Miami Hurricane, September 22, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
Volume XII
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday, September 22, 1938
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15 Members Join Roster Of Faculty
Thousands of Dollars Spent on Renovations
RECEIVES	Administration Offices Are
Leary and Maynard Return From Years’ Leave; All Departments Larger
Thirteen new members join the University teaching roster for the ’38-’39 year, while two former members have returned to the staff after a year’s leave of absence.
Lewis G. Leary returns to the English department after taking work at Columbia university and Sidney Maynard rejoins the Spanish staff from a year’s study at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Clark Olney, Ph.D. who earned his degrees at Denison university and the University of Pittsburgh, assumes a post here as associate professor of English. For several years Dr. Olney was in charge of the English faculty and Evening Extension division at Johnstown Center of the University of Pittsburgh, and since 1936 was assistant professor of English at Pittsburgh.
McMaster Professor of Religion Dr. W. H. McMaster, for thirty years president of Mt. Union college, Alliance, Ohio, and now president emeritus of that college, comes to Miami as professor of religious education. He has his Ph.D. degree from Mt. Union, his B.D. from Drew Theological, his A.M. from New York University, his D.D. from Ohio Wesleyan, and his LL.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Formerly with the Dade County public school system, E. E. McCarty takes up his duties as assistant professor of education and principal of the demonstration school. Mr. McCarty has his A.B. from Birmingham-Southern college and his M.A. from Columbia university.
Dr. J. Paul Reed will be associate professor of sociology this year. He earned his A.B. degree from Central college, Fayette, Missouri, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Reed and Paul Eckel, now of the University faculty, were stationed together at the same school in Japan for several years.
Theory of Music to be Taught Alan Collins comes to Miami from Oklahoma A. and M. college and is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He holds B. M. and M. M. degrees from the latter institution and will be assistant professor of cello and theory of music here.
An assistant professorship in the School of Business Administration will be filled by Stewart W. Girriel, B. S. University of Pennsylvania, B.A. and M.A., Glasgow University, Scotland.
Dr. W. L. Halstead, formerly instructor at Albion college and Ross Polytechnic institute, comes to Miami from Northwestern State Teachers’ college where he was professor of English. Dr. Halstead holds his A.B. and A.M. degree from De Pauw university at Greencastle, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He was also literary critic at the latter institution. Harvard Man New Law Professor Lauffer T. Hayes, B.S. and LL.B., University of Virginia, LL.M., Har-
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"What a wonderful bird is the pelican, His beak holds more than his bellycan."
ANON
Go get ’em, Pelicans!
Smile when you say that, stranger.
Them’s fighting wordsto our mighty Hurricanes. After perspiring through several weeks of pre-season training, they’re in no mood to joke about the suggestion that they change their name to that of the portly old Florida bird.
It all began a couple of weeks ago when Fan George B. Bolton suggested in a letter to Everett Clay, Miami Herald sports editor, that the Hurricanes quiet down and become pelicans, or mockingbirds, or something. It was bad publicity for Miami, he said, when the University of Miami team toured the country giving out the impression that Miami and hurricanes were practically syn-onomous.
It didn’t take long, however, for the Hurricanes’ loyal supporters to descend on the writer with tropical storm force. The monicker is University of Miami property, they claimed, and Chamber of Commerce or no Chamber of Commerce, the name will
Reception Fetes New Students Tomorrow
Biltmore Club To Be Scene Of First Social Function; Ashe. Deans Are Hosts
President and Mrs. B. F. Ashe, University deans, and members of the Board of Trustees will honor new students tomorrow at 8:30 in the Biltmore Club at the traditional President’s reception, opening event on the University’s social calendar.
Headed by Dr. and Mrs. Ashe, the receiving line will be composed of Dr. John Thom Holdsworth, dean of the School of Business Administration, and Mrs. Holdsworth; Dr. and Mrs. Henry S. West, dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Miss Bertha Foster, dean of the School of Music; Dean and Mrs. Russell A. Rasco of the Law School; and Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women. Members of the University Board of Trustees und their wives will also serve on the reception committee.
Formal reception will be followed by dancing until midnight to the music of Bob Reinert’s Miamilodians.
YW Friendship Tea Tuesday Entertains Freshman Women
Orientation program for freshman girls gets under way next week with the annual Y.W.C.A. Friendship tea Tuesday from 3 to 5 in the auditorium and patio.
Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women, Mrs. Joseph E. McClain, local Y.W. secretary, Charlotte Meggs, Mary Reed, Eleanor E. Matteson, and Betty Lou Baker will receive the girls at the door of the auditorium.
A short welcoming program is planned, followed by a trip through the sorority rooms on the third floor and the serving of l-efreshments in the patio.
stick. After the deluge of protesting letters, Mr. Bolton subsided, but the footballers themselves are still a little irked.
Says Chuck Guimento, guard, “The name ‘Pelican’ has no inspiration— we need something with fire.”
Head Coach Jack Harding thinks “Hurricanes” is very “appropriate.” While Hart Morris, assistant coach, explains, “Pelicans may have been all right last year, but we’re gonna be a real Hurricane this year.”
“ Hurricanes’ is more appropriate due to its familiar tradition and the meaning behind it,” believes Johnny Oespovich, first string guard.
John Kurucza, hard-blocking fullback up from the frosh team: “We’ve been known as ‘Hurricanes’ since ’26 and we’ve sure blown up a breeze. It’s a colorful tradition. Everywhere we go, the name ‘Hurricane’ implies power.”
Joe Dixon says nix to the Pelicans. “Emphatically, it’s the ‘Hurricanes’.” “Why change the name after we’ve got the tradition?” asks Guard Harry Hayward. “We want something forceful—‘Hurricanes’ suggest that.” Grant Stockdale sums it up. He likes “Hurricanes” because it denotes “the most powerful force in the south.”
So that’s that, Mr. Bolton.
Moved to Second Floor; Patio Completely Rebuilt
A general renovation and expansion program at an estimated cost of thousands of dollars was completed this week as the University opened its doors for its thirteenth consecutive season. The work under the direction of U. J. Hiss was largely done by student labor.
Six new classrooms, seven faculty offices, a public school laboratory, and an histology laboratory have been installed and the administrative offices from the first floor on University drive have been transferred to a similar position on the second floor. The vacated space has been converted into chemistry and biological laboratories.
More Reading Room
The general library has been en larged to provide for an additional 1,000 feet of reading room. By the library stairs have been built leading to the new rooms on the third floor. The music department has added a rehearsal room on the second floor for the band and orchestra, in addition to the main rehearsal hall on the first floor.
With the removal of the soda fountain to the new coffee shop situated in the former zoology laboratory on the first floor, cafeteria space has been increased by 25 per cent.
Patio Face Lifted
The patio, which last year was a concrete court fringed by grass, has been converted into a tropical garden with winding walks, flowers and benches.
Adding to the regular women's dormitories at 624 and 628 Santander avenue, the third floor of the De Castro apartments has been taken over as senior hall for girls. Also enlarging their living facilities, the men have acquired the Lone Pine Inn, 2936 S.W. 37th court, as a dormitory, together with the French Village nnd football dormitory on LeJeune road. It is indicated, however, that even these increased facilities, may prove inadequate for the expected student enrollment increase.
Lead and Ink Elects Members At Initial Meeting Monday
Lead and Ink, honorary journalism fraternity, will elect officers and new members at its initial meeting of the year Monday at 1 p.m. in the social hall.
The fraternity was organized in 1936 to encourage journalistic efforts on the University campus. Charter members included: Allen Baker, Audrey Rothenberg, Laurence Tremblay, Florence Fowler, Leonard Muller, and Louise Herbert. Lewis G. Leary, instructor in English, served as advisor and honorary member.
Requirements for membership are as follows:
1.	Candidates must have completed at least two years of academic work.
2.	Candidates must have completed j at least two terms of satisfactory work on some student publication, newspaper, annual, literary magazine, or handbook.
3.	Candidates may have served in the cnpacity of reporter, editor, or business manager of the publication.
4.	Candidates may be admitted to membership only through a unanimous vote to the members.
Present members include Frieda Speizman, Brad Boyle, Dick Arend, Miguel Colas, and Margaret Shilling-ton.
New Literary Review To Be Out In October
A literary magazine tentatively titled, “University of Miami Review,” published by University students will make its debut in October, according to Mr. Simon Ilochberger, advisor.
The publication, to be published ten times a year, will contain reviews, short stories, essays, and verses contributed by members of the student body.
“We hope the magazine will stimulate interest in creative writing by University students,” stated Mr. Hochberger. “A great deal of interest has been shown in the project and prospects for a fine magazine look very bright.”
Students interested in submitting articles to the review are requested to attend the Hurricane staff meeting tomorrow at 3:30 in room 237.
Suggested Name Given The Bird; Hurricanes Preferred To Pelicans
Revision of
Constitution
Proposed
Student Body President Cites Need Fot Change; Announces Senate Meeting
A Constitutional Revision Committee, which will be appointed within the next two weeks by Student Body President Joe Thomas, is to be charged with the task of making several changes in the school Constitution.
According to student body President Thomas, these will include “no radical alterations,” but are nevertheless of the greatest necessity, “in order to clear up the ambiguity in several sections of the local instrument of government.” These sections, he says, “must be defined nnd clarified if proper efficiency and coordination in school government is to be maintained.”
No change, according to the best knowledge of Thomas, has been made in the present document since its ratification May 17, 1927.
The revision committee will consist of six or seven students, representative “of the student body at large.” Meetings will be held several times a week as work on the Constitution progresses, until the finished product is submitted to the student body at a special election for their approval.
President Thomas also announces that the first meeting of the Senate will be held the first week of October, with the following meeting the third week of the same month. The principal business to be discussed will pertain to matters of organization and absorption of new students.
President Thomas also sets Oct. 7 as the temporary date of the freshman class election. “This,” he stresses, “will be held by secret ballot in the auditorium, with no one but freshmen permitted to attend.”
V igilanceCominittee Reads Final Riot Act To Freshmen Today
Laying down the law to University neophytes at a noon meeting today in the auditorium, Charles Franklin and his vigilance committee will formally outline freshmen rules and regulations.
Required to wear dinks and identification badges, the frosh will be warned never to be without M books in their possession. They must address their upperclassmen as sir and miss, and be able to supply their superiors with chewing gum and matches on demand. They will be ordered to learn all school songs and cheers, wear no orange, and dress in blue each Monday, to symbolize “blue Monday.”
The vigilance committee, consisting of sixteen members of the sophomore class, has four advisors from the upper classes. In charge of the girls is Winnie Wood, Lambda Phi, assisted by Jean Lambert, Delta Tau, Jean Moore, Chi Omega, Doris Doyle, Zeta Tau Alpha, Connie Caravasios, Alpha Theta, Jo Weinstein, Alpha Epsilon Phi, and Jerry Brannan and Mary Ellen Whalen of the independents. This committee will seek the advice and assistance of Joan Goeser, Delta Tau, and Nancy Shepard, Lambda Phi, who will act as senior advisors.
George Hallahan, Phi Alpha, will head the boys’ vigilance committee. Eddie Grubb, Pi Delta Sigma; Whitey Kelley, Delta Sigma Kappa; Phil Optner, Phi Epsilon Pi; Irving Iebo-witz, Tau Epsilon Phi; A1 Collins, Alpha Phi Omega; Lee Strickland, Pi Delta Sigma; and Mike Barto, independent, will assist Hallahan. Advisors for this group will be Bob Olson, Pi Delta Sgima; and Jack Madigan, Phi Alpha.
$100 Offered For Best School Song
One hundred dollars will be awarded the author of the best words and music entered in the annual school song contest, according to Miss Beritha Foster, Dean of the School of Music.
With the deadline for entries scheduled as October 1, Miss Foster announced that other ranking submissions will be included in a book of school songs to be published this year.
Mrs. Charles Lyon Krum of the voice department donated the prize money.
Registration Estimates Place Enrollment Figure At Over Twelve Hundred
Musicians Plan Year’s Program; Set Concert Date
Mischa Elman To Play at First Concert; Band May Perform at World’s Fair
Another successful music season for the University of Miami is assured by the return of Dr. and Mrs. Volpe from an extended stay in New York City where prospective students were interviewed, new music of young American composers was collected, and arrangements were made with outstanding artists to appear on the concert stage with the University of Miami Symphony orchestra this winter.
The program for the concert season is not yet ready for publication, but Mischa Elman, world famous violinist, will open the series by playing the Brahms concerto on December 8th.
Every section of the orchestra will be augmented this year, Dr. Volpe said. The vacancies, caused by the graduation last June of some of the best players, will be filled by 25 musicians chosen from the 70 applicants examined in New York. The director also spent much of his time in New York among the music publishers, examining new scores, with the result that Miami audiences will hear some interesting new numbers this season, probably several by young American composers who are forging to the front.
Unconfirmed rumors voiced the possibility that the University of Miami Symphonic band will play at the Now York World’s Fair as a part of the Florida exhibit. The engagement, if accepted, would run the entire summer.
Also included in the musical plans of the University is a series.of concerts to be held at West Palm Beach under the sponsorship of the Four Arts club.
Last year’s guest artists included such notables as Josef Hoffman, pianist; Josef and Rosina Lhevinne, pianists; Gregor Piatigorsky, cello; and Josephine Antoine, soprano.
Sheaffer Glooms As Band Prospects Look Best In Years
Seventy-five music students reported to Walter E. Sheaffer, conductor of the university band, for the first rehearsal of the school year Wednesday afternoon.
Sheaffer, who has always been a man of few words, looked over the sea of green dinks, then probably thought “This is the best material I have ever had at a first rehearsal, the best material for a real good football band.”
In the first march one dozen trombones showed up brilliantly, ten cornets added more brilliance, and a number of boys in the heavier brass sections brought out more “oom-pahs” than hnve ever been “oomped” in the band to date.
Three boys who will compete for the drum major’s position were seated in a corner tapping their feet and itching for the chance to swing a baton and strut their stuff with the band. “The best of the three will do the high-stepping for the band,1’ Sheaffer probably thought as he noticed the far-away look in their eyes.
I Witb the end of the rehearsal Sheaffer grunted, which meant he was going to talk. He looked around, opened his mouth, and said the same thing he has said at the opening rehearsal for the past five years, “It sounds like a band to some of you fellows, but not to me. Maybe I can do something with you, but if you think this was good today, you haven’t heard anything yet!”
Hurricane Staff Meeting Called For Tomorrow
j Editorial and business staff positions on the Hurricane are now | open. Applicants are requested to < attend regular staff meeting tomorrow at 3:30 in the Hurricane I office, room 237.
Registration Through Yesterday Shows Thirty Per Cent Increase Over Last Year; More Arrivals Expected This Week
An unprecendented last minute influx brought the 1938 enrollment to an estimated total of more than twelve hundred regular students up to closing time at the registrar’s office yesterday afternoon. Registration was expected to continue through today due to the late arrival of many students who delayed coming south until the tropical disturbance danger was past.
Ashe, Thomas To Welcome Freshmen In Assembly
The first assembly of the year to be held in the auditorium at 10:10 tomorrow morning will be a welcome program for the class of 1942.
Ray Fordham, student body vice president, will introduce Dr. Bowman Ashe, University president, and Joe Thomas, president of the student body, who will give welcoming talks. The University band will play and a short song session will follow the regular assembly. All students are urged to attend.
Spanish History And Language New Major Field
Cuban Students Receive Five Scholarships Awarded By Drs. Owre and Cabrera
A new major» field in Hispanic history and language has been opened to University students announced Dr. J. Riis Owre, head of the language department.
The courses are arranged to give the students a broad background in the filed of Hispanic studies and a understanding of the traditions and historical development, present day life, culture and problems of the Hispanic peoples. A knowledge of Spanish and sufficient credits in Latin American history, culture, literature ^ and economic geography are included in the requirements. A minor is also offered in Hispanic studies.
To further the interest in Pan-americanism the University in cooperation with Dr. Jose Perez Cabrera, director of teaching in Cuba, and through the efforts of the National Department of Education, five scholarships have been offered to Cubans. During the summer, Dr. Owre flew to Havana to interview applicants for the scholarships and chose Aman-do Fernandez Elias, Joaquin Freyre Diaz, Manuel Meneses y Campos, Antonio Olivares, and Maria Teresa Quidiello.
Changes in the language department became effective at registration this term. Requirements have been increased to twelve semester hours, equivalent to two years. In addition drill classes and the concentration system have temporarily been discontinued.
This estimated figure represents more than a thirty per cent increase over the 944 regular students at-1 ending last year.
Hurricane statistics department revealed that the major portion of I he United States and two foreign countries are represented by students now attending the University.
Of the 661 students reached by the Hurricane, 330 attended higlf school in Florida, 54 in New Y’ork State, 18 in New Jersey, and 15 in Pennsylvania. Many students failed to give complete information, but a careful check revealed 29 states, Cuba, and Canada, represented in this survey of only a half of the entire student body.
Overflowing classrooms and closed "ourses substantiated the optimistic estimates made by University officials earlier in the week.
With enrollment still the best barometer of the University’s progress, Hurricane statisticians present the official registration figures for the past five years. The figures include adult classes, which have not as yet been estimated in the 1938-39 enrollment.
1933-1934	531
1934-1935	795
1985-1936	978
1936-1937	1079
1937-1938	1206
CAMPUS CALENDAR
Today, 12:30 p.m. Freshman meeting in the auditorium supervised by Vigilance Committee.
Friday, 10:10 a.m. Convocation in auditorium. New students to be welcomed by Dr. B. F. Ashe and Joe Thomas, president of student body.
12:30—Meeting of women transfer student in the social hall with Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of
women.
1:30—Meeting of all cheerleading prospects at Athletic office.
3:30—Hurricane staff meeting in the Miami Hurricane office, room 237. Applicants for positions on the new literary magazine may report at the same time.
8:30—University reception at the Biltmore Club.
9:30—Dance following reception. Music by the Miamilodians. Saturday. 10:00 a.m. Faculty of the Adult Education Division will meet in room 222.
Monday, 12:30 pm. Men and Women’s athletic councils meet in the athletic office.
1:00 p.m.—First meeting of Lead and Ink, honornry journalism fraternity, in the social hall.
Tuesday, 3 to 5 p.m. Y.W.C.A. tea in honor of the freshman girls. Wednesday, Second annual faculty tea given by Delta Tau sorority.
Frosh Tell Reasons For Attending U, Shock Elders With Wit, Stupidity
Probably the most popular question of the day is, “Freshman, where is your dink?” Next in popularity, and the one we are concerned with right now is, “How did you happen to select the University of Miami as your Alma Mater?”
For Beg Gurevitz, it was purely an accident. Last winter she was involved in an auto mishap right smack at the portals of the U. of M. After sizing up the inmates, she considered the accident an omen and never bothered to go home.
Poor Mart Schwartenbach. He believes in proverbs. So after becoming a junior nt Lafayette and then getting ousted, he’s here as a freshman to “try, try again.”
Mina Cavett is here for health. (It’s sinus trouble, as everybody nose.) She snys she’ll study if there’s any available time.
Eddie Brondach was lured here from his New Jersey home by a
scholarship in the Music School.
There’s nothing like being contrary. So Dot Stuart, instead of trying to find a college as far away from the home folks as possible, came here because her folks like Miami in the winter.
Jimmy Politis has a phobia for hurricanes. He heard one was coming this way, so he had to come get a look nt it. It fizzled out, but he’ll still he able to see Hurricanes chasing around a footbnll field.
Southern belles attracted Wood-row Hansen. Also, he likes the lnrge fields to major in. That’s okeh if he doesn’t major in southern belles.
“Astronomy in its exotic setting” was John Byrne’s reason for coming to Miami. I wonder what he meant by “heavenly bodies.”
So there it is in a nutshell. Doesn’t it thrill you to know how serious-minded a freshman can be?
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