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SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Summer News
VOL. IV
72
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY, JULY 18, 1949 NO. 11
Law School Plans Bill of Rights Forum
An open forum on the Bill of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations assembly will be held in the law auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dean Sheldon D. Elliott of the School of Law announced Friday.
The Bill of Human Rights is similar to the Bill of
'^Rights of the US Constitution, but guarantees individual freedoms on
During Signup
Get Activity Book Photo
Student activity books for the 1949-1950 season, priced at $12.50, may be purchased during preregistration, July 18-27, at the University avenue ticket office adjoining the information office.
Any student who has registered for a minimum of six units ‘ for the fall semester may present his stamped fee bill at the ticket office and have his photograph taken starting 1 p.m. today, said John Morley, ticket manager, Friday.
The activity book is good for admission to all football games and other athletic events and productions of the drama department, as well as a copy of the 1950 El Rodeo.
The pre-sale of activity books during preregistration will enable students tc avoid standing in line to buy the book in the fall, said Morley.
Photographs for the activity books will not be taken following the July registration period until the week of September 6.
Married students must offer adequate procf that they’re really in the blessed state in order to purchase a “spouse” season ticket, good for admission to the rooting section, at the same price.
an international basis.
Speaking for the document will be James Simsarian, a State Department official. He is advisor to the US representatives on the UN Human Rights commission.
Dr. Carl Cristol Jr., visiting associate professor of political science, will oppose the plan. He is a specialist on international law.
Dr. Hugh M. Tiner, president of George Pepperdine college and president of the Southern California Council for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization, will preside.
Lawyers have a vital stake in the Bill of Human Rigfats because so many members of law-making bodies are attorneys, said Prof. John W. Ervin of the law school, who helped arrange the forum.
Ervin founded the SC Council for UNESCO in the law school last fall.
Davis to Jive Again in SU
Popular demand for a repeat performance by Jimmy Davis and his orchestra has made tht? University Recreation association schedule another all-U Summer Session dance for Friday night.
The Student Union lounge will again be the scene of the dance which will start at 9 and end at 12. Cokes and cookies Will be available for refreshments. Cost is 60 cents per student.
Davis’ band boasts a vocalist and music styled in the famous Glenn Millet style. Fox trots, waltzes, rhumbas, and sambas, will be played. Requests will be honored, if the music is available.
Three former SC students are members of the nine-pie'ce orchestra.
Topic of Talk India and World'
Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India’s ambassador to the United States, will speak on “India and the World Today” at 4:15 in Hancock auditorium this afternoon. Sister of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister
of India, Mme. Pandit was appointed ambassador from
India to the United States early*-this year, coming to this country
Secretaries
. . . are needed in the office of the Handbook editor, 323 Student Union. Editor Art Williams promises plenty of typing.
Graduate
Noticc
Tuesday, July 26, is the final day to present to the dean of the graduate school petition for admission to candidacy for the master’s degree (Jan. 1950) on basis of:
(a) a satisfactory score in the graduate record examination and
(b) satisfactory thesis outline and bibliography.
This petition must be endorsed by the student’s chief adviser.
Emory S. Bogardus, Dean, Graduate School
Wintner Recital Set for Tonight
The School of Music will present a graduate recital tonight in Hancock auditorium at 8:30 featuring Fleur Paula Wintner, mez-zo-contralto. Another recital is scheduled for tomorrow night featuring Mary Ayers Fisk, pianist.
Miss Wintner’s recital will feature nine selections including “Die Verschweigung,” and “Warnung,” Mozart.
Tomorrow night’s recital by Mary Ayers Fisk will include piano numbers by Bach, Mozart, and Schumann. A student of Lillian Steuber, Miss Fisk is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon (national music fraternity) and Phi Beta Kappa.
Goethe Exhibit In SC Library
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, an unusual collection of the German poets’ works has been put on display in the University library.
The exhibit includes the complete works of Goethe in the 143-volume Weimar edition, from the recently acquired Gomperz library of philosophy.
On show in cases in Doheny’s main corridor are pictures of Goethe and the Goethe house.
Among the interesting memorabilia of Goethe on display are papers on the Poet by Thomas Mann and Bernard Shaw, and a facsimile of one of Goethe’s letters to some English friends.
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One display case contains special editions of “Faust” illustrated with engravings.
The collection will be on exhibit during the entire Summer Session.
Christian
. . . Science organization is holding its weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 3 p.m., in the Little Chap-, el of Silence.
in April.
Prior to this appointment she was ambassador to Russia. She also has been very active in the United Nations.
Although the British government had appointed official representatives from India to the San Francisco conference in 1945, she went there to represent unofficially the people of India.
She attended the Paris meeting of the UN in 1948 as India’s official representative, returning to Russia at its conclusion to resume her duties as ambassador.
Today’s address is cne of several she has delivered in the city during her visit here. The public has been invited to attend.
Hawaii Fight For Statehood To be Related
“The History or Statehood for Hawaii,’* will be related Wednesday, 3:15, Hancock auditorium, by Charles Hunter, associate professor and chairman of the department of history, University of Hawaii.
In his survey of the movement of Hawaii for statehood, Professor Hunter will tell how the kings of Hawaii tried to use the movement as a means of saving themselves from annexation by other countries, only to be annexed by the US in 1898.
The 100-year-old movement has seen numerous congressional investigations and discussions, and the introduction of a bill for statehood by every territorial delegate. A plebiscite in 1940 found the people 2 to 1 in favor of statehood.
Von Hofe to Tell Thoughts Of Writers
What Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, and other great American writers thought of the Germans, and what the great German writ* ers thought of us will be told to* morrow by Prof. Harold von Hofe, 3:15, Hancock auditorium.
Speaking on the subject, “American-German Sympathy and Antipathy in Literature,” Professor von Hofe will describe the American reactions to the customs, government, politics, and life of the other country.
The talk is similar to those given recently by Professor von Hofe at the Universities of Heidelberg, Vienna, Munich, and others on his tour of Germany.
He will also discuss the modern German’s attitude toward Americans and the American Military Government in Germany.
The speech is one in the topical lecture series of which Prof, Stanley Townsend is chairman.
Why Philosophy?
Brownell Plans Education Talk
The Education - Administration club will hold its weekly luncheon Wednesday in the Student Union grill.
Reservations must be made by tomorrow noon in 202 Administration building.
“Educational Leadership” will be discussed by Samuel M. Brownell, professor of educational administration at Yale and president of the New Haven state teachers college. .
Dr. Brownell spoke here recently at a school-administration conference sponsored by the School of Education.
Comic Book Brigade Oks Play
by Leon Furgatch
Local drama critics from nearby grammar schools, now on vacation, have proclaimed the forth-coming drama department’s three-act stage fantasy, “Mrs. Moonlight,” a spellbinding show.
According to Adele Cook, member of the cast, a comic-book brigade of 10 and 11-year-olds have been sitting through every rehearsal at the Stop Gap theater with awed looks on their faces.
When an acior gets off the stage and sits down, she said, one of these Superman fans will get up and sit next to him.
Adele, whom we’d like to sit
next to ourselves, plays the part cf Edith, Sarah Moonlight’s stepsister, in the production which will be presented in Bovard auditorium Thursday through Saturday nights at 8:30. Tickets are now available in the University ticket office for 50 cents.
The Benn W. Levy play departs from previous drama department productions.’It traces the life of Sarah Moonlight through three generations. Sarah, afraid she will lose her beauty and then her husband, repeatedly wishes to stay perpetually young.
The play revolves around Sarah’s experiences after the wish is
miraculously - granted. The action takes place during the period 1880 to 1928. The audience will see the spectacle of actors aging over a period of 50 years.
Playing the leads are Dan Simon Scott as Tom Moonlight, Mary Vallee as Sarah Moonlight, and Charlene Hardey as Jane Moonlight.
Larry Harmon will play the part of a 19th century wolf; Tom Burdick win play the part of Percy Middling; Bruce Savan will portray Sarah Moonlight’s grandson; and Barbara Murphy will portray a family retainer.
Panel to Tell Teacher Needs
A knowledge on the part Ql teachers of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle — no mean teacher^ themselves— may come in mighty
handy.
And a panel of four experts will discuss “Why Teachers Need Philosophy,” this afternoon, 3:15, Hancock auditorium.
Merritt M. Thompson, professor of education, will speak first on the concepts and structure of educational philosophy.
Harry S. Broudy, professor of philosophy and education, State Teachers College, Framingham, Mass., will discuss the relationship of the value theory and edu-% cation.
The practical application of philosophy to education wiU be told by Philip J. Schlesinger, instructor in history and political science, Fullerton junior college.
Frank C. Wegener, associate professor of education, who will act as moderator, will tell of the nature of thought processes and how they apply to education.
The panel in educational philosophy is one of a series sponsored by the School of Education.
Registrar's
Notice
Friday, July 22, is the last day to drop a 6-weeks course with a “W” if the work Is passing. After July 22, no. 6-wctek courses may be dropped.
Howard D. Patmore, Registrar.