PUBLICITY MEN
The Student Publicity Committee will hold an important meeting at noon today in the A. S. U. S. C. office. All members are requested to be there ,as plans for the future work of the group will be settled at this time. BiU Harvey, chairmman, announces that the following members must be present without fail: Matt Barr, Terrell De Lapp, James Grant, Steve Underwood, Percy Wright, and John Smith.
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BACHELOR PICTURE
All members of the Bachelors must be present at Ward’s Photorium at 10 o’clock this mmorning for an El Rodeo picture, Chase Burns, president of the organization, announced yesterday. A Bachelor luncheon is scheduled for today at 12:30 at Chatham’s Grill. Fines will be imposed upon all members not present at both affairs. Plans for next semester will be discussed at the luncheon meeting.
VOLUME XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, December 13, 1927
NUMBER 56
WILSON, JONES RETURN FROM FOOTBALL MEETING
H. STONIER BIDS S. C. FAREWELL
University Vice-President Plans To Go To New York January 1.
Harold J. Stonier, vice-president of the university, for many years prominently connected with the University of Southern California, an alumnus of this institution, and a loyal Trojan, will leave for New York 1, 1928, to become Director of Education for the American Banking Association. There could be no greater tribute to the university and to its man, than that he should be selected to fill this important office. Stonier takes an opportunity in the following statement to take leave of the university and student body:
‘‘May I take advantage of this opportunity, through the columns of the Trojan, of thanking many of the students and faculty for their expressions j of good-will in connection with the work I am to assume after the first of the year with the American Institute of Banking.
SEVENTEEN YEARS “For seventeen years now I have been more or less intimately associ- , ated with the University either in the capacity of a student, alumnus or faculty member. I have watched the Uni-vresity grow from tbe position of comparative insignificance to one of great importance in all phases of collegiate life.
Coach Alan Nichols Selects All Women For Debate
Final selections for the women's debate* team were made by Coach Alan Nichols after the tryouts last Wednesday evening. A general schedule for the team is nowr being compiled by Eleanor Veale, women's debate, manager.
Those women who were chosen for the team are: first affirmative, Bonnie Jean Lockwood, Virginia Marlowe, and Clara Mae Parsons; second affirmative, Reriam Olden, Sally Donley and Eleanor Brodie; first negative, Mary Andersen, Beth Tibbot and Virginia Meyer; and second negative, Eleanor Veale, Elizabeth Henniger and Josephine Rodriguez.
Several preliminary tryouts for this debate team were held previous to the deciding ones last week.
P.B.K. Offers Essay Prizes
In order to stimulate a deeper ami more wide-spread interest in scholarship, the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Southern California is sponsoring its sixth annual prize essay contest. Dr. Louis Wann of the Department of English is in charge of the contest at this university.
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Only those essays which are more than 2,000 words and less than 3,000 words will be considered and no stu dem. may submit more than one essay No essay may be submitted which has It is needless for me to say that ; previously been published or which
under these circumstances I greatly regret leaving. This opportunity whies* has been presented to me was one which I could not afford to refuse. Before accepting the appointment President von KieinSmid and Colonel Bovard very kindly talked the matter over and after considering the proposition from all angles it was our unanimous opinion that I should accept the position.
“Space will not permit me to thank the many people who have been so kind and thoughtful through the years of my contact in University work. Some writers in speaking of my interest in the College of Commerce, have mistakenly mentioned me as its founder. This has been a matter of embarrassment to me for the man who really conceived the program for the College of Commerce in the first place was Dean Rockwell D. Hunt, now Dean of the Graduate School of the University. This was before I was connected with the University.
H e was head of the Department of Economics at that time and because I of his interest in furthering business
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has received an award in any competition other than one conducted as a pf£-liminary to this one.
There will be an aw-ard of forty-five dollars for each first place, each second place thirty dollars, and each third of fifteen dollors. In this manner one single essay may receive as many as three awards. These prizes are donated by the association.
The selection and manner cf treatment of the essay is left to the individual candidate but he may be guided by the faculty member in charge. All competing essays shall be typewritten, shall bear pen names, and shall be accompanied by sealed envelopes containing the true names of the writer and the names of their respective institutions. Three copies of each essay must be handed to Dr. Wann on or before lApril 1, 1928.
The institutions submitting essays last year were La Verne College, Occidental College, Pomona College, Redlands University, tbe University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the University of Southern California and Whittier College.
Junior Treasury Is Enriched With Receipts of Prom
New Precedent by Enterprising Class; Surplus Takes Place of Deficit.
‘‘One hundred and ninety-seven dollars over the top!” That is the answer of the junior class officers to the tradition of the campus that a prom in inevitably a financial failure. With the exception of the dance of the class of 1923, which closed its books with $10 in black figures, this is the only junior social function w’hich has not ended in a deficit written in red on the wrong side of the balance sheet.
By a decision of the class officers and executive commfttee this sum will be placed in trust until next year when it will be withdrawn to purchase the senior class gift for the university. If this fund is returned by the business office next year the class hopes to present the university with a suitable gift as a farewell remembrance from the group.
When the prom for this year was planned the business office issued a statement in no uncertain terms and with unmistakable emphasis that the possibility of future junior classes holding similar social affairs depended upon whether or not this junior prom would pay for itself.
The officers of the class, resolving that future junior classes should not be deprived of the privilege of holding a formal prom, not only made their social event pay for itself, but a financial success as well.
The reason given by the business office for this ultimatum was that it was tired of finishing the junior prom finances in red ink which, automatically, had to be paid by funds not supplied by student finances. There is no subsidy for this kind of student activity regardless of the income from activity books or other paying student enterprises.
The success of the junior prom was due primarily to the efforts of the president, Elwood Harmon and Bob Behlow, treasurer of the class. Important decisions on the expenditure and budgeting of the funds were outlined by the president and were followed minutely by the members of his cotnmittee. Behlow, in his sale of tickets, organized a high-powered group of fraternity members who sold the bids. Iu addition, the representatives of Dental, Architecture and Law accounted for no small part of the bids dispensed with, and Muriel Heeb, assistant to Behlow, for a large number.
Postpone Closing Date of Trojan Writing Contest
The Trojan essay contest on the needs of the university is scheduled to closfe tomorrow instead of today, as had originally been planned, according to Morgan Cox, representing the judges. Three prizes of $35, $25 and | lC have been offered. Essays may be written in long hand or typewritten, as the contestant desires, but, in either case, they must be written on one side of the paper. The name of the writer must not be on the essays but should be enclosed in a small envelope within the larger envelope containing the manuscript. Entries should be addressed to the Essay Contest, Daily Trojan, and should be left in Mr. Huse’s office.
New Initiate For Honorary
Registrar Posts Class Schedule For Final Exams
Complete Announcement is Made by Theron Clark; Lists Ready Today.
Final examinations will begin Jan. 27 at 8 a.m., according to an announcement made today by Theron Clark, registrar. Schedules for the examinations are posted on the Bulletin Boards and they will be ready for distribution at the Registrar’s office today.
Schedules should be studied so as to avoid confusion regarding the time and place of examinations, the office sug-j gests. For the convenience of the j student, it is suggested that he write his name on the schedule and write ■ the name of each class on the date < that is assigned for the examination ! as soon as he secures his copy of the schedule. This will help to avoid the danger of overlooking any examination till after it has taken place.
Students on probation often fail to
Pi Delta Epsilon Initiation On Schedule For Today
Formal initiation of pledges, and a congratulatory dinner given by the active chapter are on schedule this afternoon and evening for Pi Delta Epsilon.
Eight men will be initiated at 4 o’clock this afteroon at the Gamma Epsilon house. They are: Prof. Roy L. French, Ralph Flynn, Dave Bryant, Herschel Bonham, Morgan Cox, Earl Culp, Bill Harvey and Bob Kranz.
The dinner tonight is to be at the Casa Pnilipe. The active chapter will be host to the new initiates.
Mrs. Mary Holland Kincaid, one of the foremost newspaper women in the country, will be initiated into Alpha Chi Alpha, national honorary journalism sorority, at the home of Rita Padway, 601 North Palm Drive, Beverly rea^ze the importance of satisfactory Hills, Thursday, Dec. 15, at 7:30. j Srades for that particular semester in Mrs. Kincaid, who has accepted the i or(^er	able to remain in college,
invitation of the sorority to honorary membership, was the first woman city editor in the United States, and has been long in journalistic work. She was with William Jennings Bryan on his presidential campaigns, and at present she is associate editor of the Los Angeles Saturday Night.
“Mrs. Kincaid began In newspaper work at a time when women were not recognized in that line of endeavor,r says Miss Padway, president of Alpha Chi Alpha. “At first she was not allowed in the newspaper office, but was obliged to give her copy to the office boy. Now, she is recognized as being among the foremost journalists of the country.”
COOK WILL TALK
PHI KAPPA PHI TO HOLD PUBLIC PLEDGING SOON
Phi Kappa Phi, all-University scholarship honorary organization. will hold public pledging in chapel for the first time the first week of classes after the holidays. This new method of pledging is being used to give recognition to those standing highest in scholarship standing in all the colleges and schools of the University, according to Miss Julia McCorkle, secretary of the organization.
Initiation will take place in Janu-* H. Robert Anderson McCorkle
ary, the exact date to be announced later. Pledging for Phi Kappa Phi will not be held again until the Saturday immediately preceding Commencement as part of the annual reunion.
Those students honored with Phi Kappa Phi bids are:
College of Commerce—
Robert Edwin Einstein.
School of Education—
Meta Maurine Bischoff Elizabeth Sands College of Pharmacy—
Harold Curtis Epley Colleg of Liberal Arts—
Gladys Hixson Austin Robert Eugene Blake Alma Allen Ellis Gertrude Best Hammond
Evelyn Hubbell Thompson John Turner White, Jr.
School of Law—
John S. Bertero John W. Eagle Dorothy Shaw Graduate School—
Elizabeth Bates George E. Bettinger Adele Jallade Paul E. Martin J. Stanley Robson Wm. Winters Tritt Officers for the present teim are: Dean Rockwell D. Hunt, president; Dr. Lawrence M. Riddle, vice-president; Miss Julia McCorkle, secretary; Mf. Philip S. Biegler, treasurer; Dr. Owen C. Coy, historian.
“The Living Constitution” is the topic of a speech to be given by Professor O. P. Cockerill before the Cooperative club in the Biltmore Hotel tomorrow noon. Professor Cockerill is a visiting professor in the S. C. I^aw School, and the dean of the University of North Dakota Law School.
All copy for the January issue of the Southern California Law Review has gone to press, and proof reading is being done now. The second issue of the new publication is expected to appear during the first week of January.
All classes in the law school are being dismissed this week, inasmuch as the quarterly examinations are being given all week. Law students will have to attend school on Thursday and Friday in order to finish the examinations before vacation.
Dean Justin Miller, who is attending a conference of the American Law Institute in New York City, is expected to return on Thursday.
STUDENT SOCIETY ASKS S.C.T0 JOIN
Through the efforts of Dr. Mabel M. Durbin, the Student Health Advisor, an invitation has been extended to the University of Southern California to join the American Student Health Association. This is a national association whose membership includes 87 of the leading universities of the United States. Among these universities may be mentioned the University of California, Stanford the University of Chicago, Yale and Columbia University.
Meetnigs are held annually, and each university belonging to the American Student Health Association sends an official delegate to the national congress which is held in some large city. The eighth annual meeting will be held in New York City beginning Dec. 28. Dr. D. F. Smiley of Cornell University, and Secretary of the Association, through whom the invitation to join the association was extended, has also generously invited Dr. Durbin to be present at the New York meeting.
Clark said. The regulations provide “that a student on probation who fails to maintain an average of D for a semester will be disqualified from attendance during the following semester.” Hard work during the balance of this semester and in preparation for the final examinations should do much to compensate for poor work to date. It is specially important that probation students work for high grades in order to be removed as far as possible from the danger of disqualification. Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 3, when classes are resumed, all students will have time in which to get a mastery of their courses and prepare for high grade work in the final examinations.
The schedule will be found on page two.
QUILL CLUB
National College Quill Club will hold a special meeting tonight in the English office at 7:3©. All members must be present, says Morgan Cox, Chancellor.
FIXTURES ORDERED FOR UNION STORE
Not until fixtures are received and installed in the new Student Union building will the Asociated Students Store operate in the new site, word from store officials revealed yesterday.
All new squipment will mark the opening of the store’ it is announced, and the latest model counters and shelves will be in place to facilitate sales and service.'
No definite time could be placed on the proposed move, but it was pointed out that there is no chance of a change being brought about before Jan. 1, 1928.
GRADUATE SCHOOL WILL HAVE PARTY
The Christmas party of the Graduate School will be held this evening at 7:45 o’clock in the recreation room of the Women’s Residence Hall.
An extensive program of games and entertainment has been planned by Miss Georgia Harold and Miss Freda Fisher. The program will consist of Christmas carols whistled by Don Newcomer and Heustis Snow. The Tarvin Sisters, well-knowrn KHJ artists will present popular musical numbers. H. Chester Craig of the Chicago Grand Opera Company is to sing.
Santa Claus, in the person of Dr. Klopp of the School of Education, is scheduled to appear with gifts for everyone.
Refreshments, which are in charge of Floyd Dalzell, will be served during the evening. All attending are requested to bring a ten cent gift.
Miss Eleanor Veale announces that wives and husbands of graduate managers are especially invited to be pres-I ent at this Christmas affair.
Men To Meet At Asilomar
Twenty-five students from Southern California have already signed up to attend the coming Asilomar “Y” conference at Asilomar on Monterey Bay, Salifornia. The conference opens Monday, December 26, 1927, and from then until Tuesday, January 2, 1928, the largest assembly of delegates from tbe leading colleges of the West will meet, some as old friends and others as new friends.
According to Glen Turner, secretary of the local “Y,” those who have already filed application, signifying their intentions of going are: Clifford Weimer, R L. Hendrixon, Primo Quevedo, Paul Cunningham, Albert Quan, Loran Kling, Stanley Hopper. Huestis Snow. Donald Bailey, Vroman Dorman, Don Newcomer, Glen Turner, Leland Jacob-ison, Edwin Ding, Adan Mercado, Elwood Harmon, Neal Lahman. Professor R. M. Fox, Lawrence Hawkins, Benjamin Taylor, Harold Montgomery, Henry Rohr, and Crawfordd Peek.
A few others are also going but as yet they have not filed application. Those going must sign application before Wednesday of this week, is the statement issued by Glen Turner.	,•
Each year at the “Y” conference two members of the Y. W. C. A. attend, one as secretaial delegate and the other as the student delegate. Miss Clara Miller has been chosen to represent the local Y. W. C. A. as secretarial delegate and Miss Betty Cooper from Pomona will attend as student delegate. Every year at the Y. W. C. A. conference two members from the Y. M. C. A. attend, acting in the same positions. Last year Don Bailey represented the University of Southern California at the Y. W. conference. He attended only part time, however.
Additional leaders bave been invited to the coming conference. Among them are Harrison S. Elliott of New York City and E. P. Ryland, of the Los Angeles Church Federation. Timothy T. Lew of the Pekin University has also been invited.
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SCHEDULE
ARRANGED
U. C. L. A. Admitted Officially To Conference; Majority S. C. Games Here.
At the Pacific Coast conference football meeting held at Portland, Oregon, the last week, two things were accomplished outside of the schedule. First, the official admittance of University of California at Los Angeles was completed. Second, plans were made for a revolving schedule to be arranged at the summer session to be held at Mesula, Montana, in June of the coming year. Broadcasting of the games over radio was also discussed.
The revolving schedule is the outgrowth of much dissention on the part of the schools having unequal schedules. Through this plan it is expected that each school of the conference will play each other during the season and continue over a period of years; traveling will be arranged so that no team does more than its share; and also games with the smaller schools will be so arranged that they can play in the large populated districts and reap the benefit of large crowds. Professor Willet, who is still in the north, will have additional information concerning the matter on his return from Seattle. Gwynn Wilson, graduate manager, who has just returned, does not want to comment until he hears from Willet.
BEST SCHEDULE
The football schedule this year is thought, by those attending the meeting, to be the best ever arranged and the best representative one made in many years. Southern California plays al! its games at home except the California game, which will be held at Berkeley. Also that games are so situated on the schedule that the team can point for each one and not go stale. Stanford comes a week later than this year and is two weeks after the California game. Although University of Washington is not listed, St. Mary’s, who has been waiting for an opening, will come to Los Angeles to play the Trojans instead.
Southern California fans who usually complain that S. C. books “soft” teams to start the season cannot complain this year as the Trojans will encounter Oregon Agricultural College, who lost this year by a 13-12 score in the first game on October 6. A week later on the thirteenth, the usually strong St. Mary’s squad will entertain. S. C. then travels north and keeps California company in the (Continued on Page Four)
ARISTOTELIAN
The informal initiation of the Aristotelian Literary Society will not be held this evening, as it had been planned. In its place a regular literary program has been arranged. All members are expected to attend.
GATEMEN
All men wishing to work as gatemen in the Christmas Day game at the Coliseum are asked to sign up at once in Kenneth Stonier’s office, 812 West 37th Street.
SPARTANS
All Spartan football men must turn in all equipment not later than Wednesday Dec. 14. It is important that this be done immediately.
CORRECTION
Through an el*ror a story was printed in yesterday’s Trojan to the effect that Miss Mary Main would act as hostess at the Montmarte cafe Friday evening. The story should have stated that Miss Main officiated last Friday.
SUGGESTON FOR ESSAY CONTEST TOPIC IS GIVEN
-	By RITA PADWAY
One of the most striking needs of the University of Southern California is a laboratory for marine research and investigation. Situated as the University is, within a few miles of sandy beaches, mud flats, rocky coast line, channel islands, and other favorable geological formations, it has been said that S. C. has the choicest location in the I nited States for marine research.
The three greatest marine labora-*operated for the past 15 years. The tories in the world are located respec-tively at Naples. Italy, the Tortugas Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The waters of Southern California are said to be similar to those at 'Naples, but even richer in sea life; they are, moreover, superior to the other two in that they are not so cold in winter, nor so hot in summer.
OPERATE LAUNCH A marine research laboratory was maintained at Venice by the University until 1920, when it was destroyed by fire. It has not been rebuilt, because of lack of funds, but marine study has been kept up in a launch which the University has owned and
launch is specially equipped for trawling and dredging, and after its trips maps are charted and specimens marked and classified.
Jn addition, the California Fish and Game Commission grants the use of its laboratories to graduate and research students. Only a few can be accommodated in this way, however, and the majority of the zoology students have to study preserved specimens.
Despite this inadequate equipment, the University has already done valuable work in the field of marine research. The Plankton studies (studying all marine forms in a.given speci-(Contlnued on Page Four)