On
the
Lookout
Southern
By THE EDITOR
VORD comes from Buenos Aires of the appointment : Fred Aden, U. S. C. 15, as a | irector of the Colegio Americano Instituto Commercial Ward, or »e American College of that city, den is not known to the stu-ents on the campus, but several lembers of the faculty recall this oung chap, who has been gone om the Trojan campus for some even years.
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While at Southern California Aden was editor of the Daily Southern Californian, now the Daily Trojan, and a member of Phi Alpha fraternity. That was in the old days of S. C., long before the name of Trojans had been applied to the athletic squads of the University.
California
Trojan
THEY MEET AGAIN
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—George Wilson, all-American halfback, and Harold “Red’’ Grange, leader of the Chicago Bears, will appear in a football contest here Jan. 31.
Announcement to this effect was made today by Charlie Lockard, who made arrangements for the battle.
VOL. XVJl
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, January 20, 1926
Number 75
SUNSET CANYON CLUB .CHOSEN FOR SCENE OF S.C. COUNCIL DANCE
Date For Inter-fratemity Formal Changed To Feb. 5, Due To Conflict with Exam. Schedule.
Not to be outdone by tbe examination committee, the committee in charge of the annual formal dance of the Inter-fraternity Council has right
Aden has been interested In jour* I about faced in its plans. The new alism ever since he first handled the , Sunset Canyon Country Club has been Southern Californian. He sends us cnosen for the affair and the date set
copy of “The lnternacional,” the
at the Buenos
lor February 5.
tudent publication
ttres school	I T^e 1)141113 as announced in Monday’s
+ + ♦	Trojan stated that the Hotel Hunt-
T IS from this paper that the differ- j ington, Pasadena, was to be the site ence in student thought is notice- 0I the festivities and the date was >le, between American and foreign |january 28. When the examination
committee began setting dates and changing them, it appeared inevitable that a conflict between the examina-
Istitutions. Politics, music, art and |orld events are given considerable | pace—space that is allotted in the [merican institution to sports, student roblems, dances, and rallies.
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This is perhaps the mo6t criticized point made of American colleges. American institutions and systems have come to stay, their influence will be felt in other countries, and we doubt very much if the present-day American university system will ever tend to swing towards the type employed in European colleges, especially now with highly commercialized athletics and the college, the fall training camp for the football professional.
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tion schedule and the dance would occur. As it was impossible to secure the^iotel HunLngton for another evening, the committee secured the Sunset Canyon Country Club for February 5, a date which will not interfere with finals.
The Sunset Canyon Country Club has just been completed. It lies north of Glendale in the foothills and is regarded as having the most beautiful and the largest ballroom of all the country clubs.
Annually the campus looks forward to the Inter-fraternity Council ball. Bids to it are eagerly sought and faithfully cherished. No one has ever heard of a broken date for the Council formal. Even tickets are scarce for this
Ur. Aden, Southern California is leased to note your progress.
i'ould that more of the alumni let j occasion. There are just eighteen fra-heir successes or failures be known jtermties on the campus and each fra-0 the undergraduate student body. I ternity has been allotted ten tickets.
♦ + ♦	Rumor has it that the engaged men
UlE most higbij' representaUve j and Seniors have first chance at the group of men in the University precious bits of cardboard. The tick-fcf Southern California met yesterday ets are to be distributed at the special
ORIGINAL PLAY IS
Special Lincoln Day Chapel Will Include Play by Tacie May Hanna.
A one-act play written by Miss Tacie May Hanna and produced under her direction by the School of Speech will be the feature of the Lincoln’s Day program to be put on in chapel on Lincoln’s birthday, according to George Jordan, who was placed in charge of arrangements by the Executive Committee. ‘‘This play, which will have a theme in keeping with the occasion, will meet with the unanimous approval of the students, I am sure,” said Miss Hanna.
“This is a new undertaking, but I am sure that it will be a novel program,” is the opinion of Mr. Jordan, who added that in addition to the play several other “surprise stunts” would be included in' the plans. “All the entertainment will concern Lincolns Day in some way or another, and although it would spoil the interest of the play to tell the details, I will say that the setting is at the Soldiers’ Home in Sawtelle,” he said.
TO
STATUSJLFRESHIN
Plans for Incoming Freshmen To Be Decided At Meeting of Knights This Evening.
noon to formulate plans for the 1926 year. To those who are not familiar with this group of men, it is the Skull and Dagger, the highest All-University
Inter-fraternity Council meeting which is being held this evening .
A special feature of this year’s formal is the buffet supper which will be
[honorary organization on the campus, i g^ved at midnight. A twelve-piece
| orchestra is to provide the music and j attractive favors for the ladies of Hellas have been ordered. In addition it is planned to have a specialty act i presented by a well-known Orpheum ' star.
The committee in charge is Solly Levinson, Ra velle Harrison, Ronald Snavely, Dick Stith and Alden Ross.
For the past year thl# group has been somewhat dormant, coming before the student body only at its annual initiation, and making an appearance in the year book. Skull and Dagger should be and will be the highest authority for student appeal on the campus. Although its functions are entirely different from that of the executive committee, it should in its field be the ruler of general campus activities.
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It is perhaps the most representaUve organization, with practically fevery type of college student on it. Lrom tlie sttfeNnf8d orator to the ;te Skull and Dagger selects its For this reason are the best Land the best men only, selected fir respective fields.
* * * group of celebrities, banded for a common purpose, do not iemselves more evident on the understood, but accord-sral members the meeting ras for that one point in
Definite settlement of the much-discussed Frosh problem will be the main purpose of the meeting of the Trojan Knights at the Delta Mu Phi house this evening. Several questions concerning the incoming freshmen will be decided. Do they belong to the Frosh class of ’29 or next year’s class of ’30? Should they be forced to wear the tiaditional Cardinal headgear of the yearling class? What will be the resulting spirit if only part of the Frosh wear hats? And finally, should the Frosh in the future wear the hats for the entire year? These questions are being much discussed at present and each have two sides which will be carefully weighed before any decisions will be reached. Plans will also be completed for the Amazon-Knight dance to be held in February.
CHANGES NOT TO BE MADE IN GRANTING OF CHAPEL EXCUSES
Chapel and Assembly Absences Will Be Permitted Only Through Petition.
No change will be made during the forthcoming semester in the attitude
and policy of the Rally Committee regarding petitions for excuses from attending Friday assemblies over the methods employed throughout the present term, according to the decision reached at a meeting of the Rally Committee held Tuesday afternoon.
The method by which students may be excused from attending Friday rallies which has been in force this semester is the same as that used for obtaining excuses from Wednesday chapels. In the latter cases, students present their petitions to the fac-uity committee in charge of chapel, while in the former, the petitions are sent to the Rally Committee.
Students will be excused from at-! tending Friday assemblies during the 1 coming semester only when they present sufficiently good reasons for such excuses, according to Sam Gates, chairman of the Rally Committee.
Petitions for excuse from Friday assemblies can be obtained from Miss Flock in the Associated Students’ office, and petitions for absence from Wednesday chapels may be obtained from Dean Waugh’s secretary or from the Registrar’s office. When the necessity of working is given as a reason for not attending assemblies, the signature of the petitioner’s employer upon the petition blank is necessary.
GO ON SALE Al CO-OP FRIDAY
El Rodeo Will Be Given With Student Activity Book; Price Will. Also Include Admission To All Spring Athletic Contests; Annual Alone is Worth $5, Which is Book Price.
Entitling every owner to five basketball games, five track meets, three baseball games, and an El Rodeo, student activity books for the second semester are to be sold Friday and Saturday of next week. No El Rodeo tickets, other than these, are to be offered for sale.
The price of the books, $5, will cover the cost of an El Rodeo only, and
Eckles Winner
With 74
In Trial Round
Ralph Eckles, a freshman in Liberal Arts College, with a score of 74 won the qualifying round in the All-University Golf Tournament held yesterday. Behl, a dental student, took second place with 79.
The California course was in poor condition.
PLANS TO REBUILD ZEKE HOUSE AREJDER WAY
Members are Cheerful in Face of Disaster As Evidenced By Posting of Signs.
Figueroa Theatre
Holds S. C. Nite
that It is difficult for some of these men to devote much of their time to Skull and Dagger activities, rhen they are occupied with other student body duties. It is for the reason of their other activities that they lake Skull and Dagger.
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Now if Skull and Dagger would undertake to handle the promotion •f a student union, along with the appointed group by the executive committee, something definite will be the result. There are enough leaders and influential men In the honorary society to put over most any sort of a campaign.
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At other Universities the All-U. honorary organization is looked upon as
Nothing but a mass of charred ruins remains today of the upper stories ot the Zeke house, destroyed by fire Saturday, and the members of the organization are now only awaiting the completion of the investigation of losses by insurance men before making the matter a closed incident and beginning the work of reconstruction.
In the meantime, the Zekes have taken up their residence on “fraternity row,” having moved into the house at j 642 West Twenty-eighth Street.
Losses of the fraternity have been unofficially estimated to amount to $5000. This sum represents the value of furniture, clothes, books, papers and many other articles owned by the organization and its members. Though the men have lost many valuable belongings, they still retain their sense of humor under these misfortunes, as was shown by their posting of such Signs as “No Parking” and ‘‘\dmis-1 sion 50c” in front of their ruined I house.
The fire, which began about 11:30 j Saturday morning in the attic of the j fraternity house, was not discovered for about twenty minutes. During thia erhaps the highest award in the Uni-1 time it had become so large that the
rersitv, while at Southern California the student body takes it as a matter course, and only those with a pos-Isibk i .a.’! e ot making it show any |int<-r. /.
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With tlie members of Skull and \Daggcr nczv in the game let's hope that t'.ic campus at large will appre-\e suck a group of leaders.
men in the house began to thro^v out things from the second floor windows in an effort to save as much as possible. By the time that the flames had been extinguished, the whole roof haa been practically consumed an d the second floor had been badly damaged There was hardly anything Within the house which had not been injured by either fire or water.
The Figueroa Theater is continuing the run of Al Christie’s first big laugh of 1926, “Madame Behave,” until Friday evening, due to the fact that it has proven to be one of the biggest attractions yet offered by this newest of Los Angeles first-run theaters.
In addition to this delightfully funny comedy, the management is also presenting an amateur Charleston contest open to all. The prizes are silver trophies with a big final prize cup to be awarded Friday evening to the winner of the contest between the week’s cup winners. Thursday evening has been designated by Mr. Miller as Collegiate night and all students of U. S. C. are invited to enter the Charleston contest on that evening and the winner will be entitled to participate in the finals on Friday night.
Feeling that the students want ttife Figueroa as its theater, Mr. Miller, head of the theater company, has designated every Friday as U. S. C. night in honor of this big school and hopes
A. LA. SORORITY, INSTALLS CHAPTER
Alpha Kappa Alpha, national sorority, established on the campus of the University of Southern California, chartered a new chapter in Los Angeles recently, when the Omega chaptei was founded at the University of California at Los Angeles. Naida McCullough, alumna of the S. C. College of Music and a prominent pianist, who is the Western regional director of the sorority, had charge of the establishment of the new chapter.
Alpha Kappa Alpha came to the Southern California campus in 1922. It is the first colored woman's sorority established in the world and was chartered at Howard University in 1908. It has at present forty chapters, with chapters for four more still pending.
The charter members of the new chapter established at the Southern Branch are: Florence Russell, Carol Johnson, Hilda Johnson, Juanita Ra-boum and Clothilde Curry.
TO STUDjNTS TODAY
Prohibition To Be Subject of Talk by Well Known Speaker, in Bovard.
Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, resident bishop of this area of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be the speaker in chapel today. He Is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University as well as an alumnus, having received the degree of L.LD. at the Commencement last June.
Bishop Burns was ordained a Metb* pdist Episcopal minister in 1899. He has been a bishop since May, 1920. He has spoken on several occasions on this campus, delivering the Baccalaureate address at the Coliseum last year. His address today will be a repetition of his address in a local church last Sunday on “Prohibition,” the occasion being the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Volstead Act.
the athletic activities are to be given free, according to Les Heilman, manager of the ticket sales. For this reason, no exceptions are to be made on the purchase of the books, as there were at the beginning of this year, to students who are unable to attend athletic contests.
The plan for distributing the new books includes the bringing of a ticket booth from the Coliseum to the plot of grass back of the Students’ Store. Heilman states that the four windows in this booth, added to the windows in the store itself will eliminate long waiting in lines, and will make possible the selling of the same number of books in two days as were distributed in five days this semester.
Similar to the method used at tho beginning of this year will be the method of combining sales and completion of registration next semester. A ticket, which must be signed by the manager of sales, will be Included in the registration book. Until this card is signed, registration will not be complete.
T
L BE HELO AT S.C.
Junior Men’s Honorary Fraternity Will Meet in Women's Dormitory Today.
Sigma Sigma, junior men’s honorary fraternity, will hold its first meeting in the Social Hall of the Women’s Dormitory at 12 o’clock today. The meeting will be taken up with the organization for the next semester and arrangements for the El Rodeo pio
Students To Discuss Relation of tures will be made.
College Student to the Working World.
Commencing with a dinner on Friday evening, and ending with a program on Saturday evening, the All-Campus Students Convention will be j last semester by the junior class.
This organization is composed of the memers of the last year’s junior class fho have distinguished themseives il some school activity. The present members of the fraternity were chosen
U. of Texas To Show New Educational Film
held at the University of Southern California on February 5-6.
Robert Freeman of Pasadena is scheduled to give the keynote address on Friday evening, and Paul Blanchard will speak Saturday afternoon, ac-
Ravelle Harrison is president, Sam Gates is vice-president and Ralph Holly is secretary-treasurer. The active membership includes Boyd Welin. Chet Dolley, Kenneth Boyer, Barton Hutchins, Burke Long, B^b Green,
cording to the tentative plans of Stan- gam Gates, Ronald Snavely, Leroy ley McKee, chairman of the Executive Haines, Grady Setzler, Ralph Holly,
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 18.—Something unique in an educational film is “Mandalay as Kipling Saw It,’ which has been received by the bureau of visual instruction of the University of Texas, according to Mrs. C. J. Moore, chief of the bureau. The film, which is three reels in length, shows the various types of Indian life from the wildest existence in the jungles to the luxurious and indolent life of the highest caste in the cities, portrays all manner of people from mendicants to Brahman priests in their costly temples, gives an insight into the training of elephants as workers hauling and
Committee in charge of the arrangements.
McKee also stated that W. J. Sherman of San Francisco, well known authority on industrial conditions, will open the discussions Saturday morning.
“There has been need of a conference of this nature, where students from the various campus colleges of this vicinity may meet and discuss the conditions as seen in the working
Leo Friis, Ellsworth Ross, Clarence Houser, Fay Thomas, Emerson Spicer and Ravelle Harrison. Harold J. Stonier and President von KieinSmid are honorary members.
Graduate School Holds Reception For Dr. Carr
to see it become the meeting place stacking teakwood, and other phases
for entertainment for the entire student body.
Ernie Nevers May
Go To Wisconsin
Madison, Wis., Jan. 19—Ernie Nevers, whose football prowess added to the fame of Stanford university, gave him a backfield berth on the all-American and earned him a pocket full of money when he became a professional, may enter the University of Wisconsin in quest of a degree next fall.
Friends, whom Nevers has been vis-
of Indian activity. The subtitles for the film are taken from poem “Mandalay.”
Football Tearns Meet At Annual Banquet
The recently concluded football season will get its final push into history at the Mary Louise Tea-Room on the evening of Saturday, January 23, when the Varsity and Frosh gridders gather for the annual banquet. Warren Bovard is to be the toastmaster of the
Honoring visiting professor Dr. Herbert Wilson Carr, the graduate world today, and to determine what 1 school is holding a reception in Alum-part a college student plays from a nae Hall tomorrow between the hours practical standpoint,” declare Y. offi- of 3:15 and.4:00. After the reception Cial3.	Doctar Carr will deliver an address.
There will be fifteen minutes ot dis- Doctor Carr, who is a visiting profe3-cussion after each address, and an sor from the University of London, is hour of open forum discussion on Sat- a man of world wide recognition in the urday afternoon, in which the various field of philosophy. Members of the Kipling's problems may be brought up and faculty and graduate students will be ’ talked over. cordially welcomed even though in-This conference will be entirely un- • vitations have not reached them, der the direction of the students, and I	-
occasion, and some 150 football play-iting here said today that he told them j ers, coaches and attaches are expected he never would have gene west for his ; to be present.
education if he could hrve found a job Coach Howard Jones, Hal J. Stonier, to he'p him through Wisconsin after Ex-Captain Hobbs Adams and Captain-ho had completed hiqh school in his . Elect Jeff Cravath will make the prin-home town of Superior.	i cipal talks of the evening.
invitations will be sent to Occidental Rifle Club Will
College, Christian College, University
of California Southern other city colleges.
Branch, and
Affiliate With N. R. A.
ATTEND FUNERAL
A large number of Southern California students were present yesterday at the funeral services of the mother of Roland Maxwell, prominent Southern California alumnus. Mr. Maxwells mother died last Saturday evening at the Maxwell residence in | ^0n. Pasadeaa. The funeral services were held at the Washington Avenue Meth-
Plans are being made for the S. C.
Rifle Club to aftiiiate with the National Rifle Association, according to Leon Wolpe, president of the club. This will give the club a high standing, for the N. R. A. is recognized as the leader in its sport.
The new range ij neiriog comple-Guns have a ready been pur-hased. With the air*oucccment that
odist Church, morning.
P&sadena, yesterday
ie club will jo'n :hedule should be
’to N. R. A., a full uranged with ease.