Miami Hurricane, February 23, 1939

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY
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MIAMI
Volume XII
Coral Gables, Florida, Thursdav, February 23, 1939
Number 19
Constitution Revision Is Completed
Student Committee Winds Up Months' Work Yesterday; Ready for Ratification
A revised student constitution, consisting of 13 articles instead of the original nine, was completed by a student committee late yesterday afternoon and awaits only a few minor finishing touches before it is ready to be presented to the student body for ratification.
Joe Thomas, president of the student government; Ray Fordham, vice president; John Brion, chief justice of the Honor Court; and Norman Worthington, senior class senator wound up several months of revision work yesterday at a session that lasted from nine in the morning to six in the evening.
The changes that have been made, not of a radical nature the committee announces, are intended to insure smoother and fairer running of the student government.
It is expected the revised constitution will be printed in its entirety in next week’s issue of the Hurricane and within two weeks will be voted upon by the student body in assembly. If passed by three-fourths of those present, the document will next be submitted to the Student Senate for final ratification.
Six Frats Name Candidates for Kampus King
Campus enthusiasm for the seventh annual Kampus King Kapers, sponsored by Pi Delta Sigma fraternity, gained momentum this week as the fraternities named candidates for Kampus King.
Delta Sigma Kappa, which has won the award for the past two years with Bob Masterson and Scotty Mc-Lachlan winning the Kampus King keys, put up Eddie Dunn, grid hero.
Joe Thomas, president of the student body, was named by Pi Chi in an effort to break the Delta Sig reign. The Kapers this year is in honor of a Pi Chi, Lou Chesna, who was killed last year working on a summer job.
Commemorate» Chesna
Proceeds of the Kapers will be used to set up the Lou Chesna Memorial Scholarship fund. A scholarship will be presented to one of the outstanding high school athletes of the area. Coach Jack Harding will name the boy to receive the scholarship.
Third candidate to go after the Kampus King key and the seventy-five dollar suit offered by Frank Go-yen, Inc., is A1 Lane, representing Phi Epsilon Pi. Lane is a junior in the school of business administration.
Tau Epsilon Phi nominated Harold Leviton, senior in Business Ad, to carry the colors of the purple and white.
Hilbish Up
Phi Mu Alpha named basketballer Tommy Hilbish to toot the horn for the band boys. Hilbish is high scorer for the Hurricane cagers this ¿ear and is in a dozen other activities around the school.
The Phi Alphas last week picked Paul Miller, member of the golf team, Honor Court, and another business administration student, to try to gain the coveted honor.
The Kapers will be held March 11 at the Miami Biltmore Country Club. Also to be crowned that night will be Pi Delt Girl Award, won last year by Chi Omega Rubilou Jackson.
This morning campus Independents announced they will run Ray Ford-ham as their Kampus King candidate.
Music Dept. Slates Full Week’s Program
Henry Gregor, Edward Clarke, and Joseph Tarpley will be headliners in the full schedule of musical events announced by the Music department for next week.
Gregor, distinguished lecturer, composer, and pianist, will give a lecture-recital on the subject, ‘‘Music and Literature,” in the auditorium Sunday night at 8.
Students of the University and the general public are invited to attend a lecture to be given in the auditorium at 10:30 a.m. Monday at which time Edward Clarke of the Music School faculty will discuss "Samson and Delilah,” the opera to be given by the symphony orchestra and the University chorus Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Thursday evening, March 2, at 8:30 p.m., Joseph Tarpley, Music School instructor, will offer a piano recital in the auditorium.
Will You Be There?
Students of the University of Miami have been asked to give their whole-hearted support to a movement which may lead to the building of one of the greatest universities in the world.
At a monster assembly held last Friday morning, plans were laid before the students. Our honored president, Dr. Ashe spoke; Dan Redfearn, chairman of the Fullbacks’ Committee, spoke; Professor Girriel, expert salesman, spoke. The students received the assembly in good spirit. But — the Hurricane reports with regret, that student response to the appeal for field workers has been diffident.
The student executive committee has laid complete plans for the campaign; the Student Senate went on record as being unanimously in favor of the attempt, and later set aside a fund of $150 for the purpose of furnishing gas and oil for the field workers. Training classes have been presented, in an attempt to show the students the right and wrong method of approach to a prospective contributor, the reactions of these prospects, the reactions of the student field workers, and finally, the possible good which may come to the University as a result of this highly personalized campaign.
Mimeographed copies of the script of these training classes have been prepared and are given to all students who care to have them. Still—the students have failed to take more than a verbal interest in the drive.
Time after time, officials of the committee have tried to show the students what the result of a successful campaign will mean. They have made many sacrifices of time and pleasure to lay plans which will adequately cope with all problems of the drive. And still the students fail to respond.
The executive committee, therefore, feels that it should make clear the need for student cooperation. Neither personal gain nor personal glory will come to any individual or organization participating. Political connections and personal aspirations have been cast aside by the committee in its efforts to make the drive a success. They have asked the students to make sacrifices—sacrifices of time and energy and fun, in order to completely canvass the 38,000 families in the Miami and Coconut Grove areas who will benefit from the refund.
What the executive committee asks is indeed no small thing. It would be a simple matter for the University to hire paid solicitors, who would guarantee a successful campaign. But neither Dr. Ashe nor the University as a whole, intend that that shall occur. Rather, keep the University as it is today, than to cheapen its reputation in that manner.
Students are being asked to go out and knock on doors, bringing to the residents of the area, the vision of a greater University of Miami —a vision which can become reality if. the students will help to make it so.
The success of the campaign will be to the credit of the student body. Its failure will rest upon the shoulders of the executive committee—a group of students who had faith enough in the courage and spirit of the student body to ask them to cooperate.
Training classes will be given again this coming Monday and Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
Will You be there? — Brad Boyle, Chairman Executive Council
Student Refund Drive Gets Oft To Slow Start
The Student Refund Drive made a slow start this week after the gigantic refund assembly last Friday morning when amidst great enthusiasm over 200 students pledged themselves to active participation.
Results of the drive, however, have been encouraging considering the small number of students actually engaged in the work, according to Jack Madigan, executive council member. Little more than 10 students have reported for the soliciting work, but that number has succeeded in bringing in two pledges for a 100% refund, one for 50%, one for 20%, and one for 5%.
Training classes have been in session twice daily since Monday to prepare students for the soliciting. Dramatizations of situations that might greet the student in his door campaign have been presented and scripts have been prepared to be studied by the workers.
Complete groundwork for the refund campaign has been laid. Names and addresses of all recipients of the Florida Power and Light company refund money have been filed, the routes mapped out and transportation facilities provided for. The Student Senate allotted the campaign $150 for the expenses last Monday and the administration and faculty have promised their full cooperation.
Success of the drive, however, depends on the fuller cooperation of the student body, the executive council announces. At least several hundred individual student workers are needed to approach the 38,000 families receiving the refund money.
Lady Legislator la Assembly Speaker Friday
Mrs. Edna G. Fuller of Orlando, twice elected to the State Legislature as member of the House, the only woman to serve in that capacity, will be featured assembly speaker tomorrow at 10:10 a.m.
During the World War, she served as assistant food administrator under Herbert Hoover and organized the counties of the state for this war work, speaking in every county in the interest of war activities.
In specific women’s work, shg. has been associated with the National Council of Church Women, and has served for two years as national director of the Department of Social Relations.
Ray Fordham, vice-president, will be in charge of the assembly.
Marine Zoologists Catch Octopus, Colds
Sponges, sea urchins, a baby octopus, and various other specimens of underwater life were added to the ocean collection of the Marine Zoology class as fifteen students returned from the first field trip of the year last Saturday.
The second trip is planned for this weekend, with the entire class and instructor, E. Morton Miller, leaving tomorrow afternoon for Elliott’s Key.
This course, originated in 1934 by Dr. Jay F. Pearson, gives students an opportunity to study ocean life in its natural surroundings. It is one of the most unique courses in the world; the University of Miami is the only college in the United States where it is offered.
Agricoli-ae Gather Tomorrow in Cafeteria for Frosh’s Bucolic Bust
Let not a stray cow dismay you if perchance you see one meandering about school. It is only a part of the freshmen’s equipment for the annual Freshman Frolics. The Hayseed’s hangout will be the cafeteria tomorrow night when the frosh stage a barn yard frolic from 10 ’til ?
Farmers and farmerettes will jitter to the music of a 12 piece allfreshman orchestra. A digression from swing might lead to an old-fashioned square dance.
Costumes are in order and freshmen request that students come dressed as farmers. Prizes will go to the couple apparelled in thp best farmery finery. The cafeteria will be transformed into a barnyard.
A floor show of all freshman talent will include numbers by Betty Ann Ganger, dancer; Dean Forthman, Frank Walsh, Patty Hollarn, and Irmgard Dietel, singers; Evelyn Ausländer; a milk maid chorus; and instrumentalists.
Students in charge of arrangements are: Julia Arthur, Patty Hollarn, Ed Melchen, talent; Jean Girton, Ruth McDonald, Dick Tucker, Dave Wike, decorations; Dot Lowe, chaperones and favors; Don Chadderdon, orchestra; Julia Arthur, Marion Brown, Daphne Pullan, Hedwig Ring-blom, advertising.
Chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Girriel, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Westand, and Mr and Mrs. Alan Collins.
SenateMakes Allotment to RefundDrive
Milt Feller Stands Out Against $45 To Freshmen; Says ‘Unconstitutional’
Eleven members of the Student Senate met in a special meeting Monday to rescind its refusal of last week to allot $150 from the reserve fund to be used for Student Refund Drive expenses.
Senator Bob Olson made the motion for the allotment, it was seconded by A1 Teeter, and passed by the rest of the senators without a dissenting vote.
Frosh Senator Ned Turner asked for $45 for the freshman class to aid toward decoration expenses of Friday’s Freshman Frolics, promised to return the money if that amount were taken in at the door.
Objections were voiced by Milt Feller, Law School senator, on the grounds that the Student Activity Fund was given to the senate from all classes and to allot any to individual classes would be discrimination.
Teeter made the motion to advance the amount with the expressed proviso that the Freshman class turn over to the senate a financial statement of expenses and as much of the money as it could.
Feller insisted the motion was unconstitutional and officially went on record as being opposed to it. The Senate, however, passed the motion over his disapproval.
Orchestra Hall Sold Out Finali For Samson and Delilah
DeltaTau Joins Sorority Row’s National Ranks
Delta Tau, local sorority, received announcement of its acceptance by Sigma Kappa, international sorority, last Friday. It is to be pledged and initiated as the Beta Delta chapter the week of March 26.
In 1931 two sororities on the campus, Alpha Delta and Beta Tau, merged to form Delta Tau. Since October 1, 1936 the sorority and their alumni chapter have been sponsored by the local alumnae group of Sigma Kappa. Last summer they received permission to present a petition, which was presented this January.
Sigma Kappa sorority was founded at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, in 1874. In 1904 they became members of National Panhellenic council. At present the active chapters number 42, and 52 alumni chapters.
Creditable scholarship is the fundamental aim of this organization and annually a cup is presented to the chapter attaining the highest average. The individual groups carry on philanthropic work as well as the entire national sorority. The national project is the support of the Maine seacoast mission. One worker is supported by the sorority and during the summer Sigma Kappas assist voluntarily. The work of this group is to supply nurses, boats, mail service to the islands, and vocational work. During the winter months these islands are ice bound and impenetrable. Individual chapters also aid in the support of this work.
Mrs. Alice Wick, national president, will arrive in Miami the first of March to prepare the Delta Taus for the coming ceremonies.
Liebling, Music Critic and Editor Is Also Addicted to Swing, Pie, Horses
University Rates With Student Body
By Hank Meyer The University is tops among the student body, or else your Inquiring Reporter asked the wrong students . Believe it or not, the student body responded with great enthusiasm to the inquiring reporter’s awfully original question this week — "What do you think about the Uni-evrsity?” The question was greeted with broad smiles and, "You mean it’s going to be printed?”
Among newcomers in the limelight this week, Lucy Snowe, a former student of Florida State college as well as New York university greeted the question with a puzzled "well”—and then went on to say, "In comparison to the other schools, I like it much better here. There’s a much nicer relationship between professors and students.”
Lillian Beeres, who just came from Northwestern, pushed her blonde hair back on her head, and said, "I like the friendly attitude of the University. There’s a great opportunity to meet people.”
Art Hirsch, an ex-Ohio University lad, started with, "I think the football team is great. I like the friendliness of the student body—aw, gosh, you won’t print it anyway.”
Peggy Cobbs (who thought she was
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Santo di Primo * * *
Student Chorus Supports Metropolitan Stars In Saint-Saëns’ Opera
Saint-Saëns opera, “Samson and Delilah,” will be presented by the University Symphony Orchestra in orchestra hall next Monday and Wednesday nights at 8:30. The house has been completely sold out for Monday night’s performance, but students will be admitted on activity books Monday and Wednesday nights.
Featured soloists in the opera will be Santo di Primo, tenor; Carmela Ponselle, leading Metropolitan soprano; and Harrison Christian, baritone, who will take the parts of Samson, Delilah, and the High Priest. In addition to the orchestra a mixed chorus, directed by Bob Reinert, will participate in the performance. The choral group drawn from the ranks of the student body of the University is made up almost entirely of inexperienced singers who have never before participated in a major musical undertaking such as this.
The entire production is under the direction of Dr. Arnold Volpe.
The orchestra will provide accompaniments for both soloists and chorus in addition to rendering orchestral interludes and dances.
Home Products
The soloists are all products of the American School system and are Americans despite their foreign names. Carmela Ponselle is a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, where she first learned to sing in the church
Harrison Christian
choir. Since that time she has appeared with the leading musical organizations of the world and is considered a great soprano. Santo di Primo, who accoring to Dr. Volpe is next to Caruso, was reared in the shadow of Pittsburgh’s steel foun-drys. Although he is not yet well known those who have heard him say he has a great future in store. Harrison Christian is a descendant of an aristocratic Virginia family and first studied singing as a hobby. Continuous success and the decline of family fortunes induced him to go professional. Since then he has been accla'med as a baritone of rare merit.
sts at Institute Are Fisher & Coe
Best-Selling Novelists Ring Down Curtain On ’39 Winter Institute
Completing a program of 18 lectures, Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Charles Francis Coe will close -lie 1939 edition of the Winter Institute of Literature next week.
Mrs. Fisher’s lectures will be featured Monday and Thursday afternoons at 2:30, and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at 8:30. ‘Popularity in the Popular Magazine,” Mr. Coe’s single lecture, will hold down the Wednesday afternoon .session.
A widely-known novelist, Mrs. Fisher has received honorary degrees of literature from Columbia, Williams, Dartmouth, Middlebury, University of Vermont, and Ohio State. After obtaining her A.B. degree at Ohio, she studied for her doctor’s degree in Romance languages at the orbonne and at Columbia.
Reflecting her understanding of people in the ordinary walks of life, her novels have wide popular appeal. Some of them are "Bonfire,” “Understood Betsy,” “The Brimming Cup,” and ‘‘Rough Hewn.”
Now of Palm Beach, Mr. Coe, lawyer, criminologist, and novelist, has had two of his novels made into motion pictures, "Me, Gangster” and "River Pirate.” Among his other successful novels are "Repeal,” “Ransom,” and "Lifer,” all of which contrast with Mrs. Fisher’s work by showing the seamier side of American life.
Leonard Liebling, unexcelled music critic and unparalled horse-racing fanatic, is one of those comfortable celebrities — the editor-in-chief of The Musical Courier” and a liker of home-made pie, an excellent speaker and equally as excellent a listener, a man who expresses his emotions in clear, brown eyes, and does a great deal of his talking with his hands. He’s friendly and fun to talk with. He bustles around with short movements, has a quick smile,
Dates Announced For Ibis Group Shots
Campus organizations and faculty will be photographed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for the Ibis, University yearbook, it was announced yesterday. All group members are asked to observe the following schedule:
Monday
:30—Baptist Student Union, social hall
10	a.m. — Alpha Phi Omega, social hall
10:30 — Panhellenic Council, social hall
10:45—Lead and Ink, social hall
11	a.m.—Newman Club, social hall 11:30 — Freshman Honor Society,
social hall
11:45—English Honor Society, social hall
12	noon — Interfraternity Council, social hall
12:30—Language faculty, Dr. Owre’s office
12:45—Business Administration faculty, Dean Holdsworth’s office 1 p.m.—Music Faculty, Miss Foster’s office
Tuesday
9:30—Y.W.C.A., social hall 10 a.m.—Y.M.C.A., social hall 10:30—Snarks, social hall 10:45—I.R.C., social hall 11:15—Nu Kappa Tau, social hall 11:30—Iron Arrow, patio 12 noon—M Club, patio 12:30 — Social Science faculty, Dr. Briggs’ office
12:45—Science faculty, Mr. Clouse’s office
1 p.m.—Law faculty, Dean Rasco’s office
1:15—English faculty, Miss Merritt’s office
Wednesday
12:30—Theta Alpha Phi, auditorium 12:45—Freshman class, patio 1:15—Sophomore class, patio 2:30—Honor Court, room 316 2:45—Senate room 316
and talks amazingly long on one breath. He also talks a great deal.
Modern swing music has his approval — even his well wishes. He believes there’s quite a bit of art in it and that it has a future.
He thinks that all music should be available to and appreciated by every type and class of people and not solely by the “boiled shirts” and highbrows as it used to be. He feels this is becoming more and more possible since radio is influencing thousands of people to appreciate the great music.
His great weakness is horse-racing. He came out over a hundred dollars ahead the other day at Hialeah but isn’t always that lucky. He once owned a horse with Hal Sims but they suddenly discovered they were losing money, so Sims took up bridge and Liebling resumed his music.
Smith Pinch-Hits As Institute Speaker
Enhanced with the additional lecture of Carleton Smith, lecturer and radio commentator, concerning his travels in Europe, the second week of the Winter Institute of Literature featured John Kennedy, news commentator, and Leonard Liebling, operatic commentator.
Declaring that the people of the United States don’t realize how important they are to Europe, Mr. Smith stated that "Be kind to Americans” was printed throughout English papers. Because they know how to keep out of war, the Scandanavian countries are, in Mr. Smith’s opinion, better off than other European nations.
"Cynics should be boiled in oil,” is the belief of Mr. Kennedy, who further stated that literature has failed to live up to its obligation of moral instruction. Tuesday evening's "What’s Wrong With the World?” declared that "our problem isn’t of over-production, but of under-production because of mal distribution.
That personality is primarily being satisfied with life, and secondarily, physical appearance is Mr. Kennedy’s theory given out in his Wednesday afternoon lecture when he combined two previously scheduled talks, "What Makes Personality?” and "The Fifth
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Debaters Leave On 10-Day Trip Through East
Four members of the University debate team left this morning on the first jaunt of a 10-day, 4000 mile trip during which they will visit and compete against Wofford, Furman, University of North Carolina, St. Peters, N.Y*U., Rutgers, Bucknell, and University of Pittsburgh. Making the trek are Manager Dick Ar-end, Milton Wasman, Irving Lebo-witz, and Jack Madigan.
Subjects for debate are: "Resolved: the U.S. should cease to use public funds for the purpose of stimulating business” and “Resolved: intercollegiate athletics should be abolished.” On the latter question, the Miami team will naturally take the negative. At St. Peters college in New York the debaters will appear in tuxedos as the debate there is to be a strictly formal affair.
Miami Delegates Standout at Meeting
Clarice Schnatterbeck, Pearl Waldorf, and Jacques Wilson were standouts in the round table discussions at the state meeting of the International Relations Club in Tallahassee last Sunday, discussing the topic, “The U.S. and Latin America.”
Six delegates from the University I.R.C. club were officially welcomed at a banquet Saturday night at the Florida State College for Women. On the return trip the travel-weary delegtaes stopped at many towns and visited the University of Florida and the Bok Tower at Lake Wales.
English Honors Will Sell Fisher’s Novel
The University English Honor society has been granted the special right to sell Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s latest novel, "Seasoned Timber,” as early as February 27 although the book will not be put on general public sale until March 2.
The privilege was given in order that attenders of the Winter Institute of Literature may obtain a copy *before Mrs. Fisher arrives for her series of lectures.
Advance orders may be placed for the novel, priced at $2.50, with Lewis Leary or with Ann Searing, A1 Teeter, or George Rosner, English Honor society committee.
FRIENDSHIP PARTY
Charlotte Meggs, president of the University branch of Y.W.C.A., announced today a Friendship Party will be given Monday at 4 p.m. in the University social hall honoring transfer and freshman girls.
HONOR COURT MEETS
John Brion, chief justice of the Honor Court, announces a court meeting will be held Tuesday at 12:30 in room 371, says it is important that all members be there.