Bee, 1929-03-22

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 9 university of buffalo march 22 1929 no 22 kenneth hines radio star billed for convocation musical program arranged by cap and gown for students and faculty miss ralston and mrs wallace featured a musical program of unusual in terest has been arranged for the stu dent-faculty assembly to be held on tuesday march 26th at 10.30 o'clock this meeting will be under the auspi ces of cap and gown senior girls honorary society mr kenneth hines well-known tenor miss florence ralston soprano soloist and mrs charles t wallace organist will present a varied pro gram which is certain to please every one the students of the university should be especially interested in this assembly since the three artists who will be featured are of particularly fine talent mr kenneth hines is a young singer whose splendid voice has made his name well known throughout the country for several years he has been the tenor soloist of the first presbyterian church choir in the re cent atwater kent national radio au dition mr hines attained the great honor of second place in the national finals leading musical critics of the country acclaimed mr hines as a singer of remarkable ability every student of the university arts col lege should make a special effort to attend the assembly on tuesday miss ralston and mrs charles wal lace are also musicians of note and both are members of the first pres byterian choir one of the finest orga nizations of its kind in the city this excellent program is the first one to be held under the management of the student council the weekly assemblies are now a student affair and the students should support it one hundred per cent musical organizations make last formal appearance at home concert outstanding social event of year scheduled the last appearance of the musical organizations at a university func tion will be made at the home con cert april 5 the statler ballroom decorated in blue and white will be the scene of this year's outstanding social event the tickets are on sale at all con venient stations on and off the cam pus one dollar admits one person an extra fifty cents will admit you to the disconcerting front rows the following fraternities have reserved boxes delta chi delta sigma delta sigma alpha mu beta phi sigma beta pi rho kappa nu beta chi epsilon and omega alpha tau one of the sororities theta chi has es tablished a precedent by reserving a box a few boxes are still unre served warren marsh will make ar rangements for these tax 5.00 as in former years the concert is informal following the program les thelleman and his new university or chestra will supply dancing rhythms until one o'clock the orchestra will broadcast over wgr from 12 to 12:30 the program includes mixed choral numbers by the glee clubs groups of glee club numbers by the men's and women's glee clubs solos and readings four soloists this year will present unusual features mar guerette hanne soprano who has won such approval during the past two years will present a group of songs the popular dentist joseph dempsey will be the tenor of the eve ning the accompanist of the wom en's glee club bertha dayman will lie heard in piano solos with his saxophone maurice lutwack will sooth the beast with sweet melodies the appearance of the varsity quartet consisting of john priebe first tenor john cummings second tenor clifford chase baritone and heated debates in form at atlantic city convention atlantic city last week harbored about fifty delegates from the so called north atlantic states who had come together solely for pharmacy examination reform this third annual conference proved must interesting the delegates really got excited new york state claimed in-st laurels for the discussion on • animations in practical pharmacy or applied pharmacy state board "• xams in chemistry and in materio medico also came to l,he fore in the liscussion an unusual question anise whether the present exami ners graduates of the two-year phar macy course were competent to iaiiz graduates equipped with a thnlee-year course furthermore ac cording to the state laws these more extensively trained graduates have to abide a decade after securing their licenses before they can assume an ' miner's position in the name of insistency something's all wrong the remedy proposed by the conven 11,111 is that somewhere under the pices of the national association "' the board of pharmacy special courses of instruction be given for he present state pharmacy exami ""''*• if well begun is half done is convention has the matter one half solved blackstone society elects officers it rained and reigned on wednes day march 20 1929 but midst the rain drops the blackstone legal so ciety had a very interesting and ex citing meeting in fact the only politi cal meeting of the year the election of officers took place at this meeting at reickert's tea rooms the newly-elected officers are president — robert vallely vice-president — joseph nicosia treasurer — maurice lutwack secretary — edward m freed manager — henry lenz the above will be installed at the annual banquet of the blackstone so ciety which will be held on monday evening march 25th at the alumni club stanley drumsta is in charge of the banquet and promises a gala af fair on monday at 7.00 as has been the custom of the society the dean is the only invited guest at the annual affair inasmuch as this is dr alden's 25th year as dean of the law school the banquet will be a two-fold celebration with added features in honor of dean alden women's glee club scores success at masonic concert selections enthusiastically re ceived by audience the women's glee club was enthu siastically received in a concert at the masonic temple lackawanna last tuesday evening despite several handicaps the performance was one of the best this season miss ellen rider conducted the first two num bers sung by the club swing low by burly and hain by curran other selections were the scarf dance of chamenade whispering hope by hawthorne and the bells of st mary's by adam individual talent played no small part in the suc cess of tuesday's concert bertha dayman contributed several numbers on the piano margaret hanne so prano sang a birthday by cowen and will of the wisp by spross constance reynolds mezzo-soprano sang deep river and i am thy harp accompanied by mr ward the trio including the misses gold berg heilburn and bardy blended soprano and alto voices in two lovely songs rockin in de win by schman and three little maids from mikado the alma mater con cluded the program the efforts of the club were highly appreciated miss holmes manager was presented with a beautiful cor sage of lavender sweet peas refresh ments were served to the members after the concert the concert was secured through the efforts of miss harriet partridge a former member who still retains an active interest in the club dr sy to entertain at german club next week dr sy will speak at the next meet ing of the german club he will tell about his recent trip to germany dr sy is a very popular speaker and his wit and humor are well known among the students this meeting will be held in the women's lounge in hayes hall and refreshments will be served after the program it will take place wednesday eve ning march 27th at 8 o'clock it is the last event before easter vacation and every one should be able to come you will certainly have a good time campus calenda friday march 22 12:20 p m bee meeting 4:15 p m — honors group meet ing honors room 9:00 p m — dance sponsored by freshman dental class 10:00 p m men's glee club con cert over radio station wgr sunday march 24 — 3:30 p m — men's glee club con cert temple beth zion monday march 25 — 1:00 p m — girls tennis practice rotary gym 4:30 p m — girls glee club prac tice sororities and fraternities night tuesday march 26 — 10:30 a m — convocation kenneth hines winner second place at water radio audition 6:15 p m men's glee club prac tice central y m c a 8:00 p m — orchestra rehearsal girls room edmund hayes hall wednesday march 27 — 1:00 p m — girls tennis practice rotary gym 4:00 p m — girls swimming ben nett high school 4:15 p m — men's boxing tourna ment rotary gym 8:00 p m — german club meeting women's lounge vacation begins at close of the classes thursday march 28 8:00 p m blue masquers meet ing alumni club sociology classes fortunate to hear dr goldenweiser the department of sociology and anthropology have been particularly favored this last week mr evans the secretary of the urban league of buffalo spoke to dr cantor's class on immigration and race problems the class is studying the negro problem in america and mr evans talk on the negro was especially welcomed dr goldenweiser formerly of co lumbia spoke to dr white's class in ethnopsychology dr goldenweiser who ranks among the foremost an thropologists gave a very lucid des cription of the nature of primitive society the students of both departments are very grateful to both mr evans and dr goldenweiser and hope that they wil honor us again in the future u b chess club expects to defeat foreign foes saturday afternoon a team repre senting the u b chess club will again invade foreign territory the team will journey to rochester to en gage in two matches the first en counter is scheduled to take place at 4.00 p m the rochester chess club to furnish the opposition at 8 o'clock the u b team will cross pawns with a representative of the university of rochester on march 1st the u b chess team defeated the niagara falls chess club in a match held at the power city a return match has been scheduled for april 12th which is to be played at the club rooms of the buffalo chess club home and home matches are being arranged with university of toronto and hobart university • meeting of chemics society held the last regular meeting of the u b chem club was held thursday march 16 1929 in the girls lounge hayes hall president elliott an nounced plans of the organization to enter in moving-up day exercises a committee consisting of karl brow nell arlene dobmeier and robert white was appointed to take charge of the same the speaker of the evening was dr sy who spoke on foods and vita mins the lecture was illustrated with lantern slides which proved to be of much interest to the enthusias tic group present the floor was thrown open for questions and many chemics received excellent advice on good and bad foods the evening was finished off with a treasure hunt game directed by jason e farber chairman of social and program committee the game ended with the victors enjoying the refreshments served dr riegel makes successful debut in writing field it is not generally known about the university that dr emil r riegel professor of chemistry published re cently a scientific textbook which he calls industrial chemistry an ele mentary treatise for the student and general reader the book is divided into fifty chap ters each one of which deals with a different industry or phase of an industry which is influenced by the chemist this rather startling num ber of chapters is a decided advan tage both to instructor and to gen eral reader since it facilitates as signments — each topic practically hav ing a chapter for itself there are chapters on industrial alcohol on paints and lacquers a remarkably good chapter on perfumes a good one on the manufacture of soap on the manufacture of pig iron cast iron and steel a chapter on gold one on artificial silks one could go on by enumerating the various chapter headings but just by browsing through its pages it is evident that this is no com mon textbook somehow there is a human note in it dr riegel's charm ing personality trickles out here and there — subtly to be sure but cer tainly nevertheless for example he has at the begin ning of each chapter a little explan atory paragraph in italics a breezy little item giving newsy yet import ant information about the topic under discussion this is quite unusual in a textbook and more particularly in one on chemistry he cites very few reading refer ences — a boon to the desultory stu dent but those he does use are very carefuly selected and embrace only the most recent and up-to-date books french club enjoys novel costume meeting wednesday evening the french club held a very novel and enjoyable meet ing each member of the club came dressed to represent the title of some well-known french book the cos tumes were very clever and furnished a great deal of amusement for every one a prize offered for the most original costume was won by allan s pchellas he and miss adamson were dressed to represent two very dilapidated beggars a prize was also given to william c carey who guessed correctly what most of the people were supposed to represent after the guessing tea was served radio audience impressed by dr theodore b hewitt dr theodore b hewitt professor of german at the university of buf falo presented a talk on the restor ing of german as a foreign language study to the high school curriculum broadcast from station wgr on sat urday evening march 16th this ad dress was one of the university of buffalo radio talks a series sponsored by the alumni association of the uni versity many school boards were prompted to abolish the study of german by a wave of hysteria and a mistaken form of patriotism caused by the war as a result of this action few students entering college know more than the bare rudiments of the german lang uage while german was discontinued as a subject of high school curricu lums in the united states during the war european countries encouraged the study of english in conclusion dr hewitt cited in stances of the return of the german language to favor and quoted leaders in favor of its complete re-establish ment the radio talks presented by faculty members of the university are a source of enjoyment and instruc tion to the friends of the school and add greatly to the public knowledge of the university and its activities the alumni association is to be com mended for its action in sponsoring this series continued on page 2 column 4 continued on page 3 column 2 all bee reporters and those who are inter ested in reporting must attend a meeting toda1 march 21 at 12:20 hayes hall 190 the honors group will meet friday march 22 4:15 p.m in the honors room professor hector will speak on the relation of physics to other sciences signed richard w boynton chairman blue masquers meeting thursday march 28th alumni club 8:00 p m by special order