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Fhi Kappa Phi Honorees Named. Class Nominations Report. Track Team is Off For Philadelphia. Officers-Elect Are Interviewed. Stewart Gets Into Screen Test Semi-Finals. Betty von KieinSmid Made Amazon President.
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The Spirit of Troy
“The lack of student body assemblies has undoubtedly been felt this year. Daily, optional chapel and more frequent rallies, is what we need.” —The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Monday, May 23, 1927
NUMBER 143
P.K.P. ELECTS MEMBERSHIP
All-University National Honorary Scholarship Society Elections are Announced.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE WE COME!
EIGHTY-ONE ELECTED
Phi Kappa Phi To Hold Initiation May 28 in President’s Suite.
The election of eighty-one members into Phi Kappa Phi, all-University national honorary scholarship • society, was announced Friday by the organization. The annual initiation and reunion will take place the evening of May 28, in the President’s suite.
Membership is pro-rated among the different schools and colleges of the University, and not more than ten per cent of the graduating class may be elected. The present officers of the organization are Dr. Allison Gaw, president; Dr. Lawrence Riddle, vics-pnesident; ;Mi96 Julia Norton McCorkle. secretary; Horatio Cogswell, treasurer; ;and Dr. Owen C. Coy, historian. The local chapter was installed in June, 1924.
Those elected are as follows: Faculty—Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford; Professor William S. Ford (Education); Miss Annette Ives, (French); W. Turney Fox (Law) and J. Wyman Ludlow (Civil Engineering.)
Alumni—Mrs. Louise A. Brown. Graduates—Faber K. Ames, Louise Colton Appell, Elizabeth Axtell, Theodore M. Blakeslee, Elizabeth Jane Balch. Blanche Pearl Bobbitt, Charles Francis Eckles, Vernon Edwards Hendershot, Bartholomew H u s k e. George Henry Jantzen, Hazel Mar jorie Woodruff.
Liberal Arts—Walter Baisch, Mildred Blum, Marian Broderick, Edith Crandall, Georgle Davenport. Barnett Eby, Earl K. Fischer Dower Godard, Fannie Gordon, Laura Grain ger, William Curry Hellings, Donnet-ta Jordan. Helen Mansar, Carrie Hatcher Martin, Mabel Ada McNeely, Fred Mowray, Henry Donald Mug-ridge, Wesley Nelson, Helen Catherine Poyntz, Karl Edgar Raife. Mary Ryan, H. Jeffery Smith, Ellis Spack man, Bessie Wiggs, Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott. Doris Rhoda Worrell.
Commerce—Fred B. Bremer, Don 'Edwin, Jessie Grant, Charles Holbrook Hittson, William D. Jackson, John Russell Riggs.
Education—Eleanor Chalmers. Mary Louise Circle, Conrad E. Hale, Edith Marie King, Mabel Nash Seeman, Dana Waynick, Dixie Wheatley, Maud Welton Williams.
Dentistry—L. R. Alder, P. E. Berg.
H.	Blackman, A. L. Bleak, F. A. Brown. L. R. Grover, C. J. Kramer, K. Nakamari, W. H. Stringham, F. S. Tamanaka, W. G. Wenzlaff.
Law—James Carter, Ralph W. Evans, Thomas H. Ewers. J. Harold Decker, Otto T. Gilbank, Clarence S Hint, Carey McWilliams, Arlo D. Poe.
Architecture—Roy C. Kelley.
Pharmacy—George Fiero.
Speech—Eleanor Veale.
Religion—Frederick Monroe Esseg.
Music—Dorothy Bishop.
Ed House, captain of the S. C. track team, left Saturday for Philadelphia to defend the I. C. A. A. A. A. title He is considered one of the greatest sprinters in collegiate ranks He is the dual sprint champion of the Pacific Coast, and recently gave S. C. a new record in the 880 relay.
S. C. has been on the I. C. A. A. A. A. for four years and is now able to compete on an equal basis with California, Harvard, and Cornell
AMAZONS SELECT OFFICERS FRIDAY FOR COMING YEAR
Betty von KieinSmid Elected To Presidency; All Officers Chosen
Unanimously.
At the regular meeting of the Amazons Friday coon, officers r "r the ensuing year were elected. For the first time in Amazon elections every officer was chosen unanimous
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Miss Betty von KieinSmid will be next year’s president. She has served, among other things, on the Student executive committee, rally committee, and as vice-president of her sophompre class. The vice-president is Martha Wiggett, retiring president of Amazon.. She will have charge of the Big Sister activities and of the annual Freshman Breakfast. At present she is acting as chief-justice o fthe W.S.G.A. court.
Installation of officers will be held next Thursday noon at a special meeting of the organization.
OFFICERS-ELECT STATE PLANS
KNIGHTS ARRANGE BOOK COLLECTION
Men Will Visit Fraternities and Sororities Wednesday To
Gather Last Library Books.
Visiting the fraternity and sorority houses on the campus, the Trojan Knights will collect all of the lost, strayed or stolen library books, Wednesday, at 5:00 p. m. Letters are to be sent to the living groups before that time explaining the movement.
Last year this method of collecting books, which were long overdue, or those which had been taken out of the library without checking them out, in order to *se them for text books, met with success. Nearly two-hundred books were gathered. No questions will be asked when these are taken from the various houses.
All other students who do not live in houses where the truck may call, may put their books on a table which will be placed in front of the Administration building. Eddie Oudermeulen, incoming president of the Trojan Knights, is in charge of the collection.
HIGH MARK SET BY COMMERCE
Four Hundred Attend Conference Dinner; Culver, Buell, Cunningham, Guest Speakers. OLSON PRESIDES Trojan Men’s Glee Club and S. C. Southlanders Furnish Musical Numbers.
Good News For Rho Pi Phi.
Professors Don’t Have To Give Finals.
And “No Questions Asked”.
Lack of Rallies Has Been Felt.
Regular Weekly Schedule Not Advisable.
Daily, Optional Chapel Better Than Weekly, Too.
Judging by the spirit of hard work and cooperation manifested by the newly-elected officers of the student-body and the defeated candidates, the next year should prove to be a very big year for the University of Southern California.
When interviewed. Bill Henley said, “I feel humbled by the confidence that the students have expressed in me, and it shall be my earnest endeavor to be worthy of the trust. To follow “Dee’ is no small task, for I think that everyone feels that he has been a great and efficient executive. Next year’s program will depend upon the cooperation of each Trojan, and we must remember that wherever a student is registered under the name of Southern California, he is a Trojan, regardless of department or school.”
Likewise, Paul Cunningham, the defeated candidate .expressed that same Trojan spirit of cooperation
and good sportsmanship, saying: “Now that the race is over, there is only one thing to do: every student in the University must back Bill and the other officers of the limit. Lets all put the same energy and enthusiasm into supporting the Student Body leaders as in the preelection campaign.1’
Head of Appointment Bureau Returns to S.C.
Friends and associates of Miss Weir, head of the S. C. Appointment Bureau, welcomed her back to the Trojan campus Wednesday when she returned from an eight months’ educational trip on the S- S. Ryndam. This steamship carried the college spon-
sored by the University Travel Asso-Catherine Colwell, the newly-elect-j ciation of New York City, on which ed vice-president of the Student Miss Weir served as a faculty mem-
Body, expressed bright hopes for the future. According to her, “Promises are now to become a reality. I wish to thank the students for their expression of confidence, and hope that I may prove a worthy successor to Gladys Lee and the work that she has done. With the new Student Union to look forward to, and the social advantages it offers, we may anticipate a year of social, activity made successful by the cooperation of the various colleges and students of the campus.”
her on its initial venture.
Miss Weir returned to her post immediately following her arrival in New York harbor, in order to aid the June graduates in obtaining positions through the Appointment Bureau. Two other members of the S. C. teaching staff, Miss Edith Johnson of the Spanish department, and Professor Lynn Clark of the English department, are also back in the States, but making visits en route to Los Angeles.
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Here’s a bit of news for the “Ropes”. Through an office error the membership of Rho Pi Phi was mislaid and the fraternity was not figured in on the scholarship ratings. The list was found and the house has been found to have a 1.548 standing, putting it second in the list as published last week. They were credited with five actives, with a standing of 1.388, and five pledges with a standing of 1.708. The rest of the boys can mark themselves down accordingly.
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If we interpret correctly, professors may give seniors final examinations, just as they choose. The interesting part of it is that' the “A” students are the ones who are first considered for the privilege of being excused and they are the ones who are least troubled by the examinations. From one point of view the graduating students might well be excused from the finals, because there are so many things going on these last days that almost “have” to be “taken in” that it is really unusually hard to get down to such an examination. It looks as if those faculty members who wish to do it could be justified in thinking that the student who has gone through almost eight successful semesters should be allowed to consider himself through.
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This is a great idea, this “no-questions-asked” collection of books from the fraternity houses. At least, an optimist can think so, just as a pessimist -can take it the other way. Insofar as it brings the books back it is a good scheme. If this becomes a tradition and encourages people to reason that they may as well keep books out, they will not have to pay the fines at the end of the year, it will not be so good. But the verdict is “no questions asked,” so we won’t press the inspection.
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In the last meeting of the executive committee someone brought up the question of petitioning the administration for a return of the system of having two all-University assemblies a week, one to be given over to outside speakers and the other for student rallies. The motion was lost, but the discussion showed the members present to be nearly unanimous in the opinion that we should have more student body rallies and assemblies. The lack of these has undoubtedly been felt this year.
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An attendance of four hundred at the annual Commerce Conference dinner, Wednesday evening in the Chamber of Commerce building broke all records for spread and quality of professional representation and for the number of Commerce students present. Emery Olson, co-ordinator of the University, presided.
Addresses were given by Harry C. Culver, J. J. Buell, and Dean Wallace M. Cunningham. Dr. W. D. Moriarity introduced Mr. Buell .while Dr. von KieinSmid introduced Harry C. Culver. Words of welcome were extended to the representatives by Mr. Olson and Don Edwin who also thanked the members of the various committees responsible for the success of the conference dinner.
The Trojan Men’s Glee Club gave a brief program preceding the talks, while the S. C. Southlanders furnished musical numbers during the dinner.
“Life is the culmination of dreams at work,” “hate destroys fighting spirit,” and, “don’t believe people who say ‘it can’t be done’,” were some of the principles which Harry C. Culver gave in his invigorating address on “Dynamics of Business Progress,” which he closed with an application of the term “pinch hitter” to the business world and a description of the value and worth of such a man In business. J. J. Buell gave an interesting discourse on the “Romance of Retail Merchandising” in which he outlined the development of merchandising, and gave the relative business success of the department store, mail order houses, and chain stores in the past year.	*
Delegates from twenty-seven high schools of Southern California, members of prominent business and trade associations of Los Angeles, and business executives who have given special lectures in classes of the College of Commerce classes were introduced by Mr. Emery Olson.
NOMINATIONS HELD FOR CLASSES OF NEXT YEAR
Meetings Called To Select Candidates During Chapel Hour on Friday; Many Names To Go On Ballot.
ELECTIONS TO BE ON MAY 26
Trojan Knights Are To Guard Polls in Accordance With Systematic Plan For Choosing Next Semester’s Executives.
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PROFESSORS MAY DECLARE SENIOR EXAMS OPTIONAL
Matter of Finals For Gradue.^*i Left To Individual Instructor, is Word.
COLLEGE TO NAME OFFICERS TUESDAY
Commerce Student Body Nominations Will Be Held Tomorrow at 9 O’clock.
Nominations of student body offii-cers for Commerce will take place tomorrow morning at 9 a. m. in Touchstone Theatre, according to an announcement by Don Edwin, commerce student body president. The meeting will last only fifteen minutes.
Officers must have a scholastic average of 1.5 to be eligible and must fill thft requirements for the respective offices. Offices to be filled are: president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and social chairman.
Under the new constitution adopted last semester by the executive committee of the student body, the commerce student body president is the commerce representative on the
A.S.U.S.C. executive committee, taking the place of the specially elected .representative under the old constitution. That this new duty of the prospective president should be taken into consideration when nominations are made tomorrow is the suggestion of members of the execution committee and president Edwin.
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NOTICES
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TENNIS CLUB
There will be a Tennis Club meeting today at 12:30 in the W.A.A. room for electing officers. All new initiates and old members must be present.
Explaining the statement “No student, except in his last semester for graduation, is allowed to anticipate any final examination, except by special permission from the University Scholarship Committee,” as it appears at the end of the examination schedule, Theron Clark. Registrar, said yesterday “Only seniors in their last semester for grad uation .are allowed to take earlier examinations than the finals.”
In view of the fact that seniors’ grades are required to be filled at a certain early date, a letter has been Issued from the president’s office stating that “The method of determining these grades will be left to the individual instructors as heretofore.” (The term ‘senior’ is taken to exclude those who will have to attend summer school to complete their requirements.)
Considering this, the professors have only to satisfy themselves on the subject of seniors’ grades, and may require an examination or not as they see fit, according to Mr. Clark.
The chairman of several departments were questioned on the subject of compelling seniors to take special early examinations.
Dr. Rice of the Spanish department said: “I leave the matter to the Individual members of the department. Personally, f should say, any senior doing “A” work should be released; any senior doing B work should be released; but any (Continued on Page Four)
Miss Brown Receives Librarian Appointment
Miss Charlotte Brown, head librarian of S. C., has been appointed to be libriarian on the second cruise around the world, on the S. S. Ryndam, under* the supervision of the University Travel Association.
Miss Brown will leave New York for an eight months cruise, on September 20 and will visit twenty-five countries during that time. This is the same trip that Miss Edith Johnson of the Spanish department, Miss Edith Weir of the Appointment Bureau, and Lynn Clark of the English department, have taken in this last year.
Any students registered in this university, who are interested in the cruise many get more information by seeing Miss Brown.
Nominations for next semester’s officers of the senior, junior, and sophomore classes took place in the respective class meetings, Friday morning, May 20, at 9:00 o’clock.
The present Junior class met in H-206 and nominated president, Harold Kispert and Chase Burns; vice-president, Vivian Murphy and Mildred Martz; secretary, Winnie Finch and Marion Robinson; treasurer, Kenneth Faulkner, Gordon Smith, and Herbert Bowen; and executive committee, Malcolm Chambers. Jeanne Summerfield, Ruth Carr, Hank Rohr, Sam Yokum, and Eddie Oudermeulen.
Tbe nominees chosen by the sophomores are: president, Herschel Bonham, Elwood Harmon, and Leslie I^avelle; vice-president, Caroyln Ayars, Catherine Coger, and Helen Sauber; secretary, Marjorie Temple; treasurer, Bob Behlow, Bill Harvey, and Louis Page; and executive committee, Gene Beaty, Tom Bryant, Muriel Hee>, Margaret French and Paul Plate. #
In the freshman meeting the following were nominated: president, Leo Adams, Roy Winburn ami “Brick” Woodward; vice-president, Lorraine Young; secretary, Marfon Abbot; treasurer, Howard Ralston. John Nelson, Frank Carson and Phil Grossman; and executive committee, Neil Cox, Sam Newman, Juliet Dix, John Dalzell, James Bachelor. Gerald Norwald. Bill Cronley, Bob Slr-field, Homer Cane, Alice Cordray, Blake Hanson, Jean Thompson, Clifford Christianson, Verne Keeae, Doug Hanby, Alberta Plasterer, Tom De GrafTereid, Sid Weise and Bob Beardsley.
Thursday, May 26, elections for these officers will be held in the booths in the arcade of the Administration building. According to Hank Rohr, a very systematic election will be held and the Trojan Knights will guard the polls.
Engineers Appoint Men To Make Constitution
At a meeting of the Engineering student body, held last Wednesday, during the chapel period, a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution, with the purpose of making a more concrete organization for that department of the university. Gilbert Dunstan is chairman, and serving under him are Eugene Saylor, Louis Washburn, Fred Ledeboe, and Ralph Flynn.
This constitution will be presented to the Engineering student body in a special rally, to be held Tuesday, at 9:00 o’clock, in H. 206, when it will be either ratified or rejected.
At this time the nominations for student body officers will also take place. The elections for the new executives will be held on Wednesday.
J. STEWART REACHES SEMI-FINALS
Southern California Entrant in First National Pictures Screen Test Contest Placed As One of Forty Best; Will Narrow Group To Ten This Week.
LOS ANGELES, May 20.—“From over three hundred tests so far screened in the First National Pictures ‘College Humor' campaign forty men have been chosen for what we might call a semi-final choice. James Stewart of the University of Southern California has remained in that forty. Next Monday, May 23, the final ten will be chosen from this forty by the executives of First National Pictures, in conjunction with the important newspaper syndicate men and magazine and motion picture trade paper editors.”
This is the telegram that was re- ** ^ven a chance at a motion Deceived by the Dally Trojan yesterday evening, telling of the success of one of the campus entries in the widely advertised screen contests.
It was signed by John McCormick general manager of First National Pictures studios at Bbrbank.
According to McCormick the judges will comprise more than a hundred persons well qualified by experience to make impartial decisions. Should
ture contract. The final decision may be made Monday afternoon.
The tests on this campus were made last week in the old Healy building and a number of prominent men on the campus went in for them. McCormick is trying to so arrange the contest that all the entrants, who come from institutions all over the country, may learn the. results simultaneously. If prossible, the announcement will be made be*
Stewart get into the final ten he will fore the close of the term.