MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Southern
California
Trojan
HAPPY NEW YEAR
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, December 15, 1926
NUMBER 62
S.C. PROFS. ARE FETED
Doctors Hunt and Hill Receive Enthusiastic Welcome In Honolulu.
GREETED BY ALUMNI
Travelers Leave For Japan After Six-Day Stopover In Hawaii.
(Special to the Trojan) HONOLULU, Dec. 14.—Dean Rockwell Hunt and Dr. John Hill, of the University of Southern California, who left on their sabbatical leave of absence for a trip around the world, accompanied by Rev. E. Daw Hoffman, have reached the “Paradise of the Pacific,” and report a wonderful time here.
Old friends and former students met them at the boat and to the strains of mellow Hawaiian music, showered the visitors from S. C. with beautiful flowers.
O* Thursday evening a genuine seven-course Chinese dinner was planned by Dr. F. M. Branch, leading dentist in Honolulu. Some twenty-five former University students were present. The visitors were called upon to tell the latest news from the campus. They were eagerly listener I
to by those present Dean R. D. Hunt, of the Graduate: School, spoke at length in regard to recent developments on the campus, the building program, extension or courses, enlargement of various schools, and the growth of the Graduate School.
After a stop-over of six days in Honolulu, the party, known as the
“Three H’bsailed for Japan on the .“President Lincoln.” A great reception is planned for them in Tokyo.
Women Plan For Debate
Six Women Chosen For Squad; Four More To Be Named After Vacation.
With the tryouts completed, the Trojan Women's Debate Squad is i starting the season’s work in earnest.
The women who have made the
squad are: Eleanor Veale, Carolyn Fulghum, Mary Anderson, Doris Johnson, Mildred Hines, and Lucille Taylor. According to Eleanor Veale, manager of the squad, there will be three or four more women selected by tryout after the vacation.
Seven or eight league debates are in prospect for the co-ed team, the first of which will take place soofi after the Chrroimas holidays. During the debate season the girls expect to journey to a number of neighboring colleges including Redlands, Berkeley, and Southern Branch. However, no definite plans have been made as to the dates of these trips.
Coach Alan Nichols is now working with the squad on its first topic which will be on the matter of com* pulsory voting.
BAND CLOSES GOOD SEASON
Successful Work of Musicians Lauded In Review Of Semester's Activities.
ALPHA NU DELTA GETS RECOGNITION
Inter-fraternity Board of Control Passes Favorably On Petition Of New Fraternity.
Alpha Nu Delta passed the interfraternity board of control of the University last week and is now a recognized fraternity on the campus. ;
The fraternity was organized dffr-j ing the second semester last year, | and now has a membership of twenty-1 one. They secured their lodge December 1, and are now located at 954 West 36th StreeL Professor A. Hah of Pharmacy is faculty sponsor.
The officers are John Dundas, president; Draper Webb, secretary; Smith Crouch, treasuirfr; and Herbert Fairley, vice-president; Thorsten Halldin is pledge master.
Recent pledges of the new fraternity are Stanley A. Milford. John O. Whiteside, and John R. Riggs.
Electrical Engineers Hold Dinner Group Tuesday, December 7
An enjoyable dinner meeting of electrical enginners was held at Cal Tech Tuesday evening. December 7. The turnout of the Down Town Chapter was exceedingly good, it being exceeded only once in the last few years.
“Notes on the Oscillograph,” an original paper, was presented by Ted Blakesley and illustrated by lantern slides. Ardis M. Walker gave a satirical paper entitled, “Dam Sites,” in which he pointed out the analogy between political and engineering dams. Another S. C. Electrical presented “Responsibilities of the Young Engineer.”
TEACHERS WIL MEET AT LUNCH DURING RESPITE
Prexy To Attend National Convention Of Foreign Trade Fraternity At Detroit, Michigan.
The fourth annual Trojan Teachers’ Luncheon will be held at the Women's Residence Hall, 666 West 36th Street, Thursday, December 23, at 12:15 P. M. All alumni of the University of Southern California who are teaching in the schools of Southern California may attend this luncheon.	*-'
The feature of the luncheon this year wi'l be a short, interesting talk by Dr. H. Wildon Carr, professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, England. Dr. Carr is an educator of international fame and has gained an enviable reputation for his iluminating talks on the trend of the times.
The luncheon will serve greatly as j a reunion of alumni who were k^flt from the Homecoming celebraUon By their school duties.
Shortly after Christmas, President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will leave for Detroit, Michigan, where he will asrume the chairmanship of the annual National Convention of Delta Pi Epsilon, the foreign trade fraternity of which he is the cational president.
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Among the many interesting high- j lights of the convention will be dis- j cussions upon the latest developments . in the foreign trade situation and upon the tariff questions of today, j President von KleniSmid anticipates the solution of many international
The Trojan band, acknowledged by many to be “the foremost college band in the United States,” with the close of the football season ends Its work as one of the main factors of entertainment at the various football games of the year.
A hundred piece band journeyed north to Berkeley for the Southern California-California game, and there showed itself to be a perfectly executed unit in the wheel of Trojan machinery.
The uniforms, planned and worn by the band men have become renowned throughout the United States. In a recent edition of a New York paper, a picture o; the band appeared, garbed in its Southern California regalia, and beneath it a caption read, “The famous Southern California band makes initial appearance at football game.”
Besides playing at football games, the Trojan band has played at innumerable concerts and various other entertainments.
The manager of the Palais de Glace, endeavoring to make the opening night of the ice palace an unmitigated success, procured the services of Hal Roberts, band director, and his music makers to play for the skaters.
The football banquet and rally that preceded the Notre Dame-Southern California game saw the band, garbed in new uniforms, ready to aid in the
success of the program.
The Trojan band has plaijned a full program for the coming season. In this, a concert tour throughout the country will be a main feature.
Hal Roberts has been aided in his good work by a capable staff of workers, composed of Bill Ward, manager, Harold Grayson, assistant manager, and Lee Orndorff, librarian.
problems during the course of the, convention.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money
Manual Arts To Hold Annual Homecoming ■
Homecoming for all graduates of Manual Arts will be held Wednesday, I January 5, according to word received yesterday. Buron Fitts, lieutenant-! governor-elect, who is a Manual Arts graduate, will be the honored guest.
The days’ program will start withj an assembly in the auditorium at j 11:15 followed by luncheon. At 2:30 the Baby Show will be conducted nf the girl's gym to be immediately followed by an informal dance lasting until five. At 8:00 o’clock in the evening there is to be an Alumni program in the auditorium, after which a semi-formal dance will be held in the girls’ gym.
REAL ESTATE CUSS WILL HEAR LECTURE
E. W. Weeks Will Speak To Class In Real Estate Practice Tonight.
Discussing real estate appraisals, E. W. Weeks of Harwood and Company will lecture before a new class in Real Estate Practice at Metropolitan College, University of Southern California on Wednesday night, December 15 o;i the 13th floor of the Transportation Building. Those interested in real estate problems are invited to visit this session, according to Harbert M .Harwood, instructor in charge of the course.
Twelve evening lectures by local and national authorities in real estate will be included in this course which is planned for the layman as well as the real estate broken and full university credit is granted.
Two advanced classes in Spanish are also open for registration on Wednesday at Metropolitan College, S. C. with a Spanish Seminar offered fn the afternoon from 4:10 to 6:30 by Antonio Heras, recently of Madrid and a literature course in Cervantes conducted by William F. Rice from 7to 9:20 P. M. on Wednesday evening.
\ ELECTION BULLETIN
H£re are the tabulated results of the voting on the revised constitution and the proposed honor system yesterday:
CONSTITUTION
For	Against
Liberal Arts ................ 348	36
Architect .................... 76	1
Pharmacy .................... 114	15
Music........................37	0
HONOR SYSTEM For	Against
140	249
21	57
57	65
32	7
Downtown Architects To Judge Local Work At Banquet Tonight
Downtown architects will hold a jury on sophomore, junior and senfor architectural design problems tonight at the judgment banquet in the School of Architecture, at seven.
Among the practicing architects who will be present include David C. Allison, Geo. J. Adams, Carleton Winslow, and Mr. Sexsmith. Being actively engaged in the profession, these men are some of the best critics available and they sacrifice much valuable time in doing this.
250
378
Total Vote .............. 575	52
The College of Dentistry did not vote on either the honor system or the constitution.
The Southern California physical education department occupies an outstanding position on the west coast, because it was one of the first universities to place phyical education on its list of major subjects, the department here being established in 1913.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
It will not be long now until the new freshmen are coming in again and the old rushing problem begins. An incident will serve to show how disloyal to the Universities for whose good tliey are supposed to exist, some houses can be. A short while ago a high school man who had been rushed by a number of fraternities on this campus was asked by a friend of his to come to Los Angeles to spend the night with him.
“I’ll come, he said, “if you don’t ask me to your fraternity
house/’ ......................................
....He was so tired of the “line’' that had been peddled him by a couple of the houses he had visited and he was so disgusted at hearing the rival Southern California houses run each other down that he didn’t want to
chance it again.
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In plain slanguage, Southern California has a fat chance to interest good men in the University with the various houses cutting each other s throats that way. Why cannot fraternity men realize that what they say to a prospective pledge is almost certain to be peddled if, by any chance, they do not “land” him? Why can’t they realize that any man with brains and sense of honor enough to be worth rushing is only disgusted by such propaganda?
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It is not known at this writing how the honor system fared and the constitution. But we can now admit something which has been troubling us for sometime. Although the student body has been unaware of it, a unique experiment has been going on during the past few weeks. The experiment is this, how far can a student editor go who wishes to be constructive and support the Executive Committee in something over which he is not enthused?
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We have never been able to see much in the honor system. When it was first proposed in the Executive Committee, we opposed it. The second time, it was brought up when we were at Reno, and on' return we found the whole slate settled. Therefore, we tried to back it. We allowed everyone who had anything to say on the subject to say it, but we also urged that it be “given a chance.” Further than that we could not go. If the system passed yesterday, we repeat just that. The majority will have willed it, we’ll give it a fair chance. But if it has failed, we should not be laying the blame to a lack of honor on the part of the student body, but rather to the disagreement of the students as to the reality of *:he problem and the way to meet it. Perhaps there will be more to say on this problem after the holidays.
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There is in Fresno a man recovering from a serious illness. He used to attend this University. When we think of ability and spirit it recalls a_ remark he once made as he was trying out for the glee club. He had been a big football player in high school, but a permanent injury kept him out of college. He said that the fellows who used to fight for F-
couldn’t understand the spirit of the man who wouldn’t do anything for his chool. It may seem like a long way from football to the glee club, but that was the spirit that motivated him. If he couldn’t help along one place, he’d do it another.
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5. C. Students Cast Light Ballot In All-U. Election
Due probably to the indecision of many students as to the merits of the issue, voting for the revised constitution and the honor system was exceptionally light, only two hundred votes being cast in the Administration Building booth by Tuesday noon.
In order that the new constitution might not be voted down because ot student objection to the honor system, balloting for each issue was held separately. However, if the honor system is decided upon, it wfli be made part of the constitution.
Neither I^aw nor Dental schools voted upon the honor system. But the Law school voted upon the revised constitution.
DEBATORSTO TRYOUT FOR BOWEN CUPS ON JANUARY 3
Preliminaries Will Be Followed
By Final Tryouts On Jan. 5.
Preliminary tryouts for the BowSn Cup Debate are to be held Monday, January third; final tryouts will be held Wednesday, January fifth, at which time the cups won by those who tried out last year will be permanently awarded.
The general subject for the speeches will be some phase of the connec tion or influence of motion pictures
on modern life.
Although it is not yet definitely decided whether the finals will be held before students assembled in chapel in all probability it will be, since the students will wish to hear the fina* tryouts and to see the cups awarded to last year’s winners.
Those who won last year are: El wood Harmon, Eleanor Veale, Frantr Colston, Stanley Hopper, Marion Garrison, and Charles Wright.
Senior Snap Is Planned
Fourteen Football Seniors Will Be Honored At First Dance After Vacation.
Honoring the fourteen senior men of the Trojan Varsity Squad who graduate this year and who have played their last game, the first senior snap of the year will be held Wednesday, January 8, at the Delta Delta Delta house, 2407 South Flower Street, from 7:30 to 10:30.
The affair is under the direction of Mabel Smith, who has charge of all committees. Music will be furnished by a well-known campu-s orchestra. Two numbers of the program will consist of a whistling solo by W Behrendt and a number presented by Wes Woodford and Gogo Belanger.
A large crowd is expected, due to the fact that all the senior football men have promised to be there and that this will be a chance for the members of the senior class to get together for a social evening immediately after the Christmas vacation.
If this first senior snap proves a success it is expected to be followed by others of a similar nature at frequent intervals.
GRID GAMES DRAW MANY
Attendance A t Football Games This Year Shows Increase Over Last Year.
U PORTE TO ADDRESS TEACHER^ INSTITUTE
Physical Education Situation In The Schools To Be Presented.
“The Place of Physical Education in the Schools” will be the theme oi an address which will be given bj Prof. W. R. La Porte in the vacation meeting of the teachers’ institute Monay night at the Polytechnic High School.
Professor I^a Porte, will also address the State Congress of Religious Education at the First Congre gational Church Tuesday evening.
Many changes have been made in the physical education departmefit this semester, especially in the women’s division. Miss Germaine Guiot head of the women’s activities, has done much in the way of reorganization of physical activities among the women students.
There are now approximately 150 majors and minors in the department, a large per cent of which are men. Besides those working for the B. S. degree, there are many working for a general physical education teaching credential for high school teaching.
Dr. Mable Durbin is a new memfier of this department, having charge of health supervision of upper division students. Her office hours are daily from 9:30 to 12:30 A. M.
Professor W. R. LaPorte states that new buildings and equipment are expected in the near future. The uSIt will consist of one building for the men and one for the women connected by a larger building for coin-petittive games
MORLEY DRURY, GEORGE JORDAN GO TO ASILOMAR
Football Captain-Elect And Trojan Editor Named As Official Delegates To Convention.
Morley Drury and George Jordan have been appointed as the. official delegates from Southern California to the Y. M. C. A. Student Conference to be held at Asilomar during the Christmas vacation. These two men will be the official representatives of the University at the meetings of the
conference.
Leaving Los Angeles on December 26th, the group from Southern California will return from Asilomar on January 2nd, the conference taking one complete week. Reservations have been coming in fast and it is expected that several hundred men from colleges and universities of the Pacific Coast will attend.
A large group is planning to make the trip from Southern California, according to Glen Turner, who is in charge of the registration. Don Bailey and Harold Reed, together with Turner, have important parts on the program of the conference.
Among those who have already signed to attend the Asilomar conference this Christmas are A1 Behrendt, Don Bailey, M. Abaya, Tom de Graffenried, Elwood Harrison, Stanley Johnson, Don Newcomer, George Peterson, Harold Reed, Henry Rohr, Bryce Schurr. Don Stoner, Benjamin Taylor, Glen Turner, and Robert G. Webster.
FIGURES SHOW GAIN
Tickets For 1927 May Be Sold By Mail To Expedite Handling Of Pasteboards.
That attendance at Southern California football games is becoming larger is shown by the recently compiled figures given out by P. N. Marshall, associated students accountant. The grand total of paid admissions to all football games that the Trojan team played during the past season is 367,600 as compared with a like total in 1925 of 279,500. In 1925 the Trojans played in twelve games, while in the pa3t season only ten games were played.
In 1925 when the Cougars upset the Trojans only 9,500 peopel were in the stands. When the Cougars played this year, 34,700 fans, the largest attendance at a small game, saw the contest.
The total attendance at the small games in 1925, when S. C. played Whittier, Calteck, Pamona, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Santa Clara, Montana, Washington State, Oregon Aggies and St. Mary’s, was 151,500. The total attendance at the six small games the past season was 130,100, a difference of about 21.000.
This year Stanford and Notre Dame both drew 78,500 through the gates, California had 62,500 in the stands, and the Oregon Aggie-Trojan game was piayed before only 18,000, bringing the total for all the big games to 237,500 as compared to the 128,000 who saw the big games in 1925 wh>n the Trojans beat Iowa before 59,000 people and player Stanford before 69,000.
The showing at the past season’s games prompted Marshall to say that it is possible that all tickets for football games next year, the larger ones at least, would be sold through the
mail, and there would be no public sale. Such a plan could have been followed to expedite the handling of
the tickets for the Notre Dame game.
Notices
All notice* most be brought to the Trojan office at 716 Went Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notices moat be limited to 35 words.
ALPHA PHI EPSILON
There will be a meeting of Alpha Phi Epsilon at 12:20 o’clock today in Room H-206. Important business.
RIFLE CLUB
Meeting 12:30, December 15. Rifle range arrangements for Loyola match.
First Copy of Work On French Dramas Received By Author
Coming as the first systematic treatment of its subject since 1868, Dr. Lawrence M. Riddle’s treatise on “The Genesis and Sources of Pierre Corneille’s Tragedies from Medee to Pertharite” has just been published at Paris and the first copies received here by the author.
The book deals with the leading plays of the greatest French dramatist and reveals many hitherto unsuspected sources of his works. These are shown by internal evidence and comparison, the result being a study which marks a distinct advance in present-day knowledge of the most fruitful period of the French drama.
SUE CABLES MAKES RAPID RECOVERY
Trojan Writer, Injured In Accident, Is Reported To Be Recovering Rapidly.
Sue Cables, head writer for the Daily Trojan, who was seriously injured in an accident that occurred during the Thanksgiving holiday, is making a remarkably rapid recovery, according to reports of the TFo-jan staff members who have visited her recently.
Provisions are said to have been made to allow her to do the work missed, if she chooses to, in order that she may receive her degree in June with her class. She expects to return to the campus at the beginning of the second semester.
She has been removed from th“ hospital where she was taken immediately after the accident, and is now at her home at 178 W. Villa Street, Pasadena.
The absence of the Trojan head writer has made necessary a re-arrangement in the staff of the dafly to fill the vacancy leTt by her absence.
Coe-eds at Northwestern University are too busy to work, according to the school’s employment bureau, which reports it has eighty-seven requests tor co-ed "help” and no takers.
SANTA CLAUS TIME TO BRING
MANY PARTIES AND OUTINGS
Good morning, Santa Claus!
With jingle bells, holly wreaths, and (this is only a whisper) mistletoe, all Troy embarks today on the most excitinig voyage of the year— Christmas vacation.
Because co-eds are planning “the duckiest parties” and great* big he-men, more commonly known as upperclassmen, are intending to go to the snowy open places where men are collegiate and icebergs are everywhere, there will probably be a dearth of
anything resembling intelligence in the classroom for the first blu? Monday after the holidays.
Dancer and Prancer will have to step some to keep up with foimals and hops, and Santa Claus should oe considerate enough to leave at least one pair of new shoes on each co-ed’s Christmas tree. Fraternities and sororities are luring parents Into Christmas parties for the houses, and great are the gifts thereof!