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To Hold Assembly Honoring Washington. Full Plans For Union Announced. Skull and Dagger To Pledge. Trojan Varsity Iuferred to be Quitters. Mass Meeting Draws Large Crowd. S. C. Professors Honored.
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“Some good radio programs are given on Thursday evenings over K. F. I. by the University of Southern California, and if any S. C. students happen to tune in and enjoy the programs it would not be a bad idea to write in to the artists and let them know it.” Modern Delphi.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Monday, February 21, 1927
NUMBER 85
SENIOR SOCIETY WILL PLEDGE IN APRIL
Skull and Dagger Will Announce New Pledges in Novel Manner.
IS HIGH HONOR j Concert By Glee Clubs and Board Will Replace Traditional Trial.
April 29 has been set as the tentative date for the announcement of pledges to Skull and Dagger, senior men’s honorary fraternity of the University. This much was decided at a meeting of the group in Lela.id Tallman’s office Friday noon.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
A pledging committee has been appointed to consider the names of the Trojans who are eligible for pledge-ship. The report of this committee will be read at a meeting to be held in the near future and the active members will decide who are to be pledged.
That the announcement of pledges to this fraternity will be made in some novel fashion much in the manner that the Illini Arrows of the University of Illinois announces their pledges, is the statement of Lee Conti, secretary.
Plans for a joint program with the Trojan band and glee clubs to take the place of the traditional Skull and Dagger trial were also discussed.
Skull and Dagger is the highest campus honor a man can receive at Southern California, and to be eligible for pledgship, he must have done something outstanding for his Alma Mater. Only a few of the campus luminaries are chosen each year. At present there are eight active members on the campus: Dee Conti, Leland Tallman, Henry Segretti, Hal Williamson, Jeff Cravath, Sam Gates, Ed Murray, and Ray Brennan.
Trojan Varsity Men Implied Quitters by U. C. L. A. Writer
SPANISH SOCIETY TO BRING EXHIBIT TO S. C. CAMPUS
La Tertulia To Bring Guadclupc Exhibition From the Biltmore Hotel.
That the Trojan basketball team could only play twenty minutes during the forty minute games in which it was engaged and that Southern California is looking with fear toward future contests with the University of California at Los Angeles, is the substance of an article written by Sam Balter, Jr., a Bruin sport writer, in Thursday’s paper at that institution.
“A queer institution,” says the writer, “is it not, that can turn out teams which play only TWENTY minutes of a FORTY minute game, and that produces a football team, an all-American included, which loses their only important games of the season by ONE point—to say nothing of opposing touchdowns—touchdowns scored in the DAST few minutes of the LAST half?”
The article, which refers in its course to the “hulking, if not bulking, Trojans,” concludes with the following:
“Mild query: How does Gwynn Wilson and Company feel about this new nuisance—that U. S. C. will be forced to meet ‘that overgrown high school’ when the New Year rolls around?
“And the answer (which is what the politician said as he gazed out upon the Grand Canyon), ‘We view the situation with alarm.’ ”
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Professors Are Honored
Modern Language Association Pays Compliment To Dr. Rice, Antonio Heras.
Two S. C. Spanish professors have been honored by the Modern Language Association of Southern California in the January edition of its magazine, The Modern Languages Forum. These professors are William F. Rice, head of the Spanish department, and Antonio Heras,
In this journal is printed a summary of the address given by Dr. Rice before the association, entitled "Turning the Tower of Babel Upside Down.” In his speech Dr. Rice discusses the subject of a universal language ,of getting back to pre-Babel conditions when “the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” He suggests that each nation adopt a secondary language, Spanish, to supplement its own in bringing the world to a more complete understanding.
The second article is a criticism of the novel, “La Combra de la Ciudad,” by Senor Heras.
The article reads: On writing this novel Senor Heras has rather avoided to shock his readers by choosing for his plot—as new writers are often tempted to do—a strange and more or less exotic subject. ‘‘La Sombra de la Ciudad” is little more than can be considered as an occurrence of everyday life.
Plans are being made for the exhibition of Guadelupe, which is at present being displayed at the Biltmore Hotel, to be brought to this <ampus some time next month under the auspices of La Tertulia, the Spanish club of this university, according
o	Catherine Francis .treasurer of the :lub.
At the regular meeting of La Ter-lia held February 14 at noon in 206, Charlotte Grossman was elect-d secretary, to fill the vacancy left >y Oliver Craig, who is not in chool this semester. The other of-cers that were elected at the be-inning of the school year will re-ain the same. They are: Joseph-e Rodriguet. president: Anthony ores, vice-president; and Catherine cis, treasurer.
"Those students who are interested the club and have met the speci-ied requirement, which is a course n Spanish 2a. are asked to leave heir name and address at the Span-sh office and they will be notified f the meetings,” said Miss Francis an interview.
Featuring the semi-annual Induction Ceremony, the Y. M. C. A. Council will meet at 5:30 p. m. on Wednesday evening. Dinner will be served as usual and all of the new men on the campus who are interested in Y work are particularly urged to be present.
rampus T ravel Issue Desires Contributions States Editor Booth
A desire for contributions • from yone who has the least literary billty was voiced by Milton Booth, itor of the Wampus, who plans to ise quite a number of short student rticles in the next issue of the lpus, the Travel Number, to be ut soon after March 1.
Although the next issue is to be led the Travel Number, offerings any nature by the students are couraged. according to Editor ;th. All who wish to contribute terial must do so before March 1.
BALL ROOM TO BE FEATURE OF NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING
Will Be Four-story Building; Ready For Occupancy By Students Early Next Semester; Architecture To Be in Keeping With Other University Buildings.
Plans for the interior of the Student Union building were given Friday by the Southern California Student Union Building Committee. Tentative plans are for a four-storv building, the architecture of which will be in keeping with that of the newer campus
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Features of the building will be a i inaUCtlOn ceremony
patio, a ballroom, a men’s clubroom, To Feature Y. Council
and a print shop for all university publications. The patio, entered through" a large and unusual entrance, will be the center of interest of the ground floor. It will furnish attractive entrances to the student store ,the cafeteria, and faculty dining rooms.
Ail student body offices, the Graduate Manager’s office, and office for the coaching staff .athletic managers .and musical organizations will be on the mezzanine floor, overlooking the patio.
The ballroom, suitable for All-University and other social affairs, a music room furnished with a grand piano and a radio, faculty club rooms, and an outside balcony are the attractions of the second floor. When not used for social affairs the ballroom may be divided by a folding Gothic door into lounges for men and women.
Offices for all university publications, the university mimeograph department, alumni offices, and a large conference room will be located on the third floor. Presses for printing all university publications will be installed in the basement. The men’s clubroom, with billiard tables and bowling alleys, will be located here.
The vault of the university, where the associated students’ funds and records will be kept, is included in plans for the basement.
It is estimated that the building will be ready for occupancy by next semester. It will be erected where the students’ store now stands.
Coe-eds Will Be Taught Life Saving At T ex as
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 16.—Life saving will be taught women students of the University of Tevas by Miss Olga Anderson, instructor In physical training, during the spring term when swimming practices will be begun in an outdoor pool. Life saving certificates and emblems will be given by the American Red Cross to students who pass the tests.
El Rodeo Space Must Be Reserved During This Week
These organizations have not yet reserved space in the El Rodeo, and unless heard from by the middle of the week, will not be able to get space in tbe annual:
Alpha Kappa Psi Argonauts Beta Gamma Phi Delta Phi Epsilon Engineers’ Council Freshmen Commission Gamma Epsilon Phi Gamma Lambda Epsilon History and Political Science Club
Iota Sigma Pi Mathematics Club Mu Theta Epsilon Newman Society Omega Sigma Phi Delta Gamma Pi Kappa Lamba Phi Mu Alpha Phi Phi
Philean Literary Society Physical Education Club Pi Delta Phi School Religion Club Sigma
Sigma Beta Chi Sigma Delta Pi Sigma Delta Psi Sigma Omicron Student Volunteers Southern California players Tau Sigma Delta
In high glee over the success of the Bruin basketball team a Bruin sport writer has dedicated a column in the daily paper of his institution to sneering at the Trojan basketball and football teams. It would hardly be fair to hold it against him that he is pleased with the victories of his team. We on this campus would have done the same. But we should have to be made of pretty good stuff to pass a reflection on the way our varsity fought in the Stanford and Notre Dame games without calling somebody’s remarks. Lose the games we did, and in the case of basketball, by consistently wide margins. The Bruins did have a good basketball team. But is sportsmanship a thing which vents itself in petulant outbursts upon the close of a successful season against a less fortunate team which did not compete even in the same conference?
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To come to the point back of these remarks. Both the Trojan and the student administration at Southern California have tried this year to shoot straight with “the Branch”. Our Press Club has entertained theirs. Speakers from here have gone there to greet them in the name of Southern California. We have said in this column that we should be glad to accede to their recent request for aid in freeing themselves from the appendage of “Southern Branch*’, (which we very carefully put in “quotes” when we used it above). We have gone further and admitted that that institution is coming into its own and that we feel it is to be a worthy rival in the future. The answer to these proffered friendships is a column of venom calling down upon the heads of the Trojan varsity the most shameful inference known to sportsmanship, “quitters,” or “yellow,” all upon the occasion of the conclusion of an unsuccessful basketball season in which the writer’s institution was not in the least concerned.
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We do not like to think that this sentiment represents U. C. L. A. If it does, of course, it simply means another one of those “Harvard-Princeton” type of feuds, running down through the years to disgust and divide the sporting public of the Southland. But before >ve accept that conclusion we are addressing a letter to the editor of the Daily Bruin to find out if that column is to stand with the sanction of the editor there. Bill Forbes impressed us as being one of the squarest editors we met at Reno and we want to hear from him directly.
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Many Ads Are Sold By Book
Forty Pages of “Ads” To Be in El Rodeo This Year;
That fifteen pages of advertising have been sold for the El Rodeo and that there is no deficiency in the finances of the publication, was the statement made by the business manager of the annual in a statement given Friday.
Forty pages of this year’s annual are given over to the advertising section together with the Alley Rat. Fifteen pages of this section have been sold, with prospects of selling the larger part of the remainder. Those who are on the advertising staff , are: Les Heilman, Willard Brown, Simpson Singer, K. Lindley, Gilbert Hess, Sam Newman, Jack Wescott, Eleanor Veale, and K. K. Stonier.
A mistake in the headline of the El Rodeo story in Friday’s issue of the Trojan led to the mistaken idea that there was a delinquency in the finances of the annual. That this was an error and that the head should have read that there was a delinquency in the space reserved, is the correction of the business manager.
School of Speech Asks For Theatre For Programs
Because of the large increase in the enrollment in the School of Speech, it is hoped that a new theater will be built in the Students’ Union building for the purpose of presenting the programs given by that department.
The School of Speech has offered a graduate course for the past three years and this department has shown a greater increase in proportion than any of the undergraduate classes in the college, according to Miss Elizabeth Yoder, a professor in the school.
There have been rumors that if it is possible a theater will be built in the new Students’ Union building, to be used by this department for presenting their various programs, stated Elizabeth Alexander, directing chairman of the Drama Shop Plays.
Recitals are given every Friday morning at 9:25 in Old College 333 for the purpose of displaying the work of the students. These recitals are open to any one who wishes to attend.
GREAT CROWD ATTENDS MASS MEETING THURSDAY IN BOVARD
Concensus of Student Opinion Seems To Be In Favor Of the Chinese; Speakers Present Situation From Many Angles; Students Participate in Open Forum.
That the concensus of student opinion was in sympathy with the Chinese in the discussion of United States intervention in foreign affairs at the student mass meeting held Thursday evening in Bovard Auditorium, is the conclusion of those who were there.
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Y. W. Dramatics Club Will Present Comedy
Members of the Y. W. Dramatic Club are busy rehearsing a play, “The Kleptomaniac,” by Margaret Cameron, according to Freda Fischer, chairman of the organization. This one act comedy is to be given for a women’s club in the near future. The play is being directed by Alice Shipp.
Tryouts were held Friday and the following cast was chosen: Mrs. John Burton, Margaret Lytle; Mrs. Valerie Armsby, Kathryn Whitmore; Mrs. Charles Dover, Mildred Brown; Mrs. Preston Ashley, Nettie Mae Sappington; Miss Freda Dixon, Clare Mae Parsons; Miss Evelyn Evans, Lois Eby.
Notices
All aotlcM malt ke brought to the Trojan •Site at 716 West JrOenoa St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notices mu*t be limited to 33 word*.
SIGMA
There will be a meeting of Sigma at 2:15 in Miss Clancy’s office today (Monday).
The Y. W. C. A. Freshman Club will meet Wednesday noon in the Y. W. lodge. An interesting program has been planned and all freshmen girls are urged to attend.
Aspirants for the frosh water polo squad are asked to report today at 4:30 to Jim Smith or Bill Crawford at the L A. A. C. pool for the first practice of the year.
Meeting of all the hostesses and the social committee of the Y. W. at the “Y” lodge Monday at 12:30.
Sigma Sigma meeting at 12:30 today in the student body president’s office, for consideration of new members. Important.
and presented many interesting phases in the question of United States intervention, sympathy seemed to turn to the Chinese, who were shown to be treating the affair in an unbiased manner,” stated Bill Henley, debate manager, when interviewed.
Speakers on different sides of the question presented the matter to the assembled students from all of the principal colleges of Southern California. Of these speakers, Dr. Sydney Raubenheimer, of the Southern California faculty, received the brunt of the questions, when the period devoted to an open forum began. Dr. Raubenheimer has but recently returned from an extensive tour of China, and it was felt that he was undoubtedly qualified to speak on the subject.
Other speakers who gave reasons for and against United States intervention were Miss Lilly Ho, a student of Southern California; Garner Curran, American statesman and editor of the Pan-American Monthly; the Reverend Dr. Hunter, who for many years has been connected with Y. M. C. A. work in China, and Alex Graham, from University of California in Los Angeles, who spoke on the four stages in the 'levelopment of the Chinese problem. The meeting was presided over by President von KieinSmid, who led in the open forum discussion.
S.C. TO REMEMBER G. WASHINGTON BY PROGRAM
Dr. Douglas To Deliver Address To Student Body Tomorrow Morning.
ALL INVITED
President von KieinSmid To Preside; Dean Skeele Will Play Organ Music.
George Washington’s memory is to be honored at Southern California by the annual observance assembly, which will be held in Bovard auditorium at 11 o’clock. The speaker of the morning will be Lloyd C. Douglas, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city.
ALL-UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY President R. B. von KieinSmid will preside at the meeting. In addition to the address there will be special organ music, chiefly of a patriotic nature, played by Dean Skeel of the College of Music. The observance is in keeping with the traditional policy of the University in paying its tribute to the memory of the first president by an All-University gathering. According to Dr. Bruce Baxter, who is arranging the program, em phasis is laid on the fact that this is to be an All-University assembly, to which students and faculty members in each of the schools are invited.
Dr. Douglas, who was known to Dr. Baxter in the Bast, succeeds Dr. Carl C. Patton at the .First Congre gational church. Although a comparatively new member of the Los Angeles clergy, he is becoming well known throughout this country as a speaker of power and influence. In order that his visit may be well received, Dr. Baxter has especially urged that the so-called “off-campus” college men be asked into the assembly.
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California Will Hold Inter class Crew Race
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will hold a luncheon meeting tomorrow noon at the Cottage Tea Room.
There will be a meeting of all athletic managers and staffs in Ray Brockman’s office today at 3:30 p. m.
BERKELEY, Feb. 18—California will hold its annual interclass crew race Friday, February 25 ,on the Oakland Estuary. Coach Ebright is segregating the men Into their various boats and is working up regular shells to represent the classes.
Russ Nagler .freshman mentor, has been working out consistently with a first boat and is not making very many changes. The following are the first boats and will undoubtedly row in the interclass: Cox, Logan; 8, Workman; 7, Daly; 6, Smith; 5, Bell;
4,	Tyre; 3, Gilmore; 2, Ely; 1, Tbax-ter.
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WATCH FEATURE PAGE FOR LAW TRIAL
POSITIONS OPEN FOR GRADUATES AND STUDENTS
Wanted ,a middle aged graduate to scrub floors, wash dishes, sterilize brushes, and provide amusement for patients.” All of which proves that a college education does not always guarantee soft jobs and high wages.
According to Miss Weir’s office, most jobs for students have been filled more quickly than usual, but there are still many positions open to those interested in professional work, such as civil, electrical, and structural engineering. There is also opportunity for two accountants and engineers who will be ready for a position upon graduation in June.
The purpose of the Appointment Department is to place as many students as possible in jobs, but it does not guarantee everyone a job. Those students who have trained for special trades like chemists, foreign trade, business management ,etc., will find that they can be more quickly placed through the Appointment Office than if they apply to tbe business concerns themselves.
Philosopher To Give Biennial Course of Lectures At Bovard
Dr. H. Wildon Carr, formerly professor of philosophy In the University of London, now professor in the Department of Philosophy in the University of Southern California, will deliver the biennial course of lectures on the New Era Foundation of the School of Religion of the latter university on March 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, and 30. His general subject will be, “The Freewill Problem in the Light of Modem Scientific Development” Dr. Carr is recognized as one of the leading philosophers of England and as one of tbe outstanding philosophers of his day. He is the author of a number of books, among them being “The General Principle of Relativity” and “Theory of Monads.”
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