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VOLUME IV
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 24, 1925
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NUMBER 8
TODAY IS U. S. C.
DAY AT PACIFIC PALISADES TRACT
Many Recreational and Intellectual Features Offered For All Attending
LECTURER FROM OXFORD
A Capella Choir to Give Handel’s “Messiah” at Auditorium This Evening
Offering- a program of variety which balances the artistic and the intellectual, the Pacific Palisades Association has declared today to be University of Southern California Day at the big Chautauqua tract on the shores of the Pacific. Students are offered special rates, the Physical Education department is holding a picnic there, and a large number of Trojans is anticipated for the occasion.
The first important event is the lecture at eleven this morning by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Detroit, who speaks on ‘ l he Soul and Machines.” At 2:30 Professor John Langdon-Davies, special lecturer at Oxford University, appears in the Palisades Auditorium in a speech on “The Coming Renaissance in Spain.” Professor Davies is one of the leading younger scholars in England today and is giving a special lecture series at the Pacific Palisades this summer.
A CAPELLA CHOIR What will be considered by many to be the chief attraction of the day is the performance this evening of Handel’s “Messiah” by the A Capella Choir, directed by Mr. John Small-man. head of the Palisades School of Music. The A Capella Choir appears (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
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GENUINE FOLK-DANCES
European Background of United States Demands Dances of Europe
MISS BURCHENAL TALKS
Students Enjoy Brief Address of Famous Student of Folk-Dancing
Miss Elizabeth Burchenal, noted international traveler and the outstanding Folk-Dance student in America, who is one of the founders and at present chairman of the Organization Committee of the American Folk-Dance Society, gave a brief talk before the U. S. C. assembly last Tuesday in which she told of the Folk-Dance and related a number of her experiences in collecting European folk-dances.
Miss Burchenal said that the popular idea seems to be that Indian and negro dances are the real American folk-dances, but asserted this is not theoretically true. In-as-much as the United States is made up of European peoples, then the folk-dances of this country, she said, should be those of Europe.
“To learn the folk-dances of a people one must live among them. One never sees the real folk-dances of a nation by merely asking for them to be danced. To learn them, one must enter into the dancing with the people themselves. They cannot tell you bow they dancp,” Miss Burchenal said, “but they can show you if you are ready to learn.” «
DONS SPANISH DRESS ' Miss Burchenal told of learning “La Jota” in southern France, at a tavern
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ACHIEVEMENT IS IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT AVOCATION
Dr. William C. Ruediger Stresses Need of Training For Leisure Time
IMPORTANT IN YOUTH
Collateral Fantasy Gives View of Hard- Working Books
Texts Slumber in Regular Session But Keep On Jump As Summer Session Students Use Them From 8 A. M. To Midnight
BY DON PIERCE
Two textbooks were slumbering next to each other in the tier of Sociology books in the collateral basement bookshelves .when the rumble of a passing truck jarred them from their repose. Sleepily noting that the dim light of dawn was etching the mantle of night away in dim lines of yellow grayness, the large blue volume yawned and spoke to.the little red book near it:
“Hello! I't has been quite a while since we both were left in here overnight. What have you been doing lately?”
“Oh! I have been rather busy, lhe part of the chapter that dealt with Human Values has come up, and quite a few students have been perusing my pages to see what Mr. White thought about
— 9this phase of tenement work.”
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PICNIC COMES TODAY
Gathering of Clan At Women s Gym at 4 P. M. For Big Beach Festival
Few Adults Spend Leisure in Significant, Elevating Employment
Taking up “Education for Leisure" as one of the outstanding needs of the present day and discussing its fundamental nature, as well as the pressing need for a vocational training, Dr. William Carl Ruediger delivered the fourth lecture of the Thursday afternoon series in room 206 of Hoose Hall yesterday. Dr. Ruediger, who is Dean of the Teachers’ College at Georg-e Washing--ton University, is an authority in the field of education and has written and lectured extensively upon a variety of pedagogical and psychological subjects.
Recognition of the need of education for leisure is becoming widespread, asserted Dr. Ruediger in pointing out that it is now felt that education should prepare not only for the home, for citizenship, for industry, and for business, “But that it should also function in those activities that people pursue for the purpose of enjoyment.
“It is asserted,’,’ he continued, “that the needs and opportunities for reaction have changed with the development in other phases of life, that these needs can no longer be adequately met on an instinctive and untutored plane, and that, therefore, the school should make equipment for the pursuits of leisure one of its specific aims.”	i
PERMANENT PURSUIT The chief difference between an avocation and a diversion, according to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
ASSEMBLY PLAY WAS WELL DONE SAYS 00;
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“Monday,’ as Produced by Class
Under Gilmor Brown, is Able Work
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Is Literary Play in Spite of I.fs Realistic Subject Matter
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“Servant In House” Will be Read By Visiting Professor From Vanderbilt
That “Monday,” Alfred Kreym-borg’s drama which was given in Assembly last Tuesday, was a play difficult of presentation in several respects but very adequately handled, was the opinion of Dr. Allison Gaw, professor and head of the English Department of the University. Dr. Gaw is a critic, professor, and sucessful writer in the field of the drama, and one of its leading authorities in the United States.
“Monday, A Lame Minuet,” was presented by six members of the class in Play Production under the direction of Mr. Gilmor BrowTn, who is producing director of the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association and a member of the summer faculty of the Public Speaking Department. It is the story of three women meeting on a tenement landing on the day after Sunday. They are critically discussing their husbands, the immediate occasion being the behavior of the latter on the day or rest. After a flood of adverse comment, the appearance at the conclusion of the drama of a women whose husband has died recently produces in the women a feeling of revulsion toward their recent attitudes.
“There are a number of interesting points about the play,” said Dr. Gaw.
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TUESDAY’S BOWL PROCRAM IS ON STUDENT NIGHT
Fritz Reiner Appearing in Final Week of His Stay in Los Angeles
ALL WAGNER PROGRAM
Hungarian Conductor is One of World's Leading Masters of Music
Next Tuesday, beginning the third and last week of music di* rected by Fritz Reiner at the Hollywood Bowl, has been declared “U. S. C. Night’’ by the association in charge of the summer musical productions. It will be one of the finest programs of the entire season.
In the short space of Reiner’s
sojourn here he has endeared himself to some 30,000 people, and the orchestra have grown to love this little master and respond to his baton perfectly. Every move of his hands, body and head are in perfect rythmic relation to his score, and a great inspiration to his musicians—there is not a lost motion in evidence.
At a luncheon given recently Mr. Reiner, in speaking of his audience, which he considers one of the most responsive and delightful he has known, said, “They are so silent I can hear them.” Fifteen thousand people hefd i» hushed silence because a master wills it so.
On Tuesday night Reiner will free the tremendous avalanches of tone in an all Wagner program. It will be a feast of the titans—Wagner and Reiner—a night of poetry and power.
Past, present, and future Physical Education students, don’t neglect the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the rest of the clan at the picnic at Pacific Palisades today, July 24. There w'ill be plenty of transportation for everyone who can possibly find time to go, and of course a rest and good recreation will make up in efficiency for the time lost.
Mr. Trieb and Mr. Anderson will have games planned in which all may take part, and there will be an opportunity for the swimmers to “show their stuff.” Of course, there will be eats, and then those who wish may join the U. S. C. night crowd at the Assembly Grounds, while others will go to the Ocean Park Palace of Fun, or the dance hall. Meet at the Wo-•men's Gym at 4 o'clock.
In connection with the extra-curricular activities offered by the visiting faculty of the University of Southern California, an exceptionally fine program is scheduled for Monday afternoon at four o’clock in Touchstone Theatre when Professor Albert Mason Harris, visiting professor from Vanderbilt University, will present a reading of the play, “A Servant in t.he House.”
Professor Harris gives this recital
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by request of many of the students in his classes who have been so impressed with short sketches given in the study-hall by means of illustration that they desire to hear a complete
“Have vou had time to recognize any of your old friends?”
“To be frankly truthful, I have not. You see the rush for me starts about eieht in the morning and I am checked in and out everv twenty minutes until three o’clock when I am generally taken home for outlining or summarizing.”
DIFFERENT TREATMENT
“Do you notice any difference between the way wre are handled now leading.
and the way we were a few months All members of Mr. Harris’ classes ago?”	1	and their friends, as well as any oth-
*‘T)n i? Tii^t mnrVi riifferenoe as students on the campus who are Do I. Just as much dinerence as	„nrHini ; while in some by-street, Jeremiah may
thprp is hptwppn niVht and dftv Dur- interested in such work, are cordial
mere is Detween nigni ana aay. uur	j	haan at that minute ovnrtin? thu
ing April and May I nearly died of ^ invited to attend
ennui, and then during the last few
Slave Bracelets Were In
Fashion 3000 Years Ago
Professor Carl S. Knopf Reveals Secret of Archaic Relics From Days of Babylonian Civilization; Clay Tablets and Trinkets of Feminine Vanity
Bringing back days of Babylon and Assyria and Palestine, when civilization was still entrenched only in the lands east of the Mediterranean, the archeological collection in possession of the Biblical Literature Department of the University contains many relics interesting to an expert trained in their interpretation. Such an expert is Carl S. Knopf, Associate Professor in the School of Religion. . His experience, gained in years ofr foreign study, made his chat with a Trojan reporter a highly interesting one. The remains of ages gone long years since seemed to take on new life as he talked.
Professor Knopf laid upon the table a small clay tablet. It w-as hardly more than an inch wide by t,wo inches long and yet on it, in queer hieroglyphics, was the receipt for the sale of two sheep.
But the interesting fact about it was the date upon the back, 593 B. C. This bit of baked clay wras contemporary with the great king Nebuchadnezzar. And while the traders in the market place were haggling cert	sponsored by Mrs. Rufus over the price of the sheep the prophet | 'on KieinSmid, Mr. and Mrs. Lu-Ezekiel may have passed by and j c^en Brunswig, Mrs. \V illiam Read, stopped a moment to watch the scribe 1 ^r- an(l Mrs. W. I. Hollingsworth, Mr. make this record of the transaction; an(3 Mrs. Judson Rives and Mrs. Sloan
NEKT MONDAY EVENING
No Charge To Students Attending Concert Sponsored By Mrs. von KieinSmid
On Monday evening, the 27th inst., at Bovard Auditorium, Wilma Ramsdell, soprano, of Tucson, Ariz., who has for the last four years been studying and appearing in opera in Italy, will be heard in recital. This con-
ALMA WHITAKER
days in June students literally fought
for me. I remember one blonde youth .IS MADE MEMBER
who ran through my pages and made	-
a few hieroglyphics on a collateral Meeting at Miss Dorothy Crowley s card, and I heard him joke with his bome at 1150 Lake Street last Thurs-room-mate: ‘Hot Dog! Jack! That is da>' afternoon, the national honorary
the way to do collateral. Just read four hundred and eleven pages in ten minutes.’ Funny, though. A week later I was on a table next to this Nordic youth and heard him bemoaning
have been at that minute exorting the passing throng.
One very interesting little clay had
Orcutt. Mrs. S. Heirfeman will accompany Miss Ramsdell, while Mr^ Anne Timmner, the wrell-known ’cellist, will be the assisting artist on the
been presented by the priest of a program.
the fact that old So and So had ask-Professor A. M^Harris to give read-j ed questions never touched on in
class, but I knew well that the answers to them were on pages ten to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
ing Monday in Touchstone Theatre. “The Servant in tbe House.” All invited. 4:00 P. M.
journalistic sorority of the University of Southern California, Alpha Chi Alpha, initiated Alma Whitaker of the Los Angeles Times and welcomed her into their midst.
Miss Whitaker is feature writer and special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and is recognized as being one of the foremost women journalists in the west.
temple to a slave acknowledging the gift of a sacrificial lamb that the slave might prove to his master the fulfillment of the.duty. ‘If only these 1 bits could talk,’’ said Professor Knopf. “Did the slave deliver this receipt to his master or did he lose it on his way home? Mysteries that will never be solved. It was sifted from a heap of sand."
SLAVE BRACELET IN STYLE Then the scene changed. From the heat and hurry of Palestine's city streets we entered the land of cool (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
A number of famous artists and musicians have heard this young singer and expressed their unbounded enthusiasm concerning her work. Among these were Mme. Ernestine Schu-mann-Heink, Tito Schipa and Mrs. Stillman Kelley. The latter heard her at the biennial of music clubs recently heard in Portland.
Admission to outsiders is one dollar. Students of the University will be admitted on showing their registration cards at the door. The time is 8:30.
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