TROJAN STAFF ASSIGNMENTS
All members of the Trojan staff who take assignments will find them from now on posted in the office of the Trojan business manager above the Students’ Store. Only the reportorial offices are being moved. The business offices remain in the office now occupied.
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PRE-MEDIC MEETING
All Pre-Medical students are asked to meet on Wednesday at 12:30 in the Chemistry Bldg., room 107. The official emblem of the organization has been chosen and all those wishing the pins are urged to be there. Plans for the first affair of the club will be discussed.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, September 28, 1926
NUMBER 10
FRATERNITY COUNCIL FRANK C. TOUTON TO STRIVE FOR WRITES NEW BOOK
COOPERATION
President Announces Definite Purpose For Inter-Fraternity Body; Will Call Meeting Oct. 1
TO CONSIDER RUSHING
Representatives Are Asked To Come Prepared To Vote On The Proposition.
“The Inter-Fraternity Council will be functioning this year with a definite purpose in mind—that of establishing a stronger and more pronounced cooperation between the fraternities of the campus and the University of Southern California prop er,” said Paul Fritz, president of the inter-Fraternity Council yesterday.
That no action has been taken by the council proper this year was explained by the fact that no meeting could be called until the first Tuesday in October, which will be on the fifth. However, a committee
Southern California Professor’s Latest Book Promises To Be In Great Demand.
Frank Charles Touton, professor of Education at Southern California, and Miss Alice Ball Struthers, vice principal of the McKinley Junior High School, are co-authose of a new book, "Junior High School Proced ure.” The purpose of the book is to present the best procedure in school organization, administraUon, and supervision.
Professor Touton is the author ol a number of books, text books, and books pertaining to school procedure. His latest book promises to be as widely sought after by educators as the others have been. Professor Touton is especially well qualified to present the subject because of his vast experience in educational problems.
Helen Watson Pierce, who is assistant superintendent in charge of Los Angeles Junior High Schools says, “The book is a timely contri
is already drawing a set of regula .
bution to junior high school litera-
tions govermng the process of pledg-
ing. These rules, according to Fritz, will be few but concise. At the first meeting, the rules will .be put up for discussion and will be voted upon. Letters have been sent to each fraternity’s representaUves to come prepared to pass on the rules ln order that they may be approved for governing the rushing of next semester. While different from those in use at the present, the new rules will work no hardship on any single fraternity but will be beneficial to all, is the opinion of Fritz.
The student union plan will be backed to the utmost by the fraternities of Southern California’s campus, if the intentions of the council are carried out. It is the opinion of this group that lack of organization was one of the chief factors in de-
“Various other plans that are brought to the attention of the campus will be backed if they appear worthy,” said Fritz.
Concerning membership in the In-ter-Fraternity Council, Fritz said that the rule to the effect that the president and an upper classman from each fraternity are to be present at meeUng of the council will be strictly enforced. As twenty campus Greek societies are members of the council, this rule is thought to make that organization quite representative of fraternity opinion.
A plan to bring the pledges of each fraternity together in order that they may become acquainted and that fraternity men may know the pledges of other fraternities is under formation at the present time. The affair will probably be a smoker and will be held as soon as defnite arrangements can be made.
ture and will be welcomed by those who are earnestly seeking help and suggestions. The volume is comprehensive in scope, but practical in its directions for enriching the life of the junior high school pupil.”
CAMPUS SOCIETIES SPONSOR MEETINGS
Open Meetings of Literary Groups Will Acquaint Rushees With Work and Aims.
Open meetings of the campus literary societies will be held tonight and next Tuesday, for the purpose of acquainting rushees with the work of the four organizations, and also to aid each group to select prospective tryouts for membership. A series of tryouts and examinations are held for each society during a period of about three weeks. The membership tryouts are invitational and are equivalent to temporary m^tfibership in the organization until the tryouts are over and formal pledging takes place.
Exceptional programs are being offered this week at the various meetings consisting mostly of musical and literary numbers with a social hour following. Meeting places of the different societies are as follows: Clionian, Y. W. C. A.; Comitia, Y. M. C. A-; Aristotelian, H. 306; and Athena, Athena Hall, 3rd floor Old College.
S. C. TO HAVE PART IN LITTLE THEATER MOVEMENT
Little Theater Activities Undertaken By Southern California Literati; Opens New Interests.
STAGE CREW NEEDED
University Play Director To Call For Campus Help In Work To Be Attempted Soon.
Under student leadership, a meeting for the furthering of a community or little theater movement on the S. C. campus will be held Thursday noon in Touchstone theater.
There is a place for everyone at all interested in stage work in a little theater movement, according to Ray McDonald, University Play Director. The obvious side of interpretation is backed up by a crew of electricians controlling the lighting, a crew of scenery shifters as well as scenery painters and art directors, a group of costume designers; by directors and assistant directors, property men, business directors, and other .executives.
“A person need not necessarily have experience in order to find a place in the community theater,” stated McDonald. “Organizations such as the Pasadena Community Theater, for example, have a large part of their active working staff composed of people who are engaged in other lines of business, and who, in spite of lack of experience, take part in the theater work because of interest in the movement”
S. C. students are planning to organize and promote a movement on the campus which will grow to be an important factor in city dramatic circles. As a first step, all students who wish to further such an organization are urged to attend the meeting Thursday in Touchstone Theater.
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WEEK FILLED BY SORORITY RUSHING
Rush Week is beginning with an explosion of concentrated rushing calculated to startle even the most blase rushee. The sororities have planned interesting affairs which will take place during the five days of formal rushing. The majority of so cial functions will employ a definite moUf, and such events as Chinese luncheons (a sorrow in the life of the average unwary rushee), sport teas, flower luncheons, and Mexican dinners are included. The grand finale will consist of the formal dinners with which each sorority will entertain on Friday night. Bids will be extended Monday and the general excitement will terminate on pledging Tuesday.
Enforcement of rushing rules is unusually severe this year, but sororities are displaying a commendable spirit of co-operation in obeying them. Freshmen are warned by authorities to be particularly careful as lack of knowledge will not be accepted as an excuse for infraction of rules.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
According to Physical Education Department, all students who have been delinquent in meeUng their medical examination appointment must report to the Gymnasium office Immediately, as medical exam tnations will not be conducted after this week.
FOREIGN STUDENTS TO BE ENTERTAINED
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Sponsor Reception at “Y” Hut Thursday Night.
Entertaining the foreign students on the campus, the World Fellowship departments of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Christian Associations will hold an annual international reception at the “Y” hut Thursday evening.
Ai an outstanding feature of the occasion, Gale Seaman, Y. M. C. A. Conference Secretary, is to speak on a subject of international in terest Mr. Seaman, who has just finished his round-the-world trip, is ranked among the most powerful Y. M. C. A. speakers, including Sherwood Eddy. Miss Florence Baxton is chairman for the Y. W. and Harold Reed represents the Y. M. More than 200 men and women, including the Y. M. and Y. W. council groups, are expected to be present
COMMITTEE PLANS VISIT TO EXHIBIT
Faculty Committee on Extra
Campus Opportunities Plans
First Program of Semester.
As the first program of the semester conducted by the Faculty Committee on Extra-Campus Opportunities, a trip to the display of Peruvian Art at Exposition Park will be made Thursday afternoon at 3:15.
The collection at the Exposition museum was loaned by Commander and Mrs. Frank Barrows Freyer, and contains Peruvian paintings, furniture, textiles, and other art objects assembled by Mrs. Freyer while she was living at Lima. Mrs. C. E. Curry, who has made an extensive study of Peruvian art, will give a short talk Thursday on “Peru, Its Civilization and Art,” and will explain the objects on exhibition.
J. Moya del Pino, the well known Spanish artist, has said of the paintings, “There are none like these anywhere in the world. Through them the whole history of Spanish influence in American art may be traced.”
A group of students and faculty members will leave from in front of the Administration Building at 3:10 Thursday afternoon.
“Students in the Spanish depait-ment, and those interested in art may be especially interested to see this collection and to hear Mrs. Curry,” said Miss Tacie May Hanna.
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Ground has been broken and construction commenced on the new chapter house for the Alpha Upsilon Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity, national and pioneer college fraternity of Southern California. The site Is located at 848 West Thirty-sixth 6treet, on the campus of the University of Southern California.
Sigma Chi House, a California corp-ation, of which Harry Lee Martin, alumnus of the university, is president, has financed the project and will lease the building to the local chapter.
La Tertulia Will Hold Open Meeting at Noon
“La Tertulia,” a Spanish literary society at the university, is to hold a meeting at 12:30 this afternoon at the Spanish office, room 254 Stowell hall.
Manuel Ruiz, outgoing president, said that the purpose of the meeting is the election of officers and formulation of plans for the present'school year.
All students interested in Spanish are eligible to attend the meeting. Membership to the organization requires a sufficient amount of knowledge of the Spanish language and students are accepted upon the invitation of the membership committee with the approval of the old members.	-	i
GEORGE C. JORDAN
“Don’t be a quitter! To a man coming out to make the football team the best advice I could give him would be summed up in those four words—There are times when a football man feels he can’t go any farther. If he is a real man he never quits.—The great football players are the ones who never seem to tire. They carry on in spite of everything.”
Al Behrendt couldn’t have known when he wrote the above sentences that within forty-eight hours he would be called upon to live out his words. That is why they will go ringing down through Southern California history ; they bear the stamp of acid testing in action. It was not generally known when Al left the field Saturday that he was painfully hurt. But he was and had been during the greater part of the game. And yet he played with the grim spirit that marked his editorial column, “Grid Signals.” There are probably a number of men on the campus who could write Al’s column. It is not the wording that we like in it, it’s the fact that it has been honestly written from experience and not from the love of fine sounding phrases.
Well, girls, we are proud of you and the support you gave the varsity Sa* lrday. A* far as we can tell there were about eight hundred women in the rooting section. That means that for the rest of the season the yell king is going to count on you to be a definite and essential part of Southern Cal’s rooting section. And not only were there a lot of you there but Burdette liked the spirit you showed in the section. Yes, he did, he said so.
And now it’s archery. Referring to the new sport.which is being undertaken in the University. We don’t know much about the technique of the game. We tried a little of it at Big Bear this summer and decided that if old William Tell did the things he is reputed to have done with a bow and arrows he was quite a boy. But if it will interest more students in getting into some form of campus activity we are for it. It is in line with Tallman’s policy of development of intra-mural sports and it is a good thing.
While we are on the subject of minor sports we pause on this wrestling question for a moment. When we came out a while back with the challenge to lovers of the sport to get busy and show a sentiment to keep it on the campus we were under the impression that there was some real feeling and considerable of it on the subject. As yet we have failed to see anyone with a petition on the subject, although we are told that some of the papers are out. As a last word, wrestlers, you are going to have to show more interest than you have or* we doubt the success of your cause.
Y.M.C.A. CONFERENCE IS INSPIRATION TO MEMBERS
Fifty Members Make Week-End Trip to Catalina For Annual Sessions.
PRESIDENT ATTENDS
Dr. von KieinSmid Speaks At Banquet; Camp Fire Is Unique Program Feature.
Fifty men from the University campus attended the annual fall Y. M. C. A. conference at Santa Catalina Island, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week. The event was successful from all viewpoints and the spirit of the men was very high, according to Glen Turner, secretary of the “Y.” The conference theme was, ,fI am a young man, and I have my life to live.”
The sessions were held at the Avalon Community Church through the courtesy of Rev. L. C. Watson. A quartet composed of Harold Reed, Edgar LaFetra, Demarest Wemple and Glen Turner sang at many of the conference sessions. Tom deGraf-fenreid played violin solos at several meetings and Harold Reed acted as song leader.
At the first session, Friday evening, Art Syvertson, chairman of the conference, introduced and explained the conference theme. Dick Mulvin spoke on “What a Freshman Expects of the Y. M. C. A.” and Bill Henley on ::A Young Man’s God.”
Saturday morning the entire delegation was divided into four commissions to discuss the needs of a college man from the four angles, Physical, Mental, Social and Spiritual. Crawford Peek, Stanley Hopper, William Henley, and Robert Webster acted as the commission chairman, giving the reports of the findings at the late afternoon meeting.
At noon Saturday, the men met the boat which brought Dr. von KieinSmid to the Island. The conference picture was taken at this time. In the afternoon baseball and football games were played under the supervision of Crawford Peek.
At the banquet In the evening, talks were given by Don Bailey, president of the Y, Leland Tallman, president of the student body, and President von KieinSmid. Rare and unique humor came out of the introductions, quartet numbers, and talks.
Saturday evening the campfire took place at Pebbley Beach, Virgil Pinkley actinias chairman. George Jordan, Stanley Hopper and Arthur Syvertson gave inspirational talks,
At an early morning service on Sunday, Dr. von KieinSmid spoke on the “Christian Courtesy of Jesus.” The conference took complete charge of the church service at ten o’clock, which marked the ciose of the week’s session, and Don Bailey, William Henley, Raymond Brennan and Dr. von KieinSmid gave talks.
NURSERY NUMBER TO APPEAR SOON
Wampus Will Make Initial Appearance On Southern California Campus Thursday.
Making Its first fall appearance earlier than usual, the “Wampus” will be on sale Thursday. Several pages of advertisements have been sacrificed to make room for the great amount of meritable comic material, according to the editor, Mil ton Booth.
In the production of the Nursery Nuber, no-expense or time has been spared, and the greatest pains have been taken to make this edition the best the campus has yet seen. “Spe cial commendation,” Mr. Booth also stated, “should be given to John Post, who drew the cover, also to Marvin Cornell, Bryant Hale, and Julia Suski. The latter, although at the Branch this year, has contributed greatly to this number.” Special mention was also given to the mem bers of the literary staff, including Evalee Powell, Joe Duchowny, Jes sica Heber, and Gwendolyn Patton.
The deadline for acceptance of material for the “Blue Law” number is set for Tuesday, October 5. A great deal of material is expected to come in before that time, and it is strongly urged that all of ability should contribute.
FOREIGN STUDENTS WILL MEET FRIDAY
A word in defense of the name of this column. The change has not been made as a repudiation of any previous column or columns. It is our opinion that when the writer’s name is signed to a column it is his and when he drops it the name should be dropped, too. This has not always been the mode of procedure in newspaper work. We are aware of that. But insofar as it has become customary to associate a certain “cut” with the head of each column and since the writer's name is worked into that cut, it seems fitting to substitute a new column when the writer changes.
Tickets At Half Price Offered To Students
Tickets at half price may be obtained by S. C. students and faculty members for the concert by Lawrence Tibet, of the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, at the Philharmonic Auditorium Friday evening.
Students and instructors may take advantage of this opportunity, made possible by Horatio Coggswell of the College of Music, by calling at the College of Music, on the corner of Grand avenue and West Adams, and presenting their identification cards or credentials.
Tibbet was formerly a Los Angeles boy, and is said to possess a baritone voice of an unusually fine quality.
Cosmopolitan Club To Reorganize and Elect Officers For
Year; Dr. Case Heads Work.
For the purpose of considering the reorganization and election of officers of the Cosmopolitan Club of the University of Southern California for the present, year, all students interested in international friendship are to meet at the “Y” hut at 12:20 Friday afternoon.
Owing to the small attendance, the meeting scheduled to be held last Sunday was called off till Friday. Realizing that a better way for calling a meeting must be adopted, the six people present, headed by Dr. Clarence Marsh Case, former faculty adviser, wrote a note whereby students who affix their signatures on it pledge their attendance. In this way those who signed will be reminded of their responsibility to fulfill their promises. Six of the "promissory notes” are being circulated by the six people on the campus.
S. C. BAND TO DRILL AT SANTA CLARA GRID CONTEST
Harold Roberts Is Recognized One of The Leading Conductors In United States.
NEW UNIFORMS HERE
Will Hold Rehearsal Wednesday Evening In Women s Gymnasium; Plans Will Be Announced.
"The Southern California band, in the splendor of new uniforms, and augmented pieces, is destined to startle the western coast,” stated Bill Ward, manager of the Trojan band, yesterday.
The band, a member of the Musical Organizations of Southern California, is under the direction of Harold Roberts, who has won recognition as one of the leading band conductors of the United States. He will lead his University band, the largest college band in the United States, upon the field in a series of drills for the first time this season at the Santa Clara-Southern California game.
“The band uniforms of this yeai will be entirely different from anything ever seen before on the Pacific coast,” announced Mr. Ward. “While the nature of these is being kept strictly a secret, it may be known that they will savor of the French and English styles.”
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“TOO MANY BOOKS,” STATES PROFESSOR
Coming as a thorough squelching to budding young novelists In and about the University of Southern California is the statement by the learned savant, Professor A. W. Cady, that “There are too many books in the world.”
“It Is one of the evils of the time that many people are desirous of trying their hand In the literary vein. Over 21,000 worthless novels are printed yearly, and there ls no apparent sign of this number diminishing,” states the critic of current literature.
CONFERENCE FOR METHODISTS HELD
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Methodist church in Southern California, the semi-centennial conference will be held in the First Methodist Church, Colorado Street and Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, September 28 to October 1.
Many noted speakers, among whom are several well-known Southern California educators, are to address the assemblage. Featuring stereopticon slides of the growth and life of S. C., a program will be presented to the conference Sept. 28 by Dr. E. J Inwood. The slides afford a comparison of the university as it was when first established in 1880-81, 59 stu dents being then enrolled, with the present institution of more than 10,-000 enrollment.
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid and Prof. Bruce Baxter will represent the University of Southern California on the evening of Sept. 30. The Junior Laymen’s Association will be addressed on October 3 by Dr. Carl S. Knopf, also of this university. Other noted men who will speak are Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, Dr. G. Bromley Oxman, and Dr. P. D. Mather.
50 CAMPUS WOMEN ATTEND MEETINGS
Pacific Palisades Is Scene of Annual Y. W. C. A. “Retreat;” Plans Made for Year Ahead.
With an attendance of more than fifty women, the Y. W. C. A. held its fall retreat at the Pacific Palisades last week end, for the object of forming finer friendships, and to make new plans for the coming year.
Ruth Whitney, chairman of the conferences, had charge of the arrangements of the retreat, and Mar garet Burke, president of Y. W. C. A. presided.
Plans were made to have representative women from each living group on the campus meet to talk on the application of Christianity in like today. Florence Mickol, chairman of Bible study, will have charge of these meetings which are to be led by the students.
Saturday evening, after the women had returned from the Varsity-Whit-tier game, everyone gathered around a bonfire on the beach, and Dr. Josephine Kennedy of the medical staff of the Los Angeles public schools gave a talk on “Harmonizing Impulses.” Afterwards, Gladys Lee, vice president of the student body, in speaking on the “Personality Girl,” said, “One of the things girls need not be afraid of is to be thought intellectual.” “The Need of Knowing the Value of Money,” was the theme of a talk given by Martha Jane Gooding, chairman of finances In the Y. W. C. A.
Sunday morning services were held In a woody glen by Allen Hunter, pastor of the Congregational church in Hollywood. He made a plea that the students attempt to have small intimate groups where everyone could learn of the best things in eath other.
PROBLEM SOLUTION IS BROUGHT FORTH
J. F. Thorpe, a professor of chemistry, has said that the two most serious problems confronting civilization today are the increase in the number of the books coming from the press, and the Increase in the area of cemeteries. He also stated that ‘^Cremation ls the remedy for the latter, but no one has ventured to suggest a means for stemming the tide of literary endeavor.”
HOLD NOMINATIONS AT SCHOOL OF LAW
Tonight, as a climax to a busy day at Law School—a day marked by the nominations of class officers —the senior class will “throw” a smoker in the gymnasium for the entire student body and the professors of Law School. The order of the evening’s entertainment will be food, boxing bouts, food, wrestling bouts, food, and a general get-together for all the classes. It will be the first opportunity for the student body to mix informally with the faculty. The entire student body is expected to be present, for the smoker will follow Immediately upon the adjournment of the regular Tuesday night practice court.