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Volume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, December 9, 1924
Number 30
SYRACUSE OUTPLAYED BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TWO THOUSAND ALUMNI VISIT COLLEGE; FIRST HOMECOMING
Law “Grads” Defeat Dent “Grads” in Golf Tournament; Varsity Banquets Well Attended; Pajamarino Cited As a Success
U1C. LOSES HONORED PROFESSOR BY DEATH’S HAND
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NINE GAIN FINALS IN BOWEN CONTEST
Twenty-Three Try For Places; Cup Finals Will Be Friday
Two thousand enthusiastic Trojan Alumni took advantage of the elaborate, two day program given in their honor last Friday end Saturday with the result that the First Annual Homecoming of the University of Southern California Alumni passed into the history of the college as a memorable success.
Using every possible means of transportation, the Homecomers, early Friday morning began to “joyfully wend their homeward way” up brilliantly decorated University avenue and about the buildings and campus of their Alma Mater.	C-
The two days. December 5 and 6, were replete with a variety of events which appealed to the 'whimsies” and tastes of every graduate from the early days of U. S. C. in 1884 down to the sophisticated and polished 1924 product.
According to reports from the various committees, every event on the program together with its every angle was accepted with enthusiasm and appreciation by the Alumni.
The First Annual Homecoming officially opened with the golf tournament between teams representing the Dental and Law Alumni which took place at the Wilshire Country Club.
Between 35 and 40 interested spectators followed the players over the course.
The tournament ended in the defeat of the Law “Grads” by the Dental Alumni, who took the prize cup with a score of 5 to 8. The cup was presented to the winners by Mr. Martin after the dinner at the Men’s football banquet in tiie Armory Friday night.
While the tournament was being played between the Alumni of these two schools, the fraternities and sororities of the campus were holding open house for the benefit of those Alumni who were not interested in golf.
Reports say this privilege of visiting the Greek letter houses was by no means overlooked.
FOOTBALL BANQUET POPULAR
The most outstanding events of the early evening wrere the football banquets tendered the Alumni and the Varsity team by both the women and the men.
The men’s affair, given in the Armory, wrent down as a tremendous success. Over 325 men attended the dinner. Music for the occasion was furnished by Bud King’s orchestra, the orchestra from the Dental school, the Trojan Five and the Men’s Glee | "orking
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Bailey, Geology Professor, Dies, After Brief Illness At Home
WAS 72 YEARS OF AGE
Demise Ends a Long Life of Service to Man and Country
Following a brief illness. Dr. Gilbert Ellis Bailey, professor of geology at the University of Southern California, died at his home Saturday night. The death of Dr. Bailey marks the passing of one of the University’s oldest faculty members and most laithful workers. Funeral services are to be held this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in the Old Chapel.
Phi Beta Kappa Is Captain Of Missouri U. Tigers
A football captain with a Phi Beta Kappa key, is only one claim torvlistinction by Arthur Bond, 168-pound halfback, and captain of the Tiger squad from the University of Missouri, who will play Southern California in Los Angeles Christmas Day.
The "Mizzou” team figures on arriving in the Southland only a day or so before the intersectional gameT According to their plans, their share of the gate receipts will go toward the building of a great memorial stadium.
Southern California will not place the Christmas game tickets on sale until the latter part of the w;eek.
SELLOUT INDICATED SPECTACULAR FOOTBALL SEEN
IN “SCANDALS” SEAT SALE
Fraternities Reserve Block Of Seats For Annual Campus Musical Show
2500 TICKETS GONE
SIGMA SIGMAS TO GATHER TOMORROW
Twenty-three debating aspiran' tried out for the nine places to take part in the finals of the Bowen Cup Extemporaneous contest last Thursday,, the following being selected: Lloyd Griffith, Sam Gates, Leland Tallman, Wm. Henley, Stevens Fargo, Art Freston, A. Schilling, Elliot Hendry, Elliott Hendry, and Miss Rosita Hopps. These nine will try for one of the much-coveted cups in Chapel on Friday.
According to Ray Brennan, debate manager, the tryouts were successful from every angle, and he was especially pleased that a representative of the Women Students took part and won her way into the finals.
The subject of the tryouts, “Japan Is Justified in Her Protest Against Sec. 130 of the Immigration Ijiw of 192-iy’ was given out just an hour before the start of the tryouts, and sub-topics were assigned at that time, the debator having his choice of speaking either pro or con. The same subject will be the theme of the finals on Friday, and the sub-topics will be given out an hour before starting time.
Dr. Carl Knopf, of Religion; Professor Anthony Blanks of Speech, and Dr. Carus of Commerce were the judges, and it is likely that this same trio will award the decisions on Friday.
Of the nine who qualified in the tryouts, six will be given cups, and the result is that every one of the nin0 is diligently on the subject. Brennan urges that e.veiv student turn out for this event, staling that debating is rapidly coming into its own as a major school activity.
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Honorary Junior Men’s Fraternity WTill Hold Year s First . Meeting
Sigma Sigma, the junior men’s honor fraternity, will have the first meeting of the year at twelve o’clock tomorrow, in the Student Body office above the Associated Students Store. All members are requested to attend as important business will be transacted and a number of important matters will be discussed.
“Bud” Welin was elected president, John Woods, vice-president, and Geo. Orme, secretary-treasurer of Sigmg Sigma at a meeting held the latter part of last semester. It is around these three men that this year’s Sphinx and Snakes organization will center.
Membership in Sigma Sigma is based solely upon the value of the work done for the university by the members of the junior class each year, whether it be class or all-university activity, and is not dependent upon the obtaining of some particular office in the class or school, as many have believed in the past.
Sigma Sigma is purely an honorary organization and membership in it is the highest honor that can be conferred upon a junior man for class activity, and is one of the highest awards that can be given to a junior for alluniversity activity.
The pledging of members to Sigma Sigma takes place early in the second semester, and the campus is given the chance to become acquainted with the pledges personally by obtaining one of the Yellow Dogs from them when these canines run loose upo* the campus.
DR. BRONSON TO SPEAK
Dr. Dillon Bronson, known as an educator, lecturer and traveler, will deliver the chapel address both today and tomorrow. Dr. Bronson, who has just returned from his third trip around the world, will speak on “Recent Impressions of Europe.”
Satur lay night. Although years old and occasionally short illnesses, Dr. Bailey was in good health and his death came as a shock to the students and faculty at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Bailey was born in Pekin. Illinois, April 27, 1852, and was the son of Rev. Gilbert S. Bailey. He was a student at the University of Chicago from 1SGS-72, and from there he took his A. B. and M. A. degrees. After leaving the University of Chicago, Dr. Bailey attended the University of Michigan and there took his Doctor's degree in 1873. In 1881 Dr. Bailey attended Franklin College. Indiana.
Dr. Bailey was professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska from 1874-79, and a professor of Metallurgy at the South Dakota State School of Mines from 188S-89. From 1900-01 he was an assistant in the California Mining Bureau. During the years 1901-2-3, Dr. Bailey took an active part in the Death Valley explorations. Since 1909 he has been a professor of geology at the University of Southern California.
MEMBER OF MANY CLUBS
The deceased was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity ,the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles, the Authors’ Club of London, and Skull and Dagger. Dr. Bailey is the author of numerous books, among them “Saline Deposits of California," “Mines and Minerals of San Bernardino County, California.” •‘California Soils,’’ “Use of Explosives in Agriculture,” "Nitrating by Legumes,” “Verticle Farming,” “California, a Geologic Wonderland,” and has also contributed articles to numerous magazines and newspapers. Dr. Bailey helped in the motion picture production of “Abraham Lincoln,’’ having charge of the research of the dramatic life of Abraham Lincoln. He traveled extensively .having toured Mexico, Central America and South
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Two Hundred Couples Attend Senior Dance At Pavilion
TOPICS PRESENTED FOR M.A. THESES
Graduate Council Scholarship Committee Meet Wednesday To Approve Topics
Candidates for Masters’ degrees in the Graduate School have been showing considerable activity of late in meeting the requirement for the presentation of their thesis topics, which were dtine at the close of last wreek.
The Scholarship Committee of the Graduate Council is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Wednesday, to canvass these topics, all of which must be duly approved before the students can make further progress.
It goes without saying that the topics presented represent a very wide range of subjects and fields of research. The selection of a suitable topic is sometimes regarded as being almost as difficult as the preparation of the thesis itself.
The next step following the approval of the thesis topic is the presentation of a “written report as to the scope, method of treatment, bibliography and proposed sources of information and special facilities in the L'niversity,” which should be one month later. January 6th.
At present there are upwards of 100 candidates for Masters’ degrees, including candidates in the School of Education and the School of Commerce and Business Administration. Last year a total of 74 candidates were awarded Masters’ degrees by the University. and it is expected that an even' larger number will complete requirements by Commencement, 1925.
Already a number of prospective candidates for the Ph. D. degree have indicated the fields for their respective researches.
Pasteboards Going Fast In Ticket Office At Wurlitzer Music Company
Seventeen days till Christmas. Four days till Extravaganza. Do your ticket buying early! With the date of the “Campus Scandals” but four days off, with the ticket sale exceeding all expectations, and with a cast and chorus that know their parts to perfection, Messrs. McCann, LaMont, and Johnston announce'that the 13th holds no perils for them—nor the 12th.
“Rain or shine, drought or cloudburst, U. S. C. is going to see the best Extravaganza yet next Friday and Saturday nights,” Grant LaMont said yesterday. "I’ve never seen a chorus so easy to train and so enthusiastic about their parts. -If the show doesn’t leave them dizzy it won’t be the fault of the girls in the chorus.”
Many fraternities have reserved blocks of seats, w'hich will be held until Thursday night, when they will be placed on general sale. More good tickets were put on sale yesterday when those that had been sent to other colleges were brought in and placed on sale at the Book Store. Ellsworth Ross, production manager, states that 2,500 tickets have already been sold, and that those remaining are going rapidly. Those left downtown with the Wurlitzer company are nearly all sold.
With a “Plastic Age” beginning (do not misunderstand) a second act centering on a football game, and a “Cat and Canary” finish that leave you gasping, the “Campus Scandals” should furnish plenty of plot interest, according to the director.
Gene Johnston .musical director, promises twelve knock-out musical numbers.
“So if you're bored, blase’, dumb, behind in your collateral, low in your studies, or show any human traits whatsoever, plank down fifty or seventy-five cents and see the best musical comedy yet—and be >here at 8:15 sharp,” urges Ross.	l
IN GREAT HOMECOMING GAME
Best of East Falls Before Powerful Onslaught of Southern California Drive; Hobbs Adams Stars For Trojans
By LEE CONTI
Featured by some of the most spectacular football ever witnessed in an East-West gridiron classic, the determined Trojan Varsity upheld the prestige of western football and sent the Syracuse University representatives of the East, down to a 16 to 0 defeat at he Coliseum Saturday. The game was truly representative of the eastern and western style of play, with the latter taking the top honors.
To Hobbs Adams. U. S. C. end goes the undisputed honor of having put on the greatest exhibition of individual spectacular playing and places him in
Cline for an All-American berth. The flashy end was all over the field, time after time breaking through to block kicks, nailing runners for losses, and
ASILOMAR TALK AT X MEETING
Wrestling Matches, Music and
Pep Talks at Weekly Gathering Wednesday
Two wrestling matches, special music and pep talks by local campus students will be the features of this week’s Y council meeting, Wednesday evening from 5:30-7:00. The regular discussion will be given over to talks concerning the coming Asilomar conference.
The wrrestling matches will be put on before dinner by members of the Men’s Varsity wrestling team. It is planned that the excitement will stir up a better appetite for the feed which follows. Speakers will include men who are going, or have been to Asilomar, telling why they are going and what good they expect to get out of it.
Some of the fellows are Willard Shurr, president of the Y, Stan Wheeler, last year’s senior class president, now on the San Pedro Daily Pilot, Stan McKee, vice-president of the Y and U. S. C.’s delegate to the Louisville. Kentucky, conference last year, Leland Tallman. member of the varsity debate squad, and now a contender for the Bowen cup, Dick Sorick. treasurer of the Y and discussion group leader, and George Jordan, chairman of the program committee and Trojan assistanvt editor.
“A complete success” is what the two hundred couples said who attended the Senior Dance, Saturday night in the Basketball Pavilion. A beautifully decorated hall, delicious punch and perfect syncopation added to the zest of the evening. Old grads were there by the score, and added to the happiness of victory the joy of renewing old acquaintances.
The hall was hung with festoons of cardinal silk with golden fringe, with a dashing note of turquoise blue placed in unexpected places, thus revealing the secret which the decorations committee had so long carefully guarded. At each end of the pavilion a canopy had been constructed completely hiding the baskets.
Woods said the affair was “strictly informal.” The informality of costume helped promote an atmosphere of cordiality, for as one grad expressed it “you feel at ease in anything” because everything was w^om from sweaters to evening gowns.
The patrons and patronesses for the evening included Dean and Mrs. Karl Waugh, Professor and Mrs. Oliver J. Marston, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Henderson. Professor and Mrs. William Ralph La Porte, Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Stonier, and Chick Meehan, coach of the Syracuse eleven.
The committee for the Senior dance was under the direction of Johnny Woods, Chairman. Decorations were planned and executed by Harold
Dougher. Dorothy Haldeman, Jeanette Imbibers of punch with long experi- I Cecil and Lissa Baker; Punch and Mu-nce proclaimed that the punch was sjc_ George Orme. Marguerite Matson,
genuine fruit punch and was beyond criticism. Those with less experience seemed equally pleased with the quality, quantity and temperature of the punch.
The music for the dance was provided by the Arrowhead Orchestra through arrangements made with Bud King, ^tags were, permitted to cut in on any]dance because as Johnny
Bill Delphey; General arrangements, O. K. Kraus; Financial chairman, Yale Martz; and Publicity, Dot Crowley.
The guests of honor of the dance w’ere the members of the Syracuse football squad.
Alumni were enthusiastic over the dance and expressed the wish that a similar dance would be held next year on the Homecoming Day.
PLENTY OF WOOD IN BIG BONFIRE
The tallest bonfire ever constructed in the history of American colleges was featured in the pajamarino staged Friday night by the Freshman class in Exposition Park in preparation for the game with Syracuse.
The pile, towering in the air 73 feet, surpassed the tallest pile ever built by any university by one foot. Before the crow'ded grandstand the Frosh, clad in multi-hued pajamas staged a dance around the pile with huge torches. The dance ended by the oil-soaked pile being showered with the flaming torches.
Freshmen who evaded the function were sought out of the crowd and gave a demonstration of the art of putting on a pair of pajamas.
Introduction of past football captains and student body presidents, aroused enthusiasm. wrhich exploded in the form of yells led by Hank McCann
EL RODEO STAFF
El Rodeo staff members will hold a meeting in the El Rodeo office at noon today. The El Rodeo edition of the Trojan will appear Fri-dav.
MANAGERS TO MEET
Inter-fraternity basketball managers are requested to meet in ‘Coach Hunter's office at noon today.
ANNUAL REUNION
The annual reunion of the sociology honor students is to occur on Friday evening at the home of an alumna of the University, Hazel Wilkinson Oito. She will be assisted in this Christmas meeting by another well-known student Miss Leonarda Fisher, who is now a successful social worker in tbe city. Dr. C. M. Case, president ot the organization, will preside. A unique feature of this annual meeting is the tradition established thre eyears ago that the admission to the meeting is a sociology book to be given to the sociology research library. About $300 worth of books are contributed each year.
capping his days’ work by nipping a kick off the toe of Bayley of Syracuse and racing 45 yards to a touchdown.
ORANGE FIGHTS HARD The Orange team fought a grim fight against the more powerful Trojan squad which was working as a perfect machine. Favored by a soggy field and a cloudy sky the Salt City team put up a game struggle. They lived up to advance dope and displayed some great football which w^s made more spectacular by the “never say die” spirit of the “Chick” Meehan lads. They were typical representatives of the brand of football played in the far East, but their best was not good enough to stop the powerful Cardinal and Gold, Orange crushing machine.
Captain Johnny Hawkins proved the master of ceremonies and tbe manner in which he called for the fine assortment of plays was a credit to Coach Henderson's system. A more baffling bag of tricks was never presented a football crowd. Not only did Captain Johnny Hawkins favor the folks with a few* trucky ones, but Captain Simmons of Syracuse also made an offering which netted the Orange team some well earned *'?rdage.
ADAMS IS GREAT
Hardly before the spectators had been seated the great Hobbs Adams had broken through to block a kick on the Orange 11 yard line with Thomas and Gorrell recovering for the Trojans. Three line bucks by Johnny Riddle gained six yards. It was at this point that Captain Hawkins dropped back to the 13 yard line for a place kick. The ball sailed perfectly thru the uprights scoring three points in the first three minutes of play. The (Continued on Last Page)
Birds, Beasts, and Fishes Feature Homecoming Parade
BACHELORS TO MEET
The Wampus Bachelors Club will hold an important meeting at the Cozy Den at noon today. President Carle-ton Morehouse requests that all members be present.
MEN’S TENNIS CLUB
There will be an important meeting of the Men’s Tennis Club today at 12 in H 305. Plans for the all-university tournament will be discussed. All members should be present.
Birds, beasts and fishes took part in the great Homecoming celebration of last Saturday, wiien floats representing thirty-five fraternities and sororities paraded the coliseum in front of 60,000 applauding spectators. Symbolic representations of every description competed with each other for the prizes—silver loving cups donated by J. A. Meyers and the T. V. Allen Co., local jewelers and Trojan advertisers.
The grand prize was won by Phi Mu, whose entry* “Helen’s Homecoming,” represented Helen of Troy, gaudily decorated in cardinal and gold, returning home from her adventures on a somew'hat precarious but impressive platform.
Two other cups were offered, one for a sorority and one for a fraternity. The sorority prize was won by Delta Pi with an ancient vehicle drawn by a sway-back white horse and filled with the youth and beauty of the class of ’87 in its prime. Phi Alpha drew the receptacle for brotherly affection, departed match-heads, etc., with a Ford whose wheels had a permanent wave, and which was otherwise colorfully adorned. It is rumored that while the total cost of decorating the floats was not to exceed $15, exclusive of the cost of the machine, Phi Al-
a RODEOS TO GO ON SALE MONDAY
Trojan Annual To Sell For $4.50 Says Business Manager Ott
pha secured their entire entry, wheels and all, at a saving of $2.50.
Other typical entries were that of ! Sigma Tau, labelled “Not According to Tradition,” and featured by a consid-1 erable display of real bottles, not the milk kind, the Alpha Rho Chi Ford, school-girl complexion and all; “Homecoming” as understood by Delta Mu Phi and including a rolling pin; Kappa Delta’s blackbird in a gilded cage, and last of all Alpha Sigma Del-ta’se human wild bull of the Campus, who gave an impression of great ferocity, even though his head seemed to be detachable.
The parade started from Bovard Field at 1:00 o’clock, passed the reviewing stand in front of the Administration building and proceeded to the coliseum, where it made the circuit of the bowl. A special police car, in which sat Captain Heath, headed the procession, followred by a car containing the Grand Marshal, R. C. Lane and the committee composed of Dr. Harry Van Fleet, Mary Langan. Ronald Stevers, Marion Sparks, and Eddie Green.
Mr. Lane wishes to thank the fraternities and sororities for their cooperation, which made the * parade possible.
Thirty salesmen with blood in their eyes, lard in their hair, and a grim determination to make the "El Rodeo sales campaign go over the top 100 per cent, will be turned loose Monday when Burdett Ives, sales manager of the annual, opens the drive for sub-1 scriptions.
Law and Dental students are re-
quired to sign for a copy, the price being included in their registration fees, but. with the Liberal Arts and Commerce students, ihe action is entirely voluntary. Last year only 20 per cent of the students on the campus, exclusive of the Law and Dental students, signed up for copies of U. S. C.’s year book.
“This vear’s ‘El Rodeo will contain 544 9x12 inch pages, and will sell for $4.50, at least a dollar cheaper than any big university annual in the country. We don't feel that it is asking too much of the students when we go out for a 100 per cent record, and we are confident that we can make it,” Barton Hutchins, editor, said yesterday.
Two hundred people who had their pictures taken for the annual by W it-zel have not returned the proofs. These must be in before the Christmas holidays, and should be rnai'ed to Witzel’s downtown office at 1011 7th street.
Barton Hutchins announces a staff meeting in the El Rodeo office at 12 o’clock today. It is important that all members of the staff be present.