Miami Hurricane, January 06, 1938

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XI
Offer Trophy To Promote Activities
Wm. C. Coffin, U. of M. Trustee, Hopes To Increase InterestinCultureby Award
William C. Coffin, University of Miami trustee, is offering a trophy to the man and woman earning the greatest total of points for curricular and extra-curricular activities. The cup will be awarded at the close of the spring term.
Purpose of the trophy is to arouse a greater fraternal interest in curricular and extra-curricular activities and in the cultural growth and devel-f .opment of the University.
' Rules governing competition for trophy are as follows:
1.	Representatives of the administration shall reserve the right to increase or decrease the number of activities to be considered in awarding the trophy, providing such changes are made within the first month of the school year.
2.	The activities to be considered in awarding the trophy for 1937-38 shall include dramatics, journalism, debating and men’s or women’s glee club.
3.	Scholarship students shall not be eligible to receive nor shall their fraternity or sorority receive any points if their activity is in a field for which they are receiving full or part-time scholarships, with the exception of appointments made by the Student Senate for which appointees receive scholarships.
4.	Only those organizations having a charter who are permitted representatives in the Interfraternity or Panhellenic Council shall be at liberty to participate in the competition.
Points are to be awarded in the following manner:
1.	25 points shall be awarded to the lower third of any class in any of the activities listed who successfully complete the course; 50 points to the middle third; and 75 points to the upper third.
2.	250 points shall be awarded to those students who succeed in obtaining positions on the debate team, the glee clubs, the Ibis or the Hurricane or who appear in two or more major dramatic productions. The award of these points shall be made by the instructors or faculty advisors in charge of the various departments.
3.	Students may engage in more than one of the activities listed but may compete for only one organization in any of the activities. Students competing must present to their instructor within one week after the initial meeting of their department their names and the names of the groups which they represent. At the completion of each semester the instructor ofr advisor will present to the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils a signed statement of the points which he has awarded each individual in his department. The council will tabulate and publish results.
4.	At the end of each semester a report of the standings of each organization shall be published in the Hurricane.
5.	The Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils shall hear and decide upon all disputes relative to point distribution. Such disputes shall be presented to the councils by council members who belong to the disputing groups. All statements are to be presented in writing, signed by the president of the disputing organization nnd by the student who has earned the points.
Coral Gables, Florida, January 6, 1938
Number 12
Plan Reorganization Of Scout Fraternity
Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, national scouting fraternity which was an active organization on the University campus until three years ago, will be reorganized during the winter term by Bill Probasco and Larry Lewis. Through the efforts of these two active members, the fraternity will participate in all sports, entertainments and in addition to carrying on scout work, will present several speakers. Any one who has successfully passed the first class scout examination is eligible to become a member, and is asked to present his name and qualifications to either Probasco or Lewis through the postoffice. As soon as these names are passed on, the date for the first meeting will be called.
URGE FYING INSTRUCTION
Miami, Fla. (ACP) — Flying instruction in land grant colleges as a means of building up a reserve of aviators for national emergencies was advocated before air officials of two score states here recently.
Famous Composer of Modern Music To Conduct Winter Seminar Here
Carl Ruggles, distinguished American composer, will conduct a seminar in the composition of modern music at the University during the winter term which began this morning.
Acknowledged as one of the world’s most distinguished modern composers, Mr. Ruggles was appointed technical director of the International Composers Guild of New York City with Edgar Varese, Eugene Goosens, Carlos Salzedo and Alfredo Casella. This celebrated insurgent organization has held the premieres of many epoch-making works of the world’s leading contemporary composers.
Comment« on Modern Music
Mr. Ruggles, in commenting on modern music, said, “The approach to modern music must be, of course, through the portals of the new old as exemplified by those mighty path-breakers Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner. If one examines carefully the works of those masters, one finds many pages that presage the music that is being written today. It seems needless to emphasize the fact that composition of modern music necessitates a thorough knowledge and groundwork in the modern music of the past.”
Requirements necessary for entrance to the University seminar en-clude: 1. A groundwork in harmony and counterpoint. 2. The ability to play some instrument, preferably the piano. 3. An original composition in any form or scope must be submitted.
Hat World-Wide Recognition
Among the compositions and their performances which have made Mr. Ruggles one of the world’s outstanding modern composers are: “Angels” from his composition for six muted trumpets “Men and Angels” which was chosen to represent America at the Venice Festival for Contemporary Music. Five songe for voice and orchestra “Vox Clamans in Deserto" were performed for the first time by the International Composers Guild of New York City. “Men and Mountains,” a premiere of the International Composers Guild, was also performed by the Boston Symphony
JOINS FACULTY
Dr. Carl Ruggles, noted American composer, who joins the faculty this term to conduct a music seminar in the field of modern music.
Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, and by many of the world’s leading orchestras. “Portals,” a composition for string orchestras was also an International Composers Guild premiere and was performed by the conductorless orchestra of New York, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. “Sun-treader,” a premiere of the Paris Symphony Orchestra, was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. This same composition was chosen to represent America at the Contemporary Music Festival at Barcelona in 1936 and was broadcast from Spain in April of the same year.
In commenting on the University seminar, Mr .Ruggles said, “The main object of this seminar is to develop a modern intervalic consciousness, a harmonic and contrapuntal consciousness and a dissonant rhythmic consciousness. It is to be hoped,” he continued, “that this seminar will inspire a desire in the student to say something in music in a new way.”
Charter Meeting of Spanish Professors To Be Held Saturday
Professors and instructors of Spanish in the southeastern section of Florida will meet on Saturday at the McAllister Hotel to organize a chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish.
Morning session of the meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. when Dr. Henry S. West, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Mr. James T. Wilson, superintendent of public instruction of Dade County, will deliver the speeches of welcome.
Two lectures will be features of the program. Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín will speak in Spanish on “Current Trends in Cuban Culture.” Mr. Kenneth A. Vanderford, instructor in Spanish is to speak in English on the subject, “Alfonso el Sabio and His Role in the Development of Castilian Literature.” Dr. J. Riis Owre, professor of Spanish, will conduct the morning meeting.
A luncheon in the Flagler room of the McAllister Hotel will precede the afternoon session, which is to begin at 2 p.m. The session will be in the form of a business meeting for the organization of the section and the election of officers. Presiding will be Miss Jane Warters, head of Miami High school romance language department.
Dr. and Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe will entertain the members at a tea at their home, 2475 Bayshore Drive, at 4 p.m. following the afternoon meeting.
Special Staff Meeting Called for Friday
All students having positions or desiring positions on the Hurricane staff are asked to report to room 216 Friday afternoon at two-thirty.
It is imperative that all present staff members attend the meeting, since a temporary staff reorganisation is to be made. Assignments for the coming week will also be given out at this time.
In the future regular staff meetings will be held weekly for the purpose of criticising the work of the current issue and planning the issue for the following week. All reporters are required to attend if they desire academic credit for their work.
Frosh Frolic Plans Nearing Completion, Committee Says
This year’s talented frosh are about ready to announce the completion of their plans for what they hope will be the best Freshman Frolics ever presented at the University. The affair has been set for January 15, from nine until one in the cafeteria.
The Frolics committee, appointed by President Paul Brick, includes Betty Hayes, Ethel Roger, Carl Squires and Chairman Bob Stuyver-son. Committee members have admitted that the Frolics will be in the form of a cabaret dance but decline to say anything about the nature of the acts to be presented, preferring to keep them secret until their presentation. The acts, which will be presented at regular intervals between the dance sets, will feature a few really good acts rather than a number of poor ones. Chairman Stuy-verson has hopes of being able to present a popular celebrity as the feature attraction on the program.
President Brick announced that an extensive advertising campaign will soon go into action to acquaint the student body with the attractions to be presented at the Frolics.
Janet Seerth Chosen 1937 Clubs’ Queen
Alpha Theta, Chi Omega Candidates Serve as Ladies-in-Waiting at Ball
Serving as ladies-in-waiting to Janet Seerth, Triad club, chosen as 1937 Queen of Clubs, were Helene Couch, Alpha Theta, and Rubilou Jackson, Chi Omega, who tied for second place in the contest preceding the eighth annual Queen of Clubs ball December 19 at the Miami Bilt-more Country Club.
Fred Waring, nationally known band leader, Denman Fink, head of the University art department, and Harold Hume, sculptor, acted as the board of judges. Selection was made at a banquet in the Biltmore Hotel dining room on the basis of poise and personality, as well as beauty.
Miss Seerth was chosen from among twelve candidates representing clubs and sororities of metropolitan Miami. In addition to the Alpha Theta and Chi Omega candidates, the University was represented by Maria Dominguez, Beta Phi Alpha; Dorothy Mae Buddington, Delta Tau; and Martha Ousley, Lambda Phi.
Outstanding feature of the yearly holiday event was, as usual, the coronation ceremony which climaxes the dance. At midnight the members of Pi Chi fraternity participated in the traditional grand march, forming an aisle the length of the ballroom down which Miss Seerth, followed by Miss Couch and Miss Jackson, proceeded to the raised throne. There Travis Lee Harris, ’37, last year’s Queen of Clubs, placed the crown on her successor’s head. Dave Hendrick, eminent commander of Pi Chi fraternity, acted as master of ceremonies.
R. Brunstetter To Address IRC Meeting Wed.
FormerGablesMayorOpens Winter Series With Talk On ‘Lessons From Abroad’
Roscoe Brunstetter, past mayor of Coral Gables, will be guest speaker at the first winter meeting of the International Relations Club to be held on Wednesday, January 12, at 7:30 in the Social Hall. Mr. Brunstetter who has just returned from European trip has chosen “Lessons from Abroad” as his subject, after which there will be open discussion by the club members.
Interesting and instructive programs have been planned for the winter and spring terms with a group of prominent men leading the discussions. A banquet and an “at home” are planned for later dates.
One aim of the club is to instruct and enlighten public opinion through intelligent discussion of world affairs Rnd international problems, giving each student an opportunity to participate in the program. President Eleanor Matteson hopes to establish the membership well over fifty during the winter term. Students interested in becoming members are instructed to submit their names to any of the club officers or leave it in the office of Mr. Paul Eckel, faculty adviser.
Dr. Lowe, Founder of Winter Institute, Stricken 111; Mason Takes Over Duties of Literary Forum
Instructor in
Institute Opens Sixth Session As Scheduled
Paul Green, Virgil Barker Announced As Lecturers For Week Beginning Jan. 17
The Winter Institute of Literature will begin its sixth annual meeting on Monday, January 17, continuing through Friday, February 4. An outstanding group of lecturers will present a diversified seminar on aspects of world literature during the three-week session.
Advance registration shows the course to be a popular one with University students. Registration for the Institute will remain open until the lectures begin.
The first week will include lectures by Paul Green and Virgil Barker. Mr. Green, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Pulitzer prize winner for his play, “In Abraham’s Bosom,” dramatic novelist and scenarist* will discuss playwriting, producing, and aspects of the theatre. Mr. Barker, art lecturer and critic, will speak on illustration of literature.
Dumas Malone and Luis Baralt feature the second week of the Institute. Mr. Malone is director of the Harvard University Press and was editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography. He will choose as his topics those dealing with biography and achievement of genius. Luis Baralt, former member of the University faculty, will talk on Cuban contemporary poetry.
Paul Engle and Hervey Allen complete the third week. Mr. Engle, Rhode’s scholar and brilliant poet, will parallel American language, history and society with poetry. Mr. Allen, novelist and poet as well as biographer, will talk on the background in writing.
The course which is required of all English majors and minors, will include both afternoon and evening lectures, to be held in the university auditorium. Individual tickets as well as season tickets are now on sale for those not enrolled at the University at Philpitt’s, telephone 2-6657 and in the main office of the University, telephone 4-1691.
More Books Added To General Library
Dr. J. C. Pichardo, consul of the Dominican Republic in Miami, has presented the University of Miami library with a series of books dealing with his country. Among these is the celebrated “Album de Oro” containing full descriptions and photographs of every phase of Dominican life.
A recent acquisition to the University library is a set of books that is considered an invaluable complement to any college library. The name of the set is the “Dictionary of American Biography” edited by Dumas Malone, who will lecture at the Winter Institute of Literature.
Joseph Tarpley,Pianist and Adrienne Lowrie,Soprano Perform Excellently for Monday Evening Audience
Joseph Tarpley, pianist, and Adrienne Lowrie, soprano, were applauded most enthusiastically by a large audience in the auditorium of the Woman’s Club Monday night. The concert was one of the regular Monday night programs presented by the Miami Conservatory of Music, of which Bertha Foster is director.
A small orchestra made up of members of the University Symphony orchestra played the orchestral accompaniment to the Cesar Franck Symphonic variations, Mr. Tarpley’s final number. In this work the soloist displayed a mastery of the keyboard which is not often heard. His clear tone and beautiful phrasing was a source of pleasure not only to the large audience, but to the members of the orchestra as well, for they were accompanying the soloist without a conductor, a most difficult task in a major work such as they were playing. The artist’s confident ease of execution even in the most diffi-
cult passages told of perfect preparation and study of the work.
Adrienne Lowrie showed excellent taste in her choice of songs for the evening. In Mallison’s “The Snowflake” her voice was exceptionally pleasing, though it was Schubert’s “Ave Maria” which brought her prolonged applause from the audience. In this song the vocalist’s real beauty of tone was most evident. “There Cried a Bird,” by Sinding was a delicate number which demanded true artistic interpretation, and the vocalist handled the work in a real musi-cianly fashion.
The members of the University Symphony orchestra whtch accompanied Mr. Tarpley in the Franck Symphonic Variations were: Violins, Lewis Eley, Sara Bergh, George Guile, Helen Nielsen, Audrey Thomas, and Donald Bleeke. Viola, Anna Dalida and Albert T. Foster. Cello, Irving Zeik. Flute, Charles Staltman. Oboe, Harold Hall and Bennie Sink-
us. Clarinet, Laurence Tremblay. Bassoon, David Gowans. Horn, William Lebedeff and Frank Bueker, and Hannah Asher, piano.
HOCHBERGER GUEST SPEAKER
Simon Hochberger, instructor in journalism, spoke at the regular meeting of the Coral Gables Woman’s Club on Monday afternoon. His subject, in the form of questions and answers, concerned problems of the United States and current events. H. Bond Bliss, Miami Herald, columnist, was also on the program. Blanche Krell, music student, offered several harp selections.
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CONSUL LECTURES
Mr. Avendano Losada, consul Venezuela, addressed the class in Latin-American geography during the closing week of last term. His sub-ect, “Geography of Venezuela,” was taken from questions asked by the students during classroom discussions.
STRICKEN ILL
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Dr. Orton Lowe, director of the Winter Institute, who was stricken ill three weeks ago and will be absent from the University for some time.
Youth Meeting Scheduled For January 23
Hold Annual Conference In Conjunction With Fla. Chain of Missionaries
The third annual meeting of the Southeast City Youth Conference will be conducted Sunday, January 23, from ten until five at the Miami Woman’s Club in connection with the Florida Chain of Missionary Assemblies.
Helen Bisz, of the Young Women’s Christian Association, is general chairman of the conference, assisted by Margaret Pace, registrar, and Andy Frazee, chairman of arrangements.
Speakers for the Conference will include outstanding leaders in the Christian world today, who come to Miami through the Florida Chain of Missionary Assemblies of which Mrs. T. V. Moore, Miami, is state president and Miss B. Louise Woodford, St. Petersburg, is state director. The Miami assembly will be held from January 22nd to the 26th.
Well-Known Speakers
Among the speakers to be present are Dr. Arthur Raper, professor of sociology at Agnes Scott College and Research and Field Secretary for Commission on Interracial Cooperation in the South. Dr. Brewer Eddy, of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, who has just returned from a European tour where he studied the economics of several nations and sought contacts with well-informed nationals who could interpret the trends in their own countries.
Other speakers include Reverend E. H. Hamilton, missionary from Suchowfu, China; Dr. Willis King, president of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia; Yosko Saito, Japanese singer who returns with the assembly for her final engagement as she sails May 1st and does not plan a return trip to the United States; and Samuel Milton Hilburn, faculty member at Kwansei Gakuin University which enrolls 3,000 Japanese boys.
Registration Cards Given
Five registration cards for the conference have been given to the Y.W.C.A. of the University, and ten cards are to be given through the Senate to interested members of the student body. Betty Goff, junior senator, is representing the University on the planning of the Conference.
Charlotte Meggs, vice-president of the Y.W.C.A., is representing the University on the planning committee for the “All College Conference” to be held at Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee on Friday, February 18-20.
English Named Acting Head
New Acting Director Pays Tribute to Founder’s Work In Arranging Program
Because of the illness of Dr. Orton Lowe, head of the English department, Mr. Walter Scott Mason, instructor in English, has been appointed acting director of the Winter Institute of Literature.
Mr. Mason, who has been an instructor at the University for almost two years, holds degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Cumberland University, and a degree of Master of Arts from Peabody College and undergraduate work in special fields and has held several teaching positions, prior to his work here. He was visiting professor of English at Tennessee Polytechnical Institute, and later head of the English department of Bowden College at Bowden, Georgia. He was al head of the English department of Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn.
Looking forward to a successful Winter Institute, Mr. Mason said, “I believe it will equal, if not surpass last years’ meeting. Dr. Lowe has worked tirelessly to obtain outstanding literary figures. Hervey Allen is unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of contemporary literature. Dumas Malone will have a strong appeal to the men in the audience, due to his straightforward style of speaking. All in all, it looks like an excellent literary treat is in store for those who take advantage of this unique lecture course.”
Westinghouse Offers Five Fellowships In Physics Research
Five post-doctorate fellowships for research in modern physics at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in East Pittsburgh during 1938-39 will be awarded this spring to young scientific workers, according to an announcement made recently by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Appointments will be for one year and the fellows will be eligible for one reappointment. Five more fellows will be appointed the following year under a plan which provides ultimately an opportunity for ten physicists to continue their researches using the facilities of one of the nation’s leading industrial laboratories.
A circular giving details of the plan was mailed on December 14 to universities and technical schools, inviting applications for fellowships from men of academic training equivalent to the doctor’s degree in physics, chemical physics or physical metallurgy. Applications must be received by March 1, 1938, and awards will be announced early in April, 1938. Candidates are expected to propose a definite research problem within the field of laboratories’ activities on which they plan to work. The work of the fellows will be under the general supervision of Dr. E. U. Condon, formerly of Princeton University, and recently appointed associate director of the Laboratories for the program of fundamental research.
It is expected that two or three of the fellowships will be available for research in nuclear physics on a program which uses the laboratories’ new electrostatic generator to study the laws governing atomic transmutations, artificial radio-activity, and the forces which hold atomic nuclei together. Other fellows will probably work on studies of the fundamental properties of metals, of magnetic materials, of insulating materials, of the processes governing the flow of electricity in gases and other problems of fundamental physics.
OWRE RETURNS TODAY
Dr. J. Riis Owre, professor of Spanish, returns today from a good will flight to Cuba in the company of Mayor Robert R. Williams, representatives of the Miami and Miami Beach Chambers of Commerce, and other city dignitaries.
The three-day visit was made at the invitation of Lareda Bru, president of Cuba, Anthony Baruff Men-dietta, mayor of Havana, and Colonel Fulgencio Batista.
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