Southern
California
HELEN TO MEET RIVAL
BERKELEY, Calif. (P. I. P.) Feb. 15.—The campus here was eagerly awaiting the result of the Helen Wills-Suzanne Lenglen tennis match scheduled for tomorrow.
The California girl will enter the game with the odds 5 to 1 against her.
Both have been undefeated in the present tourney.
TTENTION has been called by a number of students as to the whereabouts of the grades For the past semester. Members of the faculty were required to turn in their semester grade reports to the office of the registrar on February 2nd, so we have been told. Today the 16th and not a card out. It has now been fourteen days since the final grades were turned in to the office, and it is also fourteen days that students have been waiting for returns.
The registrar’s office is exceptionally busy at this time of the year with the registration of new and old students, but certainly in the space of two weeks something could have been done in giving the students their grades. It seems that the grades will not make their appearance for some time as yet, all of which makes the office of the registrar the >int of much student criticism.
♦ ♦ ♦ rHILE we are on the subject of holding grades, several instances Occurred during the past week which id not serve to improve the efficiency f the department handling the af-irv.
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This la in regard to the special examinations given high school students for entrance. A certain case, and not unusual, is that of a high school man who took an examination and was obliged to wait on the campus four days before he was told that he did not pass it. This case is far from being unusual. Professors give the exam-inatior^Pnd for some unknown reason teem to take a delight in holding off the student who fs eager to know the result.
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It is unfair and also a poor way of to makf- a man wait on ie campus from two days to a week and then tell him he did not pass the examination. This case w© have in mind required the high school student to remain on the campus some four ays before he was told that he did ot fulfill the requirement. He has w been forced to go back to his high chool and post graduate, delaying his trance in high school more than a eek ,all of which does not aid in aking a friend of that student.
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HE Trojan Alumni Club has undertaken some definite steps in re-rd to the Student Union project, us showing that the graduates of e university are taking perhaps as vely an interest in campus needs as e students. The alumni executive mmittee appointed two suh-commit-es to investigate in the project and so a land site for the new building. • * •
These two committees working in connection with the student committee should accomplish something before the semester is ver. Skull and Dagger, the ten's honorary society, has also ade several definite steps to-ards the building project. Sigma ilgma, the junior men’s honorary ociety, has decided to Join the arty and will make some definite Ians at its next meetihg.
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his latter organization was mated in The Lookout recently as worthy of taking up the plan, ic Amazons, the other orgamsa-9« mentioned, have as yet failed sirnifx its intentions.
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T !J^ST there has been some real agitation stirred up on the cam-tov ard the stupendous structure it graces University Avenue, direct-opposite the entrance to Bovard ditorium. The sooner the student ly realizes the importance of remov-suoh “shacks” from the vicinity the campus, the sooner Southern ifornia will achieve a “college cam atmosphere.
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ome one of the many organizations the campus who have little or no rent use for existence could mp themselves in the hearts of stu-ts and alumni if they would under-e a movement for the demolishing the building we have referred to eatedly.
petition for its removal presented the proper authorities may add in cleaning up of the campus. Now some worthy organization would dly step up and start the ball lling, the eve-sore across the street be gone.
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VOL. XVII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 16, 1926
Number 89
TWO DEBATES ARE PLANNED FOR S.C. TEAM
Negative Team of Each School Will Travel, and Will Uphold Young America’s Freedom.
Southern California meets Stanford Wednesday evening at Stanford in the first major debate of the season in the newly formed triangular league, which is composed ‘if Stanford, Cali-forn and Southern California. Stanford travels south to meet S. C. at Bovard February 18, in the second debate of the series.
The question to be discussed is: Resolved: “That young America’s freedom of assertion and thought and action is detrimental to society.” The negative teams of both schools will travel, which will cause S. C. to uphold the negative at Palo Alto and the affirmative in L. A.
The team to uphold the negative in Palo Alto is composed of Art Syvers-ton and Sam Gates, "'vho leave tonight for the northern school. These two debaters represented S. C. against Ohio Wesleyan a short time ago and it Is assured by Coach Nichols that they will prove capable opponents for Theodore F. Baer and George N. Crocker of Stanford.
Bill Berger and Manual Ruiz, or Stan Hopper, will represent the Trojans in Los Angeles. The choice will not be made until the final day. The Cardinal team of the north consists of Stanley Weigle and Fred M. Com-bellack, who are amongst Stanford’s leading debaters.
The question to be discussed is one that deals with the follies and unconventionalities of the younger generation and there is plenty of opportunity for the original and interesting treatment of the subject, according to Captain Ray Brennan.
Dean Represents
S. C. at Convention
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean of Women at the University of Southern California, is leaving this morning for Washington, D. C., where she will represent the Trojan institution at the annual convention of the National Association of Dean of Women.
A number of questions directly affecting the work of the co-ed in modern universities will be discussed and a full program is planned. An investigation of sorority life in all the universities of the United States covering a period of one year has been made and the result will be under discussion at the meeting. Another important question as to wether there should be a special adjustment of the curricula made for women students will be discussed. Dean Crawford expresses herself as being opposed to any such adjustment, as she believes that there should be no discrimination made in the intellectual life of men and women.
FEBRUARY NUMBER OF WAMPUS GOES ON SALE TOMORROW
“Professional ’ Number of Magazine To Contain Work Prominent Artists and Writers.
The February issue of the Wampus will make its appearance on the cam pus tomorrow morning, announces Chet Mackie, editor. According to Mackie, this book will contain all the features of previous issues and will carry also an added section on theatrical reviews.
The number will be known as the “Professional” number and will con tain work done by men who are well known all over the country for ability in writing and drawing. Among these are Ted Cook, of “Cook-Coo” fame in the Examiner, who will have a whole page in the book; Bob Day, of the Times, who will have a page cartoon; Vic Forsythe, who draws “Joe’s Car” for the Express; Teet Carle, head of the thletic publicity department at U. S. C., who will have a short story; Al Wesson, a former editor of the Wampus; Raymond Haight, one of the first editors of the publication; Dr. Y. L. Davis, prominent Southern California minister and member of the board of trustees, also editorial writer for the Times, who will have an editorial, and John Coulthard, prominent Fresno artist, who will have several drawings included.
The cover, which will be in keeping with the motif of the book, was done by Julia Suski.
Nine Spanish Courses Given At Metropolitan
Nine classes in Spanish, ranging from elementary courses for the beginner to advanced work in the study of Spanish literature, are now offered in convenient late afternoon and evening classes at Metropolitan College, University of Southern California, in the Transportation Building.
Granting full university credit, not only instruction in Spanish composition and conversation is available to business and professional men and women, teachers and students, but also courses such as the “Spanish Novel,” which meets on Thursday afternoon from 4:10 to 6:30 under the direction of William F. Rice, and “The Drama of the Golden Age,” which is given on Tuesday afternoon at the same hour with Professor Antonio Heras from the University of Madrid in charge.
Twelve Spanish courses are scheduled for the spring quarter at Metropolitan College, U. S. C.t opening in March, including a graduate course in the literature of Cervantes. Information may be secured on the thirteenth floor of the Transportation Building, Seventh and Los Angeles Streets, or by calling TRinity 1701.
KNIGHTS PREPARE TO ENFORCE RULES
Trojan Knights Perfect Machinery To Insure Obeying of Traditions by Frosh.
Burke Long, the president of the Trojan Knights, has stated that the time-honored and sacred traditions of Troy will be strictly observed by the Freshmen entering Southern California this semester in the “Tradition Enforcement Season” that will be rigidly maintained in the September semester, next year He said that the Freshmen that have come to S. C. this February need not feel lonely or forlorn because they will be given their green ‘‘dinks” next term. These badges of servitude they will be expected to wear the entire school year, in order that the class of ’30 may have the dash and spirit necessary to fostering and enlarging of Southern Cali-tornia enthusiasm.
Trojan Knights and the companion organization, the Trojan Squires, will devote their time during the remainder of the year to perfecting the machinery of the enforcement of traditions among the Frosh hordes. In commenting upon the latest plans of the Trojan Knights, Burke Long said, “Due to the fact that all Freshmen in S. C. at this time belong to the class of ’29^ it would not be just to compel a portion of them to wear their hat and a portion of them to escape this ordeal. It is for this reason that the Trojan Knights have decided to make those who escaped this semester to be made to wear the green “dinks” all of next year.” Long also said plans were being formulated for the welcoming of the athletic teams competing with Southern California. This practice, according to Long, has done a great deal to bring about a warmer feeling of friendship between the University of Southern California and other institutions throughout the nation.
Phi Beta Contest
Errors Corrected
According to K. M. Bissell, local manager of the Phi Beta Kappa essay contest, about three people are working on what they hope will prove to be prize essays. Mr. Bissell hopes that the next few days will see a substantial increase in competitors.
Last Thursday’s Trojan contained an article about the contest in which there was two errors. One was the failure to mention the second prize, which is $35, in addition to the $100 first prize. The article also said there were no entries from S. C. in last year’s contest— Two essays from S. C. were submitted.
THURSDAY IS SCANDAL DAY
Divulge
Razzberry Sheet Will
Most Intimate Secrets of Campus Notables.
In their work student journalists are bound to uncover secret plots, hear shocking scandal, and generally become acquainted with the weaknesses of the great. Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary journalism fraternity, will flood the campus with the most startling discoveries that the young news hounds have made, Thursday morn-nig when the Razz sheet appears.
If there are any inflated egos that the Razzberry edition fails to puncture, it will indeed be surprising, for the supply of information concerning the actions of the campus celebrities in their oil moments is almost unlimited. The Greek houses will find their little private scandals bared. The other campus organizations will not escape. Where anything is wrong it should be known, feel the Razzberry perpetrators.
The higher they are the farther they’ll fall. In shaking the pedestals of the great the paper will be fearless. The faculty is quivering, for not even these are exempt. And as for the student politicians, the scandal edition will hand them, one and all, the ripe.red, luscious raspberry. None will escape.
If memory is correct, the Razzberry edition usually contains more laughs than the reader is physically able to emit. The weaknesses of the allegedly important are amusing, to say the least. For the sum of fifteen cents every freshman may become acquainted with the double lives led by the campus notables. News of the most virulent variety will be in print where all may see it.
All sorts of plots are in the air, all sorts of guilty consciences are driving their owners to action, all classes of people are concerned, all with the effort to keep themselves out of the Razz sheet. The editors, one and all, could graduate with a healthy fortune if tney’d accept hush money. But scandal will out. So Thursday morning, for fifteen cents, the whole campus may learn the most guarded secrets of those who don’t want them learned.
ARTHUR BRISBANE TALKS OF COLLEGE
Highest Paid Newspaper Writer Says “Citizenship In United States is Best Possible Society.”
BY MYNETTE RITCH
“College is like travel. It either forms or deforms.” This was the statement of Arthur Brisbane in an interview for the Daily Trojan in which “the highest paid ne>wspaper .writer in the United States” answered, in his terse, straight-forward way, questions concerning different phases of college life, journalism and his own career.
In reply to the question, “What do you think of colleges in general? Are they worthwhile?” Mr. Brisbane replied, “I think that I can say about colleges what the Frenchman said about travel. ‘Travel forms youth, when it does not DEFORM it.’ In other words, some of our universities, this does not apply to Western or Middle Western universities, do more to DEFORM youth by establishing false standards in the mind than any other influence I know. Also it should be remembered that college takes up years during wrhich a majority of the world’s sucessful men have started their real success in life. If you think in college, that prepares you for future life. Unless you think, nothing will prepare you.
“College athletics do a great deal to develop college spirit, not overdone, they develop physical strength. Unfortunately, the goo<l athlete is the hero in college, the good student is a bore. It ought to be the other wav around.”
In speaking of sororities and fraternities, Arthur Brisbane said, “I have never belonged to any kind of secret society or anything of that kind. Don’t know much, about them. I should say that the best possible society is citizenship in the United States, and anything that separates boys and girls into different exclusive groups is not a particularly good thing. However, there is in human beings the “cabalistic” spirit, which makes us from the (Continued on Page Four)
WANT MORE NAMES TlfKFTS FOR
OF POPULAR FOLK	,,,
IN ANNUAL CONTEST JUNIOR PLAY
ARE ON SALE
Committee of Presidents Will Select Twenty Final Contestants for Student Body Vote.
Elections for the most popular man and woman on the campus will be held Friday, announces Charles Collins, of the El Rodeo staff and manager of the popularity contest. However, says Mr. Collins, it will be impossible for this contest to take place unless more names are turned in. Wednesday at noon, the President and Vice-presidents of each school, or their proxies, will meet in the El Rodeo office and choose ten men and ten women from the names submitted.
It is upon these twenty that the student body at large will vote Friday. It is urged by Mr. Collins that each person on the campus turn in the name of one or more persons before Wednesday noon, so that the committee of presidents may have a large choice in selecting the twenty who will be the final contestants.
Last year this contest was in the form of competition among the beauties of the university. It w^as hoped that by changing it to a contest of merit rather than pulchritude, and also enabling it to include men as well as women, more interest would be taken in the contest.
INSURANCE EXPERT ADDRESSES WOMEN
Commerce Co-eds Hear Miss Parr of Pacific Mutual Insurance Co. at Luncheon.
Having secured Miss Nellie Parr of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. at speaker, Dorothy Hayward, chairman of the Commerce Women’s Group, is completing plans for the regular monthly luncheon meeting of the group, Friday noon at the Women’s Residence Hall.
Miss Parr is head of the Women’s Department of the Pacific Mutual Company, having been connected with the firm since 1920. Just prior to that time, the speaker spent sixteen months overseas with Miss Edith Wier, of the University Employment Bureau, doing Red Cross work. She is a field worker, specializing on business and professional women, and from her experience has chosen as her topic for the lunoheon talk, “The Possibilities and Openings for Women in the Insurance Field."
Miss Hayward, in requesting all new women in the College of Commerce to attend, announces that tentative plans for the organization of a Commerce W’omen’s Club will be discussed. It is hoped to affiliate this new' organization with the California Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. Miss Ethel Taecker, chairman of the committee in charge of a tea to be given for the new wom^n in Commerce. will announce her committee and plans for the party.
Fraternity Blocks Are Being Reserved For “Goose Hangs High ; Expect Quick Sell-Out.
The world’s longest line is expected to form in front of the ticket office of the Students Store tomorrow morning when seats for “The Goose Hangs High,” the Juniors’ popularr jazz play, go on sale. With the numerous fea tures that have been announced for the play attracting wide interest, it is considered certain that the choice seats will be snapped up quickly.
Fraternity blocks are being reserved now, according to Joe Atwill. assistant manager of play productions. Those organizations wishing block reservations must notify the play office at once, the manager stated.
The play, scheduled for Bovard Auditorium, Friday, February 26, is expected to equal any student dramatic production given on the campus this year. The cast is showing much talent. The scenery is superlative in excellence. The play has been labeled as the best of the ja&z age plays. Ail in all, a perfect evening’s entertainment is what the Juniors are striving to offer.
The character acting of Ed Kendall as Bernard lngals, and of Eugenia Mc-Quatters as his wife furnish the high points of the play. The cast is working night and day perfecting the presentation of the play. Less than two we-eks remains before the curtain will be rung up onr the much heralded production.
Cosmopolitan Club
Plans To Continue
The Cosmopolitan Clup held their first meeting of the semester at the Y Hut, Sunday afternoon, to discuss the advisability of continuing the meetings throughout rfhe semester and to elect officers if the meetings were to be continued.
Through informal discussion it was decided that the meetings should be continued. It was further decided that the meetings should be held the first Sunday of each month at four o’clock. In order to assure a better attendance record for the future, it was decided that sufficient funds to advertise more extensively should be taken from the treasury.
The first regular meeting will be held the first Sunday in March in the building that was formerly Boyd Hall. After the election of officers, there will be a social program of which Miss Marv Taylor is in charge.
Engineers To Hear
About Hydraulics
Admitting the Engineers of Southern California into the secrets of hydraulic plant design, R. L Daugherty, professor of hydraulics and mechanical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, will give an illustrated lecture in the Architecture Building Wednesday evening at 7:15 which will show the development of power units since ♦heir origination.
The meeting is being held under the auspces of Sigma Phi Delta, professional engineering fraternity, and is open to all students interested in thia line of endeavor. It is the plan of the organization to have open assemblies twice a month, where all the students of engineering can gather and receive mental stimuli from the executives who will speak from time tp time.
Daugherty is a national authority on subjects of hydraulics, according to John R. Kelley, member of the fraternity, and has one of the best collections of photographic slides in the United States on the subject. He has also written several textbooks on hydraulics and kindred topics, which are used extensively in the best technical schools of the country.
Speech Registration
Will Close Wednesday
Speech club registration for college students will close Wednesday, according to announcement by Leon Z. Wolpe, founder of the club. After that time outsiders will be taken in. Registration will be held today and tomorrow in Old College 333. Daily classes should commence later in the week
SILKE HONORED BY ALPHA KAPPA PSI
Representing the local Alpha Zeta chapter, Jens Rasmussen accompanied Dwight Bedell, grand secretary-treas-urer, to the district convention of Alpha Kappa Psi, which was held last Friday and Saturday at Berkeley under the auspices of Alpha Beta chapter.
Prominent among the important items of business transacted was the election of Harry Silke, Southern California alumnus, to the office of district councellor. Silke is to hold office for two years, during which time he will visit the eight chapters in the Pacific Coast district and will attend the national convention which is to be held at the University of Illinois next year. It is planned to hold the 1929 convention on the Pacific Coast.
Delegates from three chapters were present at the convention, representing Alpha Zeta chapter at Southern California, Alpha Uusilon chapter at the University of California, Southern Branch, and Alpha Beta at California.
A unique club has been formed at the University of Oregon. To be ad mitted as a member a candidate must have been a substitute on the football team for one whole season without once leaving the bench to participate in a game.