Miami Hurricane, February 16, 1934

              urricane
T HE OFFICIAL STUD ENT PUBLICATION
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, February 16, 1934
No. 17
delta showboat shoves off tonight
this week
STANLEY B. ROSE
Student Forum
Honor Code p I p. A. Convention
A representative group of Miami
students attended the first open
student forum held last Monday night. The h°nor c°de was the subect for debate and to all appearances the students are not in sympathy with it. The reasons given were rather vague however the principal objection seems to lie in the provision which calls for reporting other students who are seen violating the code. No one it appears is anxious t6 be a tale bearer or looks with favor upon such a being. We are told that we are too young to have an honor code and here lies the real truth. Until the student body is mature enough to realize its real purpose in going to college, that getting an education is much more important than getting high grades, it will never be able to abide by an honor code. Why not forget about other students cheating in exams or violating the code in any other way? Why not be individuals concerned in our own welfare, determined to get the best we can out of college without worrying about what our fellow students are doing? If each of us were able to examine our own mode of behavior and tell ourselves frankly that we are content with ourselves then and only then will we be ready to establish an effective honor system. Then and only then will we be developing the true character which a college education should give us.
CALENDAR
Fri., Feb. 16—Delta Tau sponsor-mg a Showboat dance in the University Gym, 9:30 p.m.
Press Convention at Southern officially begins.
Sat., Feb. 17 — Betty and Louise Herbert, Millie Iba entertaining at tea honoring Patty Eisen-mayer, 4 p.m.
Mon , Feb. 19 — Sorority and fraternity meetings.
Fri., Feb. 23 — Lambda Phi Shipwreck dance.
Extension Dept*
To Begin Spring Term Next Week
Additional Courses Will Given At Extension If Requested
Be
Most impressive about the forum
was the fact that there are really students among us who do give constructive thought to such issues. We may venture to say that participating in these forums is absolutely equivalent educationally to attending a week of classes. Those students who do not attend are missing an integral part of their college education. The aim of the forum, as expressed by Aileen Booth, is to foster the mental acquaintanceship of those whom we would not ordinarily meet socially. This interpreted in its true sense is commendable.
The spring session of the University of Miami extension division will open on Monday, February 19, at the downtown branch of the University on Northeast Second Avenue and Fourteenth Street. Registration will be conducted in the auditorium at the University building on Saturday from eight-thirty until one-thirty.
Courses will not be conducted for less than ten students, and all classes which do not have the required number of students registered at the organization meeting of the class will not be continued. Additional courses other than those which are scheduled will be offered if there are enough students to organize the courses. Fees are five dollars per credit, as heretofore.
Candidates for L. I. certificate or baccalaureate degree art urged to submit to the registrar official transcripts of work done in other (Continued on Page Six)
Koger Withdraws Ibis Resignation And Work Begins
President Ashe Appoints Ibis Board Composed Of Five Members
To direct the general destinies of the Yearbook for 1934, or perhaps an Ibis, and to insure the best possible publication, President Ashe appointed an “annual board” early this week composed of five members including Aileen Booth, Stuart Patton, James Koger, Jack Daly and Harold Humm. Koger has withdrawn his resignation and will be editor of the annual; Humm is business manager and Daly, advertising manager. At the second meeting of the board held on Tuesday of this week, Stuart Patton was elected chairman and Aileen Booth, secretary.
Work Begun
This action on the part of President Ashe settled the question concerning the major staff positions in an expedient manner and saw action begun in all departments on the publication. The board will be held jointly responsible for all phases of the book and all major problems confronting the department heads will be referred to it before action is taken. Under this arrangement James Koger withdrew his resignation and accepted the editorship. The responsibility which rested on him under the previous arrangement, to which he had objected, has been distributed equally on each member of the board.
Ibis or Yearbook?
The outstanding question which arose at the second board meeting was whether the book would be an Ibis (regular annual) or a yearbook. The question was not settled and probably will not be until a more definite estimate can be made of the amount which can be expected as income from advertising. Three (Continued on Page Si-x)
Newsmen at Southern
Four delegates left yesterday morning for Southern College at Lakeland, Florida to attend the ninth annual convention of the Florida Intercollegiate Press Association. Jack Daly is representing the Ibis and Edith Pen-treath, Olga Minor and Stanley Rose, the Hurricane. Harold Humm is vice-president of the association.
The delegates registered late yesterday in time to represent Miami at a special officers meeting held after registration. Today they are attending various business and social meetings on the convention program. The convention will terminate tomorrow with a trip to Tampa and the delegates will return Sunday.
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Gallows Gate” Is Third Production Of Organization
University Players Present Prize-Winning Drama By Douglas
Hervey Allen, Padraic Colum, Virgil Barker Will Close Winter Institute
The editorial staffs of the “Hurricane” and “Ibis” left yesterday morning for a brief sojourn in Lakeland, Florida where they are attending the F.I.P.A. convention. Harold Humm is vice-president of the association and will conduct a round-table discussion on business management of college publications. The convention is held every year to foster improvements in Florida college publications. It awards a Prize each year to the paper which |shows the greatest improvement °ver the preceding year. Southern Col.ege is host to the convention this year.
The man at the University of . isconsin who breaks in new pipes ln order to finance an education Probably has a waiting list after
Interesting Lectures Will Be Heard From Each Of Speakers
the
manner of the man who built
the better mouse trap.
The closing week of the 1934 Winter Institute of Literature will find three eminent speakers on the University rostrum. Hervey Allen, a Miami visitor of long standing, will conclude the literary sessions with his discussion of the trends in the modern novel, while the inimitable Padraic Colum will continue his lectures from the following week on Irish poets and poetry. 'Virgil Barker, regular University lecturer and art critic, will round out the program with his talks on the origins and survival of art.
Mr. Allen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has spent winters in Miami since boyhood. He has been instructor and lecturer in English at Columbia and Vassar. He has published several volumes of poetry and a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, “Israfel.” His first novel, “Toward the Flame,” was published in 1926. His last novel ’“Anthony
Adverse” is now the
best seller in the United States, and is a distinguished contribution to the literature of fiction.
Padraic Colum is, decidedly, a product of his nativity, but he has spent a good part of the last fifteen years here in America. At the age of twenty he became a member of the group that created the Irish National Theatre, later known as The Abbey Theatre. As well as poetry, he has written many tales for young people, and a travel book entitled “The Road ’Round Ireland.” “Orpheus” is an account of the mythology of the nations, and his most scholarly work.
Mr. Barker is a native of Virginia, has had a broad experience as curator in art galleries and as an art critic, and has resided in famous art center of the world for purposes of study. He has been special assistant in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, curator of paintings in the department of fine arts of Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, and director of the Art Institute in Kansas City. An article entitled “The Search for Americanism” has just appeared (Continued on Page Six)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ prize winning, “Gallows Gate” was given last night at the Coral Gables Elementary School. This was the third production of the University of Miami players. The play holds the distinction of being the first full-length play which has ever been written using local Florida material.
It begins with the great freeze of ’94 which made history in Orange county and all middle Florida and which was the reason for the development of Miami, a place where citrus fruit could be grown without the menace of frost. The second act of the play deals with the early homesteading of land in south Florida and the effect of that pioneer life on the second generation of developers.
The very title of the play springs from the fact that in the day's of hangings in Dade county they used to put a stockade around the old Dade county courthouse yard and erect the gallows within, out of sight of Flagler street.
The play was directed by Opal Euard Motter with Franklin Harris as managing director. Ruth Roberts, who played in the original one-act play, took the part of Mrs. Mc-Devitt, the dominating character of the production. Russell Rasco played Mr. McDevitt and Andrew Shaw and James Neary, the two sons, George and Joe McDevitt. Others in the cast were: Junius Wiggington, Bill Maloney, James Thayer, Sarah Klefeker. Victor Levine, Doris Glendenning, John Carroll, and Charles Heckman.
Novel Sorority Dance Will Be In Girls' Gym
Old Plantation Theme To Be Carried Out In Decorations
Tonight at 9:30 the much feted Delta Tau Showboat embarks on a melody cruise from its dock in the girl’s gymnasium. The cruise will take us through southern waters into the heart of the old cotton plantations. The southern atmosphere will be carried out entirely.
Francis Day, general chairman of the dance, will pilot the boat, while Betty Harley will see that all passengers are entertained in a royal manner with the utmost of southern hospitality. Helen Roderick, Nedra Brown, and Ruth Sims have plotted the boat’s course through heretofore unchartered seas, with a view at once toward safety but still combining thrills. Roberta Scott is in charge of tickets, and will be assisted by Don-elda Sanborne and Olga Minor. Beryl Ryden will perform the duties of “barker” and general publicity director.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilmer C. Nelson and Mrs. E. Morton Miller will act as chaperones.
The Utopian orchestra and an uniquely themed floor show will contribute in good measure toward the entertainment of the passengers. Twenty-five cents per person will cover the embarking fee.
Shipwreck Dance To Be Given Soon
S. O. S. Calling all ships!
The Lambda Phi sorority will give its Fourth Annual Shipwreck dance Friday, February 23 at 9:30 in the University Gym. Ruth Lutz is chairman of the affair with Kaye Daniels, Marguerite Gillespie, Louise Herbert, and Helen Bartholomew assisting her as committee heads. The gym will be transposed in form of a wrecked ship with flags, life savers, anchors adding to the decorations. An underwater atmosphere will be developed. Scandalous “college activities” will be filmed in Davy Jones’Locker. An orchestra will furnish music for dancing.
Those who attend the dance are asked to dress fitting for the occasion. Admission will be 50c for gob with or without mate.
RELATIONS CLUB MET LAST NIGHT
RADIO PROGRAMS
Wednesday, Feb. 14 — Musical Program by Mrs. Hannah Asher.
Thursday, Feb. 15—Program by the Spanish department.
Friday, Feb. 16—J. H. Clouse of the physics department will talk.
Monday, Feb. 19—Dr. Gifford will talk on “Tropical Forestry.”
Tuesday, Feb. 20—Student Program.
Wednesday, Feb. 21—Musical program by Mrs. Von Paulson.
Thursday, Feb. 22—Program by
At the regular meeting of the International Relations Club held last night Mr. McNichol and several student members gave then .predictions concerning the type oi government the United States would have in the next decade Socialism, Communism, Dictator ships and our Democracy were discussed by club members.
The club has recently receivec a number of new books from the Carnegie Endowment of New York The three outstanding of these are “Germany Under the Third Reich,’ “Government and Politics in Italy’ and one on the “New Deal.”
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