SET APOLLIAD DATE
February 14 has been set as the deadline for material to be submitted to the Apolliad, according to Miss Tacic Mae Hanna. This is to give students who wish to contribute a chance to put the finishing touches on their manuscripts during the three days between semesters. Humorous stories will be especially acceptable, says Miss Hanna, as material of this type is usually lacking. The date is one week after the new semester starts.
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MANAGERS, MAJORS, CAPTAINS
All members of the general committee, managers, majors and captains of the endowment drive organization are requested by Morgan Cox, organization chairman, to meet this morning at 10 o’clock by the arch in front of the Administration Building for a picture to be taken. This is important as the picture is to be used in the East for publicity purposes. Do not fail to be there.
VOLUME XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, January 26, 1928
NUMBER 73
UNIVERSITY MAY OBTAIN LARGE CAMPUS GROUNDS
TO START FORENSIC CONTESTS
Fourth Annual Intercollegiate Contest on U. S. Constitution To Begin Soon.
Announcement of the Fourth National Inter^collegeiate Oratorical Contest with prizes aggregating $5000 has been received at S. C. by Charles Wright, debate manager. The contests are for the purpose of increasing interest in and respect for the Constitution of the United States. The three preceding annual contests, the first ones upon a national scale in the history of higher education, proved so successful that it was decided to continue the movement.
The competitions are financed and conducted by the Better America Federation of California as a contribution toward better and more intelligent citizenship. Among the con-1 test finalists of 1927 was Arthur Lee Syvertson of the University of Southern California, who took second place. The prizes will be seven in number and will be paid in cash at the grand final meeting in Los Angeles, on June 21, 1928.
The orations must be original, must not require more than ten minutes for delivery, and must he on any one of the following subjects:
The Constitution; Washington and the Constitution; Hamilton and the Constitution; Jefferson and the Constitution; Marshall and the Constitution; Franklin and the Constitution; Madison and the Constitution; Webster and the Constitution; Lincoln and the Constitution.
Any bona fide undergraduate student in any college or university in the United States is eligible. A student who has received a degree, diploma or certificate of graduation from any institution of higher learning is not an undergraduate in this use of the term, and is, therefore, ineligible. The fact that a student participated in a preceding National Inter-collegiate Oratorical Contest does not disqualify him from taking part in the 1926 contest, unless he was a national finalist in one of those contests. A national finalist, even though otherwise eligible, will not be allowed to become a contestant for
the second time.
The working unit in the contest is the individual college. Each college Is to select its own representative, and is to have only one. There will be seven major regions in which the colleges and universities will compete among themselves. The representatives of each college will compete on April 29. in groups, of about eight each, to determine the finalists for their particular region. The winnet in each of the seven major regions automatically becomes entitled to a place in the national finals in Los Angeles.
The 1928 schedule for the contest (Continued on Page Four)
ARCHITECTS HEAR DEAN
Harvard Educator Speaks To Students; Slides Illustrate Talk.
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“Modern Tendencies in Architecture” was the subject of Dean G. R. Edgell’s talk Tuesday afternoon when he was the guest of the School oi Architecture here. Dean Edgell is one of the outstanding educators of the East and is now a member of the faculty at Harvard. His lecture was especially interesting to the students because he had brought slides to illustrate with.
Many distinguished guests were present to honor Dean Edgell. Besides Dr. von KieinSmid, there were several prominent Los Angeles architects including David Allison, Davio Witmer, Sumner M. Spaulding and H. C. Nickerson. After the lecture, tea was served by the women of th*' school, giving all the students a chance to become acquainted with Dean Edgell.
TO HOLD CLASS ELECTIONS SOON
Schedule Nominations For First Week of Next Semester; Pierson in Charge.
Nominations for class officers will be held during the first week of next semester and elections will take place the week after, is the announcement made by Frederick Pierson, chairman of the university election committee. Elections in all schools and colleges will be held simultaneously.
The executive committee has passed a resolution making the chairman of the election committee responsible for the proceedure of all elections. He in turn is holding the school and and college presidents responsible for the proceedure of the elections upon their campuses. Elections in the College of Liberteil Arts wil be under Pierson’s personal supervision.
Further annuoncements concerning the election will be made later.
Dr. David Starr Jordan Celebrates Birthday
Stanford University, Jan. 25 (P.I.P.) —Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus, celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday January 19. Thirty-seven years ago Dr. Jordan became the first president of Stanford University. In 1913 he became Chancellor, and in 191G Chancellor Emeritus.
He is world-known as a writer, educator, and scientist. He is a recognized authority on biology, economics, genetics, and histories of internationalism. Dr. Jordon was chief director of the World’s Peace Congress in 1915.
Tomorrow Is Final Day For Campus Students At Witzel*s
Photographer’s Office To Shift To Junior Dental College; Staff Will Select Pictures From Proofs Not Taken By Students Today.
All Liberal Arts students must have their El Rodeo pictures taken not later than tomorrow, Dave Bryant, editor of the year book announced yesterday. “Witzel’s studio in the men’s dormitory will be available to Liberal Arts students today and tomorrow,” Bryant said. “Saturday the shop will move to the Junior dental college, and photographs of those students will be taken Monday, Tuesday
♦and Wednesday of next week.”
International Fete	Ford of D*n,al col"8e h“
Scheduled For Union Building
Through the .courtesy of President R. B. von KieinSmid, plans have been completed for an International party to be given in Room 3, of the Student Union building, on Friday evening, Feb. 10.
Games of different nations will be played.
Unique refreshments wil be serv*
ed.
All who are interested in interna tionalism are cordially invited to be present.
arranged to have all junior dent students photographed during the three days the photographer will be there. Specified times for all students have been given out, and they will be required to present themselves at the studio at that time, or be left out There will be no opportunity for students from other colleges to “break in’* on the line, by this system. Thursday, the studio will move downtown to senior dental school, and after that time, no more El Rodeo pictures will be taken.
A number of students have not yet called for their proofs at Witzel’s and j if these are not taken and selected immediately, the El Rodeo staff will do the work for the students, without guaranteeing a selection of the best portrait, Bryant said. Practically all Liberal Arts students who are to have pictures in the yearbook have had their photographs taken, but those few who have not done so will absolutely not be given a further opportunity to make up for the deficiency.
The exact date of pubilcation has
MONTGOMERY WINS PRIZE
Takes First Piwice in Annual Drawing Contest at Archi tecture.
Women s Group Celebrates Date Of Organization
Torch and Tassel is Now
Eighteen Years Old; Peti- not yet been decided upon, Bryant
tioning National.
Members of the Torch and Tassel, senior women’s honor organization, met at the Chateau Cafe on Jan. 23, tc celebrate the 14th anniversary ot their founding and to honor Mrs. Ai-thurs J. Tiegs, a member of the Mortar Board society.
Torch and Tassel was founded in 1910 and is now petitioning Mortar Board, a national senior women’s honor society which has thirty-eight chapters at the present time.
Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid and Mrs. Tiegs were the guests of honoi-at the birthday luncheon; Catherine Colwell, president, was toastmistress. Julia Norton McCorkle, one of the founders who is also an active member, gave a short talk on the “First Birthday of Torch and Tassl.” Mrs. Tiegs talked on Mortar Board. The petition which Catherine Colwell says will be sent immediately to the national counil of Mortar Board to be acted upon, was displayed.
BOTANY STUDENTS PLAN EXPEDITION
said, but he expects the book to appear some time in the middle of May. Payments for all pages must be in to Herschel Bonham, business manager of the yearbook, by March 1. All late payments will be taxed wTith an extra $5.00 fine.
WEAVER ELECTED ARISTO PRESIDENT
Announcement of the winners in the class competitions at the School of Architecture has been made, according to Professor Clayton Baldwin. Every semester each class is given a problem to execute and the faculty then judges the drawings and chooses the best of them.
The senior class problem was to draw a Protestant church. The winners in this class were: Montgomery, first place; Edmonds, second; Bauer third; Ellis, fourth and Mulvane and Thorne were tied for fifth place.
A procenium arch was the problem assigned to the juniors. Carl Decker took first place in his class while Don Sharp took second place. Hesse, Kelly and Adams received third, fourth and fifth places respectively.
OWNERS
BY
WOULD BENEFIT POOLING PROPERTY
Opportunity To Secure Land May Be Offered University As Taypayers Protest Proposed Hoover Street Diagonal, Bledsoe Commends Co-operation Suggestions.
A plan for pooling their property, adjacent to the University of Southern California, including real estate and residences between Hoover and Figueroa and from Jefferson to Exposition Boulevard lor sale to the University, has resulted in the organization of the University Tax Payers’ Protective League, which meets every Tuesday evening at the Jefferson Street school, with Mr. Newton Hogen, chairman of the campus committee, presiding.
The movement was the outcome of
Norma Talmadge To Sponsor Film Trial Here Soon
Co-eds To Make Up To Resemble Miss Talmadge in New Picture.
BY LORRAINE YOUNG
A chance for a screen career! What fair co-ed—or otherwise—would not jump at the opportunity to fulfill her secret desire—to be a far-famed movie star? All that is necessary is an opening, an entering wedge, and such an opportunity is now providee for the co-eds of the S. C. campus exclusively, by the United Artists theatre.
Girls, has anyone ever said to you, “You look just like Norma Talmadge’ or “your eyes, or your mouth, or nose or figure, or most anything, looks just like Norma Talmadge’s?” If so, you John Weaver is the new president are one *he lucky ones who will
of Aristo for the coming six months. Weaver was elected at the last meeting, held Tuesday evening. Other officers named include Brooks Thompson, vice-president; Gerald Fitzmaurice, secretary; Neal Miller, treasurer; Hugh Andrews, custodian and Vroman Dormann, censor.
The meeting featured an open forum on the effects of recent Pan-American conference held in Havana. Each member of the society spoke on what results may be expected from its work, and what effect Coolidge’s presence at the conference had.
DR. REID IS HONORED AT SOCIOLOGY AFFAIR
Honoring Dr. Cass Reed, president of the International college. Smyrna. Asia, the members of the Sociology department held an interesting luncheon at the Women’s Residence Hall, Monday, Jan. 23.
At this luncheon Dr. Reed gave * talk on “New Social Conditions in Turkey” in which he emphasized the chanses that have taken place in both laws and customs since 1919. Some of the unusual changes that have occured involve the dress of the people, such as the laws that no man can wear a fez in Turkey unless he is an American, and that women can not wear veils. That co-education only exists for the children up to the age of 14 years. Turkey still has a terrible fear of Italy, the public
health problem is very severe, they are able to obtain an extremely good class of American motion pictures, and the marriage and divorce problem is much more successfully handled in this country than in the United States, were some of the points that shaw* that Turkey is becoming more Westernized. Dr. Reed said thav before 1919 these people felt superior to Europe and America but now they look to these countries for ideas and ways of living.
In addition to this talk Dr. Reed lectured to two sociology classes on “Race Conflicts in Turkey’’ and “Prisoners of War in Turkey.” He has had much practical experience in this field as he is direct from western Asia.
Dr. George R. Johnstone of the Botany department announces that there will be a trip to the California Botanic Garden, in Mandeville Canyon, on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m.. with all students of botany and all others interested invited to join the expedition. The flowering plants native to California and those introduced will be studied. The Botanic Garden includes 3200 acres of land in the Santa Monica mountains, with 800 acres dedicated in perpetuity to the uses of the Garden. It is said that | w’ith its sub-tropic climate, natural water supply, altitudes ranging from 400 to 2000 feet, freedom from frosts high winds and adverse conditions, the canyon meets every requirement for a comprehensive Botanic Garden.
Both President von KieinSmid and Vice-President Bovard are on the Board of Governors of the California Botanic Garden. E. D. Merrill Is President of the Garden Foundation, Inc.
CIVIL ENGINEERS
El Rodeo pictures will be taken this afternoon at 1 o’clock. Every civil engineer must be in front of Old College at that time.
French Tenor Sings
At Cercle Francais
Stanford University, Jan. 25 (P.I.P.) —M. Georges Simondet, teacher of the Opera Comique of Paris, sang at a meeting of the Cercle Francais recently. Simondet has been with Oscar. Hammerstein Opera House, New York City, and Aborn English Grand Opera Company, New York.
be able to enter the contest which United Artist theatre is presenting at Southern California within the next few weeks to find the co-ed most resembling Norma Talmadge as she looks in her Apache costume which she wears in her latest production, “The Dove.”
Individual screen tests will be made of each contestant in the same identical costume worn by the famous movie queen. They will be made u> on the campus and the lucky one who most resembles Miss Talmadge upon the screen will be presented with a magnificent trophy by Miss Talmadge herself, upon the theatre stage. The possibility of a real screen career is more than certain if the winner takes a good test.
Those who would be at all interested are requested to turn their names in to the Trojan office at an early
date.
BATEMAN AGAIN ELECTED PREXY
Electrical Engineers Reelect President for Second Term of A.I.E.E.
Lester Bateman was re-elected chairman of the S. C. branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at the meeting held yester-day afternoon.
The other officers elected were Lu-mir Slezak, secretary, Zoeth Cummings, vice-chairman and John Gilroy, treasurer.
The engineers voted to have their group picture for the El Rodeo taken at 10 o’clock today. The picture has been postponed several times, but all electrical engineering students were requested to be present in front of the Old College tomorrow.
DAVIS TO SPEAK ON LAWS OF AIR
Discussing government and state regulations controlling commercial aviation, W. J. Davis of San Diego, author of “The World’s Wings”, “Putting Laws over Wings,” and “Highways and Airways, Their Relation to Commerce and National Defense,” is to give a special lecture on “Air Laws” tonight at University college, 122 E. 7th St., under the auspices of the University of Southern California. E. W. Hill, vice-president of the International Institute of Traffic, will preside at the lecture
'A mehiber of the Air Law committee of the American Bar Association and of the Comite’ Juridique Inte^ nationale de l’Aviation. Davis was formerly with the war department as legal advisor in Europe. He is now Lt. Col. in the Reserve Officers Corps.
“Aircraft are the harbingers of na tional peace and prosperity,” says Davis
DEBATE SQUAD
Debate squad meets in H-206 today at 4 p.m. All members of the squad must be present, states Alan Nichols, forensic coach.
the proposed plan of the City Traffic Commission to promote a major system of traffic arteries one of which is the Hoove Street cut from Holly-wod (Los Feliz Boulevard) to Exposition Boulevard and Figueroa Street. It was also originally planned to include two traffic circles, each of 400 feet in diameter, one at Jefferson and University Avenue, and the other at Exposition Boulevard and Figueroa Street.
This plan required cutting diagonally on a 100-foot roadway all lots in its path from 32nd and Hoover Streets to the traffic circle at Exposition Boulevard and Figueroa Street, and entailed to the property owners heavy assessment#, besides disintegrating their lots.
Repeated protests were made by the property owners in the neighborhood, until they came to realize that by combining, with the purpose of turning over their pooled property to the University of Southern California at a reasonable figure, they would be able to benefit themselves and at the same time benefit the community. At their organization meeting it was therefore suggested that all property between Hoover and Figueroa Streets, and from Jefferson to Exposition Boulevard, be offered to the Trojan institution for purchase, with the idea that the sellers would be protecting their own interests, and at the same time would be contribuUng to the furtherance and development of a great community cultural center, bounded by Exposition Park and the Coliseum on one side, by the Shrine Civic Auditorium on the other, with the schools and colleges of the University of Southern California at its heart.
On Tuesday evening, January 17th, at the gathering of the University Taxpayers’ League, Judge Benjamin Bledsoe was the speaker, talking on “The Development of a Cultural Center.” Judge Bledsoe highly commended the co-operation of the community and the educational institution in the upbuilding of a cultural center, and prophesied a great futur« as the outcome.
On Tuesday evening, January 24th, Frank Geiger, noted basso, sang at the gathering, for the meetings are both business and social ones.
The next program, on Tuesday evening, January 31st, at the Jeffer-
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HONOR ROLL
Alpha Sigma Delta Alpha Chi Omega Sigma Chi Alpha Nu Delta Theta Sigma Nu Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Epsilon Phi Delta Delta Delta Theta Psi Kappa Sigma Pi Beta Phi Zfta Tau Alpha Delta Chi
Kappa Alpha Theta Betta Sigma Omicron Women’s Residence Hall. Phi Nu Delta.
Kappa Alpha.
Charles Francis Hubbard, has been procured by the library of the University of Southern California.
More than a thousand volumes on the history and criticism of English literature, more than a hundred rare
Piano Instructor
Offered At Music
During the second semester an opportunity for piano instruction at a very 1owt rate of tuition is offered by the College of Music, University of Southern California, through its Normal Methods department. The instruction will be given by advanced students in training under tbe supervision of faculty members. The lists wiil be closed Thursday, Feb. 2. For «ditions of Shakespeare and critical particulars, see Mrs. Adelaide Trow-|wor^’ severl hundrend volumes each bridge Perry, head of the Norman of French, German, Latin and Greek Methods department. i classics, and many volumes of Anglo-___Saxon, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Swedish
ARGONAUr MEETING	and other forei&n language are in-
The Argonaut meeting recently an- eluded in the addition to the Trojan nounced in the Trojan for the 16th general library.
of Frebuary has been changed to Uniquely valuable and interesting Tuesday, Feb. 14.	are a number of dictionaries, includ-
Dr. Alexander will speak on the ing a Johnson of 1814, Richardson, | subject of “Intelligence and Intelli- 1836, John Walker, 1797 and Fallons, gentsia.”	1885. A collection of hymnals and
LIBRARY IS AWARDED VALUABLE COLLECTION
A collection of more than 5,000 bibles and several hundred mounted volumes, the library of the late Dr.
pictures complete the newly-acquired material.
Dr. Hubbard, who died in Los Angeles last September, graduated from Amherst College as the youngest member of his class. He was known as a man of unusual scholarship and rare literary attainments, and a great student of philosophy. He took graduate work at Yale, completed a course at Andover Semniary, and spent three years in Paris and two years in Berlin specializing in modern languages. He held th echair of modern languages at Center college, was dean of Brea college for two years, and later was pastor of the Union Foreign church in Peking. China. He was widely known as a lecturer on the poetry and drama of the Bible and on Browning.