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unior Prom Tickets On Sale Today. Dean Waugh Gives Views on Honor System. Final Homecoming Plans Made. Extravaganza Contest Closes Today. Plans Made For Big Rally Friday. First Article of New Constitution.
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The Spirit of Troy
We are interested to see that in some of the eastern universities the subject of prohibition has been forbidden by the administration as a subject for debate. We do not feel that way about it. The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, December 1st, 1926
NUMBER 52
PROM DUCATS NOW ON SALE
Plans for Great Junior Prom Near Completion as Tickets Go On Sale Today.
With tickets going on sale today in the Students’ Store for the 1926 Junior Prom to be held in the Elks’ Temple on December 11, the committee in ch\rge of this traditional social function is making final preparations for one of the greatest dances of the year.
In the opinion of many co-eds, the quality «f the favors reflects the general tone of the dance. If this be the case. Betty von KieinSmid and Mildred Ma le feel that their selection of favors will make the dance all that c«uld be expected.
According to Morley Drury, president of the class of ’28, the banquet room of the Elks’ Club is unsurpassed for the locaUon of a formal prom. The decorations committee has plans for verj distinctive decorations.
Tickets which go on sale today at the Student Store will sell for $5.00 per comple and the prom will mean much nore than mere compensation for the apper-classmen attending. Corsages wiU be taboo for the evening, except for those members of the reception committee.
Touchstone Drama Shop To Give 3 Plays Tomorrow
As the first program of the Touchstone Drama Shop three one-act plays will be preeented in Touchstone Theatre tomorrow evening at 8:00 o’clock. The admission will be 26 cents.
The plays to be presented are “Ropes,” a melodrama by Wilbur Daniel Steele: “Will-o-th-Wisp,” a fantasy by Doris F. Halman; “Suppressed Desires,” a satirical comedy by Susan Glaspell.
The plays are to be interpreted by-student actors and directors.
GIRLS INTERESTED IN DEBATING MEET TO DISCUSS FLANS
Coacb Nichols Outlines The Arrangements Made For The Women's Debating Society.
Girls of the campus interested in debating met Monday afternoon with Coach Nichols in his office. The coach expressed much pleasure in the talent revealed by the girls, and also in the number that have turned out for debating. However, it is desired that more girls try-out for the debate squad and Coach Nichols urges that all girls that possibly can from the various colleges be present at next week’s meeting.
Many big plans are under way for the women dfbators. Most of the big colleges on the Pacific Coast wil! be met on the debate platform by the S. C. women, and cups are to be given. The question chosen at Mou-day’s meeting is: “Resolved, that th<* United States snoult* establish compulsory voting.” The ohosen question is considered i. splendid one as it will give the debaters a chance to show their ability to reason. Alsri it is a new question and has never been debated, before.
Those who expect to go out for the squad are asked to prepare a five minute speech on either side of the question before the next meeting, which will be h»ld a week fro/n today
Editorial Class Gives Prize For Best Article
WENIG DELIVERS WINNING ORATION ON CONSTITUTION
Calls Attention To Spirit Of Indifference Toward Law Today.
Herbert Wenig, Hollywood high school student who won the national oratorical contest sponsored by a group of American newspapers and later the international contest between representatives of five nations, at Washington D. C.t delivered his winning oration on the Constitution of the United States in the special assembly called yesterday morning.
Characterizing the Constitution as the "greatest written guide for lawmaking and potential progress ever devised by the human mind,” Wenig made an address notable for its erudition and stirring delivery. After tracing the development of democracy from its inception in ancient Greece, development in the English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta to its fullest expression in our own Constitution, Wenig called attention to the spirit of indifference which exists today toward our governmental institutions on the part of the citizenry.
Wenig was introduced by Dr. Bruce Baxter as having brought international renown to the southern part of California through his achievement.
A notable and enjoyable feature of the program was the rendition of Negro spirituals and other songs by the Paragon Male Quartet. Perfect harmony was achieved with delightful results for the audience.
PLAN PROGRAM FOR DEC. 3RD
Huge Rally and Musical Entertainment To Precede Notre Dame Game.
Combining the annual frosh pajamerino, the final Notre Dame rally, the Homecoming rally and program into one affair, the Rally Committee, under Art Syvertson has arranged for the largest all-University gathering of the year to be held Friday evening at 8:30 in the Shrine Auditorium.
Activities will start following the football banquet in the Shrine Ballroom and will last until about 10:15, at which time the assemblage will adjourn to the Ballroom for a free All-U. dance. Coming as an innovation in college circles, the frosh pajamerino will be held on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium which is constructed to hold 3,000 persons.
A brilliant program of musical entertainment has been arranged for by Betty von KieinSmid. Sam Gates has been designated to secure the best professional comedian in Southern California to add humor and spice to the evening’s offering. A four-man team of United States champion gymnasts will be on hand to endanger their necks that the onlookers may be entertained.
Burdette Henney will have charge of a short rally to increase enthusiasm for the impending conflict with Notre Dame and again give former sons and daughters of Troy a taste of the Fighting Trojan spirit as revealed in a football.
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W. S G. A. PAGEANT SET FOR JANUARY
Rainfall Causes Postponement Of Fashion Show Scheduled For Last Week.
An editorial writing contest, with a prize for <he best editorial and another for the writer of three consecutive “best” ones to be turned in by members af his Editorial Writing class, i6 being sponsored by Marc N. Goodnow. head of the Journalism department.
One editorial will be chosen from the work turned in at each meeting of the class, which is a two unit one.
The work selected will appear in the Trojan with a special note attached so that the campus may be informed of the progress of the contest.
Excessive rainfall interfered with the presentation of the Women’s Self-Government Association Fashion Show, which was to have been held the day before Thanksgiving, resulting in the postponement of the affair until Saturday, January 8.
Vivian Murphy, who is in charge of the tickets and publicity, says that the same tickets will be valid. The styles will be shown by DesmoncTs, as formerly planned, and the University Women’s Club House on Hoover is to be the scene of'the gala production.
The Women's Self-Government Association is giving the benefit in order to enlarge the Student Loan Fund, which has helped many girls this year. Several prominent women’s clubs have offered their services and are patronizing the style show. Among these organizations are the Friday Morning Club, the Women's University Club, and the Trojan Alumnae Women’s Club.
S. C. HEADS LIST IN NUMBER OF
PRACTICING WOMEN LAWYERS
“Southern C alifornia has more women law graduates practising |Jian any Other coeducational institution,” according to Dean Frank ml. Porter, of the College of Law. There are more women from ■Southern California engaged in prominent law offices of the nation. I'-tate. and county than from any other university. At the pretsent time there are 2<* women registered in S. C.'s law school and he enrollment of women students becomes larger each year.
The woman who holds the highest office of any woman in the legal profession in the United States is a graduate of Southern California’s law school, this highly honored woman is i
Mrs. Anita Robbins, graduate of S. C. Law School and assistant deputy-prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles County, states that Southern Cali-
BAND BOX BIG PLANS FOR NOM DUE GAME
Largest Band Of Year Is Promised By Manager; Many New Stunts Have Been Arranged.
The largest band of the year, perhaps new costumes, and a resume of all the stunts that the band has put on this year, will be the feature entertainment between the halves of the Southern California-Notre Dame game Saturday.
Bill Ward, manager of the band, promises new and interesting stunts for the last game of the season, but they are being kept as a big surprise.
Harold Grayson, assistant manager, and Lee Orndorff, librarian, have worked and co-operated with Harold Roberts, the famous S. C. leader and with Bill Ward during the entire football season. It is th^ir work and suggestions coupled with those of Ward and Roberts that have made the band so successful this last season.
TAILORING COURSES AT METROPOLITAN
Tailoring and Advanced Dressmaking are being taught at Metropolitan College, University of Southern Cali' fornia, on Saturday morning by Edmund Gurney, a graduate of the cutting and designing school of Land-eneze and Son Paris, as well as of the Mitchell School, New York City.
Formerly a lecturer in modes and their manufacture in numerous eastern colleges, Mr. Gurney has also been a merchant ladies’ tailor in Duluth, Minnesota, and in Portland, Oregon, and spent one summer session at San Jose Teachers’ College.
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Doctor Coy In
History Address
While preparing for a larger celebration of the Jedediah Strong Smith Centenary to be held on the Trojan campus in the near future, Dr. Coy, former state historian, who is now a member of the S. C. History Department, is also meeting many outside speaking appointments. Last Saturday, which day was the one hundredth anniversary of Smith’s arrival in California, Dr. Coy delivered all address to a very interested crowd at the Los Angeles County museum in Exposition Park. This noon he is speaking before the City Club on the same general topic.
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Sometime ago we wrote here to put forth the position of the debater who was asked to debate affirmatively on a question to which he was thoroughly and conscientiously opposed. We are therefore interested to see that in some of the eastern universities the subject of prohibition has been forbidden by the administrations as a subject for debate on the grounds that the universities do not wish to be in any way responsible for strengthening the opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment. We do not feel that way about it. We believe in the amendment to the extent that we believe it can hold its own on the platform. If it cannot, it deserves to fail. What we might object to would be forcing a man to speak on it who did not wish to. But even a predicament like that can be gotten around very nicely, as those who attended the Oxford debate found out. Almost any issue, it seems, can be laughed off. * * *
The question of advertising a debate between such universities as Oxford and Southern California on a subject like “Prohibition" and then spending an hour and a half talking about everything but Prohibition came up in a class room conversation yesterday. We hesitate to say discourteous things behind the backs of our recent guests. Furthermore, we meant it when we said the other day that we enjoyed their humor. But the question is there and perhaps it does demand an answer. Probably that answer will come in the size of the crowd at the next S. C.-Oxford debate, if such a contest is scheduled.
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While we are on the subject of debating we might say a word about the interest being shown by Southern California co-eds in the art of debating. We have not had the privilege of sitting in on any of the practices but we are told that the girls are going good with their newly organized forensic squad here. We offer them our compliments and encouragement, leaving a splendid chance for a facetious remark to some of our columnists.
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We have in our files a statement which we ran across the other day and we are going to run it here for the thinking students of the campus to mull over. It is not our purpose to make this column a review of current philosophy, and so forth, but the following quotation from President Campbell of Yale is worthy of some pretty serious thought.
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President Campbell says, “If our educational system does not send down more men and women from the colleges and universities to be pioneers in the great movements of our time, men and women who will use their training for the sake of others and be willing to pay a big price for it, then our universities will soon cease to be significant institutions. It is an open question whether THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY SHOWN THEMSELVES INCAPABLE OF SERVING A NEW .WORLD.’’
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We tried to show our support for amateur football yesterday with our remarks to Morton Kaer. There is no one who more thoroughly enjoys and supports the Southern California varsity than we do. But we must face this fact. A university must produce
something more than All-American football players to long exist. That is why we have our Cosmopolitan Club, for example. It is to give us practical experience in (Continued on Page Two)
Dean Waugh Expresses His S. C. ALUMNI
Attitude on Hotiot System iijii i DCTTipiJ
Dr. Waugh in Interview States That He Favors Assump- If ILjJj lmlj 1 Ul\li
tion of Student Honor System.	-
Gala Homecoming Planned For Return of Alumni; Parade Before Game.
(Kditor'n \«tf—"With Ihe proponed new constitution (•nine before the Mtuilent body for Inspection und adoption, the ••Trojan*’ In endeavoring to wound out campUM opinion relative to the whole problem of *tadent government* Today we are running an Interview with Oran Karl T. Waugrb on the advtaahil-ity of having atudenta take over (lladpllnary function* In their own government. Thin Im to be followed by n review of campua opinion on the subject.")
“I believe in student self-government to whatever extent proves practicable,” was the statement made yesterday by Dean Karl f. Waugh when questioned concerning the assumption of disciplinary control by the students under the honor system “The honor system, which is ohe phase of self-gov&rnment,” continued Dean Waugh, “is desirable if the students know what they are trying to do with it. The honor system has failed in some universities and the most frequent cause of failure has been the fact that it places more responsibility upon the student than he wishes to assume. It usually falls down where it asks one student to report another, as in the case of cheating during an examination. It is best applied in a modified form until the reaction of the students to it in practice can be obtained. Try it out and see what will succeed here.”
RAH! RAH! ISSUE OF GAI WILL RE NEXl NUMBER
Many Special Contributions Have Been Received For Latest Wampus To Appear December 7.
That the Rah! Rah! Number of the Wampus, which is to appear Tuesday,
December 7, will hold a mirror up to the college students revealing the amusing foibles and quirks in college life is the statement of Milton Booth, editor.
“This number of the Wampus is superior to the preceding issue because we have had fifteen contribu- lected after extensive try-outs.
MANUSCRIPTS DUE TODAY FOR NEW MUSICAL COMEDY
Brilliant Sets And Costumes To Be Featured In This Year’s Extravaganza.
With manuscripts due today, and plans being formulated for a brilliant presentation of unadulterated musical comedy, this year’s Extravaganza promises to out-do all previous productions in cleverness and beauty, according to Grant La Mont, director.
A prize of one hundred dollars will be given the author of the accepted script, which should be of college type, with plenty of dialogue and snap.
The sets which are to be used will be built specially for the production, and will rival any hitherto seen on the Southern California campus. These sets will deal directly with the plot of the Extravaganza, and will further augment the production.
Unlike last year’s musical offering, this year’s Extravaganza will have acts in direct continuity. It will, be presented as a regular musical comedy of three acts.
The musical director will be se-
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tors in addition to the regular staff, I which gives us a great selection of I material.” stated Booth.
I “The Cat in the Theater,” in which current plays will be reviewed is to be included in the regular feature department besides “The Cat in tfi<? Library,” “Copy Cat” and the Bull’s Eye Column, which have appeared before.
Promising to be a success from the novel cover page by Bryant Hale to “A Strong Love,” Evalee Powell’s fastest and most furious story, the Wampus is expected to exceed its former issues in popularity.
dents who have had previous experience in writing and directing music
are urged to try-out.
The dialogue will be augmented by the usual co-ed singing and dancing chorus, and according to La Mont, this will be superior in beauty an-i technique.
Ten thousand Trojan alumni are expected to find their way back again to Troy tomorrow. Friday, and Saturday. when the third annual Homecoming will be celebrated on the Southern California campus.
Buron Fitts, lieutenan» governor elect, and an S. C. graduate, is alumni chairman for the Homecoming. Th* campus will take on a gala appearance for the event and all fraternity and sorority houses will be decorated.
Homecoming will begin tomorrow afternoon with a reception for alumnae and women students. Friday’s festivities will begin in the morning, when the Trojan War Flag will be raised at Bovard Auditorium. In the evening all men and women are to go to Shrine Auditorium where a mammoth free rally and dance will be held. There will be vaudeville acts, and music by Eddie Peabody and his orchestra.
The big fraternity and sorority parade will start at 1 o’clock sharp in the Coliseum.
The final event of the Homecoming will be the Victory Ball at the Ambassador Saturday evening, where the football teams of 3. C. and Notre Dame will be the guests of honor.
VICTORY CARNIVAL TO FOLLOW HUGE FOOTBALL TANGLE
Carnival Motif To Be Carried Out In Dance Held At Ambassador.
Notices '
All notice* maat be brought to the Trojan office at 716 Weat Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notices mu*t be limited to 35 words.
PRE-MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING
A short business meeting of the Pre-Medical Society will be held Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 12:45 in room 107, Chemistry Building.
STRAY GREEKS
The regular Stray Greek meeting will be held today at 12:15 at the Cottage Tea Room.
FRESHMAN CLUB
There will be a meeting of tbe Freshman Club at 12 o’clock todav at the Y. W. C. A. Hut. A special discussion is to be featured and plans made for corsages for the Notre Dame game.
RALLY COMMITTEE
There will be a meeting of the Rally Committee today at 12:30 in the office of the Student Body President.
FRESHMAN CLASS
Business meeting of the Freshman Class will be held Thursday, December 2, in Bovard Auditorium at 12:15
FROSH HOP PLANS NEAR COMPLETION
Oakmont Country Club Chosen Fof Frosh Dance Before Xmas Vacation Begins.
Preparations for the frosh dance (an^ ^ *s a,Lisable to purchase are practically complete, according to t ear*> *n order to avoid unnecessary
“Home again to win again!”
With the Homecoming informal dance as an incentive to victory in the greatest game of the season for the Southern California varsity, the Ambassador will be invaded by the Notre Dame and Trojan football warriors on the evening of December 4.
Four hundred tickets have already been sold for the dance which wiU come as a conclusion to the series of events scheduled for Homecoming Week. It is to be in the guise of a carnival, and balloons and horns will be supplied to further enhance the atmosphere of festivity.
Everett Miller, who is in charge of ticket sales, has announced that the number of tickets sold will be limited,
announcement made at the meeting confusion at the last moment, of class officers. The place is Oakmont Country Club; time, December 15, the Wednesday night before the Christmas holidays; and all that reart’s Varsity Five; and all that remains to be done is to sell the bids at $1.50. Bids may be secured at the Students’ Store or from members
of the freshman finance comimttee. 0f the year, a b^ach party and weinie A freshman class meeting was an- bake at ^anta Monica Saturday ev»n nounced for Thursday noon, Decem-
Annual Aristo-Athena Pledge Affair is Held
Aristo and Athena pledges, according to their annual custom, co-operated in entertaining the actives of both societies with the first informal affair
ber 2, in Bovard Auditorium, for the adoption of the class constitution and other class business. Every fresh-* man must be there in order to have
ing at 8 o’clock.
For the greater convenience of the societies, Margaret Hflmer, a member of Athena, offered the use of her cottage af the beach Transportation bv a fair enough representation to vote. automobile was provided for everyone.
Frieda Fisher, chairman of the entertainment committee, arranged a program for the evening consisting of beach games and contests, and the pledges put on a skit for the entertainment of tEe actives.
Plan Art Exhibit For Graduate Homecoming
As an added attraction during Homecoming Week, the School of Architecture will arrange a showing of student work in its new exhibition hall.
Art work as well as architectural drawings will be featured in the display, which will be open to alumni and the university at large.
RESERVED TICKETS TO GO
‘ P. N. Marshall announces that no Notre Dame football tickets will be held after Thursday.
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DRAMA SHOP
Today at noon in Touchstone Theatre there will be a meeting of the Drama Shop. All members are expected to be present.
TROJAN KNIGHT MEETING
There will be a Trojan Knight meeting this evening at 7:30 at the Pi Kappa Alpha house. All Knights are asked to meet at the Varsity Photorium this noon for a picture.
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FORMER MUSICIAN WITH SOUSA
WILL DIRECT S. C. ORCHESTRA
That the Southern California Orchestra will be an established campus organization with rehearsals every Tuesday evening at 8:()0 P M. at the Y. M. C. A. and uniforms for the members, was the statement issued from Harold Roberts’ office yesterday.
This follows a recent announcement to the effect that all S. C. musicians are eligible for the organization.
“One satisfaction gained from the turnout of over forty at the first meeting was that nearly every school in the University was represented,” stated Roberts, director of musical organizations.
Bert Teazle, who was a member of Sousa’s band and musical director at Manual Arts high school, will direct the orchestra, and he expects perfection shortly as a result of the display of embryo talent at the rehearsal Tuesday evening, when sixty were present.