Miami Hurricane, November 26, 1929

              The Miami Hurricane
VOL. 4
honor roll
ANNOUNCED
Student Body Pu blieation of The University of Miami
CORAL CABLES, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 26, 1929
NO. 4
New System Allows Closer . Co-operation Between Student and Instructor
' This year for the first time the indents of the University of Mi-uni received reports of their scholarship for the first six weeks of iebool. The scholarship committee composed of Professor R. B. English. Professor W. E. Strawinski and Director of Physical Education Harry H. Provin have been iuvéstigating the students’ scholarship and are giving special attention to each individual.
The committee is working to bring the student into more personal dbntact with thé professors by acting with the student and helping him receive personal attention. The following report issued by the committee found the averages to be unusually high with 24.2 taking the rating of A; 33.1 were B; 20.6 were C; 6.85 were D; 12 were passed as O. K.; 1.97 have no grades; and 7.1 received the grade of F.
Those off the honor roll are: Mil-dred Barry, Faith Corneilson, Gladys Edwards, Charlotte Farley, Virginia Grubb, Mary Holgate, Marjorie Howard, Alberta Losch, Clara Maxwell, Mary McCann, Eleanor Norton, Francis Miller, Isabella Orr, Mae Pederson, Catharine Pile, Le Vica Raker, Maxine Songer, Minnie Veyhl, Iris Walker, June Walker, Kathryn Wiegand, Margaret Witherill, Viola Wolfort, Catherine Younts, Eleanor Zwer-ner, Leonard Bisz, Robert Conroy, S. A. Dix, Walter Fitzpatrick, John Hanafourde, J. Harold Matteson, Robert McNicoll, Gavin Millar, Robert B. Minear, Guy Mitchell, Frank Parizec, Charles Riley, Vaughn W. Summers, Myron Williams.
BULLETIN ‘9 A. M.
Anponio Pasquarello is still very critically ill. The hospital authorities hold out slight chances for nis recovery.
Joe Tarpley Is Head
Of New Music Society
The Conservatory of Music in the University has recently formed I student’s musical club. This or-. ganization ha^ devised the word "Unimicon” as its name. The word is taken from the expression, Uni-Tersity of Miami Conservatory. The object of the club is to bring together, periodically, the students in the school of music. Fortnightly meetings have been arranged. These meetings will be on Tuesday nights. On these occasions, Wrious students will be given the opportunity to present certain musical selections. The remainder of the group will sit as an audience *nd criticize the student’s work. It is thought that this club will be . instructive as well as entertaining.
The officers of the Unimicon are as follows: Joe Tarpley, president; : Eugenia Holmdale, vice president; Robert Kistler, secretary and treasurer; Louise Warren, corre-•ponding secretary.
The Unimicon held their last /Meeting on Tuesday evening, November 19. The following program *as presented: Current Events, by Vera Sargent; Life of Chopin, by ‘‘Winifred B. Hill; Nocturne in D flat Major (Chopin), by Lulah Codington; Fantasie, Impromptu; Etude in G flat Major (Chopin), by Edgar Stone.
Kappa Alpha Psi, a negro fra-•4*mity at the University of Indiana, holds the scholarship cup at that institution. This offers no comfort for the believer in white »•premacy!
STEELE GIVES NIGHT COURSE
Night Class In Article Writ-ting For Adult Students Downtown
Rufus Steele’s class in feature articb^ writing is being held every Monday njgty; in room 303 of the new city hall. The University of Miami has arranged for this downtown extension class. The course under Mr. Steele is of course also given regularly at the University.
Many of the new students attending the special downtown Monday night classes are adult men and women, some of them prominent and successful in various professional lines. These classes have been arranged as a result of their earnest petitions for them.
In conducting this course Mr. Steele does not use a textbook, but sets forth the principles of special article writing from the standpoint of his own experience and of others who have done work in the writing field.
These special classes are open to all. Some of those who have already signed Sot them wish to write professionally, while others seek to acquire a knowledge of writing fundamentals as a means of improving their self-expression. Anyone with college or high school training in English who is interested in the new class is requested to report to the registrar at the classroom next Monday evening.
NAVAL BASE TO BE AT UNIVERSITY
Miami To Btve Naval Base and New Field Soon
“The United ’States Naval Department has promised that a Naval Training SAool will be established at the Umversity of Miami,” said Frederick B. Given, instructor in the aviatioa department, last week. “The university can but little realize tie tremendous significance that les back of such a program,” continued Mr. Given. “We are sure to have at least four planes to worl^ with. The estab-training school eat opportunity all others who it of a college ed-for salaried gov-ijpions. Its Bevelop-i* greatly to the
NOTICE
Classes will be excused Wednesday evening for the Thanksgiving recess. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will be holidays, with claves resuming at> 8:30 Monday, December 2.
BELAUNDE WINS HIGH HONORS
NOTICE
Piano Students
The teachers’ normal school for the training of piano teachers, conducted by Julian De Gray,- head of the Piano Department, offers an unusual opportunity to a limited number of young piano students. These beginners in piano will have the opportunity of studying with members of the teachers’ training class directly under Mr. De Gray’s supervision. A nominal charge is made for the students in this model school for beginners. Persons desiring to take advantage of this offer should report to Bertha Foster, dean of the School of Music of the University.
lishment of tl will provide for students have an equivi ucation to qua] ernment commij ment will ad growth and prestige of this University.”
Residents o/* Miami and Coral Gables, as well as the students of the University* are intensely interested in the move now under way to gain a flying field for Miami. Referring to this, Mr. Given (Continued on Page Three.)
Zeppelin Secured For
Fraternity Meeting
The Goodyear Zeppelin has been secured as the. meeting place for one meeting of the Aviation Fraternity, it was announced at the reception given at the home of James M. Elliott, 620 S. W. Lane, November 21. Permission was secured for a ride during which the meeting will be held, by Harold Farkas, former student at the University and now publicity director of the Miami Herald. The Zeppelin will arrive some time in December.
Professor Fred H. Given talked on the possibilities of Miami as an aviation center.
The following guests were present: Ellis Stephens, William Walton, Frank Parizek, W. J. Glenn, C. L. English, C. H. Groff, W. Lar-amore and George Glassford. Members present were: Antonio Pas-qperello, James Moyt, Francis Houghtaling, Vincent A. Jabelon, Otto K. Sieplein, Julius Carr, James M. Elliott and Raymond Martens.
WOMEN STUDENTS HEAR Y SPEAKER
National Secretary Speaks To
Women at Meetings During Past Week
“Which way shall we choose to give us the most satisfaction from life?” was the theme developed by Miss Carrie Mearse in her address to the woman student body of the University Thursday in the auditorium.
Miss Mearse has had six years’ experience in Y. W. C. A. work at all the principal colleges in the ten Southern states comprising her division. She was introduced by Katherine Younts.
As an answer to the question asked by her subject, Miss Mearse said: “An interchange of experience may be had from this growing period if one is aware of three important factors: a' belief in self, to identify one’s self with the currents of life, and to have a conscious part of life with God.”
The meeting was concluded with unison singing, accompanied by Eleanor Zwerner. More than one hundred girls attended the convocation.
Faculty Member Receives Lectureship at Johns Hopkins University
Compulsory Assembly
Is Senate Decision
Dr. B. F. Ashe informed the students of the University at assembly Tuesday, November 19, that compulsory attendance at assembly is to be enforced. This announcement was the result of a recent decision of the Student Senate to have assemblies every three weeks for the remainder of the year. They will be of great value to the student body owing to the fact that well-known persons wintering in Miami can be procured to address the student body.
The Girls’ Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Bertha Foster, head of the Conservatory, sang Tally Hoo and Two Clocks.
Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde, professor of Latin American history and institutions, has been officially notified of his appointment to the Albert Shaw lectureship at the Johns Hopkins University for the year 1930.
This lectureship was established at Johns Hopkins University in 1899 by Dr.' Latane. It has since been conferred upon many very distinguished professors and diplomats, such as Dr. Jesse S. Reeves, Professor Isaac J. Cox, Dr. J. F. Ripley and Dr. William Manning. Doctor Belaunde is the first South American to receive this’honor..
The subject of Doctor Belaunde’s lectures will be, “Latin-American Political and Diplomatic Thought During the Revolutionary Period,” and will deal chiefly with the ideals and aims of Bolivia during that time. Doctor Belaunde has devoted a great deal of time during the past several years to research on this subject and on the personalities of the famous revolutionary leaders. He has studied this subject in the best libraries of both America and Europe.
He will not leave to deliver these lectures until his second semester classes are finished at the University »of Miami. The lectures will be published in a special volume during 1930 by the Johns Hopkins University TVess.
Doctor Belaunde’s lectures at the Johns Hopkins will be the first number on a program of public acts in homage to the Bolivian dead in commemoration of the centenary of the Revolution in 1930.
He is entering his fourth year’s work as professor of Latin-American history and institutions at the University of Miami and is well (Continued on Page Three.)
Faculty Trio Gives
First Radio Concert
Students Dive For
Marine Specimens
Zoology students under the direction of Allen Macintosh, assistant professor of biology, gathered specimens of sponges and of other marine life during the trip made Saturday, November 23, to Cape Florida. Diving helmets were used in the under-water work. This is an annual event in the Biology Department.
Those attending were: Mr. J. A. Gilbert, head of the Biology Department; Dora Peterson, LaVica Raker, Daisy Evans, Mabel Ellis, Lila Gorman, Margaret Marqua, S. I. Gleser, Leo Cooper, Carl Star-ace, John Dix, Hazel Heinrich, George Lins, Dick Pomeroy, Ed. Wright, Robert Witzen, John Hag-erty and Ed Hanraty.
BEAT HOWARD
Miami Student To Sing
In New York Debut
Frederick Hufsmith, former student of the University and Conservatory, has ^on a New York debut concert and engagement on the Barbizon New American Artists Series. He will appear December 1 with the Barbizon string quartet and his program will include an operatic aria from “Don Giovanni,” a group of German songs and a group of English songs.
Hufsmith, a lyric tenor, was selected from several hundred singers who appeared in audition before a committee which included representatives of the New York press, the Juilliard Foundation and Graduate School, the National Music League and other well-known musical organizations.
Mr. Hufsmith, a pupil of Madame Grazianf, is well known in Miami, having appeared frequently in concert and having sung over the radio. He took a leading part in the opera “Martha" which was presented in 1927 by the Conservatory.
Bob Finley Announced
As New Member of Trio
Bob Finley, baritone, will be the 1 ned member of the University Trio, it was announced recently by Aye Farr. Finley, who is a new student and freshman in the Law School, will take the place of Bob Stanton, who did not return to school. The programs of the Trio will include many instrumental numbers. Finley plays the clarinet, Walter Svehla the banjo and Aye the piano and accordion.
Dorothy Bostwick Elected
Judge of Honor Court
Dorothy Bostwick, a member of the Junior class in the College of Liberal Arts and a member of Lambda Phi sorority, was elected Justice of the Honor Court to take the place of Helen Bisz, who is not in school this year. Albert Franklin, a student in the College of Liberal Arts, was the other candidate. Judges were Virginia Grubb, Guy Mitchell and Gilbert Broma-ghim.
BEAT HOWARD
A musical program was broadcast by the University of Miami Conservatory of Music last Sunday night from 6:50 to 7:20, over station WQAM. The concert was given by the Faculty Trio, composed of Hanna Spiro Asher, piano; Albert T. Foster, violin; and Walter Grossman, violincello. They were assisted by Celeste Moon, vocalist, student of Madame Elise Graziani.
The program was as follows:
Trio in B flat, first and second movements (Beethoven), Faculty Trio.
Nobles Seigneurs from Hugenots (Meyerbeer), Celeste Moon, vocalist; Joe Tarpley at the piano.
Scherzo (St. Saens), Faculty Trio.
Three Shadows (Burleigh) and Perriot (Rybner), Celeste Moon, vocalist; Joe Tarpley at the piano.
Trio Elegie (Arensky), Faculty Trio.
Miami Freshmen Are
Shown To Be Healthy
A physical rating of freshmen was the outcome of the recent examination given by the physical department. The following tabulation was made:
86.4 per cent were rated A.
3-58 per cent were rated B.
10.22 per cent were rated C.