Junior Party Tonight
Football Feed At City Y. M.
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, January 17, 1917
No. 56
Swimming Tank Open To All Who Attend Football ‘Feed’
U.S.C. Students May Institute Army Training
Sixty Men Have Signed up for Student Battalion at U. S. C.; Forty More Needed for Project to be Success.
Training Will Prepare Students for Lieutenancy in Regular Army with Salary of $2,000; Many Colleges Already have Adopted Plan.
A student battalion for the University will probably result from action now being taken by Liberal Arts students. The man behind the movement is William D. Rudd of the premedical department, who states that sixty men have already signed up and that if forty more volunteer, the success of the project will be assured.
The government is making a very generous offer to the University. Equipment will be furnished all who enlist, free of charge, and an instructor will be detailed from the regular | army. At the end of two-years’ ser- j vice, pay will be given each man, I which will equal three-quarters of his tuition at the University. Men are required to sign up for two years’ service, and in case of war will not be called upon either to the front or for provost duty.
After graduation, members will lie placed on the officers’ reserve list, with the opportunity of active army service as second lieutenant, at a yearly salary of about $2000. If they join the militia, they will recive commissions. At present there are many vacancies in the regular army, and men desirous of pursuing a military profession will find easy access to it in this manner.
Many other universities have adopted this plan, an example being California It has almost without exception proved successful.
1 here seems 110 sensible reason why, if given a fair tryout, it should not succeed here also,” says Mr. Hudd.
FACULTY HEARS RADIO EXPERT
I Iu- Present Status of Radium In-'C'tigation was the subject of an ad-i.ros \ I Jr. Rex Duncan, a member
Ok :u nity of the College of Pharmacy. md a practicing physician w'ith J wide reputation for his work in the ' I "f radio-therapy, before the •-*. njt\ Science club last Tuesday t'u'111"- lie carried 011 his person and ,1 in a demonstration to the 'Cult \ members present radium worth $15,000. His talk centered I]!!"11 llu' therapeutic aspects of ra-
^ faculty Science club, which mixed some months ago, is ling meetings on the second ,,m' ev ening of each month. ,r<'' J* I lrey is president. Prof. 1 A ''•ye is vice-president, and ■ Beers i- secretary. The meet 1 ■, ar,. heing held for the pres-,nt 11 the biology lecture room.
The much-heralded football banquet , will be held this evening at the Central Y. M. C. A. building, seventh and I Hone streets, at 5:00 p. m.
All men of the University are invited. and may participate in all the I activities of the evening, excepting the j banquet, without incurring any expense. If they later decide to attend j the banquet proper they may purchase tickets at the building.
Junior Party Will be Held This Evening
Juniors Will Make Merry Till “Wee Small Hours”—Representatives will Attend from Colleges of Dentistry, Oratory, Music and Pharmacy.
Juniors from every college in the University will leave the dull grind of study long enough this evening to gather at the Entre Nous house at Twenty-eighth and Key West streets where they will make merry until the “wee small hours of the morning.” Representatives will attend the party from the colleges of Dental. ()ra-tory, Music and Pharmacy. All of the collegiate editors of El Rodeo will be on hand as guests of honor.
The social committee in charge of the entertainment, which will begin promptly at the close of the football banquet, promises games, music, vocal solos and a skit to be presented by the College of Oratory.
DR. BOVARD RECOVERING;
WILL VISIT DR. BAILEY AT ARROWHEAD SPRINGS
Doctor Bovard has recovered sufficiently from his recent severe attack of bronchial pneumonia to go to Arrowhead Hot Springs, where he will spend a week as the guest of Dr. Gilbert Bailey. He made the trip in I an automobile driven by Mr. Owen Bird of the Oldsmobile company, who combines skill as a chauffeur with his knowledge of athletics and ability as a writer. Doctor Bovard hopes to be back at his desk early next week, in good trim for the active inauguration of the “Forward Movement” endowment campaign.
GERMAN CLUB WILL ELECT NEW OFFICERS THURSDAY
Officers for the next semester will be elected at the meeting of the German club to be held Thursday after-nominating committee has submitted noon at 3:05 in Athena hall. The the following nominations: For president. Ruth Johnson and Astriel Hansen; vice-president. Fayr Finch and Kthel Hinckley; secretary, Olga Sarnighausen; for treasurer. Alvin A. Herbert, and pianist, Hallie Marvin.
All of the amusements at the Y. M.
A. may be used from 5:00 p. 111. until the “feed”. These include swimming in the plunge, billiards and pool, and bowling. A charge of live cents a game is made for bowling. At the banquet prominent football men, in whose honor the affair is held annually. will give their views 011 the great game. All who attend are assured ati enjoyable and entertaining evening.
New Club for Scientists to Make its Bow
Examinations Will Furnish Criterion for Entrance to Students Scientific Society. Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, are Eligible.
The Students’ Scientific society of the University of Southern California is the cognomen of the most newly-formed organization at the Uni-versity. The initial meeting of the society w'as held yesterday morning.
As its name indicates, the purpose of the organization is to stimulate and increase the knowledge of its members in the sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy and geology. There is no department of astronomy at the University at present, but the society will include that subject.
The Students’ Scientific society will in reality constitute a scientific honor society, for admittance to it can only be gained by successfully passing a uniform scientific examination. Applications for admittance must bear the signature of a member of the organization.
After meeting the first requirements, the applicant will be examined as to scientific and general knowledge. Papers will be read at meetings by members, and by visiting authorities. Ordinarily the meetings will be for members only, but the aim of the organization is to foster scientific knowledge and a feeling of good fellowship among the students pursuing courses of a scientific nature.
HONORARY FRATERNITY TO BANQUET AT BEACH
Skull and Dagger members will celebrate with their annual banquet on Saturday evening, Feb. 3, at the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Watson, president of the organization.
Plans, which were delayed because of the Law School banquet, are now completed. It is anticipated that about sixty guests, including members of the faculty, will feast at Long Beach. Speeches by alumni members and professors will be on the program. The affair is to be of a formal nature, and will be enlivened by musical numbers.
Turkey is No Nice Place Now, Says Harlow
Education is at a Standstill in the Sultan’s Empire According to Y. M. C. A. Speaker Who Has Visited that Country.
Famine and Pestilence Stalk Side by
Side in Warring Nation. No Doctors in Two Days’ Journey in Many
Sections.
Nearly all of 1000 grammar schools, fifty-three high schools and thirteen colleges which were established in the Turkish empire at the outbreak of the war are now closed,” said Mr. S. Ralph Harlow, professor of a college in Smyrna, Turkey and traveling secretary of the student volunteer movement. in his address before the Y. M. C. A. yesterday morning.
“When the w'ar is ended,” said Mr. Harlow, “Turkey will furnish the greatest opportunity for American missionaries.” Quoting James Bryce, who is perhaps better acquainted with the Turkish situation than any other British statesman, Mr. Harlow said that the only good that has gone into Turkey in the past one hundred years has come through the American missionaries. He divided the needs of Turkey into those which are physical, intellectual and spiritual.
“There are populations of 100,000 people in Turkey with no doctor nearer than two days’ journey. In one such territory seventy per cent of the children were reported dying and twenty-five per cent dead. Superstition takes the place of science.” Mr. Harlow stated that nearly all the students in Turkey are agnostic,
Mrs. Harlow, who is also traveling for the volunteer movement and who is connected with Mr. Harlow’s work-in Turkey, spoke 011 “Life of Girls in Turkey," at the Y. W. C. A. meeting. "Fifty per cent of the Turkish women die of tuberculosis because of the evil which they put on at the age of thirteen,” said Mrs. Harlow. “The only steps taken to prevent this are taken by the American missionaries. We teach the art of play and the joy of living.” Mrs. Harlow also spoke of the persecution of the Armenians.
SCHULZ TEACHES SUMMER SESSION
Prof. Roy E. Schulz, of the Spanish department of this institution, will journey to Berkeley immediately after commencement to become a member ( t the summer faculty of the University of California, lie will give two courses in Spanish at the State University. This is the third consecutive year that Professor Schulz has taught at the summer session of the State University. Professor Schulz was recently re-elected chairman of the Spanish section of the Modern Language Association of Southern California, a section composed of over two hundred and fifty teachers of Spanish who are doing aggressive work in furthering the interest iu their already popular and important subject.
The Southern California
Official Organ of the Associated Student*, University of Southern California