Bee, 1926-10-29

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly no 6 university of buffalo october 29 1926 vol 7 honors committee submits brief program for year concentration in one field main object of group tutorial system to be feature of new arrangement in order to insure the most perfect coo-peration possible with nil depart nn'iits of the college the committee on honors submits the following brief re port of its program for the college yesi objects of the honor system a the general plan of honors work alls for a course of study which might in termed junior graduate school work b the special objects aimed at by the system are as follows 1 to give the student not only a sound liberal training but to allow him to pursue and master some one lino of work in which he is particularly interested with greater freedom than is usually granted under the prevailing system of majors and minors employed by most univer sities 2 to provide for those students who plan to continue study in grad uate schools that they shall be excel lently prepared to enter this work for the reasons 1 that they shall have had some training in research methods 2 that they shall have had the exper ience of doing independent work as provided for by tutorial instruction and will therefore be perfectly at home in such a graduate school 3 to stimulate the student's intel lectual curiobity by a consideration of subjects of general intellectual and hu man interest which lie distinctly out side the field of his particular interest the committee thinks it advisable to call attention to two possible dangers which may arise and which should at all costs be avoided a that the students intensi study of one subject may lesult in t narrow and restricted a spacializatto the obvious place for th'a is a grad ate school and not a college 2 the inadvisability i f allowii an undergraduate student to do into sive research work in any held witho his having a sound basic knowledge < the general subject and in most i stances a pretty thorough acquiintana with allied subjects is patent b that unless some clearly define scheme of directing and checking a stu dent's efforts is employed within ih honors system it will bo impossible t translate his achievements into teims acceptable to the graduate schools of other universities the committee bo lieves however that it will bo possible to achieve its objectives and at the same time to avoid the dangers just mentioned by adopting the following general plan methods of attaining these objects the work in honors logically divides itself into two parts a departmental study and b group discussions a departmental study — the com mittee believes that about 80 of the student's time should be spent in the work which he does under the super vision of that department in which he is ta'king honors this work falls under two heads and may be outlined is follows the head of each depart ments will consider the case of every itudent taking honors in his depart nent ho will be empowered la to designate certain regula ourses which he considers it advisabl or the student to take some of thos courses will probably be in other de mrtments of allied subjects the stu lent will be required to register in hese courses and to subject himsel o the usual discipline except that hi attendance will be regulated by agree uunt with his instructor note — no specified number of re luired courses is named the case o ' ach student must be considered indi vidually it is suggested that the de partmental work might be divided fair prohibition topic of senior honors group discussion astronomy lecture to be given at joint meeting the subject of prohibition was discussed in a most interesting man no rby the senior honors group last friday and while it is doubtful whether any conversions weie made by either wets or drys the discussion served to clarify the situation and bring out the strong points of both sides both dr boynton and profes sor shark complimented the group on the active part taken by the majority and the keen interest which was dis played an activity and interest which will prepare the students to act as leaders of opinion in any community in which they may belong dr boynton requested that each member of the group keep a record of his readings in preparation for the bi weekly discussions including tho time spent number of pages titles of books and authors this record is to be peri odically turned in to the honors com mittee it was also announced that a bulletin board is to be placed in the hall near e 201 on which announce ments of interest to the senior honors group will be placed the next meeting on november 5th will be a joint gathering of juniors and seniors at which time professor moore will speak on ' ' the elements of astronomy professor moore has se lected the following bibliography general astronomy h s jones ch 12 13 and 14 the elements of as tronomy fath ch 15-19 introduc tion to astronomy moultcn ch 33j depths of the universe hale be yond the milky way hale the now heavens m , hale foster hall scene of excitement as bottles topple boom crash no it wasn't one of the famous sojih-fiosh battles that at tracted so much attention to the first floor of foster hiill last saturday morn in looking through the glass door window of room 111 one could sec i blue gaseous haze arising from i wreck age of bottles and chemicals presently a rumor circulated among the small crowd that rushed to the scene that an explosion had just oc curred and that another might blow the school to atoms or what not accord 1 ingly some would-be hero informed dr ly that an explosion took place in ii iss holmes ' room dr ly hurried to the room and made a careful survey the presence of prussic acid fumes made necessary the order for the stu dents to keep away from that end of the corridor until the air was clear again there was no actual explosion but the noise of the ailing of the chemicals seemed strong enough to bring out quite a number of students who were study ing in the library what really hap pened was that a shelf holding a con siderable quantity of chemicals in glass bottles suddenly gave way and smashed the bottles in many pieces the frosh-soph dance on account of the conflict with sor ority rushes the frosh-soph dance will not be held on november cth as announced in last week's edition of the bee it will take place on saturday november 13 1926 at townsend hall frank roberts and his committee have made arrangements with the clef dwellers to furnish the music for the pharmacy students to hold dance at summit hall nov 5 class elections held at meeting on tuesday with the entire student body of the college of pharmacy pledging its sup port a combination acquaintance and hallowe'en dance is to be held next friday night at summit hull enthusiasm is running high amongst the seniors is it is their first social event of the year and they plan to make the gala affair one to be lonj remembered this dance has been sanctioned by dean macdonald and approved by the faculty summit hall the scene of activities will be appropriately decorated for thi occasion refreshments and professional enter tainment are listed on the program which will be filled in by dancing frcini 9 until 10 o'clock tickets which include refreshments are 1.50 per couple and may be pro cured from any member of the com mittee which is composed of mr finn chairman miss mcgill mr thomas mr brown mr hayden mr lowe and mr mack the senior pharmacy students callei a meeting of the class last tuesday a as a result of this meeting mr hru thomas was elected class president mr a j finn was elected to repr sent the college of pharmacy on t s a c committee mr hayden was appointed as t iris representative mr edward t george was appointei as the bee representative campus calendar friday oct 29 — 4:15 p m — junior honors mooting boom 305 poster hall 8:00 p m — chess mooting dental school saturday oct 30 2:30 p m u of rochester vs u of b at rochester sunday oct 31 3:00 p m — menorah society meet ing grosvcnor library monday nov 1 — 3:00 p m tryouts for gills glee club university presbyterian church 4:00 p m girls glee club prac tice 8:15 p m lecture by canon ernest dimnet anatolo france and the younger school of french writ ers grosvenor library audi torium tuesday nov 2 — 4:30 p m lecture by dr charles h keene ' ' the mental and physi cal development of children grosvenor library auditorium 7:30 p m — men's gloc club prne tice central y m c a wednesday nov 3 — 4:30 p m — w a a swimming ben nett high school pool 6:30 p m — women's club suppi-r and meeting room 305 foster hall 8:00 p m lecture by mr barnel nover the central problem of european life townsend hall ' wood cuts and colonial portraits on exhibition anderson's fairy tales form themes of illustrations books from russia and germany are nucleus of collection at tho present time there arc on ex hibition at the albright art gallery several very fine collections including one of wood cuts one of art for chil dren the k c vose collection of col onial portraits and a collection of paintings by william ritschel the wood cuts group comprises eighty cut prints which have attracted much interest and attention throughout the in the exhibition of art for children in gallery ii may be seen some exam ples of clever draftsmanship and com positions that are the result of fertile visions and imaginations on this ac count tho collection is proving an at traction which daily increases as the children recognize in the illustrations their well-loved fairy talcs and legends the scandinavian conception of the old story of little red riding hood is a fine piece of dinwing the wolf's smiling face as he greets the child ad mirably disguises his evil design the quaint dress and pose of the innocent little child typify the manners and cos tumes of the country this drawing is by kay nielsen and will be found in the scandinavian section another most unusual idea is given by l'onde hansi who pictures the coming of the stork a great event in northern countries for it means the coming of spring the big bird has his large nest on one of the abutments of the village church and stands look ing down at his admiring friends tho village street is full of welcome the school children and their mother and other people of note stand gazing up at the bird this fascinating picture called mon village has and will de light the eyes of thousands of children it is in the french section anderson's fairy tales form the foundation of many of these delightful illustrations noticeably among them is the fairj pumpkin with its team of rats driven by mr frog the coach contains the little princess who is eagerly watched by her sweetheart who stands in tho foreground this collection of illustrations orig inally started with a group of russian picture books brought by a wanderer from that harassed land next the library of dr weiske of germany a collector of finely illustrated books reached this country princeton univer sity took part of it but the juvenile books were acquired by the brooklyn museum so little by little the collec tion has grown in assembling it the authoritative advice of well informed native-born representatives of the coun tries represented has been available ami it is hoped that the list as cata logued will bo acceptable as a serious contribution in its special field to be viewed and enjoyed not only by chil dren but by adults as well tho r c vose collection of colonial portraits by the earlier american artists on exhibition in gallery i in cludes work by gilbert stuart west glackburn charles bridges abraham copley rembrandt teale and others this exhibition is a feature of art which should be visited by everyone it being a rare opportunity to see to gether the founders of the american the exhibition of marine paintings by william ritschel is on view in gal the gallery is open free to tho public every day in the week gallery hours arc l to 5 p jr sundays and 10 a m to ." i m on other days to btudents in an institution such as the university of buffalo the cul tural advantages which the albright art gallery offers should bo fully ap preciated and advantage should be taken of the splendid opportunity which thus presents itself entire new program to be given by u b glee club this year old and new men i urged to attend next rehearsal ho u b glee club held a rehearsal tuesday night an unusually large iber of new candidates attending club this year promises to be the ; ever turned out by the univer an atmosphero of coo-peration willingness pervades the rehear 1 , and the organization is well on its toward the first concert ue to the fact that all the music destroyed by fire during the sum , an entire new program will be of fered this of course means more work for the men this year but the new music is exceptionally inspiring and with the addition of several very promising first tenors great strides have been made there is still oppor tunity for a largo number of men but it is essential that they appear for re heaifsals not later than tuesday no vember 9th all old members are advised that it will not be possible to join after this time for the music is entirely new and the various ranges must be filled out at once in order to insure proper balance the incentive of a week's trip should appeal to any spirited u b man the first local program will be given about tho middle of december and as there will be no rehearsal next week on account of election day we have just about five more rehearsals before the initial appearance there fore all old and new men are requested to come out not later than november ninth chinese play to be first given by dramatic club tin dramatic society opened its year with a meeting at the grosvonor library on thursday october 14 mr.i <! lreds the director gave a brief i address which was followed by a busi ness meeting tryouts were held on thursday and friday october 21 and 22 respective ly the results have not been an nounced rehearsals for the thrice promised bride a chinese play will i begin on thursday october 28th and continue on friday october 29th a i second play has been selected it is suppressed desires tryouts and re hearsals for this will be held at the same time the 28th and 2!)th in science 201 at 4 o'clock personnel office assigns freshman faculty advisors within the next week every fresh tiiun is suppo.sed to be assigned by the personnel office to some faculty advisor this system has been in vogue here for a number of years and is being utilized in some form or other in a great many other universities the system has a double purpose first it aims to give each student a personal contact with i some member of the faculty that sort of contact which the classroom cannot possibly give second it is to furnish the student with someone competent to advise him about courses changes in i course and so forth someone to check upon his work suggest the need of a tutor and encourage and inspire the student to do his best tutors are not used enough at the university students should realize that a few lessons from a tutor at the right time can make all the difference between passing and failing all students who desire any further advice than advisors are pre pared to give are invited to come to tho personnel office continued on page 2 the next lectube in 1 the faculty skh1ks will s be given by charles h i keene pbofessok of hv | oiene and directok of | physical education 1 tin mental and phtsi e cal development of e children e