Bee, 1923-09-28

              the bee vol iv university of buffalo september 28 1923 no i evening session courses cover large field university increases scope of service ' tho university of buffalo sei'ks to enlarge the scope of its service to the community and to use its plant and facilities more nearly to capacity by providing courses leading to de grees for those who are unable to get them at other times the plans are ambitious and the range of courses sufficient it is hoped to meet the needs of the community to an ' ex tent that will be fairly satisfactory this year once under way and with the results of a semester s effort as guidance the limit of the curriculum of the evening session is difficult to foresee the course as now planned fall rather naturally into three groups 1 those which are regularly a part of the arts and sciences curriculum and which are repeated in the even ing session 2 those which come logically with in a curriculum in business adminis tration and which have not hitherto been given in the university of buf falo 3 a group of considerable variety including courses which come within the curricula of several schools new also to this university the first group courses within the arts and sciences curriculum will in clude english composition and litera ture ; french german and italian ; social sciences such as history economics psychology education etc au of these courses will bear credit toward a degree and in most instances will be taught by the men who give them in the day sessions fortunately many heads of departments and other men of professional rank arc going to give evening courses an ar rangement which insures to evening students intimate contact with mature men of teaching experience the second group courses in busi ness administration will include ac counting finance sales business oragnization business correspondence statistics transportation etc these subjects will be taught by men of ample academic training who are con nected with leading business firms in buffalo and who thus are able to combine theory and general principle with a knowledge of actual business practice the list of the names of these instructors is so long that lack of space forbids adequate comment the third group of courses will in clude newspaper reporting and writ ing journalistic writing short story writing commercial pharmacy scout leadership for those interested in boy scouts and girl scouts everyday chemistry and others newspaper reporting and writing will be taught by the managing editor the city editor and others in the stall of the buffalo express journalistic writing by the managing editor of the buffalo news short story writing by a local short story writer who has published more than one hundred short stories and every day chemistry by professor by and other men of the chemistry depart ment of the university as a series ut popular lectures on such subjects as foods dyes poisons cleansing agents etc scout leadership will be taught by a man who has won considerable reputation as a leader in the boy scout movement and will be modeled after a similar course given in the teachers college columbia university this is perhaps sufficient detail to give an inkling at leas of what this evening session will offer most of the courses will be taught in town send hall and in the law school building the laboratory sciences necessarily will be given out on the campus those courses which must be identical with day courses in the col lege program such as english his tory psychology chemistry mathe matics etc will meet two evenings a week for seventy-five minutes or more each evening and will thus bear the regular amount of credit all other courses which do not necessarily have to correlate with the arts anil sciences curriculum will meet tne night a week from 7:30 to d:1b the announcement of the evening session has attracted much attention many adults who have never before been in the university hnve registered they give ready expression to their appreciation of alma mater's enlarged scope of service football men still needed the university awaits the outcome of the opening game on saturday with con fidence for seldom have football prospects been so bright at u of b the pro curing of a coach whose ability is widely known and respected in collegiate foot ball circles and the estab lishment of the early season training camp presage a most successful season there is however room for improvement in one direction the present foot ball squad should be swelled by more candidates coach bond should have at least fifty more men out to prac tice every day there are at least that many men in the university who would be good material for the team no one on the present squad has any mortgage on a posi tion on the varsity nor will anyone be shown prefer ence coach bond alone will pick the team and men will be chosen only for their ability to play football practice is held daily at rotary field at 3 o'clock come out and become a member of one of the great est gridiron aggregations in u b.'s history two french students at u b this year les amis de la france the local french society gave a reception on thursday night september 20 for mile suzanne eustache and m mau rice armande the twu students who have come from prance to study at the university of buffalo mile eustache is a graduate den tist and will continue her studies in that field her home is in paris m armande is a chemical engineer and will have access to the laboratories of foster hall he is a native of tou lous it is the first time that either of the students have visited the united states both come as the guests of the committee on international ex change of which chancellor capen is a member this committee sends twenty american students to france each year and the same number come to this country this is the first time that the uni versity of buffalo has been so fortu nate as to have some of these stu dents and the entire student body bid them welcome chemists away dr sy and dr reigel attended a meeting of the american chemical society at milwaukee a week before school began arts college faculty increased by eight members this year the faculty of the college litis in creased by eight members represent ing as many departments of study the modern language department claims professor hewitt who comes to us from williams college where he was instructor in german from 1909 lfi and assistant professor during the following year professor hewitt is a graduate of yale from which college he liter received his l'h 1 having received his m a from harvard in the course of his studies he also at elided marburg and freiburg uni versities he is the author of paul gerhardt as a hymn-writer ' ', and of several texts mr schaurath a graduate of har vard comes to the university as in structor in latin and greek after graduation from oberlin col lege assistant professor jones re ceived his ph.d from the university of chicago in 1917 he taught for a year at northwestern university and subsequently was assistant professor of psychology at oberlin his writ ings include the influence of age and experience on correlations with mental tests and several articles miss land a graduate of the uni ' versify of buffalo received her m a from this university in 1923 she will t instruct in psychology education ' and educational sociology 1 mr stoner will instruct in govern ' ment he is tt graduate of the uni ' versify of michigan received his m a at chicago i'niversity ami has com ' pleted most of the requirements for his i'h l at columbia to the science department come mr mccormick and mr milne mr mccormick who will instruct in bio logy is a graduate of muskingum col lege for the past two yean lie litis been graduate assistant in zoology at ohio state university mr milne who for the hist few years litis heen instructor at the university of albert will fetich mathematics he received his b a and his m a at the university of toronto and litis studied toward the degree of ph.d at the university of chicago one of the most important addi tions to the faculty is the new phy sical director for girls mrs charles lee formerly head of physical edu cation department for girls at the university of nebraska conies to the university of buffalo to take over this work gymnasium classes will be formed attendance at which will be compulsory for freshman girls and optional for upper class girls and sophomores mrs lee will have charge of all athletic activities of the girls including teams and games dr capon at meadville chancellor capen delivered the commencement address at the meadville theological school on september 27th his subject was an educator's view of the liberal church chancellor capen addresses university at convocation dr capen lays emphasis upon responsibility opening exercises well at tended by faculty and students the university entered upon its seventy-eighth year last monday when after a record registration in the morning the students and fac ulty assembled at hutchinson high school in the afternoon for the formal convocation the convoca tion exercises this year departed a little from previous opening exer cises in that no outside speakers were included on the program to make the convocation more of a family gathering chancellor capen himself addressed the students and extended a welcome to both those who were entering the university for the first time and those who were returning again to those who enter the university for the first time the chancellor pointed out the fundamental differ ence between high school and col lege in high school the students are under more strict supervision than in college at a university they are thrown more upon their own responsibility no one can give an education declared chan cellor capen that has never been done an education is something one must get for oneself responsibility of arte student greater the burden of responsiblty dr capen proceeded to show is greater on the students in the arts college than on the students in the profes sional schools the professional schools are under professional standards from which they can not deviate without making a sacrifice to their useful ness the arts college is not so hampered for its students do not upon graduation have to try state examinations moreover the im mediate bread and butter motive which is present in the professional schools is more remote in the arts college hence the student is more dependent upon his own will power to study the chancellor dwelt upon the question of responsibilty to a con siderable degree university stud ents are after all a select few a fortunate fraction of the popula tion their entrance into a uni versity is dependent in a large measure upon sacrifices these sacrifices are made not only by par ents but by the state and commun ity as well universities cost money they cost a great deal more than the students themselves ever pay the universty of buffalo is paid for in a very large measure by the citizens of buffalo it is their sacrifice and they have a right to expect something student activities important that does not exclude students from having a good time dr capen continued student activities are a part of university life and an important part of universitv life in turn athletics are an important part of student activities we want to have good teams said the chancellor not necessarily win ning teams but teams that have spirit teams of morale teams of which we can be proud student activities nevertheless are not as important as the regular work of the university the leaders of our civilization are intellectual leaders leaders by virtue of intel lectual power physical dexterity and social charm count but it is primarily through the intellect that the race has reached its present plane of civilization all universi ties are created to produce leaders that does not say however that all university graduates are or will dean macdonald in europe over summer interesting trip reveals many american college students working their way abroad miss lillias macdonald dean of women at the i'niversity has just returned from a three months tour of europe the party went directly from new york to paris and then through southern france across the french alps into italy they vis ited many of the famous spots of history including the town of bri ance where caesar once had his headquarters and which is now the centre of the french alpine climbers in italy they visited rome naples milan venice and florence and then went into switz erland where they stayed for a number of days thence to bel gium they sailed for dover and travelled through england and into the northernmost part of scotland through the very beautiful loch lomande district in england the party visited tom brown's school where they were interested to note the many differ ences between the english and american schoolboys at oxford which they also visited they were impressed by the care that was taken of the quadrangles one of which is in front of each college the men of the university are very proud of their quads and are careful to see that they are well kept up the party encountered a great many american college students many of whom had come to europe in steerage or second-class accom modotions while abroad they were travelling in the third-class coaches or had rented bicycles or boats thus getting around the con tinent at an amazingly small expense deon macdonald feels sure that should every college student enter his classes with the hope that he may some day see europe be would find his study particularly in the fields of history literature and the modern languages very much more profitable and interesting than he ! otherwise might cornell clubs to meet in buffalo several u b faculty among local alumni on the 11th of october buffalo will be the scene of the convention of the association of cornell clubs delegates from the cornell clubs of pittsburgh chicago detroit cleve land and other cities will assemble in buffalo on that day on friday october 12th they are planning to take a trip to niag ara falls as the guests of fred schoellkopf the president of the local cornell club a banquet on friday evening will further add to the festivities saturday october 13th is the day of the home com ing game at cornell university when the varsity meets williams so on saturday the cornell grads will visit their alma mater and see the cornell-williams conflict local interest in this buffalo meeting of cornell alumni is heightened by the fact that some of the u b faculty are cornell men on the committee to arrange for the convention are walter p cooke lewis gulick and george crofts dramatic society will be under way the forthcoming year is most prom ising to those interested in the dra matic society under tho excellent direction of mrs daniel bell leary the society produced belinda by a a milne in 1921 uouere by philip muel ler in 1922 and he who gets slapped by leonid andrecv in 1923 each year the society litis been augmented by experienced and enthusiastic workers now — the result — ti splendid group of students united by the same purpose working toward the same goal striving to maintain this ideal of high standard work presenting worth-while plays end learning the fundamental principles of the theatre complete plans are not yet ready for announcement but indications point to a more intense study and perhaps greater scope than in preceding years full details will be announced at the first meeting of the dramatic society at townsend hall keep tuesday evenings open for dramatics university adopts big sister plan according to the precedent estab lished hist year no freshman girl will enter college alone and unbef riended the girls of the junior class as the " big sisters of the freshman girls have been busy getting in touch with them before convocation a eomit tee composed of one girl from each sorority with arliue robinson vice president of the class of 192.1 as chair man litis assi 1 each freshman to a junior who will act as guide and coun sellor during the first few days of the new college year all schools add to their faculty at convocation last monday chan cellor capen introduced the new members of the faculty to the uni versity in the school of medicine they are walter f green associate instructor in anatomy rufus r humphrey anatomy joseph j macdonnell physiology w puches physiology earl r templeton pathology milan a logan bacteri ology and earnest b hanan ana tomy in the school of pharmacy they are howard w post chemistry lawrence d lockie pharmacy and wesley c staesser chemistry in law school george grand smith will be the new professor of torts continued on page 3 bee ads tell of big bargains buy of bee advertisers