Miami Hurricane, February 7, 1936

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Chasins Plays Brilliantly In Miami Concert
Audience Captivated by Composer-Pianist in Weekly Monday Program
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Adult Education Division Opens Extensive Program
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Advance Enrollment of 260 Is Largest on Record; Not Open to Students
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Abram Chasins, eminent young American composer-pianist captivated a large audience last Monday evening when he appeared as soloist with the University Symphony orchestra in the auditorium of the Miami Senior High School.
In the three movements of the Schumann A Minor concerto the soloist displayed a musical genius that has seldom been equalled in Miami. Mr. Chasins graceful phrasing deserves the highest of praise. He deals with every note, no matter how seemingly unimportant, as though everything depended upon its correct interpretation, and in the last movement of the concerto he demonstrated a technique that was flowing, clean, and remarkably brilliant. With such genius it is little wonder that at the age of thirty-two he holds the admir able and envied position of an out standing concert artist.
Dr. Volpe and the orchestra members are also due a great deal of credit for the fine support they afforded the soloist in the concerto, but too much praise cannot be given them for their fine performance of the Cesar Franck D Minor Symphony and Enesco’s Roumanian Rhapsody. The Cesar Franck Symphony is one of the most popular among concert goers and musicians, and the reason is quite evident when one hears the beautifully quaint themes weave through the woodwinds, strings, and brass, until finally in the last movement the entire orchestra joins in the main theme bringing the symphony to a thrilling close.
The Roumanian Rhapsody, a lively orchestra number built on Roumanian themes and dances, completed well planned program, performed in a most masterly fashion by soloist conductor, and orchestra.
Mr. Chasins spoke very highly of Dr. Volpe and the university orchestra. He said “Dr. Volpe is due high credit for a superb job. I am proud to play with the university orchestra and I feel it a privilege and an honor to be associated with it.”
Enrollment for the fifth annual Adult Education curriculum, under the direction of Dr. D. E. Zook, will open tomorrow at the University for
adults desiring to take special courses in college work.
There are two sessions being offered, from four to six p.m., and from seven-thirty to nine-thirty, five days a week, not including Saturday and Sunday.
Students of the University are not permitted to enroll unless the subjects are required for graduation and the student cannot include them in his regular schedule.
The large number of teachers attending the Adult classes is due to the recent decree of the Dade County School Board that all teachers must have their degrees by 1940.
The enrollment has increased from 225 last year to 260 this year. This increase gives to the Adult division its largest enrollment yet recorded.
Fifty-two different courses are being offered in natural sciences, his tory, sociology, mathematics, music, education, psychology, art, modern languages, and business law.
Otis Skinner Speaks In Town Hall Series
Through the kindness of the Junior League, four dramatics students of the University were able to hear the lecture by Otis Skinner, famous ac tor, at the Town Hall in the Miami Biltmore Hotel last Sunday night.
The lecture consisted of Mr. Skin ner’s stage reminisences and excerpts from some of his most famous roles The first of these excerpts was from the role of Shylock.
The actor changed his mood from Shylock to the beloved old hurdy-gurdy man in Mister Antonio, the play which Booth Tarkington wrote for Otis Skinner. Though attired in the conventional evening dress, Mr. Skinner captured Antonio so well that he seemed costumed for the role.
Mr. Skinner was introduced to his audience by George Ade, the novelist.
New Play Tryouts to be
Held This Afternoon
Joint Convention of Student Groups Meet Here In April
Second Time Miami Is Host to Florida Intercollegiate Press Association
The fifth presentation of the University Players for the school year will be “Barbara Frietchie” on February 26th and 27th.
Mrs. Opal Euard Motter, who will direct the play, has chosen Nedra Brown to play the title role. The rest of the cast will be chosen at try-outs which will be held this afternoon in the auditorium.
This play was adapted from the musical comedy, “My Maryland,” which had a successful run in New York. It will be presented in costume.
Pan American Exposition Is Miami's Desire
Com. Alexander Orr Favors Project; Foreign Consuls Fear Approval
A joint convention of the Florida student government and the Florida Inter - Collegiate Press Association will meet in Miami on April 24th and 25th. This is the second time the University of Miami has been host to the convention.
Harry Vetter has been appointed general chairman of the convention and John Esterline program chairman. Beryl Ryden is in charge of registration.
Invitations have been extended to Southern University, Stetson University, Rollins College, the University of Florida, Florida State College for Women, St. Petersburg Junior College, and the University of Tampa.
Last year the University of Florida was host to the convention.
Plans for the Pan American Exposition were pushed ahead last week when the Miami Chamber of Commerce gave a luncheon for the Latin-American consuls in Miami to discuss the usefulness of such an exposition The plan, as presented by Commissioner Alexander Orr, is to build the exposition building in Miami at the cost of two million dollars to the United States government. The Latin American countries would be asked to buy space in the building to represent the products and resources of their country. The building would also be used by the leading industries of the United States to advertise their manufactures.
Mr. Belaunde, a professor at the University and the Peruvian consul in Miami, represented his native country in the round-table discussion. He and several of his contemporaries feel that the plan will not meet the approval of the Latin American countries. People of Latin America feel that Miami must be a connecting link between New York and South America before their countries could invest in the exposition.
Mr. Belaunde said he believed that if a person interested in the exposition were to visit Latin America he might be able to influence the government in supporting the plan and also give the South Americans a better idea of the value of Miami.
International Relations Club Reorganizes
Over Three Hundred Colleges Have Similar Chapters; Belaunde is Sponsor
the first meeting of the International Relations Club yesterday, the following officers were elected: Ruiz Cortez, president; Philip Hess, vice-presided. Edna Fieffer, secretly; and Porterio Perez, treasurer.
"the International Relations Club meets to study international relations and problems, and to promote goodwill» especially with the Pan-American euntries,” Hess said, in explain-in& the purpose and history of the club. “Last year the club was inactive because of lack of cooperation.”
Rafael Belaunde, who is spon-soring the.group, said, “We hope for a rebirth of the club this year. The International Relations Club is important in that it helps to link its members with some three hundred colleges in the United States in which 1b has been organized. We are very f°rtunate in having Dr. Zamora inter-ested in the club and we hope that the group will be active from now on. Twenty or thirty books a year, as weU as many pamphlets, are sent to us by the Carnegie Foundation Endowment for use by the club.
The club will meet every other Thursday at 7:30 in the Social room.
Language Students Will See Series of Foreign Pictures
First Showing on Feb 11; Proceeds to be Used for Library; Admission Forty Cents
FURORE IN PHYSICS LABORATORY DUE TO LAD’S EXPERIMENTS
Freshman Frolics Will
Be Given Next Saturday
The second annual Freshman Frolics will be given in the auditorium on Saturday evening, February 15, at 8 p.m. Following the show there will be dancing in the cafeteria, lotal admission will be twenty-five cents per person.
Although the turnout of talent for the production was good, there has been very little cooperation from the freshman class. Victor Levine, director, asks that more freshmen who wish to participate in the Frolics report to him immediately. ____________
Delta Tau Sorority is Result of
Merger of Two Smaller Groups
The Autumn term of 1932 witnessed the merging of Alpha Delta and Theta Tau sororities into Delta Tau of the University of Miami. Thus, two small clubs united to form one strong sorority.
This group of seventeen members immediately became an outstanding organization on the campus. From the beginning they were athletically minded. They also entered into other college activities with zest.
Complete recognition came through their fine achievements. Every year Delta Tau has won many of the sPort trophies besides other extracurricula cups. They are an organization of very active women students. Most of their members are well known throughout the student body and vicinity of Miami.
Officers: acting president, Roberta Scott; vice-president, Nedra Brown; secretary, Betty MacDonald; treas-Urer> Mary Etna Terrell; historian,
Eleanor Cowart; pledge captain, Myrtle Wills; athletic manager, Margaret McElree.
Active members: Nedra Brown, Patricia Cluney, Eleanor Cowart, Jackie Gates, Joanne Goeser, Betty Goff, Betty MacDonald, Ernestine McCartney, Margaret McElree, Emily Rolston, Roberta Scott, Winnie Lee Stephens, Mary Etna Terrell, Freddie Walta, and Myrtle Wills.
Pledges: Dottie Mae Buddmgton, Shirley Martin, Martha Myers, Mary Jane Richardson, and June Burr who is known to the swimming world as one of their most promising young stars. She has won several nationa records and is still going or Atlas Ayres, former president Corina Washburn have just recen y
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the basketball tournament Monday
1936 from the Sigma
Old X-Ray Tube, Spark Coil, and Veri-chrome Film Form Basic Apparatus
Inventive genius desires nothing but the bare necessities of apparatus at least that is true according to the example shown by two of our own boys from the Physics department. Austin Clark, university photographer, and Randle De Hart, University rontgenologist (ex-rayist to the layman) were the two lads responsible for the furore.
Howard Bredlau of the University allowed his hand to be used as the object of an x-ray experiment. Much to his surprise it was found that his little finger was broken in the middle joint and not at the main joint as had been supposed.
Instead of using specially treated x-ray film for the photo, veri-chrome film, wrapped in dark paper, took its place. This, with an old x-ray tube and a 250,000 volt spark coil was used. The tube was lowered from a cross bar close to the object to be x-rayed and the rays allowed to pass through the object to contact with the veri-chrome film.
Beginning Tuesday, February 11, and on every Tuesday thereafter until March 10, the foreign language department of the University will indurate a series of foreign talking Pictures as part of their program to a'd those students who are studying S01he foreign language. These movies, which will be given in the auditorium, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Student admission wiH be forty cents and proceeds will be used to purchase additional foreign language text books and novels for the library.
On Tuesday, February 11, a German film, “The Blue Light” will be Presented. Other on the program will be as follows: February 18, “A Nous Ta Liberte” (French) ; February 25, "Crime and Punishment (French) ; March 3, “Kreuzer Emden” (German) ; and March 10, “Los Enemigos” (Spanish).
Symphony Concert Will Display Student Talent
No Official Assembly
Program Until Feb, 14
The assembly period today will be set aside for Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. meetings.
Next week assembly will be held at the regular time with Mrs. Motter’s dramatic class presenting a short melodrama entitled “How the Hardship Handicap Was Won, or, Beauty is Skin Deep.”
On February 21, the assembly period will be devoted to the various class meetings.
A lecture on finger-printing will be the feature of the assembly program on February 28.
Shakespearean ComedyRevived At Beach Cinema
Slightly Reduced Rates to be Given to U. Students for Thursday p.m. Showing
Through cooperation with the management of the Community Playhouse on Miami Beach, the University of Miami Players Association will be able to secure student tickets for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at slightly reduced prices. The tickets will be good only on Thursday, February 13th, for the evening performance which begins at 8:30. The owners of the Community Playhouse have designated this night as University night.
Tickets will go on sale Monday morning at the University box office and will be taken off Wednesday afternoon.
This play is a presentation of the Warner Brother’s Corporation who retain Max Reinhardt as producer. Ballet directions were by the famous Russian artist, Bronislava Nijinska, a descendant of the great Russian actor of the same name.
The producers of this play consider it the most academic play they have yet produced. Among the stars in the cast of over one thousand are Dick Powell, Ian Hunter, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, Otis Harlan, Victor Jory, and Mickey Rooney.
college course in sex hygiene asked
Dr. H. Briggs Is Speaker at Miami Women’s Club
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On Tuesday afternoon, February 4, Dr. Harold Briggs spoke at a luncheon of the Miami Women’s Club ir Coral Gables. The subject of his talk was, “Study of History as an Aid to Modern Life.”
At the request of the Club, Dr. Briggs made special reference to the work of Washington and Lincoln in his speech, owing to the fact that the birthdays of these two eminent men are celebrated during this month.
(Associated Collegiate Press) Establishment of a course in sex hygiene has been asked of Butler University officials by the school’s student council. Frank Demmerly, council president, said the organization is recommending a recognized 'Authority be obtained to teach the class and that men and women be St'ouped for free discussion.
“If college students are given proper instruction in sex matters by recognized authorities,” Demmerly said, “we feel that such information may •Hake as great a contribution to a happy and healthful life as any other offering now found in the curriculum.” The National Student Federation °f America at its national convention at Kansas City during the Christmas holidays recommended that all colleges consider seriously the need for sex education.
Dr. Riis Owre Addresses Women's Club in Miami
Dr. Riis Owre, assistant professor of Spanish, delivered a speech before the Miami Women’s Club last Tuesday. The subject of his speech was “Comparison of 17th Century Drama in Spain. France, and England,” the ora known as the Golden Age of Spanish drama.
STAFF MEETING
Ibis staff meeting every Tuesday at 12:30 in the auditorium (room on the left at front entrance.) All members please attend.
University Group Will Play Special Arrangement; Staltman Soloist
Walter E. Sheaffer, conductor of the University of Miami symphonic band, has arranged a composition for band that will make the next concert of the organization at 8:30 p. m. Monday at Orchestra hall, Miami Senior High school auditorium, particularly interesting.
The composition is “The Last Spring,” by Grieg. “It was originally a string quartet,” Sheaffer says. “Frederick Stoca, conductor of the Chicago symphony orchestra some time ago arranged it for a full string orchestra, and they made a record of it, which is now out of print. The composition was then arranged for a small orchestra with woodwinds and horns.
“Recently I was so taken with the thing that I thought I would arrange it for band. It has turned out to be, I believe, a very nice composition, and I think a large section of the audience will enjoy it.”
Charles Staltman, flutist, and a student at the university, will be soloist at this concert. He will play Demersseman’s “Le Tremelo,” a composition which takes its name from the trills of the finale.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at Philpitt’s Music store and at Bur-dine’s Lincoln Road shop, Miami Beach.
Several New Features Added to 1935-36 Ibis
Prose and Poetry Composed by Students, and Pictures Requested at Once
Senior Lawyers Hold Moot Court Sessions
Senior law students hold a moot court in the Juvenile Courtroom at the Courthouse in Miami every Monday afternoon from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This week’s class project is the trying of an accident case. Amos Benjamin and Joe Booth are the attorneys for the plaintiff; Sam Kanner and Harry Gray, attorneys for the defense. Lee Worley, a prominent Miami attorney, is acting as judge.
“All interested students of the University are invited to attend any of the sessions,” stated Dean Rasco, head of the Law School.
The 1935-36 edition of the Ibis, the University yearbook, will commemorate the tenth anniversary of the University. Features this year include a special Alumni section, giving news of alumni successes; a literary section, devoted to outstanding work both in prose and poetry done by students during the past years; and individual pictures of both the Junior and Senior classes.
Any students desiring to submit work for the literary section may leave their manuscripts for Isabel Hanson at the post office.
All sororities, fraternities, and other social organizations are requested to give a list of their officers and members and a brief account of their history to Roxie Lewis. All snapshots of yourself, your friends, or your fraternity should be left at the post office for Dave Duncan.
NOTICE
“Winter Institute attendance cards mu^t be handed in before credit can be given to any student,” announced Dr. Orton Lowe, director of the Institute.
Students who have lost their cards should see Dr. Lowe immediately.
Machine to Weigh Body
Segments Invented by Zook
By Ray Reiner
Dr. Earl Zook, Director of the Adult Education Division and professor of Education at the University of Miami through his ingenuity has invented two machines capable of measuring and weighing the volume of the human body, or any of its segments by means of water displacement. As early as 1754 attempts were made at this, but none met with great success. Dr. Zook’s invention is by far the most accurate machine for that purpose invented to date.
The descriptions and workings of the machines used in this work are too long to be included in this article and must therefore be omitted. Anyone interested in detailed information on the machines should see Dr. Zook who would be more than glad to explain its operation.
Through the experiments tried, it was found that subjects measured in water were generally taller than those measured in air, this variation being from 0 to 134 inches. The reason for this being that there was no pressure on the backbone or on the
fleshy pads of the feet.
The purpose of this study is to present a new method of studying physical growth by means of water displacement. It opens an entirely new field and makes possible the location of lags and spurts in growth for each of the segments in an individual or for a whole group. The chief value of this method will probably come when measurements have been made on the same subjects throughout their period of growth.
Since the measurements can be completed in eight minutes, the machine will be of great value as a research device to be used in school health work and other fields of medicine. Another use of it is in the manufacture of artificial limbs. It is possible to replace a lost limb with one of identical size and weight, thus preserving the balance of the body.
A measurement on the specific gravity apparatus alone would be meaningless, but if a subject is measured on both machines, it is possible to secure the length, volume, specific gravity, and weight of any segment

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