Bee, 1929-01-04

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly no 13 vol 9 university of buffalo january 4 1929 orin e foster prominent philanthropist succumbs university loses devoted friend and benefactor loss of donor of foster hall mourned by many with the death of orin e foster noted philanthropist and prominent industrial leader the university of buffalo mourns the loss of one of its most loyal and devoted friends the widely-known benefactor who died suddenly on saturday evening december 29th shared his prosper ity with many organizations pre senting many gifts of money to char itable and other purposes chancellor samuel p capen of the university of buffalo spoke of the great service rendered by mr foster to the university in the death of mr foster dr capen said the whole community has suffered a severe loss for many years he has been not only a leading figure in the business world but also one of the most generous supporters of all large efforts for the general wel fare among his many splendid philan thropies his gifts to the university of buffalo have been the most not able he inaugurated the endow ment campaign of 1920 by present ing the university with its finest building foster hall two and a half years ago he made an addi tional gift of 100,000 for the per manent endowment of the univer sity in the whole history of the in stitution he has been its largest sin gle benefactor for eight years also he has been a member of the uni versity council and has given of his time and thought to the shaping of its policies nowhere outside the intimate cir cle of his family will his loss be more keenly felt than among his associates officers and students of the institutions which he has helped to build everyone who knew mr foster expressed great regret at the pass ing of so outstanding and public spirited a citizen friends and as blue masquers give one-act play at christmas assembly the last student-faculty meeting of 1928 was held at noon on tues day december 18th in the form of a christmas assembly a group of appropriate songs presented by the german club opened the program three german songs including dit heilige nacht and o tannen baum were sung the remainder of the program consisted of the pre sentation of the great book a most entertaining one-act play writ ten and directed by miss millicent a white in this little drama the parts were played by the blue masquers lester miller as the old monk joseph abeles the abbot harold fish the young monk ber nice fuhr a peasant girl named marie and hortense heilbrun pierre a peasant boy members of the men's glee club sang in the chorus a picture of the beginning pf polyphonic music as it orig inated in the monasteries was the theme of the play the action tak ing place in a sixteenth century monastery the peasant boy and girl represented the people of the time w ho took the monastery harmonies f r their secular music an enthusiastic audience applauded he play and its talented author t is hoped that this splendid pro duction by the blue masquers will mark the reopening of activity on the part of the dramatic organiza tion bison debate team bows to fordham forensic stars discussion of baumes law subject of linguistic battle friday december 14 at 8 o'clock at edmund hayes hall the univer sity of buffalo debating team met fordham university on the question resolved that the baumes law be upheld professor schauroth was the chairman and the judges were george s buck manager of the buffalo city planning association lloyd w josselyn vice-librarian of the buffalo public library and dr miles h krumbine pastor of the parkside lutheran church the first speaker for fordham which assumed the affirmative stated that the burden of proof rested with the negative for the law was now in effective operation and it was up to them to show the defects the law while stringent was necessarily so because a man who has been convicted of four felonies is not the one who desires honest work and is devoid of all sympathetic feeling for society society must be protected against these criminals the first speaker for the negative while agreeing that society should be protected asserted that the baumes law failed to insure this the members themselves declared that no study of crime causes was possible baumes said that men were boys grown up and should be pun ished with proportional severity for their misdeeds the limitations of the law are shown by this childish piece of psychology some of its basic assumptions are false that life imprisonment is desirable and that all felonies are serious crimes the blanket provision of the law cannot cope with the special cases constant ly met the second affirmative speaker took up the problem of dealing with the professional criminal for which the law was first designed the section dealing with them is perfectly sen sible and good law it is just to imprison fourth offenders for life the law furthermore has proved workable and effective conditions had been very bad before it was put into effect in 1923 there had been 8300 felonies in 1926 there were 9400 the situation was dangerous and critical the baumes law was passed as a warning to these habit ual criminals losses to surety companies were less by thirty-nine thousand dollars there was a reduction of more than thirty per cent in crimes in new york city the judges were left without discre tion as to the sentence to be im posed because under the old law short sentences had been given and altogether too much leniency was shown the influence of various so cieties and politicians was too strong the law wants honest men to get a fair chance and be protected the speaker for the negative con tended that punishment had not act ed as a jeterrent to crime histori cal study shows that crimes increase under harsh treatment the whole system of judicial pro cedure is against the law the cer tainty of a life sentence makes the criminal try to shoot his way free for the sentence for manslaughter is only twenty years and he always has an equal chance of escaping a law admittedly designed for an emer gency has no place in the permanent methods of dealing with criminals the judges announced decision unauimously in favor of the affirm ative team the buffalo team made up of john cummings melvin weig and morris opler took defeat grace fully and heartily congratulated the victors campus calendar friday january 4 — 1:00 p m girls basketball prac tice rotary gym 8:30 p m — basketball queens university vs university of buf falo at elmwood music hall monday january 7 — 1:00 p m girls basketball prac tice rotary gym 4:30 p m girls glee club re hearsal auditorium sororities and fraternities night tuesday january 8 — 10:30 a m — convocation edmund hayes auditorium 6:00 p m u b club central y m c a 7:30 p m — men's glee club re hearsal wednesday january 9 — 1:00 p m — girls basketball prac tice rotary gym 4:30 p m — girls swimming ben nett high school 6:00 p m women's club wom en's lounge thursday january 10 — 8:00 p m — blue masquers meet ing alumni club members of faculty attend conferences while the undergraduates were busy with holiday festivities and their social affairs members of the faculty were busy with other things various groups traveled to confer ences and meetings in several amer ican cities dr theodore b hewitt professor of german charles a knudson jr instructor of romance languages dr john p rice professor of romance languages and willard a bonner instructor in english attended the meeting of the modern language as sociation in toronto dr oliver g lockhart professor of economics and finance and dr ralph c epstein assistant professor of economics journeyed to the am european student life is topic of miss adamson's talk miss adamson read a most de lightful and entertaining paper on student life in european univer sities to the honors group friday dec 14 miss adamson herself had the good fortune to graduate from the far-famed trinity college dub lin there miss adamson said ex isted strong ties between the stu dent and his alma mater the stu dent would do everything to keep the stainless escutcheon of his col lege unblemished social athletic and scholastic interests occupied places of equal importance the school year of actual classes was very short and the long vacations were periods of intense study when the students shut themselves up in the libraries studying for the exam inations which followed the vaca tion the student had to map out his own course of study and do all his own work without any help from his professor there were also humerous social and athletic clubs dramatics de bating glee clubs tennis hockey etc societies and fraternities were unknown cliques are not a charac teristic of foreign schools students are very friendly and helpful toward one another this participation in activities is considered so important that the individual who isolates him self and does not join any club is thought of as queer student life at oxford and cambridge is very similar at the university of paris there is no student life to speak of the students make up for this lack by living in the student quarter le quartier latin and frequently the numerous cafes drinking wine freely and making merry in true french style till the wee small hours of the morning germany is the happy-hunting ground for students nowhere in the world are students as free as in germany they come and go to and from classes as they please only they must show up for the dif ficult comprehensive examinations at the end of the year the stu dents are so independent that they have their own style of dress and are so highly thought of by the ger man people that they get greatly re duced rates in all hotels restaurants and concert halls the students gather together every night at the beer gardens and spend the ensuing hours drinking beer and singing songs students ordinarily come to school in ' the morning with that de jected look which speaks of the morning after the night before the freshman goes through such a strenuous year of duties when pledg continued on pnge 2 column 3 dean park to represent university at conference dr julian park dean of the arts college of the university of buffalo will spend several days in chat tanooga tennessee next week dean park will represent the university at the fifteenth annual meeting of the association of american col leges saturday january 19 a paper will be read by dean raymond wal ters swarthmore college on co operation between secondary schools and colleges in raising intellectual standards this paper was written by dean walters in co-operation with dean park queens university five at mercy of bisons tonight squad reeking with enthusiasm assure fans great game visitors boast powerful array of warriors on roster the university of buffalo quintet tonight plays host to the five from queens college in the inaugural game of the new year the visitors will receive a warm welcome from the powellmen for the latter are out to avenge in hearty fashion the defeat suffered at the hands of rensselaer the game is slated to start promptly at 8:30 the bisons have not been idle dur ing the vacation and their deter mined efforts should show results to night in a sweeping victory for the blue and white the return of gabbey culp and magavern has added a world of strength to the squad while the starting lineup is still in doubt it is certain that all the men on the squad will be given a chance to try their skill against the invaders the fast passwork which the bulls exhibited in their spectacular win over lehigh should again come to the fore in this eve ning's contest the queens lineup shows a well seasoned team that is determined to give a good account of itself in a valiant attempt to wrest a victory from the local players the visitors have a speedy attack which features accurate passes and tosses during the past two weeks coach powell has been putting the fellows wise to the finer points of the game and perfecting the movement of plays to bring about a smoother attack attention has also been di rected to the flaws which the early season games have disclosed and a few more contests should find the bisons working together like a vet eran combination tonight's encounter ends a string of five consecutive games which have been played at home and the bisons will not return to the music hall court until january 15th when niagara will test their mettle in the meantime hamilton and colgate will entertain them on january 11th and 12th tea dance to be feature of junior week feb 4-9 tags sold on campus are admittance cards the junior class has just taken out a lease for exclusive nights on the campus for the week february 4-9 the class of 1930 plans to make their week this year a greater suc cess than ever arrangements have been made to have something doing every day of course part of the things are for juniors only but so that their friends won't feel left out they have arranged several events to include them these are mainly the junior prom and the junior tea dance next to the prom the most color ful affair of the week will be the tea dance this will be held at jack hendry's 2700 main street on tues day the music will be furnished by the briarcliffe orchestra a well known buffalo dance unit the dance will start at 4 refreshments will be served the junior tags which will sell for 75 cents will be the admission to the dance these will be on sale by arts juniors beginning next monday get your ticket early and be sure of getting to this great big informal get-together of the uni versity other events of the week will in clude the junior banquet and the junior-senior treatre party the ban quet will be held on tuesday at the park lane apartments arrange ments for the theatre party have not yet been completed but the seniors may rest assured of a darn good time on saturday eve the juniors will bring their week of celebration to a close by journeying in a body to hamilton to cheer for the basketball team alumni assn of university offers series of talks the alumni association of the university of buffalo is again offer ing a series of radio talks these proved so popular last year that it was thought advisable to enlarge the program this year some of the lectures have already been given the next one will be given over station w g r on january 11 the complete list of those to follow is given below january 11 — reginald pegrum ph d instructor in geology quest of the earth's treasures january 12 — chancellor s p capen ph.d l h.d sc.d ll d january 19 — endowment fund cam paign speaker january 26 g claude hicks ph d assistant professor of biology botany february 2 norman l burton m 8.a c p a february 9 — richard if temple ton b a professor of law february 16 — david adie lecturer in sociology february 23 fred holl march 2 ruth v weierheiser b s liaison teacher in the educational department of the museum of natu ral sciences march 9 — xathaniel cantor march 16 freda ballotin b a march 23 arthur j abbott lec turer in music march 30 — endowment fund can paign speaker continued on page 2 column 3 continued on page 2 column 2