Bee, 1930-03-28

              the bee no 21 vol 10 university of buffalo march 28 1930 milne's humorous romantic age dramatic clubs next offering noted artist to prepare stage sets and scenery the blue masquers three-act veh icle the romantic age by a a milne is certainly coming along in great shape both the author and the play are well known in dramatic cir cles mr milne is noted for his humor and for his marvelous ability in handling stage action he has that quality which enables him to charac terize his actors and to develop his plot in an amazingly short time which assures the audience that there will be no dull moments of long useless dialogue miss mcfadden the director of the play and coach of the blue masquers is confident that this will be the greatest success that the dramatic organization has had in the last decade the best indication of suc cess she said is that my players have learned their lines so rapidly of course i realize that this is com paratively easy in this production be cause each speech is psychologically correct my players realize this too hence they cannot only learn their lines more rapidly but they can also act them with more assurance the scenery of this three-act pro duction is receiving more attention than usual in most amateur theatri cals mr sheldon viele who was with the theater guild of new york city for two years is devoting much time in designing this necessary de tail it has been said by several con servative observers that the sets for this production are equal to those used in the original companies in new york and london the romantic age has a most amazing plot the scenes are varied and there are many hilarious situa tions that keeps the audience chuck ling to the very end the play is in no way didactic and is written only for the entertainment of the audience several modern conveniences like the stock market and golf are satirized cap mellon talks to y club about loyalty to school captain mellon the beloved cap f lafayette high school and of all huffalo gave an informal talk at a meeting of the y club of the uni versity of buffalo tuesday at the central y cap told a little bit about teach ers and teaching and the advantages of teaching as a profession he then told how the arts school of the uni versity of buffalo happened to be or ganized at the time it was after telling of the organization in some detail he made a special point on loy alty to the school the important thing to remember is that loyalty to the school is made up of what we do for the school not what the school does for us he placed special em phasis on the benefits of a college education which include the friends one makes at college the talk was riven in the entertaining but serious manner that is entirely cap mel lon's which made that meeting of the l b y club particularly enjoy able measurements for senior caps gowns wanted immediately all seniors please give their meas urements for caps and gowns to prances joyce and simon meltzer omen please put a note in frances joyce's mail box giving height weight cap size — small medium or i'ge men in simon meltzner's mail x giving height weight and cap size those who wish to buy their caps and gowns please make an appoint : ' it with either of the above men tioned people 1j o this immediately dr c f scofield concludes faculty lecture series dr carleton f scofield concluded the afternoon faculty lectures tues day in a discussion which an swered mainly the question can psychology be scientific the meet ing which was presided over by dean julian park was held in the gros venor library it is deep-dyed ignorance of what psychology is that causes people to call psychologists either atheists or spiritualists as one clergyman was re ported to have done psychology was prematurely launched from the cradle of philoso phy dr scofield believes and conse quently it is still wrestling with many problems which properly belong to its parent defining science as the intellectual izing of unknown reality dr scofield explained that in handling this un known the scientist uses two meth ods of description particularizing and the conditional mode the particular method leads to the nothing-but illu sion dr watson like the blind man who thinks an elephant is a rope says that human beings are nothing but stimulus response mechanisms condi tional description on the other hand lends itself to such pitfalls as gestalt or instinct systems which attempt un successfully to interpret human be havior in terms of their canons u of b freshmen to debate against canisius frosh the freshman debate team coached by dr wilfred b kerr will defend the affirmative side of the question resolved that the monroe doctrine should be maintained against the freshman team from canisius college next monday evening at 8 o'clock in townsend hall niagara square representing the university of buf falo will be darvin demarchi how ard white anthony sapienza and howard gondree alternate the can isius team will be composed of henry herberger lawrence j schork and arthur lawless dr camilo osias kollegians lure many to assembly the gay sound of the kampus kollegians playing have a little faith in me dinah and satis fied lured many students to the audi torium for one of the best convoca tions of the year on wednesday march 2(i dr camilo osias commissioner of the philippines to the united states and president of the national univer sity of the philippines spoke on edu cation in the philippines when these islands came under the jurisdic blackstone society welcomes frosh legal students the blackstone legal society was host to forty members of the fresh man class ol law school on wednes day march 26'th at reichert's tea room mr stoner of the law faculty gave a very inspiring talk on party politics prof wm laidlaw also of the law faculty and honorary member of the blackstone society welcomed the freshmen on behalf of the society the newly elected officers were in ducted into office at this meeting they are as follows president — f»ank sedita vice-president — howard campaign secretary — eugene downey treasurer — robert noonan manager — edmond j shea faculty aids by cooperation in library situation professor shaw livermore of the business school and dr carpenter of the arts college have been the first to respond to the editorial treatment of the inconvenient library situation both realized the evident merit of the suggestion which if adopted would en able a much greater number of stu dents to receive benefits that reserve books ofter each has requested the library to permit students to withdraw reserve books from their shelves after 4:30 to be returned before 9 30 students are placed on their honor to observe the less stringent requirements without co-operation of other pro fessors and classes little good will re sult when a number of the open minded professors have spoken in favor of the new plan the library authorities may acknowledge its worth by revising rules accordingly editors resign in protest of censorship hazel barber editor-in-chief and gladys ruhland literary editor of the record weekly newspaper of the state teachers college resigned last week after a disagreement with president rockwell as to the degree in which the faculty should censor the paper dr rockwell took exception to an open letter written by the editor to the student body explaining the con ditions under which the record staff worked the letter said in part for some time we have been aware that there is among the students a dissat isfaction with the record you have and rightly not concealed your dis approval from us . . . you say we give too much space to past events too much emphasis to assembly speeches and faculty news and too little mention of events which are close to student life we have failed übessa follies evening session play approaches a meeting of the various commit tees of the übessa follies was held tuesday at townsend hall chair man walter giles presided tickets for the follies will be 1.50 if purchased before the night of the entertainment tickets at the door will be 2.00 they will be on sale at denton cottier & daniels and by members of the committees it was announced that a nationally known orchestra will be engaged to provide music for dancing between the ads and after the show this feature alone makes the follies one of the biggest social events of the school year roswell p rosengren the director announced that several acts were de cided upon at the last rehearsal which was held at the statler campus calendar q — ' ww w w w ww w www w w ww w wq friday march 28 3:30 p.m — issue of football equip ment — rotary field 9:00 p.m chi alpha tau dance hotel statler i monday march si fraternity and sorority night 8 00 p m frosh debate — buffalo vs canisius — townsend hall tuesday april 1 — 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 7:30 p m math club — women's lounge wednesday april 2 — 7:30 p.m — iris meeting — russell printing office thursdaj april 3 — i:3op m — blue masquers dinner — women's lounge spring practice under way soon for pigskin artists equipment to be issued to squad this afternoon the 1930 football season gets under way today for the aspirants to grid iron fame at 3:30 this afternoon at rotary field the equipment for spring practice will be given out a large sized squad is expected to report to reap the advantages of fa miliarity with biff lee's methods before practice starts in september in fact participation in the spring maneuvers is practically a necessity as the short period of training which precedes the game with carnegie tech will require a meager drill in fundamentals and almost immediate work in whipping the elevens to gether there will be no time then to begin to learn the game for the schedule necessitates mid-season form for the first games in order to cope with the strong elevens of carnegie and fordham every man in the university who would like to play football is urged to report as the system which lee is planning to use this year includes three teams and there is a chance for anyone to secure a berth on one of these lack of weight and previous experience should be no deterent to those who like the game as these are difficulties which can be overcome nearly all the men who were on the varsity squad last year will again don the moleskins and jerseys for practice when the announcement comes to re port to the troop e armory on dela van avenue where the workouts will be held in addition there will be further strength from the sophomores who made up the frosh squad last year from this group and the new recruits the coaching staff will be able to build a team that should sur pass that of 1929 kampus kollegians band will feature next convocation those who attended this week's con vocation were given just a very small sample of what to expect wednesday morning at ten-thirty in the audi torium the kampus kollegians are going to give a musical program of the very latest song hits there will be ten pieces in this orchestra under the direction of israel lederman not only will numbers be played by the entire orchestra but specialties will be featured in the form of vocal choruses and saxophone trios local talent will run loose in the expres sive jazz played by these boys in a truly professional style and with all the syncopation desired by college students the kollegians will play such popular numbers as con gratulations what do i care and st james infirmary one of the features at the junior prom here's a chance to be thrilled by your favor ite tune or to wiggle your toes in harmony with the now famous kam pus kollegians right in the midst of the school day don't fail to attend convocation on april 2 math club plans enticing program and refreshments on april 1 the math enthusiasts will gather in the women's lounge at eight o'clock sharp for their fourth meeting don't let april fool keep you from attending the meeting — mathemati cians can't be fooled a most enter taining and useful program has been planned first there will be a short historical sketch this is the second of a series of topics on the history of mathematics and famous mathe maticians mr archie grant a junior will ex plain the construction and use of the slide rule a large six foot rule will be used for demonstration and small rules will be distributed to the stu dents so they can follow the steps in computations it is a great advantage to be able to use a slide rule for prac tical and time-saving purposes have you ever played with mathe matical toys if not you will want to hear miss ruth tomlinson a sen ior tell about tangrams these are chinese toys made by cutting a square of thin material into seven pieces these pieces being capable of forming in different combinations a great number of figures everyone will be given an opportunity to use his imagi nation in forming pictures come and try it it's lots of fun and then as a climax to an inter esting evening enticing refreshments will be served the math club wel comes all students desirous of becom ing acquainted with one of the more exact sciences professor joshi from dartmouth discusses india dr s l joshi professor of com parative religion and hindu philoso phy at dartmouth college spoke to a group of interested students on the future of india - ' thursday morning professor joshi comes from western india he was educated partly in india and partly in the united states he has given lectures from coast to coast during the last few years with a genial personality and in a compelling manner he outlined and compared past and present conditions in india it is only through the con stant efforts and co-operation of all the countries as well as the natives that a greater india will appear pro fessor joshi has great hopes for the future of a country which has been disintegrated in the past russian-persian politics topic of professor sherk russia and persia in international politics and their internal political af fairs were discussed individually by elgin sherk for six years professor at the american college at teheran persia and resident of the country for a decade at the semi-monthly meet ing of the international relations club thursday evening in the music room of the grosvenor library prof sherk was unusually interest ing in dealing with the rejuvenated persia while his discourse on soviet russia politics was of interest because of the anomaly of the subject in con trast with the hackneyed social eco nomic moral and religious topics on conditions in the union in accordance with the club's policy to stimulate wholesome discussion among its members and the faculty interested in foreign and international politics prof sherk was induced to buffalo particularly for the meeting of the organization blue masquers to have supper in women's lounge on thursday april 3 at 6:30 p m there will be a blue masquers supper and business meeting in the women's lounge tickets which are 40 cents may be obtained from alberta hen derson the faculty are cordially in vited to be guests for the evening continued on page 3 column 3 continued on page 2 column 2 continued on page 3 column 1 students in the college of arts and sciences and in the school of business administra tion who expect their degrees in june 1930 or in february 1931 are requested to make an ap pointment in the office of the university registrar to see miss deters within the next ten days so that a memorandum of the remaining requirements for the degree may be issued to each student spring training football practice