Bee, 1930-03-07

              the bee vol 10 university of buffalo march 7 1930 no 18 bison teams honored at annual block b banquet tad jones of yale to be principal speaker at dinner chancellor capen will make awards to feted athletes j the fourth annual block b ban quet m honor of our victorious foot e ball and basketball squads for 1929 e 1930 is being held this tuesday night t march 11th at 7 p m the festivi ties are to take place m the ballroom b of the hotel statler dean marsh of the business ad i ministration school is master of cere i monies with him at the speakers table will be chancellor capen dean park dean squires dean gregory dean koch dean alden mr tad • jones mr blackburn dr edw mim ■ mick jay biffy lee art powell and i dr dobbie who is chairman m charge , of all arrangements awards will be made by the chan cellor to the numerous players m recognition of their loyal support of the school and faithful service to art and biff the principal speaker of the eve ning is tad jones famous ex-foot ball coach at yale he is arriving m 1 town tuesday morning and is to be met by a reception committee com posed by dr mimmick dr dobbie dean marsh coach biffy lee coach art powell and mr william black burn for the first time girls are to be allowed to come to this event this is a chance for the noted female rooters of the bisons to show their support for the blue and white someone has said girls if you want to come another time come out this year dancing will follow the ban quet and speeches music will be fur nished by seelbach's orchestra for the dinner as well as for the dancing special recognition will be made of the varsity cheerleaders as well as of the teams a number of high school captains principals coaches and varsity grads are also to be guests of the committee as well as the freshmen football and basketball squads to date reservations for this ban quet are going rapidly and a large number of tickets have been sold mostly to alumni and interested back ers of the university the students have not been backing the event as they should when all is said and done this is the student affair of the year and unless student sup port is forthcoming it is doubted if this tradition will be repeated certainly no one should complain of the price a delectable dinner good companionship a noted speaker splendid music dancing a chance to show honor to your team and loyalty to your school and all for the small sum of three dollars basketball teams to get tribute at bison head dance specialty numbers to feature music by erlenbach band the annual bison head basketball dance given as a tribute to the most victorious quintet buffalo has had m years will be held friday march 21 m the elks ballroom bison head has made elaborate plans for this function m order to properly extend to the team an expression of their marvelous showing ehrlenbach and his broadcasting band will furnish the music and if the football dance is any indication of the kind of music this orchestra will fur nish then the music will certainly be a-l kenny brooks a well-known singer of popular numbers and morey lutwack an artist with the sax will be included m the band and will be featured m specialty num bers at the bison head meeting last tuesday it was decided that the cele bration would be formal it was also decided that three dollars would be the proper admission for a couple the time place music and prestige is sure to draw a large number of dancers and will assure everyone a good time convocation offers musical program by gifted trio a trio of gifted musicians will en tertain the student body and faculty at convocation wednesday march 12 they are martha ripple harpist eudice shapiro violinist and law rence h montague organist it is recalled that mrs jeanette v ripple and her daughter martha rip ple gave to the university of buffalo the organ which belonged m their home on delaware avenue mr mon tague who had often played the or gan m the home of mrs ripple supervised its installation m our audi torium this organ so thoughtfully given has been a constant source of pleasure to the music lovers of the university miss ripple's harp is especially beautiful m tone being one of the very few concert harps m this area mr montague is the organist at the north presbyterian church the quality of these three musicians is well known and their program should bring even a larger attendance than it has m previous years , dr white speaks on religion before philosophy club meeting parallels found between religion and psychosis religion as a social psychosis was the theme of a brilliant and pene trating talk by dr leslie white at the meeting of the philosophy club last wednesday evening just as the psychosis is to the individual so is religion related to society it was an attempt to diagnose religion m the terms of psychopathology some astounding parallelisms were elaborated m this comparison of re ligion and psychosis the mental de rangement of the individual the genesis of religion was first described as equivalent to the genesis of an individual psychosis defining psychosis as a psychological avenue of escape for those who have been in capable of making the desired adjust ments dr white explained that one t the first uses of man's intellect m the paleolithic age came as a result of his helplessness his terror his longing for status he used his in tellect to deny the fact of his insig nificance and evolved the germs of the glorious anthropocentric views of the traditionary religions of the present day insofar as a psychosis gives man what he wants makes him the supreme organism m the world the term may be applied to religion thus it naturally follows that the form and content of religion will be similar to the form and content of an individual psychosis so also the psychological mechanism involved m the psychopathic person are identical with those of a religious body their reactions are the same in arguing with a paranoiac or with a funda mentalist reference to reason and fact are equally impervious even the ritual and paraphernalia of collective religion and individual psychopaths are parallel in fact the religious injunctions or taboos sacred objects holy utensils are but institu tionalized compulsions of psyco pathics collective neuroses that have each one of them had individual gene sis m the mind of some influential neurotic u b debate wins unanimous decision over princeton team princeton coach praises arguments and presentation the men's debate tour through eastern pennsylvania and new jer sey was the most successful since the western trip of 1928 the buffalo party included melvin j weig cap tain gustave a nuermberger man ager elmer tropman and emil l cohen the team debated on both sides of the question resolved that all na tions shall immediately completely disarm each government maintaining only such military and naval force as may be necessary for the maintenance f order m the respective countries a nd dependencies at susquehanna university febru ary 25th the u b debaters lost a 1 judges decision the plea of our opponents for conservative national ism was quite convincing to the , judges the next night february 26th at allentown pa the buffalo team up , holding the negative of the disarma ment issue received a well earned judges decision over the debaters of muhlenberg college a team recently successful against the forensic repre sentatives from oxford university this debate was certainly the most keenly contested engagement on the tour although anticipating a keen de bate the buffalo team was certain that the arguments of the princeton team could be successfully coped with on february 27th buffalo and prince ton universities met for the first time on the forensic platform the prince tonians upheld the negative of the disarmament question a unique feature of the debate was that only one rebuttal was given by each side the buffalo case was superbly pre sented by melvin j weig a single judge vote gave the de cision to buffalo the princeton debate coach highly complimented the university of buf campus calendar friday march 7 — 4:15 p.m — honors group meeting miss r witherstine h 292 8:30 p m basketball game roch ester at buffalo dancing monday march 10 — 4 30 p m women's glee club practice auditorium sorority and fraternity night tuesday march 11 — 6:15 p m u b v club central y m c a 7:30 p m men's glee club prac tice central y m c a block b banquet statler ball room friday march 14 — 8:00 p.m biology club women's lounge men's glee club concert lafayette high school noted humorist makes instant hit at convocation i mr e r weeks versatile enter tainer provided faculty and students with a half hour of genuine fun at regular convocation period wednes , day morning march 5 the speaker who is well known not only for his work on the chautauqua platform but '■ also for his interest m music was ' introduced by dr thurber ' addressing the students as col legians and freshmen mr weeks was especially applauded by the upper classmen he favored the children by rendering a pianologue castoria that provoked hearty laughter from all present mr weeks flavored his humor with a dash of the serious and urged us to do our work with the spirit of service for others he concluded with a prayer for a home to emphasize his desire that each one of us have a part m a family circle without which we may not be considered suc cessful m life | darwin's birthday celebrated by bios club with debate the reputation of the bios club for exceptionally fine meetings was not impaired m the least at the dar winian celebration february 14th j glezen watts treatment of gynandromorphs though a tech nical subject was keenly interesting the subject was dextrously handled m a way commendable by all the biographical incidents of charles darwin's life were reviewed by mr bernhaft who clearly showed that evolutionary theories alone were not the salient interests of mr dar win's scientific career was darwin right was lam arck after thirty minutes of verbal battling no one knew abraham block defended darwin and waged much attack on the elasticity of the giraffe's neck lamarck's views were presented by dolores wonnacott m no uncertain manner st valentine also received his need t of attention the social time of i games and refreshments that capped i the evening's entertainment was a ( fitting conclusion for this gala event 1 blackstone legal society banquet set for march 10 monday march 10th will be the big day of the year for blackstone legal society members for on that day dean alden will be feted at the banquet held annually m his honor the alumni club is the scene of the festivities which start at seven o'clock at the regular meeting on wednes day march sth officers for the com ing year were elected the new di rectors of the society will be frank sedita president howard cam paigne vice-president eugene dow ney secretary robert noonan treas urer and michael shea manager joseph auslander reads poetry at statler tonight mr joseph auslander author of many poems which appeal to people of cultivated taste and compiler of the winged horse anthology will recite and lecture on his poems and the progress of poetry m the chinese room of the hotel statler friday evening march 7 every poetry lover m america has heard of mr auslander and this with a moderate admission price is indi cation that a large attendance may be expected this popular lecturer has been brought to buffalo under the joint auspices of the poetry society of buf falo and gay-hagen incorporated articles missing at theater party to be solicited two weeks ago after the junior senior theater party several articles of silverware and a valuable cigarette case disappeared from the little the ater since then these articles have not been returned and the committee would appreciate it if the holders of these souvenirs would return them at once anyone having any idea of the whereabouts of these articles is re quested to get m touch with henry desmon no questions asked prize offered for essay on subject of birth control 1 public lecture on i topic to be given tuesday march 11 the best essay on the subject of birth control submitted by a col lege students to the birth control re view will be rewarded with a twenty five dollar prize and publication of the article m the june issue of the magazine the essay may not be longer than 1500 words designed for the informa tion of readers who know very little of the movement and can discuss the subject from any point of view sug gestions are population pressure and birth control race improvement psy chological factors and similar topics the contest closes april 15th and all essays should be signed with the name address and college of the writer and sent to the editor birth control review 152 madison avenue new york in view of this opportunity to earn a prize the coming lectures on birth control announced by the league of women voters which has voted m favor of giving such information to married persons the first lecture to be delivered tuesday march 11th at 3 o'clock will be on the medical as pect by dr james f cooper medical director of the national birth control league the following lecture which will also be given on tuesday after noons will cover the social economic and eugenics viewpoints the public is invited to attend the lectures continued on page 4 column 3 continued on page 2 column 1 the honors group the next meeting of the hon ors group will be held on fri day march 7 at 4:15 p m m the honors room 292 edmund hayes hall miss ruth vvitherstine will give an illustrated talk on did the ancients build better than the moderns signed richard w boynton chairman bring your girl to block b there will be a meeting of all members of the block b banquet committee alumni and student at the alumni club sunday march 9th 1930 at 4 p m please come whether you have sold any tickets or not signed wm blackburn crush rochester