Bee, 1930-03-21

              the bee vol 10 university of buffalo march 21 1930 no 20 bisonhead honors conference champions tonight elks ballroom to be scene of annual basketball dance erlenbach's band to furnish music for gala affair tonight is the night when all pres ent past and future buffalonians gather to shower their appreciation on the greatest basketball team u if has had everyone from the most in significant freshman to the highest most exalted senior and to the proud est old alumnus will bend and twist their affairs that they may attend this celebration any who do not join in with bison head to honor our team will feel lonely the elks ballroom will be the lo cation at which les erlenbach's broadcasting band will cast a musical charm over all this orchestra is the essence of rhythm and melody they will play from 10 to 2 o'clock purchase a ticket 3.00 secure a lady and fall in line all ye who have not already done so there is no doubt but that this affair will surpass all expectations bison forensic team defeats rutgers on armament topic by buffalo squad negative side of question defended at a debate held in edmund hayes hall wednesday evening march 19 buffalo defeated a team from rutgers university 2-1 on the question re solved that all nations shall adopt a plan of immediate complete disarma ment except such forces as are needed for the police protection of the terri tories and dependencies dr julius w pratt acted as chair man and the judges were mr a axel rod mr walter brown and mr frank kalmbach the members of the rutgers team which upheld the affirmative were krederic c lerocker livingston b sperling and chester v stalker buffalo was represented by emil cohen elmer tropman and melvin weig who defended the negative before an audience of about fifty people the affirmative stressed the effectiveness of an international eco nomic blockade while the negative countered by pointing out that arma ments are not the sole cause of war men's glee club sing's at lafayette h.s the glee club sang before a capac ity house at lafayette high school last friday judging from the ova tions the different numbers received the glee club was appreciated to say the least some saxophone solos and especial ly an oboe solo by morris lutwack took the audience by storm the oboe solo was the chant of the jungle joe dempsey sang a solo and know ing his singing as we do we can un fenton foundation lecture given by dr schoenemann on thursday march 20 dr fried rich schoenemann of the university of berlin spoke at the fenton foun dation lectures on cultural ten dencies in after-war germany this was the first of a spring series of lectures to be given by this insti tution dr julian park gave a dinner in honor of the distinguished speaker earlier thursday the visitor ad dressed a good-sized appreciative group that evening at the grosvenor library football captain and prominent senior co-ed elope the marriage of margaret ann ar buthnot to earle g ridall which took place last wednesday afternoon was revealed today and congratulations have been pouring in since the cere mony the couple eloped to the first church of christ disciples tona wanda where rev j quincy biggs performed the ceremony joseph abeles the best man and marian e beckstein maid of honor both stu dents at buffalo were the other mem bers of the party miss arbuthnot a prominent senior on the campus is active in student ac tivities and is a member of theta chi sorority mr ridall captain elect of football is also a loyal supporter of all student enterprises he is also a member of bison head society the parents of the couple have wel comed the newlyweds and the students join in wishing them congratulations preparations for ubessa follies well under way the 1930 edition of übessa follies will be given in the hotel statler ball room saturday may 3 roswell p rosengren is director and walter a giles chairman weekly rehearsals are being held at the statler friday evening at 9:30 miss emily hallock who so success fully trained the singing chorus last year is again in charge of the fair ones mr giles is being assisted by lor etta m staubinger and earl cruick shank several committee chairmen have been named including paul walker tickets and promotion karl helfrich advertising edward wesley ticket distribution louise hallock director of chorus the setting of this unique school presentation is a cabaret with guests seated at small tables and a space for dancing left in the center of the floor acts are given in typical night club style and with better than average talent informality is the rule and it may be possible to get the phone number of the third from the left in the chorus you know that blonde who raised your blood pressure last year panhellenic supper time of get-together for sororities more than one hundred sorority girls attended the supper sponsored by the panhellenic council on monday march 17 in the women's lounge amidst colorful st patrick's day dec orations the girls found the opportun ity to become better acquainted with other groups three speakers were introduced af ter the supper by evelyn fraser pres ident of the u b panhellenic council | marjorie seipp and molly hazel who have just returned from the national fanhellenic conference held at ohio state university gave reports en thused and inspired by new ideas they discussed the methods by which other alleges promote interfraternalism dean lillias macdonald in her talk stressed the need for nationalism and good fellowship among college women the standard of any university de pends on the people in it and it is ily through good fellowship that we fan bring out the best that is in us to help foster a true interfraternal spirit panhellenic has given to the university a silver cup upon which the name of the sorority attaining the highest scholastic standing shall be inscribed each year dean macdonald presented the cup to phi sigma sigma who attained the highest average for the year 1928-29 a program of a musical nature fol lowed introduced by nita goldberg chairman of the program committee esther johnson played two piano so | los spanish dance by granados and mazurka by schumann muriel maclean gave an original play tea for two which was light humorous and very entertaining constance reynolds sang two numbers accom panied by sarah ellen rider who is sylvia by schubert and winter lul laby dekoben the supper ended informally and very successfully with songs each sorority sang its favorite tune and all joined in the alma mater led by ellen rider it is hoped that more of these gatherings will take place in the near future — they greatly strengthen the social life of the university and its women campus calendar b^wvwvw ww s>/ww w w www wwo friday march 21 — bison head basketball dance klks ballroom men's debate — greenville college at buffalo sunday march 23 — college tea — first presbyterian church prof k f mather of harvard monday march 24 — sorority and fraternity night tuesday march 23 — 6:15 p m u b y club—gen tral y m c a 7:30 p m men's glee club re hearsal—central y m c a wednesday march 26 — 8 00 p m — iris meeting thursday march 27 — 4:00 p m latin department lec ture and tea — women's lounge 8:00 p m chemistry club—wom en's lounge friday march 28 basketball tournament chi alpha tau dance frosh impressions of university solicited what do you think of the univer sity ? perhaps you have wondered what opinions your fellow students hold about their school beginning next week the bee will run a series of essays written by freshmen setting forth their impres sions of the school after nearly one year's contact don't forget to watch for this fea ture next week math enthusiasts enjoy program of new club the newly organized math club met on wednesday evening in the women's lounge of edmund hayes hall a group of thirty math en thusiasts professors and students en joyed a well planned and successfully consummated program the first of a series of readings on the history of mathematics was given by mr west he cited some inter esting examples of the early begin nings of arithmetic by primitive man and the persistence of these even to the present day the general use of the scale of ten he traced back to primitive man's finger counting next miss higgins presented some facts in the life of pythagoras and explained various interpretations of his famous right triangle theorem the biographical introduction served to humanize the more or less intricate elaboration of the pythagoras mathe matical theories following this mr stone enter tained the group with a series of mathematical fallacies geometrical puzzles and probability problems these fascinating perplexities indi cated that mathematics can be a re creation as well as a worry miss florence mcmath announced the next meeting to be scheduled for the honors group the next meeting of the hon ors group will be held on fri day march 21 at 4:13 p m in the honors room 292 edmund hayes hall dr carroll lane fenton assistant professor in charge of physical science course will speak on certain misconceptions of evolution a general discussion will follow on the future of the freshman science course richard w boynton chairman commissioner of philippines next assembly speaker at convocation wednesday march 2<;th we are to be honored by a dis tinguished speaker senor camilo osias a native of the philippine is lands formerly speaker of the phil ippine house of representatives senor osias is now resident commis sioner of the philippine islands in washington he is fully acquainted with the life and conditions in the islands it will be of great interest to hear senor osias's opinion concerning philippine independence and the misgovernment of the insular territory by the united states because of the discussion of the past few years he will tell of the life in the islands and what are the best relations of the people with the united states an added attraction at convocation will be the kampus kollegian's or chestra they will endeavor to arouse student enthusiasm before and after the discussion of senor osias by a special musical surprise i ability displayed in student papers before bios club the paramount aim of the bios club to stimulate interest and inves tigation in biological studies was real ized wednesday march 19 when stu dents displayed their ability in the papers they presented at the regular meeting held in the women's lounge the pathological aspect of parasitic forms was the principal topic of earle ridall's paper his vivid presenta tion of the dire harm to mankind from these forms in the transmission of disease was most interesting enzymes and their relation to anti toxins was bernard drexler's selec tion the chemistry involved was treated in a way comparable with mr drexler's ability in chemical studies the ludicrous science of the herbalists of the middle ages in find ing in the shapes coloration and peculiar habitat of plants the all de signing healing purposes of god made up the content of dorothy lenaier's paper on the doctrine of signatures this intellectual atmosphere fol lowed by a store of original enter tainment combined to produce a first class meeting one of the best of the bios club consideration for germans in topic at convocation an impassioned plea for considera tion sympathy and pity for the ger man people today formed the crux of the talk given by christopher g grauer head of the local otto ulbrich company at convocation wednesday morning 1 . having the same size as california but with a population 16 times greater than california's germany has many problems on her hands mr grauer lamented the greatest of these un employment has however decreased markedly during the past year since july last there have been 800,000 out of work there he declared the in surance dole system is another ma jor problem confronting the nation chem fraternity holds meeting thursday march 18th i'hi sigma chi men's professional chemical fra ternity held its bimonthly meeting in room 112 edmund hayes hall plans for participation in the coming syra cuse exhibition were made and prep arations started a paper on cobalt ammlnea was presented by alfred mueller at this time at the follow ing meeting on march 27th russell schutz will give a talk on rayon professor sherk to address international relations club kljtin sheik professor for six years at the american college in teheran persia will be the speaker at the bi monthly meeting of t'he international relations club next thursday evening in the music room of the grosvenor library mr sherk's topic will he the political relationships of russia and persia the club is particularly honored in securing professor sheik inasmuch as he is internationally famous he i spent a decade in persia teaching and studying social economic and politi cal affairs there he also delved deeply into soviet russian affairs in his talk for which he will make a special trip to buffalo he will discuss the politics in russia and persia and the political relations of those coun tries with other nations views of the contemporary russian situation have been expounded from sundry different angles but this will ibe the first time that soviet politics will be considered in detail persian politic should be of equal interest because the topic is seldom discussed following the address professor sheik has consented to participate in a discussion among the members and will answer any questions put to him mi his subject anyone connected with the university students faculty members or otherwise is invited to attend cap mellen to address u b club the u li men's club will have as its speaker tuesday evening march 25th captain mellen of lafayette high school our lavish outlay of delicacies will be placed before u at i:l5 p m sharp the only prerequisite to the enjoyment of a hearty meal is the paltry sum of 35c come to the y m c a we'll be serin yuh continued on page 4 column 5 continued on page g column 2 continued on page 6 column 2 bison head dance tonight greenville debate tonight