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              The Maroon VOL. VII LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929 No. 14 PROM IS SCHEDULED FOR UPPERCLASSMEN BY STUDENT COUNCIL Members of Junior and Senior Classes To Revel at Hotel Roosevelt The junior-senior prom will be staged in the Tip Top Room of the Hotel Roosevelt on Friday, May 10, announces Harvey Strayhan, Student Council president, who is in charge of arrangements for the event. Assisting the Student Council in promoting the affair, the first of its kind in the history of the university, will be several committees composed of members of the two upper classes. These have not been announced as yet but will be appointed in the next few days. Paul Ganucheau, president of the senior Arts class, Prescott Smith, president of the senior Dental class, and Herby Pourciau, president of the senior Pharmacy class, have promised their co-operation and will probably care for different phases of the affair. Even at this late date, plans for the prom are still only tentative because of the fact that the Council has failed to receive the expected cooperation from the student body. As yet the theme of the prom and other important details have not been definitely decided upon. The proposed freshman-sophomore prom which was originally carded for May 10, has been cancelled as sufficient interest was lacking among the lower classmen. Present plans are to allow the first and second year men to attend the upperclass prom though they will not be permitted to participate in the grand march. INTER-CLUB DEBATE TO FEATURE TODAY'S MEET The regular meeting of the Debating Club which is scheduled for this morning at 11 o'clock, in Room 31, Marquette Hall, will be featured by the first of a series of inter-club debates. The subject of the forensic clash will be "Resolved, That coeducation should be installed in all American colleges and universities." Edward Conway and Bob Ainsworth will uphold the affirmative while Rene Nicaud and Mark Malloy will defend the negative. Attendance at the debate is restricted to members of the Debating Club. Harvey Strayhan, president of the forensic society, has announced that all students wishing to be enrolled among the charter membership of the organization must be present at today's meeting,. CKLAHOMANS WILL BRING CAPABLE DEBATERS 10 MEET LOYOLANS Harold Rouchell and Carl Buehmann, the two members of the Loyola intercollegiate debating team, are busily engaged in preparation for their second encounter in which they will meet Oklahoma Baptist University here on Monday, April 22. At this time they will defend the present jury system against the verbal attacks of their opponents from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Word from R. L. Brandon, coach of the Oklahoma team, states that the Baptists have won the championship of the State of Oklahoma and have received the governors cup in recognition of their achievement. In competition against the leading universities of the State, the Oklahomans were victorious in six straight contests and have been undefeated thus far this year. Mr. Brandon further explains in his communication that a party of friends will accompany the team on its Louisiana invasion.The Oklahoma speakers will arrive in the city by automobile on April 21 and will be the guests of the university and of the Loyola team during their stay of three days. An entertainment committee is being organized by the Thespians and the Debating Society so that the Baptist students may have an opportunity to view the historical and social spots of the city during their visit to Loyola. GLEE CLUB GOES ON AIR SATURDAY OVER WWL Members of the Loyola Glee Club, under the direction of Francis Achee, president, will broadcast over WWL Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Popular numbers will be featured, including vocal numbers of Achee, Temple Black, Joe Decell, Naomi Salatich, Aline Leftwich and several others, as well as banjo numbers by J. D. Bloom, Arthur Derbes and Tim Duggan. Since the increase of power on the part of the university radiocasting station a number of letters and telegrams have been received from distant points which indicate the broadcasting radius at present being covered by WWL. An accurate record is kept of the localities from which reports regarding the local station are received, by means of a map of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba which is prominently displayed in the broadcasting studio. Vari-colored pins indicate the points reached by WWL's programs. Among those are Vancouver, Saskatchewan, Portage Prairie, Ottawa, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Isle of Pines, Belize, British Honduras, Havana, Mexico City, Vera Cruz, Mexico and other equally distant point. PLAY CHOSEN 'The WitchinK Hour,', u four-act ilrama. has been choeen fur the Thespi- Fins" final appearanre of the season on the Ixinrds of one of the downtown theatres. it was ndopted Wednesday nijdit. following a reading by "Doc" Bonomo before the assembled membership of the society. VAUDEVILLE BILL OFFERED TONIGHT BY DRAMATIC CLUL Thespians Promise Program of Keal Entertainment in Marquette Hall Doc Bonorao, director of The Thespians, promises all who attend tonignt's vaudeville program twoand-a-half hours of real entertainment. Three skits and several individual numbers will comprise the bill. A one-act comedy featuring four new members of the Thespians is entitled "The Laziest Man in the World." John Ouilliber, Joe Blasi, Nicholas Masters and Clyde de la Houssaye have roles in the playlet. Each of this quartet, with the exception of blasi, took part in the productions presented in the Marquette auditorium shortly before Christmas, where they acquired their first taste of collegiate dramatics. "Come Out Of It," another comedy in one act, will include Julian Humphrey, Alden Echezebal, Bentley Byrnt-s. EfofaM Ducote, Aline Leftwich and Charlotte Roccaforte in its SIUDENTS PENETRATE INTERIOR OF CHINA Activities of Floating University students in the Far East are revealed in letters and dispatches just received in New York. Among other interesting events, these letters describe a trip with military escort into the interior of China, a combined dance and discussion at the University of Manila, and an address by Alahatma Ghandi in India. The talk by Ghandi, who had traveled hundreds of miles to meet the students, was delivered at Delhi, the capital of British India. The ageing Hindu leader, dressed in his usual austere robe of home-made cloth, sat Buddha fashion on a platform in an open air courtyard. His magnetic voice held the American boys and girls spellbound, despite the din of the streets, as he spoke of the aims and ideals of young India. After his talk, students of government and economics remained for over an hour questioning the Mahatma. In Manila, where Dean Rafael Palma of the University of Manila had organized a committee of students and educators, the study trips were supplemented by an open-air dance on the university grounds just outside the walled city. Filipinos who had studied in America acted as an introduction committee. The American boys spent much of their time discussing politics with their hosts. The girls were quite envious of their hostesses' pineaple cloth sleeves which, as one of the girls put it, are "the most beautiful mosquito netting yet invented." The trip into the interior of China has proved one of the outstanding adventures of the cruise so far. Students anil faculty boarded Chinese junks at Canton, and were towed up the pirate-infested river by a gunboat detailed for their protection by the Nationalist Government. After spending a night on the junks, while GGLD MEDAL ESSAY PRIZE 10 BE GIVEN AGAIN IN ECONOMICS COURSE The closing date of the annual Gold Medal Essay Contest, open to students of the economics department of the university, has been set for May 1, according to the recent announcement of Professor John V. Connor, donor of the medal, and one ; of the three judges of the competition.Professor Connor urges all students whose courses include any economic subject to submit papers in the contest, and has expressed a willingness to aid them in selecting their topics, which may be concerned with any economic subject, and in compiling data and arranging the material thus obtained. Essays must not be in excess of five thousand words and must be typewritten, double spaced, on 8 V4xl 1-inch paper, and with the name of the student on a separate sheet rather than on the essay proper. This latter regulation is provided in order that the judges themselves will be guided in judging the competition solely by a number ! placed on the papers, as they will be ■ unaware of the names of the contestant whose paper they are reading. I The points which will receive special I consideration from the committee in ' charge will be content and accuracy, arrangement of material, composition and rhetoric, spelling, and neat- I ness. In addition to Professor Connors, the judges will be Professor John j McCloskey and Professor Jack I Mitchell. Pharmacy Class Argues Value of Examinations The Pharmacy English class re, cently held its first debate under I the supervision of Dr. Leo Kuntz. The argument chosen by the teams was, Resolved, That examinations should be abolished in the American School System. The affirmative side was represented by James Everett and Henry Smith and the negative by Lawrence Fontain and Roy Schutzmann. The judges were Joseph Abraham and Howard Leveque, and Emile Alt, Arts and Science Seniors. The chief contention of the affirm! ative was that examinations encour-1 age cheating and force the student Ito cram. The negative side asserted that examinations are necessary for the retention of matter previously studied. Due to the clever rebuttal by ! Henry Smith the judges awarded the victory to the affirmative side, with Lawrence Fontain as next best speaker. Another debate is expected to be held at an early date. CHEERLEADERS SELECTED An exceptionally heHvy vote from the Bchool of PharmacD enabled Riecke and Uarrios, bnlh pharmacy students, to be chosen assistant cheer leaders during the year 1818-SS. The final vote was Riecke, 140; llarrins, 125; Cast (Arts). 105. nnd Ganucheau l.av. i, 102. SPANISH PLAYERS TO PRESENT PLAY 8 O'CLOCK MONDAY Dramatic Society Will Present "Fortunato" as Its Fourth Annual Offering The Spanish Dramatic Club will present its fourth annual offering Monday at 8 o'clock in the Marquette Auditorium, announced Miss Jessie C. Montejo, head of the Spanish department. "Fortunato," a threeact comedy by the Quintero brothers will furnish the vehicle for this year's membership of the Spanish group. The cast has been hard at work on the play for six weeks under the direction of Miss Emma Douglass, active member of the Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, and as a consequence is prepared to give the best performance in the history of the club. This past week has been spent in putting the finishing touches on the play. Saturday morning: the group will rehearse all three acts, and Sunday afternoon will go on the stage for a dress rehearsal. All of the male parts are beins: portrayed by members of the club who have completed, or are now enrolled, in the various Spanish classes. None of these male actors are Spanish, or of Spanish descent. The leading role is being handled by Joe Abraham, while the remainder of the male cast include Bob Ainsworth, Johnny Oulliber, Rene Nieaud, Bentley Byrnes, Edward Conway and Patout Burns. To Ainsworth, particularly, has fallen the difficult part of interpreting a pretending Andalusian beggar, which part calls for the use of a peculiar dialect, and he has mastered the role almost to perfection. Of the four girls appearing in the east, two are of Spanish descent, and are handling short roles. They are Carmen Delgado, who is characterizing two maid parts, and Marie Rodriguez, a beggar girl. The longer portrayals are taken by Aletha Gugel, wife to a young architect, and Vita Borrello, an Argentine sharp-shooter. A varied program of Spanish songs will be presented during the intermissions, but the names of the singers have not as yet been announced. Before the curtain, Nestor Morales, a member of the club, will address the audience with a brief speech. Invitations have been extended to a number of Spanish residents in the city to attend the play, and as in past years, a capacity audience is expected to be present. No admission will be charged and all students who are interested are invited to the affair. (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4)