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

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AV. Almost every SC'er has heard the story of the growth, which started with one drab building in the midst of the sea of mustard, though few have witnessed the 70-year history. 1880-fifty students moved into the ever-present music building with the Bovard family, to begin classes. 1880-Old College put into operation. '86 Theology- Every year more Colleges. An early SC expansion pro- gram intended to include schools in every population center of the Southland. The beginnings of this chain of schools, from the San loaquin to San Diego, folded into one as a result of the bust of '93 , establishing Liberal Arts as the central campus. The Gay Ninetys ushered in the story-book styles, and an era of tom-foolery, which has become legend. College girls wore fascinators and Martha Washington dresses, the Happy Hooligansn, pegged corduroys and sombreros. Early SC football teams sometimes managed to win over the local high schools. In 1889 SC played a heavy schedule, two games. The thundering herds of the Great Iones later rumbled SC to gridiron fame. Instead of game rallys, everybody attended the Iollyup, where freshman-built bonfires spirited the rooters. Yearly class rivalry started with the annual Color Rush , a spectacle in mud and blood, participated in by Freshmen and Sophornores, to ascertain whose class colors mounted the lofty flagpole. During the year any lowly Freshman who failed to salute a Prof., wore pegged cords or a sombrero, didn't part his hair in the middle, failed to wear a beanie, attended. the Burlesque show, was caught Queening ttalking to or wooing females? on the stairs of Old College was promi- ly and uncerernoniously dunked into the slime-filled duck pond. Since this slime pond was easily observed from the vantage points of Old College, whole classes frequently watched the early morning dunlcs in the slime. The disappearance of the traditional customs, the dog-gone button, the ivy spade, and the mystery bag attest the age of SC. Throughout the history of SC, there has been the ever restless surge of progress created by the independent thought, which characterizes the demo- cratic spirit of SC.