Southern
p OR the first time in the history of the University of Southern California with its modem athletic squads the Cardinal and Gold has the opportunity to annex a Pacific Coast Conference title. Tomorrow afternoon Captain Bud Houser and Coach Dean Cromwell lead the Trojan track and field team in the Pacific Coast Conference meet. They are considered the most dangerous team entered and are looked upon as the logical winners of the meet.
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It will certainly be a feather in S. C.’s hat to cop the big meet which is to be held at Palo Alto. For years the Trojans have been trying to cop a P. C. title and they come to the day before the meet with the goal almost in hand. There will be a good many students leaving here today to attend the meet, but to those who remain at home we will have to ask that they resort to their only means of support—the telegram.
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According to information front the general manager's office the team unll stay at the Van Dome Hotel in San Jose. Students interested in the outcome of the meet are asked to kindly wire the well wishes to thc squad at thc hotel in San Jose. It is only to the men on the squad that these little messages arc appreciated, so give them a little encouragement although you cannot give it to them from the stands.
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T F YOU will go out to thc Coliseum tomorrow afternoon you will be treated to one of the fastest track meets scheduled for this section of the state this year. The annual A. A. U. races have always proven to be outstanding track and field events, but with the pre-searon record-breaking effort of many of S&uthem California’s athletes, it Is insured that several long standing marks may go by the boards when the pick of the Southland’s athletes gather.
There were several world’s rec-orc^a broken last Saturday when the high school men gathered. These men will all be on hand again this week coupled with the college and athletic club stars of the south. Charles Paddock, Jackson Scholz, Murray Schultz and many others will all be on hand to compete for the A. A. U. titles.
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The Trojan varsity will be missed in the meet, but the Cardinal and Gold will be upheld by Coach Tommy Davis' novice and freshman teams. There is some excellent material in these two latter squads which should make a strong hid for top honors in the meet.
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California
Trojan
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
There will be a special meeting of the executive committee at 8:50 this morning in the Student Body President’s office. Some very important business to close the school year is to be brought up and it is imperative that all voting members attend.
VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, May 14, 1926
Number 144
NEW STUDENT OFFICERS TO HUNDRED TO BE INSTALLED AT RALLY BE INVITED
TOBANQUET
Tallman, Klene, Lee, and Jordan To Receive Offices; Honorary Debating Fraternity Pledges Men; Donald Ogden Stewart To Give Talk as Special Feature.
I he newly elected student body officers of the University of Southern California are to be installed by the president at the rally this morning. All of these officers must be on the platform at 10:00, according to Sam Gates, chairman of the rally committee.
To Leland “D” Tallman goes the student body presidential office which is to be evacuated by Donald Cameron, the retiring president. Miss Gladys Lee will fill the* office of Miss Marjorie Rice, student body vice-president, and Miss Pauline Klene will take the place of Miss Gladys Lee as secretary. The editorship of the Daily Trojan will be transferred to George Jordan by Lee Conti and Burdette Henney will fill his own place as Yell King.
The new members of the executive committee will be Lee Conti, Betty Baker, “Boots” Oudermeulen, Paul Cunningham, Dorothy Baker, and Manuel Ruiz for the Liberal Arts;
Hank Rohr for Commerce; and Tom Brooker for Engineering.
Before installing these officers William Henley and William Berger will be pledged to Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary debating fraternity.
This fraternity has 66 chapters in leading colleges and universities of the country.
Following the pledging Henley, debate manager-elect, will receive the Freshmen debate trophy he won last year. The prize was awarded by Neal Ames.
Donald Ogden Stewart, noted humorist, has been secured by Phil Wernette of the Graduate School to talk for the rest of the hour. Mr. Stewart has won inetrnational fame as a humnrist.
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STUDENT PREXY COES TO MEET
Student Body Officers of Pacific Coast To Assemble in Seattle Next Week.
Phi Beta Kappa Contest Won By Local Student
That the taking of first, fifth and sjxth places among the honorable mentions in the Phi Beta Kappa essay contest is the distinction of the University of-Southern California is the announcement of Professor Kenneth Bissell, who was in charge of the contest here.
Third place in the contest or first place in the honorable mention was won by Russell P. Andrews. Stanley Hopper placed fifth in the honorable mention and Greta Martin sixth.
Banquet To Follow Commencement Play “The Tempest” in Bovard.
EXT year's student body officers will be introduced to the student body this morning at the regular rally exercises. The work of the present administration ‘s about to come to a close. If you appreciate what they have done let them know it this morning. To the incoming officers all we can ask is that the student body lend them their earnest co-operation and make next year a greater one for Southern California.
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THE Junior-Senior dinner-dance scheduled for May 21st is not enjoying as good a support as such a function should have. The ticket sale has not been anything that has caused the committee in charge to rejoice.
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The Maryland Hotel of Pasadena will be the scene of the annual upper-classmen gathering. The annual Junior-Senior dinner-dance will be the. climax to the 1926 social season and should call forth the social “wcrtd” of Southern California.
Sailing this afternoon on the S. S. Yale, Don Cameron, student body president, and Leland Tallman, presidentelect, will leave to attend the annual conference of Pacific Student Body Presidents’ Association at the University of Washington in Seattle. At the close of the conference Mr. Cameron will go to Vancouver, British Columbia, to visit the University of British Columbia.
The Pacific Student Body Presidents’ Association is composed of the student body presidents of the Pacific Coast. Problems relating to campus life and activity are discussed. Plans for the promotion of school spirit are made, and everybody gets acquainted with each other.
The two men will sail on the Yale today for San Francisco, where he will transfer to the S. S. Ruth Alexander for the trip to Seattle. The conference opens on May 20, and continues j for four days.
At the invitation of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, president of the University of British Columbia, Mr. Cameron will go to Vancouver, where he will be entertained by Mr. Wilkinson and made acquainted with Canadian methods of education.
The University of British Columbia mae plans for the beautifcation of their campus and Mr. Wilkinson has sent word that the campus has now been made over according to these plans, and that they now have one of the most beautiful university campuses | on the Pacific coast.
Leland Tallman, newly elected student body president, will visit the Uni-• versity of California and Stanford University ai the close of school, and also I will make another visit to these cam-| puses at the opening of the semester inext September.
Brilliant Inter-Gass Affair to End Social Year
Function Will Be Attended By Trojan Elite; Tickets on Advance Sale At Student Store.
Coming as the last big university affair of the school year, the junior-senior dinner-dance which will be celebrated at the Hotel Maryland on the evening of Friday, May 21st is expected to attract a huge crowd of Trojans who intend to have one last fling before the finals descend to obliterate joy.
This will be the last chance for the student body to get together in a social way before this yeafr ends in commencement for the seniors and relief from studies for the rest of the classes. t This affair, which is a preliminary to a heavy Commencement Week schedule, is intended primarily as a formal send-off to the graduating seniors, and the junior class is working har to make this last function one which will be long remembered, says Eloise Parke, vice president of the juniors.
All colleges of the university are participating in the function, and tickets are on sale at Law and Dental as well as at Liberal Arts. Those who do not favor standing in line at the last minute can get their tickets at the cage in the Associated Students Store now, is the word sent out by Al Behrendt, who has charge of the ticket sale.
The entire Hotel Maryland in Pasadena lias been turned over to the committee in charge by the management. The dinner will be served in the large dining room of the hotel, and the main ballroom will be the scene of the dance which is to follow.
Decorations will follow out the farewell motif in every detail, but not to such an extent that the hilarity of the occasion will be impaired, A combination program and favor has already been selected by the committee under the direction of Mabel Smith, who expresses herself as well satisfied with the result. The Lake Afrow-head orchestra has been secured to furnish music for the evening,
Tickets are selling now at lhe Students Store tor live dollars a couple.
Musical numbers, dancing and new types of stage settings are to be among the features included in the presentation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as the annual commencement play, June 3. Following the play, a Shakespearean banquet for prominent invited guests will be given on Bovard stage.
Dally rehearsals are now being held for cast members, all of whom have speaking parts. Special stage settings depicting outdoor scenes are being de veloped for use in the production. The ticket sale is to be handled by members of the School of Speech.
A committee is now looking up the history of banquets held in Shakespeare’s time. Long tabels will be drawn onto the stage proper immediately after the performance of the play. Various meats will be served, while tankards and other properties common in Shakespeare’s time will lend atmosphere to the banquet.
Los Angeles newspapers have asked for pictures from scenes in “The Tempest.” Circular letters have been sent to the high schools of Los Angeles County explaining the presentation of an annual commencement play at this university, and giving the general production plans for “The Tempest.” Posters are being made by Miss Lena Walker.
Those in charge of the production state that the admission price is to be only sufficient to defray the expenses, since the purpose of it is not to make money, but merely to establish the tradition of the presentation of such a play during commencement week.
It is said that last year when the “Taming of the Shrew” was given‘as the commencement play, many students stayed in the city after the close of school in order to see it- “The Tempest,” which is to be given at the close of finals is to be in the nature of a grand finale of the year’s activities.
Invitations to the banquet have been sent to more than a hundred prominent actors and producers. Such personages as Gilmore Brown, Fredrick Warde, and Helen jerome Eddy are on the guest list.
Noted Laugh Artist Booked For Rally This Morning
Donald Ogden Stewart, noted hu morist, will be the speaker at rally this morning. Stewart was secured by the Graduate School through the efforts of Professor J. P. Wernette of the College of Commerce, who has heard him speak elsewhere and who pronounces him clever and witty enough to throw even a college audience into convulsions of laughter.
Such intensely funny satires as “Parody Outlines of History,” “Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad” and “Perfect Behavior” have gained for Mr. Stewart a reputation as one of the best, If not the leading hu morist in America at the present time.
Mr. Stewart is a graudate of Yale University and is working at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. Appropriately enough for an outstanding humorist, he is living at the Mark Twain Hotel in Hollywood, making his home with his mother That he will continue to live in California is practically assured, for he is engaged to be married to a Los Angeles girl, Miss Beatrice Ames.
Student Union Is Dependent onS.C. President’s Action
Plans For Building and Method of Management Will Be Announced Soon as Possible.
!t wil! be some time before the last Junior Prom trill be forgotten, and the only other event on the Trojan social calendar that bids fair I to over-shadow the Juniors' annual litffair is the dinner-dance. A good [many people had to be turned envay yrom the Prom because they tcaiicd uttH too late to get their tickets.
5. C. Sends Delegates To A .S. C. E. Meeting
Many student members of the associated students of the College of Engineering were present at the banquet of the Los Angelee chapter of the A. S. C. E., which was held at Caltech Wednesday evening. After the dinner
PADDOCK, HOFF AT Y.M.C. A. BANQUET
Entertainment Featured By Paddock's Talk on Hoff s A. A. U. Elegibiiity.
Charlie Paddock and Charlie Hoff, world famous athletes, were the guests of honor at the Y. M. C. A. cabinet meeting and dinner Wednesday evening. Mr. Bergsom sang several vocal numbers and Coach Dean Crom well and sixteen of the S. C. track team were present.
Charlie Paddock is the holder of 18 world’s sprint records. He is an alumnus of Southern California, graduating in the class of '23. Paddock gave the main talk of the evening, reviewing the case of the ineligibility of Charlie Hoff under the A. A. U. Paddock also went over Southern California’s
That plans for the Student Union, which was approved by 1394 Southern California voters at the recent election, are not, as yet, complete enough to be made public, was the word given out by Mike Elwood.
Regarding the present status of the Student Union plan, Elwood said: “At the present time it has been deemed wise to withhold details of planning until President Rufus B. von KleinSmid has passed upon our petition. After this has been accomplished, the final word will rest with the board of trustees. Until official sanction is given, the committee will not make public the plans for the incorporation of a Student Union building.”
In the event that the board of trustees acts favorably toward the proposed campus improvement, an executive committee will be immediately formed. Personnel of this group will consist of three students, three alumni members, and three persons selected from the administration. This committee will be made fully responsible for the success of all Student Union plans.
Departments wishing to apply for space in the proposed Union are asked to hand in their applications at the earliest possible date. Co-operation from the departments and the entire student body is asked by the committee, that the most liberal and progressive measures may be featured in the new building. The committee is especially anxious to get in touch with those people who are familiar with the cdh'struction and workings of the student unions of the leading universities in various parts of the United States. Contrary to a rather general belief about the campus, the Student Union plans have not as yet been drawn. The committee wishes to have this matter emphasized and to further impress upon the student body the
S. C. SQUAD FAVORED IN COAST MEET
Trojans Picked Winners For First Time in Conference; Stanford Chief Opponent,
BY RALPH HUSTON
For the first time in modern athletic history a varsity team sporting the Cardinal and Gold of the University of Southern California, is a favorite to win a Conference championship in a major sport. Dean Cromwell’s track and field squad, which, in keeping with the “ Thundering Herd" cognomen attached to the recent football squad, might justly be named the “Big Parade," has a royal chance to emerge with top honors when the squads representing the big western colleges clash at Palo Alto tomorrow.
Sport experts have picked the Trojans to win, after a hectic struggle, with the major opposition being furnished by the red-shirted Stanford team. Dean Cromwell figures he has .a chance to win, providing every man comes through as expected. It will take superhuman activities and effort* to produce the victory, but the Trojans have produced just such feats at critical times in other meets this year to keep up their undefeated standing, and it is fondly hoped by all hands that they can produce another 3uch effort.
Captain Bv’d Houser, greatest weight man of modern times, will make his final collegiate appearance on the Coast, as will Leighton Dye and Ken Grumbles, national intercollegiate hurdle kings; Percy Niersbach, half (Continued on Page Two)
HOUSERPICNIC HUGE SUCCESS
Athletic Carnival, Speeches, and Dance on Dentists Program for Big Beach Day at Balboa.
chances in the coming Pacific Coast conference track meet to be held at,nef‘^ for wider discussion and further Pnlo Alto this week.	I suggestion.
Charlie Hoff was introduced to the General features of
hercforc profit by their experience 1 *n ^he banquet hall, the gathering ad-*d make your dinner-dance reser-1 journed to the laboratories, where itions immediately.	many <*j^pments were performed.
School of Speech To
Elect New Officers
Elections of next year's officers for the School of Speech will take place tliis morning on the third floor of the Old College. The polls will close at noon.
Following are the candidates for the various offices; President, Mary Ella Brooks and Eugenia McQuarters: vice-president, Marquita Young, Eleanor Veale and Josephine Campbell; program committee, Carroll Greene; sec-retary-treasurer, Elizabeth Alexander and Audrey Davies.
assembly, but he declined to speak. Mr. Hoff is a native of Norway and ls a very close friend of Nurmi.
Coach Dean Cromwell spoke briefly concerning the coming track meet, giving his impressions as to the chances of S. C. He also introduced the visiting track men. Stanley Hopper introduced the speakers and was in charge of the dinner program.
Announcement is made by Glen Turner that at the council dinner next week the Clarion Quartet from La Verne College will have charge of the entire program. They weie recently heard at Asilomar and have presented programs in many parts of Southern California.
the proposed Student Union building will embrace reservations for student business of fices, space for publications, athletic offices, recreation rooms, and generhl business offices. All plans are tentative, and the committee expects to add to and modify many of the present proposals.
GRADUATE STUDENTS MEET
In order to discuss the advisability of having another meeting of the graduate students this year, the graduate executive officers will, meet today in Dean Hunt’s office at 10 o’clock.
Bud Houser's Beach Day was a huge success. Every Dental student that went to Balboa last Wednesday had one of the best times that he ever had.
The program started with a track meet on the beach. Gold medals were given for the winners of the different events. Waters, Fairley, Scott, Stagne and Partridge won the medals. Bud Houser gave an exhibition, putting the 12-pound shot 58 feet 3 inches. Swimming races in the bay followed this and gold medals were also awarded for these events. Holmes Bowers and Tule Chang tied for first in the 50-yard open; Horace Tamanaka won the 35-yard novice race; Holmes Bowers won the swim across the bay, which is about 900 feet, and Ruth Trenner won the girls’ 35-yard open. Bowers gave a backstroke exhibitions.
There was a canoe joust in the bay in which the Freshmen wou. This was followed by a barbecue on the beach. Dr. Wm. P. Harrison presented a very beautiful trophy to Poop for excelling in the football general efficiency contest, which consisted of punting, drop-kicking and passing.
At 2:30 the entire student body gathered at the pavilion to witness the presentation of awards. Sweaters were given to the baseball, basketball, soccer and tennis teams. Pin3 were given to every member of the Odonto Club; Jack Loughlin was given a diamond pin in appreciation for his services as president of the club; Harry Bleeker, Bill Beazley ond T. M. Me-Loughlin were given gold charms for special activity in the club.
Members of the El Rodeo staff to receive gold charms are: John Griffin, James Bramwell, Norris Ashton. Walter Bonness and Brigham Bennett. A wrist watch was also presented to Griffin as editor of the Dental section of the El Rodeo. Brigham Bennett was given a cigarette case by Dr. En-dlemann for his services as Dental editor of the Trojan. Faculty gifts were presented to Dean Ford, Dr. En-(Hemann, Dr. La Touche, Dr. Frahm and Dr. Smith. Harry Bleeker won the golf club for the longest, drive on (Continued on Page-Four)