Vol. VIII
The Southern California
TROJAN
Official Organ of the Associated Student*, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 20, 1917
No. 99
LAW DEBATERS DEFEAT WISCONSIN, 3-0
WILL BE HELO IT IE
Girls Will Pay for Their Own Plates is Rumor, but Demand That Men Make Dates at Least a Week in Advance.
Hotels Alexandria and Clark Are Being Considered as Probable Place for Event. Having Affair in Town Will Eliminate Taxi Fares.
The Greater University Junior-Senior banquet will be held in two weeks, according to a statement made yesterday by a prominent junior closely identified with the inner “powers that he” of the class of 1918.
For the first time in the history of the University the function is to be a Greater University affair. Seniors and juniors from all of the colleges will be invited to attend. A meeting of the juniors will be held within a few days to complete definite plans (or the affair.
One of the most interesting features of the function, which is being proposed and one which is exciting considerable favorable comment among the male juniors, is that the girls are going to pay for their own plates. In return they are going to demand, it is rumored, that the men of the class make their dates at least a week before the occurrence of the banquet.
As a means of enforcing their demands, the girls will confer the pleasure of their company upon men from the professional colleges if the Liberal Arts date-makers are not prompt m forthcoming with the eternal question. ‘May I?”
I lie banquet will probably be held at the Hotel Alexandria or at the Hotel Clark, according to plans at present under way. The idea of the committee in charge is that by having the banquet at a local hostelry, needless expense to the young escorts may be saved in the way of taxicab fares. Heretofore, the function has been held away out in the woods or down at the touch. It is contended by the reform element that things will taste just s well, and the speeches and toast will sound just as well, whether 'he affair is held in Los Angeles or ln some out of the way fashionable corner of the globe.
National Council of Defense Asks
That “Pre-Meds” Be Informed of Their Duty
The Medical Section of the Council of National Defense at Washington has written to President Bovard, asking his co-operation in avoiding any shortage in the nation’s supply of doctors.
The Council, in which is centered the huge task of preparing the nation for war, requests the President to place "before such undergraduates as are planning to study medicine, the fact that it is their patriotic duty to enroll in the medical school of their choice at the earliest possible moment.”
“It is important,” says the missive, “that this country should not repeat England’s blunder at the outbreak of the war, in permitting the disorganization of the medical schools, or sanctioning the enlistment of medical students into any of the line organizations.
“Ordinary foresight demands that we face the possibility that the war upon which we have entered may last for years.”
The plans endorsed by the Council of National Defense in regard to the medical schools are as follows:
(1)	Medical schools should be prepared to graduate seniors promptly in case of need.
(2)	The Italian plan whereby base hospital units may be organized through the Red Cross, carrying the clinical faculty and students as medical personnel, is advocated. It permits the graduation of men directly into the army.
(3)	Fourth-year students may be allowed to substitute service in a base hospital for the usual year of practice work at home.
(4)	Medical schools that do not adopt the Italian plan should lie prepared to reduce the faculties to a minimum and enroll the liberated members in the Medical Officers’ Reserve Corps.
Dean C. W. Rryson of the College of Medicine, while not yet ready to announce finally whether or not the Italian plan will be followed, declared :
"No effort will be spared to make the U. S. C. College of Medicine of the greatest possible value to the nation.”
Student Body Has Decided To Become a Corporation
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llOfl nrniirOTrn	At Suggestion of President Bovard
U.S.C. REQUESTED TO SUPPLY DOCTORS Commi“p “*"•1",h'
The student body is going to incorporate.
In compliance with the suggestion made by President Bovard to the student constitution committee last Friday afternoon that the Associated Students incorporate as a legal body, qualified to do business under the State law as a business unit, the mem- I bers of the committee in conference with representatives from the College of Law last Tuesday afternoon decided to draw up articles of incorporation.
This will be done tomorrow evening at the county law library in the city hall. The committee who will engineer the momentous undertaking will consist of Walter Watson, Althea Hendrickson, Mark Herron, Johnnie Schwamni, Manfred Evans, George Banta, Richard Glass, and Telford Work.
The committee expects to complete the document at one evening’s sitting, and to be able to submit it to a student vote next week.
In essentials the artie'es of incorporation are not going tr be radically different from those of the student constiution which the committee presented to President Bovard for his approval last Friday.
Power will be centered in the hands of a representative student executive committee.
This committee wilf appoint all managers and coaches of the association, will collect and disburse all student funds and will be the ultimate authority in all matters pertaining to activities of the association, of whatever nature they may be.
In spite of rumored objections to the proposed innovations in student body government, the members of the constitution committee say that the articles of incorporation are going to go through. After be in" ratified by the students at a special election, the articles will be sent north to Sacra-
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MASS MEETING
Officers for next year will be nominated at a mass meeting of the A. W. S. in hast hall next Tuesday morning, April 24, at 9:50.
. S. C. LAW TRIO WINS
MAJOR DEBATE
Morris Ankrum, E. Neal Ames, and Channing Follette, Representing Barristers, Win Unanimous Decision From Northern Debaters
The College of Law, represented by Morris Ankrum, E. Neal Ames, and Channing Follette, Wednesday night won a unanimous decision over the University of Wisconsin debating team and thus successfully defended its title to intercollegiate debating champion of the United States gained last year by its defeat of Columbia university.
The victorious law school team supported the affirmative of the question, “Resolved, that strikes and lockouts should be prohibited on public utilities and in coal mines, prior to an investigation of the merits of the dispute by a governmental body,” while
11.	A. Zischke, H. E. Kinne and L-'J. Burlingame, representing Wisconsin, upheld the negative.
Morris Ankrum, in his opening address, denounced strikes and lockouts by showing that they are not based upon sound economic principles, being unfair both to employer, employee and the general public, and result in most cases in an increased cost of commodities.
The affirmative then showed that a relationship of co-partnership iu industry exists between capital and labor, and that the only logical manner in which to settle disputes arising between the two is a settlement in the mature of an accounting according to the method now used in settling other partnership disputes; that a governmental commission should be appointed to investigate the rights of the parties according to this partnership basis, and that should either party be dissatisfied with the findings of the commission it may go into a Court ot Equity, in accordance with the pres ent law in cases of other partnership controversies, where the final rights of parties would be adjudicated.
I he Wisconsin boys put up one of the best fights ever witnessed in the south and soon had the good will of the large audience because of their (lean cut arguments and sportsman-
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