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

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.NOTHER El Rodeo unll appear during the wee of finah and wiU he put aside hurriedly until the press of exarrnnations gives way to the leisure of summer vacation. Perhaps then it u ' lll he re-opened and more carefully examined. It TS for this second probable reading that El Rodeo has been com- piled. A resume, for it is not necessarily a complete record, of the high- lights of the university year has been made. The immediate purpose is to place in the hands of students a chronicle of events in u-hich they may find their own contributions to the student body and those of their friends. Then, too, if change is the essence of progress, this volume will show what change has been made u-ithm the period of the university year. This volume closes the forty-ninth year of the universitv history In 1930 the semi-centennial will be obseri;ed, plans for which are now being made in celebration of the event. The thirt. -fourth El Rodeo. then, will present the culmtiwtion of student life up to the fiftieth anni- versary: if for no other reason than that it would have .significance. If this presentation brings a favorable reaction from any reader there might be; if an alumnus, casiuilly looking through a copy in a fraternity or sorority house, finds herein a pleasing record of his under- graduate friends; or if an administrative oficer. seel mg u;ithin the covers of this bool to more clearly understand the spirit and p urpose of the student body and its extra-curricular activities, finds an answer to his quest; or if a member of the Trojan student body of 1929 is pleased with this collection of events, then the staff members may well say that the hoo , and their time and effort, have been justified. (

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LJraer or J)ooks PRELUDE Book J TROy Student Gove rnment Campus T utables Honar Group s Athletics Scholarship Seniors Publications Homecoming Drama Fraternities Rallies Sororities Music Dormitories Society Debate Alitmni Boole II COLLEGES Campus Coile yes 0 ' Campus Coiitges Book III ALLEY RAT ■T

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(S.: IVISION into three hoo s and a prelude is in eeping wnh the or- ganization of the student body of Troy. The prelude presents the University, its admmistration, the deans of the various colleges and a few campus scenes. Troy, Book One, telis the story of the associated student body in all Its variety of activities. Since the government of this student body IS federal in nature, with dnnsion of power between the association and the various college student body groups, the former is, of course, of more importance than the latter. Emphasis has been placed, therefore, upon the association. Such interests as drama, publications, rallies, scholarship, seniors, fraternities and sororities are All-University m nature and go to mal{e up the whole of the association. They draw interest from all students regardless of what college student body groups they may be members. Troy presents this part of the campus activities in its entirety. Colleges, Book Two, gives what could be summed up on the student body events and interests, the campus groups, which have an invaluable place on the campus, and the honorary and professional fra- ternities which are limited to a particular curricular subject. Class officers, m the opinion of the editor, were given all the space they de- serve; what social events were put on are given space in the society section. Alley Rat, Book Three, is a burlesque on the rest of El Rodeo. That is sufficient explanation.