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

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15 — Juniors start holiday fun with progressive Christmas party. Manuscript Club initiates three new members. Sophs are visited by Santa at party. 16 — Girls make scrapbooks for Methodist hospital at annual Christmas party. German Club holds Christmas celebration. 17 — Nine Seniors and two Juniors are announced as members of the Scholar- ship Society. 18 — Spanish Club is guest of Miss Maria de Lopez at San Gabriel. Christm as Holidays begin. Men endeavor to prove the value of a university education in department store life. 1916 Jan. -I — Back to the same old grind. Clionian takes advantage of leap year privilege. 11 — Basketball season opens. 12 — Orchestra returns from tour of local towns. 13 — Senior girls escort men to 1916 partv. 1-1 — L. A. A. C. and U. S. C. meet in basketball. Orchestra appears at Trinity , ' uditorium. 19 — Dr. Robert McLean Cumnock reads for students. The Old Line Oratorical try-out gives honors to Ugene Blalock, Floyd Farley, Alvin Wendt and Reuel Olson. 2 — Tuskcgee quintet gives treat of songs and readings in assembly. 27 — The Day of Judgment begins. Finals. 28 — Basketball five defeat Whittier Crescents. Feb. 3 — Second semester begins. 8 — Dean Cromwell arrives. Woman ' s branch of L P. A. organized. 9 — Freshmen Stag Do. 11 — U. S. C. non-monogram track team defeats Hollvwood bv score of 81%- 40%. Normal quintet loses to Trojans. 15 — Robbery at LIniversity Pharmacy creates excitement. Trojans defeat Azusa Athletic Club. 16 — Woman ' s Glee Club gives first home concert. Frosh defeat Polytechnic in track. 17 — Seniors picnic at Rubio Canyon. 22— Holiday. Freshmen defeat Throop in pushball contest. 25 — Women ' s Glee Club depart for heat belt. Prexy acquires title of grandfather. 26 — Aerial party discloses secret of conditional gift of a million dollars. 27 — Senor Constantino sings before large audience. March 2 — U. S. C. loses in triangular debate with Pomona and Occidental. Spanish Club presents play. 3 — Y. W. observes fiftieth anniversary. Freshmen and Sophomores have parties. Sophomore eats disappear. •1 — S. C. nine wins in game with Knox ' s men. Score 5-1. 6 — Women ' s Glee Club returns from Imperial. 8 — Juniors forsake classes for joys of Arroyo Seco. 10 — German Club picnic. 11 — Baseball game with California results in a 11-3 Bear victory. S. C. nine wins return game by score of 5-3, and cinches fifty pounds of Pig ' n Whistle chocolates. 21 — S. C. women defeat Occidental team in debate. 22 — Senior road sliow. 23 — Dr. J. W. Hancher arrives to push University Forward Movement. Delta Sigma Rho takes in new debaters. 2A — Men ' s Glee Club leaves for tour of northern towns. Track and baseball teams leave for north. Sophomores elect Olson and Kraus to handle El Rodeo 1918. 30 — Orchestra tours southland. CAMPUS Page 29

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Calendar 1915 May 5 — Freshman-Sophomore Day. 5 — Senior Sneak Day. 11— Annual May Festival. 12 — Junior-Senior Banquet. 18 — U. S. C. secures Delta Sigma Rho Chapter. 21 — Student body elections. Arthur Chapman elected president. 23 — Senior Chapel Service. 25 — Annual Joint literary society program. 28— El Rodeo Day. June 6 — Dr. F. M. Larkin preaches Baccalaureate sermon. 1 — Commencement. Annual Alumni Banquet at Shrine Auditorium. Ivy Day exercises. Sept. 13 — Registration begins. 15 — Ex-President Taft addresses student body. 16 — Y. W. C. A. gives Shirtwaist Reception. Men have Stag Do in gym at night. 17 — Lawn Reception to all students by the Christian Associations. 20 — Athena and Aristotelian Literary Societies give Reception to new students. 21 — Comitia-Clionian Reception. 22 — Freshmen defeated Sophomores, 23-0, in pushball contest. 23 — Senior girls entertain Freshmen in East Hall. 28 — First appearance of Freshman hats. Oct. 1 — Football team defeats L. A. A. C, 21-9. 6 — Corduroy Day. Juniors picnic at Seal Beach. Freshmen defeat Manual Arts at football, 14-0. 7 — Freshmen have feed on campus lawn. 8 — Seniors picnic at Redondo. 9 — Freshmen defeat Long Beach football team. 14- — Sophomore-Freshmen Reception. 15 — Ugene Blalock wins first honors in Western Interstate Oratorical Contest 16 — La Tertulia holds social meeting. 18- — Dr. Dana V. Bartlett addresses men of University. 19 — Junior play cast chosen. 22 — Graduates frolic at Hermosa Beach. 23 — U. S. C. wins big victory in game with California. Score 28-10. 27 — Junior girls meet at informal tea at Alpha Rho House. Sophs picnic at Hermosa. 29 — Ardent queeners cooled by fire hose. Hallowe ' en Masquerade in gym. Nov. 3 — Junior men become exclusive. Have stag party. 5 — Freshmen spend afternoon in Fish Canyon. 6 — U. S. C. lose in big game with Oregon. 9 — Trojan news heavy. Office table collapses. 11 — Enrollment announced as 2800 students. 12 — LI. S. C. team, Haynes, Ames and Olson, win debate from Stanford. Frosh defeat Sherman Indians. 15 — Students pay tribute to Liberty Bell. 20 — Football team defeated by Utah eleven at Utah. 23 — Pajamarino Rally. Freshmen burn hats. Big bear blown up. 25 — Trojans lose to Bears by lone point in most exciting game of year. 25-27 — Thanksgiving Recess. Dec. 9 — Juniors stage class plays, The War God and The Man of Destiny. II — Football squad defeated by Whittier at Washington Park. Eleven Skull and Dagger pledges initiated. 12 — Oratory students give Christmas program. 13 — Senior-Junior football game results in 3-3 tie. 14 — Athletic board of control adopts Freshman rule. CAMPUS Page 2S

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Lunar We are out of date, said Mrs. Man in the Moon to the Old r ailStir 1 ' • she passed him his plate of cheese. Her better half selected a verdant morsel and tossed the rest to the disembodied canine spirits yelping around him. Then, tilting back on his volcanic stool, he indifferently murmured, Yes? I should say so, resumed Mrs. Man, shedding a pitcher of moonlight on her hubby ' s fool-moon trousers in her excitement. Our traditions are wearing out. This cheese idea has been used as a joke for centuries on the earth. I tell you, if you ' d quit driving these flirting stellar lights in your yellow car and come down to earth you ' d see a thing or two. I found a place where they have more traditions than you ' ve had from the time you divorced Mother Earth. The other night, while driving my town- car through the trees, I came to a building with ' University of Southern Cali- fornia ' half-mooned over the entrance. Attracted by a low cooing from the windows, I slipped down through the leaves to discover its meaning. ' Oh, Archie! We ' ll be discovered! ' cried a feminine voice in the Earthotic tongue. ' Let ' s go around back, ' said a pantalooned voice in reply. ' Stay where you are, ' I assured them ; ' I ' m only Mrs. Man in the Moon. ' ' Oh, dear, no! ' the gowned one wailed. ' If we were caught Archie would get duck-ponded. ' Duck what? interrupted Old Man in the Moon, gulping down a whole cheese. Keep quiet, can ' t you? Well, I promised not to expose them if they would tell me everything. It was all about traditions. This Archie is what they call a Fresh Man. If he is caught sitting on the window seats, acting half as silly as you do when you pass Venus every evening, the poor biped is coiled around the garden fountain. Large specimens cannot always be inserted in the foun- tain trough, so their back-bones are laved by inserting a fire extinguishing tube at the b ack of the neck. But that isn ' t all. Archie can ' t use weeds in any form while on the college block, and the one in the frock can ' t, either. CAMPUS Page 30