SQUIRES AND KNIGHTS
Trojan Knights and Squires will meet for lunch in Room 322 of the Student Union at 12:15, Wednesday noon. It is important that all Knights and Squires be there promptly. Petitions will be open shortly for students ambitious to become Knights and Squires. Second semester juniors and all seniors are eligible for membership in the Knights and all sophomores may turn in petitions for the junior organization.
Southern
California
Trojan
BY-LINERS MEETING
A special meeting of all members of the By-liners Club is called today at chapel hour in the Student News Bureau office. It is imperative that all members be present as business will be taken up at that time concerning the operation of the club for the rest of the semester. All those who fail to be present will be temporarily if not permanently suspended from the organization.
BILL HARVEY, Pres.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April 11, 1928
NUMBER 110
MEDICAL SCHOOL WILL BE REVIVED IN SEPTEMBER
WOMEN SET MAY DAY AS DINNER DATE
Awards Will Be Given To Campus Women at Annual Banquet.
Following a precedent established last year, the annual Women’s Spring banquet will be held in the Student Union building on Tuesday, May 1, at 6:30 p. m., according to Alice Colwell, social chairman of the Women’s Self-Government Association, which is sponsoring the affair.
At this banquet, which will he formal, awards will be made to wo-
ment outstanding in various activities on the campus. These awards will be made by the Women’s Athletic association, the W. S. G. A., Panhellenic, professional schools, the Women’s Debate squad, the literary societies, and other university women’s groups. The Women’s Self-Government association will award scrolls of honor to fifteen senior women who have shown an active interest in women’s activities during their four years of college life. The names of these women will not be divulged until the night of the banquet, when the scrolls will be presented by Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford.
Women who will head the committees preparing for the banquet are: Jean McGovney, program: Mary Joyce, decorations; Gene Williams, awards; Margaret French, music; Ed-wina Thomas and Gwen Patton, invitations; and Grace Wright, publicity. Margaret French will also have complete charge of the finances.
Toasts will be given by Eleanor Mix, who will represent Uie alumnae and who was president of the W. S. G. A. last year when the idea of having an all-university women’s formal banquet was inaugurated; by Alice Colwell, who was recently elected as the president of the W. S. G. A. for next year and who has complete charge of the banquet; and by Dean Crawford, who will represent the faculty women.
Invitations for the affair will be sent out immediately to the women’s organizations, which are asked to send a limited number of representatives to the banquet. The price of admission has been placed at $1.75 a person.
Mary Joyce, chairman of the decorations committee, announces that women who wish to work on decor-atoins for the banquet should sign up in the Women’s Organizations office, room 234 in the Student Union building. Activity points will be awarded to the women who serve on committees.
CLINIC PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED
Public Defender’s Staff Will Work in Conjunction With Legal Clinic.
Hopes for the establishment of a legal clinic in the S. C. Law School brightened considerably with the announcement of Frederic H. Vercoe, public defender of Los Angeles, that members of the public defendr’s staff will work in conjunction with the legal clinic if it is established.
Plans for the clinic include the preparation of all legal briefs, papers and the like for the poor who bring their cases to the law school. The students will do all this detail work, but actual pleading of the case in court will be done by the public defender’s staff, inasmuch as only those who have been admitted to the bar may pie**-* cases.
Only cases involving amount# of $100 or less will be dealt with by C e public defender’s office, however. An agreement exists whereby all- cases where the amount is greater than $100 are referred to a list of lawyers prepared by the Los Angeles Bar Association. These lawyers plead the cases free of charge, if the client is too poor to pay any fee, or charge a nominal fee where the client is able to pay it.
1: is the belief of Vercoe that arrangements could be made between the legal clinic and the Los Angeles Bar Association so that students could handle these cases as well. Pleading would be done only by members of the bar, however, and the lawyers now trying this type of cases would continue to do so.
Present plans for the clinic seem blight, although an actual professor to have charge of it next year has not been selected. John S. Bradway, of Pennsylvania, is to give a course in legal clinic work in the summer session of the law school, but has not been secured to continue the work in the fall. Necessary financial backing is likewise needed before the clinic is established.
SENIORS TO HOLD FIRST “SNAP” HOP THURSDAY NIGHT
Further Details About Annual Series of Dances Will Be Told Tomorrow.
Announcement of a informal senior “snap” dance to be held Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. at the Pi Phi house was made today by Paul Cunningham senior class president The dance, which is to be the first of four given before the end of the school year, will be held for senior students of the university.
Cunningham also states that the appointment of senior class committee heads has been completed. Harold Kispert and Betty von KieinSmid are to be co-chairmen of the traditions committee. Alda Mills, as vice-president of the senior class is automatically head of the social committee and Cliff Reynolds, class treasurer. is likewise leader o»f the fin-a^ joup. Earl Andreen has charge of senior announcements. Marcus Betks has' been given the work of selecting the class gift, and Stanley Hopper is to make Baccalaureate plans.
The chaperones for the affair, as announced by Alda Mills are: Mrs. Arthur, Miss Ruth Price and Miss Mildred Woller.
The chairman for senior ditch day has also been appointed, but Cunningham states: ‘Considering the fate of past chairmen of ditch day, senior officers think it advisable to keep his identity a secret until after the memoriable day takes place, and thus to insure his personal safety.”
Near East College Head Is Guest Of Trojan Faculty
President Kathryn Newell Adams, of the Constantinople Women’s college, will be the guest of Dean Karl T. Waugh and the university Friday.
Dr. Adams will speak to the graduate council in the afternoon at 2:30. The council meeting will be in the Philosophy Seminar room in Hoose hall.
Any faculty members who are interested in the topic, “Modern Education of Women in the Near East”, are cordially invited by the graduate office to attend the event.
Dr. Adams is making a tour of
the United States. The advance of the western idea of the equality of women in political and edu-catoinal matters is the problem of the Near East educator.
HONORARY HEAD - VISITS S.C.GR00P
Torch and Tassel Entertains Miss Helen Cook, U. C. L. A. Mortar Board President.
FAULTY FORMATION RESPONSIBLE FOR DAM DESTRUCTION
Geology Class Hears Sedgewick Explain Weakness; Plan For Engineers’ Boardd Outlined.
Professor A. E. Sedgwick, head of the geology department, yesterday in speaking for the first time to his students about his recent investigation of the St. Francis dam disaster for the District Attorney, placed responsibility for ilie dam break upon the failure of incompetent geologic formation u^der the west wing of the dam. He explained in detail to his class the geologic reason for the collapse of the barrier, with its subsequent great death toll.
Professor Sedgwick and other members of the District Attorney’s board formulated a scheme, whereby plans for a dam in this state would have to pass a board of expert engineers and geologists which would be in the
TICKETS ON SALE FOR DENTAL HOP IN STUDENT UNION
Odonto Club Directs Benefit Dance Set For April Twenty-seventh; All Students Invited.
Dental students will hold a benefit dance in the social hall of the Student Union on the ,27th under the direction of the Odonto club, Bill Moss, manager of the club announced today.
Harold Carpenter’s Campus Seren-aders will furnish the music for the annual dance. Moss stated that the Serenaders is one of the popular orchestras among the fraternities and the sororities.
Several acts from the West Coast circu.t have been engaged to interpolate between the dances to add novelty and variety to the affair.
The management promises one of the surprises of the spring season in the prize contest which is being kept a dark secret- to increase the interest in the annual affair. Moss stated that the contest would be in the nature of a drawing but refused to make any further disclosures about it.
Invitation to the function is extended to the entire university. The bids for the affair may be obtained from Bill Moss, Ralph Pace, Horace Brown or Spence Crump. Tickets are also on sale in the student store.
Miss Helen Cook, president of Mortar Board at the University of (
California, was the guest of the ac- Pay the state but without any state
Loud In Lead At Walker’s
Katherine Jones Second in Walker’s Sales Contest; Many Students Compete.
According to reports received yesterday morning, Marjory Loud is holding first place and Katherine Jones second, in the Walker Sales contest which is being held during the month of April.
Walker's Store has been divided into ten divisions, with ten young worn'in from the College of Commerce in charge. Four scholarships are offered to the students representing the four store divisions showing the greatest increase in sales.
Executives and buyers of Walker’s are conducting a course of practical instruction for these student contestants which will help them combine their theory with practical work.
J. G. Cottrell, assistant to the vice-president of Walker’s, states a greater increase in sales this year than those of last year’s contest.
Frosh Complete Plans For Fraternity Dance
Plans are practically complete for the Assembly Freshman dance to be held Saturday evening at 9:00 o’clock according to the announcement made by the committee in charge of the dance, composed of Lewis Gough, Kenneth Callow and Ed Clark. The dance is to be held at the Theta Psi house.
An excellent orchestra has been secured and the committee promises some good entertainment from that direction.
The Assembly freshmen are a recently formed organization composed of freshmen and pledges in the houses represented by the Assembly council.
tive chapter of Torch and Tassel at a luncheon, Thursday afternoon, April 6, at the Women’s Residence hall.
Miss Cook visited the members of the Torch and Tasel and the S. C. campus for the purpose of inspecting the group.
The petition of Torch and Tassel to Mortar Board was sent about two weeks ago, and it is hoped by the group that action will be taken in the near future.
Torch and Tassel is an honorary senior women’s sorority, and was founded on the local campus in 1914.
Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid and Miss Julia McCorkle were also guests at the luncheon.
Vivian Page Announces Date of Senior Recital
Miss Vivian Variel Page, pupil of Mrs. Lillian Backstrand Wilson, member of the voice faculty of the College of Music will give her senior recital at Touchstone theatre on Friday evening, April 13, at 8:30.
Miss Page will be assisted by Mis3 Dorothy Bishop, piano, and Miss Florence Austin, accompanist, both members of the faculty of the College of Music and graduate students of Mrs. Adelaide Trowbridge Perry, professor of piano and normal methods.
The program to be presented is as follows:
(a)	Star Vicino...........Salvator Rosa
(b)	Jeunes Fillettes ______arr. Wekerlin
(c)	My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair--------------Haydn
With Verdure Clad ...................jHaydn
Sonata ---------------------------------Paradies
Vivace
Allegro
(a) Fur Musik...........................Franz
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BELLE HOP SETS ASIDE TIE LIMIT
The Hollywood Women’s club will be the scene of the Belle Hop this Friday, April 13. The Starling Six. long known as one of the best dance orchestras in Hollywood, will furnish the music. The dancing contest will be judged by a prominent screen actor — probably Buddy Rogers, featured in “Wings” and “My Best Girl,” and himself a college man and Phi Kappa Psi from the middle west. There will be a silver cup for the boys and a silver cup for the girls.
The dance is to be an all-student affair and informal with no time limit on the dancing. There will be refreshments, favors and souvenirs, and the admision fee is one dollar and a quarter the couple.
This dance has been eagerly looked forward to for a long time by those who have wanted to get a true taste of Hollywood and a large, enthusiastic crowd is expected.
officials in its membership. The state remuneration is calculated on to make the board responsible to no private concern of dam contractors.
This arrangem^it was designed with a view towards preventing the building of dams without the approval of eminent geologists as well as that of engineers.
Going into detailed gologic history of the dam site, Professor Sedgwick showed that a part of one side of the dam was anchored in loose rock known as “conglomerate” through which water seeps easily. When the water heid by the dam reached an eighty foot level, the water pressure was sufficient to undermine and eventually to cause the giving away of a large section of the side of the dam, and then the rest of the structure fell ready prey to the tremendous rush of waters and lack of support.
A commission has been recommended to make a survey of other dams, although its membership is undetermined as yet.
RUSSIAN TO SPEAK IN Y.W.C.A. ROOMS
Miss Sophie Zernova, a Russian noblewoman, will speak to the Y. W. C. A. this noon, on the subject of foreign students. She is an authority of this subject, having spent the winter working with students in Paris, as well as several previous ^ears in close touch with students in all parts of the world.
This subject is of particular interest at present, as it has a direct bearing upon the idea chosen for the theme of the annual Y. W. C. A. may-feet, that of internationalism.
Dr. Markovin, of the Comparative Literature department, will present Miss Zernova. Any student, whether a member of the Y. W. C. A. or not, is invited to be present. The meeting will be at 12:15 in the Y. W. C. A. rooms, on the fourth floor of the Student Union.
COLLEGE CRUISE DRAWS TROJANS
Bissel Reports Great Interest in Floating University; Advantages Outlined.
Considerable interest is being shown by Trojan students of both sexes in the co-educational Floating university which will leave New York on October 6, on the first lap of its round the world trip, according to Professor Kenneth M. Bissell, chairman of the French department, who is acting as the representative of the cruise on this campus.
A thoroughly modern and up-to-date vessel particularly adapted for this sort of a trip and combining all the latest improvements in the way of accommodations has been chartered for the cruise from the Cunard Line. The physical equipment of the boat includes a library of 8,000 volumes,
swimming pool, gym, infirmary with physicians and registered nurses in attendance and a hot and cold air ventilating system which will maintain a comfortable temperature in all climates. Separate sections of the boat will be reserved for men and women students.
A carefully selected faculty of 60 members wiil provide for the needs of the three types of students who will be eligible to register for the cruise: (1) Students of 16 years or more who are in their senior year of preparatory school or who have just graduated. (2) Undergraduates of colleges and universities. (3) Graduate students and a limited number of older persons who are interested in taking advanced work or studying special topics. Full college credit will be given for courses satisfactorily completed on the cruise.
TORCH AND TASSEL
There will be a meeting of Torch and Tassel members at the Cottage Tea room at noon today.
ENGINEERS PICK OFFICE NOMINEES
Ralph Flynn, John Volz, and Ri chard Bellvue were nominated for the presidency of the College of Engineering at the meeting of the student body held yesterday in H. 206. Leslie Marks was the only man nominated for secertary, thus taking the office without competition. The same was true in the case of the treasurer, where James Gosline was the only nominee named.
Elections will be held tomorrow in the patio of the Student Union from 10 until 2 o’clock. To vote, every engineer must have paid his dues in full and must present his student body card. Dues may be paid at the poll or to any member of the Engineers’ council.
WHITMAN COLLEGE SINGERS END TOUR
Whitman College, Walla Walla, ash., April 10 (P.I.P.)—Monday, the 2nd, the college glee club gave its home concert before a packed house. This concert also ends the tour which was made to the towns *on the east side of the mountains. The trip was a huge success and in every town the singers met with heartiest welcome. We are very proud of our glee club in its success and as ambassadors of good will.
The concert this year consisted of three parts, the singers ensemble, the orchestra and dancers and the musical comedy “The Trial By Jury,” all of which were met with great success.
After leaving New York and touching Havana, the steamer will go through the Panama Canal, arriving^ at San Pedro about Oct. 24. From here it will proceed to the Orient and thence to Europe, reaching the Mediterranean in February. Three months will be devoted to visiting the various European countries, the cruise including an option of four different itineraries on the Continent without extra charge. The entire cruise will occupy eight months, the steamer arriving in New York on June 1. Students who wish to r&-1 the announcement stated main longer ia Europe have the privilege of returning by a later boat.
Twenty-seven different countries will be visited during the cruise.
UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCES
RE-OPENING
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School of Medicine Will Meet Requirements for Class A. Institution.
The University of Southern California will open in September a school of medicine, which will meet every requirement of the American Medical Association for a Class A rating. Dr. W. W. Beckett, chairman of the educational committee of the Southern California Medical Alumni Association and a trustee of the university, announced yesterday at a meeting of the medical alumni at the University Club.
Announcement of the resumption of medical training at Southern Cali fornia after cessation ot ien years was authorized by President R. B. von KieinSmid after consultation with a medical school executive committee, consisting of Dr. E. M. Pal-lette, president of the Los Angeles County Medical society; Dr. W. A. Morrison, chairman of the educational committee of the society; Dr. E. A. Bryant, Dr. Joseph King and Dr. Beckett.
During the college year of 1928-1929 only the flrst pre-clinkal year of medicine will be offered, it was announced. Each succeeding year an additional year’s work will be offered until in 1931 the full four year course in medicine will be available.
The school will be located on the campus, and for the time being the present available laboratory and class room equipment of the university will be utilized. The announcement pointed out that the new and fully-equipped science hall would be available in September and that Bridge hall, opened last month, was available for the class room work of the two pre-clinical years.
The third and fourth years of the medical course requiring clinical facilities which are only offered in a hospital or medical clinic will be given in one of the local hospitals,
El Rodeo Will Appear In Latter Part of May
Declaring that this year’s El Rodeo will appear in the latter \>art May, Dave Bryant, editor, addt£ that the annual publication will contain many unusual features.
Much of the copy is already in the hands of the printers, Bryant said, and up to date only two departments are not complete. It is hoped that all printing may be under way by the first of May.
The staff refused to announce the exact date for handing out the year book, but intimated that it wouldn’t be later than the last of May.
Educator To Discuss “Mental Pathology”
Dr. S. I. Franz, head of the Psychology department at U. C. L. A., and editor of the Psychology Bulletin, will address the Philosophy club of S. C. on Thursday evening, April 12.
Franz’s subject for the evening lecture will be “Mental Pathology and the Mind-Body Problem.”
The meeting will convene at 8:00 o’clock sharp in the Philosophy Seminar room, H. 300. The public is invited to attend.
The University recently announced that it had not set aside $500,000 in endowment for the maintenance of the new medical school when it was (Continued on Page Two)
Prominent Engineer Announces Wedding
Announcement has just been made of the marriage of Lester Bateman, prominent senior electrical engineer, to Miss Dorcas Dye on Easter Sunday. The marriage was held at the home of the bride in Hollywood. Miss Dye is an alumnae of the University of California at Los Angeles. .
Bateman is president of Eta Kappa Nu, national honorary electrical engineering fraternity, chairman of the local branch of the A. I. E. E., and is a member of the Engineer’s council. He has just received an appointment from the Bell Telephone Co., to do research work in their laboratories in New York-City, and upon his graduation in June, he will leave with Mrs. Bateman for the east.
Greeks Have Unique Gifts
Inter-fraternity Dance Favors Will Feature Spring Motif; Ticket Sale Good.
Favors in the form of a spring fad that will be attractive worn with the new fashions are to be the feature of the inteMraternity dance to be given Friday, April 13, according to Eddie Oudermuelen.
The affair, which will be given in the social hall of the Student Union will carry the spring motif throughout. Howard Edgerton, who is in charge of the dance, states that the hall will be a profusion of spring blossoms. The programs, too, will embody this theme. The favors and programs are something new, ordered since the dance was orignially planned, as the order for the former ones was canceled.
‘The fraternities are all backing the dance with whole-hearted enthusiasm and more tickets are wanted than we can supply,” said Oudermuelen.
As the social hall will only comfortably accommodate a certain number of people 15 tickets are allotted to each fraternity. As these are in great demand, upper division students are given preference. These tickets may be obtained from the fraternity representatives at $2.50 each.