Miami Hurricane, January 15, 1932

              The Miami # Hurricane
THE o ff I c i a l s t u dent publication of THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Vol. 6
Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, January 15, 1932
No. 14
Program For Pan American Student Congress Sent Out
Davison Opens U s Winter Institute Lectures Monday
Schedule* of Convention Mailed To Various Foreign School*
Schedule of Lecturers To Change From Week To Week
Programs of the coming Pan American StudentConferer.ee were j distributed and mailed today by j Mel Thomson, secretary of Pan j American Relations. Delegates to the congress were instructed to register with the headquarters of the convention upon arrival, and designate the particular discussion irroups of which they wish to be members.
In both the morning sessions of the conference and the group meetings of the afternoons discussion will follow prescribed themes. Resolutions' of the groups will be filed with the committee in charge of preparing final declarations in order to present them for ratification by the congress in plenary session. \ Each nation will be entitled to one : vote on each resolution.
The program of the convention j is as follows:
Sunday, April 10th—Welcoming of arriving delegates. Sight-seeing tours.
7:00 p.m. Informal supper, and get-together.
8:00 p.m. Election of officers of Congress.
9:00 p.m. Concert by U. of M. Symphony orchestra.
Monday, April 11th — Opening session. Selection of committee to prepare final declarations of Congress. Addresses by prominent speakers on economic and social problems.
1:00 p.m. Luncheon.
2:00 p.m. Group meetings. Topic: Economic and social problems.
Tuesday, April 12th—10:00 a.m. General Session.
12:00 Noon. Luncheon by fraternities of University of Miami.
2:00 p.m. Group meetings, Topic: Political Problems of the Americas.
Wednesday, April 13th—10:00 a.m. General Session. Review of plans for creation of official Pan American Student Committee to have charge of arrangements for next Conference to be held in another country.
1:00 p.m. Pan American Day luncheon, a tribute to the American nations. Program broadcast over, international hookup.
2:30'p.m. Group meetings, Topic: Problems in Education and Science.
P- A. Conference Helped By Miami Rotary Club’s Letters To So. America
The Miami Rotary club is sending 45 letters apropos the Student Conference to be held here to Rotary clubs of south and Central America. The letters urge the latin clubs to assist in sending delegates to.the Pan American congress of students which the University of Miami will hold April 10th td 14th of this year.
The Rotary club is sending the letters, said Keith Phillips, president of the club, because it feels that the conference is in line with the objectives of the Rotary in advancing the understanding and goodwill of the two great American Peoples.
The congress will be held in connection with the city of Miami’s four-day celebration of Pan American Day.
Upper left—View of top of Mayan ceremonial mound discovered by University of Miami faculty members and students. Right—Flower and pots of wild cotton still growing in large quantities on the site. The Calusas are thought to have used much of it in the manufacture of cloth. Below-—Members of the patty digging for bits of pottery, bones and shells.
Honor System I Criticized; Stro As Student Suppo
System Here Works A* Wei As Possible; U. of M Should Study It
(EDITORS NOTE. The 6rsc of a »«n«s of articles dealing with the Honor S> stem of the University of Miami, written especially for The Hurricane bv Stuart Patton, a member of the Honor Court, appear» today This sene* of articles i* one of the first moves on the part of the Honor Cpurt in its “educational program” to establish the Honor System as a tradition at the University. )
The University of Miami’s Winter Institute of Literature will .open next Monday, January 18. Edward Davison, British poet, will ! be the first of the authors to lecture. He will devote his time to
“British Poetry since 1890”.
Registration in the Institute will be held at the University today and tomorrow. The morning classes will be held in the Biltmore Country Club, and the evening sessions in the Miami Women's Club. Dr. Orton Lowe, professor of Englisl, will be in charge of the Institute.
The. Institute will last for five weeks, a different lecturer holding classes each week. Other authors who will lecture here are Percival Wilde, Padraic Colum, Zona Gale, and Carl Sandburg. The subjects, like the lecturers, will be changed from week to week.
The classes will be open to a number ojf students at the university, teachers in this locality, an i winter visitors in Miami. Two credits will be given by the school if the full! course is taken, arH i credit if only the morning or the evening ¡classes are attended. It is intended that the course and the instructors be changed from year. so that thtose who take it one year may take it again, and receive credit for the work.
University Discoveries In Indian Mound May Cause Revision of History
JUNIOR P|tOM TO BE OMETIMÉ IN MARCH
Investigation by Gifford And Party Shows Mayas May Have Settled Lower Fla.
UINS AT KEY LARGO
The Honor System was originated here with the inception of the Student Association in 1927. It appears to have developed as a result of the general conviction that the Proctor System of “gentlemanly” conduct is unsatisfactory in its tendency to cause ill will between faculty and students.
The Honor System is now being used in about 40% of the colleges of the country. Schools which op erate under the Honor System are. for the most part in favor of the system. Though it does not put a definite end to dishonest work, there is a feeling, on the part of authorities that there is at least no more of it than under the Proctor System, and that the benefits of an Honor System are so great that the existence of a Proctor System is not justified simply to catch the relatively small amount of dishonesty not detected by the Honor System.
It is felt that the Honor System has a decidedly educational effect, in building “moral fibre” by giving the student a definite responsibility.
Undoubtedly honesty may prove to be better achieved in the long run by the establishment of a (Corttinutd on Pagt Two)
Dr. John C. Gifford, professor of tropical forestry at the University of Miami, and others connected with the school, have made a discovery that promises to have far-reaching effects. Because of his findings the southwestern section of the state of Florida, a dank, unhealthy, mosquito-infested jungle entirely cut off from civilization by water and miasmic swamps, has suddenly jumped into great prominence in the eyes of many scientists, historians and archeologists.
Some time ago a friend told Dr. Gifford of an Indian mound that existed off the beaten track down in this wilderness: there was nothing strange in the existence of this mound, for south Florida has scores of them, but this particular one, said the friend, had several features which distinguish it from the ordinary run of ancient rubbish-heaps arid graves. So Dr. Gifford and a small party went down to Key Largo to see this particular relic.
We don't know exactly what th> professor expected to find, but
WINTER INSTITUTE
Register today and tomorrow for the Winter Institute of Literature in the office of the Registrar.
what he did find undoubtedly si red his' blood with the thrill of discovery of something'of great importance. For that lowly mound may ptovg to be as productive of theory-wrecking facts as any of the tombs of the Nile valley. The objects and relics found there already will probably necessitate the entire revision of the histories of one, perhaps two or three, of the primitive American peoples; they will extend the story of man in Florida back many ages farther !than before suspected; and they will explain many of the seeming discrepancies in tales related of this peninsula by the earliest Spanish explorers.
What Dr. Gifford found at Key Largo, a popular fishing ground for tourists, was a large artificial mound, much like those existing in this state as far north as Lake Okeechobee. It was about sixty feet \ long and thirty feet wide, with an average height of probably twelve feet; it was built entirely of the rock native to this section, cut into | blocks carefully fitted together.
1 Evidences were that it had been covered with earth until recently, j The friend who informed the professor of the ruin remembered a time when the turf was still in place about the mound, and steps of stone led to the top of it. No sign of these steps is left, and it is presumed that they were removed by treasure and souvenir seekers, who have dug Urge holes in the top of the mound.
Digging into the hummock the searchers found numerous bones, shells, and fragments of pottery which were obviously foreign to
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The tentative date for the 1932 Junior Prom, to be sponsored by the Junior class of the university, was set for sometime in the middle of	by action of the class in
a meeting held last Tuesday.
A great surprise in the form of certain favors will be kept secret until the night of the Prom, and there will also be specialty num-i hers. Tickets are priced at $3, couples or stags.
! The committee in charge of the dance consists of Jimmy Abras, chairman, Cushman Robertson, Hettie Scott, Marguerite Sweat, Luke Crowe, class president, and Joe Eggum, president of the student body.
Weston Heinrich was elected to fill a vacancy on the student senate from the class, and Cushman Robertson was made treasurer.
Ex-Pres. of I. R. Club Back From S. America
Mr. Brad Jones, former president of the International Relations club, was a guest speaker at the meeting of the club Wednesday night. Mr. Jones has just returned from a six months sojourn in South America, where he held various positions in both American and Latin firms.
Mr. Jones told the members of the club many interesting facts about modern south America as it appears to a visiting American student. He strongly advised against I Americans who do not speak the I Spanish language going to the southern continent in search of jobs. Unless one has a strong contract at good pay in one of the (Continued on Page Four)