Miami Hurricane, March 13, 1929

              SITY NEWS
Vol. 2. No. 16.
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There really should be a name fa this column but what shall it lie? Any hot ideal as to a good _ will be appreciated and the I lest one will be awarded a coco
This is not a scandal column there is no scandal in Our ersity, but any choice bits of I news you hear of let me know and [ they’ll be printed and no questions I tshed.
Editor.
We hear that Bill Walker, the | carve ball artist has been trying [ • new brand of snake oil on the dd pill trying to get it to break I within ten feet of the batter.
If any more sororities or fra-I lenities are started around the I campus it will be so Greekish that I Spaghetti will become the campus I dish. Perhaps somebody will start a chapter of Alpha Sigma Sigma, 1st hear there is room for that me more here.
Is Blier, Rudolph Valentino’s | logical successor?
We hear that Pete White’s left [land is soft as lilk.
We nominate Catha and Caesar I for the main bout of the next win-I tor’s Madison Square Garden Tus-I ile. They did more hitting in two rounds than Honey Boy Sharkey I ad Shiek Stribling did in ten.
I THE SCRIBE
ISL SURPRISED
FAMOUS LAWYER SPEAKS AT “U”
Dr. James Brown Scott Speaks At Assemhly
By CARRIE COLE With my examination guesses idded to the events of the past «nd my C’s and D’s safely record-od (not to mention a few F’s still is the process of removal by cajolery), I felt stealing upon me last Thursday evening the love of ease ttd a mood to be amused, to be diverted even to the bounds of uncontrolled merriment. So, forthwith, I repaired myself to the Coral Cobles baseball grounds, knowing that in the spectacle of certain old fogies, laying aside for the moment the damning red pencil of professorial authority, there would he balm for my wounded feelings and perhaps a chance for the loud hngh of derision. For, as you have karned, our faculty has an alleged j baseball team which contends •oekly with other ancient persons •«presenting the police and fire-®en, the city hall and some other b®ch. Of course, I heard that they
were leading the league, so •h* aight of the other teams on Witches would add to the pleasure if the evening.
Jauntily I descended' from my kodel T St. Vitus, smiling already ** I saw beneath the brilliant lights one Ernie Brett addressed |° »trike out in ignominious fash-*L The pitcher, I could see at a tiance, was in this league by mis-**he. He was swinging them over what faster than I care to at in a pinch, so Mr. Brett’s *®ute of life was not to be pro-*N£d. Just then by one of those ***plainable disturbances of na-****> Mr. Brett’s bat was hit by ball, which bounded off along *he third base line. Something ^‘sed me like a streak and as I ** the dust out of my eyes, Ernie *** on first and Williams, who bad stinks in the chemical •b, eame up. Accidents will hap-I reflected, and this thought intensified as Williams *°W>ed one in right for a clear hit Ernie rested on third. Oh,
I mused, this cant last long i that law prof, Marshall, spec-•nd all, ready at the plate at three. The last I aaw h* first ball pitched was a (Continued on Page 4.)
Dr. James Brown Scott, famous international lawyer, professor of International Law and Foreign Relations at Georgetown University, Washington and member of Hoover s party on the South American trip, spoke at assembly Tuesday, March 12. Dr. Brown was a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference and twice a delegate to the Pan American Conferences. He is also editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law, has written numerous books on this subject, is corresponding member of the French Academy and Secretary of the Carnegie Endowment Fund for International Peace.
Dr. Belaunde, professor of Latin-American Relations, who introduced Dr. Brown, said that he was a friend of all countries.
Dr. Brown spoke on the methods by which peaceful international relations can be maintained. He said that the thing of the spirit, the peaceful and lawful desire of the nations must lie put into visible institutions. America’s contribution to this scheme is the Pan-American Conference, at which it is hoped tjiat all the 21 staBs may soon meet on equal terms on an “intellectual basis” and discuss their problems. He said that a representative of the University of Miami faculty will be asked to attend the next Pan-American Conference which will be held in the Palace of the American Institute of International Law in Cuba during the next year.
TTeri Lai Huang, the “Chinese Lindy” was to have spoken a few words at the assembly, but he ^arrived too late.
Evelyn Plagman played a piano solo “Selection from William Tell” by Liszt.
“OWED TO ART”
By CARRIE COLE
I love to stand beside the road and watch the flivvers pass,
Especially the painted ones with ancient crack and wheeze,
As “Use No Hooks” or “Watch My Dustf'V “Don’t Blow Out the Gas,' But most of all I love the sight of quaint '»nd gnarled knees.
I care not if they be in flesh or smoke or nude or pink,
Or even bare of anything with freckles in the breeze; i For when a rumble-seated wreck shakeg past I always think No ancient Spanish ruin can match a co-ed’s knees.
With rugged cliffs and precipice I’ve sjLn the canyon’s brim;
The sight of heaving glaciers has Baade my hot blood freeze. But nothing in this land of ours can beat « skinny limb
Of bony form without a calf equijfced with knobby knees.
Important Subjects Written By Dr. O. J. Sieplein
NEW SYMPHONY TO BE HEARD
Concerto For Two Violins Is Solo Number
The next program to be given by the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Arnold Volpe, will be presented at the Miami Senior High School auditorium, 2450 S. W. First Street, Sunday afternoon, at 4:30 o’clock, March 17th.
The soloists will be Estelle C. Cromer and Miss Charlene Stearns. They will play the concerto for violins in D Minor by Bach.
This program will be repeated at the same auditorium the following Sunday, March 24th, and instead of the Bach number a solo by Frances Sebel, a noted New York soprano.
University students are admitted free to these concerts and are
urged to attend. ^__
The program follows:
1.	Symphony No. 2 D Major—
____________________ Hayden
1.	Adagio Allegro
2.	Andante
3.	Menuetto
4.	Allegro Spirituso.
2.	Suite “Peer Cynt”-------Grieg
1.	The Morning
2.	Ase’s Death
3.	Anitra’s Dance
4.	In the Hall of the Mountain King.
3.	Concerto for two violins in
__D Major------------------- Bach
1.	Vivace
2.	Largo ma non tan to
3.	Allegro.
Estelle C. Cromer and
NOTICE
All men interested in baseball meet with Coach McCann in men’s gym Monday afternoon. Tom Turner, Mgr.
Easy Way To Make
That First Five Hundred
Valse Tríate-------
Overture “Rienzi”
Wagner
The American Mercury offers two prizes, each of $500, for articles by college graduates of this year, discussing their experiences in college. One will go to the best article received from a male student, and the other to the best from a woman student. The conditions:
1.	No article should be less than 3000 words long, or more than 8000.
2.	Each must be the original work of a student graduating from an American college with the class of 1929, and taking the A.B. or its equivalent.
3.	Each must bear the full name and*address of the author, the name of the college attended, and a statement of the course followed and the degree to be taken.
4.	Each must be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope- for its return m ease it,
is not accepted.
5.	The Editor of The American Mercury will be the sole judge of the competition.
All manuscripts entered for the prizes should reach this office not later than July 1 next. The two prize-winners will be printed in the issue for September. In case others are received that seem to be worth printing, offers will be made for them. But no contestant will be obliged to accept such an offer. There are no other conditions.
The aim of the competition is not to bring forth learned treatises on the higher education, but to obtain records of personal experiences. How do the four years in college strike an intelligent young man or woman—and only the highly intelligent will be able to formulate significant verdicts—immediately after they are over? Does the time seem to have been well spent? How much was learned? What was gained in other directions—by social contacts, and so on? How many of the instructors encountered seemed to have anything genuinely valuable to impart? Was life, in general, pleasant or not? Is there any feeling at the end that equipment has been improved? Does college arouse a desire for further learning, or do the four years seem enough?'
The contestants will be expected to name their colleges, and to give the names of any teachers they may discuss, especially those who have struck them as competent. The final day for sending in manuscripts has been put beyond commencement time, so that frankness need not imperil diplomas. The manuscripts submitted will be judged by their honesty, their intelligence, their freshness of viewpoint, and their interest as human documents. The competition is open to the students of all American colleges of good repute. Contestants will be free to discuss all of the matters suggested, or any one of them, or anything outside them. It is desired to give the utmost practicable Manuscripts may be sent in at any time before July 1. The names of all contestants save the prise-winners will be held strictly tiaL
NOTICE
books can be taken oat of th^ Library by students.
This ruling has been made be-caase many students have taken out books and not returned them.
Floating School
Gives
Degrees
For the first time in the history of American education regular acadfnuc degrees will be conferred on tlje high seas, according to an-nouqfements from the home office of Floating University at 11 Broadway, New York City. While the studeWts and faculty of this co-ed travdl university are steaming fronf Penang to Calcutta, the news is m^de public that a revised char-,bles Floating University to
ter
confq| degrees, beginning with the college year 1929-30.
Ac&rdingly the university will offer^gjograms of study leading to the B. A., M. A., and B. W. A. degrees.’ The B. W. A. (Bachelor of Werld Affairs) is a new degree* not conferred elsewhere, and is baaed on the concept that the studs* of History} Government J turnii Eccrffimics” amf SocfoTogy on a
world wide scale is valuable training for the student planning to enter public affairs, the diplomatic and consular service, or international business.
To win the B. W. A. the student may take his first two years of college in a land institution, and spend his Junior and Senior years in an intensive study of the courses in the World Affairs division of the Floating University curriculum. Or the student may spend all four years with Floating University.
The M. A. Degree will differ from the usual master’s degree, in that individual research and a thesis are required. The student compiles data during the round-the-world cruise, and completes his thesis with the aid of a European or American library.
The B. A. can be won in Junior and Senior years, with major in literature or art. A few well qualified Seniors can be accepted as candidates for the degree in one year, with major in art or literature; French, history, government, economics or sociology; or philosophy, religion and ethics.
Floating University will also confer a certificate on all students not candidates for a degree who successfully complete the requirements for a full year’s work. An official bulletin, giving these requirements as well as those for the degrees, will be mailed to colleges and universities after February 25th.
The revised charter was made possible, Floating Univeraity officials say, in part by the reception American educators have given its curriculum, and in part by the extremely favorable reports that have been coming back from every conn-try the University has visited this year. Cubans, Hawaiian«, Japanese, Chinese, Siamese and British have been greatly impressed with the seriousness of purpose display ed by these American
Virginia Wade, of Ji
Dr. O. J. Sieplein, head of the chemistry department of the Uni-| versity, recently had a treatise on the muck soil of the Florida Everglades published in the Miami Her- j aid, in which he discussed the im-| portant problem of “Taming thej Everglades.”
Dr. Sieplein, who was a delegate' to the International Soil Conference in Washington in June, 1927, because of his previous interest and work in soil chemistry, has spent years in observation and research work in the study of the muck soil of Florida. The Herald says: “He has continued that work with diligence and interest, in recognition of the manifest absence and need of authentic data on the cultivation and treatment of the muck lands of the state for agricultural purposes.”
In his paper on the muck soil of this region, Dr. Sieplein presented some of the problems which have to be met in the cultivation of this area. He also discussed the substance of the soil, its organic matter and its possibility for use in agriculture. The benefits of Florida muck soil, such as its lack of sourness, its quantity of lime and high soil temperature (causing nature to work at a higher speed than in farms elsewhere), the need for the soil to be aerated to support the bacteria on which the crops thrive, the necessity of the use of cover-crops to prevent deterioration, and to build back into the soil t&e organic matter which the crops use and take out, are all discussed by Professor Sieplein.
The wonderful opportunity of turning thg Everglades into
A. B. C. WINNERS ANNOUNCED
“The Ibis’ Favored Few”
bination of a sweet, deep muck soil which is practically level, in a climate which makes the producing season that time when the rest of the country is not competing, is an opportunity not to be overlooked, as it will probably mean a great deal in the development of Miami as an agricultural and commercial center.
The Herald also says of Dr. Sieplein’s work: “The results of four years of exhaustive study of Florida’s muck soil by Dr. Sieplein ar ea valuable contribution to the taming of the Everglades. Research by governmental and university agencies are now needed.”
Dr. Sieplein also interviewed Charles F. Kettering, of Dayton, Ohio, director of research of General Motors, on anti-knock fuel and the molecular theory, practically applied. Dr. Sieplein analyzed the anti-knock fuel idea. He also gave an example of the inter-dependence of theory and practice, and of the aid each can be to the other when the developments in one field are translated into terms which the workers in the other field can understand. This is the aim of industrial, research, such as Mr. Kettering directs.
Katie Bostwick and Peter White were voted the best all-around students in the University in the A. B. C. contest conducted by the feature department of the Ibis. Katie Bostwick. a member of Lambda Phi sorority, is tennis champion of the University and a member of the University swimiping team. Peter White, Pi Chi, is president of the Students Association and a member of the football team and Rho Beta Omricon.
Dora Peterson, Lambda Phi, who is feature editor of the Ibis was voted the most beautiful girl. Rod Ashman, Pi Chi, football, basketball and baseball star was voted best looking man.
Jane »Bostwick, who is a pledge of Lambda Phi and a member of 1 Wing and Wig dramatic club and Red Franklin, Phi Alpha, president of the Junior Class and Senator, were voted the cutest students. Pauline Spofford, editor-in-chief of the annual, Lambda Phi,, Senator, and Dick Pomeroy, Pi Chi, and member of the Ibis business staff, were voted the most dependable students..
Other contest winners were: Egotistical, Peggy Helser and Walt Svehla; Flirtatious, Dorothy Wright and Charlie Cleveland; Good-natured, Eleanor Norton and Harry Gray; Icy, Louise McCallum, and George Rowkre; Kollegiate Clara Nell DuPuis, Greenie Greenfield; Modern, Gertrude Thompson and Carson Bradford; Natural, Peggy Bull and Frank Peterson; ficiops, Mary McCann and Jsd^
and Cliff Courtney; Quiet, Eleanor Miller and Reid Williams; Ratty, Jane Wood snd Ed Wright; Sentimental, Ban Muser and Larry Catha; Talkative, Helen Ann Selec-man and Rhengdal Butler; Unconscious, Eleanor Spofford and James O’Brien; Vivacious, Pat Burghart and Alexander McKini, Witty, Marion Wallace and Frank Siler; Xtra-ordinary, Pill Avery and Robert McNickell; Youthful, Alida Van Ness and Lloyd Solie; Zippy, Louise Falligant and Ray Weakley.
GLEE CLUB PROGRAM POSTPONED
“A Night In Naples” to Be Presented March 19th
New Organ Being Installed
The University of Miami Conservatory of Musk has received a new gan Company, of Hagerstown, Maryland, whkh is now being installed in the University building. I It will be rendy for use in ten days.
The new organ, whkh includes a combination of the movie organ, with its various accessories of percussions, etc., and the straight organ, gives the students an opportunity to study all kinds of organ playing on a high class in-strament.
The organ specification« were made by W. S. Sterling, bead of the organ department of the University.
Sadie Clark has entered the University from California. She last the Long Island Poly-Junior College of Califor-
“A Night in Naples,” a musical sketch written by Louise Sterling Shelley, will be given by the Girls’ Glee Club of the University of Miami, Miss Bertha Foster, directing, Tuesday night at 8:15 o’clock in the University auditorium.
The cast includes: Gypsy players, Elizabeth Conklin, Evelyn Plagman, Lucy Allen and Pearl Miller; Enrko, Faith Cornells«!; Pktro, a waiter, Helen Yunes; Miss Jackson, director of Cook's Tours, Alke Babin; the Dapper, Eugenia Holmdale; a musk teacher Louise Warren; sentimental lady, Ramona Grubb; a homesick lady, Dorothy Meyer; old maid, Catherine Younts; Spanish dancer, Louise Sterling Shelley.
Pupils of Mrs. Shelley: Dorothy Moeller, Adele Karp, Mary Ann Bock, Dagmar Fripp, Mary Virginia Culbertson, Dorothy Mae Boddington, Mary Louise Strickler. Mary Shephard, Kathryn Ely, will be seen in the tamborine dance. “A Puppet Tragedy” win be given by Mary Ann Holt. Patricia Arnold, and Marion Wallace.
The program will also include by Helen Flanagan, June Walker, Dorothy Ben Kori and W.
The concert is riven for the benefit of the GW’s Glee Ch*
will be
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