The Southern California
Official Orjan of the Atiociated Students, Univer«ity of Southern California
Senior Chapel Today
Vol. VII.
Lo* Angeles, California, Friday, May 26, 1916
No. 124
GIRLS WILL BOOST TENNIS STARS
EL RODE01917 WILL BE PLACED ON SALE BY Jl
Number of Cuts Will Be Doubled— Life and Action Pictures and Four Special Colored Inserts Are New Features—Josh Department Large
Books to Be Sold at University Book Store—Issue to Continue Representative Sections From £ach of the Nine Colleges—Juniors Celebrate
“El Rodeo 1917 will be placed on sale Monday morning at the University Book Store.” Such was the announcement received from El Rodeo office yesterday following the decision reached hy the junior class regarding El Rodeo Day.
Junior men will appear on the campus clad in white duck trousers and dark coats, while the women of the class will don white middy suits for the occasion. During the noon hour the members of 1917 will assemble in the cafeteria for the final junior feed of the year.
An All-University Book For the second time during the history of U. S .C. annuals, El Rodeo will be a real University book, containing representative sections from “Stare Decisis,” the annual Law College Annual, being a part of El Rodeo proper.
A number of new features will make their initial appearance in the 1917 publication. The number of cuts will be approximately doubled; life and action pictures, including individual snaps of the class presidents, will be substituted wherever possible for the posed portraits so commonly used; four special colored inserts will separate the several college sections; while approximately fifty pages of genuine humor, cartoons, and snaps will add life to the book. The order of the various departments has been slightly rearranged, and the University section materially increased in size.
Kingsley, Mason & Collins have printed F.1 Rodeo, while Bryan & Brandenberg have furnished the cuts.
Classes Adopt Resolutions To I Uphold Dignity
As the result of diplomatic conferences between the two presidents and the officers of the two upper classes, the following resolutions were drawn up and adopted by the classes:
First .that any violation of the dignity and honor of the institution of the Cap and Gown be discountenanced by all loyal members of the university, and Second, that any such violation should be met and punished by dignified and serious means, as belits the sacredness of the institution which is to be protected.
Therefore, be is resolved, that it is the duty of juniors and seniors to see that the proper reverence for the said institution be shown by all persons, and that the said classes will deem any violation of the said institution worthy of severe punishment.
This resolution was adopted May 10, 1916, and was signed by Marion Smith, president of the junior class, and Leland Holland, president of the senior class.
SENIORS’ FARWELL
CHAPEL HELD TODAY
Dignified and Beautiful Service Is Planned—Seniors Wear Cap and Gown; Juniors, White
LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE
TAKEN BY MILLER
Finals in Heavyweight and Middleweight Events to Occur Thursday
The lightweight championship in wrestling was won by Mr. Miller. This makes the third successive victory for Mr. Miller, who now retains the trophy cup permanently.
The preliminary matches have been won by Clyde Deuel in the heavyweight and Leon Godshall in the middleweight events. These finals will take place Thursday afternoon. In the middleweight Ugene Blalock will defend the title, which he has won for two years.
The committee on Senior Day arrangements has planned a farewell chapel for Friday. The affair is to be the most dignified and solemn occasion in the history of the class. Every senior will march in the procession clad in his cap and gown, followed by the juniors, who will be dressed all in white
The program will be as follows: “Wordsof Welcome," by the president, Leland Holland; Scripture reading, by Theron Freese; “Our Senior Ideal,” by Gertrude Pentland and Edna Mag-PMfon; quartet, “Fear Not, O Israel,” by l eland Rebber, Gertrude Pentland, Burnell Tunison and Mary Wilkes; "Four Years—Our Record,” Clifford Burr; "Our Message to the Class of ’17,” by Donnell Smith; violin solo, by Walter II Potter; "I'are-well,” by Ida Hanning; prayer led by Theron Freese, and the Alma Mater.
After the service, the faculty and seniors will have luncheon together in the cafeteria, which will be an affair for each one present to look back upon with the most pleasant memories.
Safety First! Secret - Society To Make Debut
Several students of the College of Liberal Arts have felt the need of a new society for the protection of those students who have been made friendless by the war.
The society is national in character and petitions from state universities or privately endowed institutions of high character will be considered. However, the society does not intend to accept more than ten chapters during the first year.
All male students of the University not carrying accident insurance are eligible for this austere society. The high-sign and the grip of the organization will not be revealed to any but members and deaf and dumb students. The emblem of the society which is rather antique and personal, I will be worn today by all loyal members. It is a beautiful stone made of Portland cement.
The officers are: President, Arthur Chapman; secretary and treasurer, W. B. Geissinger; house manager, Walter Spaeth; traffic regulator, Supt. Huse; chaplain, Cliff Hughes.
The society announces the initiation of Marion (“Gunboat”) Smith, Ray Tracy. Hal Hughes, Earl Garde, Floyd Bradley, Eddie Simpson, Ed Miller, Harry George, Ralph Dummitt, Phil Murray, Bob McMaster, Bud de Silva.
Any student wishing to be looked over and voted upon, is asked to see the treasurer, and to pay the initiation fee of 25 cents, including 5 pins.
REPORT OF PAPERS DENIED BY CRAIG
The reports of several downtown papers that Jerry Craig has resigned as football captain are absolutely unfounded, and are being strenuously denied by Jerry together with several other downtown papers.
“I’ll be the first man on the field when Coach Cromwell throws out tin-old yellow pigskin next fall,” said Craig yesterday. "There may be some who would like to have me resign. but you can't please everybody, so I guess I’ll be on the job."
LANCE AND LUTE PLAYS ARE PLANNED FOP BENEFIT
Warren and McCormick’, Champions of the Ojai Tournament, Are Expected to Uphold S. C.’s Athletic Reputation in the Eastern Country
Girls’ Tennis Club Will Conduct a Tag Day, the Proceeds to be Devoted to the Tennis-Stars’ Fund— Unusually Good Features Promised
Realizing that the sending of a I U.S.C. tennis team to eastern tournaments this summer will prove invaluable in making the university known and recognized throughout the east, leaders of all student organizations are getting behind the benefit movement with a vim and determination that will surely send Warren and McCormick on their championship way.
S. C. Men Well Known It is an undeniable fact that in many sections of the east the University of Southern California is better known than either Stanford or California. owing to the remarkable achievements of S.C.’s famous athletes, Kelly and Drew. McCormick and Warren are champions in their line of sport. The are indisputably the champions of California, having beaten the best in the state at the recent Ojai tournament. It is certain that there is no intercollegiate team on the Pacific Coast that can defeat these two Trojans. And it is still less likely than any college in the country harbors two players with such steady, consistent qualities.
Stanford Men in East Hahn and Barber of Stanford, who fell before Warren and McCormick in the Ojai Valley Meet, to the tune of 6-4, 6-8, 6-2, are now touring the east, and yesterday defeated Wisconsin, O., by overwhelming scores in both singles and doubles. It stands to reason that Warren and McCormick can do the same sensational work, for tennis players from California nearly always defeat the easterners, and the two Trojans are the best college players in the west. Hy giving the benefit performance and raising the necessary funds to send the team east, students who are working for the affair believe that they will be more than repaid in the increased honors which the team will surely bring to U.S.C. The girls’ tennis club is enthus-, iastically behind the movement, and ' have arranged a rally and lag day for Monday of next week.