Bee, 1927-03-11

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 7 university of buffalo march 11 1927 no 21 women's debate team repeats win over cornell at ithaca buffalo contends negative awarded 2-1 decision cornell upholds affirmative that u s cancel war debt the women's debate team successful ly met for the third time the cornell iniverslty women on friday evening march 4 at ithaca the question de buted was besolved that the united stutcs should cancel the debts owed her by the allies cornell upheld the affirmative and was represented by the misses josephine mills ida blink on harriett lange and norms ed wards alternate while the buffalo team defending the negative was repre sented by the misss jant macdonnld laura o'day clarice sparberg and ethel hose alternate the affirmative contended that the united states should cancel her war debts because first it is a matter of honor and justice to do so second it is wise from a financial point of view and third it is economically and indus trially desirable the negative argued that the united states is morally justified in collecting her debts that to do so will benefit both europe and america and that eu rope is financially able to pay miss clarice sparberg and miss har riett lange presented the rebuttal speeches mr b a mackay acted as chnir mnn the judges mrs frank thilly rev father hough ton and mr allan h treman awarded a 2 to i decision in favor of buffalo an audience de cision taken after the judges was also favorable to the negative miss anna hrvol manager accom panied the teams to ithaca pan-hellenic nite unfolds footlight talent among girls the sorority girls of the arts col lege proved their abilities as actresses ilancora anil comediennes last monday night in the girls room in foster hall when each of the nine sororities pre ranted a stunt the event was known as pan-hellenic stunt night to pi kappa phi was awarded the prize sec ond and third honors going to phi sig ma sigma and phi psi mrs epstein mrs pound and mrs trade acted as judges sigma delta tau presented the first stunt art landry's band it was a elever impersonation of a certain well known orchestra alpha c;.-i m rim delta next offered the maxions of noah by the rev erend gossip pi kappa phi presented a pavlowa gavotte the stately old-fashioned dance was performed by eight maidens n gay colored napoleonic costumes zeta tau next gave the male co quette and madame how can she sigma kappa followed with an al phabet tragedy in which all the con versation was spelled this required my lose attention but proved delight fully amusing i'lii sigma sigma next presented the evolution of the dance illustrating its history from interpretive dancing down through the ages to 1950 beta phi next gave the burglar phi psi presented reminiscences of iti actresses a life which featured in pretations of old songs the final stunt was given by thcta x an amusing one word romance after the stunts light refreshments *'■» erved buffalo to receive impartial report on soviet regime dr jerome davis expert on russian economic conditions dr jerome drtvis sociologist and ed ucator who occupies the chair of prac tical philanthropy at yale divinity school will speak on russia today at the community vesper service of the first presbyterian church sunday afternoon at !> o'clock dr davis spent last summer traveling in russia with a group making an impartial fact-finding study of actual conditions tt was not a personally conducted delegation shown only the most favorable things by government interpreters during 1915 he served as secretary to dr grcnfel of labrador and in 1910 went to russia as a v m c worker remain ing there in war work until 1918 he has seen russia under three regimes that of the czar the kerensky govern ment and the soviets during the over throw of the kerensky government he served as a sanitary worker in mos cow passing freely from one side to the other he came into personal con tact with kerensky lenin trotzky general brusiloff and catherine bresh kovskaya and other leaders in the three governments dr davis has made a study of the russian immigrants in their american environments and has published a book on the subject has made an investigation of the west vir ginia coal fields for a report to the united states coal commission and has served on several important national commissions orators to oppose pittsburg and queen's university the it b men's debate team will find itself in pittsburgh friday march 11 our team is entering this debate with the full intent of adding another victory to buffalo's many honors the buffalo team upholds the affirmative side of the question resolved that the united states should cancel the allied war debts after the debate an open forum will be held in which the captain of each team represents his school at a meeting of the debate club held tuesday march 8 in townsend hall mr john t horton appointed the fol lowing men to take part in the debate with queen's university john cum mings a hubert nagel a and leonard pinkelstein l the subject of the debate is resolved that the west ern civilization is tending toward de say the university of buffalo will uphold the affirmative side of the de bate which is to be held at queen's university kingston ontario march 18th muse and masque holds final oratorical contest try-outs for the muse and maaqun oratorical contest will be held on fri day april 1 any regular student man or woman is eligible for thie contest the names of nil contestants must be in the hands of kcott brent by tuesday march 28 the final contest will be held on april 8 plans are being made to have a musical program after the speeches suitable prizes will be offered to the winner and to the runner-up in the liniil contest the judges will be announced in the near future it is expected that they will be men who are prominent in the city of buffalo men's glee club's second concert for city hospital aud the men's ilee club will give it second concert in the city hospital auditorium friday evening march 11 at 8:15 two dozen songsters will join in a program of vocal music for the benefit of patients and nurses at the hospital it is announced i a b lcniiin faculty manager returned monday from m conferei with the officers of tin syracuse alum ni association they me in readiness to sponsor a concert there as part of tin club's tour he said the trip will be made dining the week of april 24 meanwhile both the men's anil wom en's glee clubs ave working on numbers for the home concert which is less than two months away director lay mark ward prophesies a better concert than has ever been given by the local or ganizations before women voters launch huge poster contest a state-wide poster contest is an nounced by the new york league of women voters a prize of 100 is of fered for a design that shall express the aims of the l w v and be suit able for advertising meetings through out the state designs must be received by may loth at 5017 grand central terminal building new york city the design must be planned to print from not more than three plates and should be adapted for printing in tw sizes — 12x9 and 32x24 one-sixth of its space should be left blank for local no tice this being within the design not margin the title new york league of women voters must be on the de sign in legible lettering any information in regard to the contest can be secured through the lo cal league office hurst building buf falo basketball men guests at frosh spring hop the frosh spring hop will be hold on friday march 25 at townsend hull the varsity basketball squad will be honorary guests for the evening miss stanlield miss brownell and mr hoolo compose the reception committee the floor committee consists of fraser ret tor pierce and priore students from all schools of the uni versity are invited dancing 10 to 1 the admission is 1 a couple or 75c stag the clef dwellers will furnish the music campus calendar friday mnrch 11 — 1:1 ]». m w.a.a basketball prac tice kntury gym 4-00 p m — junior honors mooting foster hall sot 8:00 p.m — men's debate pittsburg vs university of buffalo pitts burg monday march 14 1:18 p.m — w.a.a basketball prac tice rotary gym 4:00 p.m — women's glee club prac tice university presbyterian church sororities and fraternities night tuesday march 10 — 11:30 a.m — student union meeting foster hall 110 7:30 p.m — men's glee club practice central y.m.c.a wednesday march 10 — 3:00 p m w.a.a basketball tourn ament rotary gym 4:00 p m — political science club meeting east hall 306 4:30 p m — w.a.a swimming ben net high school 8:00 p.m — lecture by dr arthur has ; objective and humane phy sicss grosvenor library auditor ium thursday march 17 — 8:00 p m — muse and maaque meet ing grosvenor library music room athletes to be honored at annual block b banquet both varsity and freshmen squads to receive award students given opportunity to participate in celebration arrangements have already boon completed for the first annual block b banquet to be held at the buf falo consistory in honor of the uni versity of ruffalo football and basket ball squails both varsity ami freshman men will be guests at this big affair the time has been set for friday evening march 18 at 7 o'clock dr robert p dobbie is general chairman in charge of arrangements dean marsh will be toastmaster this is the first opportunity ever given the students faculty and alumni to participate in a real public celebra tion and honoring of our athletes it is a real start toward bigger and bet ter athletics at the university of buf falo just how much the students faculty and alumni are interested in backing such an affair and boosting u b athletics will be measured by the support that is given by each and every one being present on friday evening march ih at the buffalo consistory this undertaking has already re clined the backing of several of the classes fraternities and organizations throughout the university beta pi kho has already invited as its guests the captains of football and basketball of the high schools of buffalo reserva tions may be secured from dr nelson strohm 250 delaware avenue tuppcr li r 7 and any class or organization wishing to have a table reserved should dean alden tells u b club of the g e more relics a man's problem to be topic discussed at weekly meeting at the regular meeting of the i t . b club dean alden of the law school spoke on the g e more relics he s:iid hint passed by hundreds of peo ple daily and probably unnoticed by the great majority of them there stands in buffalo a relic that has a history both romantic and sordid that is full of human interest it is an old ironbound gate that was originally part of the newgate prison in london whose hisotry extended over a thous and years at the time when the new gate prison wns demolished in 1903 it was one of the oldest landmarks in london when this was going on mr more was in london and at an auction held there purchased the gates and other relics in 1914 one of the gates was put in the small passageway which separates the g e more building at 11 west eagle street from the neighbor ing building win martin again spoke about the series of five meetings held on five con secutive thursdays beginning next thursday at fl:l they will be han dled by dr atwell and dr kilpatrick the talks will be on the question a man's problem jointly with these discussions roswell rosengren will give a series of lectures on religion and science literary contest of muse and masque now in full swing the literary contest for the muse and masque magazine is now in full swing and essays poems short stories and plays will soon be forthcoming from the magic pens or rather typewriter keys of the gifted members of the student body the range of their abilities is great as is also the assortment of the prizes which are being offered we have an announcement to make mr francis h bangs has very gener ously increased the poetry prize that is being offered by dr clarence h thur bor to ten dollars instead of five as yet very little material has been received by catherine hawkins march 15 is the last day for material but why wait until the last minutef get tn work now — immediately and get your material in soon tin prizes that have been offered are critical essay on any living writer — ten dollars scientific essay — ten dollars one-act play ten dollars short story — ten dollars poem — ten dollars women's club holds election of officers the women's club held its election of officers for 11)27-28 at their last meeting march 2 in the girls boom foster hall the results of the elec tion are as follows president helen kirtlaud vice president alice dakin secretary margaret buck treasurer selma dauschcr dean l.ilhas macdonald was present at the meeting and requested that the old cabinet and the new cabinet meet with her in her office wednesday noon march 9 before the election elizabeth slater gave a report of the conference of the league uf women voters which she attended in november it was a three day conference and surely was most in teresting modern art subject mr hekking's talk to the honors group at the lust meeting of the senior honors group held fit the albright art gallery mr hekking addressed the group on the subject of modern art the international exhibition now at the art gallery served to illustrate his rt 1 marks mr hekking briefly traced tho his tory of art emphasizing the fact that modern art is not entirely different from any art that went before as is commonly thought it is not a complete break with no continuity or coherence but rather a gradual development from one period to another all art has been influenced by piety religion or some other state of mind for a long period all paintings were of the holy family and pictured scenes of adoration and reverenco later certain daring stu dents introduced the idea of greek mythology and so painted entirely dif ferent subjects at the cost of much per secution this is simply an evidence of the tendency of all artists to seek sonic new theme or method after one has been exhausted interest in modern art really began in this country with an exhibition held in new york before the war at the time it drew much criticism and ridi cule but dealers soon began to realize the real worth of this new movement and from a financial standpoint at least it was successful the difficulties of understanding mod lern art were pointed out by mr hek king too much attention should not be paid to the individual painting use block b dinner committee notice don't forget the meet jj ing of the block b " din jj ner commtttbe satur jj day march 12th at 1 jj p m at the alumni club jj a k:aaacaa ii student union meeting tuesday mabch 15 i'osteb hall boom 110 11:30 everybody out