The Southern California
Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, February 14, 1917
No. 67
Faculty Men are Versatile; One a Fiddler?
NEW STADIUM IS 10 BE
A now era is cortainly coming when thc dean of theology takes “Humoresque” for his golden text, or proceeds to show us the golden gates between tlie bars of “Traumerei.”
To quote the Cornell “Bostonian Chorus.” which doesn’t apply, some of us have known these “halls of learnin’ and the bloomin’ faculty” for four years, some for five and so on—but we never expected to see one particular member of thc said faculty fiddle his way into the hearts of his audience. We never expected to see this announcement emblazoned on thc bulletin board, “Dean Healy in chapel. Violin solo.”
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Eleven Committees, Involving Eighty Members of the Faculty and Student Body, Are Engaged in Perfecting Plans for the Robins Campaign
SOCIAL WORKER TO SPEAK
Other So. Cal. Colleges to Send Delegation to U. S. C. to Hear Speaker —Mr. Robins is on Lecture Tour of Principal Universities of U. S.
■ MR TALKS ON WAR QUESTION
“Russia, Not England, Is Feared by Germany,” says “Times” Correspondent
“Russia and not England is the nation that Germany fears,” was the statement made by Harry Carr, a well-known foreign correspondent of the Los Angeles “Times” in a talk given before fifty members of the University history club at its last meeting at the Wilshire Vista apartments on south Virgil street.
“The slavs are encroaching more and more closely upon the German territory , and Germany has good cause to fear them,” said Mr. Carr in the course of his remarks. “Russia will s«xui take its place as one of the greatest of the world’s powers.
"China is the coming nation in the far east. Although the Japanese are a stron'_' nation, I believe that in their expansion into Chinese territory they "ill gradually become absorbed by the Chinese people and become a part of that race.”
Mr. Carr, who was the only press representative from the Pacific coast at the ! ittlefronts of Europe, told his audieii many of his experiences amonj.' the warring peoples. He said that t newspaper correspondents with v l:inn he traveled were treated m most ' ,ises with respect, though all person who speak the English lan-niaif*' an generally unpopular in Ger-
t" the immediate outlook in F.u-rnlH'' Mr Carr would say nothing. In Msuissn the probable future of con-^"pns i„ tlu. United States, he said
fear in tlu as tli
'at th' \mericans had nothing to way of a foreign invasion tintry is amply protected by 'en 'teiu-ss from all other great ' powers. He also expressed 1” ii that a union of the United "•th Mexico and Canada is not
ill "'i'11 ' aide as it is generally
'nought to be.
niilit the , Stat
Thc new Bovard field stadium will be dedicated next Monday morning, when there will be a monster university assembly to hear the opening address of Raymond Robins, the famous publicist and social worker, who inaugurates a three-day campaign in the interests of a greater university and a higher status of student life.
This will be the first time that the bleachers have been used. The U. S.
C.	band will take part in the program; there will be college yells, and a general enthusiastic spirit is expected to prevail.
Mr. Robins is making a lecture tour of the great universities of America, and has been well received by such institutions as Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, and other eastern colleges. He has been heartily endorsed by such public men as Theodore Roosevelt, YV. J. Bryan, Norman Hapgood, J. R. Mott, and many university presidents and leading educators. For the past ten years he has been active in the political and social world, and has spent much time before the students of the leading colleges.
Eleven committees, involving eighty members of the faculty and student body of U. S. C.. are at present engaged in perfecting plans for the Robins campaign. The following program has been arranged:
Monday, Feb. 19, university assembly of all the colleges on Bovard field,
11	a. m.; faculty meeting 3 p. in., room 14; men’s mass meeting, 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Feb. 20, women’s meeting, 9:50 a. m. at chapel. Address to college men at Law school, 11:30 a. m. Sociological society 4 p. m. Men’s mass meeting 7:30 p. m., chapel.
Wednesday, Feb. 21, men’s mass meeting, 11:30 a. in., chapel. Special meeting for engineers, 1:15 p. in. Assembly for all colleges, 7:30 p. 111.
Chairmen of the committees in charge have been appointed as follows: finance, Manfred Evans; meetings, Dr J. G. Hill; office, Sam Hober-man; entertainment, T. C. Knoles; publicity, Telford Work; senior, Harry Sowden; junior, Ralph Jayne; sophomore, Luther Sharp; freshman, Stephen Smith; special students, Wilbur Long; pharmacy students, Guy Snow.
SENATOR TO SPEAK
Senator J. R. McLaughlin will address the student body in chapel today at 11:40. His subject will be military training and its relation to the university.
Carleton Will Have to Live All This Down
BY SPEC A book store is like a tlrug store in that everybody goes there to ask for things called by names they have never heard oronounced, to use them for nothing except to make the table set flat on the floor. Harold A. R. Carleton of thc book exchange hasn’t said so, but lie knows it.
As I was standing by the book exchange one day ago, computed by the sun dial, a girl came up and said:
“You needn’t keep my fair child any more.”
I looked at Carleton in amazement. The explanation was simple. The girl | had told him to keep a Fairchild’s “Immigration” for her. 1 had caught my breath and was smiling bravely when another girl, undoubtedly a freshman, as she had a book under her arm, came up.
“I want Toot’s “English History.” Carleton sold her "Tout’s” book on I the history of England. I stood that | one fairly well. Then a boy came up j and said with a piercing glance:
“I want the Spanish Yellow Book.” j After Carleton had sold the fellow j something or other, I said, “I didn't [ know Spain had published one of these [ books about why she entered the war.
I didn’t even know Alphonso—” Carleton explained that he had sold | the fellow a Spanish reader.
The only difference between the book exchange and a drug store is that Carleton hasn’t a city directory.
BOVARD FIELD 10 BE SCENE OF RFLAYS
INTER-FRAT BASKETBALL RULES WILL BE
Greek letter men will decide how many minutes play will disqualify a man from series. Cliff Henderson to preside.
SCHEDULE TO BE ARRANGED
Inter-fraternity baseball has been played for several years. The cage game is an innovation in the frat ranks.
Oxy, Pomona and U. S. C. to Meet in A. A. U. Championships Saturday
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Once again Oxy, Pomona and U. ! S. C. will meet at the A. A. U. relay championships. The meet will be held next Saturday afternoon 011 Bovard | field. All the colleges entered will put strong men into the field and it is impossible to “dope” a winner on thc relay races. Coach Cromwell, however, states that U. S. C. will not come in last, and that he will not be surprised if the cardinal and gold break J the tape.
Friday, February 23, the freshmen j will meet the combined teams of Ful- | lerton high school and junior college. | 'File varsity track men will run in this meet, but their points will he kept separate from those of the freshmen. As this will be the first chance for the varsity to pit its strength against that of the freshmen, it will decide a tew of the friendly arguments that have! been going 011 as to the relative merits of the freshmen and the varsity track men.
The addition to the freshman team of i such men as the Lamports and Charles Kepatli means that if the varsity is to win it must put into the field every available point.
Representatives of eight fraternities w'ill meet today to decide the rules to govern thc coming inter-frat basketball games. The meeting will take place at 12:30 o’clock in room 14. Manager Cliff Henderson i}f the Varsity quintet will preside as chairman.
One of the paramount questions for discussion will be the elegibility of players. Varsity “letter” men are forbidden, by an arbitrary rule made some time ago, from playing in the inter-frat games if they have played more than thirty minutes in the inter-university schedule.
It is asserted by some fraternity men that there are players who have participated in from 20 to 25 minutes of play with the varsity team and that they should not be permitted in the ensuing games. Some men, at present elegible, are said to be in the pink of condition as the result of much training. Whether or not these men shall be allowed to play will be decided definitely today.
A selection of officials for thc games will also be made today, and the schedule will be discussed.
It has already been decided to hold two games Friday of this week, and two more (he first of next week. It has not, however, been decided who the competing teams will be. The winner of the series will be decided finally by the process of elimination. A Spalding cup will be awarded to the winner.
This is the First year inter-frat basketball has been included in the sports of the university, but it is planned to make the games an annual event. Baseball has been played among the fraternities for several years, but the series of “cage” games will not interfere with the games 011 the diamond which will come later in the spring.
VAUDEVILLE WILL FEATURE ’17 SHOW
Vaudeville stunts will be the feature of the second annual road show to be given by the seniors <>f all colleges of 1 . S. C. on March 14. I his lively affair is one of the most interesting events planned for the coming semester, and the entire University expects from this year’s talented senior class.
Program arrangements are under the supervision of Earl Gard, Walter Spaeth and Voltaire Perkins, and plans for a snappy show are well under way* Miss Faye Hughes, of the College of Oratory, and W. B. Geissinger will stage a short skit.