All El Rodeo Group Pictures Must Be Taken This Week
Southern
California
Trojan
Mardi Gras Costume Ball At Pavilion To Be Held Tomorrow Night
lume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 5, 1925
Number 62
KIT OF CARNIVAL TO REIGN AT MARD1-GRAS
stive Occasion Compared To Similar World-Famous European Carnivals
By DOROTHY BAKER
'ransporting the colorful festive nes of carnival days in Paris and
ii	New Orleans to the basketball ^wilion on the campus or the Univer-ty of Southern California the Mardi -as to be held Friday evening, March is expected to not only rival these der celebrations, but to outshine lem in glamour and beauty of setting. [Mardi Gras is a traditional religious irnival in many European countries, e term meaning Shrove Tuesday in e French, the day preceding Ash ednesday. In France, the merry-aking is restricted almost entirely to arove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras. Spain is a four days carnival which includ-Ash Wednesday, while in Russia, here no Ash Wednesday is observed, ie carnival gaieties continue for a eek .lasting from Sunday to Sunday. It has been a long-established cus-)m in Paris to lead the fat ox (boeuf ras, whence Mardi Gras) in a riotous rocession through the streets follow-d in a triumphal car by a child who is esignated by the unusual title of king of the butchers.” Throwing of onfetti or sweetmeats and flowers, e blowing of horns .masked balls nd parades of allegorical chariots aracterize this annual occasion of ilarious festivity.
URN IN EFFIGY
In Italy, after the gaieties of the last ay, which is Mardi Gras, the death f the carnival is symbalized by the urning of a huge effigy which crowds f people surge through the narrow reelts carrying lighted tapers, each ying to put out those tapes carried )y olthers.
In New Orleans .this carnival cus-om of Mardi Gras has been carried ut since 1857. The celebration some-nuts lasts a month. The city is turn-d Over to “King Rea, who passes irough the streets escorted by his odyguard, the mystic krewe of Com-s,” and various military and visiting rganizations. In the evening across he great street pageant, displaying laborate and birliantly lighted tab-aux.
The spirit of carnival has been rought from its winter habital in New )rleans for the Mardi Gras Friday ivening, and has promised its most ilarious antics for the amusement nd gaiety of the queerly clad crowd ancing to the melody furnished by he Arrowhead Orchestra, amid sur-oundings never before seen on a mat-er-of-fact university campus.
It Wasn’t Jack’s Fault That He Couldnt Find Her
Jack Jones wTanted to meet that pretty little red-haired girl all semester. Poor Jack was out of luck t—because none of his gang could tell him anything about the girl.
El Rodeo came out, and Jack searched the pages eagerly—hop-ng to see her picture in one of the arganization pages. Ho wore out the pages in a vair search for the girl—and so another romance was squelched in the beginning—
Moral—if the girl had cooperated with El Rodeo and had her picture taken who can tell what would have happened?
But this isn’t the only reason why students should send in their pictures. Next summer your friends in glancing over the old book, will ask, “Where are you?” Will you be there? Not unless you date up the photographer this week. Students who do not get “snapped” this week are “out of luck” and out of the book.
FRIENDLY BUNCH
Girls’ Friendly Bunch pictures will be taken Thursday, March 5. promptly at 12:00. Members please be at the front steps of Old College on time.
NOTICE
The School of Religion Club will meet tonight at the home of Professor and Mrs. Bruce Baxter, 3000*4 South Hoover Street.
Members of the club are invited.
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 the necessary authorization on or before Friday, March 6. Blank forms will be 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 Board as soon as possible after March 6. Theron Clark, February 19, 1925	Registrar.
6LEE CLUB DINNER EAT
Students and Faculty Are Invited To Attend Pleasant Affair
That all students and faculty members are heartily urged to attend the formal dinner dance to be given Saturday, March 7 at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena is the statement made by Horace Judson, glee club manager.
During the course of the dinner, members of this popular and well-known campus organization will offer several numbers, and some orchestral music is also to be added to the evening’s program. Everett Leighton who has given many bass solos, will also render a selection at this time.
Dancing will be the diversion after the dinner, and with the popular orchestra which has been provided and a perfect floor, promises to be of itself well worth the trip to the Crown City.
“The boys have be^n working hard for this event and a large crowd of students and alumni will give them added inspiration to double their efforts to make Southern California and the rest of the country take more notice of Southern California,” said Judson.
This formal function is one of the many events on tho year's program of the Glee Club of U. S. C. Last year this organization toured the country visiting and singing in most of the principal cities. It has done much to broadcast the name of the University of Southern California throughout the United States.
Tickets for this formal dinner dance will be $2.50 per person. This includes the dinner, entertainment and the dance.
SOPHS TO GIVE DANCE IN BASKETBALL PAVILION
Planning to out do the dances of previous years the sophomore class is holding its first function of the year, a dance to be given on March 20.
It is to be staged at the basketball pavilion with the excellent Hollywood-land orchestra and the hours will be whiled away.
The key note is to be informality and a good time is expected to be had by all who attend. Although the dance is being sponsored by the sophomore class the tickets, which will go on sale in a few days ,may be purchased by anyone from the lowliest Frosh to the mightiest senior.
This affair is expected to be bigger and better than any previous sophomore entertainment, according to Bill Stewart, president, and a good crowd is expected.
PROMOTES HARMONY
Boulder, Colo.—Purpose of Conference is to promote harmony among conference journalists.
Eight colleges and universities will be represented at the second annual Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Press convention in Denver Friday and Saturday of this week according to word which has been received from the committee in charge. Every institution in Colorado, the University of Wyoming and possibly two schools from Montana will have their representatives present.
The purpose of the conference is to promote harmony among the colleges and universities of the Rocky Mountain district.
Students Hear Inaugural Oath And Address Over Air
By JACK BERMAN
Addressing the greatest audience incumber of ihe world, Calvin Coolidge. thirtieth president-elect of the United States, speaking calmly and in y terse, dispassionate tone, proclaimed to the nation the principles which will guide him through the next four years of the country’s affairs. Students of the University of Southern California had the pleasure of hearing the inaugural address over the radio, the first radio addresffs to be given in Bovard auditorium.
While waiting for the announcement of the administering of the oath.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid interested the audience with some personal reminiscence*, of his interview with the President while in Washington, D. C., on the Pan American Congress mission. The Prexy in a short informal talk cleverly summarized those personal qualities of President Coolidge which mark him as a man worthy to lead the greatest nation in the world. President Coolidge was characterized as the typical American, of plain New England stock, who, though short of stature, always seems able to adapt himself so that “in talking to a person, he meets the level of one’s eye.”
GENIAL OF NATURE
“His hand-shake is genial, as if he meant it, instead of the usual official clasp. In offering our congratulations the morning after election, he accepted them graciously and then almost at once went to the object of our visit.
“President Coolidge has had a hard time ‘fighting’ his way without real support and with a hostile Congress.
However, the President has overcome opposition with a determined and definite policy with which no president with the exception of Lincoln has had to contend with so fiercely.
“Another distinct characteristic is the way in which he will back any of his men to the finish, despite the fact that the newspapers are roaring disgrace and shame upon the victim’s head.”
The U. S. Marine Band played a
American folk-songs and marches. A hush followed, then the high pitched voice of Supreme Justice William Howard Taft rose above t the whisperings of the student audience repeating the inaugural oath just as his predecessors have done on so many occasions. The President then began his address. The text of this was sharp and to the point, touching upon existing conditions and outlining a policy for the future. The following quotations give a clear idea of his opinion on economical and political questions aqd problems of the day:
“No one can contemplate current conditions without finding much that is satisfying and still more that is encouraging.
“In common with other nations, the United States is now more than ever determined to promote peace through friendliness and good will, through mutual understandings and mutual forbearance.
"The wisest and soundest method of solving out tax problems is through economy.
POLICY OF ECONOMY
“The time is arriving when we can have further tax reductions.
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money but because I wish to save the people.
“One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected.
“Conditions must be provided under which people can make a living and work out difficulties.
“We have long advocated the peaceful settlement of disputes by method of arbitration . . . The same considerations should lend to our adherence to the permanent court of internrtiou-al justice.
“Our own country is leading the world in the general readjustment to the results of the great conflict.
America seeks no earthly empire built on blood aud force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominations .... She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.”
TROJAN WILL HAVE AUTO DEPARTMENT
Information Relative to Operation and Care of a Car Will Be Feature
To keep in line with the Daily Tro-an’s policy of expansion, a weekly supplement will soon appear in connection with the College paper. This supplement will be the Weekly Automotive Section, and is scheduled to make its first appearance about March 25.
Kenneth Stonier is heartily in favor of this department, and has appointed Bernard Weinberger as manager of this supplement. Mr. Weinberger has had considerable experience in this line of work, and it is expected that he will make a great success of the newr project.
To finance this addition to the Trojan, Bernard Weinberger has selected a competent staff to solicit advertisements from the leading auto dealers of the city. The staff has already received many ads, which assures them of the support of the local dealers.
The purpose of this addition to th' school paper is to give the students valuable information concerning the operation and care of a car.
In each addition there will be many informative articles about auto industry in Los Angeles.
“‘We are sure that this new addition to our Trojan paper will make a great success,” says Bernard Weinberger.
NEW YORK STUDENT TO BUILD $5000 MEMORIAL GATEWAY
New York University.—A memorial gateway costing $5,000 is proposed by the senior class of New York university. It is to be part of a memorial fence that will eventually enclose the entire campus. Units of the fence are to be built by succeeding graduating classes.
CHINESE STUDENTS CLUB
All members of this club must report for an El Rodeo picture in front of Old College at 12:00 today. This is very urgent.
“Fusser’s Guide’ Is Response To Campus Need
One of the most helpful articles for would-be “shieks and shebas” will make its appearance on our campus about the middle of next week. No, it is not an article of wearing apparel, but will probably create at least as much excitement as the sophomore shirts. So called help is entitled the “Fusser’s Guide.” In eastern universities “queeners” are called “fussers” —hence the title of the new catalogue, “The Fusser’s Guide,” as a catalogue containing the name, address, and phone number of each student. There are about one hundred and thirty pages in the book and each contains a complete list of information about the students named therein. The names, addresses, and phone numbers of the professors will also be tabulated in this helpful little book. This should prove useful in making a date with your favorite ‘“Prof.” It has also been rumored that some of the “Profs” that date the “fair coeds,” will be greatly benefitted by this illuminating volume, and that there is great rejoicing among many of the faculty over the arrival of th enew campus protege.
All the eastern universities have very successful “Fussie’s Guides," which no student would dream of being without. Perhaps this book will help some of our “shiekless Shebas,” and “sheba-less shieks” to become acquainted with their secret sorrows and who knows the result? This is one textbook which no student (or Prof) will care to be without is the general concensus of opinion. However, time will tell.
INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL NOTICE
All members of the Inter-fraternity Council who have not had their pictures taken for the El Rodeo are requested to call Witzels Studio and have another cut made and marked for this group. This must be done today for the reason that no pictures arranged for after Friday can be put into the annual.
LAWYERS HEAR PRESIDENT
Today the students at law are earnestly behind a movement to change the Constitution of the United States to provide for presidential elections every year.
Yesterday classes at Law School were called off at 9 a. m. and the students who had their stuff as well as the other seven-eights, adjourned to the assembly rooms, where they were privileged to listen to the inaugural ceremonies over the radio.
The receiving sets had been set up, one in each of the assembly rooms, and the entire ceremonies, very clearly broadcasted over K F
I.	were there received. It was particularly noticed that many of the students took elaborate notes, probably anticipating their participation, some time in the future.
All arrangements were madj through the courtesy of “Big-hearted Sid” Cherniss of the great open spaces and the Freshman class representing the Southern California Music Company.
PLflr IN "MR BOX”
Mont Mac Millan and Helenita Lieberg Carry Dramatic Rolls in Play
Work on the production of “Silver Box” is progressing satisfactorily, and acts I and II are almost completed. Two of the leading roles have been selected from members o fthe alumni who played prominent parts in former school productions. Mont MacMillan, who will be remembered for his splendid work two years ago in “Alice Sit By The Fire,” will carry the heavy dramatic role. The feminine lead, a part which was created by Ethel Barrymore, is to be played by Helenita Lieberg.
The criminal plot of the play de-velopes around the characters of father and son, pleyed by Solly Seamons and Harry Hall, respectively.
“The Silver Box” may be classified as a mystery, or at least a dupe puzzler with the mystery based on criminal politics and the part that money plays in the modern court.
Ellsworth Ross, production manager says that the play is not high-brow, but just a “good gripping story of everyday life,” and that every student will be pleased with the show. Tickets are to go on sale soon, at 50 and 75 cents.
BIOLOGISTS TO ARRANGE FOR DR. FRANZ MEETING
All members of the Biology Honor Society are requested to be present at an important meeting to be held today at 4:15. Plans for the El Rodeo picture and the program for the meeting in honor of Dr. S. T. Franz’s work and the question of obtaining a Greek letter name for the organization will be discussed. Plans for the Grunion season will also be made.
Dr. Franz is to address the society next Thursday, March 12. The recently produced picture o fmarine life will also be shown at this time. Everyone interested is invited to attend. *
LAW SCHOOL PLANS ARE CONSIDERED BY PRESIDENT
CONSPICUOUS GARB BANNED IN LINCOLN
Contract For Law Building To Be Let At Once Is Report
Plans for Southern California's new Law School building are now in the hands of President Rufus B. von KleinSmid undergoing slight changes in preparation for the letting of the contratc for the latest educational unit at U .S. C. to a contracting company, according to a report from the president’s office yesterday.
Wrecking of the old building on the new site of the Law Building has been nearly completed, workmen at present being engaged in the last few days of cleaning up the ground in preparation for excavating. The building will be erected on Thirty-Fifth Street about two-hundred yards from University Avenue. The building will stand on the north side of the street. Thirty-Fifth Street ends in University Avenue directly in front of the Old College building.
Blue prints and plans for the con- t struction of the Law unit have been under the direction of Parkinson and Son, Architects. Dr. von KleinSmid stated yesterday that the new building will follow the modified Italian motif. He said that no effort has been made to copy the style of the Administration Building exactly, but that the Law structure will blend in effectively with both the building mentioned and the completed Science Hall. Construction is to be carried out in brick OF ITALIAN STYLE
Three stories will be the height of the new building, the facade being set off by three Roman arches over the front entrances. The lower floor wiil be made up of offices for the administration, a huge lobby, and a law library. Both the lobby and the library will be of two story height. This will provide a gallery on the second floor, providing entrance for the class rooms that are to be grouped around it on this floor. Two classrooms will occupy the thiid floor. Each of these rooms will provide space for four-hundred students each, it is said. A spacious basement has been installed in the plans assuring plenty of room for a heating plant and lockers.
The general plan of the building is said to be one that does not sacrifice space for the sake of architectural beauty, yet will result in a structure that will compare equally with any single unit of a university anywhere. The grouping of classrooms around the second story gallery is a new step in the construction of education buildings.
DATE NOT SET
Definite date for the start of the actual work on the building has not been set. It is intended, however, to have the unit ready for occupancy by the s^t of the Fall semester. It is not known to whom the contract for the erecting of the plant is to be given.
In moving the headquarters of the Law School from its pretent site at First and Broadway in the down-town section, to its new home, a great step has been taken in the tentative unification of the Southern California campus proper, the last three years of law work keeping the students away from the main unit of the university.
Lincoln, Neb.—Co-eds of Union College, at College View, Lincoln suburb, were given four days in which to abandon short skirts, low-necked dresses, rouge and lipstick, and adopt attire specified by President W. W. Prescott of the institution, in an ultimatum issued at a meeting “for girls only” at the college.
The girls were ordered by President Prescott to garb themselves in clothing in no way conspicuous. He prescribed the following for the girl students: Skirts not more than nine inches from the ground; elbow length sleeves, closely fitting collars and rougeless faces.
Commenting after the meeting, Mr. Prescott said: “The model girl should be so inconspicuous in her mode of dress that people might not remember her for her clothes, but for her personality.”
Girls who fail to comply with the ruling, the president said, will not be permitted to attend classes.
Quill Club Members Hold Regular Session At A. G. D.’s Tonight
Members of the Quill Club will meet tonight at the Alpha Gamma Delta house, 908 West 35th place.
A prominent newspaper man is expected to be present to entertain the? scribes and various students will read manuscripts after which the works are to be discussed.
All students wishing to try out for Quill Club are asked to submit manuscripts not later than March 15th, and these should be sent to Chet Mackie, Box 167. LTniversity of Southern California. Self-addressed and stamped envelopes should accompany contributions.
EXPRESSES THANKS
“Dad” Miller'' wishes to express his appreciation of the many kindnesses extended to him during his illness by his friends among students and faculties.