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K I ^HE University was shocked and June 3. About $10,000 worth of damage Longmeadow, Mass., will be circulation I saddened by the drowning on May was done; it would have been more had not manager, Wayne E. Dorland '28 of South 31 of Norman C. Konrad '27 of many of the students already s^ent their Orange, N. J., senior associate business Buffalo. He had been swimming with a possessions home. This is the first frater- manager, and Donald P. Setter '28 of girl companion in the pool by the power- nity fire of any consequence in about five Cattaraugus, associate art director. As- house in Fall Creek gorge. At this point, years. At that time Theta Xi held a fire, sisting in gathering in the shekels, as you will remember, the water tumbles for but it was no great shakes. Yet there was junior associate business managers, will be twenty or thirty feet over a series of a time when Cornell fraternity fires were a George S. Gladden of Detroit, Edward B. ledges and plumps into the pool, where it reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a Riklin of Tonawanda, Edward H. Stiefel swirls and eddies before continuing on its derision to them that were round about us, of Maplewood, N. J., David W. Somers of way down the gorge. In summer, when the a byword among the heathen, and a shak- Buffalo, and Alpheus F. Underhill of water is low, the pool is no more dangerous ing of the head among the people. To be Buffalo. than any other swimming-hole. But on sure, the newer fraternity houses are ROD AND BOB, honorary engineering May 31 the stream was high and the water pretty well fire-proofed, and in the older society, has elected Thomas B. Aldrich '28 was fatally cold. houses extreme precautions are taken as to of Englewood, N. J., Edward J. Scheiden- wiring, heating, and cigarette disposal. THE STUDENTS worked heroically to re- helm '28 of Wilmette, III, Arnold O. cover the body. A human chain formed TEN FAMILIAR faces flashed on the Babb '29, of Keyser, W. Va., Richard L. across the shallows below the pool, and screen at the Grescent last week, when the Cuthbert '29 of Brooklyn, Joseph S. later a wire net replaced the volunteers. results of the movie tests made by the Gowdy '29 of Denver, Colo., Pierre Joseph Meanwhile a corps of divers sought to dis- First National Pictures' Studios were Purcell '29 of Plainfield, N. J., William J. cover the location of the body. Flood- shown. The make-up man or the camera Quest '29 of Louisville, Ky., Herbert D. lights were brought from Schoellkopf and lens did weird things to these "ten most Rollo '29 of Freeport, and Arch P. Smith, the work continued through most of the distinctive male personalities at Cornell" Jr., of North Tonawanda. —chosen from three hundred applicants. night. Finally, on the following day, the THE ARCHITECTS don't have to work any Considered handsome young men, there is water was drawn off from Beebe Lake and more. The barrel of water, pushed off a no denying that on the screen they were, the dam gates were then closed. Thus the top cornice of White Hall, hit the ground. with one or two exceptions, a strange- water in the gorge was reduced to a mere Had it floated in the air, back to their looking lot. But one, Robert S. Thurston trickle. After twenty-four hours of search drawing-boards they must go. Annually '27, of Batavia, was chosen from a total of the body was discovered, wedged in a the architects put thL query to the fates- 14,261 applicants from thirty-six universi- crevice of rock, and extricated by Francis that-be. If the barrel does not hit the ties as one of the ten runners-up in the M. Brotherhood '27. ground, they are bound by dark vows to nation-wide search for collegians for continue their work. This year, after HAS THE UNIVERSITY been in any way future screen plays. Perhaps Adolph senior singing Thursday night, they put remiss? It keeps a lifeguard on duty at Menjou, whom the Class of 1912 so the question while hundreds of awed ob- this pool during the summer, but it proudly claims as the most popular Cornell servers watched, fearing that some spiteful counts on cold and high water to keep the alumnus in the movies, is soon to have a god would suspend the laws of gravity. swimmers out of the gorge during May. rival. Nevertheless, there are cases on record of But everything went well, and particularly adventurers opening the swimming season PHI DELTA KAPPA, honorary educa- happy was the augury. The barrel, falling at the end of March, beneath the drip of tional society, has elected the following three stories, did not break. The head the great south-wall icicles. officers; president, Evert L. Austin, came off, the water splashed forth, and Grad., of Ithaca; vice-president, John M. the surprised barrel rolled off unharmed WHAT CAN the University do to prevent Shales, Graci., Perth Road, Ontario; except for shattered nerves. According to a repetition of this heart-sickening acci- treasurer, James B. Palmer '21 of Edin- the architects, if the barrel does not break dent? It can forbid all bathing in the boro, Pa. corresponding secretary, Anson it is an omen that all seniors are going to gorge, thus driving the students to swim- W.jGibson '17 of Ithaca, recording secre- pass their theses. ming-holes far more dangerous than the tary, Raymond E. Wakeley, Grad., one now authorized. It can forbid bathing Laceyville, Pa.; Historian, William T. PROFESSOR HEINRICH RIES was a during high water, and can enforce the James, Grad., Greer, S. C; and Faculty speaker at the convention of the American prohibition to some extent, with the aid sponsor, Professor Clyde B. Moore. Foundrymen's Association, held inChicago of two or three gorge-patrols. It can at June 6 to 10. He gave the report of the THE NEW BOARD of the Cornell Annuals any rate make the pool somewhat safer, Committee on Testing Foundry Sands, of has been chosen. Donn V. Smythe '28 of by blasting away the caverns underneath which he is chairman. Washington, D. C, will be editor. Hubert the falls. And it can appeal to the good C. Bebb '28, of Hinsdale, 111., will be art sense of the students by published warn- THE ODD FELLOWS of the State plan director, Hyman S. Clark '28 of Savannah, ings of the boiling back-currents about the to dedicate the orphanage, the infirmary, Ga., managing editor, and John M, Dorris foot of the falls at high water. There and the gateway of their State Home '28 of Buffalo, business manager. Myra P. have been relatively few accidents on group on West Hill on June 26. The in- Tolins '28, of Brooklyn will be women's Cayuga Lake since the University dis- firmary and the gate posts were erected editor, and Elizabeth Clark '28 of Roslyn played its reasonable explanation why and by the Rebekahs, the orphanage being Heights, associate women's editor. Junior how boating thereon might be dangerous. erected by the I. O. O. F. itself. Over ten associate editors will be Robert W. thousand visitors are expected including THE PHI EPSILON PI House, formerly Jorgensen of Chicago, Philip J. Stone of representatives of several hundred lodges. the Nayati House, the northernmost of the Washington, and Henry P. Truesdell of The group when completed will be a very fraternity homes, was visited by fire on Summit, N. J. Harry C. Beaver '28 of attractive addition to local architecture. 434 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Student Drowns in Gorge had stopped only when completely ex- Fuertes Back from Abyssinia hausted. Norman C. Konrad '27 of Buffalo Wedged Konrad is survived by his father and Reports Hospitable Reception by Natives- Under Rocks in Fall Creek—Body mother and a younger brother. He was Many Valuable Specimens Collected Regained With Difficulty to have sailed for Chile right after his by the Expedition Commencement. Fall Creek Gorge has claimed another Louis Agassiz Fuertes '97 has returned victim. Norman C. Konrad of Buffalo, to Ithaca, after eight months in Abyssinia a senior in chemistry, and member of Phi SPORT STUFF with the Chicago News-Field Museum Delta Sigma, was drowned late in the Expedition. Now en route from Europe afternoon of May 31. With Miss Sallie are more than three thousand specimens L. Holcomb '27 of Binghamton, his fian- The championship track meet of the New of birds and mammals collected by the cee, he had gone to the pool by the power York State Public High Schools' Athletic party. house, where a number of students were Association has been held on Schoellkopf The main headquarters of the expedi- swimming. They decided to swim over Field for the last four years. tion were at the capital at Addis Abeba. to the south side of the pool and dive Under the supervision of the Depart- Fuertes went through the Chilalo Moun- into the current to see who could swim ment of Education at Albany the state tains with the other four scientists, and farthest toward the foot of the falls. Kon- (outside of New York City) is divided, then with Dr. Wilfred S. Osgood, curator rad dove into the current which was un- for athletic purposes, into thirteen sec- of zoology at the Field Museum, he went usually swift and swollen by recent rains. tions. Each of these sections holds its farther south along a chain of lakes, the He did not appear and in alarm Miss Hol- own championships and on the first Sat- Great Rift Valley of Africa, and the Jum- comb dove into the pool where he had urday of June the individual winners— Jum Mountains, collecting birds and mam- disappeared. She was caught in the cur- two hundred of them—come to Ithaca to mals. Later he and Dr. Osgood went rent and also disappeared. fight it out for the state championship. north to the Go jam country, ruled by Ras Robert P. Tiffany '28 of Jamestown They are a picked lot of boys. Most Hailu, and over the Choki Mountains to dove after her, and with the help of other of them go to college. They come from the headquarters of the Blue Nile, Lake students forming a human chain across schools which provide more than 30% of Tsana, and out via the Sudan. the current, brought her to shore. Other the undergraduate population of this They found the natives of Abyssinia students made persistent dives in the at- University. They see the place when it is leading a life comparable to that of Old tempt to locate Konrad, but without suc- most beautiful and alluring. They are Testament times and almost hospitable cess. Twenty-three hours later his body here for two days and are entertained at people. To them a stranger is a guest and was found lodged almost directly under- Willard Straight and in the fraternity Fuertes says that they encountered the neath the falls opposite the point from houses. They have a good time and are utmost kindness and courtesy everywhere. which he made his fatal dive. obviously impressed. During their entire stay in the country of All during the afternoon of the tragedy, And yet after four years not a single Ras Hailu, the chamberlain, traveled with and late into the night with the aid of the winner of a single event has ever matricu- them and the visitors were not allowed to football floodlights from Schoellkopf Field, lated at Cornell and, as far as I know, no pay for a single article of food or other students dove again and again into the one has ever tried to. things which the people of the country waters. The operations were directed by The above fact does not in any way af- could provide. Each night saw a proces- Professor C. V. P. Young '99 and fra- fect the great value of the meet or our in- ternity brothers of the drowned boy. sion of natives coming to camp with gifts terest in it. The phenomenon, however, of bread, goats, firewood, etc. Professor Fred A. Barnes '97 employed makes for self-scrutiny. What is the mat- every means to lower the lake level and ter with us? When the expedition left, Ras Hailu so reduce the current over the falls and it bade them farewell with the utmost cere- , I've never talked with any of these boys was during the second time that the water about going to college, but many of the mony, and journeyed a little way with was at its lowest that Francis M. Brother- students have. The latter tell me that them. When he left them with the bless- hood '27 of East Aurora discovered the you ask one where he's going, it's gener- ing of God, they had not seen the last of body. It had been wedged between a pro- ally X college or Z university. When you his kindness, for riders kept coming back truding pinnacle of rock and the gorge ask him "Why not Cornell?" the answer wall at the foot of the waterfall, about every few miles to bring them parting gifts invariably is either "Too hard" or "It fifteen feet beneath the surface. Brother- from him—a bird which he thought they costs too much to get through." R.B. hood had to use weights to carry him to might like to add to their collection, or that depth. something of the sort. The last rider The bod}' bore no bruises to indicate CIVIL ENGINEERING BREAKFAST coming up breathless, and bowing low be- fore them undid his shamma to reveal that he had struck bottom or been injured One of the more recent features of re- in any way. The position of the limbs union days is the breakfast on Saturday as the final imposing present of the series showed that he must have fought against morning given by the faculty of the School a large yellow and white domestic cat, the pressure of the falls as long as he was of Civil Engineering to its returning with the compliments of the Ras. conscious. His dive had evidently car- alumni. This custom was instituted three It is still too early, Fuertes says, to dis- ried him across stream until the tremen- years ago and was such a success that it cuss the outcome of the expedition in de- dous pressure of high water coming over has become a permanent part of the re- tail. Besides the bird and mammal col- the falls caught him and pressed him into unions. These reunion days are all too lection, there are a hundred specimens of the imprisoning crevice. crowded as it is, and the opportunity af- the lower vertebrates, much interesting The boy's father, Louis B. Konrad, was forded alumni and faculty to get together present. The body was taken home to without wasting the so precious time in motion picture film, and a thousand photo- Buffalo for the funeral, accompanied by pursuing one another about the Hill pro- graphs. The mammal collection includes Mr. Konrad, Miss Holcomb, and James vides a happy solution for the former dif- ample material for museum habitat groups D. Pond '28 of Poughkeepsie, room-mate ficulties of meeting. The Breakfast this of the rare mountain nyala and ibex, of the boy. Pond was one of the most per- year is in Sibley Recreation Room, Sat- both confined to restricted localities in sistent of those who dove for the body, and urday morning from 8:00 to 10:30. Abyssinia. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 435 The Alumni News Undergoes Reorganization Magazine Placed on Safe and Sound Basis by $125,000 Stock Issue—Acquires the Cayuga Press With Its General Printing Business—Moves Into Permanent Quarters in Building Constructed for It. REORGANIZATION that is unique in the history of alumni affairs is now well under way to successful completion by THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. The process includes the acquisition of the Cayuga Press A by THE ALUMNI NEWS, the formation of a new corporation, the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corpora- tion, the acquiring of new quarters for the publication and the printing plant, and an issue of preferred stock of $125,000. The directors of the new corporation virtual alumni publishing association, of presents an opportunity to support a are Romeyn Berry '04, William J. Nor- heterogeneous interests, geographically Cornell institution by an investment ton '02, R. Warren Sailor '07, Harry G. well distributed, and with a greater per- rather than by the less attractive method, Stutz '07, and Walter L. Todd '09. Nor- manency and even higher degree of re- common to many alumni publications, ton is vice-president, Stutz is secretary, sponsibility than would be possible with of making contributions to meet acute and Sailor is president and treasurer. merely voluntary membership. situations. Alumni magazines are almost univer- The stock issue consists of 1250 shares The history of the component parts of sally owned and operated by voluntary of seven per cent cumulative, voting, pre- the consolidation is given below. general alumni associations, and are de- ferred stock, for sale at par value, $100 The Cornell Alumni News pendent to a degree on voluntary con- per share, and 6500 shares of voting, com- tributions, subsidies from the college, and THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS was es- mon stock of no par value. Each share tablished in 1899, taking over the func- appropriations from the funds of the of preferred stock carries with it a bonus alumni association, in case of operating tions performed by The Cornell Era upon of one share of common, the remaining the changing of the Era to a literary mag- loss. common stock being used to acquire the The forming of this corporation is a azine after having been a weekly news- various equities not covered by the pro- paper of Cornell affairs since its estab- wide departure from standard practice, ceeds from the sale of the preferred stock. but is justified by the history of the com- lishment in 1863. In 1902 THE ALUMNI The sale of the preferred stock provides ponent parts of the consolidation. For NEWS was incorporated under the laws the funds for the purchase of the Cayuga twenty-five years the Cornell Alumni of the State of New York as the Cornell Press equipment and supplies, the pur- News Publishing Company had published Alumni News Publishing Company, and chase of additional equipment, the pur- was managed from 1902 until 1916 by THE ALUMNI NEWS apparently as an or- chase of THE ALUMNI NEWS, the pur- dinary corporation, but actually depen- John L. Senior '07, then graduate man- chase for cancellation of the stock of the dent on the constant care and occasional ager of athletics. Cornell Alumni News Publishing Com- cash loans of one alumnus, who, aside from In 1916 R> Warren Sailor, secretary of pany, and adequate working capital for a few minority stockholders with total the Cornell Alumni Association of Chi- the enterprise. holdings of $325, carried the entire re- cago, and secretary of the Associate Alum- sponsibility that is ordinarily the main Approximately $100,000 of the stock of ni of Cornell, moved to Ithaca and became burden of an alumni association. This the new corporation has been subscribed business manager of THE ALUMNI NEWS. benefactor, John L. Senior '01, thus pre- by about sixty alumni and friends of Two years later, when Woodford Patter- served for Cornell its alumni publication, the University. It is hoped that the re- son, for ten years editor-in-chief, became established in 1899, when not over half a mainder will be absorbed by readers of secretary of the University, Sailor also dozen of the present 150 alumni maga- THE ALUMNI NEWS to whom the new became editor-in-chief and head of the zines had come into being. arrangement proves interesting. The Board of Editors, and is now editor, busi- assets of the corporation exceed its liabil- The ALUMNI NEWS was established ness manager, and treasurer of the Cor- some ten years before the Cornellian ities by a safe margin and the offering poration. Council and more than twenty before the Alumni Office. Undoubtedly its stimu- lating of alumni interest made the suc- cess of these organizations easier, if indeed they could have been possible without it The New or some equivalent. It is recognized by both that ALUMNI NEWS readers are to a Home of the large extent the backbone of any effort of these organizations, whether for solicit- CORNELL ing funds, for holding reunions or con- ventions, for supporting club activities, ALUMNI or whatever a general alumni body might undertake if one existed. Meanwhile, NEWS although mutually independent, the vari- ous independent factors in Cornell alumni 113 E. Green St. work cooperate fully as well as do the Ithaca interdependent committees of any alumni group in other colleges. Elsewhere in this issue appears an ad- vertisement of the sale of the stock. It is hoped that the ownership of this stock Photo by Tompkins will be sufficiently widespread so that the the list of stockholders will constitute a 436 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ranks ninth in number of subscribers (seventh in subscription income) among the 150 alumni publications. It is led by Michi- gan, Pennsylvania, California, Yale, Har- vard, and Princeton. M. I. T. and Wis- consin slightly exceed it in number of sub scribers, but because of monthly publica- tion have lower subscription rates and less income. At the present time THE ALUMNI NEWS does a business of about $6,000 a year in advertising and about $24,000 in sub- scriptions. Both main sources of income are capable of development. Capital for this purpose has not been available. The Cayuga Press The Cayuga Press was established in 1912 as the job printing shop of The Ithaca Journal. Its equipment was up to the highest standards of modern printing THE COMPOSING ROOM Photo by Tompkins being, in general, Lanston Monotype, This view is from the press room door, and gives a general view of the composing room. Miehle Cylinder Presses, and Hamilton $60,000 per year. For the next two years George F. Baker Non-Resident Lecture- steel equipment. It operated under the it ran about $80,000, which was approx- ship in Chemistry. handicap of insufficient space. In 1921, mately the maximum capacity of the old The new shop can be organized to take Sailor, the business manager of THE shop. care of half a million dollars' worth of busi- ALUMNI NEWS, having become interested ness annually by a further increase in in a project of the student publications Among the present publications printed are THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, The equipment. It is now arranged so that it for a joint print shop, with a view to eventu- can handle a quarter of a million eco- ally establishing a University Press, leased Cornellian Council Bulletin, The Ameri- ican Journal of Psychology, The Journal of nomically and with good results. At the Cayuga Press. The new business was present, including the publications and operated under the assumed name of the Physical Chemistry, The Princeton Engi- neering News-Letter, The Stevens Indicator, books mentioned and a large business on Cornell Publications Printing Company. small work such as letterheads, folders, The Psychological Index, Cornell Studies in Most of the original plan failed to mater- and catalogs, it is doing a volume that will English (The Yale Press, publishers), ialize however, and the business became approximate $125,000 during the first year. actually a proprietorship, and simply a Annual Reports of the Association of commercial printing plant. Alumni Secretaries, and the Peninsular The New Building The Cayuga Press had an excellent rep- Series and the Catalog Series of the His- One of the immediate needs of the print- utation locally for high-class work. Since panic Society of America. Among the ing plant was to secure larger quarters. 1921, as its volume has increased, its range more noteworthy books printed have been A group of Cornellians in Ithaca cared for has broadened and it has been doing The Cornell Alumni Directory of 1922, this problem last year by purchasing a printing for various organizations that have The Fifteen-Year Record of the Class garage with a lot in front of it on which no Ithaca connections whatever. of 1909 of Princeton, The Manual of another building was erected for paper The gross volume of business has in- Alumni Work, The History of Athletics storage, mailing rooms, a bindery, the creased materially since 1921. For the at Lafayette, Courtney and Cornell Row- ALUMNI NEWS offices, and the Savage first three years it averaged less than ing, and the semi-annual volume of the Club rooms. Located on the same floor level as the Cayuga Press is the paper warehouse, the mailing room (operated by THE ALUMNI NEWS), and the University bind- ery. This bindery is an outside concern which handles all binding for the Cayuga Press except cloth editions, and does a general business as well. On the second floor, and connected with the Cayuga Press, are the offices of THE ALUMNI NEWS, occupying the floor ex- cept for one room given over to the bind- ery for the rebinding of books. The Savage Club of Ithaca has arranged for a ten-year lease of adequate space in the basement of the building and has con- structed permanent quarters there. The building has concrete shop floors, oil heat and automatic sprinklers. Of the total floor area of 11,650 square feet, the Cayuga Press occupies 7250, THE ALUMNI NEWS and the corporation offices 1925, THE PRESS ROOM Photo by Tompkins the University Bindery 1600, and the This view, taken from the door of the paper stock room, shows a glimpse of the composing room through the doorway at the end of the room. Savage Club 875. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 437 The office building is built of hollow Bureau for research work in crop produc- tile and brick, practically fireproof and of ATHLETICS tion. Professor Merritt F. Miller, M. S. an attractive design. The location is at '01, of the University of Missouri, is also 113 East Green Street, half way between a member of the committee. Tioga and Cayuga Streets. It is oppo- The Baseball Schedule site the City parking area and is in the Cornell 10, Lynchburg 1. FIRE DAMAGES FRATERNITY HOUSE heart of the automobile district. It is the V. M. I. 3, Cornell 3. The Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity house at best location now available for commer- Cornell 13, V. M. I. 7. 316 Highland Road was the scene of an cial purposes and should appreciate in Washington and Lee 3, Cornell 1. exciting fire late in the afternoon of June value. The building is secured on a ten- Cornell 2, Ohio State 1. 3, and the several hundred spectators, year lease with a five-year option. Cornell 8, Manhattan 1. after it was certain that no one was in The Cayuga Press moved to the new Cornell 8, St. Bonaventure 7. danger, had a merry time watching the quarters in July, 1926, THE ALUMNI NEWS Columbia 2, Cornell 1. flames, and dodging misdirected streams and the University Bindery in February, Cornell 5, Dartmouth 1. from the hoses. The damage to the house 1927, and the Savage Club in May 1927. Cornell 13, Princeton 5. was about eight thousand dollars, and to The date of incorporation of the Cornell Cornell 4, Dartmouth o. personal property about two thousand, Alumni News Publishing Corporation was Boston College 3, Cornell 1. both losses fully covered by insurance. December 31, 1926. Yale 2, Cornell 1. The fire is believed to have started from The Stockholders Cornell 12, Oberlin o. sparks falling on the dry shingle roof and At the present moment those whose Yale 5, Cornell 4. eating down into the attic and the third names are given below are subscribers for Columbia 12, Cornell o. floor, where the fireman stopped its prog- stock. Several others could be added who June 9, Seton Hall at Ithaca. ress. When it was first discovered the have not yet decided on the amount. June 10, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. members of the fraternity tried to extin- Alva W. Adams, Frank O. Afield, 3d, June 11, Colgate at Ithaca. guish it themselves with emergency hose, '26, L. H. Bailey, Neal D. Becker '05, June 13, Colgate at Hamilton. but the pressure was too low. Firemen Morris G. Bishop '13, Charles H. Blood June 14, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. from the Central Fire Station and the '88, Eugene B. Clark '94, Charles E. Cor- College Avenue Station were needed to nell, Joseph F. Dorsey, Everett Drennen School Athletes Here save the building. The nearest hydrant '07, Victor Emanuel '19, Donald English, Public High School athletes from New was four hundred feet away, and the un- Newton C. Farr '09, Jerome A. Fried Ίo, York State held their championship track even construction of the roof made the Frank E. Gannett '98, Othon G. Guerlac, and tennis meetes here Saturday, as task unusually difficult. The roof and William F. E. Gurley '77, Frank H. His- guests of the Athletic Association. The rafters over the rooms on the third floor cock '75, G. W. Horton. entire state was represented, except the which rises above the central part of the John S. Howell '12, John J. Kuhn '98, metropolitan district. Those competing house were destroyed, and two sleeping Thomas F. Laurie '07, Walter C. Lefens were the champions of thirteen sectional rooms and a study on the second floor '05, Paul S. Livermore '97, John T. Mc- track meets. Championship honors in were the only rooms of the sixteen in the Govern '00, James F. McKinney '12, track were won by the Buffalo Section. house that were not damaged by fire or Louise B. McKinney '14, James P. McNa- The Long Island Section was second and water. mara, William W. Maeon'98, William H. the Western District third. Buffalo High Many of the students had already Morrison '90, Clark S. Northup '93, Wil- School players also won the tennis cham- packed and sent their belongings home, liam J. Norton '02, Wallace Notestein, pionships. which reduced the personal property loss. Archie M. Palmer Ί8, Henry J. Patten Students from neighboring houses helped '84, Walter G. Pietsch '96, Julian A. Pol- PROFESSOR T. LYTTLETON LYON '91 has in the removal of furniture and clothes, lak '07, William L. Ransom '05, Howard been appointed by the American Society of saving practically all of the furniture. M. Rogers '07. Agronomy a member of a special commit- Until parts of the house can be put in liv- Jacob Rothschild, Leon D. Rothschild tee to consider ways and means of award- ing condition, the men staying on are liv- '09, Henry W. Sackett '75, R. W. Sailor ing a donation of $5,000 given by the ing at the Beta Sigma Rho and Pi Lambda '07, Mrs. Samuel Sailor, Jacob F. Schoell- Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Phi houses. kopf, Jr., '05, Paul A. Schoellkopf '06, William H. Schuchardt '95, John L. Senior '01, R. H. Shreve '02, Harry G. Stutz '07, John H. Tanner '91, Winthrop Taylor '07, Frank H. Teagle '02, Walter L. Todd '09, Robert E. Treman '09, Jane McK. Urquhart '13, Leonard C. Urqu- hart '09, William A. Vawter, II, '05, Law- rence M. Viles '04, Mary V. Waite '05, Alfred D. Warner, Jr., Όo, T. K. Web- ster, Jr., '03, Leon C. Welch '06, Charles C. West Όo, Roger B. Williams, Roger H. Williams '95, James A. Winans '07, Percy O. Wood '08, John P. Young '94.

PROFESSOR ARTHUR W. BROWNE, Ph. D. '03, spoke on "An Adventure in Research" before the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society in Wilming- ton on May 18. He discussed recent dis- coveries resulting, from chemical experi- ments in combining various elements for manufacturing purposes. A CORNER OF THE COMPOSING ROOM Photo by Tompkins 438 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ation, does a general business in printing. Summer School Plans Its volumes are finer than those sold by the average nationally known publisher. Its Registration Set for July Fifth—Instruct- periodicals include several whose make-up ing Staff Will Include Many from would be the despair of the average Published for the Alumni Corporation Other Universities of Cornell University by the Cornell printer. 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Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation P. O. Box 105 Ithaca, New York 440 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Harry W. Seitz, supervisor of high school music in Detroit, Mich. Forrest F. Stark, OBITUARIES instructor in the Pennsylvania Academy of ASHEVILLE Fine Arts; Frank C. Touton, professor of education in the University of Southern Wilbray J. Thompson '74 A Preparatory School for California; Stephen Sargent Visher, as- Boys sociate professor, of geology in Indiana; Wilbray James Thompson died in En- James F. Willard, professor of English senada, Porto Rico, on May 21. In the Mountains of North history in the University of Colorado; He was born in Pekin, 111. on October Carolina. James Albert Winans '07, professor of 15, 1852, the son of Daniel and Georgine public speaking in Dartmouth; and Karl Wilbray Thompson. He attended Lake Methods, Standards, and Abell Zeller A. M. Ίo, science teacher in Forest Academy, entering Cornell in 1871, the Columbus, O., High School. graduating in 1874 with the degree of B. S. Equipment Equivalent to Katherine M. Cook, specialist in rural He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsionl Those of the BestNorthern education in the Bureau of Education, and of the Tom Hughes Boat Club, and active in athletics. Schools. Washington, D. C; Ned H. Dearborn of the Department of Education, Albany; From 1875 until 1879 he was a special Large estate in the Moun- Edward S. Jones, professor of psychology student at the Columbia School of mines. in the University of Buffalo; Eva May From then until 1904 he was engaged in tains. Altitude 2.300feet. Luse, head of the Department of Teach- business for himself as a sugar planter ing in Iowa State Teachers' College; Lucy in Louisiana. In 1905 he joined the Badg- Most favorable climatic Salmon Norton, head of the Department er Mexican Planters Company, develop- conditions east of the Miss- of History in the Oswego State Normal and ing sugar plantations in Mexico. Later he moved to Porto Rico, developing plan- issippi. Remarkable health Training School, and Jacob S. Orleans of the Department of Education. tations there until his retirement. record. Additional instructors in the Summer Stephen P. Sturges '76 School of Agriculture will include Laura For neiv catalog address: Allen, instructor in the nursery school at Stephen Perry Sturges died at Prince" the Merrill Palmer School at Detroit; ton, N. J. on April 6. Ernestine Becker, assistant in the school of He was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on HOWARD BEMENT, M. A. health and hygiene in Johns Hopkins; March 17, 1855, the son of Stephen B. Head Master Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel of the Bureau of and Sarah Cary Sturges. He went to ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA Agricultural Economics at Washington, school in Oberlin, Ohio, entering Cornell D. C; C. Winifred Harley, head of the in 1872. He graduated with the degree nursery school in the Merrill Palmer of A. B. in 1876. The following year he School; Ora Miner, professor of rural received his A. M. degree from Harvard, sociology in Southwestern Methodist and in 1880 his LL.B. from Columbia. University, and Edwin Griswold Nourse of He was a lawyer, practicing in New the Institute of Economics at Washington. York for over forty years. He lived in H. J. Bool Co. Courses in the Summer session of the Princeton, N. J. He was a member of the Quality Furniture Law School will be given by Marion Rice University Club of Brooklyn, and the Kirkwood, dean of the Stanford Univer- New York and Shelter Island Yacht and Rugs sity Law School; Ernest G. Lorenzen '98, Clubs. professor of law in Yale; Underhill Moore, In 1893 he married Miss Annie S. professor of law in Columbia; and Thomas Mackay, who died in 1905. Some years Reed Powell, professor of law in Harvard. later he married Miss Alice W. Hunter.

Furniture Repaired George F. Gifford '80 THE CLUBS George Frank Gifford died in Chicago Refinished and on May 15. He was born in Winchester, Ky. on Reupholstered Southern California September 19, 1856, the son of Cyrus F. At a dinner meeting of the Cornell Club and Sarah Ann Hardman Gifford. His of Southern California on May 18, the family moved to Jamestown, N. Y., where chief entertainment was the four reels of he attended school, graduating from the motion pictures taken on the Campus by High School with honors and winning a Ten Expert Workmen scholarship to Cornell. He entered in the Alumni Office last spring. The dinner Employed 1876 and graduated with the degree of was held at the University Club in Los B. S. in 1880. Angeles. He entered the newspaper field, and St. Louis during his life was editor on the staffs of Estimates Free While the Cornell reunions are at their the St. Paul Daily Globe, the Chicago height in Ithaca, the old grads of St. Louis News, and the Chicago Tribune. and environs will be celebrating the an- He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kate H. J. BOOL CO. nual spring party. Intriguing invita- Genung Gifford, a son, Arthur H. Gif- tions which announce "barbeque, bathing, ford of New York, and two daughters, 126-132 East State Street boating, baseball, and guaranteed fishing" Mrs. Bessie G. Woodward of King Hill, Ithaca New York summon all Cornell men to the country Idaho, and Miss Dimple Estelle Gifford estate of Al Griesedieck '17. of Meridian, Idaho. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 441 INDIANA LIMESTOHE-THE BUILDING STOKE BOOKS

Choosing a Profession An Outline of Careers: a Practical Guide to Achievement by Thirty-eight Eminent Americans. Edited by Edward L. Ber- nays '12. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1927. 24.3 cm., pp. 431. Price, $5 net. It was a happy thought to bring to- gether these authoritative statements of the requirements for success in the vari- ous professions. Bernays has induced some thirty-seven persons to cooperate in the undertaking, and these persons are admirably adapted admittedly among the leaders in their respective professions, the majority of them being found in Who's Who in America. Bernays himself sup- plies the chapter on the counsel for public relations, and Mrs. Bernays contributes a good chapter on the outlook for women in industry and the professions. Classics Building, University of Chicago. Built of Gray Indiana Limestone The result is a volume of the greatest value to every young person who desires a career outside of the home. The thirty- eight jobs are in most cases carefully de- scribed and the young person may as- CORNELL'S FUTURE certain what will be expected of him should he engage in a given line of work, the qualities he ought to have for success, the length of his apprenticeship, the amount and kind of training needed, and How will they compare with those of other institutions? some estimate of the probable rewards. Write for illustrated brochure showing fine examples of The writers agree in these particulars: that the young candidate for success in any college architecture in Indiana Limestone one of these lines must have good habits; spendthrifts, gamblers, boozers, and gen- XFORD, Cambridge, and other venerable institutions of learning erally selfish persons are not wanted any- in Europe are built of natural stone. College building in this where. Further, he must be willing to O country has followed the European tradition. Limestone, the natural work hard for some time on small pay, and must exhibit not only intelligence but in- stone of which many of Europe's fine cathedrals and university terest, not to say enthusiasm, in the busi- buildings are constructed, is in this country likewise the building ness. stone most used. The vast deposit of oolitic limestone of which None of the professions seems to be es- most of the finest stone buildings in the country are constructed is pecially crowded. We have sometimes found only in two counties of southern Indiana. heard that there was an oversupply of Owing to the extent and central location of our quarries, this lawyers. It is true that Mr. Cohen does ideal building material may be delivered anywhere at prices which emphasize the severe strain that lawyers compare favorably with those of any other natural stone and fre- must undergo, which implies that there is quently with those of substitutes. sharp competition; but he nowhere at- tempts to discourage the young man who Examples of fine college architecture in Indiana Limestone are is physically fit, and determined to keep shown in a brochure which we will gladly send you. This book' himself so, from engaging in the profes- let may serve to widen your acquaintance with the best in college sion. Writing on agriculture, Mr. Craw- building and to enable you to follow more intelligently your insti" ford says that there is a need not of more tution's building program. but of better farmers. For convenience, fill in your name and address below, tear out Among the contributors, with the ex- and mail to Box 810, Service Bureau, Indiana Limestone Company, ception of the editor, the only Cornellian is Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, '91-2 Grad., Bedford, Indiana. who writes most interestingly on scientific research. Two English Classics The White Company. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Abridged and Edited by Mabel A. Bessey '06, Head of the English Department in the Bay Ridge High School. New York. Allyn and Bacon. 1927. 17.3 cm., pp. viii, 500. 24 Illus- Address. 442 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS trations. Quentin Durward. By Sir Wal- of Forestry and Conservation at the Uni- the article on Professor Frederick J. ter Scott. Also Abridged and Edited by versity of Michigan. Mulford was a pro- Turner is written by Professor Carl Miss Bessey. pp. viii, 584. 41 Illustra- fessor at Michigan from 1905 till 1911. Becker, and the article on Thorstein B. tions. Academy Classics for Junior High In Education for May Frank S. Free- Veblen, '91-2 Grad., by Paul T. Homan. Schools. man, instructor in education, presents Professor Joseph E. Trevor '92 has just It would seem futile to ask for anything "A Non-Technical Discussion of Mental published through the house of Ginn "The finer or more completely satisfactory than Testing." General Theory of Thermodynamics." these editions, so dignified in appearance, In The New York Times Book Review with their large type, good paper, neat In The Brown Alumni Monthly for June for June 5 "The New Poor" by Mrs. and beautiful illustrations, and elaborate there is a review by H. R. P. of "A Book Clarissa Cushman is favorably reviewed. apparatus for study. In the case of Quen- of Old Maps" by Professor Emerson D. tin Durward, for example, the life of Fite of Vassar and Archibald Freeman, A new volume in the Student's Old Scott fills twenty-four pages, the study of Brown '89, Cornell A. M. '90, of Phillips Testament Series (Scribner) is "Proverbs the book seventy-two pages. The latter Andover Academy. and Didactic Poems," edited by Pro- fessor Charles Foster Kent and Millar includes a summary of the history of the In The Methodist Review for May-June Burrows '12. It sells for five dollars. period, descriptions of the social life of the Professor Alexander W. Crawford, Ph. D. period, and ample notes and suggestions '02, of the University of Manitoba, writes In The New York State Journal of for exercises. The editor's style is clear, on "Browning's Christmas Eve." Medicine for February 1 Dr. Floyd R. Wright '03, of the Clifton Springs Sani- varied, and pleasing. We have noted In The Saturday Evening Post for June 4 only one error. Liege is spelled through- tarium, writes on "The Diagnosis of Early Austin Parker '14 has a story entitled, out with the wrong accent. This error Diabetes." The article is summarized in "Trees Aren't Safe for Birdies." occurs all too frequently in English and the Journal of the American Medical American printing. Dr. Theodore T. Stenberg '26 con- Association for April 9. tributes to The University of Texas Studies These two stories, so full of stirring ad- Professor Grace Andrus de Laguna '03, in English, No. 6, 1926, an article on "Sir venture, are admirably adapted for the Ph. D. '06, of Bryn Mawr, has just pub- Thomas Elyot's Defence of the Poets." reading of pupils of junior high school age; lished, through the Yale University Press, and we do not doubt that these books In The New York Herald Tribune Books a work on "Speech." will have the wide sale which they so well for June 5 "An Outline of Careers" edited "The Land of the Pilgrim's Pride" by deserve. by Edward L. Bernays ' 12 is reviewed by George Jean Nathan '04 is announced for Walter B. Pitkin. There is also a review by publication in September by Alfred A. Books and Magazine Articles Malcolm M. Willey of "American Masters Knopf. In The Michigan Alumnus for May 28 of Social Science," edited by Howard W. Henry F. Pringle '19 is soon to publish a Dean Walter Mulford '98, of the Univer- Odum and published by Henry Holt and book entitled "Alfred E. Smith: a Critical sity of California, writes on the new School Company of New York. In this volume Study." Pringle is now with The World.

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'73-5 Grad—From The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine for June we reprint the Cascadilla Summer School following: Mrs. May Crandall Babcock, wife of Thoroughness Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, professor Efficiency emeritus of agricultural chemistry, died at a Madison hospital on April 19. Mrs. July 12—August 23 Babcock's childhood home was in Win- field, N. Y., and her early education was Thirty-four days of intensive school work under skilled received at Utica Academy. She was instruction. Students in our summer session are eligible married to Professor Babcock in 1896, to take August Regents examinations which are open only eight years after he had joined the faculty to those who have attended an authorized summer high of the University. For many years their school for the full term. Cornell entrance examinations home at 432 North Lake Street drew dis- in September offer a second opportunity to clinch those tinguished visitors from all parts of the missing entrance units. world, for the Babcock test discovered in Individual instruction may be had at any time after 1890 brought fame, though little of for- the opening of the summer session. tune, to Professor Babcock. Since the death of her mother, in 1920, Mrs. Bab- Our little summer folder tells how we work and why cock's health had been failing. Besides we succeed. her husband, she is survived by two brothers, Myron M. Crandall, W. Win- Fall Term Registration, September 27,1927 field, N. Y., and Almon Crandall, Mo- hawk, N. Y. Address C* M Doyle '02, Headmaster '01 PhD—Professor George W. Stew- art, Jr., of the University of Iowa, re- Cascadilla Schools cently gave a series of twelve lectures to Yale graduate students in communication Ithaca New York engineering on acoustic phenomena. '02 AB—Guernsey Price, chairman of of the Lectures Committee of the Asso- ciation of the Bar of the City of New York, has been elected a member of its execu- tive committee, class of 1930, and at the organization meeting was made secretary 1014 CHAPEL ST. of that committee. Price is practicing NEW HAVEN. CONN. law at 165 Broadway, New York. '04—William H. Henderson is a man- ufacturer of automobile bodies. He lives Rep. Mr. Jerry Coan exhibiting our Summer importations at— at 38 Warren Place, Montclair, N. J., and Chicago Mon., Tues. June 13, 14 The LaSalle has a summer home at Eatontown, N. J., Ann Arbor Wednesday 15 Hotel Allenel known as Jane's Place. He writes that Toledo Thursday 16 Hotel Secor he has a daughter, Jane, but draws no Detroit Fri., Sat. 17, 18 Hotel Statler causal connection concerning the name of his summer home. He is president of the Cornell Club of Northern New Jer- sey, and of the Montclair Riding Club. '09 ME—James W. Cox, Jr., is a textile engineer and specialist at 320 Broadway, New York. He is engaged in solving tex- tile problems, general processing work, Ithaca J. Dall, Jr., Inc. and the development of special fabrics. Building Construction '09 AB—Winfield S. Keenholts is man- Trust Company ager of the Karachi, India, branch of the Standard Oil Company of New York. Ithaca This branch controls the company's ac- Resources Over tivities in northwest India. He may be N Y addressed in care of the company at Post Five Million Dollars Box 19, Karachi. He hopes to be in this country on furlough later in the year. '16—John F. Gallagher recently re- signed as manager of the bond department President Charles E. Treman of the Colorado Title and Trust Com- Vice-Pres Franklin C. Cornell J.Dall,Jr.,Ί6 Phone pany, to form the new firm of Gallagher Treasurer Sherman Peer President and Sims, dealers in securities at 410 Min- Cashier A. B. Wellar 2369 ing Exchange Building, Colorado Springs, 444 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Colo. A son, John F. Gallagher, Jr., was of their daughter, Helen, to George A. '20—John F. Brady, Jr., 1020 West born on January 28. Schieren, Jr. '27, son of George A. Schier- Fifty-third Street, Kansas City, Mo.— Ί6 BS, Ί8 MF—Louis A. Zimm is a en '00. After a honeymoon spent in the Mrs. Victor L. Klee (Mildred Muller), technical engineer for the American For- South, they will live at Winthrop Hall, 1644 Kenneth Road, Glendale, Calif. est Products Company at 285 Madison Bronxville. '21—M. Gerald Sullivan, 73 Prospect Avenue, New York. He has just returned Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. from a seven months' stay at Brunswick, '22—Sidney G. Kay, care of Conway Ga., where he had charge of the construc- NEW MAILING ADDRESSES Import Company, Inc., Waldes Building, Anabel Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. tion of a new pressure creosoting plant. '00—Gardiner S. Dresser, Heathcote —Lewis E. Fitch, U. S. Forest Service, He lives at 42η\ East Fifty-second Street, Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. New York. Moulton, Ala. '07—Horace L. Dawson, 228 North La '23—-John S. Offenhauser, 629 East '17 AB, '21 PhD—Lewis R. Kohler is Salle Street, Chicago.—Thomas F. Lau- a physicist in the research laboratory of Broad Street, Texarkana, Ark.—Matthew rie, Medical Arts Building, 713-715 East J. Grogan, 100 Duncan Avenue, Jersey the General Electric Company in Schen- Genesee Street, Syracuse. ectady. He lives at n 38 Sumner Ave- City, N. J. '12—Lennox B. Birckhead, 1228 Ran- nue. A daughter, Phyllis Noreen, was '24—Janet J. Gunn, Apartment 1 AS, dom Street, Muskegon, Mich.—Robert born on March 2. 35 Claremont Avenue, New York.—Ed- J. Kehl, 30 East Forty-second Street, win L. Collins, 130 Hawthorne Avenue, '18—John S. Coe is with the Chase New York. Utica. Company, Inc., in Waterbury, Conn. He '13—Karl G. Kaffenberger, 104 Maple '25—Edward B. Dennis, Jr., Suite 482, lives at 145 Farmington Avenue. He has 1 Road, East Aurora. 988 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Mass.— a son, Benjamin Noble, born last Novem- Charles V. N. DeWitt, R. D. 2, Engineers ber 25. '14—Philip J. Kent, 138 Pilgrim Road, Birmingham, Mich. Camp, Parnassus, Pa.—Dorothy Sloat, '21 BS—Eugene B. Sullivan has an- 25 Claremont Avenue, New York. '15—Christian F. de Neergaard, 88 nounced the termination of the partner- '26—Charles E. McNeal, 317 Furman Eighty-eighth Street, Brooklyn. ship of Sullivan and Klein, and is now Street, Syracuse, N. Y.—Robert F. practicing law at Suite 1864, 11 West Ί 6—Paul S. Hardy, 326 South Dallas Brand, care of Mrs. Jansen, 813 North West Forty-second Street, New York. Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. Aurora Street, Ithaca. '21 ME—-Andrew M. White is produc- Ί8—Mrs. John W. Arnold (Dorothy '26—Alfred S. Jarecki, 520 Columbus tion foreman in the service department McSparran), 24 West Seventy-fourth Avenue, Sandusky, Ohio.—Claire M. of the Buick Manufacturing Company in Street, New York. 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