Bee, 1930-12-05

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 11 university of buffalo december 5 1930 no 10 blue and white meet state teachers in court opener popular french lecturer will discuss painting next thursday * m desclos well known connoisseur of french art monsieur auguste v desclos will be the second lecturer brought to buf falo under the auspices of the fenton foundation his lecture on french painting in the last twenty-five years will be illustrated monsieur desclos is popular at all the colleges where he lectured on his previous tours in 1927 and 1928 this comment followed his last appearance here in 1928 we want m desclos at the uni versity of buffalo every year no one is more warmly received among our students apart from the author ity with which he treats all his sub jects his charm of manner is such as to leave an immediate and lasting impression on all who hear him no foreign lecturer whom we have ever had uses our language so beautifully and yet so colloquially m desclos is assistant director of the office national des universities at ecoles francaise and has for many years been in charge of the educa tional exchanges between england and france and since 1926 those be tween france and the united states he is a connoisseur of french art and an able and delightful lecturer upon art subjects the lecture will be held at the gros venor library on thursday december 11 at 8:15 p m girls in attempt to warm gymnasium this afternoon all freshman women will be the guests of the women's athletic asso ciation at the barn-warming pow wow this afternoon from two to five university women will become as lit tle children romping around in mid dies and shorts or in rompers play ing basketball picnicing on the old barn floor on jelly doughnuts and honey dew listening open mouthed to the anecdotes of the national athletic conference jollity and informality will reign as the upper classmen mem bers of w a a initiate the new women into what u b sportswomen consider a rip-roaring good time chief attraction the senior champs will play an exhibition tournament basketball game against a picked team of upper classmen g m f elections at a meeting of the g m f held thursday november 13th the follow ing officers for this year were elected president — edward ireland vice-president — charles little secretary — howard mcconkey treasurer — george miller what football has done for me now that the bandwagon and bal lyhoo of football has passed for an other year and the glory of games played has dimmed a serious con templation of the real benefits of foot ball is possible very few people are unblinded by the glamour of the game and are capable of seeing the educational benefits from it the value of the physical conditioning is easily dis cerned but football as an educational medium is overlooked by many education at best is a training in adjustment which enables a man to meet his problems in life intelligently and honorably the medium may be the arts and sciences or it may be the pigskin but it is adjustment nevertheless a lineman pulling out on offense or changing his style of play on defense a back running with the ball an interfering back are all adjusting themselves to a rapid pano rama of new situations which entail quick sharp thinking of a body in physical action thinking on your feet it is called and is an ability highly prized in the business world the quick decision of a lineman or of the quarterback in calling an im portant play is as rapid and as im portant to himself and to his team as any business executive's rapid and right thinking is to his concern not only must the adjustment be rapid but it must be in terms of ten other teammates co-ordination with others is team play and therein lies one of the educational gems of football modern collegiate education lays a heavy stress on individuality the student chooses his individual studies and pursues them in his individual way idiosyncrasies of temperament of character and we all have them i are allowed free run co-operation receives no mention has little signifi cance and this perhaps can account for the commercial failure of so many i brilliant students nowhere can a i student find the value of co-operation i m ore emphasized than in football xowhere are personal idiosyncrasies brought more quickly to the fore and ; nowhere must they be more regulated i or held more in control one of the l first and perhaps most valuable things ] a successful player must learn is the y —^— — —^ —^^^— _^^^^_ parison with team play in football as in no other activity must the in dividual desires and volitions be sub ordinated and co-ordinated to team play the majority of man's activi ties are social in character and this spirit of team play is a most valuable asset for a successful life the ability to judge men is also a common requisite to a successful com mercial or social career yet the grid iron is perhaps the one spot in four years of college life where this ability receives due acknowledgment a player must not only be able to esti mate and evaluate the men with whom he plays but must also be adept in the quick summation of the abilities of those men against whom he competes the football player re ceives an insight into the actions of men under mental and emotional strain which is the equivalent aca demically of many hours spent over the text books of psychology on the surface judged purely from the physical standpoint some acts of players do seem to be folly — men who play despite adversity and injury have you ever wondered just why men do these things why a player when he is badly battered injured and fatigued doesn't withdraw from the game or loaf and rest allowing the other ten men to carry on the battle ? simply because of a fidelity to that which the traditions and rules of the game have made a duty he is play ing the game this ability to play the game and live up to the duties imposed is man's one excuse for his existence and is his one claim to no < bility life after all is one gigantic game and he who plays it hard and honorably reaps the rewards of a sue ' cessful life the spirit of the game is something derived from the pigskin 1 which text books cannot give and were it possible for a man to ] play the game and not derive a single l one of these benefits the association alone with men of the calibre that i play and coach at the university i would more than repay any sacrifices 1 which the game entails mountaineers of south to be topic for honors group at 4:15 today mr robert parke director of industrial research for the firm of parke hall & co realtors will speak on the subject of a dis appearing race — the southern moun taineers mr parke has made frequent visits to the mountain districts of kentucky and tennessee and will describe to the honors group the people whom he has met there there will be an opportunity for questions dr leary's radio talks elicit many sating comments third of the series of university radio talks broadcast over wgr sunday december 7 at 6:15 p m dr leary will conclude his discus sion on psychology with the topic the abnormal personality in his two previous talks he spoke on the general basis of psychology and psychology in relation to morals aes thetics and religion it is evident that these radio talks have found favor with the public al ready dr leary has received more than fifty letters of comment and re quests for stenciled copies of his lec tures the university of the air will be featured weekly during the winter and spring season it offers not only an education to the public but an ac quaintance with the university of buffalo and its faculty members harvard honor system compared with local group the first general meeting of the honors group held this year was opened by dr boynton the students upon being questioned by dr boynton unanimously agreed to continue these general meetings this year they promised to attend and to co-operate dr boynton then introduced pro fessor bigelow who gave the students an idea of how the honors system is organized and carried on at harvard his talk was most interesting he proved a very forceful and amusing speaker it seems that the honor's system as worked out at harvard is not very much unlike our own it is perhaps a little more thorough and severe briefly a student upon entering har vard as a freshman is assigned an advisor to help him choose his courses at the end of his first year he must decide in what field he wishes to specialize he then picks the pro gram for his sophomore year with the aid of his advisor the advisor noted editor to speak at college tea next sunday a college tea for students of the university of buffalo and of the state teachers college will be given at the first presbyterian church the cir cle at north street and richmond avenue sunday evening december 14th at the close of the community vesper service stanley high editor newspaper correspondent lecturer author who has the world as his background will speak at 5 o'clock on the subject today's christianity and tomorrow's world mr high has come to be regarded as one of the foremost american interpreters of those social political and economic forces that are shaping the history of our times after supper in the parish house dining room mr high will answer questions related to his address of the afternoon all students are in vited return of stellar squad presages championship repeat coach art powell starts 16th year as court mentor tonight the blue and white flash again on the basketball court as the bisons open their 1930-1931 season against the red five from state teachers college during the numerous meetings of these old rivals u b has always held the upper hand this year bids to add another win to the already long line of triumphs over this local con tingent u b.'s chances this year look good to repeat their record of last season by the annexation of the new york state conference championship al though farrow and jetter were lost by graduation seigel cohen and dautch by inability to play the buf falo five still number in their ranks such stars as malanowicz harring ton pryor and schrag around these men as a nucleus coach art powell is building a team of strength speed and deception others who will play principal roles in the coming cam paign are hoffman raucher picogna and syracuse one week from tonight buffalo plays host to toronto always fur nishing enough thrills for the most ardent fans following this on sat urday december 20 the big red team from the hills of ithaca will again try men's glee club will initiate musical season the men's glee club will make its first appearance of the year in a con cert to be given next thursday night december 11th at the buffalo city hospital at present the club num bers about thirty-nine men the ma jority of whom are newcomers this season tryouts have uncovered an unusually large number of men with some previous vocal training and ex perience and as a result the organ ization is appreciably ahead of those of past years in its degree of ad vancement manager chase announced last tuesday night that an intercollegiate contest has been definitely arranged to be held in rochester on february 14th the prize song has already been selected and rehearsals on it be gun in preparation for the event university works with milbank fund in social study the department of sociology has recently completed a population sur vey of buffalo and the niagara fron tier the study was financed by the milbank memorial fund of new york and is under the direction of pro fessor niles carpenter chairman of the department of sociology the work of the enumeration which cov ered over 1,000 families was made by william m haenszel an honors stu dent in sociology and miss mary sar bough a graduate student a preliminary study the results of which have just been tabulated con sists in the classification of women over forty-five years old the mothers of families who have had a college education a high school education complete or incomplete or a common school education the purpose is to show the average number of children per family of these respective group ings it was found that women of college education averaged 2.19 children whereas women of only common school training averaged 3.29 the high school graduates fall between these two groups with 2.11 children some other problems not yet com pleted in the same study are rural urban migration that is the source bios club members thrilled by story of byrd expedition bios club members experienced many of the thrills of the byrd ex pedition as they were related and de picted by an illustrated lecture by dr ralph schropshire oceanographer wednesday evening ice packs and snow which would rival buffalo's product silly pen guins walking on ice whales galore were especially interesting as dr schropshire told his anecdotes and the thrilling adventures with these hearty applause and curious discus sion testified tc the audience's appre ciation the next meeting of the bios club will be a co-operative one with the chem club december 18 the president also announced a project to protect and preserve the bird life about the campus by setting up feeding stations business administration school plans post-graduate course a post-graduate course in the school of business administration is a likely possibility for next year dean marsh has announced dr epstein acting head of the economics depart ment is chairman of a committee composed of all business administra tion professors which is working out the details of such a course this announcement coming on the heels of the construction of the build ing to house the business ad college gives evidence of the progress being made by the university a post graduate course in the business ad school would bear out the policy of the university so often emphasized by chancellor capen that research plays a large role in the program of a university several other business adminis tration colleges have indicated that they would send some of their grad uates here if a post-graduate course were established dean marsh stated it is almost sure that such a cours will be instituted next fall of course we will limit it to a small number of students — probably ten at first the curriculum would include both infor mal research work under a member of the faculty and a few hours of for mal academic work similar to the plan now in operation in the arts col lege university invited to attend open dance reviving a practice which has long been forgotten or neglected two of the social organizations on the cam pus have joined forces to hold an informal dance one week from to night sigma kappa sorority and delta chi fraternity the last to use this method are responsible for its reintroduction lloyd wolff's versatile silver lake orchestra which broadcasts locally will furnish the syncopation wolff has promised many novelties includ ing special arrangements of the alma mater the committee in charge keith hill alise cowles harry san ders scott gray and elmer howell have attempted to make this a worthy university function and ocrdlftuy in vite everyone the cafe room at the statler is the location with dancing from 9:30 to continued on page 4 column 4 continued on page _, col 4 continued on page 4 column 2