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VOLUME VI.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 15, 1927
NUMBER 6
PILGRIMAGE PLAY GIVE LOW RATES
Tonight Designated as Trojan Night With Spectial Rates To Students.
Believing The Pilgrimage Play, “Life of Christ,” which is now being given in the hills of Hollywood to be one of the most distinctive features of Southern California, Dr. L. B. Rogers, Dean of the Summer School, requested the management to designate tonight as a special University of Southern California night when the students would be offered the best seats in the Pilgrimage Playhouse at special student rates of $1.00 and $1.25. Reservations can be secured until five o’clock today at the Students Store in the Y. M. C. A. Building, although students desiring to attend the performance may purchase tickets at the Pilgrimage box office this evening at the student rate as they enter the playhouse.
The Pilgrimage Play, “Life of
Christ,” is presented in an outdoor theatre in the foothills of Hollywood, at Cahunega and Highland Avenues, near the Hollywood Bowl. It is con veniently reached by Pacific Electric, Highland Ave. and Santa Monica cars. As the performance begins exactly at eight o’clock, it is best to reach the playhouse early.
The play is in twelve Episodes, a Prologue of Prophesy and an Epilogue of Promise. Presenting practically the whole spiritual life and teaching of the Saviour of the world.
The Four Gospels of the New Testa-
International Dinner
Will Be Held Next Thursday
Sponsored by the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. an international dinner will be given Thursday, July 22nd, on the lawn of the Y. W. C. A. All summer students are invited. Tickets are on sale at the Y. M. and Y. W. at 25 cents There are many students from foreign countries visiting the campus this summer, coming from schools and colleges in all parts of the world. This dinner will afford an excellent opportunity to become acpuainted, according to Glen Turner, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. The affair will be very informal with no particular program planned.
The international phase of the •S. C. campus has been an important one for several years. That there is a large number of foreign students that call the University of Southern California their Alma Mater is evidenced by the cordial reception accorded Dr. John Hill and Dean Hunt of the Graduate School on their recent trip abroad where former students in many lands holding positions of trust and responsibility, welcomed their X American university friends.
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By VIRGIL PINKLEY
Dr. Benjamin On History and Facts.
American History Made Interesting By. Dr. Latane.
Is History Dry?
Dr. Cox a Lovable Character.
Purpose in Life.
BAIRD’S MANUAL RATES S. C. HIGH IN NEW EDITION
Commerce Fraternities Listed High in Manual; Eight S. C. Organizations Noted.
“The showing made by the College of Commerce ond Business Administration of the University of Southern California in the recent is-ment have been so transcribed into 1 sue Baird’s Manual of American
dramatic form that the words of the Greatest Spiritual figure that has appeared on earth throughout the ages are given literally and without alteration.
The drama is given at night so that every modern device of effective lighting can be used. Beautiful beyond words are the lights surrounding the secred figure as it appears on the hillside or mountain top; the effect of sunrise, sunsets, the transfiguration and escension is produced in glowing colored lights and cloud effects that bring beauty and conviction to the scenes. The Pilgrimage Play gives the exact words of Jesus of Nazareth as He spoke them on the Hills of Palestine, with no alteration or sectarian interpretation so that every searching soul may feel their beauty and their truth, no matter of what race, creed or nationality he may be.
Ian Maclaren, noted stage actor, is portraying the role of the Christus and his interpretation has been receiving unstinted praises from every audience since the opening of the Pilgrimage Play on Monday, July 11. An incomparable cast of players surround Mr. Maclaren, with Reginald Pole directing the production.
MT. LOWE TRIP
U. S. C. Day at Mt Lowe Saturday, July 16th. Regular $2.50 ticket for $1.90.
ORANGE EMPIRE TOUR
Riverside and Orange Empire Tour Sunday, July 17th. Secure ticket at the Associated Students Store.
DR. MIMS WILL SPEAK
During the chapel period next Tuesday, Dr. Edwin Mims will speak instead of Dr. Henry Herbert Goddard. Dr. Goddard will speak to the student body on August 2, on the date which was originally Dr. Mim’s. The topic on which Dr. Mims will speak is, “Specialization and Culture.” For the first twenty minutes of the chapel period, Dean Skeele of the Music Department wrill give an organ recital. His program will contain pieces well known to music lovers.
College fraternities is particularly good. Every national recognition that the college has sought has been promptly granted,” stated Dean Wallace Cunningham of the College of Commerce recently, when interviewed on the subject of Commerce professional and scholastic fraternities.
“Southern California is the nineteenth chapter on the' list of Beta Gamma Sigma, the commerce scholastic fraternity of the same significance as Phi Beta Kappa” he continued. Sigma has been granted to only twenty-four institutions.
That Delta chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon at Southern California is the fourth of the six chapters of that leading foreign service trade fraternity of which President R. B von KieinSmid is a former president.
Delta Sigma Pi and Alpha Kappa Psi are the acknowledged leaders among the professional general commercial fraternities. Phi chapter of Delta Sigma Pi is twenty-first of the list of forty-four chapters, while the Alpha Zeta chapter of Alpha Kappa I^si is twenty-ninth on the list of forty-five, as listed in the new edition of Baird’s Manual. Beta Alpha Psi, Iota chapter, at this university, is the ninth of twelve chapters of the accounting fraternities. Pi. the S. C. chapter of Sigma Beta Chi, is the nineteenth of fifty-one chapters of the national transportation and traffic fraternity, some of whose chapters are composed of university students and some of prominent men in actual traffic work. S. C.’s chapter is the only university chapterin the state of California.
XI chapter of Phi Chi Theta, professional business sorority, is the fifteenth of the seventeen chapters of that organization, and S. C.’s chapter of Gamma Epsilon Pi, scholastic commerce sorority, is the tenth of the eighteen chapters.
“The granting of these chapters indicates, both in the fact that they are granted and the number of the chapter, the high standing of the S. C. College of Commerce and Business Administration” concluded Dean Cunningham,
“If all you get from my class is mere facts, then I have failed as a professor.” Such were the words of Dr. Gilbert G. Benjamin, visiting professor of history from the State Univeristy of Iowa, at the close of one of his recent lectures. If every professor would approach his class with that spirit and with a feeling that there is something finer in his subject than cold, hard facts, a student would get a new vision, a new idea to think over and determine for himself. *
Dr. Benjamin was a member of the Summer Session faculty last year and his classes were popular with the large number of students who were enrolled in them. Next year he is to lecture in the University of Chicago. His lectures are fair and sincere, with both sides presented in their true meaning. A bit of personal radiance and individuality are injected into his sessions. When a professor is regarded as a man, and when he has personal drawing power, coupled with a knowledge of his subject he is a man that universities should seek, and try and retain on their faculty roll-call.
Mefi of Summer Session Frolic At Belmont Beach
Forgetting their dignity ajid studies for a while, the men of the summer session met Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Belmont Beach Club, 4100 Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, for the annual men’s get-together.
Arriving at the club continuously from 3 to 6, the newcomers joined the baseball, volleyball, and other games on the beach. The race ^ Catalina was called off early to return to eat. Although no records were broken it is be-lived that a great deal of latent talent was uncovered, according to reports.
At dinner, which was served promptly at 7 to about 120 men, futher hilarity was evirenced. According to all reports, many of long the dignified professors of the lecture platform were equally able to relate fish stoires as long pedigogical dissertatioons. Among the most notable contributions were Dr. J. H. Cox’s explaination of the “status quo”, Dr. S. B. Hall’s bull story of Virginia, and Dr. Read Baine’s reputed memor* ies of the University of Washington.
Many visiting professors were present at the gathering, and practically all contributed a short talk or story. Dr. Dexter, President of Whittier College 'was an honor guest. Guest cards were given to visitors in Southern California by the Belmont Beach Club management.
HOLLYWOOD BOWL HAS BIG CHORUS
Chorus of 500 Voices Will Give Numbers at “Italian Night.”
HONORED GUESTS WILL SPEAK AT
. CLUB’S BANQUET
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History and Political Science Group To Meet Monday Night For Annual Dinner.
While we are on the subject of history, there is another member of the history department who comes from Johns Hopkins University who is a national figure in the field of diplomatic relations. Dr. John Latane, the author of various books and many magazine articles, is in charge of the Summer Session history courses. Dr. Latane has taken American history which students have had for ten years and is daily making old and well known incidents take on new color. His stories of personal meetings with famous men in the history of this country since the Civil War, are novel and interesting.
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History itself is regarded by many to be a dry discourse of events which have happened in the past, and about happenings in which no one is interested. But the history of men struggling to be free, the history of the great movements in the world which have been perpetrated in the name of humanity, is the real history of the human race. There should come a true realization of the work of past generations when the pages of history are turned back and studied. The annals of history are the source books of past progress and certainly have a direct and definite (Continued on Page Three)
Twin Cedars Inn will be the ban quet scene of the History and Political Science annual summei affair* in honor of visiting professors at Southern California, Monday night at 6:30. Every year the active and alumni members of the club sponsor a special meeting honoring visiting professors in the field of History and Political Science.
Professor Eugene Harley will preside at the banquet and welcome the guests. The banquet will be featured by special music, and short addresses by prominent educators on their own subject.
The professors who will be the special guests of the club this year are: Judge Edward C. Mower from the University of Vermont; Dr. Gilbert G. Benjamin of Iowa State University; Dr. John H. Latane of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. George B. Ham mond of the University of Arizona.
The committee composed of Marian Broderick, Fred Pearson, Prof. James Mussatti, Consuelo Tachet, Prof. Eugene Harley, and Prof. Owen Coy have announced that members of the club, majors in History' or Political Science, and others interested in the general subject are welcome to attend the banquet. Alumni of the club are being specially taken care of by the committee.
Tickets are obtainable at the History or Political Science office, on the second flor of Stowell Hall in the Administration Building.
A mixed chorus of 500 voices will sing to the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra of 100 pieces on Tuesday night, July 19, when “Italian Night” is celebrated in Hollywood Bowl.
The chorus, which has been trained by John Smallman, will be under the direction of Pietro Cimini. They will sing “Hymn to the Sun,” from “Iris,” by Mascagni, and the Prolougue to “Mefistofele,” by Boito, in which number Leslie Brigham, American basso, recently returned from operatic triumphs in Italy, will sing the important role of Meph-isto.
The entire program for“Italian Night’ ’ will be directed by Maestro Cimifti, an Italian by birth and an American by recent naturalization.
Cimini, who is now a resident of Hollywood, has directed the Chicago Civic Grand Opera for five years, and during this past winter was guest conductor of the San Francisco and Los Angeles Opera Associations. Famed in America chiefly for his achievements in opera, it is little known here that Maestro Cimini has had great triumphs as a symphony director in Italy, Russia, and South America, and music lovers of the Southland are expecting rare delights in hearing Maestro Cimini as a director of symphony.
Vladimir Shavitch, noted Russian conductor, will direct the programs during the remainder of the week.
The program for the entire week is as follows:
Tuesday, July 19 (Italian Night) Pietro Cimini Conducting
1.	Overture—Italians in Algiers
Rossini
2.	Neapolitan Scenes	Massenet
3.	Scherzo from the Suite “Venetian Scenes”	Mancinelli
4.	Rhapsody “Italia”	Casella
5.	Hymn to the Sun from “Iris” (Chorus 500 Voices) Mascagni
Intermission
6.	Intermezzo—L’Amico Fritz
Mascagni
7.	Prologue to Mefistofele Boito (Leslie Brigham, Basso, Soloist and
Chorus of 500)
Thursday, July 21
Valdimir Shavitch Conducting 1.Overture—'Benvenuto Cellini
Berlioz
2.	Symphonp No. 4 Tschaikowsky
Intermission
3.	Tone Poem—Don Juan
4.	Prelude to Lohengrin
5.	Ride of the Valkyries
R. Strauss Wagner Wagner
TRUSTEES ELECT
NEW PRESIDENT
George I. Cochran, president of the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company, and for the past thirty-five years treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California, was elected president of the board at a special meeting held recently, according to announcement from the office of President R. B. von KieinSmid of the Trojan University.
Friday, July 22
1.	Overture—Carnival	Dvorak
2.	The Wild Huntsman	Franck
3.	Concerto in A minor	Grieg Soloist: Tina Lerner,	Pianlste
Intermission
4.	Irish Tune from Country
Derry	Grainger
5.	Shepherd’s Hey	Grainger
6.	Pines of Rome	Respighi
Saturday .July 23 (Popular Program)
1.	March—Pomp and Circumstance
Elgar
2.	The Island of the Ceibos Fabini
3.	Blue Danube Waltz J. Strauss
4.	Fetes	Debussy
5.	Overture—“Mignon”	Thomas
Intermission
6.	Finlandia	Sibeliu9
7.	Suite—“Norena”	Frederiksen
8.	Cortege of the Sirdar
Ippolitow-Iwanoff
9.	The Flight of the Bumble
Bee	Rim8ky-Korsakoff
10.	March Slav	Tschaikowsky