The Summer Session Tro, will be issued each Tuesday and Friday during the six-weeks session and will be distributed free to all students and faculty members from the Students’ Store, now located at the Y. M. C. A. Hut.
Eleven o'clock of the morning preceding each issue of the Sum- 1 mer Session Trojan is the last possible hour for announcements, > and matter '-which is received sooner will have greater consideration. Leave material at Mr. * Huse’s office.
VOLUME VI.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, July 12, 1927
NUMBER 5
TROJAN WOMEN ENGAGE IN VARIOUS TYPES OF WORK
Trojan Alumnae Organized in 1914 Has Continued To Grow With University and Its Needs.
By JULIA McCORKLE
“Keeping in touch with the needs of the University” has been
the unofficial slogan of the Trojan Women since the foundation of
the organization in December, 1914, as a branch of the Women’s
Llub of the University. Such an objective has tended to keep the
club’s program flexible, so that it has been adapted from year to year
to the changing needs of the University and its student body. Continuity of aim nas	given*-j-?-
the club’s work, throughout the twelve and a half years of its existence, in its constant efforts to keep the University alumna in touch with her fellow graduates and with her Alma Mater. Monthly luncheon meetings of the club, at first downtown, and in recent years on the campus, have afTorded opportunities for the wide awake alumna to maintain a constant contact with the growing University. Here graduates of 1926 mingle with the graduates of 1906 and learn, through community of interests, that Trojan spirit is date less and timeless.
Besides serving as a general medium of exchange of ideas between altimna and University, Trojan Women have engaged in four distinct types of activity, according to the need of the moment. In the early years, when inadequate funds made it impossible to bring to the University many speakers of note, the club program included an occasional gift to the student body of a lecture by some noted man. In this way University students had the opportunity of hearing lectures by Alfred Noyes, Ernest Seton-Thompson, and Vachel Lindsay.
During the World War, work for the University took a temporary second place as the alumnae group undertook the care of a Belgian orphan. When world condition® returned more to normal and University women turned their attention again to affairs of their own institution, the establishment of a women’s residence hall had become the crying need of the our. An extensive campaign for (Continued on Page Three)
NOTICES
CANDIDATES FOR MASTERS’ DEGREES August, 1927
All candidates for Mastere’ degrees in August, 1927, are reminded that July 18th has been set as the last day for the general opproval by the faculty committee of theses of August 1927, candidates.
NOT LATER THAN Saturday, July 30th, the thesis must be in the Graduate Office, in final form, fully approved and ready for bidding.
E. S. BOGARDUS.
SPELLING TEST
The Freshman English Spelling Test will be given at 9:00 on Thursday, July 14th, in Room H. S. 112 (High School). All students who Vish to make-up conditions in Spell ing during the present session must be present
Signed—Lynn Clark.
TROJANS NOW IN EUROPE
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Deans Weatherhead and Mary Sinclair Crawford are Directing Travel Tour.
A unique idea in combining travel and education is embodied in the plan of Dean A. C. Weatherhead of the School of Architecture of the University of Southern California who is directing a Traveling Course in Fine Arts this summer, with Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean of Women at Southern California and Professor of French^ acting as travel director and chaperon on the voya-geur students.
With an itinerary curriculum covering continental motor expeditions to famous architectural monuments, great museums, galleries and places of artistic interest in France, Italy, England and Switzerland, the “class” sailed from New York June § 11 and will return about the first week in September. Because of the academic nature of the trip, college credits are being granted to those who are interested in it and who qualify for it.
Painting and sculpture, architecture and the fine arts will be stressed dur ing the tour, with explanatory lectures during the visits and preliminary background talks during the ocean voyage. Unless college credit is desired, however, participation in all note taking and collateral reading will be voluntary, according to Dean Weatherhead.
Besides museums, buildings and galleries, shops and parks and points of peculiar interest are included in the university grade summer European trip, with elastic plans for sight seeing allowing for rest
Dr. Crawford, who was made a member of the Society Des Ancien Textes of Paris by the French government because of her discovery of a Norman French manuscript dating back to 1150, has made eight trips across the ocean since the war. “By traveling by motor,” she states, “opportunity will be afforded to visit numerous art treasures and secluded architectural gems seldom seen by the unguided tourist.” Fifty days of motoring or the continent are scheduled for the student travelers.
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By VIRGIL PINKLEY
Does Botany Pay? Summer Singing Fine Music is Universal
Folk Songs in Today’s Rally
JAMES MUSSATTI NOW EDITS TAX MAGAZINE
Former Trojan Student and Professor Edits Magazi Published by California Tax Payers’ Association.
CREDENTIALS
. All students who are working for credentials at the close of the Summer Session and who registered late are asked to report to the offices of the Dean of Summer School. Blanks for such credit may be secured from his office.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
July 21 has been the day selected by the Y. W. C. A and Y. M. C. A. .for the Foreign Students’ dinner. The dinner will be served on the back lawn of the Y. W. C. A. and is open to all students of the Summer Session. Tickets for the gala affair are now on sale at the Y. W. and Y. M. Hut
Women To Frolic At Edgewater Club
The women’s frolic will be held on Thursday afternoon, July 21st at Edgwater Club, Santa Monica. Groups will leave at 3:00 and at 4:00 p.m. from the Women’s Dormitory. Transportation arrangements are being completed.
The committee has planned all sorts of stunts for entertainment and persons wishing to swim will find the beach ideal at this point
There will be an informal dinner at 6:00 p.m. for one dollar. A most tempting menu has been provided. Tickets for the dinner are on sale in Dean Roger’s office and should be secured by Friday, July 15tb.
Does Botany really pay? Sucfy is the question of practically every student who put in six hours a week for two semesters. Botany is one of the required labratory sciences which every student must take and complete successfully before he is graduated and receives the highly valued diploma. Botany is one of the subjects which the average student detests. The charge of not being practical is the one most commonly used by men out in the business world, when they speak of college subjects.
The college leaders plan the educational program with an objective in view of training the student to think and reason problems out for himself. To develop the mind to as high a state as possible, is the ultimate end of every worth-while educator. Perhaps Botany meets this end and that is why it remains in the educational curriculum. But the question arises, wThy not develop the mind and at the same time give the student some knowledge which will be of value for the great game of life?
After taking Botany for a year, the student knows little or nothing about the economic plants of this country. He does not know what it means to the future success and progress of any. nation to have forests. which are taken care of in a constructive way. He does not understand why certain legislation to preserve the natural flora growth of this country should be passed. . He knows nothing about forestry!
If the student acquires a home after graduation he is at a loss to i know how to plan his yard. A ' knowledge of what plants to set out and at what seasons will bring the best results, is not his. He knows not* what flowers or shrubs grow best in certain soils or how to replenish these soils. Now what he gets is something most useless and of no value for future use.
Pteridophytes, fungi, basidi-omycetes, schizophyta, spermato-phytes, equisetum and sphagnum are a few of the terms studied. These species and kingdoms are studied under a high-powered microscope from prepared slides which are mounted % in stained substances.
If the student is a science major, then it is necessary perhaps that he take such a course. But to force such terms and require such a study from the average student is ridiculous. By making the required course in Botany contain features which would make the student think and broaden his outlook on life would be a worth while move on the (Continued on Page Two)
UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE HAS AN INCREASE
Summer Quarter Shows Increase of More Than a Thousand.
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The fiirst edition of the “California Tax Digest’' under the editorship of James Mussatti, former Trojan and professor of American History, is now off the press. Mussatt attended the University of Southern California for five years, receiving his A.B. and A.M. Following his half decade at S. C. he taught for a year in the Glendale High School, after which he returned to his alma mater.
His present position came after two years at Southern California as instructor. He also taught in ,the Metropolitan. College. The decision to edit the magazine, was a choice
of several alternatives, some of which m would have meant residence in Cambridge or New York.
The magazine is published through the California Taxpayers’ Association and,is concerned with questions and problems of current economic conditions. . It is not a political organ. In the words of former Professor Mussatti:- ‘“The California Tax Digest’ is a magazine devoted to the education of the public to an interest in tax problems and promotion of efficiency in government”
POPULAR WITH STUDENTS He is a member of the History and Political Science Club and Phi Kappa Phi. - During the spring semester, as a mark of his popularity with the students, he was elected to membership in Skull and Dagger, senior, and Sigma Sigma, junior, men's honorary organization. His pledging in the assembly was greeted by long and continued applause on the part of the student body.
•James Mussatti graduated from the high school- of Spring Valley, Illinois, and spent one year at Chicago University. From Chicago he came to S. C., graduating in 1922 ,and returning the following year for his M. A. degree. In the fall of 1925 he joined the faculty of Southern Cdtl-fornia as a member of the history department He proved so efficient in academic ability that he was engaged for a second year. He taught claves in American History from 1492-•1829 and from 1829-1926, and the required course in Constitutional History.	♦.
. During the four semesters which lie taught, there was a total of 2500 students enrolled in his two classes. His lectures were claimed by those who heard v'm, to be full of energy, tnl^h and given with a spirit of sincerity. Besides his regular duties as an instructor, he engaged in various activities. * He was the faculty representative on the Associated Students Executives committee. The Freshman week last * fall was carried out under his direction.
The Summer Quarter of University College, the middle-city evening branch of the University of Southern California, shows an increase of over 1,000 class registrations more than last summer, according to report of Dr. T. W. MacQuarrie, Director. The 1927 figure is 1572 as against a 1926 course enrollment of 519.
Teacher training classes specializing in modern educational methods show 525 summer evening students at University College, an increase of 150 per cent over Education students in the 1926 Summer Quarter.
Commerce classes show an enrollment of close to 300 evening students who are employed during the day, and more than 150 men and women are taking college work in English this Quarter, at .University. College, S. C. Two other popular subjects for summer study are history and sociology, with an attendance,of 100 each; and adults are attending convenient hour classes in public speaking, Spanish, engineering, German, political science, psychology, and home economics.	fVlf a <
Each group meets twice a wee*. Classes are not held Friday nights, thus permitting week-end recreation and trips.	i *
The Summer Quarter of University College closes August1 6th; allowing time for summer vacations before the opening of Fall evening classes in September. The evening college work grants university credit
Dr. Cox Speaks n Folk Lore n Chapel
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How and when folk songs and folk-lore originated will be explained by Dr. John Harrington Cox, visiting Professor of English at S. C. from West Virginia University, during the current Summer Session, at chapel this morning. “Some Southern Folk Songs” is his topic. . . . •: .
A general resume of old folklore and folksongs will be given by the noted educator, including great books which originated from folklore material, and the general folklore of worth. Dr. Cox states that he will recite a ballad and sing a song as means of illustration.
Among the books written by Dr. Cox are, “Folk Songs of the South,” Folk Tales of East and West,” “Seigfried,” and “Knighthood in Germ and Flower.”
Dr. Cox is Professor of English Philosophy at West Virginia University ’and is a visiting professor at Southern California in English for the current Summer Session. He will remain here for the three weeks Post Session which begins August 8 and ends August 30.
University of Texas Has Open Air Theatre
Each Wednesday evening studenfs at the University of Texas summer schodl are entertained with a concept at the campus open air theatre by members of-the Longhorn Band. The summer session band is under tne direction of Burnett Pharr of Austin who for a number of years has becin leader of the organization. There are about foty members of the band this summer, according to Director Pharr.
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Southwestern College Goes Over the Top
Winfield, Kans!, July 7, 1927— Southwestern College’s Fortieth Anniversary Campaign which has occupied eighteen month**, was brought to a close May 30th. The total goal was $1,415,000 of which $24^,000 is to be used for a physical training building and 11,175,000 for endowment A total of $1,521,000 was secured in pledges > of a grade which it is believed will enable the College to break all previous records in per cent collected.