Miami Hurricane, March 17, 1944

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THE MIAMI
Original Student One-Acts To Be Presented Saturday
A program of student plays will be presented tomorrow night at 8:16 in the theatre by the drama department.
An annual feature of the department, the plays are both writ-tan and directed by students in
Spelling Bee To Determine School Champ
What should turn out to be an alphabetical free-for-all will take place in the theater next Friday, March 24, at 12:46 p.m., when the annual spelling bee, sponsored by a campus sorority, will be the assembly program.
Two representatives from each sorority and fraternity and two from the V-12 and independent groups will compete for a loving cop and the title of “Champ Speller of the University of Miami,” which Henry Wiener now holds.
Moderator for the bee will be Dr. H. Franklin Williams, assist-at professor of history. Serving as judges will be Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women; K. Malcolm Beal, assistant professor of English; Dr. James Braddock, assistant professor of zoology; and Lt (jg) Leon Henderson, commanding officer of the V-12 unit.
New V-12 Band Has First Rehearsal
First rehearsal of the newly-created V-12 military band was held Tuesday, March 7, in the theater under the direction of Levie Smith.
The following boys compose the military band: clarinets, Henry Blackburn, Ralph Taylor, Sam King, and Walt Etling; cornets, Levie Smith, Jim Kickliter, James Prucha, Bob Gourley, and R. N. Miller; trombones, Homer Venters and James Liebman; saxophones, Harold Goldstein and Charles Henderson; drums,George Auld, Francis Armstrong, and Charlie McDowell.
Edwin Rasmussen will play the baritone; Parks Hunter, piccolo; Bill Malone, cymbals; and Daniel Reeves and Clayton Cabeen will play basses. Dave Miller is drum major.
Levie has urged all those interested or those who play musical instruments to contact him at the Santander dormitory.
Sororities Extend Bids Tomorrow
Final event on the rushing calendar will take place tomorrow when rushees receive bids, and sororities, the pledge lists.
At 9 a.m. tomorrow, each rushee shall report to the Pan-hellenic executive, room 817, to receive her preference blank, which she shall fill out in that room and return to the executive. The rushee shall return to the same room at noon of the same day to receive her bid and report immediately thereafter to the sorority room of her choice.
Silence shall be observed from Friday, March 17, 7 p.m., until Saturday, March 18, at noon.
Mrs. Opal E. Motter’s playwright-ing class and stage production
The four plays to be presented are “Twenty Minutes, ’ by Henry Troetschel; “A Man: Amen,” by Carol Turner; “The Land of the Living,” by Ralynn Newmark; and “The Surrealist Police,” by Don Justice.
Leading roles in “Twenty Minutes” will be played by Charles Evans, Bernice Dacks, Bob Agar, and Jack Dein. Director will be Frederic Miller.
“A Man: Amen” will be directed by Helen Bresee. Taking psirt in this play will be Catherii Shaddick, Muriel Aptel, Laurie Gilbert, and Ed Lewis.
Charlotte Motter will direct "The Land of the Living,” leading roles of which will be played by Anita Eastman, Alberta Bergh, Mary Louise Lewis, and Florence Swearingen.
“The Surrealist Police” will be directed by Dick Owen. Portray ing the principal characters will be Jane Mack, Paul Reilly, Bill O’Connor, Sebastian Sisti, Jack Dein, and Marshall Simmons.
Each play will be followed by criticism by the members of the audience.
No admission will be charged for the program.
Frosh Name Slate For Class Officers
Nominations for freshman class officers were made at the meeting of the freshman class, Friday, March 10.
Joe Heard, president of the student association, emphasized the two freshman “musts,” Hurricanes and “M” books. Edith Shier acted as secretary pro tem.
The following are nominees for freshman class officers: President, Ken Tarbell, Dave Schneider, Tom Renedo, Marvin Honig, J. B. Collins, and Ed Newton; vice-president, Henry Troetschel, Bob Gor-ley, Bill Webb, Bud McCamon, Daniel Reeves, Ruth Goldfarb, Ted Lide, and Ray Fleming; secretary, Edith Shier, Alba Mero, Rose Marie Hall, Joan Heyward, Rosa-lyn Lusting, Libby Birt, Mary Jane DeWolfe, Martha Nell Pugh, Bill Stevens, and Shirley Preble; treasurer, Alfred Grimmett, Alton Curry, Liz Kruger, Charles Myers, Barbara Swirles, Jocelyn Nave, Eugene Summer and Gerry Carpenter; senators, Don Sivyer, Bob Pretat, Caroline Hunter, Harold Stetson, George Musser, Dorothy Frenz, Margaret Blue, Dolly Judson, and Bill Frost.
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John Dewey, Philosopher, Lecturer To Be Monday's Winstitute Speaker
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the nab of Ike third lecturer to appear ia the 1M4 series ef the W i ■ t e r Institute ef Arts asd Sciences. He wHl spesk to students aad member« ef the community in the theater, Monday, March 20, OilS p.m. Dr. Dewey’s educstionnl theories have influenced educational systems throughout the world.
Dr. Sachaos View Optimistic For Post-WarWorld Prospect
. Basing his “Defense of Tomorrow1’ on questions which have been fired at him by students all over the country, Dr. Abram L. Sachar, national director of Hillel and professor of history at the U. of Illinois, looked with optimism on the postwar world Wednesday at an assenfbly devoted to the World Student Service fund drive.
The tfiree main objectives that Dr. Sachar believes will be accomplished by the United Nations are the destruction of fascism, an international organization founded upon collective security, and economi- improvement especially keyed for demobilized servicemen.
Pointing out that he has lost any dogmatic attitude that he might have had before the war, Dr. Sachar asserted that the compromises (such as those made to Spain) which many students look upon with misgivings are military agreements to srpeed the course of war to victory and that these compromises will not be a perma-
TMCA to Sponsor Vesper Services
Vesper services, to be given monthly at the Coral Gables Congregational church, have been planned by the Y. M. C. A.
The first in the series will be directed by the Rev. Rex Wilkes of the; St. Stephens Episcopal Church/ Coconut Grove, and will be held March 26. Both boys and girls may attend.
Members of the Y. M. C. A., which has been reorganized, have elected a cabinet from which the officers of the group will be chosen. On the cabinet are John Harlow, Paul Rosselle, Paul Reilly, Shelly Boone, Sam King, N. J. Carden, Herbert Horton, and Clyde Frazier. Faculty members are Dr. William H. McMaster and Dr. H. Franklin Williams.
nent hindrance to international cooperation.
The mistake that Woodrow Wilson made at the end of the last war will not be repeated, he assured h i s audience. Wilson’s method of selling the League of Nations to the American people by publicizing the humanitarian duty of this country will not be repeated, Dr. Sachar maintained, for already we are appreciating an international association of nations because it will be to our “enlightened self-interest.”
Speaking of the formation of the peace, Dr. Sachar said that (Continued on Page 4)
WSSF Fuad Drive To Begin Monday
The World Student Service drive to collect funds for the rehabilitation of universities and students in war areas will officially open Monday, March 20, John Harlow, student chairman, announced this week.
A goal of $200 has been set for the University and service students, civilian students, and faculty members have been urged to make their contributions at the entrance of the theatre. Tags will be given to contributors.
This booth, which will be manned by representatives of the fraternities and sororities on campus, will be open from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., through March 24.
The drive was authorized by the Student Senate.
Hurricane Seeks Students For Advertising Staff
Students interested in ad soliciting or who have had experience on high school advertising staffs are asked to give their names to Harry Russell, Hurricane business manager, Box 828.
Frost Interprets, Weeks Looks At Future
A poet and an editor opened the eleventh annual Winter Institute this week, speaking to an audience of students and outsiders who packed the theater Monday and Tuesday evenings and Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Introduced by Marjorie Stone-man Douglas, resident director of the Institute, Robert Frost gsve the initial lecture Monday evening. Mr. Frost’s lecture was injected with the whimsicality and twists of phraseology characteristic of Ms poetry.
Poetry is an education in the use of metaphor and in learning to say, “there’s something to that” sfcout the many sides of a question, Mr. Frost asserted. He hinted that poets are somewhat prophetic, backing his idea with the statement that many poets foresaw the advent of this war
years ago.
One of the points that the New Englander developed was the poet’s share in making “an object for living today,” forming the democratic ideal. With some writers it is a kind of crudity. For example, the “stove-spatting” of Jesse Stuart's “Taps for Private Tassy.” But, added Frost, wheras the crudity in Steinbeck and Caldwell is objectionable, it is lovable in Stuart
Democracy, to Frost is the slow diffusion of property and manneis. He’s still waiting for the universal adoption of manners, he said- Other democratic ideals he advocated are the common man’s becoming poetic, a classless society, and a diffusion of pride. This last point be said, is temperance, “not saying anything today that yon’d be ashamed of after the war.”
Taking a dig at people who read his poetry with an “ultorior-ity complex,” the Pulitzer prize winner modestly (and with his tongue in his cheek) claimed that his aim in writing poetry is “to make it all sound different.”
The bulk of Mr. Frostrs lecture was the reading and interpretation of some of his poetry. “The Gift Outright”, a poem depicting the disintegration of our colonialism anil the dedication of the American people to this land, Mr. Frost chose as one of his favorites. This, he explained, has an essence of the crudity of democracy. To the listener, it was more symbolic of the vigor of America, which may be synonymous with crudity.
As his concluding statement, Mr. Frost quoted himself: “I never (Continued on Page 4)
Dr. John Dewey, philosopher and educator, will deliver the third Winter Institute lecture Monday, March 20, 8:15 p.m., in the theatre. His conferences will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, March 21 and 22, 3:30 p.m., in room H.
Dr. Dewey has influenced educational systems all over the world, and it has been said that practically every school in America has adopted some of his* educational ideas.
When the Turkish government planned , to modernize its educational system, John Dewey was asked to help draw up the plans. At one time he lived for two years in China lecturing to Chinese teachers on school reforms. Russia, too, has put some of Dewey’s theories into practice.
Dewey was born in New England a year before the Civil War broke out He was educated in the east and then took Horace Greeley’s advice and went west. He taught in several mid-western colleges.
Dewey earned fame while he was teaching in the University of Chicago's school of education. He showed a vigorous experimental bent in his work. Since then, Dewey has been interested in every new educational idea. Teachers everywhere acknowledge his leadership.
John Dewey believes in beginning with facts, not theories. He says, “The experimental attitude substitutes detailed analysis for wholesale assertions . . . small facts for opinions whose size is in precise ratio to vagueness. It is within the social sciences, in morals, politics and education that thinking still goes on by large antitheses, by theoretical supposition of order and freedom, individualism and socialism, culture and utility. . . . The field of the physical sciences was once occupied by similar ‘total’ views whose emotional appeal was inversely as their intellectual clarity. But with the advance of the experimental method, the question has ceased to be which of two rival claimants has a right to the field. It has become a question of clearing up a subject-matter by attacking it bit by bit. I do not know a case where the final result was anything like victory for one or another among p re-experimental notions. All of them disappeared be-(Continued on Page 4)
Ibis Sets March 25 As Photo Deadline
All seniors, juniors, and sorority women who have not had their pictures taken for the Ibis must have them taken on or before Saturday, March 26, if they wish to have them in the yearbook.
Pictures are being made by Howe Sadler, whose studio is at the Douglas entrance of Coral Gables on the Tamiami trail.
Students may have their pictures taken between 1 and 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or all day Saturday.
Those students who have picked up their proofs should return them by March 25, and those who have not gotten their proof* yet should do so and signify their choice by the game date or else the Ibis staff will select the picture.
IBIS PICTURE SCHEDULE
Monday, March 20, 1944 Delta Tan Alpha	12:15
Stray Greeks	12:30
Lambda Chi Alpha	12:40
Tan Epsilon Phi	12:45
Thursday, March 23, 1944 Christian Science	12:15
Lend and Ink	12:25
Y. M. C. A.	12:30
Cercle Français	12:40
Newman Clnb	12:45
Friday, March 24, 1944
12:30
12:40
I. R. C.
Jnnior Hoats All pictmres will be taken in the patio.
It is of moat importance that yon he on time, aa these pic-wHI not be scheduled