The Stetson Reporter

RTER Second Year—No. 16 MISSION MEETING BRINGS LEADERS TO DELAND TODAY Stetson Polk . are Invited to Hear World Celebrities ATTACK BIG ISSUES Pressing Problems Will Discussed By Noted Speakers Be By KATHRYN MILEY Prominent persons who are out standing in world missionary enterprises and others who lead in the movements for social betterment will be heard on the program of the Florida chain" of Mission Assemblies which will convene today at The First Methodist Church in DeLand, for three days. This local meeting is one of a series of fifteen other such conferences being held over the state of Florida. Stetson folks are invited to attend. Mrs. J. W. Futch is chairman. The Florida, chain originated in DeLand about twenty years ago, with Mrs. W. J. Harkness, local citizen, as one of the co-founders. Growing from a local organization, the movement is now a state group and includes the principal cities of Florida. Among the outstanding speakers for the meeting are: Induk Pak, a representative of Korea; Dr. Bhi- maro; R. Ambedkar, of India; Charles D. Hurrey, Dr. N. C. Me- Pherson, Dr. E. M. Todd and! Miss Muriel Lester, known as the Jane Addams of England, and Rev. E. M. Poteat Jr., former missionary to China. Miss Lester will use as themes for her discussions "The World Crisis", "The Practice of the Presence of God", and "Europe and the Way of Christ." Dr. Poteat, a prominent figure in Southern Baptist circles, will speak on "The Road to Peace", "Race and the Human Race", and "Christian Faith and Economic Change-" Special music for the conference will be rendered by Yosko Saito, of Toyko, Japan. Delegates from all the churches in the district of DeLand, and including all denominations, will be present. DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937 SCHOOL MAY GIVE Price ?G ".jHotAWp^t'xs^^W'.^F^.KJP'JKv: HIS YE Duckwitz Forsees Student Growth From National Recognition THREE MUSIC MAJORS Misses Murphy, Orcutt and Haines May Get First Awards Dr. E. M. Poteat, Jr., who will speak before the Mission Assembly In session here- FINAL GLIMPSES By JACK GORE Stetson's newly approved department of music will in all probability grant bachelor of music degrees to three students this spring, it was learned this week from Dr. William E. Duckwitz, head of the department. The candidates for the degree are, Ruth Murphy, majoring in piano; Roberta Orcutt majoring in voice, and Dorothy Haines, majoring in music education. 0 .... ... Dr- Duckwitz was enthusiastic Venus, Saturn and the Moon will about the future of the department be observed, probably for the last when interviewed this week on the time this season, Friday, January] election of Stetson to membership POSSIBLI 4m if! \SJ.X Peggy Champ, editor-in-chief of the "Hatter," which will feature the St. Johns river this year. MIDTERM EXAM! WILL HOLD SWi HERE NEXT WEEK First Semester Tests Begin! Tuesday, With Two Every Day i SATURDAY HOLIDAY Registration For Second Semester Takes Place Tomorrow 22, at the Stetson Observatory Science Hall from 7 to 8 p. m. "Constellations" will be the topic of discussion at, the lecture of the amateur astronomical association following this observation period. Francis Knorr, will be in charge. He will review briefly the outstanding star groups in the sky, give their location, general appearance, and the telescopic objects in them. Townspeople who are members of the club include: Mr. and Mrs. D. C ' Hull, Mrs. Edith Hopkins, Robert Wray, Mrs. M. C. Stevens, E. R. Kellen, Donald Larum, Prof. H. C. Winters, Wilbur Kaye, Earnest Rowland, Dr. Bronson, and Mrs Reynolds. Stetson Cagers Defeat Florida Stetson beat Florida Gators last night 34-32, coming from behind. Minehart netted the deciding goal in the final 10 seconds. A return match will be played at Gainesville February 18. Band On The Air From Auditorium Saturday Morning Program Is Directed By Louis Marvin The weekly broadcast .oftStetson University was ...giver! Saturday, Jan. 16, by the Stetson band, Louis Marvin director. - The program was made up of: National School Band Association March by Mader; Lustspiel Overture by Keler-Bela; Fancies by Perkins, a cornet; solo played by Arthur Burrows; a waltz, Gold and Silver by. Lehar; J,oy to the. World by Fillmore; March of the Anzacs by Lithyon. ART CLUB PROJECTS SKETCHING RAMBLES The Stetson University Art Club will go on a sketching tour Monday, February 8, it was decided in the third. meeting of the Art Club Monday afternoon. The route of the tour will be determined later. Jean Gower secretary of the organization, said also that the club plans to send one or two delegates to the Art Club in St. Petersburg, where they have been invited to come sometime in the spring. historians Explore Prof. Harry S. Winters and his Class in Florida History visited Volusia landing, at Astor, Saturday; GET IN LINE! Students are requested to tomorrow in the Art Room register in the following order for second semester work: Those whose names start with A to E, from 8 to 10 am.; E to L from 10 to 12; L to S from 1:30 to 3:30; TErom S through Z, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the National Association of Music Schools, announcement of which came last week. Expects Student Growth "I feel that the admission of Stetson to the Association will bring many sudents who wish to major in music to the university, who have hitherto gone to associate member schools", said Dt. Duckwitz. "The music classes this year are about 100 per cent larger than last year and from inquiries and advance information next year's classes should also show an in-, crease". In commenting on the facilities available for students here Dr. Duckwtz said: "Recenty while attending, the meeting of the Music Teachers Association in Chicago I had the opportunity of talking with many executives of different schools. I found that the material equips ment offered at Stetson is better than that found at many of the larger universities. Our instruments in study and practice rooms are superior both in number and in quality. Music Library Valuable "Our library is also above the average. The collection of sheet music and manuscripts has just recently been started and it is Dr. Allen's intention to develop this department into one of the best in the southland. The recording de- ] partment is exceptionally fine, outstanding recordings of various artists being used in classes of music appreciation music history, and private instruction". Dr. Duckwitz laid credit for the great improvements in his department the last few years to the de- errriination of President W. S. Allen. He concluded: "The fact that Dr. Allen not only believes in the value of music but devotes the time and energy to address music clubs throughout the state, shows more than just a desire on his part, but a determination to build at Stetson a music department second to none in the south." LOVELY ST. JOHNS CT0RIAL THEM OF 1937 'HATTER' That moss-draped, softly flowing river—-The St. Johns—will wind pictorially through the pages of this year's "Halter", Stetson's annual according to Peggy Champ, editor-in-chief. Regarded by natives, winter visitors and sportsmen as one of the most beautiful rivers ever charted on a map—the St. Johns will supply tranquil scenes for the division pages of the annual. Pen and ink sketches will enhance sections of the book. Although commercial activity on the river isn't what it used to be and transportation is mainly restricted to outboard, motors, row boats and an occasional canoe, yet the river has retained and added to its tropical beauty. 1 First semester examinations, the semi-annual proving time for Stetson students will begin next Tuesday morning and hold sway over classrooms and campus through Tuesday of the following week. The tests will be given two each day, morning and afternoon, except Saturday which remains a holiday as usual. The schedule is much the same as on previous examination weeks. Miss Olga Bowen, registrar points out that a slight modification has been made for Monday, February 1, in the afternoon, to provide for the Forum lecture which will begin at 3:30 o'clock instead of 3 o'clock. The daily chapel exercises will be suspended after Monday's chapelt until Wednesday, February 3, when* the second semester formally opens. - - -, -■ 4 Registration for the second semester will take place tomorrow, Thursday,, in the, usual manner. University authorities are expecting the entrance for the second half year of perhaps 50 new stu- dens, who will swell the enrolment from the present figure of 729. to a new record, Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes will have examinaions as (Continued on Page 2) LARGE AUDIENCE AT FIRST FORUM NTHRALLED BY MISS TONY SENDER By MARJORIE ANDREWS Vivid Miss Tony Sender with her intriguing accent _ and petite ferocity was the first Forum lecturer to address the large audience in Elizabeth Hall on Monday. Dr. W. S. Allen made her introductory speech, paying a tribute to the absent Dr. Robert S. Holmes her address even in our ,'foreign" language, but her limited vocabulary sounded simple and pithy. , Although Germany is more powerfully armed than ever before, Miss Sender went on, the people themselves are absolutely dominated by big business, Nazi-controlled. It has become an anti-Nazi proverb, the statement of Hitler of Daytona, who donates the Forum that "Cannon are more important activities; and welcoming, to Stet- than butter." BRITES ARE GUESTS .Mr.' and Mrs. James Brite of Howie, .friends of. Stetson, were luncheon guests of President and Mrs.;W. S. Allen Tuesday. son, Miss Sender. The address began immediately with a disproof of the many avowals of German happiness; Under their apparent prosperity, said Miss Sender, they live in fear. As many as 150,000 of them have been condemned without indictment, and exiled because of their political and religious convictions. Some are sentenced to labor camps to work endlessly and hopelessly without remuneration. The ideal of the regime is the old German aggrandizement plan revived anew. First self-sufficiency; and then the conquest of the world. The basis of education, both lower and adult, is the book written by Adolf Flitler dictator, "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"). . Miss Sender is tremendously wrapped up in the mission she has chosen. Her dark eyes grew even darker and more intense as she talked. ...She had not memorized Therefore the cost of living is and will remain high. Food is sold by government stores where rich and poor must wait in line to get what they are allowed. Their unemployment problem, far from being solved as is advertised, is still great- Three years of education has been clipped from their schools where military training is substituted. "This is a dark picture of Germany I have made for you," said Miss Sender, shaking her short black hair with foreign expressiveness, "but I tell you, Fascism has no constructive solution to human problems." The air for the allotted 20 minutes after the lecture proper was full of questions by members of the audience... All. were answered promptly and in a charming inform^ al manner by Miss Sender.