Bee, 1930-04-04

              the bee vol 10 university of buffalo april 4 1930 no 22 library conditions indicated in recent survey by observer a recent investigation conducted over two days tuesday and wednes day sheds considerable light upon the use of reserve books in the library in the morning hours before 9 a m and late afternoon after 4:30 p m on tuesday morning at 8:15 there were six people in the library all studying their own books from 8:15 to 8:30 seven people entered the library these people returned re served books and the rest studied their own books from 8:30 to 8:45 twenty-six people entered the library one of whom entered a reserve book and two drew reserve books and studied the rest used their own hooks from 8:45 to 9:00 twenty people entered the library two re turned reserve books one of which drew out the same book and studied three students drew books and the rest studied their own in other words only six or eight reserve books were used over mon day night three of these were re turned before 8:30 and inasmuch as the students left immediately they probably had an early class only nine reserved books were used by the same 69 students who entered the library obviously the reserved books are neither used over night because of existing regulations nor are they in demand early in the morning tuesday night between 4:45 and j p m only seven reserved books were studied at 5:30 when the librarian began to let books out there were only seventeen people in the library from then until six o'clock nine peo ple took out thirteen books evidently the only reason these people were waiting was to get a reserve book two of these eight people entered the library with coats and hats on they had either returned or else had been waiting for the time to take books out on wednesday morning from 8:15 to 8:30 thirteen people entered the library five of them returned books and left immediately the other eight studied their own books from 8:30 to 8:45 thirty-two people en tered the library two returned books and left two drew reserve books and studied the rest studied their own books from 8:45 to 9 a m seventeen people entered the library six drew reserve books and studied three of these came just before nine two returned reserve books one of whom left while the other studied thus on wednesday up until nine o'clock only eight reserve books were used in the library although sixty two people entered the library during this time so on wednesday as well as on tuesday there was no demand for reserve books before nine and the rules had indirectly prevented many from being taken out the night be fore wednesday night from 4:30 to 5:30 there was no great demand for re serve books at 5:30 there were only ton people in the library only four reserve books were taken out this proves again that students are unable to stay late enough at night to take out books under the present rules — observer final selections for ubessa follies to be made tonight the final selection of acts for the übessa follies will be made tonight by roswell p rosengren director the rehearsals are held on the 18th floor of the hotel statler there are several openings in the singing chorus for both men and women especially women if you are interested in try ing out for the chorus take a sneak down to the statler tonight and show your stuff the übessa follies is a show in a night club setting patrons sit around tables and drink while the various acts are being given in the center of the dance floor the tax for all this en tertainment is only a dollar and a half women's club holds enjoyable meeting the women's club enjoyed one of its most delightful meetings at noon wednesday april 2 in the lounge the hostess edith arnold served a delicious luncheon while lunching the large gathering of girls was en tertained by the freshmen norma thordon first rendered in masterly style the berceuse from jocelyn by godart irma wagner's charming voice and expression made her two vocal numbers of tho brownies and the cuckoo clock a decided pleas ure for her audience the butter fly by grieg was a brilliant display of charlotte houck's ability at the 1930 football season starts off with a bang 70 men report practice held at troop i armory football for 1930 started off with a bang seventy-five men reported for the initial practice and hopes for a v ery successful season are brilliant many of the aspirants weigh between iso and 210 pounds and this weight will add much to the line which was he weak point in the team last sea son uniforms were given out friday ; nd practice was held in the gym this day and the one following biffy lee has secured the troop i armory for practice for the past week and until the ground is soft e ugh to work out on no definite plans have been made but men are being shifted around so as to fill the most advantageous posi tions and the teams will probably be gin to be organized either the com ing week or the week after senior class the senior class will hold an im portant business meeting today at 12:30 in the auditorium of edmund hayes hall for the purpose of dis cussing the following matters 1 the question of caps and gowns 2 senior dues 3 graduation booklets 40 and 45 cents each the senior announcement commit tee consisting of elizabeth unger helen tobey chris scaltsas sherman butler is gathering information on commencement invitations autocracy an editorial for the past few weeks the bee has printed articles pertaining to the edmund hayes library it has been pointed out that conditions in the library are far from ideal rules which were made several years ago have become ineffective and it is time to change them to meet the present con ditions it was suggested that the library would be of more use to the students and really that is what it is for if the reserve books were let out at 4:30 p m and did not have to be returned until 9 a m it was also suggested that fines in the library were excessive and that the present almost complete lack of text books in the library often makes it hard for the students ****** that student opinion is strongly behind the bee has been amply shown by the large number of letters the editors have received complaining of present conditions several of these letters have been printed others have been withheld because of their vindictive nature the fact however that so many have been written indicates a keen dissatisfaction with existing conditions ****** several faculty members have cooperated with the students to date by requesting that their books be let out early we understand that others intend to follow this policy ****** what has been the result of this concurrent action of students and faculty ****** the librarian has refused to change the rules she has made no effort to prove the worth of her present policy the only response has been an increase in the number of petty persecutions inflicted upon students using the library and the inauguration of a system of search at the door of the library which reminds one of nothing so much as the customs inspection on the canadian border is this all the consideration the desires of the students are to receive ****** obviously the trouble is more basic than just these few foolish rules to which the students have objected we understand there is a faculty com mittee headed by a very efficient and capable librarian which supposedly is interested in the management in the library might we suggest that this committee investigate the present situation and make efforts to im prove it kenneth hines to sing wednesday in convocation at convocation april 9 we are to have the pleasure of listening once again to the rich lenor voice of ken neth hines we are all familiar with and proud of our well-known local singer it will be remembered that mr hines was the winner of the northeastern district atwater kent audition in 1928 and the runner-up in the final national contest of the same year at present kenneth hines is tenor soloist at the first presbyterian church on the circle and one of the announcers of the buffalo broadcast ing corporation he is very popular in all musical circles and has an un usual appeal to young people his previous visits at the university have been received with much accolade campus calendar o'..a^i^v,|,^j^..^,i < a a a > .^ i"m">ai t ai"'ai j am*o friday april 4 — 4:00 p m arts faculty meeting women's lounge men's and women's glee club con cert — lockport sunday april 6 — 3:30 — chess club — gerrans building monday april 7 — sorority and fraternity night tuesday april 8 — 6:15 p.m u b y club—cen tral y m c a 7:30 p.m men's glee club prac tice — central y m c a wednesday april 9 — 7:30 p.m bee staff meeting elec tions — grosvenor library 8:00 p.m philosophy club—wom en's lounge 8:00 p.m — iris meeting — russell printing co thursday april 10 — 7:00 p m bios club — women's lounge friday april 11 — blue masquers three-act play — elks ballroom a correction students in the college of arts and sciences and in the school of business administra tion who expect their degrees in february or june 1931 rather than in june 1930 are re quested to make an appointment in the office of the university registrar to see miss deters within the next ten days so that a memorandum of the remain ing requirements for the degree may be issued to each student arthur thomson speaks on different kinds of evolution fenton foundation sponsors lecture on friday april 11th at 8:15 in the auditorium of the grosvenor library another of the very interest ing lectures of the fenton foundation will be delivered by mr j arthur thomson l.l d he will speak on the different kinds of evolution a subject which is of interest to everybody mr thomson comes here from the university of aberdeen where he is the regius professor of natural his tory he is very well known as the editor of the outline of science and as the writer of many books of both popular and scientific appeal some of his best works are the system of animate nature the control of life what is man and the gospel of evolution the fenton foundation has been instrumental in bringing many noted scholars and lecturers to buffalo and mr thomas will still further prove its benefit to the community medals with music feature of past student gathering the kampus kollegians u b.'s ten piece orchestra under the direction of israel lederman were the feature at traction at convocation wednesday april 2 strains of the latest song hits floating through the corridors of edmund hayes hall lured the greater majority of the serious-minded stu dents to the assembly in addition to the regulation musi cal selections the kollegians dis played talent in the several specialty numbers which they offered the clever take-off on my fate is in your hands was especially applauded with great gusto by those present chancellor capen bestowed medals upon those men who were successful in the boxing and wrestling matches staged during the past few weeks in the former event thirty-four partici pated and in the latter thirty the basketball trophy awarded to the team victorious in the interschool contest was presented to the college of arts and sciences kenneth eckhert to address next bios club meeting thursday the tenth the bios club will offer a rich program of biologi cal interest to begin at 8 o'clock sharp in the women's lounge the apparent desirability of student par ticipation in the meeting has stimu lated the writing of three more original papers which will be read at this pre-easter assemblage mary mckay one of the speakers has chosen a most familiar topic noses the name of which alone registers no end of interest the gathering will next he addressed by kenneth eckhert who will speak on the relation of the behavior of ver terbrates to heredity and environ ment the third of this series of papers will be that of helen van nat ter on the theories of bird migra tions this array of subjects should attract the attention and interest of all students the bios club wishes to announce that on tuesday april 15 the club will hold an easter dinner-dance at the mandarin everyone is invited to banquet with them further details will appear next week dean gregory to address u of b club tuesday dr gregory dean of the school of pharmacy always a welcome guest at university functions will address the u b men's club on the evening of april bth at the central y m c a 6:15 to 7:30 dean gregory's subject will be six weeks in florida interesting ma terial will undoubtedly be presented inasmuch as the speaker has recently returned from a trip to florida any one interested is welcome to attend price 35c committee forms plans for moving up day exercises the following men and women shall comprise the group that will formu late plans for moving-up day i lederman m richelson j fiera musca w shaw j fraser w stan ley v stanfield j abeles f dress ier a 1 goldberg r kranitz l schiag j hopkins c jones r peters s meltzer k eckhert f stevens d husband dr kumro dr hewitt dr lemon these men will report to f-202 on march 7 at 5 o'clock in order to dis cuss plans math club program ranges from gay to grave subjects some thirty-five students profes sors and friends attended one of the best math club meetings of the year held april 1 in the women's lounge miss marguerite habicht gave the second in the series of historical read ings on mathematics and outstanding mathematicians her topic was eu clid and his familiar elements of geometry it might seem unusual that mathe maticians whose thoughts are consid ered to be logical and concrete could enjoy anything as imaginative as a fairy tale but miss ruth tomlin son proved that they can for the au dience was tense and alert as she told how the lowly minstrel rescued the princess from the wicked magicians the mathematical interest lay in the illustrations of this story which were tangram pictures pasted on large cards these mathematical toys tan grams date back to ancient china and consist of seven pieces cut from a square of heavy paper which can be formed into interesting figures each of the audience was given a tan gram with which he can construct pictures in his leisure time as miss florence mcmath the president stated the program turned from gay to grave with mr archie grant's talk on the slide rule he showed the development of the mod ern rule from simple addition and sub traction scales and then pointed out its relation to logarithmic scales multiplication division and loga rithms were simplified by the use of the slide rule showing its practical value a social hour followed with re freshments at the next meeting april 15 further uses of the slide rule will be given as a part of an interesting pro gram together with the usual enticing food mr tunga from ceylon speaks to bean eaters j vijaya tunga a graduate of mahinda college of the island of cey lon spoke before the u b men's club at the weekly dinner at the y mr tunga is a noted lecturer and writer who came to the united states from india for the purpose of lec turing with a marvelous command of english vocabulary j vijaya tunga outlined the history of india from the time the english came into india until the present time follow - ing the speech a round-table discus sion followed continued on page 5 column 5 subscribe to the bee see romantic age