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Vol. XI
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, November 6, 1919
No. 16
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OF BOOKS ADDED 10
IFriend of School Makes Gift ot Works on Literature and Art
CALIFORNIANS RECEIVE
RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS
ITHREE HUNDRED BOOKS
[Department Privileged to Use Valuable Collection Now Out of Print
“Books are our best friends. We can neglect them or make use of them and they will always remain true to us,” said Mr. Francis A. Hoffman, who has given recently a collection of more than three hundred valuable books on English Literature and Art to the University library.
Mr. Hoffman continued: “All of my [life I have been the constant companion of books. Instead of playing, like lost young boys, I read and memorized parts of my favorite books. My
father had an immense library, and my wn contained about twenty thousand volumes. Most of my books, however, hvere destroyed by fire, and when I iagain started my library, I determined to have the works of only six authors, Ibut as I could decide on but four, I began collecting books of every author, as before.”
The entire collection is now out of
t)rint, and their value to the art and iterature departments is beyond esti-nation.
Valuable Books of Art
Among the books of art is a complete set of Landseer’s Works, the works of Raffaello, Domenichino and ithers in five volumes, also “Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculptures.” This volume appeared at the International Exhibition in 1862, and is worth several hundred dollars. There *re a number of books on old Greek ind Roman Statues, some printed as iarly as 1640.
Magazine Collection Besides the volumes on art and lit' ?rature, there are 130 bound volumes Df the New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal from 1821 to 1865 and The Edinborough Review.
Most of the collection now in posses-l|on of the library were obtained in Pngland, while Ml*. Hoffman was visiting that country, a number of years The books bear book plates, Ihowing the coat of arms of different |°yal families.
t	Donor War Veteran
Mr. Hoffman, who lives at 2722 La alle avenue, is a veteran of the Civil ^ar, and a lavryer, from Illinois. His ■alher was former governor of that ^tate, and author of the Hans Bush k?Wer articles on agriculture, publish-J throughout the country.
■ Mr. Hoffman has not only a large li-irary. but also a large collection of ■noious paintings.
Names of sixty-three college stu dents, who have received Rhodes Scholarship appointments, have just been announced by Professor Frank Aydelotte, American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Of these, two are from California and graduates of the University of California. Axelborg Graven, of Berkeley, and William Ray Dennes, of Healdsburg.
The next elections of scholars from California will be held in October 1921.
NATION OBSERVES BETTER SPEECH WEEK
“Better Speech Week” opened in Los Angeles Monday. Responding to a nation-wide plea for better English the high schools of Los Angeles entered the campaign by arranging definite programs for the week. Many of the schools will hold contests between English classes in correct pronunciation and grammar. Also there will be addresses by some of the foremost exponents of the movement.
The aim of Better Speech Week is to promote an interest in the use of, and to create a desire to teach, better English. This movement, according to Miss Evaline Dowling, head of the department of English at Jefferson High School, is the result of a highly amaz ing discovery at the time of the recent army drafts. Miss Dowling, in a recent interview, said:
“At the time of the late draft it was discoveered, to the great alarm of the country at large, that an amazing proportion of men could not speak the English language, and that an equal number were so illiterate that they could not even read or write their own native tongue. And so Congress passed a law requiring all schools in the country to conduct their classes in English.
Thus was created the Americanization movement which ultimately brought about, upon the part of those interested, a desire to teach aliens English, a movement which necessitated speaking better English ourselves.”
At present a large majority of the women’s clubs in the country are devoting much of their time to furthering the movement mentioned above. Night classes have been formed in various institutions in larger cities. Even a few of the more up-to-the-min-ute factories have taken up the idea of Americanization and are enrolling their employees in the movement.
CHEMISTRY SEMINAR TO
HEAR WAR TALK
Vernon Hodge, former assistant in the department of chemistry, will tell his experiences in the Chemical Warfare Service in France before the Chemistry Seminar, on Thursday, at four o’clock.
Mr. Hodge will tell something of the part that chemistry played in the war.
SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY PUBLISHES MONOGRAPH
The Thirteenth Monograph, published by the Sociological Society, has just been issued. It is entitled “The Finns in Ganesville, Massachusettts,” and was written by Helen Babson. Miss Babson received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1905, and of Master of Arts from the University of Southern California in 1918. She is at present a student secretary of the Pacific Coast Field of the Young Women’s Christian Association, and lecturer in Sociology of University of Southern California.
The Monograph is more than instructive, it is highly interesting, and deals with the problems of Americanization. Miss Babson claims that the Finns are a substantial, thrifty race, thoroughly honest, and possessing innumerable other worth-while qualities. But few of them are interested in becoming Americans, for there are no advantages in it. Ganesville is a sequestered spot, and very seldom has opportunity for naturalization presented. When it is, they do not refuse to become citizens, but the fact that so few have taken out papers is due to a lack of effort to interest them.
The situation set forth in her book is an interesting example of what might be done by those interested in the Americanization problem, and it is the only one of its kind in the country. The Monograph promises to attain as great a prominence as the others of the series.
TROIANS TO MEET CALIFORNIA BEARS NEXT SATURDAY
Biggest Game of the Season Scheduled to Be Played on Bovard Field Saturday
CAL. SURE OF VICTORY
Coach Henderson’s Men Are Fast Developing Into a Smooth-Working Machine
Dignity and Order
Needed Says Owen
Noise in the halls and classrooms of U. S. C. should be eliminated in order to develop the type of mind capable of clear and orderly thinking, is the opinion of Prof. F. E. Owen of the Department of Psychology.
Dignity and Order Needed Prof. Owen says that in order to get the full value out of a college education the student must have dignity and insight into the work which can only be obtained by developing order in ac-ttivity.
Increasing interest in regard to the amount of noise in the halls and class rooms is being displayed, and Prof. Owen thinks that the matter should be taken up by the student body, because of the fact that quietness is of value to the student only when the student values quietness.
Gives Suggestion He stated that much of the noise could be done away with by placing posters in the halls, telling of the advantages to be gained through quietness and also through the attitude of the upper classmen. “This would, in ttime, make orderly classes and quiet halls, with their accompanying dignity and capacity for real study a tradition in U. S. C.,” stated Prof. Owen.
FRATERNITY NEWS
Beta Phi announces the initiation of Helen Walker.
Kappa Alpha Theta announces the installation of Beta Eta Chapter at the University of Pennsylvania, Thursday and Friday, October 30 and 31.
By Morgan B. Cox
The Sagehen has squawked itself into oblivion. The Oxy Tiger has shown itself to be a good sport by rooting for Old Trojan last Saturday. It still remains to be seen, however, whether or not the Northern Bear will succumb to Southern wiles, and take itself lair-ward minus a goodly hunk of skin.
Putting both of the previous contents together and adding a little more punch for good measure will just about equal the battle that is fast approaching.
Trojans Co-operate
U. S. C. has a good team this season, a team that knows what the word co-operation really means; but its weight, experience and actual drive-power is far below the standard set by the Bears.
This does not mean, however, that U. S. C. hasn’t a fighting chance, providing she follows the ball, fights all the time, and takes advantage of the “breaks.”
For example, let us look over the result of the Stanford-O. A. C. game. In this contest O. A. C. made 403 yards to Stanford’s 67, yet Stanford won, 14 to 6.
Trojans to Watch “Breaks”
“Breaks” win many battles, and it will be U. S. C. next Saturday that will play these “breaks,” and if they come her way—watch her go!
This does not mean that the Trojans are going to plan their attack purely along a defensive basis, but it does mean that they will have to play twice to three times as hard as they have ever had to before this season.
Bears Outweigh Trojans
In the first place, to follow the ball means that a team has to be “on its toes” all the time; hitting harder, tackling harder, running harder, and playing harder than its opponents. California will outweigh the Trojans about 15 pounds to the man, so that in order to follow the ball it will mean that the men engaged will have to be twice as efficient as their more husky opponents.
And, secondly, a defensive team cannot follow the ball all the time as efficiently as a team that is carrying the ball and making its downs fairly regularly. It must follow then that the Trojan machine will have to open its holes wider, keep them open longer,
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