EL RODEO PICTURES
All members of the executive committee, presidents of the different schools, and the deans of all schools or colleges must have their individual pictures taken Wednesday at 3:00 P. M. Pictures are still being taken in the basement of the Men's Dormitory. All students who have had pictures taken must return their proofs or get them from the studio by Wednesday, as all work com-
Southern
California
Trojan
FRESHMEN DEBATERS
pleted to date must be cleared before the close of school.
Freshmen debaters will meet today in Hoose 305 at 5:00 P. M. with Coach Alan Nichols. All those failing to meet today will be dropped from the squad is the ultimatum of the coach. Plans for the debate scheduled will be discussed and final decision reached on the matter. Coach Nichols announces that this meeting is important and that every man who expects to make’ the squad must be present.
VOLUME XIX.
Los Angeles, California, londay, December 12, 1927
NUMBER 55
SET CLOSING DATE FOR BIDS TO ASILOMAR T CONFERENCE
Representatives of Western Universities To Be Present at Annual Affair; Twenty-three Students Sign To Attend; Will Convene December 26.
By RALPH FLYNN
The closing date for applications to join the delegation of Southern California students attending the Asilomar Conference of the Y. M. C. A. is Wednesday, according to the announcement of Glen Turner, secretary of the local “Y ’ organization. All students
Oakland Meeting | Elects La Porte New Secretary
Dr. Bovard of Oregon Honored by Election to the Presidency of Directors.
Returning from a meeting at Oakland, Dec. 2 and 3, of the Pacific Coast Society of Directors of Physical Edu-
who wish to attend the conference this year must file applications cation in Colleges, Professor. W. R. by this date in order that the approximate size of the Trojan delegation can be known to make accommodations for this number.
An especial honor is accorded the*-University in having the chairman of
the conference, Don Bailey, as one of its students. Bailey was president of the local “Y” last year, and while at Asilomar during the last Christmas vacation, he was elected to chairmanship of this year's gathering. He was also appointed as a member of the field council of the national Y. M. C. A-The conference will be held from Monday, December 26, until Tuesday, January 2, the day classes reconvene. The delegations from seventeen major colleges of the West and from many junior colleges will meet at Asilomar campus near Monterey Bay to discuss student problems, to develop solutions to problems peculiar to different institutions, and to form new friendships. Morley Drury, Bill Henley, Stanley Hopper, Elwood Harmon, and other students of prominence in campus affairs were among the delegation from Troy last year.
The committee in charge of preparations has set its goal at a delegation of twenty-five. Twenty-three students have been signed up already, giving promise of a larger delegation than was expected. Stanley Hopper, Elwood Harmon, and Gordon Pace are among the students from Southern California who are repeating this year.
Such eminent men as Stewart P. MacLennan, traveller, lecturer and preacher; Kirby Page, writer and lecturer; and David Starr Jordan, expresident of Stanford University and
S. C. ENGINEERS NEED EQUIPMENT
Buildings, Laboratories, Instruments Needed For Colege of Engineering.
(Editors Note: This is another of the series of articles for the essay contest on ‘‘Needs of the University”. The subject matter speaks for itself.)
New buildings and equipment are needed to match the high standard of instruction offered by tbe five departments which may some day become the College of Engineering.
Inasmuch as tbe interests of the community as well as those of the university will be gferved by the establishment at Southern California of a well-equipped college of engineering. It is essential that the pressing needs of the engineering departments be recognized and met in the near future. The present Pharmacy building was constructed as the first unit of a Science and Engineering building to occupy the entire block. Presumably the remaining two units of the structure will be built whenever the university has sufficient funds to do so. An endowment of some kind would probably be necessary, inasmuch as the cost of such a building could hardly be met otherwise. A separate engineering building has also been pro-
a prominent educator and reformer" | P°sed- and awaits *e pessary funds will be present at the meetings.
Applications and information may
L#aPorte, head of the Physical Educa- j tion Department at the University of Southern California, was signally hon- j ored by being chohen secretary of that organization. Dr. Bovard of Oregon university was re-elected president.
At the meeting, Professor LaPorte delivered a report on “The Standardization and Graduation of the Activity Content of Required Work in Colleges”. The purpose of the organization is to discuss mutual problems of organization and administration in the departments of physical education in the various Pacific coast colleges and to promote research work in the field.
Professor LaPorte is prominent in the field of physical education, and is a recognized authority on the subject. Besides being head of the department of physical education at the University of Southern California, he is the author of several books on the subject. His election as secretary of the Pacific Coast Society of Directors of Physical Education is a tribute to the University of Southern California as well as a personal tribute to Prof. La-Porte.
Among the institutions represented at the conference were: Washington State College, University of Oregon, Oregon Agricultural College, Reed College, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Pomona College, San Diego State Teachers’ College, San Jose Teachers’ College, and the University of Southern California.
be procured from Glen Turner in the Y. M. C. A. Hut. Any student is eligible to attend whether he is a member of the Y. M. C. A. or not.
AVIATION SCHOOL PLANNED AT S. C.
for construction.
As now organized, there are five principal courses in engineering at Southern California, leading to a bachelor’s degree in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical and petroleum engineering. At the present time chemical engineering is a subdivision of the Department of Chemistry, and petroleum engineering is a part of the Department of Geology, while the other three courses are given by independent departments of the College of Liberal Arts. The only engineering laboratory now possessed by the university is in
Taking the lead over major institutions of learning in this country, the University of Southern California has
just announced the establishment of a course in aeronautics, to be desig- the department of electrical engineer-nated as “Commercial Aviation”.	ing and contains an oscillograph (a
To be given first at University Col- gift of the General Electrical Com-lege, in convenient late afternoon and i pany) for research purposes. During
evening classes, during the winter quarter, tentative plans call for the addition of this course to the curriculum in the College of Commerce and Business Administration on the campus, in the fail of 1928. While courses dealing with technical phases of flight
theory and airplane construction have leum engineering, the university has
been offered by other universities, this is said to be the first instance of a major institution of learning offering a full-credit university course devoted exclusively to the economics of aircraft in commerce.
Until recently, no reliable literature has been available upon this ubject, that which had been written having been based upon unscientific findings and unfounded theory. However, with the establishment in this country, during the past two years, of several privately-owned airplane transportation companies, aeronautics has been taken from the field of the spectacular and introduced into the field of business, makirig available data upon which scientific conclusions can be based. Such>data will be given students of the course by nationally recognized men In the field of commercial aero-
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nauticfe, in a series of lectures. This will make available at S. C. for the first rime, complete and authentic Information on this new subject.
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GERMAN CLUB
The German Club will meet tomor-rom night at the Alpha Nu Delta house, 1125 West 30th Street. A Christmas play and other holiday features will be included in the program.
Initiation
For Writers Tomorrow
Formal initiation of the seven Pi Delta Epsilon pledges who were pub-lically introduced in chapel Friday, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Gamma Epsilon house, Hal Silbert. president of the honorary, announced Friday.
The seven men are Herschel Bonham, Morgan Cox, Ralph Flynn, Bob Kranz, Dave Bryant, Bill Harvey, Earl Culp and Prof. Roy L French. The latter is to be made an honorary member of the organization.
A formal dinner for the seven new initiates is to be given at the Casa Felipe tomorrow night, Silbert said. All members and the new initiates will be present at the affair.
The national honorary journalism affair, according to Silbert, has become better known on the campus this year, more than at any other time. Capable service of two years on a college journalistic publication, as well as service in an editorial capacity and a marked interest in journalism are the requirements for admission to the national group.
Silbert has a number of important plans for meetings in the immediate future. A joint meeting with Sigma, women’s professional fraternity, is unified educative effort in this field at planned in the near future. Jim Tully, S C. It is true that the instruction, weH known writer may be the speaker not the buildings, make the college; at this affair. Efforts to secure him but buildings and equipment do aid in as the guest of honor already are unmaking the instruction more practical d^r way. and of greater re-sale value, as engin- !
SKELETONS RATHE IN RAZZBERRY
Dirt On Campus Notables Feature Pi Delt Razz Sheet.
BY LIRAINE YOUNG
Featuringrt, diit, and MORE dirt, the Pi Delt *z sheet, annua] “maker and breaker)! reputations, appeared Friday in a sctacular garb of green. The isue wjof such “warmth” that some sixzli: sparks are still being felt by 3om*f the “burnt-up” prominent campiprominents.
By fairsans or foul, details of each andery campus scandal found itsay into the hands of the staff 1 it was only through lack of s:e that some were overlooke A more than usual amount cruth was evident in some of tarticles, but the inevitable exjeration and misrepre-sentationr the sake of effect, which chcterizes every issue of this typeas obviously present.
YEOW JOURNAL Fifteen hired copies circulated on the campuid more than their duty in spreadiBome inside information, written in 3 startling “yellow journalism” st of the scandal monger. According some individuals, it pays to have ^ear past—or to be in good stanc with the Pi Delts. Hard and earn* labor was expended by the pledgioth in gathering, preparing, and anging the copy to the best advage. The staff was forced to remaintil 2:30 tb» night previ ous to tbsue and the printers were not finis until after six the next morning order to have the issue out at tpzpected time.
From : wealth cf material which presentitself, it was a difficult matter to ose the jueiest bits. Some of the y relegated to the wastebasket 3 decidedV mort startling, but it < not meet with the requirements the issue vhich was one of the cle:st ones ofits type.
“End* copy wa; turned in to fill eight jes if we lad wanted to do so,” std Bill Foie, editor-in-chief, "so ontbe best art most interesting was pted. Anyon who feels slighted by ving their pt scandal left out will kily save it or the next razzberry.’
DIRT suprises
Whe the inside din” came from is thquestion wit more than one indivie.1, sororityand fraternity, who bught they id their family “skelens” carefull hidden in the darke closets. Busecrets will out and sae of the afteeffects of the issue Wi be felt for sie time to come.
Witzel Wants All FRATERNITIES WIN SKIRMISH El Rodeo Photos | AGAINST COMPLAINING OWNERS
In By Wednesday
Finished Pictures and Proofs Are To Be Returned By Students Before Vacation.
As a final announcement before the close of school for the Christmas holidays, the campus branch of Witzel’s studio states that all people who have had pictures taken must call for their proofs or return those which have been taken from the studio, and receive all finished pictures before Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.
All members of the executive committee are urged to have their pictures taken before Wesdnesday so that the section of the book in which their page appears can be made up and sent to the engravers and printers during the Christmas holidays.
All organizations on the campus that intend to have representation in the book must make reservation of space with the busines manager, Hersch/I Bonham, immediately if they wish to appear in the book. Gmup pictures should be aranged for through Herschel Bonham and Mr. Ward, the campus photographer.
Progress on the year book in the preliminary stages has been very good and the campus has responded very
PI DELT ‘RAZZ’ FEATURES RALLY
Pledges of Journalism Group Are Publicly Announced.
Seven aspirant journalists were pub-lically initiated into Pi Delta Epsilon, national journalistic honorary, during the rally period Friday morning. While they sold the annual Razzberry Harold Grayson’s band, led by Rube Wolf, gave several reditions of peppy music.
Finally, to satisfy the curoius campus, the names of the new Pi Delt pledges were announced. They are Morgan Cox, Hershal Bonham, Ralph
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satisfactorily in the last few weeks to i ri^„OT,f j TJ . . T.
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the call for todlvldml pictures. ft.r- L Prench was made hon
ing the next two weeks as much of the j memb<,,. 0( ,he traternit
book as contains material which is
complete will be put through the fin- Morgan Cox during his several
ishing process.
During the Christmas vacation Bryant will be aided by Karmi Wykcoff and Lee Sargent in the preparation of all material available to date to be
sent to the printers. Individual cuts nf navp n_T”,“v	,
will be sent ,o the gravers so that ‘ „ ,13 ,1.	* * P“,
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of the annual will be written and sent to the printers and will probably be ready for dummying immediately after vacation.
The art work for the entire book is
practically finished as far as the orig- Another night editor of the Trojan
inal drawings are concerned. The only thing left now, states Mr. Bryant, is to se the results which will be submitted by the engravers. These will be seen and passed upon during the vacation and will clear the way for detail work during the first of the year and the next semester.
the past summer this instrument was in use practically every night on investigations being caried on by the department and also on a research problem under investigation by engineers of the Bureau of Power and Light. In this field, as in the field of petro-
an opportunity to render a unique service to the industries of the Southland, a service which it will be in an even better position to render if adequate equipment ia installed.
- The basement of Old College and the one-story frame structures now housing the department of geology and part of the engineering equipment are all that the school of engineering can claim as the physical evidence of a
eering graduates will testify.
PRICE PRAISES DRURY
Berkeley, Dec. 10—Nibs Price, California coach, witnessed the Washington-Southern California game before returning to Berkeley from his trip East where he scouted Pennsylvania. California’s New Year opponent on Dec. 31 and he had some nice things to say about Drury and the Trojans.
“Drury was every bit an all-American in that game”, he said. “The U. S. C. team functioned perfectly and is one of the greatest teams in the country and perhaps the best on the coast”
RECOGNIZE PI SIGMA
At the last meeting of the Faculty Committee on Student Organizations, recognition was granted to Pi Sigma, a local professional organization in the College ot Education. The group Is sanctioned by Dean Rogers and Mrs. McKee. This action carries with it permission for Pi Sigma to become a chapter of Pi Kappa Sigma, a national
organization of similar type.
KNIGHT PICTURES
Trojan Knights will meet In front of Old College Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock for the El Rodeo picture. Cords and sweaters must be worn.
FA1EWELL 'INNER JONORSiTONlERS
Asi bon voyage c'tesy to Mr. and Mrs. larold Stonieno are to leave soon o make their he In New York, the los Angeles Airtising Asociation ntertained wit dinner in their honoi Wednesday eing, Dec. 7, at the Woman's Atbc Club. Mrs. Josepiine Clancy ce, University Edito* at the Univty of Southern Califcrnia, is presid of the association and Mrs. Stcr is ''ne of its founders.
Fa\ors and decoms appropriate to the occasion wered, with a long train of cars extencdown the center of the dinner ti leaving at its rear a tiny Californmgalow in the midst of an orangehard, while in front of the engine entirely different scene of skysfers and snow represented the futlocation of the Stoniers. Money b filled with candy money were as favors, significant of Mr. Sto* new office as educaUonal directo the American Institute of Banker which he is leaving his post £e-president of the University of Sern California.
Dan Gridley, terras guest soloist at. the dinner Miss Evelyn Kemp, concert pi- als° participated in the progrjA. trio from the Women's Glee CltfS. C. composed of the Misses EdiPgerfelt, Zaruhi Elmassian and Pf Mather, sang a group of songs. * bowery dance was cleverly execby Ruthie Price and Richard Fagg
Drury, Jones Honored By Breakfasters
Another host was added to the gath-t ering multitude of admirers of the S. C. football team, when the Breakfast Club bad the entire tpam for guests this morning between eight and ten. On this occasion, Drury -and Hibbs, were made honorary members of the club.
Harold Stonier spoke at the meeting and as a token of esteem in which the club holds him, he was presented with a desk set, the main feature of which was elephants both large and small.
For entertainment, Carroll Sandholt, sometimes but not familiarly known as “Tiny,” and the Men’s Glee Club pre-senteil a well-received program.
First Court Litigation is Won by Defendants; Suit Promises To Be Long Drawn Out Battle Between Fraternities and Property Owners.
By LEON SCHULMAN The fraternities won the preliminary skirmish in the long legal litigation facing them, when the court sustained the demurrer to the property owners' complaint. The property owners received only a temporary set-back, however, since the court only ruled that the complaint was defective in form, and declared that the plaintiff might have twenty days to amend it correctly.
* According to the ruling, the complaint was defective in that it sought to Join two actions that could only be maintained separately. The two actions that were improperly joinert ▼ere the action on the basis that the fraternity house as it is now operated constitutes a common law nuisance, and that a fraternity house is not a single family dwelling within the meaning of the zoning ordinance, and therefore could not be operated in Zone A.
COMPLAINT AMENDED In all probability, the complaint will be amended before the expiration of the twenty days, at which time the court will determine if the amendmeni is satisfactory, and if the demurrer again should be sustained. Should the complaint be amended satisfactorily and the demurrer over ruled, then the case will be set for trial. On the other hand, if either process fails of accomplishment, then the case will be dismissed, and if the property owners still want to continue the litigation, they will have to start a completely new suit, subject to the discouragement oil a false start and an unfortunate, for them, precedent.
The counsel for the defendant, the Delta Chi fraternity, the attorneys for the other fraternities, the administration attorney, and a prominent member of the S. C, Law School faculty have met together for the purpose of consultation, and it is expected, from the combined results of research and active legal machinations, that it will be a hard row to hoe, indeed, to oust the fraternities from their homes. Dean Waugh, general fraternity adviser, and Warren Bovard, vice-president of the University, have both stated for their opinions that the fraternities will not have to move, come what may.
So far, the zoning committee of the City Planning Commission has failed to take any definite action outside of sending an inspector around to the houses in question. It is probable that the City Planning Commission will not take any immediate action until the court gives its decision as to the status of the fraternity house. This is apparently the first time that this problem has come up in California, and wide interest is following the case throughout the state. It is even reported that visiting football teams from out of the state have heard much of the suit and showed much curiosity as to its outcome.
year’s stay on the campus has held various positions on publications. At present he is one of the associate editors of the Alumni Review and a feature editor of the Wampus.
El Rodeo work has occupied much
Commerce editor of the Trojan.
NIGHT EDITOR
Ralph Flynn has done reporting work on the Trojan and 1s now one of the night editors of that publication
that has been accorded the honor of becoming a Pi Delta Epsilon is Bob Kranz. He, also, served as a reporter last year.
Hershal Bonham, one of the most versatile men on the campus, is the present business manager of the El Rodeo and worked ln the capacity T)f desk editor of the Trojan previously Earl Culp has risen from assistant business manager of the Trojan to the position of business manager this year.
The assistant sport editor of the Trojan and chairman of the student publication committee, Bill Harvey, wa3 also pledged Pi Delt at this time.
Besides selling the Razz during the Rally In the auditorium the pledges paraded the campus in their convict outfits for the rest of the day. Slugs of type were hung around each man’s neck designating their name and Pi Delt pledgeship.
Heras To Lecture For Public Library Course
As one of a series of free lectures In Spanish offered by the Foreign Book Department of the Los Angeles Public Library, Professor Heras of the Spanish Department will give a talk on Saturday evening, Dec. 17, at 8 o’clock at the Public Library at 5th and Hope Streets. Professor Heras will lecture on the subject of “Las Novelas de Felix Urubayen.” Felix Urubayen, one of the newer Spanish writers, is just j coming into prominence as one of the foremost Spanish authors.
On April 21, Dr. William F. Rice, head of the Spanish Department of this university, will deliver a lecture ; on Jose Santos Chocano at the same : place.
FACULTY WIVES HOLD YULE FETE
The annual Christmas party of the Faculty Wives’ Club of the University of Southern California was held.Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 7 at the picturesque home of Mrs. M. F. Wills.
Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid is president of the club and the Ghrist-mas meeting was in charge of Trojan faculty wives from the departments of Commerce, Economics, History. Law and Political Science. Mrs. Reid McClung, wife of the new dean of the S.
C. College of Commerce was head of the committee, assisted by Mrs. Justin Miller, wife of the new Law School dean, who was in charge of the refreshments; Mrs. Earl W. Hill who arranged the musical program, Mrs.	— —■
Emery E. Olson, Mrs. Paul W. Jones i has an actlve membership of one hu
- —	“ ------------dred- Trowel, the Masonic fraternltj
of the College of Dentistry, is joining
THOMPSON TALKS BEFORE MASONS
Saying that there 1s every possibility of a Masonic club house being erected on this campus, Judge Ira Thompson of the Los Angeles Court of Appeals addressed the Masonic Club of this University at its banquet last Thursday evening.
The banquet was held at the Mona Lisa Cafe and Judge Thompson, who Is chairman of the Masonic Educational Committee, was the principal speaker besides being guest of honor. His discussion centered around organization and the possibilities of having a club house on this campus. Jud^> Thompson was head of the house campaigns on the campuses of the University of California and the Univ<«f-sity of California at Los Angeles. \
The Masonic Club of the UnlvesJ sity of Southern California is at pretj ent in the process of organization arf
and Mrs. Clarence V. Gilliland.
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Directed by Mrs. Ethel Boothe who conducts the West Adams Methodist choir, a group of Christmas carols were sung by the Harmony Four, including Misses Helen Watson, Helen Boothe, Dorothy Little and Florence Thompson. Mrs. Boothe also sang a solo number accompanied by Mrs. Earl W. Hill.
the Masonic Club. Dean Ford of th# Dental College is a very promineni Mason and is interested in having a Masonic dedication for the new Student Union building.
Harold Kispert, chairman pro tem of the organization, stated that all campus Masons interested are invited to attend the regular meetings.