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THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TROJAN
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DISPELLING A POPULAR MISCONCEPTION
Samuel Felton in Collier’s Weekly not long ago said that there were three kinds of college men—the bookworm, the so-called dude, and the real student who has an agreeable mixture of the other two with common sense added. He dismissed the bookworm immediately, upholding the real college man as the one to whom busi ness men will look for future leaders.
These questions have been repeatedly asked: How many col lege students put themselves through school? To what type do these students belong? What proportion of the student body do such students form?
These questions are of importance not only to the University itself, but of great interest to outsiders, the business men uptown. It is surprising to find that a number of prominent men in this city and elsewhere have a misconception of the real attitude of the real college student. This is due perhaps to the specimens that have issued forth from institutions of learning in the past and their failure to make a dent in the cold, cold world.
Not long ago there was a supposedly humorous article in one of the daily newspapers on the delicate subject of the modern col lege man. It occupied a conspicuous place in the paper and was probably read with great enjoyment by all who saw it. Perhaps in itself the article was a harmless bit of fun, but to one who knows what the average student has to undergo to put himself through a university it was apparent the writer of such an article was woefully ignorant of conditions and probably had never been near a campus. Many readers, uninformed of true conditions, gained a bad opinion of the college student simply through reading this article.
The so-called rah-rah-boy is no longer a creature of flesh and blood. He has disappeared and with him his favorite demi-john, his loud and boastful air, and in fact everything that set him off as a unique being whose prime object in life was to paper his cigarette-soaked room with dad’s checks, who took great delight in burning gasoline instead of the midnight mazda, and who used his diploma as an alibi to show where he had been the first four years after leaving high school.
Yes, indeed he has gone. Naught but an azure image of the past remains. But the memory of him has been kept aglow by time honored traditions and the modern insect, the lounge lizard.
Today the student who works his way through college does not have to encounter the opposition that he stumbled over years ago. He has come to the front and has shown himself to be indispensable to college life. A roll call of student body presidents, prominent athletes and those leading in student affairs shows clearly that it is the man who is putting something into his education that is the real college man of today.
Business men are beginning to realize the needs of the college student and many of them are now giving half day employment to those who need money. On all sides come new opportunities for the student to work while in school. Money, at last, does not determine who can go to university and who cannot. And the lounge lizard is finding that he cannot hold his own among real college men.	W. A. N.
HIT OR MISS
By PeeVeeGee
The reason many girls wear such extremely largo bunches of hair on the sides of their heads is because their ears are underneath the hair.
Since the war, it is nearly death to call a girl’s ears shell-like.
Yea Brethern.
OUR LITTLE LILY
Little Lily—
Quite some goose. Partly fast.
Mostly loose. Little Lily-Awful style.
Partly clothes, Mostly smile.
Ad in the street cars of a magazine advertising the contents as “Hiram Johnson and fourteen other strong Western features.” What do they mean, strong?
Annabelle, hearing that some boys had been shooting craps, wants to know what kind of birds craps are.
SOCIETY
Phi Mu Luncheon
Phi Mu entertained with a luncheon at the fraternity house on Juliet street on Friday.
D. X. Entertains
Delta Chi, law fraternity, entertained with a dance, Saturday evening, at its chapter house, on West Sixth street.
K. A. T. Initiates
Kappa Alpha Theta announces the initiation on Saturday of Cassieta Smith, Edna Poison, Frances Bliss, Helen Hoagland, Mary Thompson and Ruth Whiting.
Zeta Tau Initiates, Pledges
Zeta Tau Alpha announces the initiation of Martha Ray, Margaret Lusby and Isabel Smith.
Zeta Tau Alpha announces the pledging of Leslie Sherman and Alice Mitchell.
K. A. T. Entertains Initiates
Kappa Alpha Theta entertained its new initiates Saturday evening with banquet at the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and a dance at the fraternity’s chapter house on Ellendale Place.
Miss Carson Honored
Pi Beta Phi gave a tea yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Carson, president of Eta province of Pi Beta Phi. The affair was given at the chapter house on West Twenty-eighth street. The fraternities and sororities and the faculty were invited.
Phi Mu Dinner Dance
Phi Mu held its annual dinner dance in honor of its initiates at Christopher’s on Thursday evening, March 4. The event also commemorated the founding of Phi Mu, which took place March 4, 1852.
Pi Beta Phi Initiates
Pi Beta Phi announces the initiation of Audrey Koiner, Hilda Blatz, Margaret Epperson, Lucile Long, Beth Goodell, Margaret Frey, Elizabeth Speicher, YvonnQ Young. Virginia Grannis, Florence Mullen, Helen Campbell, Mildred Heinze, Dorothy Copelin, Hazel Jacobson, Lois Noble, and Grace Louden.
SOPHOMORES WILL POSE FOR EL RODEO PICTURE
Members of the sophomore class will meet on the front steps of the Liberal Arts building at noon today.
The class picture for El Rodeo will be taken, and announcements will be made concerning class activities for the remainder of the year.
LAW FRATERNITY INITIATES
Five law students were initiated into Sigma Nu Phi, legal fraternity, in a two-day celebration at Hoegee’s Camp, in the mountains, over tho week end.
The fraternity left Saturday noon for th camp and returned late Sunday evening, following the rites incident to the initiation. The men initiated were: John Cronin, Paul Burns, Henry Poyet,
A Hard, Long Winter
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What The Press Thinks
(From Los Angeles Examiner, March 6, 1920.)
ONLY a decade or so ago the University of Southern California was a struggling, deficiently housed and equipped local college. Its various departments were scattered all around Robin Hood’s barn, and to the public view it gave but modest promise ever to become the great institution it almost is today, and is certain to be tomorrow.
Every year of its growth has brought it nearer to its place in the sun, where now it has arrived; and it is a big place in the sun, at that, which it occupies. Naturally, it is a big piace, because Los Angeles and Southern California, when considered in terms of the sun, do not offer any other kind of elbow room.
What the University of Chicago is to the Mid-Western metropolis, the University of Southern California now is, and for the glorious future is bound to be, to the Pacific metropolis and its huge and magpificent tributary country. With the group of fine new college buildings now being added, and the increased facilities they will give the institution, our home University easily will rank with the other great central universities of the continent.
That goal will be won this year, and even then it only will be the beginning of greater things. The general growth and prosperity of the city and region will take care of that, while, to Angelenos and Southern Californians in mass, the convenience of having available a seat of learning favorably comparable with Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, right at our door, will be a contributing factor to the scholastic and scientific success of the splendid foundation, of incalculable value.
As Examiner readers know from our news columns in recent issues, the present five million dollar expansion pogram includes the immediate construction of a new $600,000 administration building and auditorium at University avenue and Thirty-sixth street. It is planned to have this fine structure complete and ready for occupancy by September next. Also there will be a new library, a science hall, an engineering building, a gymnasium, an arts building, and new buildings for the College of Law and the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
According to plans now approaching completion, the group of impressive and artistic university buildings, all solidly built of concrete and steel, will extend six city blocks, facing University avenue and touching Exposition Park on the south. These improvements, as President Bovard and his splendid staff of “dons” reasonably claim, “will give the University of Southern California one of the finest university groups in the United States.”
The Examiner is glad of the opportunity to offer its most sincere congratulations to and to express its admiration and honor for the men and women among our public spirited citizens who have made possible this great asset, blessing and attraction for the benefit of our urban and regional communities.
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