roy wins speech ourney
.aung first Saturday in the lar-t intercoilegiate debate touraa-nt held on the west coast this >n, SO ended up with a total 37 points, while Pepperdine col-came in second with 32 points, LA third with 17 points, and nford, fourth with 10 points.
ie contest, largest of its kind the coast, included 17 schools m five states with more than 100 testants. according to Dr. Alan hols, debate coach, he tourney was divided into four rts: debate, extemporaneous aking, impromptu speaking, and tory.
Pepperdine college placed first the senior men's debate and rler Macdonald and Warren teinberg, SC, came in second.
art Teck and Maurice Gould,
C,	placed first and Stanford ;ond in junior men's debate, n the mixed senior and junior •omen’s debate, Anita Norcop and ildred Carman, SC, came in rst, and UCLA second.
In extemporaneous speaking, Ty-Macdonald, SC. took first place nors for the fourth consecutive ar. UCLA placed second. Maur-Gould, SC. took first place in junior men extemporaneous, d Robert Teck, SC. was second, pperdine college came in first in e mixed senior and junior wom-’s.
Tyler Macdonald, SC, placed rst and Pepperdine second in e senior men’s impromptu ing. Ernest Forde, SC, took rst place honors and Stanford, ,ond, in junior men’s impromp-Linfield college came in first the senior women’s impromp-and Pepperdine college endup first in the junior wom-’s.
CLA took first place honors in h the senior and junior men’s torv contests. Elaine Freeman.
placed first and Pacific uni-sity second in the senior wom-s oratory. Pacific university k first place in the junior worn-s oratory.
fever reviews an Doren book
ndemning the elective system, k Van Doren suggests that re be a simple and uniform curium for everyone throughout x years in liberal arts colleges, rding to Dr. D. Welty Lefever, fessor of education, who review-Van Doren’s book “Liberal Ed-tion” recently.
Van Doren believes that all ents should be given the same rse consisting of three or four jects.” Dr. Lefever said, rhe emphasis should be on lislh language and literature on a second language, p refer -; Greek. Mathematics and some nee should be taught.”
Dr. Lefever criticizes Van Dor-i because he fails to include iology, psychology, and other ial sciences as a part of lib-1 education.
‘One can not completely ignore work in these subjects done by ndreds of men during the past tunes.*’
“He greatly underestimates the lue of democratic processes in ucation, placing emphasis in-ad on classical subjects,” Dr. fever stated.
It is true that the men of the .ssical periods can give a basis or life today, but learning comes i with actual experience, he icated.
Dr. Lefever spoke at the third in series of eight book interpretans sponsored by the Student uncil of Religion.
resident's ffice notice
An all-university assembly .Is __lled for Thursday, Apr. 13, at 0:40 a.m. The following schedule ill govern class meetings:
8:00- 8:50 8:55- 9:40 5:45-10:30
10:40-11:25 Assembly 11:30-12:15
R. 3. von KleinSmid, President.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Los Angeles, Monday Apr. 10, 1944
No. 103
A letter home
Essay, literary -
award offered Flying alum hears in new contest f jg^f song at war
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Of special interests to literary students are the announcements of two contests, an essay contest sponsored by the Young Republican National federation, and an intercollegiate literary fellowship sponsored by Dodd Mead and company, according to the respective groups.
“A First Voter Looks at the Republican Party,” will be the . subject of the essay contest.
Of interest to all students who wish to become professional authors is the announcement of a literary fellowship, sponsored by Dodd, Mead, and company. The award will be $1200, an advance payment against the royalty earnings of the novel, and a regular book contract.
The fellowship will be presented for the writing of a novel, which will be judged on competitive basis. Preferred length is 60.000 to 100,000 words, and there are no limitations as to subject. The work must be completed within a year after the award is made, specified the bulletin. Manuscripts must be in by April 1, the announcement said.
All-U assembly features talk
Dr. Hubert Herring, acting professor of Latin American civilization at the graduate school of Claremont colleges, will speak Thursday, Apr. 13, 11 a.m. at an all-university assembly in Bovard auditorium, according to Dr. Max Krone, associate director of the School of Music.
Dr. Herring will talk on relationships with neighbors to the south. He is the author of “Good Neighbor,” “Mexico, the Making of a Nation,” and articles dealing with problems in this hemisphere.
Dr. Herring is also director of the committee on cultural relations with Latin America.
Dr. Krone is in charge of the program, which will be the first all-U assembly of the term.
Arrangements for the visit of Dr. Herring were made by the Southern California Council on Inter-American Affairs.
Transport exhibit opens at museum
The Los Angeles County museum in Exposition park will officially open the Hall of Transportation, Sunday, Apr. 16. It will show actual specimens, models, old prints, and pictures about the development of transportation from earliest times to the present day, it has been announced.
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Health officers
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give vaccinations
Students who have not been vaccinated recently against smallpox will be given a chance to be immunized by registering for vaccination in the Health Service office, Physical Education building, according to those in charge.
When 50 to 75 students have registered for innoculation the Public Health department will send a doctor to the campus. The students will be advised of the time of the vaccination.
Although there have not been any cases of smallpox reported in Los Angeles county as yet, 14 cases of the disease with three resulting in death, have been reported in the Fresno area.
vehicles and ships covers less than 200 years, while the builder of the first gasoline-propel led automobile in America and the first man to successfully fly an airplane are still living, museum directors said.
Air transportation is illustrated by a full-size copy of Langley’s mail steam aeroplane of 1896. an autographed photograph of Orville Wright making the world’s first power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine flight, portions of the first plane to fly from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and a Wright biplane.
Also on exhibition are many other early engine types such as Curtiss, Anzani, Vialle, Hispano-Suiza, Liberty, Douglas World Cruiser ‘‘New* Orleans,” and a Wright Whirlwind.
The museum is open on Mondays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sundays, and all legal holidays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Editor’s note: The president of the University is in receipt of a letter from Capt. Long, LAS ’38, which he wishes to share with SC ' alumni, students now on campus, and the many people tfao knew Capt. Long when he was here. The following is his letter in full.
March 17, 1944
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid President
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
Dear Doctor:
For some time I have wanted to thank you for the Certificate of Honor which I received several months ago. Because I received the Certificate during a rather bitter battle, and because my situation since has been such that communication has been difficult, I have waited until this late date to express my appreciation. Please believe that such a connection with home and with the happy years in school mean more than my poor words can ever hope to express. The class room, the library, the football games, the Sigma Chi house all seem as though they are part of a glorious dream of a million years ago.
I	should like to tell you a story. It begins one black midnight in the Pacific ocean. A task force was moving in deadly silence and engulfing darkness toward an island held by the Japanese. We would attack them at dawn. We all knew what this would mean. We had been through it before.
As daylight grew we looked at our objective. It was grim, silent, forbidding. In other days it might have been a place of beauty, but on that morning, to us, it was something horrible and unclean. It was like a vulture waiting the arrival of Death. Most felt at this critical moment was the utter, crushing, overwhelming silence, • It held, hurt, choked. It was complete. Then began our movement shoreward to storm the beaches. Still there was not a sound save the muted motors of our assault craft and pounding of own hearts.
Then it came. Yes, Doctor, there finally came a sound. Music! We were aghast. Finally we located the source. On the deck of our transport, our commanding officer had ordered the band to play. This gave no warning to the enemy as we were in plain sight of the shore. I could hear a cheer in some of the other assault craft, but I could not identify the song until the wind changed. Then I heard, and never again will I ever have such a lump in my throat. Believe this, Doctor, it is true. Over the waves there came the song (Continued on Page Four)
Glee clubs sponsor auditions for talent
Do you have hidden talent? If so, you may show your ability Wednesday, Apr. 12, or Thursday, Apr. 13, from 12-1 p.m., when the men and women’s glee clubs sponsor auditions for student talent in 11 School of Music, according to an
announcement.
The try-outs will be judged by the officers of the mens and womens glee clubs. They will hear and see everything from violin solos to trapeze artists.
The purpose of these auditions is to find available talent for the numerous calls which have come to the School of Music for artists to appear at university affairs and other public gatherings. These names will be kept on file, it was announced.
These auditions will also bring forth students to appear with the glee clubs at the university assembly May 2 and also for a performance June 7.
The auditions are open to anyone in the university and are being held explicitely to unearth hidden talent in other schools of the university, announced Clarice Young and Leland Scott, president of the womens and mens glee clubs respectively.
Teachers to make fall applications
All prospective teachers for the fall term are urged to return applications immediately in the Bureau of Teacher placement, 222 Student Union, according to Mrs. Edith Weir, director of the bureau.
ASSC senate holds meeting, minus trouble
In exactly eight minutes the senate transacted its routine business Wednesday night and adjourned without any signs of turmoil and confusion.
The following is a chronological account of the gathering, which was called to order at 7:24 p.m. by acting ASSC president, Jean Working.
The chair requested that members be present or time at 7 p.m. in the future, as tardiness delays the progress of business. Lynn Norby and Margaret Ann Hausmann were asked to report on chapel hour. They stated that as yet no action had been taken, but they intended to speak with President von KleinSmid the following Monday.
Under new business, Rex Eagen, LAS prexy, moved that Midge Hoyt be affirmed as secretary of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences to replace Xenia LaVelle who has taken a leave of absence. The motion carried.
New. senate members were introduced by the chair. Randy Phillips is to represent the council of religion, and Mildred Carman will sit for forensic council. The senate approved these new representatives.
Miss Hausmann mentioned the (Continued on Page Four)
Courses open for veterans
Dr. Carl Hancey, recently promoted to coordinator of the War Training office, has announced the opening of a group of new courses with special emphasis placed on the accommodations of returning veterans.
The veterans are returning in ever-increasing numbers and steps are being taken to take care of them immediately, stated Dr. Hancey. They will be accepted in any course by the War Training office.
Courses are offered in counseling returning servicemen, drafting room' procedure, and counseling for women. Technical courses in petroleum engineering and contract termination auditing are also being offered.
Although some of the classes will be offered in University college, the majority of them will meet in high’ schools near the large defense plants, and in those plants .having classroom facilities, Dr. Hancey said.
Poetry contest officially opened
“The annual poetry contest spon- [ sored by the California Federation of Chaparral Poets officially has been opened,” stated Dr. Lionel Stevenson, head of the English department.
Only one entry from each contestant is acceptable, and it must be accompanied by a sealed, envelope containing the author’s name, address, and the title of the poem.
Poems should be mailed to Will Strong, contest editor, 1930 Primrose avenue, Alhambra, and postmarked not later than Apr. 20, Dr. Stevenson added.
Servicemens
. . . board will meet at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Womens Lounge, Student Union. Those requested to attend are Pep Pearson, Dick Pearson, Don Paullin, Harry Schmidt, Jack Sorenson, Fred Benson, John Boyer, Lee Millar, Bill Herron, and Dick Schaffer.
Foreign policy told by Hull
WASHINGTON, Apr. 9 — (U.P.) — Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in the most detailed exposition of U.S. foreign policy of his more than
11	years in office, disclosed today that much of the work of formulating plans for a post-war organization to keep
the peace already has been accomplished and that he has asked congress to designate a bi-partisan group to consult with him on postwar peace policy.
Replying to critics who have charged that the U. S. has no foreign policy, Hull said that “our foreign policy is comprehensive, is stable and is known of all men.”
His only comment on the Atlan-I tic charter, on which he had said he would speak, was that it is not a code of laws from which a detailed answer to every question of international relations might be obtained. It is, he added, “an expression of fundamental objectives toward which we and our allies are directing our policies. It points the direction in which solutions are to be sought; it does not give solutions. It charts the course upon which we are embarked and shall continue.”
SC students aid in experiments
Three hundred and sixty SC students last week participated In an experiment given by the army air forces through the psychology department which is to aid in training methods of army personnel, according to a release by the Department of Psychology.
The students were divided into four groups completely by chance and were given no advance notice about the tests, it was said.
Group two saw a film, group three heard a dramatic lecture, and group four heard an academic lecture on the subject of survival in the desert in case of a forced landing. Group one, known as the control group, received no instruction whatsoever.
Seventy-two hours later, all four groups were given a multiple choice test on techniques of survival in the desert.
Of the 43 multiple choice questions, group one, which had no instruction at all, averaged 30 correct. The other three groups averaged 31 correct.
According to Dr. Floyd L. Ruch, head of the department of psychology, the experiment was slightly loaded in favor of the lectures. There would naturally be more loss in the translation of knowledge from the picture form to the verbal form of the test than there would be from the word form of lectures to the word form of the test, he said. The real test would be how much the men remembered of what they had learned when confronted with a similar situation. Such a test is of course, impossible, Ruch added.
Lost and Found gives addresses to SC students
Women:
Does the phone never ring? Are your Saturday nights dateless? Is your mailbox empty?
Men:
Have you lost touch with interesting friends? Is your social iife slipping? Do you hear “wrong number” often?
Tucked away in the information office, Administration, are several leather-bound solutions to these problems in the form of Mlittle black books.”
Said Dr. Carleton H. Mann, head of the information service, “The addresses are numerous and they aren’t doing any good here.”
Men:
Some sort of identification will be required for claiming the books.