Miami Hurricane, October 23, 1931

              The Miami # Hurricane
Coral Gables, Florida. October 23, 1931
No. 4
ROLLJNSjOLD FOE/PLAYS U.TONIGHT
Famous Lecturers
Featured In First
Winter Institute
Five-Week Course WiU
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,
[flaywright, 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 modern 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
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Dr. Moor Is Conducting
New Music Dept. Course
The University is honored to
have Dr. Arthur Moor, of New
York 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
fflusic 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
WQAM; at the Stardust Tea of
the Zeta Phi Sorority on Tuesday
of this week; and on the program
°* 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
EDITORS NOTE: We, the edttors-of the Hurricane, feeling that the sentiments expressed below by Jack Bell of the Miami Daily Herald are echoed
by Ihe student body of the University of Miami, and knowing that the
facts as stated are substantially true, have teen lit to reproduce the said
article at 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 that 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 football. 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 Wfll 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.
Tars Will Have
Their Strongest
Team Ever Here
Miami's Ancient Enemy Has
Won Two Impressive
Victories
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.
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 op- -
ponent, 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 McDowall'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   Sees  Potential  Wealth
In Florida'* 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. In
twenty-five years they will have
attained a height of twenty-five
feet and a value, on today's market, of five thousand dollars. They
will bring a dollar a foot when
sold for ornamental purposes. Five
thousand dollars for the trees
themselves and the fruit is all
extra."
"It will take something like
hard times to wake the country up
to these and other opportunities
they are neglecting."
Initiation of new members into
Scroll and Dome, honorary architectural fraternity of the University of Miami, was held Tuesday
evening at midnight in the architecture rooms. The new initiates
are members of the faculty of the
department of architecture. They
are Coulton Skinner, Robert F.
Smith, L. G. Shreffler, and George
Weigand.
Following the initiation, a social
meeting was held and refreshments
were served.