$USC^Nominations Will Be Made Tomorrow During Political Assembly
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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Unfted Pres« World Wide News Service
Volume XXVIII
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, March 31, 1937
Number 105
I ^	T Classics'Place
laSS Ol OA I O In Education
eet Today
Organization of Firsl Annual Senior Week Io Be Arranged During Gathering in Touchstone; Council Report Will Be Heard
jroy’s first senior week will receive official impetus today S	55 a.m. in Touchstone theater when June graduates meet learn plans and organization of the affair which has been liedulfd for May 30 to June 5. Arrangements for the seven-day program were drawn up
de senior council following a*
(rom Norm Johnson who the University of California he interviewed officials on ("plans for a similar week at snorthem institution.
; SWING I ji the outstanding features I week's activities will be a r Swing" to be staged in the i of Town and Gown. This is I ol the Innovations taken from California senior week where it Item as the "Stampede.” An-dance will culminate the •day affair following the grad-n ceremony.
oalaureate services on May 30 tinitiate the program. This will followed by banquets on June t men and women. The "Se-; Swing” will conclude the day’s A barbecue from 12 M to I. in. is planned for June 2. iSIDENT’E REC EPTION president s reception, and the station of the senior gift will ! 3. The Ivy day ceremony ' ■ luncheon in the Foyer of i and Gown are planned for Presentation of diplomas i senior ball in the evening complete the week's program June S.
Pinch, class president, general chairman will be as-cd by the foUowing committee taen: Ross Wattelet, senior t; Rudy Huber, men's ban-Mary Jane Booth, women’s Hiiet; Jack Privett, barbecue; I (Mid Hathaway and Mary Jane [eon, Ivy day ceremony; and Roe, senior luncheon; Sid |
Hi and Norm Johnson, coordi-Sa chairman and retiring stu-tody president respectively; mi Kantro. senior ball; Bob l tickets; Lionel Van Deerlin. toty; Fred Keenan. Baccalau-! Lucille Hoff and Bob Norton, f productions.
A successful senior week wiil depend largely on Leonard Finch, class president, who is general chairman of the seven-day program. The affair,' which is the first of its kind to be staged on the Trojan campus, will extend from May 30 to June 5.
eauty To Be liosen
toed from Troy may be “Miss •w America" it was indicated f*j*y when local students were Jn opportunity to enter a L''v contest sponsored by the 1 Gate International exposi-
^ victorious beauty will be 8 cruise on the French Bretagne" through the Pan-j, *®*1. the West Indies, and !,r***here she will represent a Francisco exposition at the
*	“ternational Exhibition of Technics in June. A plane (v , Ij0nt*ou and a hop from iJj108311 Francisco will also ^‘Jded in prize.
'Is **'* filed by mail and _ Monday Applications must *n g by io inch glossy pho-*nd a letter of 300 words or a personal description.
^rsity College Wration Open
, **on for University Col-J"“g courses will be open all 11- Ik 1 Miuln. information k, university, said yes-
**BD^fentS m8y re«‘Sl«r Roller s office on the Tro-
fc*ntU.he turrenl semester at I) ,, ® d*vision of the uni-Icm v Monday, Mann an-
^ »ii ,Je8lstratlons wU> be
7/ this week
Baxter Reads Hardy Today
Presenting the seventh program on his series. Dr. Frank C. Baxter will read from the works of Thomas Hardy this morning during assembly period, and has asked that all those attending be in the auditorium by 10 a. m.
In a short discussion yesterday afternoon Dr. Baxter said. "More than any other modern, Hardy demonstrated that poetry is not a question of special content on the part of a poem, and that it is a question of special vision on the part of an author.
“Hardy's poetry is a compilation of daily experience—reflection based on the desultory reading of Catullus or the dally newspaper, on the meeting of some children In a country road, or the common sorrows and amusements of his Wessex neighbors.”
Although many people on\f know Hardy through his novels "Return of the Native” and "Mayor of Cas-terbridge" he wrote several poems which in themselves are famous. He had published “Wessex Poems” in 1898 and "Poems of the Past and the Present” in 1902. but these were regarded merely as the vacations of a novelist.
With "Time's Laughing-Stocks.” published in 1909. and "Satires of Circumstances," printed in 1914 he definitely was listed among the greater poets, and since the publication of his collected poems in 1919 he became the greatest of recent English poets. He died in 1928.
Topic Today
Ruth Brown To Urqe Retaining of Ancient Humanities in Lecture
Tlie place of the classics in modem education will be explained by Miss Ruth Brown, professor of Latin, in this afternoon's Wednesday lecture.
Held In the art and lecture room. Doheny Memorial library, at 4:30 o'clock, the program will be devoted to "The Vitality of thc Classics." CLASSICS CHALLENGED
“The classics have been vigorously challenged during the past few years," Miss Brown states. “The old humanities, however, should be retained in schools and colleges in the face of this opposition."
Because there has been a trend away from the study in the classics, the Lntin professor announced her intention of telling some of the power which the ancicnt writers wield in influencing and bringing pleasure to readers of the present day.
PERIOD OF GREAT INTEREST
"Classic writers of the Oreek and Roman times are important in furthering our understanding of literature, even today,” Miss Brown states. "They recorded a period which is still of great Interest to us.”
The personal pleasure which she still obtains from classical reading after 30 years spent in teaching has prompted her to select today’s topic, Miss Brown said. ILLUSTRATED TALK
During the lecture, the speaker will illustrate her talk with excerpts from several of the works.
Coming to the University of Southern California tn 1906. Miss Brown has studied under such teachers as Murray and Fairclough of Stanford, Rolph of Pennsylvania, the philosopher writer Euken of Jena, and Wllamowltz of Berlin.
At U. S. C. she has served as chairman of the classical languages department in 1930 and 1931, and as assistant dean of women. Miss Brown holds both an M. A. and a Ph. D. degree.
Music Date Is Extended
Deadline for scholarship applications in special musical composition classes which will be offered this summer in the School of Music will be extended from April 1 to May 1, Max van Lewen Swarthout, director of the School of Music, announced yesterday.
The scholarships will be awarded winners of the annual competition by the Alehin harmony association | and the Alehin advisory committee. ! The awards will cover classes conducted on the campus this summer session by Dr. Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music of Rochester, N. Y.
Candidates for the scholarships must submit one or more manuscripts for judging, accompanied by a nom de plume and a sealed envelope with the author's name. De-| cision on the scholarships will be j made by Dr. Hanson and will be I announced by letter on June 1.
| Manuscripts should be submitted | with an application blank to Miss Mabel Woodworth at the School of Music building. In addition to the two competitive scholarships, one scholarship wil be awarded to the winner of one of the composition sections ln the Festival of Allied Arts.
Political Nominations Assembly Set
Candidates To Appear Al Bovard Gathering Tomorrow Morning
Signal guns, officially opening U. | S. C,’s 1937 political campaign sca-| son, wUi be fired tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in Bovard audi-| torlum when nominations from the | floor will be made for candidates running for ASUSC positions.
| Candidates who have turned ln j petitions will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon with their managers in | the student body office, it was stated I last night by Ed Abbott, elections | commissioner.
| Managers were named yesterday j to represent Caroline Everington, | vice-presidential aspirant and Eu-
I	genia Rowland, secretarial candidate. Paul Sacket will handle Miss Everington's campaign while George | Hill will act as manager for Miss Rowland. Fred Hall was appointed last week to manage the campaign of Jim Hogan, presidential candidate. Jim Kerr was named Monday as campaign manager for Virginia Holbrook, candidate for secretary.
In tomorrow's assembly, candi-| dates who have already filed petitions will be nominated by student nominators. Following the nomination the candidates will give an acceptance talk and a brief outline of his political platform.
Political aspirants who have not turned in petitions but who are desirous of running for an ASUSC position may be nominated following the acceptance speeches, Abbott said. If the nominee Is eligible, he will run as a wrlte-in-candidate.
Kappa Delta
New pledges of Kappa Delta sorority will be honored at a dinner dance to be given by the actives at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, April 2.
Jewish Council
The Jewish council will continue an annual custom of sponsoring a scholarship benefit dance which will be held Saturday evening. April 10, ln the Wilshire Ebell club. Dancing will begin at 9 o'clock to the music of Johnny Oakley and his 9-piece orchestra.
Roger Williams
The Rev. J. Lyle Cpston, pastor of the Trinity Baptist church, will discuss student responsibility for encouraging inter-raclal relationship at a luncheon of the Roger Williams club tomorrow.
Phi Sigma
Phl Sigma, national honorary biological society, will pledge 18 students today at a tea in the herbarium room of Science building, at 4:30 p. m.
Phi Beta
Second semester officers of Phi Beta, national professional music and drama sorority, will be Installed this afternoon at 4 o'clock ln thc YWCA hall.
Alpha Della Sigma
Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fraternity, will have a pledge luncheon today at 12:20 p. m at the Cottage tea room, 623 West 36th street.
Professors
Today at noon the American association of university professors will meet for luncheon in the dining room of the Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall. Any member who has not made reservations may do so this morning by calling station 334.
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OH BOY! YWCA CIRLS TO SELL LOLLYPOPS
Lollypop days are here again! Today and tomorrow girls will patrol the campus selling lollypops for the annual YWCA sale. The bits of candy are of assorted flavors, and five will j Pharmaceutical be sold in a package for 10 cents. Each group of five will be tied together with pieces of cardinal and gold ribbon.
Prizes, the nature of which has *H “tings. Jo Dee Thomas. Kay Lls-not been disclosed, wil! be awarded (pnby Betly Jane Bartholomew, to the salesgirls who have sold the j Henrletla peita, Kay Alfs, and Kay Iniivrvmc hv the end of the young other gtrls who wlsh to
most lollypops by the end of the two days. The prizes are similar to those given to the winners of previous sales contests, lt was announced yesterday.
Salesgirls who will compete for the prizes are: Beth Noon. Willene Whitcomb, Anita Wisdom. Louise Wigton, Kathryn Cogswell. Lynn Moody, Marian Jordan, Marjorie
take part in the sale should report to the YWCA at 10 a. m. today, according to Beth Tibbot. Activity points will be awarded for participation in the sale.
Jean Laury. publicity chairman for the YWCA. ls ln charge of the event. Proceeds will go for the YWCA building Jund.
Moving pictures ol the annual Pharmacy snow hike to Mt. Baldy, last semester, will be the feature of the American Pharmaceutical association meeting today at 9:50 a. m ln 306 Science building, according to Phil Sanford, the photographer.
Varsity
Del Hessick, varsity club secretary, announced yesterday that all members should sign today in the athletic office for the banquet Friday, April 1«.
College Womens Conclave Opens on Campus Today
NATIONAL CONVENTION HOSTS
r. Mary Sinclair Crawford, dean of women on the U.S.C. campus, who will speak to the women delegates this afternoon in the art and lecture room in the Doheny Memorial library.
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Lucille Hoff, national and local president of the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students, who will greet 100 delegates from 46 colleges and universities when the convention convenes at noon
Mrs. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, who will officially welcome the women delegates this noon at a luncheon to be given in honor of the deans and visiting students from educational institutions.
Orators Leave For North
Twenty-one Debaters Depart for Stockton Speech Tournament
Twenty-one U. S. C. debaters, including members of the mens and women’s teams, will leave tonight at 7:15 aboard the Southern Pacific for Stockton, where tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday they will participate in the west coast division of the Pi Kappa Delta intercollegiate speech tournament.
Dr. Alan Nichols and Harold Weeks, coach and manager respectively of the men s squad, and Trevor Hawkins, law student who coaches the women debaters, will accompany the Trojan speakers on their northern trek.
WOMEN DEBATERS
Joyce Rippe and Betty Eberhard, Marjorie Atkinson and Nancy Holme, and Brooke von Faulkensteln and Elaine Holbrook will compose the U. S C. women’s debate teams. The Trojan coeds will also compete ln oratory and extempore speech contests.
Coach Nichols has selected a dozen men to represent Troy at the Stockton tourney. The six teams entered in the debate are: Sterling Livingston and Maurice Atkinson, Capt. Bob Feder and John McCarthy, Homer Hamner and Jack McCreary, George Hill and Walter Rohwedder, Clifford Royston and Richard Richards, and Bob Crawford and Gordon Jeffers.
DEBATE TOPIC
Livingston and Atkinson will enter oratory and extempore speech competition ln addition to the debates. The rest of the squad will also participate in extempore.
Debate topic will be. "Resolved: that congress should be empowered to fix maximum hours and minimum wages for industry.” This Issue has been debated lmercollegl-ately throughout the nation this year.
Freshmen Debaters Will Seek Revenge
Freshmen debaters will seek revenge for an unofficial defeat tomorrow afternoon when they encounter Riverside Junior college at
2	p. m. ln 305 Administration.
In a match between these two schools at Riverside a few weeks ago the audience of several hundred was called upon to render a unofficial decision. Out of the large audience of Riverside people only eight voted and they cast their ballots in favor of the junior college.
Coach Homer Bell is sending a new team against the Bengals. He will try his new combination of Bill Barton and Ed Jones. Jones is a former winner of the Herald-Ex-press extemporaneous contest and was 1936 city high school debate champion. Barton gained his early experience al Hollywood high school. In the first encounter with the junior collegians, Jim Merritt and Willard Huyck represented Troy.
Elmer and Albert Lewis will make up the Riverside forensic team.
NYA WORKERS MAY OBTAIN MARCH CHECKS
Bccause NYA checks are here ten days early this month, NYA workers can now obtain their March checks at the cashiers window of the comptrollers office. Miss Helen Haller, secretary In thc comptrollers office said that there are also a large number of February checks still uncalled for, and that the office would Uke the students to get them Immediately.
Dvorak Music To Be Heard
Following numerous requests by the audience at the weekly Symphony Listening Hour, Dvorak’s New World Symphony ana Brahms’ First Symphony will be played at 3 o’clock this afternoon In 4 School of Music.
Dvorak’s New World Symphony was composed and performed while thc Bohemian composer was teaching composition at the National Conservatory of Music ln New York. It was finished during the summer of 1893 at Splllvllle, Iowa, a small Bohemian settlement, where Dvorak was spending his vacation.
During the same summer. Dvorak wrote his "American Quartet" and his Quintet in E flat. He was Interested In Indian music at the time and discussed composing an Indian opera which, however, was never written.
The New World Symphony was first performed in Carnegie Hall on the afternoon of December 15. 1893 when the composer was present
LANCER PINS
Students who ordered Trojan Lancer membership insignia during the week prior to vacation will be able to obtain their pins this morning, announced John Rose, chairman of the distribution committee, last night.
Rebel Revolt Jars Franco
Dictator Orders Mass Execution of Soldiers, Prisoners, in Reprisal
GIBRALTAR, March 30 — (U.R) — Spreading revolt among the mercenary troops of Spanish Rebel Dictator Francisco Franco threatened tonight to wreck the Fascist revolution.
Mass executions by Franco's firing squads were reported from Tetusn, rebel air base ln Spanish Morosso and birthplace of the mUitary uprising last July 17, and from Alge-clras, headquarters of the Insurgent fleet across the Bay of Gibraltar. EXECUTES PRISONERS
The greatest slaughter was reported from Malaga, shell-shattered seaport east of here, where Franco was said to have sent 260 prisoners before his execution squads.
The full extent of the revolt and the number of alleged conspirators slain—both mUitary and civilian— was vague but Informed neutrals estimated the executions at more than 600.
MUSSOLINI'S ORDERS
Several ot the muUnles were blamed on intense hatred of Spanish and German soldiers toward the Italian units who ran from thc loyalist drive along the Ouadala-Jara front and were responsible for the most crushing defeat administered to Franco ln the entire war.
Only last night Mussolini was reported to have sent stem orders to his Italian "volunteers" ln Spain demanding that they brUig about a major rebel victory to wipe out the Italian humiliation at Guadalajara.
But while Franco sought to quell the uprising in his ranks, the eight-months-old war took an opposite turn and the loyalists appeared to be driving the rebels—and their Italian comrades—in panicky retreat on a half dozen scattered fronts.
Lucille Hoff To Preside At Meeting
Today at noon, the national convention of the Intercollegiate Association of Women Students will begin when LucUle Hoff, national president, rises to greet 100 delegates from 46 collegers and universities ln the United States, at a luncheon in honor of the deans and visiting women students.
An opening convocation will keynote the conference and will present the theme. "Does This Foretell a Nobler Race?” in Bovard auditorium at 8 p. m.
Delegates will register from 9 o'clock until noon when a luncheon honoring the deans and delegates will be held and a welcome will be given by Mrs. Rufus B. von Kleln-8mid, Lucille Hoff, national as well as local president, will preside at the affair in the Women's Residence hall.
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford will officially open the convention at 2 o'clock ln the art and lecture room of Doheny Ubrary. This will
An international luncheon has been planned for the delegate* to the WSGA convention tomorrow at 12 M In the Foyer or Town and Gown. Reservation* must bo made in the office of the dean of women, ZM Administration, before 2:30 o’clock today, according to Dr. Crawford.
“California” will be tbe theme of an open dinner on Friday nigh; to which campus women have been Invited. Reservations for this dinner must he turned in to Dean Crawford tomorrow.
be Immediately followed by business meetings at 3:30 o'clock for the visiting deans, in Argonauts hall, and for student delegates, in the art and lecture room of the library. Committees will be appointed at that time, and reports and announcements will be made.
Mrs. Pearle A!ken-8mith, assistant dean of women, will speak to the visiting women at a buffet supper at the home of Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, 10 Chester place, at 5:30 o'clock.
A program Interpreting the theme ls the purpose of the convocation in Bovard auditorium at 8 p. m. and will present three outstanding speakers. Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid. Mrs. Marguerite Clark, and Phyllis Norton Cooper will each give an explanation of the theme from a personal viewpoint. The Poetry Playhouse will appear on the program with a production entitled "Dark Beauty."
PONTIAC SHOW HEAD ARRIVES TODAY
Student chairmen ot the NBC Pontiac hour, to be broadcast from Bovard auditorium April 16, will welcome L. N. Miller, National Broadcasting company representative, to the campus today.
Miller will act as general chairman for the all-U.S.C. talent show. He has written for many* nationally known radio features,
among them the "March of Time'’ and the General Motors symphony program.
j Working with Miller in arranging ] the broadcast will be Dick Huddleston, director of radio programs at 1 the university, Norm Johnson, acting as chairman of the undergraduates committee for the affair, and members of Johnson's committee.
“Tickets are still available at the university bookstore," Huddleston said yesterday. He added that an audience of over 6.600 is expected to attend.
A group at national BaoadoasUng
company engineers have already surveyed the auditorium’s accoustlc possibilities, it was revealed. During the next week they will arrange -sound facilities so that the program can be clearly heard from all parts of the building.
Early tryouts for positions on the broadcast will be held as soon as a sufficient number of applications for auditions are entered. There ls still ample room* for more applicants. Huddleston said, with a demand for novelty skits. Talented students may sign up for tryouts ln the university radio division office, 260 Administration.
Marine Exam Set for Today
Before being admlted to the sum mer training camp for college mei. of the marine corps reserve, all ap pllcants must pass a physical examination which will be given today between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. ln 33 and 34 Aeneas hall, George Faires. U. S C. student assisting Maj. H N. Stent, United States marine of-floer, said yesterday.
Applicants must be between the ages of IT and 23 and have at least sophomore standing in the university, Faires explained. He also added that enlistment In the marine corps reserve during peace time does not entail active duty whloh the applicant does not wish to do. and during war he Is not subject *o active service other than required by the president of the United States,
Accepted applicant* are promoted to second lieutenants in the United States marine corps reserve after successfully completing two periods of summer training and graduation from a college or university which he attends, Faires said.
LOVK FUNERAL
RIVERSIDE, March 30—IC.Pl—A military funeral, with members oi his 73rd squadron acting as guard of honor, will be conducted here tomorrow for Lieut. Robert 0. Love. 26-year-old army flyer, who crashed to his death In the San Bernardino mountains last Saturday mght.