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PAGEANT There will be an Import ,nt dress renearsai ror the pageant, Sunday, June 1, ,t 7 p. m. I" Bovard audi-torlum.
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DEBATE There will be a varsity debate *quad picture at chapel period today. Meet in squad room at 10 A. M.
SEMI CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL. NO. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, May 29, 1930.
No. 149
TROJANS CELEBRATE SEMICENTENNIAL
TROY I. C. 4-A ENTRANTS IN HEATS
Mi BUT HANSEN, HALSTEAD BID FOR PLACES IN FINALS
FOUR BUILDINGS TO BE DEDICATED
Prominent Speakers Will Give Addresses: Gala Ceremonies.
Concrete evidence of the growth of the University of Southern California since its inception as a one-building liberal arts college fifty years ago to an institution now comprising ninteen school and colleges will be shown during the Semi-centennial celebration when four new campus buildings will be formally dedicated.
The new unit to be dedicated include Bridge hall, Science hall, w. Mudd Hall of philosophy. and the Physical Education building.
\ Ceremonies for the Hall of Philosophy, completed last fall at a coat of $300,000 which was given 10 the university as a gift in tteaory of the late Colonel See-ley w- Mudd, will be held from 00 to 3:30 p. m., Thursday, June ur. h. Wildon Carr of the C. Philosophy department is to ** the principal speaker.
Prom 3:30 to 5:00 p. m., will w the dedication of Bridge With Sir John Adams de-Vering the address. Bridge hall completed in the spring ol 28 at a cost of $208,000. It was in honor of Dr. and Mrs. °rman bridge who made several wests to the university.
William H. Welch of John pPkins university and Dr. Elias y°a of the University of Min-S0la are scheduled as speakers the dedication of the $750,000 °ntinued on Page Four)
To Dedicate S. C. Shrine
Dr. Harold J. Stonier Will Give Address; Statue 8 Feet Tall.
Heats and Semi-Finals To Be Held In Low Hurdle Event; All Other Track Men Must Qualify In Races; Field Performers Hold Preliminaries.
By NORMAN COWAN
In a stupendous effort to bring to the University of Southern California its third I. C. 4-A. championship, and therefore add to the most successful athletic year in the school history, Coach Dean Cromwell’s team of twenty Trojans will start tomorrow in heats and qualifying trials at Boston. Ten S. C. kid artists will compete in their various events in order to qualify for the fSnals which wlllj bp held Saturday, while all the cinder competitors but Halstead ad Hansen, milers, will run in heats on the track.
One more, as in the past five years, Stanford will be the team to beat, and it will be witli that view in mind that the Trojans Till conduct their efforts.
Bill Carls and Erny Payne will run two races tomorrow. A preliminary heat and the semi-finals [of the low hurdles will find these Trojans at work in their hardiest day of com petition. If they both qualify,
| as they are expected to do,
Jess Mortensen
they will run the finals Saturday.
The preliminaries and semi-final heats ot the 220 will also be held tomorrow, but Troy is not entered in this event. Sanford will run Hec Dyer.
CENTURY HEAT Frank Wykoff and Milt Maurer will each run a heat in the century dash Friday, as will Jeddy Welsh in the high hurdles. Stanfords Dyer will also be entered in the 100-yard heat, and fate may find him against one of the Trojan duo. Nesbit and Smith ot the C^rds will be arraigned against the field in the hurdle event.
Heats in the quarter mile and half-mile runs will be held aud wlll find Woessner and Williams of Troy entered in the first event, and Bill McGeagh in the latter.
Southern California’s chances in (Continued on Page Four)
ARTISTS READY University Will Present
FOR ORATORIO 1200 D^s To ^
TOMORROW FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
WEEK ELABORATE AFFAIR
(Picture In Rotogravure Section)
The unveiling ot tne Trojan Shrine at 3:00 p.m., Friday, June 6, will mark its dedication as a fitting expression of the ideals of students and graduates of the University of Southern California. Dr. Harold J. Stonier, former execu-eive secretary of the Alumni Association of S. C., will give the dedicatory address on behalf that organization, donor of the symbolic monument.
The bronze, an heroic statue of a Trojan warrior, modelled by Roger Noble Burnham, will be placed, temporarily, at least, on the south side of the Administration walk. Its base broadens into a platform where students and graduates may gather ' for celebrations, athletic rallys, academic conventions, and class reunions.
COURAGE, SKILL, WISDOM
The potential might of the figure, which is 8 feet high and on a ten foot base, embodies the spirit of ancient Troy: that of courage, skill, and wisdom, lt is a Trojan youth poised for action, strong of muscle, forward-looking, and superbly personifying eager, intelligent, healthy young manhood.
On the front of the pedestle, under the insignia, "The Trojan,” there will be a reproduction of the university seal. Listed under this will be the Trojan Creed, ‘'Loyal, Scholarly, -Skillful, Courageous, and Ambitious. A bas-relief will be cut on each side of the pedestal. Education, represented by a sacrificial altar, is guarded by priests, symbolic of mental faculties. Coming to pay tribute are the worshippers, emblems of Letters, Arts (Continued on Page Four)
Zeta Phi Eta Show Attracts Celebrities
Under the auspices of Zeta Phi Eta the large number of screen stars and personalities which are scheduled to appear tomorrow night at the scholarship fund benefit is greatly increasing in number. The list now includes some ten or twelve prominent stars.
Headliners on the bill Include Louise Dresser, Robert Edeson. Fifi Dorsay, Lina Basquette, Joseph Cauthorne, Harold Murray, Yvonne Pellitier, Marie Saron, Charles Erwin, and Tommy Clifford.
Miss Dresser has taken a large ! block of seats, and many prominent stage and screen people are to be her guests at the performance. Some of the more prominent will need no Introduction, but if they can be prevailed upon they will be introduced to the audience. Both Miss Dresser and Mr. Edeson are busy in last minute rehearsals for the production. The settings are very elaborate and were designed and painted in miniature by Mr. Edeson himself. They are being built for the stage under the direction of Howard (ConUnued on Page Four)
Event Climaxes Months of Intensive Work; Many Perform.
"Elijah,” the maguificant oratorio from the pen of the genius Mendelssohn, will be presented on Thursday evening, June 5, at the Shrine auditorium as an outstanding event of the Semi-Centennial week.
The appearance of Alice Gentle, Madame Schumann-Heink, Lawrence Tibbet, Lisa Koma, Dr. Carl Omeron, and Master John Drury in solo roles, and of student singers aud musicians numbering more than 500, assures Southern California music lovers of a joyous evening.
Climaxing a period of intense work in preparation since November 5, for the festival event, the oratorio will be presented to a capacity audience at the Auditorium
are one dollar.
SEATS INEXPENSIVE
This low price has been fixed because the affair is of a semi-civic nature. The tickets may be obtained in the Student Union, at the Shrine Auditorium box office,
Exercises Will Be In Shrine Auditorium; Bishop Charles Wesley Burns To Be Principal Speaker; Special Music Numbers Planned.
By VIRGINIA MONOSMITH
With the conferring of approximately 1,200 degrees on next Friday, lune 7, at the Shrine Auditorium, commencement exer-vises will draw to a close officially ending the school year of 1929-1930. Kishop Charles Wesley Burns of the San Francisco Methodist church and a University trustee, will deliver the —♦address.
The exercises will open with the forming of the academic procession in the Shrine auditorium. It will be made up of the trustees and honored guests of the University, the faculty, foreign delegates on the campus for the week, alumni, and candidates for degrees.
MARCH SHORTENED
Instead of having the procession come down University avenue as it was first planned, those ln it will march from the side entrance ot the Shrine into the main door on Royal Street.
Commencement will begin at 4 o'clock and in addition to the conferring of degrees and the address by Bishop Burns, the program as planned will include the repeating of the Trojan ode with accompaniment furnished by the College
“VICTORY” TO BE PAGEANT THEME GIVEN JUNE 3
Growth of Troy Will Be Depicted ; School of Speech Sponsorers.
“Victory,” a pageant depicting the growth and progress of S. C. from its founding fifty years ago, Shrine 1 -will be presented in Bovard audi-The seat sale, which torium the evening of June 3. has been in progress during the|under the direction of Miss Flor-past week, has been so heavy tha once Hubbard of the School of a sell out is expected. All seats! Speech.
The pageant, will be one of the features of the mammoth Semi-Centennial week celebration, and will have more than a hundred
students taking part in it Elea- of Music. Words of the ode were
nor Clark has been chosen as representative Tro jun to imperson-
and at the Fitzgefald Music Com ' ate thP “Goddess of Learning.” pany.
The oratorio will be staged under the direction of Alexander Stewart of the College of Music, who is assisted by Professor J.
Arthur Lewis and Professor Horatio Cogswell of the same college.
Madame Schumann-Heink has heretofore never appeared in the solo role of “Elijah” in Los An-(Continued on Page Four)
Ivy Program Plans Ready
1930 Tree Will Be Rare Variety of Oak From South America.
TROJAN ODE
The Trojan Ode, written by Bernice Palmer and set to music by Miss Mabel Woodworth of the College of Music faculty, will have its first public presentation as one of the episodes in the pageant. Other music for the production is being arranged by William Ellfeldt, president of the College of Music student body.
All of the lines in the pageant will be read by Gertrude Tyson and William Miller as the two chroniclers. Both are majors in the School of Speech and have had considerable dramatic experience. Miss Tyson has been president of Drama Shop for the past (Continued on Page Four)
written by Floy Bernice Palmer, a student on the campus last lear.
MATZENHAUER MAY SING
Although definite plans have not yet. been made for her appearance, it is hoped by those in charge of the program, that Madame Margaret Matzenhauer, noted soprano, will sing.
Other special musical numbers will be given by members of the College of Music.
Gathering To Be Greatest Ever Held For Alumni and Friends.
The greatest reunion gathering of Trojan alumni ever held is planned for Friday night, June 6, in the Fiesta room of the Ambassador hotel, Los Angeles, when the Golden Jubilee banquet is to be attended by graduates of the University of Southern California as a feature of Semi-centennial week.
Dr. Harold Stonier of New York city, S. C. alumnus, educational director of the American Institute of Banking, will act as toastmaster at the Golden Jubilee dinner, according to Frank Hadlock, secretary of the Trojan alumni association.
Among the honored guests will be Governor C. C. Young, Mayor John C. Porter, L. L. Van Norman, president of the Board of Education, John C. Austin, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Leroy Owens, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Chief Justice W. I. Waste, Justice W. P. Conrey, Justice L. L. Works. Mrs. Susan B. Dorsey, Mr«i. A. B. Cook, president of the Eb-ell club, Mrs. Sarah Bixby Smith, president of the Friday Morning club.
All the persons who have received honorary degrees or will receive them this year from S. C. have been invited to the banquet.
Trojan clubs composed of alumni of the University of Southern California are located in Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Phoenix, Santa Monica, Glendale, Long Beach, Pasadena. San Diego, San Pedro,
The granting of degrees In the , wl|mlngton San Gabrie| E1 Cen.
afternoon officially closes the com mencement but in the evening informal group reunions and dinners of the classes, special school, and delegates will be held.
A reception honoring the Semi-Centennial Commission will be held at the home of President R. B. von KieinSmid at 8:30 o'clock.
tro, Orange, Monrovia, Ventura, San Bernardino, Fresno, Englewood, Fillmore, Bakersfield, and San Francisco.
Featuring the planting of the tree of 1930 and the presentation of the senior class’ gift to the school, plans for the annual Southern California Ivy Day program to be held Friday, June 6, on the lawn of Old College building are practically completed according to Charles Neilson, chairman of the Ivy Day committee.
The tree of 1930 will be a rare variety of oak brought from South America by W. M. Bowen, Los Angeles attorney. Leo Adams, student body president, will preside over the planting ceremony and will dedicate the tree to Dr. Marion M. Bovard. first president of Southern California
The details of the program are:
1.	Ivy processional, junior w-o-men carrying the ivy chain.
2.	Planting of the ivy by seniors, Art Neelley presiding.
3.	Traditional burying of the hatchet between sophomores and freshmen. James Robertson, sophomore president, will represent his class and Charles Clay will represent the freshmen.
4.	Preseuiaiiuu ui iue iujsinij bag by Bobbie Loftus to Constance Vachon, representing the junior women.
5.	Smoking of the pipe of peace between juniors and seniors by Art Neelley and Ray Stevens, junior president.
6.	Planting of the tree of 1930.
7.	Musical number by the women's trio.
S. Baseball bat ceremony.
9.	Presentation of the grift to the school of the class of 1930 by Wesley Wilson, senior president.
10.	Acceptance of the gift by President von KieinSmid.
COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR CELEBRATION
Many Events Carded for Mammoth Celebration For Week of June 1 to 7; City Joins In Celebration Programs
TODAY
8:00P.M.— Anniversary Joint Program of Literary Societies, Bovard Auditorium.
MAY 30, FRIDAY 8:00 P.M.—Zeta Phi Eta Scholarship Fund Benefit. Louise Dresser and Robert Edson in "While Jack Sleeps.” Bovard Auditorium. (Admission. 75c and 50c).
MAY 31, SATURDAY 2:00P.M.—Semi-Centennial Program for Exposition Park. William M. Bowen, Esq., presiding. Band Stand, Exposition Park. 8:00 P.M.—Commencement Recital, College of Music. Bovard Auditorium.
JUNE I. BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY
3:00 P.M.—Academic Procession forms at Shrine Auditorium.
3:30P.M.—Procession of Trustees and Guests,.Faculty, Delegates, and Candidates.
4:00 P.M.—Baccalaureate Service. First Rendition of the University Ode, directed by J. Arthur Lewis. Address by President Ft. B. von KieinSmid, Sc.D., Ph. et Litt. D„ LL.D., Shrine Auditorium.
JUNE 2, MONDAY 8:00 P.M.—Concert Campus Musical Organizations, Harold Roberts directing. Bovard Auditorium.
JUNE 3, TUESDAY 4:00P.M.—Farewell Tea, Associated Graduate Students. Social Hall, Student Union.
5:30 P.M.—Buffet Dinner in honor of former presidents and members of the "Silver Commiteee.’* (By invitation). President’s Residence, Chester Place.
8:00P.M.—Semi-Centennial Pageant. School of Speech, Florence B. Hubbard, presiding. Bovard Auditorium.
JUNE 4, WEDNESDAY 4:00P.M.—Trojan Women’s Tea in honor of Senior Women. President’s Residence, 10 Chester Place.
8:00 P.M.—Reception in honor of Delegates, Alumni, and Guests. Mudd Memorial Hail of Philosophy.
JUNE 5, THURSDAY 9:30 A.M.—Registration of Semi-Centennial Delegates, Guests, and Alujnni. Patio of Student Union building.
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Colleges Put On Exhibit
Departments of the University Prepare Displays.
As an event of the semi-centennial celebration, campus exhibits have been put on display by the different departments and colleges of Southern California. These exhibits will be open to inspection all during the week of June 2 to 7 at stated hours of the day when members of the departments and student aides will be on hand to explain the various exhibits to the delegates, alumni and visitors to the celebration. All plans for the exhibits are under the direction of Miss Charlotte Brown, University librarian who is chairman of the committee on this phase of the celebration.
Printed programs containing a full list of the different exhibits along with their location and the hours in which they will be open to the public are obtainable at the registration booths. Members of the Trojan Knights will be on hand at certain hours to conduct tours oi the campus which wiii include the different department exhibits.
OF WIDE INTEREST
Friends and alumni of the university who have been away for a number of years will find these tours of special interest, showing as they do the advancement and changes which have taken place on the campus and the great strides forward which the various departments have made during tho last few years. Special emphasis will be placed on an effort to show the advancement and increase in the scope of the work (ConUnued ou Page Ten)
Literary Societies
Inaugurate
Semi-Centennial
Program Continues From June 1 to 7; World Famous Guests To Be Present; University Plans Events of Wide Interests
By BOB GORTON
The University of Southern California is about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. A talc of progress, of development, and of a broad-minded policy of individual education, covering a period of half a century, is to be commemorated. But more, Southern California, having developed its possessions from few to many and its reputation from local to world-¥wlde, has the boon of a golden future, a promise of greater opportunities of expansion, education, and service.
What could more fittingly commemorate this expansion that the Semi-centennial celebration? Lasting from June 1 to June 7, the program of the celebration will include events of significance to all Trojan alumni and citizens of Los Angeles. Chief among these important events are the Semicentennial pageant, the dedication of the Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy, the new Physical Education hall, Bridge hall, and the Science hall, the presentation and dedication of the Trojan shrine, the presentation of Mendelssohn’s "Elijah'’ by national artists, and the commencement exercises of the class of ’30.
FAMOUS PEOPLE Plans have been made to receive a group of famous personages including the official representatives of various countries, universities, and social organizations, as well as notable Trojan alumni. Among these are: Henry Chang, Chinese counsul to America, who will officially represent China; Dr. Henry Suzzallo who will deliver the Semi-centennial address; Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of Boston University, who will deliver the 1 commencement address: Jorg Bocobo, dean of the law school of the University of Philadelphia; Dr. Camillo (Continued on Page Four)
The Anniversary Joint Program of Literary Societies on this evening in Bovard auditorium will be the official opening exercises of the University of Southern California's Semi-Centennial.
The literary societies have played a very dignified part ln the history and development of the University, and it is fitting that they should inaugurate the Half Century Celebration. An attractive literary and musical program has been arranged by representatives of Aristotelian, Comitia, Clionian, and Athena. All should understand that this event ls open not only to students and faculty, but that alumni are especially invited and the public is welcome.
And now as chairman of the general committee on arrangements, it is my privilege —as indeed it is an honor— to make official declaration that the Semi centennial exercises of the University of Southern California are duly inaugurated. May the next half-century show worthy progress along all right lines and "may the University always prove worthy of her exalted motto—Qul Palman Ferat Meruit. (Let him who deserves it, bear the palm.)
(Signed) Rockwell D. Hunt, Chairman Semi-Centennial.
Professor J. E. Harley Goes To Meet Group
To prepare an international treaty to be submitted to the next League of Nations for the codification of international law, a committee on piracy of which J. Eugene Harley, assistant professor of international law at the University of Southern California, is a member will convene at Stan-urday. The committee is one of several engaged in the Harvard Law School research of international law.
This committee whose chairman is Doctor Bingham ot the Stanford School of Law will discuss piracy including murder and robbery on the high seas. There has been a discussion, stated Professor Harley, of extending piracy to include smuggling.
•'This work,” said Professor Harley, “is the most extensive being done in codification in any couu-try. Since there is no international legislature, a plan must be devised for agreeing on the principles of international law.”
$2,900,000 GIVEN FOR ENDOWMENT
Friends of University Respond; Alumni Give Large Amount.
ONE THOUSAND WITNESS
Over a thousand persons witnessed the laying ot the corner stone of the first building which inaugurated the true beginning of S. C. During the present Semicentennial celebration many thousands will join in the commemoration.
Between four and five thousand persons, including students, faculty members, alumni, trustees and friends of the University have to date subscribed in excess of $2,900,000 to the Semi-Centennial FMnd. This fund lo provide new buildings and equipment and increased endowment is being created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University of Southern California.
As evidence of the great interest in Southern California on the part of the general public, it ls announced that more than one-half of the fund so far subscribed has come from persons not connected with the University. From these friends has come a total of *1,685.289.75.
The alumni have rallied to tbe support of the University by subscribing (901,506. This represents the gifts of more than 1,700 graduates, members of virtually every class ln the University's history.
BOARD GIVES
Equally generous has been the
board of trustees, who have given 1760.410 to the fund.
Meanwhile as the result of a canvas of the campus in 1928, members of the faculty and Btudents contributed $172,707 lo the sum total.
The total of the gifts from these groups, after all duplications of classification have been eliminated stands at $2,900,608.29. The number of subscribers, according to the Commission is 4,625.
While many gifts lu the Semi-Centennial Fund were made for specific purposes, approximately (ConUnueh on Page Tour)