University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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QUO VADIS Act — Unconventional. Scene — Say, for instance, Los Angeles. Time — 3:30 Wednesday P. M.. . Dramatis Personae — Just any nine young ladies. Materials needed — Forty-five cents. When nine young ladies have bound themselves by solemn oath to enjoy life on each Wjednesday P. M., they must curb their entertainment to meet circumstances, or, putting it more plainly, purses. To spend forty-five cents on nine young ladies is a difficult problem to solve, not because the immensity of the sum, hov - ev er. Habitual loafers in Sixth Street Park may perhaps re- member witnessing at least part of the solution on the corner of Grand and Fifth — not at the pop-corn stand, for that is on Hill, and besides pop-corn would have been so silly for the enjoyment of intellectual minds. Some weighty problem must be for such as they. Did you ever pause to consider that there is more real mental activity necessary in taking a car ride than in — well — attending a Senior Seminar? There is nothing unusual in the fact that nine young ladies should at a certain corner all get upon a Plaza car, and each in ' turn hand the conductor a nickel. Nor likewise is it queer that this nine should all transfer south on Spring. Often it is the case that nine young ladies get on the car at one corner; but it is not until they each ask the conductor for similar transfers that the other occupants of the car give that mysterious smile. Running east on Ninth street, as some may know, is a car system. The cars make up in furnishings what they lack in num- ber. There being only two on the line, they well can afford to be large and airy with upholstered seats and civil conductors. Civil ! Why it was impersonated civility who took the transfers from our nine young friends. When one, she of a sober mien, asked if she could be transferred to East Mateo street. Civility deliberately pulled out a watch, punched a green bit of paper and extended 10

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money back when he saw the curtain. This showed very poor taste on his part, but we never could educate him up to that cur- tain. At last we came to the final test of all classes — the training school ! We taught children of all ages and conditions, and it was wonderful how we made use of the primary smile and learned the high signs for writing in the sixth grade. We went through them so realistically that it made one think of a college f man greeting several of his Frat brothers in succession. The training school was vastly improved by our short stay. Bad boys are now unknown. But with all our devotion to the training school we, excep- tional class, found time to organize a rowing club ! Think of it I Senior A ' s actually having a club, and that a rowing club, at which peanuts and popcorn were always in order. ' Npw we are about to leave you. Appreciating our own worth, we naturally sjTnpathize with you in your sorrow at this time. But what can we do? Behind us we leave tears and be- fore us there are scores of weeping trustees who must be turned away because our numbers are not great enough to supply the demand for teachers from the winter class of ' 03. R. P. W., ' 03. NORMAL I remember, I remember, The Normal school so well ; That ' s where my reputation All of a sudden fell. That ' s where I made my blunders Into every room I went And when I disturbed the teachers, Into the hall was sent. That ' s where I got the reputation Of always being late. But then, I couldn ' t help it — It was the will of fate. That ' s where I lost my books In front desk or in rear. No matter where I put them, They all did disappear. That ' s where I use to whisper. When I went to chemistry, Until the teacher threatened To charge me extra fee. But then I was a Junior, And now those days are passed With me until my days are ended Those memories shall last. —A. E.

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it to the questioner, only to be met with a demand for eight more. Did you ever hear that there is an east end to Ninth street? Well there is — and, be it noted, the Los Angeles Railway Com- pany has claims there. They can scarcely be called more than claims, altho ' at one time they may have been cars. Spending the day in running the car between board fences and castor bean hedges, the conductors of the Mateo street cars have much time in which to meditate and to become very shrewd in affairs touching their profession. They are glad of passengers, even if the great number of nine compel the car men to keep on the outside. Should you wish, I am sure that you could have a whole book of tarns- fers from that line as souvenirs ; the owner of them being so glad to dispose of them. This time the book was reduced nine in number. This car line stops at the Santa Fe depot, but the document it gives you is legal tender on the Seventh street car which passes that point bound for town. Did any one ever wonder at the fact that nine people getting on a car at the depot should all transfer south on Spring and all take a Pico Heights car ! It was somewhat unusual, however, to see nine young ladies with transfers in hand hastily beating a retreat from the back steps of an East Ninth street car because the conductor was Civility himself. The cars on that line run every fifteen minutes and a transfer is good for that long, you know. . ' ' { When the shades of evening were lengthening nine weary wayfarers, with a new set of passports were seen to get on to a Central Avenue car north-bound, and from there to directly trans- fer to the Fifth street car, which is due at Fifth and Spring at six o ' clock. It really is a shame to think that you cannot go on, and al- ways get as much for your money as possible; but then there is always the craving of the inner man to be satisfied at certain times in the day. At six o ' clock by the faithfunl General Arthur time-piece in front of the Angelus, transfers to all parts of the city were given and nine young ladies stood on the backs of cars bound north, south, east and west, saying good-night and each waving a transfer in the face of an obliging carman. R. E.S. ' 03.