Bee, 1929-04-12

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly no 24 vol 9 university of buffalo april 12 1929 peppy meeting marks close of year for blackstone society mr philip halpern talks on thirteen month calendar extra day at end of year ap peals to students the blackstone legal society wound up its meetings for the year at reick ert's tea room on wednesday april 10 1929 it was a most enthusiastic and inspiring meeting the seniors attended their last meeting as under graduates while many freshmen at tended their first meeting it was the first time that the freshmen were invited to a blackstone meeting and there sure was a large turn out mr halpern was the speaker of the day his speech was typically hal pernian one which only philip hal pern could deliver his humor co gency selection of words and argu mentative expression made his talk most interesting he put life into the dead topic the calendar even his history and dates his discussion of the egyptian calendar caesar's and the gregorian tables were spiced with eloquence the talk was climaxed by a dis cussion of the proposed calendar its necessity and effects the old calen dars were results of chance and luck the proposed the result of reasoning because caesar believed there was luck in odd numbers he put an extra day in every odd month february had one day cut off because there was a day short at the end augustus cut another day off in order to make his month — august — have as many days as july caesar's month this was fairly accurate but there were 365.242 days a year as discovered in pope gregory's time so on october 5 1582 10 days were chopped off and each fourth year became a leap year except century years with the excep tion however of those divisible by 400 the faults with this were that the months are not equal and are not evenly divided by weeks a month may start on any day of the week the proposed calendar will have 13 months of 24 days each there will be four weeks in a month — each month will commence on sunday all holi days will fall on monday so as to lengthen our week-end vacations in stead of coming during the week at the end of each year one day will be thrown in which will be no day of the week no work day or obligation day but a grand holiday for all to count as the 365th day of course everyone present approved of the hol idays unanimously each leap year an extra day will be thrown in and not counted but this day will be be tween june and july pharmacy graduates plan detroit trip the pharmacy school believes in doing its summer hopping early in fact elaborate plans are being laid for a big alumni excursion on may 22nd through to 24th to the parke davis and company of detroit every year it has been the custom for the graduating pharmacy class to make an excursion to visit the laboratories of these manufacturers of drugs except once during the war this custom has gone on with no breaks for twenty years however there is no senior class in pharmacy this year because of the extended study courses authorized by the parke davis and company dean gregory sent out why messages to 1400 alumni to or ganize an alumni excursion tenta tive plans and details include labora tory observations trips to see serum and vaccine production a banquet class reunions and the usual out-of town life enthusiastic approvals of this plan are pouring in like the rain the night f the home concert and everything idicates that pharmacy graduates are going to have a great time in a big way evening session presents ubessa follies tonight statler ballroom scene of night club rendezvous at last there is to be in buffalo a night club guaranteed against in terruption by the strong arm of the law — but alas it is to be in session only tonight it behooves the students of this our glorious alma mater there fore to make the most of the time granted the evening session student association of the university of buf falo is sponsoring this night club un der the cover-up title of the übessa follies don't let this fool you though on friday night april 12th that's tonight at 8:30 for only one dollar and fifty cents 1.50 you can seat yourself at one of the tables in the horseshoe arrangement on the statler ballroom floor and see the acts which will henderson broadway's own joy boy is putting on for your amusement at that time some of the cast comes direct from broadway suc cesses while others are evening ses sion students whose latent genius willie has coaxed forth on the stage a chorus of seventy-five gorgeous damsels will accompany with sweet songs the specialty acts which take place among the tables between the acts there will be dancing and re freshments will be served the danc ing will go on from the end of the show at 11:30 until 2:00 here is something you can't afford to miss — don't waste the rest of your ife regretting it just grab your wo man and come — no soup and fish ne cessary for it's informal see the show the cast of 100 can throw taste the provender they'll provide and dance with your best date — or even — ssh a lady of the chorus tonight at 8:30 at the statler ballroom — the übessa follies best show of the year chemistry club holds last open meeting on thursday evening april 25th at 8:00 o'clock in the girls lounge hayes hall the u b chemistry club will hold its last open meeting for the semester dr e raymond riegel will speak on scientific sports in europe as additional entertainment jason e farber master of ceremonies has something new to present refresh ments will follow this being the last open meeting of the year the executive committee has decided to throw the meeting open to all interested numbers will be lim ited so that any student desirous of coming should submit his name to any chemistry major or to dr post ad visor of the club elections for the ensuing year will be held soon watch for further an nouncements speakers outline honors group work tuesday's assembly was of special interest to sophomores who want to enter the honors group chancellor capen and dr boynton presented to the students the advantages of belong ing to the honors group the chance to join is an opportunity that stu dents cannot afford to neglect for in this group research and graduate work is possible to a certain degree last year the honors group was very suc cessful about 60 students remained only a few dropping out and there were very few complaints dr cook made the announcement that there will be no formal registra tion this spring students are re quested to make out and hand in be fore may ist a tentative list of courses to be taken next year harry c white noted scientist to speak next tuesday the student assembly on tuesday april 16th will be the jeeasion of a talk presented by mr harry c white internationally known author philoso pher and scientist mr white's sub ject is especially inteiesting since it concerns the story of light as supervisor of industrial relations of the general electric company the speaker is well acquainted with every problem encountered in the great in dustry of which he is a participant it is mr white's intention to offer a portrayal of mr thomas a edison's early struggles in bringing about the invention which has revolutionized civilization one of the most appealing features of mr white's address will be his demonstration of the working of the incandescent lamp by means of an unique collection of scientific equip ment from that ingenious instru ment the incandescent lamp no larger than a grain of wheat the lamp used in difficult operations to the gigantic lamp of fifty thousand watts every article showing the limitless possibilities in scientific achievement is included in mr white's collection this assembly will mark another of the profitable and entertaining morn ings afforded to the student body through the efforts of the student council biology club the biology club will meet next friday evening april 12th in the men's lounge room of the medical school starting at 8 o'clock the speakers will be 1 miss k brownell the func tion of the adrenal cortex 2 professor w j atwell our knowledge of the female reproduc tive organs 3 henry haines eristalis ten ax its artificial cultivation historic record and life history c ampus calendar friday april 12th 8:30 p m — the evening session übessa follies statler ballroom monday april 15th — 1:00 p m — girls tennis practice rotary gym 8:20 p m girls glee club con cert niagara falls sororities and fraternities night tuesday april 16th — 10:30 a m — student convocation speaker mr harry c white auspices of student council 6:15 p m u b y club meeting central y wednesday april 17th 1:00 p m — girls tennis practice rotary gym 4:30 p m — girls swimming ben nett high school 8:10 p m — german club meeting women's lounge thursday april 18th 3:30 p m women's club faculty tea women's lounge university to co-operate with municipal research bureau national figures to address various conferences major civic problems on cal endar for discussion dr clarence h thurber has an nounced that the university of buf falo in cooperation with the buffalo municipal research bureau will con duct an institute of municipal af fairs during the week of july 15 to 19th inclusive conspicuous problems of municipal government and of urban centers of population will form the topics for round table conferences and public lectures of the institute some of the topics and leaders for these conferences already agreed upon are 1 a the city budget b the control of finance dr luther gulick director of the na tional league of municipal re search 2 regional planning dr harold w dodd professor of politics princeton university staff of the national league of municipal re search 3 problems of taxation mark graves new york state tax commissioned 4 scientific assessments cuth bert reeves buffalo 5 the function of the citizen in government mr harry free man director of the buffalo mu nicipal research bureau 6 playgrounds and recreation the leader for this topic has not yet been decided in addition to the round table conferences two of which will be held each morning there will be an audi torium meeting each day these meetings will be addressed by the leaders of the round tables and other prominent officials some of whom are governor franklin d roosevelt mur ray seasongood mayor of cincinnati and stephen b storey city manager of rochester the round table con ferences and lectures with the excep tion of the topic playgrounds and recreation will be open and free of charge to all summer session stu dents and others interested a sum mer institute on international affairs is carried on at williamstown massa chusetts the university of virginia conducts an institute on politics and national affairs the institute to be held at the university of buffalo is the only one devoted to the study of municipal problems and affairs buf falo being the eleventh largest city in the country and a cosmopolitan city is an excellent center for the study of such problems the modern mind subject of talk to honors group perpetual x is name given to absolute unknown dr white gave one of the most critical and illuminating talks to the honors group last friday which the group has had the good fortune to hear in this talk which he called science supernaturalism the modern mind dr white first explained the difference between mind and mental ity to avoid misunderstanding mind he defined as the whole organization of ideas and habits of the human being a phase of human behavior whereas mentality is the capacity of the organism dr boaz believes in the psychic unity of man that the mentality of all peoples is pretty much alike the mind is different depend ing upon the cultural environment the individual is born and bred in there is the known world the unknown world which is knowable like the cause of cancer and the unknown which can never be known which dr white calls the perpetual x the way this perpetual x is interpreted by peoples is the difference between su pernaturalism and naturalism this perpetual x bothers people they pro ject their own fears and desires into the perpetual x there must be a cause for things which is called gods or god this is the basis of super naturalism the ultra modern mind doesn't have to have this perpetual x solved the premises of both super naturalism and naturalism are purely arbitrary primitive societies have accepted the premise of supernatural ism and build on that basis modern society has freed itself from superna turalism in some fields but in others morality and religion we are just as u b chess team to meet jamestown the u b chess team has engaged a match with the jamestown chess club to be played at jamestown a four-man team will be chosen from the following members of the club s frucella j e farber s silber berg h feldman a i goldberg and a crosby last saturday the team bowed to rochester by a score of 3 to 2 the feature game was that of frucella against sullivan city champion of rochester a return match with ni agara falls chess team whom u b defeated earlier in the season is be ing arranged as well as one with hobart toronto and rochester there is still opportunity for any ardent chess sharks to compete for the team playing goes on regularly at the buffalo chess club gerrans building any student wanting to play on campus may use a set by requesting mr leopold at his office in hayes hall basement science fraternity elects officers xi chapter of chi beta phi national scientific fraternity has elected the following men to office francis maher med president carroll bowen med vice-pres carl javert med cor.-sec joseph zavisca med rec.-sec henry haines arts treasurer candidates for degrees in the fra ternity have been selected and these will be formally initiated soon mem bership is granted to those having a marked interest in sciences and simul taneously proving themselves worthy of scientific brotherhood fraters in in faculties are — drs william l dol ley malcolm h buckley h g he witt howard w post g c hicks philosophy club to hold first meeting the program for the first meeting of the philosophy club has been an nounced through the program commit tee — date and place to be announced in the next issue this gives all those who wish to attend a chance to plan for that evening interesting papers for this first famed meeting will be read by the of ficers recently elected they are rep resentative of various fields open to the undergraduate at the university the nature of symbolic logic is the paper to be read by mr vogt this will give an insight into the latest developments of logical theory immortality of the soul is given by miss kocsi.s she has promised a short sketch of the history of the idea of immortality and an upholding of the negative view mark k richelsen will read a paper n kant's antinomes of space and time — considering the nature and value of such antinomes and giving an insight into kant's method as an alternate to these three is mr williams paper on problems of aesthetic values — a treatise on the subject of beauty and offlineai a re lated to art the five arts and liter ature continued on page 4 column 2 continued on page 4 column 1 faculty tea the women's club are hold ing a faculty tea on thursday april 18th from 3:30 till 5:00 o'clock in the women's lounge