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The Southern California
TROJAN
Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
Senior Class Meeting 11:40, Room 40.
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, December 13, 1917
No. 21
SERVICE FLAG TO BE RAISED AT 11:40 TODAY
260 Stars to Shine in Honor of Men Serving Country
FLAG 12 BY 20 FEET
Prof. Tully Knoles to Deliver Principal Address—Girls Make Flag
Promptly at 11:40 o'clock today the beautiful new U. S. C. Service Flag will be raised for the first time to the summit of the flagpole on the Liberal Arts lawn. Its inner field of white will bear the goodly number of 260 live-pointed stars, one for each Liberal Arts student now in the United States army or navy.
A brief ceremony, at which every student on the campus is to be present, will accompany the flag-raising. In the absence of President Bovard, who is on an Eastern trip, Professor Tully Knoles will deliver a brief address.
A. S. B. President Clifford Henderson will voice the thanks of the student-body to the special committee, consisting of Hallie Marvin and Helen Kern, who made the huge flag after the official pattern.
Why, Russell! We Did hot Think That Of You!
Ouch!—twice In the same place. Russell Buffum is an unlucky man. He was arrested for speeding in his home town, Long Beach—for driving at an excess rate of speed. His father came to the rescue and secured his release. Pinched again on the same charge a week later in Cucumonga, he had no papa to get him off Ten dollars was painlessly extracted from Russell.
COLLEGE OF LAW STARTS NEW TERM JANUARY 29
VACATION TO BEGIN FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FIVE ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED AT U.S.C.
No less than five U. S. C. students have announced their engagements during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Paul have announced the engagement of their daughter, Florence, to Hallam Hans Anderson. The young couple are both graduates of U. S. C Miss Paul is a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, while the groom to be is a Kappa Psi Gamma. No date has been set for the wedding.
Miss Aleene Beach, a graduate of the University Prep School, and Ernest Becker, a student at the College of Law, were married last evening at the
. home of the bride. Becker is a mem-The student battalion will form on ^er 0f Delta Chi.
Bovard field and march to University avenue carrying the flag. The ceremony will occupy about fifteen minutes, and will conclude In time for senior chapel.
The new standard measures 12 by 20 feet. In accordance with official specifications, the outer circumference is red, the inner field white, while the stars are blue. Space is left for 46 additional stars, and from present prospects the space will soon be filled.
’ NOT TO MEET
Authorities and Sophomores Opposed to Staging Inter-Class Battle TTiis Year
Miss Myrtle Harrison Pape has announced her engagement to Clayton Brockman. No definite plans for the wedding have been made as yet. Miss Pape is a member of Phi Mu. Brockman is a Phi Alpha.
Miss Elsie Behymer was married last Sunday evening at the home of her parents to Dr. Earl Moody, who is a lieutenant in the Medical Corps at Camp Kearny. Dr. Moody is a member of Phi Alpha, while his bride is a Pi Beta Phi.
Miss Catherine Cottle^ a Kappa Alpha Theta, was married last Thursday to Lieutenant William Gibbon in San Francisco. The wedding had been set for a later date, but Lieutenant Gibbon received orders to leave for parts unknown and a hasty marriage was decided upon.
Dean Porter Believes War Will Greatly Effect Law Opportunities
New classes will be started at the College of Law with the opening of the second semester on January 29, according to an announcement made last Tuesday by Dean Frank M. Porter.
"We have made an effort to put sufficient new courses into our curriculum that graduates of high schools who complete their courses the first of February may enter the College of Law without any delay,” said Dean Porter. "By registering at the opening of the second semester which begins on January 29, students may graduate with the class which entered in September by taking two of the summer sessions. We believe that the war is going to have a great effect on the legal profession inasmuch as so many of the attorneys and law students are now entering some branch of the service. Immediately after the war is over there will be a great influx of people into Southern California and business will receive an unprecedented boom. It will require attorneys to transact a great part of this business.
“It may be seen from this that yqung men who begin their law course now will graduate at about the time various authorities believe that the war will be over. Not only in a business way will the legal field be wide but from the standpoint of public life the lawyer will have greater influence than ever.
"Announcement of the new courses starting with the second semester are being made in order that those who graduate from high schools In midterm may begin their law study without any delay. We are expecting quite a large number of new students from the high school winter classes.”
Vacation will begin Friday Afternoon. This announcement was made by the registrar’s office early this week. The action probably resulted from the desire to give students more time in which to earn Christmas spending money.
Many men from the University have signed up with the Y. M. C. A. for work at the various department stores, and the Wells Fargo Express Company. Openings for work are yet available, and men desiring Christmas work should see E. Charlson at the Y. M. office at once.
POETIC TALENT OF UNIVERSITY WINS HONORS
TROJANS MAY PLAY IN CHRISTMAS GAME
The traditional yearly frosh-soph football battle did not take place Thursday afternoon as had been planned. The freshmen aggregation were gnashing their teeth in anticipation of the event, when without warning, the sophomores announced that as far they were concerned the game "as off. it later turned out that the first year men were the only ones in favor of the contest, both Coach Cromwell and President Bovard having expressed their desire that the game be not held.
One of the reasons given by the challenged team for not playing was that the freshmen, contrary to custom, were going to play their regular team against a soph team badly crippled through loss of several varsity men. Jhe contest was to have been a benefit game this year.
PREPS WALLOP POLYTECHNIC LIGHTWEIGHTS BY 20-7 SCORE
The University high school basketball team easily defeated the Polytechnic lightweights Wednesday afternoon hy a score of 20 to 7 on the local gym Boor.
The University preps will play the *• H. S alumni tomorrow afternoon.
Christmas football will be served up to the local fans by a team from the submarine base at the harbor and an all-star college eleven, under the direction of Walter Rheinschild and Jerry Abbott.
It is rumored that a number of Trojan players will mix with Occidental and Pomona stars on the collegians’ eleven.
The game is to be played at Washington park. The proceeds will be turned over to the submarine base to be used for building a gymnasium.
There is an effort being made to arrange a conflicting Christmas game for Bovard field between the Utah artillerymen and another picked team from Camp Kearny.
SPORTS TO BE CURTAILED
The Pacific coast conference, comprising the University of California and the colleges of the Northwest, has decided to eliminate inter-state com petition In 1918, on account of the great expense involved and the prevailing war-time conditions. Football will be the lone exception to this rule.
An important new ruling of the conference is to the effect that there shall be no football coaching or general practice before September 15.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT BEGINS THIS WEEK
The annual elimination tennis tournament, under the auspices of the Girls’ club, starts this week.
Sigrid Ehrenclou and Professor La Porte will play Edna Carrick and Henry Bruce; the winners of these doubles will play Margarete Hiskey and Robert Raeger. Lorrain Hasselo and V. M. Taylor will play Louise Gran-then and Arthur Zeigler. The victorious partners of this match will play Gladys Cone and her partner, who is to be selected later. Ruth Durkee and Harris will play the winners of the above match. Helen Humphreys and Darhanian will play Grace Witherell and Giles Brownell. The victors here will play Sue Kuhrts and Robert Honner. Jessie Grieve and Paul Beale will play the winning couple. Marion Neuls and Prof. Hugh Wlllet will play these last winners. Margarite Giffen and Harold Blakesley will be the next competitors. Juanita Amestoy and Professor Kenneth M. Bissel will be next ln line. Elizabeth Wahl and Professor Arnold will play Margarite McKim and Dwight McFadyen. Nellita Schlotte and Art Taylor will meet Laura Long and j Ben Baker, the winners of which match will play Helena Brann and I Freeman.
TWENTY FIVE MEN OUT FOR TRACK
Twenty-five men have answered the first call of Coach Cromwell for cinder path aspirants and have worked out every day this week under the coach’s watchful eye.
About half of last year’s team, including Captain Noel George, are at present in the University and will furnish a foundation on which Cromwell will build his 1918 varsity. It is rumored that George Maurer, sensational freshman pole vaulter last season, will return to college in February, thus swelling the ranks of the veterans.
The antl-freshman rule will not be enforced during track season, and the coach expects that ^ considerable number of first year men will develop into capable varsity performers. It is probable that several star high school performers will register at the University for the second semester, and these will add their strength to the Trojan team.
"With the remains of last year’s varsity and the abundance of new material on hand, it looks as though we will be able to build up a better-rounded track team than we had last season,” said Captain George, yesterday. ‘‘There are a lot of ‘frosh’ whom we expect to be able to strengthen the squad in the weights and other field events, which were our weak points last year.”
The 1918 schedule has not been arranged yet, the war as usual, being responsible for the unsettled conditions.
Poems of Six S. C. Bards Included in Anthology of College Verse
SECOND TO HARVARD
Two Poems Win Honorable Mention—One Poet, Stan-Kimmel, Now in France
TEN DOLLARS MORE WILL ENABLE U. S. C. TO KEEP 1 POLISH CHILD ALIVE A YEAR
Mrs. Mackey announces that the fund for the Polish people has grown to $40.00, as a result of the donations and collection taken up last Tuesday. If $50.00 can be raised one Polish child can be taken care of for one year, and Mrs. Mackey will be glad to receive any amount to add to this worthy cause.
Poetic talent of U. S. C. students meets with unusual recognization through the inclusion of no less than seven poems in a volume entitled, “The Poets of the Future,” an anthology of verse by undergraduates of American universities and colleges.
/ In point of the number of poems selected for publication, U. S. C. and Stanford rank second, being outdone only by Harvard. Seven poems by campus bards won the coveted honor, and two others are given honorable mention. The University of California contributed five. The task of selection was done by Henry T. Schnitt-kind, who adjusted poems from 82 colleges as worthy of reprinting, and gave title-mentlon to contributions from 69. The anthology was published hy the Stratford Publishing Company of Boston.
The lyric, "roll of honor,” of this University, and the titles of the poems published, are as follows:
Ivy Grant, “The Soul of My Love”; Ellen Dodson, "Evening”; Heinrich Lehr, “The- Survival 'of the Unfit”; Maryetta Lehr, ‘‘Princess and Peasant”; Carlyle F. MacIntyre, “Night”; Helen Walker, "Naples 1519”; Rex Wills, “War." Honorable Mention: "Apperception,” by Kathleen Isabel Byam, and “Noctis Silen-tium,” by Stanley Preston Kimmel.
Kimmel is now in France as a member of the U. S. Ambulance corps.
Editor Schnlttkind in his preface states that his selection was based on the basic qualities of the poems submitted, rather than upon technical excellence merely, "I refuse to measure the technique of a poem like a yard of cloth,” he writes, “or to analyze its quality like a pound of lard. The poems I have selected for this anthology have all, at some point or other, filled me with Joy.
"For the Hake of the future poetry of America, I fervently hope that the poets of this anthology will in the coming years continue to write for the sheer joy of creation rather than for the editor’s check.”
DR.
HUNT ELECTED HEAD
OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Dr. Rockwell I). Hunt, head of economics and dean of the graduate council, was elected president of the Historical Society of Southern California for 1917-18 in a recent election. Professor Westergard, of Pomona College, was chosen first vice-president.
Dr. Roy Malcom, head of the department of political science was elected second vice-president.
SOUTH PASADENA AND
POMONA TO MIX SATURDAY
South Pasadena and Pomona high schools are to meet on Bovard field Saturday In the second round of the Southern California interscholastic championship games.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM
H. MEAD IS DEAD
Funeral services for Professor William II. Mead, a member of the College of Music faculty, who died last Saturday at his home, 151 South Union avenue, were held Monday afternoon at the Gamut club.
Professor Mead was a member of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra for sixteen years, and played in the Catalina Island band for ten seasons.
At the University he was faculty director of the band and professor of the flute at the College of Music.
Professor Mead leaves u wife and three married daughters,
ARISTO INITIATES
At the Tuesday evening meeting of IWistotelian Literary society this year’s new members were initiated Into the society.