Read It in The Trojan
Lower Classes To Hold New Election.
Dr. Millikan Will Address Students.
Trojan Tracksters Meet Olympic Club. Present “You and I” Tonight.
Sophomores-Juniors Stage Inter-Class Battle. “Trojan Kitty” Makes Debut.
Southern
California
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The Spirit of Troy
‘‘The Executive Committee, the elections committee, the Trojan Knights, and all concerned should merit the increased respect of the student body if the recent class elections are held again and held under strict supervision.”
The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 11, 1927
NUMBER 99
DR. ROBERT A. MILLIKAN TO TALK ON EVOLUTION AT STUDENT ASSEMBLY
Internationally Famous Scientist, President of California Institute of Technology, Will Deliver Address in Bovard Auditorium Wednesday Morning.
RECEIVED NOBEL PRIZE IN 1923
Distinguished Speaker Will Stimulate Thought on Lack of Fundamental Differences Between Science and Religion Regarding Evolution.
BY WALTER PECK
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, president of the California Institute of Technology and internationally-known physicist, will speak on “Evolution—in Science and Religion,” at an All-University assembly, Wednesday at 10 A. M., according to Dr. Bruce Baxter, chairman of
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Similar addresses have been made j ■*■»■*» nUiJxilN rlvIV 1,
throughout the country bv Dr. Milli■ . WHO WILL APPEAR IN
“YOU AND I” TONIGHT
‘ You and V Is Play Offered at S. C. Today
Tickets Are Still On Sale For Production To Be Given Tonight.
kan, his thene being the lack of any ; fundamental differences between sci- I ence and re»igion in regard to the! theory of evolution. Everywhere he has spoken, whether before learned societies or popular audiences, Dr. Millikan has been received with enthusiasm. His addresses have always provided the stimulus for much pro-1 ductive thought and discussion.
"We are indeed fortunate to secure j so distinguished a speaker as Dr. Mil-! likan,” was the statement made by • Dr. Baxter, in announcing the special j assembly.
DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST
Besides being president of the Caii- , fornia Institute of Technology, where ; be has been directer of the Norman Bridge Laboratory since 1921, Dr. Mil-likan is American representative on , the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations, and was recipient of the Nobel Prize in j Physics for 1923. Leading universi-i ties of America and Europe have con- ' ferred honorary degrees upon him, while he has received medals from many of the world’s most prominent scientific societies.
Dr. Millikan’s principal work has been research in the field of physics, especially in the development of the theory of electrons and the study of the invisible spectrum. His best work has been done in measuring the mass and charge of the electron, and in measuring and detecting energy in the invisible spectrum in the region of ultra-violet, down to X-rays and Gamma rays.
MUSIC
A musical program is to be provided by Franz Hoffman, bass soloist at tbe Emmanuel Presbyterian Church. He is a graduate of the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. Professor Max Swartout, of the College of Music, will accompany him on the piano.
National Collegiate Players wiW present “You and I” in Bovard Auditorium this evening. Katherine Privett, Josephine Campbell, Stan Ewens, and Tom DeGraffenreid are taking the leading parts.
Stage arrangements have been perfected. The play required special equipment, which has to be obtained especially for the performances, ac. cording to George Northman, stage manager.
Tickets for the play have been o& sale all week and will be available this evening in the auditorium box office. “Some very good seats are still left,” stated Ray Pinkert, play production manager.
The theme of the play in general is whether a young man should give up a career for marriage. The storj deals with a young man who has a charming sweetheart, whom he wants to marry, but in marrying her he will have to give up his career. He consults the powers-that-be and the result is a clever play, full of youth and romance. The question of “Marriage or a Career” is finally settled, and the answer is found in seeing “You and I.”
Past rehearsals of the play promise a good presentation tonight. “The* students will have a chance to see play which wa3 popular in New York for one hundred and forty weeks, right here in Bovard Auditorium,' said Ray MacDonald, director of the play.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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“Trojan Kitty’’ Appears.
Will Not Allow Mud Slinging. Executive Committee Right. Fracas All Right, But Could Have
CALIFORNIA PERIODICAL
This week's issue of the Pictorial California Magazine contained two pictures taken on the Southern Call-fornia campus.
One of these pictures is of the School of Law, the other of the sign in front of the School of Architecture, which was made by an S. C. student.
Program Commissioner Signs Up Deputations
Visiting the Southern California
campus yesterday, Herbert Resner, of Pasadena High School, interviewed the Deputations Committee. The fame of the committee’s skits* caused Resner to come here and invite the committee to produce the skit at the Pasadena school, he said.
Resner, who was appointed to visit the campus, was entertained at the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house.
ARCHITECT PRIZES ARE AWARDED AT BANQUET
Kelly, Brittain, Taylor, Heady and Bauer Win First Medals in Competitions.
Roy Kelly was awarded first prize in the Annual Sketch Competition of the School of Architecture. Prank Green second, and Doris Johnson third, it was announced at the architect banquet held Wednesday night. The contest was sponsored by F. E. Morehead .alumnus of the school.
The winning seniors in the Newcomb Prize Competition for a city residence for a Latin-American who has been forced into exile to Los Angeles from a South American republic were: prize and first medal. Sidney Brittain; high honors and second medals to Frank Baden, Graham Latta, and Roy Kelly.
Vernon Taylor won first mention and placed first in the sophomore design competition on an exedra. Julian Garnsey, who decorated the interior of the Los Angeles Public Library, announced the places.
The junior problem, a city bank, was criticized by Fitch Haskell, prominent architect, and was announced as a tie for first between Paul Heady and Edwin Baner.
SOPHOMORES HOLD MOCK RITES FOR JUNIORS IN CLASS BATTLE
Parade Bearing Effigy in Dirty Corduroys and Red Sweater, Black Flag of ’28 Suspended To “Taps,” and Kidnapping of Sophmore President Feature Struggle.
BY HOWARD EDGERTON Tattered cords, frazzled sophomore sweaters, and many banged up members of the Southern California student body are the results of a good-natured pitched battle between the junior and sophomore classes yesterday on the Administration building campus.
The big fracas started as the re-4 suit of a parade by the sophomore class in which they carried the effigy
of the juniors, represented by a sickly looking dummy in dirty cords and a red sweater. The parade proceeded to the lawn Of the administration building, where the class of ’29 paused to hold funeral rites for the upper-classmen. A bugler sounded taps from one of the windows ana a huge black ilag with the numerals ’28 was suspended from one of the statues guarding the tower.
In spite of the fac^. that the sophomore president had been kidnapped by the juniors before the 9 o’clock rally and taken for a long jaunt to the southern extremity of the city, the second year students were carrying out their plans for the funerat services. All ceremony was quickl> dispensed with, however, when members of the class of ’28 hastened from their rally and proceeded to haul down the dummy from the hands of the sophomores.
A pitched battle ensued, during which time the dummy and a good many garments of the participants were badly tattered and frayed. The terrific class battle waged for about twenty minutes until finally stoppeo by “Dee” Tallman, student body president, who stated that if the classes wished to continue the war it woirid have to be done on Bovard Field.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SENIOR CLASS ARE CHOSEN
That orders for the Senior Announcements are to be in the Students’ Store by March 15 is the state ment. made by Tommy Brooker, chairman of the senior commence ment week committee.
Seniors are instructed to pay for the announcements when they are making their orders. Announcements this year are in leather and paper covers. Smooth leather covers will have a design of the administration building, with a gold sky border, and “Southern California, 1927.” The paper covers are the same in design, but will be bound with cardinal ana gold cords.
The first sheet of the announcements will have an etching of the Ad-ministratioon building, and throughout the booklet will be scenes of the campus and of students in cap and gowns. A picture of the Coliseum and names of the senior class committees will also be in the announcement. The program will be en-ties in the United States, graved.
Gone Too Far.
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For the benefit of those students who have constructive contributions to make to the campus thought thc Daily Trojan has placed the “Trojan Kitty” in the Arcade. It is there for three purposes. First, to serve all students who wish to express themselves upon any subject of interest to the student body. As far as possible these will be printed, although the editor must reserve his usual right to reject any material he believes bad for the campus. Such rejections will be made solely upon the basis of campus welfare, not upon the disagreement with the editor's personal opinions.
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Second, the **Kitty’? will receive all criticisms that are to be made of the Trojan itself. Third, it will be open to all criticism of any student body officer or group It is not guaranteed that such advice will always be followed out, but it will be given due consideration as coming from the student body. * * *
Two conditions arc put upon thc use of the “Kitty.” First, all communications for print must be short and concise. Second, they must bear the writer’s full name. If the communication is to be printed with only the writer’s initials, such a confidence will be respected, but somewhere on thc paper must be the full name.
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Two other matters call for consideration today. The first is the Executive Committee action on the under-class elections. To hold these again was a wise decision, lt is common feeling on the campus that there has never been a really “square” class election, at least in the memory of the present student generation. The only way to stop this laxity effectively, from the writer’s viewpoint, is to make an example of the case now under our noses. The Executive Committee, the elections committee, the Trojan Knights and all concerned should merit the increased respect of the student body if thc voting is done again and done under strict supervision. * * *
The other point to be thought on today is the inter-class fracas of yesterday. Frankly, we were glad to see some spirit revived. But we believe that President Tallman was right in not allowing it to go too far. Some of the students criticized him for “spoiling the fun”. But what kind of a president would he have been to stand by and twiddle his thumbs, wondering whether he should take part, stand aloof, or interfere? Dee had many things to consider, not the least of which was the ever-ready downtown (Continued on Page Four)
Demonstration
Juniors and Sophomores Tussle; Seniors and Frosh Carry On Business.
Class spirit was demonstrated in more ways than one at the various class meetings held during chapel hour yesterday. Although they completed more actual business, the senior and freshman meetings were totally eclipsed by the activities of the junior and sophomore classes.
The juniors, at their meeting, decided that since they were being included in the plans of the sophomore class, they should help the second yearlings. Therefore they adjourned to Old College and attempted to invade the sophomore meeting.
Inasmuch as the class president, Charlie Wright, was involuntarily ab-sent, Muriel Heeb, vice-president, conducted the sophomore meeting, while plans were made for funeral of the junior class in effigy and th*. furling of the flag of mourning for the class of ’28. Accompanied by the juniors, they then adjourned to the Administration building to carry out their plans.
Freshman meeting opened with the customary get-acquainted procedure, which will be followed at every meet' ing, according to Sam Newman, president. Dee 'fallman then presented a questionnaire as to irregularities in the past class elections. Several popular numbers were played by Bud Pentz.
Reports were made by Marion Abbott, secretary, and Alberta Plasterer, entertainment chairman, concerning the dance in April and an afternoon dance for the freshmen. Albert Kaser, class treasurer, urged all freshmen to pay their dues at once. The debate between S. C. frosh and Santa Ana High School was announced for Friday afternoon. The meeting was concluded with several popular selections by Ray Hatfield's “Southlanders.”
TO HOLD NEW ELECTION
Investigation By Special Committee Under Mikesell Discloses Irregularities, Infactions, and Lax Supervision of Voting For Freshman and Sophomore Officers.
WILL VOTeTmARCH 15
Committee States Action Was Taken To Eradicate Undesirable Conditions in Future Elections; Trojan Knights and Squires Will Watch Polls Tuesday.
BY KARMI WYCKOFF
Acceptance of the report of the committee of investigation of the recent class elections to the effect that the freshmen class elections should be re-held on March 15 was the chief decision taken by the executive committee at a special meeting called yesterdav noon. A second decision was that sophomore class re-elections
♦should be held on the same day.
STUDENTS ASKED TO DROP IDEAS INTO NEW “KITTY”
FRESHMAN
Freshmen entertainment and rally committee will meet together Monday noon in Hoose 20C. Ed Rubin, Wilomena Campbell, Eddie Fraser, Pauline Mather, Howard Ralston, Stillman Wells, Frenchy Flynn, Loren Matheson, and Tom DeGraf-fenried please attend.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
Today the "Trojan Kitty” la making its debut upon the campus. It is to be hoped that it will be a permanent institution, which will serve as a guide for the campus leaders to student body opinion. In order to start the ball rolling, the Daily Trojan is asking the opinion of the student body upon thf value of the news content of the paper through the medium of the quev tions below. In the future questionnaires will be called for, the results of which will be given to the student body. But in this case, the information is to be used solely to assist the editor in evaluating his news, lt will not be given out. As a final request, the students are asked to make the criticisms constructive. Thto is their opportunity to signify which columns they like best.
“To the Editor:
I like best to read the Trojan feature columns in the order I have checked them:
1.	Editorial*.
2.	Outside the Walls.
3.	Modern Delphi.
4.	Horse Laff s.
5.	From the Tower.
6.	Trojan History.
7.	Why Troy.
8.	Who’s Who in Troy.
9.	Sardal Prints.
10. They Say.
REYNOLDS READY TO COMPETE AGAINST OLYMPIC CLUB TEAM
San Francisco Aggregation Will Send Galaxy of Noted Stars To Meet Trojans in Coliseum Saturday Afternoon; Reynolds To Meet Swede Leistner.
BY MAYNARD TAYLOR
With Cliff Reynolds' injured leg healing nicely under the various electric treatments of trainer Jannes Anderson, the Trojans’ “most important man” will run Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum against the strong Olympic Club team.
Reynolds’ injury was caused by a flying discus that caught him on the leg, in a recent practice on Bovard Field.
______ The Olympic outfit boasts a bril-
That this is done because election?-in the past have been irregular, and definite action upon the subject must be taken some time if these conditions, felt to be present in all elections on the campus, are to be eradicated; and also because the recent class elections are only two of many examples, was the feeling of the executive committee in coming to this decision.
LAX SUPERVISION
The general opinion of the committee was that irregularities of the recent elections were due both to infractions on the part of the two classes and a laxity of supervision over the elections by the executive committee. A part of the minority of the executive committee members felt that too long a time had elapsed since the elections had taken place for the committee to be justified in its action, while another faction felt that not enough evidence was offered to warrant another election.
In preparation for the election to be held Tuesday, the emotions committee, in cooperation with the Trojan Knights and Squires, will formu-late plans for supervision of the voting. This will be in the nature ot a test and will definitely demonstrate whether or not any supervision will be able to take away all irregularities, infractions or abuses of the voting system.
Questionnaires given to the freshmen class in their meeting to obtain an estimate of the feeling of the class on whether there were any infractions, were a part of the investigation by the committee. Two quea tions were asked: “Did you see any irregularities? Would they warrant a re-election?” Answers varied, several of which were definite and expressive.
One answer suggested that the rules of the elections committee should have been posted; another said that campaigning was evident in the neighborhood of the polls. One answer was unmistakable: “Hell, yes! Hell, yes!” Of 105 votes cast, 60 per cent said there were no irregularities, 40 per cent voted that there were, and 20 per cent of the 40 per cent said that the irregularities were glaring.
Notices
All uotl«4‘* ruuAt be brought to the Trojan eiflce at 716 Went Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notice* muwt be limited to 35 words.
deputations
All members of both casts of Deputations Committee sketch meet in front of Bovard at 9:30 today to go to Manual Arts. Time has beei. changed; 9:30 is right.
SAM GATES.
TENNIS MANAGERS
Managers of fraternity tennis teams are to meet in Coach Hunter’s office at 12:15 today for the purpose of entering teams. All must be there.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
The Epworth League of the University M. E. Church invites all students to attend the programs at 6:30 every Sunday evening, at 1016 West Jefferson Street.
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liant array of talent, composed to a large extent of former Stanford and California luminaries. In the sprints, Coach Charles Hunter of the Winged-0 team, has entered Phil Barber, who was tearing up the track at California not so long ago, and Russell Sweet, the Montana flash. Sweet won both dashes in the Pacific Coast Conference meet last year. He played football for Montana as a halfback, and caused considerable trouble to opponents because of his speed.
Reynolds will be pitted against “Swede” Leistner, the redoubtable Stanford hurdler of shortly past, in the high sticks, and Jack Merchant
in the broad jump. Merchant, when at California, was considered something of a track team all by himself, as he was proficient in numerous events.
In the 440 gallop, the Trojan runners face Winthrop Crane and Bill Storie. Storie was Stanford’s crack quarter miler last season, winning his event against Southern California in the dual track meet held at Palo Alto a year ago.
MEETING OF SENIORS HELD TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS
Electing Crawford Peek treasurer for the remainder of the semester, to take the place of Les Heilman, who recently resigned, the senior class met in 206 Hoose Hall yesterday morning for the first class meeting of the semester, "Boots” Oudermuelen presiding.
Reports from chairmen of the numerous committees appointed to carry on the various activities in their final semester, took up the majority of the time. Eloise Parke, social chairman, announced that the second Senior Snap will be at the Phi Kappa Psi house on March 30. Bill Stewart and Pauline Klene are in charge of arrangements.
Tom Brooker displayed the announcements chosen for this year, and stressed the fact that as the order comes from the eastern coast, reservations must be turned in at the Students’ Store within the next weei.