THE TRACK EMBLEM

With the interruption of track competition with Stanford, it was necessary to decide upon a new method of awarding the Big "C" to track athletes. In the past the winning of a point in the California-Stanford track meet has entitled the track man to the coveted emblem. At the instance of Track Captain T. L. Preble, the Big "C" Society has decided that hereafter the Big "C" shall be conferred upon track men who score a total of six or more points in any two of the three big meets of the year, these colleges to be designated by the Executive Committee. It is believed that the new system will allow more men to compete for their letters, without lowering standards of time and ability.

The Big "C" Society, at the request of various organizations, and also of the Department of Physical Education for Men, has assumed control of intramural sports, and will furnish officials, draw up schedules, and assume general supervision of inter-organization tournaments, not only in baseball, track, and basketball, but also in boxing, wrestling, tennis, etc.

INTERFRATERNITY COMPETITIONS

In the interfraternity track meet Sigma Pi on October 28 was winner over twenty-six fraternities and clubs, its score being twenty-six as compared with fifteen and a half for Theta Chi, its nearest competitor among the fraternities, and fifteen for the Casimir Club, which was the first house club.

Delta Chi, having won the baseball championship of the fraternities, defeated Bachelordon, winners of a similar contest among the house clubs, by a score of five to three on November 21.

SOME OTHER UNDERGRADUATE MATTERS

A reasonable ability to read and write at least one foreign tongue must be demonstrated by passing the "Subject B" examination before the Junior Certificate can be won. Of 1054 students who took this examination in the fall of 1915, only 55 per cent passed; this is the highest average yet reached. Of those passing, 59 per cent were women and 51 per cent men. In January, 1915, 41 per cent passed; in October, 1914, 51 per cent; in January, 1914, 49 per cent. In the last Subject B examinations, 422 took the examination in German and 320 in French, and 55 per cent passed in each subject. Of 218 taking the test in Spanish, 62 per cent

passed; of 83 in Latin, 40 per cent; of 8 in Italian, 75 per cent; of 3 in Greek, 2 passed and 1 failed.

There is a class in the University in the writing of verse, conducted by Leonard Bacon, Instructor in English. Now for the second time a little volume has been printed containing the fruits of this adventure. This "California Book of Undergraduate Verse," issued jointly by the English Club, the Occident, and the University, has the glow of youth, sincerity, and vigor, and an excellence of form which attests that training is of value in the art of verse just as it is of value in the other arts. The contributors to the volume are Frederick Schiller Faust, '15; Sidney Coe Howard, '15; Joseph McMorrow, '18; Helen Campbell, '17; Jewell Parrish, ex-'16; Hazel Havermale, '16; and Leslie Bates, '15.

Mr. Henry Ford having invited the University of California to be one of some fifteen different American Universities to send one representative each from the student body to join his peace mission to Europe, President Wheeler designated as the student representative of the University Mr. Paul Fussell, '16, one of the five students chosen to Phi Beta Kappa as Juniors from the Class of 1916. Just a few days before his appointment-on November 20-Mr. Fussell had won the Bonnheim Upper Division Discussion Prize by an admirable public discussion of the theme: "The value of a league of nations in the Western Hemisphere pledged to united action against any member that attacked any other member save by authority of the league.''

The Associated Women Students, by a vote of 309 to 41, adopted an amendment to the constitution providing that no elective or appointive officer of the Associated Students of the University of California, nor member of any affiliated committee or organization, shall be or become during her term of office a member of any secret society other than a Greek letter society, house club, or scholastic or departmental honor society.

After this amendment had been proposed, but before it came up to be voted on, Torch and Shield, an organization formed a number of years previously, and consisting of a few of the chief leaders among the women in each Senior class, made for the first time public announcement of the names of its members, of its constitution, and of its purpose-to promote the best interests of student life among the women of the University-by such announcement ceasing to be a secret society.

To aid toward enjoyment of the opportunities of "college life" by women students whose home is in San Francisco, the Associated Women Students have made definite arrangements by which such

women students may at any time find accommodations over night in various women's fraternities and house clubs.

Maude Meagher, '17, won the annual competition for the "Partheneia"-the "Masque of Maidenhood"-produced every spring in the Faculty Club Glade by the women students. Her dramatic poem is entitled, "Aranyani of the Jasmine Vine.' Miss Meagher played the leading role of Margot in the 1915 Partheneia, "The Queen's Masque," by Mary Van Orden, '06. Honorable mention was given to "The Mask of the Dawning'' by Gladys Kreamer, '17, to "Amaryllis and Anemones," by Ruth Doggett, '19, and to "Magic Flower," by Monica Flannery, '16.

The women students interested in journalism have organized the Istyc Club, its charter members being Leslie Wilde, '15, President; Elsie McCormick, '16, Vice-President; Francis B. Brown, '17, Secretary-Treasurer; Hazel Havermale, '16; Marion Hook, '16; Jean Watson, '16; Anna Barrows, '17; Carol Eberts, '17; Esther Kittridge, '17; Algeline Marlow, '17, and Anne Wharton, '17; honorary members: Professor Jessica Peixotto and Deborah Dyer, $14.

Osgood Murdock has been chosen editor of the Californian for the spring of 1916, and Robert Blake as its managing editor.

John Bruce, '17, has been appointed managing editor of the Occident, which means that for 1916-17 he will succeed Miss Hazel Havermale, the present editor.

D. T. Carlisle has been chosen editor of "Brass Tacks" for the spring of 1916.

The Class of 1915 has appointed, through President J. S. Brown, an "Insurance Plan Committee," whose function is to work out a plan for insuring the lives of members of the class in favor of the University, so that a fund may eventually be created as endowment for the University and as a memorial to the class.

President J. S. Brown of the Class of 1915 appointed as Governors of Senior Hall H. H. Spindt and M. E. Hazeltine; as Chairman of the Committee on Senior Assemblies, C. H. Straub; as Chairman of the Extravaganza Committee, Lloyd N. Hamilton, and as members of the Insurance Plan Committee, W. B. Augur, T. E. Gay, W. H. Falck, J. L. Reed, D. L. Preble, J. C. Witter, A. C. Johnson, and R. E. Shaub.

Alpha Zeta, the agricultural honor society, has initiated M. A. Rice, '16; W. B. Saunders, '16; J. W. Adriance, '17; W. A. Graham, '17; A. F. Hall, '17; P. J. Hartley, '17; W. D. Norton, '17, and R. M. Stafford, '17.

Beta Gamma Sigma, the economics honor society, has initiated S. M. Arndt, Homer L. Havermale, M. E. Hazeltine, W. A. Reynolds, and O. P. Smith.

The Press Club has initiated L. N. Hamilton, '16; H. B. Seymour, '17; D. T. Carlisle, '16; Percy Mills, '16; W. Elam, '17; C. J. Carey, '17; Marshall Maslin, '17, and Preston Hotchkiss, '16.

Skull and Keys, the Junior and Senior honor society, has initiated the following named: E. G. Stricklen, Newton B. Drury, and James Fisk from the faculty; and from the student body, Benjamin Alexander, Guy Witter, James C. Candee, Cecil H. Straub, Percy A. Mills, Preston Hotchkiss, James Clune, Edwin Stanton, Bradley Crow, Lyman Heacock, Aloysius Diepenbrock, Warner Chadbourne, Ernest Camper, T. P. Lane, C. D. Lane, Carlyle Prindle, Frederic Janney, Willis Montgomery, Marshall Madison, Joseph Moody, Ludwig E. Langer, F. B. Hulting, Springer F. Evans, Dickson Maddox, Richard McLaren, James Bequette, Chris Momson, Harry Seymour, Roger F. Goss, Douglas Cohen, Osgood Murdock, Luther Nichols, Floyd Stewart, and Donald Campbell.

Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, has initiated the following named: Alumni, C. H. Snyder, H. C. Vensano, and Dr. B. M. Woods; Seniors, Clinton de Witt, C. H. Foulds, W. L. Haker, C. A. Hancock, R. J. Heffner, F. J. Hoenigman, J. V. Johnson, W. D. Lowry, T. C. McFarland, H. N. Pratt, and R. M. Steed.

Theta Tau, the geological honor society, has initiated R. E. Darke, '15; Samuel Adair, '16; L. J. Brunel, '16; E. M. Butterworth, '16; O. A. Cavins, '16; W. B. Miller, '15; A. R. May, '17, and Roy Starbird, '17.

APPOINTMENTS

Clinical Professor of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke, from September, 1, 1915.

Professor of School Administration, William Webb Kemp, from September 1, 1915.

Acting Associate Professors: Leroy Abrams, Botany, from August 1 to December 31, 1915; R. Ruggles Gates, Zoology, from Octber 15, 1915, to June 30, 1916.

Lecturers: Herbert Stanley Shuey, Economics, from January 1, 1916; Arthur Robinson Williams, Mathematics, from July 1, 1915; Jean C. Gontard, Romanic Languages (in the University Extension Division), from September 14, 1915.

Instructors: W. F. Meyer, Astronomy, from January 1, 1916; John Jay Parry, English, from July 1, 1915; J. A. Magni, French, from July 1, 1915; Joseph F. Paxton, Greek and Latin, from

August 1, 1915; James Craig Neel, Obstetrics and Gynecology, from August 1, 1915; Robert Emmett Harmon, Physical Education (in the University Farm School), from September 1, 1915.

Instructors in the University Extension Division: Clyde I. Blanchard, Business Economy, from September 1, 1915; Deborah Dyer, English, from August 15, 1915; Edgar Sullivan, Journalism, from September 14, 1915.

Edith Claypole Research Assistant in Pathology, Sanford B. Hooker (for researches in typhoid with Professor Gay), from September 1, 1915.

Research Assistant in Pathology and Physiology (on a grant from the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research), Carl L. A. Schmidt, from July 1, 1915.

Resident Fellow in History, at Seville, Spain, Joaquin de San Leandro.

Teaching Fellows: E. S. Thomas, Geography, from August 1, 1915, to May 31, 1916; Ferdinand John Neubauer, Astronomy, from August 1, 1915; Edwin Kent, Mathematics, from July 1, 1915; Charles Donald Shane, Mathematics, from July 1, 1915; Clifton Edgar Brooks, Political Science, from July 1, 1915; Charles E. Martin, Political Science, from July 1, 1915.

Assistants: Walter William Wobus, Agricultural Education; E. R. Utter, Astronomy, from September 1, 1915; Helen Margaret Gilkey, Botany, from July 1, 1915; H. N. Cooper, Chemistry, from September 1, 1915, to January 1, 1916; H. J. H. Levinson, Chemistry, from July 1, 1915; Leona Esther Young, Chemistry, from July 1, 1915; F. C. Mills, Economics, from August 1, 1915, to May 30, 1916; Clara Mortensen, Economics, from August 1, 1915, to May 30, 1916; L. B. Smith, Economics, from August 1, 1915, to May 30, 1916; Elmer Ralph de Ong, Entomology, from October 1, 1915; Ludwig Augustus Emge, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Resident at the University Hospital), from August 1, 1915.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

Samuel Jackson Holmes, Associate Professor of Zoology, for 1915-16.

Willis Linn Jepson, Associate Professor of Dendrology, from September 1 to December 31, 1915.

Walter I. Baldwin, Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery, from September 13, 1915, to October 31, 1915.