Miami Hurricane, February 08, 1940

              The Miami
Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE
UNIVERSITY
O F
MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Cables, Florida, February 8, 1940
Number 17
LITERATURE INSTITUTE OPENS MONDAY
Nine Debates Slated For Orators on Trip
Emory, Alabama, Georgia, Florida Listed As Foes
Definite schedules have been formulated for the debate team’s annual trip, Jack Madigan, debate manager, announced today. The tour will last from April 15 to 24.
First debate is with Rollins College at Winter Park, Florida. On April 16, the debaters will battle it out with the University of Florida, in Gainesville. Next is an afternoon debate in Athens, Georgia, with the University of Georgia on April 18, which will be followed by a match with Emory University in Atlanta that night.
One Day on the Road
Birmingham-Southern, in Alabama, will be the scene of the next debate, on April 19. The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will be the next opponent, the debate being scheduled for April 20. April 21 will be spent in travel, and Florida State College for Women will meet the Miami men at Tallahassee on April 22. The remaining two debates of the trip will be held with Florida-Southern in Lakeland, and Saint Petersburg Junior College in that order.
Subject of debates for the year will be “Resolved that: the United States should maintain a policy of strict economic and military isolation toward all nations outside the western hemisphere engaged in armed international or civil conflict.”
Four Men To Travel
Only four members of the team will be taken on the trip. These four to be selected have not been decided as yet. Present members of the team may be challenged for their positions at any time during the practice sessions, which are usually held every Tuesday night in the Social Hall. Present members of the team are Ben Axleroad, Irving Lebowitz, Jerome Weinkle, Claude Corrigan, Lloyd Whyte, and Harold Meyer.
Home debates scheduled so far are with the University of Richmond on February 29, a return debate with Emory on April 27, and with the University of Pennsylvania the early part of March.
The next meeting of the debate council, with Irving Lebowitz presiding, will take place next Thursday, February 15, at 10:30 in room 317. To be discussed at this meeting are plans for a banquet, intramural debating, and an oratorical contest, in which all campus organizations have been invited to participate.
Home-Made Stars Compete at Dance
Colossal! Stupendous! Gigantic! The Hollywood Premiere dance, sponsored by Campus Citizens, will be held in the cafeteria on Saturday night after the boxing bouts, with local celebrities taking over the names of certain movie stars and attempting to look like them in a competition for a prize which will be awarded at the dance. Admission is 49 cents, stag or drag.
Today and tomorrow, Campus Citizens will open their own private polling places so that anyone who thinks he looks like a movie star or, better still, can get his friends to think he looks like one, may be nominated for a position in the contest.
Among the entrants are George Hollahan, somebody thinks he looks like Clark Gable; Jean VanDevere, who’ll “vant to be alawn”; Jacques Wilson as John Carradine; Jiggs Mnrella, Maxie Rosenbloom; Bill Hartnett, Robert Taylor; Fred Hawes, Randolph Scott; “Sonny” Silverstein, Spencer Tracy; Joey Church, George Raft; Cowboy Stau-bitz, Oliver Hardy; Junior Howland, ’'Hckey Rooney; Bob Rigney, Kay Kyser; Bernie Shiro, Eugene Pallette; Hortense Beckwitt, Hedy LaMarr; and Robby Graham, Carole Lombard.
Campus Citizens are planning a breakfast for tomorrow morning at 7:45 a.m. in the cafeteria to which all members are invited.
EXHIBIT ON VIEW
Professor Denman Fink, instructor of painting and drawing, announces the hanging of a new Federal Exhibition in his art classroom (308). Students and visitors to the University are cordially invited to view this interests display between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. excepting Saturdays and Sundays.
Lambda Chi Installs New ChapterHere
Delta Sig’s Are 108th Chapter; Elaborate Rites Celebrated in Weekend
Delta Sigma Kappa was installed as Epsilon Omega chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the University of Miami, with elaborate ceremonies the week-end of February 2.
The festival began with a reception and ball for the members, faculty, alumni, and student body at the Country Club of Coral Gables last Friday night. The orchestra featured a medley of Lambda Chi and college songs in recognition of the many universities represented by the visiting alumni.
National Officer Present
Ritual was held at the Country Club Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. under Tozier Brown, national travelling secretary, and the Florida Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.
Saturday evening, a banquet and dance for the charter members, University officials, their wives, and guests were held at the Country Club. Tom Smith, president of the Miami Lambda Chi Alumni Association of the fraternity, acted as toastmaster.
Dean Russell Rasco of the Law School, Dean Bertha Foster of the Music School, President B. F.-Ashe. Dr. John Gifford, Jack Madigan, President of the Interfraternity Council, Edwin Waszak, president of the Florida Chapter, and John Hom-ko, acting president of the new Lambda Chi chapter at the University. were after-dinner speakers of the evening. Following the dinner, guests were invited to dance at the Club.
New Officers Elected
Early Sunday morning breakfast was given in honor of the new chapter at the estate of Dr. and Mrs. Ashe for members and guests, which was followed by the first meeting of the chapter, and the election of new officers. These are: High Alpha, Peter Stern; High Beta, John Kurucza; High Pi, Everett Liner; High Gamma, Paul Davis; High Tau, Harvey Nelms; High Epsilon, Basil Marrella.
The charter members are: John Homko, Clarence Turner, George Back, Edward Dunn, Patrick Weiland, Walter Kelley, Thomas Kearns, Roy Bass, Edward Huguelet, Russell Coates, Joe Crum, Roy Maupin, Bernard Troblinger, Vincent McCormick, Harvey Nelms, Larry Peacock, George Andrade, and Micah Ruggles.
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Annual Camera SRoots Greeks, Juniors. Extras
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Sigma Kappa sororities face the camera today, according to the Ibis photography schedule prepared by John C. Hopkins, editor. Tomorrow, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Beta Phi Alpha, and Delta Phi Epsilon will be photographed.
Next week Kappa Sig, Pi Chi and the TEPs are booked for Monday; for Tuesday, Lambda Chi Alpha and Phi Mu Alpha; for Wednesday, Phi Alpha and Phi Ep. Chi Omegas, Alpha Theta and Delta Zeta are scheduled for Thursday.
Fraternities and sororities should make every effort to have their members photographed on schedule, Hopkins requests. Choice of drapes, coats, sweaters, and tuxedos will be left to the discretion of individual groups.
All juniors not yet photographed
•which number almost 150—will be given a final opportunity on Friday of next week. The 35 unpictured seniors may drop in the studio any time there seems to be a lull.
A meeting of all Ibis staff members is called for Monday afternoon at 2:30, in the Ibis office, Room 239, Hopkins also added.
McNICOLL SPEAKS TO AAUW
“Europe’s strife may be America’s opportunity — cut off from Europe, Latin-America will undoubtedly turn :nereasingly toward us.” In this manner Dr. Robert McNicoll, Professor of Hispanic-American studies and co-director of the Hispanic-American Institute, opened his lecture to the A.A.U.W. last Monday afternoon.
Continuing his talk, Dr. McNicoll explained that most of the present difficulties encountered in inter-American relations are a direct result of a lack of proper information on the part of both peoples.
IRC Begins Sale Of Movie Tickets
Sale of tickets for the series of three foreign-made motion-pictures to be presented by the International Relations Club, will begin on Monday, February 12.
Tickets, which will be 35 cents for individual performances and one dollar for the series, may be obtained from Bernard Sokolow, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, or from any of the members of the committee. They are Alida Roochvarg, Olga Simon, Charlotte Hager, Betty Roth, Riva Hemphill, Clarice Schnntterbeck, and Leslie Mann.
“Grand Illusion,” the French-made film, which will be presented on March 6 in the Cardboard Theatre, has received the international academy award for excellence. The German picture, “Kameradschaft,” is a story whose setting is in the mines of the Saar valley. It will have its showing on March 20.
The last of the series, to appear on April 3, will be the Spanish production, “The Wave,” which concerns Mexican peons. All the pictures are to be shown at 8:30 in the evening and will have one performance.
ARNOLD VOLPE
American music has lost one of its great. Miami music has lost its patron and founder. The musicians of the University have lost a friend for at 2:50 a.m. on Friday, February 2, death came to Dr. Arnold Volpe, for 14 years conductor of the University of Miami symphony orchestra.
Born in Kovno, Russia, on July 6, 1869, Dr. Volpe began his study of the violin under Isador Looto in Warsaw at the age of fifteen. In 1887 he went to the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory where he was instructed by the great Leopold Auer. He graduated with the highest honors in 1891, but deeming his musical education incomplete, he studied theory and composition with Nicholas Solo-vieff until 1897.
America called, and in 1898 Arnold Volpe came to New York. After distinguishing himself as a soloist, concertmeister, and ensemble musi-
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Two of the lecturers featured in the 8th Annual Winter Institute of Literature, which opens Monday, are Henry S. Canby, editor of the Suturday Review of Literature, and John Erskine, world-famous author. They are shown above with Walter Scott Mason (right), director of the Institute.
University Mourns Orchestra Director, EconomicsTeacher
Funeral services were held at the Philbrick Funeral Chapel on Monday morning for Dr. Arnold Volpe, conductor of the symphony orchestra, and on Monday afternoon for Mr. Stewart Girriel, assistant professor of salesmanship and marketing.
Dr. Volpe was 70 years old. Born in Kovno, Russia, on July 6, 1869, he studied at the Warsaw Musical Institute and the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory. He came to the United
Volpe Memorial Concert University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Joel Belov, will broadcast a concert on Sunday, February 11, in memory of its late conductor, Dr. Arnold Volpe.
The broadcast will originate from WIOD at 3:30 p.m., and will present music by Schubert, Tschai-kowsky, and Brahms. Arturo de Filippi, of the voice department, will sing.
States in 1898 and had been at the University since 1926.
He died at 2:50 a.m. on Friday, February 2, after an illness of several weeks. Dr. Volpe is survived by the widow, Mrs. Marie Volpe, and two daughters, Mrs. Laboria Krass of Rochester, New York, and Mrs. Jerome Joffee of Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Jacob H. Kaplan officiated at the funeral, at which Dr. Ashe also spoke.
Mr. Girriel was 51 years old, and was born in 1889 at Baltimore, Maryland. His degrees were from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Glasgow, and Drew Seminary.
He had been at the University for two years and was one of the most popular figures on campus. At about 1 p.m. Saturday, February 3, he died of a heart attack. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Bertha Girriel. Dr. William H. McMaster officiated at the funeral.
YWCA Plans Joint Meeting With “YM”
Spaghetti supper is next on the YWCA program, it was decided yesterday afternoon when cabinet members met at the Miami YW to plan activities for the new semester. Scheduled for February 21, the supper will be a joint meeting of the YW and YMCA.
Annual banquet and installation of officers was slated for March 13 at the Miami YW. In March also will come the Area Meeting in Jacksonville, to which the University group plans to send five representatives.
Other plans discussed include a religious forum which would present speakers from different churches in a lecture seminar.
Present at the meeting were Charlotte Meggs, Dot Lowe, Laura Green, Edna Conrad, Virginia Spaulding, Barbara Curran, Ann Lockwood, Elaine Preston, and Lorraine Cor-siglia.
INSTITUTE GRADES All students desiring their reports in the Hispanic-American Institute may obtain them at the office of Dr. Robert McNicoll in the Administration Building. All reports must be obtained before February 15. His office will remain open every day from 8:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Humes Lasher Named Junior Prom Chairman
Selected to head this year’s Junior Prom Committee is Humes Lasher, who was named by Charlie Franklin, class president, in an announcement yesterday morning. A junior in the School of Business Administration, Lasher is from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Plans for the 13th Annual Junior Prom, to be held in March or April, will be formulated at a meeting of the committee at 12:30 tomorrow in the Social Hall.
Work has already begun on the dance, and letters have been sent in an effort to secure a “big name” band for the annual affair—highlight of all social events at the University each year. Seniors will again be guests of honor at the ball, and from all indications, this year’s prom should be the biggest and best one in history.
Named on the committee, of which Lasher has general charge, are: Elton Rosenblatt, Winifred Wood, and Harry Jacobson, tickets; Bob Rigney, Irving Lebowitz, and Tommy Hilbish, band; Jacques Wilson, Paul Barbuto, and Sid Kline, publicity; Catherine Hefinger, Elaine Devery, and Denise Penchina, favors; Pat Weiland, Lee Strickland, Charlie Wood, and Jolly Snowden, decorations.
Erskine Speaks First, Chooses 'Great Stories’
Orchestra Prepares For Third Concert
Continuing preparations for its third 1939-40 concert, the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra is devoting its time to the Second Symphony of the modern American composer, Howard Hanson.
Although no successor to Dr. Arnold Volpe, past conductor, has been announced by the Administration, it is understood that Mr. Joel Belov will conduct the group for the remainder of the season.
The February 19 concert will be featured by the famous pianist, Harold Bauer; and Mr. Henry Gregor of the Music School faculty will conduct his own composiiton, “Four Arabesques.”
LAW SCHOOL ELECTS
Officers were elected by the freshman law class of the University in their first meeting of the year held today. President is David Koller; vice-president, Dave M. Turner; secretary-treasurer, Lester K. Stein; and Senator, John D. Lake.
BandConcert Series Begins Mon. Night
Arthur Pryor To Conduct In Shaeffer’s Absence;
Krell, Dalman Soloists
Inaugurating its 1939-40 season, the University of Miami Symphonic Band will present the first in a series of three concerts Monday evening at 8:15 in Miami Senior High School.
To feature student soloists, the concert will be conducted by the world-famous bandmaster, Arthur Pryor, who has been conducting the band during the illness of Walter Shaeffer.
Soloists Blanche Krell, harpist, and Norwood Dalman, cornetist, have appeared with the band in past seasons. Reserved seats for the concert are priced at $1.00 and $1.50. Student activity books will be honored at the box-office Monday evening.
With Arturo de Filippi as voice soloist, the March 11 concert will feature Mrs. Evelyn Plagman Jones, pianist and alumna of the University, and will be conducted by Mr. Shaeffer.
PROGRAM
Semlrnmide Overture	Rossini
Three Dances from Henry VIII German a. Morris Dance h. Shepherds’ Dance c. Torch Dance
Excerpts from Carman	Rlzet
First Prelude ........ Chalmers
Miss Krell
The Ride of the Valkyries	Wagner
Scenes Alsaciennes ... Massenet
a. Sunday Morning 1). 'The Wine Shop c. Under the Lime Trees (1. Sunday Evening Showers of Gold	Clark
Mr. Dalman
Second Polonaise ........ Liszt
WKAT Gets New University Program
Schedule of the University’s Classroom of the Air over WIOD has been changed to Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30; the School of Music will take over the Tuesday spot; and the Critics’ Circle will be heard on Thursday. The Classroom was formerly heard at 4:45 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The critics this Thursday will be Lewis Leary and Sydney Head. Mr. Leary will review John Erskine’s The Start of the Road, in anticipation of Erskine’s appearance here next week to open the Winter Institute. Mr. Head will review the Miami Beach Players’ current production, Noel Coward’s Tonight at Eight-thirty.
A new series of programs have started over WKAT, to be heard every Wednesday at 8:30, featuring collegiate news from the University of Miami and from elsewhere in the country. The program, called What’s New at the “U”, includes each week an interview with a newsworthy person of the week.
Last week Mr. O. V. Overholser, recently returned from advanced studies at Stanford University, was the interviewee; this week, Mr. Walter Scott Mason will tell about the Winter Institute of Literature.
Lecturer Selects ‘Iliad,’ ‘Odyssey’, For Discussion
Eighth Annual Winter Institute of Literature will begin on Monday, February 12, with John Erskine listed as the first speaker. Instructions and tickets for the series will be given to the students at the first afternoon and evening sessions.
Regular lectures classes of the Institute will be held during the next three weeks in the Cardboard Theatre, with afternoon sessions at 2:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and at 8:30 in the evening on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Required of all students majoring or minoring in English, the course gives one credit-hour to those attending both afternoon and evening sessions, and one-half credit to students attending either.
Discusses Five Stories
John Erskine, author of such famous works as “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” “The Delight of Great Books,” “Brief Hours of Francois Villon,” and many others, will discuss five of the great stories of the world in as many lecture periods.
He begins with “The Iliad” on Monday afternoon. Tuesday evening he discusses “The Odyssey”; and on Wednesday night “The Aeneid.” Thursday afternoon, the author of “Tristam and Isolde” will show why he includes “The Legend of Tristram and Iseult” in the list of the great stories,” and on Friday evening he will describe the Spanish classic, Cervantes’ “Don Quixote.”
Carleton Smith, music editor of Esquire and Coronet, will take the Wednesday afternoon lecture period to discuss “Music’s Forgotten By-Ways; or, Man’s Forgotten Songs.” A student of folksongs, especially those of ancient origin, Smith has returned this year to the Institute because of popular demand.
Other Speakers
Other speakers who will appear later in the seminar include Henry Seidel Canby, editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, who will discuss several aspects of contemporary literature, in his five periods, and Joseph Ausländer and his wife, Audrey Wurdemann, both well-known poets, who will not only discuss poetry as related to literature, but will give readings from their own works.
The series will close on March 1. Walter Scott Mason is director of the Institute. Season and individual tickets for the lectures are on sale at the University Concert Office.
STEWART W. GIRRIEL
Professor Stewart W. Girriel lived every minute of his life to the utmost. During his two years as assistant professor of salesmanship and marketing here at the University, he probably knew more students and their problems than any other professor on the faculty; his was a familiar figure in the center of any number of avid, spirited discussions around the campus. His philosophy of education put the student in the center of it all, and he believed that through respect for the growing ideas and personalities of students, great progress would be realized in solving their problems.
His academic education was obtained first at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. Following that, at the urging of his family, he attended Drew Theological Seminary, where his high scholastic standing won him a foreign fellowship, which he fulfilled at the United Free Church College in Glasgow, Scotland. Last summer he
pursued graduate work at Harvard University. Before coming to the Uni versity of Miami, he had taught in Missouri and New England schools, Professor Girriel went to Drew to
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Large Hunk of U. S. Appea' in Settings
From the backwoods country of Northern Maine to a fishing shack on Indian Key in Florida, the fifteen playwrights of the University’s course in the composition of one-act plays have included a large hunk of America in their stage-settings.
Of these the two selected are “The Green Dragon” by Walter Fieldhouse of Miami, the scene being set in a local night club, and “She’s A-Gonna Be a Boy” by Edith Rosencrans of New York City, which is the location of the maternity hospital that is the scene of the play.
What “The Green Dragon” has to do with a night-club is explained in the play with that name by a fatherly bartender who advises an ambitious young girl student to go back to her books and leave the torchsinging profession until later.
In the hospital waiting-room play, the two chief characters are a wine-bibbing Italian and a professor, both of whom have their own ideas about just what sort and sex of offspring they would like to have for grandchildren.
Written under the direction of Fred Koch, Jr., who is also a professor of dramatics, these plays will be staged under the direction of Maxwell Marvin, veteran of the University boards. Tryouts will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. There are parts for six men and five women.
MATCHES BY THE METER!
A University of Chicago scientist has invented a matrimony meter to measure the probability of a happy marriage for any couple.