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TABLE OF CONTENTS A Proposed Rendezvous Off-campus (Corwin)...... 3 University Opening and Registration...... 4 Charles A. Platt...... 6 Personality of the Swinburne Boulder (Fairchild)...... 7 A Distinguished Physicist...... 8 Two Coming Alumni Parties...... 8 Out of the Pages of the Past...... 9 Perkins on the Monroe Doctrine-A Review (Vallance)...... 10 Fraternity Scholarship Cup Retired...... II Class of '80 Reunes and Philosophizes (Lansing)...... 12 Hereditary Influences in Freshman Class...... 12 Chicago's New Contribution...... 13 President's Report Ready...... 13 Editorials...... 14 Central Alumni Luncheon...... 16 University to Finance First Scientific Expedition...... 16 Athletics-Gridiron Vicissitudes (Lawless)...... 17 Basketball Schedule...... 18 State Conference Meeting , 19 Campus Crisps...... 19 Numeral Notations...... 20 In Memoriam...... 23 G-E Campus News

phototube receives less light and indicates an increase in density. An adjustable electric contact is provided to operate an alarm. (A running record of the amount of smoke passed .oo". ~ up the stack can be obtained by adding a _~,- ~i y recorder.) Thus, the "electric-eye," which is not affected by cinders and is never closed in TALK FOR TRAINS sleep, has found another way to be of service. N a track near Schenectady, a few weeks Two G-E engineers, W. R. King and Pieter ago, several visiting trade-journalists sat Juchter, developed this new smoke-density inOa test car. From a loudspeaker in this car indicator. King is a '28 graduate of the U. of came a running stream of information. The Kentucky, and Juchter a '24 graduate of the voice was that of a G-E engineer in a "station" Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, a half-mile down the track. Sample remarks: Zurich, Switzerland. "Believing that we could help railroads to speed the movement of freight trains, G.E. has now produced this device - a new system of communication. It's not radio, but, in principle, direct telephony. It's a distant cousin of the carrier-current communication that power companies use. They talk over the power lines; we use the rails, plus any wire line along the track. Now, the man in the caboose can talk with the man in the cab. It abo works between trains up to 5 miles A RONTGEN WARRIOR apart, and between trains and stations. Loud. OR the doctors who are waging continuous speaker reception overcomes the train noises. warfare against the dread, lurking specter Can you hear me all right?" They could. Fof cancer, G-E research men believe they have Dr. Ernst Alexanderson, a G-E Consulting provided another shining sword. Again they Engineer, is responsible for this development. have produced the most powerful x-ray tube He is a 1900 graduate of the Kungliga Tek­ ever built- this time, for continuous opera­ niska Hogskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. Inci­ tion in practical cancer therapy at the Mercy dentally, a partial indication of his versatility Hospital, Chicago. Dr. E. E. Charlton, Grin­ in engineering design will be found in the nell College, '13, is the man who directed the U.S. Patent Office, through which he has been production of this tube. granted more than 200 patents. The giant tube (brother under the glass to those in your radio) measures more than 14 SMOKE IN THE EYE feet in length, is rated 800,000 volts, will treat ..l N eye in the stack is worth two on the patients in a fraction of the time required by .a ground. So thought G-E engineers as they the last "most powerful" one, has x-ray finished mulling over the smoke-nuisance radiation equivalent to $75,000,000 worth of problem of power and heating plants. radium (if there is that much!) and needs 20 A light source and a photoelectric-relay unit gallons of Lake Michigan's coldest water every were installed in stacks in Chicago and New minute to keep cool. . Jersey. They are so arranged that when the It's a pleasure to make good motors and good stack is clear, light falls on the phototube; a lamps. It's a greater pleasure to help R meter or recording instrument registers zero alleviate human ills-all in the line «~ ~ smoke density. As the density increases, the of duty! More tubes are on the way...... 96-4FBI GENERAL~ELECTRIO Rochester Revie"\V OF-BY-AND FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

Vov. XII OCTOBER--NoVEMBER, 1933 No.1 A Proposed Rendezvous Off-campus for Students and Faculty By GEORGE B. CORWIN University Y.M.C.A. Secretary

For several years there has been brewing sports and hikes and for other out-door in the minds of a few members of the activities in the spring and fall, as well as faculty and the student body an idea that enjoying the opportunities for genuine fel­ there should be a place, not too far from lowship with members of the faculty away the University, to which small groups of from the whirl of college life. faculty men and students might go for Plans are being discussed for the careful week-ends, to enjoy the out-of-doors and supervision and financing of the enterprise. the fellowship that comes around a glowing There is sufficient interest to warrant the fire on a winter's night. committee's considering property on which Dr. Edwin Fauver, head of the physical is no existing building. If such a place education department, has probably been be found, the cabin would be built by the one man whose interest in this idea has students and faculty men themselves under been most persistent from its inception, and skilled direction. Assuming that there is he is now seeing the project accepted by an a building on the site finally decided upon, increasing number of individuals~ Want­ it would be rebuilt to meet the require­ ing very much to see the idea become a ments. reality, a group of students and faculty The desirability of having such a place leaders were called together at freshman available has been discovered by colleges camp this September to di~cuss the P?ssi­ other than Rochester. Cornell, Oberlin, bilities of going ahead WIth the proJect. Penn State, Wesleyan and Dartmouth have Backed by unanimous opinion of the need their cabins, which are reported to be in and desirability for such a place, a small constant use and of great value. committee has been appointed and is in the process of examining student opinion, look­ ing at places that have been suggested, studying cabin plans and formulating means whereby the project can be financed and supervised. . The personnel of this committee includes Arthur Ticknor, '34, Grover Bradstreet, Jr., '34, J. Lawrence Hill, Jr., '28, of the engineering department, Carl· Lauterbach, '25, Todd Union director, Roman Speegle, of the physical education departme?"t, T. Richard Long, '20, of the mathematICS de­ partment, Dr. Fauver and George. B. Cor­ win, chairman. It has already dIscovered an interest in the project, both on the part of student organizations and individual students, that has been exceedingly encour­ Chairman Corwin aging. The organizations would plan to use the place for week-end outings, taking The committee is in need of further advantage of the opportunities for winter suggestions as to possible sites and would 4 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW appreciate the counsel and assistance of any water, for swimming and skating, it feels alumni to whom the idea has an appeal. would be desirable, although not absolutely The committee has agreed that the site essential. ought to be within a half-hour's driving There is an element of urgency in this time of the college; that it should provide request, as those of us most interested feel opportunities for hiking and skiing; that that there is no point in delaying consum­ there -should be good drinking water; and mation of the project. We hope, rather, that it should be sufficiently removed from that a decision may be reached that would main highways to provide a fair degree of enable us to be located certainly by next isolation. A site on or near a body of spring. University Opening and Registration The University of Rochester is under full discrepancy. And in the second place, steam ahead on its eighty-fourth year. And while there have probably been as many for the first time in these recent years of preliminary inquiries as ever, the financial depression and dwindling enrollments in status of each prospective candidate has many other institutions, the University been scrutinized with greater care than ever, shows· a slight decrease this fall in its own in justice both to the boy himself and to registration, .although nothing to occasion the student aid funds of the University, al­ 'alarm. Finally accurate figures, particularly ready heavily taxed. If it was felt that a of the graduate students, are never available prospective entrant would experience great at this time of year, but, comparing cor­ difficulty in financing his college way with­ responding estimates, we find a total of out undue help, he was discouraged from 1,842 'regular students in all departments, completing his application for the present. as contrasted with 1,860 last fall. Inci­ Geographical Distribution dentally it should be noted that the present The geographical distribution of the total is in excess of any prior to that of last freshman class is always of interest, al­ year, which was a record figure. though in these days boys are necessarily The College of Arts and Science shows a showing a tendency to go to college nearer total of 1,091 students, including 663 in the home. Of the 187 freshman men, 57, or College for Men and 428 in the College for 30.5 per cent, are from out-of-town, of Women. Last fall the figure was 1,112, of whom fifteen are from the seven other states whom 688 were men and 424 women. It of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, will thus be seen that the College for Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee and Iowa. Women is more than holding its own. In The College for Women is showing an en­ the Eastman School of Music there are 423 couraging growth in its appeal to outside degree students, including 341 under­ territory, with 51, or 39 per cent of its 129 graduates; and of the former total, 180 are freshmen, coming from out-of-town. Nine men, a steadily rising proportion. The of these are contributed by Pennsylvania, School of Medicine and Dentistry has 181 New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia, Wisconsin registrants, or seven more than last year. and Montana. Our New Freshmen Among the new students are also 42 ad­ The total freshman class numbers 453, mitted on advanced standing from other in­ classified as follows: College of Arts and stitutions or from the Extension Division Science, 316; Eastman School of Music, 91; of the University-26 in the College for School of Medicine and Dentistry, 46. The Men and 16 in the College for Women. The entering class of 129 in the College for other institutions so represented on the Women is identical in size with last year's, River Campus are Antioch, Colgate, Col­ while the College for Men has matriculated gate-Rochester Divinity School, Cornell, 187, instead of the 207 of last fall. Emory, Hobart, Kansas, Michigan, North­ This decrease of twenty in the men's class eastern, St. Lawrence, Syracuse, Virginia does not mean any diminution of interest and Yale. in the offerings of the River Campus. It is Of the total of 1,091 students in the explained by two causes. In the first place, College, 339, or more than 31 percent, are the dropping of the 'course in optometry from out-of-town-206 in the College for presumably accounted for one-half of this Men and 133 in the College for Women, ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 5

These Promising New Sons of Rochester Took Possession of the River Campus during Freshman Week the percentages in both colleges being prac­ Opening Ceremonies tically identical. Of these, 46 men and 22 But enough of this maze of figures, inter­ women are from eighteen other states and esting though they be. _ The University one foreign country. Eleven other states officially opened on Monday, September 25, and the one foreign country are so repre­ following the usual progressive process of sented in the College for Men and fourteen the preceding ten days. The School of in the College for Women. Medicine and Dentistry opened its doors on An analysis of the complete University the previous Monday, and that week was registration, exclusive of those graduate also devoted to freshman exercises in both students upon whom data are not yet avail­ colleges and the Eastman School of Music. able, shows an even 800 students, or more Prior to that most of the college freshmen than 47 per cent from out-of-town. Among had spent three happy days together at their these are 357 from 37 other states and four preliminary camps, the women on Canan­ foreign countries. In the Eastman School daigua Lake and the men on Keuka. The of Music, 319 are from out-of-town, while freshman men broke camp this year on Sat­ 211, or almost an even 50 per cent of its urday afternoon, September 16, returning to 423 degree students, hail from 31 other the River Campus for a joyous dinner party states and two foreign countries. The School in Todd Union, followed by an informal of Medicine and Dentistry shows 142 of entertainment, under direction of Ted its 181 students from out-of-town and 77, Fitch, '22, in Strong Auditorium. or 42.5 per cent, from 19 other states and The opening college convocations on Mond-a.y mbrning, September 25, took place two foreign countries. And in this medical in Cutler Union on the. Old Campus and registration are to be found representatives Strong Auditorium on the River Campus. of 60 different colleges, testifying to the They were preceded by an academic proces­ very general recognition which the. Roch­ sion, as inaugurated last year. President ester School of Medicine has ~1ready at­ Rhees spoke on "The Culture of the Mind", tained throughout the country. recommending strongly the quest for· per- 6-. ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW fecrion and the value of the cultural tradi­ office had expired. The complete Univer­ tion. He emphasized the fact that college sity faculty this fall totals 340 members, provides a period of training for intelligent distributed as follows: College of Arts .and thinking and urged the students to recognize Science, 159; Eastman School of Music, 80; the value of such training in application School of Medicine and Dentistry, 101, in to the newer ideas and growing problems addition to whom there are 106 part-time of present-day life. members. Strengthened Faculty Two New Buildings Functioning The college faculty this fall shows an in­ The opening of the University found two crease in number and an undoubted increase new buildings ready to be ushered into reg­ in strength. Two important acquisitions ular service. The stately Cutler Union on were announced in our June-July issue in the Old Campus, which was virtually com­ the appointment of Dr. Charles Luther Fry, pleted in June in time to be used for two former director of the Bureau of Standards Commencement gatherings and to be great­ of the Institute of Social and Religious Re­ ly admired by visiting alumni, was equipped search, as professor bf sociology, and Dr. during the summer and is now rendering Benjamin H. Willier, formerly of the Uni­ the invaluable service to the women stu­ versity of Chicago faculty, as professor of dents, for which it was designed. zoology and head or the combined work of In the rear of the School of Medicine and the old department of biology. Dr. Fry is Dentistry, and directly north of the staff devoting his first year to the organization house, is a new athletic or recreation build­ of his department, which had been sus­ ing. Two stories in height, this building pended since 1920, and to the teaching of contains a gymnasium floor, an exercise or one general course, with divisions in both game room, four squash courts, showers, colleges. That his course meets a popular locker rooms and a lounge. Its function is demand is evidenced by 93 registrants, in­ to provide physical exercise and relaxation cluding 37 men and 56 women. Other new for the medical students and faculty, the faculty members by departments, exclusive nurses and other staff members, who were of assistants, are as follows: formerly obliged to seek that service on the English: Robert Armstrong Pratt, A. B., River Campus at such hours as the Alumni Yale '29, instructor; William Rittenhouse Rich­ Gymnasium was available. ardson, Oxford graduate and Ph. D., Harvard '33, instructor; French: Olga Pauline Longi, Ph. Extension Registration D., Johns Hopkins '29, assistant professor; Wil­ The Extension Division of the University son Micks, Docteur de l'Universite de Toulouse also opened for instruction on Monday '32, instructor; German: Ewald Paul Appelt, afternoon and evening, September 25, show.­ Ph. D., Wisconsin '3D, assistant professor; economics: William Edward Dunkman, Ph. D., ing a registration of 1,001 to date, which Columbia '33, assistant professor; government: is slightly higher than the corresponding W. Earl Weller, B. E., Union '07, director of figure of last fall. Bureau of Municipal Research, Rochester, lec­ turer; mathematics: John Jay Gergen, Ph. D., + + Rice Institute '28, assistant professor; Griffith Charles A. Platt Baley Price, Ph. D., Harvard '32, instructor; psychology: Henry Nelson DeWick, Ph. D., We regret to record the death of Dr. North Carolina '33, instructor; Cornelia De­ Charles A. Platt, nationally prominent archi­ Camp Taylor, Ph. D., Minnesota '33, instructor' tect, which occurred on September 13 at hIS history of art: Carl .Kenneth Hersey, A. M.' home in Cornish, N. Y. Dr. Platt, who' was Harvard '27, instructor; zoology: Curt Stern: Ph. D., University of Berlin '23, research fellow; consultant for the River Campus' develop­ mechanical engineering: Wilbur Reed LePage, E. ment and recent Old Campus construction, E., Cornell '33, instructor; John I. Yellott, Jr., was given the degree doctor of laws by the M. E., Johns Hopkins '33, instructor. University last June and extended his greet­ Additional appointments in College for Women: Mrs'. Harper Sibley, adviser in the ings to the alumni at the Commencement University Y. W. C. A., succeeding Mrs. Thomas luncheon. Following the recent passing of M. Taylor; Miss Margaret Withington, B. S., Edwin S. Gordon, his death means the loss Simmons College '20, librarian, succeeding Miss of the two architects most concerned with Adeline Zachert, who resigned in June; Miss the Greater University development. Ruth A. Merrill, Ed. M., Harvard '25, director of Cutler Union. + + Of the seventeen new faculty members The first Rosenberger Lecture was delivered in cited above, eight have been appointed to Strong Auditorium on Tuesday Evening, October 17, by Dr. Walter G. Everett, emeritus professor newly- created positions, and nine are suc­ of philosophy at Brown University. His subject ceeding faculty members whose terms of was "Spinoza-Thinker and Seer". ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 7 Personality of the Swinburne Boulder

By HERMAN L. FAIRCHILD Professor Emeritus of Geology

tremely slow cooling under pressure, and with impregnation or saturation by minerals in fluid state. We suppose that this mass was in the heart of one of the earliest mountain fold­ ings of northeastern America, in the area now the Province of Quebec, far antedating any existing mountains. Through vast duration of time, with the corroding, erod­ ing and transporting effects of the atmos­ phere, the strata overlying this mass were removed, so that it lay at or near the ground surface, long, long ago. Recently, only yesterday in our geologic time scale, this block was wrenched from its bed by the plucking action of moving ice. In the spreading flow of an ice' cap, the Quebec continental glacier, it was "Fairy" Still Turning Out Copy rafted and pushed and dragged to this vicinity, and found repose in the hill of There is increasing Intlmacy between glacial drift, a drumlin, in the Ely farm, glacial science and Rochester's monumental­ traversed by Winton Road North. izing. The Swinburne memorial is the third In the demolition of our interesting and example of ice-transported boulders that our instructive geologic features, under the efficient and indefatigable city historian claim of "improvement" but actually for (Edward R. Foreman, '92) has recently personal emolument, the handsome Ely hill drafted into memorial service. The appeal has been decapitated and defaced with is to the artizanry of Nature for the shaping dwellings. The excavation revealed a large and sculpturing of the monoliths, with number of crystalline Canadian boulders, human mediation to supply the legends af­ this one being the largest. The rounded fixed in commemorative bronze. form and smoothed and polished _surface This mass of rock is a sample of the attest the hardships of their tedious and earth's interior stuff or magma, it having vicissitudinous journey, long in both dis­ been expelled from some considerable depth tance and time. This block is ocular proof in the earth. It is an eruptive rock, igneous of the transporting power of the fragile but not volcanic. Its crystalline structure snowflakes, when massed and compressed resembles a granite, but in composition it into an ice sheet. It also testifies to the is mostly Labradorite feldspar. Technically origin and the building process in the con­ it is anorthosite. struction of the drumlins, the most singular At sufficient depth in the globe to be and attractive features in our landscapes. under great pressure and high temperature The boulder has appropriateness in it was solid, but potentially molten. In the bearing the' name and perpetuating the pulsations of the globe producing up-and­ memory of Swinburne. We have a geologic down movements of the surficial or crustal name for these alien boulders, transported layers there came some local relief of pres­ far from their native sites, and often sure, and that reduction of pressure per­ perched in insecure positions. We call them mitted expansion and fluidity. The magma erratics. Tom Swinburne was an erratic of containing this portion was squeezed up­ the human species. He had' travelled far, ward, along some path of weakness, toward far from conventional thought and belief. the earth's surface into a zone of overlaying He did not pattern his life and purpose and colder rock, yet far beneath the surface after other people. He was individual. His of the globe. Its crystalline structure and poetic imagination had lifted him from the mineral aggregate are the product of ex- common plane to a pinnacle of near-genius, 8 ROC HE ST ERA L U_M N IRE V lEW

always a precarious position. Yet the world sadly needs more of that type of uncon­ Two Coming Alumni Parties formity to the level of unthinking and The alumni are invited, nay urged, superselfish humanity. We honor the to come out in a body and encourage memory of Swinburne for his moral in­ our hard-fighting and steadily improv­ dividualism and courage, as well as for his ing football team in its final game poetic gifts. I would admonish his with Wesleyan on November 18­ memorial as follows: occasion of the annual Homecoming "Rock of Ages geologic, you are to stand and also of the annual University Day here as noble memorial of a departed being for subfreshmen. Instead of a pre­ of poetic genius. And from this command­ liminary luncheon, the celebration will ing position you are assigned to keep watch terminate with a tea dance and get­ and ward over the University of Rochester. together in Todd Union after the You are to note the goings-out and the game, for the alumni, their friends comings-in of future generations of stu­ and ladies. Every indication points to dents; and to them you are to be reminder a real climax game; you can help of the worthwhileness of 'things of the make it a real party by turning out spirit.' And year by year you will receive with your friends. vicariously the tribute of successive groups And the first Alumni Campus Night of University graduates. of the season will be held in Todd .'Your career as a wandering erratic finds Union on Monday evening, December here its zenith in human service. You are 11. Last year the veteran members of perched on the river's vertiginous brink. the faculty were guests of honor, and Should t4e University, in its varied func­ we had a wonderful time. This year tions and activities, ever fail to appreciate we plan to entertain the new faculty and' to emulate the courage and the ideal­ members, with Dr. Charles Luther ism of its departed poet-laureate, then you Fry, professor of sociology, as speaker are, in protest, to topple over into the River of the evening. Alumni ought to pro­ Casconchiagon, and to carry along the vide a large audience for the new head memorial bronze. And you then leave the of this popular department. He has memory of Thomas Thackeray Swinburne to had an international experience and be perpetuated in his euphonius and inspir­ should have much of signifiicant in­ ing verse." terest to discuss with us. + + or law named after them, but Dr. Child was A Distinguished Physicist the author of the Child Law in 1911. Professor Lawrence once told us that his This describes part of the behavior of fellow physicist and our good alumnus, Dr. vacuum tubes such as radio tubes. Lang­ Clement D. Child, '90, was universally re­ muir, two years later, deduced the same re­ spected in his field for distinguished pioneer lation in a somewhat more general form, research work, to an extent little realized so that his name is frequently linked with by his fellow alu~ni because of his becom­ Dr. Child's in referring to this law. ing modesty. This statement is substantiated "Dr. Child was working on the problem by a long resume of his career, published in of wireless communication before Marconi the Colgate Alumni News following his filed his patents in 1896 and 1897. In fact, death in July. We quote the following ex­ Dr. Child read a paper on the subject at the tracts from an appreciation contributed by Springfield meeting of the American Asso­ Dr. Paul Ray Gleason, his assistant at cor ciation for the Advancement of Science in gate, where Dr. Child had served the physics 1895, and published early in 1896 the re­ department since 1898: sults of his investigation. With character­ "The measure of a scientist's work or the istic modesty, he has of recent years denied evalution of his importance is not found in that he rivalled Marconi. the number of papers published. N everthe­ "Within a year of the discovery of X-rays, less, it is significant that Dr. Child published he began a study of some of the properties nearly fifty scientific articles and one book. of these 'mysterious rays.' This experimental The articles alone covered nearly five hun­ work was continued during his last year at dred. pages of publications from 1895 to Cornell and concluded in the laboratories 1933.... of the University of Berlin. ... "Very few scientists have a phenomenon "On coming to Colgate, he began his ROC H EST ERA L"U MN IRE V lEW 9 monumental study of phenomena related to veal problems just being solved, but which elearic arcs. ... Recently, the arc has seem such certain knowledge today that it come into its own, for sources rich in ultra­ is difficult to appreciate the rapidity with violet light. Many of his conclusions dur­ which the science has developed. Dr. Child ing his first twenty-five years ~t Colgate re- certainly contributed to this rapid progress." Out of the Pages of the Past Robert B. Wickes, '78, evidently does not vindicated American education and its confine his reading to works of contem­ product as compared with that of foreign porary popularity. At least during the past countries. Alluding to the fact that the in­ summer he drew from the Reynolds Library stitution under his. charge is still young and a book which may reasonably be inferred has its work before it, he deprecated the to have been last read by President Martin fashion of contemning the younger and B. Anderson more than a half-century ago. minor colleges of the country. They shoulcl For nestling undisturbed within' its pages be judged, he maintained, by what they. do was found a postal card, addressed in long­ and produce. hand to Dr. Anderson by the assistant-secre­ " 'He would deem it,' he said, 'a misfor­ tary of the Regents at Albany and request­ tune for the Rochester institution if it should ing at his "earliest convenience" three copies secure a very large number of pupils. The of the current University catalogue and a head of the college and the heads of depart­ list of graduates of the previolls year. The ments should personally meet the men in card was written under date of March 25, order that by association greater strength 1880. We trust that Albany is not still should be developed. The faculty should be waiting for those catalogues and assume able by the beginning of the sophomore year that the request received attention before to lay their hands upon any man in college being filed as a bookmark in that venerable and know something about his charaaer, tome. and hopes, his ambitions and his weaknesses.' . Of more significant interest was an accom­ "The thought here suggested, as to the panying and undated newspaper clipping in importance of the personal influence exerted that same book, containing an editorial ap­ by the teacher upon the student, deserves parently published in June, 1877; for under emphasis. It is not great institutions, splen­ the caption, "The Rochester University," it didly endowed and equipped, but great men, commented on our twenty-seventh annual who after all must be relied on to effect commencement. We hope it was not a great results in education. It was aptly said library book, when Dr. Anderson had it, by one of the speakers who followed Dr. for the chronological difference between the Anderson, that every young man who went two enclosures would indicate that it was in out from the Rochester institution bore upon his possession for at least three years. him its president's mark. The like ha~ been The editorial reveals that the annual said of Dr. Arnold of Rugby and other suc­ alumni dinner was already an important cessful educators. Not the learning such Commencement function in 1877; also that men communicate to their pupils, but the President Anderson and the editor were in impression of a noble character and per­ accord in stressing the desirability of a re­ sonality stamped upon the plastic mind is stricted enrollment' and . strong faculty-a found to be the most precious educational joint policy to which the University in this, result. its day of greatly multiplied resources, still adheres. We quote in part: "It is easy thus to see how a great univer­ "The twenty-seventh annual commence­ sity, in which the actual work of teaching ment of the Rochester University took place is largely devolved on more or less mer­ Wednesday amidst circumstances full of en­ cenary tutors, may offer inferior advantages couragement to the friends of the institution. to the student, as compared with the humbler con~ A class of thirty-two was graduated, to institution which afforded him direct whose general scholarship and intellectual tact with one or more truly superior 'minds. ability exceptionally high testimony is borne. In other words that college or school should At the dinner of the alumni the beloved be deemed great which is fortunate enough president of the college, Dr. M. B. Arider­ to command the services of the great teacher. son, made a speech in which he warmly There can be no other true criterion." 10 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 'Dexter Perkins on Monroe "Doctrine A Review*

By WILLIAM Roy VALLANCE, '10

THE MONROE DOCTRINE, 1826-1867. By Dexter ions concerning the lack of adequate Perkins. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins knowledge of the subject by members of Press, 1933. Pp. XI; 580. $3.50. the legislative branch of our government. This is the second in a series of four For example, after discussing the situation volumes which Dr. Perkins, Watson profes­ which developed in 1848 in connection with sor of history in the University of Roches­ the Province of Yucatan and the offer of ter, intends to publish, tracing the evolution the British residents of British Honduras and consolidation of principles known as and of Spain to aid the Yucatecos, Dr. Per­ the Monroe Doctrine. The development of kins makes the following statement: this great American policy during the period "Of very little practical consequence, the from 1826 to 1867 has been traced by the episode which has just been related is one author after researches in the archives of of the most interesting in the history of the foreign powers, as well as in the debates in Monroe Doctrine. For the Senate debate of Congress and in expressions of American 1848 is one of the very few occasions on public opinion during this period. As a re­ which the question of the validity and ex­ sult of these researches, the volume is filled pediency of the doctrine has been generally with accurate information, much of which debated. In general, all parties and groups has not previously been made available to today do lip-service, at least, to the prin­ the general public. Footnotes containing ref­ ciples of 1823. And this fact prevents many erences to original sources may be found on questions of American foreign policy from nearly every page. being debated upon their merits. Only cry This volume begins with a discussion of out, 'Monroe Doctrine,' and the door to the "Period of Quiescence," beginning with reasonable and orderly discussion is already 1826 and ending with the epochal message half-closed. It was not so in the period we of President Polk of December 2, 1845, are examining. There was as yet no such which revived the doctrine. The author sets blind acceptance of'a shibboleth. Polk had foqh the circumstances responsible for fail­ carried MOnroe's principles to great lengths, ure to assert it when British sovereignty was and there were those ready to tell him so. e.xtended, on January 2, 1833, to the Falk­ The doctrine, far from being absolutely ac­ land Islands and to British Honduras, and cepted, had as yet acquired only a party the Mosquito Coast was seized "in the name authority. It was possible to denounce it, of the painted savage who at that precise as did Calhoun, without being regarded as moment rej oiced in the title of King of un-American. This is not to say that there Mosquitia." was a disposition flatly and completely to The author proceeds to portray graphic­ deny the truth of the maxims of which ally the diplomatic situation in respect to the message of 1823 was an expression. Texas, Oregon and California and the naval There was merely a" tendency to consider interference of the French and British gov­ each case involving those maxims upon its ernments in the affairs of the Argentine, individual merits, as it arose. Was this, which led to President Polk's dramatic re­ after all, not a wholly tenable point of assertion of the doctrine in his message of view; was' it not only tenable in 1848, but December 2, 1845. Considerable space is is' there not much to be said for it today?" devoted to our relations with Mexico up The book deals with subjects that are to 1867. The reader will be rewarded with of ,gn~at int~rest at the present time on a clear picture of the difficulties that arose account of the problems which will be between the two governments during these discuss,ed at the Seventh International Con­ troublesome days and the way in which they ference of American States, to be held at were ultimately surmounted. Montevideo, Uruguay, beginning December Dr. Perkins has expressed his frank opin- 3, 1933-. The present discussions between officers of "this government and representa­ *This review of Dr. Perkins' latest book is also appearing in the October number of the Federal tives of Latin-American nations, with a Bar Association Journal. view to working out trade agreements, have ROCHESTER ALUMNI.RENIEW 11

aroused a renewed interest in our relations volume gives reference to source material, with our neighbors to the south. The which would be of great assistance to a Cuban situation also requires a re-examina­ student who desired to study in greater tion of the basis of our special treaty detail the information available on a par­ obligations to that country. A reading of ticular subject. Dr. Perkins' book is recommended for those It is hoped that Dr. Perkins will find it who are concerned with these vital ques­ possible to complete his other two volumes tions that confront our government today. and that they will be' written in the same The scope of the volume may be indicated entertaining style and with the same ac­ by quoting the following extracts from the curacy that characterize the present volume. table of contents: Humorous episodes are woven into the his­ "New Interpretations, 1845-1849";' torical facts in such a way as to keep up 'a "The Central American Question and the lively interest as events pass in review. Monroe Doctrine, 1849-1863"; ?olitical inconsistency is ably portrayed and "The Question of Santo Domingo, is supported by frequent quotations from 1849-1865" ; speeches delivered in Congress. The book "The Clash of Systems in Mexico," and is worthy of careful study and should be on "Intervention in Mexico." the bookshelf of any student of our foreign A bibliographical note at the end of the relations.

Fraternity Scholarship Cup Retired Wanted-a new interfraternity scholar­ Theta Delta Chi; 1929-30, Theta Delta ship cup! Kappa Nu put the old one out Chi; 1930-31, Kappa Nu; 1931-32, Kappa of circulation at the first College Night Nu; 1932-33, Kappa Nu. , Supper on October 9, when it was awarded In connection with the current scholastic it for the third year in succession by, Dean report on all student groups it is interesting Gale and thus became permanent possessor to note that the general college average, is under the terms of gift. During the four about two points above that of the previous years just prior to Kappa Nu's winning year, indicating some reformation on the streak Theta Delta Chi won it three times, part of either students or faculty, and per­ missing permanent possession by only one haps both. Of the forty-one group stand-, intervening year. Sigma Delta Epsilon (now ings listed we here repeat those of most Sigma Chi) also won it three times at spaced general interest: intervals. The cup was given by ,the class of 1902 Managers ,,, ,. 82.76 Keidaeans .. , ",., , 82.24 and first placed in competition in 1913. Student Association Officers .,...... 81.29 During the twenty intervening years it has Kappa Nu .. ,...... 80.63 been awarded seventeen times, omitting the Senior Class , .... ", ..... ",., .. ' 79.56 S. A. T. C. years. All but two of the ten Mendicants .. , .. , ,...... 79040 Theta Chi ,,: "...... 77.80 fraternities have won it at least once, and Psi Upsilon , ,' , 77.75 nearly every fraternity has taken its turn at Alpha Phi Delta, , 77.37 the foot of the 'list, illustrating the scholastic Alpha Delta Phi, , , 77.29 cycle in which the campus Grecians seem to Musical Clubs (Glee Club) , .. 77.15- Varsity Baseball 77.09 rotate. Junior Class ., , ,... 77.06 The fraternities which have engraved Campus Staff , ,... 76.82 their classic symbols on the trophy are as Varsity Track :, :", 76.67 follows: 1913-14, Phi Epsilon (now Theta Non-Fraternity Men ,...... 76.46 1915~16,Delta Beta Delta Gamma ', ..' ' 76.39 Chi) ; 1914-15, Phi Epsilon; Varsity ,Football ,, ,. 76,29 Upsilon; 1919-20, Sigma Delta Epsilon Total Men's College 76.14 (now Sigma Chi); 1920-21, Alpha Delta Varsity Basketball ., 76.05 Phi; 1921-22, Delta Kappa Epsilon; 1922­ Fraternity Men .. ,.:.,...... 75.78 23, Sigma Delta Epsilon; 1922-23, Com­ Sophomore Class -'.. ',, 75.24 mons Club (now Beta Delta Gamma); Fteshman Class ".,. ,'. ,,., ',' .'.. 74.19 Delta Kappa Epsilon " ,74.12 1924-25, Alpha Delta Phi; 1925-26, Sigma Sigma qli .. ',' , '.' .. '.' 73.53 Delta Epsilon; 1926-27, Theta Delta Chi; Delta Upsilon., .. :: 73.23 1927-28, Beta Delta Gamma; 1928-29, Theta'Delta Chi '''.. ~ '71.62 12 ROC H EST ERA LUM N. IRE V lEW Class of '80 Reunes and Philosophizes By L. W. LANSING, ' 80 Some months ago the Alumni REVIEW muzzle-loading cannon and mass of old recorded a reunion of one-fourth of the gear that sailors had to handle when that living graduate members of the class of '80. old frigate established and upheld the Since then three, Kinney, MacDonald and supremacy of AmeriCan arms on the high Witter, have passed away, and now occur­ seas. ring in the year 1 B. E. (Before the Earth­ At this writing, 1 A. E. (After the quake) . we note another reunion with one­ Earthquike) it is still unanimously pro­ third present, Rev. Lorren Stiles, Long phesied that the California contingent of Beach; C. G. Carr, Santa Barbara, and the the class of '80 will ring down the final writer, Los Angeles. With a preacher, a curtain as the last survivors of their class, preacher's son and a gifted Bible student owing to an innate state of "horse sense" together, it was not odd that a discussion controlling their living, which led them to of the depression should verge on theo­ abide under the gracious sunshine of "The logical grounds, but the vote was not Galorious Climate of California" where unanimous. It was agreed, however, to youth matures most successfully and the quote from a recent speaker, that 'This old grow young most gracefully, a conclu­ nation and the world cannot for a score sion that even an earthquake, from which and more of years indulge in an orgy of fortunately none of us suffered material gross materialism and expect to reap a loss or injury, could not jar loose. harvest of moral and spiritual blessing, 1. W. LANS NG, '80. continued economic prosperity or interna­ . + + tional peace and amity." The unproven hypothesis of evolution, Hereditary Influences in disbelief in the inspiration of the Bible, an Freshman Class absence of the old-time evangelistic en­ Fourteen more alumni are carrying on deavor and a lapse from the "old-time anew in the University this fall through the religion" were advanced as contributing medium of sons and daughters in the fresh­ causes for the destruction of belief in per­ man class-eight in the College for Men sonal responsibility to a higher power, re­ and six in the College for Women. Those sulting in a selfish struggle for supremacy so represented on the River Campus are in which greed was rampant, might made Carl F. W. Betz, '96, Dr. Warren C. Daly, right, respect for law and its administration '96, Trafton M. Crandall, 'as, Theodore A. had ceased and worldwide mutual respect Zornow, 'as, Benjamin A. Ramaker, '10, and confidence being destroyed had made Abe J. Parkin, '11, James P. Wells, '11, and possible our present social, economic and F. Teal Cox, '13. moral conditions. The alumni with freshman daughters on This ground, however, was disputed, and the Old Campus are Dr. George P. Thomas, Einstein and Milliken noted as proponents '98, Clinton R. Lyddon, '00, William P. of vastly different ideas, concerning which Cross, '01, Ernest E. Gorsline, '01, Dr. they were just collaborating in California. Hiram Olsan, 'as, and George A. Barber, The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood 6f '23. Of these fourteen offsprings, three also man, the Christ as not only a redeemer, but boast alumnae mothers in Helen Rogers more especially a' teacher and leader of a Cross, '06, Anne Munson Parkin, '10, and new soCial order, and the absolute adoption Jessie Strowger Wells, '14. of the Golden Rule as a standard of action When it comes to alumni brothers, sis­ were argued. All agreed, however, that ters, uncles, aunts and cousins, the repre­ the kind of religion which "Prexy" Ander­ sentation is naturally much stronger. Among son taught and lived was the real thing re­ the freshmen alone there are forry-four gardless of argument. On a Sunday two of with such relatives, many of them reporting us attended a church where we joined in more than one. John S. Ramaker represents singing "He Leadeth Me," which recalled the third generation,' being a grandson of many pleasant memories of associations in Dr. Albert J. Ramaker, '95, as well as the "Gillie's" room with the author, and next son of Benjamin A. Ramaker, '10, and in­ day we meandered over and through "Old cidentally a nephew of George W. Ramaker, Ironsides" at the harbor and noted the '09> and John Shaw, '2). Another striking R 0. CH EST E R. ALUMN IRE V lEW 13 evidence of hereditary influence is repre­ participated in baseball, track and swimming sented by Isaac Elbert Scrantom, who is a for one year-eertainly a well-rounded boy. great grandson of General Isaac F. Quinby, Walworth was business manager of the stu­ professor of mathematics and natural philo­ dent year book, treasurer of his junior class, sophy on the original University faculty, a won his football letter four years and was nephew of DeHart G. Scrantom, '11, and on the swimming team two years. William cousin of H. Dean Quinby, '18. S. Nordburg, Jr., is from the New Trier Four members of the lJniversity faculty High School of Winnetka, IlL, where he also have sons in the entering class: Pro­ was a member of the glee and dramatic fessor William Berry and Frank H. Garcon, clubs, the symphony orchestra, the school of the college faculty; Dr. Walter R. Bloor, paper staff and the football, track and swim­ associate dean of the School of Medicine ming teams, being _picked captain of the and Dentistry, and Mrs. Jeanne Hurst all-suburban football team in his senior Woolford, of the Eastman School of Music. year. Oak Park High School has sent three + + more boys in this delegation-William F. May, Leonard W. Swett and Edward M. Chicago's New Contribution Parkin. May was a member of the dramatic This year's freshman delegation from and debating clubs and on the football and the Chicago territory seems to. merit a story basketball squads two years.. Swett was all its own. Our Chicago alumni have active in a number of student clubs, includ­ been sending us some fine, all-around young ing debating, and was on. the swimming men every fall since 1927, but they feel that and tennis teams, starring in the diving the 1933 contingent averages higher than events. He is a nephew of -James Bruff any which has preceded it, and in this ver­ Forbes, '99, and a cousin of Tom Forbes, dict the admissions committee concurs. '33. Parkin, a son of Abe J. Parkin, '11, and Anne Munson Parkin, ,'10, distin­ The reason is not difficult of discovery. guishedhims.elf in his school journalism, At the outset of their prize scholarship being co-editor of the literary magazine and enterprise the Chicago alumni were obliged one of the editors of the weekly paper. He to hunt for suitable candidates. So well was also active in dramatics and debating have they done their work in the few in­ and played tennis. tervening years that last winter they were confronted with nearly fifty willing and This Chicago delegation has' wasted no qualified candidates, recommended by the time in carrying on its traditions on the school principp.ls of Chicago and vicinity, River Campus, contributing three' of the from whom they had to pick the six best five recently elected freshman class officers. men. The task was no longer one of hunt­ Walworth is president of the Glass, Babcock ing but one of selecting. And it proved' so secretary, ana Nordburg representative on difficult in the end, after a series of meet­ the Todd Union Board of Managers. ings with the candidates, that the Chicago Charles A. Brown, '79, was again chair­ committee called upon Dean Gale to make man of the Chicago scholarship committee a hurried trip out there last spring and help respo"nsible for roun~ing up this group. in the final selection. During his mid-year sojourn in Callfornia The six fruits of this painstaking process Samuel M. Havens, '99, served vigorously are worth a little individual. attention in as acting-chairman. .James Bruff Forbes, these pages. All six. are very personable '99, succeeded Dr. Harold S. Stewart, '03, boys, who were distinctly high:-ranking stu­ as president of the association during the dents and at the same time leaders in their year. school activities. The lowest in scholastic rank was in the first eighth of his senior + + class, while the highes~ was in the first President's Report Ready thirty-sixth. Robert S. Babcock and Edward H. Wal­ The annual President's and Treasurer's worth, Jr., are from Evanston High School. Report for the. past academic year· has now The former ranked No. 14 in a class of 508, come from the press. While there will was a member of the student council, editor­ be no general mailing of this bulletin, a in-chief of the school magazine, played foot­ copy will be sent to anyone requesting it of ball four years,' basketball three years and the treasurer.or the alumni office. 14 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW

a new World's Fair to be held in 1933 in Rochester Review celebration of Chicago's centennial. He OF-BY-AND FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE had communicated his plan for such an UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER exposition to the mayor, he said, and hoped that something might come of it. We l;lrged Published Bi-Monthly, August and September excepted him to write a story about it for this maga­ Mailed to any address at the Subscription Price of $1.00 zine, and he subsequently sent us some per year. Single Copies, Twenty Cents. material, which unfortunately was not of Subscription payments and all other communication a form that could be utilized for our pur­ ahould be mailed to HughA. Smith, Alumni Secretary, University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. pose. Now a copy of the Official Book of the HUGH A. SMITH, , 07 Editor Century of Progress Exposition has come to our attention. Its introductory pages con­ tain an historical sketch of the fair, the Some Fine Campus Citizens opening sentence of which states that the We find it no strain on our veracity to idea of the celebration was initiated in a assert that the University of Rochester is plan submitted to Mayor William E. Dever, in a stronger position today than it was a on August 17, 1923, by Myron E. Adams. year ago, recognizing that the essential Chicago newspapers have also given pub­ strength of a college is measured by its licity to the same fact. Thus it would ap­ human material. The faculty has been pear that Chicago owes the inception of its strengthened by several noteworthy addi­ big show of the past summer and fall to tions, and the student b04y by the influx of the fertile brain of a Rochester alumnus. a better-than-average freshman class. The It is regrettable that the latter could not mere fact that this freshman class numbers have survived to witness the fruition of his slightly fewer than that of last year is of dream. no discouraging significance in a college What the University of Chicago and the which steadfastly places quality above Western Electric Company of that city owe quantity. in their origins to Rochester alumni has For several years we have made an an­ previously been pointed out in these pages. nual practice of visiting the freshman camp It seems only appropriate reciprocity, there­ and have been enthusiastically assured each fore, smacking of poetic justice, that Chi­ year by the faculty and student leaders in cago should now be sending the Univer­ attendance that the current entering class sity home-grown students of a caliber in­ looked to be the best ever. Such consistent dicated on another page of this issue. repetition led us originally to suspect that the wish might be father to the thought. Boy Scout for a Night But we have now come to believe that such estimates have been founded on more than "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are optimism and the conviVIality of camp life. marching"-also the men, women and chil­ In other words, the quality of our stu­ dren, or at least they were on the night of dent body seems to be showing steady im­ the big N. R. A. parade in Rochester. A provement. And this is only logical, when census-taker could have done a quick job one considers the increased number of ap­ that night between North Goodman and plicants over earlier years, from whom an Broad streets, where he would have found admissions committee of constantly grow­ the concentrated population of the city, ing' experience has tne opportunity to pick either marching or beholding and wishing and choose. The present freshman class that one of the sixty-odd bands might happen to play. appears strikingly to substantiate this theory. We did our own bit in quite an unex­ Barring accidents, we believe that most of pected fashion. We won no cup, but we them are going to prove valuable campus dare say that we were the only head of a citizens for the next four years. family in Rochester who entered his entire household in the parade as a unit. It came Rochester' Again Serves Chicago about this way. We distinctly recall being seated, at a Striving to drive as near the center of Chicago alumni dinner several years ago, things as possible, we discovered that Up­ beside the late Myron E. Adams, '98, former ton Park was as near a point as we could president of our Central Alumni Associa­ reasonably hope to park. So we disem­ tion, and having him tell us of his dream for barked there with our family and started to ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 15 walk to the strategic office window which alongside it. We 'could smell it and occa­ we had thoughtfully engaged on Main sionally hear it, but we could not see it. Street, about two miles distant. From the reaerions of our car and our ears StraIghtway finding the going too con­ we realized at times that we were climbing gested on the sidewalk, we momentarily mountains, but the wondrous outlook ter­ took to the street in the shadows of that minated at the roadside. In every direction outlying distrier, only to discover that we the vista was as that presented by a huge could not get back on the sidewalk. There bowl of thick pea soup. We thought we we were out in the thoroughfare, ala feudal already knew what fogs were, but, com­ and nomadic days, with all our vassals and pared with the Maine brand, the thickest retainers-portly wife, spindling child and offering of Western New York is but a our entire retinue of one servant. delicate and ephemeral mist. The clouds Being caught unprepared in the matter simply lie down on the landscape and nestle of preliminary drilling, we attempted no there in lazy contentment for days at a fancy deploying hither and yon, but kept in time. single file as near the margin of the main Driving on strange roads in such a fog stream as possible. There we found no little is one of the rich experiences of life. It excitement in meeting face to face every' is like groping about a dark room, with mounted policeman in Rochester, engaged which you are unfamiliar, but the possibili­ in forcing back the crowd. At least we met ties are much more gruesome. You are in the horses face to face, also feet to feet, and the world, but temporarily out of it, with those police horses have such large and intriguing expectations of being permanent­ nervous feet! ly out of it at any turn. And, amazingly We hoped we were inconspicuous, but as enough, every passenger in the car can see we swept through the bright lights of lower with much greater clarity than the driver East Avenue and the main stem, we were himself. It develops back-seat driving to warmly accosted by praerically all of our hysterical heights never approached under acquaintances. There was really nothing of other conditions. which we should have been ashamed; we Arrival at our destination was not ac­ suppose the feeling should have been one companied by any change in conditions. of self-satisfied pride. But, could we have Our host, justly proud of his natural en­ had our choice, we would not have eleered vironment, would lead us to some spec­ to parade in the very heart of the Boy Scout tacular vantage spot, point into the contingent. impenetrable murk and tell us of the won­ Backward, turn backward, derful scene lying beneath or beyond us. o time in thy flight; Make me a Boy Scout again His descriptive powers were quaintly Just for tonight. graphic, but he might as well have put it And that is just what the NRA parade all in a letter. did for us. We record this persona~ Our earnest advice to anyone contemplat~ achievement in the hope that our demon­ ing a visit to Maine is to allow plenty of strated loyalty to this patriotic movement time' to sit down somewhere and wait for may lead some of its fruits to be diverted the light' to be turned on. Otherwise you into the sadly emaciated Alumni Fund. may never see Maine. And it is well worth Credit us at least with a different approach seeing. We discovered that on the one this time to our habitual and increasingly clear day miraculously granted us, when urgent appeal for financial succor. from the top of Cadillac Mountain, with its breath-taking view 'of Bar Harbor, countless On the Main Roads in Maine islands and bays, rock-bound' coast and We would have liked to have gotten off miles of blue-green ocean, we could under­ them and into the byways occasionally, but stand why the population, of the state is we really did not have time in a little vaca­ so much' denser in the summer than in the tion jaunt of eight days, only three' of winter. which were at all static. That we did not As a matter of faer, we learned that the actually get .off them frequently can only latter season is not such a strain on human be attributed to a kindly Providence or, 'endurance as it once was. They formerly more literally, to blind luck, for much of experienced winters up there which were the time we could only discern the near emphatically wintry,' with the snow very margin of those roads a yard ,or two ahead. high and the mercury very low. But for Craving the ocean, we drove up the coast 'the past two .or three winters neither the 1

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snow nor the mercury has behaved at all M. Havens, '99, who was in California on according to precedent. This new condition his ~nnual hay fever vacation, Hugh A. is no mystery to the natives, who readily Smith, '07, alumni secretary, Howard Witt attribute it to the fact that the Gulf Stream and Barney Smith, '32, Armin Bender, has changed its course. We left word for Allen Kappelman, Tom Forbes and Clifton them to send that beneficent old current Darling, '33, and George Ogan and John up the Barge Canal whenever they feel the Goetsch, '35, all of whom were out of town. winters growing too tame on them. After much valuable advice had been The trip to and from our objective was given to the new crop of subfreshmen by not without interest. While driving through most of the upper classmen present, the rural Vermont and New Hampshire, we meeting adjourned with the announcement rarely passed a real husky crop of anything. of a series of teas to be given during the There were seemingly farmers but no ap­ Christmas holidays at the homes of several parent farms-only trees and out-cropping of the undergraduates for high school rocks, with an occasional mangy pasturage, seniors of the Chicago territory, to acquaint yet many prosperous-looking and even beau­ them with the life and opportunities at tiful homes. We wondered how the in­ Rochester. habitants make so good a living. Surely JAMES BRUFF FORBES, '99, maple sugar and tombstones could hardly President, Central Alumni. account for all that prosperity. We suspect that scenery is the most remunerative pro­ + + duct, with summer-folk and returning native University to Finance First sons the paying customers. Incidentally, Scientific Expedition all along the way just as many eating and tpurists' places as ever were to be observed. Dr. J. Edward Hoffmeister, professor of Man remains an animal, biologically speak­ geology, is preparing to leave in January ing. And food and sleep are still highly on another expedition of eight months' marketable staples, depression or no depres­ duration to the South Sea Islands. While sion. this will be his third visit to that general + + corner of the earth, this expedition will be of special interest as the first major scien­ Central Alumni Luncheon tific research of this character to be financed by the University of Rochester. The expedi­ The annual September luncheon of the tion will be sponsored by the Bishop Central Alumni Association for under­ Museum of Honolulu, and Dr. Hoffmeister graduates -and subfreshmen was held at will have as his associate Dr. Harry S. Ladd, Mandel's, Chicago, on Friday, September 8. well-known research geologist. The theme of the party proved to be "Hail . The major purpose of the project is the and Farewell," as after the subfreshmen study of coral reefs and the formation of had been duly introduced, the announce­ coral barriers and atolls. A secondary ob­ ment was made that Charles A. Brown, '79, jective is a study of general geological hard-working chairman of the Chicago formations of the South Sea Islands, and' it scholarship committee since 1927, is leaving is hoped that many fossils and fauna may Chicago in the near future to make his home be collected for the University museum. Dr. in California.' Ladd has already made a study of the Fiji Called upon for a few remarks, Mr. Islands and Dr. Hoffmeister of the Tonga Brown spoke very happily on the value of group, and they now propose to work in the college friendships, paying especial tribute group of isJands between Fiji and Tonga, to Francis R. Welles, '75, of Bourre, France, which they will be compelled to reach in a founder of the Welles scholarships at small boat from Fiji. During their stay Rochester for boys from Chicago and the the scientists will live with the natives and Middle West. Mr. Brown stated that he subsist on native food. Their findings will had carried on a regular correspondence ultimately be published by the Bishop with Mr. Welles ever since leaving college Museum, which has already published one 54 years ago. of Dr. Hoffmeister's earlier studies. The 28 men present included eight alumni, thirteen undergraduates, one new + + medical student and the current delegation Robert B. Sabin, of Rochester, sailed on Sep­ tember 14 for a year's study at the University of six college subfreshmen. Letters and of Leipzig under an exchange fellowship spon­ messages of regret were read from Samuel sored by the Institute of International Education. ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 17

II AT LETICS II Gridiron Vicissitudes bornly held them for downs twice inside Our Varsity football team found it dif­ the ten-yard line. The final count was 12 ficult to break into the win column this to 0. fall, but finally succeeded after losing three Alfred 7, Rochester 0 games. Oberlin, Alfred and Hamilton, in The Alfred team was primed for the sec­ that order, subdued Tom Davies' charges, ond game, and Rochester was fortunate that but the Rivermen came back to defeat the defeat was not by a larger margin than Rensselaer, as the REVIEW was about to be 7 to 0, although the only touchdown scored "put to bed." Games with Kenyon, Hobart, by the aggregation from the Southern Tier Union and Wesleyan remain to be played was made on a sixty-yard run-back of a at this writing. The Union engagement is punt by Torello, an unusually elusive back the only one on foreign fields this season. who -kept the Rochester players -chasing him The epidemic of injuries to the better all afternoon. It was the first victory for players that almost ruined last year's team Alfred over Rochester since 1916, and in broke out early this season, and adherents fact the second of the -series, as Rochester are wondering if the time will come when has won sixteen games with two tie scores. the team will be at its full strength for any As the Saxons are not on our schedule for game. In the first practice of the season, the next two seasons, we have an idea that Paul LeMassena, who had been an outstand­ a bit of psychology was practiced by Coach ing halfback of the so-called triple-threat Galloway to get his men to a real fighting type in his high school days in Newark, N. pitch for what appears to be the last foot­ J., twisted an injured knee, and it was ap­ ball game between representatives of the parent that he was out of competition for two institutions for several years to come. the season. No real injuries were apparent Alfred basketball and track teams, however, in the opening engagement with Oberlin on are on our schedules. the River Campus, but in the second sortie, Hamilton 13, Rochester 6 that with Alfred, Captain Grice, an end, The Hamilton Continentals, as the men was sent to the sidelines with a badly from the Cltnton Hill are now nicknamed, wrenched knee, and he is still watching the were completely surprised by the fire and games from the bench, while Fink, a tackle, dash shown by Davies' proteges, and before was incapacitated for the season with a frac­ they could get their bearings the Rochester tured elbow. Others have been kept out of players had scored. Loose handling of kicks the fray with more or less minor injuries, gave the Rivermen the ball in the visitors' and Coach Davies has been hard put to it territory, and they jumped into action w'ith to keep a reasonably strong team on the a drive that could not be denied. Smashes field. through center or outside of the tackles, Oberlin 12, Rochester 0 interspersed with reverse end runs, put the His difficulties have been heightened by ball on the seven-yard line, from whence the strength of the opposition, as unques­ Spaiches knifed his way to a touchdown. tionably the first three games were against McCulley's attempted straight buck for the teams that were the best to represent those extra. point failed. institutions in a number of years. Oberlin Returning to the field in the second half, presented an array of veterans, who had with the score 6 to ° against them, the much the better of it after a hectic first heavy Buff and Blue forces evidenced their quarter in which Rochester took advantage unusual prowess this season with a sustained of a recovered fumble and was within inches drive that brought the ball deep into Roch­ of making first down on the one-yard line, ester territory. McKenzie, Jones and Hard­ largely through a successful forward pass. ing took turns in lugging the ball for size­ The Ohioans punted out of danger and able gains, until the last-named crossed the shortly countered with a brilliant forward goal line to tie the score, and Hand prompt­ passing attack that was responsible for two ly proceeded to put the visitors in the lead; touchdowns and would have netted more 7 to 6, with a successful placement kick. if the Rochester Rivermen had not stub- McKenzie scored Hamilton's second touch- 18 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW down in the last period, when the rapidly tiring Rivermen were unable to stem the Basketball Schedule drive of a splendidly functioning backfield, Dec. 16-Alfred at Alfred protected by a husky, fast-charging set of Dec. 23-Cornell at Rochester forwards. Hand's second attempt to con­ Jan. 6-Hobart at Rochester vert the extra point was blocked. The vic­ Jan. 12-Williams at Williamstown tory was Hamilton's twenty-first in the long Jan. 13-Union at Schenectady series starting in 1890. Rochester has won Feb. 3-Alfred at Rochester seventeen, while three have resulted in tie Feb. 5-Hamilton at Clinton scores. Incidentally, the Clintonians are the Feb. 10-Union at Rochester only ones of our time-honored rivals to hold Feb. l7-0berlin at Rochester such an edge, as our teams have an approxi­ Feb. 21-Hobart at Geneva mately equal advantage over Union and Feb. 24-Colgate at Rochester Hobart. Mar. 3-Hamilton at Rochester Rochester 14, Rennselaer 6 Rensselaer brought to the River Campus another hefty aggregation with a record of returned to the fray with all sorts of dash a .33-to-0 victory over the College of the and fire. But Davies' men were apparently City of New York, and a 6-to-0 defeat by in better shape to withstand the onslaught, St. Lawrence, and another setback was and instead of the Rochester players being feared. But Rochester's representatives unable to stand up under the grueling play, evidenced in the first play of the game that it was the visitors who weakened. The the visiting Trojans were headed for real Rivermen more than held their own in the opposition in their quest for a victory. third period, and soon after hostilities had Taking the opening kickoff on his three­ been resumed for the final period the Roch­ yard line, Al Spaiches turned a trick the ester attack got under way and took the ball like of which we have not seen in the many down the field on a splendidly sustained years of thrills at football games. Appar­ drive that literally forced the Engineers ently surrounded several times at the very back across their goal line. McConnell got start of his run, he dodged would-be away for a couple of dashes that brought the tacklers and with the aid of splendid inter­ ball to the 30-yard line, and from that point ference, provided largely by Art Ticknor McCulley and Spaiches carried it the rest and Jack McCulley, he sped down the field of the way, McCulley crashing over for the and skillfully sidestepped the Rensselaer touchdown and Spaiches adding a point on safety to score standing up. He had traveled a drive outside of right tackle. With an 97 yards to the goal line, and it was some apparently safe lead, Coach Davies sent in time before either the teams or spectators a flock of .reserves, nearly all of the thirty could settle down to resume or watch hos­ men in uniform on the bench getting into tilities in normal fashion. the fray before it was ended. The visiting engineers were for a time The Rochester linemen, who have re­ stunned by the brilliant achievement but ceived little mention in this review, as is rallied gamely, and early in the second unfortunately 'the case in most references period they battered their way to a touch­ to football games, have battled valiantly to down. Led by Conrad, a fiery-topped back, provide protection for the backs and, con­ who reeled off gain after gain, the Trojans sidering the inexperience of most of them, scored on an' end run by the ubiquitous red­ they have acquitted themselves well and head, but the attempted placement kick was have shown an improvement, game by game, a fizzle and Rochester had a 7-to-6 lead as. that augurs much in the way of better work McCulley's drive through center had given in contests to come. With the loss of Cap­ the Rivermen the extra point following tain Grice at left end, Soehner was moved Spaiches' record run. 'Rensselaer almost from the opposite flank and Geddes shifted scored again in the dosing minutes of the from a guard to the vacant end. "Rusty" half. A partially blocked punt from posi­ Stewart, president of the Students' Associa­ tion and poor handling of a punt put the tion, is playing' one tackle with Contryman, Trojans in a position to score, but the a big sophomore, at the other tackle. Two timer's whistle cut short hostilities with the other sophomores, Parker and Jenner, are ball'on our four'-yard line. . playing the guards, with Ticknor at center. 'A repetition of the second-half collapse Graney, who plays quarterback, does not against Hamilton was feared, as the Trojans carry the ball in the Warner system used by ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 19

Tom Davies but acts as spearhead of the President Rhees was one of the principal speak­ interference, and he has been doing nobly ers at the 69th convocation of the University of the State of New York, held at Albany during in the position. the second week of October. He traced the his­ The Varsity basketball team, last season, tory of American education, warned against over after losing four games, won six of the re­ emphasis on technical at the expense of liberal maining eight engagements for an even training, and spoke of the encouraging interest in aesthetic subjects growing out of the present split, and there is a feeling that the football period of unrest. team is likely to do likewise, despite the strength of several of the teams yet to be At last we have a real University band in the played. It is our opinion that football making again, drawing from student talent in the Eastman School of Music, ~s well as the fortunes at Rochester, after a series of mis­ College, and directed by Sherman Clute, of the fortunes, are definitely on the upgrade, and former school, with Theodore F. Fitch, '22, that happier days may be ahead for those director of the musical clubs, assisting in its of us who are keenly interested in the team's organization. About 40 candidates have been practicing regularly, and the result has added welfare. much to the color of the football games this MATTHEW D. LAWLESS, '09. fall.

+ + The sophomores, who have always regarded State Conference Meeting the frosh cap as a business proposition, as well as a tradition, are reported as not too eager for At the annual meeting of the New York all of the frosh to acquire caps this fall. When State Conference, held on October 9 at the the sophomores bought the caps, which they sell to the frosh, they failed to order enough; and Buffalo Athletic Club, with the University when they placed a second order, they found that of Buffalo as host, Matthew D. Lawless, the price had advanced, what with the NRA and '09, treasurer of the Board of Control, was one thing or another. As a result every late sale elected vice-president for the coming year, to an unsupplied freshman has meant a loss of with Professor C. W. Roebert, of St. Law­ ten cents. rence University, as president. The earlier Six more seniors and three juniors have been action of the eligibility committee, in dis­ adjudged worthy of recognition by the two honor qualifying for a year several members of societies, Kaidaeans and Mendicants, respectively. last year's University of Buffalo freshman Following chapel on October 4, the Kaidaeans football team, was ratified. Among other tapped Donald B. Fischer, George K. Krauss, George C. Maloney, .Leo H. Query, Kenneth L. routine matters, it was decided to hold the Tanger and Morris C. Veit. Juniors newly Conference track meet at Hamilton next elected by the Mendicants are Millard J. Noonap, spring. The University was represented by Arthur E. Nyquist and Charles B. Skinner. Dr. Fauver, Mr. Lawless, Track Coach Frank H. Gorron and the alumni secretary. The fraternities initiated their series of three Sunday-afternoon teas for the freshmen on October 8. This is an innovation, designed to permit all the fraternities to become acquainted with all the freshmen, and vice versa, and is pre­ C

The futility of the present flag rush as a Freshman vocalists are now treated like sporting event was again demonstrated on Tues­ athletes and not permitted to sing on the Glee day noon, September 26. In an atmosphere of Club. Hence the organization this fall by ripe tomatoes and against a background of grease Theodore F. Fitch, '22, of a freshman glee club a mere handful of sophomores easily defended and chapel choir. To be sure, this freshman the so-called "flag" against a horde of freshmen. group has already been advertised to appear in The small number of sophomores in evidence joint concert with the Glee Club, but life is full may indicate how popular the event is with those of puzzles on the campus, as elsewhere. who have been through it once. The Public Relations Club supplants the Freshmen are being treated this fall very much International Relations Club on the campus, as regular human beings. Although they must with the broader field of national, international wear their caps and sit together at football games, and economic interests. It held its first meeting they can walk on the quadrangle, wear knickers, in Strong Auditorium on October 20, when local speak to girls and all that. Furthermore, there Republican and Democratic speakers addressed is to be no annual "riding" period and no under­ it on approaching municipal elections. class banquet fights. In this revolt against bar­ barism the present traditions committee takes Morden R. Buck, graduate of Duke University t"he stand that the traditions in question had be­ and a resident of Rochester, has been appointed come outmoded; what the next traditions com­ director of dramatics for the coming year. Mr. mittee will think about it remains to be seen. Buck appears to be well-qualified for the work, 20 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW having been a member of the Kukor-Kondolf track, and the all-around cup to Delta Kappa Company at the Lyceum Theater for several years, Epsilon. Coach Frank H. Gorton, of the track both as assistant stage manager and actor. The team, awarded the Isadore Jacobs Memorial Cup first play is scheduled for the Strong Auditorium for the first time to Millard J. Noonan, captain stage on December 9. of the track team, and his own Gorton Track Trophy to the Delta Upsilon fraternity for the At the first College Night Supper on Monday third year in succession. evening, October 9, Howard A. Spindler, '?5, The junior class has rejected the senate plan was awarded the Jesse 1. Rosenberger prize of of class government and elected Robert J. Exter $25.00 for having shown the greatest improve­ president; John Field, vice-president; Arthur E. ment In bis freshman and sophomore years. Ad­ Nyquist, secretary, and Donald E. McConville, ditional intramural trophies were awarded to treasurer. Both Exter and Nyquist are from Alpha Phi Delta, in baseball, Delta Upsilon, in Chicago. ==;;;;;N;;;;;;;U;;;;;;;;M~E=R;;;;;A;;;;;;L~N~O~T~A~T~I~O~N~s~~~11 1.;;;1

'82. Dr. John W. LeSeur, of Batavia, was '98. James A. Hamilton, of New York City, elected head of the New York State 1. O. O. F. was appointed registrar of Bronx County by last summer. Governor Lehman in September. Mr. Hamilton Ex-'83. Dr. William F. Milroy, formerly of is a former state senator and was secretary of Omaha, Neb., visited the River Campus on state in 1923-24. September 12. He stated at the time that he Ex-'98. Charles F. Hutchison, of Rochester, was moving from Omaha to Hollywood, Calif., was elected president of the board of trustees of upon his return. the Hillside Home for Children in July. Ex-'87. Dr. A. 1. Benedict, of Buffalo, was '99. The honorary degree, doctor of letters, the author of an interesting, illustrated article was conferred upon Herbert S. Weet, Rochester's on "Seeing America", which appeared in the superintendent of schools, at the closing session October issue of the Delta Upsilon Quarterly. of the 150th ;lnniversary convocation of the Uni­ '88. Dr. -and' Mrs. John McGuire retired in versity of the State of New York at Albany in July from missionary work after 42 years of October. Mr. Weet is the first public school distinguished service in Burma. For eighteen superintendent to win such an honor from the years Dr. McGuire was engaged in general mis­ Board of Regents. He also received the degree sionary work, was president of the Theological of G. F.-Good Fellow-from 125 fellow educa­ Seminary in Burma for eight en years and for tors at a dinner of appreciation at the University the past six years has been revising the Judson Club in Albany. Translation of the whole Bible in Burmese. '02. The New York Association for Improv­ Ex-'89. News of Dr. McGuire's retirement ing the Condition of the Poor, of which Bailey came from Rev. George J. Geis, who reports he B. Burritt is general director, has issued a com­ followed Dr. McGuire from the University to prehensive publication of nearly 100 pages on the Rochester Theological Seminary, being just "Idleness and the Health of a Neighborhood," one class behind, and then to Burma to engage by Dr. Gwendolyn Hughes Berry, which is re­ in the same field just one year later. Mr. Geis, garded as a pioneering attempt in the study of who has been on furlough in the United States idleness and sickness. Mr. Burritt contributes for two years, visited the'McGuires at Maymyo, the foreword. Burma, on his return trip to Rangoon in June. Ex-'04. Dr. Meyer Jacobstein resigned as He is located with the American Baptist Mission president of the First National Bank & Trust at Bhamo, Burma. Company of Rochester on August 1 to become '92. Lewis H. Thornton, honorary president publisher of the Rochester Evening Journal and of the New York State Oil Producers' Associa­ Sunday American. Dr. Jacobstein was named by tion, has been appointed by Secretary of the Governor Lehman in July on a committee to study Interior Ickes, a member of the eastern tri-state the Federal Home Loan Law and to recommend government committee on oil production. This state action for relief of home and farm owners. committee represents the states of Pennsylvania, He also was named on a board of three men West Virginia and New York. appointed by President Roosevelt early in the fall '95. Dr. Abram Lipskv, formerly of Rochester to review veterans' cases in the Western New and now head of the language department of the York area. Seward Park High School in New York City, is Ex-'05. Rev. Harry G. Greensmith, D. D., author of a book, "Martin Luther: Germany's preached his farewell sermon in the North Bap­ Angry Man", which will be published coincident tist Chlurch of Rochester in September, after with the 45th anniversary of Luther's birth on more than sixteen years as its pastor. Going into November 10 by the Frederick Stokes Publishing retirement as an active pastor, Dr. Greensmith Company. has earned the title of dean of Baptist ministers '96. Harrah Reynolds, president of the in Monroe County by virtue of more than 40 Buffalo Alumni Association, is, according to Dr. years of active service in the Baptist ministry of Lesser Kauffman, one of the outstanding checker the county. players in the United States, having received the Supreme Court Justice Marsh N. Taylor, of championship prize and medal for Western New Rochester, received his 33rd degree, the highest York last summer. in Scottish Rite Masonry, at the convocation of ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 21 the Supreme Council which was held in Boston Ex-'19. The marriage of Miss Adelaide in September. He also is potentate of Damascus Harvey, of Gouverneur, and Harold W. Walters, Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles ·of the of Rochester, took place at Gouverneur on June Mystic Shrine, the highest office of that body. 29. Mrs. Walters is a graduate of St. Lawrence '06. Dr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Fisher sailed from University and holds a master's degree from New York on September 2 to return to Istanbul, Radcliffe College. Mr. Walters is a graduate of Turkey, after spending the summer in the United Columbia University. States, where Dr. Fisher directed a summer course '20. Dr. Cyril J. Staud, of Rochester, was at Syracuse University. He visited the River .elected president of the Rochester Torch Club Campus during the summer and addressed the in June. Kiwanis Club of Rochester in August. '21. Nathaniel C. Kendrick, professor of his­ State Senator Fred J. Slater, of Rochester, was tory at Bowdoin College and son of our own among the featured speakers in a special program Professor Kendrick, became the father of Thomas in July at the Chicago Century of Progress Ex-. Riley Kendrick on August 4. position. His speech was broadcast over a national '23. Richard B. DeMallie has increased the radio hookup. population of Tokyo, Japan, where he repre­ '09. S. Park Harman, executive secretary of sents the interests of the Eastman Kodak Com­ the Civic Committee on Unemployment in Roch­ pany. On September 3 he became the proud ester, was called to Washington in August to father of a daughter, AnQ,e Marie. join the National Labor Board, created by the An attractive announcement of the arrival of 'president for the purpose of settling disputes Nancy Rhodes Haines on September 2 to Fred between labor and employers by arbitration. The and Eleanor Haines, of Rochester, was received chairman of the civic committee announced at by the alumni office recently. the time that Mr. Harman was loaned to the '25. Miss Janet L. Bates, of Washington, D. Board and given an indefinite leave of absence. c., and Anthony J. Betten, of Rochester, were '10. William Roy Vallance, of the State De­ married in Washington on June 27. Mrs. Betten partment at Washington, is the author of two is a graduate of Wilson Normal School and articles published in the October issue of the George Washington University.. They are mak­ Federal Bar Association Journal. ing their home at 375 Bonnie Brae Avenue, Dr. Warren Wooden was elected president of Rochester. the Rochester Pathological Society at its annual J. Mercer Brugler, assistant to the chairman meeting in June. . of the pfaudler Company of Rochester, was '11. Arthur M. Lowenthal was appointed in chairman of the recent membership drive of the September as a member of the Home Relief Rochester Y. M. C. A. Mr. Brugler, who has Division of the General Welfare Committee of served during two previous campaigns as divi­ Eight, appointed and authorized last spring by sional chairman, is a member of the Monroe the Rochester City Council and Board of Super­ Branch committee of management and has taken visors to co-ordinate city and county welfare a leading part in boys' work for 12 years. He activities. is also at present acting as chairman of the '12. William D. Conklin, general publicity statistical committee for the Chamber of Com­ man for most worthy enterprises in Dansville, N. merce and vice-president of the Rochester Asso­ Y., recently did another big job in publicizing ciation of Credit Men.' the very'successful NRA parade of that enterpris­ The marriage of Miss Dorothy· E. Doud, of ing community. His efforts occupied a total of Malone, to Frederic L. Wellington, formerly of 250 inches in the Dansville papers for which he Rochester, took place at Malone on September 2. was given special recognition by the general Mrs. Wellington is a graduate of Wheaton Col­ chairman. lege. Mr. Wellington, who was formerly pub­ Professor Willard R. Line, of the University, ncity and camp director of the Rochester Council, headed a delegation of Rochester scientists who Boy Scouts, has been scout executive of the attended the meeting of the American Chemical Adirondack Council since 1930, with headquar­ Society in Chicago in connection with the Cen­ ters first at Saranac Lake until 1931, when he tury of Progress Exposition in September. removed to Malone, where he and Mrs. Welling- '14. An article, "American Lawyers as Inter­ ton are now residing. . national Arbitrators", by G. Kibby Munson, of '26. A daughter, Barbara Averill, was born Washington, D. c., which was published in the to Mr. and Mrs. H. Merrell Benninghoff on American Bar Association TournaI of last March, August 6 at Karaujawa, Japan. was reprinted in the October issue of the Delta Miss L. Evangeline Mingus, of Henrietta, and Upsi/on Quarterly. Carl Payne, of Victor, were married on June 29 '16. H. Mortimer Smeed. assistant headmaster at Bloomfield, N. J. They are making their home of the Hawken Country Day SchQol in South in Victor, where Mr. Payne is principal of the Euclid, Ohio, is spending a Sabbatical year with high school. his family in Europe. They plan to winter in Arthur E. Rosenberg recently announced the Florence. opening of law offices at 714 Union Trust Build­ '18. Baer & Marks, law firm of New York ing, Rochester. Mr. Rosenberg was formerly City, of which Donald Marks is co-partner, re­ associated with Webster, Straus & Lamb, of cently announced the removal of their offices to Rochester. the City Bank Farmers Trust Building at 20 Ex­ The marriage of Miss Virginia Yancey, of change Place, New York City. Rochester, and Dr. Doran Stephens, also of '19. Leo D. Welch, formerly of Rochester Rochester, took place at Rochester on August 29. and now manager of a branch of the National Mrs. Stephens is a graduate of Connecticut Col­ City Bank of New York at Santiago, Chile, re­ lege. They are residing at 11 Astor Drive. cently was honored with the Order of Merit Luther 1. Webster, of Rochester, became af­ by the Chilean government. filiated. with the law firm, formerly Webster, 22 ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW

The marriage of Miss Dorothy F. Adams, of Rochester, and Harlan F. Yust, formerly of Roch­ ester, took place at Indian Falls on June 24. They are living in New York City. '30. James K. Albright, of Rochester, grad­ uated from the law school of Cornell University and passed his state bar examination in June. Walter T. Enright, who has been on the faculty of Charlotte High School for two years and was director of University dramatics in 1931-32, is doing graduate work this year in the Yale De­ partment of Drama. Robert M. Hennessy, of Henrietta, a graduate of Cornell University Law School, passed his state bar examinations in June. Since obtaining his law degree he has served as law clerk in the office of John A. Jennings, of Rochester. The marriage of Miss Mary E. Bostwick, of Rochester, and Graham C. Mees, formerly of Rochester, took place at Rochester on June 21. They are residing in Kingsport, Tenn., where Mr. Mees is associated with the research laboratories Headquarters for University of Rochester of the Eastman Kodak Company. Alumni whenever in Syracuse. 600 rooms, Gilbert J. Pedersen, of Buffalo, passed his each with bath. New low rate from $2..50. state bar examinations in June and was admitted to practice on October 3. He is located in the office of George G. Smith, '11, of the firm of Smith and Kendall in the Genesee Building, Straus & Lamb, in August. Joseph R. Webster, Buffalo. '94, is a partner in the firm, which is now known Frank Rago, former Varsity star in baseball, as Webster, Lamb & Webster. played the infield and was manager of Holley in '27. O. Oliver Barber, formerly of Rochester, the Western New York Baseball League during is now an assistant stage manager at the Booth the past season, leading it to the pennant for that Theater in New York City. section. The marriage of Miss Mary B. Thayer, of C. Dalton Scott, of Scottsville, received the Albany, to Albert W. Lochner, of Rochester, took degree of bachelor of divinity from the Episcopal place at Amsterdam on September 30. They are Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., in June living at 30 Seneca Road, Irondequoit. and was ordained in the Grace Episcopal Church "28. Miss Betty J. Cunningham and Nicholas at Scottsville. E. Brown, both of Rochester, were married at The engagement of Miss Eva E. Haines, '27, Rochester on August 19. Mrs. Brown is a grad­ of Rochester, and George E. Ulp, also of Roch­ uateof the City Normal School. They are living ester, was announced in July. at 301 Wellington Avenue. ' Bert Van Horn, former Varsity star, relin­ The marriage of Miss Alma R. Hart, of quished his post as teacher and coach of football Churchville, and John D. Fewster, of Ontario, at the Brighton High School this fall to become took place at Churchville on September 1st. Mrs. principal of Henrietta High School. He is Fewster is a graduate of the City Normal School. credited by a local newspaper with having made Mr. Fewster, who is a graduate of the Harvard Brighton "football conscious." . Business School, is now associated with the East­ Ex-'30. The marriage of Miss Helen M. man Kodak Company. They are residing in Buchholz, of Watertown, and Robert S. Moll, of Webster. Rochester, took place at Watertown on Septem­ Announcement was made in September of the ber 16. They are making their home at 354 engagement of Miss Eleanor 1. Quigley, of Roch­ Lake Avenue, Rochester. ester, to Robert E. Platt, also of Rochester. Louis Rappaport, of Rochester, graduated from '29. Miss Margaret Easton, '29, of Rochester, the Buffalo Law School in June. was married to Dr. Kenneth O. Hamlin, of '31. Miss Marion Goodwin, of Geneseo, and Deposit, at Rochester on July 12. They are David M. Allyn, of Rochester, were married 'at living in DeRuyter, where Dr. Hamlin is prac­ Geneseo on August 5. Mrs. Allyn is a daughter ticing medicine. of the late Willard H. Goodwin, '95, and a According to a recent sports announcement in graduate of Wells College. They are living at a local newspaper, C. Gregory Smith, formerly 25 Darwin Street, Rochester. of Rochester, was off to a fine start in the golfing Lawrence 1. Culiano, of Rochester, was elected circles of his new locale at Kingsport, Tenn., grand historian of Alpha Phi Delta at the recent where he is connected with the Eastman Kodak annual convention of that fraternity in Cleveland. Company. In September he won his finals Miss Marion Flaherty, '31, of Youngstown, tournament match with a physician of that city, Ohio, and Robert E. DeRight, of Williamson, 5 and 4, for the Kingsport Country Club cham­ were married at Rochester on June 24. They are pionship. living at 445 Post Avenue. Ex-'29. Myer Braiman, a graduate of Colum­ Carl Fisher, formerly of Rochester, who became bia University Law S~hool and recently admitted associated with the Paramount Studios in New to the bar, has announced his association in the York City in a junior directorial position shortly practice of law with Alcott Neary, '44, and after his graduation, and later joined the firm of George E. Palmer, '13, at 611 Wilder Building, his uncle, George Abbott, '11, and Philip Dun­ Rochester. ning, noted playwrights and producers, has had ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 23

a hand in the managing of several plays. He is )'-/~'-/~~'-/'-/'-/( at present in charge of "Heat Lightning", now baving a popular run on Broadway. Miss Mary H. Wilson, of Albany, was married to Dana A. Weeks, of Rochester, on August 28. They are residing in Montreal, where Weeks is l .,,~ .fA When 1 continuing his study at the Medical School of McGill University. '32. The marriage of Miss Jeannette Cohen ) ( and Max H. Presberg, both of Rochester, took place at Rochester on July 9. Mrs. Presberg, a l) the situation demands I graduate of the City Normal School, is an as­ sistant at the Rush Rhees Library and Mr. Pres­ ) FLOWERS berg is a student at the University School of SEE Medicine. The marriage of Miss Janet Eichelman and Kir~maier,'2.o Raymond F. Savage, both of Rochester, took l Mark 1 place on August 9. They are making their home in Rochester at 305 Beach Avenue. Ex-'32. Miss Eunice M. Martin and Ralph C. Axon, both of Rochester, were married on October l Kennedy & Kirchmaier ( 6. They are residing at the Lake View Apart­ ments in Rochester. l . Florists 1 David R. Levin, of Rochester, a graduate of the Buffalo Law School, passed his state bar examinations in June. ~~~~~~~~~:J '33. Lincoln Burrows, of Rochester, left in October to attend the Wharton School of Finance at Rochester, N. Y., July 15, aged 64 years; was in Philadelphia. principal, Union School, Webster, 1890-91; pro­ "Dink" Erdle, stellar Varsity athlete for the fessor of mathematics, Cook Academy, 1891-92; past three years, is teachi- - biology at the assistant instructor in physics, Cornell, 1893-94; Brighton High School and doing a good job as instructor in physics, 1894-97; student, University coach of a promising football team, thus carrying of Berlin, 1897-98; associate professor of physics, on the tradition established by Bert Van Horn, Colgate, 1898; professor of physics, 1904-; Tom Forbes, of Oak P~Jk, Ill., is connected traveled abroad and did experimental work at with the anatomy department of the Strong the Cavendish Laoratory, 1908; member, Ameri­ Memorial Hospital of the University. can Physical Society. Author, the Child Law, 1911; "Electric Arcs", 1913. Willard Hubbard Goodwin, Ph. B., '95; LL. B., Pennsylvania, 1898; member of Delta Upsilon, _31_n_~_tm_O_r_ia_m_..,1 died after a prolonged illness on July 28, aged 1...... 61 years; was student, Brown University, 1894­ 95; student, Columbia Law School, 1895-97; Eugene Clarence Aiken, A. B., '77; LL. D., lawyer, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1898-1920; retired, George Washington University, 1921; member of Geneseo, 1920-; Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, died suddenly George Esley, A. B., '24; M. D., 1931; mem­ at Auburn, N. Y., July 7, aged 77 years; was law ber of Sigma Delta Epsilon, died suddenly at student, Auburn, 1877-79; lawyer, Auburn, Sodus, N. Y., August 1, aged 30 years; was as­ 1879-; president, Board of Education, Auburn, sociated with research laboratories, Parke-Davis 1899- ; mayor, Auburn, 1906-08; president, & Co., Detroit, Mich., 1925-26; medical student, Chamber of Commerce, 1909-12; Deputy Attorney University of Rochester, 1927-31; physician, General in charge of appeals under Workmen's Sodus, 1932-. Compensation Law, 1915-; president, Common Frederick Starr, ex-'82, B. S., Lafayette, 1882; Council, Auburn, 1905; director, New York, M. S.; Ph. D., Lafayette, 1885; Sc. D. (hon.), Auburn & Lansing Railroad; president, Auburn Lafayette, 1907; LL. D., Coe, 1922, died after Telephone Company; member, Cayuga Co. His­ a short illness at Tokyo, Japan, August 14, aged torical Society. 75 years; was teacher of sciences, Wyman Insti­ Clement Dexter Child, A. B., '90; Ph. D., tute, 1882-83; professor of sciences, State Normal Cornell, 1897; member of Theta Chi, Phi Beta School, Lock Haven, Pa., 1883-84; professor, Kappa and Sigma Xi, died after a short illness Coe College, 1884-85; in charge of ethnology,

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American Museum Natural History, 1889-91; registrar, Chautauqua University, 1888-89; as­ sistant professor of anthropology, Chicago, 1892-95; associate professor, 1895-1923; and curator of anthropological section, Walker Museum. Field work in ethnography and an­ thropology in Mexico, Japan, Congo Free State, Liberia, Korea, etc. Awarded Grand Prize, St. Louis Exposition, 1904, for group of Ainu, aboriginal population of Japan. Author of "On the Hills", "Some First Steps in Human Pro­ gress", 1895; "American Indians", 1899; "Indians of Southern Mexico", 1899; "Strange Peoples", 1900; "The Ainu Group at St. Louis", It is just as easy to Dress 1904; "Readings from Modern Mexican Authors", 1904; "The Truth About the Congo", 1907; "In Well-to Look Smart­ Indian Mexico", 1908; "Filipino Riddles", 1909; "Japanese Proverbs and Pictures", 1910; "Congo At No Extra Cost. Natives", 1912; "Liberia", 1913; "Corean Buddhism", 1918; "Fujiyama, the Sacred Moun­ tain of Japan", 1924; editor, THE ANTHROPO­ SUITS - OVERCOATS LOGICAL SERIES. Received following decorations: 00 00 Museums Medal, Holland, 1900; Officier Order $20 to $35 Leopold II, Congo, 1907; palms of Officer of Public Instruction, France, 1908; Chevalier Order Crown of Italy, 1911; Commander Order of Tailored by Rochester's Leading Leopold II, 1911; Knight Commander Order of Manu!acturers African Redemption, Liberia, 1915; third order of Sacred Treasure, Japan, 1921. John Henry Stoody, ex-'89; A. B., Taylor, CORNWALL 1889; A. M., Taylor, 1901, died at Silver Lake, N. Y., August 17, aged 68 years; was pastor, CLOTHES SHOP Spencer-Ripley Methodist Church, Rochester, 1895-97; pastor, Bradford, Pa.; Walworth; Burke Bldg. Main at St. Paul Webster, 1902-07; Hamburg; Akron; Humboldt Parkway Methodist Church, Buffalo; First M. E. Church, Wellsboro, Pa.; Kensingston M. E. Church, Buffalo; member, Silver Lake Assembly; Genesee Conference; executive secretary, World Service Commission of the Genesee Conferenc, You Can Buy 1928-30; retired. Author, "Moral Progress". Charles Hurd Stewart, A. B., '00; member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, died after a long illness SPORTING GOODS at Worcester, Mass., October 11, aged 54 years; was private, 3rd N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, Co. from the best manufacturers just as H., 1898; was New England representative, cheap as inferior goods of unknown Pittsburgh Steel Co., Springfield and Worcester, Mass., for the last 25 years. origin. Frank Edward Winter,' Ph. B., '07, member of There are genuine Macgregor Golf Theta Delta Chi, died suddenly at Utica, N. Y., October 24, aged 55 years; was contractor, 1907; Clubs for $2.25. law clerk, Rochester, 1907-10; lawyer, Rochester, Dunlop Red GolfBalls at 3for $100. 1910-; supervisor of census, 19th district of New York, 1920; assistant state attorney general, Altoona Level-wind Reels for 8sc. 1930-. and similar inexpensive items of standard make throughout the entire Sporting Goods line. MAIN 18 MONROE ~300 The best manufacturers are equipped to furnish the best values in the lowest priced items that will prove E. H. Clark Coal Co.,Inc. satisfactory-they do. 108 East Side Savings Bank Bldg. Rochester, N. Y. ~crantom'~ SPORTING GOODS SHOPS W. Bert Woodams, '13, Treasurer

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•.. Lined across the road in a narrow defile near there be one soldier among you who would shoot Laffray, stood a nervous detachment of Bourbon his Emperor, let him do it. I am here ...." troops. Nervous, because they knew that coming nearer every moment down the winding road from' Bewildered Roya1ist officers saw their ranks melt Digne walked a small dark man who had once been into a mob of sobbing, cheering men,· throwing master of Europe, more recently exile-Empe~9r of themselves at the Emperor's feet•••• Elba. ,For this man they had seen their comrades' Within a few houts towns-folk, peasants and die at Austerlitz and Jena. For him they had bled Boldiers were hilariously, battering down the and suffered. And for him they had acain gone locked gates of Grenoble so· their Emperor might into battle, not once, but many times. But now enter. Later, a delegation brought him piece. of their officers spoke of him a, "the enemy" and he splintered wood and bronze. "Since we have 110 came suddenly with a handful of veterans to re­ key t? the ci~r we have brought Your Majesty the conquer his lost France. Their duty: to head him gate Itself .•• off before he reached the discontented city of Grenoble. Their orders: to shoot him the moment .•. So in part, had TIME been published in he should appear. Their attitude: doubtful. Mus­ March, 1815, would it have chronicled Napol­ kets charged, faces inscrutable, they waited. eon's first bloodless victory of the Hundred Behind them their officers were discussing a re­ Days, t~ree months before Waterloo. So, too, treat, when the Little Corporal came in view, would TIME have told how Napoleon left paunchier than before but dressed as every soldier Grenoble thirty-six hours later with seven in France had known him, in the old gray surtout, cocked hat, tri-color cockade. The soldiers paled, thousand men; how Louis XVIII despatched hesitated. Napoleon paused, ordered his feHtowers regiment after regiment to stop him and how, to lower their guns. almost to a man, the armies sent to stop the "There he isl Firel", cried a Royalist captain. "Usurper" joi~ed Napoleon's army in its 1ft tense silence the click of muskets being cocked march.towards Paris; how, less than ten days startled even grizzled veterans of Austeditz. Ma': later, a placard was found on the Vendrome poleon advanced within pistol shot, walking slow­ ly, alone. Throwing -open his coat, he displayed column in Pa.ris: "Napoleon to Louis XVIII. the familiar uniform. In a strong, calm voice he My good brother, it is useless to send me an1 called: "Soldiers of the Fifth, recognize I me I If - more troops, I have enough!'· ,

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