Miami Hurricane, December 15, 1938

              The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Volume XII
Nelson Entry Wins $100 Songstakes
Photo Finish Declares “Forward Miami” As Best; Cold Is Second
Ralph Nelson, sophomore music student and Hurricane Student Poet, walked off with $100 and top honors in the Original School Song Contest held last Friday in the auditorium.
Nelson’s song, “Forward Miami,” written somewhat on the order of the Alma Mater, nosed out C. A. Cold, Jr.’s more spirited air, “Go, Go, Go,” awarded the $50 second prize.
Eddie Baumgarten received third prize of $20 for his drinking song. Ten dollar prizes were awarded to Louis Eley, Peter Buonconsiglio, and Rex Hall. First prize was offered by Mrs. Charles Lyon Krum, the second $100 by Mrs. Henry L. Dougherty.
' Approached immediately after the awarding of first prize to buy a ticket for Friday night’s Queen of Clubs dance, refused, denied any need to celebrate that night. “I'll work at the liquor store as usual,” he said.
Asked for a statement on how it feels to be a successful song-writer, Nelson pronounced, “I was utterly surprised, because I thought every other song sounded better than mine. Anyway, I’m not a song-writer. I’m here at the University to learn to write grand opera in three easy lessons.”
Acting as judges for the song contest were members of the faculty of the School of Music, including Mrs. Frances Hovey Bergh, Carl Ruggles, Franklin Harris, Joseph Tarpley, and Thomas Steunenberg.
Ripon College Debate Team’s First Opponent
University debaters will meet the Ripon college, Wisconsin, team in a pre-season engagement, January 3, the first day after Christmas vacation, at 2:30 in the social hall, according to an announcement released today by Sidney Head, faculty coach.
To Meet Nine Colleges
A team chosen from the University’s eight-man squad will debate the question, "Resolved:: the U. S. should cease spending public funds for the purpose of stimulating bus iness.”
Nine college teams have accepted invitations to meet the Miami men during the season from the end of January extending through March. The team will play Johns Hopkins and N.Y.U. in home engagements, has scheduled Furman, N.Y.U., Penn, St. Peter’s, Boston university, Johns Hopkins, and Rutgers away from home.
Will Debate Florida
The team will also definitely meet University of Florida debaters this year, but the date has not been officially set, according to Mr. Head.
University debaters include: Mil ton Wasman, Dick Arend, Jerry Weinkle, Jack Madigan, Dan Satin, Ben Axleroad, Robert Crane, and Lloyd Whyte.
Erskine, Wylie First Institute Speakers
Students who plan to attend only one or two of the lectures of the Winter Institute series will be charged fifty cents for each lecture they attend, according to an 'announcement from Director Walter Scott Mason today. “Unless they are regularly enrolled or have registered to audit the series, the charge will be made without exception."
Program Arranged The Institute, which will open February 13, will include John Erskine, Philip Wylie, John B. Kennedy, Leonard Llebling, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Charles Francis Coe, each outstanding in his or her particular field of American contemporary writing.
The program for the first week will be shared by Erskine and Wylie. Erskine, famous for his novels and interest in the American opera will deliver his lectures on Monday afternoon of the 13, Tuesday evening, Wednesday evening, Thursday afternoon, and Friday evening. His subjects, in order, are to be “Gathering the Material,” “The Story,” “The Scene and the Weather,” “Filling Out the Characters,” and “Time, the Enemy and the Friend.”
Movie Man To Speak During the same week, Philip Wylie, who is connected with the Hollywood motion picture industry, will speak Wednesday afternoon, on “Writing for the Movies.”
Afternoon sessions will convene at 2:30 and the evening sessions at 8:30 in the University auditorium.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
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15, 1938
Number 13
THESE WINSOME MISSES ARE PRIDE OF PI CHI
Win: Alberta Burke ☆ ☆
Place: Toots Miles ☆ ☆
CUTS COURTESY MIAMI HERALD
Show: Patricia Hollaran ☆ ☆
U. Gals Cop All Club Queen Honors
Students Veto Plan To Admit
Nazi Refugees
By Joe Belden, Editor
Siodrni Opinion Survtyt of America
Austin, Texas, Dec. 13 — Jewish refugees from Central Europe should not be allowed to come into the United States in great numbers, a large majority of the college youths of this country believes, the first national poll of the Student Opinion Surveys of America reveals.
In slightly more than a month Germany has turned its Jews into a world problem, one that may have to be faced by leaders of tomorrow —college men and women of today. Should the United States offer a haven to the persecuted Jews? Al-thuogh many think some should be admitted if other nations cooperate, seven out of ten are opposed to opening wide the doors of Ellis Island.
Hurricane Cooperate*
These figures are the first announced by the new Student Opinion Surveys, organized with the Miami Hurricane as one of the cooperating members, among college newspapers over the nation. The Surveys, a noncommercial organization of campus editors, will publish weekly reports based on national referenda similar to those of other polls that recently have been proved highly reliable. The Surveys are intended to add a “fourth dimension” to the college press by reporting scientifically national student thought.
Campus interviewers have approached students of every description, rich and poor, freshmen and seniors, in big schools like Columbia in New York and California at Los Angeles and in smaller schools like Luther in Iowa and Schreiner in Texas. They have asked, “Should the United States offer a haven in this country for Jewish refugees from Central Europe?”
YES, said	31.2 per cent.
NO, suid	61.8 per cent.
But it was clear from the coast-to-coast returns that students as a whole would like to see the United States help oppressed German minorities in some way, some suggesting the offering of homes in U.S. possessions. "No country should turn away people who bring so much with them,” said an Illinois senior. “But where would we put them?” asked a University of Minnesota sophomore. Others definitely believed more should be allowed admittance. Noticeable was the qualification, “If other nations help also.”
Jewish Student* Say “Yea” American Jewish students, congregated in the East Central states, it appears raised the “yes” answers in that particular section of the country, where 39.1 per cent were in favor. In the New England group 35.8 were affirmative; Middle Atlantic 30.1; West Central 30.7; Southern 29.5; Far Western 23.2. Awareness of the problem, and distribution of the population along racial lines are pointed out by these sectional figures.
University Card Wins Go-' ing Away; Burke Finishes First By a Neck
Climaxed with the triumphant crowning of Alberta Burke, Chi Omega, as Queen of Clubs for the year 1938, the Pi Chi’s annual dance was pronounced a success by those in attendance. More than 350 people saw Virginia Miles, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Patricia Holloran, Zeta Tau Alpha, take place and show honors as the queen’s princesses.
Crowned By Retiring Queen Crowned in the traditional splendor of the midnight ceremony, the queen proceeded the length of the ballroom down a cordon formed by Pi Chi members and their ladies, to a throne where she was officially proclaimed Queen of Clubs the Ninth by order of Janet Seerth, retiring royal personage.
Selected at a banquet held in the Biltmore Dining Room preceding the dance, the winner was chosen on the basis of beauty, poise, and personality. The judges were Denman Fink of the University Art Department; Paul Runyon, professional golfer; Mayor and Mrs. Paul McGarry of Coral Gables; and Pauline Corley, a member of the Miami Herald Society staff:
Seven Other Candidates
Other candidates for the honor were Dot Milgrim, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Pat Cluney, Delta Tau; Mildred Shenkan, Zeta Iota Pi; Jean Bolton, Masque; Katherine Ammon, Pyramid; Zoya Dickins, Pi Beta Nu; and Marylon Driscoll, Koxyn.
Proceeds will go toward the Donald Grant Memorial Fund benefiting the University general library.
Ibis Editor S«tk> Feature Writer«; Meeting Tomorrow
Phil Fenigson, editor of the Ibi*, announce* an important meeting for Ibi* feature writer* tomorrow at 1:30 in room 227. All tho*o already on the staff and thoae interested in writing for the yearbook are urged to attend.
Owre Sets Date For Institute Registration
Dr. J. Riis Owre, University Secretary, yestreday issued the following memorandum in regard to registration for the Winter Institute of Hispanic American Studies.
“The registration procedure for students wishing to enroll in the Winter Institute of Hispanic American Studies is as follows: Students should go to the Registrar’s Office and make out a card for Spanish 407. They may register for one half credit (afternoon or evening lectures only) or one full credit (all eighteen lectures).
“No charge will be made for this registration even though it should lead to excess credits. After filling out the add card in the Registrar’s Office, the student should take his registration to Dr. Owre in Room 290. He will then receive a class card which must be presented at the door and be punched for each lecture. This class card must be turned in at the conclusion of the Institute if the student wishes to receive proper credit.”
Among the distinguished scholars who will address the Winter Institute will be: Dr. J. Fred Rippy, University of Chicago; Don Homero Seris, member of the Centro de Estudios Historíeos of Madrid; Dr. John Tate Lanning of Duke University; Dr. Wilfrid Hardy Calcott of the University of South Carolina; and Dr. Richard Pattee, Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State.
’39ers Decry Disdain of Mortarboard
Ibis Editor Fenigson Faces Irate Seniors,
Firmly Stands Ground
A split threatens within the senior ranks over the question of the wearing of caps in senior photographs in the University yearbook.
The question was considered so vital that Brad Boyle, class president, called the first meeting of the year last Friday noon to come to a showdown with Ibis Editor Phil Fenigson.
Approximately twenty seniors sacrificed lunch to attend the meeting and hear Fenigson explain why the graduating classmen will not wear the mortar boards in the photographs of this year's annual.
“Caps are generally unbecoming and when worn at different angles detract from the general appearance of the yearbook,” he explained. "Furthermore, many of the seniors pictured in the senior section will not be graduating this June and therefore have no right to wear the academic cap.”
Voting on the issue was postponed because of the lack of a quorum, until the class’ second meeting called for tomorrow at 10:10 in the auditorium.
‘I don’t know why they are bothering to have these meetings,” Fenigson remarked yesterday. “The matter’s settled. The seniors won’t wear caps.”
Dr. Ashe GetsBrassiere for Xmas; But ItWasAll in Fun at the Faculty Party
By Hortense Hurricane
Nnnnnnnyah! Nyah! The faculty had a Christmas party! And did they ever have fun!
Yes sir, readers, and the payoff came when Dr. Ashe opened his gift. What was it? Three guesses. A pipe? No-o-o-o. A book? No. A tie? No. Give up?
It was a brassiere. A brassiere, size 36.
And that isn’t all there is to tell. All this took place, incidentally, last Saturday at the University cafeteria. It’s an annual affair, they say.
Among the other things that came up were a few of those typical Over-holsian jokes. It’s a known fact that the students laugh at them because they gotta. What remains a mystery is why the faculty did?
Miss Mary B. Merritt directed the program. Each guest introduced the next guest by means of a two-line rhyme. Example: “The man on my right is Dr. Hjort; but you may call him Elmer for short.”
A recording was played through a loud speaking system. Incorporated onto the record were individual requests for gifts from Santa Claus. Mr. Overholser wanted “a new grading system by which I can determine whether a varsity football player’s grade shall be based on what he actually deserves or what the coaches hope he will receive.”
President Ashe addressed the group informally. He discussed the remarkable part Musician Benny Sinkua had contributed by his oboeplaying during the recent symphony concert, and the scholastic morale in-
Y.M. MEETING TOMORROW
Bud McLinden, president of the Y.M.C.A., announces a special meeting Friday at 12:30 in room 205.
volved. In addition the president spoke of the prominence attached to the younger members of a college faculty in developing the best interests of that institution through unstinted hard work.
According to some reports, even the food was good.
Yes, it was an unusual event, no matter how you look at it.
All God’s Children Should Go to Class Meetings Tomorrow
Assembly period tomorrow will be devoted to class meetings, according to Ray Fordham, student body vice-president.
Brad Boyle, senior class president, will preside over senior meeting to be held in auditorium at that time to discuss senior Ibis pictures.
Charley Franklin will meet his sophomores at the same place at 12:30.
The freshmen and juniors will have to roam through the halls to find their meetings, as the rooms to be used have not been announced.
YWCA Sell* Chriitmai Seal« Today and Tomorrow
Under the leadership of Charlotte Meggs, president, the Y.W. C.A. conduct* tag day today and tomorrow, during which little green and white tags will be offered at the University for a voluntary price. Proceeds of the project will furnish a Christmas party next week for 60 underprivileged children of the Orchard Villa school.
Constitution Revision To Be Through by Jan.
Work on the revision of the student government constitution will be completed during the Christmas vacation according to the expectations of President Joe Thomas. The revised constitution will be presented for approval to the Student Senate at the opening of the second semester, he announces.
A committee appointed by Thomas has been working on changes in the constitution at weekly meetings since October 4. The committee members include:	Milton Feller, Norman
Worthington, Dorothy Ashe, Brad Boyle, Charlotte Meggs, Hugh Shill-ington, and Charley Franklin.
“We have really been working hard on this revision,” Thomas said yesterday. “It is our hope that the constitution as it is being changed will make for smoother running of the student government now and in the future.” No change, according to Thomas, has been made in the present document since its ratification May 17, 1927.
If the revised constitution passes the Student Senate, it will have to go before the entire student body for popular ratification.
* HALL OF FAME *
PRATT PHOTO
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Becky Parham earned her niche in the Hall of Fame as outstanding student for the month of November for her five-star performance of Margaret in Barrie’s “Dear Brutus” presented by the University Players last month.
A newcomer to University dramatics, having appeared in only one play previous to “Dear Brutus,” Becky had one of those overnight successes in a part which called for a difficult combination of the spritely and the wistful.
With a sure touch that would have done credit to a veteran, Becky extracted the last ounce of eerieness from her big moonlight scene at the end of Act two when Maxwell Marvin as her father leaves her in the darkening woods. Her wild cry, “Daddy, come back; I don’t want to be a might-have-been,” had most of the audience earnestly desiring the lights to come on again.
Off the stage, there is nothing eerie about Miss Parham. She wears Mexican sandals, chews gum, has a dulcet Southern voice acquired in her birthplace Atlanta, and a grin almost as wide as she is tall.
A sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, she wishes she could major in journalism or dramatics, guesses Spanish is the next best thing. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and a pledge to Theta Alpha Phi, dramatics fraternity.
Becky is determined to write magazine short stories after she graduates, thinks it’s a tough life in the meantime because she’s not tall and svelte and can’t wear black satin evening gowns with decollete necklines.
Joe Names Seven Solons To Janisariat
President Thomas Selects First Cabinet From Student Senate Ranks
Joe Thomas, president of the student government, announced the appointment Tuesday of a cabinet of seven to act as an executive advisory board.
The new cabinet members, all chosen from the ranks of the Student Senate, include: A1 Teeter, Music School senator; Norman Worthington, Len Ricci, and Hugh Shillington, senior senators; Ray Fordham, vice-president of the student body; Frank Kerkyke, student government treasurer; and Bob Olson, junior senator.
Although the procedure is outlined in the student government consitu-tion, no student body president before Thomas has been known to appoint such a cabinet.
The president made official an-noncement of the appointments Tuesday noon at a special session of the Student Senate.
At the same time, the senators reconsidered their refusal to pay a twenty-dollar bill for a shed destroyed by the freshmen, voted to pay the amount on the proviso that the freshman class would reimburse the student treasury as soon as it was financially solvent.
The money was appropriated in face of vigorous opposition from Frosh Senator Ned Turner and freshman class officers, Sessler, Melchen, Chadderdon, and Laswell, who attended the meeting.
The senators next went on record as stating that they believed the prices charged by the Downes’ studio to be too high. Norman Worthington and A1 Teeter were appointed a committee to investigate the prices for the Ibis photography.
Dunn Get« Invitation To Play in North-South Gama
Eddie Dunn, Miami Hurricane captain, has been invited to play in the North-South game, January
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back on the South side.
Other honors gravitating to Dunn are honorable mention on Grantland Rice’s All-American choice and back on the AU-S.I.A.A. team.
City Slicker Marvin Slinks Through Lonesome Pine; Plot, Cast Creaks
Meyer Signs Protest Against Nazi Tactics
Dr. Max F. Meyer, research professor of psychology, is one of 1284 American scientists, including three Nobel Prize winners, who have signed a manifesto condemning the Fascist attitude toward science and intellectual freedom.
The manifesto was drawn up by a committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Sicence headed by Professor Franz Boaz of Columbia University, dean of American anthropologists and former association president. It is based on the resolution passed last December which declared: “Science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creed and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom.”
Rosborough Heads Phi Beta Kappa Ass’n
Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, instructor in German, was elected president of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Greater Miami last week.
The Miami chapter of the scholastic fraternit yhas 75 members, seven of whom are on the University faculty. These include: Mrs. Rosborough, Dean Henry S. West, Dr. Max F. Meyer, Dr. J. Riis Owre, Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, Dr. William P. Dis-mukes, and Lauffer T. Hayes.
POSITIONS OPEN TO SENIORS
Dean John Thom Holdsworth announces fifty appointments for In-terneship Training in the Federal Government have been offered by the National Institute of Public Affairs. Further information may be found on the bulletin boards.
By Virginia Witters
So she married the city slicker amid the cheers of an amused but bored audience that just couldn’t wait to go home. Thus ended the dramatization of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” last night. No one will ever know if it was supposed to be a tragedy or a comedy, but the audience good naturedly took it to be the latter.
The story centers around the mountain feud between the Tollivers and the Falins. June Tolliver is courted by her cousin, Dave, but yearns for book learning and the handsome slicker, Jack Hale. Her cousin Loretta, who loves a Falin, unwittingly starts the feud again and it is only the hand of Fate that keeps the stage from being piled with dead bodies at the conclusion of the play.
Jean Moore Struggles Valiantly
To give credit where credit is due, Jean Moore, trying to play the part of June Tolliver with a complete lack of support, managed to keep the play going; Adele Rickel was the old crone, Ole Hon, in her usual efficient manner; A1 Lane was very much in character even if he did stroke his beard in a rather vaudevillish manner; and Ruth Diestlehorst looked beautifully blank as the forgetful Ellie Mae. Dick Roberts was quite chipper as he walked around the stage with that devilish swagger. He did remember his lines, however, and was properly angry at the proper times.
Lovett A Good Set Piece
Bunny Lovett was Bunny Lovett. Need we say more. As Bub Tolliver, he confined his acting to a minimum and was more or less a part of the set. Jean Small, as Sal Tolliver, died
List Takes Prize in German Translation
Edwin A. List, senior in the School of Music, is one of ten winners in a Pennsylvania “Dutch” translation Contest published in the Saturday Review of Literature, it was announced Monday.
List will receive a copy of “Aus Pennsylfawnia” for his translation of “Gooty Fraw.” He is a student in Mrs. Melanie Rosborough’s German c’uss.
in the first act to the relief of the audience. Anne Saunders (Joyce Christenson) swayed on and off the stage and then departed for parts unknown (amid cheers).
Maxwell Marvin had the part of the city slicker. At least, his were the lines that came out of Mr. Marvin’s mouth. Maxwell stepped into the part at the last minute and because he really didn’t care about it, he just didn’t bother to put anything into it. I beg your pardon, he did consent to unbend at the very end, to such an extent that he went melodramatic. After very good performances on the part of Marvin, the contrast was noticeable.
Hill-Billies Look the Pari
Sylvia Locke looked convincingly like a native of the hills. She complained enough and made the most of an unimportant part. George Dawkins was properly gruff and he-man-ish, but not to an extent that anyone was impressed. He left us cold. Red Fox (Philip Optner) was a little tougher. He rated hisses from the unreceptible audience (quite a feat considering the mood they were in by the second act). Randy Mebane was a good Loretta until she decided to abandon the pretense and be just herself. Then she lost her quick, light, talk and was not appealing, but more or less dull. Becky Parham had verq little to say but she made a real old lady of Maw Falin. She looked and acted the part and brought the dialogue to life for several minutes.
A great deal of the blame should be placed on the poor dialogue and the fact that the play was prepared in haste. Lines were repeated over and over again and often there was a halt of several seconds while some member of the cast was prompted. The apparent fact that each member except Mr. Marvin was trying hard made one less inclined to laugh at the mistakes. The acting was not up to the usual standard set by the Players, but the effort should rate an A plus.
MARVIN, BELL HAVE LEADS
Maxwell Marvin and Dorothy Bell will head the cast of the forthcoming production of “Petrified Forest” which will be presented by the Dramatics department January 9 and 10. The rest of the cast has not yet been announced.