Bee, 1926-06-08

              the bee the greater university of buffalo weekly vol 6 university of buffalo june 8 1926 no 30 alumni association hears moot at annual concert influence of arts college outlined by chancellor capen mrs smering succeeds dr boyton as president on thursday evening at seven in the washington room of the touralne hotel was held the annual banquet of the alumni of the college of arts with dr richard wilson boynton president of the association presid ing to his address of welcome john horton responded for the class of 1!)2g after which william cook enter tained the company with his wreck of the julie plante and elaine rubery at the piano with grainger's irish tune from county deny and kreisler's caprice viennois the honorable adelbert moot vice chancellor of the university of the state of new yoi k addressed the association on the value and import ance of leisure in the pursuit of cul ture his thesis was that of all the many ways in which one can spend his time that of reading and study is the most delightful and profitable mr moot congiatulated the associa tion upon the solid progress that the college of arts since its not very re mote foundation had been making an evidence of this progress as pointed out by dean park is the de velopment of the honors system which as he said might well and per haps better be called a system of in 1 dependent study for tlie coming year the group will be nearly double that of this comprising about forty members of the philosophy of edu cation which this system implies of its return to the real spirit and love of the pursuit of learning the dean spoke with enthusiasm chancellor capen's theme was the unifying influence which the college has exercised upon the university as a whole four years ago when doc tor capen entered upon his chancel lorship the university was something ' in the order of a loose confederation of states both undergraduates and alumni thought much less in terms of the whole university than in terms of : their individual school whether of medicine or law but in these four ' years a quiet revolution has taken ' place and the sometime loose con ' federation has been welded into a ' strongly unified whole informed with ' a genuine corporate spirit — a revolu . tion which the chancellor attributed ] largely to the development of the col ] lege which in the american system al < ways froms the heart and centre of 1 the university < in the election of officers mrs l janey smering was chosen president l of the association for the following year john horton vice-president ; mildred wheaton secretary viola i hultin treasurer i summer courses at geneva given prof zimmer announcement has just been made that the courses on international pro'o lems held in geneva last summer are to be repeated during the coming sea son the courses are now known as the geneva school of international studies but are the same as those given under the auspices of the inter national universities federation last summer under the direction of prof alfred zimmer extensive plans have been made for the coming summer any further information may be secured by writ ing to the secretary of the gene'a school of international studies go broadway new york city course in technique of study offered in summer session study designed to meet needs of backward freshman a four weeks course in the tech nique of study will be introduced at the university this summer it is , designed to meet the needs of the members of next year's freshman claaa who are among the lower two fifths of their high school graduating class in explaining the origin and need of such a course dr edward s jones of the personnel department says every state college and urban uni versity experiences a feeling of con flicting responsibilities one of which is to serve the community by giving everyone a chance for higher educa tion the other is to maintain high standards the psychological tests given for freshmen with a view to securing greater efficiency have ap parently not been used sufficiently and to compromise between responsibility to the community and to the univer sity we are trying to take people from the upper three fifths of the high i school classes we have found that i there is a closer relation between the particular high school fifth in which the freshman is graded and his work in college than there is between the psychological test and his later work the people in the lower two fifths however we feel should not be ad mitted unless we know more about them whether they are deficient in some particular subject whether they know enough about proper studying and whether they are capable of suc cessfully carrying on college work it is the purpose of this course to dis cover these facts the course begins on august 23 and continues for four weeks approxi mately one third of the time will be devoted to psychological and educa tional tests and the remaining time will be given over to drill in note-tak ing reading and proper methods of study there will be i charge of twenty dollars for the course ten dollars however will be remitted before the end of the second week if it is dis covered that a student is not capable of doing the work , dr jones recommends that univer sity students who are acquainted with members of next year's freshman class who may be in the lowest two fifths group inform them of the nec essity for entering this course fresh men in this group will be required to pass the course the course in the technique of study will be entirely independent of the regular orientation course re quired of all freshmen which begins on sept 15 personnel office to help job hunters the personnel office announces that m employment bureau will be run during the summer although it is to be established particualrly for teachers it aims also to help those desiring to enter other fields it offers its services to graduates post-gradu ates and summer school students definite hours for conferences will be set after july 1 appointments may be made by telephone a reception given by chancellor and mrs capen for the council graduating classes alumni and j faculty of the university was held at the alumni club on monday after noon june7 senior class prophecy j i miss sonia bear arts 26 at the senior banquet this prop hecy was presented by miss sonia bear 26 and because of the wide interest it aroused at that time and ulireetly afterward it has been deemed ivise to publish it in the bee the duchess the duchess muttered the white rabbit to himself oh my dear paws oh my fan and whiskers . . where can i have dropped my gloves and fan i wonder here they are cried alice i put them on the top of the glass table to keep them ..." ahem said the white rabbit twinkling his nose quite pinkly company i see as sure as ferrets are ferrets you've forgotten your manners again introduce me to the company alice and be quick about this made alice feel so grown-up she forgot to be angry about the white rabbit's snappishness she knew exactly what to say having said it to her dolls a great many times allow me to present she said in her grandest manner drawing her apron down in a deep courtsey miss sonia bear of the class of 26 who has come all the way from u b to hunt for futures in wonderland to hunt for futures cried the white rabbit hunt for futures in deed what a curious idea whoever heard of hunting for futures you mean hunting for fortunes alice it's all the same thing said alice with some severity i suppose you are clairvoyant said the white rabbit to sonia putt ing his white kid gloves in his waist coat pocket indeed she is not shouted alice stamping both her patent leather slippers at once indeed she is not clara voyant she's sonia bear and besides she's brought fortuna's hat with her haven't you yes replied sonia eagerly plung ing into the conversation for she had noticed the white rabbit looking anxi ously at his watch i've got for tuna's wishing hat i found it on a page of carlyle all you do is clap on the hat and simply by wishing you were anywhere straightway you are there or by wishing you were any when straightway you are then but i found i couldn't get anywhere after all because the gate of tomorrow was locked and i know you must have the key in wonderland because you have so many wonderful things oh hurry white rabbit pleaded alice unlock the gate of tomorrow and get the magic carpet . . " we have here in wonderful said the white rabbit solemnly stroking his whiskers a carpet that belongs to the future it will at some time later be designed in new york city by louis farris it will be made of some marvellous stuff the formula for which will be kept secret by the farris universal flying carpets company inc you see it comes in a telescope and when you press this end it unfurls and by some magnetic power which will likewise be kepti secret by the l f u f c co inc it floats above the earth at a height regulated by a certain mysterious electrical contrivance louis farris at a congregation of the world's carpet manufacturers will read a paper on the mathematics of art everything in life he will at that time declare is based prac tically based on mathematics i there's no getting away from it it's a principle that has abided with me from the time that dr sherk vigor ously preached it in my alma mater i will demonstrate to you fellow ; manufacturers the successful mar riage of mathematics with art ; i may many new members added to arts faculty for 1926 vacancies in many fields filled by new instructors john horton receives instructorship in history several new members have been added to the faculty of the college of arts and sciences for next year mr charles d gregory has been appointed instructor in mathematics mr gregory was graduated from i wake forest college n c in 1916 and received a master of arts degree from yale in 1920 he has taught two years at the baltimore polytech nic institute and one year at anna polis during another year he acted as student-assistant at johns hop kins university and during 1925-6 he has been doing graduate work at mr thomas neil has been appointed assistant professor of hygiene mr neil was graduated from oberlin col in 1915 having majored in phys education he taught for two years in the elementary schools in minneapolis and for three and a half years he was director of high school physical education and assistant supervisor of physical education of the public schools of cleveland ohio for four years he was the gymnasium director of western reserve univer mr neil's athletic experience covers a wide range of activities for three years lie was a member of the var sity foot-ball team at oberlin and was captain during his senior year during the war he coached the regi lital foot-ball teams in france and r played on the st nazaire team western reserve mr neil has died all the gymnasium work in ition to coaching the freshman foot-ball team and coaching in boxing and wrestling he also gave a special course for juniors and seniors who in tended to teach physical education mr john t horton has been ap pointed instructor in history and political science mr horton is a member of the graduating class of 1926 of the university of buffalo he has been in the honors division in history and has done outstanding work in that field mr paul j trudel has been ap pointed instructor in biology mr trudel partially completed his college work at the university of tuebingen r received a b s degree from the versity of buffalo in 1926 mr del was assistant instructor of general science at the state seminary at nuertingen in germany during 1911-12 in 192-1 he was lecturer in old german literature and botany and from 1915-21 he was principal of several government schools and gov ernment district inspector for young teachers from august 1914 to april 1915 he served with the 247th infantry regiment in france he was wounded and later returned to his school work six students receive advanced degrees at commencement doctor of philosophy granted for first time by u b for the first time the university of buffalo confers the degress doctor of philosophy the recipient mr frithj of zwilgmeyer did under graduate work at the university of christiana and has completed his work for the doctorate in the field of organic chemistry the following will receive the de gree of master of arts mr jacob cohen who holds a ph b degree from brown university mr cohen has done his graduate work in psychology mr ledra lawton who holds a bachelor of science degree from syra cuse university and has completed his work for the master's degree in the field of chemistry miss imogene sanborn who holds a bachelor of arts degree from ober lin college and has done her graduate work in the field of history miss j marjorie vander hoek who has also completed her work for the master's degree in the field of his tory miss vander hoek received her bachelor's degree from the university of buffalo in 1926 miss mary wesley who holds a bachelor of science degree from syra cuse university and who has com pleted her work for the mater's de gree in sociology . senior classes unite to give pledge to u b as memorial following the custom inaugurated last year the senior class presidents of the various schools and the college of the university of buffalo unani mously agreed upon a senior memorial which takes the form of a pledge to the university of buffalo the pur pose of the pledge is stated as follows : for the purpose of maintaining the office of alumni secretary publishing an alumni magazine and making con tributions to the general funds of the university dr thurber representing the stu dent activities committee and the senior presidents has presented the matter to the seniors of all divisions and has received a most generous res ponse in each case practically all the members of the clases present at the meeting have signed the pledges there follows the report of the num ber of the members of the senior classes whose signed cards are in the office of the alumni secretary representatives of the various classes are interviewing all the members who have not signed in an effort to secure 100 45 medicine 119 pharmacy 78 law 42 dentistry 34 arts junior women to act as sisters to freshman according to established custom the junior women have constituted them selves junior sisters to next year's freshmen may tabor has charge of arrangements and has selected a com mittee who will during the summer work out the details of a suitable program for acquainting the fresh men women with the college and stu dents the committee includes mae tabor chairman helen kirkland catherine josselyn lucille wert heimer estelle goldberg and esther koehler student council members announced the members of the student coun cil for 1926-'27 as elected by petition and closed ballot are announced as follows : senior members john allen winifred beyer john dunn dorothy goodman margaret griffith adelbert makely harriet montague hubert nagel robert potter junior members : estelle gold berg walter kramer ernest peacey mae tabor charles veigel sophomore members beatrice carney edmund farris irving milch continued on page 2