Bee, 1928-10-26

              the bee vol 9 university of buffalo october 26 1928 no 6 literature music of poland delayed by reconstruction work consecrated goal of learning is seen by educators new united life is inspiration to art and literature the second locturo by professor itonian dyboski was delivered wednes day october 24 at 8:30 on the sub ject intellect art and literature of tho new poland as with the previous lecture the fenton founda tion provided this most interesting speaker for tho people of buffalo es pecially the university world several members of the faculty attended and a fair number were present from buf falo's polish colony the body of poland in the form of its economic structure was discussed in the first lec ture the second was on the soul of to day's poland in previous centuries a groat mass of intellectual and artistic achievements had been accumulated but tho death of the polish state in the cightcnth century put a temporary halt to this record monuments of the past civil ization remained especially at cracow tho highest point was reached in the renaissance period when an italian queen reigned over poland many italians came to the court at this time their influence on architecture and painting has continued to the present the capital was shifted to warsaw in the seventeenth century and hero a great glow of art and litorature sur rounded tho sunset of tho polish king dom some remnants remained at vil na as efforts for independence be eamo hopeless paris and other euro pean capitals received the greatest of poland s scholars who acted as propa gandists for their country after 18(i(j intellectual study revived particularly in austrian poland the academy be came the chief center of literary work cracow assuming dominance in art in the reign of alexander 111 during the darkest days of warsaw the famous ienkiewiez begau writing a distinguishing feature has been the dominant part played by litorature and art in the self-expression of the nation which was denied all other out let poets became the legislators of mankind they taught and expounded the nation's tendencies chopin acted as an interpreter by including elements of polish folk-songs in his compositions padercwski turned from musician to statesman poland is anxious to build up a new life on the busis of the past but a great gulf nevertheless exists literature must recede into the back ground because the new poland now lives with its body and not mind only the old representatives of literature and intellect have willingly given up their interests for the new state life research workers and university pro fessors assisted actively as experts in administrative details the diplomatic corps was largely recruited from schol i sirs and scientists polish men of learn i ing travel about to disseminate knowl i edge of the nation engineering and i technical exports have been drawn into i the service of their country president i moseicki had an eminent record us a i worker and scicntise particularly in i organizing a large factory taken over i from the germans i embryo business men to be entertained by faculty noxt thursday november 1 at 8 o'clock the faculty of the school of business will give the men students of the school a smoker in the reception n of the medical school there will be stunts by the boys and :| n interesting program is being ar ranged by dean marsh kffort is being nado to make it very informal in fact 11 s to be a feast of reason and a low of soul he entire faculty of the school will "° there as well as dr keene ami pro ber neil a general get-together an i rood time will be enjoyed by the faculty ami indents mr ross speaks on american education before u.b."y club cigarette lighters given to arts delegation r tuesday evening the regulsir mcet - ing of the u b club was held at tho - central y m c a a line group as b sembled representing all tho colleges 2 of the university but the men from arts greatly outnumbered those from ; the other schools the struggle with the beans was 1 opened with a prayer by don judd i after many a bean had been con - suined the president bob vallelly in :' troduceil the speaker of the evening : galen starr boss educational director for the dodds alderney dairy co mr ross is a nationally known lecturer and writer and more than lived up to i his reputation • mr ross spoke on the practical ideals of american education he pointed out wherein personality is re > lated to education where there is per sonality devoid of character you have one of the greatest evil forces in tho world and vice versa with personality plus character a person will be a great asset to the world health is vital to personality the truly educated person realizes the value id health and thus a person who starts to build up a healthy body is laying the foundation for success anil happiness mr rons declared that money intel ligence is a part of one's education a person must learn the practical use and value of the dollar economic wisdom is very essentiiil to a perfect education there wore many other points of practical value given by mr ross he told the club that it took courage to have a mind of one's own and to stand up for one's belief the young men were told to always strive to have high ideals and to work hard to make them come true the last thought that mr ross left with those present was to have a heart — if not then civilization is doomed in sill the efforts to make a success a person must never stifle the human emotions that will rise in the heart for without these a person will lose sight of his ideals and cannot be a com plete success the college that had the largest dele gation present was to receive decorated cigarette lighters the arts college men won the award and were over joyed with the mutches they received tied with ribbon and done up in a small box the u b club appreciated mr ross's kindness in giving the splendid talk he did next week dr boynton will be the bpoakor all out for n big nite mr ralph badger teaches evening aviation course a new course has been opened in the university of buffalo's evening ses sion it is a course in aeronautics that is it includes commercial avia tion engineering problems and general information concerning aeronautics mi ralph badger a trained engineer who is in charge of the new vork district of the national aeronautics association is the instructor the class has an enrollment of fifty persons and is open to everybody the course is promoted by the greater buffalo ad vertising club in view of serving the aviation industiy and the university of buffalo professor bangs reads father's poems before honors group i at the second meeting of the honors group on october 19th professor fran l cis h bangs of the knglish depart i inent read from the writings of his father john kendrick bangs i mr bangs first considered the house boat on the styx his father's far-famed treatise on hades and its supposed contents in this book he laughs away the rather fierce conception of hell that hsis been given us by danto in a re cent work on classical mythology only four great writers of hell are men tioned homer virgil dante and bangs professor bangs read the debate on whether shakespeare or bacon wrote hamlet the debute assumes a dig nity in its dialogue among the great mighties that raises it somewhat above the atmosphere of the pool room in which it takes place the conclu sion seems to be that shakospoaro was bsicon's stenographer and therefore got the plot from him at this point sir walter raleigh furnishes the as tounding bit of news that he wrote hamlet one gasps and sinks one might as well accuse o,ueen victoria of writing the decameron in the darwinian episode of the house boat on the styx we discover a baron writing a sonnet in monkey language the loss of noah s tail is discussed pro and eon perhaps they wore their hats on their tails ventures one of the speak ers snakes sire unattached tails suffer ing the penalty of adam and eve the chapter concludes the monograph a strenuous day at oyster bay a bit of racy journal ism of the 1890 s provoked much mirth in its hilarious exaggerations and clever satire it describes in minute sin imaginary day spent with that ex ponent of the strenuous life theodore roosevelt such superhuman accom plishments were performed as a forty mile canter before breakfast the last time mr bangs had ridden horseback it had been on professor bang's hobby horse chopping down a forest of trees stacking si field of hay rowing twenty miles down the sound to the mayflow er polishing and scrubbing the whole steamship all over several times and swimming the twenty miles back just for exercise at the next honors meeting on no vember 2 barnet nover will speak on the political situation women to swim wednesdays at buffalo turn verein margaret buck manager of swim ming in the w a a announces suc cess in procuring at reasonable rates a plunge for women splashers wednesday october 31 university girls will swim from 4 to , r > o'clock and each wednesday thereafter at the buf falo turn verein inc on the corner of high and ellicott sts the fee pay able october 31 will be 3.00 for a term extending to may 30 1920 twenty girls must register to fulfill contract requirements the situation near the grosvenor library is expected to be a boon to swimming since girls may take advantage of the turn verein restaurant and then spend the evening in study at the grosvenor failure of the city council to vote proper appropriations resulted in the loss of k b.'s privilege to use the pool at bennett high school when for sev eral years our swimmers had had every advantage dr ernest f slater is in nicaragua dr ernest f slater writes the aluniiii office that he is stationed with the united states marine brigade in nicaragua dr slater is a member of the pharmacy graduating class of 1898 determined bulls travel to flower city for grid clash improved line play expected to clinch game for locals manv enthusiasts to accom many enthusiasts to accom pany team tomorrow morning saturday the bulls trek to rochester to play the most important game of the season always in tho past there has been keen rivalry between the buffalo team and the flowor city aggregation and tomorrow s game should prove no exception in fact the greatly improved showing of the team this year tends to increase if possible the interest shown in this competition last week the bulls went down to defeat at clarkson only after a hard struggle and they succeeded in crossing the enemy's goal line an un accomplished feat during tho past two years carrick has been putting the players through stiff paces this week so as to smooth off tho rough spots and feels sure that the boys will bo in fine shape saturday a largo number of students are plan ning to journey to rochester to support tho team everything points to a win let's go i debate tryouts scheduled for november ist s tho university of buffalo debate 3 club is getting into full swing once more and will start off in earnest on november 1 at 8 p m in the music t room of the grosvenor library elcc , tion of officers will be the first item - so bo there promptly after tho elec ' tion the tryouts for the men's and women's teams will be held the speeches are to be extemporaneous no preparation is necessary but it is ad j vised for your own beuelit to be gen erally prepared on the following three ' topics 1 compulsory arbitration of inter national disputes 2 buume's law 3 capital punishment one of these will afterwards be more thoroughly discussed and in the niesui tirtie serve as the basis for selecting the fortunate candidates this applies to both men and women in view of the coming yesir si tenta tive program is offered so that new comers to the university as well as others may have some idea of the range and scope as well sis the hopes of the club thus far the first debates for the men s team will be on de cember 13 or 14 with fordham uni versity followed by a debate with i'ittsburg university february 2 and possibly with university of florida ( some timo in early march another trip such as the club had last spring , is again planned for this spring to in , elude debates with williams college | harvard possibly boston and tufts , miss clarice bparborg the manager ; of the girls team is making negotia tions with several colleges to obtain t debates including new york univer ( sity george washington trinity syra (. cuse and new jersey for women „ dean of pharmacy makes experiments in psychology dean gregory is prepared to submit a stupendous contribution to the field of psychology in his school of phar macy he has a unique method by which exemptions from final examina tions can be earned he submit this plan each year to the classes for ac ceptance or rejection invariably for the last eight or ten years all have enthusiastically accepted this proposi tion namely thai after subjects have been presented to the students in the classrooms they submit to unannounced written quizzes after a series of at least jive of these surprise tests all those who attain an average of eighty five per cent or above are exempted from the final examinations after observing for several years in the past dean gregory discovered that more exemptions were granted to the students who sat in the front of the room those whose back names ap pear in the early part of the alphabet this was confirmed year after year hence the important generalization individuals whose names begin with a li (.'., etc are much more intelli gent than those whoso names unfor tunately are morse s,it or whatnot like an oxporioneod psychologist i lean gregory supports his statement with remarkable examples for instance he says there is chancellor capen ad ministrative head of this university mr cook on the board of directors mr crass asurer mr black as sistant treasurer and myself if l oxj ted that many students and professors will heartily agree with dean gregory's psychology while lothers will detect many glaring fal ' lacies figure it out for yourselfl biological club to be organized by dr schadel there will be a meeting friday eve ning october 20th at 8 o'clock sharp in science hall 202 for tho purpose of organizing a biological club it is planned to have meetings once a month the exact date of which will bo de termined later short papers in bio logical researches which will be of great interest to students and faculty arc to be presented at these meetings on friday the program will includo a short business meeting and dr hall will read a paper on tho ecology of certain aquatic vertebrates with spe cial reference to tho parasites dr rolls the follicular hormones dr hicks the effects of x-ray on inher itance and dr humphrey changes in duced in the ova of amblystoma by the actiorr of the testicular hormones students faculty and all those inter ested in biology are cordially invited to attend last tryouts for girls glee club october 29 the prompt response to the call for new members for the girls glee club has made it possible to coinplcto try outs in record time the last day for try-outs will be monday october 29th at 4:30 p m at the university pres byterian church at this timo all freshmen and upper-classmen who are interested and also all former mem bers of the llee club who did not take part in the ralston concert will re ceive their try-outs u b serenaders offer prize for new name last week the v . b selenilders of fered si prize of live dollars lor a new name for the band to date there has been no response if you have any suggestions please leave them in the mail box of leslie tliillm.ui i.dmuiid hayes hall the bund would greatly appreciate it if maurice i.utwaih ami bernard simon would report to practice there are also positions open for players cf drums and tuba if you havo any talent join tin orchestra and got paid for it next practice will be held in the girls boom of edmund hayes ll tuesday evening at 7:00 continued on page 2 column 3 notice all reporters not handing in copy at the specified time or not notifying the news editor or copy editor will be dropped from the bee staff anita i lowell general news editor margaret l holmes copy editor