Miami Hurricane, January 22, 1932

              The Miami © Hurricane
THE     OFFICIAL      STUDENT      PUBLICATION      OF      THE       UNIVERSITY       OF      MIAMI
Vol. 6
Coral Gables. Miami. Florida. January 22. 1932
No. 15
Winter Institute Is
Opened By Edward
Davison's Lectures
Young British Poet Discusses
English Poetry and Prose
Written Since 1890
By Nedra McNamara
The first session of the Winter
Institute of Miami was opened
Monday morning at the Biltmore
Country Club by the eminent British poet and lecturer — Edward
Davison.
Mr. Davison, is a quiet, modest
young Englishman of great charm
and pleasing presence. His voice,
well-modulated and delightfully accented, added much to the already
brilliant context of his lectures.
Before beginning his lecture,
which he calls a "talk", Mr. Davison announced that the morning
and evening lectures would each
constitute one group in order that
those who could attend only in the
morning or evening, would still be
able to study one unit. The mornings he gives to definite poets,
while in the evenings, he speaks
more about poetry generally.
The talk Monday morning on
Thomas Hardy and the Late Victorians was most interesting. One
of Hardy's great gifts to mankind
was the preservation in his writings
of many obsolesent and archaic
words. His influence was mainly on
the pastoral poets and it was from
the early pastoral poets that he
obtained many of these words.
Hardy's poetry, said Mr. Davison,
depicts the thoughts of an atheist.
His poem, "The Oxen" which the
poet read, shows, however, a desire
to believe, a desire never realized
because his mind, his reasoning
forbade.
From Thomas Hardy, Mr. Davison turned to A. E. Housman, the
poet who brought the bite, the
epigrammatic sting to English
poetry and carried it over with all
its atmosphere, its precision and
force. His writings are fresh and
virile, although a bitter note survives through all his work.
Mr. Davison read from Hous-
man's "The Shrupshire Lad",
which until a few years ago was
the only book he had written. It
expresses his pessimism, which
curiously, does not depress one,
but elevates.
Robert Bridges was the greatest
virtuoso—"the Kreisler of his art",
as Mr. Davison expressed it. It wa.s
his manner of writing, not his context, - which was particularly influential. His "The Dynasts" was
the most ambitious work undertaken since Browning's "The Ring
and the Book".
Wednesday morning, Mr. Davison continued his discusrion of
Robert Bridges. As a young man,
he said, this poet studied to be a
doctor and practiced medicine until he was in his forties. Thus his
father extensive knowledge of
science gave him a different viewpoint from that of most poets.
Of all the English poets, Bridges
j* Primarily the poet of joy. It is
interesting to know that for every
nappy poem, there are fifty of
despair. He is also a magnificent
love poet as well as a landscape
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Hurricanes Meet      Miami U Symphony
Tampa Coca Cola   Orchestra Gives 2nd
Team Here Jan. 23 Brilliant Concert
Miami Cagers, Develpoing
Rapidly, Are Eager
For Fifth Win
The Faculty Trio, composed of Hannah Spiro Asher, piano; Walter Grossman,
cello;   and  Albert   T.  Foster,  violin,  gives a recital   Tuesday, January  26th.
University of Miami Making Huge
Progress In Tropical Research
Many Projects Fostered By
U. of M.; Research
Library Formed
DEBATING COUNCIL
GIVES SCHOLARSHIP
During the current year the
Research Council of the University
of Miami, composed of the science
faculty, has made remarkable
progress in the advancements of
tropical research. It is not only
placing in the field expeditions for
research, exploration and investigation, but it is paralleling this
work in two ways here on the
campus; by intensive laboratory
research; and by the creation of a
special research library.
This library is a unit of the new
Bureau of Tropical Research, organized for the purpose of discovering, tracing, organizing and
classifying the geological, floral,
archeological, and animal wonders
of the South Florida and Caribbean
regions. The Bureau will work in
close cooperation with several
famous natinoal foundations and
institutions of the same sort.
The new library, which is located
in the old naval offices opening off
the auditorium, will soon have a
stock of approximately three thousand valuable books and tracts on
all phases of science. The heads of
the departments of chemistry,
physics, botany and zoology are
placing on its shelves the rarer
and more valuable volumes which
they have collected and kept in
their offices. These will be at the
disposal of faculty, post-grads and
special students of the university.
Besides these many almost priceless collections of the science instructors, the Library will be a
recipient for all the publications of
the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. The material given by the
Institute to the University is not
of interest to the ordinary student,
but is exceedingly helpful and necessary to the student or instructor
doing advanced work. Some of the
titles will illustrate the type of
material covered: Atmospheric Ac-
tinometry; Apodous Holothurians;
General Integrals of Planetary-
Motion; Microlepidoptera of Panama.
All of the publications  of the
Smithsonian Institute now in print
I have been received by the library-
The Debating Council is offering
a scholarship, worth $100 the semester, to the holder of the position
of Debate Research Assistant. The
one who will be appointed to the
job will be decided upon soon after
February 1st. Forms will be issued,
and all students wishing to apply
for the job should see the chairman
of the Debating Council Scholarship committee. Duties bf the Officeholder will be to keep the records
and perform the clerical tasks of
the council and certain members,
to do research work for debates.
The one filling the job may be a
member of the debating team.
Another scholarship recently announced is offered to the best high
school debater of Dade county.
The University will award the
scholarship, dates and judges to be
announced later.
More new reference works, books,
and studies will be received from
the Institute when they are printed,
and these will be added to the
library.
This action is very important,
and a credit to the U. of M. It is
the only school in Florida, so far
as we have been able to discover,
that has been designated a depository for the books and other studies of this great scientific and explorative organization. There are
very few schools of corresponding
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After careful consideration by
both students and faculty we
have come to the conclusion that
it would be wise to have assembly every Tuesday morning at
10:30 and that attendance at
these assemblies be compulsory
for all students.
A system of checking the attendance is now being worked
out, and after this date students
to become candidates for degree
must have a record of 80 «7_ attendance at assemblies, of which
any one semester must not fall
short of this record.
With four consecutive victories
tucked away, and a well-polished
offense and defense in readiness, a
classy Hurricane quintet will play
host to the Coca Cola Company's
team from Tampa on Saturday
night at the Miami High School
gym-
Coach McCann's men have im-
Appreciative Audience Hears
Performance By
Kopp
The second concert of the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra under William Kopp, held
in the auditorium of Miami Senior
High, has shown a greatly improved group of musicians. The
playing, particularly in the Beethoven Symphony, seemed more
finished, and showed a finer inter-
proved in leaps and bounds since j pretation than before,
they started practice several weeks I The program opened, with von
ago. They took on the Young Men's | Weber's overture to "Euryanthe",
Club and the White Temple teams, | a very interesting number and
league leaders in the Miami church I nobly played. The Beethoven Sym-
loop, and having disposed of them j phony, No. 1 in C Major, followed,
by large scores, turned to the in- j It was easily the best performance
vading Parris Island Marine team i of the day.
from South Carolina for further
fields to conquer, surprising many
who believed the Hurricanes would
suffer from lack of sufficient practice. The Marines had previously
defeated Bowdon State College
and the Ft. Lauderdale Athletic
Club before arriving here.
After the Coca Cola game, basketball fans can look forward to
Jan. 29 and 30, when the Rollins
Tars roll into town for a two game
series. Following this are games
with Norman Park College, of
Norman Park, Ga., on Feb. 19 and
20. A tilt with St. Petersburg College, of St. Petersburg, Fla., is also
being scheduled for some time in
February, and Southern College
may meet the Hurricanes either
here or in Lakeland.
Anent the rendition of Saint-
Saens' symphonic poem "Danse
Macabre", it may be said that full
justice simply wasn't done. Soloist
for the afternoon was Sara ReQua,
who sang the aria "O Don Fatale"
from Verdi's opera ,'Don Carlos"
and as an encore Brahms "My
Love is Free". Her voice is beautiful and clear, and her interpretations intelligent.
The concert closed with the stirring march "Pomp and Circumstance" by Sir Edward Elgar.
COLLEGES ACCEPT
CONFERENCE BIDS
Annual Shipwreck Ball
Is Given By Sorority
Maritime decorations will feature
the second annual Shipwreck ball
to be given at 9:30 p.m. Saturday
by the Lambda Phi Sorority at the
Miami Women's club. An orchestra
will provide dance music. Admission is one dollar a couple or stag.
Miss Bettye Sullivan is chairman in charge of the general arrangements and she is being assisted by the Misses Aileen Booth,
Eleanor Thompson, Dorothy Wright,
Priscilla Sweeting, and Lyla Gorman.
Life preservers, sailor's knots,
gangplanks and companionways
will lend to the nautical theme that
will be used to transform the ballroom into a veritable foe's'le.
The first college to accept invitations to attend the Pan American student congress is Rollins
College, of Winter Park, Florida,
officials here announced after receipt of a letter from representatives of the college. Vassar will
probably send an exchange student
from the University of Buenos
Aires.
The congress will be held from
April 10-14, with the University of
Miami as host.
Invitations have been sent to
over 60 Latin American colleges
and Universities, to many Canadian
institutions, and to 30 schools in
the United States. 50 more invitations are being mailed to American
colleges. The purpose of the congress is to bring together students
of North and South America where
they might discuss mutual problems.
Dr. Alfred J. Hanna, professor
of history, and Jesus Navascues,
exchange student from the Univer-
The hostesses will be the Misses | sity of Madrid, are the two repre-
Hettie    Scott,    Dorothy    Wright,' sentatives from Rollins College.
Aileen    Booth,    Bettye    Sullivan, j 	
Louise Paxton, Eleanor Thompson.
j Bee Smith,  Eileen  Dudley,  Kath- j Faculty Trio Will Give
I If6." .|?a"ie\ Mar_f retT Tu™r' Recital At Hall Jan. 26
j Pnscilla Sweeting, Mary Joy Alter, j
; Dorothy Crise, Adelaide Eubanks,;
j Lyla Gorman, Margaret Kenny, j The faculty trio will give a mus-
I Florence Leonardi, Ruth Lutz, icale in Recital Hall of the down-
I Marjorie Meggs, Roma Pape, Anna j town extension buildings next
j Mary Ritchie, Aimee Simmons, 1 Tuesday, Jan. 26. The trio is com-
i and Mary Jane Van Tine. posed   of   Hannah   Spiro   Asher,
  piano;   Walter   Grossman,   cello;
and Albert T. Foster, violin.
The   newly   formed   Economics;     They   will   play   a   Trio   in   F
j Forum of the university will meet! Major, by Godard, in four move-
Tuesday night at 8:15 p.m. in thelments: Allegro Moderato, Adagio,
Girls'   Social   Hall.   John   O'Day j Vivace,   and   Allegro   Vivace.   A
jwill present the topic for discus-j second number will be Trio in G
I sion, "An Introduction to Unem- j Minor by Smetana, in three move-
B. F. Ashe, President     ployment". All students interested j ments:   Moderato   Asaai,   Allegro,
I are invited.
and Presto.