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VOLUME III
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924
NUMBER 4
IN WORLD’S LEGENDS
Folk-Lore cf All Nations Described Adventures Of Bunny
“People of all nations,” said Dr. John McLaren McBryde yesterday, “have their legends about the rabbit; and ail legends connect the rabbit and the moon/’
Dr. McBryde is a visiting member of the faculty of U. S. C. and is a regular member of the faculty at Tulane University, Louisiana. He has made an exhaustive study oi folk-lore of all nations, and has been especially interested in those leg-enus which have a rabbit for the chief character.
FOUNDATION OF SUPERSTITIOF'
Those who have laughed at the old superstition of the miraculous properties contained in the left hind foot of a rabbit which had been killed in the light of a new moon should know that the origin of that tale lies in an ancient story of Buddha. The great prophet at one time in his life-cycles. inhabited the body of a rabbit. Voluntarily he offered himself as a meal for a beg ging priest, that he too might observe the spirit of self sacrifice that ,comes with a feast day. The fire refused to burn the rabbit, and the begging priest, who was the great god Indra, to reward the beast, crushed a great mountain in his arms and with the juice extracted from it, he painted a rabbit on the face ot the new moon. Today good Buddhists perform deeds of self sacrifice at the time of the new’ moon. IMMORTAL RABBIT IN MOON Whang Ho, the charming story of a Chinese Rip van Winkle, pictures a rabbit living in the moon, constantly pounding out the -Elixir of Immortality. This rabbit did not die. It was white for five hundred years, and then changed to brown for five hundred years.
American Indians say that a white rabbit, variously called Michabo. Manabozho, or Wahasso, was the ancestor of all the Algonquin tribes. Longfellow wrongly identified the rabbit with Hiawatha who was not an Algonquin.
HOTTENTOT LEGEND Rabbits in some countries were considered as ambassadors from the moon. An old Hottentot legend has it that the moon once sent a rab bit down to man with a message.
‘ Tell them,” said the moon, “that as I die and rise again, so shal they die and rise again.” But eith er from malicious intent or from for getfulness, the rabbit gave the mes sage:
“The moon will die and rise again but you shall die and never rise.” "When the moon learned of the mistake, she snatched up a stick and struck the rabbit across his mouth, cutting his upper lip. The frightened rabbit scratched the face of the moon, and the scars are still there.
RABBIT HEROES
Elephants were once yisited by a rabbit ambassador, according to a legend from India. The great beasts had crushed rabbits under their feet until one showed them the reflection of the new moon in a pool, and pointed out the rabbit on her face.
Even far away Tibet, that country which has been completely isolated for centuries has its stories of rabbit heroes. In Tibet, as in all other countries where the rabbit is a legendary character, the little animal is shown as possessing a Mephisto-clean humor and cleverness.
ORIGIN OF UNCLE REMUS TALES Dr. McBryde says that the rabbit originally considered a god, has de generated into a trickster and picaresque hero. The god gradually became submerged in the magician. Stories about the rabbit seem to
NOW AT U.S.C. CAMPUS
To Offer Intensive Course in Football Coaching at University
Knute Rockne, noted football coach of Notre Dame, arrived in Ix>s Angeles Monday to take up his activities in pigskin strategy at the Summer coaching school at U. S. C. Coach Elmer
C.	Henderson was on hand at the Union Pacific Station with his big sedan when the California Limited rolled in at 2:30 with its distinguished visitor, and took Coach Rockne, who was accompanied by his wife and family, out to the Ambassador where they will stay for the present
Coaches Rockne and Henderson will conduct an intensive course in football coaching for the next few weeks, and are already wrorking hard on the job. The first class met Tuesday morning. Coach Henderson has had .he class for a week and now Coach Rockne will step in and show how they do it back at Notre Dame. The first few days will consist of wTork on blackboard charts and checking formations. The real field work, which will be given in the Coliseum, will comence next Wednesday. The pr<?' gram for the summer work is outlined as follows:
Two hours theory work each day from 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock
Two hours field practice work each day from 4:30 to 6:30 In addition to this there will be field work each Saturday from 9 to 11 o'clock.
The last two weeks of the Summer session will be given over to basket ball instruction under the supervision of Coach Leslie Turner.
RUMOR OF MARRIAGE FALSE
CHINESE MEETING
AT STANFORD
STUDENTS GIVEN SPECIAL NIGHT AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Tonight is University night at the orchestra concert* Hollywood Bowl. Students, faculty and their friends may obtain complimentary tickets at the music office in the architecture building.
In order that adequate car service may be provided, all those in tending to go must leave their names
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at the music office. Thru cars for the Bowl will leave the P. E. Station at 4th and Hill Sts.
have drifted into many countries. Dr. McBryde considers it entirely! probable that the Uncle Remus stories which are based on negro j tales are stories that the slaves brought with them from Africa.
Rumors and news items to the effect that Bud Houser and Dawn Smith, a student in the College o Liberal Arts were to be married tomorrow in Paris have proven unfounded.
Yesterday, Mrs. C. C. Smith said, “When Dawn and Bud left they had not the least idea of being married until after they returned. I am sure that they would not take such a step without telling us. The repart that they were to be married •Saturday was as much of a surprise to us as to their many friends. They have not even announced their engagement and I am positive that Bud and Dawn are both so loyal to us that they wrould not even think of doing such a thing that they know is against our wishes at the present time.”
Official reports, yesterday, stated that the Olympics of 1928 would be staged in Los Angeles at the Coliseum.
Preparations are near completion for the twenty-second annual conference of the Chinee Students’ Alii ance, Western Section, which is ta be held at Stanford University, August 13-17. The Conference affords the Chinese students of the Western universities au opportunity to exchange ideas and to make new contacts wrhich is of the greatest benefit. The committees have planned debates, oratorical and literary contests, and group discussions; be sides these educational features there will be athletic meets, dances and banquets. Every delegate will be able to participate actively in some event.
Delegates are to be accommodated in the dormitories and meals will be served in the Stanford Union. Expenses, excluding railroad fees, should not exceed ten dollars.
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HOLIDAY TIME
Picnics, Beaches and Parks Feature in Entertainment
U. S. C. students wishing to see
D.	W. Griffith’s ‘America’ may buy two pickets for the price of one at Mr. Hughes office in Stowell Hall.
When one sets out to discover the yarious ways in which staid and sedate professors spent the fouriTi of July, one unearths some unusual pastimes. Each professor started his true confession by stating that he dion't do anything which would make a story, out each on3 contributed his bit to the attempt.
BEACHES WITHOUT GIRLS
Dr. Edwin Mims and Dr. McBrydb claim that they went to Santa Monica anu played in the surf and slept on the sand. However at the close ol' the interview Dr. Mims remarked that of course they didn’t have any pretty girls with them. After long grilling they still admitted the beach but emphatically denied the girls. As beach and girls are inseparable it is hard to account for this information. But Dr. Mims and Dr. McBryde are truthiul men—and Eng lisli professors at that!
Dr. Lowrey moved on July 4. He did it all by himself, his widow and orphan being in Blue Mountain, Mis-sissipi. It must have been amusing to have seen Dr. Lowrey wrapping cut glass and china in sheets of term papers or old blue books, in the process of the moving, Dr. Lowrey nurt his ankle, and claims that he used “language.” The English de-paitmenL couid doubtiess have ac quired some new and foxceful ad-ectives n tney had been present.
READS CONVENTION NEWS
James Mussaai read all the news of the Democratic convention that ne could find. That was a safe way to spend the Fourth, but it would hardly be inducive to a state of sanity in most of us. In the evening James indulged in fireworks wjith special emphasis on fire-crack-ers.
Professor Rolland Vandegrift stayed at home. Since his home is right next to a barley field, poor Prof. Vandeg/ift was haunted by the idea that the barley field might catch on tire fiom a stray cracker, and that his house wTould go up in smoke too. So he made a garden and kept an eye on the barley field.
Mr. Borah wTent to Long Beach and had dinner with his sister-in-law and family. As proof of his iron nerves Mr. Borah advances the fact that the children didn’t once make him nervous with their fire crackers.
TOO MANY PEOPLE
There are times when even a good philosopher must have a hard time figuring out the reason for crowds. Dr. Flewrelling and his wife w'ent to Laguna Beach on the * Fourth, with every intention of staying over night. But the beach was crowded and the hotel and cottages full, so the Fle-weliing family were obliged to turn around and go home again. Perhaps the direct, causal intelligence back of the world had decided that Dr. Flewelling must return to his home again.
Dr. Wann indulged in a good old fashioned family picnic at Griffith park, with lots to eat and scads of children. It is difficult indeed to imagine the impeccable Dr. Wann with children crawling over him.
COFFEE CUP PLAN CHANGED
Mrs. Rufus von KleinSmid, wife of the president of the University, can not be present at the Coffee Cup hour next Sunday morning as scheduled. Her place will be taken by some other member of the faculty wives.
All women students of the University are cordially invited to attend this series of Ccffee Cup Hours and to meet the wives of faculty members on Sunday mornings, 9:00 o clock, at the University Church.