Miami Hurricane, February 18, 1937

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Miami
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ENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Opinions Asked Endowment fund Campaign
person Believes Student Vooperatton Needed For Project
tERAture MAILED
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nprsonal letter sent to each l»aPthis week, Dr. Jay F. W. den secretary of the University.
pea*0”’ ''student opinion concerning i0 hing of a campaign to raise the laUnfor the establishment of an
,lced
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down
fund for the University r°ugh Uifailed to prospective bene
letter
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The drafts of the literature which • „ mailed to prospective bene-is being gtudents have been asked to factors- ^ literature, criticize it,
examlllke any suggestions which they ai>d ma.1 improve the present tenta feel Wl1 dve plalis‘
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excellent job of
PeJl1kam.P	Make-up
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Coral Gables, Florida, Thursday Afternoon, February 18, 1937
Number 19
1 M.ardor,e Stoneman Douglas
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12.50 p.m. ln room 202
a 2;,7;papef	is as much
a public service as that of a gas or
electric comnanv »	, , or
company, asserted John
ennekamp, news editor of the Miam, Herald, addressing the Student Institute ol Journalism at its third meeting of the year Tuesday.
Pennekamp, who has done makeup for almost two decades, said that he was agreeably surprised at the unusually fine make-up of the Hurricane and that its articles contained excellent news interest.
Speaking on newspapers in general. Pennekamp stated that few people realize how many employees are maintained in the operation of a publishing plant.
The colored woman who inserts a classified ad for laundry and the high
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ln,. the school which was done salaried feature writer are both de
paiïenstudents last spring, Dr. Pear-by Lis that student reaction should S°L invaluable in this matter. ^Establishment of such an endow-t fund would eventually enable T administration to build more
uildings for and add more departments to the University.
If the plan is received favorably hv the student body, Dr. Pearson in-t nds to appoint a student committee at a later date to direct student activity in carrying out the project.
It has been difficult at times for the University to continue its brief existence in the absenec of a fund which can be invested in securities or other property in order to yield addi-income over and above tui-
tional
and other
tions, city contributions incidental income. An endowment fund would eliminate this.
Humor Magazine “Miami Mimic,” Will Make Debut in March
Publication To Be Sponsored By Delta Epsilon Phi Fraternity
Miami Mimic, a new monthly humor publication, will make its first appearance in March, Avis and Justin Cam inez, founders, announced yesterday.
Delta Epsilon Phi fraternity sponsoring the publication and plans to turn a percentage of its profits over to one of the University scholarship funds.
The founders have appointed Henry Warsharsky and Daniel Breinin, both Delta Phis, editor and business manager respectively. W. Scott Mason, instructor in English will serve as faculty advisor. Other staff members will be announced later.
The editors state that the maga-21Ile °Pen to contributions from anyone since it is to be for the entire school.
, reason we are publishing ((.lami Mimic,” Founder Caminez said, ls b at, first, we feel that the Uni-ersity of Miami needs a humor pub-mn, and secondly, we feel that e °f this sort will not only spread J ^ among all organizations but sch gi1Ve	a standing with such
p 00 s as Columbia, Harvard and Nation V»n*a> wko kave similar pub-
J-°We Conducts First 't- Society Meeting
Lowe traced the history first m 0^0r literary Society at its ,e^ng held last Thursday at Br ° clock in the Social Hall. exce]WUry franklin contributed an ert fL /> i)enebrabing review of Rob titled 4 S dabesb book of poems en disCUg • Urtker Range.” An informal “Gone 4L °f Margaret Mitchell’s 1 a bbe Wind” followed, field 0 6 nexb meeting which will be ^areij ^ tke second Thursday “Winter	Brown wili review
viewe(j „ eb ’ by Maxwell Anderson, »lent as roai the standpoint of
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Se tfi as keen impossible to con S»e bon Pr°dect until this year. Dr. L‘°n anvt0 reestablish the organ i^alitv means of stressing in-ti es to and st;udent discussion, . 7 Lnjv ra.1Se bbe society to one of “es. rsity’s major literary activ-
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Lowe of the English de-
.VeT0UnCed this week that
tig 0 ^ keen several requests for tpj.UrSes dn English during the req m‘ Ur. Lowe has turned 4 fists over to the Registrar.
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pendent upon the make-up of the paper to utilize their efforts to their best advantage,” declared Pennekamp. kamp.
“The make-up editor of a newspaper is responsible for the success of his paper. In the construction of the page he must be sure that it is interesting, attractive, and entertaining.”
Pennekamp believes that news should always come first in newspaper work. Everything else must be
secondary, he declared.
The page is made up by using a dummy” form prepared in the advertising department. The ads are ocked off and then the regular copy is filled in. Some advertisers specify particular spots for their advertisements and if the make-up man needs hls job, he won’t attempt to shift these ads around.
Displaying several pages of the Herald, Pennekamp pointed out the good and bad features of each page, even stressing the need for art or cuts” as well as perfect columnar balance. He called special attention to the classified ad section, showing how the use of news items on the page assures the subscriber that his ad will be read. He pointed out that an ad surrounded by reading matter stands a one hundred per cent more chance of being read than one which is buried under hundreds of other ads.
Pennekamp pointed out the need for contrast in headlines, demonstat-ing how heads of different types tend to challenge the attention of the reader. “It is my own personal opinion,” he said “that a headline should tempt the reader rather than e deavor to tell the entire story.
Several editions of the Hurricane were displayed for criticism. Penne kamp declared that he was disappointed in being able to find so few mistakes in the University paper, since pointing out errors is his best method of criticism. In making (Continued on Page Four)
Cast Completed for Follies of 37 T omorrowNight
Student Talent To Feature Annual Theta Alpha Phi Production
Debating Team T riumphs Again
Hendrick and Weinkle Win Over St. Thomas In Last Debate
Dave Hendrick and Jerome Weinkle, representing the University of Miami’s negative debating team, defeated Joseph May and Clarence Walton of St. Thomas College last Thursday night.
Robert Taylor, Dade county solicitor, served as chairman. The audience judged the debate, voting 23-13 for Miami.
The Miami contestants defended the negative side of the resolution that “Congress should be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for industry.”
May and Walton established a good case for government regulation of wages and hours. They proved that the purpose of a government mattered more than the form.
Hendrick and Weinkle battered down the seemingly invulnerable defense of the Scranton debaters with sound economic arguments. They insisted that the present system of industrial competition is satisfactory.
This was the second straight win for the Miami debaters. Coach O. V. Overholser is now whipping the team into shape for the next debate, March 1, against Rollins.
Dartmouth Students Show Interest In War
Hanover, N.H. (ACP) - War has put in its appearance on the ex curricular study program of Dartmouth College.
Interest in warfare has been so manifest that certain members of the Dartmouth faculty—not the colleg itself, have organized a course that deals with the various phases of conflict.
Prof. Bruce W. Knight, sponsor of the new course, has announced that the series of eighteen evenmg meetings is open, without fee to any-one who wishes to enroll. Many ot
the sixteen speakers who have agreed to lecture saw service in the world
war.
“No college, so far as I knoy’
Prof. Knight, “offers a general course
on war. This apparently sbranfe/ap the curriculum may
said
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given department knows
of war but mainly the pax iate to his own field.
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off steam. We havertaken the preca^
tior. to keep thrill-hunters ou C0UrSe- "ts filing to do the
Conant Prefers ''Stiff Courses

Harvard President Thinks Students Must Study Subjects Fully
15 ACTS SCHEDULED
The cast complete, “Follies of 1937” await only the chimes of 8:15 tomorrow night to open under the capable direction of Maxwell Marvin.
A full two and a half hour show may be expected with fifteen numbers scheduled.
The dancing of Mary June Peiter and Virginia Hastings, the singing voices of Doris Glendening, Joe Barclay, Bill Probasco, and those scintillating satellites of the Hurricane chorus, composed of Tom Schepis, Mike Ruggles, Bob Masterson, John Parrott, and Brad Boyle, will-feature a well rounded evening of entertainment.
Designer Don Wilson is outdoing himself to provide a setting the like of which has never before been presented on the University stage, and from advance reports he has succeeded. Musical arrangements will be under the direction of Eddie Baum-garten.
An opera burlesque is being contributed by a cast of well-known “Metropolitan Theta Alpha Phi Oper-ateers,” under Mrs. Opal Euard Mot-ter’s able supervision. Mrs. Motter, it will be remembered, directed that hilariously funny melo-drammer, “How the Hardship Handicap Was Won,” or “Beauty is But Skin Deep,” presented by the same group last year. Several other highly entertaining acts will complete the program.
Tickets may be obtained from any member of the Theta Alpha Phi or at the University box office tomorrow night. The price is only 25c a head.
[INTERCOLLEGIATE PRESS]
Washington, D.C.—President Conant of Harvard University speaking before the twenty-third annual meet ing of the Association of American Colleges upheld the “old heritage of stiff courses, examinations, and rank lists” as more profitable both to the student and to the College than a too liberal conception of Liberal Education.
President Conant took as his own subject the “Selective Principle American Colleges,” in connection with the general topic of the meeting: “A Liberal Education.”
First he outlined the two principal “poles of thought”: that college primarily concerns either the education of specialists for intellectual leadership or of all the students for a fuller life.
“No academic institution exists,” he went on, “for any one single purpose. The problem, as I see it, is to keep the balance between th various necessary objectives.”
“For example, I take it that we must all strive to improve the education in our various institutions to the end that our graduates will be better prepared to lead ‘the good life,’ —the life of a civilized individual in a democratic country. But if in concentrating our attention on this problem we allow our selective machinery to grow rusty, we are failing in an equally important task—the task of providing the leaders for the future.”
“What is this machinery by which the colleges play their part in selecting and training the most able young men and women? Clearly it is our old heritage of stiff courses, a stimulating atmosphere making for hard work, examinations, rank lists, ‘honor standing’,” Conant said.
Latin Americans Act In Spanish Comedies For First Time Here
Audience Amused, Instructed By Quintero’s Plays Last Week
Two sparkling Spanish one-act comedies by Joaquin and Serafín Quintero were played before a large audience last Wednesday night, February 10, in the University auditorium.
The Latin American students at the University made up the entire cast. Headed by Dolores Marti and Louis Molina, with Raquel Gastón and Antonio Marti in minor roles, the players gave a smooth and highly credible presentation.
Before the plays, Dr. Riis Owre gave a short lecture on the lives and works of the Quintero brothers and the dramatic styles and customs of their day. Between plays, Señora Nena Echevarría sang a group of Cuban songs.
The first play, “Herido de la muerte,” was a romantic encounter of two very bored young people who cured this malady with each other’s company. The second, “Lo que tu quieras,” was a comic slant on domestic quarrels.
The introduction of Spanish drama into the University is a helpful step in developing the language for American students. The actors were careful to make their words clear and still maintain normal conversational smoothness.
English students of Spanish at the University both congratulate the Latin-American students on so successful a venture, and hope that this is only the first of a series of Spanish presentations.
Assembly T omorrow Ends Honor Week Observance
OPINIONS GIVEN ON HONOR SYSTEM
Question: Do you think the honor system would work satisfactorily at the University of Miami?
Julie Davitt: I don’t think the honor system would work out satisfactorily. I do not believe the faculty places enough emphasis on honesty in their classrooms. The majority of instructors laugh off the idea of cheating. The classrooms which are proctored provide a minimum opportunity for cheating. However, the honor system will probably become a feature of the University sooner or later, and the longer it is put off the harder it will become finally to adopt it.
Victor Levine: It won’t work out. The plan has been tried, and it has been proved a huge failure. During my past experience at the University which is of five years’ standing, several professors (whom I am glad to say are no longer among us) pretended to uphold the honor system when in truth they were using it as a shield for spying on students while exams were being given. The introduction of the honor system would tend to cause an espionage system to arise whereby each student would spy on the other. There is no place
for the honor system in a friendly university.
Dagmar Fripp: I believe it would be a better idea to raise the general scholastic standard of the University by a more rigid cut system and by setting more specific deadlines when work is due, before attempting to introduce the honor system, which naturally follows a high scholastic standing.
Robert Masterson: Personally, I don’t think it would work although I admit that use of the “honor pledge” might prove a helpful innovation.
Roberta Scott: I think the University is more ready for the honor system now than it was a few years ago when the system was tried and proven a failure. I think, too, that it would take some time before the school got properly educated to it.
Robert Callaghan: It just won’t work out. The student body is not ready for it, and besides, it puts those who find their friends cheating in an embarrassing position.
Grant Stockdale: I think the honor system should be given a fair trial and then if it proves a failure, it can always be discarded.
Educators Want Open Athletics
College Heads Lead Fight To Bring Into Light Pay For Players
[INTERCOLLEGIATE PRESS]
New York, N. Y.—Within the past few months, statements from several authorities on college athletics are significant and offer further evidence that the trend toward further and closer analysis of the relationships that exist between athletic programs and the well-being of the college or university is becoming marked.
A few have seen fit to bring the touchy subject of above-board compensation to football players into the open.
A progressive viewpoint on the subject was voiced by President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College when he stated that he would be perfectly willing to print in the school catalog the price paid for a fullback. Dean Adams of Oklahoma University voiced an opinion favoring the open and above board compensation to college football players for services they render.
Still another viewpoint has been expressed by Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, who, recently pointed out in his biennial report on the university to the board of regents that:
“Certain claims are set up by the friends of American sports. One is that they increase attendance at universities that have successful teams; another is that they increase the revenues of these institutions; and a third is that they help to improve the educational work of such institutions Not a single one of these claims is true.”
Incidentally, Dr. Coffman suggested an eight-point program to deflate intercollegiate football that has elicited a lot of comment and argument. This program includes the fol lowing points: no professionalism; high scholarship standards for athletes; games between natural rivals; reduction of athletic gate receipts; and reduction of athletic expenses
Shy Mme. Novaes Gives Polished Performance
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AUDIENCE OF 1500 WITNESSES BRILLIANT CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT
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Wed to the leading causes of war.
By Joseph Title
Before an audience of approximately 1500 persons, the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Volpe conducting, and Guiomar Novaes, pianist, as soloist presented the most polished concert of the season so far at Orchestra Hall last Monday evening.
With quaint coiffure, looking almost shy, Mme. Novaes made her appearance to play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Mme. Novaes possesses those rare attributes for which she is so triumphantly proclaimed. The ease with which she plays suits the apparent simplicity of Beethoven. Perhaps none of Beethoven’s concertos are as familiar as this work. It is interesting to note that this composition along with the immortal Fifth Symphony were composed in that turbulent year 1805 when Napoleon entered Vienna. The depressing Beethoven is movement
effect this had on evident in the second the Andante con moto.
There is an air of tragic dolefulness prevalent throughout the movement. The Rondo movement seems to depict the militarism that Napoleon’s devastating visit to Vienna had upon Bee-
COED LAW STUDENT GETS RASCO AWARD
Miss Barrister!
A true descendant of the impassioned Portia is Miss Betty Spiez-man at the University of Miami. What Shakespeare’s heroine did to the jury, Miss Spiezman does with her law books, having attained the highest average in the Law School during her freshman year.
The award, a set of Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, which is an invaluable asset to law students and attorneys, is donated every year by Dean Russel A. Rasco, as an incentive to young law students for ferreting and delving into the maze of jurisprudence.
thoven.
Mme. Novaes’ rendition of the concerto was received most enthusiastically and without any preliminaries, the soloist launched into her first encore, Gluck’s Les Aires de Ballet. The weird, modernistic Dance of Terror by the young Spanish composer De Falla followed as the second encore. And then Mme. Novaes surprised the audience with a short composition, “The March of the Little Soldier” by her architect-composer husband, Octavio Pinto.
The orchestral part of the program was rich in variety. The concert opened with an up-to-tempo reading of the Glinka Overture to Russian and Ludmilla which was followed by Dvorak’s “New World Symphony, the Largo of which was particularly beautiful with the main theme being handled with excellent treatment by the French horn. The program was concluded with the Oriental Polovet-zian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin.
Thespians Plan “Tillie” Revival
University Players Will Repeat Old Favorite February 25-26
“Tillie, the Mennonite Maid” the comedy by Helen R. Martin will be repeated by the dramatics department with many of the original members of the cast next Thursday and Friday evenings, February 25th and 26th in the University auditorium.
Done four years ago, “Tillie” is the most successful comedy presented by the department.
The play concerns the Mennonites, a boy of religionists who were driven from Europe and settled in Pennsylvania. They are known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch,” a group of people familiar to many members of the fac ulty and the public. They always dress in black and are very thrifty. Not much is known about them.
Nedra Brown will again have the lead of “Tillie,” which she played when she was a freshman. James Parrott again has the part of the father. Victor Levine also has his old part of the awkward country lug. James North will repeat his role of the famous Mennonite brethren.
Others in the cast are Jacqueline Paulk, who has the part of Mrs. Wagernagel, an old Pennsylvania Dutch woman. This is a departure from what Miss Paulk usually does It will be her third dialect part.
John Madigan will be “Doc” Weaver; the other brethren are Bob Butell and Russell Hall; “Wheezy” will be handled by Ferrell Allen, and Mrs Gets, Tillie’s mother will be interpreted by Mrs. Hester.
Child Psychology Is Discussed On Radio
Questions concerning problems in child psychology were discussed on the “Classroom of the Air” program Tuesday afternoon by Brad Franklin student announcer, and Helene Couch and Phillip Fenigson. This was the introduction of the psychology department on the air. Evelyn Plagman Jones supplied the background of music.
Tomorrow afternoon the University Mixed Chorus will offer several numbers under the direction of Miss Bertha Foster.
Town-Gown Hears Hardman And Glee Club At Meeting
Faculty Members, Students Will Present Views On Project
SYSTEM TESTED
Observance of Honor Week will culminate in an assembly tomorrow morning. The project, which is being sponsored by the Student Senate and conducted by the Honor Court, was inaugurated Monday with a meeting at which Dean Henry S. West, and Milton Gaynor, a student, talked on the possibilities of establishing the honor system here.
The object of the project is to evaluate the various methods of the honor system now in operation, to influence and stimulate the interest of the high schools by means of publicity, and to attract favorable or unfavorable comment from the person who would be affected by it.
With these objects in mind, the assembly program will be conducted tomorrow, featuring three student speakers, John Esterline, president of the Florida Student Government Association; Nat Glogowski, president of the student body; and Felix Mc-Kernan, president of the senior class. The faculty speakers will be Henry S. West, dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Lewis G. Leary, instructor in English, and William Hester of the Law School. The student speakers will discuss fully the outlook of the students they represent. The instructors will confine their talks to reviewing the Honor System in practice. Helene Couch, vice-president of the student body, will introduce the speakers.
The Honor System was attempted once before in the University but proved unsuccessful due to the fact that the students failed to cooperate with the members of the faculty.
The first experiment that the Honor Court attempted this week was the unsupervised sale of apples conducted in the University patio Wednesday noon. A box of apples was placed on a table with no other sign than a piece of paper denoting the fact that the apples were priced at three cents apiece. The experiment proved successful, receipts showing a surplus over the cost of the apples.
In his talk before the Senate Monday, Dr. West stated that it was degrading to the professor to watch over his class and insulting to the student to be watched.
Gaynor stated that he was aware of the fact that cheating conditions existed here at Miami and that a new system was necessary. The feeling of responsibility that can be established in the student through the use of the Honor System now would be carried through life. He also believes that this system can be made a great tradition at the University of Miami.
Should Practice Law For Common Good
Warner Hardman, concert pianist, was feature guest artist at the meeting of Town and Gown held last Thursday in the University Auditorium. The University Glee Club was also presented on the program.
Mr. Hardman played Bach’s “Bourrée” and “Waltz in E Minor” by Chopin. The Glee Club, a University organization of mixed voices, was directed by Miss Bertha Foster and accompanied by Mr. Hardman. They sang the popular Liszt composition, “Liebestraum.”
A social hour followed the musical program. The next meeting of the group will he held the second Thursday in March.
New York, N.Y. (ACP)—Practice law for the comfnon good, not the money, is the text of the address delivered by the University of Chicago’s Pres. Robt. Maynard Hutchins to lawyers and judges assembled at the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association.
“The rise of the University law schools from the seventies paralleled the rise of the great corporations and the tremendous expansion of American history. The bar entered on a new phase, and the law school went with it,” said the former Dean of Yale’s law school.
“This was probably the first time in our history when it came to be taken for granted that the bar was the servant of commerce, industry and finance. It became possible for lawyers to amass substantial fortunes. As the bar came to see the law as a means of making money, law students inevitably came to see it in the same light.
“All I am attempting to point out,” he continued, “is that if the aim of the bar is financial success, and if the best way of achieving it is guile, students are not likely to be much interested in a course of study resting on the notion that law is a learned profession and that a university is a place for the pursuit of truth and the cultivation of the intellectual virtues.”
In a chiding manner, Hutchins declared that “the bar has enthusiastically opposed successive reforms in legal education because lawyers are conservative, but more, perhaps because lawyers have a limited notion of the professional field.”
“The present character test in New York, though better than nothing, is farical,” “To what branch of legal education does the bar look for a contribution to the character of the can-(Continued on Page Four)