Miami Hurricane, November 14, 1940

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THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF
Hurricane
THE UNIV.ERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIV
Coral Gables, Florida, November 14, 194G
Number 8
Berthe Neham, Delta Phi Epsilon, Laura Green, Delta Zeta, Eunice Ellis, Independent, Sylvia Locke. Alpha Epsilon Phi, Marie Young, Beta
Phi Alpha, Meredith Rentz, Independent, Dorothy Ashe, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Ruth Wilson, Sigma Kappa, Virginia Allen, Chi Omega, and
Nancy Dobbins, Zeta Tau Alpha, are candidates for the title of Homecoming Queen.
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Students Will Choose Homecoming Queen Monday
Fraternities On Schedule For Ibis Photos
Fraternities and the “M” Club are scheduled to be photographed for the Ibis next week. The studio, room 336, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Epsilon Pi will be pictured Tuesday, Nov. 19; Pi Chi and Phi Mu Alpha Wednesday, Nov. 20; Kappa Sigma Monday, Nov. 25; Tau Epsilon Phi and Pi Kappa Alpha Tuesday, Nov. 26. Members of the “M” Club are to report Wednesday, Nov. 27.
Members of these groups are urged to go in the day scheduled, however they can be photographed at any time. Sorority girls who failed to report on the day appointed are to be pictured next Monday, Nov. 18.
Charge of one dollar must be paid at the time of the sitting.
Miami Men Speak At Science Academy I Meeting Next Week
Among the speakers at the annual | meeting of the Florida Academy of | Sciences in St. Petersburg, Florida, [. November 22 and 23, will be four P professors from the University of
0	Miami.
Social science papers will be in-
1	eluded in the discussions of the acad-emy for the firstf time this year. Dr.
| Reinhold Wolff of Miami is to read | a paper in one of the discussion | groups at the conference on “Loss S; Leaders as Weapons of Monopolistic »Competition.”	,
| Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, dean of ad-ministration and professor of zool-| ogy, will read his paper on “Visual I Education in the Biological Sciences.” In the general sessions of the meet-l ing, E. Morton Miller will have as l his topic “Chemical Integrative Mechanisms in Insect Societies,” and Robert B. Downes will discuss “The Economic Aspects of the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill.”
There will be 47 speakers at this meeting of the Academy, which has as its purpose promotion and correlation of scientific activity in the state. Other members of the Academy in this University include Dr. Elmer V. Iljort, John Henry Clouse, Dr. J. Paul Reed, Dr. Max Meyer, and Walter Buswell, curator of the herbarium.
Leary to Read Paper To Language Group
Lewis G. Leary, assistant professor of English, will read a paper on “Philip Freneau in Charleston” at the annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language association at the University of North Carolina, November 29.
William L. Halstead, associate professor of English at the University in 1939 and now a professor at State Teachers college, Florence, Ala., will discuss “Thomas Dekker at Work on ‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday’.”
Other University of Miami faculty members who will attend the meeting include Dr. Clarke Olney, Mrs. Melanie Rosborough, Mr. E. M. Miller, Mr. Sidney Head, and Mr. Nicholas T. Joost.
Polling Place is Front of Cafeteria,
8:30 to 1:30; 10 Candidates Up
Balloting to choose the official Queen of the 1940 Homecoming celebration, November 28-30 will take place Monday in front of the cafeteria from 8:30 to 1:30. Honor Court justices will be in charge of the election.
The queen will be crowned at a cerertiony Thursday night, after which she will light the pep bonfire. Friday night she will be one of the sponsors of the Florida-Miami game at Bur
dine stadium. Second and third choices in the balloting will serve as her attendants.
The ten candidates include Virginia Allen, Chi Omega; Dorothy Ashe, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Nancy Dobbins, Zeta Tau Alpha; Laura Greene, Delta Zeta; Ruth Wilson, Sigma Kappa; Sylvia Locke, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Berthe Neham, Delta Phi Epsilon; Marie Young, Beta Phi Alpha; Eunice Ellis and Meredith Rentz, Independents. Only senior girls were eligible.
Koch Posts Names Of Preliminary Cast For Second Play
Over a hundred students attended the open tryouts for “Personal Appearance,” next dramatic production of the Florida Pltoymakers, which were held on Tuesday at the theatre.
Frederick Koch, who is to direct the production, announced a cast list with several duplications for preliminary rehearsals. Named as still eligible after the first tryouts were Dorothy Magnuson, Vivian Rakoff, Lynn Flaks, Joyce Davlin, Renee Greenfield, Charlotte Motter, Jane Rankin, Shirley Haimes, Beatrice Melliker, Bour Brown, Robert Bres-lin-Anthony, Rona Oberman, Lowell Veach, Arthur Tracey, Seymour Unger, Robert Zeman, Lloyd Symansky, Gordon Sherwood, Jean Small, Phyllis Salter and Doris Lavine.
Campus Calendar
Thursday, November 14—Town and Gown, Lounge and Card Room, 2 p.m.
Christian Student Union, Social Hall, 5:30.
English Honors Society, Card Room, 8:30.
Assembly, 10:30 a.m., Patio. Debate Council, Assembly Hall, 8 p.m.
Der Deutsche Verein, Social Hall,
8	p.m.
Le Cercle Française, Assembly Room, 4-5 p.m.
Friday, November IS—Sigma Alpha Iota Tea for Province President, Lounge, 4:30.
Sigma Alpha Iota Initiation, Social Hall, 2 to 8.
French Village Fraternity Dance,
9	p.m.
Tau Epsilon Phi (closed) Dance, House, 10 p.m.
Saturday, November 16—Conference on Vocational Training for Defense, Lounge, Card Room, Assembly Room, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. University of Miami vs. University of Florida, 8:30.
Alumni Dance, Coral Gables Country Club, 11 p.m.
Sunday, November 17—Student Vespers, Social Hall, 4:30.
Tuesday, November 19 — Athletic Committee Meeting, Room 213, 10:30.
Wednesday, November 20 — IRC
Meeting, Card Room, 8 p.m.
62% of Students Don’t Cut Class;
Yes, It’s True
(By Student Opinion Surveys)
Austin, Texas, November 14—How serious is the problem of class cutting? Are many college students wasting their time by failing to appear at lectures, How often does the average student cut a class?
Those are questions that have perhaps been answered locally in many schools, but a national study, as far as is known, has heretofore never been possible. Student Opinions Surveys of America, leaving the field of social and political issues this week, has used its coast to coast structure to measure the extent of class cutting going on today on the American campus.
The survey reveals that a good majority (62 per cent) during a typical week in October attended all their classes. The remainder of the students interviewed (38 per cent) declared that they had cut at least once. But over half of these (20 per cent) missed class only one time during the week.
Here are the national tabulations: Cut no classes during week 62% Cut one	class	20
Cut two	classes	10
Cut three classes	4
Cu four	or more classes	4
Less than one per cent of the students refused to answer the question or did not remember. Tests conducted by the Surveys have shown that on questions such as this very few students fail to give truthful answers; so the results above should give a satisfactory indication of conditions over the nation. The entire United States is represented because the schools in which the polls are conducted, including the University of Miami make up a proportionate sample of all types of educational institutions as listed by the U, S. Office of Education.
In connection with this poll, it may be recalled that last February 64 per cent of the collegians in a Survey expressed the opinion that compulsory class attendance should be abolished.
Although the frequency of attendance is quite uniform from one section of the country to another, New Englanders and Southerners appear to be at the two extremes. In the north-east corner of the nation cuts are at a minimum, only 25 per cent of the students having missed one or more class during the week of the poll. In the South over half of them, 57 per cent said they had cut at least once.
SA1 TO HONOR OFFICERS
Sigma Alpha Iota will give a tea in honor of Mrs. Marius J. Lindloff, province president of the fraternity, Friday afternoon in the lounge of the Administration building. Initiation for Betty Lou Shelley that evening will be followed by a party for all active members at the home of Mrs. E. R. Treverton on Miami Beach. |
One-Act Play Tryouts To Be Held Friday
Tryouts will be held at 3:30 on Friday in the theatre for the casting of the first bill of student written, acted, and directed one-act plays for the year.
The class in playwriting directed by Frederick Koch will furnish the three plays for the program. Charles Philhour’s class in stage setting will provide the scenery and Mrs. Opal Euard Motter's class in play directing will be the source of student directors.
“It’s a Great Life,” a domestic comedy by Bebe Fineman, “The Whistlers,” an impression of Nazidom by William Rich, and “The Unpromised Land,” a tragedy of World War II by Manuel Roth, are the plays that will make up the program. Roth is the only one of these three who has ever had a play presented before. Last year, his “Strange Glory” was presented on the second bill of original plays.
Air Corps Checks Student Interest
Thursday or Friday the administration will send to all male students between the ages of 20 and 26 return postcards, concerning the aviation branch of the National Defense program, which they are asked to check, sign, and mail to the Commanding General of the Fourth Corps Area in Atlanta.
It is hoped that every man who receives a card will promptly fill it out and return it, in order that the proper officers may have an idea of the interest which exists in this training program among the student body.
Students who have completed at least one-half of the work required for a degree normally requiring four years of work are exempt from the educational examination. Students who have less than two years work are eligible for flying training; however, they must take educational as well as physical examination.
Bauer, Noted Pianist, To Conduct Course
Teaching only master classes in piano, Harold Bauer, famous pianist, will be an instructor at the University of Miami from January 24 to March 1.
Known all over the world for his interpretations of musical literature, Bauer was a guest soloist in the University symphony concert series last year.
Unanimous Ballot Puts Kline in Senate
Sid Kline was unanimously elected senior senator yesterday to replace Humes Lasher, who was removed from that office by decision of the Honor Court last week. Lasher did not have enough quality points to be classified as a senior, and therefore could not hold office in that class.
David Andre was also nominated, but his name was withdrawn since he is at present secretary of the class.
Hurricanes Renew Rivalry W ithGatorsHereSaturday
Pep Meeting,
Street Dance Set for Friday
Among the highlights of pre-game festivities this weekend will be a mass pep meeting and bonfire at 7:15 Friday night, followed by street dancing and open house at the French Village, sponsored by the four fraternities housed there, Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi Chi, Phi Mu Alpha, and Kappa Sigma. Phi Mu Alpha’s Swing Band will play.
The pep meeting, led by head cheerleader “Pee-Wee” Rosenblatt, will be broadcast over WIOD, Bill Hightower announcing. F. X. Jnmes O’Brien, Lloyd Solie, John H. Stemb-ler, and Eddie Dunn* will speak.
Two trains of Florida rooters will arrive at the Florida East Coast station at 3:45 p.m. Saturday. The City of Miami has appropriated $250 to decorate Flagler street for the parade to the parkway of Biscayne Boulevard. Dr. J. Holden Beckwith, president of the Quarterbacks Club, John H. Stembler, and Foster E. Alter will speak at the rally there. A tea dance at Club Bali will follow.
Florida is bringing its own sponsors, two Tallahassee students and their dates. Beth Mitchell, of Miami, is a sophomore and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Patricia Brandt, of Coral Gables, is also Pi Phi and president of the senior class. Sponsoring the home team, Ruth McDonald, Chi Omega, and Justine Rainey, Kappa Kappa Gamma, will be escorted by Dave Wike and Henry Grass.
The Lou Chesna Trophy will be presented to the captain of the winning team at midnight at the Bilt-more Country Club dance after the game. Continuous music will be provided there by Ted Sherwood and his Floridians, from the University of Florida, and Earl Reinert’s orchestra. Hem Olson and his band will play for dancing at the Coral Gables Country Club. Tickets at one dollar per person will admit the bearer to either or both dances.
English Honorary’s Forum On Literature To Be Held Tonight
Twenty-eight new members of the English Honors Society will attend their first meeting of the organization at eight o’clock tonight and hear a forum discussion on the topic, “What Makes Literature Great?”
Malcolm Beal and William Dis-mukes of the faculty, and Berthe Neham and Eleanor Gardner will participate.
At a luncheon Tuesday noon in the Tiffin, Lewis Leary, faculty sponsor, explained the two projects of the group: the preservation of University records and momentos, and the maintenance of a rental library of contemporary literature.
Those who have met the prerequisite, upperclassman rank and a minimum of “B” in English are: Hedwig Ringblom, Bella Sabshin, Clarice Schnatterbeck, Frank Venning, Jo Thomason, Margaret Wyant, Robert Zeman, Harold Rashkis, Mary Olive Rife, Avalyn Boege, Rosemary Le-roux, Helene Putnam, Ralph Nelson, Laura Green, Shirley Haines, Marion Brown, Margaret Hainlin, Martha Hibbs, Selma Bronston, Catherine Hefinger, Evalyn Daniel, Bella Hoch-berger, Frank Hopkins, Julia Arthur, Evalyn Ausländer, Benjamin Axle-road, Jerome Bass and Jacquelee Blue.
City Panhellenic Gives Cup to Kappa
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority wgs awarded a cup for outstanding scholarship and Mrs. Marjory Stone-man Douglas was guest speaker at the meeting of Coed Council on Tuesday morning in the theatre.
Mrs. J. W. Durden, president of the city Panhellenic Council, represented that organization in presenting the silver cup to Betsey Moore, president of the sorority.
Mrs. Douglas, a nationally known writer, spoke on subject of “Women’s Place in Writing Today.” The talk was the second in the council's series dn “Women’s Work in the World.”
APO INITIATES FOUR
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, initiated Murray Gross-man, Keith Phillips, George Young, and Bob Arnold at a meeting Monday night. Another ceremony will be held soon, at which Tommy Hilbish, Bill Gale, and Ben Axelroad will be initiated.
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Tommy "The Red” Harrison is well known to the Hurricanes, and is expected to star for the Gators Saturday.
DramatistsRead
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“The Merry Wives of Windsor” will be presented as the second playreading series by the Florida Play-makers on Sunday night at 8:30 in the theatre with Sydney Head directing.
One of the broadest of Shakespeare’s comedies, the play will represent that author’s period in the chronological series being presented by the Playmakers. Charles Philhour will direct the technical arrangements. Acting as his assistants will be Bobby Crinn, in charge of lighting and Betty Yaeger, in charge of sets. Admission to the performance will be ten cents.
The cast includes Edwin Ginsburg, Falstaff; Opal Euard Motter, Mrs. Page; K. Malcolm Beal, Page; Elizabeth Stone, Ann Page; Grace Berg, Mrs. Ford; Edward Gaylor, Ford; Bebe Fineman, Mrs. Quickly; Robert Zeman, Sir Hugh Evans; Manuel Roth, Dr. Caius; Donald Mahn, Fenton; Lowell Veach, Slender; James Orr, Shallow; Jerry Bass, Bardolph; William Gale, Pistol; Arthur Fixler, Nym; Robert Remus, Simple; and Seymour Unger, Host. Sydney Head will be the reader.
Panliellenie Hears Conference Report
Report of the Panhellenic regional conference held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, November 8, 9, and 10, was the main feature of the monthly meeting of Panhellenic Council on Tuesday night in the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority room.
Betsey Moore, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Betty Lou Baker, Zeta Tau Alpha, Lois Taylor of City Panhellenic, and Miss Mary B. Merritt, who is a member of National Panhellenic Council, were the delegates from Miami. They reported on the general proceedings at the regional conference, and stressed the theme, “Fraternity in the World Today,” as being the cue to good fraternity relationships.
Alpha Epsilon Phi announced that it is offering a scholarship cup to the pledge group of the sorority on campus which has the highest average for the year. Following the general rules governing the awarding of trophies, the group which wins the cup three yeurs successively will be permitted to keep it permanently.
Radio Class Starts Red Cross Series
In the series of Red Cross programs being presented over WIOD by the Radio Workshop of the University, a half hour show has been set for next week and a fifteen minute program was presented on Monday.
The “Victory at Solferino” is the title of the longer program, which Phyllis Salter is to direct. It will describe the origin of the Red Cross as a philanthropic organization. This play was originally presented by the Hollywood Playhouse on the air and will be produced by the Radio Workshop with an all student cast.
The other program was directed by Irving Lebowitz and depicted a service of the Red Cross to the United States army. In the cast of “Buddies” were Jack Mardar, Bill Gale, Robert Anthony, Philip Optner, and Robert Zeman.
Florida Eleven Seeking Seeond Miami Win
One of the bitterest grid rivalries in the South will be renewed Saturday night in Roddey Burdine Stadium when the fighting Gators of the University of Florida face our thrice beaten Hurricanes. Kickoff time has been moved from 8:15 to 8:30.
Florida will be favored Saturday night by virtue of their 19 to 0 win over Maryland and their 18 to 13 victory over a strong University of Georgia last week in Jacksonville. Just a few weeks back, the undefeated Tennessee Vols were hard pressed in stopping the Orange and Blue, 14 to 0.
Coach Tom Lieb, new Gator mentor, has finally got his big veteran team rolling on the newly-installed Notre Dame system, as the last three games have shown. The Gators are
NOTICE TO STADIUM WORKERS Report to the Orange Bowl not later than 6:30 p.m. Saturday night. Park back of the baseball held on 16th Ave.
knee-deep in lettermen, losing only two from last year’s squad, the disappointing early season showing being due to the installing of the new
system.
With the possible exception of Maston O’Neil and Johnny Douglas, and both being expected to be ready to go by Saturday night, the Hurricanes will be at full-strength for the first time this year. “Long John,” who punted the Gators into submission two years ago, will be off the injured list for the first time this year, and a lot of the kicking duties will fall to him.
Coach Harding will probably start Ray Gorman and Joe Krutulis at the flanks, “Kutch” Kearns and Will Wunder at tackles, Jolly Snowden and either Nick Broker or Nick Miller at the guards, and Maston O’Neal at center. In the backfleld will be Johnny Kurucza at quarterback, Terry Fox at fullback, and Bill Steiner and “Red” Tobin at the halfs.
Starting for the Gators will be: Fergie Ferguson and John Piombo at ends; Peanut Hull and Benny Lane at tackles; Mush Batista and Floyd Konetsky at guards; Bill Robinson at center. In the backfleld, Florida will have Hubie Houston at quarterback; Fondren Mitchell and Tommy Harrison at halfbacks; and Charlie Tate at fullback.
Besides the bearing the game will have on the state championship, the Lou Chesna Memorial trophy, donated by Morgan van Valkenburgh will be at stake for the third time. Victorious last year 13-0, the Gators carried the big gold cup back to Gainesville. Miami won it in 1938 by trimming the Florida eleven 19-7. The trophy is awarded in memory of Lou Chesna, great Hurricane sophomore fullback of 1937, who was accidentally killed while working on a power line in the summer of 1938.
University to Publish Historical Journal
In cooperation with the Historical Association of South Florida, the University will publish the first number of a journal on south Florida history next spring, it was announced at a meeting of the group Tuesday evening in the lounge of the Administration building.
Mr. George Merrick, president, Walter Scott Mason and Dr. Robert McNicoll spoke to the assembly. Mr. Charles Brookfield described the finding and raising of the H.M.S. Winchester, an English warship, dating from 1690, off Elliott’s Key two years ago. The cannon in the theatre corner of the Main building patio is a part of the salvage.
Student memberships are now available by paying a fee of fifty cents a year. Anyone interested should see Dr. McNicoll or Dr. Tebeau.
WIOD Offers Second Memorial Concert
The second in the series of memorial concerts in honor of the late Dr. Arnold Volpe will be presented on Sunday at 5:30 over WIOD.
Dr. Bowman F. Ashe will be introduced by Mrs. Volpe during the intermission and Sydney Head will act as commentator. John Bitter will direct the full symphony orchestra of the University in the concert.
The program will include “Don Juan,” a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss and the third movement, the “Andante,” of a concerto grosso for strings by Giovanni Battista Pergo-ltti.