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Pomona Presents Program at Assembly Today. Threaten Suspension For Traffic Violators.
Phi Beta Kappa Offers Essay Contest Prizes. Announce Vacancies in Cast For Extravaganza. Begin Organization of Trojan Little Symphony. Conduct Bible Institute Tomorrow and Sunday.
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Trojan
The Spirit of T roy
“The mention of university singing should touch a sore spot with Trojans. Probably there is no institution in the country that neglects its singing more than this one.”
The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 11, 1927
NUMBER 94
SEEKS ESSAY FOR CONTEST
No Manuscripts Submitted To Phi Beta Kappa Committee At S. C.
OFFER CASH PRIZES
Contest is Open To All Except Freshmen; Will Close in Month.
By HERSCHEL BONHAM
Only one month remains in which manuscripts may be turned in for the Phi Beta Kappa essay contest, according to Kenneth M. Bissell,of the French department, who is in charge of the contest at S. C
No manuscripts have been received at yet, but it is hoped that they will start coming in within the next few days. Last year only eight esays were turned in, according to Prof. Bissell, and some of these were marred by the haste which caused typing and composition errors.
First prize of one hundred dollars was won last year by a student from the University of California at Los Angeles, second prize being won by a University of Redlands student, hon> orable mention being received by Jeffery Smith of the University of Southern California. Two other special prizes were won by Southern California students, but the committee in charge hopes that: enough interest will be taken this year to bring first prize to this University.
RULES FOR CONTEST All those who are interested in the contest are asked to see Dr. Kenneth M. Bissell, chairman of the committee, or one of the others on the committee, who are Dr. John D. Cooke, Dr. Mildred C. Struble, and Miss Julia MtCorkle. all of the English department.
The rules of the contest are as fol ows:
1.	The contest is open to all stu 'entb who are in residence in Southern California and in good standing
sophomores, juniors, or seniors on 'arch 31, 1927, the day on which all j inanuscripts must be in.
2.	Only essays of 2000 to 3000 words ill be considered.
3.	Only one essay may be submitted >y any one contestant.
4.	Selection of subject matter is left ) the individual, but preference will
given to those which require per-^nai thinking rather than som'Mme ‘se’s idea developed. All errors in English and typing must be corrected.
5.	In each institution the contest is charge of one of the faculty eom-
littee, and students should go to him lor advice.
6.	All essays must be typewritten, iccompanied by a sealed envelope and ent to the faculty member in charge. Ind there should be three duplicate fopies.
7.	Prizes are: First $100. second $35. Special r-fiJW'. $20.
IRECTOR SEEKS TO FILL VACANCY IN “RUMPUS” CAST
Petition Asking For Special Rallies Is Yet Unsigned
Although there is to be a special assembly today at which time Pomona College will present a comedy skit, the petition for special student rallies sent to President Rufus B. von KieinSmid has not yet been approved by him.
Because of trustee committees which have occupied the president’s time. President von KieinSmid has not been able to conside^ the petition. However, it is expected that a report will be made on it today.
The purpose of the petition is the I request for special rallies for class elections, pledging of honorary organizations, and baseball and track rallies.
Law Breakers Face Dismissal From Campus
Suspension Will Follow Second Ticket Issued For Traffic Violation.
Need Co-eds As Singers In Program Skit
Tryouts For New Deputations Committee Production Are Held Today.
Co-eds are especially desired for the second Deputations Committee skit, and two banjoists have been selected and added to the cast, according to Grant La Mont, director of the skits. Tryouts are to be held this afternoon at 3:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
Three places are still vacant in the cast, and those who have failed to make the cast in the past may have a chance to try out this afternoon. Co-ed singers are especially urged to try out, according to Grant La j Mont, as a musical number featuring j girls always adds considerable interest to the entertaining quality of the skit.
Don Embree and Clarence “Zinc” Rubbert, banjoists, were chosen yesterday afternoon by the director, after they had played several selections. They will be added to the cast immediately.
Suspension from the university is the irrevocable sentence, authorized by President R. B. von KieinSmid, which will be passed upon anyone receiving two traffic tickets from the Trojan Knights. This was the statement made yesterday by “Red” Dales, president, in the meeting of the organization yesterday when the tickets were given to the members.
One half of the ticket, with the name of the violator, the license number of his car, and a statement of the traffic violation will be left at the office of President von KleinSmid. Upon the receipt at this office of a second warning against one person, word will be sent from the president’s office automatically suspending the offender.
Starting today, the Knights will have charge of all traffic violations ‘ on the campus, and it is expected that in this way a closer observance of* the rules will be kept by those parking cars on tht- campus. The power of enforcing traffic laws relative to parking and reckless driving wast invested in the Trojan Knights by President von KieinSmid to relieve the university police of the duty.
Each member of the organization will be supplied with a number of tickets with which to warn offenders.
Junior Class p0M0NA ENTERTAINS AT
Plans Dances
ALL-UNIVERSITY RALLY
MATH CLUB HOLDS SOCIAL MEETING FEATURING TALK
A social meeting of the Mathematics Club was held last night at 7:30 at 2300 La Salle Avenue. The program included a talk on ether theories by Dr. Victor D. Steed of the Mathematics Department and piano selections played by Lyndall Atwater.
Dr. Steed’s talk reviewed briefly the development of various ether theories propounded to explain such physical phenomena as the transmission of light and electio-magnetic ef-	QQOR Q fects, concluding with a discussion of a aVV/I* tuuvlvo recent developments in the theory of these phenomena.
The Mathematics Club is composed of students interested in mathematics, and holds meetings of both social and non-social nature twice a
FORTY MUSICIANS SHOW INTEREST IN LITTLE SYMPHONY
Turnout For Rehearsal of Trojan Concert Orchestra Encouraging, According To Director.
Forty enthusiastic musicians participated in the initial rehearsal of the Trojan Concert Orchestra, innovating a “Little tfymphonv" on our campus last Tuesday night.
The turnout for this orchestra indicates that the student body is evincing interest in the movement. Manager Lillian A. Smith said, “Keep up that spirit and the word ‘little’ will be dropped from the name ‘Trojan Little Symphony.’ ”
The rehearsals of this organization will be held every Friday afternoon at 415 in room 333, Old College. Another opportunity will be given those interested in joining the orchestra Friday afternoon, March 4.
DELIVER SPEECH AT LA TERTULIA
A speech on Chile by Professor R Soto-Bravo, of the Spanish department. who recently came from Chile, month. Qualification for member- j wftfi the feature 0f an open meeting ship consists in one se mester of oal-1 of La Tertuiia held yesterday eve-culus.	ning at 7;3o at 201 South Oxford
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Student Flogged For	Juan de Rojas, of Santiago, and a
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rai t in Linasey ueoate gubject o{ Chile Antonio Flores, Ralph Patchelet, a student of the vice-president of the club, showed
Mont Wants Co-ed To Take Part Intended For Former Star Now Married.
Filling the place in the cast of the xtravaganza left vacant hy Elizabeth lexander Raede, who has left the ast, completing the girls’ chorus and beginning the rehearsals of the men’s rhorus are the immediate problems sonfronting Grant La Mont. the direc-or of the production.
The place left vacant by Mrs. Raede s that of gymnasium instructor, a oman who is masculine in charac-er. It is a strong comedy part, calling or a particular type of girl to fill it. rhat this type will be hard to find is he opinion of Grant La Mont, who irges that a large number of girls ry out for it. in order that the right rson may be selected.
Girls who wish to take part in the horus still have a chance to try out nly those who can practice on Tues-av and Thursday afternoons are de-red. according to the director.
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ness by live masked men for helping,; games as vice-president of the Thinkers’! Other entertainment included a hu-Club, to organize a debate on mar- morous skit by the boys of the club, riage between a clergyman and Judge! solo selections, and a reading by Ben Iindsey. On the following day: Adan Marcadeo, a transfer from the he was kidnaped again from the ho.v | University of Mexico, pital, and last reports did not locate After the business meeting, the him. Miss Lillian Snyder, his fiance, evening concluded with refreshments
who was with %him when he was seized by the masked men and dragged into an automobile, was reported prostrated with worry and shock. Miss Margaret Parlow. secretary of the club, and Morris Grurp, its president, are carrying revolvers, since they have been threatened as well as the judge.
There are 750,000 students in the-United States colleges, according to the survey made by the Boston Transcript. Out of every 10,000 people in the United States there are 60 enrolled 'in college. In France out of the same number there are 13. and in England 15.
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Northwestern Receives Large Money Bequest
EVANSTON, 111. — Northwestern U niversity received a bequest of $500,000 it became known when the will of the late Charles Deering. former chairman of the board of the International Harvester Company, was filed for probate at Miami, Fla.
The $500,000 will be devoted to the use of the College of Liberal Arts on the Evanston campus, according ttf President Walter Dill Seott.
Trojan Advertisers Save Ycu Money.
Some of the members of the executive committee were speaking informally the other night of the aims and accomplishments of this year's administration. Some of the remarks that were dropped are worth passing on. In connection with the problem of rushing and getting freshmen into the campus life it was mentioned that more might be made of the Orientation classes. It seems reasonable that several periods during the year should be given over to Trojan Knights, Amazons, the yell king, and other prominent leaders who should “wise” the frosh up, teach them the University songs and yells, and be of real assistance to the faculty member in charge of the class.
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Incidentally, the mention of university singing should touch a sore spot with Trojans. Probably there is no institution im the country that neglects its singing more than this one. It isn’t because we do not have the songs, it is just that most of us do not know the ones we have. This is not a radical discovery. The rally committee has attempted for the last two years to encourage the singing of college songs by way of the nine o’clock sings. These have not filled the bill. Why not try to increase the usefulness of the Orientation classes by making it possible, through them, for every Trojan to know all the Southern California music?
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If some good all-university singing could be added to this by means of more frequent rallies and student assemblies it would help. Really, the lack of assemblies has been one of the most discouraging features of this year’s student program. It has made it unusually hard for the rally committee to discharge its duties, which are exacting enough at best. It cannot be doubted that there was much to criticise about the old system of weekly rallies. No sensible person could blame the administration for failing to see the value of giving over class time to vaudeville programs every week. But the year’s experiment has convinced many students that more assemblies are essential to increased loyalty to Southern California.
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There is going to be one today. Without knowing what the program is to be it is our opinion that it will be great to have the student body get together again. We hope there will be a little time to sing and maybe even—who knows?—to give a yell. Anybody to the contrary notwithstanding, we are not so dignified and grown up but that we can cut loose with a Big T once in awhile for old time’s sake, just to remind ourselves that we are the same bunch that came in, tanned and browned from the summer vacation, and made Bovard auditorium and the old Coliseum ring with our defiance in September and October.
‘Clean Cords" is Requirement For Admission To Novel Functions.
Deciding upon April 22 as the date for the 1927 Junior Play and May 14 as the date for the Junior-Senior dinner dance, making plans for a new upper-class custom to be known as Junior Cord Dances, and discussing arrangements for the junior-sopho-more basketball game, the executive committee of the third year class held a business meeting at the Zeta Tau Alpha house Wednesday evening.
The place for the dinner dance and the name of the play to be given have not yet been chosen, according to Eddie Ouldermeulen, class president, but will be announced next week. The day of the struggle between the second and third year classes will depend upon the acceptance of the challenge by the sophomores.
In beginning a series of Junior Cord Dances the juniors are inaugurating something original on the Southern California campus, stated members ol the executive committee. These dances will be held at the various sorority houses and all men must wear a pair of CLEAN cord3 before they are eligible to attend. This means that upper classmen only may participate in the affairs, and those with cords “that walk by themselves” will not be allowed to indulge in the light fantastic. The first of the cord dances is scheduled for March 17.
Various places for the Junior-Senior dinner dance were discussed, but none decided upon. Ouldermeulen stated that the committee is using the utmost discretion in choosing a good location for this most important social function of the second semester, the final vote to be taken at the meeting next Thursday evening.
COLLEGES ENTER GLEE CLUBS FOR COMM CONTEST
Schools Will Seek Honors in Eisteddfod Association Concerts in Philharmonic Auditorium.
Classes At 9:25 Are Partially Cut To M: ke Way For Exchange Program With Claremont School This Morning in Bovard Auditorium.
TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIP
Nine colleges and university glee^ clubs have entered the California Eisteddfod Association contests to be held in the Philharmonic Auditorium on Saturday evening, March 12, at 8 o’clock. Both men’s and women’s clubs will contest on the same eve ning.
Whittier men’s and women’s clubs, directed by Professor Howard F. Hockett, the Bible Institute men’s and women’s clubs, directed by Professors Trowbridge and, Tovey, and the Pomona clubs, under Professors Ralph H. Lyman and Arthur Babcock, are all entered. Redlands men led by Professor W. B. Olds and the women by Frederick C. Butterfield, and Occidental College women directed by Professor Walter E. Hartleyv head of the newly formed Music Department of Occidental Collega, will also compete.
Tickets may be bought from William Ward, manager of the Trojan Band, Walter Zamecnik. manager of the men’s glee club, from Edith Lin-gerfelt, manager of the women’s glee club, or from the office of the Musical Organizations Department.
Notices
All notlrm ciiutt be broutlit to ttie Trojan office at 716 Went St. or phoned lo HUmbult 4522. Notices uiast he limited to 35 worda.
VARSITY CLUB
Varsity Club pictures for El Rodeo will be taken Monday at 3 o’clock on Bovard Field.
SOPH MANAGERS
All Soph Managers meet in Bill Hunter s office today at 12:25. If unable to come, see Larry Weddle.
ENGINEERS
Engineers who are to go on the trip to Laguna Bell sub-station will leave the barn at 1:15 today.
Entertainment is Featured in Forty Minute Program; Rally is One of Series Planned By Pacific Coast Student Body Presidents’ Association.
BY WALTER*PECK
An exchange program of music and comedy will be presented by Pomona College in an All-Uiversity rally this morning in Bovard Auditorium from 9:00 to 9:45, usual 9:25 classes meeting at the close ot the assembly.
The exchange of rallies between Southern California and Pomona is traditional in the history of the two institutions, and is de-
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friendship and mutual respect that exists between them. This is one of a series of rallies planned under the auspices of the Pacific Coast Student Body Presidents’ Association, Southern Division, to be exchanged between universities in the Southern California conference, with the addition of S. C. An exchange rally with the University of California at Los Angeles is scheduled for March 25.
ALL-U. AFFAIR The rally is to be an All-University affair,"said Art Syvertson, chairman of the Rally Committee, when inter-viewed yesterday. “The usual chapel period is to be dispensed with, and class hours shifted, so that everyone can be there. Inasmuch as the program is to be one of entertainment throughout, we expect to have a full house to greet the Pomona delegation.”
Gerwain Nehr, president of the Pomona student body, will make a short address, emphasizing the good feeling which has so long existed between Pomona and S. C. The rest of the program will be devoted to music and comedy skits. The Pomona entertainers include John Hair, Whitney, Henry, and Terry Koeschig, besides the Blue and White Quartet, composed of Howard Swan. Bud Clark, Fred Shawhan. and Miles Fisher.
The Southern California exchange program is to be presented at Pomona under the auspices of the Rally Committee, sometime next week, the date to be set by Pomona. Leland Tallman, S. C. student body president, is scheduled to address the assembly. A program of entertainment will be presented by Wes Woodford, Terrel De Lapp, Roy Winbur, Tom Bryant. Bud Pence, and Witty and Woody.
Trojans Will Publish Paper
Journalism Students To Put Out Saturday Edition of Corona Independent.
Six Southern California students, under the supervision of Marc Goodnow, journalism instructor, leave at 5: SO tomorrow morning for Corona, where they will put out one edition of the Corona Independent. This is the first of a series of field trips to be taken by the classes.
Howard Edgerton, associate editor of the Trojan, will act as managing editor for the day; Vivian Murphy, feature editor of the Trojan, will be assistant editor of the Independent, and John Hunt, Trojan Daily editor, will act in the capacity of city editor. Other students who will assist in editing the Corona paper are Beth Baker. former feature editor of the Trojan, Muriel Heeb, head writer, and Walter Peck, special reporter.
Each year Mr. Goodnow takes a series of trips to the various small town papers with a group of Southern California students and supervises the editing for one day. In this way, practical experience is gained for the journalism classes aside from the duties on the staff of the Daily Trojan.
SPECIAL STUDENT CHURCH SERVICES WILL BEGIN SOON
Special student assemblies to take place every Sunday night during Lent are to be held for the first time this year at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral. The services will begin at 7:30 p. m., preceded by a quarter hour organ recital by the cathedral organist, Dudley Warner Fitch.
The special services have been arranged by Dean Harry Beal of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Every Sunday night until Easter a special speaker will speak on the things of interest to university students.
Southern California will be well represented in the weekly programs. Of the six speakers, two have been selected from this campus. Dean Waugh of the School of Liberal Arts is speaking March C and Robert Re-denbaugh, student, is speaking March 20.
Other speakers of prominence are Rev. Paul B. Bull of England, Prof. Hudson Ballard of Occidental College, and Sir Henry Lunn of England.
CURRY TO LEAD CUSSES IN BIBLE STUDY TOMORROW
Mu Phi Epsilon Trio Gives Musical Program
The Mu Phi Epsilon Trio of the College of Music presented a program at the regular meeting of the Hollywood Community Chorus Tuesday evening, February 22, at the Hollywood High School.
The trio consists of Florence Austin. piano; Dorothy Cameron, violin; and Marion Sischo, cello. Their numbers were Londenderry Air, March Miniature Vienoise, Mexican Folk Songs, On Wings of Song, and In the Silent Night.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
All students who wish an hour of constructive thought, especially on Christian race relations, are very welcome at the Epworth League of Uni. M. E. Church, 1016 West Jefferson/ Sunday evenings at 6:30:
Prominent Religious Student To Direct Institute Sessions Saturday and Sunday.
Beginning tomorrow morning, Dr. Bruce Curry will conduct an institute in Biby study on the Southern California campus. Sessions will be held Saturday morning, afternoon and evening, as well as twice on Sunday.
The institute which Dr. Curry will conduct hag been heartily endorsed by the University Committee on Religious Interests.. The Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. jointly have made plans for the conferences All sessions will be held in the auditorium of the “Y” Hut
Students of the University of California at Los Angeles and the CAli-fornia Christian College will attend the conference as the guests of Southern California, and more than one hundred reservations have been made by these institutions.
Noon luncheon and evening dinner will be served for all of those who attend the institute, tomorrow, at the Women’s Building. A special menu has been prepared.
Dr. Curry is nationally prominent in the field of Bible study. He has led similar institutes in many of th<‘ largest universities of the countrv. Registrations should be made at once by those who intend to be present at the Bible study institute.
A McGill Daily interviewer finds that in the opinion of the men of McGill there is an ideal girl. No two opinions agreed as to her qualities.