Bee, 1933-04-21

              the bee the university of buffalo weekly vol 13 university of buffalo april 21 1933 no 25 acquaintance day set for nay 3rd wednesday may 3 will be acquain tance day for next year's freshmen at the university high school seniors who ptlan to enter the colleges of arts and sciences business administration and pharmacy next year will be visitors on the campus from 3 00 to 5 00 o'clock on thut afternoon and will be given an opportunity to confer with the faculty become acquainted with student life and look over the university buildings a tentative program has lieen planned under the direction of deans park marsh and gregory deans of three col leges on the campus the future fresh men will first hear a talk by choiiceuor capen at 3 00 o'clock they will then separate and meet with members of the faculty ln smaller groups according to the courses they are interested in pur suing at the university at 4 10 o'clock the visitors are to reassemble for an informal program which will include enertalnment by the blue masquers and the men's and women's cmce cltrbs the local high schools are cooperating in the acquaintance day program by excusing the seniors in time to reach the campus at 3 00 o'clock chicago u awards stieg scholarship lewis stieg son of mr aud mrs william stieg at 1142 oliver street n tonnwanda has just been awarded a scholarship which covers all tuition and living expenses for next year in the graduate library school at the univer sity of chicago graduating from north tonawanda high school tn june li*!0 mr stieg came to the university of buffalo where he did ills major work in greek and latin and received bis b.a with high est honors in 1930 in 1913 he took a m a degree also at u b with a thesis in paloeography using part of the university's collection of photostats of latin manuscript in 1932 mr stieg continued his study at harvard where he likewise took a mas ter's degree for the present year he has been working in the library school at the university of michigan at chicago next year his work will prepare him as a specialist in classics for work in the larger research libraries ln the coun try in the field of romance languages commoners club the brothers have been working on a float for the moving-tip day parade and we feel that we have a prize-winner watch for it commoners to be tapped for the inter collegiate honorary society at their dance a week from to-night are presi dent edward siemer and bob rich the draughty captain of next years football team rich stoll and hayes of u b wrest ling contingent are entered in the a.a.u wrestling meet at the y.m.c.a for to morrow afternoon and evening the club will be entertained at its next meeting by brother ford moving-up day parade planned by committee the movtng-up day parade commit tee swung into notion on tuesday night with a brief meeting of its members in townsend hall cconwnittee consists of matthew j rose general chairman aud following who are acting chairmen of the various suit-committees ; sally diebold e williams ken eckert bob rich diek ball jim kime helen heln rlch ijitt ford and burge mortal who is assisting the chairman further com jnltjteemen art still to be appointed a still larger committee consisting of the above plus representatives from the various student activities met in parlor f in hotel statler on last wednesday evening detailed plans were considered after rose nnd morell gave the committee rousing pop talks further details will be printed in the bee next week watch for them and keep your best eye open for the posters announcing the prizes to be awarded for the best floats the committee is working for tho biggest and best movlng-up day parade and ceremony yet and its members solicit your cooperation miss rosenbauh appointed interne at reformatory ' miss betty rosenhaum one of our outstanding senior girls received offc lal ratification last monday of her ac ceptance as interne at the state reform atory for women at framingham mass this interneship will begin in the lat ter part of june 1933 and will extend over a period of six months miss ros enbauni has specialized in the depart ment of sociology nnd so is especially well prepared for work of this sort her work will consist of half-time duty on routine work the rest of her time will 1 be spent iu her research project doctor marian van waters is superintendent of the institution which ls one of the two oldest in the united states having been founded in 1877 dr van waters is known to buffalo audiences through her lecture on juvenile dellnguency which slie gave here last march under the aus pices of the fenton foundation the reformatory itself is a very up to-date institution and has been one of the foremost instigators of progressive measures in the treatment of delin quents most of the women confined there have been confined because of lrunncness several offenses or disorder ly conduct miss roseiibaum is to have an exceptional opportunity of training under miss vun waters the bee wishes to congratulate you betty and wish you all possible success in your new position bus ad offers freshman competitive scholarships ten competitive scholarships for fresh men entering the university of buffalo school of business administration this fall have have been voted by the uni versity council eight will be awarded in buffalo one to the highest ranking student in each high school of the city and two to the highest ranking compet itors from high schools iu the surround ing area this announcement was made at a luncheon given on friday april 7th at the saturn club by chancellor samuel p open who was host to the superintendents and principals of buf falo high schools and the faculty of the school of business administration the university takes pride ln the high schools of buffalo dr capen told his guests fore than sixty percent of our freshmen come from buffalo high schools and nationwide tests have shown them to be an outstanding group of students the freshmen class rank ed eleventh in tests given to fifty col leges nineteenth ln tests given to 150 colleges and twenty-seventh in tests given to over 200 colleges the univer sity of buffalo freshmen have always been in the upper fifteen percent of those taking nation wide tests the sop homore class ranked seventeenth ln tests given to 138 colleges nnd fourth among ihe colleges comparable to the university in size at present the university and the buffalo high schools together with the kemnore high school and the amherst cent.-al high school are engaged in a study of the articulation of high schools anl crflege work this study financed bv the general education board on a grant of 12,000 a year for five years is intended to show how better to bridge the gap between preparatory school and college and is likely to yield results which will be of large benefit to super ior students in granting scholarships in business sophs honored by zeta tau the university of buffalo sophomore women's award endowed by zeta tau sorority will be awarded for the first time this year it was announced tod^y this trophy in commemoration of the founding of zeta tau is to be gjawn to the outstanding sophomore woman on the basis of high scholarship and participation in extra-curricular activi ties a committee composed of miss lu lios m macdonald dean of women miss emma deter registrar of the university mrs dorothy sims wom en's personnel advisor mrs ida smith and frances whlttaker will submit a list of names of the girls they consider eligible for the award which will be announced ln the bee next week following this announcement ballots will bt distributed among the women of the sophomore class who will be asked to vote and return the ballots to a neutral body the form of the award will be a large silver loving cup which will be held by the university the winner of the award besides having her name engraved on the cup will be awarded a bronze key the award will be presented to the winner early in may probably on mov lng-up day riccinti johnson read papers at last philosophy meeting alfred ricclntl and victor johnson will speak before the philosophy ciub on w<>dnesday april 29th *— mr kiccintl graduated in philosophy from the university wf buffalo in 1931 since that time he has maintained his interest in social and economic prob lems he will read a paper on class functions in siociety mr johnson finds great delight in logic and theories of knowledge he will bring this enthusiasm to tne philosophy club in a popular yet scholarly paper on symbolic logic this will be the last meeting of the club this semester there will be elec tion of officers interesting discussions always mark the philosophy club meet ings be sure to be in the women's lounge at 8 o'clock on wednesday even ing april 20th cap-gown taps at home concert cap and gown senior women's honor ary society at the university of buf falo will tap next year's members at the annual home concert on friday april 21st at the hotel statler simr its organization in 1925 cap and gown has traditionally tapped mem bers of the junior class at the home concert tapping will take place at midnight during an impressive and nov el ceremony planned wednesday at a meeting of the society the present members are helen heln rlch president betty rosentuium sec retary ; betty donovan and irma wag ner and betty mnuer the honor of be ing elected to the society ls conferred upon girls for evidence of leadership personality and scholarship shown at the university of buffalo women debate at syracuse university during the past week the women's debate team have been extremely ac tive meeting syracuse university on the evening of april 10 and staging an ex hibition debate of university women on tuesday afternoon april 18th the subject of the syracuse debate was resolved : that the inter-allied war debts be cancelled the university of buffalo upholding the affirmative was represented by the misses ruth free man frances whit taker and mary klein the debate which was held ln the auditorium of the grosvenor li brary was conducted by dean park pvcxjiag the debate the dc-balcrs s.e*e entertained at dinner at home of dr reid the encounter between the u of b teams on arpril 18 was held in the audi torium of edmund hayes hall as part of the program of the annual meeting which the american association of the university women hold in the spring on the campus anti-war lecture on wednesday evening april 27th at 8 p m in the women's lounge the anti-war committee will sponsor a lec ture on youth and the impending war watch the bulletin board for an announcement of the specific title of the speech and the name of the lecturer honor prominent students at intercollegiate ball ftinal plans have been made for the inter-collegiate ball and frolic to be held april 28th at the moose roof-gar den ballroom the inter-collegiate conference the sponsors of the jubilee was originally organized between the student leaders of syracuse cornell and new york uni versities as an honorary fraternity the fraternity has shown an appreciable growth in the past seven years and at present represents fourteen new york state colleges pennsylvania and many other eastern universities are expected to come within the ranks before the next convention takes place at syracuse next november the purpose of this or ganization is to enable the leaders f the several colleges to meet socially and bring about greater intercollegiate feel ing and activity one of its chief ideals is to aid and influence promising up coming leaders to enter college where they may best adapt themselves and in turn display leadership in carrying out the best college traditions and ideals when there the affair will begin at eight o'clock with an informal introduction of pros pective college students to the-repre sentatives and coaches of the fourteen new york universities and also to the members of the u b football and bas ket ball teams at 9.30 teo"monroe aud his new yorkers will start off the danc ing tee is bringing to buffalo a trio of girl blues singers a regular feature of his band when big ben tolls the mid night hour bob rich of u b will start the grand march of the leading athlet ics and scholars of western new york high schools and colleges i among the celebrities who will be line are bart vlniammvnrd b 0 vande walker of cornell joseph healy and peter zamblrm olympic team men from n y u ; tink tlsdale captain of syracuse football team ; walter drakar sbi saptin of the rochester football team john godfrey eddie flynn and don lynch from niagara and johnny rybnll nnd henry ferguson from ouuis us college after the grand march louis gregor le of cornell the new york state chair man of the intercollegiate fraternity will be introduced and will proceed to present prep and credentials to the western new york college men who have been selected by their respective colleges to receive these awards at the tapping ceremonial subsequently lead ing representatives of the several high schools will lie awarded i c emblems refreshments will be served by sweet young liar maids on red checkered top top tables which will surround the dance floor ye goodc ole three-point two will be on hand for those who are free white nnd twenty-one the second floor lobby has lieen appropriately prepared with dim lights and soft-chairs young borneo withdraws with his fair maid takes his ease sips delicious liquor and gazing into beautiful girlish eyes whis pering sweet nonsense about love the chairman of the various commit tees are walter maunz general chair man ralph kreinheder master of ceremonies ; milton kunipf program ; howard evert refreshments roland benzow chairman of patrons william sawyer tickets and publicity tickets for students may be secured at a special note of two dollars a large delegation of university professors will be present ln the official capacity of pat rons of the affair die sponsors moving-up day track-field meet movlng-up day has for some years been one of the few traditional affairs at the university the track meet has occupied no small place in the activities of that day beta pi itho fraternity previous sponsors of the track meet has this year relinquished the responsi bility to beta chi epsilan with all the fervor connected with trying a new enterprise the latter fra ternity has plunged into the work of staging the best track meet ever seen ln the university's history track aj a major sport is just ahead there exists in the various schools talent such as u b has never seen in its previous track contests with this knowledge beta chi epsilan desires to produce a display of track and field contests which can only be followed by the pro motion of track to n major sport julius walter chairman of athletics in b.x e has charge of the affair and the entire fraternity is to work under him he bas a tentative program which presents dash event four hundred and fifty yard and eight hundred and eighty yard races the mile and high and low hurdles other events include the relay the medley the shot put the discuss the broad jump and the high jump the committee is highly in favor of a tow novelties such as a fraternity relay and a two-mile run the commit tee nlso recommended a fe r " oopts 0 for women but the advice of authori ties was adverse and dampened the idea considerably a complete list of events has been posted on the bulletin board in edmund hayes hall entries may be left in the special track and field box in the basement if anyone has suggestions which would make for a better meet the committee requests that the written suggestions be put in this mail box sigma kappa's tea dance big success on the afternoon of april 12th sigma kappa sorority appropriately opened the easter vacation with their holiday tea dance held in the women's lounge the third of its kind the sigma kap pa tea dance proved to be extremely suc cessful ln promoting a spirit of friend liness among the students of the univer sity music was provided by jack arm bruster's orchestra and the refresh ments were rendered especially interest ing by th addition of jelly beans to the usual menu of tea and cake mrs ed ward g scliaurath and miss betty spencer presided at the urns those who attended the dance are quite agreed that afternoon tea dances are a custom well worth continuing dancing to follow cap and gown will tap new members glee clubs to present annual musical concert to-night tonight in the hotel 1 statler ballroom the 12 annual home concert and dance of musical clubs will take place this event has taken its place with annual activities of the student body until lt la now second to the junior prom in social prestige as a result hundreds of under gradutes alumni and friends of the uni versity will be found at the statler to night the evening's program will start at 8:15 sharp the combined glee clubs will present at that time a concert last ing until nearly 10 o'clock the program which has been arranged by mr jay mark ward director will present both clubs ln combined and individual num bers of a variety never before matched in the history of the clubs the women's glee olub will be heard in several numbers including those which were used in the women's glee club contest held recently at the buitalo state teachers college those who have heard this club in past years will be delighted in the progress made this year the men's glee club wil be heard ln several numbers including this year three religious numbers which were chosen at the beginning of the season by the members of the club themselves as usual several sororities and fra ternities have engaged boxes they will find larger boxes this year than have ever before been available to these groups following the concert at 10 o'clock there will be four hours of dancing to the music of the century orchestra the orchestra will be directed by al sell bach himself al ls the fellow who sent us some of our leading basketball stars including eddie malanowlcz and mar shall stoll vl is coaon af mas ten-pa rlc high school then ait the hour of midnight the big moment vill come for the junior girls who will be expeotantly awaiting to find whom cap and gown has chosen next years membership then at two this enjoyable evening will come to a close the many guests of the glee clubs will depart from the scene of the home concert and dance feeling that they have hadu most enjoyable evening look ing forward to the 13th annual home concert and dance which as usual will fall on the first friday after easter next year panhellenic elects junior members panhellenic wishes to announce the ew junior representatives for the com ing year betsy hazel theta chi betty wel ler alpha gamma delta ami conn sigma kappa ; hortense kirsbbaum sigma delta tau ; olive tonking zeta tau ; lucille neumann pi kappa phi ; ruth illi phi psi helcne licbtman psi sigma sigma bob beyer at london school of economics popular bob beyer football captain ait the u b of buffalo in 1932-33 who graduated from the school of business administration last june writes to dean clarence s marsh from london where he is now attending the london school of economics dear dean marsh : i am registered at the london school of economies for a master of science degree having as an adviser professor lionel robbdns however i am not eligi ble for the degree until i pay a three guinea fee to the university of london to register me there as an internal stud ent and to cover my exemption from the customary matrinculatlon examina tion since it requires 2 years to obtain a master of science degree here and since the obtaining of a higher degree was not my chief purpose in coming i so far have not made these necessary ar rangements there is as you see a rather compli cated and deeidedely different reglstra tion scheme in vogue here as compared with the uuitd states the university of isondon is a degree granting examin ing and registering institution while the london school of economics one may say is practically separate from the university except insofar as its students desire a london university degree the 18 or 19 other colleges nnd schools com psoing london it are ln a like situation i find school nnd london all very worth while and interesting i'll be back in buffalo some time in july or aug ust mr beyer who is the son of mr and mia edward j beyer of 410 norwood avene buffalo is a member of alpha kapp.i psi fraternity and was generally active in undergraduate activities hav ing l>een twice elected president of tis ctass ; once as sophomore and once as a senior his london adrt-«ss is the lon don school of econonffcs and political science university of london hough ton street aldwych london w c 2 continued on page 2 col 4 home concert tonight l jm — — — mmmamsms.sm — — — — _ — — - if \\ inter-fraternity council tea dance wednesday