The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter FIRST YEAR. NO. 20. DELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1936 5c PER COPY; $1.50 PER SCHOOL "Y3AK THOUSANDS THRILL1 TO STETSON BAND GROVER KIRBY IN STATES PARAD 100,000 Throng Streets to Witness Annual Festival WINS SECOND PLACE St. Petersburg Is Host to Fourteen Bands of State The .Stetson University Band ended a most successful series of'band tours last Friday afternoon, when 1 i j I P kIsSS" 8*» H si I ■ > p ^^8 Isk^sHH GLE CLUB GIVES CONCERT A STATE UNIVERSITY Heney Gets Five Encores as Xylophone Soloist SING HERE APRIL 16 ROBERTA ORCUTT May Entertain in Jacksonville This Season The last of the spring series of glee club concerts, given by the Stetson University Glee Club, under the direction of Harold M. Giffin. director of voice at the STETSON STUDENTS UNCH HOLIDA SPEECH PROGRAM Mystic Kre\^e Sponsors Talks to Florida Schools FIRST (ATTEMPT Grover Kirby, bass soloist and ' university, was held last Thurs-1 Roberta Orcutt, alto soloist and thev performed before 100 -'member of the Stetson Male Quar-! day evening in the Younge School, member of the stetson Girls' Trio, 000 "enthusiastic spectators at the I tet> ^ho has been doing hte share I Auditorium at Gainesville, before | wh0 in the recent Glee club per. "Festival of States" parade in St. 'n earning the success achieved by ' an appreciative audience, number- , formanceS) has been outstanding Peters aurg. the Glee Club in their recent con- The parade avenue, three miles j certs- in length, was flanked on either! ZT Z 7 ~-p .1 1 1 side by the largest crowd ever to. j_)Ccill LcWIS 1 riDDlC . attend the annual celebration. The I last ticket for seats, seven rows j deep, was sold two weeks in ad- \ vance. I Horace Bills, drum major, pranc- j Attends Meet of Florida Bar Ass'n ing before the colorful green and] Convention Success white musicians, led the band to second prize in competition with thirteen other outstanding bands of the state. Helen Mongtomery, diminutive 1 ■ drum majoress of Daytona Beach : Dean Lewis H. Tribble, of Stet- Eigh school, added color to the' son Law School, returned last demonstration by following in the \ Sunday evening from Havana, wake of Bills and twirling a baton j Cuba, where he took part in the in her own inimitable style. annual meeting of the Florida Bar John Heney, who has been out ing over 425 students and townspeople. The program opened at 8:15 p. m. with selections by the girls' club. Following this the men's quartet rendered several numbers. Mr. John Heney, xylophonist, who has been so well received on every glee club tour, was the outstanding performer, and was recalled for five encores by the for her fine work. StetSOn Delegate, Wife, large audience, Left Miami Thursday; ! The Florida boys, also favored standing in his xylophone solos, proved himself as competent in playing a bell-lyra. The two bell- Association as representative of Stetson University. Dean and Mrs. Tribble left De- Land early Wednesday morning lyras which were purchased es-1 and arrived in Havana Thursday pecially for this parade added an unusual feature to the band. George MacMillan played the second lyra. The whole group crowned them- morning on S. S. Florida, which they had boarded at Miami. Thursday afternoon the 400 delegates from Florida were taken on I a sight-seeing tour of Havana selves with glory by thrilling every- which included a reception at the one of the 100,000 'supreme Court and the Municipal As the band approached the re-! Buildings where the legal profes- viewing stand at the start of the, si0n and city officials welcomed parade everyone uimed his or her I the group, head toward the group and be-1 winiam L. Ransom. New York HOME CONCERT Harold M. Giffin, director of the Glee Club, announced this morning that the home concert would be given in Elizabeth Hall or the Little Theatre Thursday evening, April 16. Because of the wonderful reception given the Stetson Glee Club throughout the state during recent tours, it is though1, that a* capacity crowd will hear them present their last concert following the Easter vacation. Leading Article in Law Paper Written By Paul Raymond Treatise on Moral Liability in Criminal Law Is Featured Entire State Will Be Reached by Stetson Leaders Twenty Stetson students will supplement the many talks of Dr. William S, Allen throughout the state, by addressing approximately thirty groups of Florida high school students during the next five days. They will seek to put before these students their ideas of what their attendance and study at this University has meant to them. Mystic Krewe, Stetson's honorary leadership organization, 13 sponsoring this movement which should be instrumental in increasing next year's enrollment past the 750 mark. Dr. Allen endorsed the plan ana expressed the belief that this 'action on the part of the students, of their own volition, was certainly an indication of their high regard of the character of I The "Oregon Law Review" in its February issue of this year has as I its leading article a contribution by 1 Dr. Paul E. Raymond, of the Stet- |-work given them by the Umver- 1 son Law School faculty. The ar-i sitv i tide is entitled "The Origin and I Rise of Moral Liability in Anglo- j Saxon Crimnial I,aw." ; Dr. Raymond presents the causes ' and results of the growth of the I moral idea, tracing- it from the j Bible to the end of the Anglo- ' Saxon period in about 1100 A. D, ! He points out that in the case I of the Anglo-Saxon laws the pur- the girls' trio with overwhelming pose of the law was similar to all applause for their selections. Mr. I primitive law, to secure order, _c ^^ hj. ^ coyer ~—- — was well received j among the people. The upper-, ^ ^ Yesterday the group m a -3 s a tour of the campus, noting the many changes wrought in the last two years in the different departments. They also mads a thorough study of statistics, 00m- paring Stetson and other schools, so that they would be competent to answer any question the high school students might put tothent. In delegating the different high t schools, the committee appointed final tour a great. most aim of the man was to Giffin, too, making this success. Following the concert, the forty f injured him. Therefore, while the j m ^^ Weg^ charlfcS "I Those who will speak during , wreak vengence upon those who|comlng holidays are John Du33 X. „^.tiiil ^. ^^-.~. —.. traveling members of the club wore ultimate obj«ct of the Anglo-Saxon. Reavcg g c pardee jr__ Herbert caiae absolutely still. The floats ci(. attorney wh0 is president of 1 guests of honor at a reception. law was to promote order, the im- ■ phim ' j Neal Faircloth. Gaylord an 1 ra ther elements of the parade | ^ American Bar Association, was , while this was scheduled to be 1 mediate object was to regulafc ere forgotten by the spec- the princlpnl speaker at the ban- j t,h0 last trip this sea.son, the club I Private war and self-help, later-,, svervone seemed to cease. qupt of Friday evenin„. The pi.csi- , makfi an aDpearancc nt the, The author indicates that broking for fear some noise, dcnt of the Cuban Bar Associa-, Main slreet Baptist church in, influence o.; Irish criminal raigh. interfere with the music be-, Hn„ nKn Rnnk„ tn thft ^oiid. V.,i„™.,<i,„ „»^inn ,~ n/rr nu.was probably made upon ir_g played by the band. Tri? onlookers thrilled; they held their breath; tears came 10 (Continued on Page Two) tion also spoke to the group. Jacksonville, according to Mr. Gii- Saturday afternoon the president { fin. Definite plans have not yet | of Cubr. tendered the lawyers and ' been completed, but if arrange the lnv thc the Kinisterialy Boys lave Air Program Bills, West, Nichols Hold Radio Service in Orlando The annual Stetson B. S. V. broadcast over station WDBO at Orlando, Was held last Sunday morning between the hours of 8:00 and 8:30, under the supervision of the Reverend M. J. Bouterse, pastor of the Orlando Baptist church. Three ministerial students from Stetson University took an active part in the program. .The opening prayer was offered by Horace Bills, followed by a short talk by Allen .West, president of the religious group. ,. George Nichols, gave a talk on "Jesus, the Man" and Mac Day spoke on "Jesus, the Hope of the World". Special music was rendered by the girls' trio, Ruth Bartlett, Katherine Martin and Roberta Orcutt. They sang, "Great Is Thy Love", aocompanied by Pauline Prevatt. Harold M. Giffin, professor of voice at tile university, gave a solo. The students were driven to Orlando .by Mrs. Sue Bean and Etter Turner. law teachers a reception at his palace. Dean Tribble had luncheon at the Yacht Club. Mi. Fracade will be remembered by Stetsonites as a former law student here, and the winner of, the, fencing championship in Cuba quite recently. "While we may possibly have attended as closely to business as usual," said the' law school dean, (Continued on page Two) Lowery Leader of Engineers Meeting Professor Curtis M. Lowery, of the engineering department, 'presided over the session of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Friday afternoon at the Clarendon Hotel, at Daytona Beach. Some interesting papers were read by eminent members of the profession. From the technical standpoint, the discussion by A. D. Teague of New York on the subject, i'Recent Practices in Refractory Manufacture"", proved to be one ; of the most interesting. || The possibilities of hatnessirig the solar rays for air conditioning residences and small buildings in Florida v/ere analyzed by W. P. Green, of Gainesville. Mr! Green showed that the sun's energy may be very readily employed jto provide comfortable air, conditioned homes for Florida residents. mentscan be made the glee club will entertain there some time about the middle of May. The home recital is scheduled to be given in Elizabeth Hall on April 16, at which time the entire club will take part. Five Day Vacation Commences Today i Today the majority of the students will be leaving the halls of the university for a five- day vacation period. Many will be returning to their homes while others will be the guests of fellow students, or friends in the state. By Dr. W. S. Allen's interpretation of the school calendar, the vacation will extend to nex' Tuesday morning-when classes will be resumed. This is the second time during the *history of the university that an Easter Vacation has been given to the students. Last spring marked the origin of these holidays. A number of students will return to their high schools to address the seniors on a college education -in general and what Stetson University offers its students. Anglo-Saxon law through Church. "In first examining the laws of the Anglo-Saxon," wrote the professor, "we bbserve the steady, certain growth of "the notion of moral liability in the criminal law,. which was the main body of the law at that time. This notion was found to have existed in the Mosaic law, wnicn perhaps adopted it from the Babylonian laws. This idea was elaborated in Christian (Continued on Page Two) j Kenyon, Madison Koontz. Anther."/ ' Pizzo, William Laney. John W. Rowe. William Solomon. Harry 2 Gaylord, Claudia Osborne, Jiles Lunsford, Phillip Wright. Wiilirrr. Lovett, Minton Jennings, Joe Folds, M. J. Bouterse. Horace Bills and James Meadows, Jr. This is the first move of; this kind since the founding of the school. If successful, it will probably become an annual feature of the Mystic Krewe organization. Eleven Freshmen for Phi Socle March Revived in Chapel Last Week "A Stetson University March," composed by Adam Geibel, was re-, centlv found, in the University files by C. B. R.cSa, bitrse'ri, and Dean G. p. Carson where it has Nine Girls, Two Boys Chosen for Honor Group j Eleven Stetson freshmen were elected to membership in the Phi Society, freshman honor society sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, President Allen announced in Chapel been hidden for the past 30 years. Wednesday. Professor - Matthew Slater, instructor in organ, presented the march to the students in chapel last Thursday morning. It was so well received that Df- W. S- Allen "requested, lhat Professor SJalter play it once more. Adam Geibel, well-known blind organist of Philadelphia, was a close .friend of John B. Stetson, Sr., and organist in the church which Mr. Stetson attended. In the early days of the school, Mr. Gfi- bel many times visited the University and,played for the students. He dedicated this march to the (Continued on Page Two) Nine girls and two boys composed the group whose scholarship in liberal arts courses won recognition by the society.. Raymond Craig and George Shick were the only boys numbered among the ranking scholars. Others in the group included Ruth Hooker, Chosen; June Krause, Ft. Lauderdale; Jane- McCarty* Collins ville, Oklahoma; Dorothy Mathis, Panama City; Betty Iin- son, Charles Town, West Virginia; Ruth Oram, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;, Alice Wolfe, Ft. Lauderdale ; Margaret McGarrah and Myra Machen of DeLand, iS«S:affi£«5