Bee, 1929-05-10

              the bee vol 9 university of buffalo may 10 1929 no 28 new plan submitted to shorten college course one year it has always been the purpose of the university of buffalo to favor par ticularly those candidates for admis sion to its freshman class who have done superior work throughout their school course this is because the great majority of those who have done unusually well in school are also sure to prove superior in college and the results of many studies have shown that superior attainments in college are predictive of unusual accomplish ments in the vocation or profession of one's choice this year the university is going even farther to lay before unusual students a proposal which will not only save a year's time and money at a period in their life when both are vitally important but will show that all education is one continuous process that there should be nothing of the gap which now tends to sep arate college work from school this proposal however can be accepted only by those whose purpose is ser ious and whose marks in high school place them in the highest fifth of their graduating class although considera tion will also be given to applicants outside that group who have been especially active in such extra-curri culum activities as call for the display of originality and creative talent in each case which ever group is in volved candidates must be endorsed by their principal the proposal involves an intensive speeding up process wherein none of the required work of the college cur riculum is omitted but where certain parts are telescoped the time thus saved being used to include some work which is ordinarily given in sophomore year each student will be meeting classes to the extent of the normal 17 hours weekly but will re ceive about 20 hours of college credit without paying extra tuition if the same rate of progress is maintained throughout college and if summer study is pursued either at this university or elsewhere or pri vately it will be possible for such students to receive the b.a degree university goes over top again in joint charities may 8 1929 to all workers of the university joint charities team the university team was again able to report over the top at the clos ing dinner of the drive tuesday eve ning may 7 at the statler it gave us especial satisfaction to do this because with over 1,050 to raise af ter the noonday luncheon monday may 6 it seemed next to impossible to reach our quota that we were able to report victory rather than de feat for the university team is a trib ute to the workers in each school of the university not a one was will ing to concede that we could not make our quota and all kept persistently working with their groups while we were able to report that we had exceeded our quota by two dollars nly at the dinner the arrival of late subscriptions has already somewhat increased our margin of safety may i express my deep appreciation to all the contributors workers and division leaders who participated in aiding the university team to reach its goal such an achievement re flects much credit on the university a d each and every one who had a part shares in that credit the lead ers of the joint charities have fre quently expressed pride in having a university team in the campaign and ie that can be counted on always to 1 ° its share while it is impossible to mention all those who rendered veoman service especial thanks should s to the student council of the col lege the class presidents of all classes in the various schools to pro fessors thomas cooke and shaw pharmacy school to be put on map says dean gregory maybe the flowery outbursts of af fection have been the source of moti vation but dean gregory has been investigating and he has some tenta tive plans for putting the pharmacy school on the map which seem most feasible some pharmacy schools in the coun try have recently conducted an open house night most successfully at this time the pharmic institute was opened to visitors for inspecting pharmacy experimental work of all description botanical and chemical displays and various and sundry phar matical interests one school observ ing such a night had an attendance of over one thousand all in favor of this plan say aye another possibility the dean would like to see realized is a pharmacy is sue of the bee containing all the salient news of the day but devoting most of the paper to pharmacy news it has been done some students think the pharmacy school is a specie of an agricultural institution it is really time people should know what is going on in buffalo's pharmacy school which is constantly being made a bigger and better educational institution excellent music course organized in summer session a music supervisor's course under the direction of mr arthur j abbott was organized for the 1928 summer session and nearly 60 persons prepar ing to be supervisors or special teach ers of music enrolled in the course showing the popular demand for such a course the curriculum calls for over three years of study and prac tically all the music courses as well as the general courses given in the arts college toward the certificate are in the offerings for the coming ses sion mr abbott has an excellent staff including mr william fuhrman of the san mateo junior college cali fornia professor ruth speir of the state teachers college mr paul nichols miss leila bartholomew miss montrose phillips and mr william walsh of the department of music of the buffalo schools students work ing for the b a degree may elect a total of 16 hours in music theory and harmony to be counted toward the bachelor's degree attractive english courses offered in summer session english an especially attractive program of summer session courses has been arranged for those who are interested in english ten courses in english are included in the list of sub jects for summer study among these are the regular freshman and sopho more courses in english which are es sential for graduation besides these studies several advanced courses are offered the poetry of the 19th cen tury and the poetry of the eliza bethan age will be presented by mr lindemann while a survey of shake speare will be given by professor bangs and mr stanley travis will offer a course in 20th century drama modern language opportu nity for more extended elections in the modern language field is being provided by the summer session fourteen courses in french german and spanish are among those sched uled for presentation the instructors in these languages will be professor rice dr knudson miss adamson madame duval whyte and mr sike mann miss adamson will offer main currents of french literature against the background of french civiliza tion while madame whyte will pre sent a course in advanced french written and oral compositions elections to cap and gown held each year the outgoing members of cap and gown the senior women's honorary society chose as their suc cessor those women who they believe to be the most outstanding in person ality leadership and scholarship and who have contributed something to the development of the university the girls honored for next year are gladys bardy miriam cristall evelyn fraser ruth hewlett helen monro margaret schaffer dorothy simon winifred stanley and florence young one of the traditions of cap and gown is the freshmen ring which is awarded each year to the girl in the freshmen class whom the society feels to be most outstanding and to show the greatest possibilities for future leadership thelma berner received the arward this year and will wear the ring until next spring testimonial dinner tendered dean squire dr daniel h squire dean of the school of dentistry of the university of buffalo was given a testimonial banquet by the dentists of buffalo re cently under the auspices of the eighth district dental society of n y state and the buffalo dental so ciety saturday evening in the hotel statler the affair marked the close of 36 years of successful practice since beginning june ist dr squire will devote all his time to the administration of the dental school dr squire was characterized as a pioneer in progressive dentistry by the speakers among whom were chancellor capen who outlined the reforms dr squire has instituted at the dental school dean willis greg ory dean of pharmacy and represent ing the deans dr augustus h down ing former assistant commissioner of professional education of the n y state board of regents a glenni bartholomew dr herbert a pullen and dr james sullivan senior class elects officers the senior class of the arts and science college held their elections on tuesday during convocation hour in room 239 the balloting was very spirited and all of the positions were keenly contested the officials for next yeat follow president — thomas moran vice-president — viola stanfield secretary — irene santi treasurer — john fraser marshall — warren marsh iris off press soon [ subscribers to the iris will be pleased to learn that they may obtain their copies shortly after may 15th the first feature to attract their notice will be the new cover design and next the panoramic aerial view of the campus adorning the inside covers after that surprises will come thick and fast bus ad sophs hold elections the officers for the sophomore business administration class were elected recently and the following will lead the class during the coming year president — robert beyer vice-president — marie miller secretary — nelson cotton treasurer — edward mallanowitz marshall — frank pillion bison head society elects officers for next year at a recent meeting of bison head the senior men's honorary society elected officers for the coming year the men honored were myron roberts president walter murphy vice-presi dent frank dressier secretary and melvin weig treasurer successful glee club banquet rounds out prosperous year delectable food and delightful music enjoyed by all a glorious climax to a highly suc cessful year was the general verdict about the banquet and dance of the men's and women's glee clubs held in the rand room of the consistory on tuesday night the banquet a succession of choice delectables was imbibed to the accom paniment of bursting and wheezing balloons and merry outcries not from the girls alone the choice food was topped off by two after dessert num bers by the clubs favorite soloist joe dempsey john priebe acting as master of ceremonies introduced dr lemon who spoke briefly on the subject of how only active students can eventu ally be active alumni a thing which he stressed as strongly desirable he also mentioned that this is national music week even implying that the banquet had a special significance on that account mr mark ward ex pressed his gratitude for the key that was recently presented to him and once again complimented the glee clubs on their never-to-be-forgotten rendition of grieg's land sighting at the home concert margaret holmes and john priebe managers of this year's clubs handed over their positions to the incoming managers margaret schaeffer and marvin co hen both of whom expressed firm res olutions for hard work the remainder of the evening was devoted to rhythmic stepping to les thelleman's trio of piano drum and saxophone the music was first rate the st louis blues unsuccessfully disguised with the improvisations of the fellows quartet was the biggest hit of the evening judging by its ef fect on a certain young lady there is no doubt about the suc cess of this dinner dance that it should be established as a regular tra dition is the spontaneous wish of everyone present an annual affair to close the music season is looked upon quite favorably by all concerned the university of buffalo glee clubs are entering a prosperous era dr dodd to speak at scholarship dinner may 18 the scholarship dinner has now become one of the pleasantest and most worth while traditions of the university of buffalo two very suc cessful dinners have already been held and the third will take place on sat urday evening may 18th at 6:30 o'clock promptly at the westbrook delaware avenue and north street this function is held in honor of those members of the faculty who are going off next year to begin or com plete their graduate study it is held also in honor of those seniors who are leaving for graduate work and of those others who are receiving their master's degree from this uni versity a.t the coming commencement this year's speaker will be dr wil liam e dodd professor of american history at the univerity of chicago intimate friend and biographer of woodrow wilson he is coming to buffalo especially for this occasion and his eminence as a scholar com bined with his charm as a speaker warrants expectation of a very suc cessful evening chancellor capen will preside barratonian society holds annual picnic at hamburg park yesterday the dental school cli maxed its social season with the an nual barratonian outing which was held this year at the hamburg fair grounds last year dean squire donated a silver loving cup as a trophy to the winner of the athletic activities which are the chief feature of the day the first class securing three legs on the cup has permanent possession of it the junior class won the meet last year the activities of the day were a tug-of-war softball baseball game and a track meet each counts a third of the points the juniors cap tured the first event the tug-of-war proved to be a see saw affair with the victory in doubt for over five minutes incidentally the faculty donated the spread and a red-hot time was had by all it is even said that most of the dents can feel them in their stomachs this morn ing in the afternoon doctors groh wakefield and conn went horseback riding but after awhile getting into a bitter argument over some physiology problem they became sore and quit lafayette women's club to hold mardi gras the lafayette republican club of erie county will hold a mardi gras monday may 13th a huge parade will precede the event which will cul minate at the elmwood music hall the club extends a cordial welcome to all students and organizations of the university and assures them a good time organizations or groups desir ing to participate in the parade are requested to get in touch with miss catherine sauer 718 prospect avenue science courses given in summer session students desiring to get the bache lor's degree before entering the schools of medicine dentistry and law will find it very advantageous to take advantage of the summer courses in chemistry physics biology botany and other liberal arts courses required for entrance to these schools all science courses required for pre medics and pre-dents are included in the summer session comprehensive exams to be taken by seniors on monday and tuesday may 12 and 13 every senior in the arts col lege will take a comprehensive 12 hour examination that has already been given in some 50 other colleges of the country this examination which was devised by a committee under the sponsorship of the carnegie institute is of a very broad nature including all the subjects taught in college as well as topics not usually discussed in classrooms and for six hours on each of the above dates the seniors will have an opportunity to indicate what they have learned in college the university has a three-fold pur pose in giving this test in the first place it will be a check on the learn ing of each individual a test of each senior's general culture level as a re sult of college training secondly the results of the examination will be used to compare u b with other institu tions it has already been found that some institutions are granting b a degrees to classes the upper fourth of whose students are below the lower fourth in other colleges this exam will indicate where u b stands in the level of accomplishment of its graduates finally it will be used to test the validity of the honors sys tem it will no doubt settle the ques tion of whether honors students ac complish as much in the waj of gen eral college training as students not in honors but perhaps equally bright and capable results will be available to each individual but not open tor general inspection continued on page 2 column 4 continued on page 3 column 3 i