Bee, 1929-10-04

              the bee vol 10 university of buffalo october 4 1929 no 2 registration at law school looms to be record breaker number of freshmen favorable working conditions suitable relief for depressing con ditions is sought this year's freshman class at the school of law is a record breaker in more ways than one there are los students registered for the first year in law four of whom are women this large number necessitates housing the frosh in townsend hall rather than in the west eagle street quarters with the rest of the school twenty seven of this group already have one or more degrees perhaps the most unusual freshman in a long time is miss s elizabeth nassau who majors in political ad ministration she already possesses the degree of b a buffalo and m a canisius and has done grad uate work at columbia she is a member of the honorary national and international political science organ ization pi sigma alpha is in fact the only person in buffalo to have that honor the freshman curriculum has been rather uneventful thus far it is ex pected that this large class will have dwindled about fifty per cent by christmas in that event classes will be held at the school of law as in former years a change much desired by those freshmen who at present find the noise of the excavation work on the new city hall quite distracting there are in addition to the fresh men go juniors and about 50 seniors at the law school making a total registration of 218 this is the larg est enrollment in the history of the school small wonder then that they find themselves cramped for room in the narrow building on fagle street perhaps the endowment campaign to gether with numerous hustings out will remedy this depressing situation medics to inaugurate new interne system the life of a senior medic will not be a bed of roses in the future we don't mean to infer that he's been able to loaf in the past but when he assumes his new duties he will think so himself that's if he gets time to think by a new plan set forth by the faculty of the medical school and the executives of the buffalo city hospi tal the senior medics will take over many of the tasks for which internes were formerly hired one of the ad vantages of this plan is that it will do away with more than twenty municipal jobs half of the senior class will go immediately to the city hospital to take over the duties of internes these students will make the many laboratory tests prescribed for those who are ill they will have the opportunity to study disease at first band under the immediate supervision at all times of a fully qualified medi cal doctor the other half of the class will study as formerly in the general hos pital these two groups will change places at the end of the first semester plans for further development of the relation existing between the city hospital and the university are under way briefly it is hoped to offer a three-year post graduate course in medicine for those who choose to take it they will become members of the house staff of the hospital and during the three years after graduation will study to advance themselves in medi cine or surgery pageant to boom u b endowment fund campaign a special meeting f the student body was called on friday september 21 for the purpose of revealing thr plans according to which the endow ment fund campaign will be con ducted chancellor capen after out linillg the course of procedure intro duced miss jane keeler head of the theater school who has so generously offered her services in the direction of a pageant which will play an im portant part in the campaign miss keeler spoke in detail concerning the pageant written for us by mrs jose phine wilhelm wickser and empha sized the responsibility which will nat urally fall on the students if this is to be made a success enthusiasm in the undertaking and willingness to co-operate was expressed by a stand ing vote of the assemblage at the close of the meeting each student was given a booklet of facts about his university with the greater part of which he was no doubt unacquainted if however he has the welfare of the university at heart he will not remain long in this state but will be come so familiar with them that he will be an intelligent worker in the campaign the hl ue masquers under the di rection of miss mcfadden are as an organization going to take over a large part of the work of making this pageant a success remember that it is to be given with the view of arousing and increasing the interest of buffalonians in this university so that when approached by workers of the endowment fund campaign to hi conducted october 1 7-2 they will be interested enough to contribute then if you are asked to take part in the pageant and even though it is a minor part where you are to be one of many don't forget that there is strength in numbers and that you pledged your co-operation fifty new men needed for glee club tryouts more than thirty men have tried out for the men's glee club nearly all of these applicants came from the freshman classes of the arts or bus iness administration colleges de spite the fact that these schools sup ply the majority of men for the glee club this organization is not limited to them the staff desires a repre sentation from every college in par ticular from the pharmacists who with the new three year course will be able to earn keys dentistry law and medicine support the musical ac tivities very poorly at least thirty and preferably fifty new men are needed to complete try outs if the club is to continue its fine work presented by well trained se lected singers three of the four weeks allowed for testing voices re main on the following tuesdays october s 15 and 22 mr 1 m ward will receive applicants at the central v m c a at 7:30 regular rehearsals for all former members and this year's applicants begin october 15 promptly at 7:-15 freshmen dance to amuse sophs the sophomores are at it again a selected group of freshmen were warmly entertained last tuesday afternoon by an enthusiastic crowd of sophs under the leadership of john henderson their president overwhelmed by these attentions of upperclassmen the willing they had to be frosh delighted their hosts with an exhibition of interpretative danc ing interspersed with frequent songs which was highly acceptable these first-year men are extremely eccentric little persuasion was nec essary to induce them to parade gaily along with their coats and vests draped over their left arms shirts open at the neck and ties turned to the rear after obliging with a verse of the alma mater they were asked to assume the angle and given an oppor tunity to look for four-leaf clovers a few exciting moments left them with a sense of burning indignation in no wise alleviated by the assurances of the solicitous sophs that the heat treatment was applied to prevent their catching colds from not wearing their ducky little blue and white caps per haps there was also a desire to incul cate a wholesome respect for their superiors sophomores who were not present at the first reception have evinced an eager interest in the affair and the frosh will not be neglected hereafter it has been found — the way to save the university from a campaign the chancellor capen enjoys extensive european trip for the first time since 1921 chan cellor capen and his family sailed for europe on june 14th on the cunard liner tuscania a motor trip from paris through the chateau country of france was the first of a series of delightful ex periences then they motored through the austrian tyrol to innsbruck and south germany they stayed for three weeks at lake eisbee on ger many's highest mountain where they enjoyed hiking swimming and boat ing this lake is situated twenty-five miles from oberammergau and is in an extremely beautiful section of germany the wagner festival was just opening when they arrived in munich and they attended a great many of the operas that were pre sented together with a festival of mozart chamber music dr capen related the interesting incident of having the pleasure of hearing a pro tege of his sing the leading role in tannhauser twenty-three years ago while he was at clark university in worcester a young man who was studying under him expressed a great desire to become an opera singer a group of his interested friends to gether with dr capen sent him abroad to study dr capen had not seen him in eighteen years until the night he heard him this summer a triumphant success dr capen went to geneva from there primarily to visit the interna tional school for foreign studies di rected by professor zimmern and affiliated with america through the university of buffalo dean park is a member of its faculty every sum mer the chancellor was very en thusiastic over the spirit that pre vails in the school a round table discussion i.s held every week-end wherein the professors and students ngage in a play of mind and extem poraneous debate there is much walter p cooke to speak at assembly wednesday students part in endowment drive will be subject walter p cooke chairman of the university council and chairman of the present endowment drive will speak at the student faculty assembly wednesday october 9 chancellor capen will preside mr cooke has long been a prominent and active sup porter of the i'niversity he organ ized and carried the 1020 endowment drive to a successful conclusion wed nesday he will speak on the drive and what the students of the university can do to help promote it this meet ing will be held in the auditorium of hayes hall and will begin promptly at ten-thirty dean gregory greets new frosh during orientation week the freshman pharmacy class up to date has certainly received a royal welcome to university life dean gregory announced that everyone was pleased with this first taste of freshman week it seems to have accomplished its purpose in acquaint ing the frosh with their new environ ment orientation week dubbed acquaint ance week in recognition of tho frosh intellect was crammed with activity at the first meeting of the prospective pharmics sixteen mem bers of the faculty rrf paraded be fore the class and individually intro duced by the dean who knowing freshmen in general resorted to a unique introduction professor sy was presented as professor chem istry doctor lemon as professor materia-medica professor irons as professor forum etc believe it or not the frosh still insist on ad dressing their professors by their bizarre titles the medical examinations were carried on in a most systematic way avoiding schedule interruption as has been the practice up to this time a social similar to that put over by the arts college was a pleasant wax of acquainting students with faculty and faculty with students a large amount of the pep needed for participation in student activities was instilled by captain mellon of lafayette high school anyone familial with cap knows his capac ity along this line the class was also privileged in hearing mr big han president of the new york state pharmaceutical society lecture in all ways dean gregory con cluded they had a fust class start the best yet mammoth pageant on campus to reveal university's history registration in all divisions shows increase the registration in the various divi sions of the university of buffalo as of october 1 1020 is as follows the college of arts and sciences with a registration of 010 shows a decrease due to the fact that most all previous special students are taking courses in the evening session and the late afternoon classes at townsend hall are now under the supervision of the f.vening session however when registration figures figures are completed it is expected that the total number of full-time students will equal that of last year's the school of business administra tion has an enrollment of 140 students with more entering each day this shows a great increase over last year's registration as do the schools of pharmacy and dentistry whose registrations are i s i and 117 respec tively the school of law with 200 and the school of medicine with 288 each show a slight increase over last year's number the post-graduate course in the school of medicine boasts of 111 the largest enrollment ever had the evening session with a regis tration of 1128 shows a large in crease registrations are still being accepted and outside courses are being organized in suburbs the total of these figures makes a gross enrollment to date of 2710 the new registration system of the college of arts and sciences proved very effective in avoiding long slow moving lines in speeding up class at tendance and in making possible the payment of tuition bills at an earlier date fund campaign manuscript written by mrs j w wickser miss keeler director urges student support the university of buffalo a pageant composed by josephine wil helm wickser will be presented on the university campus on saturday october 10th at two o'clock in the extensive program planned by the en dowment campaign workers there are few events more important and cer tainly no other as picturesque as this presentation mrs wickser has writ ten a manuscript which narrates the history of our university in a graphic and notably beautiful manner the pageant is certain to increase that spirit of loyalty and earnest co-opera tion possessed by every intelligent person connected with the university tracing the history of buffalo's great university from its humble be ginning paying homage to that loyal hand of citizens who donated time and energy to its cause and sketching a vivid picture of the splendid progress which shining clear illumines the future of this city's fate the pageant moves on in the swift tempo of en thusiasm respect and faith in our alma mater such is the inspiring plan of the endowment campaign committee workers students faculty members and friends of the university are uniting in the task of making this pageant successful under the able direction of miss jane keeler well known dramatic director and her assistant miss mary elizabeth mc fadden work has been begun on the presentation while the cast has not been entirely chosen it will be com plete within the next few days and the names of those participating will appear in the next issue of the bee all students will take part in this pageant making it truly a greater university production banners for the pageant are being made by a group of workers headed hy miss cristall under the supervision of miss montague and mr harrington costumes of international origin must be secured for the finale event those who have information concern ing such costumes may confer with miss german in charge of this phase of the work the blue masquers will be earnest supporters of the pageant and urge all their members to attend the meetings which will soon take place miss mary f.lizabeth mcfadden coach of the blue masquers will be in the auditorium every day from eleven to one for the purpose of meet ing students who wish to aid in the work mr dressier mr lederman and mr kckhert are in charge of groups for the events biology students form a new organization on wednesday october 2 a new organization was formed by the stu dents majoring in biology the need and possibility of such an organiza tion has been discussed for some time under the initiation of several inter ested members such an organization was realized the gathering was most enthusiastic officers were elected as follows president — evelyn farber vice-president — seymour m farber secretary — dolores wonnacott treasurer — lily beaman the next meeting is to be held on thursday october 10 students in terested in biological subjects are in vited to be present continued on page 1 column 2 continued on page .", column 2 continued on page i column li continued on page 5 column 5 support the pageant honors meeting today at 1:15 honors room all out ! important meeting of bkk reportorial staff monday octo ber 7 at 12:20 room 190 all reporters must be present build for buffalo