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Class Officers Nominations Held Soon
Los Angeles, California, Friday, January 9, 1925
Number 38
E RODEO PRESENTS SPECIAL PROGRAM IN CHAPEL TODAY AS SALESiDRIVE CONTINUES
Vaudeville Bill of Best Acts In University Included on the First Rally Program of New Year
CLASS OFFICERS NOMINATED SOON
PRESENT PROGRAM
Everybody s Husband To Be On Dramatic Sorority Program January 12
“Everybody’s Husband"! How would tha) feel? This momentous | of the dnunatic critic, Trowbridge
question of social and political im-
By TERREL DE LAPP
Somebody said, “He who dances must pay the cover charge,” or something' like that; but according to all noises issuing forth from the training camp of the entertainers who are to strut their groceries in varied acts this morning a ten o'clock in Bovarti Auditorium there will be plenty of dancing and no cover charge to be paid.
The above fable will apply to the entertainment being put on by the staff of the El Rodeo, U. S. C.’s year book, in order to let the student body in on th “know” of getting signed up for a book. Burdett Ives, Circulation Manager
of the publication, wants it to bec-
known that the price of the book will i yCT \ PHI CT1 A Tfl be $4.50 (American money) during the	i 111 Ell/m IU
present drive; but after that the price will soar with the thermometer to five jingles.
For once, the same program that wae announced yesterday will really be put on. Just look at yesterday's Trojan, and then read this. They will nearly ma4ch.
Wess Woodford, alias Luke McGlook alias “The Barefoot Burglar,” will, with the aid of some of his underworld gang, put on a “red hot” entertainment.
That’s what he says, anyway; but he is bashful and hates to laud himself to the press. If it is anything like the comic hokum that he put across at the Criterion, it should take big.
The Dental quartet has reported no sprained ankles since they went in training last night, so should be there with both upper and lower sets in good working order. That’s what they are going to school for.
Harry Hall, that boy with his brains in his feet, will go thru some mental exercises tomorrow. His Xmas training has rested his dogs, and according to the towel boy at his training camp,
Harry is wearing out three platforms an hour getting in condition.
The Mu Phi Epsilon trio will be there with all instrumenLs in good working order to dole out some serious tunes. This is their second appearance, so we know how good they are.
Professor Carl Knopf has been asked to talk, and has consented to address the student body with one of his interesting speeches.
All the foregoing is not merely mashed potato to entice innocent students (if there be some) into the auditorium to force them to sign up for their year book, but merely to explain to them the importance of getting their edition now, and to entertain them instead of making them yell.
Nominations for class officers tor the second semester will be held a week from today, Friday. January Hi. during the ten o'clock period. Elections will lake place the following week, and the results will be read during the presentation of “Seven Keys to Baldpate," that night. Don Cameron, president of the Class presidents Association, urges that the campus political machines be placed in readiness before next week.
“PERSONALIST” TO OFFER VARIETY
From Bees to Browning, from Puritanism to Contemporary Drama, the contents of The Personalist for January present a wide variety of subject-matter characterized by an appealing freshness of treatment The leading article, “The Cleansing Flight,” by Dallas Lore Sharp, is an essay combining rare poetic charm and wholesome philosophy in the happiest manner of one of America's foremost essayists. The clever satire on George Bernard Shaw’s newest plav, “Saint Joan,” entitled “Looking-Glass House,” is a delightfully timely criticism from the
JOURNALISTS MAKE READY FOR GUESTS
I’i Delta Kpsilon in Charge Of Registering Delegates At Convention
SIGMA GIVES LUNCH
OXFORD DEBATE TICKETS ON SALE
1200 tickeis for the Oxford-UjS.C. debate have been sold, according to a; dispatch from the office ol the Manager of the Debate. There are only 800 left and these are on sale in the ! Box Office in the Student Book Store.; Those who intend going to this debate j on January 15, are expected to obtain j their tickets immediately. Tickets are i also on sale at the School of Law, j Colleges of Dentistry and Music.
FINAL EXAMINATIONS MAY BE ABOLISHED AT LIBERAL ARTS ACCORDING TO PRESENT PLAN
Faculty Believes that Frequent Quizz Will Do Away With Cribbing at U. S. C.; Executive Committee To Vote Tuesday
portance will be answered in a play by Gilbert Cannan which Zeta Phi Eta, national professional sorority will present at its benefit program in the Touchstone Theatre on Monday, January 12, at 3:00 P. M.
The program is for the benefit of a fund for new, much-needed equipment for the Touchstone Theatre. Miss Florence Hubbard, who is directing the production feels that when the audience has listened to the screaming of the old curtain as it is pulled will rejoice over fifteen cents, admission, well spent. She says, "Everyone interested in sponsoring the best in dramatic and speech arts is cordially invited to attend and support this movement to help make the campus theatre a well-equipped workshop for experiment and presentation."
Zeta Phi Eta, existing in all recognized Schools of Speech Arts and numbering in its Southern California Alumnae Association some sixty of the most prominent speech artists and teachers in the state, has had an active chapter in existence on our campus for four years. The personnel of the local chapter contains the most representative students in the School of Speech.
Lamed. Students of the ever-vital Browning will find fresh illumination in the original study by Louis Wann entitled "Browning's Theory of Love.” “A Fresh Defense of the Puritan” by John Wright Buckham, presents a stimulating re-appraisement of a now much-debated class in American life. The Editor himself shows his characteristically sane handling of matters of present moment in the article on “Using the ‘Sub-Conscious’.” Poems of appealing simplicity and beauty are presented by John Richard Moreland and Agnes Cornell.
SILVER TROPHY ARRIVES FOR PAN-HELLENIC GAMES
Of interest to those interested in the Pan-Hellenic basketball series is the fact that the silver trophy to be presented to the winner has arrived. The trophy is a large silver basketball on a mahogany pedestal appropriately en- : graved with the name of the donor |
The Spalding Company, and with space 1 the Southland
Alpha Chi Alpha Will Give Tea Dance At Sorority House
CATHERINE POTTER
Press Club is completing plans to make January 15 the most successful of the annual newspaper days held at the I'niversity of Southern California.
Among the speakers of the day will be George F. Rinehart, Editor ol the “Coviiia Citizen'' who will speak at 11 on th** subject of the “Weekly Newspaper:' Mr. John R. Gabbert .owner and publisher of the Riverside Enterprise, will speak at noon on the subject of “Newspaper oik as a Profession;” and Senator Lyman M. King, editor of the Redland Facts who will speak on the subject ovf the “Editorial Page."
The guests will be provided with cardinal and gold badges, and will be met by the members of Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary journalism fraternity who will be the special hosts of the day.
A larger number of invitations have been sent this year than last. Eighty high schools in Southern California received invitations, and it is expected that fifty members of the Southern California editorial association will also be present.
Three lectures will be given in the morning, the program beginning at 8 o'clock. A speech will be made at iunch and one in the early afternoon.
All the speakers will speak on subjects of practical value to journalists, and an attempt will be made to interest students in the rural weekly by George F. Rinehart Editor of the Covina Citizen who is considered one of the best editors of weekly papers in
RADIO PROGRAM INTERESTS FANS
With the Mu Phi Epsilon trio, Mr. de Silva, tenor, and Professor Roland Vandegrift, lecturer, as entertainers, Southern California broaxlrasted its wreeklv program over KHJ the Times station.
The Mu Phi Epsilon trio, composed of Helen Dosh, pianist, Marian Sischo, violinist, and Dorothy Cameron, cellist, played “The Sweetest Story Ever Told” and Hungarian Dance by Brahms. Mr. de Silva, accompanied by Anna Louise Caral, sang two numbers, Caro Mio and Who Knows.
Professor Vandegrift of the History department gave a short talk on the origin of the names San Diego. Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara, Pasadena and Mojave. California names show an influence of the Spnish, Russians, Danish and English, said Vandegrift.
Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Catalina are Spanish names. San Diego gots its origin from the Patron Saint of Spain. Catalina was named in honor of St. Catherine because it was discovered on her feast day, November 24. The tow’n Santa Barbara and the mission are named from Saints Day, December 4. Mojave is an Indian name. Pasadena is also an Indian name meaning brawn of the valley.
EDUCATION ITSELF
Bigger and Better’’ is Motto of Tommy Wamp For January
SOCIOLOGY-JOURNAL HAS ARTICLES OF INTEREST
winner of the
for the name of the series.
Wednesday of this week, Delta Delta Del tamet Alpha Chi Omega coming out with the long end of a 73 to 9 j score. These same teams will meet Tae program for January 12 will be (again tonight at four o’clock
as follows:
Prologue .................. Frances Buchanan
The Return of Harlequin
................... Helen Humiston
Everybody’s Husband—a play
..................By Gilbert Cannan
The Girl................................Clare Kaufer
The Maid .......................... Hazel Bobbit
The Mother .............Emily Herbert
The Grandmother........Gertrude Street
The Great Grandmother
________________Genevieve Mulligan
The Domino ..............Helen Humiston
Stage Management ..........Rachel Hicks
Direction ..............Florence B. Hubbard
Lineups were: Delta Delta Delta— ; Smith, Wilkinson, Marsten, Caldwell. Oliver. Hough. Chase, Buck, Lang and Bird. Alpha Chi Omega—Mills, Rogers, Lee, Farlow, Hawkins and Hopps.
BISHOP BURNS TO SPEAK
Charles Wesley Burns, Bishop of the California Diocese of the Methodist Church, will speak to the students in Chapel next Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. The Bishop will be in Los Angeles all of next week, coming from San Francisco where his headquarters are.
TICKET SALE WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK
Judging from the large number of reservations already made, seats for the Junior play, "Seven Keys to Baldpate'' will be at a premium on the night of January 22. according to Ellsworth Ross, production manager.
Due to the extensive publicity the 'play has enjoyed, the demand for tickets has already begun, although seats have not yet been placed on sale. This week is the last that block reservations will be held for fraternities and sororities, 60 organizations are again urged to buy early.
Students who remember “Poor Old Jim,” the one act farce that aroused so much favorable comment last year, will be interested to learn that the j ^ood thing to offer a few comments I drinks. However, Volstead was in
A special feature of the day will be the buffet luncheon for the guests, by the University of Southern California in the parlors of the president’s suite. Sigma, journalism sorority will supervise the luncheon.
Another feature planned to entertain the visitors is the tea dansanfe to be j held by Alpha Chi Alpha in the after ! noon from 3 to 5 at the Alpha Gam-; niH Delta sorority house. The IT. S. C. Varsity Orchestra will furnish the mu-* j sic and members of the staff and Press i Club will also be present to see that i guests get acquainted and enjoy them-1 selves.
January-February number of the Journal of Applied Sociology is just out. In it are many interesting articles, three of which are written by members of our own faculty.
Emery S. Bogardus head of the Sociology Department, has an interesting article in this journal, entitled “Social Distance and its Origins. Erie Fiske Young’s article is “The Social Hose Map,” while Clarence M. Case has ‘written on “Conflict and Cooperation in Social Progress. This magazine is used by the Sociology classes in conjunction with the text .Cand it is helpful in throwing light on our various social problems.
PLEDGES DUE
Campus Chest pledges may be paid today and next week at the student body cashier's office, second floor of the Journalism Building.
Prohibition Subject of ' Forensics Against Oxford
* } BY BILL STEWART
As prohibition is probably the most | cure the milder beverages at a moder-talked about thing that is in existence | ate price at any confectionary store, today, with the possible exception of i while they would have to pay a muc h the reparations work, it might be a higher tax for the more powerful
along that line as introductory *o the,earneS( which does not help matters Oxford debate.	I any.
In the first place, there are two distinct kinds of prohibition. There is
It is expected that the Britishers will offer a good argument in favor of
cast that made such a hit in that production will have leading parts in “Seven Key* to Baldpate.”
“We welcome this opportunity to introduce to the I’niversity new talent i absolute prohibition, and partial pro-1 a ^ jde open country ,and for that rea-as well as that which was discovered hibition. The first is an offspring son jt is expected that the house will last year. “Miss Florence Hubbard J from the brain of a certain Mr. Vol-' be packed to the limit. No Congress-said yesterday. “Since last year’s j stead, and would be a decided success, n,on have been sold ticket?, nor has productions we have unearthed and j if the government were in a position j VoNtead been told that his bill is imported talent from eastern schools | to place a revenue officer in every drug; going to be torn to pieces by the for-that should prove a surprise to U. S. store, and a dry sleuth in every house, e.gners, but Dame Rumor rides a C. The cast are all working hard, ami Perhaps this was in the original pro-are enthusiastic over their paits .and l tocol that was presented to our group I am confident that this year’s Jun- of Congressmen, but was lost or be-ior play will set a new standard for came detached from the rest of the dramatic productions at this Univer- Bill during the long months in which sity."	it was slept through while being de-
Ellsworth Ross, production manager. I bated in Congress, is well pleased with the early demand j The other plan is that of having a for tickets.	partially wide open country, or in
"Tickets are being printed now'' he I other words to permit the selling of states, “And will be placed on sale the light wines and beer over the counter first of the week at the Student’s Co-op This is a fair plan and would certain-Store and down town at Wurlitzer's. ly cut down the number of men that As the play is to be given b«t one go blind each year from bad liquor, night, we anticipate a sell-out, so any as only those who were striving to students planning to go, will do well j brew the stronger drinks would lose to buy their tickets early.”	J their eyesight, because they could pro-
fast horse, and who knows but what some seats in Bovard will be filled by some of our best statesmen?
Now that the subject has been in troduced, it behooves us to introduce the debating team of the University of Southern California.
The captain of the squad, Mr. William Baroer. is in his fourtn year in the University of Southern California. He has represented the University in 21 debates ol which he has won sixteen. lie was leader of the tram which last year toured the Pacific Northwest, meeting every prominent school in that section, and winning
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DEAN AND COUNCIL SET STANDARDS
Dean Rockwell D. Hunt and the Council on Graduate Study and Research have of late been giving much attention to the scholarship standards in the Graduate School. While there is no desire to hedge the graduate student about with minute regulations and restrictions, which are seldom in the interest of genuine scholarship, it is important to establish high standards and to provide such stimuli as will assist in securing their proper maintenance.
With this end in view the Graduate Council has recently adopted a system of grade points for work leading to the Master’s degree, which places the scholarship standard on a high plane.
In brief the system is as follows:
Scholarship grades in the Graduate School are indicated by letters as follows:
“A,” excellent; “B,” thoroughly satisfactory; “C.” fair; “D,” barely passable; “INC,” incomplete, indicating that certain portions remain incompleted; “F,” failure.
If the student is reported INC, sach delinquency must be made up in a manner satisfactory to the instructor, within one year from the date thereof.
Grade Points: A system of grade points or credit points is used to determine a student’s general average standing. Each student normally completes a certain number cf units and secures a number of points or credit each semester.
Sigma Delta Psi Tryouts To Be Opened Here Monday
Tryouts for Sigma Delta Psi national honorary athletic fraternity, will commence Monday, Coach C P. A. Nich-tunity is being offered to all athletes and those interested to complete all tests before the close of the present semester.
Monday and Tuesday, January 12 and 13, the hundred yard dash and high jump will be run off. January’ i 14 and 15 will be given to the broad jump and shot put: January 19 and 20 to the pole vault and baseball throw; January 21 and 22 to the one and two mile run; January 26 and 27 to the football punt and the handspring; and January 28 and 29 to the handstand ,rope climb, and the fence vault.
Men wishing to take the swimming tests are instructed to report at the Y. M. C. A. in Los Angeles any Tuesday or Thursday at 3:30. A registration fee of twenty-five cents will be charged to men trying out and this is payable on or before January 12. The fee insures the carrying over of the test marks for one year.
According to Coach Nichols the tests to be given are national tests aimed at all-around athletic ability. These tests must be taken at scheduled gym hours. On Monday and Wednesday tests will be given at 9:00, 11:00, 3:15, and 4:15 ,and on Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00, 11:00, 1:15, 3:15 and 4:15.
For adission to full membership a student must successfully attain the marks set opposite the following
By HELEN FAULKNER
If plans, now in a tentative state, are accepted at tbe meeting of the execu-| tive committee, Tuesday night, final examinations may be abolished at the Uni-; versity of Southern California in favor of a system of monthly quizzes. This I will be done to put an end to the intensive cribbing which is believed to exist at the University.	»
Headed by Ned Lewis, student body president, the executive committee is working on a plan whereby a system of honor, distinctive to U. S. C. will exist. The present idea, as it stands before the committee, is that final examinations, unless in some degree modified, tend towards undue cheating and cribbing and in order to put honor on j a higher plane, three to six quizzes will be given in addition to a one hour examination at the end of the semester. All three hour final examinations will be abolished. The finals on which one half of the final grade is now based will be substituted for short, frequent examinations whose marks will be averaged in on the grade given at the end of the semester. This system, if passed, by the board, will not take effect until the following semester aud will take effect only on the Liberal Arts campus. The professional colleges will not be affected by the present plan, according to Ned Lewis.
“That cribbing and cheating is present at U. S. C. is a lamentable but known fact,” states Mr. Lewis. “After discussing this subject with many of the students of the University, I find that the general opinion is that this condition is largely due to the present system of finals. It is conceded that a a complete knowledge of the subject, cannot be known in detail, nor can It. be written in that space of time; and that the grade received should not determine to such an extent, the final grade of the course. As a result ot* this feeling students crib. These problems have been before the student body for a long time and it has come to the point mhere some definite action must be taken.”
DEAN SANCTIONS PLAN Dean Karl F. Waugh, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been consulted in regard to these matters and it is with his sanction that the committees are going ahead. “If it is true,” said Dean Waugh, “that the students of this college are losing their honor through a system which exists here, in regard to final examinations and if a modification of this form can in any way benefit our present standards. I will endeavor to see that such a change, as is necessary, be put in effect.”
Members of the faculty are to be chosen to assist in working out the best system. As soon as the matter is dismissed and voted upon in the meeting of the executive committee, the plan will be referred to the Dean. It is hoped that by the first of next se-! mester such a system will go into effect. Because of the near close of the present term, it has been decidd that nothing can be done to affffect it in any way.
Love and let love is Tommy Wamp's motto. No matter how much it cramps his style, he has decided to love up to it. Consequently, his “Necks” number, which will appear on the campus and on down-town newsstands January zv, is not intended to be personal. Tommy doubls if there are any people here to v. hom the wit aria satire to be unshipped on that date will apply, and his deepest mis-£,iv'ng is on the thought thaf the students of this college wii! not understand what it is all about.
According tc the editor. Grady S< le1*. I he “Necks” numbei wiil be a liberal college education—very liberal. Following in the footsteps of the Old Grads who were responsible for the last issue, a number of the most scintillant of Wamp’s undergraduate contributors will be represented by a large variety of material. Cartoons will if anything be more pointed than those of any previous number. The cover design is by John Post, well known to Wampus readers.
It is calculated that if Tommy Wamp gets bigger and better with each monthly appearance, by the fall
of 1965 he will be twice as large as the sun and nine times as funny as Al Jolson. Tommy intends to appear dur-I ing the summer, and will go by mail | to those who subscribe.
All material for Wampus should be ; turned in either to the Wampus of-i fie or through Tommy’s box. All va-i rieties of humorous matter are ac-! ceptable. and faithful contributors receive a reward in the form of a Wampus key. There is still time to ; get stuff in the “Necks’’ number.
events in the presence of a majority of a majority of the committee on Certification :
100 yard run in 11 2/5 seconds.
220 yard (low) hurdles, each 2 feet 6 inches high, in 31 seconds, leaving all standing.
Running high jump at 5 feet.
Running broad jump at 17 feet.
Putting shot (16 lbs.) 30 feet.
Thirty feet is to be the requirement for a man of 160 lbs. or over;
Pole vault at. 8 feet 6 inches.
> Throwing baseball 250 feet on fly.
Punting football 120 feet on fly.
100 yard swim, continuous without floating or other rest.
2 mile run in 12 minutes and 15 seconds.
Tumbliing:
(a)	Front hand spring.
(b)	Hand stand maintained with out wall; Tor 10 seconds.
(c)	Fence vault, height at chin.
Fostu?e: Erect carriage pecially
of the ln ad. The comndttei will k* ep cai aidates under observ.C.ion.
Membership is open to all male students in the University. The South- and rough lives ern California Sigma Delta Psi chap- j Conrad's personality from his writing Iter is made up of Dr. R. B. Von Klein-1 was noted ,and also the fact that he Smid, Gwynn Wilson, Dean Crom-: neither philosophizes nor dogmatizes, well, Fred Kelly, Bill Hunter, War-j Taking the books separately, Dr. ren B. Bovard, Harold Stonier, Elmerj Cooke classified “^outh as a true C. Henderson, Ralph I-a Porte, C. P. 1 poetic work, “Typhoon’ as the great-A. Nichols, honorary members; Percy j est presentation of a storm recorded in Niersback, Huber Smutz, Yale Martz,, literature, and "Lord Jim as the Oden Hughes, Babe Harvey, Henry I^e masterpiece of phychological study of Febove, Sidney Newcombe, Ben Har-! a broken man coming back. Greed, old, Sylvester Miller, Roy Raker, Dick ! he said, form the motive of most of Emmons, and Jack Hughes.	J Conrad's stories.
CONRAD SUBJECT OF COOKE’S TALK
Life and work of Joseph Conrad formed the subject of the fourth lecture of the series on contemporary writers. Dr. Cooke conducted the meeting.
He gave a short outline of Conrads life, showing how it served as a background to his novels, his love of the sea r vercoming the desire for a college training.
Feature poirts of Conrai woilr were taken up separately. His ability to analyze the human readout before and after crucial moments with coolness and impartiali:/ have classed him as a psychologis: of nigged characters. His types being generally sea-men of vigorous natures. The withdrawal of