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VOLUME VI.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, July 6, 1927
NUMBER 3
HEADQUARTERS QF ALUMNI LOCATED ON S. C. CAMPUS
New Officers Are Elected as Plans For Medical School Are Discussed
On and after July let headquarters of the Alumni Association of the University of Southern California will be located on the Trojan campus .according to announcement of Prank Hadlock, secretary of the Los Angeles Trojan Club and assistant secretary of the Alumni Association. The administrative offices of the Aiumni Association have moved from the Petroleum Securities Building to the University campus, and can be reached at the University address and telephone number hereafter.
Announcement is also made by Mr. Hadlock of new officers of the Board of Directors of the S. C. Alumni Association, elected at the regular June meeting. These include the following:
Mr. Allen T. Archer, ’10, president; Dr. James McCoy, ’06, vioe-p resident; Harold J. Stonier, ’13, secretary; with new members of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Assoaiation including Hon. Jesse W. Curtis, ’87; Mrs. J. J. (Mary Bowen) Huff, ’18; A. J. Hill, ’09; Dr. Charles Decker, ’06; and Solly D. Seamons, ’25.
The new president, Mr. Archer, is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, the California Club, and of various Masonic bodies. He organized the Allen T. Archer Company, Insurance Brokers, and is a Director of the Annandale Corporation and Glen Oaks, Inc. Mr. Archer has been a member of the Committee on Art Education of the L. A. Chamber of Commerce, and during the war was flying instructor at Rockwell Field, San Diego, and at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas.
Of additional interest to alumni circles of the University of Southern California is the announcement of the organization of an Alumni Association of the Medical Department. Plans were outlined at a recent gathering of seventy physicians and surgeons at the University Club, including Dr. Wilbur Beckett, ’88; Dr. Joe King, ’91; Dr. Earl E. Moody, ’12; President R.
B.	von KieinSmid of the University, etc., when a proposed constitution was presented, and concrete steps taken toward the formation of a permanent organization, with officers elected as follows:
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Schedule For Tuesday Morning Classes
8	o'clock class meets at 8.
9	o’clock class meets at 8:50.
10	o’clock class meets at 9:40. 10:30 Assembly.
11	o’clock class meets at 11:35.
12	o’clock class meets at 12:25. 1 o’clock clasts meets at 1:15. All other classes meet at regular hours.
REQUIREMENTS FOR FRESHMEN RAISED
New Requirement Embodies Important Changes For Entering First Year Students
By HUGH C. WILLETT Chairman of the Committee on Admission
The Bulletin of the College of Liberal Arts, which has recently come from the press, announces revised requirements for admission to freshman standing at the University of Southern California. The revision has accomplished a clarification and a strengthening of the admission rules. The clarification has made explicit certain practices with regard to admission which have obtained for several years past, but which have not appeared in the published regulations, the etrengthening has been at the point of increasing the emphasis on the requirement of a high average of scholarship for the entire high school course and for the last two years of that course in particular, and at the point of requiring College Entrance Board examinations of all applicants whose admission is in any way dependent on examinations.
For convenience the various methods of admission to freshman standing are presented under three headings. The first, or Method 1, concerns the admission of applicants who present credentials from an accredited high school, and is as follows:
Method 1. By credentials from an approved high .school or preparatory school.
1.	The academic requirements for admission are met by a duly certified graduate of an approved high school or preparatory school, who presents (a) fifteen standard high school units of which at least twelve are of certificate (recommending) grade, provided that the average grade for the fifteen units, and the average grade for the units taken in the last two (Continued on Page Three)
DR. HUNT TELLS OF MEETING
TROJANS IN FOREIGN LANDS
By ROCKWELL D. HUNT, Ph D.
* Dean of the Graduate School
This letter might not inappropriately be called “The Circuit Striders,” for it has to do with the long and rather speedy meanderings of two Trojan professors, who set forth last midautumn with the determination to girdle the globe in the fractional part of a year; More accurately, it is intended as a partial report of two professional spies, having passed the half-way mark in their journey-ings, upon the activities of typical Trojans discovered at work insitu (so to speak) in their various respective archeological centers.
The spies referred to—for the truth may now be told—are Doctor John G. Hill, of the Department of Religion, and myself. My esteemed colleague had already completed nineteen years of service at Southern California, and
I	eighteen years,—which goes a long way toward explaining the large number of students welcoming our arrival at foreign ports. And let my first remark be to the effect that these Tjojans were everywhere, as a groups, as far from being mere historical relics as a six-cylinder Dodge car is from being a Jerusalem den-key!
It must be taken for granted that
I cannot, in this brief letter, even mention the names of all those we> met, worthy of mention, to say nothing of giving them their desserts It will likewise be understood that many other loyal alumni, located in widely different centers, would reveal the same spirit if we but had the opportunity to witness. Nevertheless 1 am going to make my comments personal for the sake of definiteness, of course without the slightest disparagement to many who go unmentioned and others barely mentioned, who richly merit a full paragraph each.
Omitting, perforce, all personal reference to the kind friends who journeyed to San Pedro to wave farewell from the pier of the Dollar Steamship Line, likewise those who said good bye at San Francisco, I must say I can never forget the welcomes we received at Honolulu from the valiant knights of Troy, lined up on the pier at that wonderful cross-roads of the Pacific. Neil Locke was there with his whole family, waiting to bedeck us with beautiful leis; and similar welcome was extended by genial Doctor John Hedley and Professor W. C. Smith. Locke is doing yeoman serv-(Continued on Page Three)
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
In today’s issue of the Trojan there appears an article by Hugh Carey Willett on the new entrance requirements. His article treats in a clear manner the changes brought about by the administration to raise the requirements for entering freshmen. We believe that they are for the best interests of Southern California, but we do object to the way in which they were adopted.
In the past, twelve recommended units would admit a high school graduate to freshman standing in the University of Southern California, if he successfully passed the Thorndike Test and was morally and physically fit at the time of entrance.
The new requirements contain three features, but it is with the first that this column is taking issue. Not that the new method is not sound in theory and for the best interests of Southern California, but it has been adopted without due notification. The method for the admission of applicants who present credentials from an accredited high school, is as follows: The academic requirements for admission are met by a duly certified graduate of an approved high school or preparatory school, who present (a) fifteen standard high school units of which at least twelve are of certificate (recommending) grade, provided that the average grade for the units taken in the last two years of high school course are not lower than B, on the basis that A, B, and C are passing grades.
All constitutional law is discussed and made public before its adoption. After a law has undergone the due process of law, and is entered upon the statute books of the city, county, state or nation, it goes into effect on a specified date in the future. To get a little closer to home, take the case of the Governor of California signing a bill for the additional one cent raise on the tax for gasoline. By signing the bill it becomes law, but not until July 28.
Not long ago Stanford University announced that in 1934 they would drop the freshman and sophomore classes. The move taken by Stanford, while rather a novel one, wras. announced almost seven years ahead of time. They served notice to the public, and ho one will be misled on the belief that they can enter the northern university as a freshman when the year 1934 rolls around. Practically all educational institutions pass rules and adopt new methods from time to time, but su-ch changes are printed in the year books, student paper and in the public press for months before they are placed into actual operation.
There are a large number of high school graduates who received their diplomas this last June who have planned on entering the University of Southern California. Many of them are still (Continued on Page Two)
Dean Will Hold Annual Reception On Lawn Today
The annual Dean’s reception for summer students and faculty will be held this afternoon on Old College lawn from 4 to 6. Dr. and Mrs. von KieinSmid will receive, and opportunity will be given for students and members of the regular and visiting faculty to become acquainted.
All students and members of the faculty are invited to attend. The reception will be informal. Refreshments will be. served and a short program given. A large attendance is desired by those in charge.
START SYMPHONY CONCERTS TONIGHT
Hollywood Bowl Scene of Annual Musical Program; Famous Numbers Offered.
Hollywood Bowl summer symphony concerts are being discussed more and more by music lovers and the general public abroad, according to Bruno Walter, that noted German conductor, who arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Berlin.
"Everybody has told me about the magic spell of your ‘Symphonies Under the Stars,’ and I am happy in the thought of enjoying them myself,” said Walter.
Final arrangements are being made by Walter with the Bowl management for his four concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, beginning Saturday night, July 9, and continuing on the following Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday nights.
As the presiding genius of the famous Munich Festivals for twelve years and now musical director of Berlin’s two first ranking orchestras, the Berlin Municipal, -or Statsoper, and the Philharmonic, this great German symphony director has won fame that has spread over the entire world. In America, Walter has appeared as guest conductor of symphony orchestras in eight of the leading eastern and mid-western cities, but has never before presided over an orchestra on the Pacific coast.
Commemorating the centennial of Beethoven’s death, the program on Tuesday night will be entirely of Beethoven’s works.
Ernest Davis, the young American tenor, who is a prime favorite with the American public, will be the solo-\ (Continued on Page Two)
S. C. WOMEN WORK DURING MONTH OF JUNE AT WALKER’S
Florence May More Discusses
Merchandising as a Profession.
An article, by Eugenia Wallace, entitled, “Woman’s Own World," appearing in the April number of the "Independent Women,” the official magazine ot the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, begins:
“Not long ago a grande dame emerged from a great New York shop, perplexity in every line of her face. ‘I went in there to get some notions,’ she explained, ‘and who do you think came forward—to sell me pins? My daughter’s college chums—one of Schuyler Blank’s girls! What the young women of today will do next I cannot say.’
“But the department stores can, and they are saying it in the way of worth-while salaries and growing opportunities. Certainly the department stores are doing old things in a new way. Watch the employes exit at five-thirty (not six or seven now). Gone the Don Juans that O. Henry discovered there, lying in wait for the tor-lorn five dollar clerks whose tragic lives he put so vividly before us. Gone, too, are the weary and over-worked women the Consumers’ League fought so valiantly to help. Instead there are happy, well dressed girls, hopeful because thei^ is opportunity ahead—for those who are willing to strive for iL That so many are willing to strive is due to the fact that department store jobs are now guarded by trained employment managers, who select tha most worth-while and progressive young women for the many forms of store service.”
MOST IMPORTANT
Merchandising is one of the most important fields in modem business. A large percentage of the population is engaged in some phase of! it, and, like teaching, medicine and engineering, it is growing into a profession with opportunities equal to or surpassing those in many other fields. The modern department store has grasped the vision of the possibilities for service and for self-realization that it has to offer young men and young women. But since their chief function is supplying the needs of the public, with training as only a subsidiary function, the stores have seen the necessity of cooperation with institutions where chief aims are for edu-(Continued on Page Two)
FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
THEME OF DR. LATANE’S SPEECH
Tracing various diplomatic relations since the time of George Washington, Dr. John Holladay Latane of Johns Hopkins University addressed the student body yesterday morning on the subject, “The Conduct of Foreign Relations Under Modern Democracies.”
Dr. Latane, who is head of the History Department for the summer session, related numerous interesting and humorous stories in delivering his thirty minute speech which centered around the idea that the public in forming opinions about foreign relations should be a well informed public and not one which acts with rejudice. In the opening part of his address, Dr. Latane related the fact that for more than thirty years he has been studying in the field of foreign affairs and diplomatic relations.
Perhaps the most interesting part of his speech dealt with the struggle between the president and senate over ratification of treaties. He said in regards to this matter, “The World War brought on the question of foreign policies in a most vivid way to this nation. The struggle which followed between President Wilson and the Senate of the United States was not a new thing. It is as old as the government of this nation itself. Washington appeared at one time before the senate to ask them to ratify a
treaty, and upon leaving was heard to mutter, “I’ll be damned if I ever
come before you again.’ No President until Wilson’s time did appear.” Another case of what some Presidents have thought of the senate was pointed out. President Hayes said, “A treaty entering the senate has about as much chance as a bull en^ tering an arena. No one knows when or where the fatal blow will be struck, but it is a sure thing that the blow will be delivered. Almost always it can be counted on, that at least 34 per cent of the senate will vote against a bill presented by the President, and since it takes a three-fourths majority to pass it, it never is passed.”
The solution as pointed out by Dr. Latane, is to give #the President a fighting chance by making it necessary to have a majority only to pass, or ratify a treaty. As it now stands, three-fourths majority is needed before a treaty can be ratified and put into effect.
“The more democracy you have, the less the citizens of a country want to interest themselves in foreign affairs. People who have been given the right to vote are interested in affairs right at home and give little or no thought to foreign relations,” was the reason advanced by Dr. Latane for the American people showing little interest in affairs in other nations.