Miami Hurricane, January 18, 1939

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Volume XII
The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEW
Hurricane
F THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Cohal Gables, Florida, Wednesday, January 18, 1939
Number 15
Puts Absentee Senators On Grill; Hears Proposal To Bond Publication Mgrs.
Waiting for a quorum to show up so they could begin business, student senators drummed on their tables for twenty minutes last Tuesday, got in the mood for bearing down on tardy and absent Senate members.
Sophomore Senator Hollahan and Freshman Senator Turner suggested the body should enforce the constitutional clause to the effect that two successive unexcused absences on the part of a senator should automatically drop him from office.
The senators thought better of this idea, preferred Teeter’s motion to incorporate an amendment in the revised constitution, now pending student approval. The suggested change will read: “Any two unexcused absences will be sufficient to drop a senator from office.”
Bridge-Playing Rapped
President Joe Thomas reported a conference with Dean Henry S. West, who lamented the playing of bridge in the soda shop to the detriment of studying.
Teeter defended the game as a harmless pastime. “Students don’t spend their afternoons studying anyway. They could be in far worse places than in the soda shop, playing brdige.”
Senators on the whole, however, agreed with Dean West’s objections, especially during the University open house as the excess bridge-playing would tend to impress visitors unfavorably.
The senate thought it unnecessary to go on record on this issue as President Thomas, in his capacity of head of the soda shop, agreed to stop the card-playing during the four-day open house.
Olson Proposes Publication Change
Junior Senator Olson then arose to propose the bonding of the business managers of University publications in order that they alone should be responsible for the accounts and be able to give regular, accurate reports to the senate on the publications’ financial status.
Olson, Teeter, and Thomas agreed to act as a committee to look into the feasibility of the suggestion.
As the meeting closed with the sounding of the 1:30 bell, President Thomas managed to propose the establishing of a $2000 fund for the entertainment of the student body before the senators vanished through the door.
Learning Speaks at Hispanic Institute Tonight
Plans Complete For 1939 Ibis; Format Revised
Dr. Brigs* >n Charge Of Assembly Friday
Dr. Harold E. Briggs, professor of history, will be in charge of a special Robert E. Lee Commemoration program Friday morning at 10:10.
He will deliver a short talk on the subject, “Robert E. Lee, the American,” and will receive on behalf of the University a presentation of books on the history of the Confederacy from the United Daughters of the Southern Confederacy.
Work on the Ibis, University yearbook, is well underway with 240 pages already laid out and 70 students signed up as stuff contributors, said Editor Phil Fenigson in an interview this week.
“We are attempting something entirely new in yearbooks,” states the editor. “Not just new for this University but something new for any university yearbook.”
He refuses to divulge the exact details of the revolutionary changes; will say, however, the book will be a distinct departure from the stereotyped picture type of annual.
Of the 75,000 words the Ibis will contain, the large proportion will be contributed by members of the student body, although Dean Bertha Foster and Dr. Harold E. Briggs will submit articles, according to Fenigson.
Students also will be largely responsible for the informal photography. Among student photographers now engaged on the book are Steve Pratt, Malcolm Evans, Roger Brown, and Eric Carlson.
New features of the book will be a story entitled “We’re Working Our Way Through College,” inside stories on life in the dormitories, and new treatment of the fraternity and sorority pages.
The 1939 editon of the Ibis will be out the first week of May, the editor announces. He will appoint his editorial board next month.
Night Watchman, Armed to Teeth, Fears Naught Save Pledges' Pranks
By Dorothy Hawkins
Peter LeBlanc, peddler, hunter, dairyman, and Keeper of Keys (hours: 5 to 12 p.m.) leaned back against the beaverboard wall of the Hurricane office and talked aboult snakes, panthers, and his five children. It was 7:15 p.m. and “Mr. Lee” as he is commonly known by the student masses, had been on duty for two hours and 16 minutes. The quiet of the dimly-lighted building was broken only by an occasional spurt from the cafeteria piano which was being played for the entertainment of a few late diners. Dropping his cigarette ashes into his left hand, Lee recalled the days when Flagler street was paved with wooden blocks and Miami was a suburb of the Everglades.
Discouraging Arrival
“I landed here at 9:15, March 9, 1914,” Lee glibly recited, “and believe me I almost went home the next day.” (Home being Hamilton, Ohio). “At that time Miami was a veritable wilderness. In fact the first day I was the object of the pursuit of (first) a snake and (second) a catamount.”
It was the following day that a panther did the same thing. A fast pair of feet saved him. “It took
time,” Lee says, “but I finally got sand in my shoes.”
For a time Lee worked a dairy route for Mr. Fripp, proud papa of two U. of M. students. Then he took to peddling. It was just three years ago come next February that he assumed the duties of nightwatchman for the University. And he likes his job here, too, because “they’re such nice people to work for.”
Envy of the Cub Scout
The only things that ever annoy him when he is fulfilling his duties are fraternity initiatees and pranksters. But Lee is afraid of nothing.
He’s armed to the teeth and totes a flashlight that would be the pride and joy of any cub scout.
If you want to see Lee’s gold teeth, just ask him about his tribe of young ones. There’s Frankie La-verne, Rudolph Leroy, Martha Louise,
Daisy Margaret, TerVance William —aged 12, 11, 8, 5, and 3, respectively. And Lee’ll have you know that Terrance William is boss of them all.
Lee’s a likeable fellow and gets along with students royally. It gives ^ ^ him a big kick to remember them by	of educatlon...
name. And the shout of Oh, Leeeee-eeeee!” ringing down the halls for a door to be unlocked is music to his ears.
Dr. John Tate Lanning and Dr. Homero Seri», Institute speakers
Seris, Staunch Loyalist, Cites Civilian Reaction To Air Bombing, Improved Hispanic Digestion
Don Homero Seris, speaker for the first three session of this week’s Hispanic-A merican Institute, went through a good part of the Rebel air bombardment of Madrid. But with his typically Spanish humor, he can even see some funny things about it now.
‘The Spanish character is unpredictable,” Dr. Seris told his listeners.
Sirens warn Madrid citizens of an approaching air raid, but instead of hiding in their cellars they all run out into the streets to watch the airplanes.”
One thing can be said for the disastrous Spanish Civil War, according to the speaker. The Spanish digestion has collectively improved because of the shortage of meat, a food stuff which Spaniards tend to love not wisely but too well.
“However,” Dr. Seris added ser-ously, “hundreds of thousands of non-combatants may die this winter for lack of food.”
Guardian of the Arts
A staunch Loyalist, the Institute lecturer was a member of a special committee appointed to safeguard the art treasures and libraries of the Madrid area.
The great tragedy of the revolution in Spain, Dr. Seris said in an interview Monday, is that Franco is undoing all the fine work that was started by the Republic.
“During the Monarchy,” Dr. Seris stated, “Madrid, with a population of 1,000,000 had only two high schools. With the advent of the Republic, an effort was made to advance education, with the result that within five years new schools, libraries, and laboratories were founded. Teachers were obtained as well as books and 7,000 grammar schools were built. Thus tourists visiting Spain were no longer shocked and surprised at the lack of schools and institutions for the Republic had inaugurated a new
movement, and now, said Dr. Seris, whenever Franco enters a town where the Republic had started to build its schools and libraries, the insurgent general closes them all and burns the books which had proven of inestimable value to the citizens.
Protesting that he was little versed in politics and war time strategies, Dr. Seris declined to make a definite comment as to the outcome of the war in Spain but said: “A victory by the insurgents would put Spain, culturally, back in the middle ages, from which it was just beginning to emerge.”
Dr. J. Seris arrived from Njew York Sunday. He is at present working on a book to be titled “A Bibliography of Spanish Literature.” His future plans include a series of lectures at Brown university in Providence, R. I.
“I am thankful to the directors of the Hispanic-American Institute for asking me to attend this series of lectures as a guest speaker,” Dr. Seris stated,” since Spain is usually not included in discussions of Latin American affairs. I am pleased to thinkI that the Institute did not forget the mother country.”
War a Cultural Diaaster
The war, breaking out in July of interrupted this educational
1935.
EditorDiscusses Latin- American Cultural Phases
Dr. John Tate Lanning, recognized authority on Spanish American colonial universities, and fourth speaker of the Winter Institute of Hispanic-American Studies, will open his series of three lectures on education in Latin America tonight at 8:30 in the auditorium.
Granted Guggenheim Scholarship
After graduating from Duke university and the University of California, Dr. Lanning was granted the Guggenheim scholarship, which allowed him to carry on research in South America. A special interest in the history of the intellectual life of the Spanish colonies in America has led him to investigate the archives of all the great colonial universities of Spanish America. Another award enabled Dr. Lanning to attend the University of London and to do research work in the archives of Spain. In 1927 he joined the faculty of Duke university.
Dr. Lanning is also an editor and author. His books are “The Diplomatic History of Georgia,” and “The Spanish Missions of Georgia.” He is the associate editor of the “Hispanic American Historical Review,” a periodical devoted to the serious study of Hispanic America.
Subjects Named
Topics of Dr. Lanning’s lectures will be “The Founding of the Scholastic University in Hispanic-Amer-ica,” “The Last Stand of the Schoolmen: Philosophical Revolution Hispanic America,” and “The Rise of Modern Medicine in Spanish America.”
Final speakers in the series will be Dr. Wilfrid Hardy Callcott, an authority on Mexico, and Dr. Richard Pat-tee, senior divisional assistant in the division of cultural relations of the Department of State who will close the Institute session next week.
Barnyard Frolics To Feature Frosh Cast
Nu Kappa Tau Taps Nine in February
First in a series of special meetings was held by Nu Kappa Tau, women’s honorary, Monday afternoon to elect candidates for the approaching tapping ceremony.
Names of senior and second-semester juniors with a B average since matriculation and a record of service, leadership, and character were listed on a tentative ballot to be voted on at the close of this semester.
Tapping service will be moved up this year from May to February, according to a constitutional amendment passed by the active chapter Monday.
After much heated discussion the j few members of the freshman class who attended the meetings last Fri-jday and Monday settled down to making definite plans for the annual Freshman Frolics to be held February 24. Frank Sessler, class president, conducted the meeting.
This year’s freshman event will be a barnyard frolic, held in the cafeteria with a floor show of all freshman talent. Tentative arrangements have been made for eight acts.
Sessler appointed the following committees: talent, Julia Arthur, Patty Hollarn, Ed Melchen; decorations, Ruth McDonald, Marshall Feuer, Dick Tucker, Louis Phillips; advertising, Marion Brown, Hedwig Ringblom ; chaperones, Dorothy Lowe; and orchestra, Donald Chadderdon.
FACULTY MEETS
Dr. J. Riis Owre, secretary, announces a faculty meeting next Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
Senate Raps Coffee Shop Card Sharks
PUBLIC INVITED TO BROWSE THROUGH THESE CLOISTERED HALLS
Greater Miami Invited To 3-Day Open House
Students, faculty, and administration officials will form an unofficial receiving line today as the University of Miami throws open its doors to welcome the general public at a four-day open house.
Guests are invited to come in and watch the functioning of the classroom, the laboratory, and the lecture platform. Besides the regular daily program, special events are scheduled in order that the visitors may get a long range view of the University within the four-day period.
Open house program will run today through Saturday with such extra
--------------------------+events planned as exhibits, concerts,
Open House Program
Tonight
6:30 p.m. — Band program, Coral Gables Country club.
7:00 p.m. — Basketball, Ponce de Leon High school.
8:30 p.m. — Men’s chorus, Coral Gables Country club.
Thursday
11:30 a.m. — Woodwind quintet, room 264.
12:30 p.m. — Men’s glee club, room
238.
Women’s glee club, room 264.
¡1:30 p.m.—String quartet, room 260.
2:30 p.m. Fencing, frosh gym.
2:30 p.m. String quartet, WIOD.
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.—Band rehearsal, band room.
3:30 p.m. — Men’s handball, Intramural field.
3:30 p.m. — Girls’ basketball, Intramural field.
3:30 p.m.—Girls’ ping-pong, Sorority hall.
4:00 p.m.—Boxing, gym.
4:00 p.m.—Moving pictures of Miami vs. Bucknell, auditorium.
2:30 to 5:30—Sorority open house.
7:00 p.m. — Basketball, Ponce de Leon High school gym.
Friday
11:30 a.m. — Woodwind quintet, room 266.
12:30 p.m. — “Samson and Delilah” rehearsal, band room.
1:30 p.m. — Faculty quarter, room 260.
2:30 p.m.—Fencing, frosh gym.
3:30 p.m. — Men’s handball, Intramural field.
3:30 p.m.—Women’s ping-pong, Sorority hall.
4:00 p.m.—Boxing, gym.
4.00 p.m. Moving pictures of Miami-Georgia game, auditorium.
2:30 to 4:30 p.m. — Symphony orchestra rehearsal, band room.
2:30 to 5:30 p.m. — Sorority open house.
7:00 p.m. — Basketball, Ponce de Leon High school.
10:00 to 10:30 p.m.—Symphony program, WIOD.
150 Petition To Lift Spanish Embargo
Over 150 University students and faculty members have signed a petition, circulated by the Medical Bureau and North American Committee to aid Spanish Democracy, asking President Franklin D. Roosevelt to lift the embargo against the Spanish Republic. The petition is sponsored locally by the American Friends of Spanish Democracy.
Among faculty members who have signed the petition are: Dr. Harold E. Briggs, Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, Dr. J. Riis Owre, Dr. Clarke Olney, Dr. William L. Halstead. Dr. Jacob H. Kaplan, Miss Georgia May Barrett, Mrs. Natalie Lawrence, S. W. Girriel, Walter Scott Mason, Robert E. Downes, William H. Hester, Dr. Paul Reed, Sidney Head, Sidney Maynard, Otho V. Overholser, and Lewis Leary.
Redfearn To Speak At Second Vespers
A Vespers service, under the joint sponsorship of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A., to feature D. H. Redfearn, prominent Miami attorney, will be held Sunday afternoon in the auditorium.
The service, which was inaugurated last month in order to give students living on the campus a religious service in which they may take part, will be conducted once a month, according to Paul E. Eckel, faculty advisor.
Sunday’s program follows:
Prelude, Hand — Bach
Hymn — Hock of A«es
Anthem, “Lift Thine Eye»," Girls’ Glee C.lub
Prayer
Hymn — “I'alth of Our Fathers”
Scripture Rending
Solo — Heppnt You — John P. Scott
Joseph Harclay Address, “Loyal Stewardship,” Mr. Redfearn Postlude— Humperdinck
movies, and athletic contests.
Topics of Discussion Many topics of current interest will be discussed by the several classes. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:30 a.m. Miss Georgia May Barrett, associate professor of psychology, has scheduled lectures on “The Guidance of Readjustment.” At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday Dr. William Mc-Masters, professor of religion, will make a “Comparative Study of Religions.”
“Stories of the Rheinland” is the topic for discussion scheduled by Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, instructor in German, for her German classes meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Friday. Also scheduled for 11:30
а.	m. Wednesday and Friday class meetings are lectures on “Thoreau-Mystic Artisan” and “Moby Dick— the Epic of the American Conscience.” Both lectures will be delivered by Lewis Leary, professor of English.
Dissertations which are closely allied will be presented at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, when J. Paul Reed, associate professor of sociology, addresses his advanced class on the topic, “Social Change.” At the same hour, Robert Downes, instructor, will discuss the “Business Cycle” with his economics class. Downes will present a sequel to his lecture on Friday at 1:30 p.m. when his topic will be “International Trade.”
“World Weather”
Thursday apparently will see a widely diversified group of subjects for student discussion. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., John Henry Clouse, professor of physics, will lecture on the phenomena of “World Weather.” Rabbi Jacob H. Kaplan will instruct his ethics class in “Reflective Morality” during the 9:30-10:30 a.m. period, and at the same time E. E. McCarty, jr., will lecture on “The Instructional Staff of the Public School.” At 11:30 a.m. two members of the faculty of the English department, Walter Scott Mason, director of the university’s winter institute of literature, and Mrs. Natalie Grimes Lawrence, instructor in English, will discuss George Bernard Shaw’s preface to “Arms and the Man,” and “The Plays of John Galsworthy,” respectively. At 1:30 p.m. Dr. William P. Dismukes, professor of French, will lecture on “Fenelon.”
Laboratories, libraries and museums will also be open for public view. The elaborate herbarium, containing more than 25,000 specimens of tropical flora, and believed to be one of the most complete in the South, will also be open daily under the supervision of Walter M. Bus-well, curator.
Dr. Harold E. Briggs, Historian, will offer classes at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and Friday on the “History of the South.” At the same time Thursday he will discuss in a class lecture “American Historical Writers.”
MiainiStudent Union Branch Planned
A group of University of Miami students will meet Friday to form a University branch of the American Student Union at 7 p.m. in room 231.
According to the platform, the Union:
1.	Seeks to make America a positive force for peace.
2.	Opposes trustee-domination of education.
3 Works to make the campus a genuine fortress of democracy.
4.	Favors extension of federal student aid as embodied in the American Youth Act.
5.	Supports the building of student cooperatives.
б.	Campaigns for universal educational opportunity.
7. Condemns discrimination against minority groups.
JRS., SOPHS MEET FRIDAY
Harry Hayward, president, announces an important meeting of the junior class Friday at 12:30 in the auditorium to discuss plans for the junior prom.
Sophomores will also meet Friday at the same time, same place, according to Class President Charley Franklin.