Bee, 1931-12-04

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 12 university of buffalo december 4 1931 no 10 court champions open season tonight against state memorial exercises in honor of walter p cooke sunday chancellor capen will preside over assembly memorial exercises in honor of the late walter p cooke will be held under the auspices of the university sunday at 3:30 p m in edmund hayes hall the exercises will be open to the public chancellor capen will preside and give the opening eulogy walter p cooke and the university other speakers and their subjects will be miss jane keeler walter p cooke and the drama george f rand jr walter p cooke the banker judge cuthbert w pound walter p cooke the lawyer dr harry w rockwell walter p cooke the educator and dr samuel v v holmes walter p cooke the man mr cooke was prominently iden tified with activities of the university having served as chairman of the council and chairman of the commit tee of administration in addition to acting as chancellor between the re tirement of the late charles p nor ton and the appointment of chancel lor capen he also conducted two financing campaigns resulting in the subscription of 10,600,000 for the en dowment and upbuilding of the insti tution dean attends american women's ass'n conference dean macdonald attended a discus sion of the relation of educated and high-salaried women to the economic depression and their possible service in planning for a more stable indus trial future on saturday november 28th at the american women's asso ciation conference in new york city the discussion had its basis in the results of an analysis of the survey of unemployed among its two thou sand members professor harry allen overstreet of the college of the city of new york said that the survey showed that women were an indispensable part of the industrial system inasmuch as only 6.2 per cent of the group studied had suffered actual loss of positions during the depression since febru ary 1931 when the reports were com piled the figure has grown to eight per cent it is a great thing he said that women have entered this economic world and made themselves indispen sable this is not a mere economic depression we are passing through out the transition from one order of civilization to another we are in the process of a world dislocation have you noticed that so few men have had anything to say in this cisis all through history the eco nomic order has been patterned by men the militant factor in society man has civilized to some extent but he his hindered too meantime wo man has been the nurturer dr overstreet summed up the other findings of the association's survey under four heads that older women hav e a chance after all that the ecipe for success is to take a ph.d pgree that women should embark on individual careers not follow the owdj and that they were no longer to be classed as pin money workers drs carpenter and brumbaugh attend hoover conference two members of our faculty drs niles carpenter chairman of the president's committee on the re lationship of income and the home and martin a brumbaugh vice chairman and secretary of the same committee have been officially invited by president hoover to take part in the president's conference on home building and home ownership which was held in washington on december 2 and 3 the conference will deal with virtually every phase ... of the home the announcement states the facts on existing conditions in finance design construction taxation equipment city planning household management and furnishing rural housing negro housing — to mention only some of the aspects — have been gathered during the past year by over five hundred nationally known com mittee members who are profession ally engaged in one or another of these fields the thirty-one commit tees have analyzed available data and where possible made additional studies they will submit their find ings and recommendations based thereon for the consideration of the conference professor brumbaugh who has drawn up the report for his commit tee will present it in detail and will take part in the discussion following pharmic professors go to new york to map syllabus the pharmacy council of new york state will determine the three-year syllabus of new york pharmacy schools during the early part of next week dean gregory dr hewitt and dr lemon will go to new york city as representatives of the university of buffalo the national association of schools of pharmacy favor a four-year syl labus and in 1932 schools in a great many states will organize their work on that basis new york however so far prefers the three-year sylla bus math club elects announces program for next meeting the math club held its first meet ing of the year on wednesday eve ning november 11 marguerite ha bicht presided the graduate assist ants in the department were the speakers of the evening robert lyle a graduate of washington-jefferson talked on number scales and nota tions benjamin sharpe who grad uated from wesleyan discussed mathematics and psychology the following officers were elected for the year president — william corse vice-president — alice link secretary-treasurer — oakland becker refreshments followed the conclu sion of the business meeting at tendance at these meetings is not lim ited to students of mathematics the math club will hold its next meeting december 9 at 8 o'clock in the women's lounge miss crofts head of the math department at fos dick-masten high school is to be the speaker her subject new topics in high school mathematics should be of interest to all students who ex pect to teach math in high school it is especially important to have a large attendance at this meeting as there will be a discussion of the pro posed math prize to be awarded by the club refreshments will be served after the business meeting dr hamilton holt community vesper service speaker dr hamilton holt president of rollins college winter park florida will speak at the community vesper service of the first presbyterian church next sunday afternoon at five o'clock on the subject an adventure in common sense education dr holt needs no introduction to an american audience few men have given more genuinely of their time and strength to the best inter ests of world cooperation than dr holt he has always stood in the front ranks of progressive thinkers and conservative leaders william james is dr boynton's topic for tuesday on tuesday evening december 8 at 8 p m in the women's lounge edmund hayes hall dr boynton will address the philosophy club the topic for the evening is william james we have had two very suc cessful meetings so far this year and our third meeting gives promise of being mo.st worthwhile dr boynton is sure to make his address very in teresting to all those who attend a discussion will follow the presentation if you have not yet attended a phi losophy club meeting we invite you to attend this one those who have attended previous meetings know how interesting our meetings are and are sure to be present on december 8 if you are interested in philosophy and its allied problems we invite you to become acquainted with some kindred spirits on next tuesday evening loyal alumni meet to form new organization the alumni club house may have been abandoned and the members willed away some of their possessions but the c'ub itself may still be the nucleus oi * larger activity about one hundred alumni have de clared their loyalty and desire the continuation of this organization in consequence the initiation fee has been discontinued and the annual fee lowered to two dollars a year the alumni club plans a meeting on wednesday december 9 at the buffalo orpheus club to elect officers to the board of governors members expect to hold a dance or dinner at some time during the win ter bison exchanges made available to students in accordance with its usual policy of giving the university of buffalo the best in contemporary collegiate literature the bison has arranged to leave copies of its exchanges in the edmund hayes hall library these magazines will be found to be of several copies in fact one may be able to judge the relative affluence cultural status and faculty attitude of each school by the stories make-up type of advertising illustrations and editorials of the publication they will be found to range from the pedic ular to the sublime some colleges favor a literary type others are noted for their illustrations while the select group of which the bison is a member circulate mainly by the tol erance of the u s postal officials in short these magazines will be a cross-section of american college life and it is hoped that the student body will take advantage of this opportun ity to compare our own publication with its contemporaries four veterans expected to appear in starting line-up new university band to make debut the buffalo bull basketeers inaugu rate their 1931-2 campaign tonight at elmwood music hall in a game against state teachers college which has occupied the opening spot on u b.'s basketball schedule for quite a few years the game is greatly to be looked forward to as it affords those interested in u b.'s team an opportunity to see just how the bulls will look for this season's conference campaign the record of the last two seasons which includes but one loss and 25 consecutive triumphs will be assailed by all contenders and to night's showing may give one an idea what kind of team buffalo will put up to defend its honors four veterans of last year's unde feated team will no doubt be in the starting line-up as well as one mem ber of last year's crack freshman team monk levine the latter will probably team up at the forward posts with monk pryor eddie mal anowicz will occupy the center posi tion as of old and harold dautch and tommy syracuse will be seen at guards the reserves include four of last year's freshmen team pellicano degraff fineman and jendrasiak and also ray meyers a medical stu dent the team will keenly feel the loss of last year's co-captains bobby har rington and len schrag but it is hoped that the new men will capably fill their shoes prospects for an un defeated season are not so bright as the schedule includes lehigh yale carnegia tech and cornell all na tionally famous but it is not alto gether improbable that the bulls will bowl them over strenuous confer ence opposition is also to be expected from niagara and st lawrence who usually rise to great heights against buffalo the university band will be at the game to lend its support to the team and a great deal of vocal support will also be greatly appreciated as usual dancing will follow the game the complete schedule follows dec 4 — state teachers college at buffalo dec 10 — toronto university at buf falo dec 12 hobart college at geneva dec 21 cornell university at buf falo dec 30 lehigh university at buf falo jan 1 1932 carnegie tech at buf falo jan b—clarkson8 — clarkson college at pots dam jan 9 — st lawrence university at canton jan 12 — niagara university at buffalo jan 16 — st lawrence university at buffalo feb 9 williams college at buffalo feb 12 hobart college at buffalo feb 13 — university of rochester at rochester feb 19 clarkson college at buf falo feb 20 hamilton college at buf falo feb 24 — niagara university at ni agara feb 26 alfred university at buf falo march s—university5 — university of rochester at buffalo professor gehman speaks before math society professor h m gehman of the university of buffalo department of mathematics is one of the two speak ers who were especially invited by the program committee to deliver ad dresses before the american mathe matical society at its two hundred ninety-fourth meeting in columbus ohio on november 27 and 28 his subject was homeomorphic geome try — a new and highly technical field of mathematics which has been developed almost entirely in the two countries poland and the united states professor waclaw sierpinski and his colleagues of the university of warsaw professor r l moore of the university of texas and professor j r kline of the university of penn sylvania are the three men who have had most to do with developing the subject professor gehman stated at present homeomorphic geometry is important for its theoretical rather than its practical application in that it forms the foundation work for pro jected geometry which is an essential background for any thorough under standing of dr einstein's theory of relativity when asked to state in simple terms the nature of his subject dr gehman said that it amounts to a study of changing relationships in any two-dimensional plane whose surface is twisted the address reviewed all develop ments in this branch of geometry over the past twenty-five years a task for which dr gehman is fitted because of his having studied under both pro fessor moore and professor kline democrats asked to organize club at u.b all students interested are invited to attend a meeting in the woman's lounge hayes hall next friday eve ning december 11 at ei^ht o'clock for the purpose of organizing a uni versity of buffalo democratic club professor tippetts will speak to the gathering for a few minutes after which the business of organization will be taken up r h templeton to discuss aspects of world court at a meeting of the executive com mittee of the international relations club it was decided that the regular date of meeting would be changed to the first and third tuesday of each month the next meeting as now scheduled will be held on tuesday evening de cember 15th in the grosvenor library at 8:15 o'clock richard h templeton will speak to the club at that time and will discuss various aspects of the world court and the relationship of the united states to that body book reviews describing the latest books presented to the international relation club library by the carne gie institute for international peace will be given by club members these books which has been greatly appreciated by the club are disarmament by salvador de madriaya the united states and disarma ment by benjamin h williams scientific disarmament by victor lefebure that next war by k a brott ten years of world cooperation by the league of nations continued on page 3 column 5 dance after game nominations nominations for senior women representatives-at-large to s a c are open until wednesday decem ber 9 hand all nominations to betty donovan elections will be held friday december 11 at 239 hayes at 12:20 hear our band tonight there will be a very important business meeting of all those who have done any reporting for the news department of the bee nday afternoon at 3:15 in the lounge those who do not report h be temporarily dropped from hi staff