Extensive Summer Session Recreation Program Inaugurated Tomorrow
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lume XVII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, June 28, 1938
Number 3
lay Program Cinema Is Underway ^
HOSTESS
Initial Opening ol Recreation, Sports Planned Fcr Tomorrow Night; Summer School Students ' Inn Enjoy Badminton, Swimming, Volleyball
^Hlic recreation program of the Summer Session will have ^ts ir ial opening tomorrow night, June 29. under the direction of Miss Bernice Finger, instructor of physical education. ^Hiis program is designed for YOU.
It is the earnest wish of U.S.C. that each student registered i.iere ior thc summer will enjoy his* ir her stay on thc campus as much
u pt -siblc It is hoped that the ^^Kt tonal program will help to tills about. Miss Finger has ^^^Bect a program to fit the needs >f the students of all ages and now f'.t’s |p to you. "All work and no *3lay vili not improve your U.S.C. | rtay.' so why not make this summer a nappy one? Make up your to do something different. Then do it.
If 'on have never played bad-mintc i this is your chance to learn. Getlln thc •swim" of things and go fcek home at the end of six with that happy feeling that youfcre better equipped physically, »s v*ll as mentally, to take up your dutie in the fall.
If i ic little red-hcad in thc front row teems bent on mastering Ein-^^Bs theory in class why don’t Toullonk for her on the tennis She ll probably be there, and what man docs not know that girls prefe athletic types? Tf you can't . be a football hero why don't you ' it last try horseshoe or squash before you give up entirely?
Th re is something that every-onelcan do. Something new that ;*verj ■ can learn, so it's up to youR'i make the progiam a success ;;throt. you participation. Let's join the ["doers" on Wednesday night Jn tie Physical Education building and [get ready for that tournament that; is to follow later.
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Archaeologist [To Lecture
.Janif1 Beveridge, professor at Calll irnia Preparatory school. Covina California and president of the Southwestern Archaeological Pedt ation has been booked to deliver a series of five lectures in Clawiral Archaeology with the first. ►Re, tiblican Rome” to be given toman afternoon at 2:15 p.m in Bow: e hall. Mudd Memorial building.
i IT • ensuing lcctures are to be held in Bowne hall each Wednesday <t 2:15 during the remainder of lie first session. On July 6 the Icctl rer will speak on "Imperial R'Jilr Roman Sculpture and its Infli Mice' will be delivered by Dr. Bsvc ldgr July 13. and thc following Weel lie will lecture on "Burled Cltlr Pom pr ii and Herculaneum " In Ihe last meeting July 27. the »p:» ei will talk on Thf Outposts Cf I npire "
archaeological contributions of I Beveridge have been recog-nlzc by a wide group of cultured ^^kuluals and in return for his lhte: relations of early French and Ron n culture, he was recently prei ited with distinguished honor-aryji,wa.ds from the King of Italy the French government
RETIRES
Final Thesis Dates Given
Rockwell D Hunt, dean of Hie naduate school, has just issued Ihe loi'owing schedule to be obscr-by July and September candi-H for masters degrees.
Blv 5 Julv candidates present pre, miliary approval of thesis B'"d by each member of the ^Bnutieei to the dean ^H)lv 11—July candidates present ■> ihe;.is to chairmen B1' 20—July candidates present in final foi in fully approved mult tee to the dean.
Jj September candidates 11 preliminary thesis drafts to chairmen
Usl 10 — Si ptembcr candi-prrsent preliminary approval ■ ' un d by each member nimtieei to the dean ^Blgu;t 20—September candidates ^Btut final thesis lo chairmen ^■tgiiM 31—September candidates ^■ent thesis, in lmal form fully r'vrd by committee to the dean
pro. thr, A dat of , af i
Don E. Gilman, vice-president of the National Broadcasting company, who will retire today as national president of Alpha Delta Sigma.
Billig Named Creek Officer
Adverlising Fralernity Ends Convention On S.C. Campus
w Clcnton Billig. associate professor of merchandising at the University of Southern California, yesterday was unanimously elected national executive secretary of Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fraternity, at thc organization's convention being held on the Trojan campus.
Professor Billig succeeds Arthur Hallam of Evansville, Wis
Coincidental with the naming of Professor Billig to the national office came the announcement that the national headquarters of the fraternity would be transferred to the US.C. campus, where all matters pertaining to the organization will be handled through the U.S.C School of Merchandising. For the past 12 years, headquarters have been located at Evansville. Wise.
Howard Willoughby. San Francisco office manager for the Foster and Kleiscr company, was named national president, to succeed Don E Gilman, vice-president of the National Broadcasting company
W F. G Thacher of the University of Oregon was elected first vice-president: Don Jones. University of Missouri, second vice-president: James Petrie, Atlanta. Ga third vice-president; and Janies Shropshire. University of Kentucky, treasurer The fourth vice-presl-dent will be named at sessions today.
In addition to the elections, two appointments were made by the fraternity's executive committee. Arthur Hallman was named national historian and Malcoin Hesiip. associate professor of merchandising at U.S.C was made head of the publications committee It will be the duty of Professor Hesiip to supervise the publication of the fraternity magazine "The Town Crier "
Closing sessions of the convention Continued on page four
Stray Greeks Luncheon Today
Stray Greeks are meeting this noon at. 12 15 at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall ior their first weekly luncheon ol the summer .ion Ui Francis M Bacon counsellor ol men will be present to welcome visiting Greeks
Members of Greek' letter fraternities and sororities from other campuses make up the organization and participate in Its social program.
Motion Picture, Radio Television Fields To Be Displayed
"The sentiments, attitudes, and tastes of our time are, and will be, greatly molded by the new arts of the Twentieth Century—film, radio, and television. Therefore, the understanding of their powers and techniques should be considered as one of the essential mental equip ments of a modern leader in any field of social, political, educational. literary, or scientific endeavor," according to Dr. Boris V. Morkovin. chairman of the U S.C. department of cinematography.
To meet this Important need, a summer institute and exhibit of modern dynamic arts will be arranged for the first time in this country, under the auspices of the America* Institute of Cinematography on the campus of the University of Southern California from June 20 to July 31. Motion picture and radio programs will be held July 7. 14. and 21 with educational contributions from leading men in the motion picture industry.
Other phases of the exhibit will include a convention of the Cinema Appreciation League, with participation of members of the motion picture and radio industry, and leading educators. The exhibit will I be held frcm July 10 to July 25 in thc physical education building. It will include screen, rauio. and television drama, the fundamental techniques of their production, and the use of the equipment concerned
In unison with the exhibit, the department of cinematography, under Dr Morkovin. will hold the first of a series of weekly previews of outstanding current film productions on Thursday, June 31, at 3:15 p.m. in room 159. Science building The introductory address will be given by Bruce Findlay, former assistant superintendent of the Los Angeles city schools, now Continued on Page Three
Second Planetarium
Address Today
Is Thursday
Trip
Night
Rad?o City Is Scene of NEA Convention
Cross, Damrosch Among Notables Appearing On N. Y. Program
Through the cooperation of the National Broadcasting company. Radio City Is the center of acUv-ities of the National Educatoin association which is holding Its annual convention in New York This is the first time that an NEA ,’on-ventlon lias been held In New York in 20 years
As a feature of the convention, the NBC educational division will piesent Radio—A Civilizing Force at the Center theater on Tuesday, June 28. The production, conceived and arranged by Franklin Dunham. NBC educational director, will consist of three parts. The introduction will be a portrayal of the birth of radio from the first S O S. signal through Marconi's development of the wireless. The second part will show how radio brings the world to the listener while the third part will illustrate radios pari m bringing the listener to an understanding of his world. The third pari will consist of seven divisions, history, children health, psychology , science, drama and music.
Featured speakers on the program will be Dr. James Rowland Angel), educational counselor for NBC, Di Joseph Jastrow. for many years uro-fessor of psychology at the Univei-sity of Wisconsin, and Milton J Cross NBC announcer, who will aet as master of ceremonial' With the exception of the concluding symphonic numbers under the direction of Di. Waller Damrosch. the program will not uc tra:
Lord Stanhope, presi a nt of the British Pc:d <;f K- u-alion will al-dress the NEA t roup Irom London through HCA I:, 'iluies and J an Zay ti.neli m.nist r ol education, will speak from Paris.
Others who. will appear on ’he program are Glenn Darwin. *'hC barllom and Alice Remsen. known Continued on page three
B. J. Bartholomew, vice-presi-dent of the Trojan student body, was hostess at ihe first Summer Session informal "dig" held last night in the women's gym.
Large Crowd Greets First Summer Dig
Initial t)ance Hailed As Success by Visiting Students
Two hours of swlng-syncopation by Bud Parks and his orchestra were enjoyed by a large crowd at the Women’s gym at the first dance of the summer session last night.
Dances at U.S.C. are generally termed "digs" and the general spirit of informality proved pleasUig to all, evidenced by the rapid number of friendships made.
Varied were the forms of dancing — showing the widely-scattered areas from which the summer session students come, so spectators as well as dancers had a pleasant evening
Dean Pearle Aiken-Smiui, Dean Francis Bancon. and Mr. and Mrs. Clce Foster served as chaperones. Arrangements for the affair were managed by Miss Bcrnice Finger of the Women’s physical education department, Betty Jane Bartholomew. vice-president of the student body and chairman of the social committee: Curbv Goldsmith, and Henry Flynn, next year's student body president The selections of the orchestra combined leading hits of the day with popular oln numbers Another “dig ls brine planned for the near future and front the reports of this dance, the next one will br even a bigger success
Radio Speech Panel Subject
"Social Aspects of Radio Speech” will be the subject of a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon at 3 30 in Room 125. Old College building. lo be led by Sherman B Lawton. professor of radio speech, Stephens college Tills Is the first of a series of four special lectures and discussions to be conducted by the school of sprech during the first summer session.
Dr William Brigance chairman of department of speech Wabash college, will lecture on "Research in History l :’d Rhetorical Criticism” Thursday. July 7. in room 119 Oid College The following Thursday, Dr Richard D T Hollister department of speech and gene ral linguistics, University of Michigan, and visiting instructor ln the school of speech, wlll present a program of literary readings
Bringing the lecture course to a close* on Thur.s lay. July ii at 3 30 In room 119 Dr Lee Edgar Travis, will conduct a round table discussion on speech pathology Students and faculty are Invited to attend.
Phi Delta Kappa Lunch Thursday
Phi D. Ita Kappa national education list.I nil} will hold its regular weekly luncheon on Thursday ncoi in the Iovei ol Town and Gov.n.
There will b no speeches, accord-ing to R. E Cosgia\e president, and a Hammond electric organ recital v.jll be a special feature
Tickets must be purchased by Wednesday Afternoon In room 354 Administration building.
Professor E. S. Brightman To Speak on Democracy At Morning Assembly
Professor Edgar 8 Brightman. professor rf philosophy and chairman of the Graduate School of| Boston university, will address the summer student body at the second assembly to be held ln Bovard auditorium at 10 30 this morning. The subject of his address wlll be "Is Democracy Right?”
Dr. Lester B Rogers, dean nf the summer session and the Trojan Schoo] of Education, will serve as chairman. All students are urged to attend these sessions In order to keep more closely Informed concerning the full program of the summer school.
MUSIC PROGRAM
In addition to the address of Prolessor Brightman. a special music program has been arranged by Max van Lewen Swarthout. director of S.C. School of Music.
Hubert Head, baritone soloist, will sing the "Drinking Song” from Hamlet, by Thomas, and "Where Ere You Walk,” by Handel, accompanied by Miss '^'ldred Carrico. Archibald Sessions, university organist will play Allegro-Assai from Organ Symphony ln D Minor by Guilmont All administration offices will be closed during the assembly hour so that students may be free to attend the session No business will be transacted during any of the Tuesday morning assemblies.
CI.ASS SCHEDULE GIVEN
Tuesday morning class hours for the first term of the summer session have been revised to provide time for the assembly programs without interfering with regular class schedules. Tuesday moming class hours are as follows: ft a.m. class meet at 8:00 - 8:45
9	a m. class meets at 8:50 - 9:35
10	a m. class meets at 9:40-10:25 Assembly. 10:30 - 11:20
11	a.m. class meets 11 30 - 12:15 Noon, 12:15 - 1:30
1:15 class meets at 1:30 - 2:18 2:15 class meets at 2:25 - 3:33 3:15 class meets at 3:20 - 4 08 4 15 classes meet as usual In order to obtain good seats for the assembly program, students are urged to report promptly Those who attended the session last year will not need to be reminded that Professor Brightman ls one of the most popular lecturers at S.C.
Speakers scheduled to address the assemblies during the remainder of the term are Dr Syud Hoaaaln on July 5. discussing "Democracy Versus Dictatorship In the Orient”; Dr Walter F Dexter. July 12. with a subject to be announced later; Dr Ralph H Lutz will speak on “The Present European Crisis” July 19 and Dr. Harry H Clark on July 26 with the subject 'Should American Literature be National?"
STAR GAZERS
Dr. Clarence Cleminshaw, S.C. professor of astronomy, gives Genevieve Jasaitis and June Temple n preview observation through the 12-inch telescope at the planetarium. Trojan Summer Session students will have lhe opportunity to "see stars" through this instrument on Thursday night at the regular
summer excursion.
Schedule Conference On Secondary Education
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In connection with the Summer Sessions, the University of Southern California will conduct a public conference dealing with new types of secondary education for youth either out of school or not doing well in school, it was announced by •■Dean Lester B. Rogers.
Scheduled for July 6 to 8 lnclu-
Lecture Series Continue
Continuing tlie series of special lectures ln the field of English. Dr. Qarland Greever will discuss the life and works of Sidney Lanier at 3:30 this afternoon In room 20 Administration building
Tomorrow at the same place and time Dr J. P Guilford, professor of psychology. University of Nebraska, will lecture on "Primary Factors in Personality."
Another of the major social and economic problcnls of today. "The Future of Trade Unionism” will be considered by Dr. Frederick S Dci-bler. chairman of the department of economics. Northwestern university. Thursday All students and members of the faculty are invited to attend these lectures
Roger Williams Club To Meet
The Roger Williams club a L o-tist organisation, v.ill Ir.ld a . . -Cial nu Hing al a iit ic.ii ;n. ’iciu.s-day. June 30 at 12 noon, toini -22 SiUd .H L'.iion bm.iiiiig. It wa announced by Gale 8: .until, clieir-man Lunclit Jii a ill be 35 cent;
Summer se. .,ion students v ith the regular members aie urged to utund Interesting tp -'k ha.; been promised For rese. .alions s e Bob Ross or Gene Warner-
Band Festival Concluded
P. C. Conn Announces National Rankings Of Contestants
National rankings for high school musicians who competed ln the Fifth Regional National School Music Competition on the University of Southern California campus last week-end were announced yesterday by Trojan band leader P C, Conn regional director of the copi-petitlon.
sive in Bovard auditorium, the three-day program will be under the general chairmanship of Dr. Frederick J. Weersing of the B.C. faculty. All Summer Session students and any professional workers from the entire community are invited to attend the sessions. PRESENT PROBLEM "The problem to be considered by the noted educators who will participate In the discussions will center about what to do for children ln a society which apparently has no place for a large proportion of its youth,’ Weers'lng said.
“The school, as it Is now organized. has little to offer youth after the ages of 16 to 18. Parents, very Competing against a set standard, often, can no longer continue to the 3000 musicians from Arizona, sup|X>rt them, and neither the dis-Callfornla and Nevada were rank- clpline of the school nor the dis-ed in divisions with Division I sig- clpline of useful employment ls nlfying "highly suiierior;" Dlvlson available to them ”
II superior"; Division III, “excel- To improve the situation, it is lent : Division IV. •good ” and Di- being proposed in many places to vision V, "improvement necessary." Bive young people more adequate training ln self-help, according to Professor Weersing.
Tickets Must Be Purchased In Advance
Griffith park planetarium will ba the acene of the second Summer Session excursion Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. It was announced yesterday by Kenneth K. Stonier, manager of publcations at U.S.C.. who ia in charge of summer tours.
Special tickets priced at 25 cents are now on sale at the bookstore which will include admittance to the planetarium and to the special lecture and demonstration of the movements of the planets, the sun and moon. Students are urged to purchase Uieir tickets as soon as possible, Stonier warned, owing to the limited seating capacity of the planetarium lecture room.
How to get tn the Planetarium: Take the north-bound V street ear on Vermont to the end of the line at Monroe avenue and transfer to the Griffith Park bus at that junction, which will take you dlitct to the planetarium. Allow 45 minutes from campus. By auto, follow Vermont avenue straight north, entering the park at Los Fell* boulevard. The road Is plainly marked.
All students desiring bus transportation t« the planetarium are requested to sign up In room 215 i Student Union today or tomorrow.
i Dr. Clarence H. Cleminshaw, professor of astronomy ln tha Trojan school. Is assistant director of tha planetarium and ls assisting ln arrangements for the Summer Session I excursion.
TELESCOPE AVAILABLE An additional feature nf the planetarium excursion will be the opportunity to view one of the planet* through the 12-inch telescope which will be under the direction of Lyle Abbott, prominent local astronomer and newspaper man.
Mr. Abbott,' who has been in charge of the telescope since the planetarium was first opened several years ago, is noted for his ln-| teresting comments on the solar sys-! lem couched ln phrases of the lay-j man, according to Mr. Stonier, and | this part of the excursion should I be long remembered by Summer Session students Dr. Dlnsmore Alter, director ot the Orlfflth planetarium, ia scheduled to give the lecture the night of the student excursion and to operate the huge Zeiss apparatus that depicts the progress of the stars over a period of thousands of years.
That the celestial	seeming
to be the outpouring of the very heavens themselves, combined with the beauty of the surroundings and the majesty of the stars—so near that one is tempted to reach up and touch them—make the planetarium trip a never-to-be-forgotten experience ls the almost unanlmoua opinion expressed by all who have Continued on page four
Rankings were:
Class A bands—Division I Gilroy vvtiat type of education will besl
and San Fernando high schools,	jirjp youth lo help themselves will
Division II Beverly Hills and Bel-	^ (jie (.oncfrn of the conference, mont high schools of Los Angeles. w)j| ope,) 0)1 Wednesday, July
Division III Reno high school of	e	a -survey of Needs” in thi*
Reno, Nevada.	particular field, according to the
Class B bands Division II Globe	preliminary announcement,
high school. Globe Arizona: Fill-	SEXSON PRESIDES more and Escondido high schools Or John A Sexson, superintend-
of Ciilllornla Division III Elko	ent of schools Pasadena, will serve
high school. Elko Nevada	as chairman for the opening ses-
Class E bauds (Junior high.-Di- Mon wllh Dl w‘*ndy su‘w»rt at' vi ion II Eliot junior high school. lo,ney" Physician, and lecturer ln A11 a cl *-i i«.. Emerson lunior high Publl° administration at 8. C. to -dr. cm West 1.-,- Angeles; McKin- **•*«* 011 T1“' Problem of Youth in Relation lo the Politietal-fSocial-Econoiiiic Situation” following a general statement of the nature of lhe need.
Dr. G orge Bell, district superln-t'-iiu-ii . Boi-ita union high school, Le.Ve-.ii’. will epaak on ”'rhe Need • Bitov, ai by Educational Malad-ju .m nt cl Youth" to compete the ,lrs . morning ejstlcn The afternoon session will be d'.voted to a discussion of the needs lor a new type of education in vo- i i alions, Lome environment, and In1 Continued on page four
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Angeles; lev Junior high school. Pai G ad ■ School Band—D*vt Ely fc.ade school, E y Nevi Band marching io.it ;et i —D.visr.n I LoiB r.ch P nlc high school. Division II Reno, N vada high school.
Class B—Division II E ko Nevada high school D isicn 111 Escondido. Cahlon la high icliool Class E- Dni: lon I: John Mei-. haII junior hlfcll school. Pasutl nu. Division Ii Eliott junior high Ct.ntlnuid on page lou.
Administrators Club Will Meet
The Administrator's club will hold a luncheon tommorow noon In the Foyer of Town and Gown with Dr. A. 8 Barr, professor of Education, University of Wisconsin, a* principal sj>eaker.
All administrators and those interested in the field are urged to attend for interesting speaker* community singing and other entertainment features are planned. The programs are arranged so there will be no delay ln lunch and they will always be dismissed ln time for 1:15 classes.
Speakers to follow each Wednea-dav are:
July 6— Dr E O. Melby July 13—Dr. John A Sexaon July 20—Dr Waller R Hepner July 27—Dr Walter F. Dexler Oflicers are as follows: Chairman Rutland Upton; secretary, Ray Noble: treasurer, Mrs Stevens; and Di Osman R Hull, S C. education faculty. who is supervising tha summer progiam Tickets, price 50 cents, must be purchased by Tuesday noon from elub members or Miss Jut! Temple, Education