Bee, 1925-12-18

              the bee vol 6 university of buffalo dec 18 1925 no 11 noted english educator is guest of university defines treaty as series of local pacts of nations indicates league as university for young locarno and after was the sub ject of the second lecture of the fen ton foundation series given at town send hall thursday evening decem ber 10 alfred e zimmern the speaker of the evening was intro duced by dean park who gave a brief resume of professor zimmern's career as dean park expressed it professor zimmern's pedigree is too long to be given in a short time and may be read in who's who but in who's who only his virtues are given and one must read between the lines to know much about him an important virtue to us however is his great friendship for the univer sity of buffalo and buffalo due to dr zimmern u of b is better known in europe than in many parts of the united states professor zimmern is a fellow and tutor at new college oxford was a professor at yale and was the first to be accorded the woodrow wilson scholarship to the prince of wales college in opening the lecture dr zim mern stated locarno is simply a collection of nine documents a series of local agreements between great britain france germany belgium england poland and czecho-slo vakia but the spirit of its makers and followers makes it different from the league of nations the reception of the document is more important than the document itself in it noth ing is said about outlawing war war is not illegitimate and there is no definition of an aggressor the men who drew it up might have gone farther they took great risks but the risks were much less the day after they were signed than at the time of signing in 1918 there was great doubt if the various settlements would succeed and two fields of thought stood be tween versailles and locarno some thought the only way was to revise yet people offered no new so lution of revision others thought the destruction of the old methods the only way that in the words of brown ing the only way was to remold to shatter this thing entire and to remodel it to their heart's desire a popular solution was to take what they had and make the best of it as many believed evolution bet ter than revolution men set to work to strengthen this element to sain confidence and to make possible peaceful adjustment in matters of real significance this will make euro pean politics much more exciting than heretofore and it is a sign of health and advance for things are now to be said at liocarno which heretofore have been secretly carried on by the various governments the possible results of locarno are due to the acts of a number of long distance factors — forces under the surface seven factors have made it possible and are still working the first is time — every passing day makes for peace and peaceful adjust ment in bringing to front one who has thoughts more in harmony with the outside world > the second is the increased strength of peasant proprieties — great feudal systems have been overthrown and land reforms in various states have presrvance is subject at last u.b club meeting cap mellen of lafayette gives forceful lecture take hold hold on never let go that is the definition of persever ance said captain calvert k mellerj to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience at the meeting of the u b club on tuesday night you may go to any dictionary — webster's new in ternational new english and the rest and you won't find any better defini tion than that one given by a negro preacher to his congregation years ago in his illimitable manner cap pro ceded to cite shining examples of per severance from the history of our own country the pilgrims fighting the american wilderness thirough their first winter washington and his faith ful men during the disheartening weeks at valley forge franklin in his upward struggle in the face of oppo sition lincoln unhonored and alone during the great crisis grant edison ford and westinghouse were all point ed out by the speaker as typical of the grit that wins history accord ing to mr mellen is man's struggle for opportunity and he certainly proved that he who takes hold holds on and never lets go will succeed by special request he recited for the con clusion of his speech the optimistic poem it coudn't be done the last lines of which are start right in with the trace of a grin just take off yoir coat and go to it start in to sing as you tackle the thing that couldn't be done and you'll do it world court vote the result of the vote taken on the world court question in the dif ferent colleges of the university are as follows law school in favor 174 against 41 medical school in favor 134 against 119 arts and pharmacy in favor 181 against 86 of the 735 votes cast 489 were in favor and 246 were against the united states joining the league this is a very small number in com parison to the approximate 2,000 stu dents who could have voted it was felt that the student body as a whole should have shown a little more interest in the project arts soph basketball a sophomore basketball team has been organized for the coming season and gives promise of defeating the best in the college among the can didates are buchholtz jetter farrow otto ungerer doty behrens lyles heist and rowe the practice game with hutch showed that the boys can go the medical school issued a sweep ing challenge to all comers and the sophs are ready any time and any where bring on the stiffs from medicine debaters emerge victorious form syracuse clash opler brownstein and nagel show first class form forensic relations between syracuse university and the university of buf falo were opened last tuesday eve ning at syracuse with a debate on the question resolved that the united states should enter the world court with the harding-hughes res ervations the buffalo team consist ing of morris opler hubert nagel and joseph brownstein upheld the affirmative of the question while the syracuse team consisting of milton wexler n j roberts and douglas meredith upheld the negative the judges mr h p deunison a wes leyan man mr willard glen of wil liams both of the syracuse bar and the rev mr r n woodcock of i inceton gave their decision two to one to the buffalo team in opening the affirmative case hubert nagel argued for american adherence to the court on three grounds that the court is the culmin ation of american ideals and the em bodiment of american policy for the settlement of international disputes that the court through its organiza tion record and personnel justifies our reposing of confidence in it and finally that the court and our ad herence to it are supported by a cri tical and intelligent public opinion in continuing joseph brownstein showed clearly the difference between arbitration and judicial settlement pointing out that it is judicial settle ment that the court is intended to effect and that in doing so it supple ments but does not supersede the old er hague tribunal brownstein's ma jor argument however was that the court is the one most effective in strument for the orderly consistent and continual development of inter national law in closing the affirmative case mor ris opler established the court's in dependence of the league of nations showing that it was not by the act of nations as members of the league but rather by their act in a separate capacity ratifying a separate proto cal that the world court was estab lished that moreover the league is incapable of removing the judges of the court or prescribing their rules of procedure or commanding an ad visory opinion that even the salary of the salaries of the judges are pro vided for in a budget district from that of the budget of the league and that in elections to the court the council and assembly so far from choosing directly choose only from a list of names submitted by the na tional groups of the hague court of arbitration whatever tenuous con nection however might remain de clared opler would be entirely sev ered by the reservations the negative case was argued with spirit and ability depending upon the propositions that the court so far from being american in principle has been so changed from its original plan designed by mr root as to form an integral part of the league of na tions with which it is inseparably bound that the court since it can deal with only technical not economic or political disputes is so fundament ally defective as to be useless that the public opinion in support of it is little else than the result of clever but not very sound propaganda the buffalo men were entertained hospitably by individual members of the university such as leroy fleisch er the manager of debate and daniel katz formerly of buffalo now in the graduate school of politics and fin ally by the members of sigma alpha epsilon and theta alpha bulls meet powerfull five of university of toronto canadians cross border confident of big success locals in fine condition following last week's win tonight powell's aggregation will enter their second contest of the sea son when they line up against the renowned toronto university five runners up for the championship for the season of 1924 and champions of canada for 1925 the canadians boast of an exceedingly fast quintet tricky in offense and strong in defense the toronto team is especially anxious to avenge last year's sting ing defeat of 37 to 22 those who witnessed this contest last year will remember it was one of the most thrilling of the season the visiting live exhibited the peculiar territory style of guarding which was pene trated only by our speedy little cap tain and forward who registered 17 points during the fray from dope available the maple leafs will pre sent four veterans in hutchinson a six-foot light pivot all-canadian man potter and smith two fast and dan gerous offensive men and taylor an all-canadian guard the bulls are in trim and raring to go although last week's encoun ter against rochester was unimpres sive this week's story will be en tirely different our team will enter minus the over-confident and easy win spirit and as a result will un doubtedly exhibit the old brand of fast clean and impressive basketball coach powell has primed his team during the past week in long strenu ous practice sessions against the buf falo professionals with a decided improvement in the milling style of offense the bisons will show team work that was sorely needed in last week's contest as this is the last game before the christmas vacation it is absolutely essential that the entire student body as well as the faculty turn out and support the team it is only with this kind of a spirit that any kind of a championship team can be displayed as usual dancing will follow the game mount st joseph's invaded by glee club for concert voices show real training given by ward wednesday evening the men's glee club of the university of buffalo gave a concert at the mount st joseph school this makes their second ap pearance this season miss charlotte rains violinist assisted the club as soloist the singing of the glee club dis closed the excellent vocal quality and balance of voice which are so vital in determining the success of any group of singers in introducing huhn's invictus on the program the club has gone far toward approach the standards set by the larger important glee clubs in the college world be sides invictus which was especially well done heav'n heav'n mar quitoss and cabellero were given a spirited performance harmony was especially noticeable in the two numbers rendered by the varsity quartet these four men cer tainly acquitted themselves in splen did manner especially in stars of a summer night miss rains in the presentation of rondino and her collection of d'ambrosia and hochstein showed ad mirable command of her instrument her tone is both authoritative and agreeable and her style is of consid erable finish mr joseph dempsey sang a group of d'hardelot and sanderson his clear tenor voice and good style winning unanimous approval jay mark ward is entering upon his second year as director of music at the university his capable hand ling of the men is subject to no little praise and is bound to bring the men out among the foremost of college glee clubs first assembly of arts college women is held the first assembly of the arts col ltge girls was held at nine-thirty on wednesnay morning december six teenth in the girls room at foster hall it has been decided to hold these convocations on the third wednesday of each month they will be held under the supervison of the senior girls and will present an ex cellent opportunity for the develop ment of leadership and spirit of co operation dorothy pierman vice-president of the senior class acted as chairman of the occasion dean mcdonald ex plained the purpose of these meetings after which the program proceeded song — a university hymn reading — on libraries by lucile james piano solo — libestrum by liszt shadow dance by mcdowell played by ruth zackem reading — chanticleer by sonia bear song one night when i was snug in bed the songs were lead by miss eliz abeth armstrong accompanied by elaine rubery in closing the alma mater was sung the next program which will be presented january 20 1926 is undei the direction of marion macdonalt and pearl siegel debaters hold next meeting on jan 13 the next meeting of the debating club will be held on the second wed nesday of january at townsend hall at 8 o'clock at which time tryouts will be held for the varsity teams of the second semester all candidates should come prepared with a five min ute speech on some phase of the question resolved that the pending child labor amendment should be ra tified at the auspicious beginning now made every member of the de bating club should be encouraged ev ery non-member attracted and foren sics at the university of buffalo un der the able coaching of miss helen dwight reid given a strong and last ing impetus continued on page 3 ii?jsiajafi3ji?ui @ at the meeting of the football a g squad held on wednesday night b b december 16 at the university b g of buffalo alumni club jud ro s a sengrant was elected captain a 3 lor 1926 gjarg^(g^[g^fg^jrj[g^^rgjgj^|315maii5i3raiai a it would be of great help to s a the faculty and administration a i if students would read the g ij faculty bulletin board relig e 0 iously delays in answering a a | summons cause much real g | trouble and annoyance ii only a little time is necessary s 1 to scan the notices posted or to jjjj {] carry the news of a posted name b 3 to the person it concerns and m 0 the consideration for the g | faculty will be appreciated