The Summer Session Tro, will be issued each Tuesday and Friday during the six-weeks session and will be distributed free to all students and faculty members from the Students’ Store, now located at the Y. M. C. A. Hut.
rfie South1
California
kJAN
Eleven o’clock of the morning preceding each issue of the Summer Session Trojan is the last possible hour for announcements, and matter which is received sooner will have greater consideration. Leave material at Mr. Huse’s officc.
VOLUME VI.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, August 5, 1927
NUMBER 12
RARE MANUSCRIPTS NOW ARE PHOTOGRAPHED BY NEW METHOD
Physics Professor, E. E. Morlan, Invents Methods Whereby Old Books Can Be Reproduced At Low Cost.
BY JEFFERY SMITH
A plan whereby exact copies of rare manuscripts and books may be circulated throughout the libraries of the world at a reasonably low cost has been discovered and is now being developed by Professor E. E. Morlan in connection with the Department of Physics of the University of Southern California.
The value of the plan lies in its simplicity and convenience as well as in its economical nature. The plan is to reduce photographs of each page or piece of manuscript to be reproduced to the size of a small finger nail. Consecutive photographs will then be assembled on plates about three by five inches in size. Having been properly labelled, the plates may be filed away in the library. When the student wishes to consult any of the photographed works, he simply takes them to a small research room where he may flash page after page on a convenient screen about eighteen inches square.
It has already been demonstrated by experiments conducted on the most intricate manuscripts available that the screen reproduction can be minutely accurate in every way.—far more so than the ordinary moving picture, the vibrations of which render accuracy impossible. The projection machine, according to the plans of the inventor, need only be the size of a moderately large book; and the pages man be “turned” automatically by the touch of a button.
As to the economy of the system, it is claimed that after the first copy has been made (at a cost of about hlty cents), duplicates can be made at from three to four cents a page. In contrast to this, the photostat method, whereby large reproductions of manuscripts are made on paper, costs about twenty-five cents a page. Under Morlan’s plan the entire issue of such a periodical as the Philosophical Review from its beginning in the eighteen hundreds could be reproduced for approximately fifty dollars. The value of this feature will be recognized by scholars in fields where research material of this nature is invaluable, and can only be obtained by travelling long distances and borrowing rare copies from a library which may happen to possess the material desired.
It has also been pointed out that it is difficult even for scholars who have already established their reputation to obtain certain manuscripts or books such as those contained in the Huntington Library or the British Museum. The value of the system in connection with such fields as that kof Art and Architecture in which numerous accurate copies of the masteries of the world are necessary, but [n only be obtained at high prices the present time.
Though Professor Morlan has worked on this plan from time to time during the past twenty years, this is
i
the first time that it has been presented to the public. In the words of Professor Rolan, “What we need now is funds to make supplant our laboratory equipment with machines for common use, and thus make the world of manuscripts and books ,now almost inaccessible, available to the ordinary student.” It is not the inventor’s plan to commercialize the scheme, for that would mean a higher cost of production, but simply to make his work a contribution to the cause of higher learning.
On
the
lk)okout
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
MANY COMPANIES AID MUSIC CLASSES THIS SUMMER
Loaning of Records and Music Rolls Said To Be a Valuable Help.
The Music Department wishes to acknowelege its indebtedness to the Victor Talking Machine Company for lending about 200 records for use in the Summer Session classes. Most of these records were sent direct from the factory in Camden, New Jersey; most of them are electrically recorded and some are of most recent releases.
Another company which has aided is Sherman Clay and Company who sent two Orthophonic Victrolas in the new school model. These are the first to be shown in Southern California.
The Birkel Music Company has loaned a Duo-Art reproducing piano and many of their finest rolls.
The Orchestra Department wishes to express their appreciation to the four music stores which have furnished instruments at very low rental for use in the Instrument and Orchestra classes. These stores refered to are-; Wurlitzer’s Music Company, Southern California Music Company, Birkel Music Company and Baxter and Northup.
Results of Summer Session.
Summer Session Professors Needed.
Gilmor Brown, a Builder. Farewell.
OLSON TO WRITE SPECIAL ARTICLE
Reuel L. Olson, professor of Law, University of Southern California, and author of “The oClorado River Compact,” which has received such favorable comment from educators and authorities over the country, recently received from Clyde L. King, editor of “The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,” a request to write an article on legal problems arising out of the use of the waters of the Colorado River. The article is to 'be used in the January, 1928, volume which will deal with the major inland waterway problems of the United States.
Another regular session of summer school is over, and what has been accomplished? There might be any number of different answers given, but the report of the Dean’s office is of tremendous importance. Figures from that office reveal the fact that four hundred credentials will be given out. These credentials represent hard work, and long endeavor on the part of the individuals receiving them.
While the summer’s school work is over for those enrolled in che six and eight weeks’ courses, three more weeks still remain for a number of students and faculty members. Monday, Post Session swings into being and a large number of students have already registered. The late three weeks’ course will offer over fifty courses given by well known authorities in their field. While the majority of courses will be" offered in education, others of unusual interest have been arranged and will start Monday.
ELABORATE COSTUMES FEATURE SHOWING OF ELIZABETHAN PLAY
“The Shoemaker’s Holiday” by Thomas Dekker To Be Shown This Morning in Bovard Auditorium.
BY HELEN SAUBER
Elaborate costumes, combined with a novel method of presenta-tiin wil be features of “The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” a play by Tomas Dekker, to be shown this morning in Bovard Auditorium at 10 o’clock, according to Gilmor Brown, director.
The play, which is a tale of the Elia-
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE NOW DIVIDED TO MEET NEEDS
Al Behrendt in Charge of New Undergraduate Dept.; Miss Weir in Charge of Alumnae.
By forming two distinct departments the Employment Bureau of the University expects to be better able
to cope with the needs of the students, according to Al Behrendt, director. One division will take over the vocational work for the graduate students while the other will secure positions for the undergraduates who wish part or full time employment. The necessity for the added service is due to the enormous increase in attendance.
The undergraduate department will be under the direction of Mr. Behrendt with the assistance of Jean Geis-singer, while Miss Edith Weir will have charge of the Alumnae department. It is the duty of the former division to interview the large business concerns of the city and to secure employment for the students. Sach applicant will be required to fill out a questionnaire.
Trojan Advertisers Save Your Money
NOTICES
CREDENTIALS FOR STUDENTS
Summer School students who expect to receive credentials at the close of their summer work are asked to meet in Bovard Auditorium, Friday, August 5, at 3:30 o’clock.
Trojan Oath Modeled After Athenean Youth
I pledge I will never bring disgrace to Southern California, my University, by any unsportsmanlike act, or dishonorable conduct in the classroom or on the field of competition.
I will fight for the ideals and sacred things of Troy, both alone and with many; I will revere and obey the traditions and do my best to incite a like respect and reverence in others who may be prone to annul or to set them at naught.
I will strive unceasingly to quicken the general sense of University unity and Trojan duty.
I pledge ever to remember that I am a Trojan and a keeper of the Trojan Spirit. Thus in all these ways, I will transmit this University greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to me.
In a recent issue of the Trojan there appeared an editorial headed, “The Power of Books.” This article called attention to that fact that Southern California is to have two new members in the department of philosophy next year. One of the new members is coming from England, making the third English professor that Southern California has had in the last three years. It is a fine idea on the part of the Administration to bring these men of letters from foreign lands and thereby instill new ideas and new thoughts in the minds of the student body. But we are of the opinion that the University could make no better move than to secure the services of some of the members of the 22nd. Summer Session faculty who are visiting professors from other institutions.
It is rather a hard thing to expect that this institution could take the best from other universities, but if several of the men and women who have made this Summer Session what it is, could only join the faculty of Troy, it would mean much. Very seldom has there been a group of educators assembled in one school at the same time, as there has been during the past eight weeks at S. C. They have been forced to work under the strain of having large classes and only a limited time in which to present their courses. Some of them have taught in rooms which suffered from the noise of street repair work and the construction of the Students’ Union. Even a few have returned on a Monday morning with red noses, from sunburn of course, (Continued on Page Three)
DR. W. F. RICE WRITES BOOK ON SPANISH
“An Outline of Spanish Grammar for College Students,” by Dr. William F. Rice of the Spanish Department has just come off the press.
In this book Dr. Rice has embodied his own personal method of teaching, a method which his students are said to have found to be exceptionally interesting, clear, and quickly grasped. Though the text is primarily for the use of adult students, it contains all of the essentials in regard to rules of grammar which a beginner needs to know, besides being supplemented with numerous exercises and a selected vocabulary.
Play Causes Change in Schedules Today
Presentation of Thomas Dekkar’s play, “The Shoemaker’s Holiday,” by members of the class in Play Production, University of Southern California, Mr. (Ulmor Brown, Director. Admission fee, 25 cents.
Class periods will be limited to thirty minutes. Classes will meet as follows:
(Keep this schedule for reference.)
Classes scheduled at 3:00 and 4:00 will meet 8:00 to 8:30.
Classes scheduled at 8:00 will meet 8:40 to 9:10.
Classes scheduled at 9:00 will meet 9:20 to 9:50.
Play, 10:00 to 12:00.
Classes scheduled at 12:00 will ‘meet 12:10 to 12:40.
Classes scheduled at 10:00 will meet 12:40 to 1:10.
Classes scheduled at 11:00 will meet 1:20 to 1:50.
Classes scheduled at 1:00 will meet 2:00 to 2:30.
Classes scheduled at 2:00 will meet 2:40 to 3:10.
Credential meeting at 3:15.
abethan period, centers about th© adventures of one Rowland Lacey, an army officer, who, for various reasons, takes on the disguise of a Dutch shoemaker. The part of Lacey ia played by Virgil Pinkley, and the leading feminine role, that of Rose, daughter of the Lord Mayor, is taken by Gertrude Prescott	\
A novel feature of “The Shoemaker’s Holiday” is that from the time of the opening curtain until the close of the play, the curtain does not fall. This is to preserve the atmosphere of the Elizabethan period when such methods were in vogue, states Brown. Prompting will likewise be done in a very novel manner.
Many of the characters have had a great many lines to learn in the perfection of their parts, H. H. Ziemer and Alma Baker being outstanding examples. In one scene, Miss Baker, in the role of Firk, a journeyman shoemaker, has twenty-five speeches. Zie-mer plays a difficult role, and much of the humor centers around him.
Several of the parts are being taken by dramatic teachers from other schools, and this fact lends color to the presentation because of their wide experience, states Brown.
Characters supporting the two leading roles are: King of England, John Dunn Martin; Earl of Cornwall, Bates Booth; Sir Hugh Lacey, C. D. Verin; Askew, nephew of Sir Hugh, Lena Walker; Lord Mayor of London, William M .Hamilton; Master Hammond, Andrew D .Shaw; Master Warner, Anna P. Jones; Master Scott, Catherine T. Scott; Lovell, a courtier, Eva Yorgesen; Simon Eyre, a shoemaker, H. H. Ziemer; Roger, called Hodge, Firk and Raph, journeymen shoemakers, Esther Cogswell, Alma Baker and John Altschul; a Dutch skipper, Helen Spencer; Dodger, a sneak, Chester A. TeaGarten; boy, Gwendolyn Bradshaw; another boy, Catherine Tapper; servant to Hammond, Helen Tapper; Sybil, Rose’s maid, Margaret Prein-inger; Marjorie, wife of Simon Eyre, Florence Hart Allen; and Jane, wife of Ralph, Miss Davis.
Assisting Mr. Brown as director is Maurice Wells. Mr. Wells has been for some time connected with the Pasadena Community Players. This is his third summer at Southern California.
Admission to “The Shoemaker's Holiday” will be twenty-five cents. The money will be used to defray the expenses for costumes, which are being secured from the Western Costume Company.
Four Hundred Students Receive Certificates
Four hundred students will receive certificates at the close of the Summer Session ,acording to the information given out by Dean Rogers’ office.
Of this number about 30 students will receive an Administrator’s credential, 30 Supervisory, 175 General Secondary, 1 Junior High School and* Kindergarten, 35 Special Certificates. Thirty-six are Renewals and 20 will receive their master’s degree in Education. These credentials will be given to the students at the regular Jnne Commencement exercises.
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE Special plays will be given during the month of August at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Gilmor Brown has selected plays which will be ot special interest to Trojan Summer School students. The four plays will feature various kinds of dramatics.