Bowl rooters
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to buy ducats
Trojans may obtain one of the 3000 choice seats in the Rose Bowl rooting section today by presenting coupon No. 7 in the student activity book and $1.65 at the cashier’s window of the Student Union, announced Arnold Eddy, ASSC general manager and business manager of athletics.
Students, alumni, and faculty may no longer make priority applications as the sale of tickets to the public began Monday.
The demand for seats indicates there will be a record crowd at the Bowl, according to Eddy. He returns today from a Pacific Coast conference meeting in San Francisco.
For the first time the annual New Year’s day clash will decide the Pacific Coast championship. In the past the game has featured the conference victor and an eastern team. Because of transportation difficulties and restrictions on naval and marine furloughs, the selection of an eastern eleven has been waived, Eddy stated.
Jeff Cravath’s 1943 Trojan squad is the seventh team to carry SC’s colors to the bowl. The Washington Huskies have played at Pasadena three times, losing two games and tying one.
The Trojans are undefeated and untied by college elevens, although defeated by two service teams.
Washington did not participate in an official league, but has shown its ability by winning every game it played this season, scoring at least four touchdowns against each opponent.
The Huskies were the only team to defeat the Fourth Air Force flyers of March field this year. SC was trounced by the Flyers, 35-0.
Russians capture Cherkassy bastian
LONDON, Dec. 15 (Wednesday).—(UP)—Soviet forces yesterday captured Cherkassy, last major German stronghold on the west bank of the Dnieper, north of the river’s great bend, but fell back in the Kiev salient before the tremendous pressure of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein’s tank-
led counter-offensive, abandoning
Apolliad dates set for March
Giving student writers and composers a three-month period of preparation, announcement was made this week that manuscripts for the 20th annual* Apolliad will be accepted until March 21.
The Apolliad, a traditional program presented each spring at SC, presents original short stories, poe-*, radio scripts, musical composi-ns, and one-act plays to an au-ence of critics and writers.
Each student submitting a manuscript receives a ticket to the pro-am. and each manuscript is eval-ated by a faculty committee.
“All manuscripts must be orig-al. but some of the best we have ;ived in previous years have been e result of work done for classes,” d Miss Tacie Hanna Rew, assist-nt professor fit speech and chair-an of the faculty committee.
oopdeck dance ogged (or Friday
The first dance in the USS Poop-
eck will take place Friday night from 7 to 9:30. This is the first f a series of four dances to be eld in the canteen.
All money raised from the inau-dance is to go into the can-fund, stated Herb Lanuette, ance committee member.
Tickets will be sold for 25 cents person and will be limited to approximately eight men from each arracks. “Only SC coeds may be rought to the dance,” added rnette.
President's office notice
CHRISTMAS RECESS Christmas recess begins 12 ®. Saturday, Dec. 18 »nd ends 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 27.
All classes will meet from Dec. *7 to 31 inclusive.
University administration of-nc<* will be closed all day, Friday, Dec. 21 Saturday, Jan. 1, 1944 will be a holiday.
R. B. von KleinSmid.
the town of Radomisl.
Hie fall of Cherkassy, which climaxed fighting for the town that had raged for almost a month, with 6000 Germans slain in the last few days of battle, was announced in an order of the day by Premier-Marshal Josef V. Stalin, who ordered a victory salute of 12 salvoes from 124 guns fired last night in Moscow.
Capture of the strategic city of 51,000 persons, located about 100 miles southeast of Kiev, was achieved in a spectacular, three-sided smash that gave Gen. Ivan S. Konev’s second Ukraine army the northern anchor of a potential German winter line and presaged the swift collapse of the entire southern Ukraine front, whose communications were being throttled by Soviet successes.
New gains were recorded west of Kremenchug and in the drive to outflank the industrial city of Kirovograd in the southern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Germany’s official DNB news agency announced that the Red army, attacking Nazi units from three sides, had begun a new offensive near Nevel, north of Vitebsk, penetrating the German lines at several points but failing to break through.
Quoting the German high command, radio Berlin said major Russian forces were attempting to cross the Sivash sea southeast of Perekop into the Crimea. These crossing attempts, the Berlin broadcast said, were defeated by German air attacks.
Parts in new play open to students
“Grumpy,” directed by William C. DeMille, professor of the drama, will soon be cast and rehearsals begun so it can be staged near the end of January. Students interested in having roles or staff positions in the new production are asked to see Mr. DeMille tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., 3 Old College.
AWS assembly to be postponed
There will be no freshmen women’s assembly today as previously announced, according to Margaret Ann Hausmann, AWS president. It has been postponed until after Christmas.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Ni*ht phone: ri. 547* Los Angeles, Wednesday, December 15, 1943
No. 63
Squires
petitions
available
Applications for membership in Trojan Squires, honorary sophomore service organization, are being offered starting this morning at the cashier’s window in the Student Union Bookstore, Bob Campbell, Trojan Knights president, announced last night.
Squires, junior organization to Trojan Knights, is made up of outstanding sophomore men on campus who are willing to serve their university. Men of the blacfc-sweater organization are known for the service they render at football games, assemblies, and other SC social functions.
The petitions are to be typed and placed in an envelope by the applicants. When this is done, they are to be turned in at the Trojan Knights office, 218 Student Union. All applications are to be in by the 1 p.m. Friday deadline.
Members of Trojan Knights, who select the Squires which serve during their coming sophomore year, will give a written test to applicants any time between 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m., Friday, in the Knights office. The examination is on the history of the university. This information may be studied from the “Know Your University” pamphlet available ta the loan desk in Doheny library.
Following the test, personal interviews will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, in the Student lounge.
El Rodeo sales end today, tardy buyers given warning
‘‘Final sales of El Rodeo are being made today, and this is definitely the last chance for students to buy the annual,” Tyler MacDonald, business manager, announced. As the quota has been reached, there will only be a limited amount of sales. People wanting th# annual must make their purchases at the Victory Hut immediately.
The present amount of sales has made business contracts possible, accbrdi ig to MacDonald' thus guarantee jig the year-
Greever to deliver Yuletide program
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Dr. Garland Greever, professor of English language and literature, will read and discuss selected Christmas verse this afternoon at 2:30 in the art and lecture room of Doheny library. The talk will be the fifth in the series of book interpretations sponsored by the council of religion.
Noted for many years as
Service vote page planned
A special page devoted to a discussion of whether servicemen should vote will appear in Friday’s eight-page Trojan.
Fro and con discussion, poll of trainees, professors’ opinions, editorials, and letters to the editor
wiU be included. Students who have definite views on the subject are asked to submit these views to the Trojan through “What’s on your mind?” boxes on campus sometime today, in order to be printed Friday.
Cookies and carols treat Troy trainees
Answering SC servicemen’s cry for more friendliness from the coeds on campus, the Chi Omegas presented each marine and navy barracks with a large Christmas box of homemade cookies Monday night.
Boxes filled with brownies, peanut butter, and ice box cookies were wrapped for Christmas and distributed to men in Newkirk, Owens, Reynolds, Williams, Elisabeth von KleinSmid, and Henderson halls and the infirmary.
Elynor Rae Valentine was In charge of the committee which made the 4000 cookies. Working
with her were Beverly Berger, Rosemary Rice, Charleen McGregor, Catherine Yost, Georgine Richards, Pat McGuire, Jeanette Peters, Betty Lou Slaughter, Corinne O’Brien, and Marion Cahlan.
Beverly Berger was in charge of decorating the boxes and Anne James made the greeting cards.
Earlier in the evening the Kappa Deltr-s, with Santa Claus and all, appeared at the different barracks to serenade trainees with Christmas carols. The trainees joined the Kappa Delts in singing several numbers, adding decided St. Nicholas air to the SC campus Monday night.
Oriental fore-edges show life of Christ
Fore-edge paintings portraying the life of Christ with an oriental interpretation are on exhibit in the Fisher Art gallery this week.
“The Chinese adaptation of the more than 200-year-old European art is unusual and appealing as it portrays Jesus’
life painted in the Chinese ances-
MRS. W. H. FISHER
toral manner. Unlike European fore-edges, no gilt is used to conceal the painting. It is done on the soft porous paper of literary classics requiring the highest skill in producing a clear, unblurred effect,” according to Miss Winifred Poingdestre, director of the gallery.
The sharpness of outline and translucent quality of coloring surpasses the European models and achieves a distinctive Chinese appearance. Frequently the paintings have nothing to do with the contents of the books in which they appear, she stated.
“When the art was introduced to China several years ago, it was first tried on modern books and the whole effect proved unsatisfactory. Chinese classics printed two or three centuries earlier were then used with more success,” Miss Poingdestre declared.
an authority on English and an excellent speaker, Dr. Greever’s lectures are always looked forward to with interest, according to J. Randolph Sassnett, executive secretary of the council of religion.
Dr. Greever jointed the SC faculty in 1930. His doctorate was received from Harvard in 1914.
The book interpretation series will toontinue on Dec. 29, when Dr. Arlien Johnson, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, discusses Roi Ottley’s “New World A’Comin” and Edwin Embree’s
“Brown Americans.’,
With the start of the new year many more prominent faculty members will give book interpretations. Dr. Lionel Stevenson, new head of the English department, will give a discussion on “The Moral Values in the Current Novel” on Jan. 5, while the following Wednesday, Jan. 12, Sholem Asch’s best - seller, “The Apostle,” the life of St. Paul, is to be interpreted by Dr. Willis W. Fisher, professor of biblical literature and archaeology.
Talk describes Chinese art
Painting is one of the highest expressions of Chinese art, and the landscape is the favorite subject of Chinese artists, according to Dr. William B. Pettus, who has spent 35 years as a student of Chinese art. An alumnus of SC, Dr. Pettus is now president of the California College ir. China, which is located at Peiping.
Under the sponsorship of the Fisher Art gallery and the council of religious activities, Dr. Pettus addressed an audience of 100 persons yesterday in Harris hall on the effects of Christianity on Chinese art. His lecture was illustrated with ko-dachrome slides and a display of actual Chinese paintings.
For many years, Christian missionaries in China failed to utilize painting as a means of conveying their message to Chinese' people. The great movement for Christian art began in Peiping. Since that time, many Chinese artists have used Christian themes for their paintings. Probably the most frequently used subject is the Madonna who is paralleled in Chinese art by the Goddess of Mercy who was formerly the Chinese artists favorite depiction of perfect motherhood.
Y club sponsors worship service
A special Christmas worship service will be held at the Y house tomorrow noon under the supervision of the Designs for Living xdub, according to Joy Martin, chairman.
Dr. Floyd Ross, faculty member of the School of Religion, will lead the services. All Y members and Trojan students are invited by the club.
book. “Especially praiseworthy are the students who worked on the sales drive,” he said. They are Robert Griffin, who secured 100 per cent sales in Owens hall; Sallie Unmack, who handled miscellaneous campus sales; Ralph Grahl of Newkirk, and George Burkette of Henderson.
LaMar Stewart, editor of El Rodeo, has called the first meeting of the annual’s staff for 12:45 today in the El Rodeo office. The purpose of the meeting, according to Stewart, is to make plans for beginning the book during Christmas vacation.
Members of the staff are Tyler MacDonald, Ecf Diener, Joe Kraus, Herb Muenchow, Hank McLean, Clarice Thurman, Virginia Owens, Warren Steinberg, Marilee Carlson, Colleen Phipps, Barbara Postle, and Gloria Noblett.
Because Stewart, MacDonald, and their staffs are setting up sections in the book during vacation, it will be necessary for professional organizations and honoraries to pay for their pages as soon as possible. The fraternities are to be billed if they prefer, but an early payment on the pages will be appreciated, said MacDonald. All social fraternities wanting block pictures must ripply for pages at once.
Prof to tell Jap dilemma
The relocation of the Japanese in the United States, a topic of much controversy throughout the country, will be the subject of Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, head of the sociology department, when he addresses the Men’s Faculty club today at its weekly luncheon in the third floor tearoom, Student Union.
“This is a topic of immediate importance to us on the west coast,” said Bogardus, “because of the effect the Japanese farmers have had on wages and standards of living of agriculturists in this part of the country.”
An author of several books on sociology, Dr. Bogardus has been a member of the SC faculty since 1913. He was graduated from Northwestern university and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where he was a staff member before coming to SC.
Trojans offered Rose Bowl jobs
Students interested in working at the Rose bowl game are requested to sign up immediately with Mrs. Iva Custer in 209 Student Union.
Bloodbank drive group meets
New members of the bloodbank committee will hold their first meeting at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in 228 Student Union to make plans for the plasma campaign beginning Jan. 5, according to Betty May Rinehart, chairman of the committee.
Committee members and their respective departments are Sallie Unmack, registration; Lois Stephenson, publicity; Jerry Fox, location ; Donyll McEathron, posters; Tyler MacDonald, servicemen; and the marine and navy representatives John Kimball, Ned Riley, Sgt. McCadle Horne, Sgt James Ingerham, and Fred Benson.