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Plan Inn Near Campus as it is possible to do so; the inn being set Sigma Xi Elections back to allow the maximum space in front. Cornellians Interested in Project to Build It is now planned to design the exterior Honorary Scientific Society Announces on Rites Property, Known as so as to suggest the architecture of the so- Choice of New Members for Court Terrace called Baker dormitory group." 1928-1929 Mr. Dudley, in his original announce- A new inn is to be built by the Cornell ment, said the project had been suggested At the meeting of Sigma Xi on May 9 Inn Corporation on property at University by J. Allen Haines '99 of New York. Mr. the following new members were elected: Avenue and Lake Street, Ithaca, and Haines was responsible for the organiza- FACULTY application for a building permit was filed tion of the Cornell Inn Corporation, of Earl V. Hardenburg '12, vegetable last week with the city authorities. which General J. Leslie Kincaid, president gardening. The original announcement of plans for of the American Hotels Company, is Charles O. Mackey '26, heat-power en- the new hotel was made by Frank A. president, and William M. Leffingwell '18 gineering. Dudley, president of the United Hotels is vice-president. Lars R. Romell, agronomy. Company, at dinner in the Hotel Ezra Referring to a name for the hotel, Mr. Cornell May 3. Mr. Dudley announced Dudley said: "I would much prefer the ALUMNI at that time that the inn's facilities would title of Έzra Cornell Inn.' When I chose Adriance S. Foster '23 assistant pro- be available to the University in connec- the name 'Roosevelt' for the Roosevelt fessor of botany, University of Oklahoma. tion with the hotel management course. Hotel in New York, named after the late William D. Pomeroy '95, mechanical The probable cost is estimated at more President, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and engineering, vice-president and general than $600,000. members of the family gave their consent manager, Goulds Pump Company, Geneva. The application for the building permit and were present at the opening. I hope Charles F. Sarle Ί6, agricultural econo- specifies an inn, consisting of not more than similar permission will be given by the mics, economic analyst, Division of Crop 150 rooms. It will be located on the Cornell family in Ithaca." and Livestock Estimates, U. S. Depart- residence property of Marion B. Rites, ment of Agriculture. known as Grey Court Terrace, at one Harriet E. Lee '27, instructor in geology time occupied by Alpha Tau Omega. ENGINEER TEACHERS' SUMMER and geography, Wellesley College. The location is midway between the The 1929 session of the summer school GRADUATE SCHOOL Campus and the city, and it is considered for teachers of engineering will be held at Mrs. Elsa G. Allen '12, Ithaca, zoology. by those heading the project to be ideal Purdue University from June 27 to July Oscar D. Anderson, research assistant for summer tourists and convenient for 18. This summer school is conducted by in physiology, psychology. persons whose business or pleasure would the Society for the Promotion of Engineer- Walford A. Anderson, Raleigh, N. C, bring them to the Campus or the down- ing Education and will this year be devoted rural social organization, farm manage- town section of Ithaca. From this entirely to mechanical engineering. ment. property, the view of the Inlet Valley and Dean Dexter S. Kimball will be on the Thomas A. Baker '14, professor of Cayuga Lake is unsurpassed. staff of the production division. Professor animal husbandry, University of Dela- The application for the permit was filed F. O. Ellenwood will instruct in heat and ware. by Sherman Peer '06, attorney for the power engineering, Professor C. H. Berry Sidney W. Barnes, Heckscher assistant corporation. The following is part of his of Harvard and Clarence F. Hirshfeld in physics. statement: M.M.E. '05, of the Detroit Edison Com- George W. Beadle, assistant in plant "The inn to be built on this site will prob- pany, both of whom were formerly mem- breeding. ably not exceed 125 rooms. It is contem- bers of this Faculty, will instruct in heat Charles E. Berger, Philadelphia, Pa., plated that the building will conform both power. physics. to the semi-circular contour of University The entire staff of teachers will spend Abraham J. Beyle veld, Ph.D. '29, in- Avenue and Lake Street and the slope of three days as guests of the Western Electric structor in agricultural economics. the hill. By building the inn with concave Company in Chicago where they will make James D. Burfoot, Jr., instructor in exposure to the west, the rooms on the inspections of the Hawthorne plant and geology. west side of the north wing will look deliver a program of lectures. Paul R. Burkholder, Fayetteville, Pa., directly down the Inlet Valley to the New- botany. field hills, and the rooms on the south wing Arthur S. Burrell, Ithaca, fellow in plant will have a view up Cayuga Lake beyond CORNELLIAN DEAN OF WOMEN pathology. Crowbar Point towards Sheldrake. Jane L. Jones '12, dean of the academic Wilbur K. Butts Ί8, M.S. '25, Ithaca, "I understand from J. Lakin Baldridge department of the Katharine Gibbs School zoology. '15, architect for the inn, that he expects of Boston, has been named dean of women Percy H. Carr, instructor in physics. to develop the exterior design and interior at St. Lawrence University. She will Hettie M. Chute, assistant in botany. arrangement so as to retain the charm of begin her duties in September. Harold T. Cook, Ithaca, plant pathology. an old English inn, minimizing, in so far Miss Jones received her A.M. degree John B. Cotner, assistant professor of as possible, the atmosphere of a modern from the University of Chicago and her plant breeding, North Carolina Agricul- commercial hotel. Ph.D. from Columbia. She was exchange tural College. "All the trees and planting now on the instructor from the International In- Harley L. Crane, professor of horti- premises, particularly those found along stitute of Columbia to Moray House, culture, West Virginia University, botany, the street line, will be preserved in so far Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1926-7. (Continued on page IfiO) 394 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Reunion Competition Now was smoother, and the Elis applied power ATHLETICS to their strokes. In the next three- Several Classes After Attendance Record quarters of a mile, Yale forged slowly —Reduced Fare if 150 File ahead, heading Cornell by a half-length as Certificates Yale Wins Two Races the shells went into the final quarter-mile. Yale's powerful varsity crew, displaying Cornell, stroked by Behrman, started a When the reunions are held in Ithaca smooth oarsmanship and rowing a heady sprint, and Yale at first refused to answer next month, on Friday, Saturday, and race, sent Cornell's varsity into the lists the challenge. Cornell closed the gap, and Sunday, June 14, 15, and 16, many classes of defeated crews in the feature event of the the shells moved along on almost even will compete for possession of the two Carnegie Cup Regatta on Cayuga Lake terms in that sprinting finish. A hundred silver cups which were put up by the Asso- Spring Day evening. Yale won by close yards from the line, Yale gave Cornell its ciation of Class Secretaries a few years ago. to three-quarters of a length over the Red answer. The Eli stroke went up, close to One cup goes to the class which has back and White in a desperate sprinting finish 40, and the blue-tipped oars flashed further the largest number of its membership, that was too powerful for the Cornell to the front. Cornell had shot its bolt, regardless of size, the other to that, class eight. Princeton was third, nearly three and Yale crossed the line going away. which returns with the greatest proportion lengths behind Cornell. The freshman race was Cornell's all the of its living members. Yale had previously captured the junior way down the course. Niles set a 42-beat Although it is too early to prophesy with varsity race by a slight margin of open in the first few rods, and Cornell moved out safety as to the winners this year, it seems water over Princeton, with Cornell losing in front, to lead by a half-length at the likely that the Class of '69 will run away to the Tigers by two yards. quarter-mile mark. At the half-mile, from the field in the race for one of the Cornellians found satisfaction early in open water was showing between the Cor- cups. If Charles F. Hendrix and John A. the regatta, when the Red and White nell and Yale shells, with Princeton a Rea both return, as is their present plan, Freshman crew, a smooth rowing and quarter-length behind the Elis. the sixty-year class will be in full force. powerful eight, swept down the two-mile At the mile, Cornell was leading by one For the other cup it is more difficult to course to win handily over the Eli and and one-half lengths. But in the next make advance estimates. Of late years Tiger yearling combinations. The fresh- three-quarters of a mile both Yale and this trophy has been won by either the man crew won by two and one-half lengths, Princeton, rowing close together, started fifteen-year class or by the two-year class. while Yale's margin over Princeton was after Cornell, cutting the lead to a length This year not only those two classes, '14 about one-eight of a length. with a wuarter-mile to go. That last and '27, are actively in the race, but '04 The freshmen rowed the two miles in quarter-mile saw Cornell stage a magnifi- and '19 will push them hard for honors. the fastest time of the afternoon, ten cent spurt to add one and one-half The record so far is held by the Class of minutes 35 seconds. Stroked by Niles, lengths to its lead as the Red and White '24, which in 1926 registered 223 members. the yearlings displayed fine racing form, oars flashed over the finish line. The best record for a fifteen year class is excellent blade work, and plenty of power. Yale's victory in the junior varsity was that of '09, which in 1924 registered an The times of the races: well earned. Cornell took the lead for the even 200. If '04 does not win the cup, it Varsity: Yale, 10:38; Cornell, 10:40; greater part of the first mile, but Princeton seems probable that it will set up a new Princeton: 10:49^. was first over the mark. Going into the record for twenty-five year classes. The Junior varsity: Yale, 10:39; Princeton, second mile, all three shells were on even best figures so far for such a class were 10:43^5; Cornell, 10:43^. terms, and the oarsmen were pulling in made last year, by '03, with 130 registered. Freshman: Cornell, 10:35; Yale, 10:42^5' unison. Inasmuch as the women of '19 will not Princeton, 10:43. With a half-mile to go the Tigers began be reuning this year, having celebrated As the freshman eights lined up at the to drop back. Cornell was in third place, last June under the Dix Plan, the men start about six o'clock, waiting for the with Yale showing an increased stroke for alone may have difficulty in establishing starting signal from Referee Cy Thurston the last drive. Cornell began to challenge new high figures. But it is not unlikely of Syracuse, Cayuga Lake was at its best. Princeton in the last one-hundred yards, that some class will break the record for The water rippled gently, a soft breeze but the Tigers withstood the drive, nosing men alone, which figure is now shared coming from the northwest. The sky was over the line in second place. Yale's last jointly by the classes of '09 and Ί2. clouding over, and there was a slight haze. spurt gave it a length over Princeton. An observation train of thirty cars The record for women is held by the As the regatta progressed, water and followed the speeding shells and thousands Class of '23, which in 1925 had 90 women weather conditions became less favorable. watched the races from the shore. registered. The junior varsity event was rowed in a Reduced Fares Easy to Get freshening breeze, with the threat of rain. Nine Wins Three Games One factor which will make for an un- And just before the varsity event, the rain- usually large attendance this year is that storm broke, while the wind began to The baseball team materially improved the railroad associations have reduced the kick up the surface of the lake. the season's record during the past week minimum necessary in order to qualify for The three varsities were started shortly by scoring three victories, two of them the special convention rates. Heretofore before seven o'clock. Cornell got the lead over teams that will be represented, along that number has been 250. This year the by hitting a 42-beat for the first twenty with Cornell, in the new Intercollegiate certificates will be valid as soon as 150 strokes, but as the quarter-mile mark Baseball League next year. alumni have filed them. loomed up, both Yale and Princeton, on The Red and White won, 2 to 1, over In order to have the advantage of these even terms, forged head. St. Lawrence at Ithaca May 16, traveled special rates it is only necessary for the At the half-mile mark, Yale went into to New York May 17 to beat Columbia, returning alumnus to ask for a "convention the lead by about one-eighth of a length, 3 to 1, and returned to Ithaca May 18. certificate" when he buys his ticket to with Cornell holding a slight lead over the Spring Day, to nose out Yale in a thrilling Ithaca. He should not make the error of Tigers. At the mile, Yale had increased game, 2 to 1. asking for a 'receipt." He will pay full its lead to a quarter-length, while Cornell Boies, submarine pitcher, got credit for fare to Ithaca and file his certificate at the had another half-length on Princeton. the first two victories of the week, al- temporary railroad office in the Drill The real battle between Yale and the Red though he worked only in the ninth frame Hall. When the necessary figure of 150 and White now began. of the St. Lawrence game. Captain has been reached, all those who have filed The r.ougher water caused some splash- Froehlich started in his second game, but certificates will have the privilege of ing, but both shells were riding easily, gave way to a pinch hitter in the eighth. purchasing return trip tickets for half-fare. showing a fine run. Yale's oarsmanship Cornell was one run behind, but in that CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 395 inning two runs were scored, and Boies the bag for a force-out to end the suspense, Memorial to Geologist pitched craftily in the ninth to hold the he threw to first. The runner was called lead. out. Relatives and Friends of Professor Henry Froehlich and the St. Lawrence pitcher, The victory over Columbia was Cor- Shaler Williams Give $25,000 O'Brien, each gave five hits. One run be- nell's first in Quadrangle Cup League Fund to University hind, Cornell opened up in the eighth, competition. when Abell, a pinch hitter, was safe on an A fund of $25,000 has been given to the error. He stole second and scored on Tigers Win at Lacrosse University in perpetuation of the memory Maioriana's single. The runner got an The lacrosse team lost its fifth game of of Henry Shaler Williams, former professor extra base when Scully misplayed the ball. the season to Princeton, 4 to 3, on Alumni of geology and paleontology at Cornell and Hebert's single scored Maioriana with the Field on Spring Day, May 18. The Tigers founder of Sigma Xi, The fund will be winning run. started strong in the first half, scoring all used to foster research in the field of re- Boies pitched a four-hit game against four goals, while Cornell got two on shots search in the field of geology. A portion of the Lions in New York, Columbia scoring by Champion and Gowdy. the fund will go for the purchase and in the last inning. Cornell scored its Cornell's defense improved in the second maintenance of a summer camp as a place three tallies with the aid of Columbia half, but the Red and White attack was of study for selected students in field work errors, as the Red and White batters were stopped time and time by the Princeton of the Department of Geology. also held to four hits by Cerny and Landau. defense. Campbell's work at guard for Professor Williams had a notable career Cornell's three runs were scored in the Princeton was outstanding. Champion as a teacher and investigator in the fieldo f eighth inning. Maioriana singled to start scored Cornell's last goal half-way through geology. After his graduation from Yale the inning, and Hebert was safe when the the second period. in 1868, be began teaching geology at Cor- Columbia first baseman, covering an nell. In 1892 he was called back to his attempted sacrifice, failed to touch the ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS Alma Mater as the successor of James D. bag. Cushman sent up a fly, and Cerny Winners of three essay prizes were an- Dana, America's foremost geologist. He and Sweetman crashed as they both tried nounced last week. William Maslow '29 held this chair until 1904, when he returned for the catch. Cerny was hurt. of New York, with an essay entitled "The to Cornell and was the head of the Depart- Cushman forced Maioriana at third, but Infinite Variety of Cleopatra" won the ment of Geology until his retirement, and Steiff singled to fill the bases. Cerny left Barnes Shakespeare Prize, founded in professor emeritus until his death. As the game, and Landau, his successor, 1887 by Mrs. Alfred Smith Barnes. an investigator he attained high rank. walked Donnelly to force in a run. The Corson Browning Prize was won by His studies of Devonian paleontologj', of Gichner forced out Cushman at the plate, William S. Benedict '29, Lake Linden, geological history of organisms, and of the but Handleman came through with a Mich., for his essay on "Brownings evolution and geographical and geological double to score Steiff and Donnelly. Portrait of Paracelsus," and the Corson modification of fossil faunas stand out as Spring Day Game Well Played French Prize was divided between Her- important contributions to the literature bert Brodsky '30 of New York and Harry of these subjects. He was honored by The Spring Day game with Yale was B. Weiss '29, Newark, N. J. election to the more important American one of the best in recent years, with Lewis and foreign geological societies. recording an outstanding success on the mound in spite of the nine hits garnered PROFESSOR HEINRICH RIES of the De- Professor Williams is credited with partment of Geology will be one of the by the Eli hitters. Three of them were being the founder of Sigma Xi in 1885. speakers at the annual convention of the Planned originally as an honorary society scratch infield singles. New York State Geological Society held for engineering students, Professor William Cornell scored two in the third inning. May 17 and 18 at Gouverneur, N. Y. gave to the project the conception that Lewis himself started the rally with a Professors Oscar D. von Engeln '08 and Sigma Xi should represent in science what single. Maioriana singled to right, and Charles M. Nevin will be among the dele- Phi Beta Kappa signifies in the field of the Garvey fumbled the ball, Lewis going to gates from Cornell. humanities. third. Hebert grounded to Aldrich, who threw low to first, Lewis scoring. Members of the family who have already contributed to the Henry Shaler Wrilliams Cushman grounded out, but on the play memorial are Roger H. Williams '95, New Maioriana was trapped between third and York, Mrs. George R. Williams, Augusta the plate. He beat the throw to the plate, H. Williams, Jared T. Newman '75 and scoring the second tally. Mrs. Newman, Professor John H. Tanner Yale got its lone run in the fourth, after '91, and Mrs. Tanner, Roger B. Williams two were out. Beyer singled, and Aldrich, of Ithaca, Colonel Timothy S. Williams who had suffered a split finger in practice '84 and Mrs. Williams, Huntington, L. I., and whose performance at third during the and Otis L. Williams '87, New York. game was consequently erratic, made up for his misplays by poling out a long triple to right center, scoring Beyer. THE INDOOR SPORT season at Willard Working on the one-run lead, Lewis Straight Hall was concluded last week with pitched masterly ball. Three times Yale the award of trophies to winners in various got a runner to third, but Lewis sent bats- activities. The winners were: Charles K. men back to the dugout by the strike-out Rice '32, Watertown, ping pong; Nicholas route time after time. D. Tiscione '29, Brooklyn, billiards; The ninth inning provided the big thrill David Gersten '29, Utica, pocket billiards; of the game. The first two batters got Walter Muir '29, Montreal, Canada, scratch singles. Lewis -then fanned the chess; Bertel W. Antell '28, Brooklyn, and next two men, but the next batter hit a Karl F. Kellerman '29, Washington, D. C, sharp grounder that bounced off Lewis's representing Delta Upsilon, interfraternity glove. He was safe and the bases were bridge, and Mary F. Bateman '29 and loaded. Margaret S. Bateman '30, both of Boon- Garvey hit to Hebert, who took the ball ville, representing Chi Omega, inter- close to third base. Instead of touching HENRY SHALER WILLIAMS sorority bridge. 396 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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Books and Magazine Articles Warnings about his operations have been The progress of science in the field of published by Yale and Carnegie Tech, medicine is of vital interest to everyone. In The Wesleyan Alunmus for May Pro- The man gives the name of Mock. In the very nature of things we are eager fessor George M. Dutcher '97 writes on the Howard N. Moore '30 of Wheeling, to know of discoveries leading to a better retirement of Librarian William J. James W. Va., has been notified by his father of knowledge of the causes and cures for the of Wesleyan. Mock's activities. The letter reads in manifold ills of mankind. To the average In The Cornell Civil Engineer for April part: reader information of this sort comes Clifford M. Stegner '00 writes on "The "A man about sixty to sixty-five years through the popular press, with its varying Department of Buildings in Relation to of age, giving the name of Mock, of Ger- dependableness. It is, therefore, with Public Welfare." Stuart L. Peebles Ίi man extraction, called on me yesterday keen interest that we take up this volume. describes "A Steel, All-Welded Foot representing himself to be your instructor The editor is professor of chemistry in the Bridge over the Delaware and Hudson in mathematics at Cornell. . . He said he University of Chicago. The long list of R. R. Tracks at Schenectady, N. Y." had been at Cornell since 1894 and that co-editors and authors includes many of In The Journal of Geology for February- he had left the University last June and the most distinguished names in the fields March Harry M. Fridley, Ph.D. '28, had was recuperating from illness during the of medicine and chemistry today. The an article on "Identification of Erosion past months and had a position at the work of compiling the book was under- Surfaces in South-Central New York." University of West Virginia, teaching taken by the Chemical Foundation at the In The Nation for May 15 Professor mathematics at summer school which request of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan Louis R. Gottschalk '19 of the University would open there June 10." of New York, who have for more than ten of Chicago reviews Walter Geer, "Napoleon Mr. Moore's letter says that Mock years devotedjstrenuous effort and large and His Family," Nils Forssell Fouche, spoke of his son in such a way as to lead means to the advancement of American The Man Napoleon Feared," and Mabel him to believe he had known him. chemistry. Mr. Garvan is president of the S. C. Smith, "The Story of Napoleon Mock according to the letter, is about Foundation. Bonaparte." five feet ten inches in height, weighs Of especial interest to us are three con- In The New Republic for April 17 Dr. about 135 or 140 pounds, walks with a tributions by members of the staff of the Charles A. 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Churchman of the De- of the University of Pennsylvania. HEADS FINANCE COMMITTEE partment of Therapeutics. All three F. Donaldson Brown '04, vice-president point clearly to the great extent to which In The Journal of English and Germanic Philology for April Professor Richard Beck, of General Motors Corporation, has been medicine in their respective fields leans elected chairman of the Finance Com- upon chemistry for every kind of analysis A.M. '24, Ph.D. '26, of Thiel College, writes on "Gisli Brynjulfsson: an Ice- mittee of that corporation, succeeding and experimental work: experimentation John J. Raskob, who resigned last year with the glands of the body, their nature, landic Imitator of Childe Harold's Pil- grimage." to become chairman of the Democratic composition, and reactions; chemical tests National Committee. Mr. Raskob, how- In Modern Language Notes for May Pro- of excretions and tissues; the standardi- ever, was recently named a member of the fessor Abbie F. Potts '06, Ph.D. '20, of zation of remedies; in fact diagnosis in Finance Committee. various types of disease would be im- Vassar writes on "The Date of Words- worth's First Meeting with Hazlitt." Pro- possible without chemistry. Professor $25,000 FOR CANCER RESEARCH Churchman's story of the history of fessor George I. Dale Ίo discusses "The Cornell has been made a beneficiary of antisepsis is one of the most interesting in Figurative Negative in Old Spanish." the estate of Mrs. Mary L. Walker Peters the book. He describes the efforts now in In The American Journal of Philology of New York, who died on May 2. A progress to solve the specific problem of for January-March "A Latin Grammar" bequest of $25,000 to the University is to septicemia, or general infection of the by Professor Emeritus Herbert C. Elmer be used for cancer research. Mrs. Peter's blood, a disease in respect to which med- '83 is reviewed by Gonzales Lodge. Pro- will also provides a $10,000 trust fund for icine at the present time is almost helpless. fessor Lane Cooper reviews "Greek the maintenance of two free beds in the Rhetoric and Literary Criticism" by W. Other contributions of outstanding New York Hospital, with which the Rhys Roberts. interest are "The Story of the Discovery Medical College is now associated. of the Vitamins" by Elmer V. McCollum In Scribner's for May Kenneth C. and Nina Simmonds of Johns Hopkins; Waltz '27 has a story entitled "Nine PROFESSOR RALPH H. WHEELER '09 of chapters relating the work which has been Weeks of Omniscience." the Agriculture Extension Department is and is being done in the study of special In Harper's for May Margaret Culkin on leave for six months in order to make diseases like goitre, diabetes, pellagra, Banning has a story entitled "In Line for an exhaustive study of extension activities insomnia, high blood pressure, and tuber- Something." in other States. o o

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Charles Herbert Bell, Elizabeth, N. J., Harold Simon Lincoln Wiener, Newark, Editor-in-Chief and ) Business Manageranager " ]) R. W. SAILOR'07 president Red Key, Theta Delta Chi. N. J., editor The Sun, Zeta Beta Tau. Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON Earl Stewart Bessmer, Sherrill, N. Y., Frank Joseph Weis, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Managing Editor H. G. STUTZ '07 track, C. Assistant to Managing Editor JANE URQUHART '13 captain soccer, C, Lambda Chi Alpha. Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Robert Leon Bliss, Binghamton, N. Y., QUILL AND DAGGER Corporation: R. W. Sailor, President; W. J. Nor- Harold Herbert Bate, Westwood, N. J., ton, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; H. G. editor The Widow, Psi Upsilon. Stutz, Secretary; Romeyn Berry and W. L. Todd, Roland William Brown, Brooklyn, man- crew. Directors. Office: 113 East Green Street, Ithaca, N. Y. ager lacrosse, Phi Kappa Psi. George Lamont Bidwell, Reigelsville, Member of Irving Eugene Cantor, Jersey City, Pa., manager The Widow, Sigma PhiSigma. Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. N. J., fencing, Beta Sigma Rho. Carlton Spooner Boies, White Plains, Printed by The Cayuga Press Robert Lee Donnelly, Cincinnati, base- N. Y., baseball, Alpha Chi Rho. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ball, C, Sigma Chi. Phillips Kay Champion, Philadelphia, Frederick George Dulaff, Brooklyn, Pa., lacrosse, football, C, Sigma Phi ITHACA, N. Y., MAY 23, 1929 track, cross country, C, Alpha Gamma Rho. Epsilon. Stephen Francis Dunn, Scranton, Pa., Charles Edwin Cleminshaw, Cleveland, COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIP manager hockey, Theta Delta Chi. track, Delta Phi. TEVENS Institute has inaugurated an George Brooks Emeny, Salem, Ohio, Harry William Crawford, Verona, N. J., Sinteresting experiment in graded tuition manager football, Phi Kappa Psi. track, Alpha Chi Rho. fees. Under it all students are charged Fred Clifford Fay, Brooklyn, soccer, C, Lewis Hudson Durland, Watkins Glen, with the new standard tuition of $600 a Beta Theta Pi. N. Y., manager baseball, Chi Phi. year. This sum includes all fees. The LeRoy Adams Goodwin, Jr., Gloucester Rosewell Giles Eldridge, Lexington, exceptional students, standing at the top City, N. J., manager Musical Clubs, Delta Mass., cross country, C, Delta Upsilon. of their respective classes, may win prizes Kappa Epsilon. Cameron Mann Fisher, New York, for all-round" proficiency that run from William Hartman Harder, Buffalo, soccer, C, Delta Phi. fifty to six hundred dollars each. These manager freshman track, Phi Kappa Psi. Walter Cressler Heasley, Warren, Pa., prizes take the form of remission of all or Arthur Parsons Hibbard, Elizabeth, track, Chi Phi. part of the tuition. N. J., editor-in-chief The Widow, Theta Charles Edward Hewitt, Jr., North For example, three seniors, two juniors, Delta Chi. Tonawanda, editor-in-chief The Sun, and one sophomore may win entire remis- John Winslow Hirshfeld, Detroit, bus- Kappa Sigma. sion of fees. In all 162, or over a third of iness manager The Sun, Psi Upsilon. John Kent Hewson, Madison, N. J., man- Stevens's enrollment, receive, under the Carl Thiele Hoffman, Douglaston, N. Y. ager basketball, Zeta Psi. plan, a substantial reduction from their football, C, Chi Psi. Robert Imrie Hood, Corning, N. Y., tuition, the dumber two-thirds paying the Howard Spafard Johnson, Charleston, manager soccer, Sigma Nu. freight. W. Va., football, wrestling, C, Delta George Percy Hunter, Brooklyn, foot- The plan has merit in that it injects into Kappa Epsilon. ball, C, Sigma Nu. academic work the competitive element Joseph John Kanich, Coaldale, Pa., Robert Phillips Ludlum, Brooklyn, for which young America is willing to football, C. editor The Sun, Zeta Psi. strain and give its all, including its very Samuel Ralph Levering, The Hollow, William Lowry Mann, York, Pa., crew, best attention. As proposed the Stevens Va., cross country, track, C, Telluride. . plan gives credit for all sorts of student Lawrence Henry Levy, St. Louis, track, Roger Burdette Nelson, Jamestown, activities, including athletics and self- C, Pi Lambda Phi. N.Y., editor The Annuals, Phi Delta Sigma. support. A complicated point-system Robert Webb Lewis, Suffern, Lambda John Robert Parker, Jr., Schenectady, supplements the academic record. Chi Alpha, baseball, basketball, C. hockey, Kappa Alpha. A modified version of this plan could Richard Chesnel Llop, Ithaca, hockey, C. Joseph Criswell Purseglove, Jr., Lake- readily be applied to Cornell by using the Francis Howard Marston, Claremont, wood, Ohio, manager freshman football, several colleges as units. It offers posi- N. H., art editor The Widow, Lambda Chi Alpha Delta Phi. sibilities worthy of consideration. Alpha. William Ticknor Reed, Dunkirk, man- Whether it is ever applied bodily to Cor- Frederick Muller, Jr., Douglaston, aging editor The Annuals, Alpha Sigma Phi. nell as a whole, however, an adaptation N. Y., assistant manager freshman base- Norman Embree Scott, Attleboro, might work wonders in smaller groups. ball, Chi Psi. Mass., crew, football, C, Pi Kappa Phi. Fraternities, clubs, teams and other Fraser Woodman Rodman, Flushing, Harry Steiff, Nyack, N. Y., baseball, groups might readily have their thoughts N. Y., manager freshman crew, Delta Tau Sigma Phi. directed toward their classroom work by a Delta. Charles Edward Treman, Jr., Ithaca, judicious offering of tuition-paying prizes Frederick William Schumacher, Jersey track, Kappa Alpha. for the members of the group who, with- City, crew, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. John Clyde White, Jr., Windsor, out sacrifice of their obligations toward Raymond Paul Sharood, St. Paul, Canada, The Sun, Delta Kappa Epsilon. the group or society at large, show the best Minn., assistant manager crew, Chi Psi. Henry Barker Williams, Easton, Pa., record for all-round proficiency. Horace Brewster Shoemaker, Bridgeton, manager freshman basketball, Sigma Phi The experiment at Stevens should prove N. J., crew, Alpha Tau Omega. Epsilon. highly gratifying if its succeeds in placing Walter Woodhouse Sibson, Jr., Phila- Louis Jerome Wolcott, Corning, N. Y., studying on a competitive bases. delphia, Pa., football, C, Phi Delta Theta. business manager The Annuals, Sigma Nu. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 399

The Week on the Campus THE 1929 ENDOWMENT FUND has risen to $108,545, thus amply exceeding its S there anything especially that you far of the dredging operations, which are to quota of $100,000. would like to know about Spring Day? begin in earnest this week and to continue TWENTY TEACHERS and advanced stu- I It was very nice, very gay, very loud. as long as enough water is flowing to carry dents in geology attended the annual con- Thousands of visitors said they had a the silt through the gorge. vention of the State Geological Associa- wonderful time and would be back next THE ART GALLERY is showing an exhibi- tion in Gouvernuer, N. Y., over the week- year. There were numberless delightful tion of the paintings of Gerrit A. Beneker. end. Professor Heinrich Ries was one of dances, formal functions, picnics, auto- Many of them are portraits of types of the speakers at the formal dinner. mobile rides, reunions, impromptu enter- workmen in steel mills, which are interest- tainments, and moments musicaux. Our JOHN FARRAND '27, son of President and ing on account of their human appeal as thanks are due to the energy, industry, Mrs. Farrand, was married to Miss well as for their technical qualities. foresight, and self-sacrifice of a whole lot Caroline Townsend Wainwright, daughter of people whose names are now forgotten. ADMIRERS of Mr. Beneker's work were of Mr. R. T. Wainwright, in Rye, N. Y., There will be another Spring Day next enabled to see the artist himself and to hear on May 13. Miss Wainwright is the sister year, even bigger, better, more lavish and his opinions. He gave a public lecture on of Townsend Wainwright '28, who was unprecedented. May 16 on "Art in Everyday Life." recently married to Miss Betty Treman Other lecturers of the week were our own of Ithaca. Mr. and Mrs. Farrand will be THE DRAMATIC CLUB, taking the date at home after June 1 at 175 North Street, left vacant by the Savage Club, put on its Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, former dean of the College of Agriculture, who on May 16 Buffalo. This is the third wedding in the 1929 Revue in Willard Straight Theatre President's family this spring. on Thursday. The show was repeated on told of his experiences in hunting palms Saturday. And a very fine revue it was, over most of the world; E. Vail Stebbins You REMEMBER about Dr. Wilder's too. To be sure the chorus wasn't drilled '93, a member of the New York Stock sense of smell, upon which we made some like Albertina Rasch girls, but they did Exchange, whose subject on May 13 was small animadversion last week? Dr. very nicely. And in one feature the Broad- ' 'Functions of the Stock Exchange and Charles G. Pease writes to The New York way producers were definitely outdone by How Business is Done There"; F. W. T. Times to deny Dr. Papez's deduction that the Central Avenue impresari. There was Craske of England, who spoke to the an atrophy of the olfactory nerve caused more wit, more ingenuity of idea, more Liberal Club on "The British Student Dr. Wilder's aversion to tobacco. "As honest amusement, in our own production Movement"; and Frederick W. Kelley '93, Dr. Wilder, through the sense of hearing, than in half the opulent but witless clown- who spoke on May 17 on "Some Problems was responsive to the rendition of the eries of the $6.60 field. in the Portland Cement Industry." musical compositions of the masters, so was he in like degree jarred and repelled THE MUSICAL CLUBS on Friday gave a UNDENIABLY a lecture also was that of the gentleman presented as Captain by jazz. Through the sense of olfaction concert which was well received. Herbert Dr. Wilder was keenly responsive to the J. Gordon '30 and Roland K. Blakeslee Cooper Frasier of Scotland Yard, who dealt with "Modern Scientific Methodsin fragrance of flowers, and he was equally '29 were acclaimed as the soloists for the repelled by the irritating and poisonous Glee Club. The Mandolin Club, led by the Detection of Crime." Captain Fraser's tales of human villainy became smoke from tobacco.'' This thing ought to Harold E. Marietta '30, was loudly be settled. applauded. The Mandolin Club, by the more and more blood-curdling as he pro- M. G. B. way, is now really a small orchestra, with ceeded; at the end he produced an axe and its woodwinds, brasses, and assortment of pistol used in a most frightful assassina- strings. tion, and, waving the weapons at the audience, he commanded all his hearers to COMING EVENTS THE DROWNING of two students, Charles Go To Hell. "Another Spring Day A. Ives '29 and William W. Wagner '32, stunt," murmurmed the audience, pained Friday, May 24 is another dreadful lesson concerning the to find that the grisly horrors had not dangers of canoeing on treacherous Cayuga actually taken place. Lacrosse, Penn State at Ithaca. Lake. The students are warned about Saturday, May 25 venturing on the lake by posters hung in SIGMA NU won the interfraternity track Track, Princeton at Ithaca. Schoell- every building. At this season the menace meet by the imposing score of 46, in a kopf Field, 1.30 p. m. of the lake is fearfully increased by the contest in which eighteen clubs and Crew, Syracuse at Ithaca. Observation numbing chill of the water. Has the Uni- fraternities competed. Train leaves at 5 p. m. versity the right to forbid its students to THE FENCING CLUB held its annual Tennis, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. rent or own canoes? If it has the right, banquet last Wednesday, the president Baseball, Yale at New Haven. can it enforce such a prohibitory measure? John Larco '29, presenting medals and Sunday, May 26 Heaven knows, the authorities want to prizes to the various university champions. do everything possible to prevent such Service. The Rt. Rev. G. Patsy P. Pirone '30 was elected president Ashtbn Oldham '02, Bishop of Albany. needless tragedies. And yet, Heaven for the coming year. knows that the policing of Cayuga Lake 11 a. m. would be a vast addition to its burdens. PERRY CORNELL DE CHERT '31 has Wednesday, May 29 One would say that the problem is muni- received, in national competition, one of Baseball, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. cipal rather than particular to the Univer- the $1,000 scholarhips offered by the In- June 14 and 15. Reunions sity. If canoeing on the lake in May is to stitute of International Education to per- mit undergraduates to spend the junior RAVEN AND SERPENT, women's junior be forbidden to students, it should just as honorary society, has elected the following properly be forbidden to everyone else. year abroad. Dechert, who is a great grandson of , will pass his new members: Barbara N. Collyer '31, BEEBE LAKE, in its small way, has been next scholastic year at the Sorbonne, to Forest Hills; Polly Cronyn '31, Plandome; trying to emulate Cayuga. Raymond return to Cornell for his senior year. Mary Fuertes '31, Ithaca; Katherine R. Dawson, a workman on the dredge, was Ganzenmuller '31, Sea Cliff; Dorothea F. shocked by a live wire and thrown into the THE COMMONWEALTH FUND is going to Hall '31, Buffalo; Frances E. Meisse '31, lake unconscious. He was rescued with send Reginald C. Hinton of the London Brooklyn; Helen L. Nuffort '31, Newark, much difficulty and rushed to the hospital, School of Economics here next year to N. J.; Vesta M. Rogers '31, Whitney where, it is reported, he is now on the way study economics. It will also send a New Point; Alice E. Schade '31, Akron, Ohio; to recovery. This is the only accident so Zealander to study agricultural economics. and Mary F. Shields '31, Chatham, N. J. 400 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

SIGMA XI ELECTIONS Julia E. Rothermel, A.M. '25, Ph.D. '28, (Continued from page 398) professor of biology, Western College for OBITUARIES Women, histology. Albert J. H. De Smaele, Bressoux, Louis C. Schultz '26, assistant in botany. Belgium, fellow on the C. R. B. Founda- Alvin F. Shepard '24, Buffalo, chem- tion, mechanical engineering. Lionel O. Robertson '95 istry. Frank L. Drayton, plant pathologist, Lionel Omar Robertson died on May 9, James W. Sinden, instructor in plant Division of Botany, Canadian Department on the return trip of the Berengaria from pathology. of Agriculture. Europe. He took two years of architecture Hubert J. Sloan, Urbana, 111., poultry Edwin A. Filmer '12, A.M. '28, Bing- and was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He husbandry and physiology. hamton, geology. was associated with the Tobey Furniture Herbert E. Spencer, Rochester, mathe- Charles R. Fordyce, assistant in chem- Company in Chicago. A daughter, matics. istry. Charlotte G. Robertson, survives him. Mrs. Pauline W. Stark, M.S. '28, in- Joe R. Furr, assistant in pomology. structor in bacteriology, dairy industry. Edward S. Atwood '00 Franklin T. Gardner, American Creosot- Cyril W. Terry '26, instructor in experi- ing Co. Fellow in chemistry. Edward Snow Atwood, building esti- mental engineering. Alfred G. Gierke '17, Ithaca, veterinary mator with the F. J. Kirchoff Construc- Wellington A. Thalman, A.M. '22, Iowa medicine. tion Company in Denver, Colo., died in Falls, psychology. CarlE. F. Guterman, Springfield, Mass., Denver on March 11, after a six weeks' Chester D. Tolle, Ithaca, animal hus- plant pathology. illness. bandry. Robert D. Harwood, Ph.D. '28, pro- He was born on October 10, 1877, the Miss Wei Van Ysang '28, A.M. '29, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. Atwood. fessor of zoology, State Teachers' College, Shanghai, China, physics. He took a year of mechanical engineering. San Diego, Calif. Helen F. Tucker, A.M. '28, professor of His wife and three children survive him. Barbour L. Herrington, instructor in physical geography and geology, Southern dairy chemistry. College, geology. Damas B. Becker '05 E. Harold Hinman, A.M. '28, assistant Lai C. Verman, Amritsar, India, physics. Damas Brough Becker, a physician in in biology, entomology. Sidney W. Wentworth, assistant in New York for many years, died suddenly James G. Horsfall, Ph.D. '29, instructor pomology. early this month at his home in Bronx- in plant pathology until February; now Cynthia Westcott, Heckscher research ville, N. Y. He received the degree of associate in research at Geneva. assistant in plant pathology. M.D. His wife, Beulah Mosher Becker, William T. James, Green, S. C, psy- Jane L. Wierda, instructor in anatomy. and a son, Warren Damas, survive him. chology. Franklin G. Williams, State College, John G. Jenkins '23, assistant in psy- B. Mason Hill '07 Pa., mathematics. chology. SENIORS Benjamin Mason ("Mase") Hill died Newton C. Jones, Heckscher research Donald W. Baker, Trenton, N. J., suddenly of angina pectoris on May 6, at assistant in chemistry. pathology and bacteriology. his office in Richmond, Va. George Kreezer '24, instructor in psy- Robert H. Cameron, Richmond Hill, He was born in Petersburg, Va., on chology. N. Y., mathematics. August 7, 1884, the son of Robert and Gerald Kruger, instructor in physics. Kenneth E. Caster, Ithaca, geology. Rosa Batte Hill. He received the degree of Vivian S. Lawrence, instructor in Daniel G. Clark, Ithaca, botany. M.E. and was a member of Kappa Sigma. For many years he was a sales engineer mathematics. James M. Veeder, Pittsburgh, chem- in Richmond for the Allis-Chalmers Harrison F. Lewis, Yarmouth, Nova istry. Manufacturing Company. He lived in Scotia, zoology. ARTS EXPERIMENT EXTENDED Petersburg. His wife, Mrs. Althea W. Welles N. Lowry, Lewisburg, Pa., Hill, and a son, Benjamin, survive him. physics. Extension through 1929-30 of the experi- Gerrold R. Megathlin, M.S. '28, Peter- ment of discontinuing formal instruction ATTEND ENGINEERS' CONVENTION boro, N. H., geology. one week before final examinations has been voted by the Faculty of Arts and Fourteen seniors and juniors of the Wilbur E. Meserve, instructor in elec- Sciences. The Faculty recommends that School of Electrical Engineering attended trical engineering, physics. in courses which do not discontinue in- the student convention of the Northeast Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, Scot- struction, the exercises of the final week District of the American Institute of Elec- land, Commonwealth Fellow, agricultural be devoted to rviewing the term's work. trical Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic economics. The action of the Faculty is the result Institute at Troy on May 10 and 11. Maurice J. Murray, instructor in chem- of a desire for a more thorough test of a A paper on "Further Oscillographic istry. review week, a practice inaugurated during Studies of Alternator Short Circuits" was Edwin R. Parker, Riverside, Calif., the first semester this year. presented by Thomas S. Bill '30 of Bing- plant breeding. hamton. His paper was chosen from Robert L. Payne, assistant in plant WINS WOODFORD PRIZE among five research papers submitted by pathology. Mung Yee Yap '29 of Honolulu, Hawaii, students for presentation at the Troy Carl S. Pederson, instructor in bacteriol- won the fifty-ninth Woodford Prize con- meeting. ogy, dairy industry. test on May 7 with his speech on "China Professors Robert F. Chamberlain '08 Samuel P. Pickering, instructor in Today." Four other contestants partici- and Hubert H. Race '22 also attended the anatomy. pated, and Dean Robert P. Sibley meeting. Joseph C. Polley, instructor in mathe- presided. matics. The other contestants and their subjects Six MEN have been elected to the board Whiton Powell '24, Ph.D. '28, professor were Ida Blinkoff '30 of Buffalo, "Toler- of The Widow. They are John A. Boyce of economics at Lehigh. ance"; Charlotte L. Ingalls '29 of West '32, Barre, Vt., art staff; Caspar Hasselrϋs Lorenzo A. Richards, assistant in phys- New Brighton, "Advertising"; Harold D. '31, Forest Hills; William H. Gersten- ics. Feuerstein '29 of New York, "Political berger '32, Utica; James O. Porter '32, Sid Robinson, Hechscher research assis- Parties"; and Jason D. Rich '29 of Cleve- Buffalo; William A. Southworth '32, tant in entomology. land, "Values." Miss Blinkoff won Batavia, and Harold C. Webster '32, Alexis L. Romanoff, research instructor honorable mention. Stamford, Conn., editorial staff. in poultry husbandry. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 401

REUNION CHAIRMEN '69, Charles F. Hendryx, 5 Roslyn Apts., Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio. '74, John L. Stone, 302 Wait Avenue, Ithaca. '75, Henry W. Sackett, 154 Nassau Street, New York. '76, Charles Beebe, Union Talc Co., 147 Nassau Street, New York. J77, William 0. Kerr, 232 South Geneva —UTILITIES^ Street, Ithaca. '79, Clayton Ryder, Carmel, N. Y. '84, Henry P. de Forest, 15 Central Park West, New York. '89, Henry N. Ogden, 614 University Avenue, Ithaca. '93, Secretary: Clark S. Northup, INDUSTRIALS 407 Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca. '93, Chair- man: George W. Cavanaugh, Willard Way, Ithaca. '94, Secretary: Elmer E. Bogart, 75 Lorraine Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. '95, Secretary: Erie W. Whitfield, Charter Printing Service, 280 Madison Avenue, New York. '95, Chairman: W. F. Atkinson, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co., 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Organization '96, Secretary: George S. Tompkins, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., 10 Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. '96, Chair- man: John Lynch, Room 715, 195 Broad- Financing way, New York. '96, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Clark S. Northup, 407 Elmwood Avenue, Ithaca. '99, Secretary: Charles C. Whinery, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 731 Plymouth Court, Chicago, 111. '99, Design Chairman: Maxwell M. Upson, 140 Cedar Street, New York. '04, Secretary (Wom- en): Dr. Mary M. Crawford, 333 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York. '04, Secretary: Dean Albert R. Mann, 410 Construction Dryden Road, Ithaca. '09, Secretary (Women): Mrs. R. Warren Sailor, 210 White Park Road. Ithaca. '09, Secretary: Robert E. Treman, Treman, King & Co., Management Ithaca. '12, Secretary: Ross W. Kellogg, 20 East Bayard Street, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Ji2, Secretary (Women): Miss Nina Smith, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. '13, Secretary: George H. Rockwell, 748 Main Reports Street, Cambridge, Mass. '13, Chairman: Tristan Antell, 55 Parade Place, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Ί3, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Leonard C. Urquhart, 711 East Seneca Street, Ithaca. Ί4, Secretary: H. Wallace Appraisals Peters, Packard Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. '14, Chairman: Thomas I. S. Boak, Goulds Pump, Co. Inc., Seneca Falls, N.Y. '14, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Howard S. Teall, Geneseo, N. Y. Ί5, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Richard Haff, 159 Rad- ford Street, Yonkers, N. Y. '15, Secre- tary: Robert W. White, Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., 30 East Forty-second Street, New York. '19, Secretary: II STONE 8C WEBSTER •! Charles G. Seelbach, 1163 Kensington INCORPORATED Avenue, Buffalo, '19, Chairman; W. Morgan Kendall, 59 Parkside Avenue, Buffalo. '24, Secretary: Carl F. Wedell, 505 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. '24, Secretary (Women): Miss Mary E. Yinger, 22 Stiles Street, Elizabeth, N. J. '27, Secretary; Robert B. Brown, 19 Fairview Street, Yonkers, N. Y. '27, Secretary (Women): Mrs. Bernard A. Savage, 7501 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, N. Y. '27, Chairman: Jervis Langdon, Jr., 2 Central ^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH HnΠ Avenue, Ithaca. llllllllllllllilllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIHHIlllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHnΠ 402 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'14 BS—Sturgis M. Robinson is a ings was auctioned off for the Seaman's THE ALUMNI member of the firm and sales manager of Fund. Sport, Robinson and Sport, perfumers '21 PhD—Professor Glenn R. Morrow and manufacturing chemists. His ad- of the University of Missouri has been '73 BS, '83 MS—Dr. Leland O. Howard dress is 24 Camden Street, Boston. He appointed associate professor of philo- received the honorary degree of LL.D. has a four-year-old daughter, Romaine sophy in the University of Illinois. from the University of California at the Wilson. '21 AB, '24 LLB; '26—A daughter, recent Charter Day exercises. '14 ME—Charles J. Tehle writes that Elaine, was born on May 2 to Allan H. '94 BS—William R. Delehanty is chair- he is ' buffer" between the engineering and Treman '21 and Mrs. Treman (Ellen man of the Board of Tidewater Rolling service departments of the Westinghouse Barton '26). They live at Lenroc Court, Mills, Inc., at 75 West Street, New York; Electric and Manufacturing Company in Ithaca. Treman is an attorney, with treasurer of the Poertner Realty Corpora- South Philadelphia, Pa. He lives at 127 offices in the Savings Bank Building. tion and Howard Court Inc.; and vice- Mohawk Avenue, Norwood, Pa. '22 ME—Allan O. Geertz was married president of the Suburban Securities Cor- '14 CE—Paul L. Heslop is with the on April 9 to Miss Ruth Allyne Martin of poration at 1819 Broadway, New Ycfrk. United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., Elmira, N. Y. He is assistant engine- '97 AM, '99 PhD—William S. Ferguson, at 112 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, house foreman for the Pennsylvania Rail- professor of ancient history at Harvard supervising engineering for hydro-electric road in Renova, Pa. He lives at 302 since 1912, has been elected McLean Pro- developments and reports. He has been Huron Avenue. fessor of Ancient and Modern History. doing similar work in the '22 AB—The firm of Edward B. Selig- He holds the degree of LL.D. from McGill and South America since his graduation. mann, Inc., formerly contractors and and of Litt.D. from Louvain. The '14 ME—Frederick C. Backus, who has builders in Buffalo, have moved their McLean was endowed under the will of just retired as president of the Cornell offices to 119 Brantwood Road, Eggerts- John McLean and was established in Club of Buffalo, has a general architectural ville, N. Y. 1838. The first incumbent was Jared practice there. His address is Girdle Road, '22 AB—Juanita P. Johns, who received Sparks. East Aurora, N. Y. her M.D. from Boston University in '25 '98 ME—John H. Wynne is an in- Ί6 BS—Clarence W. Bailey, right and M.Sc. in medical ophthalmology from dustrial engineer in New York. His ad- tackle on Charlie Barrett's famous 1915 Pennsylvania in '28, has opened offices for dress is Room 706, 30 Church Street. football team, since November has been the practice of ophthalmology at Rooms '02 AB—Percy E. Raymond, associate living, with his wife and two boys, at 1903 327-328, 419 Boylston Street, Boston. professor of paleontology at Harvard East Lee Street, R.D. 2, Tucson, Ariz. '23 BS—George A. West is supervisor of since 1917, has been promoted to a pro- Ί6 BS—William H. Jameson, Jr., is food and sanitation with the Rochester, fessorship. He received his Ph.D. from resident agent at fi8 East Sixth Street, N. Y., Health Bureau, at 82 Chesnut Yale in 1905. In 1909-10 he was professor Corona, Calif., of the National Liberty Street. His chief duty is the inspection of of invertebrate paleontology at the Uni- Insurance Company of America. the Rochester milk supply. versity of Pittsburgh. In 1912 he went Ί6AB—Robert H. Cobb in 1928 to Harvard as assistant professor of '23 AB—Mary H. Smith has been ap- organized the investment firm of R. H. paleontology. pointed director of the newly organized Cobb and Company, members of the St. social service department at the Albany, '04, '05 ME—Frederick W. Poate is Louis Stock Exchange. He is also presi- N. Y., Hospital. She has been field agent managing director of Mackenzie and Com- dent of Midwest Investors, Inc., an invest- and psychologist in the child's clinic of the pany, Ltd., with headquarters at 8 Canton ment trust company. His address is 506 State Department of Mental Hygiene, and Road, Shanghai, China. The Company Olive Street, St. Louis. He lives in been connected with the State Charities has offices in Tientsin, Hankow, Chung- Webster Groves, Mo. Cobb has a son, Aid Association. king, and London. Poate expects to be Robert Harris, Jr., eight months old. home on leave next year. '23 LLB—Frederic T. Henry is prac- '17 AB; '17 AB—A daughter, Mary ticing law in Canandaigua, N. Y. He was '05 AB—Howard C. Smith since Feb- Montgomery, was born on April 7 to married on February 20 to Miss Gertrude ruary has been in charge of the Mont- Charles J. Rowland Ίj and Mrs. Rowland Powell, daughter of Mr. George Powell of gomery studio, WAPI, for the Alabama (Mazie C. Montgomery '17). They live Canandaigua. Department of Agriculture and Industries at 614 West Fairmount Avenue, State '23 AB—Amy B. Clough is teaching which broadcasts daily from 12.30 to 1 p.m. College, Pa. This is part of his editorial duties, which English in the Clifton, N. J., High School. consist in giving public information to '17 BS—Marshall E. Farnham is super- She lives at 102 Madison Avenue. newspapers and other publications regard- intendent of golf courses at the Phila- '24 PhD—Professor J. A. C. Fagginer ing Alabama. His address is 1204 Felder delphia Country Club. He lives in West Auer, of the Department of Church His- Avenue, Montgomery. Conshohocken, Pa. A second son, Allen tory and Philosophy at Tufts, goes to Marshall Farnham, was born on February '07, '08 CE—At a meeting of the Board Harvard next year as assistant professor of Directors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron 13. of church history. Dr. Auer is a graduate Company on April 23, Everett Drennen Ί8 AB—Sawyer Thompson is a lawyer of Leyden and received the B.D. from was elected a member of the Board of at 43 Exchange Place, New York. Meadville in 1906. He was for some years Directors and vice-president of the com- '19—M. Warren Benton is assistant minister of the First Unitarian Church in pany in charge of Fuel Division. agency manager of the Equitable Life Ithaca. 712 AB—Nina Smith, secretary of the Assurance Society at 120 Broadway, New '24 AB; '27 BS—Betty T. Wyckoff '27, women of '12, and for many years asso- York. daughter of Clarence F. 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Buck- >2 Courtney, and Scott Nearing. met Andre" Smith '02, one of whose etch- ley 5> Paul M. Doering '25 and Ray S. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 403

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Camp Otter DORSET, ONTARIO

A summer camp Season opens July for boys nine to 6th and closes seventeen years old. August 27th, 1929.

1 TVTHEN YOU send your young son to camp for the summer you must be sure that he will be VV constantly safe; that he will be well-fed; that he will have intelligent instruction and indi- vidual supervisionΉuring his work or play. For these things Camp Otter has an established reputation.) There will be regular instruction in swimming, life-saving, nature study, horseback riding, and]general athletics. Special tutoring in academic work may be arranged. This is the last opportunity to make application for the season of 192.9. Only ten vacancies. R. C. Hubbard, Director 12.8 Ithaca Road Ithaca, New York

A Fortnight's Vacation

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Caipp Otter

JΓarents, former campers, and others may enjoy the advantages of Camp Otter this year. The Camp will remain open for these during the first two weeks of September. In the Highlands of Ontario. Excellent fishing, canoeing, and sailing. Camping trips to near-by|Algonquin Park. Write to R. C. Hubbard ix8 Ithaca Road Ithaca, New York Are Your Books Identified ?

All of us loan books. It is easily possible after finishing a book to put it on our own shelves before it is convenient to return it. It is embarrassing but it happens. Have bookplates with your name printed on them. What could be better for a Cornellian than the bookplates showing campus scenes?

The Old Model What Service Should Garden We Render to the Remington Portable Alumni 1 Books Typewriter We are mailing many My wife says that I $4500 items now and these, in make a garden with a many cases, were suggested book in one hand. There Not all Remington agencies to us. The latest item is are worse ways. The only have these old models. We had bookplates. Some time in trouble is that the book a few because the new model the future our Board of does not show where the arrived nearly a year ahead of Directors may develop a bug is which is waiting for time. In a couple of months our better plan of cooperation my seed. Ask for our stock will be gone. Are you in- with the Alumni. What agriculture booklist. terested? would you suggest?

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