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Construction of Student Union To Begin. Prominent Students Pledged by Honoraries. Hold Exchange Rally With U. C. L. A. S. C. Hockey Squad Takes Victory. Dental Greeks Show High Scholarship. New Sigma Chi Lodge Described.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
‘‘Southern California's student union is to be a reality. It is in place to congratulate those who have worked long and hard on the proposition. It is unnecessary to name them again, but the University appreciates what they have done.” The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 28, 1927
NUMBER 110
NOTABLES OF JUNIOR CLASS ARE HONORED
Honoraries Present New Pledges To Campus in Friday’s Assembly.
STANFORD SINGS
New Sigma Chi Lodge One Of Finest In The Country
Northern Glee Club Gives Program of Varied Nature
Presentation to the campus of the newly-elected pledges of Sigma Sigma and Spooks and Spokes honorary fraternities, and a program by the Stanford Men’s Glee Club comprised the All-University rally held Friday in Bovard.
TWELVE PLEDGED
The men honored by Sigma Sigma, junior men’s honorary fraternity, were Mor/ey Drury, Burdette Henney, Stanley Hopper, James Mussatti, Clifford Reynolds, William Henley, Carroll Houlgate, Henry Rohr, Bus Blanchard, Wayne Harrison, Frank Adams and Raney Draper. Arthur Syvertson, president of Sigma Sigma, presented the men.
Eloiee Parke, assisted by Eleanor Veale, presented the following women to the assembled students as newly elected members of Spooks and Spokes, junior women’s honorary fraternity: Catherine Colwell Fern Kuhry, Mary Main, Mildred Martz, Vivian Murphy, Marion Robertson, Geanne Summerfeld, and Betty von KieinSmid. Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford was made an honorary member of the organization.
The Stanford Glee Club, on tour through Southern California, sang a group of numbers. Among these were the Stanford marching son?. “The Builder,” a “Serenade.” and the Stanford Alma Mater.
Contains All of Most Modern Equipment and Furnishings; Has Twenty-one Bedrooms, Special Chapter Room, Patio With Fountain, and Nine Garages.
TALK BY NOTABLES IS ON Y. PROGRAM
“The most beautiful house in the country!”
Such are the words of eminent architects, artists, and interior decorators who have visited the Sigma Chi fraternity house sinnce its opening last week. The past week was given over to presenting the house to various groups both on and off campus.
So complete is the home in every detail that several trips through the chapter lodge have been taken in an effort to dscribe the house. The fraternity abode is located on 3Gth Street, in the middle of the block betwreen University and Hoover. The lot on which the lodge is built is
rrnternity 125x150 feet. The structure is two stories in height and is .built out of concrete bricks which have an adobe finish.
An Italian air is the prevailing note on the outside of the lodge, while the inside is typical of an old English lodge and has a decdedly rustic atmosphere. Upon entering the home a long hallway runs to the chapter room to the right of the hall, a library, card room, and den are located on the right hand side, while on the east or left hand side the living room and patio are to be found.
The first floor also contains a din-continued on Page Four)
lare MacDowell and Charles H. Males To Relate Screen Experiences At “Y ’ Hut.
S. C. SQUAD SWAMPS SOUTHWESTERN IN HOCKEY GAME
Drury Plays Brilliant Game To Help Defeat Rivals By Score of 9 to 0.
Clare MacDowell and Charles Hill xail68, both of whom have achieved ime on the stage and screen, will e present and speak at the Y. M.
A. Council dinner on Wednesday frening. Reservations must be made t»r the evening in advance at the ut.
Clare MacDowell, who is Mrs. tailee, is best known for her recent jijpearance as the mother of Ben ur in the picture of that name, er work in this role has been highly commended. Mr. Mailes plays the »rt of the admiral in “Old Iron-'des,” now showing in Hollywood pth stars have appeared in many ier productions and are prominent the motion picture world.
Following the dinner, there will be very important cabinet meeting.
BY JAKE SHUKEN
Led by Morley Drury, the Trojan ice hockey team swamped the lawyers from Southwestern by a 9 to 0 score in a game Friday at the Palais de Glace rink that lasted only two and a quarter periods instead of the customary three periods. The Sou4h-western squad did not bring a full team for some reason or another, and so the S. C. team allowed Beeks and Narowitz to fill the vacant positions on the South Hill street outfit.
Drurv scored three goals besides playing a remarkable game all around. He made all three of his markers at the start of the second period. Everyone on the local squad scored except Topman, who had to etay back and defend the Trojan (Continued on Page Three)
RATERNITIES SHOW GOOD AVERAGE
ental Greek Houses Show Scholastic Standings Which Are Above Average; Dean Well Pleased; Shows Fraternities Not Detriment To Scholarship.
jBringing forth the fact that fra-rnity men, both those livng in the )use and those living outside, have remarkably high scholastic stand-gas compared to other students, the result of a survey made by ?an Ford of the S. C. dental school.
‘I was pleasantly surprised when I jnd that the average grade of boih use and non-house fraternity men much above the anticipated rel,** was the dean’s remark. "The ey also showed that those men 4n fraternity houses have h a grade as those who d seems to answer the whether or not living at Ly house is detrimental to standing.” he added, compilation shows that which live at the houses the average, a higher grade ose who do not. According dean, it is hoped that the sta-* will serve to stimulate the tal fraternities to maintain and se the high standards of scholar-•) which they have established.
The standings of the various dental fraternities, based on this year’s grades, are as follows:
Upsilon Alpha (sorority)—
Per Cent
General average ............................ 90.6
Pledges __________________________________________ 88.6
Delta Sigma Delta—
General average ............................ 88.55
House average .............................. 88.6G
Outside average ............................ 8S.5
Outside pledges ............................. 87 C
House pledges ..............-................ 90.7
Xi Psi Phi-
General average ............................ 86.45
House average .—..........-.............. 86.4
Outside average ............................ 86.5
House pledges ............................... 84.3
Outside pledges ............................. 82.4
Psi Omega—
General average -.......................... 86.25
House average ........................... 87.3
Outside average ............................ 85.2
House pledges .............................. 87.4
Outside pledges ............................. 83.0
Alpha Omega—
General average ........................ 86.15
Pledges average ......................... 87.3
SKIT WILL BE GIVEN AT ORANGE HIGH TOMORROW
Second Deputations Cast Will Present “What Is College?'’ Debaters To Speak.
Orange High School will be ent°r-tained tomorrow by the Deputations Skit, “What Is College?”
The presentations will be made by the second cast, who have been received with as much enthusiasm on the part of the students as have those of the first cast.
Meldrim Burrill. now on a debating trip in Arizona, and Doris Crook-Johnson, junior, and captain of the recently organized women’s debate squad, will be the speakers of the program.
Lucille Taylor, Jack Risborough, Tom de Graffenreid, Malcolm Chambers, Grace Symmes, Ruth Burns, Mary Jean Rogers, Sherrill CohPn and Virginia Rodiger are members of the cast. Sherrill Cohen and Grace Symmes, vocalists, will sing several songs as part of the entertainment.
The skit, which was written by Ralph Holly and Grant La Mont, portrays the lighter, more enjoyab’e side of collegiate life, with flashes of humor at the expense of the absent-minded dean.
PLAY TO BE GIVEN BY ORGANIZATIONS
“Ave Aye, Sir,” a musical comedy written and composed by Louis La-Rondelle and Bob Ames, will be presented by the Glee Clubs and the Trojan Little Symphony Orchestra at one of the downtown theatres, April t9 and 30.
“Aye Aye, Sir” is in three acts, and tells the story of an eventful trip of the Trojan Glee Club to Honolulu. The first two acts are on board the S. S. Sally Lou, bound for the Islands, and the third act is on the veranda of the Moana Hotel, Wai Ki Ki Beach.
The seventy-five people in the production have been rehearsing for the past four weeks under the direction of Bob Ames. Hal Roberts predicts that “Aye Aye, Sir” will be the most spectacular and dramatic musical event of the entire year.
TRUSTEES O. K. UNIOA
Student Union To Be a Reality.
Put Yourself in Debater’s
Place.
Trojan Criticisqi Worth Considering.
But Campus Newspaper Should Be a Newspaper.
Much in American Journalism Indefensible.
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Southern California’s student union is to be a reality. It will take three months, we are told, to get the plans drawn and get started on the construction. But with the favoring of the general plan and the financing by the Board of Trustees, the uphill fight is over. It is now a matter of patience and mechanical skill until the structure is up. Again, it is in place to congratulate those who have worked long and hard on this proposition. They have been named before; it is unnecessary to do it again. But the University appreciates what they have done.	~
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Here’s a hard one. On Thursday evening the debate team was to take the platform to debate the Chinese situation. The two men had built their case around the fact that no foreigners had lost their lives in China. At one o'clock on Thursday afternoon the ‘‘extras’’ were on the street, being cried by urchins shouting that British and American residents unnumbered had been killed in Shanghai! The student who has just completed a long term paper might try to take a new view point and work it up^ in seven hours before the paper is due; then he will appreciate what the Trojan debaters who met Occidental last week were up against.
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So much criticism comes to anyone who is trying to do anything that it is well enough to be able to discard the rank from the genuine without much worry. But some criticisms are seriously given and have food for thought in them. An alumnus, who used to edit the Trojan, recently said he thought the paper should be of the magazine type.
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That was a reasonable criticism although we did not agree with him. There are two very distinct viewpoints to be taken of a college sheet. One is that it is to be a literary endeavor that shall serve to unite the campus by way of more thoughtful editorial matter. The other is that it should be as much like a metropolitan paper as possible, barring the sensational policies of some of the latter. (Sometimes this is not barred.) The writer casts his lot with the second group, although he can appreciate the first man’s position.
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In the first place, the newspaper is more interesting to read. In the second place, it trains col-
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S. C. Entertainers Receive Applause at U.C.L.A. Rally
Song Hits From the “Rumpus” Feature Exchange Rally; Object is To Promote Friendship Between Institutions.
Song hits from the “Rumpus” were the features of the first exchange rally of the year by South 1 ern California with the University of California, Los Angeles, Friday morning on the U. C. L. A. campus.
“Stairway of Love,” sung by Jo Campbell and Roy Winborn, who had the leading parts in the “Rumpus,” and “Kiss Me and Say Goodnight,” sung by Jo Campbell, wTere given advance presentation there to the performance Friday evening on this campus. Blackbottom, danced by Woody Lou Hunsaker and Wes Woodford; vocal numbers by Carroll “Tiny” Sandholdt, and selections by the Trojan Trio from the Women’s Glee Club were entertaining numbers on the program. Terril de
Lapp and Wes Woodford, comedy artists of Southern California, who are fast developing a reputation for fast, humorous acts, gave a ventrilo-qust stunt that caused a riot of applause.
Leland Tallman, as president from Southern California, addressed the assembled students in a short talk.
Ned Marr, president of the University, gave the visiting S. C. entertainers a good reception in his introductory speech.
These exchange rallies are a part of the policy of establishing and maintaining good fellowship between Pacific Coast universities. Pomona recently gave one for Southern California, which was returned by this University.
“FREEWILL” IS TOPIC ANNUAL ELECTION OF
OF LECTURE BY DR. H. CARR
Former University of London Professor Gives Third Talk in New Era Foundation Series.
The third of this year's lectures on the New Era Foundation, dealing with the “Freewill Problem,” was delivered Friday afternoon in Hoo«e Hall by Dr. H. Wildon Carr, internationally known philosopher, formerly of the University of London, now professor of philosophy at Southern California.
The lectures on the New Era Foundation have been each year since 1920 under the auspices of the School of Religion. The purpose served in establishing the Foundation was to bring to Southern California each year some man of outstanding reputation in the field of religion or philosophy to contribute toward the understanding of some phase of modern thought in the light of Christian teaching. His subject, stated in full, is “The Freewill Pro'o-lem in the Light of Modern Scientific Developments.”
Three lectures in the series remain to be delivered this week—on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 4 o’clock in Hoase Hall. The subject of today’s lecture will be “Mechanism and Scientific Materialism.”
The lecture tomorrow will deal with the subject of “Mind and Nature and the Principle of Relativity.” The subject of the rinal lecture, to be delivered on Wednesday ,is “The Positive Conception of Freedom Implied in Living Activity.” .
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WOMEN FEATURES HOT CONTESTS
Betty Farmer Elected To Presidency Over Ruth Carr By Small Margin,
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Betty Farmer won the office of president of W. S. G. A. in a close battle with the other nominee, Ruth Carr, at the annual election hold Thursday in the arcade of the Administration building.
Several of the women were elected unanimously in the general nominations. These were: Gwendolyn Patton, vice-president; Mabel R.usfi‘1, treasurer; Alice Colwell, social chairman; and Erie Shephard, judiciary representative. The other officers. Fern Kuhry, secretary; Martha Mur dock, sophomore representative. Zada Taylor, junior representative?; and Dorothy Goodrich, senior repre sentative, were elected by a ver> small majority over the rest of th*-, candidates. In all cases the votPs ran unusually close.
About 500 S. C. women cast their ballots at the polls in this election, resulting in the largest number of voters the W. S. G. A. elections have ever before attracted.
The new president, eBtty Farmer, will probably be one of the representatives sent with Eleanor Mix to the annual convention of Women’s Governing Associations.
Freshman Sport Dance Is Definitely Planned
The Freshman sport dance will bo held April 23 at Beverly Hills Woman’s Club, according to Sam Newman, president of the class.
Plans for this dance will not be affected by the cancellation of the afternoon dance which the frosh had planned.
CONSTRUCTION TO COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY
Structural Steel Ready in Six Weeks; Contract To Be Let Within Month.
TO COST $350,000
Old Store To Be Moved To Vacant Property West of Administration Building.
BY KARMI WYCKOFF
Acceptance of the plans of Parkinson & Parkinson, official University architects, for the University of Southern California Student Union and an authorization for the president to proceed immediately with construction were decisions given Friday morning by the members of the Board of Trustees of the University in their meeting in the president’s office.
Tentative plans calj for a $350,000 building; a total which includes material, construction costs, and fur nishlngs.
The building will be a class A. three-story structure of reinforced concrete ,and will call for excavation for a basement of considerable sze. The steel for construction has been ordered and will be cut and ready for shipment within six weeks. Piians for the contractor will be finshed within a month and will be given to the lowest bidder.
The location of the student lounge was left as originally planned for. on the third floor. A feature of the building is the freight elevator running from the basement to the second floor.
The present students’ store will be moved to a location on the vacant property of the University, west of the Administration building on 3$th street, between the Administration building and the Healy building.
Due to the fact that the steel will not be ready for six weeks, anti that the present store will be moved and that actual excavation and construction will not begin for some time, the opening date of the building has been moved to a later time than that of September. ’ Present indications are that the building will be ready for occupancy some time in November and that the formal opening will be^Jn celebration of Thanksgiving Day. This will be in the na ture of a double Thanksgiving for S. C. if this plan is realized, aad will make the opening that much more memorable to the students.
USELESS PERFECTION
It ia one thing to claim perfection or efficiency; it is another thing to be able to make good that claim.
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SKULL AND DAGGER
Skull and Dagger will meet today noon at 12:20 in the office of the student body president. Very important. LELAND TALLMAN.
A. S. U. S. C. Social Committee will meet in the office of the student body president at 12:20 today. Important.
Regular meeting of the Mustang Club. All non-fraternity men are invited. H. 306, 7:30 Monday night. Refreshments will be served.
WOMAN TO TALK ON PROHIBITION
Second Lecture on the Theory, Value and Machinery of Law Enforcement Will Be Given Tomorrow; Under Auspices of Law Enforcement Committee.
Bn
SIGMA
Sigma will meet this afternoon at 3:10 in the office of the University editor.
The pledges of Spooks and Spokes will meet in the Y. W. C. A. Hut at 12:30 Tuesday noon. Very important. All be present.
DEPUTATIONS CAST
Second Deputations Skit cast will meet in front of Bovard Auditorium tomorrow morning at 10:25 to go to Orange Union High School.
Dr. Marian Tracy Whiting, woman physician, will be the feature speaker at the second lecture in the course on the Theory, Value, and Machinery of Law Enforcement.
This course is given under ?he auspices of the Women’s Law Enforcement Committee of Southern California in co-operation with th** University of Southern California, i) Hoose Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock.
“The History of the 18th Amendment” is to be the subject of Dr. S. T. Montgomery’s talk before the gathering. Peggy Halloran, Los Angeles woman attorney and graduate of S. C., will open the ensuing discussion ,the rest of the period being left for questions and answers.
The course of twelve lectures, meeting from 4 to 5:30 on Tuesday afternoons, has been arranged for the convenience of adults wishing information on the subject of law enforcement, according to Mrs. John C. Urquhart, chairman of the South-
ern California Women’s Law forcement Committee.
The specific topic of tomorrow’s lecture on the Trojan campus is "Prohibition, Its Scientific Approach ’ —from the physician’s •point of view'. Special emphasis is being given to the history, growth, economic and moral aspects of prohibition; the criminal code and procedure will he discussed, and a study of the need for training in leadership will be made. Part of each meeting is l»e-ing devoted to the assembling of speakers’ materials, correct public address, and presiding presence, and the discussion period allowing opportunity for practice.
“Can Law Observance be Fashionable?”, “Courage in Public Affairs’, "Responsibility of the Home to Crime”, "Fixing Responsibilities in Government”, and “Problems in the Grand Jury System” are some of the important topics included in the Tuesday afternoon lectures, between March 29 and June 14.