Miami Hurricane, October 23, 1931

              The Miami ® Hurricane
the official student publication of the university OF MIAMI
Vol. 6	Coral Gables, Florida, October 23, 1931	No. 4
ROLLINS,OLD FOE, PLAYS U.TONIGHT
Famous Lecturers Featured In First Winter Institute
Fire-Week Course Will Merit Two Credits For Students
The release of a bulletin on the Winter Institute of Literature at the University of Miami outlines many extremely interesting courses in store for those planning attendance.
Prominent lecturers will include such notables as Percival Wilde, playwright, Zona Gale, novelist, Edward Davison, British poet, Padraic Colum, Irish dramatist and poet, and Vachel Lindsay, noted American lecturer.
These writers will present a series of lectures extending over a period of five weeks, from January 18 to February 19, 1932, one week being allotted to each for exposition in his or her particular field.
First to be offered will be a week of lectures given by Edward Davison, who will talk on “British Poetry Since 1890”. Percival Wilde, well known playwright and critic, will give as his contribution during the second week “Toward a Modern Drama”. This will be followed by lectures on “How Far Must Literature Reflect Current Taste”, by Zona Gale. The week of February 8 will be occupied by Padraic Colum’s discussion of “The Renaissance of Irish Letters”, while Vachel Lindsay’s subject for the fifth and concluding week of the Institute will be “American Poetry Old, New, and Present Day”.
The first purpose of the Winter Institute of Literature, which is one of the few of its kind in the country, and which will be made an annual feature, is to present to all students who are interested in reading literature some of its modem aspects by authors who are now making literature. A second purpose is to offer to the Miami district a common meeting ground where readers of books may make (Continued on Page Four)
Dr. Moor Is Conducting New Music Dept. Course
The University is honored to have Dr. Arthur Moor, of New ^ork City here as conductor of a course on “The Meaning of Music”. Dr. Moor has traveled extensively and is widely known and admired for his lectures at Yale, Columbia and Cornell Universities. He, in co-operation with Mr. Strawinski will present to the Freshmen English classes a unique program in music appreciation.
Miss Anna King, member of the music department of the University, has appeared recently on a variety of programs, the most recent of which have been at the McAllister Hotel on Tuesday, October 6th, over the “Sunbeams and Shadows” Program of station ^QAM; at the Stardust Tea of the Zeta Phi Sorority on Tuesday of this week; and on the program °f the Three Arts Club at the home of Mrs. Hubbell at Miami Beach on Thursday night October loth. She is accompanied at the Piano by her sister Miss Elouise.
An Open Letter to the University of Miami Football Squad
By Jack Bell
EDITOR S Note: We, the editon-of the Hurricane, feeling that the senh-menlt expressed below by Jack Bell of the Miami Daily Herald are echoed by the student body of the University of Miami, and knowing that the facts as stated are substantially true, have seen fit to reproduce the said article as an evidence of this publication's approval and backing.
A year ago most of you fellows came down here and entered the University of Miami. Some of you had great high school reputations; some of you didn’t. But immediately there was a shout of joy on the campus. A fine freshman team had swung into action—great things were promised for the 1931 season, when you all became eligible.
This sort of chatter went on all winter. Every time we, on the papers, suggested that it might be well to wait and see how you’d act as varsity material, we were howled down. So you were good; the students knew it; the faculty knew it; the fans heard it. Then, we realized, you had to have a good coach, perhaps two or three of them.
When this football season started you had more chance than any group of young football players I’ve ever seen. A large number of Miami and Coral Gables business men banded together to help you. They engaged good coaches—mighty good coaches— to teach you the game. They neglected their own business (and still are doing it) just to help you and your university.
Your coaches, men of experience and ability, came here and found a student body and a downtown group of fans eager to support you, to help you through school, to give you every advantage they could, so that you might give your best to your school and your team.
AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO REPAY ALL OF THIS ATTENTION?
You have been out for football for six weeks, and you’re not even in condition. You’ve no spirit—you’re not thinking of the University of Miami—you’re thinking of your own personal pleasures—you openly and continuously break training, you men who are old enough to know better and to accept responsibility. Many times you have been seen downtown in Miami, late—very late—at night. You were seen, plenty of you, hanging around dance halls as late as 2 o’clock after you had taken^hat licking from South Georgia Friday night—a team, by the way, you should have beaten by four touchdowns.
You are listless, careless, lacking in drive in practice and on the field. You think football when you are on the practice field—and no other time. You keep training when you’ve no other recreation—and at no other time.
In other words, you are throwing down your school, your downtown supporters, and, what is worst of all, your coaches. There is just one way to be a real football player: you’ve got to KEEP TRAINING HOURS every day. You’ve got to be in condition to hit hard throughout a game. When four of you asked to be taken out Friday night, and others who stayed in there loafed on half the plays, you made what I think must be a record for college football players. And one of you, who asked to be taken out because you were exhausted, was at a dance until 2 o’clock after the game.
I’ll admit it’s not all your fault. For three years there has been no spirit at the University of Miami. None of the teams has kept training and it is hard for you to buckle down to work, after having seen the other teams soldier on their coaches and their school.
But regardless of that, we’re face to face with a situation that must end, if we’re going to have football at the University of Miami. You’ve high class coaches now; you’re getting every break that any of your rivals get; but you’re not thinking, dreaming, fighting football.
When you lost to Bowdon, a well coached, smoothly working eleven, we were for you—it was your first college game and we thought you needed a game to get going. But when we saw your indifference, your failure to train the following week, and your licking Friday night simply because you weren’t in shape to carry the ball across the goal line after getting it down there —well, that was different.
I wonder what would happen if the Miami merchants who are working so hard to help you would get disgusted and tell you to go places? But I know they won’t; they’re not made that way. They’re going to stick with the coaches—and the coaches are going to have a fighting team on the field if they have to bench the whole first string.
There are some of you—I can count you on the fingers of one hand—who are really keeping training, fighting every minute and playing fine footbaU. As for the rest—you’ve the ability but you haven’t shown the stuff that makes football teams. If you didn’t have the ability,-but gave all you’ve got, we’d be pulling for you. But when we know you’ve got the stuff, and won’t put out; you’re a pretty sorry looking lot
Rollins College comes down here Friday night; Southern comes the next week-end. They’ve been Miami rivals since we started football here. Rollins never has beaten a Miami team, but comes this year with the best squad in the history of that school.
That’s the situation. Some few of you will give your best, I know.
What are the rest of you going to do?
__Published by permission of the Herald and Jack Bell
Students Selected To Direct Pan Am School Conference
Committee Will Handle All Arrangements For U.’s Latin Guests
A board was appointed here to pass upon applications for places on a student Committee-of-the-whole which will handle all business, activity and arrangements for the Pan American Student Conference. The names of students whose applications have received favorable consideration are: Misses Mickey Grose, Grace Manley, Flossie Belle Pearson, Elinor Mik-sitz, Pauline Lasky, and Alberta Losch; Rafael Belaunde, Mel Thompson, James Koger, Earle Howard, Ed Paxton, Herbert Hodgman, George Harvey, Steve Kite-Powell, Silver Squarcia, Hugh Kavney, Hartwell Hunter, Joe Eggum, and Franklin Albert.
The committee will be very important in the control of the conference, and from it will be chosen the delegates to the first convention which will be held at the University of Miami next April. The roll will be left open until next Thursday, and any other students wishing to place their application with the board should drop a card to Mel Thomson, student Employment manager.
International Relations
Club Will Visit Freeman
Tomorrow morning (Saturday) members of the International Relations Club will be taken to Casa Casareina, the residence of Mr. Alden Freeman, on Miami Beach. They will be shown the many curios and ojther articles of interest owned by Mr. Freeman.
All members wishing to make the visit must gather at 11:30 Saturday morning at the University building. Transportation has been arranged.
Tars Will Have Their Strongest Team Ever Here
Miami’s Ancient Enemy Has Won Two Impressive Victories
Tonight at Moore Park the University of Miami tackles its third foe of the season, Rollins College from Winter Park. The Tars come to town with a team that holds a formidable record, and is reputed to be the best in the hstory of the school.
Advance reports show that Rollins has played but twice this year, but won both starts in impressive fashion. The Jacksonville Teachers, of Alabama, their first opponent, were overwhelmed by a score of 37-14, and the week after that the Tars plastered a 14-0 defeat on the strong Florida B team.
Coach Jack McDowell's men showed a wonderful offense with plenty of hard charging power in the line, and a strong defense, the Jacksonville Teachers scoring their two touchdowns only after an entire squad of substitutes had taken the field.
The Hurricanes have been practicing hard throughout the week in an effort to fathom the Tar plays, and tapered off last night with a light workout and signal practice. Injuries on the squad were limited to Kozlowski, center, who is confined to bed. Fenwick will probably be in his position when the opening whistle blows tonight. Phillips, sophomore halfback. although handicapped by a sore leg, is expected to get into the game.
A crowd equal to those of the past two weeks will probably turn out, it is thought, since reports from the Hurricane lair forecast a tough struggle in an attempt to break into the win column at the expense of Rollins, ancient Miami enemy.
Miami Disregards Two Possible
Revenue Sources, Says Dr. Gifford
Naturalist See* Potential Wealth In Florida’s Native Trees
“Miami is overlooking two great sources of possible wealth,” says Dr. John C- Gifford, new lecturer in forestry for the University of Miami. “These are the mahogany tree and the coconut tree.” Dr. Gifford has lived in and near Miami for more than thirty years and has been actively engaged as a naturalist and explorer for the greater part of that time.
“The mahogany trees that grow wild on the keys produce lumber that is equal to that found anywhere in the world and can be made into furniture, boats, or anything that requires the best hardwood. With a little care and forethought these trees could be an immensely valuable asset to Miami and Florida as a whole.
“The coconut trees offer us a challenge in the way of planning for the future. They can be made more valuable than an insurance policy with practically no investment. They are largely self-prop-ogating and with a little care and
planning will yield large returns.’ “Two hundred coconut trees will grow on one acre of ground that is valuable for little else. Ir twenty-five years they will have attained a height of twenty-five feet and a value, on today’s mar ket, of five thousand dollars. The} will bring a dollar a foot when sold for ornamental purposes. Five thousand dollars for the tree: themselves and the fruit is all extra.”
It will take something like hard times to wake the country ut to these and other opportunity they are neglecting.”
Initiation of new members int-Scroll and Dome, honorary archi tectural fraternity of the Univer sity of Miami, was held Tuesda evening at midnight in the archi tecture rooms. The new initiate are members of the faculty of th department of architecture. The are Coulton Skinner, Robert I Smith, L. G. Shreffler, and Georg Weigand.
Following the initiation, a socu meeting was held and refreshment were served.