Bee, 1930-05-09

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly no 26 vol 10 university of buffalo may 9 1930 university over the top in in joint charities campaign tremendous energy shown by workers in reaching goal to all members of the university joint charities team the university this year as it has in the past successfully raised its i|uota in the joint charities campaign which closed tuesday evening may i;th the university contributed i12.!)5 more than it was expected to raise this was done in spite of the fact that we needed 1081 at the mon day luncheon in order to put us over the top such accomplishment shows the tremendous energy put forth by every worker and the liberal response by all members of the university during the lastt wenty-four hours of the campaign kvery school in the university at tained its quota i wish to express my deep appre ciation to everyone who contributed and worked for the success of the campaign at the banquet mr john v maloney chief of our division paid a special tribute to the splendid way the university responded it is impossible to mention here all the members of the university who so splendidly contributed their time and energy in making the campaign a success especially thanks should go to chancellor samuel capen profes sor thurber raymond chambers and shaw livermore to deans e h koch large turnout for 0 a t trophy in tennis tournament the tennis season started off with i hang last wednesday in the beau tifully conditioned school courts the courts were full of eagerly contending the turnout promises great things for the future of tennis in the uni versity the desire to have their names inscribed on the 0 a t tennis trophy has inspired the tennis players of the university to come out in full the tournament is played on mon days wednesdays and fridays be tween 3:30 and 5:30 many contes tants are entered from the profes sional schools the pairings are listed on the bul letin board and anyone desiring further information should see sam krenstoft bob whissel or professor will pharmaceutical world schedules numerous events there are many important events scheduled for this month in the phar maceutical world the american pharmaceutical asso ciation the oldest professional organ ization of pharmacists is meeting this week in baltimore the university of buffalo is well represented at this in teresting gathering by dean gregory dr lemon dr hewitt dr monell and miss swisher next week the convention of the u s p will meet in washington d c this convention meets every ten years in the month of may it is a matter of pride and interest to the faculty and students of the university of buffalo that dean greg ory will this year attend his fifth u s p decennial convention he has been made a life member of the u s p an honor granted only to those who have rendered thirty-seven years of service constitution of u b alumni ass'n to be amended owing to the fact that the alumni association now holds its annual meeting in june instead of in febru ary as formerly the trustees of the general alumni association request the following amendment to the con stitution of the university of buffalo athletic association this amendment is proposed by the athletic council namely change article iii section 2 sub stituting the words general alumni association for the words federated alumni and substituting the word june for the word february so that the section may read four members of the athletic council residents of the city of buffalo shall be elected by the general alumni association of the university one shall be elected at the annual meeting of the general alumni association in june of each year and each shall serve for a term i of four years this amendment is to be voted on on the same ballot as that used for the election of officers of the student athletic association dr perry talks on theatre of today at honors meeting interfraternity t council dance to be held tonight tonight at kauffman's spanish tavern the interfraternity council holds its second annual cabaret dance those who were fortunate enough to attend last year's orgy will hold it as one of the high spots of the year music will be brought out by those invincible colored musicians famous for their syncopation supper included in the nominal charge of two seventy-five per couple will be served at midnight arrange ments are in charge of howard w right assisted by dexter levy and sidney handford make it a point to come to genesee street and union road tonight for the best evening of the year there was a good attendance at the bi-monthly honors meeting last friday to hear dr perry's instruct ing paper on the theater of today dr perry pointed out the fact that theaters are centered in new york city and that the disappearance of the road is threatened economic con ditions and the competition of the movies are responsible for this condi tion the movies he said are at best a mechanical substitute and are cheap in more ways than one they make few demands on the audience we can feel little sympathy for sha dows on a screen even if it is a silver screen dr perry spoke of the characteris tics of different historical forms and of five outstanding modern play wrights the greek play was given in the open air and a religious at mosphere was prevalent the eliza bethans had an unequalled buoyancy on their platform stage the modern plays go back to ibsen who expressed dissatisfaction v ith the prevailing or der but try as we may there is no possibility of absolute realism on the stage tchechhov's sea gull expresses what we have come to consider the pre-war russian sense of futility but his cherry orchard though embody chemistry professor dr louis e wise to offer advanced chemistry courses in the field of chemistry a new member of the staff dr louis e wise will offer an advanced course the chemistry of cellulose and related compounds dr wise is professor of forest chemistry in new york state college of forestry at syracuse he received his doctor's degree in chem istry from columbia university in 1911 since then he has been teaching and doing research work as a joint author professor wise has published the american chemical society mono graph chemistry of wood assistant professor post will also give an advanced course research in the chemistry of ethylene derivatives other courses are inorganic and or ganic chemistry to be given by asso siate professor brown and assistant professor hewitt further work in research chemistry will be conducted by assistant professors hewitt and post philosophy club elects officers at final meeting philosophy club ended l!»29-30 sea son with a program slightly different from the customary frolics mr mor rison defending idealism pointed out the fact that it depends on the theory that objects exist only in relation to a knower he also traced idealism through plato spinoza hobbes dis cartes lochs and berkeley the de fender of realism mr kichelson pointed out the fact that one cannot prove that an object ceases to exist when one no longer sees it one merely puts himself in a position to know no more about it election of officers followed the meeting with these results president — henry lytle vice-president — a marx ricciuti secretary-treasurer — clara mar quardt bison head elects officers for next year's activities at the last meeting of the year bison head elected officers for the coming year captain earle ridall of the football team will be president fred metzger of the dental school will be vice-president waring shaw was chosen treasurer and walter behrens will act as secretary a new position that of historian was cre ated kenneth eckhert was chosen to fill this position university summer session shows very marked advance number of courses offered this year greater than ever the value of the university of buf falo summer sessions is shown by the unusual advances made in the number of students attending and the in creased curricular offerings the reg istration of the six weeks session on campus in 1927 was 454 this has in creased to 591 in 1928 and 635 in 1929 the total registration which includes the six weeks session the allegany school of natural history the first quarter of the dental school and how to study course has in creased from 528 in 1927 to 709 in 1928 and 808 in 1929 the number of courses offered has increased from 91 in 1927 to 123 in 1928 and 153 in 1929 the 1930 sum mer session is offering 157 different courses along with this increase has been a growth in the faculty staff who in part determine the success of the college statistics show that last year stu dents came to our summer session from 24 different states and 113 of them represented 60 different colleges these figures give certain proof that the summer session has been devel oped to meet the growing need for summer instruction in various lines of education math club enjoys excellent program at last meeting members of the math club profited by a worthwhile program at a meeting tuesday may 6 in the women's lounge an historical sketch was read by fern ryder her topic fea tured the development of mathematics in america assistant professor harrington dis cussed the planning of schedule's for math majors including background and elective courses he passed out mimeographed sheets of a suggested four year curriculum which should prove very helpful to both new and present students these can be ob tained in mr harrington's office e h h 240 he also discussed fields of work in mathematics other than teaching and how to prepare for them election of officers has been de ferred until the first meeting of next year when the new officers will imme diately assume their duties medical biology club will meet at alumni hall the biology club of the university of buffalo meets friday may 9 in alumni hall of the medical school starting at eight o'clock the following program has been prepared hunting mummies in peru — dr herbert v williams professor of pathology university of buffalo a quantitative consideration of some factors concerned in plant growth in the sea dr richard sei well curator of invertebrates buffalo museum of science all students are most cordially in vited to attend last archaeology lecture thursday the department of classics will give the seventh and last of its talks on archaeology and ancient art next thursday may 15th at four o'clock in the women's lounge the subject this time will be ancient rome and pompeii a hundred lantern slides will be shown to illustrate the ruins as they are today and the works of art that have been taken to the mu seums all who are interested are invited to the lecture at four and to tea at five o'rlork t club elects officers for year at last meeting election of the officers of the y club for 1930-31 took place tuesday april 22 we feel it worthy of men tion that these men were elected solely because of what they have ac complished within this organization itself president — warren geib vice-president — donald gay treasurer — charles baecher law school corresponding secretary — james mark recording secretary — henry des mon preceding the elections we heard a short address with a few most in teresting cases by mr clark of the child welfare bureau as one of the principals of the joint charities drive the big treat of the evening how ever was embodied in a short talk by professor edward schauroth of the classics department he spoke of his trip to egypt a few years ago and his dealings with the arabs business arts and pharmacy schools to hold track meet a triangular track meet will be held thursday may 15 on the polo field to decide the superiority of the busi ness administration arts and science or pharmacy schools mr neil has arranged for a quarter mile track to be laid out jumping and vaulting pits are already available on the field competition will be held in the same events as the moving-up day meet with the addition of three special events open to students who do not participate in the regular events these events are 1,000-yard relay — ten men each running 100 yards continuation standing broad jump — ten men total distance deciding winning team three-legged race — 50 yards program of events 3:40 p.m 100 yard dash 3:40 p m shot put 16 pounds 3:50 p m one-half mile run 4 00 p m 120-yard high hurdles i 4:10 p.m 440-yard run 4 20 p m — spectators 1,000-yard 4 20 p m discus throw 4:30 p.m 220-yard dash 4:40 p m 120-yard low hurdles 4 50 — spectators three-legged race 5:00 p.m mile run 5:00 p.m — running broad jump 5:10 p m — spectators continuation standing broad jump 5:20 p m one-half mile relay janet buchwald elected editor of bison for 1931 staff elections for the bison monthly humorous publication were held last thursday at the grosvenor library the results were as follows editor — janet buchwald business manager — henry desmon literary editor — margaret kocsis art editor — mary josselyn circulation manager — dorothy sparberg assistant business manager — grayce kennedy advertising manager — carl arbes man continued on page 3 col 1 continued on page 2 col 4 student council elections today the honors group the last meeting of the year will be held on friday may 9 at 1:15 p m in room 292 hayes hall dr william a martin literary editor of the iiuftalo kvcniim news will speak on the new humanism signed richard w boynton chairman all members of the football spring training squad who on the last day of practice did not hand in a card with his summer address must mail it at once to j l lee 1509 liberty bank building these addresses are necessary in order to send invi tations for fall practice interfraternity dance tonight there will be spring registra tion for all students in the school of business administra tion beginning may 12 ah reg istrations must be completed by friday may 16 blanks and instructions for registering should be secured from the school of business ad ministration office