The Southern California
Salute the Seniors
Official Organ of the Atiociated Student*, University of Southern California
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Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, September 28, 1916
No. 7
Shucks! Green "Ain't" Pretty Say the Frosh
A senior threw his hat in a glass case Tuesday morning. It was a large hat with a wide brim and high crown. The senior was proud of it. “It is a regular hat,” he said. “A man’s hat.’ All day the hat occupied the case in the south hall which today contains the Charles Kellogg Richardson cup.
Freshmen in green caps eyed the hat longingly. They admired the somber shade of brown. They glanced with green eyes from their own skull-fitting caps to the high-crowned sombrero. One said:
“Here the seniors have gone and decided on their own hats. Think of it. They met at 12:30 Tuesday morning and made their own choice. While we’re a-swearin’ at the green, they will be a-wearin’ of the brown.” "Of course, we didn’t want to make the 'frosh’ envious,” said a senior yesterday, “but I won’t blame them if they exhaust their vocabularies when they see us come out with regular hats on Friday, probably, the day of the senior picnic.”
Juniors, Seniors, and “Grads” Demand the brosh Salute
Promiscuous and indiscriminate hat tipping and military saluting are due to become a part of local campers etiquette. They will result from a resolution passed at a meeting of upperclassmen and post-graduates held yesterday at 11:40 in East Hall.
The resolutions are: (1) That all members of the student body shall salute any member of the faculty he shall meet on the campus, and (2) that all freshmen shall salute all seniors wearing senior sombreros or caps and gowns, it being understood that all seniors shall respond in kind.
“No force or coercion will be em-
ployed in enforcing these rules,” said Student Body President Manfred Evans. "The idea is to increase the dignity of the University, not to start a row. Various underclassmen have been consulted and they all fall in with the idea. I believe our action will raise the plane of University tradition and University dignity.
“Customs like these go to make real University spirit," added Evans.
The sombrero will be easily recognizable by its extreme dimensions. The new "sky piece" will have a five-inch brim.
The form of salute adopted by the meeting is that employed by the American army.
High-School Coaches Bring Out Material—150 Men Practice on Field
SPECTATORS ARE WANTED
Junior Class Usurps Privileges
to Hold Picnic Before Seniors
Coaches Want Students With Free Half-Hours to Sit in Bleachers
“The juniors shall be first, and the seniors shall come in where they can,” declared members of the junior class yesterday after deciding to hold their class picnic Thursday, September 28, one day before the seniors hold theirs.
Indignantly protesting against this usurpation of their privilege, seniors yesterday said. "It has been a precedent of our class to hold our picnic first. But the juniors, in the excite-
FROSH WILL DEAL WITH
ment of becoming upper classmen, overlooked this fact. May every one tip over a salt-shaker tonight!”
The juniors, placidly ignoring the excited seniors, have finished plans to hold their picnic this week in Sawpit Canyon, near Monrovia. Trucks carrying the "picnickers” will leave the university at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
Professor Wood's Little Girls
Prefer Sunday School to Circus
OMIT HATS
Many Attend Class Meeting to Elect First Term Officers—"Herb” Smith Draws Most Votes for President’s Job—Miss Rosalie Thielcke Gets Vice-Presidency.
<	>ne hundred and ninety "frosh" attended the first meeting of the class of 1920 yesterday noon, and elected the following class officers: President, Herbert Smith; vice-president. Rosalie Thielcke; secretary, Valeria Johnston; treasurer, J. Oyler; sergeant-at-arms, “Whitey” Perkins.
I he question of freshman headgear was discussed, and after some argument, it was decided that the president should be authorized to appoint a committee of six or seven “huskies” to deal with such members as are adverse to wearing the prescribed top-piece. It seems that there are a few who have not followed the law laid down by the upperclassmen. The freshman decided that it would be better for the class of ’20 to deal with their own brother offenders, rather than force the other classes to take a hand In the matter.
This is a moral tale.
The facts are these: Prof. Paul Woods took his small daughters, Margaret and Mary, to the circus Tuesday and asserts that he also took them to I Sunday schol for the first time the I preceding Sabbath.
On getting home from the circus the children decided that it was great, but "on the whole” (this phrase from Professor Wood), they liked Sunday-school better than the circus.
If this story is true it calls up certain very difficult questions:
(1)	Can such preference possibly be due to congenital tendencies?
(2)	What kind of a Sabbath school can it be to which the professor sends his innocent progeny? It should prove popular with this iniquitious generation.
The moral? It is indeed quite plain: Never under any circumstances be the child of an English professor.
If some University of California football backer had stepped inside the fence which surrounds Bovard field yesterday, he would have received a great shock.
The field was covered with dirty, rough-looking aspirants for gridiron honors. Tackling and blocking the dummy, signal practice, practice in falling on the ball, running and scrimmaging were all going on at once. Cromwell ran from one end of the field to the other, “complimenting” the players; Teschke and Huyck did the shouting at the freshman squad. Some high school coaches had their material out on the field putting them through a stiff practice. The old field, which used to be considered crowded if it held fifty players, had over 150 men on it yesterday, all dressed in padded pants and jerseys, and all ready for a scrap.
Cromwell has decided that if any varsity eleven thinks it will have a vacation when it plays U. S. C., it will receive a shock which it will never forget.
"I have called repeatedly for men to come out and join the squad, but to no avail, so from now on I’m going | to take what I've got and make a go-getting football varsity,” said Cromwell yesterday, between shouts.
However, the coach urges that all plain-clothes students who can spare a half hour a day in the interest of their school sports, come out and sit in the bleachers at least two afternoons a week, while practice is in progress.
DENTAL CONDUCTS ‘DUTCH” MUELLER
FIRST ASSEMBLY	ELECTED CAPTAIN
The annual opening exercises of the College of Dentistry will be conducted at 8 o'clock this evening by Dean Ford, in the assembly room at the Dental building, Los Angeles and Six-j teenth streets. The entire student body is expected to be present; each will be furnished with a list of the i required instruments and books. Later \ in the evening refreshments will be I served to the students and their I friends.
Beginning with the session 1917-<918. the dejital course will be lengthened to cover a period of four years. Those entering as freshmen this year may be graduated with the class of 1 1919.
E.	G. Mueller, better known on the football field as “Dutch” Mueller, was elected captain of the freshman football team at a ballot election held Tuesday afternoon.
“Dutch” Mueller, was captain of the fast Hollywood team last year. He was picked as one of the fastest and best halfbacks in the city school league.
EL RODEO STAFF TO MEET
There will be a meeting of Kl
Rodeo staff, Friday, September 29, at 3:05 p. m., in the Journalism building.
EFFICIENCY THE OBJECT OF LYCEUM MEETING
All members of the Law Lyceum are expected to come to the meeting i Thursday evening prepared to make at least one suggestion as to how the i Lyceum can be improved »his coming year.
“Resolved, that President Wilson's foreign policy has been and is a suc-I cess, ’ is the question set for discus-
I	sion. George H. Banta and John F. Burton will uphold the affirmative, and Sam Blake and Karl Clarke the negative.
Charles I'awcett will discuss current events, while George Fenimore will speak on the regulation of* Lyceum membership. New' members will be voted on.
JAMES A. FRANCIS TO SPEAK
I	he Rev. Dr. James A. Francis, of the First Baptist church, will speak in Y. W. C. A. meeting next Tuesday at 9:50.
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