Bee, 1928-02-17

              the bee no 16 vol 8 university op buffalo february 17 1928 block b dinner in statler ballroom on february 6 dr alonzo stagg veteran coach to speak on athletics tin recent decision of the athletic council of the university to retain that much discussed sport called football lins given special impetus to the second annual block b dinner which will bo held in the hotel statler ballroom tuesday evening march 5 at 7 o'clock bight hundred guests including stu douts faculty and alumni will be at tho affair according to dr robert p bobbie who is general chairman of the iliimer the main attraction will be dr a alonzo stagg that veteran coach whose university of chicago eleven has pounded its opponents into the mud of defeat more than once dr stagg is expected to make somc suggestions which may do much to aid the situa tion in the university of buffalo rivalling coach stagg for attention will be the members of the football and basketball squads who will receive their letters and numerals at the din ner administrative officers of the uni versity coaches of tho teams — everyone except the co-eds will be there and oven they will attend in spirit at least there will also be good music and enter tainment tickets were placed in the hands of the committee by dr dobbie last week a thorough canvass is being made of every possible prospect to make this banquet at least the equal of the one hold last year tickets may be bought singly or in blocks tables of eight and ten will be reserved for fraternity and class delegations or private parties on the committee with dr dobbie arc bruno g schutkeker john l cjuin livan arnold g neumann hy bass art ungercr dr a b lemon dr edward f mimmuck dr nelson w ktrohin dr nelson g russell gordon a hague william g cook dr charles 11 keene william j blackburn dr william v irons edward g schaurath john e macnamara dr j galvin woodworth morey c bartholomew louis farris john w greenwood nnd henry adsit bull four fifths of pictures remain to be taken for iris cooperation needed to complete pictures by end of month this is the last call for pictures for the 1928 iris only one more week re mains in which to have them taken the end of the month is rapidly approach ing and only one-fifth of the pictures re completed the tris staff urges every senior fraternity club etc to appear at the studio as soon ns possi ble absolutely no pictures will be taken after the end of the month all individual pictures to appear in he iris must be taken by tho white s tudio the official photographers for the 1928 iris any group or person having a picture taken by another photographer must also pay the iris the gulur fee to insert the picture and rite-up in the year book the iris has bi cured one of the best photographers and expects all students to have their pietures taken by him a little more '" operation on the part of the student ly will be greatly appreciated annual junior promenade on tuesday is highlight in week of festivities famed orchestra to furnish the music in statler ballroom bison head society to tap members for next year the biggest junior prom in the his tory of the university and by far the leading social event of the school year will take place next tuesday evening february 21 in the ballroom of the statler hotel bison head the feature of the evening will be tho tapping of next year's members to bison head honorary society by the present members those men who have especially distinguished themselves in extra curricular activities will be singled out for honors the active members are now louis farris john mahoney arnold newman lynn wal lace donald purple earl mcgrath and charles vcigel the new men will bo announced next week the orchestra after considerable effort by the com mittee members the best orchestra in college circles has been secured they are known as tho hobart seneca ser cnadcrs and sometimes by the name of seneca serenaders a ten-piece band that has been in existence for five years during that time they have played on over 1075 occasions at the time of its organization the unit was known as byron warner and his seven aces five of this combina tion are still with the serenaders and the other five have been playing with the same unit for two years this is a big asset because an index of good music is the number of years that a band has been playing together foreign engagements the seneca serenaders have had some very important engagements in their history during the summer of 1925 they played at rehoboth beach dela ware a fashionable resort the next year found them in the eden cabaret in milan italy for three months this is one of tho strictly american places there incidently they were the only american orchestra that ever played over a week in italy the past sum mer they accepted a contract to play at the mercedes palast berlin ger many for three months this is nn exclusive placo catering to the nobility they have now returned for a busy season in their home country on the way back they played at the captains ' ball on board the leviathan since then they have played at important dances including some at syracuse and cornell the favors every girl attending the prom will receive a favor these are not the ordinary kind that has only a place in a memory box they arc extremely useful and unique something every young lady wants and can use there have been two hundred of them or dered get there early and be sure of your favor this is indeed an extensive program and promises the best junior promen ade ever held the orchestra is tho best obtainable the favors the best ever presented and the date february 21 the time of dancing is set as 10 p m to 3 a m the price very rea sonable for all this 5.00 mid year's casualty list contains 17 unfit students incompetence is major cause for lack of adjustment every college has always found it necessary to drop out some students who for one reason or another have not been able to come up to the stand ards of the institution formerly very large numbers were dropped out by nearly all colleges and universities and such dropping was considered one of the signs of high standards today the ten dency is to select more carefully and to keep a larger number although in some of the state univeristies where they are required to take every high school graduate that applies the propor tion of failures is still necessarily very high in some cases as high as forty per cent the policy of the university of buf falo is in line with the newer tendency as the figures for january 1928 show seventeen students were dropped from the college of arts and sciences eleven of whom were freshmen five sopho mores and one an uppcrclassman this means that in the freshman class only about three per cent of tho total were dropped a very small proportion indeed another one or two per cent had al ready withdrawn during the course of the semester on account of illness poor work and so forth of the total number dropped seven were women and ten men this is a larger proportion of women than ever before four of the group were people who had been through the special study course required of students coming from tho lower two-fifths of their high school classes three of them having been ad mitted on a reduced schedule of twelve or fourteen semester hours this seems to indicate that slow people even when there is less work for them to do can not manage it that it is a question of general incompetency however of the whole number of people dropped in only three or four cases docs the prin cipal reason seem to be incompetence in most cases indifference and lack of preparation seem to have been chief causes besides those dropped there are also a number of individuals who failed two courses which did not total the eight semester hours of failure for which a student is normally dropped these presons will be closely looked after and an effort made to set them on the right track the most striking feature about this question of dropping students for fail ure to do satisfactory work is the fact that it is almost impossible for such students to gain admission to any other college or university it is almost use less for a student who has been dropped from one institution to attempt to transfer to any other one sixth radio lecture given by dr raymond chambers dr raymond chambers professor of economics delivered the sixth of a series of radio lectures given by the faculty and prominent alumni of the university of buffalo his subject was ' ' the economic development of latin amoricn in recent years in a most interesting manner he described the complex situation in the latin america states and their relations with other countries of the world the develop ment of these countries hus been very rapid during the last twenty-five years and our relations with them are be coming more and more intimate lawrence kan ip — the univer sity of kansas was surprised on its re turn from the thanksgiving recess to find that all four of its football coaches had resigned they gave as their rea son their inability to get along with the director of athletics seniors to be guests of juniors at theater party wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock the seniors will attend the matinee at the court street players as guests of the junior class the play scheduled is what price glory one of the suc cesses of the year mr ralph elliott is in charge of ar rangements and he will distribute the tickets to both the seniors and juniors in due time junior frolic is tonight in edmund hayes auditorium junior tag is admission to enjoyable program tonight marks the beginning of a new custom the juniors will present in the new auditorium at 8:00 o'clock the junior frolic this is the first time anything like this has ever been included in junior week and the first time that the new auditorium has over been used for campus activities admission will require a junior tag sold yesterday today and at the door of the auditorium the program is one that everyone will enjoy heading tho list are the blue masquers who will produce the trysting place several entertaining and interesting individual acts will fill up the remainder of the program these will include vocal solos by margaret hanne piano selections by clarence obletz banjo solos by paul williams specialty dances by grace keller display of magic by b a vitalle eccentric dances by har old walker piano selections by edward herbst and many other pleasing num bers they will all be presented in a unique way this is a big bill and an evening's entertainment for only the price of your junior tag bring yourself bring your friends bring your girl bring your family support the junior class come and see the new auditorium and enjoy this new idea for junior week the price of the tags is only 35c conference for international relations here now miss reid former u b instructor one of speakers the conference of international re lations is being held thursday friday and saturday of this week at the ho tel statler under the auspices of the erie county league of women voters thursday afternoon there are two lectures one by mrs nancy schoon maker on war debts and world peace and the other on findings of the washington conference in tho evening the topic will be the church and world peace and will be dis cussed by three prominent authorities namely rabbi abba hillcl silver of cleveland rev edward j ferger edi tor of the catholic union and times and the rev samuel v v holmes d d of the westminster presbyterian church a prominent japanese publicist and lecturer dr yutaka minakuchi will speak on united states problems in the far east on friday afternoon and miss helen dwight reid instructor in government at our university will talk on arbitration miss reid has been studying in europe on a leave of absence from the university of buffalo the latin-american policies of the united states will bo discussed fri day evening by professor john t la tanc who is head of the history de partment nt john hopkins university and the author of several books on this subject dean julian park of the uni versity of buffalo and rabbi joseph l fink of temple bcth-zion will also talk on the latin-america question miss reid and miss helen olmstcad will talk on the school and interna tional understanding on saturday morning at 10:30 the foreign policy association will have their regular saturday luncheon at 12:40 o'clock and the discussion after edmund hayes hall to be officially dedicated feb 22 mid-year convocation scheduled for 1 1 a m in new aud the annual university day and mid year commencement of the university of buffalo will take place on wednes day morning february 22 at 11 o clock in the new auditorium of edmund hayes hall on the campus on north main street besides the conferring of degrees the special feature of the pro gram will bo the formal dedication of the beautiful new building in which the convocation is to be held the pro gram will be as follows 1 music 2 invocation frederick lent ph d d d president of elmira college 3 america 4 introductory remarks chancellor capen 5 selection — now let every tongue rejoice _ - bach men's glee club 6 dedication of edmund hayes hall walter piatt cooke president of the council of u of b 7 rosponso chancellor capen 8 general — edmund hayes rev sam holmes d d 9 conferring of degrees 10 alma mater 11 benediction frederick lent this year a larger number of degrees will bo conferred at the mid-year com mencement than ever before in tho his tory of the university the list of candidates for degrees on february 22 1928 follows bachelor of science in education — edna julia leidt alice mckay isabel mayo dorothy summey gerald ar thur wilber bachelor of science — andrew james charters charles orlando miseren tinc bachelor of arts — eda benedict morey graduate in pharmacy — abraham jacob finn beatrice beal helfrey arlton louis huff bachelor of science in business admin istration — theresa koarns a record attendance of the student body is expected at this the annual university day convocation this year fraught with such special significance do not forget annual banquet set for monday at town club monday evening february 20 the junior class will gather about the ban quet table in the ballroom of the town club delaware avenue at 6:30 o'clock for their annua dinner and get-to gether a splendid meal has been arranged for by grace keller chairman of the banquet committee the seating ar rangement nnd special decorations will delight the class mr kalvert mellen of lafayette high school has been secured as speaker deans julian purk and lillias macdonald have been invited to be guests of the juniors special enter tainment will be provided by members of the junior class the tickets are 1.50 all thoso at tending will kindly get their s tomor row at the latest grace keller alice o'laughiin and walter stroman have them please see that these people get the names of all those attending continued on page 5 notice all reporters and contributors jj jj to the bee put copy in space jj jj labeled the bee ln the faculty jj jj mail boxes in the registrar's of jj ::. : ::: jj flee in edmund hayes hall i:m:hh::nhh:n : i::i:::::::::::::::::::^::n:::::::ii notice ::: all juniors attending the ban jj tuet monday please get your jj tickets or hand in your name to jj one of the following not later jj than tomorrow grace keller j alice o'laughlin walter stro jj man