Bee, 1924-11-06

              the bee no 7 vol v university of buffalo november 6 1924 library leading social agency says dr shearer library has become an excellent example of socialism the library in its support its con trol and direction hy tin stnti its re sponse in people's demands bus become an example of socialism 1 ' said dr shearer in the fifth lecture of the fnc nlty series riven at the grosvenor last tuesday afternoon on the library s nu index to social movements as nn example of socialism it ful fills the requirements of the socialist platform as laid clown in 1875 and recently reiterated the whole pro duction of labor is due to society in this case of course brain labor is meant which is accepted by the socialist as an essential component of labor as a whole the program demands that the means of production should be trans formed into common property of so ciety this has been done with the books in the libraries and the distribu tion of the brain laborer's work js made equitable according to the ex penditure of effort made by the labor er himself since there is no material reward evident all this lias been done almost unknown to the library worker as well as to the theorist or agitator outside of the library and far from arousing fears on the part of the conservatives has been encouraged by them " kut this is not the end of the matter through libraries individuals have been encouraged to purchase books of their own that is the tool of their trade the publishers recognize this fact and librarians have com mented upon it the result will be a larger and better individualism due to the exis tence of this socialistic agency and if the library is in the forefront of social movements then it is possible to judge from this example tha.t the fears of the deadening effects nf socialism upon individuals will not be realized but thai socialism will be a slage in de velopment of a higher individualism lii discussing tin library as an in dex of social movements dr shear r took up the position of the library in past ages in an attempt to show its re lationship to general conditions in the middle ages said dr shearer the churchmen were tin es who could use and needed libraries they collected them therefore took care of them and used them during the renaissance the learned class ex tended beyond the church and those interested in the use of books gathered around the universities so that librar ies wen found as an accompaniment of university instruction students hear prof holmes of oberlin tuesday morning professor holmes of oberlin college gave an informal lecture in foster hall on the chemistry of colloids despite the fact that it was a holiday quite a lew were in at tendance and all were treated to an extremely interesting lecture professor holmes started his talk with a short history of colloid chemis try and continued by telling of the more r at advances and classification in this field he himself has spent a g 1 number of years in research in this branch of chemistry and he re counted many interesting experiment and results of his work the lecture was punctuated with sev eral spectacular demonstrations includ ing a vibrating jell professor hol mes had made which actually sue at a certain pitch genera know led and methods of research in colloid chemistry were treated and the talk was ended by a summation nf the uses ot colloids it is regretted that professor hol mes address bad to occur nn a holl day as many students missed a vei.v good lecture put across by a man who knows his subject o he breathed a prayer upon her head siie up and sniffed the air you've eaten onion yes he said to add strength to my prayer but this meal i e i 1 "' l 11 ; fessor said as he wiped the gravy nil his vest frosh return dance to sophs hear ye all on november 15 saturday evening at towns end hall at 8:30 the frosh give their return dance to the sophomore class beautiful de corations delicious refresh ments and wonderful music ie the order or the evening what more could one ask .' we assume that by this time every one is fairly well ac quainted and an ideal evening is anticipated the freshmen are working hard to make their dance a roarin success so turn out and help don't forget the 15th after the hobart game let's go letter men need help to rally old grads for homecoming we will need the help of all students and alumni to put over the block l round up on alumni day the hobart game is mu big game and all block b men of hie university as far back as university teams started are urged to at lend this game in a body the students can help by not only talking things up among the grade lint by looking up the old athletes and their teams it will be a big help to get tie old timers out the iliimni will be the besl medium for letting us know who played on their teams and tin 1 whereabouts of athletes in their time we feel it is up to them to give us this information and to persuade tin grade of athletics to attend the members of the block h " elub are all working to make this a red letter day for b men of the pas and present also for the alumni for the students and the university any information regarding the ath letes of the past will be appreciated we want to establish better records get in touch with dim arlinger den tal school 25 goodrich street hon h a l fisher to lecture monday the honorable 11 a l fisher m p a member of the lloyd george cabinet will deliver two lectures dur ing the coming week at townsend hall the brst lecture will be given mi november tenth the subject nf this will be scholars am statesmen i have known the second lecture will be d tlivered mi november eleventh mr fisher is c ing under the au spices nf the university of buffalo as one of the great exponents of educa tion in england he was formerly a tutor winning a fellowship at new college oxford later he became vici'-chancellor of sheffield university ia llllti he was made president of the board of education and was seat to parliament as a representative of the english universities mr fisher's most famous achievement is his edu cation law which niters great oppo ■ tunities for future public education in england mr fisher is the author of napoleonic statesmanship political history of england and the republi can tradition iu europe new director of musical clubs has fine record jay mark ward is making splendid progress at u b musical organizations have a real di rector in mr ward activities are already showing ef fects of inspiration received from their new leader it may be interesting to the students to know something of mr ward's his tory jay mark ward singer teacher and conductor deserves his title not only because of his inherent qualifications but because his ability is the result of long experience and constant study un der tin 1 foremost american masters j is a career well earned mr ward was born in new vork state his early life was replete with musical influences for his father wa a well-known violinist and his mother was a gifted pianist his early music study was confined to the piano and the pipe organ ppon his entry to the university of buffalo college of phar macy he was persuaded to take up the study of voice which resulted in his engagement as soloist and precentor id a prominent church in western new york following his gradual ion he went to rochester where he continued his musical education which quickly gained for him the position of direc tor of music of the park avenue bap tist church which afterwards united with the present nationally known bap tist temple to which mr ward had gone in the same capacity the previous year this position he held for ten years shortly after taking up his residence in rochester he was invited by the uni versity of rochester to direct the ac tivities of the women's glee club he accepted the offer and held the pos ition for five years in nineteen hundred and ton he went to new vork city and studied intensive ly under the famous teacher john wal ter hall two years later he again re turned to new vork placing himself under ihe instruction of the two emi nent musicians and pedagogues oscai saenger voice and tali kssen morgan orchestral and choral conductor since then he has continued studying orches tral conducting specialized in violin cello with bedridi vashka of the new vork string quartet and taught sing ing three years ago he was asked to lake the conductors stand of the canon daiglia choral club one of the oldest choral festival organizations in the state during these festivals several of the most famous singers of the country have sung under his baton this year the city of rochester recog nizing his ability and talent as a lead er engaged him to direct one of the programs of the recent choral festi vals held at the rochester exposition he has been re-engaged for another year the canandaigua times says of mr ward he is a musician of thorough training a gentleman of pleasing per sonality and a conductor who is at once tactful and capable dr boynton translates autobiography of catholic modernist from french the e p button 00 has announce i the publication of a bonk which it con siders to be one of the most important mi iis list for this year my llml willi tin vatican by alfred i.oisy was trans lated from the french by dr richard wilson boynton this volume is tiie autobiography of the catholic modernist alfred loisy professor of the history of religions in the college nf france it is an :>, count of the lifelong struggle of the author to mc tile established tradi tion to modernism the translation nf my dm i with un vatican is of special interest to am eiican because flu author's discussion nf his theological biblical and critical problems have a very direct bearing upon the prevailing universal problems of t imidaiim'ii ali-111 and i iprnism a • d boynton explains in the foreword the index which was compiled especial ly far this translation intends to show at a glance how intimately the cuts of the book are related to a wide range of burning questions of the moment dr boynton has prefaced the book with a biographical sketch of loisv which is valuable for its completeness and for the simplicity ami directness of its style ( ' orning loisy himself his book and his position dr boynton says his book belongs in the same lass with theirs john henry newman and ernest kenan and in its distinction i styles its dramatic and human ap peal and its psychological and his torical interest falls no whit behind .- ml again this volume i issued in the hope of making one nf the most re markable of living frenchmen better known to the english-speaking world buffalo team to tackle ancient foe at rochester students accompany varsity to flower city this saturday bisons prepare to defeat traditional rival in annual fray coach carrick s charges will be up 1 against a real test next saturday whet | they travel to rochester to beat that university team the dead c.'ifv bovs have been playing big time football in every encounter this season and if ad vance dope means anything buffalo will meet in that team the toughest opposition faced this year u of r last week defeated renssa lner polytechnics institute by a scoro of 7 to i and r p 1 had previously overwhelmed clarkson by an impressive score roasting a heavy low charging line and a tricky light backfield the rochester team looks forward to an easy victory if newspapers of that town are to be believed in the past years rochester has been returned the victor upon almost everv meeting with buffalo and for the past two years the margin of victory has liecn two touchdowns or more in order to support the team in its hour of need every student should em bark for rochester next saturday morning and help those boys who aro helping your university l'laus have been made and will be found in this edition of the bee to furnish transpor tation at a reasonable cost for every u of b student let every student turn out — take rochester by storm anil see our team break the jinx that fol lows it yesterday closed the sale of bus tick ets and it is hoped that a number of buses can be chartered henry koznu head cheerleader is preparing for a celebration and parade thin rochester before the game and requests till thoso who are going down in cars or other wise to get in touch with him at tin deijjgu scihool in order to arrviugi meeting places for the parade iu ro chester let's go to rochester lets go buffalo i where is nil that tnlk about hiring a bus to see that u of §.— rochester game at rochester november s don't let the spirit lag talk it up and get a crowd give your team some real support when they play one of the biggest games of the year there are plenty just waiting for an opportun ity to get down to see that game get together and char ter that bus it won't cost much and you'll have a dandy time quite a tew of the fra ternities are going to roches ter in full force don't let them lie the only ones to sup port your team come on buf falo i let's go university again has fine band this year dr a b lemon faculty advisor for musical activities and joseph meekin band leader have again been successful in gathering together an excellent uni versity band which has been instru mental in arousing spirit at the foot ball games by its tine performances in its new uniforms of blue an i white which are the last word ill col legiate band equipment the varsity band presented a splendid appearance last saturday on rotary field and sent a thrill thru every loyal f b student to friends and alumni who visit ro tary field to see the football games the band is an advertisement and indica tion of the progress and growth ot sfu dent activities in general for their services iu the past the band was more than deserving of proper equipment in the way of new uniforms which the s a ( '. and dr let 1 were able to pro cure this year the band is planning to accompany the football team to rochester this sat urday and form the rallying point at the game for the many f b students who are also going down following is the roster of the band these are the men who have given their time and services to help develop uni versity spirit : band holl medicine — ernes smith werner rose michael mnggiore pharmacy — 1 lard johnson peter inlricri wm voung parker llerz berger ben rcsinone christ ander son john boyer john noble j r power wm zaidee m lewis law — s h skinner m lutwack dentistry — jos meekin leader fred kmerling nicholas gimigliano arts w t murphy c b hortoi i j nancetti carl coots hon john h clarke at league of nations association luncheon the league of nations non-partisan association which met about a year and a half ago at a luncheon in honor of lord robert cecil will have anoth er opportunity to come together to dis cuss international relations in the light of more recent events an interesting luncheon will be held on wednesday november 12th at 12:45 in ihe fillmore room of the hotel statler the guest of honor shall be the hon john ii clarke for mer justice of the united stales su preme court who resigned that office some time ago in order to devote his entire time to work in behalf of the league and has just returned from geneva girl's hike saturday hiking is one of th st interesting outdoor activities the hike of satur day october 25 proved a big success eleven girls turned out and hiked long the canadian shore to the end of crescent beach and back a distanci of 111 miles iu all h.tiriet montague is hike li ader this year and good times are assured there will be a hike saturday november s gills will meet a the main s t r line at 2 p m arts frosh elect perm anent officers the freshman arts club met for the election of permanent officers tor tho year october 23rd the election re sulted in the choice nf the same offic ers who were chosen temporarily i month ago ami iu addition a marshal was added to the executive staff fol lowing is a list of the officers president paul fell vice-president — m iss whitney secretary — miss brown treasurer — joseph lehman marshall — mathew ryan committees were appointed to work on plans for the freshman dance to bo held on november __ iu townsend ball from 8:80-12:00 this is in re turn to the sophomore class who ran the get-acquainted dance for tho freshmen shortly after school opened debate club holds second meeting catherine rowley law 25 was el ected vice-president of the debate club at its w nl meeting october 2'ir.l at townsend hall miss rowley lias been one of the inos active members of tho debate club for several years and last year was secretary in the abs le of the president mi-^s macaleer preside and ably li.-m lied the business of the meeting the grain for the evening consisted of a debate between john mcxamnrn and roswell rosengren on the republican and independent party platforms fol lowed by informal discussion tha populnr decmon upheld mr mcxamari and the progressive platform preliminary tryouts for the men s varsity dehati team will be lie i pi i day evening november uth it towns i hall all candidates arc re pi i i to prepare a ' five minute speech on either side of the qui si ion r - il ■ ! : that hie provisi ins of the johnson h i which excluded the japanese shou n penled v student an hope i a place on the debnte team unli ci mpetes in this preliminary tiyout a letter man's spirit never dies oar advertisers are buffalo's best patronize them