Bee, 1937-05-21

              the bee volume 17 number 28 buffalo n y friday may 21 1937 dean announces staff for summer session play production modern physics survey new courses opportunities offered superior students of high schools by university over 150 courses which will be tuught by a faculty of 75 mem bers are to be given in the uni versity of buffalo summer session from july 6 to august 14 in the new and final edition of the sum mer session catalogue dean l o cummings announces that the courses offered in the 1937 sum mer sesßion cover a wide range of subject and show a substantial in crease in number over lnm year besides the iso courses already scheduled provision has been made to offer others provided there is sufficient demand for them summer courses represent the fellowlng seven divisions of the university : college of arts and sciences graduate study in arts and sciences school of business administration school of educa tion curriculum in library sci ence division of nursing of the school of medicine and the school of social work new course featured several of the courses scheduled laundry machinery quickly out-moded mr baker accounting lecturer makes tech nical study scarcely any of the machines which go to make up the operating equipment of a modern laundry of any""«l«s can be profitably used during their entire natural lite in deed so rapid has been the devel opment of certain operations that the machines used in those opera tions have been discarded as obso lete after two or three years al though they would last ten or fif teen years if allowed to operate until they were worn out these conclusions were drawn by mr honjatnlii 0 baker lecturer in accounting at the university school of business administration in a teehincal study for the laundry industry the report made to guide laun dry owners in filing their tax re turns under a recent treasury de cision no 4422 has just been published in special bulletin form liy the laundry owners associa tion of the united states and can ada in developing his conclusion that the average machine in this indus try lasts only eight and a half years mr baker points out that loday the machine is outmoded by new models and seldom worn out law school graduate a graduate of the university of buffalo school of law in the class women's club elections mary l carlson president all women in school in vited to club meetings the annual elections for the wo men's club were held tueßday may 11 the officers for the com ing year are president mary lou carlson arts 38 vice-president grace ruckh arts 39 secretary treaßurer bertha nai arts 39 hostesses mary jane warren arts 40 ruth nessler arts 40 pro gram chairman charlotte mols arts 40 publicity chairman jean ette miller arts 39 following the proceedure when the club was organized voting was done by ballot every woman in the college was invited to vote the women's club invites all women to come to their meetings which are held semi-monthly in the private dining room of norton hall a bplnster party and a voca tlonul dinner are also sponsored by the club during the year final examination period in campus colleges millard fillmore alto be gins exams a other school finish morning exams begin at nine o'clock afternoon examination i'i one-thirty thin year the dual examination period which will bring the academic year to a close in mlllaro fillmore col lege and in the live campus divi sions of the university will begin on monday may 24 examinations have been in progress in the school of law since monday in the schools of medicine and den tistry which operate on the our quarter rather than the two-semes ter plun of instruction the spring quarter will close on saturday june 6 students are requested to con sult the bulletin boards in the vari ous buildings on the campus for changes which may be made in the schedule conflicts in examinations should be reported at once to the office of the university registrar dr shadle attends mammalogist meeting dr albert it shadle head of the department of biology at the university of buffalo attended the nineteenth annual meeting of the american society of mammalogists in washington d c from may 4 to 8 bee reporter crashes policy lecture gives inside dope on famed course record subconscious reactions of future executives as rubber company executive speaks 1:50 the bus ad school gath ers in the corridors of the auspi cious norton union some for the hrst time since the last lecture hilarity and backslapplng with a creat amount of horseplay thrown in everybody is been shaking hands with people whom they haven't seen bince the laßt lecture charlie roesch takes his stand on the door of the auditorium — suddenly the crowd breaks up und illsperses thru the portals of the wlil auditorium roesch chases the last few btragglers in—hink ley and casßel nght it out to see who will be the last one inside noiae continues inside mcqarry introduces the speaker as substi tute for epstein laughs quiet — de munn and coho argue as to the economical value of a 6c cigar lecture begins everybody settles back into a myriad of positions may queen jantien sits as high as possible so as to give the girlß a treat — qutrren gapes at the speaker with open mouth — belden i appeurs to be as interested as a business executive — h of the au dience anapß and chews gum — prof mcgarry falls into a half stu por — wells amußes himself and those around htm by drawing pic tures — whispers snickers etc in termingle with the speakers voice — small noise outside slamming of a door sudden starting and shut ting off of music wakes up a few of the students — lecture about % over — students begin to shift in their seats — block surveys the room — ruthle ltndeman and ivan the terrible levine chin a while — mclean takes a gander at the clock — a few titter at the speakers jokes — part of the hindi's settle down for sleep justice kent subject of historical study dr horton write article on western eyres of new york chancellor justice james kent chief jus tice of new york from 1804 to 1814 and chancellor of new york state from 1814 to 1823 was the out standing jurist who led the way in adapting the english common law to american conditions according to dr john t horton assistant professor of hißtory and govern ment at the university in a cur rent article on the western eyres of judge kent dr horton's article has just been published in new york his tory the ofticlal journal of the new york historical association and represents his findings about the social and political conditions in western new york around 1800 and their adaptability at that time to the english common law authority on kent an authority on justice kent having written his doctoral disser tation at harvard on the life of james kent dr horton describes the countryside with many of its place-names out of the classics — rome utlca manllus camillus the 1937 edition of the buf falonian will ap pear on campus may 28 jeanette ballotin is in charge of circulation labor discussion to be held tonight youth council sponsors university professor labor leaders and consumers repre sentative as speakers tonight tlio bnrr«k>..yniiih outi ell makes ita flrat public appear ance the council sponsored by the national youth administra tion is presenting its first public youth forum at 8 p.m this eve ning at 315 delaware ave the program topic the future of labor waß chosen because of its particular interest to young people it will be discussed from the points of view of business la bor and the consumer at the con clusion of the addresaes questions may be directed to the speakers questions must be submitted in writing and bear the name of the speaker to whom it is addressed the ushers will collect the ques tions the detailed program follows music — buffalo concert orchestra of the w p a federal mublc project discussion — chairman milton lawandus president of the buffalo youth council business — dr shaw livermore professjr ot economics at u b laoor — mr hugh thompson regional director of the committee for in dustrial organization labor mr clarence conroy district orgnnizer of the american federa tion of labor consumer — mrs marlon r cheek national chairman of the consumers sec tion of the league of women vo ters history assistant gets appointment thaycr to instruct in american history in pennsylvania theodore g thayer who has been graduate assistant in the de partment of hlßtory of the univer sity during the current year has been nnpolnted assistant instruc tor in american history at the university of pennsylvania for next year graduated from akron high school in 1024 mr thayer utlend ed the state normal school at brockport from 1926 to 1928 he received the degree of bachelor of sell-nee in education from the uni versity of buffalo in 1934 and ex pects to receive hiß master's de gree in june the title of his thesis is social and economic predilec tions an influencing the decisions of the supreme court especially in the time of mr chief justice hughes outing club sponsors camp annual freshman affair to be conducted by new organization the executive committee of the board of managers has appointed the outing club to take charge of the freshman camp this move follows an offer to take over the camp made to the board of man agers by the outing club it is ex pected that tbe outing club will select a camp director this week and that a campaign for attend ance at the camp will be launched soon freshman camp was flrst organ ized several years ago to provide an opportunity for freshmen to meet members of the university faculty and outstanding students on an informal basis the camp is conducted from the friday after noon to the sunday afternoon im mediately proceeding the formal opening of tbe university the freshmen who are about to enter the university are invited to spend two nights in cabins on the shore of lake brie during the day athletic contests and games are organized between the students and the faculty and swimming in lake brie is conduct ed under the famous buddy sys tem meals are prepared by profes sional cooks most of the boys last year claimed they gained a pound or two while at the camp " those who have attended the camp say that they enjoyed the camp flre programs and the oppor tunity to meet the student leaders of the various campus activities in the informal manner provided by those days at the camp faculty takes sides on dawes forcast differ as to cause of expected depression in 1939 faculty members of the school of business administration differed sharply on the accuracy of the pre diction of general charles g dawes that business waß headed for a recession in 1939 a question of the utmost impor tance to economists because it raises the time-old problem of long range forecasting the opinion of the coolidge vice-presldent was violently attacked by many profes sional economists anil upheld by ih many more of the numerous solutions to the elimination of a 1939 depression seven major points were propound ed by nationally prominent figures including r f c chairman jesse jones scott loftln former presi dent of the american bar associa tion and new york stock ex change members senators and college professors the most outstanding solutions offered include 1 cut governmental expendi tures and balance the budget 2 revive building 3 rehabilitate factory equip ment 4 have a managed dohar 5 maintain freedom of individ ual enterprise 6 create more wealth 7 revalue the dollar dr martin brumbaugh and dr fritz machlup are among the uni versity of buffalo men who ex pressed themselves most freely to the bee their opinions and the opinions of other faculty members follow dr brumbaugh the most es sential element to avert a reces sion is to balance the federal bud get the only way to balance it is by reducing expenditures taxation is based not on bervlce but on ability to pay it 1b thus in a sense a levelling device we have about full year planned by debate union new members to be invited to luncheon dinner soon next year a constitutional con vention will be held in new york state for tbe purpose of revising the new york state constitution various groups throughout the state are already discussing the ad visability of certain proposed amendments and this interest will undoubtedly gain increased mo mentum as the date of the con vention draws nearer amendment study three members of the univer sity faculty dr widener dr hor ton and dr reid have been cho sen as members of a committee on constitutional revision in cooper ation with this committee the de bate union is planning to devote at least the flrst semester of next year to the study of these prob lems and to the discussion of their solutions after some preliminary study of the constitutional issues involved during which time sev eral fine outside speakers will be iaviti'd to address the union stu dent speakers will have the op portunity for speaking and debat ing before many of the prominent clubs of buffalo and vicinity on various phases of the question in this way the union will make its influence felt throughout the com munity vital subject every citizen and future citizen should be aware of the need for constitutional revision and should be able to discuss intelligently the problems and solutions involved it is a subject that will be widely dis cussed this coming year in many bison elects co-editors gelman and feldman named new heads plan ambi tious program-pusateiri heads business staff next fall we hope that the bison will regain the prominance it formerly held among campus publications says harold feldman and jack gelman newly elected co-editors of the campus monthly we believe that with our great er feature coverage and the intro duction of the photo-offset pro cess we will be able to greatly increase our circulation the editors announced that camera cliques will be contin ued despite the graduation of j stanley nixon and edward fitz morrls present editors of the sec tion we intend to have more art work in future editions of the bi son says sue hutter newly elect ed managing editor sam pusaterl marcla brown and gordon bloom were elected business manager secretary and circulation manager respectively the co-editors definitely plan to institute a progressive editorial policy government reports take much of executives tune president's job made more complex by new legislation duties of the president of a large corporation were described by mr thomas robins president of the hewitt rubber co of buffalo in an economic and industrial policy lec ture of the school of business ad ministration wednesday mr rob bins was introduced by dr mc garry a president's time is largely oc cupied by reading internal and ex ternal reportß tax returns sec reports etc the president of a corporation must be prepared to handle emergency jobs such ap special orders as well as legisla tion such a sthe nra according to mf robins who also outlined the history of his company from 1904 to the present time the lecture was the last of the year it was announced that the examination will take place tomor row may 22 at one o'clock it will be based on the lectures of this last semester dr william eddy to address ninety-first commencement commencement week features alumni reunions the ninety-srst annual com mencement week will begin on saturday june 5 with the second annual pout-collegiate institute un der the direction of the alumni as sociation of the college of arts and sciences dr lester and dr sine will bpeak at the morning and afternoon meetings and dr schwarcman research director of spencer kellogg sons will speak at the dinner in the evening other events the following week include dinners and receptions for the graduating classes of the dif ferent schools samuel p capen ph.d sc.d lhd ll.d chancel lor of the university will preach the baccalaureate sermon on sun day june 6 the complete commencement week program is as follows june 9 — 10:30 a.m second annual post colleglate institute norton hall 11:00 olive p jester ph.d subject human nature fixed or modifiable 12:30 luncheon 2:00 edward w sine ph.d subject american literature 7:00 seventeenth annual din ner of the alumni association of the college of arts and sciences norton hall alexander 1 schwarc man will give the address june 6 — 4:00 p.m baccalaureate exer clßes edmund hayes auditorium address c p capen ph.d sc.d lhd ll.d chancellor of the uni versity june 7 — 6:30 p.m bnstness administra tion alumni dinner address dean francis w shea this year's grad uating clasß to be invited june 8 — 12:30 p.m luncheon and recep tion to graduating class in pharm acy by the buffalo academy of pharmacy fairfax hotel 4:00 p.m reception ot council graduating classes alumni and fa culty chancellor and mrs capen at twentieth century club in 595 deleware ave june 9 — 10:30 ninety-first annual com mencement exercises elmwood music hall william a eddy ph.d president of hobart college will speak procession to start at 10:15 4:00-6:00 reception to educa tion graduates by alumni in edu cation norton hall the univer sity campus new editor names adviser blair to head bee board student leaders of uni versity appointed to editorial group oeorge blair law 38 will be chairman of the bee editorial board or the next year it was an nounced today by editor bern obletz other members are doro thy sharpe arts 38 marshall o walker arts 38 r o swados arts 38 thomas noonan med 38 and richard c allen editor ot the mjllard fulmore college midnight oil the formation of an editorial board for 1937-1938 is an effort to secure the advisement of student leaders lu every division of the university ihe decisions ot the editorial board will be considered by the governing board ot the bee in determining the policies ot the official university ot buffalo student weekly the establishment of such a body is expected to serve as a bul wark against factional dictation of the bee although final decisions will be in the hands of the bee governing board math club party success supper and games feature last meeting of group a large number of persons was present at the party given by the math ciiil at norton hall on wed nesday may 12 a supper was pre pared by members of the club headed by mrs gehman and club secretary rhona garvey a feature of the supper was several excellent cakes supplied by mmebers of the club in a mathematical spelling bee the girls succeeded in nosing out the boys prof gehman retaliated however by winning the bingo contest this was followed by sev eral games involving group parti cipation the party closed with the presentation to members of minia ture animals accompanied by suit able comments by richard schafer peele and neill visit lockport on saturday june 22 jim peelle and tom neill will go to lockport as officials for the annual track meet which is held for all high schools of western new york ex cept buffalo a championship tro phy is profered by the university of buffalo alumni club of lockport we understand that white the librarian has asked that he be ex cused monday in order that he might obtain a hair cuj dr cantor appointed to italian journal dr nathaniel cantor has been notified of his appointment as cor responding editor ot la qlustlzla penale one of the leading crlmln ologicul and penologlcal journals o italy bonner calls slang provincial in defense of slangless student refutes washington charge that buffalo campusites are uneducated university of buffalo students were accused of having gardens on the stomach by washington university campus editors who consider themselves expertß in slangnocracy i.e the use of slang expressions in everday speech the expression translated into more common language intimates that u b students are dead from the neck up as far as a knowl edge of the slang reputedly used on u s college campuses la con cerned the charge resulted from a tele phone conversation between a rep resentative of the associated press and dr willard h bonner asso ciate professor of english here at the university the a p repre sentative wanted dr bonnor's o plnlon as a book critic on a dic tionary of campus slang compiled by edward henry luner ph.d dean of the university college of the university of washington and felix bauman who has toured the country in search of college slang dr bonner replied that he had not had an opportunity to examine the dictionary but that he would be glad to try some of the expres sions on his english 202 class which would meet shortly the rep resentative agreed to this and pro ceeded to dictate nine expressions with their meaning to dr bonner an hour later dr bonner re ported to the associated press that his class of about 30 sophomoreß had been able to identify only two of the expressions when btudents at the university of washington read the report of dr bonner's re marks in their daily paper they howled with glee and promptly ob served that the students at the university or buffalo mußt have continued 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