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Tickets For “You and 1“ Go On Sale Today. All-U. Plan Submitted To Administration Call For Speeches on the Constitution. Deputations Skit Travels to Citrus Union Today. German Publication Recognizes S. C. Rooters.
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The Spirit of T roy
“The fraternity is the best way out of the problem of campus cliques. We take the stand that there will be groupings of ‘kindred spirits’, let them be organized and so under control/’
The Old Trojan's Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 8, 1927
NUMBER 96
CONTESTANTS ASKED FOR SPEECHES
March 21 is Deadline For Manuscripts For National Oratorical Contest.
$1500 AWARD
Winner Will Represent S. C. in Semi-Finals; Sponsored Better American Ass’n.
I hat all copies of manuscripts for the National Oratorical Contest, which is to he held Friday, March 25, are due on Monday, March 21. before 3 :15, was the announcement of Bill Henley, of the Debate and Oratory department.
The manuscripts are to be the written form of the speeches that will be delivered in the contest and are to be on the subject of the constitution. The speeches cannot be longer than ten minutes.
These manuscripts will be kept on file in the oratory department for reference in case of misunderstanding, will be examined by faculty members who teach oratory and not by those who will serve as judges later.
No student will be allowed to compete in the contest whose work in th* manuscript form has not been turned in at the specified time, according to Henley.
The winner of the contest on March 25 will represent the University of Southern California in the semi finals of Southern California colleges to be held in April. The next group for competition will be the Pacific Coast district, in which the winner will represent the Southland.
The national finals will follow these and will be held in Los Angeles again this year. The final winner will receive the $1500 award. The contest is sponsored by the Better American Federation whose purpose is to acquaint students with the Constitution and to give them a clear understanding of its principles through study and by competitive work.
Tickets for “You and I” Go On Sale at Student Store
Sale Begins Today; Entire Lower Floor and Balcony To Be Reserved; Special Booth To Be Assigned.
Tickets for the play “You and 1” will go on sale this morning at the Associated Students’ Store, according to Ray Pinker, play production manager.
Seats for “You tnd I” will be priced at 50 and 75 cents. The entire lower floor and balcony of Bovard' Auditorium will be reserved. The tickets will be on sale at the Associated Students’ Store every day from 8:00 to 5:00.
“Blocks of seats are being held for fraternities, sororities and other campus organizations ujitil 10:00 o’clock Thursday morning, and at that time ! the blocks of seats reserved which have not been called for will be thrown open to the students and the
public,” stated Mr. Pinker.
“Every effort is being made by the Students’ Store to facilitate the buying of these tickets by the student body. A special booth will be assigned to the sale of “You and 1” tickets, where students may reserve tickets,” continued Mr. Pinker.
Plans for the stage settings of the plan are well under way, while the scenery is already ordered from a prominent Los Angeles studio. Almost all of the preliminary arrangements to make the play a success are finished, and when Friday night comes, the student body will see the best production presented so far this year, according to the play production manager.
SORORITIES MEET TOjCONCERT AND DANCE DISCUSS REES i TO BE FEATURED
FOR RUSHING
To Submit Decision on Second Semester Rushing To Administration.
Only eight sororities were represented Monday noon when members of Pan-Hellenic met to discuss the possibility of second semester rushing.
It was decided that the question should be discussed in the sorority houses at the next regular meeting.
“It is to be hoped,” stated Ruth Burns, president, “that Pan-Hellenic will decide to take a stand on the matter so that its resolution can be turned over to the administration.” A motion was also made and passed to place the Pan-Hellenic accounts in with the regular university accounts. Hitherto the funds and accounts have been handled solely by the organization.
ENGINEERING DINNER WILL BE BIG EVENT
Sigma Phi Delta House Will Be Scene of All-Engineer Banquet Wednesday.
Plans have been completed for yie all-engineering dinner which is to be held at the Sigma Phi Delta house on Wednesday, March 16. The committee have been busy since the first of the semester, according to Ralph Flynn, and are attempting to make this one of the big events of the engineering year.
It is the plan to have several short talks by prominent men in and out of the field of engineering and to present several humorous sketches by professional artists.
In the past the dinners have been held at some campus cafe, but it is thought that a larger and more representative gathering can be had by holding the affair at a fraternity house.
ART MANAGER OF FOSTER, KLEISER TO TALK AT CLUB
That a talk by Otis Shepard, art manager of Foster and Kleiser, will be a feature of the next meeting of Southern California’s Advertising Club was announced yesterday by Robert Riddle, president. The meeting will be held tomorrow evening at 6:15 at the Twin Cedars Inn. Besides the talk by Mr. Shepard, music will be furnished by two members of the club, Bill Stewart and Don Parker.
The latest activity of the Advertising Club is that of handling all publicity for the play, “You and I," which is to be presented Friday.
“The work is affording valuable experience for those men and women who are interested in advertising as well as helping to make the play a financial success,” said Mr. Riddle.
BY MUSICIANS
Program To Be Given Tonight At Highland Theatre; Dance At Oakmont Country Club.
The combined Glee Clubs and the Band will be featured in two events, according to Hal Roberts, director of Musical Organizations, this week.
Tonight the entire department will be presented at the High land Park Theater through the Kiwanis Club of Highland Park, and Friday night they will give a dance at the Oakmont Country Club.
Ail members of the department will be guests of Harold Roberts and the University. The spirit of the dance is to bring the members together as a way of introduction and friendship,
states Roberts
The program to be presented at the Highland Theatei by the Band will be: -The U. S. Artillery March,” “The Bridal Rose Overture,” “Cavalry Charge,” and “The Whistler and His Dog.” The Men’s Glee Club under the direction of J. Arthur Lewis will sing ‘‘To Arms,” “The Volga Boatman,” and “A Little Close Harmony.” The S. C. Womens Glee Club will sing “Oh, Irish Hills,” “The Bridal Chorus from Rose Maiden,” and “The Lilac Tree.”
Among the solos and feature numbers will be a pianologue by Ix>rain Lewis, a trumpet solo by Stillman Wells, several numbers by the orchestra under the management of Bill Ward, the Alan sisters will sing a few popular numbers and Berwyn Riske will sing “Morning,’ by Olev Speaks.
Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Students’ Store or the Glee Club office for seventy-five cents.
FROSH MAY PAY DUES AT STORE; TICKETS LIMITED
Freshman class officers have announced that all the class dances and other social affairs will be free to those members who have paid their class dues. Payment may be made at the ticket office in the Students’ Store.
Only 800 tickets have been issued, and, as there are 1200 freshmen, those who pay first will be the la-vored ones. The dues are 50 cents. Five major social events have been planned by the Social Committee for the semester. Those who do not pay their dues in time to receive a ticket will be forced to pay admission to these events.
VOICE CLASSES WILL BE GIVEN AT METROPOLITAN
Two classes in voice instruction, beginning and advanced, are being offered by Metropolitan College, for the spring quarter, March 14 to June 11. Arnold H. Wagner, professor of singing and music education in Southern California, will conduct those classes which are to deal with scientific and psychological principles involved in voice training, applying the theories advanced to Italian and English songs.
The class in voice for beginners will be held Monday from 4:10 to 6:30 p. m.; the advanced class, entitled “Organization. Objectives, and Supervision of Music.” required for music supervisor’s credential, will be conducted by Mr. Wagner on Thursday evenings at 7:10 o’clock. Another advanced voice training class to be in charge of Mr. Wagner will meet on Thursday afternoon irom 4:10 to 6:30 p. m.
INFORME DINNER TO HONOR W5.GA
Women’s Residence Hall To Entertain: Musical Program To Follow Dinner.
Women’s Residence Hall will entertain the officers of the Women’s Self-Government Association Wednesday evening with an informal dinner which will be followed by a musical program.
The guests will be Eleanor Mix, president; Betty Farmer, vice-president: Polly Black, secretary: Vivian Murphy, treasurer, and Ruth Carr, activity chairman.
Gail King and Louise Gillies will furnish the music for the evening.
GAMMA LAMBDA EPSILON
Members of Gamma Lambda Epsilon will meet next Tuesday in the Glee Club office.
A contest, “Do girls have to pet to be popular?” is being sponsored by the Daily at the University of Washington.
The idea of a monthly interfraternity magazine has been squelched by the interfraternity council at the University of Washington.
DR. H. WILDON CARR SPEAKS AT MEETING
“The New Idea of the Physical Universe” is the subject of the paper to be presented before the Argonauts, philosophy club, by Dr. H. Wilson Carr at the meeting on Thursday.
Dr. Carr was formerly of the department of philosophy at the University of London. He is the author of “The General Theory of Relativity in its Philosophical and Historical Aspects,” “A Theory of Monads,” “The Scientific Approach to Philosophy,” and numerous other books, and is an internationally known authority.
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Dr. Bruce Curry has come and gone. We attended several of his meetings and went away feeling fully justified for the endorsement given him a week or so before his arrival. He is a deep thinker with an engaging person ality that enables him to stimulate others to think. Probably that is the thing that has gained for him the place that he now occupies, his ability to stimulate others to think for themselves.
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And having paid him this tribute it is quite fair to him to say that on at least one point he stimulated us to thought—in which we differed from him. He did not suggest a solution for the ‘fraternity problem," but he did say that he thought our American college fraternal system wrong because of its exclusiveness. That is, he believes the fraternities are an evil by virtue of the fact that they automatically exclude certain students. In their place he made such general suggestions as groups organized on the basis of common interests and talents, but not living together nor taking exclusive vows. Or, said he, we might have the Oxford plan in which the students live in dormitories and have loyalties to their lodges, thus admitting every student to membership in some group.
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He discussed several other plans being tried in this country, among them the Illinois system, whereby there are fraternities enough so that everyone may join. He also spoke of the Wellesley system of having activity groups into which the girls partially invite themselves. That is, each entering girl signifies the group she prefers and then the bids are given from each one to some among the freshmen women who have signified a desire to affiliate with the particular group. This is obviously a compromise system and intended only to make the groups more congenial. It has no bearing on what is said to be the fundamental problem of fraternalism, snobbery.
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We disagree with Dr. Curry to the extent that we believe the fraternity is the best way out of the natural problem of college cliques. We take the stand that there will be groupings of “kindred spirits,” let them be organized and so under control. In this way their group pride can be appealed to and they can be made a positive force for good. An institution like this, without an extensive campus and dormitory system, is very much indebted to fraternities for its progress.
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But we have no defense for some of the evils that have grown out of the system. The fraternity man who thinks his pin makes him a better man than the fellow next to him without one is just plain blind, that’s all. Fraternal membership may be an opportunity but never a badge of superior-(Continued on Page Two)
Cast to Present Skit at Citrus High School
Deputations Skit To Fill Fourth Engagement This Morning.
Filling their fourth engagement, the Deputations Skit cast travels to Citrus Union High School this morning to present “What Is College?” Ray Hatfield will substitute for Bud Pentz at the piano, and^Meldrien Burrill and Rosita Hopps will be* the speakers of the program.
The music, vocal solos, and dialogue of the skit have passed the censorship of a committee composed of members of the school of speech faculty and Ray McDonald, chairman, who has charge of all university dramatic presentations.
Two banjo soloists, a pianist, two speakers and nine members of the cast compose the group that travels to various high schools to present to high school students the more humorous side of college life.
Germans Use Print of Trojan Rooters In “Die Woche”
In the latest copy of "Die Woche,” a German magazine, is a reprint of a picture of the Trojan rooting section of the Stan-ford-S. C. game, showing the “war horse” in action.
The caption states that the pictured group is representative of the American college rooting section. The picture is a large one, occupying about half a page. “Die Woche” is published in Berlin, Germany.
The fact that pictures of the Trojan rooting section have reached Europe shows that its fame is now international. Its national fame was shown when the book, “Just Yells,” recently appeared, containing in the part devoted to rooting sections, only pictures from S. C.
GLEE CLUB PROGRAM IS PRESENTED AT FIRST CHURCH
Band and Clubs To Give Classical and Collegiate Program At Church Sunday Evening.
Presenting a program which blended the classical with the collegiate, the combined Glee Clubs of Southern California and the Trojan band were heard at the First Methodist Church Sunday evening.
The program was opened by two selections by the band, under the direction of Hal Roberts, director of
Musical Organizations of Southern
California.
The men’s and women’s glee clubs sang several numbers directed by J. Arthur Lewis. Among these were “To Arms,” “The Moon Drops Low.” "Heart of the Hills,” “Oh, Irish Hills,” a Londonderry air, and “The Radiant Morn Hath Passed Away,” rendered by. the combined clubs, and accompanied on the organ by Pauline Mather. Kenneth Crawford accompanied the men’s glee club.
Bernice Palmer, assistant feature editor of the Daily Trojan, gave two readings, “The Threshold” and “Finis.”
The program was concluded by the two clubs singing a “College Mel-ley,” an arrangement by Charles M. Fielder and Hal Roberts .accompanied by the Trojan band, under the combined direction of Hal Roberts and J. Arthur Lewis. This number
was dedicated to Mr. Warren Finley Bovard.
FEW INFRINGEMENTS STILL REPORTED FOR PARKING
University Officials Aim To Make Student Government More Effective By Co-operation.
In a survey of the new traffic problem as now instituted, there still seem to be some cases of infringement of the parking rules by students during the noon hour and on rainy days.
According to Warren Bovard, comptroller, the attitude of the University officials is not one of hostility, but to make student self-government more effective. As a rule, those students who break the rules do not see that they are not playing the game striaght and are bringing down upon the University much undeserved criticism.
Red Dales reports that there have been very few cases as yet, and it seems that so far the co-operation of the students has improved. It only remains to see as time goes on whether the students will become careless again.
As an expression of student opinion. Red and Hank have stated that they find that the student drivers do not favor dismissal from classes for second offense, but rather that their driving license be taken away for a month or so.
ALL U-RALLIES TO BE HELD IN FUTURE
President Accepts Petition Submitted By Rally Committee Last Week.
EXCHANGE RALLIES
Traditional Programs To Be Included in New Schedule.
That the petition of the Rally Committee, submitted to the president last week, has been granted with a few qualifications, is the statement of Harold Stonier, executive secretary.
The petition has to do with the arrangement of certain student body rallies and programs which are of such traditional character and of such importance to the student body as to warrant a sacrifice of class time to effect their continuance.
Tentatively the nrograms are as follows: An exchange program with the University of California in Los Angeles; an all-University meeting for the recognition of spring sports and for entertainment; the traditional Ames Cup debate; pledging of the all-University honor fraternities; nomination of student body officers; and installation of the new officers and the award of athletic sweaters.
An example of the success of exchange rallies with other Southern California colleges was given Friday when for the first time in many weeks the auditorium was crowded to capacity when Pomona presented a varied program to the assembled student body.
The first meeting of the new schedule will be held Thursday, March 10, in the form of class meetings, unless statement to the contrary is made, according to Arthur Syvertson, chairman of the student Rally Committee.. The freshmen will meet in Bovard Auditorium, the sophomores in Touchstone, the juniors in Hoose 305, and the seniors in Hoose 206.
Notices
All aotlm rnnat be brought to the Trojan office at 71« Wnl Jcffcraon St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4.122. Notices moat be limited to .*18 word a.
DEPUTATIONS COMMITTEE
The Deputations Committee will meet at 12:30 today in the off'ce of the student body president.
PI SIGMA
Members of Pi Sigma will meet today at 9:00 o’clock in S-251.
FRESHMEN
All freshmen must pay this semester’s dues today. Dues are 50 cents and will be collected by class officers and the box office in the bookstore.
SIGMA SIGMA
All members of Sigma Sigma will meet for the selection of new members at 12:20 today in the student body president’s office.
LITERARY SOCIETIES TO HAVE PROGRAMS THIS EVENING
Womens Societies To Have Tryouts and Examinations; Men To Have Play Reviews.
Literary Societies will hold their weekly business meetings tonight in their respective places. Following the business meetings, programs will be given of a varied nature.
Comitia will hold its meeting in the Y. M. C. A. Hut. The program will consist of a report on “The Miracle Ply” by Lincoln Laws, the “Humor of Mark Twain” by George Peterson, and the “Church vs. State in Mexico” by Elric Anderson.
The program for Aristo, meeting in H-305, will be the reading of the con eluding installment of the original melodrama entitled “The Curse of the Romanoffs” by Robert Galsworthy Webster. The joke contest will be continued and impromptu speeches and parliamentary drill will complete the program, according to Barnett Eby, president.
HAROLD STONIER SPEAKS IN EAST
Is Attending Detroit Conference As Advertising Club Representative.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMA
Kappa Kappa Gamma will hold a luncheon meeting today at 12:15 in the Cottage Tea Room.
JUNIOR BASKETBALL TEAM
Men interested in playing on the junior class basketball team meet io the men’s gym at 4:30 today.
RIFLE TEAM
El Rodeo pictures will be taken at range today. All teams must be present.
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QUILL CLUB MEETS TO JUDGE TRYOUTS
Reading of manuscripts and the report of the membership committee will be features of the Quill Club Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock in the English office.
Many poems, short stories, essays, and sketches have been turned in by students aspiring to membership .according to Morgan Cox. chancellor of Quill. These tryout manuscripts are now being considred by the membership committee and a preliminary report of the successful candidates will be given at the meeting Wednesday. Initiation of new members will take place early in May.
Appearing before the Chicago Trojan Club, Hal Stonier will speak today on “Southern California University and Its Problems.” He arrived in Chicago yesterday on his way to Detroit, where, as president of the Los Angeles Advertising Club, he will attend meetings of the President's Council of the International Advertising Association. •
He will represent the president of the Pacific Coast Advertising Clubs Association, and will address the meeting on “What the Clubs Expect of the Association.” He is expected to return about March 15.
Ralph Jayne, L A. ’19, president of the Chicago Trojan Club, reports that every effort is being made to strengthen the organization in preparation for the S. C.-Notre Dame football game next year.
U. C. L. A. WOMEN WIN ALL AWARDS IN ART CONTEST
Three women students of the University of California at Los Angeles have brought distinguished honors to the university by winning all three of the awards in the annual Alfred C. Bos9om cooperation-in-art prizes in which schools from all over the United States entered. The contest was in architectural design besade on primitive American sources. Virginia Gigas of Pasadena, Annabelle Sears and Eleanore Rook of Ix>s Angeles submitted the designs which were awarded the prizes.
Miss Gigas’ design was for a bank building, combining the Aztec and Mayan styles, and took first place in the contest. The second prize design of Miss Sears was done in pure Mayan motif. Eleanore Rook s design was based on an Aztec motif.
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