The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter Sixth Year—No. 19 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. ?, 1941 Z103 Price Five Cents GRADS FORM COMMITTEE TO STUDY ATHLETICS Robert Frost, Famed Poet Will Lecture Here Friday Second Opportunity For Local Audience To Hear Bard Is Three Time Winner of Poetry Pulitzer Prize For the second time in two years the dean of American poets, Robert Frost, will lee ture to a Stetson and central Florida audience here Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry will be brought to Stetson this week by the Department of English, according to a recent anoucement by Dr. Hugh McEniry, department head. Born in 1875 into a family of New Englanders, Robert Frost was given the middle name of "Lee" in a profound expression of sympathy with the southern cause. The southern general's namesake, who later was to be described by critics as the "chief interpreter of New England," wrote poetry of various sorts for 20 years before the first faint glimmerings of recognition came his way. After graduating from high school, Frost entered Dartmouth College, where he remained only .a few months. The routine of study is said to have been too much for him, and he drifted into a number of trades and occupations, including a bobbin boy's job in a mill, a cobbler, an editor of a weekly newspaper, and a farmer. Two years at Harvard prepared him to be a teacher. More formally, Robert Frost is co-founder of Breadloaf (Continued On Page 8) Debaters Meet Wheaton Tonight Lewis and Graham Prepare for P.K.D. Meet The Wheaton College debators will invade the campus to, day, February 5, to debate the National Pi Kappa Delta question, "Resolved that the nations cf the western hemisphere should form a permanent union." Ruby Amory and Irma French, Stetson debaters will wp-hold the negative side of the ■question at the afternoon session which will take place at four o'clock, while veterans Vance Graham and John Lewis will defend- the negative side of the proposition at eight o'clock. Both debates will take place in :he Commons and students and townspeople are welcome to attend. Lewis and Graham debate the question in preparation for the Pi Kappa Delta convention which will be held in Monte- vello, Alabama in the near future. REHEARSALS FOR TOWALION" UNDERWAY IN STOVER THEATRE Cast Completed for Production of George Bernard Shaw Play Of Greek Romance Rehearsals are now well under way for the production of George Bernard Shaw's LtPygmalion," which is to be pre' sented February 14 and 15 in the Stover Little Theatre by the Stetson Players. The playwright based the story of the play on a Greek legend of the sculptor Pygmalion who created in marble a beautiful woman he called Galatea and then fell in love with her. The leading roles in the production, which is in five acts, will be taken by Professor Howard Bateson, as Professor Higgins, and Lydia Theurer as Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl. Doolittle, Eliza's father will be played by Gadi Lawton, and Huber Griffin will enact the part of Colonel Pickering. John Causier, William Lovelace, William Brinkley, and Frank Watson will complete the cast. "Pygmalion" was produced by Gabriel Pascal as a movie and was first shown in England December 19x38. Leslie Howard played the role of Professor Higgins and Wendy Hiller was Elizabeth Doolittle, the Flower Girl whom Professor Higgins took as' his pupil and eventually fell in love with. According to the directors of the play, there will be three complete sets of scenery—no one of (Continued on Page 4) REGISTRATION ESTIMATES SHOW LITTLE CHANGE Transfers From Other Schools Replace Departures Registration estimates late yesterday indicate that no appreciable change will occur in the enrollment for the second semester. Transfers from other schools are expected to offset the number of old students who are leaving, however, no definite figures will be available for several days., Officials assisting with the registration expressed surprise at the greater number who went through the lines on the first of the two day registration period. Usually, it was explained, the lines thin out on the afternoon of the first day, resuming again (Continued On Page 8) President Allen Outlines Athletic Policy of Future The Board, of Trustees of John B. Stetson University has voted unanimously to discontinue intercollegiate athletics at the close of the present session. The fundamental reason is economic. The cost is too great for a small institution to bear. The University cannot continue to spend thousands of dollars in cash and —— develop a scholarly attitude and respect for creative effort; (3) To develop a democratic citizenship conscience; (4) To help each student find and, as far as possible, prepare for the particular vocation for which he is fitten by ability, aptitude, character; (5) To develop appreciation of beauty — in music, art, literature, nature, thought, living; (6) To develop dynamic Christian character. This sixfold purpose represents a program for the development of the whole personality. It represents Christian education at its best. Stetson shall stress this six-fold purpose and program more than before for every individual student who enters the Institution. Such a program will meet the needs of a democratic civilization today. W. S. Aixen, President, John B. Stetson University. scholarships for intercollegiate athletics. This is a time when budgets must be balanced, and when every dollar spent must bring the greatest return in educational value to the greatest number. Stetson will feature health and physical education including an outstading intramural program, — tennis, volleyball, soft- ball, baseball, track, basketball, hockey, ' badminton, soccer, swimming, golf, horseback riding, archery, and fencing. Every student will be given a program that will develop his or her physical and mental health. The draft board examinations are showing the great need here. Stetson has a sixfold purpose. (1) To develop a health conscience, and, as far as possible, a program of physical and mental health for each student; (2) To ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DISCUSSES INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTSRULING Dr. W. S. Allen, Invited to Attend Special Called Meeting in DeLand; Outlines Reasons Making Abolishment Necessary At a meeting held late yesterday in DeLand the Stet' son Alumni Association voted a motion by D. C. Hull, De' Land attorney, to form a committee for the purpose of conducting a study of athletics at Stetson University. The meeting was called by E. Harris Drew, president of the organization, and was held in the Chamber of Commerce building in DeLand. The action followed a two hour discussion of the recent announcement made by Dr. W. S. Allen, president of the University, that intercollegiate athletics would be abandoned at the school. Dr. x'vllen, attending the meeting at the invitation of the Association, explained and expanded to the one hundred graduates and friends of Stetson gathered together the reasons which the trustees, on his recommendation, voted unani- iinously to discontinue intercol- | legiate sports. Dr. Allen, in citing economy as the reason for the change in policy, gave five principle conditions which make the action necessary. 1. The income from the endowment is less due to current business conditions. 2. The loss could not be made up by reducing professors' salaries as these minimums are established by The Southern As* sociation of Colleges and Uni- - versities, of which Stetson is a member. 3. Less students this year resulting in a decrease in revenue. 4. The conditions of the world are at present unpredictable. 5. The school is running a deficit. Summing the situation Dr. Allen explained that only by dropping the $25,000 yearly expense of intercollegiate sports could the budget be balanced without impairing the efficiency of the school "and now is the time for eyery-one to balance their budgets/' he added. President Drew, in commenting on Dr. Allen's remarks, (Continued On Page 8) Howard Bateson and Lydia Theurer, who will play the leads in the StoVer Little Theater Production of Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," to .be presented on the nights of February 14 and 15. EMINENT MAKEUP ARTIST LECTURES IN STOVER THEATRE NEXT TUESDAY Thomas Horwitz Returns to Campus After Successful Demonstration Last Year Thomas Horwitz, eminent make'artist, author and lecturer, will five a lecture-demonstration on the "Art of Theatrical Make-Up," at Stetson University, in the Little Theatre at 4 o'clock on February 11th. Mr. Horwitz gave such an excellent demonstration on makeup last year at the Little Theatre that he was invited to come to Stetson for a return engagement. In order that more students may attend the lecture the fee has been reduced to 50c for one lesson. During the past several years Mr. Horwitz has been the director of the make-up departments for the largest pageants and spectacles produced in this coun* (Continued On Page 5) . GRAD MAKES GOOD RECORD Woodrow D a r d e n, recent graduate of Stetson, ranked 89 in a class of over 900 college graduates taking the U. S. Navy course at Northwestern University at Evanston, 111., according to recent reports from the first months work here.