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President Coolidge’s Inaugural Speech to be Heard in Assembly
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Trojan
Greek Number of The Wampus Out Today; Exposes Organizations
olume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 3, 1925
Number 60
NIOR PROM TICKETS TO 60 ON SALE
/ill Be Limited To Upperclass Students Only On the Opening Days
BILTMORE CHOSEN
be Lyman's Orchestra and Special Favors To Be Featured
DR. COOKE TO GIVE TALK ONMASEFIELD
Gibson and Frost Will Also Be Discussed In Class Lecture
lommy Spills Dirt Today; Frats Tremble At Exposure
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(Tickets lor the Junior Prom, the jly big formal ol th** college year, fich is to be held in the ballroom the Biltmore, March 27, will soon [available .according to the reports pi the committee.
The committee has been working |d to complete their plans in ord< r the tickets might be put on sale soon as possible.
I his is in order to give the under smen :t chance to buy tickets. Just hundred and fifty tickets will be ited and the first chance to purse them will b ■ given lo uppe: ismen. Alter a certain length ol s however the sale will be opened Preshmen and Sophomores. The lets will sell lor $5.00. be favors have been ordered and both unique and useful. The ?olor •me of the decoratoins will be used Lhe favors as well, ae ballroom of the Biltmore has j 1 chosen by the committee as the and most desirable place in Los eles lo hold lhe traditional formal In- el a s.--. II was ! un hermoi ^ Lght that the beaut} of the ball-i would lend greatly to the diginity formality of the occasion, b" L> tuan’s orcln-si n; has been :ured to provide the music, the mittee believing that Abe Lyman capable of providing the best iu Sic.
flic commit tee in charge ol . i. ■ m includes: Ronald Snavely. class sident; Marjorie Rice, class vice-Isident; Janny Lee Moore, class sec-
Iary; Evelyn Ross, Red Haynes, Sol-Levinson and Revelle Harrison.
Contributions made to the literary world by John Masefield, English poet will be discussed by Dr. John D. Cooke in his lecture on “Mastfield and Other Poetic Realist*." Tuesday. March J. at 2:30, in H. 206 “Masefield has turned English poetry from the idealistic and philosophic type that existed in the Nineteenth century, to an honest appreciation of common humanity,*’ Dr. Cooke said today. “His Knowledge of human nature and his deep love of typical Englisn life is the keynote of Masefield's poetry.
Gibson and Frost, two other leaders of the poetic realists, will be discussed at the lecture. The problems oi the laboring man are vitally interesting to Gibson, and are the inspirations for his work. Frost, frankly realistic, has avoided hopeless naturalism in dealing with the country life of New England.
PERSONAL CONTACT PLANNED FOR Y. W.
ILORADO COLLEGES TO CHANGE ELECTION
(Selection of the college editor on a Jsis of merit rather than popular vbte the student body is urged in a re-lution unanimously adopted by the Ipresentatives of seven Rocky Moun-in schools in session at the second Lanai convention of the Rocky Moun-lin inter-collegiate Press Association piich convened at Denver University, riday and Saturday.
Today is the day when Tommyc Wamp makes his March bow to the campus as a full fledged Greek. Wampus originates from the Greek, by the way, and means—that black cat which prowls into the class room unawares, and spells bad luck for the prof's lectures, according to Grady Setzler. The men who are quickest on the draw of their two bit pieces get the Wampus first—the others will have to be content with hearing their lucky friends litter and snicker over the jokes.
Wamp will appear just before-Chapel, stands will be in the usual plates before the Administration and Old College buildings. In his clever new outfit, the kitty is guaranteed to be> snappier than ever.
Cnlike tlie traditional March Lamt), Wamp's entrance will not be meek, rather it will more resemble the ciia:' acteristics of the I Jon’s exit. Ever> Greek letter organization from K. K. K. (Kappa Kappa Kappa) to Dambda Phi Knoes will be exposed to the cold elements of criticism .says Setzler.
Although one Greek chapter made determined efforts to buy out this entire issue of Wampus and surpress it, the editor and staff held out firmly, declaring that i‘ is their duty to "give the truth to their public and spare
none of the details which need exposure.
The Greek issue is guaranteed to be a gloom chaser. The Greek subjcct has proved an inspiring, as well as perspiring topic for a greater number of contributors have sent in their efforts for this issue. In spite of the abundance of material .the staff has allowed nothing to slip by which is not. guaranteed to draw a laugh from the bitterest of critics.
The exchange editor, Ellsworth Ross, has carefully selected the jokes from the contemporary college comics, which in combination with Wampus cracks go to make the U. S. C. rnaga-zine one of the cleverest of fun organ* according to authority.
Some of the partners in crime ior (his issue are:
Valerie Baldwin, weaver of the coming out growth of Tommy Wamp, tht-Greek; Maud Miller, creator ot ye snappy crax; Dorothy Crowley, devisor of untamed tales: Dorothy Davis, source of trouble to Judge, College Humor, College Comics .etc.; Ralph Holly ,the man who knows and then tells; John Post (the cause of much discussion; Norman Low. who lias at last become classic ;and other campus wits.
TAKES PLAV LEAD
Alumna of School of Speech Appears in “Silver Box” Production
OLONEL L. SMITH TO SPEAK TODAY
Colonel L. Smith, noted lecturer, 'Jflill in■ speaker at chapel today and Wednesday. Col. Smith is a widely nown speaker before Student Assem-[ie3, American Legions and Cham-prs of Commerce. Beside his mili-ry experience Colonel Smith has vn an active Christian worker.
The subject of the talk has not been nnounced.
Inspiring Program Is Booked for | Pacific Palisade Conference
Inspiration is to be the keynote of the Y. W. conference at the Pacific Pasilades on March 6. 7 and S.
“We plan to have fewer talks and meetings and more inspirational contact with each other,” said Miss Clara Miller, Y. W. secretary at this university and chairman of the conference. “The girls feel that association with women from other Southern California colleges and an appreciation of their problems will be more helpful and longer remembered than formal meetings.”
For the benefit of new students. Miss Miller explains that the spring conference is an annual event held under the auspices of the Y. W. Delegates are present from every college in Southern California. Although former conferences have been held on the different college campuses, a departure is being made this year in choosing the Pacific Palisades for the scene of action. The tent houses and grounds, so reminiscent of the beauties of Asilomar, will lend the desired atmosphere of informality.
Board and room for the three days will amount to $3.50, according to Miss Miller. The U. S. C. girls will leave from the Y lodge on Friday afternoon about four; it is expected that/ machines will be provided for transportation. Girls who plan to go are asked to sign up at the lodge as soon as possible.
The conference program follows: Friday Evening, March 6
Supper at 6.
Get-acquainted and organized games from 7 to 8.
Opening meeting at 8, Miss Alice
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SOPHOMORES CHOOSE MARCH 20 FOR DATE OF HOP
Dancing Contest Will Be Special Feature of the Affair
GLEE CLUB WILL BE HOSTS AT FORMAL DINNER-DANCE
Hotel Maryland To Be Scene of Gay Affair On March the 7th
Tnaugural Address To Be Heard In Bovard On Radio
Radio reports of the inaugural address of President Calvin Coolidge, of his oath of office as well as that of vice-president Dawes, and of details about the crowd present at the Washington paramount event, will be given in Bovard Auditorium tomorrow morning according to Earle Prentice, one of the meu in charge of the broadcasting.
Tomorrow's event marks a new step in Southern California progress along educational, as presidential addresses at inauguration usually live hs literary achievements.
Radio K. F. I. is to handle the broadcasting in Los Angeles, receiving the reports from a powerful New York station. A loud speaker is to be in stalled through the courtesy of Barker Brothers in Bovard Auditorium tft transmit the K. F. I. returns.
Through the connections that Hal Williamson and Bob Irvine have with the broadcasting stations of Los Angeles the K. F. l. management has made special arrangements for the program tomorrow! According to an-
nouncements from that source, the United States Marine band will play for an hour before the oath of President Coolidge is given. The oath is to be given at 8:50 o’clock, Los Angeles time, according to Eastern reports. This will take ten minutes, the address of President Cooledge following immediately. The program will probabl\r be over by 11 o’clock.
The inauguration of President Coolidge is to take place at Washington. I). C. in front of the White House. Special bleachers and facilities for handling the crowd have been planned and completed. Special local details are to be given over the South-rn California radio reports by experienced reporters, insuring a vivid picture of evt nts to all Southern California students.
Classes will probably be excused to make ^possible the presence of the student body in Rovard Auditorium, and it is expected that every member report immediately back to his class after the program is over, if this be done. Full details will appear in Wednesday’s Trojan.
Another one of those famous Sophomore Hops is scheduled for Friday, March 20. The newly discovered basketball pavilion, sans rafters and sans spectators galleries, will be expected to safely hold the crowd throughout the worst of the festivities.
Under the direction of Bill Stewart, president of the class, the committee, consisting of Beth Baker, vice-president, Gladys Let. and Jack Turnbull, has been matching wits and ingenuity in an effort to pool enough original ideas to make this dance ‘different.” They plan to out do the efforts successfully put over by Sophomore classes in the past. Something entirely new in the line of decorations is vouched for by Bill Stewart, who adds that “the Biltmore ballroom will look barren in comparison.” The punch, while not dangerous, is to be of the Variety most popular. It is expected to hold a center of attraction all its own.
For the satisfaction of the most particular jazz-hound, Al Wesson’s Hollywoodland Orchestra has been secured for the evening. The Holly-woodlanders have gained a wide reputation for their super-qualit y dance music. It was only after much persuasion and through an unswerving determination to get only the best., that satisfactory arrangements were put through for this orchestra.
A program of varied entertainment is being arranged and will probably be announced shortly.
The awarding of a cup to the best dancing couple will be a feature of the evening’s entertainment.
MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS
All students desiring to take special examinations to make up courses not successfully completed in the second semester 1923-1924 or the first semester 1924-1925 should apply at the registrar’s office for (he necessary authorization on or before Friday, March 6. Blank forms will he provided.
All applications must show courses correctly by department, course number, division letter and name of instructor and the present grade must be stated.
A fee of $2.00 must be paid for each examination.
The schedule of examinations will be prepared and posted on the Bulletin Bo.-.rd as soon as possible after March 6.
February 19, 1925.
Theron Clark. Registrar.
Eat, dance, and be merry at the Hotel Maryland with the nationally known S. C. organization, namely the Glee Club, next Saturday, March 7, might be ihe slogan adopted for the event.
According to Horace Judson Glee Club manager, the students and faculty members of S. C. are cordially invited and urged to come. An opportunity to meet the 'ooys who are carrying S. C. publicity over the country is given at his time.
'ihe Glee Club will offer several numbers during the dinner ,and orchestral music also will be added to the program. Everett I>-ighton will render one of his popular bass solos.
Following the dinners, dancing wiil be in order and as a popular orchestra will furnish the inspiration no trouble is anticipated along this line.
The dinner dance will be formal according to the manager of the Glee Club. “This is a good chance to give that new dress or tuxedo its first showing,” he said. Tickets tor the affair will be $2.50 per person. This in eludes everything, dinner, entertainment, and the dance.
Alumni support is also asked for by Judson. “The boys have been working hard for this event and a large crowd of students and alumni will give them atlded inspiration to double theii efforts to make Southern California and the rest of the country take morn notice of S. C.“ was Judson’s sta.e-ment.
Dr. A. R. Moore To Speak At (iY” Meet
Dr. A. Ray Moore is to be the guest and leader of the weekly LT. Y. Council meeting Wednesday evening, according to an announcement made yesterday by the chairman of the program committee. Dr. Moore is widely known over Southern California as a religious thinker and leader and is to give a special message for college men. He will speak on the subject, “Pushing Back the Horizon.”
“It is a play of high social value," said Dr. Allison Gaw of the English Department, concerning “The Silver Box" by John Galsworthy. -I am sure that the faculty is behind its production. The play contains all the elements of life ;economic, social, legal, philosophical.”
"The Silver Box’" is modern in thought and deals with life and people that are seen everywhere and everyday. It has an element of mystery which will hold the audience spell-bound. Its intensity depends upon undercurrent of feeling rather upon any hysterical exterior stimulation.
The plot is built around criminal justice and the part that money plays in our court system. Delightful comedy emphasizes a great life lession in a manner which no didactic sermon could do.
Essentially dramatic, the play was picked by the National Collegiate Players as a medium for its talent. National Collegiate Players is made up of students who have shown marked ability in Southern California campus theatricals. As Lance and Lute, it has existed in Troy for four years and its annual production has been conceded by faculty, alumni, and students as the high point of drama at the university.
The feminine lead is taken by Helen-ita Lieberg, an alumni of lT. S. C., who has been actively engaged in professional show work since her graduation. While a member of the student body of the university she was in many of the School of Speech and class productions. After several years absence she will appear at Bovard auditorium in "The Silver Box” on March 26.
BRYN MAWR GIVES
23 FELLOWSHIPS
Women s College Offers Fellowships With 24 Guaduate Scholarships
Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is offering twenty-three resident fellowships and twenty-four graduate scholarships for competition for graduates of any college of good standing in the United States. These are annual offers.
The value of the scholarships are $350 while the values of the fellowships range in values from $810 tD $1,500. Candidates for fellowships must have completed a year of graduate work at some college or university ot good standing. Candidates ro* scholarships must be graduates but need not necessarily have already done graduate work.
(Practically every subject in the college curriculum is included in the work for which scholarships ami fellowships are given by Bryn Wawr.
P’or further information and application blanks which must be received m-April 1, 1925, students should write to the office of the recording dean at Bryn Mawr.
FOUR PRIZES TO BE ST
Harry Silke and His Wife Will Be Judge of Costumes At Dance
NOVEL DECORATIONS
Also Plan Program To Be Given During Part of the Evening
That a grand march will be held at eleven o’clock for the judging of costumes is the latest development, according to Martha Smith, in the plans which are rapidly going forward for the Mardi Gras to be held Friday evening, March 6 in the basketball pavilion.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Silke have been invited as honorary guests for the evening, and will act as judges in picking the best and cleverest costumes. Four prizes are to be awarded, two for the two best girls’ costumes and two for the best costumes worn by men. Two of the prizes will go to those two people wearing the cleverest garb, and the others to the best dressed individuals.
Added to the attractive features of the evening which include the much-heralded Campus Orchestra and decorations of a futuristic nature, a program composed of both amateur and professional talent is to be presented.
The Mardi Gras is the second dance to be staged in the U. S. C. basketball pavilion. The Senior Homecoming dance given on the night of the Syra-cuse-L:. S. C. football game was the first affair cf the kind to be held on the campus, and was declared by everyone to have been a huge success.
PERIOD FURNITURE IS SUBJECTFOR LECTURE
University of Southern California students are invited to hear the lecture to be given by Mrs. Henrietta Horton Kapp of Barker Brothers, Wednesday noon, March fourth, in Hoose 206.
Mrs. Kapp will talk on “Period Fur-niiure,” using charts and illustrations which will make the hour one of special interest.
Emphasis will be placed on Sheia* ton. Chippendale and Adams models.
The lecture is designed particularly for English students enrolled in the classical course.
The following ^ renoon, members of the classic course will visit Barker brothers.
Arrangements for the trip have been made by Miss Mildred Struble of the English department for the purpose of viewing china, pictures and furniture characteristic of the eighteenth century.
INTERFRAT MEETING
All members of the Inter-fraternity council are asked to be on hand at a meeting at the Ze>ta Kappa Epsilon house, 7:30 tonight.
Indiana I niversity — Seventy-three co-eds are on probation this semester for making unsatisfactory grades in over five hours work and six women were sent home for failure to make the required ten credit points in ten hours work.
Western Association Of
College ComicyFormed
W. A. A. MEETING TODAY
W. A. A. wil! hold an open meeting Tuesday, March 10. at 12:15 in the Women’s Gym. All women students, whether regular members or not, are invited to attend. After a short business meeting, an entertaining program will follow. “New students are especially urged lo come,” said the president, “so that they may learn just what W. A. A. stands for.”
Co-eds who are interested in tennis are asked to turn out for the tennis tournament. Only W. A. A. mem bers are eligible.
Letters have been sent to fifteen western college comic magazine con taining notice of the forming of the organization Western Association of comics including a constitution drawn up.by managers of the Southern California Wampus, California Pelican, Stanford Chaparral, and Colorado Dodo. Temporary headquarters are being maintained at the office of the* University of Colorado Dodo.
The organization proposes to secure advertising on a national scale, to eli-mina'e abuses of copyright in reirarft to the reprinting of editorial matter, and to assure uniform editorial and publicity policies. Managers of the fifteen college comics are asked to consider the constitution and to endorse it if it meets with their approval. Also, they are requested to state thei) preference for the meeting place o? a convention to be held during March.
25-27. 'i hree places are suggested: Los Angeles, Berkeley, or San Francisco.
The keynote of the organization is expressed in the preamble of the constitution. “* * « this organization shall lend neither support nor influence to any commercial interest or interests that endeavor to create a monopoly in the field either of humor or of college comic advertising.” Any college comic of the Rocky Mounfa?n and Pacific Coast regions interested in rhe editorial and business progress of their respective publications may become a member.
Annual conventions will be held in the latter part of March. Other special meetings can be called by the written request of ten r.uhlications. At all meetings each comic will be represented by two staff members, one for editorial and one for business interests.
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