Bee, 1931-05-01

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 11 university of buffalo may 1 1931 no 27 parade track meet feature moving-up day beta pi rho sponsors moving-up day track meet ♦ track teams well balanced stiff contests assured beta pi rho fraternity announces that the final preparations for the eighth annual moving-up day track meet have been completed the meet will be held tomorrow in the all-high stadium and will start promptly at two o'clock the stadium is a new structure with excellent track and field facilities and with favorable weather new records are likely to be established the physical education department of buffalo generously do nated the site for the occasion and u b can demonstrate appreciation of its good fortune by turning out in full force to support not only the par ticipants but also those who were in strumental in preparing for the event a large number of entries has been secured and the meet promises to evolve into a three-way fight be tween arts business ad and the combination of the three professional schools business ad with 32 entries has the most powerful team on paper be sides acknowledged sure winners in several events but their success de pends on the number of third and fourth places they can annex arts with 48 entries has a well balanced team and are assured of point win ners in practically every event the combined professional schools with a team entry of 25 men looms an the u b quota set for joint charities drive at 6,400 great need for money basis of raised quota with the coming of may conies the joint charities on its annual quest for money for the needy the pres sure of economic conditions on the poor causes the campaign committee to exhort donors to give double last year the quota set for the university of buffalo was 5,100 the amount raised was 5,400 this suc cess added to previous records sets a precedent which should not be re voked with the aid of an active committee headed by the efficient professor norton the university is expected to raise more than its quota of 6,400 this spring students give thirteenth the amount set for the business administration and art schools is 1,825 a prediction based on past records forecasts that the faculties of the two schools will give approxi mately 1,300 of this quota the students if they run true to form will donate 500 this seems very little for the combined registration of the two most prominent schools of the university to pay it is but one thirteenth of the quota for the entire university however if each student does not contribute one dollar or more the goal will not be reached a gift of a dollar is not absolutely necessary smaller donations will be gratefully received but everyone is urged to forget himself for just a moment — long enough to give to one of the committee a piece of paper money it is hoped that by starting this campaign in the schools on may ist and by working fast the goal of 6,400 will be reached before the mid dle of next week selections from what colleges are doing two choice selections taken from what the colleges are doing fol low nothing is imposed any longer from learning one'e abc's to honor ing one's parents everything is elective from college courses to marital fidelity the man or woman who casts all discipline to the winds for the sake of transient gratifica tion of selfish desires who denies obligations and duties is no longer considered a libertine or a cad but merely a modernist pursuing the legitimate end of self-expression we stand on record as showering our blessings on those women who are neither wild nor prudes who know their limitations . . . who do not prate of things they know noth ing about who make the most of the looks and talents their parents gave them but who do not dress above their father's income who like boys who do not try to run activities who are as modern in thought and action as in words who realize the cost of theatres taxies dances and food who do not have a misguided sense of humor and who let their partners do the leading on the dance floor senior exams scheduled for week of may 18 the senior exams are scheduled for the week of may 18th during the regular class sessions those pro fessors wishing to burden their senior students with tedious 3-hour mams will be forced to divide them into three hourly quizzes to be given luring that week the regular exams will not begin until may 25th a complete schedule of these final struggles will be printed in the bee at a future date faculty members express favor at lecture-recital among the fifteen hundred who at tended the lecture-recital by percy grainger on folk music and art mu sic were several u b faculty mem bers their reactions to this feature program given under the auspices of the penton foundation in the audi torium of the state teachers college on saturday evening april 25 at 8:15 follow miss olive p lester i liked the idea of a combination lecture-recital especially commendable was the tech nique with which mr grainger pre sented his own compositions how ever a program two hours long soon becomes tedious unless one is a de vout music lover dr richard w boynton i do not agree with mr grainger's conception of freedom in music which seems to be romantic — the same sort of thing in music as free verse in poetry however i was very much instructed by his discussion of musical progress and i commend the fenton founda tion in giving the citizens of buffalo features of such high calibre dean lillias m macdonald i was delighted with the program in 1925 mr grainger gave a concert in the elmwood music hall under the aus pices of our women's club the pro ceeds of which took the form of the piano now in the women's lounge dean julian park the illustra tions were well chosen and the lec ture both stimulating and suggestive the large number which turned out for this feature despite hostile weather is an index of the degree of popularity which characterizes such a musical affair the musical illustrations included compositions of bach chopin cesar franck debussy grieg and grainger seniors to head parade of floats in caps and gowns tomorrow morning at 10 a m the annual moving-up day parade will start at townsend hall and to the music of three bands will proceed to main street this annual event has been planned by sonny cotton and his capable assistants and promises to exceed all similar affairs of the university every school of the university will be represented and organizations and individuals of these will compete for prizes the outstanding innovation this year will be the presence of the sen iors at the head of the line of march all bedecked in caps and gowns and riding in cars whose use will be do nated by several main street auto dealers they will lead the parade up main street to tupper then to delaware and down to townsend hall where the s a c awards will be presented by chancellor capen five judges will be posted along the line of march to decide the prize winning floats four prizes are to be awarded one for the best organized school one for the outstanding wom an's organization one for the out standing fraternal float and one for the funniest individual it is then that the work of past weeks will be shown to the public for acclamation a turnout from the whole univer sity for this all-university affair is expected bison staff elections held last tuesday elections for the bison staff were held last tuesday henry desmon was unanimously elected editor-in chief carl arbesman is the new business manager betty donovan the literary editor dorothy spar berg advertising manager milton kuhn art editor and ethel kirsch enbaum circulation manager the new members elected to the staff are elizabeth gross herbert ginsberg doris miller and louis cooperman literary staff nathaniel ludlum and jenny gerschel art staff henry spiller business staff dorothy lenz ner marietta weintraub and ger trude silverberg circulation staff announcement of keys and shingles awarded for 1931 dr a b lemon chairman of the awards committee has released the list of awards for 1931 this list was compiled after consultation with the faculty advisor in each instance keys bison — henry desmon business manager carl arbesman advertising manager dorothy sparberg circula tion manager margaret kocsis liter ary editor janet buchwald editor james kime art staff muriel mac lean literary staff milton kuhn art staff bee — harold j seatter managing editor margaret kocsis news editor dolores wonnacott assistant news editor waring shaw sports editor h clifford jones advertising man ager john russell copy editor mar garet gould circulation manager shingle s — marjorie m brauch muriel l weber alfred m ricciuti constance reynolds arthur i gold berg clara marquardt iris — william a gulbransen busi ness manager keith e 0 hill book editor darvin a demarchi photog raphy editor margaret s haroney circulation manager marjorie m brauch feature editor anthony j priore editor men's glee club — jacob shapiro donald gay frank kuhn henry des mon women's glee club — edith arnold alberta isch dolores wonnacott florence wallace men's debate — george leonmark anthony l sapienza darvin a de marchi edmond a leone william sawyer women's debate — muriel maclean gertrude stanley edna geissler manager dramatics — joseph abeles presi dent ealean henderson vice-presi dent robert millonzi business man ager edward seimer louis cooper man dorothy sparberg secretary chess — michael h barone frank l okoniewski orchestra — carl m nelson chancellor capen addresses members of american association of university women by ruth freeman the senior girls were hostesses to members of the american associa tion of university women tuesday afternoon when the latter held their annual spring meeting in the audito rium of the university after the meeting at which chan cellor capen was the speaker and dean macdonald the chairman tea was served in the women's lounge dolores wonnacott vice-president of the senior arts class and bertha carnes vice president of the senior business administration class as sisted address describes reforms chancellor capen's address at the meeting described to the association the reform movements in college edu cation those of the university of buffalo in particular chancellor capen feels that no period has been more significant of educational prog ress than of the last ten years two outstanding currents charac terize this reform the first is based upon the desire to motivate the stu dents by their interests as a basis the movement has an entirely new understanding of human nature which preceding 1 educators did not have the second is the junior college movement this current is due to a closer assimilation of the last two college years with the graduate school and of the first two years with high school the object of both the high school and the junior college which is thus created is to give the student general cul ture senior college however has been subject to most of the reform which hitherto has been chiefly ex ploratory tentative and partial honors systems have so far been re served for the few but now we seem to be on the threshold of a new aspect of senior college work chicago system explained chancellor capen then described briefly the system at the university of chicago where the two most striking features besides junior and senior college are orientation courses in each of four divisions namely the humanities the social sciences the biological sciences and the physical sciences and a prac tical abolition of the credit system in the university of buffalo the evolution of the present reforms and ' the growth of the honors system have been made possible by the es tablishment of a student clientele worthy to deal with this privilege and by an increase in the ratio of faculty to students the present ratio is one to nine this change facilitates a more personal knowl edge of the student and more intelli gent advice no requirements now the new program thus made pos sible includes no requirements ex cepting hygiene and physical educa 1 tion an ability to read write and speak english must be demonstrated by means of examination upon en trance at the end of a student's college work under the tutorial sys tem he must pass a very exhaustive comprehensive examination as well as a thesis in some instances chancellor capen does not think that today anyone can become gen erally educated even in a superficial way he is optimistic however con cerning the results of the tutorial plan talk on democracy at club meeting to be illustrated dean julian park will speak on democracy in switzerland at the meeting of the international relations club in the grosvenor library tues day may 5 at 8 p m the address will be illustrated with stereopticon slides of the country emphasizing the international build ings at geneva elections may be held at this meet ing if not plans will be laid for a final meeting of the year eighth annual moving-up day dance tonight the moving-up day dance tonight climaxes the social season of the uni versity the affair is the eighth an nual dance sponsored by beta pi rho on the eve of moving-up day and if all indications are valid it promises to be most successful the scene of this informal is the trap and field club on cayuga road near genesee street with the cen tury orchestra playing from nine until two the beta pi rho football plaque will be presented for the second time tonight this plaque is engraved with all the scores of the football games each year registration time will terminate within few days just one more warning to those who have not begun their plans for next term all students returning to the university in the fall must secure their registration cards interview a member of the personnel department and seek the worthy counsel of their advisors before may 15th the last day for registration remember early applications will be given mure careful consideration continued on page 2 column 4 give double the annual get-together of the bee staff will take place tonight at the delaware arms 193 dela ware avenue near huron at 6 p m all members are urged to attend business administration registration the usual spring registration for all students in the school of business administration will take place from may 11-15 blanks and instructions for registering should be secured from the school of business administra tion office beginning may 11 all registrations must be com pleted by friday may 15 be in moving-up day parade