The Stetson Reporter

The Stetso Reporter Fourth Year—No. 19 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY J 5, 1939 Z-103 Price 5c PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES VISITS CAMPUS STUDENT FORUM TERMED SUCCESS Stetson's first Student Forum featuring Dean Paul E. Raymond, Dr. G. Leighton LaFuze, and Prof. P. I. Lipsey, Jr., held last Thurs- day afternoon at the Commons was acclaimed a big success by the group of students, faculty members, and visitors who attended. The forum wac* sponsored by the Peace Club and International Relations Club whose leaders wished to stir up student interest in problems now confronting the world. The general theme of the first student forum was the General European situation. Professor Lipsey, who has travelled widely in Europe, spoke on what he saw there last summer. He described the food on the German ship he crossed the Atlantic upon as plentiful and good, but added that food seemed scarcer in Berlin and other cities of Germany. Everywhere one saw uniforms in Germany, he said, and it appeared to him that at least half of the regular army belonged to the air force. In Prague, Professor Lipsey said he found the people outwardly calm but inwardly stirred to the depths. However they were still courageous and had faith in their democracy. Vienna was a mere spectre of what it had been, and was being decapitalized and levelled to a mere provincial seat. Budapest was a city of despair for the Hungarins were JOHNB.STETSON,JR. HERE FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF BOARD First Visit In Four To Stetson Campus Years Debate Team Plans For Important Trips The varsity debate team plans three big trips this spring as part of their large second semester program. Their first trip will be made sometime during the last of March to Baton Rouge, La. to participate in the meeting of the Southern Association of Teachers of Speech. The question for debate will be the question of the advisability of an "Anglo-American Alliance." Shortly after the first of April afraid of and ready to submit to j the veteran debaters will head for Nazidom, economic pressure wasr' Farmville, Va., to attend the province meeting of Pi Kappa Delta where they will argue the question "Stimulation of Business through Government Spending." The last big trip will be to the annual Grand Eastern tournament in Rock Hill, South Carolnia to be held at Winthrop College where the question for debate will again be government spending. In addition to these trips there will be numerous debates here and throughout the state in which both the varsity and freshmen squads feared more than armed aggression, Prof .Lipsey stated. He went on to speak of the Munich meeting and submission of the, democracies to Hitler's demands as "for lovers of liberty it was a ■day of debasement, for democracy .a day of shame." The appetites of the dictators were inflamed at Munich, and the courage of the democracies was broken, the speaker remarked in conclusion. Dr. 'LaFuze, second on the program, defined British policy in the present day. He reviewed the ex- wffl partici ate pansion program of Britain, and told the audience that the protection of that empire was Britain's main worry. One shouldn't expect Britain, to be vitally interested in what hap-' pened to Czechoslavakia, he contended. Dr. LaFuze affirmed that fight between Fascism and Com-1 The present record number of munism always finds the now do- the Stets0n family is;g^j:qm minant conservative group in Bri', , ■■ ■ . . .,- ,„■' V tain on the .side of Fasdsm. He|^hows an increase of 43 students reviewed the crisis that followed over Iast year.,s enrollment! k ; ANUP SINGH, political scientist, who gave the sirth Forum lecture yestreday. Tribble Appoints New Trial Officers Harry Newett Selected A Clerk Of Court For Out- standing Work Enrollment Reaches All-Time High Here one another through the summer of last year in central Europe. It is Britain's hope, according to Dr. LaFuze, that Germany will expand eastward as Hitler promised in "Mein Kampf." It is his belief that if Germany were to get in conflict with Russia, Britain hopes to wean France away from her alliance with the U. S. S. R "Chamberlain," said Dr. LaFuze, "is like a man who cries: 'Peace, peace' and there is no peace." The final speaker, Dean Raymond, asked some thought provoking questions about the problems facing the democracies, particularly the United States. "The prestige of democracy received the foulest blow of all time," he said when speaking of the settlement made at Munich. It was his conviction that the U. S. made a (Continued on Page 8) Mis? Olga Bowen, Registrar, expressed, her pleasure at this largest enrollment Stetson has ever had. It is interesting to note as Miss Bowen observed, that the -enrollment contains a number of oldsters with a, generous sprinkling of the fairer sex. It,is always gratifying to see that the older members are taking; courses which will keep them, abreast of the times. Prof. Louis H, Tribble judge^ of the Stetson University Moot Court, has appointed Harry Newett clerk of the court and Neil Mac Millan sheriff for the ensuing year. These positions are:, among the most sought after ih law school. The appointments are made each year to: the .two junior law students !nying the "highest Ischolastic over ages in their! class.' Moot Court begins this week to give the seniors practice in trial court and experience in court procedure TO APPEAR IN CHAPEL Visits Stetson As Often As" Possible; Comes From Australia Shawn Recital Here Is Well Attended SOCIAL CALENDAR 21 IMPORTANT NOTICE Special called meeting of the entire Reporter Staff today in the Reporter Office at 4:30. Roll call attendance. , February 15 WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15. 6:30 P. M. Vespers. Elizabeth .Hall.'" ' 77m, ru<;.'. THURSDAY, Feb. i 6. 6:30 P, M, Vespers Elizabeth Hall7 .. k " 7:30 P. M, Glee Club rehearsal. ;.8':0p P. M. Pi Kappa Sigma Meeting FRIDAY, Feb. 17. 6:30 P. M. Vespers. Elizabeth Hall, '.'■ 8:00 P. M. The Admirable Crichton. Little Theatre. BSU Mid-semester retreat. , SATURDAY, Feb: T8. 8:00 P. M. The Admirable Crichton. Little Theatre. BSU Mid-semester retreat. SUNDAY, Feb. 197 :. 9:45 A.M. Sunday School. U:00 A. M, Church. " 6:30 P. M.'BYPU '8:00 P. M. Church. MONDAY,.Feb. 20. 6:30: P. M Vespers. Elizabeth Hall. 7:30 P. M. Glee.Club rehearsal, 8 :.0Q BSU meeting MONDAY M0000 6Pz: TRnf 8:00: P.M. German Club meeting. TUESDAY, Feb. 21. ( :..^, - if O0|?. fcTJlee tfib reliearsal. 77:00. P. Mi:■W/0Me^ii§:' ■ ■ing. •-,'■:■ Basing his lecture, and the demonstrations on Desarte's theme, "There is nothing more horrible than a gesture without significance", and adding his own requirement of grace, or "efficiency in movement", Ted Shawn completely won the interest of a capacity audience in Hulley Gymnasium Thursday evening. Shawn spoke of the prominence of the dance in the art of the great civilizations of the east in Egypt, in Chaldea. He quoted from Plato and Aristotle to show the importance of the dance in the education of the Greek youth. In primative tribes it is the supreme art and assumes the form of prayer and worship. Among all peoples where it is studied, and correctly appreciated the dance is a form of expression fully as important as speech and writing. The dancer, said Shawn, "must make from his body something analogous to the instrument of the musician. He must keep it in tune, in perfect order. Training for dancing can never be broken." The exercises practiced in preparation for the dance are a carefully worked out combination and 'dternation of physical tension and relaxation. In motion this is a problem of dynamics. Movement must be based on scientific knowledge of the human body, on the need of all parts for exercise and training. The main problems of movement, of tension and release, of balance, of control of musical, utilitarian movement were demonstrated by eight of Shawn's troupe, all artists in the work they are doing. They clearly illustrated the aims of the dance, and the joy and satisfaction to be derived from correct, rhythmic movement. There are "twenty-five letters in the alphabet of the dancer," twenty five steps or movements out of which he must form his vocabulary, according to Shawn. These are built into patterns or sentences, into dances.'Musical time is based on units of movement. Poetry is now divided,into feet because is ancient times the poets walked while fecMng, :-and they took so many steps, rhythmic movements of the "feet" in repeating a line or verse (Continued on Page 8) Mr. John B. Stetson, II, the handsome boyisMooking gentleman of the ruddy cheeks and cropped hair, re' ported after making the rounds of the campus, that anyone who is not happy here at Stetson "must be hard to please." This is Mr. Stetson's first visit in four years years to the school which bears his family's name. For the past thirty five years he has been coming to Florida as often as possible to attend meetings of the board of trustees, of which he is president. He smiled when press correspondents asked him if he had come to Florida by the round' about-way of New Zealand and Australia, where he spent the past summer. Mr. Stetson is especially enthusiastic about Australia. As we have ,always somewhat ambiguously, ascribed hordes of kan- garoos and bushmen to that mystic land, and let it go at that we were amazed 'to learn from the 'distinguished cosmopolite that Australia has been for some time bit- terly and stridently engaged irt a' struggle for supremacy between the two rival groups of Australian states. Evidentally, states' rights has been a thorn in the side of statesmen other than John Randolph of Virginia! , To settle the strife existent between Melbourne and Sydney, rivals for the position of national ! capital, the government placed the new capital at Canberra which is 150 miles from each of the dissenters! Camberra according to Mr. Stetson, is a landscaper's dream of floral perfection. Landscaping is the principal feature of the very young capital. All year round there are vivid flowering shrubs and trees to glorify the plainest yards. Unfortunately, Mr. Stetson was just getting started on his greatest interest, the Florida "Hisorical Sociey and its important work, when the tme for the interview was up. Mr. Stetson's alert creative spirit and lfterary astuteness not only founded but fostered this society. It was he who brought out eleven volumns of Florida history and planned another eleven which could not be completed however. Mr. Stetson will speak in chapel tomorrow morning, and perhaps the student body will have the privilege of hearing something more about Australian gardens- and early Florida monastaries.