Bee, 1923-01-04

              the bee vol 11l university of buffalo january 4 1923 no 12 teams chosen for pitt hobart debates bonfires amid snow marked first barbecue all colleges turn out for supper served on campus the university barbecue which at first promised to be an affair of huge proportion as well as a worthy pre cedent and which on the tuesday af ternoon of the event appeared a dis mal failure was rescued from such a fate by the energetic last minute ef forts of the student committee in charge with the result that it may truly be classed as one of the best parties of 1922 several inches of snow and a biting cold wind did not prevent two hundred students from gathering about several bonfires to partake of the inviting supper on the tuesday evening preceding vacation unfortunately the cold precluded the possibility of games and stunts or iginally intended when the fires had burned rather low the students re paired to the gym where they were entertained by william cooke who appeared in several clever imperson ations dancing completed the en tertainment of the meeting agitation for the barbecue had commenced among the students when the three colleges of arts pharmacy and chemistry first arriv ed on the new campus at first frowned upon the idea finally won the approval of the s a c and the com mittee preceded to make arrange ments all colleges attend it was 6:30 before the students be gan to arrive on tuesday evening they came from all departments of the university even the law stu dents laying aside their copies of blackstone found time for a few minutes of recreation and from their distant home at the center of our fair town they came enmasse editor mccordock active whatever else may have been lack ing there was a sufficiency of the most necessary and desirable element for food in the form of hot roast ham apple pie and coffee was plenti ful notwithstanding the hearty ap petites of the law students red light torches helped the bon fires to illu mine the scene edtior mccordock of the iris was on hand taking a few snapshots for the 1923 annual and material for such pictures could easi ly be had the center of attraction was a very capable young lady who wielded a big knife proficiently as she carved slices of ham hot from the fire in fact her only rival for popu larity was the liberal dispenser of pies william fe cooke to fore when everyone had eaten their fill and the wood for the fires had given out there was a general movement toward the gym adjoining rotary field there bickel's orchestra gave the usual good account of itself and there william cooke who has come to be a real standby saved the life of the pro gram committee after other perform ers had failed to appear mr cooke impersonated an english duke in a clever recital which elicited much ap plause faculty members aid the committee included ruth foulke dorothy day edward hoff man ira hovey dorothy van tine tom ganim and capitola parker thanks are due dr a b lemon dr raymond e rlegel and mr and mrs david e waite who acted as chap erones with the advent of the new year the social activities of 1922 become his tory and barbecue of december occu pies a rightful place in that history the real significance of this event however should not be lost sight of so that next fall the university may witness a bigger and better spectacle chess club to stage intercollegiate meet team to be selected by tournament an indication of a greater univer sity spirit is ithe manner in which hitherto practically unheard of acti vities are pointing toward great achievements chess now steps to the fore with a program altogether in keeping with the enthusiasm which the members of the chess club have manifested the student activities committee realizing thait chess would be placed on a firm basis by tourna ments with other colleges have set aside a definite appropriation for chess with this object in view president podolin of the chess club told the bee that the schedule of matches with other universities is not yet complete and so will not be an nounced till later there is however no doubt that some of the universities which are prominent in chess will bo booked unofficially it may be said there are prospects of playing cornell pittsburgh and alfred the team that will represent the university of buffalo is now being selected tournament play is the means of deciding the personnel of the team for the first intercollegiate meet later this team may be changed for further contests if the men on it are displeased in tourna ment competition this continual competition will also result in im provement in play of those already selected for the varsity since it fur nishes constant practice emphasis is placed upon the rule that a candi date can not hope for a place on the team unless he participates in the tournament the rules and regulations govern ing the tournament are the work of dr john l garretson faculty ad visor of chess dr garretson has not merely shown a passive interest but he has given his very active support toward making chess a recognized student activity the regular meetings of the chess club take place every friday evening at townsend hall every college is the university is represented which goes to show the universal appeal of chess the chess club welcomes any one who takes an interest in the brain contests chess affords the greater the number of candidates the strong er the team will be and the greater the chances for victory against other colleges after all the standard of its scholar ship is not the sole criterion by which to judge a college neither is the prowess of its athletic teams the only standard there should be included an account of the extent to which all students participate in undergrad uate activities the interest taken by a large number of students in chess shows that u b is not all one-sided play the man theme of dr fosdick's talk the members of the student body who attended the u b bean supper at the y on tuesday evening had an unusually pleasant and educating experience dr frank s fosdick was the speaker of the evening quite a number had the privilege of hear ing the most impressive lecture this year dr fosdick's theme was play the man to act like a man ment ally physically and morally should be the aim of every college man there is no benefit in developing oneself mentally and physicadly and not mor ally or vice versa we must aim for physical strength that we may live long but mr fosdick explained we should not make the mistake of de veloping ourselves athletically at the expense of our mental faculties brain and brawn are a wonderful combination but one is lost without the other last but of all impor tance is the strengthening of our mor al character the most imposing specimen of physical strength and mental achievement according to dr fosdick that he ever saw was being as a result of lack of moral strength to resist temptation when we can think act and live purely then we are men until then we are of no earthly use dr fosdick concluded with an urgent appeal to prove our selves men in the strictest sense of the word he left upon the minds of his audience an impression that can not very easily be erased the stu dents realized that they were listening to one who has more than once proved himself to be what he urged us to become a real man law class of 1900 holds reunion the law class of 1900 reelected dr francis e fronczak president of the class at their j!4th annual reunion in the iroquois hotel of the 16 men who attended the reunion but one is now practicing law it developed as each gave a brief account of his ac tivities of the past year just 50 per cent of the original class was present at the reunion h l hart was redesignated as secretary and w e robertson was continued in office as official toast master letters from absent mem hers of the class showed that some are now supreme court judges three hold judicial positions of lower rank one is a state senator another an as semblyman and several are the heads of large business houses the class will hold its 25th annual reunion next june physical club holds interesting meeting the university physical club held its first meeting of the year on de cember 14th in celebration of the dedi cation of the new physics laboratory in science hall the scientific gath ering was well attended and proved to be of unusual interest dr capen was a guest of honor and one of the speakers of the occasion the pro gram which was marked by an exhi bition of the arc spectrum included fine speakers after the program the faculty of the physics department served refreshments to the members of the club and their friends professor edward j moore presid ed over the gathering chancellor capen in his speech compared the universities of the old world with the universities of the new mr donald sharpe gave a talk on pyrex glass following him mr p haynes spoke on some aspects of research an in teresting picture of university life in sweden was presented by dr k w stenstrom dr e raymond reigel then discussed the timely subject of the cooperation of physics and chem istry in the solution of modern prob lems interesting indeed was the exhibi tion of dr moore — an exhibition of an arc spectrum of ice and sodium and the spectra of nean and helium the chemistry department exhibited an electroscope such as was used by madame curie in her search for radi um the officers of the club for the en suing year were elected at this meet ing they are president professor edward j moore vice president dr k w stenstrom secretary dr e raymond reigel the meetings of the physical club are open to all those interested un ■ dergrnduates although not eligible to membership are welcome as auditors reporters needed with the next issue begins a series of competitions for places on the bee staff many of the present staff graduate this year and the bee believing that foresighted ness is the best policy wishes to make provision for any such vacancies furthermore the bee needs a staff of live wire reporters to assist the de partmental editors in gather ing news a valuable training in prac tical journalism can be ac quired wttiile the student is rendering real service to his university a very tangible reward for service on the bee staff is a journalistic key pre sented by the s a c all candidates for places on the bee staff should report next tuesday evening at townsend hall for assign ments in the post in order to build up a staff positions have been given to students before they had a chance to show their ability hereafter the position of departmental and associate editor can only be attained after a period of apprenticeship in reporting the probability is that in suc ceeding yeans standards will be continually raised so that now is the time of opportun ity for those w r ho want a bee key a special appeal is now made to the students of the medical college every other department in the university is represented on the bee but medicine such a condition is neither desirable or necessary the news from the depart ment of medicine would ob viously be more fully covered if this college had representa tives on the staff the bee therefore urgently appeals to the medical student for sup port splendid iris staff surpasses previous subscription records the 1923 iris board to date has all records beaten in u b history for securing the largest and best book ever also the subscription list is far beyond that of any previous year the total subscription list now is over 200 books beyond that of last year at this time the material for the book will be larger and of higher quality and the engravings will also be mote diversified and of the highest quality this unusually splendid showing is due in large measure to the most ef ficient management of howard a mc cordock editor in chief b g wake field advertising manager f t schnatz business manager and other members of the various staffs all of them under the efficient direc tion of dr wayne j atwell faculty advisor on the s a c the subscription campaign of the iris which was held december 4th 6th and 6th resulted in the sale of 483 books the final returns from the faculty canvass have not yet been re ceived when these are added the total will probably reach the 500 mark last year on the first campaign only 300 books were sold at the time of going to press only 480 were on order after three drives if sales follow last year's incident we may expect well over 600 after our next drive sometime after christmas the al umni will be canvassed also an ap peal will be made to the citizens who are interested in the university advertising manager wakefield re ports 650.00 worth of advertising the seniors will pay for their en graving this year individual letters have been sent out through the class representatives the staff in the various colleges is as follows fl dr w j atwell faculty advisor h a mccordock editor f t schantz business manager b g wakefield advertising manager mil ton hagen art editor george kolbe assistant business manager medical college representatives — associate editor w p taylor sen ior d w wlhite junior j e dolan soph n w kuch frosh h brown dental college representatives — as sociate editor r d bennett senior r d bennett junior b g wake field soph e j kelsey frosh t hayes pharmacy-chemistry representa tives — associate phar j h beck ley senior j h beckley frosh william wegman chem senior k t wende junior and frosh l t howells law college representatives — as sociate editor j c morgan senior d w haring junior e h keyser frosh miss ethyl burnham arts college representatives — as sociate editor j f painton senior o m w"hix junior t ganln soph r richie frosh a b and b s j mcnamara frosh pre med william cook frosh pre dent r reil • 13 year old boy enters northwesters through a speolal disposition of the faculty committee of northwestern university willmore kendall jr the thirteen year old son of the rev willmore kendall blind pastor of mangum oklahoma has been admit ted as a freshman to the university one of the results of the nation wide publicity that has been given young willmore is an offer from the herald and examiner of chicago to write features for its columns in his ipare time allied war debt is question for coming forsenic combats majority of team law students the university will open its intercollegiate debating season early in february when it meets hobart and 1 tho university of pittsburgh on the debating platform after a series of tryouts the coach ing staff has chosen an a.t firmative and a negative team with the reservation that in case pittsburgh does not agree with u b.'s terms the two teams will be consol idated into one for greater strength the hobart debate is a certainity and will occur at geneva february 16th it is the plan of manager john beckley to send the af firmative team to hobart while the negative remains at buffalo to meet pitts burgh war debt the subject the question buffalo upholds against hobart is resolved that the allied war debt to the united states be cancelled this topic has long held the center of the stage and should provide great material for i spirited debate for it is as deeprooted econ omically as it is important from a moral sense a concensus of current questions being debated among col leges would undoubtedly show that the cancellation of the allied debt is the most popular out of the score of candidates which the debate club furnished for the tryouts six debaters and two al ternates were chosen after the final elimination on december 18th tho present affirmative team is composed of fred devlin law 24 julius gold stein law 24 daniel katz arts 25 and ira hovey law 24 ai'iefiiftto the negative team comprises justin morgan law 24 sidney farber arts 23 waters law 25 and ralph lehr law 24 hiii'fulo men on unhurt team the two teams have been prepar ing quite extensively for hobart al ways presents a formidable front last year in the first intercollegiate debate in which buffalo has taken part hobart was victorious on the closed shop question as in the past buffalo boys will represent buffalo on the debating platform clifford orr formerly of lafayette high school captains the hobart team fred davies of technical and henry lou dit a former u b student are the other two members the debate will take place in williams hall geneva judges for the clash are not yet known hut they are to be selected by the president of hobart this is the second year that u of b has actively entered collegiate do bating it is the first year debating at u of b has been under the direc tion of a coaching staff miss ww ner walter kendall and mai tin bulking are now guiding the destin ies of the debate club and dr aloe gan is acting in the capacity of fac ulty advisor all of which augurs well for the coming debates members of faculty attend conventions the chancellor and members of the faculty took advantage of the holi days to attend meetings of educators dr capen was in boston at the meet ing of the american association for the advancement of science dean park attended the meeting of the american association of univers ity professors in new haven and found time to be at the session of ihe american bibliographical society dr a h shearer also attended the meet ing of the bibliographical society in addition to being present at the his torians convention in new haven mr raymond chambers was at the joint meeting of the american political science and american economics as sociations in chicago subscribe to the iris boost the bison