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Three Candidates For Commerce Presidency. Senior Chapel Scheduled For Tomorrow. Class Elections Will Take Place Tomorrow. Press Club To Elect Officers. Drama Class To Give One-Act Plays.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“We are coming again to the days when the honor spirit, if such a thing exists at Southern California, will be tested. We may hope that the number of students who will definitely work for such an attitude may grow until it shall be a traditional thing here.” The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, May 25, 1927
NUMBER 145
SENIOR WEEK OPENS WITH CLASS CHAPEL
Senior Week To Be Formally Opened With Special Rally in Bovard Auditorium, Thursday Morning. HONORARIES WILL PLEDGE AND AWARD CUPS
Organ Recitals, Vocal Solos, Class History, Will Provide Entertainment; 11:25 Classes Will Be Dismissed.
Senior Chapel will formally open Senior Week when it is held in Bovard Auditorium at 11:00 o’clock tomorrow morning. Caps and gowns will be worn by graduating seniors.
This is the traditional chapel held for the graduating seniors and is at once the last formal meeting of the seniors and at the same time the formal opening of Senior Week before Commencement. The invocation musical numbers, the reading of the Senior Class History, pledging, the awarding of the Alpha Chi Alpha cup, and the farewell address by President R. B. von KieinSmid are numbers on the program.	*
Dr. Bruce Baxter will give the invocation, the opening number on the chapel exercises. Dean Skeele, of the College of Music, will give one of his entertaining organ numbers .entitled “Fireside” by Cloke.
The Senior Class History, written by Rita Padway in her pointed style, will be read. It will contain quips and prophecies of the members of the class and will provide hilarious entertainment for those who recognize the student mentioned. A vocal solo will be given by Frank Geiger. President R. B. von KieinSmid will give the farewell address to the graduating seniors.
This will be followed by the pledging to Torch and Tassel, senior women’s honorary sorority, and the awarding of the Alpha Chi Alpha journalism cup to the seniof woman who has done meritorious work on the Trojan.
A block of seats will be reserved in the front of Bovard Auditorium for the seniors. Graduating seniors from Colleges of Commerce, Law,
Speech, Engineering, Pharmacy, Dentistry. Religion, Music and Architecture, will form in line and march into Bovard. Deans and faculty members of the University and the various colleges will be present and will be in the line of march.
Committee members who are responsible for Senior Chapel are Arthur Syvertson, chairman; Leland D. Tallman, Lloyd Herschberger.
Ruth Adams and Eunice Riley.
One-Act Plays To Be Offered
Dramatics Class Will Present Program in Touchstone Tomorrow P. M.
Trojan Among Essay Winners
Jeffrey Smith Wins Fourth Place in Annual Essay Contest For Second Time.
Fourth place in the annual Phi Beta Kappa Essay contest was accorded Jeffery Smith, Trojan staff member when announcement of the winners was made Saturday.
This is the second consecutive year Smith has placed fourth in the contest, his essays both times barely failing to win third prize. The title of his essay is 'The New Nirvana,”
The winners of this year’s contest are Miss Flora McIntyre of Occidental, first prize; Gordon Spalding of Pomona, second prize; and Miss Francis Ryan .also of Occidental, third prize. Selection of Miss McIntyre’s essay for first prize was unanimous.
In selecting Jeffry Smith’s as the best from Southern California, and the other three essays in order after his, the reading committee was in accord with the judges of the contest, who also ranked Smith’s essay as the best, with the other three following in the same order.
S.C. TO ELECT CLASS OFFICERS
Systematic Election Rules To Be Enforced at Polls Thursday.
Class elections will be held Thursday, May 26, from 9:00 to 2:15 in booths ia front of the Administration building .
There will be separate booths for each class and the class presidents will have charge of their respective booths. A very systematic election will be held and the Trojan Knights will guard the polls, according to Hank Rohr. As usual, it will be necessary to show student body cards, in order to vote.
Those running for office in the next year’s senior class are, for president, Harold Kispert and Chase Burns; vice-president, Vivian Murphy and Mildred Martz; secretary. Winnie Finch and Marion Robinson; treasurer, Kenneth Faulkner, Gordon Smith .and Herbert Bowen; and ex ecutive committee, Malcolm Chambers, Jeanne Summerfield, Ruth Carr, Hank Rohr Sam Yokum and Eddie Oudermeulen.
Those whose names will appear on the next year’s junior ballot are; president Herscbel Bonham, t Elwood Harmon, and Leslie Lavelle; vice-president, Caroyln Ayars, Catherine Coger, and Helen Sauber; secretary Marjorie Temple; treasurer Bob Behlow, Bill Harvey and Louis Page; and executive committee, Gene Beaty, Tom Bryant, Muriel Heeb, Margaret French and Paul Slater.
Those on the next year’s sophomore ticket are: president Leo Adams, Roy Wilburn and “Brick” Woodward; vice-president, Lorraine Young; secretary, Marion Abbot; treasurer, Howard Ralston, John Nelson, Frank Carson and Phil Grossman; an executive committee, Neil Cox Sam Newman, Juliet Dix. John Dalzell, James Bachelor, Gerald Norwald, Bill Cronley, Bob Sirfield, Homer Cane, Alice Cordray, Blake Hanson, Jean Thompson, Clifford Christianson, Verne Keene, Doug Hanby, Alberta Plasterer, Tom de Graffffenreid, Sid Weise and Bob Beardsley.
Two one-act plays will be presented to the public by Miss Florence Hubbard’s advanced dramatics class Thursday afternoon in Touchstone Theatre at 2:15.
“The Flutter of the Gold Leaf,” by Dargan and Peterson, is a drama dealing with the struggles of a young genius whom everyone thinks insane because of his inventive talents. Directed by Ethel Bickford, the play will have as its cast, Philo Warner, the inventor, played by Lafayette Taylor; ;Hiram Warner, his father Jack Goble; Mary Ann Warner, his mother, Marquita Young; Dr. Bellows ,the village physician, Walter Cutler; Dr. Seymour, a city specialist, Freeman Lusk; Reba Sloan, a neighbor’s daughter, Wesla Gregg.
“The Flattering Word,’ by George Kelley, Is full of comic situations arising when a famous actor visits a strict minister’s home and uses the power of the “flattering word.” It is directed by Lena Walker, and the characters are Tesh, a young actor, Arthur Brearley; Reverend Rigley, who is much against the 6tage, William Hamilton; Mrs. Rigley, his wife, Kathleen Smith; Mrs. Zuccer, who has taken “elocution,” Mrs. Jefferies; Lena Zuccer, the twelve year old daughter who also “elocutes,” Frances Evans.
Films of 5. C. Campus To Be Shown Tonight
Motion pictures of the Southern California rooting section, Trojan Band and initiations on the campus will be shown Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock in the Musical Organization Building, according to J. B. Ward, campus photographer.
These pictures are actual scenes taken during this year, the presentation of which will mark an innovation on the S. C. campus. Everyone is invited to attend the showing of the films.
MUSIC HONORARY TO GIVE DINNER
Gamma Lambda Epsilon To Be Hosts At Fourth Annual Affair.
Gamma Lambda Epsilon, men’s national honorary glee club fraternity founded on the S. C. campus in 1923, will be host and sponsor for the fourth annual homecoming banquet June second, in the musical organizations building.
Alumni members of the past glee clubs dating as far back as 1897 will be present as well as the present glee club who will be the honored guests. Special Invitations have been sent to all the prominent colleges along the Pacific Coast, and it is expected that jnany glee club representatives will be present.
Entertainment features for tb® banquet will be offerings from stunt ment of all the past years, and also the present Trojan Men’s Glee Club who have just completed a most successful year in the staging a comice opera and concerts.
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DENT STUDENT BODY WILL MEET FOR FINAL RALLY
Alpha Tau Epsilon Will Pledge
Men in Final Rally of Year at Dental College.
Holding the last rally of the year on or before June 6th, the combined dental colleges wiil meet for several important events.
Among the events which will take place at this rally are: the presentation of athletic awards, pledging of Alpha Tau Epsilon (honorary dental fraternity,) presentation of awards for student activities, and several addresses.
Alpha Tau Epsilon, dental honorary active fraternity, works in conjunction with the student body officers and as ,an advisory body to the dean in student activities. The organization held a banquet Saturday, May 20th, at the Mary Louise at which Dean Ford, Dr. Reever, Dr. Harrison, Professors Scholfield, Glover, and Dr. Dewhirst were honored guests.
New Oath Adds Dignity To Office.
Honor Spirit Again in Limelight. ♦
Weekly Student Promised.
Assembly
An Hour a Week Has Been a Waste.
DEAN OF PHARMACY ATTENDS MEETING
Returning recently from the convention of the California Pharmaceutical Association, Dean Stabler, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, is again assuming active work as the head of the college.
Dr. Stabler also attended the meeting of the Western Board of Pharmacy. comprised of representatives of all the western states. The principle subject under discussion at the California meeting was the new prerequisite pharmacy bill before the California Legislature.
GOLDSMITH PLAY STAGED TONIGHT
“She Stoops to Conquer,” will be presented in Touchstone Theatre by the Freshman English Class at 8:15 o’clock tonight.
This is an old English five-act play written by Oliver Goldsmith, in which the rough edges of the world are ground smooth, in which faults turn out to be virtues and mistakes to be blessings. Professor Newlands, of the English Department, is the director.
Miss Hardcastle, is characterized by Lois Eby, and Marlowe is played by Arthur Braeley. The other characters of the play are played by Edith Huges as Miss Neville, Gibson, Pleasants as Hastfngs, Clifford Weimer as Mr. Hardcastle and Edwin Thomas as Mr. Hardcastle.
It was too bad that there were not more students present at the installation of the new officers yesterday morning. A new oath, decided upon at the last Executive Committee meeting, has been worked out and was required of the incoming Committee members. In the future it should contribute to the dignity of student office*holding. But there is some excuse for the small attendance yesterday in the stacks of term papers and book reports and collateral and final examination preparations that must be gotten in these days.
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As one of our editorial writers has said, we are coming again to the days when the honor spirit, if such a thing exists at Southern California, will be tested. The other day we dropped into an organization house, to find a fair sized “library'’ of old term papers. That doesn’t auger the best for an honor spirit. But we may hope that the number of students who will definitely work for such an attitude is growing until the time shall come when Southern California honor in class rooms shall be traditional.
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The other day a young lady visitor from an institution where an honor system is employed exclaimed to her friend on this campus, “My dear! How do you pass
without the. honor system! You must study awfully hard!”
Probably the young lady did not represent all of her classmates at home but the incident fits our contention that it takes more than a system to instil an honor spirit, that there is no essential connection between the two.
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The plan for next year is to have daily voluntary chapel, as we have it now except that it will come an hour later, four days a week. The Friday period will be given over to the students to use as they wish. It is too early to prophecy but the modification sounds well. It shows that the administration has recognized the
need for more rallies that has been emphasized this year. The question of monthly rallies of an hour's length has been suggested but as yet no action has been taken on it.
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On several occasions we have spoken in the Executive Committee against the re-establishmcnt of weekly, hour rallies. Each time Sam Gates has risen “to the defense of the rally committee” as though his particular committee had been indicted. The point is
that we do not believe that his (Continued on Page Two)
Trojan Chosen Among Twenty
James Stewart Chosen in First National’s Quest For New Screen Types.
Hollywood, May 24 (Special to the Trojan)—James Stewart of Southern California has been selected as alternate in the new screen talent contest conducted by First National Pictures, Inc. He was among the forty that were selected a few days ago, and now he has been chosen alternate by the final decision. The jury which made the selections consisted of representatives from the Press of America and the Sales Department of the First National organization.
This announcement comes as the culmination of a nation-wide search among American universities for new screen talent. The University of Southern California was one of the thirty-three universities that were visited in the course of the contest.
The winners will be given a trip to Hollywood, and an opportunity contract, and in case any winner will not be able to come, then an alternate -will take his place. Ten winners and ten alternates have been selected.
According to John McCormick, who is in charge of the contest, and general manager of First National, not only is new screen talent needed, but there is a great field of endeavor in the motion picture industry that is open to young men and women with a university training.
Capable executives, producers, directors, technicians, etc., are always in demand, and McCormick expressed a hope that university curricula will be modified in a few years, so that special training will be given and preparation be made for the cinema field, involving as it does, a high specialized Industry in which millions of dollars are invested and thousands of people are employed.
LA TERTULIA ELECTS OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR
Spanish Club Elects Officers For Fall Term at Final Business Meeting of Year.
Officers for the fall term were elected at the final business meeting of La Tertulia, the Spanish Club, held last Wednesday evening in the Recreation Room of the Women’s Residence Hall.
Those that were elected to hold office were: Catherine L. Francis, president; Paul Prietto, vice-president; and E. C. David, secretary and treasurer. Following the business meeting a program was given which consisted of a skit presented by the pupils of Miss Beth Reed and an address by Senor Ramerez.
All those who have completed the first year of Spanish are eligible for membership into the club. This organization was established for tbe purpose of stimulating enthusiasm among the students in the affairs and the customs of Spain.
THREE MEN IN RACE FOR COMMERCE PREXY
Hicks, Reynolds, and Gordon Crain Are Candidates For Commerce Student Body Executives.
ELECTIONS SET FOR THURSDAY
Mainland, Kelly, Roberts Running For Treasurer; Other Officers Nominated Unanimously.
Three candidates for president, one each for vice-president, secretary and social chairman, and three for treasurer of the College of Commerce student body were nominated at the last meeting of the Commerce student body, which was held yesterday morning in Touchstone Theatre, presided over by Don Edwin, retiring Commerce president.
B. Wallace Hicks, Cliff Reynolds, and Gordon Crain were nominated for president. Nora Hoffman for vice-president, Margaret Nelson lor secretary, and George Jansen for social chairman were the only students nominated for their respective offices. Al Mainland, Leslie Kelly, and Luis Roberts are candidates for the office of treasurer.
While the College of Commerce has no eligibility requirement for its student body president, under the Associated Student Body Constitution, if the College of Commerce is to have a representative on the student body executive committee, the president, who automatically becomes Commerce representaUve, must eonform to the regular executive committee requirements which means that he must have at least a 1.5 average for the preceding year.
Elections will be held in the Commerce lobby on Thursday from 9:00 until 2:30. Votes will be counted Thursday afternoon, and the student elected to the presidency will he installed as a member cf the Executive Committee at its meeting Thursday night, if the successful candidate eligible for that position.
START BUILDING OF MEN’S DORM
Foundation and Framework Already Under Way; To Be Completed By Fall.
With the foundation already laid, actual construction on the University Men’s Residence Hall has been started. The frame-work is rapidly being constructed and the bricklaying is to begin very soon.
The building is to be located west of University Ave., on West Thirty-sixth Place, and will accommodate one hundred men. The structure is to be of the same type as that of the Women’s Residence Hall here on the campus.
The vastness of this project can readily be seen when it is found that four hundred thousand bricks and between two and three thousand feet of flooring are to be used In its construction.
Work Is being rushed in order to have the building completed in time for the beginning of the next semester in September.
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NOTICES
All notlff* maiit bf bronght to tke Trojan office at 716 Went Jefferaon St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4.122. Notice* must be limited to 35 worda.
TROJAN STAFF
Every member of the	Trojan
staff is expected to be	at the Trojan office at 12:20 this noon.
PRESS CLUB ELECTION
The Press Club will meet in the Trojan office at 12:30 today. New officers will be elected.
Senior Chapel is called for Thursday, May 26, from 11:25 to 12:15.
It is Important that all pledges of Pi Delta Epsilon see Dave Fred today.
LAW SCHOOL ELECTION
The tie vote between CecU Graves and Manue! Ruiz for Law Editor of the El Rodeo will be voted off at a special election to be held tomorrow. The polls will be in the Clerk’s office and will be open from 8 to 9 a. m., 11 to 1 p. m., and from 6 to 7 p. m.
SENIOR PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED FOR COMMENCEMENT
Schedule Extends From May 24 To June 4, Ending in Commencement Exercises.
Commencement Season, which extends from May 24 to June 4, culminating in Commencement Exercises in the Coliseum, will be formally opened tomorrow morning with Senior Chapel, which follows the anniversary joint program of the literary societies held last night.
Saturday, May 28, the annua) meeting of the Phi Kappa Phi will be at 8:00 when the eighty new pledgee will be formally initiated into the honor society. Baccalaureate Services will be held Sunday at 4:00 p. m. in the Coliseum with president von KieinSmid presiding. The College of Music will hold commencement at 8:00 p .m. in Bovard Auditorium on May 30, Monday. The Trojan women, alumnae of S. C., will hold a meeting for the isenior women at the Women’s Resi-day ,
dence Hall on June 1, Wednesday.
At the Delta Delta Delta house, the Pansy Breakfast will be held at 10:00 a .m. Mrs. von KieinSmid will be the speaker. That evening, at 8:00 p. m. the School of Speech will hold commencement in Bovard.
S. C. HONORARY TO INITIATE TEN
Pi Delta Epsilon, Honorary Journalism, To Hold Initiation Friday.
Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary journalistic fraternity, will hold initiation for ten pledges Friday afternoon at four-thirty. This will be followed by their annual Home Coming Banquet to be held at the Elk’s Temple at six o’clock, the sam e evening.
Pledges to be initiated must see Dave Fred before Wednesday. New initiates are Bill Foote, Bryant Hale, Leo Harris, M. Foladare, Virgil Pinkly, Leigh Sargent, H. J. Smith, Cecil Graves, Ralph Huston, and Grant Flint.
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Final Wampus On Sale Today
Last Issue of Year Will Appear Today in “Coat of Many Colors”.
Today S. C. students are given their final opportunity this year to acquire that "collegiate line,” for Wampus makes his final excursion onto the campus today.	✓ '
From the "coat of many colors” cover, to tlhe last exchange joke on the last page, the Final Wampus has an ah- of finality about it. The finish of everything .even the Cat, is depicted by word, picture, and between the lines.
This is the last effort of tbs present staff, and according to Bryant Hale the nerw editor this ls the last appearance of Wampus as a straight comic, so very effort has been made for a big splurge, according to Milton H. Booth, the editor.
Adna Leonard will have his usual staff of Wampns sales dogs on the campus early this morning. As this issue has nearly twice as much of the much desired art work as any other Wamp, it is thought that a complete sell-out will be recorded by noon today.
Winners of the coveted Wampus keys will be announced in this Issue. There are eight of them being given out. and much interest has been shown on the campus in speculation as to the key winners.
Press Club Will Pick New Officers Today
Election of officers of the Press Club for next semester will take place in the Trojan office at 12:30 today according to announcement by Deke Houlgate, president.
This win be the first meeting of the journalistic organization since the recent Homecoming banquet and will be the laet one this semester. The officers to be chosen will he nominated and elected at this one meeting.
The last grsup of reporters that bave been voted in are expected to be there today. The pins that have been ordered will not be ready un-til Friday and any one else desiring one must see Leo Harris, treasurer, sometime today.