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              The Maroon NEW ORLEANS, LA., FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1925 VOL. II No. 9 WWL, LOYOLA RADIO STATION, AWARDED HIGH DISTINCTION Station Is Official Representative of Radio Corporation. REGULAR PROGRAM ON SATURDAY EVENINGS Y. W. O. L. Active in Working on Weekly Entertainment. The most popular radio sending station in New Orleans at present is station WWL of Loyola University. Every Saturday night from 8 to 9 the Loyola station broadcasts a musical and educational program which is heard with greatest pleasure by hundreds of listeners, not only in New Orleans but even at such distant points, as Xew ' Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin. (."ards from these States have been received at station WWL acknowledging reception of program^. The equipment of station WWL has recently been strengthened by the installation of four 50-watt tubes of Western Electric make. The heavy expense required for the purchase of these powerful tubes was met by YWOI,. a newly organized body of ladies who devote themselves to the progress and success of station WWL. Not only have these ladies met the cost of new equipment, but. what is oftener more difficult, they have arranged all the programs for Saturday nights. This labor means the securing of instrumental and vocal artists, as well as pianos. To YWOL goes half the praise for the success of WWL. The two members of YWOL who are most active for station WWL are Mrs. Albert Foley and Lillian Dayries To the chief operator and his assistants is given the other half of the praise. Under the capable direction of Nadau DuTreil. a Loyola graduate, and at present Assistant Federal Radio Inspector of the Fifth U. S. District, the broadcasting is done. Associated with him are J. D. Bloom and E. Du- Treil. While the program is being rendered frequent niesages are sent in to station WWL over the telephone from city listeners telling of their delight. The highest testimonial to the efficiency of station WWL, as well as to the artistic merits of the program was received recently for a February broadcasting. Mayor Cargill of Oklahoma City telegraphed to Hichler, the florist, to "say it with flowers." The telegram follows : Radio Station WWL, New Orleans, La. Oklahoma City greets you. We telegraph flowers because they speak more sincerely our true appreciation of the many evenings of delightful entertainment you have given us. May the glory of the rose inspire your artists to greater heights. (Signed) O. A. CARGILL, Mayor Oklahoma City. The educational feature of WWL's Saturday night programs will be a digest of the ten foremost articles published monthly in the leading American magazines. Station WWL has been chosen for this service by the Radio Corporation of America DR. SPAETH PLEASES WITH FINE RECITAL Noted Musician Gives Lectures on "Music Common Sense." That noted lecturer On Music. Dr. Spaeth, gave om of his interesting talks on the "Common Sense of Music" in the Loyola auditorium. Tuesday night, March ,?rd. The title of his lecture is also the name of a hook recently published by him, which lias become one of the most popular sellers of its line. Dr. Spaeth is a graduate of Princeton University where he later taught under presidency of WoodrOW Wilson at that school. He took part in all university activities and later became musical critic for New York Evening Mail and New York Times and Boston Transcript. He has for many years been a contributor to popular magazines on musical matters and has a regular article in "Life" every month. His special work now is to make music more ponular with the ueiu-ral public and to mint' the fine point-, of tin ~n home to the average citizen. His program was moft entertaining at Loyola and highly instructive. His appreciative audience delighted Dr. Spaeth by the enthusiasm of their applause. According to Dr. Spaeth the teaching of music should be from the simple elements upward and not from the masterpieces and their involved technic downward. He began with a group of two notes, then three were used and lasfly the major cords were employed. In each instance the Doctor showed how composers had developed their melodies from these few and fundamental elements. It was delightful, to see with what simplicity and clearness Dr. Spaeth analyzed many of REWARDED FOR NOBLE SERVICE REV. FLORENCE D. SULLIVAN. Loyola Seismograph Is First to Give South News of Earthquake Which Shook New York While the New York (Hants were having spring practice in Florida two other giants, not on McGraw's team, Titan and Atlas were tossing the old ball of Earth to each other. Reporters covered McGraw's men but it took Loyola University to tell the doings of Titan and Atlas. Saturday night, February 28th, from 8:25 to 8:30 Titan and Atlas shook the eastern states with their earthquake. Loyola University seismograph took a picture of the pitching. These two ancient giants have good arms and the tossing of the earth was considerable. Although Loyola was distant some 1500 miles from the gigantic disturbance its seismic instruments wrote up the game. The chart of the earthquake shows the period of maximum intensity to be from 8.32 to 8.36 when the needle swung frantically in wide arcs. The strokes of the needle grew less during the following seconds until they tailed off into normal after 9 o'clock. How accurate the Loyola record of the earthquake was the reports from the area of the shock confirmed. The Sunday papers told how a territory of 400.000 square miles, extending from mid-Canada southwardly and eastwardly, comprising the states from Michigan to Maryland to Maine was the scene of the shock. The seismic station at Loyola is in charge of Father AlDe!l and Professor Voorhies. The Jesuits have been the pioneers in the observance of seismic disturbances. As far back in United States history as 1650 the Jesuits have been foremost in reporting and studying earthquakes. In those distant times they had no instruments for recording or computation of place or distance. Today there is a chain of Jesuit colleges which are noted for their seismic apparatus. Fordha m. Georgetown, Cleveland, and Santa Clara have very efficient observatories. Father Tondorf of Georgetown is the authority which the government and the Associated Press quote most frequently in their reports on earth disturbances. Loyola in its record and data on the last earthquake showed fuller possession of details than did Georgetown's scientist. At Spring Hill College, Mobile. Father Ruhlman in charge of the ■eimiic insrtuimnts is a recognized authority for the south. His knowledge and skill, applied during the Christmas recess of 1924 put the Loyola seismic machine! into excellent condition. The Times-Picayune published the photograph of the record of the earthquake made by the Loyola instrument. To the general public this chart was something of a mystery. It showed two series of horizontal lines and two series of lines curved like arcs of circles. The horizontal lines represent the time with minute and second divisions. The curved lines show the path of the flexible needle which oscillates to and fro upon the paper wrapped around a cylinder. This needle acts like a pen and writes upon the paper every tremor which it receives. The paper record is a sheet of lampblacked paper and the writing is done by the point of the needle scratching the surface thus exposing the white below the black. The Alaska earthquake of February 23rd. which snapped the Seward cable and tumbled houses into ruin was also clearly recorded by the Loyola instruments.FATHER SULLIVAN MADE PRESIDENT OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY Appointment Is Fitting Reward For Great Work. ANOTHER GREAT STEP IN CAREER AS JESUIT New Head Largely Responsible For Loyola's Progress. By GARDERE MOORE. At la-t it has come and the knowledge ili.it Father Florence I). Sullivan has been chosen to succeed the late Father Twellmeyer as president of Loyola more than repays us for the anxious weeks of waiting since the sudden death of our former president. The appointment of Father Sullivan to the livud of the Universit) comes not as a surprise to those who have followed his untiring work toward the advancemeni of the institution. His natural ability to lead, together with his clear foresight and wD ■■ dis have played a great part in the rapid development of Loyola during the past few years. Loyola needed .1 man of Father Sullivan's progressive type to keep up with the fast trend of events and his appointment to the presidency where he will be able to carry on the work that he has so ably started and directed is but a fitting reward for his unparalleled servicet, Announcement of his selection by Father E. A. Cummins, former president of Loyola, who i* now Provincial of the Southern Province of Jesuit College*, marks another eventful step in a career that is bright with noble achievements. Florence Sullivan entered the Jesuit Order on July 1-'. 1808. He pursued his literary studies at the Jesuit College in Macon. Ga., and later at St. Louis University, where he also did graduate work. In 190.? he took up teaching duties at Springhill and showed hi- active interest in the bodily as well as mental development of the students by taking charge of athletics at the Hill. He was called hack to St. Louis University for four more years of graduate work in 1910. The authority of priesthood was vested upon this active novitiate in 191.3 and the year following his ordination. Father Sullivan went to Potlghkeepsie. N. Y.. where he was to he engaged in special work and social service. He was appointed prefect of studies and processor ()f rhetoric at the Jesuit Normal College at Macon. Ga.. in 1915. and later was transferred to St. Charles College at Grand Cotcau. From our standpoint a notable landmark in his career was the appointment of Father Sullivan to the regenc] of the Loyola Dental College in 1919. Since then, we have been in intimate contact with his work and can add nothing to his great work which has been obvious in the rapid development of Loyola. Father Sullivan was most active in the Loyola Ruikling Campaign and the magnificent Robet Hall can be in a (Continued on Page 5.) (Continued on Page 5.1 (Continued on Page 2.)