The Griffin: volume 04, issue 14 - Apr. 30, 1937

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Vol. IV., No. 14
CANISIUS COLLEGE, BUFFALO, N.Y.
April 30, 1937
WILL CONVENE AT MUSIC HALL SUNDAY
Council Dance Tonight Will Climax Social Season
Regan Swingsters To Furnish Music For Spring Dance
Committee Expects Record Crowd
at Beautiful Sheridan Drive
Park Club Ballroom
One-Act Drama By Edmund J. Kelly Is 'Quarterly Winner'
Freshman Wins First Award With
Lunch-Car Play; James Kenney
Next With English Comedy
Ballots Will Fly and Juniors Will Jeep on Moving-Up Day
Student Body Will Elect Officers
of Classes and Organizations
Friday Morning, May 14
By CLAY BARTH
The season of open dances spon¬ sored by the College will close tonight with the 'Student Council's Spring Dance <it the Park Country Club, Sheridan Drive.
Music for this climax event of a year of highly successful dances will be furnished by Gene Regan and his Orchestra. Dancing will be from 10:30 to 2:30.
All organizations of the College, through their representatives, who have seats on the student governing body, are sponsoring this affair. Council members Ben Werth, James Hurley, William Flynn and Richard Anthony have been in charge of arrangements.
Tickets, which can still be secured from any Council member today, are going, at $1.75, with the price advanc¬ ing ta-$2.00 at the door. According to the Committee, the advance sale indicates a record crowd tonight.
The dance is being conducted for the benefit of the Sindele Memorial Fund, and all proceeds will go toward this worthy drive. For this reason, especially, the Student Council is depending on the full support of the student body and their friends.
Edmund J. Kelly of Freshman Arts, has been announced <as first prize   winner   in   the   "Quarterly's"
Dr. Hanley Speaks At Mendel Soiree
Banquet Marks Close of Successful Season of Activities
By MICHAEL. J. MENZA'
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"To know what to do, is wisdom; to know how and what to do, is skill; and to do the right thing at the right time, is service." Thus spoke Dr. Lawrence Hanley, M.D., guest of honor at the Mendel Club banquet, held Monday evening at the Hotel Touraine. This .affair marked the close of the most successful and active year since the club's formation 1936.
Speakers of the Evening Mr. George Digman,  '37,  toast- master,   humorously   presented   the speakers of the evening.   "Second to none in this capacity, and deeming it a high honor," he said, "I present to you Father John Frisch, S.J., who is responsible for the wonderful success and reputation which  this club en¬ joys."   Others who addressed the club were    Doctors   Lawrence   Hanley, Albert P. Lorz, Albert R. Sh.adlc, Joliii J. Elliott, and Messrs. Charles A. Zenkert, B.A., and Mr. James W. I'Hurley, '37, president.
EDMUND J. KELLY
original one-act play writing contest. Second honors have been awarded to James E. Kenney. Prizes of fifteen and ten dollars will be presented to the winners, respectively.
Ronald J. Dunlavey, Editor in Chief of the "Quarterly" and director of the contest, had twelve original one-acters given him by members of the student body. These were sub¬ mitted to the judges, Charles A. Bradyj A. M., professor of Latin and English in Sophomore, and Walter J. Barrett of the Studio Players, the BBC Players, and McKinley High teaching staff. Both judges selected the plays of Kelly and Kenney, in that order.
Kelly's drama, "None So Blind," is a story of life .as seen and e.\peri- enced in a roadside lunch-room, the "dining-car" type. The young coun¬ try fellow working there behind the
KELLY WINS
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Brother Born To Peter Canisius
Prof. Barrett Congratulated
One sure sign that the school year is fading is the waning color of the cheeks of the Seniors. Another is the rapid advance of Moving-Up Day. At present that red letter day is but two weeks away. May 14th.
Up You Go On th.at day the Fourth Annual Moving-Up Day of the College, the baby Griffin will leap from his nest anxious to rejich the Sophomore deck with his new found wings. The beast of that same deck will stretch his claws and turn a greenish eye at the Junior Prom and will leap to that position.
The proud Griffin of the successful Prom, who strides the lofty .bench of the third year, with head held high and wings spread, will soar to the lofty bluff, at last a Senior. But on that day when everybody is moving up, what happens to the Senior? Al¬ most forgotten, that, wizened beast, with greying mane, slinks into his cloister. He alone looks far away, and "psych" exams are prodding him
Campaigning Time Again Behind it all there is another scene, a scene which is known to be office campaigning. The men who do the campaigning are men of action and ambition. Some will succeed and be¬ come the officers of next year.
Several main posts for which the student body votes are: the President of the Student Body and the three Athletic Association officers. Peti¬ tions for these offices must be in by May 3, and nominees for all other Class offices and organizations must be submitted by Miiy 4. During the next two weeks the politicians will sing their songs and cigars will be in evidence. In the next issue of the "Griffin" campaign letters will be
printed.      ,    .      ,    t   . Juniors to Jeep
One of the things which make that
day a big affair for the Junioi-s, is the
Moving-Up Day Dance.   This year
it will again be held at the Park Club,
an exclusive, beautiful clubhouse for
Spring   Dances.     It   is   under   the
fingers of John T. Allen,  who as
Chairman  is  arranging the  details.
The dance is closed to Juniors.
Ronald J. Dunlavey Is Renamed Editor Of '37 'Quarterly'
Moderator Reappoints Junior Chief Post;   Praises Staff On Year's Cooperation
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Ronald J. Dunlavey of the present Junior class, will enter his second consecutive year as Editor-in-Chief of
Debaters Will Vie For $50 Award In Contest at K. C.
Neylon - Lawandus    and    Flynn- Lanz Teams Will Discuss Court Reform Plan, May 3
Diocesan Youth To Greet New Bishop
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Fr. Francis Le Buffe, Fr. Leonard
Feeney, Noted Essayist, Will
Address Sodalist Throng
MENDEL BANQUET
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S. V. deP OFFERS '•'NEW HAT
If you don't teach catechism, you can at least help those who do, and in addition you may win a new spring hat for yourself.
¦The St. Vincent dePaul Society offers you an opportun¬ ity ;tp do both, in the dniwing le(ng, held to provide financial ad foi-.its catechetical work.
RONALD J. DUNLAVEY
"The Canisius Quarterly" next fall. Announcement of the rc-appointnient was m<ade this week to the "Griffin" by Mr. Arthur R. McGratty, S.J., moderator of the school literary mag¬ azine.
"In appointing Mr. Dunlavey for this second tenn of office," Mr. Mc¬ Gratty explained, "I .am happy to find myself on a clearly indicated path. Our editor h;is been the outstanding student contributor to the "Quar¬ terly" for the past three years. His versatile pen h;is given the under¬ graduate body a continuous How of plays, poems, articles and editorials. The success of the mag.azine this year in its strikingly new format and timely manner h;is been due to Mr. Dunlavey in greater part. At the s.ame time I am not unmindful of the splendid work of the board of asso¬ ciate editors, realizing that without
At the Annual Prize Debate next Monday evening one of the following competing teams will be tiic fortunate recipient of a prize of fifty dollai's: John J. Neylon and Milton F. Lawandus or William J. Flynn, Jr. and James M. Lanz. The occasion will be the Academia's yearly debate for tlic Lawrence J. Collins Memor¬ ial Prize.
Tiiis year's competition promises to be a spirited one, for the subject imdcr discussion will be the President's Court Reorganization Proposal, a topic which has caused widespread comment throughout the nation, and which is before the Congress at the present time.
The Affirmative will be upheld by the team of Neylon and Lawandus, with Flynn and Lanz advocating the Neg.ative side of the question.
The debate is scheduled for 8:00 P. M., at the Knights of Columbus Auditorium on Delaware Avenue. Judges for the competition will be: Daniel J. Kenefick, Captain Calvert K. Mellen, former principal of Laf.ny- ette High School; and Charles W. Whitney, Principal of Riverside High School.
With higli expectations of a success greater tlian any previously achieved by their efforts, 5,000 students from
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Dr. M. Lewis Will Address Graduates
Noted Educator Will Speak at Commencement, June 6
^Courtesy Catholic Union & Times FH. LEONARD J. FEENEY, S. J.
the scliools comprising the Student Sodality Conference of Western Npiv ' York, Eric, and Ontario will as,semble in the Elmwood Music Hall on Sun¬ day, May 2, at 1 P. M.
Sodalists IVelcomc Bishop This year, in addition to the usual fine program of speakere that h.as characterized the past gatherings, the convention w'ill take on another note —that of a formal welcome by the
DUNLAVEY APPOINTED
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Professor Edward F. Barrett is all out of cigars. On top of this, his arm, from ceaseless handshaking, is sorer than Bob Feller's after a tough nine- inning tussle with the Giants. The reason for all the celebration is Mr. David Martin Barrett, exactly nine d.ays old at press time.
Now Peter Canisius Barrett, the second eldest of the Barrett children, hiis discarded, for the moment, his lemon lollypops and choo-choo trains in favor of the new interest, tiny baby brother David.
Frosh Writes Poem So great was the interest in the faculty member's good fortune, that Donald L. Ginnane, of the freshman prelegal class, was inspired to peii the following verse, appropriately titled "Piipai":  ¦
The clock luas ticking on the wall As a certain professor greiu tenser;    , He paced the dull and dreary hall And the air grew steadily denser. The ghosts of all his past sprang ^tp To haunt him as he waited; Eventually the nurse slmued \up. He stopped—relieved—elated.
Summer School to Open July 6; Will Feature New History Courses
Many new courses will be offered in the Canisius Summer School which opens Tuesdjiy morning, July 6, the Dean's Office announced today.
Professor Paul Conroy will con¬ duct courses in the history of Ameri¬ can political theory; the Westward Movement; Modern Democracies; the Age of Absolutism, and Nine¬ teenth Century Liberalism. The latter tAvo are graduate courses. Study of Constitution Courses in the History and Devel¬ opment of the American Constitution, a study of the historical b.ackground and development of the Constitution of the U. S. in the leading decisions of the Supreme Court, and the status of the New Deal under the Constitution, will be given by Professor Edward F. Barrett. In these courses, actual cases will be read and discussed.
Professor Charles Brady will have chsirge of courses in the Ecologues
and Georgics of Vergil, in which special emphasis will be placed upon the Piistoral as a literary type in modern as well as classic literature from Theocritus through Edmund Spenser, down to Robert Frost.
Courses in Drama Prof. Brady will also give courses in the Arthurian Legend in English Literature from Sir Thomsis Mallory to Masefield and Edward Arlington Robinson; Modern Drama from Ibsen to Maxwell Anderson, with emphasis on the English and Ameri¬ can dramatists, Shaw, Barric, Gals¬ worthy, O'Neil, Pir,nndcllo, Molnar, and T. S. Eliot.
Another course in Mental Hygiene, the interplay between physical, emo¬ tional and environmental fjictors as they make for personality adjustment or maladjustment, will be discussed. Registration days are July 1, 2, 3.
Dr. William Mather Lewis, presi¬ dent of Lafayette University, Easton, Pa., will be the principal speaker at the graduation exercises June 6, at the Elmwood Music Mall, it was announced  recently.
Rev. Francis X. Dougherty, S. J., president of Canisius High School, and former Dean of the College, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at a solemn high niiuss, to be held in St. Vincent's Church, Saturday morning, June 5.
Doctor Mather, during the World War years, was executive secretary of the National Committee of Patriotic Societies and later director of the S.avings Division of tlie United States Trejisury Department and Chief of the Education Service of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Previ¬ ous to his appointment to president of the university, he w.is m.ayor of Lake Forrest, Illinois.
SODALITY CONVENTION
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Wai Play Host To W.N.Y.Librarians
To Compile List of Religion Books Recommended for High Schools
Signeur to Talk At Alumni Meet
Today crime detection is an im¬ portant topic of discussion in articles, addresses and radio programs. It is in everybody's mind. Tin's will be the topic of the speaker for the next regular breakfast of the Alumni Sodality, on May 2nd.
Mr. Austin Signeur, M.S., Assist¬ ant Professor of Clicmistry at the College will be the speaker. "Scien¬ tific Methods in Crime Detection" will be his subject. He will speak of tlic methods chemistry employs, and the uses it has, in the scientific field of sleuthing.
Father Andrew L. Bouwhuis, S.J., Librarian of  the college,  will play host   tomorrow  at  2:30   P.M.,   to librarians from Catliolic institutions of Western New York in a meeting called for the puijiose of compiling a list of books on Religion recommended for Catholic high .sciiool students. Fr. Bouwhuis has been engaged in this project for some time and hius sent a ((uestionnaire to 100 influential Cath¬ olic high schools of the United States for assistance.    "Librarians will  be .able to guarantee the worthwhileness of these booLs as to content," he say.s, "and each book, before being put on the list, will have met the approval of students for style, presentation, and interest."
Tlie bibliogr.aphy, which will' re¬ quire a year for its completion, will deal with the following subjects: Teaching of Religion, Bible, Ntw' Testament, Catholic Doctrine, Life of Christ, Life of the Blessed Mother, Grace, Faith, Redemption, Com¬ mandments, Apologetics, Devotional Works, Religious Art, Personal Reli¬ gion, The Mass, The Sacrairicnts, The Liturgy, Missions, Church His¬ tory, Religious Vocations, Young People's Problems, and other subjects under Religion, uncltissified.
AZUWUR
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distributed  Monday,   May  3j
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