Miami Hurricane, April 13, 1934

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Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, April 13, 1934
|,\N AMERICAN CELEBRATION BEGINS AT 10:30
Change MASTER of ceremonies
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By JOHN BARRETT. L.L.D.
mr General of the Pan American Form« Dirwashiniton and former United U"ion tZ and Minister to Arf.ent.na, St3teSi,fa and PPan^ma, etc.
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{Spele light of the great new In American cultural, political, rnmic and social era which is |CTahe^d of the United States jUd the other Western Hemisphere 1 tries, there must and will be Ufl established at some suitable s°°” or port on the Atlantic, enf6 or pacific coasts of either
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W-wide and world-recognized P American University”, act-ally carrying that significant and mprehensive name.
Such a university will be either I voived from some present high (educational institution or newly founded and endowed, but there is feeling, growing stronger every year, among not only the cultural and social but economic and commercial leaders of public opinion throughout the Western Hemisphere that the establishment of a distinctive Pan American Univerity will not be long delayed.
Naturally it should have its site in that city or port best located for the convenience of the entire Western Hemisphere. That site should possess climatic, geographical, cultural, social and economic ¿[vantages, including perfect ac-essibility, which will make a special appeal to all classes of North and South Americas.
From my own observations and contacts, official and unofficial, throughout the Western Hemisphere, I am aware that, in the opinion of a majority of most [persons who have studied this question, whether they reside in the United States, in Canada, or in Latin America, Metropolitan Miami approaches nearer to being the ideal home of such a University than any city or port located on the coast lines of North and South America.
While the University of Miami has done and is doing very notable and even extraordinary work in the field of possible activities for a Pan American University, for ^hich its trustees, president, faculty and student body deserve ■Peeial credit, it has only begun 0 develop the immeasurable [Potentialities of the opportunity. [Notwithstanding the fact that
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Mr. Rafael Belaunde, Jr., acting head of the Latin-American department, will be in charge of the special assembly program given at 10:30 this morning.
University To Be Open To Visitors All Day Wednesday
Students Urged to Cooperate Make Sun-Sea-Air-A Day a Success
Preparations are under way for the University of Miami “Sun-Sea-Air-A” day to be held next Wednesday. Hundreds of visitors are expected to be in and out of the University on that day and will be enabled to see all phases of uni versity life.
Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson is in charge of arrangements and is urging all students to cooperate, first, by remaining at school dur ing the entire day; second, by do ing something to help and, third, by extending a special invitation to parents and friends to visit school that day. Regular classes will be held and visitors will be invited to come and go as they please. All departments will put on a special feature, especially the sciences. The music depart ment will give an unusual concert.
The program, as a whole, prom ises to be an event well worth the time of everyone who is not daily visitor to the university. A special edition of The Hurricane will be given every visitor, the front page of which will be arranged as a handy guide.
Zeta Phi To Present Its Annual
Carnival Dance In Patio Tonight
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% i T10rrow n*£ht, the danc-;ttye.° )e held from eight until L* °6^ ^hren’s orchestra will be	music, the patio will
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f°r ^ be a number of gifts ti0n ^ .queen> as well as consola-iiierCharifeS presented by Miami for th V Prizes are also °ffered the est decorated booth and carnival costume.
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Until iJ . Monday and will last Thero	Saturday evening
A program for the evenings entertainment will be presented at the door Saturday evening. Jimmie Abras will be master of ceremonies, Victor Levine will be barker for the Zeta Phi musical show which will be presented at 10:30.
At 11:30 there will be an obstacle dance, the Kalpa club will give a Mickey Mouse show, the Lambda Phis will offer a freak show. The Pi Chi fraternity will have a special side show, the Sigma Phis are building a “House of Terrors”, and the Phi Alphas will have a “Sock the Darky” booth The Delta Sigmas plan to have a hot penny booth, and the Alpha Phi Beta Nu fraternity will sell peanuts and popcorn, the Scarab club, cold drinks, and the Delta Taus, candy.
History of Pan Americanism At the University of Miami
By Prof. Robert E. McNicoll
During the last few years, the annual observance of Pan American Day has rapidly become an occasion of prime importance for u America. From an ideal of local or secular interest, Pan Americanism has grown to the point where it enthralls the imagination of all Americans. Not only Miamians, and Floridians, but people all over the United States, have become aware of the grandeur and the vast importance of the Spanish-American Empire that lies at our door.
It should be a source of pride to us, therefore, to know that no city has been a greater leader in this movement than Miami; and that no institution in America has beer a greater pioneer than the University of Miami. For eight years, the University has pursued a vigorous policy of practical Pan Americanism that has won it international recognition.
The founders of the University, fully cognizant of the significance and the possibilities of Miami’s strategic site, called Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde from Peru to head a special Latin-American department. As a distinguished associate, he had Mr. Cyrus French Wicker, an authority on the Caribbean nations of Latin America. In 1927, Miami was only equalled by one other American college in the number of Latin-American courses offered. Since that time, there have been an average of two hundred students yearly, enrolled in these courses.
As head of the Spanish Department, an integral part of the program of Hispanism, Miami was fortunate enough to secure Dr. Angel Del Rio, an authority on the language and the literature of Spain. With this able faculty, an impulse was given to cultural interest in our Latin neighbors which has influenced all the later programs of the University and of the community.
Miami has been extremely fortunate in having as the personal director of such work, an author of nearly twenty standard books in this field, a man quoted in every authoritative text, and who is himself a leader in the diplomacy and politics of Latin America.
It is no exageration to say that Dr. Belaunde is the outstanding Latin-American in his field, internationally known and respected. In 1932, during his absence, Dr. Luis A. Baralt, noted Cuban statesman and educator, occupied his post at Miami.
The year 1929 marked the loss of Dr. Del Rio, who left to become head of the department of Spanish in the graduate school of Columbia. This loss was compensated for by the gain of Dr. Rafael Belaunde, a lawyer and an expert in economic matters, who introduced a new group of studies, relating to Latin America. This move, again a pioneering one, was approved by the Latin American Economic Congress.
We have had, and have been able to retain, these outstanding leaders. Both Dr. Belaundes, although absent on leave, are still members and heads of the Latin-American Department. They have led a movement in this University and in this community which has interested thousands of students and citizens. Nearly two thousand students have studied Latin-American subjects and the interest in greater Miami has become immense. Last year marked a city-wide observance of Pan American Day, headed by an assemblage at the Biltmore of leaders of American diplomacy. The generosity of Mr. Doherty, with Dr. Belaunde as advisor, brought about a new recognition of the international importance of Miami.
As continuers of the oldest tradition of the University, its Pan Americanism, the present members of the department are glad to see that the movement is one that has become universally popular. Our work in this field, favorably commented upon by international organizations gives us a past, which, of itself, deserves a future. By emphasizing its Pan American character, by continuing and directing the interests of its students, the University is destined to move onward in the vanguard of Pan Americanism.
Junior Prom Has Large Attendance
Miami Biltmore Is Scene of Season’s Outstanding Social Event
What have you for the literary pages of the Yearbook? A poem? A very short-short? A deft character study? Anything you have— put it in the Yearbook mail at the University post office. All manuscripts must be in by next Friday. Do it now!
Nedra McNamara, literary editor
Dramatic Pledges To Give Plays
Two Productions Planned F or Monday Night After Meetings
Next Monday night the Understudies of the University Players, honorary dramatics fraternity of the University, will present two plays as proof of their worthiness to become active members of that organization. These plays will be chosen, cast, and directed by the Understudy group of which Dotty Mae Buddington is the president.
These plays will be presented beginning at 9:00 p.m. in order to give the fraternities and sororities time to conclude their meetings and thus allow their members to be present. Everyone is invited and there will be no admission charge.
The casts include: Victor Levine, Edith Herlong, Mary Francis Roberts. Nedra Brown, James Parrott, Sarah Klefeker, James Neary, Dottie Mae Buddington, Helen Roderick.
The Junior Prom, social high light at the University, was a social and financial success Friday night at the Miami Biltmore Country Club when more than 300 members of the younger set were present. The annual affair was a black and white tropical formal with dec orations in accordance to the occasion. The spacious ballroom and lighted terrace created a beautiful setting for the black and white evening dress of the guests. Junior Prom Class of 1935, was placed in white letters on a black background above the orchestra.
The tropical formal honored the graduating seniors.
Officers of the Junior and Senior classes, and the Prom committee led a grand march at midnight when feminine guest received bracelets bearing the University of Miami seal. Leading the march were Marcia Mulloy and Gwynne Bierkamper, president of the Junior class.
FOR THE YEARBOOK
Bolivar Was First Pan Americanist Declares Belaunde
Life of Great Liberator Is Told In Special Article
By RAFAEL BELAUNDE, JR.
Acting Head of the Latin American Dept.
It is impossible to celebrate Pan American Day without remembering the amazing figure of the Spanish American Liberator and political genius, Simon Bolivar. It is impossible, I say, because he is in many ways the first Pan Americanist, the first visionary of the beautiful reality of today: the Union of a whole Continent.
Born of very wealthy and noble parents, young Bolivar could have expected the pleasant but worthless existence of a playful Creole. Providence had chosen him as the favorite of the gods of Democracy. His star was going to guide him out of the labyrinth of an early life of travels, radical readings, frivolous parties and matrimony. The very premature death of his wife was again a Providential sign of his predestination for the great cause of the South American War of Independence. Trying to forget the spiritual pain caused to his great heart by the death of his wife, our hero tours Europe in the company of his amazing tutor, don Simon Rodriguez, a first class disciple of Rousseau. The cities of Europe, the glories of Napoleon, that he was witnessing, cannot repair the great damage of that loss.
Our pilgrim arrives at Rome, mother of all Latins, sanctuary of classicism. There, at Monte Sacro, before the remains of an Empire, and enthused by the brilliant sunset of the Latium, he pledges himself to the sacred cause of Independence. A beautiful prologue is this for the marvelous drama of the Revolution. The sunset kisses the ruins of the mighty Rome of the past, and illuminates the face of the Hero of' the Modern Age! what any University actually does (Continued on Page Three)
Student Body To Assemble This Morning
Cuba Honored At Meeting; Picture of Marti To Be Given
A compulsory assembly has been scheduled for 10:30 this morning in the assembly hall, at which time will be presented a special assembly in connection with Pan American day. Cuba will be honored in the program at which time a picture of Jose Marti, liberator, will be presented by Dr. Oscar Morales, consul, in behalf of the government of Cuba. Dr. John Barrett, former director-general of the Pan American Union, is to be an honored guest also and will address the assemblage.
The orchestra will provide music of Spanish theme and play the Cuban anthem. Included in the program to be offered by the students of the Latin-American department are Andrew Shaw, senior student in Spanish literature, who will speak on Marti and give a monologue; Ethel Pellagotta, who is to recite a poem by one of Cuba’s leading poetesses, Gertrudis Gomez y de Hoellaneda. Ann Ash, a student in Latin-American relations will speak on the University of Miami and Pan Americanism.
Robert McNicholl, instructor in Spanish will give a short talk on “The Youth Movement in Spanish America”, and Rafael Belaunde, acting head of the Latin-American department, will speak on “Roose-veltian Pan Americanism”, and act as master of ceremonies.
The assembly hall will be decorated with the Cuban colors and the familiar orange, green, and white, of the university. Olga Minor is in charge of the decorations, assisted by Elinor Miksitz, Edith Pentreath, Virginia Hastings, Beryl Ryden, Mary Jo Roberts, Nestor Houghtaling, Roy Waugh and Harold Humm.
Burdick Elected President Of Pi Delt State Council
The state council of the Pi Delta Sigma fraternity held a regular meeting on Saturday, April 7, at the University of Miami for the purpose of electing temporary state officers, to be in office until the state convention which will be held in Miami 'this coming summer.
Officers elected are Everette Burdick, president; James B. Mool, vice-president; Clifford Grethen (U. of Fla.) secretary; Charles Atwater, (U. of Fla.) treasurer.
Ruins At Chi-Chen Itza, Ancient
Maya Capital, Show Two Cities
Article By Phil Hess Tells Of City Over 1,000 Years Old
(From a descriptive essay by Phil Hess)
In the heart of Guatemala’s great jungle in Central America lies the ancient city of Chi-Chen Itza, the capital of the federated Maya states. Part of it in ruins and part of it in excellent preservation, has attracted archaeologists of note. This city, according to investigators, is really composed of two cities. The southern part is believed to have been built a thousand years before the northern part and there is much evidence that the old city was ruthlessly robbed to build the new.
The most ancient part is overgrown by a tropical jungle in
which the chicle tree predominates. Its location is indicated only by an occasional grassy mound whose sides are covered with scattered carved stones. The new city is clearly defined by the buildings which are still standing, some of them in almost perfect preservation.'The entire area covers about twelve square miles.
There seems to be no definite plan in the laying out of the newer city. The edifices seem to have been placed at random, their position considered only with regard to the midday sun. Most of their openings avoid the direct rays. The •city’s location was determined by two great wells which are the work of nature with perhaps some alteration by man.
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