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‘Music and the Man" Subject of Estey’s Talk In Chapel Wednesday
plume XVI
Southern
California
Trojan
J. Whitcomb ZJroug/ier
Will Speak to Underclassmen T omorrow
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 16, 1925
Number 70- .
EXAMINATION SYSTEM PASSED BY STUDENT VOTE
KULL AND DAGGER PLEDGE 21 MEN IN ASSEMBLY
[ 11-Uni versity Honor Society Holds Annual Ceiemony Before Students
Twenty students and one faculty lember were pledged to Skull and |)agger all-University honor society, luring the assembly period Friday lorning. The annual Skull and Dag-ir trial .considered tQ be one of the IriKiit spots of th<- spring semester, rill be held in two weeks it was announced. At thi.s time pledge ol Um janization will perform belore the |iudent body It -was pointed out by officers in
[kull and Dagger that the society was urely honorary where Sigma Si^ma as a working organization choosing men from the junior class. Most >kull and Dagger men are taken from .he graduating class. Men are not lecessaiily chosen by virture of high jffice in the student body ,as individual character and effort is considered.
The men pledged include Clarence -louser, Olympic champion, and regarded as the greatest athlete to ever ear the colors of Cardinal and Gold, fiouser attends the College of l>enl-try and is a member of Delta Sigma 3elta; Fay Thomas, captain-elect of Jie football team, is a member of igma Tau.; Otto Anderson, captain f the 1925 track team, Zeta Kappa ppsilon: Gene Dorsey, captain of basketball and a member of Sigma Chi; Lenneth Boyer, captain-elect of basketball, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Mar-juis Busby, editor of Daily Trojan and hnember of Gamma Epsilon; Ray Bren-bon .manager of debate, Phi Kappa (Tau; ;Bedford Griffith, president of the student body of the College of Dentistry and member of Psi Omega; Lowell Lindley, president of the student body of the School of Law, Phi Alpha; Bart Hutchins, editor of El )deo and member of Mu Sigma Phi; Myrl Ott, manager of El Rodeo, Phi Alpha.
MANAGERS pledged
Three managers of sports were elected and included Bob Green .football manager, Sigma Chi; Burke Long, manager of basketball, Zeta Kappa Epsilon; Walter Hodgson, manager of track, Phi Alpha.
Ellsworth Ross .play manager has put dramatics on a firm financial basis at Southern California, is a Phi Kappa Tau; Ray MacDonald, has been successful iu his work with the Glee Club, is a Phi Kappa Tau.
Don Cameron, Phi Kappa Tau; Yale-Martz. Phi Alpha, and John Woods, Phi Alpha, have been very prominent in campus activities. George Orme, manager of the Wampus has put that publication back on a firm basis.
Dean Morton, the only faculty member to be elected to the organization this year, is chairman of the recently created Athletic Committee and is dean of the School of Commerce.
Officers in Skull and Dagger fraternity are Ned Lewis, president: Chet Dolley, vice president; Arnold Eddy, secretary-treasurer; Henry McCann, chairman initiation committee.
Oh! Lookit What’s In The Box
Prom Committee evidently likes favtrs chosen for annual Junior ball. Reading from left to right zee hare Bill Hansen, Evaline Ross, “Red" Haynes, Jannie Lee Moore. Rcvcllc Hanison, Marjorie Rice, Ronald Snavelv. and Solly Levison.
Upper Classmen Will
..Hear Business Man At Chapel Meeting
Mr. Charles Estey, according io Professor Baxter of the Y. M. C. A., is a business man of Los Angeles, who will speak before the upper classmen in Wednesday chapel. He is formerly of Chicago, but prefers the sunshine of California to the rigid temperatures of his native state.
Mr. Estey is a Christian layman and upholds the spiritual and educational ideals of our school. His talk will toe, “Music and the Man.” It promises tc be a very interesting address says Professor Baxter, who is responsible for securing such an eminent speaker for our student body.
The address will cover the general points of music, which can be understood by men and women who are unacquainted with musical technicalities. He will explain the necessity of being able to appreciate good music, and its effect on our character for the better.
AMERICAN ESSAY SUBJECT OF TALK
D:
Wann Will Deliver Ninth of Faculty Lecture Series
ALICE IRWIN WILL BE PRESS CLUB SPEAKER
Alice Irwin, feature writer on the Los Angeles Herald, will speak at the 3ext Press Club dinner which is to held at the Vanity Fair tea room. March twenty-fourth at six-thirty p. m. Vanity Fair is located on Figuer-oa between sixth and seventh streets.
Anyone on the staff may come to this banquet and bring friends, but those coming are urged to sign up as soon as possible in the Trojan office, as there will be no more reservations made after March twenty-second.
According to Chet Mackie. president of the Press Club, Miss Irwin is very much interested in newspaper work as done by students.
The price of the dinner will be $1.25. Reservations will be received up to March 22.
1 lecturing on “Agnes Repplier and the Vogue of the American Essay, “Doctor Louis Wann will give the 9th of the talks on contemporary literature. Tuesday afternoon, March 17.
The first part of the lecture is to be a general survey of the field of essay writing; it will indicate the growing significance of this literary genre in contemporary American literature. Doctor Wann will discuss the various types of essay, such as the philosophic critical, and humorous, naming the outstanding writers.
“That essays are increasing in popularity is evident by the greater number of essayists as compared <with twenty of twenty-five years ago,” explained Doctor Wann. "Now we have such names as Christopher Morley, H. L. Mencken, Stuart P -Sherman, and Katherine Gerald. And not only are there many more writers, but the reading public has shown itself greatly interested in this type of literature.”
The last part of the lecture will be devoted to a detailed study of Agnes Repplier as a representative American essayist. Miss Repplier has written steadily and consistently for many years, and the vogue of tbe essay in America is largely due to ber. Her work has also added impetus to essay writing by encouraging others to enter the field.
■PROM COMMITTEE IS SATISFIED WITH NEW FAVORS
Nature of Novelties To Be Kept Secret Until Night of March 27
Just what the favors for the Junior Prom, to be held March 26, in the Biltmore ballroom, really are is to be kept a secret until the prom, but the committee on viewing them upon their arrival here Saturday were convinced they were the most clever prom favors they had ever seen.
Mrajorie Rice, who is class vice-president and is in charge of favors and programs refused to give any in-formatoin concerning them although she made it clear that she really wished she could.
‘ You see it’s this w^ay,” said Miss Rice, “I’m so enthusiastic over these favors, they are really more attractive than the sample which w'e saw, that 1 would really like to tell you all about them .because I feel sure that if the discription of them were repeated in the Trojan every one would buy a ticket and come to the prom for just the favor alone. However Mr. Snavely feels that they will be doubly appreciated at the prom if they are a surprise. Therefore I can’t tell.
“But I will tell you this,” she continued, “they are carried out in the class colors, orchid and silver, although the men call them grey and lavender.”
The invitations for patrons and patronesses have been accepted Miss
/. Whitcomb Brougher to Tell Underclassmen Of Modern Superman
Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, pastor of the Temple Baptist church of Los Angeles is to be the speaker for Tuesday’s Chapel hour. He is prominent in Los Angeles church circles, and his address, according to Professor Baxter who invited him to speak, will be of interest to all students.
Professor Baxter states that Dr Brougher is a popular speaker of noon day clubs, and very much admired by the business men of this city. He has an unusual sense of humor, and is a good fellow among the young people. He is to be commended for the interest he has taken in Los Angeles newsboys, and the co-operation shown in their behalf.
“He will speak on, “The Making of a Super-Man," says Professor Baxter,” a subject which should be of interest to men students starting on their college careers, as well as those students who will soon take their places as leaders of tomorrow.”
PROPERLY SUPERVISED
The agreement between the Students’ Executive Committee and the University, whereby all students' dances are to be held on the campus has gone into effect this semester, and is being satisfactorily carried out.
Last semester the question as to whether or not all future class dances
Rice stated, and they will include Dr. j or 0^er University affairs should be
and Mrs. Rufus B. von KJeinSmid, Dean and Mrs. Karl T. Waugh, Major and Mrs. Warren Bovard, Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Stonier, Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn Wilson.
The sale of tickets is meeting with great success reported Bill Hansen Friday. “Just one week more remains for the upperclassmen to have an unmolested chance to buy these tickets.” Mr. Hansen said, “From the 23rd the sale will be opened to the underclassmen.”
Recital In Touchstone Gives Varied Program
A recital is to be given Monday, March 16, at 2:15. by the School of Speech in the Touchstone Theater.
'“The Bombardment” by Amy Low-ell is the selection to be given by Franklin Murrell, and Miss Johnson will give ‘ Ropes” by W. D. Steele.
The recitals in the Touchstone are weekly events. They are given by the students of the School of Speech and are a practical application of class work. The public is invited to attend.
held on the campus, came up for discussion. According to Dean Waugh there has been a great deal of criticisms of students’ dances by those interested in the University. In studying the nature of these criticisms Dean Waugh was able to classify them under four heads:
(1) I^ack of control of the dance by the University group, permitting strangers and perhaps undesirable persons to attend; (2) Lack of adequate cha-peronage, through which the University might exert beneficial supervision; (3) Lateness of hours; (4) The expense to the students necessitated by the high charges made by the hotels and clubs that have dance halls to rent.
In an effort to remove the causes of criticism, and to solve some of the other difficulties, it was suggested that the Students Executive Committee and the University co-operate In regulating student dances and that the University remove the ban on dancing from the campus, allowing the basketball pavilion and the Woman's gym-(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
EXAMINATION CHANGE CARRIED IN FRIDAY’S STUDENT MEETING
Doubt Is Expressed By Executive Committee Members As To Whether Proposed Changes Will Be Institute^
By TERREL DE LAPP
Casting seven hundred and one votes for, and five hundred and forty-tour votes against, Southern California students went on record as being in favor of the proposed change in examination methods in Friday's student assembly as a result of the vote taken at the close of an hour filled with speeches for and against the tentative plan.
Upon its being passed by the students themselves, the proposal automatically goes before the Executive Committee for its final endorsement.
~C Ned Lewis, Student Body President.
PRIZE YELL CONTEST since the votes had b'een count-
WILL BE HELD THIS WEEK
Allen T. Archer Offers a $100 Prize For Best Trojan YeH
In order to stimulate interest in the development of better yells at the University of Southern California, Allen T. Archer, prominent Los Angeles business man has offered a prize of $100 to the person submitting the best yell in the contest. The contest will be conducted by the Rally Committee with a special group of judges yet to be selected. According to Sam Gates, member of the committee the contest will close on March 31. There will be a big box for the contribution? placed in the arcade of the Administration building this week.
Several years ago a similar contest I for Southern California songs was conducted with Allen T. Archer offering the prize in this instance also. Al Wessen, ’24, was the winner with the new “All Hail” song, now sung in place of the old “Alma Mater.”
“Due to the success of the song contest the committee hopes that equally good yells will be submitted,” said Sam Gates.” It has been a criticism of the University of Southern California that it had no really distinctive yells as did other institutions on the
Pacific Coast. In writing the yells the students are urged to use the words “Trojan’’ and “Southern California” instead of U. S. C. It has been pointed out that U. S. C. is purely the nickname of the institution and for that reason should not be used. The yells should be strictly original.”
Plans are being formulated whereby the new yell will be tried out before the student body during one of the
Friday assembly periods.
BRIGHAM YOUNG U. TO DEBATE HERE
Considered One Of the Foremost Forensic Institutions in Country
Brigham Young University debaters who will compete against the University of Southern California have established an enviable reputation in forensic activities during the last few years. They have earned the title of one of the foremost debating schools in the country and hold decisions over the leading schools of the East and West.
The two men whom Brigham Young is sending on this year’s annual California trip are A. C. Lambert and Orvel Hafen, two of the most promising debaters turned out by the Utah institution in recent years. They have been debating together in several debates this season and were teammates on the three man team which defeated the representatives of the University of West Virginia in February. W. Virginia boasts of a team which is well known all over the country.
Of a total of fifty-two major debates participated in during the last fifteen, months Brigham Young has won 35, which is an average of more than two out of three wins against the best teams in the nation. The University of Southern California is the only school which has met teams from the Utah institution more than once and still holds a majority of the decisions over them. The Trojans have defeated
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ed, that he doubted if the intended
plan would be forced into operation. He said that the Executive Committee would not undertake to force any measure that was not in accordance with the desires of practically all the members of the Associated Student Body.
Speeches from the floor featured Friday’s developments in assembly. Permission was granted to anyone desiring to express his views on the value of the proposed change. No women students spoke. The majority of the talks were against the plan. One speaker proposed the plan of abolishing examinations. Nearly every talk was followed by rounds of applause, indicating that sentiment was about evenly divided before the ballot was taken.
Many are of the belief that the proposed plan was started entirely thru action of the Executive Committee. It
is stated, however, by members of
that committee, that it was forced to draw up some kind of a plan in an endeavor to solv© the examination question, only after many members of the student body had oome to the committee with complaints and demanded some form of action. The one discussed in Friday’s meeting was the result of the pressure brought to bear on the committee.
INVOLVES SIGNATRE
The plan provided that teachers before final examinations were to write either on the blackboard or an paper a statement to the effect that the students who signed it automatically declared that they had not given or received any aid during the examination. The signing was to have been carried on publicly after the examination.
Greatest objections to the plan brought out in Friday’s speeches centered around the point that students were urged to report to the Executive Committee any instances of cheating that took place in any of their examinations. It was contended that the secret reporting of fellow students would lead to serious difficulties.
Change in the examination at Southern California has been one of the vital factors of interest on the campus since the start of the schiool year.
ENGINEERS PLAN ROUNDUP FRIDAY
Smokeless Smoker Will Be Held In Basketball Pavilion Friday Night
To create revalry between school of law students and engineers an Engineers’ Roundup is to be held Friday evening, April 3, in the basketball pavilion. The affair will feature a basketball game between the engineers and the lawyers. All men students in the University are invited to attend.
In all large universities intense rivalry between the lawyers and engi-nees is present, bat according to Burdette Ives, it has not been present, at Southern California.
T he entertainment for the evening will consist of a Jiu .Jitsu match by two Japanese university studenLs, several fast boxing and wrestling bouts which are b*»ing arranged by Prof. Anderson of the Physical Education department, the basketball game between the engineers and law students, and a supper of barbecued pig and other food. Tickets for the affair can be purchased from A. B. Collins for twenty-five cents.
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