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Volume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, June 5, 1925
Number 121
SENIORS TO BURY HATCHET AT IVY DAY CEREMONY
Graduating Class To Present
Class Gift to University
ForvteasUng that tht- Ivy Day Festival, which the Senior Class of 1925 is bolding Wednesday, June 17th. at 3:00 P. M. on the north lawn of Old College grounds, will be fully equal to that high standard which preceding Senior classes have displayed upon such oc^asioqs, Bill Delphy, chairman ot the Ivy Day Committee, told of the traditions of the university which must be met on this day.
Ail parts of the program have been arranged under the direction of the Senior elass. Junior girls are to cooperate with the Seniors by forming the Ivy chain through which the procession of graduating Seniors will march ou the way to the Ivy Day ceremonies.
Interesting and important traditional customs of the university form a great share of the exercises. Freshmen and sophomore animosities of the past year will be laid to rest with the burying of the hatchet between the two classes. Any under classmen who are rash enough to start trouble alter this treaty of peace will have to answer all four classes in a summary court-martial.
SMOKE PEACE PIPE
Seniors of this year and prospective Seniors for 1926 will be induced to smoke the pipe of peace so that any outstanding feud between the upper division students will be terminated. That coveted .“doggone button” of the Senior clas6 will be given over into the custody of a representative of (he Junior class until the required conditions for its acquirement are fulfilled by some enterprising member of tbe class of ’2C. Ever since the day that a Senior pulled that old gag in class about a dog making a bolt for the door, this button has been conferred upon the witty Senior boy or girl who succeeds in making an instructor laugh in class, and has two Senior witnesses to prove his or her contention.
X-rays will be strictly de trop on the north lawn of Old College on June 17th, as the famous mystery bag of the Senior class is to be taken from its hiding place and given to next year’s Senior class. At one time in the dim past a Senior class of the University of Southern California gave this sack unto the heirs in the Junior class to have and to hold for all posterity against all comers, no weight barred. Unto this present day no stu-
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Returning Track Men To Be Given Welcome
Acting in response to the appreciation felt by the student body toward the returning track stars Ned Lewis, student body president, has announced that the rally committee, assisted by the Trojan Knights and Trojan Squires, are planning a home-welcoming banquet for the returnning athletes.
The welcoming dinner, according to Samuel Gates of the Rally committee, is to be given at the women's gym sometime in the latter part of next week. The exact date has not yet been decided upon.
Among the guests who will help to give the Trojan welcome to the victorious stars is to be Mayor George E. Cryer and President von KleinSmid. I>ean Cromwell, Trojan track coach, is to be the honorary guest of the evening.
TROJAN SIRES ARE 10 ELECT OFFICERS
AH Members Must Meet at Two o'Clock, Friday in Y. M. C. A.
‘TAMING OF SHREW” WILL BE GIVEN ON JUNE 16
Shakespearian Production to Be Presented in Modern Version
With the selection of twenty men from the Freshman class, a new organization came into existence on the campus. Wednesday afternoon at the Delta Mu Phi House. The organization is the Trojan Squires. A young edition of the Trojan Knights, or rather a supplement to the Knights. The Squires were selected by an elimination process.
According to Sam Gates, all Squires must meet at the Y. M. C. A. at 2:00 o’clock. Friday, June 5 for election of officers and organization. Mr. Gates stressed particularly the necessity of all members being present.
The following men were chosen as Squires: Jim Mozier, Hank Rohr, Carl Plate, Whitey Edwards, Ed Oudermeu-len. Paul Post, Kenny Grossman. John Bailey. Dave Fred, Colon Smith, Monte Lindmoe .Paul Elmquist. Harold Silbert. Rov Broomfield. Wayne Harrison, Melvin Burrel Red O’Mally, Art Ket-win. Gordon Crain and Ed Randoff.
CAMPUS LITERARY SOCIETIES CONVENE
Gavel Presented to Two Members From Each Fraternity
The Anniversary Joint Program of the literary societies of the campus of the University of Southern California was held Wednesday evening, June 3, in the President’s suite. The program was arranged by a committee composed of members from each society, and consisted of a musicl program. tiie awarding of diplomas to grauating members, and the presentation of gavels to the out-going: presidents. There were two members from each society who received gavels. After the program refreshments were served.
The program of the evening consist- j ed of:
Flute Solo ....................................Cometia I
Paul Mattoon
Vocal Solo --------------------------------Athena
Katherine Baker
Guitar Solo ..................................Aristo
James Kinchloe
Vocal Trio ...............................Clionion
Rena I^add, Francis Schultz, Vivian Olsen Address. “Literary Societies and Their Relation to the% College
Campus” ..................Bernard Brennan
Presentation of Diplomas to Graduating Seniors by new Pdesidents of each society.
Presentation of gavels to out-going Presidents.
In place of the gavel, Athena presented the new president with a guard to be attached to the society pin.
STUDENT BODY OFEICERS TO BE INSTALLED TODAY
According to l>on Cameron, the regular Friday morning rally will be given over to the installation of Student Body officers. Ned Lewis will turn over the Gavel to Don Cameron, Martha Smith will transfer the responsibilities of Vice-president to Marjorie Rice, and Gladys Lee will take the place of Helen Humeston as Secretary. The Executive Committee will also be installed.
After the installation ol officers, a brief sketch from the modernized version of “Taming of the Shrew" will be presented by students of the School of Speech. Josephine Campbell will appear as Katherine and Robert Rode as Petruchio. The play will be presented in full on June 16.
Although the Rally Committee had planhed on giving the Trojan men who entered the I. C. 4-A. a rousing welcome on their victorious return from Philadelphia, the limited amount of time will make it impossible to have anything other than the installation of officers and the Sketch from the School of Speech.
Fifty cents will admit all comers to Bovard Auditorium on the evening of June 16, when •‘The Taming of the Shrew,” annual School of Speech play is to be presented.
This production will be the first Shakespearean play which has been presented at the University of Southern California in a number of years. It is a costume play and is one in which all the students will be interested since it is a modernized version and is particularly rich in comedy parts, according to Miss Florence Hubbard of the School of Speech, who has charge of the general direction | and supervision of the cast of twenty-five. The cutting used by Sothern and Marlowe in their presentation is being used,
i	All phases of the work connected , with the production are being handled by tire students and facutly of the School of Speech.
Miss Gladys Wadsworth is in charge of the costuming, Miss Tacie Mae Hanna is conducting the business and publicity, and Miss Elizabeth Yoder is training each member of the cast individually in voice and diction, as well as the general supervision of the details of staging. Committees of students and teachers have been appointed to assist in the work.
A ticket campaign is now being launched in earnest and it urged that all those who are expecting to attend the production purchase their tickets immediately as they are expected to go rapidly. Two teams, headed respectively by Mary Ella Brooks and Emily Herbert, are conducting the sales campaign as a contest, the winners of which are to be entertained by the losing side.
The cast is composed completely of Speech students and includes the following: Josephine Campbell, Katherine; Robert Rade, Petruchio; Genevieve Mulligan, Bianca; Edward Blaine, Lucentio; William Hogue, Baptista: Marcus Beeks, Hortensio; Franklin Murrell, Gremio; John Par-j sons, Tranio; Harry B. Hall. Grumio; Stevens Fargo, Vincentio. Miss Landers, Curtis: Edith Koke, Taylor: Harriet Pearson, the Widow; Mary Brooks, Hiondello; Jaes Corbett, Pedant; Eunice Bird
FAITHFUL WRITERS TO BE AWARDS TROJAN KEYS
Awards Will Be Presented at Annual Trojan Staff Dinner
1 w n • m ^ANNUAL LEVEE
Annual Picnic Plans	____
GIVEN TO SENIORS AT PREXY’S HOME
Unlucky thirteen will become lucky when awards will be granted to thirteen staff members of tbe Trojan.
Those receiving awards include Catharine Potter. Ralph Holly, Chet Mackie, Helen Scheuer. George Jordan, Lee Conti, Consuelo Tachet. Dorothy Crowley, Freeman Hall, Bill Teetzel, Sarah Johnston, Marjorie Hall and Helen Faulkner.
The Trojan award is granted each year to members of the staff who have completed two years of work. It is in the form of a pen point in black enamel bearing in gold a Trojan’s head and the letters U. S. C. On the back is engraved the owner’s name and positions they have held on the staff.
It is planned to hold the luncheon at the Cozy Den Tuesday. Those present will include the staff members who will receive the award and Marquis Busby, Marguerite Matson, and Kenneth Stonier who received the awards last v.-ar and have worked on the staff again this year.
Freeman Hall receives the award because he has served as a reporter, feature writer, and an Associtae Editor. Helen Scheuer reporter and feature writer. Chet Mackie reporter, feature writer and associate editor. Catharine Potter reporter and feature writer. Ralph Holly reporter, feature writer and managing editor. George Jordan reporter, feature writer and associate editor. Lee Conti, reporter and editor of sport staff and editor elect for 1915-26. Consuelo Tachet reporter and feature writer. Dorothy Crowley, associate editor. Bill Teetzel, business manager. Sarah Johnston reporter, feature writer and associate editor. Helen Faulkener reporter and society editor.
Plans for the annual Sociology Honor Society picnic have just been announced. Those in charge of the affair are E. F. Bradford and Margaret F. Burke. The picnic will be held at 1:30 in the Vermont street * nt ranee at Griffith Park on June 13.
The program will consist ol many athletic events, such as the walking race, dashes, horseshoe pitching and an annual game of baseball between the social investigators and the social researchers, which will dost- the pro gram. Six or seven entries are entered iu every event.
Mnibers oi" the faculty lo attend are Dr. Case, Dr. Bogardus, Prof. Vincent, Dr. E. F. Young and Miss Lucas. The meeting will be open to everyone, for each member of the society is allowed to bring a guest.
During the course of the evening, a beef steak fry is to be held. This will conclude the day, and everyone, will then head for home.
COMITA SCHOLARSHIP MIRACLE
A new record has been made in the Comita Lit. Society, winners of the inter-literary society debating tournament Of the four active seniors graduating from this group, all have made the all-university scholarship fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi. The graduating seniors, .T. L. Jackson, Willard Schurr, Joseph Adamow, and Paul Mattoon (Pres.) are 100 per cent scholarship students, as indicated by their election to Phi Kappa Phi.
PI DELTA EPSILON TO INITIATE FIVE MEMBERS
Ceremonies Will Be at Gamma Epsilon House; Banquet at University Club
Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary journalistic fraternity, will hold its second initiation ceremonies on the Southern California campus, Thursday afternoon and evening, June 11. Initiation for Lee Conti, Freeman Hall, George Jordan, Barton Hutchins and Aubrey Irwin will be held at the Gamma Epsilon house, followed by a banquet at the University Club.
Requirements to Pi Delta Epsilon are among the highest demanded by a national fraternity. Each candidate must have completed two years of collegiate work with a high scholastic average, and to have held an editorial or managerial position on a college publication. The fraternity does not confine its membership to the university dailies, but includes editors and managers of the annuals, pictorials, literary magazines and the humorous publications.
At the national convention of the
Phi Kappa Phi Will Meet In University Parlors Saturday
With senior chapel and graduation exercises of the literary societies now events of the past, the commencement festivities are in full swing. The next affair is the annual levee to be given by President and Mrs. Rufu.-» von KleinSmid at their home. SOI West Twenty-eighth street, on Saturday, June 6. Because of the size of the class, half of the members have been asked to come from the hours of seven-thirty to nine-thirty in the evening and the other half from nine-thirty to eleven. The reception will be held in the house and in the gardens, and will provide the last opportunity for the Seniors to get acquainted with one another in an informal way
The annual meeting of the honorary scholarship society. Phi Kappa Phi, will take place on Saturday. June 13. at 8 P. M., in the university parlors. At this time the newly-elected members will be formally taken into the society. Besides the initiation, a program is being planned by Doctor Herbert Austin, chairman of the committee, which will include music, in address and a social meeting.
Phi Kappa Phi is an honorary scholarship society comparable to Phi Beta Kappa, except that its members are not limited to Liberal Arts college. The seniors who have maintained the highest standards of scholarship in the class are selected by a vote of the members; personal character and personality are also taken into consideration. Forty-six new members, elected from the faculty, the graduate school, the college of liberal arts, the college of pharmacy, the school of education, the school of commerce. the college of dentistry, and the school oi law, will be initiated at the coming meeting.
A school for cheer leaders has been Helen Dillon. Es-1 organized at the Universitl of Iowa telle Obrikat, Kate McNenny, serving j under the direction of the Department women.	of Speech and Physical Training.—
NOTICE
Commerce officers are requested to meet Friday at 12:4f> in Dean Morton's office.
Final wind-up of this semester's business and discussion of plans for next term’s activities are to be main factors of the. meeting.
Rock Defies Explanatory
Powers of Mathematicians
SMITH COLLEGE. — Twenty-five members of the Junior class will study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Only those students who have completed their college requirements and whose major subject is French will be eligible.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE.—A fraternity on fhe campus has installed a home laundry outfit for the use of the members. It is expected that a great saving will be realized from the investment.
More than twenty-seven publications have been introduced at the University of Michigan in the past 6S years but of these only 10 survive.
Mathematicians and scientists of the University of Southern California’s Physics department were busily engrossed Wednesday morning figuring out how a spherical white rock weighing eleven hundred and forty-five pounds, seven ounces, came to a resting place on the green hether of the Coleseum’s lawn. Shrine officials had to hire a truck to haul the obstacle away before the exercises could go on.
It was conclusively proven that not enough men could get a handfold on the rock to carry it where it was. No truck trail could be found and the Coliseum guards swore that on spiritualistic meeting took place in the Coliseum during the wee small hors of darkness.
Careful investigation of rumors on the campus Wednesday morning gave a clue as to the method by which this lump o^ earthly strata came to its final lounging spot. Promises of secrecy were siven that the plot would not be revealed but it was too good to keep and now the entire student body of the university has been admitted to a detailed account of the inner workings of this intrigue. Orders have been lef twith the Western Costuming Company for a complete coat rf mail to ward off the bullets of any avenging blackhanders of the Commerce School.
Tuesday evening was selected as the night on which the neophytes of a certain prominent Commerce honorary professional frat“rnitv wouid tr~ad the path of martyrdom across the final abyss of pledgehood into the ranks ot active members. Bolstered up by the false courage of fancied security these
unsuspecting voung business hounds duly reported to their persecutors at an hour commensurate with the darkness of the scheme .
Singing and speeches on “Why is a Cow?”, “How many joints has a Centipede.?” and “Do Girls Laugh Because They Think or Think Because They Laugh?" aided tbe actives to revel in mirth such as they have not enjoyed since the last issue of Tommy Wampus. Antics and contortions worth>r of Houdini were performed by the pledges in entertaining the members but still the bloodthirsty brutes appetite for a slaughter was not satisfied.
Hence, two husky corn-fed farmers made a bet as to who could hit the hardest and took it out on the pledges. Seven paddles, four minutes, and three gags were necessary before the wager could be determined. If you do not believe the authenticity of this story just ask the man who stayed away from from Senior Chapel this morning just because the seats were so hard.
Finally the cruel instincts of the older men were quenched and the last act on the program got its curtain call. Every pledge was called into a group and informed they would have to bring some object to the campus that would remain as a worthy monument of the fraternity after this year’s graduation. Many hours were spent in trying to annex park benches ami hitching posts but vigilant owners ever thwarted the designs of these slaves.
At last they came on this rock near a recent excavation in the harbor dis-
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fraternity held recently at Syracuse University, where the mother chapter was founded, chapters were granted to Cornell University, University of Cincinnati, Hamline University and St. Lawrence University. At the present time there are forty-three chapters on the roll, only two of which are maintained on the Pacific Coast, one at California and one at Southern California.
Among the activities sponsored by the fraternity this year included the Pi Delt Razz-Berry. issued >ast December by members and pi* dges of the fraternity. The lccal chapter is also working toward the completion of a worthwhile journalism library to be presented to the University of Southern California library. It is felt by the members that such an addition would be a marked asset to the department of journalism of this LTniversity.
Active members of the fraternity during the past year were Marquis Busby, editor of the Trojan; Ralph Holly, managing editor of the Daily Trojan; Chester Mackie, associate editor of the Trojan; Jack Olds, sporting editor of the Trojan last year, and Grady Setzler, editor of the Wampus.
ETA KAPPA Nl) INSTALLS CHAPTER
Ceremony to Take Place Saturday, June 6 at Sigma Chi House
Mens? Glee Club Gives Program Over Radio
Making their final air bow to radio fans who have been entertained during the past year by the University of Southern California radio programs, I*. S. C.’s entertainers went on the air over KHJ Wednesday between 7:30 and S:(J0 o'clock for the last time this year.
The Men's Glee Club, under the direction of Horatio Cogswell, gave a fifteen-minute program, followed by-two piano compositions by Calvin Hendricks. Included in the Glee Club program were: “The Trojan Marching Song.” “The Bells of Saint Mary’s,” “A Gypsy Ix>ve Song,” and “Alma Mater.” An original composition. ‘‘Echoes,” and a Minuet were the numbers played by Calvin Hendricks.
Upsilon Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. national electrical engineering honorary fraternity, is to be installed at U. S. C. Saturday afternoon, June 6. at the Sigma Chi house. Mr. A. A. Hofgren. patent attorney of Chicago, and first vice-president of Eta Kappa Nu, recently arrived in Los Angeles to conduct the installation, which will be held under the auspices of the local alumni chapter of Eta Kappa Nu. The installation ceremonies are to be. followed by a banquet.
The coming of Eta Kappa Nu to U. S. C. marks another forward step in the rapid growth of the Electrical Engineering Department, and the establishment of a chapter here is in itself .a mark of the national recognition accorded the department for the high caliber of its work. Wherever established, among the prominent engineering schools of the country. Eta Kappa Nu has had a potent influence in the development of men of high ideals, of a high standard of scholarship, and men fitted for leadership in their profession. and has been very successful in fostering a splendid spirit of cre operation.
The new chapter at U. S. C. is expected to take a similar place of importance among the local engineers. The presence of a very strong alumni chapter of Eta Kappa Nu in Los Angeles will be of great service and inspiration to the new active chapter. Its presence will be very beneficial in keeping prominent engineers of Southern California interested in the activities and progress of the electrical department.
The new chapter of Eta Kappa Nu will consist of the following men: Faculty Members: Professors P. S. Biegler and C. E. Guse. Class of 1925:
C.	P. Eustice. Howard I. Keehler, J. R. Nelson. G. W. Sawyer, and Harold B. Wilcox. Class of 1926: W. B. Bustard, W. M. Hogue, Alvin C. Knox. Chester B. Little. Frank E. Ridley, Walter T. Scott and James H. Shide-ler.