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To Honor Seniors At Chapel This Morning
Junior- Senior Sport Affair Saturday Eve
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, June 5, 1924
Number 94
Pres. Von Klein Smid Expected At Senior Chapel Today
Harold Stonier Tells of Univer sity’s Great Development During Past Year
NED LEWIS PRESIDES
President R, B. von KleinSmid returns this morning and is expected to be present at the Senior Chapel program. The president has been gone for more than a month and attended the Methodist Episcopal Church Conference in Springfield, Mass.
On his way home Dr. von KleinSmid Stopped at Baker University in Kansas and gave the commencement address there Wihile in the east he visited numerous schools inspecting buildings and looking for prospective instructors. In Hartford, Conn., he spoke before the Advertising Club.
The president is returning on the Salt Lake Railroad and is scheduled to arrive at 9:30. Tonight he will leave for San Bernardino where he is to deliver the commencement address at San Bernardino High School.
List Includes Many Well Known Professors, Chief Poiice Vollmer, Knute Rockne and Director of the Pasadena Community Players
New Officers Presented by President at Last Official Meetipg of Year
The Student Body of the University of Southern California, Harold J Stonier, executive secretary of U. S. C., speaking on behalf of President von KleinSmid, and Ned Lewis, president of the Student Body for the coming year, expressed their feelings of gr.titude towards Harry Silke, whose reign as Student Body president ends with laurels with the closing of this semester.
Harold S.onier, expressing his own feelings and those of President von KleinSmid, who is in the Eas^ pictured how. under the guidance of Silke, the student body of this year had more college spirit than any previous year. He related how U. S. C. is fast becom ng to be recognized as cne of the foremost universities in the country; how it has gained the respect and admiration of all colleges East and West; how the other colleges have come to envy the rapid growth and advancement of the Trojan institution, and how Harry Silke had been either directly or indirectly responsible for this. Stonier spoke on behalf of the president and the words he expressed were the words which the president would have uttered had he been in town. However, he did not pass up the opportunity to express his own feelings of gratitude towards the outgoing president. Stonier referred to Silke as “A natural leader of unusual ability, a diligent w'orker with no thought of personal recompense in sight except the furtherance of the growth of his Alma Mater. An unusual scholar and an humble friend of all students, faculty and friends of the Univprsity.”
A resolution wras presented to the student bodjr in wthich the students expressed their gratitude towards Silke. The student body received the
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Art Work is Chinese in Tone Many Distinctive Features In Annual
Winners of the Beauty Contest Have Pictures in the Yearly Book
Prizes of $75, $50 and $25 Are Awarded in League of Nations Contest
The League of Nations contest, held Monday afternoon in Bovard Auditorium, was won by Arthur Syvertson, first place; Margery Carroll, second place, and Willard Brown, third place. Three prizes of $75, $50 and $25 were awarded the winners by Mrs. Jane Bancroft Robinson, prominent Pasadena woman, who inaugurated the contest.
Mrs. Robinson is one of the leading exponents in Southern California for the League of Nations and created the contest at this institution to interest university students in the subject. Mrs. Bancroft is a past president of the American Association of University Women and for sometime was an instructor at Northwestern University.
The subject of the debate was “The Most Practical Methods by Which University Students May Help Convince Voters of the Value of the League of Nations to the United States." Tihe rules of the contest were that the speeches must first be written and judged for value in content and composition, and were not to be more than 2500 words. The persons chosen for the finals were Willard M. Brown, Margery Carroll, Adna Lenard, Richard OlsOn, Helen Perrilli, and Arthur Syvertson.
The contest was conducted by G. C. Tanquary of the Public Speaking Department, and the judges were Julia Norton MacCorkle. Miss Wadsworth of Ihe School of Speech and Prof. Van-dergrift.
Due to an accidental omission, the results of the Dental elections were not recorded in the political issue Tuesday.
B.	B. Griffin was elected to the presidency of that college in a very close race. This position was the only one contested. Major Harry Comeau and Frank Emory were close competitors but the race was decided by a plurality of 30 votes.
McGee, a sophomore, was made vice-president on a white ballot. The position of secretary-treasurer was similarly offered Ed Maloney, a Junior.
New Officers Elected By Clionian Society
FRESHMAN NOTICE
All Freshmen who have not taken the Intelligence Test report to Room 206 Hoose Hall, Saturday morning, June 7, at nine d'cloek. No credit for the year’s work will be given until tlhe test is taken. J. Montgomery, Registrar.
Annual Banquet Held For Friendly Bunch
Friendiy Bunch held its annual banquet Monday evening, May 26, at the University Church and ha-d as guests Miss Emily Biles and Mrs. Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
The tables were decorated wiUi ferns and pansies, and pastel shades were used throughout the decorations. Corsages of pink sweetpeas were presented to the retiring officers and the newly-elected officers were introduced to the group.
Catherine Bennet, retiring president, acted as toastmaster. Speeches were made by Lucille Grizzle, Mary Williams, new president, Miss Biles, and Mrs„ von KleinSmid. Mrs. von KleinSmid expressed her desire that the banquet next year might be held in the new Women s Building.
Romance Well Provided For At Sophmore Sport Dance
Dr. Bogardus Writes New Booh On Social Psychology
Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honorary Society, Will be Installed Friday
Friday noon will see the birth of a new honoriry fraternity on the U. S.
C.	campus. At that time the charter members of Sigma Delta Pi, national honorary Spanish fraternity, will meet in the committee room of the University cafteria to elect officers and start the new arrival on its way.
The organization, which was founded at the University of California in 1922, has seven chapters in different universities in all sections of the United States. Requirements for membership are two-fold. The nit* iates must be upper classmen and must have maintained a high scholastic standard in their Spanish courses.
Eight charter members have formed the local chapter of Sigma Delta Pi. They are Dorcas Turner, Gretchen Koehler, Ruth Witzig, Roma Effner, M.Tmerto Buenafe, Ruth Voth, Elizabeth Adamson, Paul McConnell.
“Fundamentals of Social Psychology’ is the title of a new book which has just been published by the Century Company of New York City. It is the eighth book written by Dr. E. S. Bogardus.
T<he new volume is about 500 pages in size and contains forty chapters arranged in four main parts. The underlying principle that is analyzed is “interstimuIaUon.” Part one deals with “human nature.’ Considerable space is given to the feelings and the emotions, while the chapter on ‘‘habitual nature” is one of the most important in the book. The social attitudes and values are extensively analyzed —in fact, the volume is written in terms largely of attitudes as constituting the leading factors in human personality.
Part two treats of fundamental so-
cial processes, suoh as, “Communication,” “custom disffusion,” “discrimination,’' “discussion,” “accommodation,” and “socialization.” A great deal is made of the role of discussion, while an especially significant chapter from the applied side is the one on “socialization. ’ The third part of this work is really a social psychology of groups. Some of the? themes that are covered are: social groups, occupational groups, group opinion, groups loyalties, group morale. Part four is a social psychology of leadership, and treats of originality, genius, talent, invention. prestige leadership, demo? cratic leadership, leadership and social change. Sccia! psychology is defined as the study of “intersocial stimulation and response,” and of the resultant social attitudes, values and personall-(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
PRESS CLUB MEETING
There will be an important meeting of the Press Club today at noon in the Trojan office. All members and pledges must be present.