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SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Unfted Press
World Wide
News Service Z-42
Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, October 19, 1937
Number 23
EVISION OF LA.S. CURRICULUM IS APPROVED
lane Crash ictims
eared Dead
Officials Pessimistic Over Fale of Nineteen Passengers on Airliner
ALT LAKE Cil’Y. Oct. 18—<l'.R> irline officials held little hope light that any of the 19 persons oard a United Airlines transport me wrecked in the Uinta moun-ins near Uie Utah-Wyoming bor-r were still alive.
• We can't say definitely that all e persons aboard the plane are ?.d.” said S. R. NewJman. local anager for the airline, “but we ,ve no reason to hope that any them are alive.” Ground partie; ve not been able to reach the ene of the crash to determine finitely whether all aboard the liner were killed, but observers cm the air reported there "was no gn of life” near the wreckage. The Wrecked transport was sight-this morning by Robert Bergesen. nited pilot, and his co-pilot, Wil-im Williams.
Ground parties which started •om Knight, Wyo.. and Coalville, tah. for the crash site were balk-bv barely passable roads and ugh mountain country. The air-ne called off the ground search til morning.
One searching party, headed by sheriff Frank L. Narromore of Yanston. Wvo.. was picking its way horseback toward the wreckage, ^mindful that the airline had call-off the ground search until dawn. It was doubtful that they could
STEP TAKEN TO DECLARE AMELIA DEAD
By United Press The first formal step toward declaring Amelia Earhart legally dead was taken late yesterday when George Palmer Putnam filed a petition in probate court for appointment as trustee of the estate of his famous wife, lost last summer while flying around the world.
In his petition. Putnam explained his wife had communicated with him on each stop in her flight, but had failed to reach Howland island and is still missing despite an exhaustive search of the South Pa-„0 | cific. The petition stated her estate consists of approximately $25,-000 in personal effects and securities and includes real estate of undetermined value.
Survivors listed besides Putnam were Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart, Miss Earhart's mother, who resides with her son-in-law; and a sister. Mrs. Muriel Morrissey of Meaiord, Mass.
Wampus Bids FOUR-STAR
r r	BEAUTIES
For Fame
In New Issue
Benet s Work To Be Read
'John Brown's Body,' Civil War Poem,
Chosen by Baxter
Sorority Pledge Lines Head Features Of Monthly Magazine
Coming out with the “best presentation line pictures in years,” Wampus, U.S.C.’s bid for national prominence in the monthly magazine field, will be sold on the Trojan campus all day tomorrow, according to editor Everett Vilander.
Sales will commence at the opening of assembly period, Vilander said last night, with the customary staff of sorority girls distributing the publication, which will be sold for 15 cents.
Dr. Frank Baxter of the English department will read from “John Brown's Body” by Stephen Vincent Benet at the assembly period tomor-i row.
According to Dr Baxter, no au-ach the crash site before nightfall, thor has yet told the epic story of it the party was prepared to camp tlle growth of America. No one the trail tonight and get an early ^as &*ven us- on one &rand epic art tomorrow	' canvas- the Picture of America's
Pilots flying over the scene re- westward sweep across the continent rted they had found no sign of j that continued until our great na-fe about the wrecked plane. Rav ' tion final'v emerged, rich, energetic, eck. Thompson F'.ving service pi- massive, sprawling from sea to sea,”
states Dr. Baxter.
"Some man of vision someday will tell the story of the settlers, the pioneers, the Indian fighting, the great trek of Puritan Yankee and southern adventurer, and then we shall have our American ‘Iliad’
! and Aeneid.’ A^anwhile we have ! only scattered bits of the great mosaic,” commented tomorrow’s From 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday speaker.
ias been set as the new time for j gtephen Vincent Benet was born he weekly Listening Hour, accord- in Befhlehemj Pennsylvania, July
said he flew within 100 feet of e plane and "there wasn't a sign >f life.”
istening Hour ime Changed
PHOTOS ARE GOOD
Enthusiastic concerning his pledge line pictures. Vilander commended photographer Warren Burns, student cameraman. “They’re the best I’ve seen,” he stated. Four pages of this month's Wampus will be devoted to the “shots.”
Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, given a preview of the photographs last night, also commented favorably.
NEW FEATURES
Vilander hastened to correct any impressions that the pledge pictures were the only worth-while features of his magazine "Among new articles and special pages for this year,” he said, "are a poetry page, and the return of Mr. Arbuthnot, the noted clichque expert, who has been interviewed regarding his favorite pastime, that of watching football contests.”
T. K. Wright, campus columnist, also has his regular amount of space in the new Wampus, and adopts a new medium of expression. This will be his "personal snapshot page,” a sheet of campus life candid camera snaps.
Articles by the editor. Walt Bandick, Mort Brigadier. Bud Colegrove. and Lee Goodman are also included between the covers of tomorrow's Wampus.
TO BE PICKED
Heading the list of traditions established by the Vulture, annual Sigma Dalta Chi journalistic project, will be the selection of the four-star coeds at the University of Southern California.
With active members of the professional journalism fraternity acting as judges, the names of girls who are finally selected for the four-star award will be kept secret until their pictures appear on the front page of the paper which will be sold by salesmen in costume the Wednesday following the Trojan-Bear football game.
Editor-in-chief Bud Colegrove has formulated plans since his appointment to the position yesterday, and last night declared that this year's Vulture will be different from its predecessors in that it wlll be humorous The paper’s staff, who, in addition to Colegrove. comprise the 1937 pledge class of Sigma Delta Chi. are Benjamin Cook. Kenneth Adams. Thomas Tanner, Ray Fitzgerrell, Charles Cochard, Edwin Schmidt, Walt Bandick, Rocky Spicer, Bill Clark, John Rose, and Harry Coulter.
Rooters Will Conduct Rally At S.P. Depot
Extensive
Effective
Reorganization Next Year
A new organization plan for the College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences, presented after a year of intensive work by a faculty committee, composed of Dr. Frank Baxter. Dr. William H. Burton, Dr. John D. Cooke, Dr. Richard E. Vollrath, Dr. R. R. G. Watt, Mr. Hugh C. Willett, and Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, chairman, has been approved by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, president of the university, and will go into effect at the beginning of the next academic year.
The program looks to the attainment of three main objectives: to effect a sharp division of the student’s undergraduate work in two two-year periods: the lower-division (freshman and sophomore) curriculum and the upper-division (junior and senior) curriculum; to give the student an opportunity to set up either a Division or Department major in his upper-win lead the caravan ofTrojan fans! division years; to institute a special Honors Division curriculum for which the superior scho-from%the school to the Southern lar can qualify in his*third and fourth years with a 2. average.
Pacific station where the team will j To expand specifically on these three major points, it should be said that the committee entrain for Berkeley.	seeks in the first case to consolidate and simplify the basic liberal arts courses of the first
Auto Caravan To Follow Team to Station Thursday Night
An auto caravan and station rally Thursday will send the Trojan team off on its trip to meet the Golden Bears of California.
Buses with the team and the band
Ivan Benson To Lecture
Law of Press To Be Topic at Weekly Wednesday Lecture
The subject of freedom of the press will engage the attention of Wednesday lecture series followers when Dr. Ivan Benson, associate professor of journalism, continues \ staged instead of the rallies.
the series tomorrow, speaking on j_______
“New Developments in the Law of i the Press.”
DECORATIONS SUPPLIED
The long stream of autos will be given a police escort to facilitate speed for the parade. Each of the autos will be decorated with cardinal and gold streamers which will be furnished by the associated students’ book store At the station Bob Myer, yell king, and his assistants, Ron Cooley and Ed Davis, will lead the students in several yells and songs. The latter will be accompanied by the band. As the various members of the team enter the train they will be given a chance to speak to the students concerning their opinions on the game. SERPENTINE PLANNED Tomorrow night Myer and Coalson Morris, rally chairman, are planning to stage a serpentine rally up and down 28th street.
Tentative plans call for the band and the rally to assemble at the end j of fraternity row in front of the Sig Ep house and serpentine up and down the street. They will stop somewhere along the row and go j through several yells and songs.
Last year, because the Cal game I was in the coliseum, a bonfire Was
REVISION SPONSORS
Ing to officials of the School of Music. The change in time was fleeted in order that there might no conflict between the Listen-Hour program and the Wed-cHlay Lecture series.
Tomorrows concert, which will the fourth - of the series, is scheduled for the new hour and Will b? heard in Bovard auditorium.
■ Schehcrezade" Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov will be the first of tomorrow's recordings which will be heard. The second part of the pro- an epic lay. iram will bring to the listeners cere. deeply
22. 1898. He published his first book of poetry. “Five Men and Pom-pey," when he was only 17 and was given favorable attention. He entered Yale from which he was graduated in 1919. Other books of poetry are "Young Adventure.’’ "Heavens and Earth.” and “Ballads and Poems ”
Dr. Baxter pointed out that "John Brown's Body” catches the American spirit of the Civil war days. “If it is not an epic, it is nevertheless Here we meet a sin-felt, beautiful, and
schaikowsky s Symphony number poetically moving account of a great
lve.
Sponsors of the program urged hat those att?ntiing come promptly o as to avoid confusion during the ?’ayiig of the music.
struggle told concretely and dramatically. There is no doubt that Mr. Benet's work will live on in the consciousness of American writers and readers.”
Film Classes Get New Cutting Room
All cinematography classes in cutting and editing formerly meeting in Old College 5 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.. will meet at the Vericolor studios. 1040 North McCadden street, Hollywood, beginning tonight.
Dean L. Fisk, purchasing agent, has rented a special cutting room for these classes. This room is equipped with modern studio instruments A sound movieola. a projection room using 35 mm. sound, an operations room, and a dubbing room will be used by the students for actual experience in various studio fields. Daily rushes made by the small independent companies will be studied and cut by the members of the class.
Dr. Benson’s address will begin at 4:30 p.m., and will be delivered in the.Art and Lecture room of Doheny library. Students, faculty members, and the general public are invited to attend.
The address will open with a consideration of tendencies of the right of privacy w'hich maintains that private affairs are not to be exhibited to the public without the consent of the individuals involved
Following. Dr. Benson wtfl delve into the constitutional guarantees of freedom of the press, discussing the amount of freedom allowed newspapers in reporting court and legislative procedure, and in the field of fair comment and criticism of books, plays, musical productions, works of art, and athletic contests.
The final portion of the lecture will be devoted to newspaper confidence laws passed recently in several states which provide that newspapers do not have to divulge their sources of news information to any court, grand jury, legislative committee, or other inquisitorial body.
Lancers To Fill Administrative Vacancies
A special election to fill two vacancies in the Trojan Lancer administrative board will take place
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid this week gave official administrative approval of the new College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences organization plan which has been prepared by a committee working under the chairmanship of Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, (right) dean of the College and director of the university's educational program.
The Plan
Essential Features of the Report of the Committee On Reorganization of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
+ + U.S.C. Organizations + +
esley
Latin American
Delta Kappa Alpha
Wesl?y club member: will meet in Latin American students will meet he so:ial hall of the University tonight at the Pi Kappa Tau house, ^ethodict church at 12:15 today for, luncheon meeting. Tom Pendall.
KRKD Broadcasts Musicale Tonight
Mary Hobson Crowe, contralto, will be guest artist on the 'Riesday University College dinner hour musicale which will be presented by the School of Music over station KRKD at 6 o'clock tonight.
Miss Crowe will sing “Chernuit”
president of the U.S.C. School of .cligicn in 1935-36. will address the rcup. Ferdall is president of the tfaticral Council for Methodist 'oath.
Newman
i Sigma Alpha
Clav\on D. Carus. professor of j crcign tr?dc. will sperik on the “Far *3nt 2nd Foreign Trade” at the Pi igmp Alpha, national political i:ncc fraternity, luncheon meeting tomorrow at the Casa de Rosas restaurant. Those desiring to at-serd the luncheon meeting are ask-:*ri by department members to sign
904 W. 28th street, at 7 p.m. Jose Caceres. president, requests that all be present. Transportation will be j provided for tho e who will be in I front of the Student Union at 6:45 ! pm.
Semi-annual initiation of New-Clionian	man club P-edges will be conducted
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in St. Vincent's Man- Alice Faster, president of school hall. 501 West Adams boule-Clionian. invites women interested j vard. stated Harold Labriola, presi-in literary pursuits to attend a dent of the Catholic students' club Clionian meeting tonight at 8 p.m. at 919 West Adams boulevard. Dr. Mu Alpha Nu Helen L. Ogg. of the speech depart-
Delta Kappa Alpha, professional cinematography fraternity, will gather tor a business meeting dur- by Berchelet, and Schubert's "The ing chapel hour in tne cinemato- Er! King.” graphy laboratories in the basement of Old College.
and Herman Rudin, have been nominated to fill the vacancies left by Glen Stephens and John McCarthy, who did not return to school.
Miss Bard, a sophomore, is a member of the University religious conference student board, WSGA convention committee, and is chairman of the YWCA social welfare committee. Gronek, a sophomore, is co-chairman of the Lancer membership drive and active in Lancer activities.
Miss Paddon. also a sophomore, is serving as co-chairman and captain of the Lancer women’s basketball team, member of the WAA board. Clionian literary society, and is archery manager. Rudin ,a junior, is a member of the Lancer bonfire and membership committees, and co-chairman of the membership card drive.
♦two years (in the humanities, sciences, and arts) into four fundamental course groups: “The Development of Man and His Culture,” “The General Principles of the Sciences, (physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, astronomy),” “Problems of Human Behavior,” “Problems of Modern Society”; these course groups to be undertaken in the first two years by the student in addition to the present work in English, foreign languages, and physical hygiene.
SIX DIVISIONS In the second case, the committee seeks, by the rearrangement of the departments of the college into six
upper class Divisions (Letters, Social Studies, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics. Arts, and Professional Studies) to enable the student who has fulfilled the requirements of his two introductory years to formulate a jroad major in a Division or ar intensified major in a Department.
In the third case, the committee, believing that “emphatic provision must be made for the encouragement of exceptional scholarship or talent on the part of students with superior endowment and commanding purposes.” has created an Hon-' ors Division which thfe student of ' distinction can enter in his junior i year. The Honors student will be required to attend only eight teim hours of classwork each semester, and in addition will undertake a directed program of intensive reading in the Division or Department j which he has elected for his major. At the conclusion of the third and fourth years, he will come up for “the junior examination” and “the senior examination” which "will test the Honors student’s general knowledge of the major field, and his more detailed knowledge of the set fields of concentration.” On the basis of favorable report of the examiners. the student will be re-
ment at U.S C.. will read some selections from last year's entries in the
;b" list posted upon the political j Appolliad. science bulletin board in Bridge hall.
Secretarial
Mrs. Beatrice I. Wilson, assistant pnncipal of Saw'.ver's Business college and lecturer at the American Ir titute of Banking, will address members of the Secretarial club c:\icerning secretarial procedure for college graduates. Miss Bernice R ckles asks that all student* interested in the lecture, to be given at tha Delta Phi Sigma house this ursday at 7, make reservations in el OommeFoe office.
Alhena
Tryouts for Athena, national honorary literary society, will be tonight in Elisabeth von KleinSmid social hall at 7 o’clock, when rushees satisfy the «equirement of a 3-minute speech. Any topic may be discussed, the speech requirement being designed to reveal the rushees' interests.
‘A short business meeting Will follow the tryouts,” stated Jean Eby. president, yestoKMk "and M is most important tfvwt aM activ* members »be preaerx."
Dr. Frederick Hodge, director of the Southwest museum, and Arthur Woodward, dean of the history department of the Los Angeles museum. will be featured speakers at the .meeting of Mu Alpha Nu, honorary archaeology and anthropology fraternity, at the home of Dean W. Ballentine Henley, 944 West 30th street. Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock
Deseret
Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean of the School of Religion, will address Deseret dub members at a luncheon m 332 Student Union today at 12:15. John Dalton, president, win preside ovee program.
The student artist will be Teruko	Moyie shots fQr fche Trojan News_ Hirashiki, a student of Mr. Max van
t ’ ,. , ,. , ..	reel will be taken today at a meet Lewen Swarthout, director of the
School of Music.' Miss Hirashiki. a	ing of, the editorial staff of the
pianist, will play “Rhapsody in C	Daily Trojan at 3:30 p.m
Major” by Dohnanyi-
Today's Organ Program
Archibald Sessions will be featured in the weekly organ program this morning in Bovard auditorium at 10 o’clock. The program is planned to end at 10:20 to enable students to get to their 10:25 classes on time. Cathedral Prelude and Fugue tn
E minor................................]■ S. Bach
One of the most interesting and best known of the master’s earlier v/orks.
Largo jrom the "New W orld”
Symphony..................................Di orak
Dvorak wrote his “New World” from impressions received during a visit to America, and has employed Negro melodies which he has developed wri4*i the utmost beauty.
(Editors note—Certain requirement details oj this plan stand subject to tomorrow, John Rose, election com-| lfJ£ approtai 0j the scholarship committee oj the university.) missioner, announced yesterday.
The polls will be open from 8:30 The committee appointed to study the undergraduate pro-a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Lancer gram of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences has pretable in the student Union	sented the following report for the consideration of the pres-Four candidates. Evelyn Bard, ident. The president’s approval of the program has been Edward Gronek. Frances Paddon. given.
The committee has been guided by its belief in the following principles:
1.	It is the purpose of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences to develop the social and cultural competence of the student, as well as his personal and intellectual integrity.
2.	The college must provide for many kinds of students commended for the a b. with Hon-with varying quality and degree of preparation.	! ors. High Honors, or Highest Hon-
3 Emphatic provision should be made for the encourage- | ors-ment of exceptional scholarship or talent on the part of i “R0UNDing-0LT" students of superior endowment and commanding purpose. | Realizing that students enter
4.	The program of the first two years should seek to I their university today with a var-
round out the general education of the student and should J^ty of__high school^ preparations,
incidentally introduce him to major divisions of intensive study (professional or otherwise) that may follow.
5.	The third and fourth years should afford opportunity for intensive work in broad Divisions of cultural significance or in more specialized Departments, according to the needs and purposes of the student.
6.	All requirements should serve a functional purpose in the program of the student; requirements that are merely hurdles should not be tolerated.
The plan here suggested, based realistically upon the facilities of the College as they now exist, and bearing in mind the specific requirements of professional schools, attempts:
1.	To correct certain weaknesses in the current program.
2.	To provide more logically for the needs of the complex student body—which includes many transfers from other institutions, from within and without the state.
3.	To correlate the work of the College more definitely with the work of the secondary schools.
4.	To introduce certain practices that either have been suggested by the university’s own experience, or have demonstrated their value elsewhere.
5.	To arrive at some solution of the problems resulting from the university’s specific circumstances and needs rather than to introduce any “plan” devised for other institutions and for other conditions. The committee wishes to make it clear that it is not sponsoring the introduction of the Chicago plan, or the Swarthmore plan, or the Wisconsin plan, or any other system devised elsewhere to meet other conditions.
With these principles and purposes in mind, the committee makes the following recommendations:
A. THE REORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE In order that the complex program of the College may be personal and social adjustment, administered most effectively, the committee recommends This course, required of second year
Journalists To Be Filmed Today
in the
editorial offices in the Student Union.
All reporters, desk editors, special writers, sports writers, members of the proof staff, and copy desk workers will be expected to attend, according to John Golay, editor. A roll call will be taken during the meeting.
Special meetings of each group will be held immediately following the general meeting. Members of Sigma Delta Chi will hold a preliminary meeting at 3 p.m. in the sports office.
the committee members have endeavored, in stating the aims of the new basic courses in the first two years, to provide for a “rounding-out” of these backgrounds, as well as to present new subject matter appropriate to the university level. A limited opportunity to explore the fields which they expect to elect as their majors in the last two years’ work is also allowed the lower-division students.
I The committee has these thimr to say with regard to the bas e lower-division courses:
“The required course in Man anc* Civilization should introduce th; student to the development of human ideas, arts, and institution? It should be administered centrally with a common syllabus, as r lower division course of a non-dc partmentalized type; it should provide for two lectures a week (delivered to large groups in Bovarc auditorium) by a staff drawn fron' the general faculty, and for tw hours of work in smaller section meeting for quiz and discussion.
“The required course in Problem of Human Behavior should b adapted to the needs and interests of the general lower-division student dealing broadly with the nature of human endowment, mental life, habit formation, learning.
GENERATORS PLANNED
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 18—<U.E) —Plans for large scale construction of hydroelectric and steam plant generation projects at Avon. Contra Costa county, and along with Feather river, were announced today by the Pacific Ga* and Electric company.
that the existing curricula and departments be grouped in i Divisions according to the plan here outlined.
L The Lower Division
Two-year curricula and courses designed for (a) students seeking admission to the upper divisions and candidacy for the A.B. degree; (b) students pursuing the first two years of pre-professional or professional studies in the Division of Professional Studies; (c) students enrolled in other colleges of the university which require
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students, like the set course in Problems of Modern Society, should be administered centrally writh a common syllabus, under the con* trol of a staff drawn from the appropriate Departments. Both courses are required because (a) they introduce the student to important ideas abroad in his worid; (b) they represent new and basic studies noc Contrnwd on Paje Four