Miami Hurricane, January 25, 1940

              The Mú‘mi
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, January 25, 1940
Number 16
STUDENT ' OF ' THE * MONTH -
Jacques Wilson takes his place this week in the student hall of fame as Outstanding Student for the month of January. Originator of the idea of group hospitalization here, his work was climaxed yesterday by the announcement that this plan will be inaugurated at the University of Miami this year.
A Junior in the School of Liberal Arts, Wilson is an outstanding French student. He has been Dr. William Dismukes’ assistant for three years. President of Cercle Français, Jacques at present is reading for his Masters thesis, which will be on Voltaire.
Speaking three languages fluently, Wilson assisted Dr. Owre and Dr. McNicoll in developing the Hispanic-American Institute. He plans to study Inter-American relations at San Marcos, the oldest University in the New World, Lima, Peru, this summer. After graduation here, he will go to Duke for post-graduate work in French and Spanish.
Born in New York twenty-one years ago, Jacques Marcel Patrick moved to Miami in 1933, entering the University in 1937. Other school activities include the International Relations Club, Cercle Hispano, and the Newman Club. A Hurricane columnist, he writes Latino Americanas,
A glance at Jac reveals dark brown hair and eyes, a mustache, sideburns
Jacques Wilson
(up to last week), sharp features, and a contagious smile. Owner of a boat and a Private Pilot’s license, Jac’s hobbies are sailing and flying.
Jacques smiles broadly when a double cuba libre is mentioned, but drinks only occasionally. Other bad habits include smokring (pipes, cigars, and cigarettes), and talking— which he does constantly.
Dr. Le Fort, Still Drowsy, Wide Awake Enough To Dicuss Pan American Topics
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Le Fort Closes Institute Series Friday Evening
By Martha Hibbs “Si, si señorita” was the shivering, sleepy response as Dr. Emilio Carlos LeFort, true to all good Latin-Amer-ican traditions, was still comfortably drowsy at the appointed time of his press interview. (It was that cold, wintry day . . . there was snow in Minnesota, so they say!)
When at last the big moment arrived, and I was ushered into the presence of this great Argentinian scholar, who closed the fifth unnual Hispanic-Anieriean Inatitute lecture season this week, I gulped twice and was floored—never having had the honor of seeing this renowned personage before, I was expecting anyone but the person who greeted me with his radiant Latin personality. Handsome, aristocratic, athletic, this medium-sized man with iron grey hair could well step into a set of “Don Quixote” and not be at all out of place.
Inter-American Relations
While we chatted about inconsequential things, this hidalgo of Argentine nobility gripped his cherry-bowl pipe and started to expound his ideas on a subject becoming very important to us, especially since the current Hispanic-American Institute has been in session.
“Latin-America and the United States can become one close political. cultural and sociological unit only if the people of these respective lands understand each other, in a cultural as well as in an economic nature.”
Pursuing this field of thought, Dr. LeFort stated that great work is being done by the translation of South American literary effort into the vernacular of North America. This should prove a valuable and inexhaustible field for some of our more ambitious writers, both in North and South America.
Influence of America
Continuing his discussion aB we walked to the Main Building, he remarked, “At the present time Latin-America is being Americanized by a constant influx of Spanish translations of American literature and art.
“American movies and magazines in Spanish translation lend their part to this great movement of solidifying the continent. As I have previously said, political solidarity means little, one must reach the mass of the people and have their sincere endorsement. A person is surrounded by his national culture from the time of hi* birth. Now is the time to begin to form inter-continental cul ture.”
Technician» Needed
For the success of such a plan, Dr. LeFort believes that one would necessarily have to have highly skilled language technicians able to translate at a high rate of speed in a systematized manner the important classical, as well as contemporary, literature of the Americas.
To make this scheme completely successful, men engaged in the undertaking would have to translate works from their particular locality in order to be able to retain all of the feeling and idealism of that lo cale.
The impressing size of our campus and the many improvements made since his visit here two years ago, greatly impressed Dr. LeFort.
With Dr. Emilio Carlos LeFort’s lecture on American motifs in contemporary Spanish-American literature, the fifth annual Hispanic-American Institute will close tomorrow night at 8:30 in the lounge of the Administration Building.
The Institute enjoyed its largest registration this year, under the codirection of Dr. J. Riis Owre and Dr. Robert E. McNicoll. For this session, only Latin speakers were invited, to present to the audiences the leaders of Spanish and Latin-American thought.
Dr. LeFort speaks today on Ruben Dario and the “Modernista” movement, at 2:30. Yesterday he discussed anti-imperialism in his opening lecture.
Earlier in the week, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Dr. Rufael Pici, Professor of Geography at Catholic University, discussed the Caribbean region, especially the Greater Antilles. His opening lecture was illustrated.
In the first two weeks of the Institute, such distinguished speakers as Juan Clemente Zamora, Victor Lascano, Juan Ramon Jimenez, and Victor Andres Belaunde occupied the lecture platform.
37 Midyear Graduates Get Degrees
Bachelor of Arts Popular With Regular Session;
B.S. in Education Next
Thirty-seven candidates for degrees are to be graduated at the end of this semester, according to the list published by the registrar’s office. Of these, the large majority are candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree with Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Laws coming next.
In the regular division Atalie Barnett, Louis D. Blue, Mrs. Mary Coffin Clark, Edward F. Dunn, George Freeman, Cliff E. Hendrick, Charlotte King, Milton Mannheimer, Zalman Selznick, Mary Catherine Sy-monds, and Harold Joe Thomas, are candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Candidates in the adult division for that degree are Dorothy Davis, Mrs. Pearl Frankel, Mrs. Julia Hanford, Mrs. Bessie Holton, Ann McLeod, and Mrs. Edna Roof.
Mrs. Hilda Weir, of the regular division, is awaiting the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education along with Mrs. Louise P. Curry, Mrs. Nellie Goodman, Mrs. Mary Page Kirtley, Mrs. Margaret Monk, Mrs. Laura Landis Sutter, and Mrs. Ella Whetstone in the adult educa-ion section.
Bachelor of laws degrees are expected to be awarded to Ashley Crutchfield, Donald Frankel, Herbert Horowitz, Edward Rinalducci, Paul C. Ropes, and Jack J. Rosen.
Saul Z. Cantor, John V. Parrott, and Ivan Levine are candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Bachelor of Science diplomas are to go to John Galbraith and Theresa Garcia. Mrs. Gladys Budd is to receive a Licensed Instructor’s certificate, and Mrs. Antonia Weissbuch, a Bachelor of Music in Education degree.
LeFort, Miss Merritt. Skit, Pianist On Air
Dr. Riis Owre will introduce Hispanic-American Institute speaker Dr. E. C. LeFort to listeners in South America on an especially arranged short wave broadcast tonight. Dr. Le Fort’s talk, in Spanish, may be picked up on WIOD’s shortwave outlet, WDJM, at 9:05 p.m.
Tomorrow afternoon Miss Mary B. Merritt reviews “Moment in Pekin,” best selling novel by Lynn Yutang, over WIOD at 4:45. On the same program, Charlotte King will pan or praise Noel Coward’s “Private Worlds,” as being produced by the Miami Beach Players.
“You and Heredity.” current popular non-fiction, is the basis for a dramatic skit on “Classroom of the Air” Monday (WIOD, 4:45). The dramatization was arranged and written by Leo Stein, a University student.
School of Music has prepared two programs for Wednesday. In the afternoon Mrs. Hannah Asher will give a piano lecture on Chopin, playing illustrative compositions (WIOD 4:45). Over WKAT at 7:15 p.m., Miss Nita Belle Scarboro, soprano, will be heard with Miss Florence Geschwind, cellist.
IBIS DEADLINE EXTENDED
Deadline for junior and senior pictures has been extended to the end of next week, according to John Hopkins, Ibis editor. A schedule for the remainder of the pictures is being arranged and will be posted after exams.
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Frederick Koch, Jr., dramatic director, and Henry Gregor, musical director, are in charge of “The Geisha,” while Mrs. Charles M. Moon is singing star of the operetta which opens tonight at the Cardboard Theatre.
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Let’s Go to the Opera Tonight, Joe
Beethoven Concerto Well Accompanied
By Podium Pete Unquestionably, Miami witnessed one of its best concerts in years with the presentation of Szigeti, violin virtuoso, Monday evening. The University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Arnold Volpe and Mr. Joel Belov, executed an almost perfect accompaniment to the Beethoven Violin Concerto, which Mr. Szigeti so excellently featured.
Of course, the scrupulous and meticulous musician listener could perceive occassional flatness and uncertainties in the difficult accompaniment.
On the other hand, the uncomfortably cool temperature plays havoc on instrumental intonation. Dr. Volpe, who conducted against doctor’s orders, admirably braved a relapse in order to carry through with the directing.
Szigeti, a Hugarian by birth, is definitely of top-notch calibre. A thorough musician, both theoretically and technically, he merits rating with Heifetz and Kreisler. As for showmanship, I am of the sound opinion that he has Stokowski beaten in the fact that he is a highly finished, all-around musician. His uncanny precision with triple stops and Harmonics demands unlimited praise, not to mention amazement.
Standing in the lobby after the concert, one could hear generous compliments, both to the soloist and conducting of Mr. Belov, and to the orchestra.
Students Would Lend Finland Money Again
(By Student Opinion Surveys) Austin, Texas, January 25—Although college students have often shown an emphatic desire to keep the United States neutral, a nation-wide poll completed last week reveals that sympathy for Finland is great enough for a majority of them to approve of American loans to the only nation that has kept up its war debt payments.
62% Smy “Yes”
Specifically, 62 per cent of the collegians answered “yes” to the question, “Should Congress allow Finland to draw on her latest World War payment to the United States?” This study of sentiment in the American college world is one of the weekly polls conducted for the Hurricane and scores of other undergraduate newspapers that form the Student Opinion Surveys of America. A carefully-derived sample of students is used by the interviewers in measuring opinions of the nearly one and a half million U. S. collegians.
New England Highest
Favorable sentiment was found in all parts of the country on this proposal that President Roosevelt made recently, and controversy over the type of aid this country should give Finland has already flared in Congress. New England students are the most in favor, more than seven out of every ten approving, while those in the Far West are the least in favor. An interesting fact brought out by the Surveys in this and many other polls on international questions has been that people in colleges on the eastern coast are usually more interested in the part the U.S. should play in the solution of Europe’s troubles. As one goes West interest wanes, as these results of the pres ent poll show:
Should we allow Finland to use her War Debt Payment?
Garbo,Power,Tavlor Enter Local Contest
Although polls have not officially opened, students have already submitted ten nominees for the “Hollywood Premier” contest, which is being sponsored by Campus Citizens in conjunction with its dance for new students Saturday, February 10.
Nominated are Joey Church for George Raft, Bill Harnett as Robert Taylor, Lloyd Whyte as Jimmy Stewart, Bob Grimes as Tyrone Power, Tony Vandenberg as Frederick March, Jean Van deVere as Greta Garbo, A1 Teeter as Edward Arnold, and Jiggs Morelli as Maxie Rosen-bloom.
Along with thirty others, these nominees will be final entrants in the contest.
A man and a woman star will be chosen from among them at a dance which will be given in the cafeteria immediately after the wrestling matches at the Orange Bowl.
Campus Citizens will soon station a poll place, at which nominations ,may be made.
	Yes	No
New England	72%	28%
Middle Atlantic	62	38
East Central	60	40
West Central	64	36
South	64	36
Far West	54	46
U. S. Total	62	38
This survey stands	out	in sharp
contrast to student opinion last Octo ber, when a majority differed with national public opinion in opposing change in the neutrality law in favor of cash and carry,
Riva Hemphill Takes I.R.C. Chairmanship
Riva Lief Hemphill, vice-president of the International Relations Club, will succeed Mildred Zinn as president according to an announcement given out today by members of the group. Ex-president Zinn is leaving school to go into literary work in New York.
No vice-president will be chosen to replace Miss Hemphill until the second semester.
By Harry Estersohn It’s opening night at the opera. (No, Joe, not the Met, the Cardboard Theatre.) It’s like this: Mr. Henry Gregor and Mr. Fred Koch, Jr. have been rehearsing an all-University cast in the first musical comedy program in U. of M. history, “The Geisha,” by Sidney Jones.
Now that finals are coming (No, Joe, you can’t be exempt) the Messrs. Gregor and Koch have decided to leave a pleasant taste in the crammer’s mouth and to present u few footlights instead of the midnight oil.
They also disclaim all responsibility for tunes from the operetta that may insist on taking the place of facts in some of the more impressionable heads. (Yours for instance, Joe.)
Dean Rasco’s Next
According to a late news dispatch, the operetta is screamingly funny, not to say amusing.” Usually reliable sources inform us (you too, Joe) that one Edwin Ginsburg gives Mrs. Charles M. Moon, the leading lady, a lesson in the gentle art of osculation in the first act.
Unconfirmed rumors have added the information that chubby Dean Russell Rasco’s next appearance will be as Wotan in Götterdämmerung. (Yes, Joe, Dean. Rasco plays the heavy” in this opus.)
The chorus cuties (sit down, Joe, the performance doesn’t start until 8:15) will be wrapped in kimonos for the occasion. Dean Forthman introduces a new dance that promises to sweep the nation. It’s called “Chong-Kina” and incorporates the “Hula” twist and the “Conga” rhythm. (Why, Joe, your mouth’s open!)
Bill Gore •» Fugitive Bill Gore plays a fugitive from a Chinese laundry, assisted by Jean Godard (on the stage. Joe) as French girl of the old school. Mary Alice Kirton prances about in character. She’s almost the only woman in the cast who never dons a Japan ese kimono.
(Yes, Joe, in case you don’t get there tonight you can make it on Friday or Saturday at the same time and place. Oh, and Joe, don t forget to get your activity book exchanged for a reserve seat. You want a good seat don’t you? Remember the chor-cuties, Joe? Hey, where did he got)______________________
New Absence Rules Announced By Dean
All absences from classes next sem-ester will be permanently recorded in the office of the scholarship com mittee within a week after they occur, according to a new ruling outlined by Dr, Jay F. W. Pearson, Dean of the Administration, in a memorandum issued to the faculty Monday.
Instructors will be provided with printed slips on which they are to record weekly the name of the student absent and the date, along with a notation of the course and section number. These will be sent through the mail to the committee at the end of the week.
The purpose of the new ruling is to curb persistent absences. Unless absences are excessive, the decision on excuses rests with the individual instructor.
Frosh, Council Vie for Senate Dance Loans
Kept alive by a heated discussion as to whether Hal Kemp or Kay Kyser should be engaged for a University dance, the latest senate meeting was featured by a freshman versus interfraternity verbal combat.
At the opening of the meeting, the tennis team was granted $360, $140 less than it had petitioned for.
Jack Madigan, Interfraternity Council president, opened the dance discussion by suggesting that the Senate grant the Council $900 with which to schedule Hal Kemp, nationally known orchestra leader, for a dance. Any profit realized from the event will be turned back to the Senate, according to Madigan.
However, Jim Orr brought up the freshman proposition, for which the Senate will be asked $750. Orr stated that the owner of a new dance pavil-lion near Coral Gables is willing to cooperate with the freshmen to the extent of putting up $750 and granting the use of his hall. Kay Kyser may be had for $1500.
Following unheeded suggestions as to a cooperative plan between the two groups, the Senate adjourned without satisfying either party.
PRESENTS MOVIE
“Cinematographic Notes on South America” is the subject of the movie to be presented by Dr. Emilio LeFort, lecturer in the current Hispanic-American Institute, Friday afternoon, January 26, at 2:30 in room Dr. LeFort, a native of Argentine, has travelled extensively through South America, taking colored movie
Lambda Chi Installs 44 Delta Sigs
New National Fraternity On Campus; Ceremonies Will Feature Weekend
Forty-four active and alumni mem-bers of Delta Sigma Kappa local fraternity will be officially installed as Epsilon Omega Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha, at 2 p.m. Saturday after-noon, February 3. The installation ceremonies will be held at the Coup, ry Club of Coral Gables.
At the national convention, held in ’nn Francisco last summer, Delta Sigma Kappa was unanimously granted a charter by Lambda Chi Alpha. It was also here that the national fraternity united with the Theta Kappa Nu college fraternities under the name of Lambda Chi A], oha.
This merger gave the national fraternity 108 chapters on the college campuses of 39 states and in one province of Canada, making the organization the fourth largest Greek letter social fraternity.
Notables Present
Many notables are expected to be present at the installation of the Miami chapter. The degree for the ritual will be conducted by seven members from the University of Florida’s Lambda Chi chapter. Dr. Winslow S. Anderson, Dean of Rol-Jins College, will represent the Grand High Zeta; while Tosier Brown, na-tional traveling secretary, will preside at the formal installation.
Representatives from the Lambda Chi Alpha chapters of Florida Southern and Rollins will also be present for the ceremony.
A gala weekend is planned, climaxed Saturday afternoon, February •3, when the Miami local officially be-comes the 109th chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. Friday evening, February 2, at 9, there will be a reception at Jhe Country Club, highlighted by the Installation Ball, to which members of the faculty and students will be invited.
Saturday morning, February 3, vis-iting guests will be taken for a sight-seeing tour of Miami and other points of interest. Saturday night a banquet will be held for members and guests of the new Lambda Chi chapter, followed by a second dance. Charter Member»
The following initiates will be installed as charter members of the University of Miami Lambda Chi Alpha chapter: Frank Paskewich, president; John Homko, vice-president; Pat Weiland, secretary; Ned Turner, treasurer; Art Tracy, chap-lain; William Yarrington, Basil Morelia, Bud Stern, George Back, John Corcoran, Charles Guimento, Walter Kelly, John Tobin, Paul Davis, Wil-ham More, Bernard Trobliger, John Kurucza, Vincent MacCormick, Nick Seminoff, Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Krutulis, Roy Bass, Jack Ott, Carl Alles, Joseph Crum, Russel Coats, Roy Maupin, Brooks Vickers, Alex Bazil, Peter Sheaffer, Reddic Harris, Harry Audette, Thomas Kearns, Jack Coyle, John Huguluet, Samuel Strib-Jing George Purdy, Eddie Dunn, and Gnrdnar Mulloy.
For the past few years. Delta Sigma Kappa has been affiliated with Lambda Chi Alpha and its alumni association. Through this association and its president Tom Smith, the
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Lit' OF Lady Who Lives in 'San7 Has 68 Girls; Knows What To Do
“Getting lost and having car trouble are the best and most frequent excuses. Yes, getting lost . . . one girl got lost after the concert Monday night, with the building only a block away!” Mom Koch turned her head and tried hard not to laugh.
“Alibis for coming in late are very funny. The girls have been conveniently lost in fogs, kept waiting for hours while the bridge goes up and down, and old ones as fiat tires and the like are still popular.”
Of course, everybody knows Mom Koch, because she has been with the University since 1926, when the first women’s dormitory was founded. Her duties are many and varied, for she’s the official Vigilance Committee for sixty-eight girls who live in the San Sebastian — which is a job for ten people.
“Mom,” as she is affectionately called by everyone, has had plenty of experience with girls, and knows all the answers before you can even give them. She was once dorm mother for a group of girls who were all practicing for an operetta. One of them broke an ankle, with the result that practices had to be held in the dorm for two weeks. Mom declares that
she and Pop Koch knew each part by heart, and could probably sing them to this day.
Being in the precarious position she is, Mom is subject to criticism from the girls. She admits she’s overheard herself being called an “old sourpuss.” Every year the girls don’t see “why they can’t go to school without being pestered with a lot of silly rules.” But Mom and Miss Merritt have definitely put their feet down to such a radical change— even if the University of Miami is progressive.
Mom has the greatest trouble with the girls in getting them to stay after they’ve signed in. It seems as though they innocently come in at the designated hour, sign the book, then politely walk out again to sit in the patio with their escort.
Getting the roonynate to call the night-watchman to the telephone so that the girls may sneak out again after signing in is another frequent practice.
But somehow or another, Mom knows all about these little plans. Punishing the offenders is simple enough. All she says is “you’re cam-pused for a week.” and lets it go at that.