Miami Hurricane, April 23, 1931

              The Miami ® Hurricane
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E OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables. Florida. April 23. 1931
No. 15
Ashe To Present Magna Cum Laude Awards Tuesday
Nine Will Receive Recognition In Special Exercises April 28th
f)r. B. F. Ashe, President of the University of Miami, will present nine seniors of the graduating class with the Magma Cum Laude award at special exercises to be held in assembly Tuesday, April 28th at 10:30.
Those receiving the award, symbolizing the highest scholastic attainments, have been chosen by the scholarship committee headed by Professor Longnecker, and their selection approved by President Ashe. They represent approximately ten per cent of the number in each school that will be graduated in June. Names of the recipients will not be made public until the day of the presentation.
Requirements are that the candidate shall have earned by the beginning of the spring term in which the award is made sixty units in residence at the university; that he shall carry twenty four hours as a minimum of work for the year in which the award is made, and that he shall be selected by a scholarship committee in conjunction with the registrar, with the final approval of the president.
Seven members of last year’s graduating class received the Magna Cum Laude award. They were a> »ojlows: Mary Jean McCann, Albert B. Franklin, Walter E. Fitzpatrick, and Katherine Younts, A.B.; Otto K. Seiplien, B.S.; Joe Tarpley, B.M; and Dixie Herlong, LL. B.
Elections To Be “Candidates Not Held On May 7th, • Capable.” Albert, Is Announcement Political Leader
New Candidates Enter Race New Nominees Discussed By As Primaries Draw	Present Prosecuting
President B. F. Ashe Returns To Miami After Extensive Mediterranean Tour
IBIS WILL HAVE FINE Travelling Companion, Dr. ART ILLUSTRATIONS Zane, Will Speak At
____	Senior Breakfast
Debaters Conclude A
Successful Schedule
The University of Miami debating council concluded a successful schedule' for the year when they met the debators from the University of Alabama over a radio hookup, Tuesday, April 14. The university teams have debated with 10 other teams this year, five being decision debates, of which they won three.
The forensic team has met several of the best collegiate teams of the south, including the University of South Carolina, University of Florida, University of Alabama, Southern College and Rollins College.
Both the freshman and varsity teams went on a tour of the state early in the season and debated St. Petersburg Junior College, Rollins. Stetson, and the University of Florida. All the home debates have been non-decision and over a radio hookup.
The debates are tinder the direction of the University Debating * uncil, of. which Louis Jepeway president and Victor Hutto secretary. Kenneth R. Close, in-tructor in history, is faculty dir-ctiir.
: he members of the varsity
•	c that have taken part in the ates, this year are: Robert ’h, Julius Parker. Jerome Jelin,
■'" hard Cumming, Webster Wal-i c. and John Marsh. The fresh-
•	team includes Lucille Mutch-. Mt-ldrim Thomson. Jr.. Milton
c eiss. and Milton Freidman.
Bob Fink, Nationally Known Artist and Illustrator, Will Design Novel Feature
The 1931 Ibis is assured of being. one of the most beautifully illustrated year books in the country1, due to the generosity and ability of Bob Fink, well known illustrator and artist. Mr. Fink has given the Ibis staff seven of his finest drawings to be used as section plates.
The beauty contest for the Ibis was judged early this week with Bob Fink and Manley Brower acting as guest judges. The results will not be announced, but the five winners have been chosen and their pictures will be reproduced in full page panels in thé new Ibis. Individual pictures are now at the. engravers and work will be started on them immediately..
All snapshots must be in this week, and organizations are requested to submit them to the Ibis office. Orders for the first fifty Ibis copies off the press may be given to John Allen or any member of the staff. The 1931 issue will cost one dollar and fifty cents to those students having individual pictures and two fifty for all other students.
Frosh Plays Lone Hand
In Coming Elections
President B. F. Ashe returned to Miami Friday after a cruise of the Mediterranean. His travelling companion was Dr. John M. Zane, of Chicago, who will speak at this year's Senior break'jist. Dr. Ashe took a Cunard tour from New York City. The first stop was at the Madeira Islands, where the passengers were unable to land because of the revolution which is still in progress. The ship then proceeded to Morocco, to Gibraltar, to Algiers, and back across to Nice, France, and Monte Carlo. Dr. Ashe disembarked at Naples and went to Rome, then to Florence, and rejoined his ship at Venice. The tolir then visited several Adriatic ports, and Athens, where the party found unusually cold weather. After stopping at Constantinople, Dr. Ashe travelled inland to Jerusalem, inhere business is booming and real estate is selling at high figures. The party then stopped at Port Said and : Cairo, where they took a river steamer up the Nile to Luxor. Dr. Ashe said that the most interesting part of his trip was here, where he saw . the ancient temple of Karnak, the ruins of Thebes, and the Tombs of the Kings. From Egypt the ship returned to Italy, and Dr. Ashe went from there by train to Paris, then to London, and rejoined his ship for the return voyage to New York.
Near
Election of student government officers for the next year at the University of Miami will be held May 7, with the primaries on April 30, it was announced by Cora Sie-plbin, secretary of the student body.
The Independent ticket is sponsoring Joseph Eggum for president. Marguerite Sweat, vice-president; Byrl Wheeler, secretary and treasurer; Warren Grant, chief justice; Carrington Gramling, prosecuting attorney; and six justices, Earl Howard, Stuart Patton, Aileen Booth, Idelle Martin, Wade Stiles, and John Allen.
George Glassford has declined the Progressive ticket nomination for president aqd political leaders of the Independent Party are of the opinion that George Okell, a Progressive ticket backer will be a candidate for the office of student body president, with Juluis Parker running for the vice-presidential position.
Silver Squarcia, a law school freshman, has announced his candidacy for the office of Chief Justice. Robert Louys, also a law -school freshman, will oppose Carrington Gramling for Prosecuting Attorney. 1
J. Haiold Matteson, G. N. Lay-field and James Ashworth have entered the race for honor court justiceships.
Attorney
In a recent interview with a Hurricane reporter, James Ashworth,, a member of the freshman class, stated that he is a candidate for election to' the honor court, and that he expects to run without party affiliations. Ashworth revealed frankly that he is running because he feels that the voters should be offered another choice on the ticket.
The platform on which the new candidate hopes to be brought into office centers itself about the honor system as now practiced at the university. He maintains that the system as it now exists is worthless and that if it isn't to be actively enforced, it should be abolished -by vote of the student body. -
Seniors To Get Jobs
As Motor Salesmen
A large automobile concern of Miami will select at least eight of the members of the graduating class to become junior salesmen in their organization, it was announced today. They will be given instruction by the company and placed in a position to earn immediately and while they are learning. After the necessary training they will be promoted to full salesmen.
A representative of the company will outline the plans at the (end of this week to those who wishŸo register with Mr. Provin for further information.
President B. F. Ashe, head of the University of Miami, was officially welcomed home at a banquet held at the McAllister Hotel Saturday.
Deans of each school and the heads of the various departments were present to greet Dr. Ashe
Franklin Albert, Prosecuting Attorney for the University of Miami Honor Court, made the following statement apropos the new-political ticket announced Monday:
“The ticket announced following a caucus held by the Judge Whitfield Club, a legal group, has brought into the field several very sociable men. Silver Squarcia for Chief Justice is a freshman in the Law School and a fine fellow, but is handicapped for the office, first, -because as a freshman he has not taken all the essential courses for proper conduct of a trial, one of which is Evidence, a Junior subject. Second, he is lacking in experience because he his never held any affiliation with the Honor I Court in any manner, doesn’t know its intimate workings. The office of Chief Justice, as all know, needs one who not only is able to conduct a trial with dignity, but one who is capable of standing for his convictions.
“Mr, Louys, candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, is aLso a freshman in the Law school and a very agreeable fellow, but for prosecution of offenders against the Honor Code popularity is no requisite. The one elected should stand for j the forceful, relentless, and tenacious prosecution of all Culp, i.-brought before him, with the purpose of furthering and upholding the Honor System as established by the student body. None of these characteristics are possessed by this man. He has never taken part in- any student activities previous to his choice by the Whitfield club.
“The other candidates put up by the legal organization for the office of associate justices, in all fairness, should not be in the field,
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Former Secretary of War Stresses
Importance of Diploma To Students
Newton D. Baker Tells of College Education’s Advantages
“A college graduate’s diploma when used as a credential in the application for a position in the business world carries just as much weight as the weight of the man himself,” says Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War under Woodrow Wilson, in a special message to the Hurricane for the senior graduating class of the University of Miami.
“The graduate’s talents, his culture and his abilities to use them make up his equipment. The fact of a diploma disappears as soon as he has a chance to’demonstrate his ability. The diploma may get him the chance a little sooner but if he does not have the ability the diploma will not save him.
“The advantages of a college education to the young man or woman are many,” is the opinion of Mr. Baker. Chief among them is culture, of which there are many definitions. In the use of the word “culture” I have in mind a knowledge of the continuity of life. The history of civilization is the back-
ground both of the present and future, and of the experiences of the race in its struggles for the-perfection of life. It is at once the explanation of and excuse for both what we have and what we may hope for in further development.
“Education outside of college is education in the present. Education in. college derives the present from the past and projects it into the future. The college-cultured man therefore walks with more confidence and is less likely to be carried away by momentary proposal.”
The World War Secretary be-! iieves that the associations formed in college are of great importance to the young person.
Mr. Baker, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, attended Johns Hopkins and Washington and Lee Universities.
“Colleges are especially valuable in the formation of character because of the unselfishness of the i basis upon which its associations are formed. Loyalties in college are to college and class and less exclusively to self. There is great value in a good fraternity because of the especially tender and intimate friendships that are formed.”