The Daily Southern Californian
VOL. IV.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1914
NO. 34
ADVANCED PUPILS System at Oxford New English Professor POLICEMEN AT TO ENTERTAIN Is Very Different To Come to U.S.C. RECEPTION
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Concert to be Given at Blanchard Frank Swain, Rhodes Scholar, Sends University of Southern California to
Hall Tomorrow Evening at 8 p. m. Sharp
Interesting Letter to Friends Back Home
be Congratulated Upon New Accession to English Department
Park Commission Considers It Necessary to Guard the Property
BIGGEST MUSICAL OF YEAR
Exceptionally Well Balanced Program—Those Present Will Have Time to Attend A. W. S. Reception
Another letter lias been received from Mr. Frank Swain, Rhodes scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, and | former student at U. S. C. Readers I of the Daily Southern Californian will I remember his interesting account of | life in an English university, pub-at lished in‘an earlier issue of thc paper.
Dr. Benjamin F. Stelter, tlie new man who is coining to thc English department of the University of Southern California, would be a welcome addition to any faculty. He is German by descent as his name implies, and a Kansan by birth, and lias had a varied and brilliant career as a scholar. After taking his bachelor’s
QUEENERS OUT IN FORCE
The advanced students’ recital I’lanchard Hall Friday night will be In this letter Mr. Swain tells some
one of the big events of the year in tiling of the responsibility placed upon	degree at the university of his own tlie University calendar. Tbc unfor- I the men and of the strange regula-	slate, lie went up to Yale for his mas-lunate conflict of dates with the re- ■ tions governing them.	tor's degree, where he was university ception seemingly could not be avoid- Mr. Swain writes: “The only hard	scholar and fellow. He is now served, as the hall had to be engaged thing here is to find time to study,	ing on the staff of Cornell university, v, eeks in advance. The recital will This is the easiest place to kill time I	"here lie has taken his doctor’s de-begin promptly at eight, however, ever saw. The Oxford system of	gree. The subject he chose was thus allowing time for attendance at work is so different from the Ameri- j Aclfrie’s Old English version of Gen- city parks.
Come Ye One, and Come Ye All, Enjoy the Reception at State Hall
The Park Commission has deemed it necessary to station a squadron of policemen around Exposition Park tomorrow evening in order to insure the safe keeping of the various buildings and properties around the Park, and also to protect the refreshments which the committee has provided for the occasion. Beside the policemen the Commission have also arranged to dccorate the building with flowers and vines from several of the other
both events. The following exccp- i can system. Here we have no recita- esis, which he edited so satisfactorily tionally good program will be given. tions of any sort; we do meet a tutor, j as to get for his work a place in the Piano—Carnival from Aus dem but only once a week. There are lec- series of old writers published by Volksleben (Grieg), Miss Mildred turcs to attend but 110 one is obliged | Niemeyer of Ilalle. In thc field of
Cannon. Pupil of Prof. W. F. Skeele. to go, the roll is very seldom taken, Duo—Mattinata (Tosti), Miss Marie and even if you are marked absent it
Deets and Miss Rachel Smith. Pupils of Mrs. Norma Rockhold Robbins.
Piano—Waltzer (Grieg); Birdling (Grieg), Miss Dorothy Groton. Pupil of Miss M. Esther Davidson.
Contralto—“The White Dawn is Stealing" (Cadman); “Far Off 1 Hear a Lover’s Lute” (Cadman), Miss Yirgie Lee Moore. Pupil of Mr. Horatio Cogswell.
Piano—Rigaudon (Rameau-Godow-ski), Miss Jane Stanley. Pupil of -Miss C. Adelaide Trowbridge.
Violin—Air for G string (Bach), Obertass Mazurka (Weiniawski), Mr. Gilbert Green. Pupil of Mr. C. E. Pemberton.
Baritone — “Dio Possente Dio D’Amour” (Gounod), Mr. Willard llolteen. Pupil of Mr. Horatio Cogswell.
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modern literature lie has assisted in the Wordsworth concordance of Professor Cooper, and has also been collaborator in the Keats concordance which scholars have been looking for-
composi-
doesn’t count against you. The idea is that we are 011 our own responsibility, that university men are old enough to regulate their own work.
That’s a fine theory and it surely ought to be a great scheme for developing strength of character and Shakespeare and advanced tenacity of purpose (virtues lauded at tion. commencement time) but it somehow lacks the inspiration of classroom work like Dr. Stowell’s or Tully Knoles’.
“The idea that we are on otir own responsibility here prevails in matters congratulated upon the addition like the use of alcohol and tobacco. | such a man to her faculty.
All such things can be obtained from	_
the kitchen or store room. A fellow can get anything he wants to drink with his meals or at other times, and there is very little feeling against ordinary drinking here but the man
j who gets “tight” is rather looked 1	-
down upon. Drinking here isn’t as j Girlg wh(J Were at A8ilomar present
The “queeners” (including “Heck" Marvin, etc.) arc requested to changc benches, as there are several around through thc promenades, at least once every hour and a half as it is thought that maybe some of the Law College Freshmen may have become courageous enough to stroll around said corridors with some fair damsel
ward to enjoy. Dr. Stelter will begin from Liberal or Fine Arts. In such a his labors in Los Angeles at the close i case a good rustic bench of the va-of June, when lie will offer classes in j riety installed in the building might
encourage the Lawyers to enter into thc realms of bliss of which these maidens are thc queens.
There will be an excellent program after which the refreshments will be f j served by a dozen of thc beautiful
Doctor Stelter was formerly a roommate of Professor Klingberg at Vale. "With the splendid record h has behind him, thc University Southern California is indeed to
jJC : Sophomore girls.
of
Y. W. C. A. Presents Minature Conference
The members of each College will be tagged and a general feeling of good will will be prevalent during the whole evening.
Come and boost and help make thc University a real Great University.
MISS GILL WINS
ORATORICAL TRYOUT
GLEE CLUB CONCERT
FRIDAY AT 9:55
Proceeds to Help Defray Expenses of U. S. C. Track Representatives in Eastern Meet
The University Glee Club and Girls’ Glee Club will give a concert in the chapel Friday morning, the proceeds to be used in sending the track representatives to the Pennsylvania meet.
fhe program will include mostly tie a' selections which have never been he ird here. Considering that thc clubs are donating their services for th benefit of the track team, and in view of the excellent showing of the U. S. C. Glee Club at its home con-ce t, the students are expected to fill the hcapel.
I bad as it is reported or as bad as it | was a generation ago. It is done ] more openly here than in American universities, but I don’t believe drunk-J enness is any more common here than there. The liberty given here is not regarded as license.
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Various Scenes of Conference Life
SOPHOMORES,
ATTENTION!
Return your “Sophomore Track Benefit" tickets to “Bob” McMaster AT ONCE. See him at chapel hour today, if possible.
Alice Gill to Represent U. S. C. in the Southern California Prohibi---i	tion Oratorical Contest
The Conference Committee under |	-
the direction of Miss Maida Well- The tryout to choose the U. S. C. born had charge of the Y. W. C. A. j representative in the Southern C'ali-mecting Wednesday. A stunt pro- fornia Prohibition Oratorical contest gram was given in the chapel by all resulted in thc winning of lirst honors the girls who had been at Asilomar, j by Miss Alice Gill, thc subject of her showing the different phases of Con-: winning oration being "The Heritage ference life, and presenting a confer- of Future Generations.” Mr. Eugene cnee in miniature. The meeting op-1 W. Blalock, with an oration on the ened with the singing of college j topic, "Our National Welfare,” rc-songs. This was followed by the pre- ccived second place in the judges’
scntation of a number of scenes show-i ing the various phases of conference 1 life, the arrival of the girls, the dining I tent, and the various recreations of conference. The program closed with a pageant showing the visions and opportunities of Asiiomar. Miss Bentley gave a short talk on Conference.
decision, while Mr. Stanley S. Foote was awarded third place, the subject of his oration being, “The Call to Arms.” The other contestants and their orations were E. J. Dungan, "National Prohibition Conserves Our Youth”; Arthur Dix, “National Prohibition," and E. Lester Cox, “The National Peril."