Dr. Selecman In Chapel 11:40
The Southern California.
TROJAN
Official Organ of the Associated Studenta, University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, February 8, 1918
Varsity Basketball Next Thursday
No. 25
TROJAN REUNION AT KEARNY
‘Stare Decisis ’ to be Published by S. C. Law College
LIBERAL ARTS MAY PURCHASE SPACE IN BOOK
Seniors To Consider Printing Their Pictures In New Book
18’S TO MEET MONDAY
Sororitiesand Fraternities May Take Space in Publication
Day of Prayer
The annual Day of Prayer, observed by all the colleges in the United States, will be celebrated today in chapel at the 11:40 period. The custom of appointing a day upon which all the student-bodles of the nation may unite in devotional exercises has never had more significance than it has this year, when the colleges are contributing thousands of young men to the cause of democracy.
HENRY BRUCE CHOSEN S. C. Men Hold First
GIRLS’ TRACK MEET
TO BE HELD SOON
Law school has decided to publish its annual book “Stare Decisis.” At a meeting Wednesday night, the Law College executive, oratorical, and athletic commltties, voted unanimously for the publication of their official organ. As the Junior claBS of Liberal Arts felt unable to edit and publish "El Rodeo” this year, the College of Law has appropriated $674 of its student funds to start work on its book which was published within “El Rodeo” the last few years. Law previously published a “Stare Decisis” separate from the "El Rodeo.”
A resolution was passed by which any organization or branch of activities of the various colleges may secure Bpace for pictures or articles.
J. W. Campbell was elected manager. N. J. Kendall and Pratt Ellis are running for editor, and all arrangements are being made to get the plan under way.
President Bovard and Dean Porter of the College of Law have authorized the managers to solicit advertisement? only after the list has been submitted to them for approval. It was decided that the arrangement of securing advertisements was the only plan which would make the book possible from the financial standpoint. As soon as a fair estimate can be made of the size and number of the copies, prices for space will be announced, according to President Victor Koenig of the Law College, a minimum rate will be charged. as they are endeavoring to get out the book in accordance with all desires of the “Hoover plan.”
President Cliff Henderson of Liberal Arts, heartily endorses the plan and is boosting for a section for university athletics and the Greater University programme.
At a meeting of the Senior class next Monday at 11:40 the plan for securing space for Senior pictures will be submitted. Many members of the class feel that the plan will provide a means of substitution for the usual El Rodeo, and enable the class of 1918 to be represented by a publication.
All fraternities, sororities, or other organizations wishing to secure space for the book shall notify J. W. Campbell, at Law School, or Ben Baker, at Liberal Arts, on or before Tuesday, February 12.
The women’s athletic committee has decided to hold the annual track meet for the girls of the university just before Easter vacation or the last of March. It is open for competition between the different classes, and all girls interested should come out for practice every Thursday at 3:30 p. m. This is the one big' affair of the year for the girls. The events are now being arranged by members of the Women’s Athletic committee.
REV. C. C. SELECMAN
TO SPEAK AT ASSEMBLY
The Reverend Mr. C. C. Selecman is announced as the chief speaker at this morning’s assembly. The Rev. Selecman is one of Los Angeles’ most prominent ministers and lecturers. He conducts services at the Trinity church. The chapel exercises also will include songs by the men’s and girls’ glee clubs.
ZETA TAU ALPHA
Zeta Tau Alpha announces the pledg ing of Georgette Puller.
New Manager is Head of Student Activities and Member of Board of Control
At the meeting of the University Athletic Board of Control on Tuesday, Henry Bruce, a well-known student, was chosen to act as graduate manager of the University. The Board’s action in appointing the new man has been approved by President Bovard.
Bruce was chosen to fill the office left vacant last spring by Warren Bovard, who enlisted in the aviation corps, and is now a captain in the ground department of the service at Kelly field, San Antonio, Texas.
The new manager will be at the head of all student activities. He will frame the schedules for the University’s major sport seasons and make arrangements for all dual agreements. He will have the management of all the football games staged on the local field and will have charge of the ticket sales for all sports. From his new office, he automatically becomes a member of the Board of Control.
The Board determines the athletic policy of the University and the Graduate manager carries out this policy.
Bruce’s appointment to the graduate managership is for an indefinite period.
“BILL” DALLAS A FIRST “LIEUT.'
“Bill" Dallas, ’17, who left the Uni versity to attend the first officers’ training camp at the Presidio last year, is now a first lieutenant at Camp Lewis.
TO BE GIVEN ON
Lectures Will Be Delivered by Miss Ethel Andrus, Prof. Owen, Prof. Hopkins
Fritzies’ ‘Tinned Fish’ Miss Two Trojans Now In France
American Boys Forced to Use Signals “Kidding” French Maidens Lads See Strange Sights
In
Trojan
SENIOR CLASS MEET
A senior class meeting is called for Monday at 11:40 in Room 40. The purpose is to elect a president for this semester, as Wendell La Due has been called north for service.
Two more former University students have arrived safely in France and will soon be ready to take their places at the French front, according to word recently received from Tom Owens, last year a freshman at Liberal Arts, and now a member of the 162nd Infantry. Oscar Marshal, also a member of the class of '20, is with the ambulance corps in the same division with Owens.
“There are a lot of very beautiful women here,” Tom writes, after having been in France only a few days, "but we can’t talk French and they can't talk English. We have to use the sign language principally ” i “You should see the French sol-
diers,” he continues. “They certainly are fine-loking in their blue uniforms.
“All the people here are dressed differently from those at home. Wooden shoes are quite common.”
The two men were living in the Northwest when recruiting for the 162nd was in progress, and enlisted at the same time that a number of athletes from the Oregon Agricultural College Joined the service. After a lengthy stay at a camp in North Carolina, they were transferred to Camp Mills, at Long Island, New York. “Sometime” during the late months of 1917 they "went across.’’ Following a brief stop in England, they crossed the English cannel and got to France early in the present year.
Gathering of the Kind at Southern Cantonment
Special to the Trojan Camp Kearny,
Holding the first college reunion that has been held at Camp Kearny, former students and alumni of the University of Southern California assembled in the conference room at the Y. M. C. A. Administration building tonight and paid tribute to the memory of their Alma Mater over the banquet table.
Succeeding the delicious evening meal served up by Miss Dorothy Caton, Cafeteria director of the "Hostess House," and a former woman student at U. of S. C., Maj. James S. McKlnght of the One Hundred Sixtieth Infantry, as toastmaster for the occasion, started the tongueB of the assembly a-going and It wasn’t long until speakers were rising to their feet and paying glowing tribute to Uncle Sam and to U. S. C. Kaiser Wilhelm didn't come in for any considerable amount of flattery.
Colonel C. F. Hutchins, commander of the One Hundred Sixtieth Infantry and a graduate of the U. S. C. College of Law, spoke on the subject, “U. S. C. Over the Top.” He urged the men in the room to do their best when the final contest with the Hun should come and he asked them to fight and if needs be, to die in a manner befitting their university and their country.
Maj. Charles W. Decker, division sanitary inspector and a graduate of the U. S. C. College of Medicine, spoke for a few minutes on the subject, "Patrolling for Germs." He drew a logical comparison between germs and Germans.
"The Old Stamping Ground—U. S. C.,” was the topic of the toast made by Lieut. L. C. Deaver, instructor in light machine gun for the division. Lieut. Deaver got romantic in his talk and dwelt at length on the beauties of the U. S. C. campus when seen by moonlight—especially with young ladies around.
Lieutenant Egbert E. Moody of the One Hundred Fifty-seventh Field Hospital, talked on "Cutting Up the Kaiser,” Lieut. Ralph W. Avery, M. R. C., a veteran of the Spanish-American War and a graduate of U. S. C. in the early days, told about some of the doings which went on at the university in the late nineties; August Schoetl, former theology student, talked on "Sky Pilots on the War Path”; and Telford Work, editor of Trench and Camp, the camp paper which the Y. M. C. A. is circulating in the cantonment, spoke on the subject, "Taking the Ills Out of Drills." During the course of the evening program tbe fact was brought out that the U. of S. C. has over seven hundred stars in its service flag.
Place cards for the plates had been made up by the women studentB of tbe university and also the patriotic college girls sent down to their former college classmates a ten pound box of chocolate candy. The gift was sent by Miss Ruth Burnight, sister of Sergt.-Maj. Ralph Burnight of the One Hundred Fifteenth Sanitary Train and president of the Associated Women Students at the university.
The conference room in which the
The first of the addresses on vocations for women which Mrs. Mackey has arranged as a special feature of the Red CrosB class this semester, will take place Tuesday, February 19. It will be delivered by Professor F. E. Owen, whose subject will be, “The Psychology of Vocational Choice."
On Tuesday, February 26, Miss Ethel Andrus, principal of Lincoln high school, will talk on "Vocations for Women.” Miss Andrus Is developing, at the school of which she is in charge, a curriculum along vocational lines which is in every way remarkable. Her address will be full of Interest.
There will follow a series of talks by various persons, each of whom will tell of one calling open to women, and the opportunities and problems to be found therein. The first profession to be discussed In detail will be journal ism, and the speaker will be Professor Ernest J. Hopkins, head of the U. S. C. Journalism dq|»artment. The date of this address is March 5.
JOURNALISM STUDENT ON
“PICTURE PLAY LIFE” 8TAFF
T. B. Handy, special student in the journalism department, is associate editor of a new monthly magazine In the motion picture field devoted to the motion-plcture Interest, the name of which is “Picture-Play Life." Tbe February number of the publication, which is the first number to be printed, has just made its appearance. Handy conducts a regular department under the caption of “Hoo’s Hoo and What’s What."
Handy is a member of Delta Beta Tau fraternity.
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