CORNELL In the News this Week Professor Herman Diederichs '97 New Dean of Engineering . Second Alumni Institute to Dis- cuss The Arts in Our Democracy . Track Team Does Well at Pennsylvania Relays . Baseball Team Splits Even With Prince- ton . Sigma Xi Research Exposition Next Week End APRIL 30, 1936 VOLUME 38 ΓBF Έδ'l NUMBER 26 PROFESSIONAL Cornell University DIRECTORY Summer Session OF CORNELL ALUMNI July 6 - August 14 METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 1936 THE BALLOU PRESS Printers to Lawyers CHAS. A. BALLOU, JR., *21 The Summer Session has been of 69 Beβkman St. Tel. Beelcman 3-8785 service to teachers in public and pri- vate schools who have returned to HARRY D. COLE Ί8 the University to secure further train- Real Estate ing in the subjects which they teach. Management Insurance The Summer Session of 1936 will Member: Westchester County Real Estate Board offer an extensive list of courses of New York State Real Estate Association National Real Estate Association this kind. 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XXXVIII, NO. 2.6 ITHACA, NEW YORK, APRIL 30, I936 PRICE 15 CENTS ENGINEERS WANTED TO DISCUSS ARTS TODAY TEXAS CORNELL PARTY Engineering training is in demand, At Second Alumni Institute Cornell men and women resident at according to the University Placement College Station, Texas, most of them The second annual Cornell Alumni Bureau's Bulletin 2.0, of April 23, in connected with the Texas A. & M. Col- Institute will be held on the Campus which exactly half of the twelve posi- lege, entertained Professor Clyde H. June 15 to 18. Under the general topic, tions open require engineers. Other op- Myers, PhD Ίz, and Professor Frank P. The Arts in an Industrial Democracy, portunities are listed in finance, traffic Bussell, PhD Ί9, Plant Breeding, and the committee will soon announce a de- management, publicity, teaching, and Mrs. Myers on February 2.8. Forty-eight tailed program that promises to be of general business. alumni and guests attended a dinner. In even greater interest than last June. Alumni interested may obtain par- the afternoon Professors Myers and Bus- In considering the place of the ticulars of these and other jobs on file by sell talked at a Genetics seminar. Profes- arts in America today, speakers will addressing Herbert H. Williams Ί5, sor Eugene P. Humbert, PhD Ίo, pre- present and illustrate pertinent and sig- director, University Placement Bureau, sided at the meetings. nificant comment on many phases of Willard Straight Hall. modern life: the contemporary stage and MICHIGAN ACTIVE screen, recent literature and music, de- MEDICAL ALUMNI DAY The Cornell Club of Michigan, at its velopments in architecture and engineer- last Saturday luncheon of the season President Farrand, Alumni Trustee ing, the home in America. The committee April 11, saw a talking picture, "Getting George R. Pfann '2.4, and John B. Ken- will utilize the full talents of the Uni- About," presented by Del A. Smith, nedy, radio news commentator, will versity in these diverse fields. Members director of public relations of Detroit speak at the annual Spring Day banquet of the Faculty will address morning and Street Railways. On April 16 Dr. A. of the Medical College Alumni Associ- afternoon sessions and the lectures will James DeNike, head of the DeNike Sani- ation, to be held at the Hotel Bίltmore be interspersed with round-table discus- tarium, spoke on "Why Alcoholism in New York City May 7. sions among smaller groups. Flourishes More Now Than Before and Throughout the day preceding the Among the Faculty leaders of the dis- During Prohibition." dinner scientific meetings and demonstra- cussions will be Professors F. H. Bos- Matthew Carey '15, president of the tions will be held at the Medical College worth, William M. Dunbar 'zi, John A. Club, is recuperating in the South from and New York Hospital, and the attend- Hartell '2.5, and Kenneth L. Washburn, an attack of pneumonia. ing alumni will be guests of New York Architecture; Gilmore D. Clarke '13, Hospital for luncheon. Planning; Walter L. Conwell Ίi, High- HORSE SHOW ATTRACTS Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Jr. Ίo is presi- way Engineering; William C. DeVane The crowd of more than four hundred dent of the Association and will preside and William Strunk, Jr., PhD '96, Eng- spectators at the annual horse show in at the meetings and banquet. lish; Alex M. Drummond and Walter H. the Drill Hall, April 11, indicates some- Stainton '2.5, Public Speaking; Andrew thing of the increasing Campus interest GIVES MESSENGER LECTURES C. Haigh, Music; S. C. Hollίster, Civil in the sport of riding. They were mostly Dr. William M. Calder, professor oί Engineering; Paul T. Homan, Economics; students, with a goodly sprinkling of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, Otto Kinkeldey, Librarian and Music- members of the Faculty and townspeople. gave this year's annual series of Mes- ology; James F. Mason, Romance Lan- Ten events, which included jumping, rid- senger Lectures on the Evolution of guages and Literatures; George H. ing, and two novelty races, were run off Civilization. Subject of the twelve lec- Sabine '03, Philosophy; and Ethel B. smoothly and with dispatch by the show tures, which began April 6 and ended Waring and Margaret Wylie, Home committee, of which Major Charles E. last week, was ** Paganism and Christian- Economics. Boyle was vice-president and Captain ity in Phrygia to 400 A.D." The opening session this year, as last, George M. Williamson was secretary. Professor Calder returned recently from will be held on the evening of Commence- Competitors were for the most part his fifteenth visit to the region of ancient ment Day, Monday, June 15, and the full undergraduates, both members of the Phrygia, which lay in the heart of Asia program will begin on Tuesday morning. ROTC and of the Women's Riding Club, Minor and was the scene of the first A picnic luncheon at Taughannock on riding Government horses, but some Christian mission to the Gentiles. The Thursday, June 18, will bring the Insti- entries came from townspeople and out lecturer described the social and religious tute to a close. Although sessions are of town. The pair class, in which men lih of the people before and after the scheduled for the mornings, afternoons, and women rode together around the coming of Christianity, and illustrated and evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday, ring,, and the ladies' "good hands" and interpreted the monuments which there will be time for recreation, includ- event, both judged by Mrs. Farrand, were have been discovered there. ing golf, tennis, and swimming. The fee especially enjoyed. Excitement was pro- The Messenger Lectureship is endowed for enrollment will be fifteen dollars, the vided by the ' * leap year race,'' in which by a bequest from Hiram J. Messenger one payment covering membership in the men and women rode the same horse the '80, Actuary of the Travelers Insurance Institute, a room in the dormitories, and length of the hall, the gentlemen holding Company, who died in 1913.