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Elections For Class
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Volume XVI
Los Angelees, California, Thursday, January 22, 1925
Number 43
BOARD GRANTS COMMENCEMENT
Von KleinSmid May Speak At First Mid-Year Graduation
IS LONG-FELT NEED
Students Receiving Degree In February May Also March in June
One hundred and four students will receive degrees from the University of Southern California, February 10, in Bovard Auditorium, thus starting the custom of two commencements yearly at this University.
“For some time the plan has been under consideration by the cabinet, said IX*an Waugh, when interviewed
yesterday, “and it was decided that as soon as there were a sufficient number of students graduating at midyears to warrant the trouble the plan would be put into effect. This year one hundred and four will receive diplomat and degrees, and as it is probably that the number will not decrease any in the future the plan will become a custom.
“Although there will be a procession into the auditorium, and a certain degree of ceremony will be observed, those students who get their degree in February may also march in the June procession if they so wish and their names wil! appear on the June Commencement programs doubtless
under the heading of “February Graduates.*’
An invitation has been extended to President Rufus B. Von KleinSmid to make the commencement address and although Dean Waugh has not received a reply from him as yet it is most probable that he will accept, according to an announcement yesterday.
“'In view of the honors that our President has received in other parts of the United States and in foreign countries on this tour it is only fitting that he should be asked to make this speech, and the Board of Trustees and the Cabinet is hoping that he will accept," said Dean Waugh, who also added that he expected this to be the first public appearance of President Von KleinSmid after his return.
NO INVITATIONS SENT
The University will not send invitations at this time, it was stated, and Dean Waugh urges that the students to receive degrees in February to get together and plan lo send invitations to their friends and relatives and to make ariangements to get their caps and gowns.
Ceremonies are in charge of Professor Willett. As usual the memhers of the faculty and of the graduating class will gather in the Arcade and march into the Auditorium. Professor Willett will act as marshal. The music program is to be announced later.
“The reason for having commencement at this time is to give the students who have completed their work at midyears and do not wish to remain on the campus longer and are needing their diplomas to enter their chosen profession, their degree that they may take up their work as soon as they have completed their university work.” said Dean Waugh.
Among the degrees granted will be
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ARISTO DEFEATS S. B. IN DEBATE
Aristotelian Literary Society of the University of Southern California won a 3 to 0 decision over the Agaro Literary Society of the Southern Branch of the University of California on the subject: Resolved that the Ku Klux Klan should be abolished. The affirmative was upheld by Mr. Freeman and Mr. Cohen of the Southern Branch. The negative was upheld by a team composed of Kenneth A\enzel and | Staniey Hopper.
The subject was well handled by both teams. Wenzel is in his last y^ar at the University of Southern California. He showed a rare ability in using clear logic and argumentation. Hopper is a Freshman who comes from Fresno High School. His ease on the platform combined with a strong constructive argument went a long way toward winning for his team. Both men are strong debaters and make up an unbeatable team.
JUNIORS PRESENT ANNUAL PLAY TONIGHT IN BOVARD AUDITORIUM
COLD CHllLS IN PLAY PLOT
MRATTEND PARLEY CLASSES WILL
ELECT TODAY
FIRST MEETING OF A. W. S. ON FRIDAY
MORAL QUESTION NOW IMPORTANT
World Today Should Stress the Church Influence Says Speaker
That the most serious problems of America are moral, not economical or political, was the opinion expressed by Dr. Sartell Prentice in his address yesterday before upper division students.
“Facts” he said, “bear out the truth of the statement that in localities in which church and community are closely related crime is comparatively small.” On experiment it having also been proven that the church was an economical asset to the town.
According to the speaker, punishment for crime in the United States is so lax that a murderer's life is more secure than that of a typhoid fever patient, the mortality from typhoid fever being 7 per cent and that from punishment for crime one per cent. In England the death penalty is carried out in 95 per cent of the cases.
"The crying need in 1925 for America is the rallying of the moral forces as it was in 1917 for the carrying out of military forces,” he said in conclusion, pointing out that in the past few years there has been an increase of 980 per cent in drug addiction in the United States.
Mrs. Willoughby Robman Will Be Speaker; Girls Orchestra Among Features
NOTED ENGINEER WILL GIVE LECTURE
Mrs. Lena Leonard Fisher, professor of comparative history of world ■ religions. University of Socthern California. will leave Friday to attend the j	i l: u
...........Mlu. I sophomores and Freshmen
\V ill Vote at South Ticket . Booth in Arcade
After nearly a semester ol patient waiting the “Women's Assembly” will at last be held Friday at the usual chapel hour. This is the first meeting of all University women this year as it could not be held during football season on account of the rallies.
The main attraction of the hour will be the talk by Mrs. Willoughby Rodman. Mrs. Rodman is one of the most important clubwomen and philanthro pists in the city. She has traveled all over the world and has been presented at many courts. She has a personal ! acquaintance with many national dip j j lomats and can talk fluently on any topic of world interest. She has beer, secured for this assembly by Mrs. R B. von IvleinSmid, who will, to quote her own words “add her few feeble re marks.”
Music will be supplied by the Me Donald Girls Orchestra, with Hughic McDonald directing. This six pieci orchestra is considered one of the best of its kind .playing for many forma dances.
Interest wages high over the announcement of a basketball game be tween the two sororities “I Kappa Keg” ands Eta Bita Pi.” The first team is composed of Edith Coats, Ida Marston and Nina Hanson, while the girls on the second team are Hope Goddard, Reva Hawkins and Ada Wil-cox.
As all the sororities on the campus have pledged 100 per cent attendance, the committee in charge of the assem-blv feel assured of its success.
“Seven Keys to Baldpate" Runs Gamut From Fun' To Thrills
GOOD SEAT SALE
Individual Interpretation Is Said To Be Up To Professional Standard
COMMERCE PLANS NEW SEMESTER
Commerce men are to have their next smoker, March 4th at the Arm ory. The women students are tplan-ning a get together for the purpose of meeting all new girls, at the same time. Marie Albertson is in charge of the event.
March 20th has been indefinitely set aside for a Commerce dance. The exact time and place are to be decided later.
About the first part of June, the annual banquet will be staged at the City Clvib.
MATH CLUB MEETS
The Mathematics Club will meet in Room 260 of the Administration building on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 3 o’clock. Prof. Broadwell will speak on “Measurements of Stellar Quantities.” An invitation to this meeting Is extended to anyone interested.
T. Wamp’s Personality Will ((Put Over” Necks Magazine
By MAUD MILLER
Favorite color—red.	I method of pav-as-you-enter, besides
Favorite flower—forget-me-noL (I- the privilege of receiving mail once a p t. A.)	I month regularly.
Favorite reading matter—Thomas Now is the time to begin smothering Wamp. Esq.	I Tommy with copy for the number
This is an outline of Tom- j which is to appear in February. The my Wamp's personality. There ! key to this number, although it is not are other details, such as favorite au- | a Kappa Kappa Gamma, is Greek, dience—U. S. C. student (pref. sol- : Comments, criticisms. and wise vent) and favorite dislike—Highbrows cracks in general, on the subject which give further light on the habits of Greeks, will be welcome at the of that curious feline. Have you sim- - Wampus office starting from the pres-Ilar preferences? Is your hair red?jenL
Have you got a quarter? Then buy Meanwhile the study of necking in a copy of Tommy’s offspring, and have ; all its forms is being carried on in a good friendly bull.	;the vicinity of the Wampus office. The
The time is drawing short which police department is being asked to separates the anxiously awaiting pub- remember that this is a college town, lie from the “Necks” appearance of Tuesday, January 27, is the date on
“PERSONALIST” TO APPEAR IN MARCH
Philosophy Journal For April Is To Contain Special Features
The April edition of the “Personalist,” a philosophy magazine edited by Dr. Ralph T. Flewelling of the philosophy department, is to be out March 15 or 18.
This edition is to contain an article, j “Creative Imagination” by the editor;
“What Is Education" by Josephine ! Hammond, a former contributor to the ! Personalist and will be remembered ar | the author of the three part article j “Quillurgence of Shaw" which was printed in 1923-24; “Inspiration” by Dr. George Preston Mains, an author and publisher, and a leading member of the Methodist Book Concern; and “A Garden in Poetry’’ by Virginia Taylor McCormick, the editor of the Lyric, of Norfolk, West Virginia.
The usual departments will be included. The “Personalist” is noted for its excellent book reviews written by the editor and other memners of the faculty of U. S. C. John Richard Moreland, former editor of the Lyric, has contributed a poem, “Faith.”
Dr. Flewelling has contributions enough for the publishing of the Personalist for two years, and has not yet decided the rest of the articles that will appear in the April number.
“FROSH FROLIC” FRESHMEN PLAN
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which the most complete treatise on the subject that has ever been compiled will blossom forth in red, trimmed with flappers, and the more unnecessary part of the perfect necking combination.
“We call it the ‘Frosh Frolic’ and the time and the place are Wednesday evening, February 4, at the Hollywood Masonic Temple. Such is the announcement made by Bill Henly, president of the freshman class, concerning the next social function on the beginners’ calendar.
A committee headed by “Jerry’’ I^ester, vice president of the class, and composed of Burdette Heney, Henry Rohr, Carl Plate, and Louis Roberts, is in charge and has made complete arrangements for tbe party. “The Hol-lvwoodland Orchestra has been secured, and the punch will be ‘simply marvelous’ and the date the best in the year—just after the finals,” according
By LINN UNKEFER
A struggle, shots, a cry in the dark, bl-o-o-d—MURDER! And if you don’t gasp, and laugh, if your hair doesn’t stand on end and your blood run cold, [ if you don’t leave the auditorium weak from laughter and suspense, then 1 you’re a candidate for the morgue.
‘ For the Junior play, “Seven Keys to | Baldpate,” George M. Cohan’s master mystery melodrama, is scheduled for : tonight at 8:30, and according to Grady I Setzler, who reviewed a dress rehears-J al last night, it will “knock ’em cold.”
| “It’s the best play we’ve had at U.
S. C. for years—and that’s no reflec-: tion on former production,” he said en-. thusiastically. “It contains 2000 laughs j and at least that many thrills, by ac-| tual count.”
According to Ellsworth Ross, pro-' duction manager, the seat sale has i been splendid. “We have enjoyed bet-; ter support than any play ever staged at Southern California,” he said yesterday. "Besides the unusually large number of tickets sold to students, the demand from down town people has | been unusually large. Among the celebrities whtrhave made reservations for parties are : Harold Lloyd, Erick Locke, production manager for Ernest Lubitch, and a number of directors from Universal studios. Three high ; schools and a dramatic society from j Hollywood are coming in a block.
! Downtown newspaper critics will be present to review the production. The demand for seats has set a new record at the university, and all indications point toward a sell-out. What few seats are left will be obtainable tonight at 7 when the box office opens.” EXCELLENT WORK DONE
“The cast is none short of professional. and we are confident that the audience will be more than satisfied by the performance,” Miss Florence Hubbard, director, and Miss Harriet Pierson, assistant director^ announced last night after the dress rehearsal.
“I expected a good performance, hut , last night's rehearsal astounded me,” Mrs. Fink, of the School of Speech, said yesterday. “The individual interpretations leave nothing to be desired.”
No expense has been spared to make the production run smoothly, and to do justice to the play. Professional sets have been rented from the Flagg studios, and others have been constructed by Ray MacDonald and his stage crew.
“Is it a thriller!” ejaculated Ellsworth Ross. “Imagine finding yourself in a cabin on top of a lonely mountain, a terrible thunder storm raging without. You think you are alone, with the only key to the lodge, when in come seven other people with as many different keys, which involve stealing, fighting, shooting, screaming, and murder. If this play doesn’t raise the hair on every head in Bovard auditorium tonight it will be a sure indication of baldness.”
| Talk On Practical Lines Open to Students; Engineers Urged To Attend _
What promises to be one of the most valuable lectures of the year along practical lines will be given by Robert A. Gantt, chief engineer of the Southern California Telephone Company, at a meeting to be held tomorrow in Room 205, Hoose Hall, at ten o’clock.
This talk has been planned in particular for engineering students, but Burdette Ives, in charge of the occasion, states that Mr. Gantt’s talk will be beneficial to any attending.
Mr. Gantt, who is in charge of the expending of a twenty million dollar budget for his company. This is the budget allotted to Mr. Gantt and his assisting engineers for only one year. This* fact demonstrates the responsibility that Mr. Gantt has placed upon I him, and emphasizes his value as a speaker along engineering lines.
Mr. Gantt has always taken a personal interest in engineering students, claiming that from the university men now in school, the noted engineers of the future will be developed. It is with this point in mind that he has agreed to take time from his regular duties and make the planned address.
The talker will tell of the chances that college men have for employment during the summer months, as well as permanently, with the company that he represents. He will take up the technical end of the “game” as well as giving the future “bridge builders” some practical hints in getting started after completing their education.
sions convening in Washington, D. C., the 28th inst., to February 2. Mrs. Fisher, who is the wife of Dr. John Fisher, dean of the school of religion at the university, and a sister of Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, will attend the conference as a delegate, representing the Woman’s Missionary Federation of Los Angeles, of which she is the president, and the Pacific Branch of the Women’s Foreign Mi/ sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In addition to taking a prominent part in the convention, Mrs. Fisher will be a guest at the author’s dinner to be given the evening previous to the opening of the convention. She is the a»thor of several missionary books.
En route Mrs. Fisher will visit Cleveland, where a reception will be given in her honor by the Woman’s Press Club of which she is an active member.
DR. GAW SPEAKS ON PLAYWRIGHT
Eugene O’Neill Is Discussed In Faculty Lecture Series Wednesday
“Eugene O’Neill, Dramatist of the Under Dog” was the subject of Dr. Gaw at the fifth of the series of lectures on “Contemporary Leaders of Literary Thought,” Tuesday afternoon.
Much of Dr. Gaw’s time was taken up giving the stories of O’Neill’s best plays. “The Hairy Ape,” “All God’s Children Got Wings,” "Emperor Jones” “Beyond the Horizon” and “Anna Christie.” The last two werfe winners of the Pulitzer Prize.
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In speaking of “Anna Christie,” Dr. This meeting is one of several that Qaw caus the finest and most hor-
are to take place on Friday during the regular chapel period. The Engineering Department wants every engineering student present. Role will be taken.
Y. W.CONFERENCE HELD ON CAMPUS
Large Attendance At All Conferences Expected By the Women Students
PHARMACY GRADS WILL HAVE DANCE
Alumni of the LTniversity of Southern California Pharmacy department will hold their annual banquet and dance at the Alexandria Hotel on Friday evening, January 23.
All alumni of the department are invited to attend. Tickets may be obtained at the Pharmacy office.
ARGONAUTS NOTICE
Argonauts will meet this evening at 5:30 for dinner in the College Tea Room. Reservations can be made thru Mrs. Smith, in the philosophy office. After d:nner Professor Mansfield Freeman of China will give an address in Philosophy.” at 7:00 and
Only freshmen will close at 8:00, so that there will be no 'conflict with the junior play.
to Jerry.
Tickets are to go on sale Thursday Room 206 on "Chinese in the Associated Students Store and His address will begin are to sro at $1.50. be admitted.
“Registration fees are receivable at the Y building any time from now on” is the announcement from the Y. W. C. A. headquarters concerning the coming campus conference of the women's organization which will be staged on the Friday and Saturday following examinations, February 6 and 7.
The Y. W. conference is an innovation on the Southern California campus in that it is a strictly local affair, and that the registration is open to all women regardless of membership. The Associated Women’s Student Body is cooperating to make the affair a complete success and will have charge of a part of the program.
Opening on Friday afternoon at four o’clock, February 6, the conference will last through Saturday night, sleeping accomodations for Friday and Saturday nights being available at the “Y” building. Meals will be served at a nominal price, all other expenses coming under the registration fee of twenty-five cents.
That a large registration and attendance at all sessions of the conference will be assured is indicated by the number who have signified their intentior of signing up. It is for this reason that Clara Miller, “Y” secretary, urges all those interested in the conference to register immediately as it may be necessary to limit the number.
A program of entertainment full of interesting surprises together with the order of meetings featured by speakers of note and interest will make the two days session well worth attending, says the Y. W. committee working final arrangements.
BIOLOGY HONOR SOCIETY
All the members who have applied for their diplomas are requested to be present at the meeting to be held on Friday, Jan. 23, at 4:15 P. M. in Room 250. There will be a short business meeting after the event of issuing the diplomas.
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rible of all O’Neill’s plays, yet has the most pleasant ending of any of his best works.
Eugene O’Neilll was born in 1888.
He finished one year at Princeton before he felt the call of the sea and began the life of a sailor. After several years at sea, and some time spent in South America he returned to America j HAROLD HARRIS and became a reporter.	Cpr A If Q TA /M ACC
His first volume of one act plays was Di »jAfk3 1 v/ LLAjJ
RESULTS AT JR. PLAY
Seniors and Juniors Must Cast \ otes at North Booth Before Three
As the time for elections draws nearer .political handclasps are becoming more numerous. The polls will open at 9 A. M. this morning and will continue to be open until 3. Freshmen and Sophomores will vote at the south ticket office in the arcade, while Juniors and Seniors will be given the north booth.
A list of the popular candidates
were chosen at the class meetings held Friday. Those for whom votes will be cast include for the Senior Class: Bud Welin, Ernest Judson, and John Woods, for president; for vice president, Dorothy Haldeman, and Vivian Meade; for secretary, Dorothy Crowley; and for treasurer, O. K. Krause were unanimously chosen to fill their positions.
Those nominated for Junior Class offices are Marjorie Rice and Jennie Lu More for vice president and secre-taiy respectively; Ronald Snavely and Ray Elmquist for president, and Leroy Haynes and I>eighton Dye for treasurer.
Bill Stewart, Alvin Drum, Van Johnson, and Grant La Mont are the four candidates for the sophomore presidency. Beth Baker, Eloise Parke and Cecilia Zolelin were nominated for the vice presidency. Gladys Lee was unanimously chosen secretary while Dave Davis and Lloyd Pantages are running for treasurer.
The following students were nominated for the freshmen offices .-president Ray Hatfield, and ‘Whitey’’ Edwards; vice president, Dorothy Moore, Lois Huse, and Eileen Brown; secretary, Georgia Pace and Blanche Annsely; treasurer, Andy Metcalf, Paul Cunningham, and Lyman Hazzard.
Results of the election will be announced between acts at “Seven Keys to Baldpate” tonight.
privately printed, financed by his father. It caused little stir and as there was no market the book soon went out
of print.
O'Neill has never been a prolific writer, having produced, since his first j book seven one-act plays and eleven others.
Constant echoes of his previous experiences are seen in all his plays which in the past few years have experienced a sudden rise in popularity. Today Eugene O'Neill bids fair to become the “Foremost American Dramatist.”
UNIQUE SYSTEM USED
Columbia University uses a strict system of supervision over freshmen in the student court. Violators of traditions are haled before court and sentenced. One student has received the severest penalty, that of being
Mr. Harold Harris, ’21, will address the class in International Law this
morning at 11 o’clock, S. 260, on phases of education in China and also he will say somethin*. of Chin^se-American relations.
Mr. Harris is the representative of the students of the University of Southern California at Pekincg University. He will return to Peking in February when he will assume a part in the finanial direction of the Chinese institution.
Faculty members and students who are interested are invited.
Columbia will be host to 500 prep school editors early in March.
placed on the “Irresponsibility List,” which prevents his holding office or serving on a committee during his college career.
“To Bob or Not To Bob” Is Question Before S.C. Coeds
To bob or not to bob, that is no longer the question. The old order changeth giving place to the new, and now the far cry among feminine circles is for transformations and switches, while the return of the hairpin seems a dead certainty.
Such is the ultimatum which comes from the style center of U. S. C., threatening to revolutionize co-ed coiffures and become the source of much grief and dissention.
“My dear, have you seen Fleta’s ^air today. It simply looks darling.”
“Yes,” (with much malice) “how does she get it up so well?”
Such is the co-eds latest carol, and “I’m letting my hair grow long,” is the explanation for all things unusual.
It is good news for many .this latest freak of the feminine mind, as the stock in hairnets, hairpins and transformations is said to mount dally. Just at the point when fond mamas had become reconciled to the fact that, while often far from beautiful, bobbed !
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hair was not altogether immoral, the fickle mind of woman has taken a direct right about and the pendulum swings again in favor of flowing tresses
Hot upon the heels of the so-called dictum from Paris and the gleeful assertion of the Amalgamated Barbers that “The Bob is Here to Stay,” almost as a direct flaunt .comes the coeds decision to “put it up.”
For when a co-ed wants or doesn’t want a thing, a co-ed is stubborn ant? successful.
Without asking or considering the wishes of their masculine friends, the elite of sorority circles are to be seen in daily increasing numbers smiling below the near-disguise of long hair.
When asked for their opinions on the subject ,the masculine contingent of the campus is silent, answering only with a helpless shrug. A sly few may be heard to remark that, after all it is not unexpected since lt Is well known that Spring is the growing sear son of the year.