Vol. XII
Los Angeles, California, Friday, June 23. 1933
No. 2
S. C. Journal Issued Today In New Form
Listing in its table of contents articles by several nationally-known scholars and writers, the summer issue of the World Affairs Interpreter, published by the Los Angeles University of International Relations makes its appearance today.
The current Issue contains several articles by out-standing figures In world affairs. Represented ln the World Affairs Interpreter are Samuel Untermeyer, contributing ‘‘Stock Exchange Reform"; Dr. P. C. S. Schiller, writing on “The United States of Europe"; John Parke Younge, author of “The Gold Standard," and Count Beuf and Dr. Bowman, discussing German and Italian dictatorships.
President Writes
“From the Chancellor’s Study,” a feature of each issue of the world affairs journal, ls contributed by President R. B. von KlelnSmld.
The summer issue of the World Affairs Interpreter appears In a new dress, with a cover design of Btriking appearance.
Issued by the Los An,;eles University of International Relations, affiliated with the University of Southern California, the magazine serves as a medium of preserving articles, papers and addresses delivered at University world affairs functions, and during the four years since Its introduction ft has listed contributions from many of the great figures in the field of International relations. Through the World Affairs Interpreter the University of Interna- ! tional Relations attempts to carry on its program of world peace and understanding, and to enable students of the university and all others interested in International affairs to obtain records of the advances being made in the movement toward better International understanding.
Rapid Growth
Entering its fourth year, the World Affairs Interpreter Is one of the outstanding university publications in the country, in the opinion of experts in the field. Evidence of the interest which it has aroused is shown in the steady increase in circulation for the past three years.
Publishers of the periodical announce a special half-price subscription rate for summer session students, ln order to introduce the magazine to a new group of readers.
Trojan Graduates Are Honored By Education Group
Dr. C. C. Crawford, professor of education at he University of Southern California, and two S. C. graduates were in receipt of word today that books written by them have been included in the list of 60 outstanding educational volumes prepared annually for the American Library association and the Journal of the National Education association by the education department of the Enoch Pratt Free library In Baltimore.
Della Geode Fancier, principal of the Ruth School for Girls in El Monte, Is co-author with Professor Crawford of “Teaching the Social Studies" which won a place in the noted book list. “Teaching School Music," written by Alma M. Norton, member of the faculty, of Arliona State Teachers' college, in conjunction with Dr. Crawford was the second S.C. volume to receive the eastern library honor award.
Store To Maintain Student Directory
Establishing a new convenient service for Summer Session students, the University Bookstore today will Inaugurate a Student File, which wlll serve as a directory of the summer student body.
Announcing the opening of the directory service, Chris Daniels, manager of the store, stated that, the file was planned to fill requests from students for a complete information bureau.
“Many students have sought a means of keeping in touch with their classmates,” Daniels said, “and of locating friends who have registered at tho university. In the student file we plan to keep a complete history of each student, so that contacts can be made readily."
Daniels requests all students to call at the cashier's desk ln the Bookstore and fill out cards which will be available there. The name, address, organizations and class program of each student will be included in the file, which will be kept in the store where lt will be accessible to all Btudents at the session. Miss Marie Poetker, cashier, will be in charge of the directory.
Offer Advanced History Classes For Graduates
Planned particularly for writers of history, critics, and graduate students, a special summer college course in “Historical Method and Bibliography" in the 1933 summer session is pre sented by Dr. Gilbert Glddlngs Benjamin.
Stress will be laid upon the development of historical writings, critical handling of sources, and proper use of hlstori cal bibliographical aids.
Also for graduate students 1s a summer history course, “From Hayes to Hoover” to be headed by Dr. Homer Carey Hockett, visiting professor from Ohio State university. He has taught on the campusses of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, and Univer sity of Chicago.
Seminars are scheduled by Dean Lester B. Rogers of the summer session In Pacific Slope History, United States History, and Latin-American history, as well as courses in History of Mexico and Modern Britain.
Masters Theses Rules Explained
Attention of all candidates for the master's degree In the Summer Session of 193J, is called to the following d^tes, with reference to completion of the master’s thesis.
FIRST SESSION '33
June 28, final day for July candidates to present preliminary draft of thesis to committee chairman.
July 7, final day for July candidate to present “preliminary approval” of thesis, signed by committee chairman, to Dean of the Graduate school.
July 17, final day for July candidate to present final draft of thesis to committee chairman.
July 26,’final day for July can didate to present final draft of thesis to dean of the Graduate school.
SECOND SESSION '33
July 31, final day for Septem ber candidate to present preliminary draft of thesis to committee chairman.
August 9, final day for September candidate to present “preliminary approval" of thesis, signed by committee chairman, to dean of the Graduate Bchool.
August 19, final day for September candidate to present final draft of thesis to committee chairman.
August 30, final day for September candidate to present final draft of thesis to dean of the Graduate school.
(Signed)
Rockwell D. Hunt, Dean.
Assembly Series To Open Tuesday
Introducing members of the Summer Session faculty to the student body, the flrst general assembly of the summer will be held Tuesday ln Bovard auditorium, at 10:30 a.m. Morning classes will be shortened to allow time for the assembly, which will be held at the close of the
10	o'clock period.
Dean Lester B. Rogers Is scheduled to speak at the meeting, taking as his topic, “A Forward Look in Education.”
As part of the opening program, Professor Axel Simonsen wlll play Poppel's cello classic, “Hungarian Rhapsody.”
Professor Simonsen, a member of the Summer Session faculty of the University of Southern California College of Music, is a cellist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, and has had a brilliant career ln the west. His music career started ln Paris and Vienna, and in recent years he has made many successful appearances ln the United States.
Assembly programs will be held each Tuesday during the first session, and on the first Tuesday of the Becond session, with special features arranged for each gathering.
Educators Plan Convention Here
“Educational Issues in the Present Social Crisis" will be studied in a one-week conference of educational leaders whloh is to meet here next month in connection with the Summer Session.
School superintendents, administrators, principals, supervisors, and teachers in elementary and secondary schools will assemble at S.C. for the series of lectures and round-table discussions.
Plans completed by Dr. Willard S. Ford, general chairman of the conference and assistant to Dean Lester B. Rogers, include a complete program of speakers.
Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, of Harvard; Dr. John Sexon, Pasadena superintendent of schools, aud Dr. Albert Sidney Rauben-heimer aud Dr. Willard S. Ford of S.C. will head sessions of the conference, discussing trends ia social, economic, political, and educational fields. Other discussions will be led by Dr. Clyde Milton Hill, of Yale; Dean Rogers and Dr. O. R. Hull of S.C.
Vacation Schools To Open Saturday
Enrollment will open tomorrow at the two university conducted vacation schools In Los Angeles, according to Dean Lester B. Rogers, of the S.C. Summer Session, and Miss Katherine Lee Carey, assistant superintendent of schools of Los Angeles.
The summer secondary school, to be conducted at Polytechnic high school, will open its doors to students at 8 a.m. tomorrow, while the Thirty-second street elementary school will begin registration at 9 a.m. Dr. Albert
E.	Wilson will head the high school and Miss Nina B. Brown Is principal of the elementary school.
Experienced city school teachers will have charge of the two schools, which will also serve as teacher training schools for the Summer Session. Although a nominal tuition fee will be charged in order to maintain the schools, both Institutions are expected to have capacity enrollments.
Class work will start Monday morning at both schools, with individual classes limited in enrollment. The S.C. vacation schools will be the only schools in operation in Los Angeles this summer.
New Rule Shortens University Course
The University of Southern Cal Ifornia recently announced that high school graduates may enter as freshmen ln the summer session at well as iu the fall and spring terms, and by attending all semester, and sessions, may complete the regular fouryear college program in three calendar years of full-time attendance.
CALIFORNIA
“New California the Golden," by Rockwell D. Hunt, was one of many books published during the past semester by S. C. faculty members. Dean Hunt, a recognised authority on California history, is author of many book* on tbe Golden State.
Special Talks Are Planned by English Staff
Profesor W. J. Tucker, visiting professor ln the English department, will open the 1933 series of special afternoon lectures sponsored by the department of English and comparative Literature, Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. in Bowne hall, Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy.
Professor Tucker's first lecture will be given on the general topic, “Literature and Life.” In his second address, to be given Thursday, June 29, in Bowne hall, he will discuss “Shakespeare’s Gallery of Immortals,” and on July 6 he will speak on “Tendencies of Present-Day Literature.”
The Tuesday and Thursday af-teraon lectures will also present during the first session Dr. Edwin Mims, with three lectures on “The Artistic Interpretation of Life;” and Dr. V. L. O. Chittick, who will speak on phases on American humor dudng his course of three lectures.
Dr. Tucker ls professor of English al te University of Arizona. He has appeared before Summer Sessions before, conducting classes here in 1926. Dr. Mims, professor of English at Vanderbilt university, is also making a return visit to the Trojan campus.
S. C. Library Receives New U. S. Reports
By GRAHAM BERRY
Through the combined efforts of Miss Charlotte M. Brown, head librarian of the university, and Representative William Traegcr, the Doheny Memorial library has been designated a depository for government publications.
“We have the privilege of choosing from among 900 government reports, bulletins and documents those which will meet the needs of professors and students interested in authoritative research material. The library will not receive all the bulletins published but rather those applying to curriculum and research needs," stated Miss Christian R. Dick, acting librarian.
Special Items The library will receive publications from all departments of the government which issue written material, such as the office ot education, the bureau of labor, th# Department of Commerce, the De partment of State, and the aero nautical division.
Such items as the Smithsoniaa reports and “Fine Arts Proceedings" will be received by the library. Some documents are pub lished as often as once a week and others only once a year, These will be sent to the llbrarj gratia as soon as they are off th« press. In this way the results ol the latest experiments and dis coveries are available almost in» mediately.
New District Formed One depository for these publl cations is usually allowed to each congressional district, and whes a new district was recently estab lished ln southern California tha Doheny Memorial library obtained the privilege of sepresenting it in thla capacity. To these “official libraries" the government makea available its great quantities of written material, the subject of which is gathered from all parts of the country.
The bulletins range in subject from the very technical to the popular. The bureau of mines re-, ports may be classed as the former while the pamphlet on tha best way to make your lawn grow would be a more popular type ol pamphlet.
Music Students Heard on Radio
University of Southern California musicians will present one of the feature radio programs of the week Sunday, at 2:30 p. m. over KFI, when the weekly School of Music concert goes on the air.
'Under the direction of Horatio Cogswell, chairman of the voice department, the School of Music students this week will present a half-hour of vocal and piano music.
Carroll Seawall, pianist, will play Brahms' “Raphsody tn B flat;” “Evening ln Granada," by Debussy, and “Ritual Fire Dance,” by DeFalla.
Hubert Head, baritone, will sing four numbers
ART EXHIBIT
Studeuts are invited to attend the current art exhibits at the
Doheny Memorial library.
Research School To Be Established Here Next Month
A new School of Research, organized within the University of Southern California graduate school, and emphasising especially original research by faculty members and candidates for ths Ph.D. degree, is announced by President R. B. voo KlelnSmld to become effective July 1, with Dean Rockwell D. Hunt as director.
“Establishment of the new school ls in recognition of the unique position of the Unlver* sity of Southern California lu the field of instruction aud guidance of students at the highest stages of preparation for their professions or scientil’c careers. Dean Hunt said.
Membership In the School ot Research will be granted to those students who are formaJly admitted to caididacy for the Ph.D. degree. Visiting scholars may likewise be recognised, Under special conditions other recommended graduates already : holding the master's degree may be elected tc memberakip by lh® Graduate t’ouncll.