Miami Hurricane, May 26, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday, May 26, 1938
Number 30
Awarding Of June 6 Opening Date Coffin Cup In Dispute
Tau Epsilon Phi Protests 2500 Point Allotment To Delta Sigs For Songfest
A* we go to preu, new* i* received from the Interfraternity council of the council’* decision to hold up the awarding of the Coffin trophy to a fraternity because of irregularities in the registering for points. Sorority trophy, however, will be awarded tomorrow night to Chi Omega sorority, as originally announced.
Given 2500 points for winning the Sinfonía Songfest contest by Bob Reinert, director of men’s glee club, Delta Sigma Kappa fraternity jumped to 4190 points to clinch the men’s William C. Coffin trophy awarded for participation in extra-curricula activities.
Delta Sig’s claim to the cup, however, is disputed by Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity which, previous to Reinert’s action, led with 2400 points, The TEPs protest the Songfest points on the grounds that such a contest is not mentioned in the Coffin trophy rules.
125 Points to Each in Contest
Reinert awarded 125 points to each of the twenty Delta Sigs who took part in the contest when he was approached by fraternity members yesterday afternoon after the Interfraternity council ruled Songfest participation points were legal.
“Personally, I don’t think points should be awarded for the Songfest,” Reinert said, in explaining his action, “But those points I awarded for the contest were given only through the ruling of the Interfraternity council.” Feller Confirms Ruling
Milton Feller, president of the council, confirmed the fact that the Songfest ruling had been passed by the fraternity representatives at special meeting of the Interfraternity council yesterday noon. Every campus fraternity, he claimed, was rep resented at the meeting with the ex ception of Pi Chi, which had been duly notified.
Told of Tau Epsilon Phi’s dissatisfaction with the new ruling, Feller said, “The only statement I have to make is that the points were handed in to me, I calculated them, and the Delta Sigs came out on top. My duties are definitely set out in the Coffin trophy constitution. I tried to carry them out impartially and without exceeding my authority.”
Earns Points in Other Activities
In addition to the disputed 2500 points, Delta Sigma Kappa earned 1225 points in dramatics, 50 in debating, 225 in glee clubs, and 190 in journalism.
Tau Epsilon Phi follows with 2400 points, and Phi Alpha earns third place with 1860.
Women’s Coffin trophy goes to Chi Omega sorority who piled up 2050 points, Alpha Theta is second with 1050 points, and Lambda Phi, sorority winner of the Songfest contest, wins third place with 1025 points.
The cups will be awarded tomorrow night at the all-University dance sponsored by the University Alumni Association after its traditional senior supper.___________________________
For Summer Session
Inauguration of the semester hour system will mark University of Miami’s eighth annual summer session which is scheduled to open June 6, Dr. J. Riis Owre, director, announced this week.
Registration will be conducted June 3 and 4 with regular classes beginning on the 6th and continuing until July 29. All classes will meet in the University building in Coral Gables. Very few Friday afternoon and no Saturday classes wjll be held.
Return to Two Semesters At present the University is being run on a three-term plan, with 192 credits required for a degree. The semester-hour system will mean a return to two semesters with a minimum graduating requirement of 128 semester hours.
The change is being made in an attempt to conform with the credit standards of leading institutions and to enable students from other schools to transfer to the University without any loss of time. It is believed that this change will result in a greater enrollment.
Dr. Owre Director Dr. Owre, who will direct the Summer Session, is at present serving as Secretary to the University in the (Continued on Page Four)
DIRECTOR
Dr. J. Riis Owre will direct the University’s eighth annual summer session in the absence of Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson.
Leading T. N. E. Chapter Disclaims "Local” Faction
Campus Calendar
Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Special Panhellen-ic meeting in the Chi Omega room. 8:15 p.m. Dr. Robert McNicoll and Otho V. Overholser to debate over Station WKAT on the question, “Resolved : the United States Should Cancel War Debts Owed to Them by Other Nations.”
Friday, 10:10 a.m. Class elections. New Seniors in room 222, juniors in room 231, and sophomores in the auditorium.
Immediately afterwards, meeting of the newly elected class senators.
7	p.m. Alumni Association dinner in honor of the seniors in the University cafeteria.
10 p.m. Alumni Association invites University student body to a dance in the cafeteria following the senior dinner.
Saturday, 8:30 p.m. School of Music’s annual concert honoring the graduating class in Orchestra hall. Sunday, 11 a.m. Baccalaureate services in the Coral Gables Congregational church with the Rev. C. Roy Angell conducting the services. 5 to 7 p.m. Tea for the seniors given by President and Mrs. fe. F. Ashe at Grant House.
Monday, 9 a.m. Traditional Presi dent’s Breakfast for the graduates at the Biltmore Club.
8	p.m. University’s twelfth annual commencement exercises at the Miami Biltmore Club. William C. Coffin, distinguished engineer and University trustee, to be principal speaker.
According to a telegram received by the Hurricane this week from Pi chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon national fraternity at Pennsylvania State college, the local organization known as TNE, or the Society of 1870, is not recognized by the national organization.
Since Theta Nu Epsilon adopted a policy of abolishing sub rosa chapters in 1925, and since the University of Miami did not open its doors until 1925, there remains little likelihood that the local organization can have any connection with the national fraternity, the investigation revealed.
Seeking information concerning the possible relation between the national and local organizations, the investigators consulted Baird’s manual, a dictionary of American college organizations, where the following information was found:
That Theta Nu Epsilon, otherwise known as the Society of 1870, adopted the following policy at its fourteenth annual convention held in Philadelphia April 6 and 6, 1923.
1.	To grant charters only to petitioning groups that secure faculty endorsement.
2.	To prevent the use of our name by any organization that is not recognized by the grand council as a true an dlawful chapter of this society.
3.	To suspend chapters that emphasize the political and convivial activities with which the name Theta Nu Epsilon has so often been linked.
4.	To map out an effective program of activity that will bring about the faculty recognition of sub rosa groups.
Quoting from Baird’s Manual, “At the beginning of the college year 1925-26, Theta Nu Epsilon was completely re-organized into a general fraternity with exclusive membership. The fifteenth annual convention
Everyone Approves As Romeo Woos Juliet At Beautiful Biltmore Pools
Goff, Kerdyk Finish First In Runoffs
Rubilou Jackson Defeated By 9 Votes; Vandenburg Loses By 50 Ballots
In a comparatively peaceful runoff election conducted Monday by the newly installed student body officers, Betty Goff was elected secretary and Frank Kerdyk, treasurer of the student government.
By a slight margin of nine votes, the new secretary nosed out her opponent, Rubilou JacksQn, 165 to 156. Kerdyk piled up 185 votes to eliminate Tony Vandenburg, who polled 135 votes for the offices of treasurer.
Betty Goff, a membejr of the Junior class, is past president of Delta Tau sorority, secretary of tne Panhellenic association, junior Senate member, newly elected president of Florida Student Government Association, and has played cello in the University symphony orchestra for the past three years.
Kerdyk, junior, is a member of Phi Alpha fraternity, member of Alpha Phi Omega, member of the fencing team, and is student assistant in the accounting department.
Elections for the office of prosecuting attorney of the Honor Court, betwene Andrew Burke and A1 Spar, were not run-off last Monday.
held in Louisville, Kentucky in December 1925, reaffirmed the policy as adopted at the Philadelphia convention of 1923 which definitely placed TNE in the status of general academic fraternities. The society had at one time as many as 82 recognized sub rosa chapters which have now been suspended and are no longer entitled to use the name because of the change in policy, and are not in any manner connected with the bona fide Theta Nu Epsilon.”
This information led the investigators to be further convinced that there was little likelihood of there being any connection between the Miami chapter and the national organization, inasmuch as this re-affirmation of policy was made the same year the University opened.
Contact with officials of the national organization was then attempted. A telegram inquiring as to the status of the local club was sent to Perry Powell, executive secretary of Theta Nu Epsilon national organization. No answer was received. A tracer telegram revealed that Mr. Powell could not be reached until Friday.
Anxious to obtain the desired information for the last issue of the Hurricane, a telegram of the same nature was sent to the Pi chapter of TNE at State College, Pennsylvania.
The answer, received yesterday afternoon, assured the Hurricane that TNE was exclusively a social organization and that all sub rosa groups had been excluded. The telegram read : “No legitimate chapter on your campus. Sub rosas not recognized.1
Interviewed last night, Jimmy Abras and Egbert Sudlow, University of Miami alumni and members of the local secret fraternity, declined to comment on the local fraternity’s present status, claiming they were not in a position to speak for the organization.
Wm. C. Coffin Is At University’s
Speaker
Twelfth
Annual Commencement
By Phil Fenigson Tuesday and Wednesday nights we saw a miracle at the Biltmore pool, the University Players staged a “Romeo and Juliet” that was enjoyable and not at all embarrassing to the audience, as too many amateur productions of Shakespeare are. With clear understanding and sure touch, Director George Storm made the story a live tale of love, audacity, hatred, huomr, and sorrow of families who became caught in a tragedy as inevitable as a tempest. With few minor exceptions he was ablte to inculcate into the characters the feeling of living people who are not mouthing flowering verse.
Principals Capture Mood of Play And about the players themselves what? Here we meet a paradox that happens often in the show business: no matter how poor some individual parts may be, the whole becomes credible because a director with deep conception of his play has paced it wisely. Dorothy Bell seemed to feel what a bravo Juliet must be, but too often she made her effeminite in the style of “proper” Juliets. But when she became a Juliet with courage and self-willed, a young girl with strength and a precocious mind of her own,
then Juliet lived and was as sure of herself as Shakespeare made her sure. With the light on her face and on her flowing gowns ,Mrs. Bell was indeed a beautiful woman in the tomb and on the balcony. Perhaps someday Mrs. Bell will play a Juliet without intruding gestures. That, I think, should be a thing to see.
George Storm was a fine Romeo, clearly showing us that Romeo was a womanly man perplexed in love, moody and unsure of himself until the tragedy of his frustration gives him strength, He had poise and sympathy; and he carried through the physical demands of the part very well, especially the duel with Tybalt.
Supporting Players Good
Granville Fisher’s Capulet dominated every scene in which he ap peared. He was indeed a lord who could not be trifled with. Rita Born-stein’s Nurse, though a bit too cultured, was properly unsubservient and humorous. In the first act Max well Marvin seemed unable to decide how restrained or how boisterous his Mercutio should be, but when be made him the jolly cynic, taunting and brave, Mercutio became the most interesting character on the stage.
Iron Arrow Taps 11 Members In Assembly
Hefinger Heads Freshman Honor Society; Awards Made To Athletes
Eleven men were tapped by Iron Arrow, men’s honorary fraternity, and seven outstanding freshman students were awarded membership in Freshman Honor Scholastic Society at last Friday’s assembly.
New Iron Arrow members are Eddie Dunn, John Junkin, Phil Fenigson, Bradley Boyle, William Leb-edeff, Joseph Follette, Maxwell Marvin, Miguel Colas, Robert Hance, Joe Thomas, and Norman Worthington.
Hefinger Highest With 94.6
Catherine Hefinger with a scholastic average of 94.6 per cent for her first two terms of University work led the new Freshman Honor Scholastic Society members. Others are Seymour Simon, 93.8; Ronald Kerfoot, 92.7; Phyllis Salter, 91.1; Clarice Schnatterbeck, 91; William Feldman, 90.3; and Laura Green, 90.2.
University letters were also awarded to distinguished athletes of the year by Coach Jack Harding. Captain Gardnar Mulloy and John Hendrix received letters for the third year in tennis and for the second time, Jack Behr, Lewis Duff, Bernie Frank, Campbell Gillespie, and Captain-elect Bill Hardie.
Lovett the Oustanding Boxer
For boxing, Captain James “Scotty” McLachlan received his M for the third time, George Dolan, William Lovett, and Manager William Hartnett for the second time, and George Back, Jerry O’Connell, Chick O’Dom-ski, and Nick Seminoff for their first year.
William “Bunny” Lovett was presented the Wally Greer trophy for his work as the outstanding boxer of the year.
Letters in swimming were awarded to Grant Slater and Roy Hutchins, swimming team members. The appointment of Eddie Nash as football manager was announced for the com ing year.
New officers of the student government installed at the year’s final assembly were: president, Joe Thomas vice president, Raymond Fordham chief justice of the Honor Court, John Brion; and associate justices, Martha Dorn, George Hamilton, Joan Goeser, Jack Madigan, Jerry Williamson, and Jerry Weinkle.
Largest Class, 122, Graduates Monday Night
Registrar Harry Provin Releases List of Seniors Eligible For Degrees
Surpassing last year’s graduating class by forty members, the Class of ’38 will graduate Monday night over 120 members strong, according to lists released Tuesday by Harry Provin, registrar.
The roll of prospective graduates follows:
Candidates for A.B. Degree
Cecile Alexander, Grayce Ben Kori, William Bennett, Denise Caravasios, Madeleine Cheney, Helene Couch, Mrs. Evelyn Coyne, Elizabeth Curran, Hayford Enwall, Ruth Field, Carl Fien, Florence Fowler, Mary Frohberg, Mrs. Marita Gahan, Rita Galewski, Augustine Hanley, Mrs. Elizabeth Hargrove, Marcia Hargrove, Mrs. Elizabeth Heil, Phyllis Heinrich, Inga Johnson, Woodrow Johnson, Mrs. Gladys Keith, Mrs. Eula Livingston, Wayne Lloyd, Margaret Masten.
Robert Masterson, Harry McMaken, Jane Mercer, Mac Mehlman, Mrs. Mary B. Moore, Martha Ousley, Arthur Paul, Marie Reichard, Arlene Richardson, Allen Ringblom, Dorothy Roth, Audrey Rothenberg, Micah Ruggles, Mrs. Nellie B. Seigel, Adelaide Sherman, Mrs. Lettie F. Slade, Dorothy Smith, Mrs. Anna Ruth Speights, Mrs. Mary Y. Tatro, Fay Taylor, Mary Vann, Mrs. Laura Vie-ley, Eleanor Weiss, Ethel Yates.
Candidates for B.S. Degree
Ray Armstrong, Evan Bourne, Wilson T. Calaway, Paul V. Erwin, Howard Follett, Myers Gribbins, Allen T. Hill, James McLachlan, John Mykyt-ka, Millard Norris, Normand Schwarz, Henry Warshavsky, Robert Willich. Candidates for B.S.B.A. Degree Richard Arend, Allen Baker, Raymond Catsman, William Davidoff, Donald Dohse, Eugene Dritz, James Ferguson, Betty Fogarty, Dagmar Fripp, Richard Gostowski, John Hendrix, John Junkin, Lawrence Lewis, Salvatore del Mastro, Lawrence Peabody, Fred Reiter, Clyde Taylor, Theodore Treff, Jerome Weinkle, George Wheeler, Gary Zemply, Anthony Vaocarelli, Whitmore Washburn.
Candidates for B.S. in Educ.
Mrs. Elizabeth Annin, Mrs. Marie Broome, Mrs. Ethel Burch, Miss Margaret Clark, Mrs. Linda Horne, Miss Myrtle Madry, Miss Sue Madry, Mrs. Ruth T. Ruland, Mrs. Alberta Smith, Mrs. Ele S. Turner, Miss Marion Wood, Mrs. Laura Vellines,
Candidates for Bachelor of Laws
Randolph Bell, Joseph Duckworth, Dante Fascell, Olivar Folmar, Bernard Frank, Dave Hendrick, James Hunt, John Junkin, Herman Kant, Rudolph McDavid, Donald Moltor, Gardnar Mulloy, Godfrey Newman, Samuel Rubin, Emilio San Pedro, James Townley, Benjamin Turner, John Yates.
Music Degrees Conferred
William Probasco is a candidate for a Bachelor of Music degree. Candidates for degrees as Bachelor of Public School Music are: Ethel Cool, Anna Dalida, Harold Hall, Rep Hall, William Lebedeff, Harry McComb. Sarita McAvoy will receive an L.I. degree.
Thomat Calls Gait Elections For Tomorrow Morning
Joe Thomas, president of the student government, announces that class elections will be held at convocation period tomorrow at 10:10. Elections for the officers of the new senior class will be conducted in room 222, the junior class in room 231, and the sophomore class in the auditorium. The Honor Court will supervise the elections.
Immediately afterwards a Senate meeting is called at which all the new Senate members are requested to be present.
SPEAKER
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William C. Coffin, trustee member and noted construction engineer, who will address the University’s twelfth graduating class Monday night at formal commencement exercises.
Life Is Real, Earnest To Seniors As They Face Cold, Cruel World
Four years at the University have succeeded in giving our graduating seniors a proper sense of the seriousness of life, if we are to judge from the answers our Inquiring Reporter received this week to the question, “After graduation, what?”
Some of the graduates plan to go into law, others into the Naval Air Reserve or social service work, while the great majority seem slated for the teaching profession. A couple of the franker girls unblushingly admit they will prepare for matrimony.
Says Bill Bennett of the Music School, “I expect to be back in Miami, either playing or working in the public schools. Still,” he mysteriously adds, “the summer may change all my plans.”
Madeleine Cheney, Law School, admits, “I am going to spend the summer learning how to cook, if it is (Continued on Page Four)
Alumni Supper Friday Opens Formalities
Alumni Association Holds All-University Dance After Senior Banquet
First in a series of events on the University graduation calendar designed to honor the graduating sen iors will be the annual Alumni Association dinner tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. in the University cafeteria, to be climaxed by traditinoal announcement of the outstanding major awards.
To Make Building Fund Reports
An address by President B. F. Ashe one “The Growth and Progress of the University” and reports by the Alumni Building Fund committee will be included on the dinner program.
Following the dinner for the seniors, the alumni will be hosts to the entire University student body at a dance in the cafeteria, with music supplied by Bob Reinert’s Miamilod-ians. The Alumni Association extends a cordial invitation to every University student to join it in honoring the graduates.
Presentation of the two Coffin trophies will be awarded during the dance, to Chi Omega sorority and Delta Sigma Kappa fraternity for the greatest number of points earned in extra-curricula activities during the last two terms.
School of Music to Give Concert
Saturday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Orchestra Hall the School of Music will present its annual commencement concert in honor of the seniors. The University Symphony orchestra, the Symphonic band, under the direction of Walter E. Sheaffer, and the Mixed Chorus, directed by Robert Reinert, will appear on the program. Soloists are Evelyn Plagman Jones, Barbara Crume, William Lee, and Selma Ein-binder.
The Rev. C. Roy Angell will be baccalaureate preacher at the baccalaureate services Sundny morning at 11 a.m. at the Coral Gables Congregational church.
President and Mrs. Ashe’s tea for the graduates, is set for Sunday afternoon from 5 to 7 p.m. nt Grant House, and the President’s twelfth annual Senior Breakfast Monday morning at 9 a.m. at the Miami Biltmore Club will be the final events preceeding the formal commencement exercises Monday evening.
Noted Engineer Is Member 01 Trustee Board
Address To Be Followed By Conferring of Degrees, Awarding of Special Keys
William C. Coffin, noted production engineer and chairman of the University's Board of Trustees, will be principal speaker at the University of Miami’s twelfth annual commencement exercises next Monday evening at 8 p.m. at the Miami Biltmore Club. He will illustrate his address on the subject, “The Seeds of Success and Progress,” with concrete examples from his own career as a distinguished engineering magnate.
Mr. Coffin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received fyis education in engineering at Western University of Pennsylvania. Before his business retirement, he served as a member of the Council of the National Civil Service Reform Association, director of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Federal Trade Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Is World-Known as Engineer
As a construction engineer, Mr. Coffin was in full charge of building some 70 blast furnaces, 35 of his own design, in Sidney, N.S., Clairton, Pennsylvania, and Gary, Indiana. He has designed and built steel frame power houses in Dublin, Yucatan, and China, and was the introducer of hammer welding into the United States.
Thomas’ “Overture to Mignon” played by the University symphony orchestra under the direction of Dr. Arnold Volpe will open the formal commencement services at 8 p.m., after which the faculty and graduating class will form a processional down the length of the ballroom as the orchestra plays Chopin’s “ Polonaise in A Major.”
Father P. J. Roche of St. Mary’s church will deliver the invocation, immediately followed by Mr. Coffin’s address.
Special Awards to be Made
Conferring of honorary and academic degrees and the awarding of medals and keys will climax the commencement program. President B. F. Ashe will confer the honorary degrees after citations have been made by faculty members. The deans are to present the academic degrees, and make the Magna Cum Laude, Cum Laude, Excellence in Spanish Studies, Excellence in German Studies and Alumni Association awards.
Reverend W. N. Vickers, Coral Gables Christian church, will pronounce the benediction. The orchestra will play the “Jewels of the Madonna” by Wolf-Ferrari to close the formal exercises.
A reception in honor of the graduating class will be held immediately following the commencement program on the Miami Biltmore club terrace.
PROFESSORS TO DEBATE
Dr. Robert E. McNicoll, professor of Latin-American relations, and Otho V. Overholser, instructor in economics and business law, will debate the question, “Resolved: The United States Should Cancel War Debts Owed to Them by Other Nations,” over Station WKAT tonight at 8:15.
Dr. McNicoll will uphold the affirmative of the timely economic problem, while Mr. Overholser will contend that such a cancellation would be economically unsound.
One in a weekly series entitled “Debates in Miniature,” the debate is to be sponsored by the University Debate Council.
German Consul Awards Three Books
Winners of the books presented by Baron E. von Spiegel, consul general of New Orleans, for excellence in German are Doris Page for the beginning German class, Mrs. Amelia Crockett of the intermediate class, and Margaret Shillington in the advanced class. Honorable mention goes to Mrs. Eunice Preston, William Weaver, Rose Levy, and Jo Carol Weinstein.
Given annually by the German consul general of New Orleans, the books chosen for this year were “Die Sohne des Senators” by Storm, a collection of short stories; “Biography of Goethe” Germany’s most outstanding author; and “Deutsche Klinstler in Selbstdarstellunger,” a folio of photographs of German artists, ancient and modern, and some of their masterpieces.
Mrs. N. J. Schmacker, secretary of the Miami German Woman’s club sent the University library in the name of the club two books to be added to the German library. This club in past years has presented numerous books and medals, in an endeavor to further the study of German at the University.