Bee, 1924-04-03

              the bee no 22 vol iv university of buffalo april 3 1924 debate team to meet new york university second home debate at hutchinson high school next friday u b to take affirmative of world court question a debate team representing new york university will meet a team of tj b debaters next friday evening at tbe hutchinson high school auditor ium in the second home debate of the year new york university is to take the negative of the question resolved that the united states should enter the permanent court nf international justice on the basis of the hughes proposal on the same trip dn which the now york university debaters meet buf falo they engage in four debates with other colleges on wednesday eve ning april 9th new york university stufs at hamilton to debate colgate university on the world court ques tion so that before she meets u of b new york university will have de bated the same subject about tlir-e tines tho u b team is debating the world court question for the f.rst time next friday chancellor capen will preside at the debate but the names of the judges have not yet been announced the learn to represent the university in this deb te is composed of justin morgan law 24 captain john mcnamara arts 26 daniel kfttz arts 23 and john horton arts 20 alternate jus tin morgan and dan katz have rep resented the university before in inter collegiate debates last year mr mor gan look part in the u b victories and captained the team which won a unanimous decision against pittsburg university john horton tied for first prize in the muse and masque speak ing contest and john mcnamara a former hamilton declamation contest winner is also an experienced speaker university of buffalo has never met new york university in any student activity so that the debate next friday will open relations between n y 1 • and u of b new york university ranks high in the intercollegato world in scholarship and in ail branches of student endeavor particularly in de hating does n y u excel every year her teams meet with those of the big gest and best institutions in the coun try in past years her teams have traveled to france to debate the uni versitny of paris tj of b is fortun ate to have secured a place on her sched ule the u b team has been busy for weeks in preparation for the contest and is particularly anxious to maintain the present string of unanimous vic tories after the other varsity team won away from home on a foreign plat form at union college the team to meet n y u is especially desirous to add another victory to the four con secutive wins of the past two years as is the custom in debates the , doors will be thrown open to the public and no admission will be charged it , is only the second time since the be ginning of the school year in septem ber that students are asked to support , debating an unusually lively debate , is tho prospect for next friday evening at hutchinson high school students ■ should remember their presence at that , debate will encourage the team to great \ er efforts and it is hoped to a victory ( over n y u 1 everybody do you want to spend satur day afternoon april 5 in the most popular indoor sport in a delightful place you do good then come to the women's club card party in the georgian room of the hotel statler card games of all kinds are to be played man jong too for those who provide their own sets prices and pleasure assured come and participate in both evelyn harris chosen president of w a a at annual election the annual election of officers of tho women's athletic association was held saturday evening march 29th at townsend hall the following officers were elected president evelyn har ris arts 25 first vice president katherine rowley law 25 second vico president annabelle faulds arts 26 secretary miriam bidder arts 27 it was eminently fitting that the girls chose evelyn harris to lead the wom en's athletic association for the com ing year for miss harris has always shown tho proper university spirit of unselfish service in women's athletics and in other activities also for that matter responsible positions should go to people who can shoulder respon sibility and who possess the real qual ities of leadership the election of evelyn harris assures the w a a not only of a hard and sincere worker lint also of a capable leader to miss dorothy day the retiring president much credit is due with many obstacles in her way miss day accomplished much for girls athletics and left a worthy record for her suc cessors to attempt to equal she also has time and agin shown the real u b spirit in her work iii women's athletics ami other activities tho new officers have a splendid op portunity to build up the association next year this year lias seen a good foundation laid in the girls basket hall activity and with this as a start er tho leaders will endeavor to inter est all the girls in athletics next year the final meeting of the obi coun cil will be held saturday april 5 at 1:15 p in sharp at the law building mr hector appointed assistant professor of physics at u b mr l grant hector of columbia i'niversity has been appointed assist ant professor of physics at the univer sity nf buffalo mr hector graduated from oberlin college in 1920 ho was a student at cilumbia university from 1920 to 1922 receiving the degree of a m at the rnj of that period ho then returned to oberlin college and took charge of tho work in physics during tho leave of absence of profes sor s r williams in 1922-23 in 1923 he was appointed tyudall fellow at columbia university he has been re search assistant to professor wills of tho department of physics and has taught in two summer sessions at col umbia he has published the magnetic susceptibility of oxygen hydrogen and helium ' ' during the war he served as second lieutenant of the 35)th artillery regi ment coast artillery u b musical clubs to stage concert in perrysburg final home concert to be given may 2nd tho u b musical organizations in spite of many obstacles are making famous progress with their schedule of concerts and are bringing credit to the university through their excellent per formances at homo and out of town on march 21st a highly successful concert was staged before the masonic lodge a fino audience enjoyed the selections of tho jazz orchestra and gleo club after the concert the ty rian lodgo served the members of the club a luncheon and dancing followed the tyrian lodge expressed themsel ves as very well satisfied with tho con sent and engaged the u b jazz or chestra for one of their big social events on april 11th the clubs will stage a concert t tho j n adams memorial hospital in perrysburg on the 11th a trip will bo made to loekport where another concert is to be staged the final home concert is to be held may 2nd probably at hotel statler tickets at one dollar a piece will soon bo out for this conceit and every stu dent is expected to turn out upon this occasion to hear the musical clubs it is the only occasion in the year on which he is asked to support the clubs and he should assure the management of his support by getting his ticket in advanco thoso who attended the joint concert with syracuse university will remem ber what a delightful occasion that concert proved to be the clubs will have attained their best form by may 2nd the time of the home concert and promise a delightful program third junior prom at hotel statler april 25th to be social event of college year tho third junior prom in the his tory of the university promises to be the best in every way the ballroom of tho hotel statler wdll this year be the scene of this most joyous occa sion of the college teim to add to the importance and enjoyability of the event the famous lopez orchestra will play from 9 o'clock on supper will bo served at 11 in charge of all the arrangements aro the junior presidents with harold meese 24 as chairman an especially interesting feature of this year's prom will be the tapping of newly elected men to bison head the senior honorary society this the third group to be so honored will be the first group to benefit by this novel way of notification the date april 25 is the most im portant of all this months attractions bo don't forget it buy your ticket early from the committee in charge at 5,011 per couple tf anyone doubts that the 1924 jun the year let him but glance at tho following lines from an editorial of our esteemed contemporary the bison since its humble beginning three vears ago it has increasingly become more and more so the dance of the college year with a greater attendance and why should it not be speed the day when each student will no more think of missing the prom than of missing a no-cut class possibly the day will come when one must have a dean's excuse to avoid it and ac cording to the whispers yells and mut terings that bison has heard this well known function this year will be the best prescription to dispel gloom erase hatred invigorate tho feeble stabilize the unsteady and give rise to joy ex huberanco hilarity and oodles of hap piness in the new hotel statler to the measured music of the best orchestra obtainable let's go mr bradbury speaks to u of b students mr bradbury of the niagara falls power co has recently given two lec tures to groups of university studeuts moving pictures accompanied these two hour discourses and were of a very unusual and entertaining nature con taining many new and worthwhile aero plane views the first of the lectures was given on the 20th of march to the senior pharmics and was attended hy dr gregory the second was given on the ist to the sophomore arts who are taking physics with the approval of dean park professors sherk moore and cooke attended u b debaters defeat union college 3 to 0 union upholds three per cent immigration law unsuccessfully devlin goldstein mcnulty compose u b team at schenectady debating activities were resumed fri day evening march 28 when a team from u b traveled to schenectady to meet union college in forensic com bat the men representing union were leon bron m marshall cohen oswald d lleek and philip dubois alternate while buffalo was represented by fred erick devlin captain robert menulty julius j goldstein and martin g phil lips alternate professor horace grant mckean of union presided the judges were mr j r magawey superintendent of the i american locomotive co reverend i robert wai'reu anthony and mr j f zoller head of the lnternational g e ■ law department • the question discussed was resol i ved that the present immigration law . should bo re-enacted with union on tho affirmative and u of b attacking it the debate was opened by leon brown who argued that ihe present im migration law was founded upon the 1917 immigration law that the pres ent law excludes undesirables illiter ates and radicals mr cohen then cite 1 cases and quoted many to show that tho three per cent law is a happy me dium that immigration was vastly re duced by the per centum enactment ami unemployment has been reduced to a minimum mr lieek concluded for tho affirmative by admitting that many complaints have been received that smuggling is rampant but that it is the result of maladministration and that what we need is not a change of law but rather more stringent enforcement of tint letter of the law mr goldstein opened the negative side by stating what the foundations of a proper immigration law should be — a standard policy that is just to america to the immigrant and to the world ho pointed out that the law is not universal it does not include the entire western hemisphere that since smuggling is so rampant it must bo n poor law that cannot reduce eva sion of its terms to a very small per outage ho closed by pointing out t:o cruel results of the provisions of • a per-centum law when applied to im migrants and their families by sell tion hero and by determining nation ality by place of birth mr menulty continued and proved that the present law was a temporary measure thai ; has no economic foundaton that 3 r i is just guesswork and that loth cap ital and labor are dissatisfied lie show ed that under our law there is no plan for distribution and thus labor i had where it is most needed the defects were all covered when mr i . lin proposed our new immigration plan sanctioned by sec davis it is essen tially this it proposed registration of all aliens and a report yearly so that all here illegally could be deported that all undesirables be deportable un til they become citizens that we select our immigrants abroad and tluit our immigration be regulated and distrib uted by our economic needs to be de termined by an unbiased commissi a the union team were practically able to attack the plan and the deci sion was therefore 3-0 in favor of tbe negative this makes the fourth consecutive and unanimous defeat administered by u of b debating teams to their op ponents the team at this time wishes to ei oess its gratitdue to the gentlemen from union for the royal welcome and entertainment they were aeeorded former u of b girl elected to phi beta kappa at cornell miss mildred p foulke has been elected to phi beta kappa at cornell where sho transferred from the u of is last fall miss fonlke was especial ly honored because two years residence at cornell is required and she was the only no receiving tho distinction who lad attended cornell for one year she received a scholarship in high school to allegheny college from where she transferred to buffalo industrial chemists hear mr mac master mr daniel maemaster of tiumford maine a papermaker with tho oxford paper co addressed the industrial chemists ami the engineer boys on march 28th last he xory elaborately described the paper making process and for one hour gave first hand in formation in a most interesting fa shion mr mac-master lias generously of fered to have a man sent to the uni versity to talk on paper making show ing with moving pictures the exact process the moving pictures and lec ture will last two hours ami promise to lie most fascinating mr maemaster is an old ami stauncl friend of the university the kind we like to have john masmaster presi dent of the junior arts class is tlic second son he is sending to our alma matei the university cannot have too many friends of mr mat-master's type senior dents stage annual banquet the seniors of the dental college held their banquet at whlttman'a cayuga road and genessee streets much credit is to be given to t vic tor martin for the manner in which he handled the affair as general com mitteeman the rest of the commit tee was composed of bill casey in vitations demon t oyer entertain ment and j b master arrange ments the guests of honor were representatives from the dental facul ty—dr j roberts and dr s field a fine representation from both den tal companies were also present the programme of th>e evening included numbers from the banjo of the radio famed joe delaney comic sketches by e3 t clare noted monologist old time pieces by stanley cohen of penn state the cake-walk by everett van der-pool " spilling the beans by bill casey putrescent and ster ile root canals by a munson speeches were in order and appreciated by drs fino and rahuts messrs mar tin marsh and beajy the function was well attended and pronounced one of the most successful affairs of the year our advertisers are buffalo's best patronize them second home debate april uth at hutch against new york u