Bee, 1923-02-15

              the bee vol 11l no 17 university of buffalo february 15 1923 varsity debate team meets hobart at geneva university day to be observed by exercises at teck february 22 baron serge korff of georgetown university to be main speaker — alumni reunion m evening — student activities to be represented washington's birthday long cele brated by it of 1 as i'uiverslty day will be observed this year by the us ual convocation at the teck theatre m the morning baron serge a korff the professor on international relations at georgetown university and former governor general of fin land is to be the speaker the stu dents of all the schools and of the college of the university are to meet of the governors library at 10:30 and from the governors library are to march to the teck preceded by the university band chancellor capen will preside and the joint faculties of the university will be present this year student activities will be represented by one student speaker fred devlin cap tain of the varsity debate team will speak on the progress of extra-circu lar activities in the evening the eight annual dinner of the federated alumni asso ciation will be held m the hotel stat ler chancellor capen will address the alumni and dr boothe c davis pres ident of alfred university has been secured as the other speaker university day is one of the three occasions of the year upon which the entire university gathers at one place at one time students day m the fall and moving-up day m the spring are the only other two occnsions on both these days the s a c is m full charge of the program but university day exercises are conducted by the chan cellor the student informal reception which was to have taken place m the afternoon has been postponed to a future date circumstances do not permit the carrying out of this idea on feb 22 but it is too excellent to be abandoned and will undoubtedly take place on some other occasion tho speaker on university day is a man of international fame baron korff was one of those who with ker ensky tried to direct the russian rev olution into constructive channels his subject on february 22nd is russia in tbe near east washington's birthday is distinctly known as the big university of buf falo day m midwinter season the message which chancellor capin has sent to all schools of the university clearly sets forth the facts of uni versity day the bee reprints the statement of the chancellor february 22nd has been celebrat ed for twenty-two years as university day the members of all faculties and the students of all schools assem ble for joint exercises the custom has become a tradition of the univer sity since the university has as yet no auditorium we miss the unifying influence of frequent assemblies the student body is conscious of this lack it has recently been commented on m the student publications the morn ing exercises of university day of fer us the one opportunity m the academic year to come together and to feel the solidarity of the whole un iversity organization on university day this year the university is also to be the host of baron serge a korff distinguished student and scholar and a man whose reputation m diplomacy is world-wide as hosts the obligation rests on all of us who can possibly do so to lie pres ent to greet bini and to assure him of the genuineness of the university's welcome the arrangements are being made for the student body to march to the teck theatre by classes details will lie announced later i urge every member of the university to plan to attend success of iris not yet assured states professor atwell two hundred more subscriptions needed a misapprehension m regard to the finance of the iris is likely to lie had says professor wayne 1 atwell fac ulty advisor fitom the statement printed tn lust week s bee instead of a surplus to be turned over to tiie studcu :- activities committee p con siderable deficit may face the year book iv june while it is true that to date more subscriptions have been received t'nar at the same time m former years the percentage is no larger when tho greatly increased enrollment m the university is considered editor mc cormaok and manager sohnatz esti mate that at least 20(1 additional sul - rcriptions will be required to carry the bonk to success an opportunity will be given for those who failed to sub scribe early to sign up soon since publication of the iris was resumed four year ago no book lias been a complete financial success the elicits varying from fifty dollars to fifteen hundred the 1923 iris will not he an exception unless every student assumes tlie share of respons'bility i which is his university senate meets for first time advisory body chooses officers committees the university senate the new advis ing lioily to the chancellor held its tirst meeting february 7 at the alum ni club officers anu committees were chosen and the details of organization were worked out it was an usually well-attended me t ing for of tho lifty-two members for ty-four were present when the chan cellor called the meeting to order mr inving k templeton the head of all the students activities of the university was elected secretary and dr willis gregory senior dean was chosen vice-chairman these selections were unanimous the proposition of evening sessions for the university came to the con sideration of the senate a committee was appointed tn investigate and plan for the operation of evening sessions the senate also authorized the appoint ment of a director for night classes by ihe university council the question of the a c degree was referred to a committee which will report tn tin 1 senate at some future meeting t the committee of six mem bers of the arts college which has charge of the matter of graduate study were added three members from other schools of the university a commit tee was also appointed to draw up by laws for the senate the secretary mr templeton was authorised to draft and to send to father ahetn head of canisius col lege a statement of appreciation for the banquet given to the chancellor and the l h faculty before ad journment the bn.lv moved to have all meet in its subject tv the call of tlie chancellor follies the follies is coming slowly but surely the play has been completely and the student body will soon be giv ing a chance to try out for parts as yett the chorus is small but it is hoped that after mid-years more students will find time to tread the light fan tastic with the u b follies the man agement is hoping to make the follies an elaborate affair and the students can look forward to an unusual display of talent funny humorous dramatic arro gant all m one with many surprises as soon as the official date is set the bee will publish iit so that the students can reserve that date see our dollies in the u b follies a word to stu dents about the u b club the l b club which meets every tuesday evening at the central y m c a has in the past few weeks turned aside from its old programs and has substituted instead an open forum kobert smith the v secretary has conduct ed a number of discussions m which the students have par ticipated with interest during the past few weeks the in vasion of the huhr valley by the french furnished the sub ject material for one discus sion and the negro question was the ground for contention of another the idea of an open forum is so good that it should not be abandoned without a fair trial questions of interest to the university problems which arise m college life could be threshed out weekly by the fellows of the it b club at these meetings there is not an atmosphere of constraint and opinion are offered freely too many students have overlooked the u b club m the past the weekly bean suppers are one occasion upon which the fellows from all schools of the university can meet together and become ac quainted no better means for developing school spirit is af forded when a freshman sur prises you by his knowledge of the alma mater you will invariably find that he learn ed it at the it b club at tendance of late at the u b club has not been very en couriginff students should not overlook this most valu able asset for unifying the schools of the university vivid tale of the north told by professor macmillan in speech to students on value of arctic exploration pine was the unanimous opin ion of a goodly number of u b stu dents who enjoyed a rare verbal treat given by prof donald macmillan not ed arctic explorer now instructor at boden college prof macmillan ipoke at foster hall friday afternoon feb ruary 11 at 2 : 15 accompanied by principle head of nichols school and introduced ity chancellor capen the explorer spoke on the value of arc tic exploration m a manner that smacked of northen rigors macmil lan at one time ferry's lieutenant accompanied the great commander on his successful trip to the pole and his since made two highly valuable trips himself he is classed as one of the three great present day explorers his speaoh friday was a vivid tale of the north and answered the questions why we co what do we find and what are the results it includ ed some facts which came like a thun derboldt on many popular conceptions and sent them crashing 1 down to real ity the speaker was introduced by the chancellor who having once been a fellow townsman of the explorer gave a few brief but interesting 1 side-lights arising from that connection the chancellor described how while bath ing the zero king received his first summons from commander perry to accompany him to the land of snow and ice macmillan is a man of medium height powerfully built with f-yt-s that sparkle and a voice that rings with echoes of terrific struggles with polar snow and ire when he speaks that fearless vitality and grit that conquered zero blizzards and btoi id undaunted through untold suffering and exaustion darts out flash after flash he said m part why do we go that is a ques tion which i am going to answer why have men struggled for three hundred years to reach the top of the world why have millions of dollars been spent and men given up their lives to find the north pole people have called it a mere stunt it was not that we slept m the snow sixty degrees below zero m furs and with out sleeping bags perry said that since the sledge dogs slept with only their fur to protect them his men should do likewise perry first went m 1891 when the area of that land was not known three months later he staggered back having eaten all his dogs and said simply i have failed however perry had found that greenland did not stretch across the top of the world us had l>een believed he went again and m 1893 came back after having covered five hundred thousand miles of ice and snow the speaker went on to tell how perry's second trip exploded the be lief that the ice was thicker at the i>ole and established the fact that it was actually thinner ten degrees from thi pole musk ox were feeding on the frozen grasses and there was not as much snow as there is at this time m buffalo and less moisture the remains of giant trees and fossils besides great coal deposits were found the explorer then consoled his audi ence gave the coal barons reason to tremble when he stated that the exaustion of the world's coal supply need not cause much worry m view of the fact that at the top of the world there are millions of tons of that substance such finds indicated that at one time up there close to the pale there was no snow or ice and the land was forest covered prof macmillan punctuated his speech with references to the findings and the sciences interested thus in 1909 beds of flowers were found and seven hundred different kinds were distinguished thus the botanist is interested the nest of a rare bird known to inhabit the polar regions and hunted for seventy-five years was searched for by the explorers and kskimos grasping a long rope at intervals and literally combing the ice wastes how ever the nest was discovered accident ly and m it were three little eggs the size of an olive for which a certain man offered to pay 1500.00 apiece but on which the american museum said they dared not place a valuation seventy-five rare birds and forty-five different kinds of eggs were discov ered so ornithology is interested macmillan then compared the prim ative people up there with his own college boys intellect lie said is too often confused with knowledge with this declaration he quoted uus sel vtallce that man of today is no better than man of ages ago after living on raw meat and clothed m skins for six years i wis convinced that those boys kskimos were every bit as intellectual as my col lege boys they are resourceful and use their heads when we discovered ourselves without means of making a fire one of those boys took a cart cancellation of war debt is question williams hall scene of forensic combat forensic history will bo made tomorrow evenini when the university debate team faces hobart m wil liams hall geneva on the question of cancelling the al lied war debt lt will be the first test for tlie varsity com bination of debaters which mr kendall and miss wil ner ihe coaches have welded into a powerful team a team which at the present time ap pears to he fully able to copo with any group of speakers from any university m the country to foretell the out come of a debate is ten times as difficult as to forecast the result of a football game for judges often btihave queerly ; but nevertheless the bee ven tures to predict that the col ors of the university will not be lowered on friday even ing despite the caliber of the opposition the obstacles m the path of the de baters are many recent develop ments have turned out very unfav orably for the affirmative of the can cellation question england with her payments has very unkindly taken the ground f-om under the feet of the u b side of the proposition the debate is to be held in hostile terri tory and while the hobart boys will find all kinds of support v b will be without a friend in the audience in addition hobart has already debat ed the question twice and is amply prepared to meet and parry any at tack then too hobart presents a team of tried and experienced men who are entirely familiar with the art of argumentation in spite of these handicaps there is good reason to believe that u b will emerge vic torious for the varsity this year is a remarkably well balanced combina tion thoroughly skilled m the intri cacies of debate uu.laio hoys on iloliait team as m the past buffalo boys will represent hobart on the forensic plat form clifford on will lead the ho bart team friday night and will speak third for lhe jeneva debaters fred davies alternate on the team which successfully invaded buffalo last spring is to speak second and henry loudit will open the debate for hobart fred devlin captains the u b team und speaks first in presentation and last ln rebuttal justin morgan and sidney farber are the other members of the buffalo var sity mr morgan closing the presen tation for u of b and mr farber speaking second the proposition which buffalo will uphold is resolved that the allied war debt to the united states should be cancelled this question is famil iar to anyone who even casually scans the pages of the dally newspaper with the invasion of the ruhr val ley by the french and with a new war impending in europe the cancel lation of the war debt looms as a most important problem whether condi tions m europe can be restored to a pre war status without any assistance by the united states is doubtfully at any rate a question as deep rooted ecconomically and socially as the can cellation of the allied war debt will furnish ample subject matter for an interesting debate the very fact that the institution of international education has selected this question for a naion wide essay contest is proof of its far reaching importance students may accompany team a determined effort is being made by the debute club lo have a repre sentation of u b rooters m williams hall tomorrow evening nothing could be more encouraging to the de baters than a tvw friendly faces m that hostile audience hobart real continued on page thret ) continued on page tiro subscribe to the iris subscribe to the bee boost the bison