University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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impose upon us and you ne lected your opportunity. It ou are a lower classman your chance will come when you reach your Junior year. It you are a member of the Faculty, we will tritely say we did it on purpose, and contritely add that we will never do it again. E.xperience has proven that no other class of people can support so large a number of organizations as a live body of students, and a perusal of El Rodeo will prove that U. S. C. is a good example of this. More than a score of organ- izations, including Christian associations, athletic organizations, fraternities, and literary societies have contributed to make our school life interesting and profit- able, and in their histories the careful thinker will discern indications of the striv- ings after self-improvement which have so fully characterized our school life. The past year has been one of -iclories for U. S. C. which augur much for the future. Victories on the rostrum, gridiron, and diamond, and the successful season for our glee club have been but indications of the loyal student spirit which has made possible these conquests. While we as members of th is student body have labored faithfully to aid in bringing about these results, yet as a class we have had in view the publication of this .Annual, which we sincerely believe will aid materially in placing our universit - in the high rank which it should hold among the educational institutions of our land. It is not for praise that we have labored, nor yet for vain glory that we have toiled, but that we might but mark with an enduring monument a step forward in the progress of our own U. S. C, and show to all in this fair Southland that in our Alma Mater is the spirit of earn- est work and endeavor that does honor to an institution based upon the teachings of the Christ. THE EDITORS.

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EL RODEO i a living reality. After much talking, dreaming, and planning, it is an accomplished fact. We were daring enough when we were Freshmen to threaten the publication of an Annual; we vainly threw down the same challenge to the class of ' 97 when we became Sophomores; but when we reached the dig- nit ' of Juniors the field was clear and ' 99 has at last realized her fondest hopes. The commendable loyalty which has characterized the student body as it has rallied to the support of every proposal concerning the Annual has been an incen- tive to the staff to do their utmost to make EL RODEO a success in every partic- ular. When we tell you that we ha ' e lived upon a diet of tacks to give us pointers, eaten pickles and hot Spanish tamales to sharpen our wits, and devoured sardines and canned salmon with avidity in order to increase the activity of our brains, you will begin to understand the enjoyments that the Annual staff has endured that we might say something interesting and funny. But this is not our full tale of woe. We have also carried double English that we might do credit to our professor of English. Not only have we risen early in the morning, but we have denied ourselves the privilege of taking the young ladies to the prayer meet- ing Thursday evening, that we might have more time for Annual work. Scattered throughout these pages you will find the history of the past year in a form which will be indelibK ' impressed upon the memory of everyone who has been within these walls. It has not been the intention of the staff to be cruel or hard hearted in any personalities or eccentricities that we have inadvertently touched upon. In case your name does not appear in some form or another, you may rest assured that vour conduct has been of such a character as not to excite remark. However, if your feelings have been hurt, do not blame the editors, for they could not resist recording the predicaments into which you have cast your- self. Furthermore, if you are an upper classman, it was once in your power to

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