TROJAN TRYOUTS
Students wishing to try out for the Trojan staff should turn in their names immediately to Muriel Heeb, associate editor, at the Trojan office on the southwest comer of the second floor of the Student Union building. Freshmen and sophomores, particularly men, are especially urged to try out. Assignments will be posted Monday and further information will be given in later issues of the Daily Trojan.
VOLUME XIX.
Southern
California
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, February 8, 1928
SQUIRES!
Trojan Squires will meet this noon at 12 o’clock at Twin Cedars Inn for luncheon and discussion of important business. Since the new semester marks the influx of another horde of unruly frosh, appropriate measures will be planned to insure their restraint and endow them with the proper meekness of spirit. All Squires must attend this meeting, according to Sam Newman, president of the organization.
NUMBER 74
HOLD ASSEMBLY TO WELCOME FRESHMEN TODAY
Distinguished Members Are Added To Faculty PRESIDENT
*	TO EXTEND
MANY NEW LECTURES SCHEDULED
Professors Come From England and Philippines To Conduct Special Classes.
By LEON SCHULMAN
Keeping pace with the increased size and importance of the University of Southern California, the administration announces numerous additions to the faculty from such distant points as the University of Philippines to Birmingham, England, and numerous other places more or less intermediate in location.
From the University of Birmingham, comes Dr. John H. Muirhead, who will serve in the role of special lecturer on “The Course and Issue of Idealism in England and America.”
Dr. L. E. Curney, formerly head of the Department of Physics and Mathematics in the University of the Philippines, and author of a widely-used text-book on Algebra, is to augment th Department of Mathematics at the Trojan Institution this term, according to Dr. H. C. Willett, department head.
J. H. Tregoe i6 to lecture in the College of Commerce, beginning with the February semester, on “The Present Day World in Industry and Commerce,” according to Dean Reid L. McClung of the Commerce Colege. New business courses in advertising campaigns, headed by Dr .Frank Nagley, are also announced.
Electrical engineering students are to concentrate on experimental work In preparation for the annual meeting of the Los Angeles section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, according to Professor Philip S. Biegler, head of the department, which is starting out the new semester with much increased equipment, including an Epstein apparatus for testing the magnetic quality of iron, a tracho-meter, and a twenty horsepower motor generator set.
The Biology department is in-eluding in the spring schedule several expeditions to the Huntington Gardens and the California Botanical Gardens to go hand-in-hand with the systematic study of native and introduced plants as well as Taximony.
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Glee Club Tryouts Are Scheduled For February 13-14
Tryouts for the Glee clubs for the coming semester will be held at the Musical Organizations building at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 for the women’s organization, and on the following day for that of the men, according to the announcement of Harold Roberts, director of the department of musical organizations.
Tryouts for the Trojan band will be held Feb. 15, at 2:30 p.m. Additional information may be obtained from the secretary in the Musical Organizations building. All undergraduates in the various colleges on the campus are eligible to try out.
Sixth Annual S.C. Newspaper Day Is Set For March 8
High School Editors and Business Managers To Convene Here Soon.
MEN WANTED TO GET ADS
Trojan Business Office Of
fers Lucrative Opportun-j attend, ity To New Students.
The sixth annual Newspaper Day, held under the auspices of the Journalism department of the University of Southern California, will take j place this year on Thursday, March 8, according to announcement by j Marc N. Goodnow, journalism instruc-! tor and founder of this unique event.
The day will again offer opportunity for editors and business managers of high school publications throughout Southern California to meet and talk with editors and managers of daily and weekly newspapers, who will be guests of the University on that day. Attendance in former years has averaged well above 150 and several new features to be included in this year’s program are expected to increase the number of those who
Trojan Ticket Books Are On Sale At Student Store
Student Activity books are now
being sold at the student body store. The books are selling for five dollars which is exactly half of what they wete sold for in September. Besides admitting the holder to all the games for the rest of the year .the book includes a ticket which is good for a copy of the El Rodeo. As the yearbook Ls worth the full amount of the book without the tickets it can be seen that this is indeed a remarkable offer.
The book will admit the holder to all regularly scheduled games of the university of track, basketball, baseball and are requisite to full membership in the associated student body.
A chance for an activity and an opportunity to make money at the same time are offered through the medium of the Trojan business oifice, according to Earl Culp, manager.
The Trojan business department is considered an essential element of the Trojan, and for this reason the business manager is always on the lookout for students interested in advertising or general business. “The Trojan business staff needs good business men,” says Culp.
He also adds, “It is a great opportunity for students interested in this line for several reasons. It is a campus activity and a chance to earn money. With a little work and time any student can earn considerable money by selling advertisements for the Trojan. If a student works and thus shows that he is in earnest he will soon be in line for a manager’s job.”
Students who are interested will be given a chance. If they can produce, and take an interest in the work they will be given a position on the business staff. Any student who desires a position on the staff should report to Earl Culp, business manager, as soon as possible. He can be found in the Trojan business office any afternoon from one to three. The business office is on the second floor of the Student Union building.
S.C LEADERS SPEAK ON FRESHMEN DAY PROGRAM
The morning program, beginning at 8:30 with the registration of delegates from high schools, will present a number of prominent newspaper men and women who will speak on various phases of news-gathering, editorial policy and business management. This session will be followed by a noon luncheon at w'hich delegates will be welcomed by university administration officials and where an inspirational address will be deliev-ered by a newspaper man whose name will be announced later.
A new feature of Newspaper Day this year will be the presentation at the noon luncheon of the Crombie Allen trophy to the high school paper achieving the highest grade in all-around excellence. Mr, Allen has inaugurated through the Journalism department this method of rewarding high school journalism students for attaining the highest standards in the conduct of their paper. The trophy consists of a beautiful placque, appropriately engraved, and the winning high school paper will be allowed to keep the trophy permanently.
Entries for this contest, it is announced, must be received by the Journalism department of the university not later than Feb. 25 so that they may be judged and graded in time for the award on March 8. The papers will be graded on attractiveness, readability, press work, and general appearance of their front pages, as well as on the excellence of their editorial page, humor section and features.
Two afternoon conferences will be (Continued on Page Four)
Pi Delta Epsilon Sponsors College Editorial Contest
Fraternity Offers Cash For Best University Daily Newspaper Articles.
Cash prizes will be awarded for the best editorials published in college journals during the academic year 1927-28, according to announce-j ment just made at Washington, D.
: C., by Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of men of George Washington Unt-I versity.
The awards will be made by Pi | Delta Epsilon, honorary collegiate ! journalism fraternity, sponsor of the competition, which will be directed by Dean Doyle as grand vice-president of the society. The purpose of the contest is the stimulation of greater interest in university publf cations and the elevation of the qual ity of their editorials. If success I ful, it will be made an annual event, j with additional prizes later for other
Student Union Relief Pic- lour"alis11' f*ature=h College ;'“mics'
— barred from the competition.
NEW EDIFICE IS SYMBOLIC
Women’s Edition of Trojan Set For February 21
A woman’s edition of the Trojan, solely and entirely written, edited and made up by the feminine contingent of the staff is scheduled tentatively for Feb. 21. The issue, a tradition of this institution, will be one of the special editions, and no doubt, will probably be the most novel.
Meanwhile, murmurs of envy and discontent seem to abide with the masculine portion of the Tro* jan staff, they maintaining that though fewer in number, yet they are more important and of more worth to the paper, and hence, they too, are clamoring for a special edition.
tures are Characteristic of Medieval Student Life.
Freshman week condensed to the short space of a single day Ls the remarkable achievement of the administration this semester in its welcome to the frosh. No less noteworthy is the fact that nothing has been left out, nor no important requisite omitted from the schedule.
Freshmen day was officially inaugurated on the campus, Monday, Feb. 6. at an assembly in Bovard Auditorium, at 9:30 a.m.. The main events of the assembly were the invocation by Dr. Bruce Baxter, the address by President R. B. von KleinSmid, and a few remarks by William Henley president of the student body.
Dean’s announcements and registration procedure arrangements were scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Dr. Karl T. Waugh. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, made several important announcements concerning the main liberal Arts college, and Theron dark, addressed the freshmen, anent registration, while H. C. Willett, Officer of Admissions, confined himself to a discussion of admission credentials and their evaluation.
Y. MEN WILL HEAR PRACTICE DEBATE
At 11:30 a reception and luncheon was given for the incoming freshmen at the Women’s Residence Hall un- ;
der the asupsices of the Trojan Ama- !	_
zons and Knights.	! A practice debate in which four
At 1 p.m., the freshmen displayed members of the first varsity debating their ingenuity in coping with the ! squad will participate will be the fea«
mysteries and intricacies of the Psychological Test in Bovard Auditorium. The University of Southern California follows a peculiar system of its own in grading these tests, in that the grades are allocated into five groups in regard to five grades.
Next on the program at 4:30 was a frolic or ‘'mixer” under the auspices of the Associated Student Body,
ture at the Y. M. C. A. council dinner which will be held tonight ai 5:30 in the “Y” hut, next to the Student Union building. The debate will be presided over by Coach Alan Nichols, and it will be in preparation for the debate with Fresno State College Thursday. *
The question for discussion is: “Resolved, that American investors
as arranged by Miss Catherine Col-1 and their investments should depend
well, vice president. Various campus leaders and prominent students were introduced, to the mystification of the innocent frosh. So ended Freshman Day.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, was devoted to the registration of freshmen and of whatever upper-classmen who failed to register prior to this time, this morning classes started for the beginning of the second semester.
for protection only on the government in which the investment is made.” Members of the negative team will be Charles Wright, debate manager and Elwood Harmon. The affirmative team will be composed of Stanley Hopper and William Henley.
Every man on the campus and especially the newcomers are invited to attend the dinner and meeting.
BY HARRY MAXTED Scoffield Construction Engineering Co.
Two features distingush the Trojan Student Union from other buildings on the campus, the relief figures of ornamentation and the brick and terra cotta work. In the combination of the two the architects have achieved a result which is at once unique and pleasing.
In the construction of the Student Union the architect has not only made an adaptation of the Italian Romanesque architecture which characterizes the entire campus but has utilized the type of illustrative decoration which featured that sore of architecture. In the medieval perioo when the Romanesque architecture was prevalent, the people could neither read nor write. The guilds, which controlled the communities, in order to distingush buildings from one another with regard to their use, carved pictures on the outer walls indicating for what the building was used. These pictures reflected the actual life of the people and also were ornamental.
The relief pictures which are an outstanding feature of the Student Union building are remiscent of this characteristics of the Italian Romanesque. Every phase of collegiate life will be found there.
On the University Avenue and Thirty-fifth street sides of the building will be found a score of carvings representing the various things which students do. There Is a medieval figure engrossed in a book; a teacher lecturing to two youths, one of whom has fallen asleep while the younger assiduously takes notes for both; there is the cowled engineer squinting an eye across the quadrant and signalling to his chain man; with wrinkled forehead one works over a retort, while another checks results; there is the bespectacled professor aiding the' student as he searches for Orion through the telescope. The aesthetic pursuits of the student are represented by a figure dancing to the tune of pipers, while another plaque represents two odd chaps making caustic comments about the performance of a fellow student upon a ukelele or something of the sort. Athletics have not been forgotten, either .though running with the ball seems to be something of a feat for the long-gowned medieval figures.
Over the main entrance a grill symbolic of college life as a whole has been placed. In the center is the University of Southern California seal against a figure of the Trojan. Two students flank this emblem, as if (Continued on Page Four)
Identical prizes will be awarded in two groups, as follows:
Group A—Open to all college journals and staffs.
Group B—Open to members of Pi Delta Epsilon on staffs of college journals in institutions where the fraterniy has a chapter.
The first prize in each group is $50; second, $35; third, $25; fourth, $15; fifth, $10.
A board of judges composed of editors and writers of national repute will read the editorials submitted and make the awards. They are Ira E. Bennett, editor, Washington Post; Claude G. Bowers, editor, New York Evening World; Louis Ludlow, former president, National Press club Washington correspondent; Oliver. P. Newman, Washington journalist, and Frederic William Wile, Washington correspondent and author.
The competition closes July 1, 1928 and the editorials submitted must have been written by undergraduates and published during the academic year 1927-28. Monthlies, quarterlies, literary magazines, alumni publications and comics are not included in the competition.
“Pi Delta Epsilon is nearly twenty years old and has about 3000 living members,” said Dean Doyle. “It has chapters in forty-five of the leading colleges and universities and, by this initial competition for editorials, hopes to contribute something now and more later to the betterment of college journals and the encouragement of wholesome" campus life.”
The officers of the fraternity are; grand president, George McIntosh (Continued on Page Four)
HILL CHIDES NEW DRAMAS
S. C. Professor Tells of Vitiating Influence of Present-day Spoken Drama.
“Up-to-the-minute plays now being shown, with their liberal sprinkling of wise-cracks, slang, vulgarity, and profanity, are vicious in their efforts on our speech habits,” is the statement made by Dr. H. W. Hill of the English department of the University of Southern California in speaking before the Better American Speech department of the Los Angeles Ebell club, on “The Effect of the Stage on Every-day Speech.”
“Satirical plays, farces, and burlesques, even though they may present a worse speech content, do not have as bad an influence, because they do not encourage imitation. In fact, by showing us worse than we are they tend to elevate our speech.
“Iealistic plays, on the other hand, make us better by showing us ourselves at our best, emphasizing and encouraging the practice of pure speech.
“Realistic plays reflect the spirit and temper of the day in temptnig form. The speeches are clever, the characters are attractive, frequently alluring, and the plays are thus in a position to exercise a tremendous influence on the audience. Not all realistic plays of today abuse this position of vantage. Many present traits of character, philosophies, activities, and speech that we might very well imitate.
SANTA MONICA BAR HEARS LAW DEAN
“Present Day Law Schools” was the topic of an address by Dr. Justin Miller, dean of the S. C. Law School, before the Santa Monica Bay District Bar Association on Monday evening. The bar association comprises some forty members who are practicing in the beach cities of Santa Monica bay.
Dean Miller emphasized the development of legal research work and present day participation of law facilities in writing legal articles. He also spoke on the publishing of law reviews by law schools. Describing the change from the past, he showed how law schools are employing full time professional teachers instead of intermittent lecturers.
Other speakers at the monthly meeting were Presiding Justice Works and Judge Ira Thompson, of the District Court of Appeals, who both spoke on appellate practice.
GREETINGS
Assembly Will Mark Official Introduction of New Students To S. C.
Freshmen and other new students will be officially welcomed to f!*e Vn‘versity of Southern California this morning, at 10 oclock, in an assembly in Bovard Auditorium. Tradition decrees that every freshman must be present at the welcoming- exercises in honor of the new students.
An address of welcome by the president, Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid, will be the principal feature of the program. The president’s address, according to tradition, marks the official initiation of new students into the academic life ot the University.
Although the exact context of the President’s message is not known, it is expected that he will point out that not only the fresbmen, but the University of Southern California as well are entering on a new phase of life, for in 1930 the University will commence the second fifty years of its existnce. With the completion of the new Student Union, the University has entered upon a period of construction and expansion, and the president will, no doubt, point out that "tudents should parellel the growth of the University by their own central development under the guidance and with the help of the faculty of the University of Southern California.
The Trojan spirit, it is expected, will come in for a share of the president's attention in his address of welcome to the freshmen. The spirit of unselfishness and willing co-operation which made possible the Student Union and the plans for a greater Southern California will, it is hoped, be instilled Into the freshmen in their contact with the University.
The assembly to welcome the new students will start at 10 o'clock on the dot. It will be opened by William Henley, student body president, who will then turn the meeting over to President R. B. von KieinSmid. In addition to making the address of welcome, President von KieinSmid will introduce the deans of the various colleges of the University, who will deliver short speeches appropriate to the occasion.
INTERFRATERNITY
Inter-fraternity council meeting is postponed until next Tuesday, Feb. 14, when it will be held at the Sigma Chi house at 7:30 p.m.
VON KLEINSMID, HENLEY GREET FROSH STUDENTS
New students of the university are welcomed by R. B. von KieinSmid, who advised them to make the most of the myriad advantages which the university offers them.
“I am glad to wrelcome to our campus and to the opportunities of college life ,the new students; and I sincerely hope that they will enter into the various functions of campus life. Because they are freshmen entering in mid-year, they should not feel any the less at home than their classmates who already have been on the campus for six months. The new student should realize that he is an integral part of the university and that older students are ready and willing to help him to become oriented to his unaccustomed surroundings. From the moment that he completes his registration, the Freshman should begin building into himself those high principles and ideals which have alwrays characterized the spirit of Troy. Let him be heedful of Southern California traditions, if he Is to escape the wrath of vigilent
Knight and Squire; let him speak softly and humbly to sophomores and upperclassmen; and let him see to it, as his personal business, that in all ways in his power he will keep the fair name of the University of Southern California bright and unclouded,” stated President con KleinSmid.
Willfam Henley, president of the Associated Students, extends his welcome to the new students with the wish that they will soon be settled in their new surroundings, and that they will avail themselves of the chance to participate in the numerous campus activities. Athletics, literary societies, debating, dramatics, assistant manager positions are all open to the new student, and the time to become associated with student activities is during the freshman year. Student work tightens the bonds of University loyalty and builds the Trojan spirit. Every stur dent should participate in some branch of extra-curriculum activity, according to the stndent president