Junior-Senior Dinner At Oakmont C.C. Friday
Southern
California
Trojan
Joint Glee Club Give Concert Thursday Night
Volume X\ I
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, May 26, 1925
X umber 113
LAST BIG SOCIAL SPLURGE IS JUNIOR-SENIOR DINNER DANCE
One Member of the Couple Must Be an Upperclassman
Is Announcement
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BY CATHARINE POTTER
just five dollars for the tick-3 that the Trojan is making so much lust
ets and the girls are keen to go," said the new Bachelor pledge. “Yuh don’t say,” returned the new Trojan Squire, “and at the Oakmont Country Club, too, and the day before Memorial. Say, where do you get the tickets?” “Oh, that's tough,” said the Bachelor “You're just a Sophoore, aren’t you*' You know no one can go unless one member of the couple is a Junior or a Senior, and even the J*miors have to present their receipts for .Junior second semester dues. These cardboards are precious because they're so scarce, 1 tell you.’’
Golly! that’s a rotten trick. Are you going?” queried the Squire, feeling that perhaps after all he had not reached the zenith of his glory, the apex of his potential possibility for joyme*t.
•'Am 1 going?-’ was the astonished reply. ■‘Say, do 1 look like a dum-bell? 1 know a good bargain when I see it. I’m taking Jessalie, that awfully cute Nu Mu pledge, and say she was just tickled to death. The nice part about it is that this dance is informal, you know. I hate corsages. I’m sure to get her a red corsage when her drees is purple.”
■‘And they cost like heck." said the Squire meekly.
‘That really doesn't count with me,” returned the Bachelor grandly-. ‘‘I hardly ever care to take- out a girl, but when I do I spare no exponse to show her a good time.”
"Oh, I see,” still more meekly. And then with renewed vigor, ‘‘This is a dinner dance too, isn’t it?”
•‘Yeah. I thought you knew that. The Oakmont Country Club sure can serve a good dinner, too. They don’t serve too much. \)ut what they do serve is great and their service, Jessa-lie says, is perfect. So I guess you can take any girl there who is a stickler on form and be sure you’re doing the right thign.”
“Mayme Glawdice saw the programs
PRESS CLUB MEETING
about, and she says they re really adorable and that she'd love to have one in her memory book.
“Coach Jones is going to be a patron." added the Bachelor.
‘Gosh!" said the Squire. “Ercuse me, but I simply gotta go to that dance. I'm gonna see my Junior girl quick and give her $5 to buy a ticket for the Junior-Senior banquet at the Oakmont Country Club for May 29.”
OUSTER’S CLUB IS ELECTION PRODUCT
Defeated Candidates Will Organize to Further Political Aims
Nominations and election of officers will take place at the Press Club meeting at noon today in the Trojan office.
Still one more organization has appeared on a long-suffering campus. This organization, known as the Ouster's Club, is a by-product of the recent election, and its purpose is-to immortalize a lot of people who are now-dead. Or, as the club’s letterheads have it, “Organized to Further the Social and Political Alms of the Defeated Candidates.” That is, when they get letter-heads.
Every candidate who was defeated for anything at all in the recent election, whether he was running for student body president or janitor, is cordially invited to become a member. If any further inducement is necessary, bids will be issued in a short time by the members of the board of directors who were, one and all, defeated for the Executive Commitee of the Associated Sudent Body of the University of Southern California, lx>s Angeles.
At present the officers of the club are: President, Burke Long and Bob Green, former aspirants to Ned Lewis’ throne; vice-president, Miss Evalyne Ross, who was one of the candidates for the corresponding student body position, and secretary, Miss Dorothy Davis, who also ran. Publicity for the organization is under the direction of Chet Mackie and Ralph Holly, who will broadcast through chambers of commerce and Rotary clubs all over the country. Their friends are also wearing crepe and picketing the Trojan office. Ed Hallman, who once looked
ANNUAL LAW SNEAK IS TO BRENTWOOD
Entire Day Will be Given to Faculty Student Gathering
Next Friday, May 29. the entire student body ol the School of Law will officially sneak with the faculty for a general outing. Brentw-ood Park of Pasadena lias been chosen at the most suitable location where a big picnic dinner will be served. Appropriate speeches, -games and sports will aid in making the outing a success.
According to Dean Porter, who is furthering plans for the day, it is probable that here will be no school so that the entire day may be devoted to a real time. The purpose of this annual event is to further a spirit of co-operation among the students and to greet he members of the senior class for the last ime. Unlike the usual school picnic, the faculty, who are strongly backing the plan, will be there in full force.
It is to be an exclusive law school affair with no outsiders allowed, wives of the students excepted. The big dinner is to be the specialty of the day and will be spread at a cost of one-fifty. However, the student funds are w-ell up and will supply the greater part of the expense. Law students | will only be taxed fifty cents for the day.
That the lawyers are actually coming to the campus next Saptember is now being realized by those students who have noticed the old geology building being moved to give room for the construction of the law building which will begin at once. All revised plans have now been approved by President von KleinSmid and the building committee, and are in the hands of contractors who are placing bids. Acording to the architects, the building will be ready for occupancy in four months.
Dean Porter, who has recently returned from the American Law Insti-stue, visited new law buildings at St. Louis, Washington University, and George Washington and is more than pleased with the U. S. C. plans and claims the proposed building will surpass these in nearly every respect.
ENGINEERS MEET
Engineers are urged to be present at a special open meeting on Wednesday noon. May 27. at 12:15. Very-important matters will be presented that will be of interest and will tend towards the advancement of the Engineering profession. The meeting will be lieiJ jn Room 15, Engineering Building.
BACHELOR LUNCHEON
Members of the Bachelor Club will meet at the Cozy Den for lunch at twelve o'clock today. Plans will be discussed for the beach picnic, Thursday afternoon.
QUILL CLUB WILL INITIATE EIGHTEEN
Initiation Ceremony Will be Held Wednesday Evening at Eight o Clock
New members will be voted in at | with loving eyes in the direction of this time. Final arrangements will also the El Rodeo, will publish the annual be made for the picnic to be given for staement
the new members.
By the way, it seems only fair to All members are asked to be present I mention that the members of the at that time. ’	Ousters' Club are all optimists.
New Registration Plan to
Operate Coming Semester
BY DON
How well we remember the process I of registration in previous years! You j would stand in slowly creeping lines until you were parboiled and desert-baked by the merciless California sun. Schedules would be filled out in a desperate hurry and you had no time to | debate as to the merits of any particular courses. Advisers would be hard to find and the payment of fees meant more standing in a snail-like proces-j sion of students. All in all. the week j of registration was a period that students and faculty dreaded and detested. but which they bore with admirable martyrdom.
It is the present policy to improve j upon this as much as possible and to -cut down undue haste and waiting in line. Schedules for the fall semester’s classes are now being worked upon and will probably be printed for distribution by next week. Students will prepare matriculation and program cards as soon as they can secure the, schedules and will go then to their advisers for approval of courses se- ■ lected. All slips must be returned to the Registrar’s office just as under the old system of registration and the process of pre-registration will be complete. Payment of fees will be postponed until next fall beofre classes start.
Under ordinary conditions in the future the schedules will be available
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earlier than they are this year and plenty of time will be allowed students to decide upon their courses. All necessary information will be in the students’ hands and they can meet their advisers and talk things over. Advisers will be free now when they will not be later on in the year or next fall. Th^re will be no new students registering now and no payments. so that the individual student will have more freedom of action than the old system allows.
Next September all the returning Trojan will have to do is to report to the Registrar’s office, arrange to make out chapel and gymnasium stubs, pay at the business office, and go to class. Any adjustments that may become necessary by reason of failures in courses being carried this semester can be made through correspondence with the registrar during the summer months. Each book given to the students will contain explicit instructions as to the part that should be filled out this spring and what should be deferred until fall.
This line of action has been used successfully in many of the big eastern universities. Special advantages accrue to the high grade student from the plan, as he can choose exactly what he wishes to carry next semester and will be through the terrors o registration for another four and ont alf months.
AI.CHF.MIST PICNIC IS MEMORIAL DAY
Scientists Leave Lab for Superior Attraction of the Beach
Quill Club, national honorary literary society, will hold its semi-annual initiation Wednesday rright, May 27. at the home of Dorothy N. Crowley, 1150 S I^ake Street. At this time eighteen new members will bt taken into the club. Election ol officers and plans foi a national convention to take place at Denver, Colorado will De considered also.
Catherine Potter, Albert Mendel, Ellsworth Ross, Pauline Mitchell, Clare Winger, Edith M King, Milton Booth, Margaret Jamison, Helen Scheuer, Don Edwin, Florence Galen-tine, Virginia Thompson. Susan Kim ball, Agnes Mulville, Frances Howard. Phyllis Reader, and Hobard Landen will be the new members that will oe initiated Wednesday evening Due to the large number of initiates and amount of business to be settled, the meeting will begin promptly at eight o’clock.
All initiates will be required to read a short manuscript and Chet Mackie, president of the organization, states that they may be of any nature and should not be more than five hundred words long. Dorothy Herriman. secretary, will assist Chet Mackie with the initiation ceremony following the business and reading of manuscripts.
Plans are now being made by the national chapter to hold a convention at Denver from July 1 to July 3 inclusive. The convention will not be decided upon definitely until after all the chapters are heard from. Wednesday night the local Os Rune chapter will decide whether or not it is in favor of the national convention
Early Saturday morning, a band of machines will leave from in front of the Chemistry building, and proceed directly to Anaheim Landing; for it is the day on which the traditional picnic of the Alchemist Society takes place every year. It is on Memorial Day, the best day of the year in w-hich the Alchemists, and the alumni of the organization may reunite for an old time gathering and festivity.
Formulas, equations, “unknowns,” physical chemistry- and quizzes, will not only be set aside, but completely-forgotten. Instead, the young men’s and young ladies’ thoughts will turn to lighter faucies, for instance, counting the waves as they roll in, or perhaps indulging in “a bite for me, and a bite for you”, which is only another way of saying “chow,” or “eats.” (Note —The bite refers to the sandwiches). A challenge has been issued to the alumni of Uie organization to meet, “fair and square,” the members in a lightning-play ball game. The winners will have the honor of cleaning up camp. Swimming and boating w-ill occupy the attention of some; others will walk, hike, and talk. Individual pleasures will all be satisfied, according to Stanley Cairncross, president of the society.
Professor J. Frank Smith intends to prove that he can teach the boys something elese besides chemistry. He will demonstrate a new crawl stroke which is a combination of “Hank” McCann's facial gestures, and a student’s idea of what he would like to do to some of his client profs after taking a hard exam. It will be the first time that this stroke will have been revealed, and swimming: mentors are urged to be present and take notes. “Charley” Mayer has not yet decided what he’ll put on for the crowd, but promises something both unusual and interesting, and well worthy of the critical atitude of his fellow merrymakers.
GIRLS GLEE CLUB WINS IN CONTEST
Pomona Men’s Glee Club Is Other Winner in Eisteddo-fod Contest
GLEE CLUBS PUT ON JOINT CONCERT
Originality to Be Keynote of the Program, Says Manager
All ot th** odds aid ends of rehearsal difficulties have been gathered up and nothing remains to be done before the anrfual home concert of the Trojan Men’s and Women's Glee Clubs in Bovard Auditorium, Thursday- evening, May 29th. Novelty is added to the event because it is to be the first time in the history of either club that the two organizations have combined to give u program on the compus.
Miss Rosalind Williamson, dainty dancer and versatile entertainer, has been exercising all of her ingenuity to work up a number that is thoroughly original, and it is safe to prophesy that nothing in this line has ever been offered upon the Trojan stage before. Other members of the Trojan Girls’ Glee Club will have some special numbers, but these are being kept a dark secret so that the element of surprise will keep the favored ones who secure tickets in suspense until the last moment.
Hall and Cook have been cooperating in blackface comedy for several seasons and have evolved a line of repartee that would make a Central Avenue colored gentleman turn violet with envy. Eccentric dancing and soft-shoe pummel ing of the floor will be intermingled with a redhot line of chatter and many- a budding college humorest will have an entirely newline after listening to their assembly of mirth-provoking pokes.
Part of the program is to be delegated to the Trojan quartette, who will put on another of their own inimitable specialties. Marcus Beekes, Ray McDonald. Edward Fearney and Carl Spring are the sweet-toned nightingales composing this quartette and their reputation augers well for the professional perfection that Horace Judson has predicted of these four students. In line with the originality that is being s.hown in the getting up ot other parts of the program the quartette is presenting a series of absolutely new numbers and popular songs of all descriptions.
During the preceding months of the winter term the Trojan Men’s and Girls’ Glee Clubs have been occupied in fulfilling engagements in Southern California and now bring the best that their talent and experience can devise to this annual home concert. Western Vaudeville Circuit, the Junior Orpheum of Southern California, has headlined many of the people in each organization. Neighboring towns have also been visited by each club and professional engagements of all kinds have demanded all of their spare moments.
Tickets may be secured from any member of the clubs, at the student box office located in the Arcade, and at the Associated Book Store.
NINE WAMPUS KEYS GIVEN AT DINNER
All Three Departments Are Recognized With Awards
Nine Wampus keys were presented to the nine most faithful kittens of the staff Friday evening when th** first Wampus dinner was given at the Canity Fair Tearoom.
Those wfoo were pleasantly surprised with the tiny gold keys were Dorothy Crowley, Maud Miller. Helen Scheuer, and Mamie Ix>uise Leung the editorial staff; John Post, Ana Lee Camp, Valerie Baldwin and Jessica Harris of the art staff; and Samuel Gates of the business staff
Preceding the awarding of keys, talks were made by Aubrey Miller and Hal Hughes, who were the joint founders of Wamp six years ago. They are now associated as partners in law. Mr. Miller told how the magazine was first issued by them while they were studying dusty law books, and were feeling the need of a little diversion. “Our first issue contained eight pages and was written on yellow wrapping paper. We had no business manager in those days, and people seemed somewhat shy in the matter of buying ads. Anyway, we sold five hundred copies of that first number, which gave us enough to finance another issue. We’re proud to think that, it is our little enterprise which has grown to be one of the best magazines of college humor.”
Mr. Hughes followed with a brief talk, in which he offered suggestions for the editing of such magazines. “Pictures are more than half the show,” he said in part. “Everyone knows how you can change a word here and word there, but in pictures one can be really original.”
Placecards, in the form of linotype slugs, marked places for twenty persons, and, according to those present, Grady- Setzler. the host, porvided a grand feed for his hard-working cats and kittens.
SPELLING EXAMINATION
The last spelling examination for the year will be held on Tuesday, June 2, at 12:30 o’clock in Room 206 Hoose Hall.
The examination will consist of 100 words selected from the 400 word list in Foerster ana and Steadman’s “Sentences and Thinking.” Students must bring blue-books to the examination and all who are not taking the examination for the first time must secure authorization from the Registrar’s Office.	JOHN D. COOKE,
In charge of examination.
New laurels have been added to the University of Southern California. The University Girls' Glee Club, not wishing to be outdone by other prominent organizations on the campus, are doing their share to bring glory to their Alma Mater. Their latest conquest is that of the Eisteddofod contest which took place in Bovard Auditorium Friday evening, and in which they carried off first honors among the girls’ clubs. The boys’ contest was won by Pomona College.
The Eisteddofod is a musical contest which originated in Wales, but which has become very popular in America. wrhere, as one eminent musician has stated, ‘‘there is a dearth of music.” The contest is for the purpose of arousing a greater interest in music, and has become an annual event in America, as it is in Wales.”
The Glee Clubs which participated in the contest were: University of California, Southern Branch, Mr. Kraft directing; Bible Institute, with Mr. Tovey as director ; Pomona, with Mr. Arthur Babcock as director, and the University of S. California, directed by Prof. Horatio Cogswell. The Boys’ Clubs were: Santa Barbara State Teachers’ College, Miss Ellen Burnett, director; Pomona College, directed by Mr. Ralph Lyman; Redlands College, with Mr. W. B. Olds as director; and Bible Institute, directed by Mr. J. B. Trowbridge.
The president of the Eisteddofod organization spoke for a short time regarding the purpose of the contests and what he hoped such an organiza-(CON'TINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
LA TERTULIA
BIOLOGY HONOR SOCIETY
Election of officers of the Biology Honor Society will take place at a meeting of the society Wednesday at 4:15 in Room 250 in the Old College. At this time a president, vice-president, secretary and faculty advisor will be selected.
La Tertulia, Spanish Club, will hold itfe annual dinner at the Y. M. C. A. Hut, Thursday evening. A program will follow the dinner. There will be an illustrated talk by Dr. Schultz on his recent trip to Spain.
SPECIAL FROSH MEETING
A special Freshman class meeting will be held at noon today in Bovard Auditorium.
Nominations will be completed at this meeting as the time did not allow it last Friday.
Balloon Pants are N. S. G. Golf Panties Here to Stay
BY TED ELIAS
“Golf course on the eleventh floor of the administration building,”. ‘‘Oh. took a bi£ boy in a little boy’s pants.’’ “Plus fours, minus plenty.” These and similar outbursts have recently disturbed the placid atmosphere of the U. S. C. campus. Yes, it seems that knickers have come to stay. Day by-day the cohorts of the “sloppy sox club” are deserting in favor of the L. O. P. F. (Ix)yal Order of Plus Fours.)
The old order changeth. Balloon pants are fast losing their hold upon the hearts and waists of Troy’s valient warriors. No longer can the street-sweeper loll in the shade and watch the dust absorbing procession of slouchy collegians do his work. "What a whale of a difference a few inches make!”
The big question of course is, just [ what are knickers? If they are an epi-1 demic some kind of a serum ought to j be introduced to prevent their further j spread. If they are a vision, someone
ought to put out the light. If they are just another fad, we'll have to swallow- our pride and adopt the darn things, consoling ourselves with the fact that we’ll soon be able to get the naked truth about he construction and set up of some of the campus shieks.
The disturbing element of the case is the sox. They are plenty disturbing. It has been estimated by the statistics department that there is more color in one pair of golf sox than in two Alabama race riots. Also it has been said that fondness for certain colors indicates primitiveness. If this is true, some of the campus’ most influential citizens should be giving courses in advanced tree climbing instead of taking ’em in math.
The big trouble with knickers is tha' they do not adequately cover their subject. They break off in the middle, as it were, and leave the job unfinished. As this is not in keeping with Trojan ideals, we say. “DOWN WITH KNICKERS.” at least to the plus four mark.