Miami Hurricane, January 20, 1933

              HURRICANE
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT PT-RLICatiov
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
THIS WEEK
^ORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, JANUARY 20, 1933
NO. 13
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Winter Institute
Technocracy
Student Activities
Kampus King Kapers
War In South America
Swimming Meet
By SMITH PERKINS
	
Daily the University of Miami is
iiaking the Metropolitan Miami
the cultural center of South
Florida. This week lovers of literature and history learned of the
triqmphs and crashes of the Maya
rivilization, through Sylvanus G.
Morley, noted archaeologist. Civilization rises and falls. History repeats itself. Maya fell because it
was not able to provide sufficient
food for its people.
Technocracy warns against machinery preventing the American
people to earn their living. But
America, the wealthy and mechanical will be an exception. It was
thought a few years ago. But now
it isn't so certain. There was the
Maya civilization, of ancient America. It was brilliant, rich and promising. Now it is dead. Crumbling
rains. Howard Scott and his band
of engineers are conducting an investigation of the present day conditions and their reports (which by
the way are far from complete and
very inaccurate) point toward the
machine breaking down our civilization, if allowed to. continue as
it is. Our own Dr. John Thorn
Holdsworth, in an address this
week pointed out that Technocracy
is not as much as its advocates
would have us think; Look into the
peat minds of today. And of the
Past. Of Old Maya. That may
teach us how to avoid the pitfalls.
Ruth Bryan Owen, oar representative in the lame duck sessions
of Congress asks that we do not
think too harshly of Congress for
its blunders and failure to enact
constructive legislation. "Them's"
kind words for so active a member
»s Ruth to utter, for it was she who
» strongly advocated doing away
with the lame duck sessions.
But of course we cannot expect
too much of Congress for each
member represents his own little
district and has his own legislation to carry out rather than that
of the whole nation. Speaking of
Ruth Bryan Owen, who the State
of Florida and the Nation should
grieve for losing as a public servant, we have an organization
named in her honor,—Rho Beta
Omicron, honorary public speaking
fraternity. They will hold their
first meeting of the year, this Thursday. Public speaking in colleges
should form a larger part of its
»tudy than it does. With the need
for expression demanded more and
more and the advent of the radio
»nd the electrically transcribed records, professors will be using these
methods to deliver their lectures.
Professors will prepare and record
their lectures and present it to the
'lass without being in the class-
r»om. Just another example of
machination of education. Yet it
*ill enable the professor to utilize
lis valuable time in research work
•hich may produce great benefits
for civilization.
Tihe student senate sensing an in-
Xtivness and the failure of students to become interested in the
•tudent life at the university has
appointed a social committeee to do
•omething about these students
who are spending "all their time
•tudying"   and   who   have   utterly
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BILL LTTALIEN
TO LEAD GRID
CALENDAR
Boxing Squad Should J. RITTENHOUSE
Trounce Army Is the LECTURES    'FOR
squad in im SSrteH 0pini0V°L*Runyan second^eek
ing for all
women students in social hall.
c. „ w«uiea siuaenis
L„-a.""*8Sn' BobZuPPke  Friday. Jan. f»0.-ZeU Phi formal
Speak at Tennis Club
Victory Feast
initiation   at   the   Coral   Gables
Country Club.
Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley presenting last lecture on Maya ( iviliza-
Noted Writer Believes Palm
Fete To Be Auspicious
Beginning
of Mrs. Hugh Tebault.
The   Miami   Beach  Tennis  club
was the scene of a big banquet and
gala   celebration   last   Wednesday
night in honor of Tommy McCann's
| varsity football squad, whose great
| intersectional gridiron victory over
I the Manhattan Jaspers New Year's
day stunned the football world.
William  Elmer "Bill"  LTtalien,
'34,   was   elected  captain   of  next
years Hurricane football team, by~   ^-    t|*/-v|>t it>"V ¥C
his team mates after the banquet. «• v». MUKJ__Jii I   lo
Next year will be LTtalien's third
season on the varsity squad.
Bob Zuppke, well known coach
"Your boxing squad.though green,
should  polish  off the  Army  with
tion in the auditorium, at 10:30. little trouble next week," said Da-
Saturday, Jan. 21.—Delta Tau sor-  mon Runyan to a Hurricane rep-
ority entertaining at the home of resentative yesterday afternoon.
Miss  Henriette Nolan, in honor      "But isn't one upset enough for
Noted Anthologist Substitutees
For Hervey Allen.
Lecturer
cne school in a year?"
Jessie B. Rittenhouse, poet, critic,
and anthologist, will lecture during
the second week of the Winter Institute, taking the place of Hervey
  he    was Allen, who because he is putting
Monday, Jan. 23.—Wednesday, Jan. asked.    "We had one in football, a book through the press, will be
24.—Jessie  Rittenhouse  to  pre- ] But why do you expect one in box- unable to lecture.
sent second in series of Winter ing?" Miss Rittenhouse wlU lecture on
InstUute lectures. I    The popular writer lit a cigar- ..The Outstanding American Poets
ette and gazed thoughtfully at a'      Tod    „ including   such    noted
group   of   passing   dryads—for  he I ___ _.
was being interviewed on the beach writers * Edward Arlington Rob-
FIRST   SPEAKER  <* his hotel, inson,    Robert Frost,   T, S. Eliot,
- "It's very logical," he said.  "You Carl   Sandburg,   Vachel   Lindsay,
.mieeieeiiiiiit eeietieii
from the University of Illinois7wh'o1iNoted Archaeologist Lecturer defeated  Manhattan  on  the  grid-1 Ezra   Pound,   Amy   Lowell,   Edna
helped whip the Hurricanes into
shape for their tilt with Manhattan, was the principal speaker on
the program.   He praised the Hur
I iron because of the element of sur-  gt   Vincent Millay, and    Eleanor
| prise, chiefly. Manhattan didn't ex-, Wv]--
 . pect to run  into  such  opposition,! ...
'      , ,    , ■    '     Besides being long recognized as
Sylvanus G. Morley, noted Car-1and    never    recovered    from    its 1
Opened Institute
Monday
ricane;7o7theT;^;rt;;m;;7k>^e   ■"*«*** ;*',■£;[»■■■■ l-wg^lrwi^-tfct^^l^^^^y
and hard playing and predicted big °Pened his first leeture. ™°. ***'Mlami s1uad- "nhouse >»» herself achieved d.s-
^^^ dentally the first of the group pres-;    "But your mittmen should turn tinction as a poet, having written
ented through the Winter Institute, back West Point because of actual  several   books   of   poems   among
with a discussion of the "Old Em-; superiority.    Army has never, as which are The Door of Dreams and
pire and the Rise of the Maya Civ- i far as I know, produced more than The Lifted Cup.
t      d    1     Td d"h"   b " "f"   ilization>" and its relative import- a fair boxing team.  Here you have      Of her work in the field of poetry
? . .     ...    . _ ance to the study of archaeology, laid emphasis on that sport, and the Bookman says, "Miss  Ritten-
^eir grea    oo   a   vie ory.      eve      Siides were sj,0wn at both eve- i have some good scalps at your belt house is known as a vivid force in
"       ning lectures,  including  air  films' —notably Florida.    A Miami vie-  the (jay's poetic renaissance.    One
6! taken by Anne Lindbergh and pic- tory, even with your inexperienced 0j  the  organizing spirits of the
j tures of the stages of excavation group, would  not  surprise  me  in p0etry Society of America and long
I work carried on by the Institute. ■ the least." : lia secretary, — critic, reader and
! The second lecture took up    "The      Damon Runyan is widely known j lecturer    on     current     American
things for the team in 1933
Coach Tom McCann, also spoke,
thanking the Tennis club for their
cooperation in putting on the ban
quet and a
their great
Hannagan,    well  known publicity
writer, was also a speaker on
program.
F.I.P.A. Convention 	
Tn Rp At Rollins! New  Empire a"d the  Decline  of for his articles on a variety of sub- poetry, anthologist of verse  both
J_U DC AI XVU__I__Sjthe M_y_ civilization." jects.   He can not be termed only modern and remote,—her evangelic
 *  I    In the lecture for today Mr. Mor- a sports  writer.    "Sports writing! energy  has  made  her one of  the
Loving Cup Will Be Awarded; ley wjh expiain the Maya calendar is  only a side line with me," he j main  synthe3ising  figures  in  the
Newspaper Showing Most    | and hieroglyphic writing. ] said.   "It is a great life, but there | movement."
Improvement _   is little future in it except for an ;     jj.gg    Rittenhouse's   volume    of
out-and-out master.   Young people crjticigm, "The Younger American
Announcement by the Florida Intercollegiate Press Association of
a silver loving cup to be given at
Humm Is Now Assistant   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To Botany Instructor who wish to write should cut their Poet_,. has ^n used as far afield
  literary teeth by composing short L, the University of Tokio, while
_________________________i _______    ,, Harold   Humm,   editor   of   The (Continued on Page Two) l___. .-(1,.i.__ "Th* i ;t«i« Rn_.i. nf
the next convention to the college !„,..____   .    .    '__*-_   ,„   _,.__  her anthology,   The Little Book ol
-  -      .Hurricane   last  semester,   is   now |  Modern Verse," "The Second Book
assistant to Mr. Hilmer C. Nelson,; New Science Survey Course      0f Modern Verse," and "The Little
instructor   in'   botany.    Humm is!       Is Inaugurated This Term  Book of American Poets," have so
| newspaper of Florida which has
| shown the most improvement dur-
! ing   the   last   year,   was   recently
gathering data for a booklet con-
| established     themselves     as     the
This term the university has a standard works in their field that
new course, science survey, which | recently when the Chile-American
Alll ' —" ' iAssociation, consisting of eminent
duced and will include interesting | isfy the state requirement that all! schoUrs from both countries, selec-
j made by Charles Bennett, president i cerning the trees of the Miami
i of the association. The selection a_ea It win inciude every tree of
of the winner will be announced in this area, both native and  intro-jwas put in the curriculum to sat
the first week of February.      All du__d and will ;nciu_e interesting | isfy the state requirement that al   Ivvmll4„1J tMmtm TO... ,.„._„.,..-_,,	
| Florida college papers  have been factg about many of the trees i*. j teaching candidates have two hours ted a representative collection of
; invited to enter. sides a complete description of each , "general science." American literature to be sent to
The convention of the F. I. P. A.' and a wortj as to its adaptability     This course is developing and f ul- the libraries of Chile, Miss Ritten-
will  be  held this year at  Rollins or SUCCess of growing ornamentally gns a more interesting need.     It house's anthologies were chosen as,
College February 16, 17, and 18. An j,ere. ' serves to introduce    students    to embracing in  small compass, the
' interesting program of well known . : modern science methods, intent and  finest work in poetry that has been
'journalists as speakers and round  geven Candidates Entered ' accomplishments; likewise to orient done in this country.
itable discussions is being planned.: |n KampU8 King Contest  students with scientific interest in-      Miss  Rittenhouse  has  been  lec-
The convention   was   held   last  . to the proper fields of science.        turing widely for several years, be-
| year at Florida State Women's Col- The Kampus King Kapers dance, The different branches of science ing much in demand to present the
lege at Tallahassee. Rollins took j sponsored by the Pi Delta Sigma £Uch ag astronomy, geology, phy- subject of modern poetry before
first places in both the newspaper l fraternity has been postponed until .jcSj cnemistry, physiology and the universities and clubs throughout
and annual events. Three delegates january 27. Candidate entered bacteria> the plant kingdom, the the country. She is on the lecture
from the Hurricane are expected to i are jjugo NilSOn, Phi Alpha; Den- animai kingdom, evolution, the man naff of Columbia University, the
attend the convention this year.       nis  Michael   Francis   Leonard, Pi and other interesting scientific sub- Brooklyn   Institute   of   Arts   and
— 1  Chi;    Charles   Heckman,   Gamma j^s are taught by various profes- Sciences and other institutions, and
RADIO PROGRAM                Delta; George Manley, Delta Sigma  _0J_ of this school who are learned  has spoken for many state and na-
Dr. J. C. Gifford, authority on Kappa; John Slocum, Phi Epsilon in  {he different  fields  which  are tional assemblies.
Forestry, will speak January twen-  pi.   Ross  Hartsell,    Stray  Greek; covered. 	
ty-third at one  forty-five  on  the Weston Heinrich, independent.
tropics  of south  Florida and .the The    Miami    University    Hur-
regions surrounding the Caribbean r;canes,   newly  organized   student
Sea  The Uuniversity Conservatory band wm furnish the music.
of music will present a  program TeMB Ent.rU.n-cnt             ,^_^_^^^^^^^ ^^^^
January  the   twenty-filth  at   one ^   arrangements   are   being durin* hU Inures that have help- "Diabetes—Its Control and Cause."
The "open the door of science" Sienee Club Hear* Foster
class which meets on Monday, Wed- The Allied  Science club had as
nesday and Friday at eleven-thirty, its guest speaker, Monday, January
Mr. E. M. Miller, who is the main 16, Dr. Daniel A. Foster of the Ford
instructor  has   said  many  things hospital,  Detroit,   who   spoke  on
forty-five, Friday, J»nuary twen^"      V~T ,7iJ"V_e_tai__ment of the «> make students realize how small He stated that, contrary to popular
seventh Mr. E. Morton Miller speaks made for the entertainment oi tne   ^ ___^ . ^ _. § . ^    ^   ,.___  . , .i_
on genetics at three p. m.
Women Students To Meet
! University of Pittsburgh debating j the earth is among the planets and  belief, diabetes  is  not neceessarily
team members, who will debate the j multitude of stars. fatal.   Dr. Foster advocates the use
; university team, February 6.   They!    The  class   is  now  learning the of insulin as the best method of
A special meeting for all' univer- j will "be "guests  *  the "fraternity principles^of physics taught by P«.|l ll I   ■■* ma Urn* ***-.*+*
A special meevmg ^ -~ r.'-"~   "  Tt u reouested that any I John H. Clouse. Other teachers be- in   turn   controls   the   growth   or
sity girls will be held in the^social hou^e, J^g? J side8 Mr. E. M. MiIler and ^ j. H. check of the disea*.   At the Cose
hall on Tuesday morning, January | P«r«mor ^^.^^ rf ^ ^ , aou8e ^ ^ j)-. W. 0. Walker, of the meeting Dr. Foster answered
touch with Van Dud- Mrs. H. C. Nelson, Dr. Meyer and the various queetkma of the mem-
Dr. Janet Miller will aid in
24, at 10:30.     _____________________________
be the speaker. The girl's glee club iters get m
^vmmmmTaaaaaaX ^eleetion.,       j ley or Jimmy Mool.
Mrs. J. H. Clouse or Dr. DeVore.    bers of the audience.