy (this means as a symbol of) of all Freshmen hats, for after tonight they will have no purpose or meaning other than perhaps serving as pen wipers or salad bowls. Every hat store in the City has a special display of hats on next week to insure the unsuspecting of the bargain hunters.
At 8:00 every kind of fireworks that could be found in the city will be let loose skyward in a mammouth display. The Rally Committee feels that this is one of the big attractions of the evening, and although the main program will not start until 8:15, it wants everyone that can possibly do so, to be on hand when the first rocket is fired.
The S. C. Band will be there in full force to blow out many of its popular numbers. The Rally Committee declares, “What’s a Rally without music!”
Chick Meehan, Syracuse Coach, will be on hand to address the Trojans.
At least six former S. C. Student Body presidents and football captains will have a special box reserved for
The committee declares that the night them in front of the grand stand. Al-!ife of the male members of the “Car-: though they are not expected to talk, rottredders’ will no longer be a secret j they will be introduced, and will pro-1 after the Pajamerino The writer can’t vide a big drawing card for old Grads. Igure this out, but what is, is.	r Harold J. Stonier, Executive Secre-
“The Lowest” will carry *orches in ' tarv of U. S. C., is scheduled for a their mad orgy to touch off the moun- “wow” of a talk, the kind which he tain of lumber waiting to furnish light (is always capable of making. He is in for the evening’s festivities. The close touch with all the athletic rela-dancers will be under close watch to tions of the Trojans and is rated as see that they do not burn themselves the best “spirit” speaker in the South, with their overgrown matches.	(Continued on Page 8)
POLICY CHANGED BY NEW RULING
Future University dances will all be held at the basketball pavilion as the result of a decision by the Executive committee in their last meeting.
A suitable plan for putting the gymnasium in order for dances was handed in to the Executive Committee by Sam Gates, chairman of the committee in charge. The recommendations were that the committee purchase enough material of good color to be used as a false ceiling, which will also hide the upper tier of bleachers. Novel effects can be obtained by use of colored lights. There will be plenty of room, and after being touched up a bit, the floor will be in condition for dancing.
In order to put an end to the dissatisfaction that is running rife around the campus of the wearing of cardinal and gold sweaters by prep-school students, the committee decided that the only monogram sweaters to be worn on the University of Southern California campus were those given out as awards made by the university. This action settles the dispute between the students of the University High School and members of this student body relative to the wearing of cardinal and gold sweaters.
Recognition was granted Eta Kappa Nu national engineering honorary fraternity which has applied for admission upon the campus. December 16, was granted the Freshman class for their dance which will be held in the gymnasium.