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THE YELLOW DOG
it He Barks For All
No. 1
U. S. C., Los Angeles, Cal., April 24, 1919
Vol. 1
U. S. C TO START BUILDING SOON
—By Courte'y of The Stowaway
Junior Thespians
To Play March 2
The seat sale for the Junior Class Play, “All of a Sudden Peggy”, is now in full swing, and the success of the campaign is a surprise even to Robinson, the energetic and optimistic promotor of the affair.
As has been said before, the Junior Class Play will be staged Friday. May 2,—a week from tomorrow night —at the Gamut Club house, Eleventh and Flower streets. There are only 750 seats in the theater and these are being sold for 50 and 75 cents each. Make reservations at the Book F.x-change Tuesday, Wednesday, 1 hurs-day and Friday between 11 and 1:30 o’clock.
Miss Betty Hughes has the leading feminine role, playing opposite Mr. Clark Marshall, who plays the part of Jimmy.
Now, this Marshall person is no amateur. He has been acting since ii04, if one can believe the press agents. He has played in stock thru-out the middle west and was starred
in numerous all-university dramatic productions at the University of Minnesota, where he is a memberof the Garrick Club, the men’s honorary dramatic society.
Mr. Marshall appeared in a number of Hollywood Community theater productions and attracted the attention of Mr. Frank Keenan, the well known actor, who immediately engaged him to take part in a production now in the making at the Brun-ton studios.
The annual Junior play is the one big event of the college year. Everyone steps out to see and be seen. All the faculty are there with their wives; Prexy has reservations; all the political candidates will blossom out; and (get this) the play is really clever. Miss Gurney, the coach, is very enthusiastic about the cast. The props and costumes will be complete down to the minutest detail, and a professional is in charge of the stage id settings.
Friday, May 2 is the date! Have you one?
GO TO SOLOMON’S
MISCELLANEOUS
Last week the Student Body out at Oxy decided by a vote of 135 to 90 that dancing was to be conducted at that institution under faculty patronage. Next day the administration decided there would “be no abridgement of the regulation against dancing, which has been in effect throughout the history of the institution.’
Oxy hat, nothing on us. We, too, are living in the past, and have traditions and customs every bit as antiquated as they.
Oh, Gosh!
He—“Hungary?”
His—“Yes, Siam.”
He—“All right, Pll Fiji.”
Lost—One of my girls between the candy store and the 9:50 period.
Reward offered. Return to “V\ hoppie” Ziegler.
For Sale—“A little bit o’ Love.” Inquire Margaret Dick.
For Sale or Trade—Will trade some good unadulterated pep ami jazz for a good brand of brains and studious endeavor. FROSH CLASS.
Will Sell at Cost—A goodly number of discarded and worn-out basketball players used at last game with Oxy. Look like new. Henry Bruce, Mgr.
PRONOUNCED PESTS
Another bane of my young life,
For which there is no cure.
,1s the boob who (and his ilk is rife) Talks of an “amachewer.”
UNIVERSITY’S GREATEST EL RODEO IS BEING PUT TOGETHER
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El Rodeo is going to be a revelation to the student body iu general. The Junior class has been working lo, these many months to put across a yearbook that will stand out in the memory of U. S. C. people.
Calvin Lauderbach announces that I.aw school has definitely decided to have 50 pages in the book, which will give a representation of 6 colleges in the annual.
Miss Zuma Palmer and her busy corps of assistants have assembled material that will make a book not only as big, but as good, or better if possible than any that has ever been published heretofore.
The service department is going to be particularly complete. Not only the name of every U. S. C. person who gave his services to his country, but pictures of many of them and appropriate memorials to those who gave their lives in the great war. This might well be said to be a Great Victory number of FI Rodeo. It will typify the new spirit of the Greater University, the period of Reconstruction, the enthusiasm of those returning to college after having made sacrifices on land and sea and in the air.
No subscriptions will be received after the contract is made with the printers, and that will be made next wiek, perhaps. If you want an El Rodeo, now is the accepted time to speak up. They are two dollars a copy, one dollar down; and they will be ready for distribution somewhere around the 25th of May.
Amiable Claude Reeves is in charge of the humorous section. It is said that this department will be almost as humorous as the YFALLOW DOG.
The Art department will excell per-
Ground-Breaking To Take Place By Commencement
The future of U. S. C. was never so bright as it is today; declared a reliable informant in a statement given exclusively to the YELLOW DOG yesterday. “Ground will be broken by commencement time for the first unit of the assembled colleges of the University, which are to be constructed on the campus, extending from Thirty-fourth Street to Exposition Park. At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, one of the best architects in the State was appointed to draft plans for the proposed Greater University. It is only a matter of a few months before we will see the starting of actual building operations.
“A million and a quarter dollars were raised in the big campaign conducted last year, and we now have assurance of support from certain interests in Los Angeles, which will increase our building fund to TWO MILLION DOLLARS. W ith such a fund, together with the other numerous and extensive endowments, U. S. C. will be enabled to realize the deals she has long had—to have all the colleges on one campus.
It is not generally realized, but it is nevertheless a fact, that only two universities west of Chicago have greater daily attendance. These are the University of California and the University of Washington—both State institutions. But two denominational institutions in the entire nation approach U. S. C. in point of attendance—Northwestern University, with its 5300 registrants, and Syracuse, with 4200. Last year U. S. C. enrolled 4427 students.
“With a magnificent thousand-foot frontage extending to Exposition Park, our campus, covering fifty-five acres, will be unexcelled. The Los Angeles City Park Board has under way the plans for a huge athletic field with a stadium seating 30,000 to be erected at Exposition Park. By virtue of its location this University naturally will have prior right to the use of this field and equipment.
“In the entire Southland no other institution of higher learning has nearly as many students as the University of Southern California. None possesses the prestige, nor the matchless opportunities offered by location in the largest city of the Pacific Coast.
“But Southern California must have a University yet greater if the demands of this section are to be met.
“U. S. C. is prepared to meet them, and meet them she will!"
A Greater University, with all nine colleges together on one campus, for years has been the fond dream of the students and administrators of U. S. C. For a time there existed considerable speculation as to where the new establishment was to be located. All rumors were set aside by President Bovard in an address, March 30, 1917, to the students, faculty and friends of the institution, in which he announced that the University had obtained nearly the entire frontage on University Avenue, between Exposition Park and the present campus, and had chosen for its permanent site the location it now occupies.
haps anything that has before been i attempted in El Rodeo—some of the 1 inserts will be in three colors. No expense is being spared No one is making any money out of this proposition. It will just pay for itself. Over 500 subscriptions have already been taken, but more are needed. If no one has yet reserved an El Rodeo, see my Junior.
Those Frosh, Again
A member of the class of ’22 handed in a paper in an American History class which contained the following peculiar statement:
“General Braddock was killed iu the Revolutionary War. He had three horses shot under him, and a fourth went through his clothes."