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Board of Trustees Establish Single Council for Three State Colleges —Make Numerous Appointments Thirty-Fourth Summer Session, July 6 to August 14, to bring Instruct- ors from Many Institutions Harold F. Norton '96 Gives Views on Leaving Cornell from One Who Has Been Out Nearly Thirty Years Varsity Baseball Team Shuts Out Niagara—Game With Princeton Called off Because of Rain

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RCHITECTS did their stuff on the watches, clothing, and considerable cash. ogy, and the second at the University of evening of April 20, and brought It appears that the thieves must have Pennsylvania. Harold F. Kneen '25 of A Mecca to White Hall for the annual entered the houses after the occupants had Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is general chair- Beaux Arts Ball. The whole Moslem retired to the dormitories, and when they man of the committee, and the Student nation attended in their native garb, had a free hand at clothes and valuables. Council has appointed one official dele- arriving to find the drafting room had GENEVA is NOW CONNECTED with Ithaca gate for each of the four sections of the been turned into a softly lit harem, an- with a new automobile bus line, which conference. They are Robert V. S. Horton other room a desert oasis, and a third the started on April 14, making one round '26 of Rochester, publications; Joseph H. roof of a Mohammedan temple with a trip a day, except Sundays. The bus Swan '26 of Chicago, student govern- minaret and mosque studded skyline in leaves Ithaca at 9.30 a. m. and Geneva at ment; Norman R. Steinmetz '26 of Flush- the distance. Sepoy soldiers furnished the 2 p. m. Additional equipment and more ing, athletics; and John C. Adams '26 of music, these soldiers at other times being frequent trips are promised. Memphis, dramatics, debating, and musi- known as George Titus's orchestra. Ger- cal clubs. trude Adams '27, daughter of Professor PADLOCK PROCEEDINGS against ten Ithaca business places to show cause why DR. JAMES H. BREASTED, professor of Bristow Adams, as an Arabian slave girl, Egyptology and Oriental history and and Professor George Fraser '21, as a they should not be closed for one year for violation of the national prohibition law director of the Oriental Institute in the desert chief, were selected by the judges University of Chicago, began this week a as the most artistically dressed couple. were started on April 23. District At- torney Arthur G. Adams '07 and a deputy series of twelve lectures, being the Mes- Pi DELTA EPSILON, honorary collegiate United States marshal from Binghamton senger Lectures on the Evolution of Civili- journalistic fraternity, granted the petition called on the ten proprietors, most of zation. His general subject is "The Origins of the Cornell Press Club for a chapter at them foreign born residents, armed with of Civilization as Exhibited in Egypt and its annual convention held in Syracuse injunctions granted by Federal Judge in the Tigro-Euphrates Valley." The first over the week-end of April 4. Daniel W. Frank Cooper of Utica and which named three lectures dealt with "The New East"; Hogan, Jr. '25 of Oklahoma City, presi- also the owners of the properties. Copies "Man's Long Struggle with Nature Until dent of the Press Club, presented the of the complaints were posted in each the Introduction of Metal"; and "The petition. The Club was organized last fall, place of business. This is said to be the Origin of Writing, Written Records, and and its members are limited to juniors and first instance in New York State where the Evolution of Human Society." seniors on the boards of Cornell publicat- padlock proceedings were begun by a OTHER LECTURES for the week included ions. district attorney rather than an officer "The Persia of To-Day" by Madame His SPEECH on "Super Power-a Sup- of the Government. Mirza Ali Kuli Khan, on the Goldwin port" won the first prize in the Fuertes PROFESSIONAL BOXING in Ithaca is Smith Foundation, on April 28; "The Memorial Contest April 17, for Kenneth attracting attention in more ways than School of Technology, Lyons" by Profes- G. Van Wynen '25 of Kerhonkson. G. L. one. A recent announcement is to the sor Pierre Lemaire, sous-directeur of the Logan '25 of Portage, Pennsylvania, won effect that the appearance here on April Ecole Centrale Lyonnaise and exchange second place, and Richard I. Land '25 of professor with America in engineering 13 of George B. ("Cyclone") Williams, New York, third. Dean Dexter S. Kim- colored, who is also pastor of the A. M. E. and applied science, illustrated, under the ball presided at the meeting. Zion Church at Waverly, is the subject of auspices of the Committee of American REPRESENTATIVES OF SEVEN COLLEGES an investigation by the district board of Universities on Exchange with France, on and universities were in Ithaca last week the church. Williams said that he took April 29; "Working Conditions for Wom- attending a joint conference of the part in the match here to improve his en," a public exhibition of "The Women Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. The colleges education (he wishes to take a corre- Worker, Past and Present," a new two- represented were Alfred, Hobart, Elmira, spondence course), but primarily to raise reel educational motion picture, and Mechanics' Institute of Rochester, Syra- funds toward building a chapel for his "When Women Work," a two-reel picture, cuse, Union, and Wells. Among the church at Waverley. both produced by the United States speakers were J. Stitt Wilson, of Cali- Women's Bureau, under the auspices of fornia; Jack Hart of the Y. M. C. A. THE TEETH OF THE NEW SANITARY CODE the Society of Omicron Nu, College of staff at the University of Pennsylvania; were bared to Paul M. Doering '26 of Home Economics, on April 29; and "The W. H. Tinker, regional secretary of the River Forest, Illinois, last week, when, Fair ®f Lyons" by Professor Lemaire, on Y. M. C. A.; and the Rev. Dr. Bernard having been exposed to German measles, April 30. Clausen of Syracuse. J. D. Nobel '26 of he forgot to report to the Medical Office The SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for May 3 for his third examination. As a conse- Hackensack, New Jersey, was elected a will be the Rev. Dr. Hugh Black, of Union quence he received orders from Dr. Dean member of the State Student Council of Theological Seminary, New York. the C. U. C. A. F. Smiley Ί6 to report at once to the In- firmary, there to stay for the remainder of SUMMER CAME TO ITHACA last week, SlX MEMBERS OF THE LAW SCHOOL the period of incubation. The incident with the official temperature at 85 on Class of '27 recently elected to Phi Delta brought forth an editorial in the Sun on Friday, the hottest April day on record Phi are Robert H. and Roger L. Dann of "Muzzling Measles." since 1915. Three days before, however, New York, sons of Professor Hollis E. on Tuesday morning, there was a heavy Dann; Paul M. Doering of River Forest, CORNELL WILL ENTERTAIN the third frost with the thermometer at 22. Balmy Illinois; Kenneth W. Greenawalt, Den- biennial Intercollegiate Conference on weather continued over Sunday. ver; and George R. Pfann, Marion, Ohio. May i and 2. The conference sessions will deal with extracurricular activities. STARTING NEXT YEAR, smallpox vac- Two MORE HOUSES, Seal and Serpent Forty-two institutions have sent delegates cination will be an entrance requirement, and Lambda Chi Alpha, reported the loss to the two previous conferences, the first President Farrand announced at a lecture early in the morning of April 17 of several at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- to sophomore hygiene students on April 20. 366 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Board of Trustees Meets histology and embryology, Eric V. Howell Summer Session Opens July 6 '13 in civil engineering, and Harold C. Makes Several New Appointments, Adopts Perkins '15 in mechanics of engineering. Thirty-fourth Year to Bring Many Teachers Budget, and Creates Single Council The Board created a State College from Other Institutions for Six to Administer State Colleges Council, in which are merged the several Weeks of Instruction councils which have controlled the Veterin- The Board of Trustees met at the Presi- ary College, the College of Agriculture, The thirty-fourth Summer Session of dent's Office on Saturday, and adopted and the Agricultural Experiment Station. the University which opens on July 6 and the University's budget for 1925-6. The single council will administer the continues to August 14, 1925, will bring as The Board made the following new affairs of all those units and of the College usual many instructors from other in- appointments: of Home Economics. In its membership stitutions in addition to those of the Luther Lee Barnard to be acting pro- it combines the former separate councils, regular University staff. fessor of rural social organization for the with a representative of Home Economics The Department of History has secured first term of 1925-6. added. the services of Professor William K. Boyd O. H. Larsen of Denmark, who is in of Duke University, who will give in- this country on a mission for the Inter- struction in United States history, Pro- national Education Board, to be acting SPORT STUFF fessor Herbert C. Bell of Bowdoin College, professor in the Department of Agri- who will give work in English history, and cultural Economics and Farm Manage- Professor Walter W. Hyde '93 of the Uni- Quite the best thing of a frivolous nature ment from April i to the end of the versity of Pennsylvania, who will teach that is done by undergraduates in this day Summer Session. ancient history. Dr. Emily Hickman Όi and generation is the Beaux Arts Ball held Clyde B. Moore to be professor of rural of Wells College will give a course for every spring over in the College of education. teachers in contemporary history. Architecture. Nellie L. Perkins, of the Detroit Psy- The only person to be added to the This year's ball was held up under the chopathic Clinic, who conducted courses regular staff of the Department of Eng- roof of White on Monday night. The sub- in child training in the 1924 Summer lish is Dr. George M. Harper, professor of ject was "A Pilgrimage to Mecca." Up to Session of the College of Home Economics, English literature in Princeton and an a late hour the pilgrims had not yet ar- to be professor of home economics. Dr. international authority on Wordsworth. rived there and the honest burghers of Perkins will have charge of the work in In education, the entire staff of the De- Mecca will probably never know what they child training for which the College of partment will offer courses, and in ad- missed. The box score follows: Home Economics has received an ap- dition Dr. Willis E. Johnson, director of Number of men present 172 propriation from the Laura Spelman education of the San Diego State Teacher's Number of men who designed and Rockefeller Fund. College, California, Professor Clyde B. constructed their own costumes 151 Loren C. Petry to be professor of Moore of the University of Pittsburgh, Number of Sheiks 151 botany. Professor Clarence T. Gray of the Univer- Number of men who ordered Sheik sity of Texas, and Director Alfred W. Assistant professors were promoted to costumes from New York 21 Abrams '91, of the New York State De- professorships as follows: Arthur A. Allen Number who received same o partment of Visual Education. Ό8 in ornithology, Charles C. Bidwell, Number who received pirate, police- Courses in geology and geography will Ph. D. '14, in physics, Thomas R. Briggs man, sailor, or George Washington be given by Professor Robert N. Brown of '09 in chemistry, Helen Canon in home costumes 21 the Rhode Island State College, Professor economics extension, Walter B. Carver in Number of women present 153 Charles E. Decker of the University of mathematics, Walter L. Conwell '09 in Number of women who neglected the Oklahoma, Professor Henry Leighton OS railroad engineering, Adam C. Davis, opportunity to wear chiffon pants o Jr., '13 in experimental engineering, of the University of Pittsburgh, and Lillian David C. Gillespie in mathematics, Al- F. Brotherhood '21 of the National Park Total IOOO Seminary, Washington, D. C. pheus M. Goodman '12 in rural engineer- R. B. ing extension, Frances B. Hunter in home The work in public school music will be offered by Professor Harry W. Seitz, economics, Claribel Nye '14 in home PUBLISH BOOK FOR BENEFACTORS supervisor of high school music in Kansas economics extension, Mrs. Nancy M. Richard J. Foster, Jr., Ί6, publicity City, Missouri. Roman in home economics extension, counsel of the Committee on Bequests of Sumner H. Slichter in economics, Leonard the Cornellian Council, has, in collabora- Courses in sociology will be given by C. Urquhart '09 in civil engineering, and tion with others, prepared a handsome Professor Harry E. Barnes, who holds a Albert H. Wright '04 in zoology. illustrated booklet regarding Cornell, en- professorship jointly at Amherst and Robert A. MacKay, now instructor in titled, 'The Solution." Smith Colleges. In Romance languages politics at Princeton, was appointed as- The book is intended for distribution Georges Bally, French master at Culver sistant professor of political science. He is among selected persons who might be- Military Academy, Professor Gaston Gille a graduate of the University of Toronto, come interested in Cornell as benefactors. of Haverford College, Walter D. Head, where he took first class honors in modern Taking as a theme the words of Cowley, headmaster of the Nichols School at history. His undergraduate course at "Wliat shall I do to be for ever known Buffalo, J. Francisco de Villafranca of the Toronto was interrupted by four years of and make the age to come my own?" it Meriden, Connecticut, High School, Ma- service in the Canadian Army. After answers the question by showing how a dame Louise Courtois of the Lincoln completing the course he entered the person by becoming the benefactor of an School, Teachers' College, Columbia, and Graduate School at Princeton and there educational institution like Cornell can Hyman C. Berkowitz of the University of received the degree of doctor of philosophy live in future generations as a continuing Wisconsin, will teach. Madame Courtois in 1924. benefactor of mankind. will be in charge of the French House, Edith Nason was appointed assistant Alumni who wish to send the book to as in the past. professor of home economics. persons whom they might interest in Cor- Those from other institutions in the Instructors were promoted to assistant nell may get copies of it by writing to the Summer Session in Law are Professors professorships as follows: Harry Caplan Cornellian Council at Ithaca or to the Ralph W. Aigler of the University of Ί6 in the classics, Jacob Papish, Ph. D. Chairman of the Committee on Bequests, Michigan, Charles E. i Clark of Yale, '21, in chemistry, Charles M. Nevin in Neal D. Becker '05, 466 Madison Avenue, Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, and James geology, Howard B. Adelmann '20 in New York. W. Simonton of the University of Missouri. 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In Agriculture besides those already expect to go? There is quite a territory the scholarships should be "awarded mentioned the list from other institutions whose generosity to anyone worth while is under the direction of the Board of includes Charles O. Beaman of Brockport amazing. Life is filled with men and Trustees of Cornell University to male Normal School, nature study; Agnes H. women who delight in helping. Beauty of students of limited means in the Aca- Craig, supervisor of home economics, word, of thought, of act, besides beauty of demic Department of Cornell University Springfield, Massachusetts; Dr. Nellie C. things, is everywhere only waiting to be who shall wholly or in part be dependent Perkins and Evelyn Eastman of the Wayne noticed. The old "Profs" are tyrants upon their own efforts for their expenses County, Michigan, Psychopathic Clinic, compared to most outside. Of course one in going through the University, and who, child study; Delia E. Kibbe, elementary can find the other things if he looks for in the judgment of such Board of Trustees, supervisor, State of Wisconsin, rural them. shall, upon the basis of ability, character, education; O. H. Larson of the Depart- Please let no Cornell graduate drop his personality and scholarship, be worthy of ment of Agricultural Economics, Royal Cornell spirit at the Lehigh station! "How financial aid." Agricultural College, Copenhagen, and to live in harmony with my fellows" In carrying out the terms of this gift it head of the Bureau of Agricultural —Yes! "How to adjust myself to him" has been decided that these scholarships, Economics of Denmark; Frank W. Lath- —Yes! And to every time and place and three in number and of the value of five rop '14 of the University o^ Minnesota, circumstance. One of my classmates once hundred dollars each, shall, for the present, rural education, and William L. Spencer said, "I have been insulted more at Cornell be awarded to seniors in the College of high school inspector, State Department, than ever before in my life, but I begin to Arts and Sciences who qualify under the Alabama, rural education. like it." Yes, surely! The faculty of terms set forth in Mr. Boldt's letter. The bobbing up every time, as instilled at award of the scholarships has been dele- ANOTHER VIEW ON LEAVING Cornell, is worth cultivating. gated to a committee of the Faculty of the The verse with which the essay ends is College of Arts and Sciences, the members [The following letter from Harold F. indeed an inspiration, but we might of which are Professors Thomas R. Briggs Norton '96 came to us as a result of the venture to add,—nor place, nor time. '07, Donald English, and Albert B. Faust. printing in our issue of February 26 of the essay "On Leaving Cornell," by Sidney OFFER NEW BOOK OF CORNELL Vogel '25. We print it because it gives an- ATHLETICS other point of view on the subject from one The Book of Views of Cornell being who has been out of the University nearly distributed by the Graphic for the Univer- sity is a complete pictorial record, con- thirty years. We call attention again to Defeat Niagara at Baseball the fact that VogeΓs essay was not written taining a well-selected group of photo- The baseball team shut out Niagara on graphs by the University photographer, for publication.] April 22 by a score of 2 to o, on Hoy Field. The essay "On Leaving Cornell" is in- John P. Troy. The book is seventeen Wright held the visitors to one hit while by twelve inches. deed interesting, very creditable, and Cornell secured five off Neis and Welsh. an unusually thoughtful review of the The photographs, one hundred thirty- The Princeton game, scheduled for two in number, are printed by a new pro- situation. In some respects, however, the Saturday, was called off because a heavy ideas are vastly mistaken. For what it cess on heavy, rough, paper stock, which is shower, about an hour before the game was attractively bound in a heavy embossed may be worth in encouragement to the to have begun, soaked the diamond. author and others, I venture these few leather cover. The plates were made by remarks: Team Competes at Relay Carnival the Aquitone Company of New York, and If a Cornell graduate never "returns to At the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival printed on Harris offset presses. The cost Cornell" it is his own fault. I know be- last Friday and Saturday Bontecou of of printing was given by Ray V. Mitchell cause I have tried it. I have never been Cornell took second place in the pole '07, president of the Harris Automatic back to a reunion, because I have been vault; Captain Bowen third in the ham- Press Company, Cleveland, and Mr. Harris, busy, and somehow that never particularly mer throw and fourth in the shot put and who is associated with him. The paper appealed to me either. But I have dropped the half-mile relay team finished in third stock was also given, and the cover and in two or three times, sometimes during a place. A team of twenty-four men was border designs are the work of a member term, and sometimes during vacation, and entered, but there were no expectations of of the Architecture Faculty. presto, I did "return to Cornell." It is any striking success. The volume is one to keep as a constant done more than anything else by swinging Bowen threw the hammer 153 feet n reminder of the University, showing the up and down the hills, by kicking up the inches and he put the shot 42 feet 7 7-8 Campus and vicinity in all seasons, most autumn leaves on Seneca Street, or by inches. Bontecou tied with Harrington of of the buildings, and a fair sampling of hiking across the Campus to a lecture. Notre Dame and Bradley of Princeton at athletics and student sports. Only ten Youth is a matter of the heart and place, 12 feet 6 inches in the pole vault, and thousand copies have been printed and but not of time. Personally I have never Harrington won first place on the toss of a the proceeds of their sale will go to the left Cornell. coin. Fuller, Graef, Werly, and Russell University. "Irresponsibility"—quite the contrary! ran on the half-mile relay team that felt more responsible, and the future finished behind Pennsylvania and Penn REMINISCENCES OF '84 looked darker during my freshman and State. In connection with the wedding of sophomore years when men talked of Judge Elmer G. Story, president of the "Thermodynamics" and "Kinematics" OFFER BOLDT SCHOLARSHIPS Class of '84, to Mrs. Juliet D. Sherman and "Mechanics of Engineering" than ever The George C. Boldt Memorial Scholar- which was announced in the ALUMN NEWS since. And life is so little different that it ships, given by George C. Boldt, Jr., '05 of April 9, Dr. Henry P. deForest, secre- took us years to stop saying we were in memory of his father, will be awarded tary of the Class, writes us that the going up to "an eight o'clock," each for the first time for the academic year wedding took place on April 29 at Bayside, morning when we got ready to go to the 1925-6 and annually thereafter. Long Island, and that he was best man. office. In the letter accompanying the gift, He gives further an account of his first All those things about "facing an the donor recalls the sympathy which his meeting with Judge Story and some in- enemy," "no honor system," "no coopera- father always had for the boy who, "al- teresting reminiscences of the early days tion," and "the struggle for bread," are though handicapped by the lack of funds, of the University. mostly fallacious, and evidently hearsay was bent on getting a liberal education and "I met Elmer Story in a cherry tree on from those who take themselves too was willing to work for it." In establish- the Cornell Campus when we took our seriously. To what country does one ing the fund, the donor requested that entrance examinations forty-five years ago 368 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

this coming June. In our sophomore year Hotel, 12.15 p. m. we participated in those activities which CLUB ACTIVITIES Ithaca Women—Wednesdays, Coffee culminated in the kidnapping of the fresh- House, 12.30 p. m. man president, Charles Wolcott Balestier, Cornell luncheons are held regularly in Los Angeles—Wednesdays, University later to become widely known as the Club, 614 South-Hope Street, 12.15 p. m. brother-in-law of Rudyard Kipling and the cities listed below. All Cornellians are the collaborator with Kipling in the urged to attend even though they may Milwaukee—Fridays, University Club, charming story of 'The Naulakka, a Story not be residents of the respective cities. 12.15 p. rn. of the East and of the West.' Akron Women—Second Saturdays at- Newark, N. J.—Third Fridays, Down- "We were later arrested together with one o'clock at the University Club, or at town Club, Kinney Building, 12.30 p. m. Story, Ingalls, Blood, Balestier, and my- the homes of members as announced in New York—Wednesdays, Machinery self, when we enjoyed the hospitality of the daily papers. Club, 50 Church Street, 12.30. the jail at Syracuse. Balestier whiled Baltimore—Mondays, Engineers' Club, Omaha—Third Thursdays, University away the time by reading the verses of Light and Redwood Streets, 12.30 p. m. Club, luncheon. Oscar Wilde which had just appeared. Binghamton—First and third Mondays, Philadelphia—Daily, Cornell Club, 310 "In our junior year Elmer and I were Hans-Jones Restaurant, 12.15 p. m. South Fifteenth Street. fellow members on the Ball Committee; Boston—Mondays, Hotel Essex, 12.30 Pittsburgh—Fridays, William Penn Ho- in our senior year we helped make Class p. m. tel, 12.15 p. m. Day exercises memorable. He was the Class Historian and I was the Custodian of Buffalo—Fridays, Hotel Statler, Iro- Pittsburgh Women—First Saturdays, m the Pipe. As time has gone on he has be- quois Room, 12.15 P Congress of Women's Clubs, 408 Pennsyl- come the president of the Class of '84 and Buffalo Women—First Saturdays, Col- vania Avenue, i p. m. I am its secretary—all members of the lege Club, luncheon. Poughkeepsie—Second Mondays, Colo- Class will admit the latter fact at any rate. Chicago—Thursdays, University Club, nel Hotel, 6.30 p. m. "When he was kind enough to ask me to 12.30 p. m. Richester—Wednesdays, Powers Hotel, be the best man, I recalled these facts to Chicago Women—First Saturdays, Chi- 12.15 P rn. his mind and told him that I had recently cago College Club, 151 North Michigan Rochester Women—First Saturday af- been the presiding officer of the Ad- Avenue. ternoons, at the homes of members. venturers' Club and that again it would Cleveland—Thursdays, Hollenden Announced in the daily papers. give me pleasure to be with him in any Hotel, 12 o'clock. capacity which he might designate." Springfield, Mass.—Mondays, LTniversity Detroit—Thursdays, King Wah Lo's Club, 12 o'clock. Restaurant, 118 Michigan Avenue, 12.15 Trenton—Mondays, Alberti's Restau- THE DETJTSCHER VEREIN on April 30 p. m. heard a reading of Busch's "Max und rant (upstairs), East Front Street, 12 Mortiz," illustrated by lantern slides, and Hartford, Conn.—Second Wednesdays, o'clock. Fulda's one-act comedy, "Die Aufrichti- University Club, 30 Lewis Street, 12.15. Washington, D. C.—First Thursdays, gen." Indianapolis—First Mondays, Lincoln City Club, 12.30 p. m.

THE CAMPUS AS IT APPEARED FROM McGRAW HALL TOWER IN 1898- This photograph, taken by J. O. Martin for Professor Ralph S. Tarr, was found in Professor Tarr's collection of negatives by Professor Oscar D. von Engeln Ό8. The only University buildings it shows are the end of Lincoln Hall at the extreme left, the old Dairy Building (see its roof in the north wing of 'Goldwin Smith Hall opposite), and the Agriculture barns. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Ξ69

Waterbury, Conn.—First Thursdays, land. Professor Chambers and Albert University Club, 6 p. m. FACULTY NOTES Barbour have received the John Scott Worcester—First and third Tuesdays, Medical Award and Certificate with a University Club, 12.30 p. m. premium of $1,000 from the City Trust PROFESSOR EMERITUS THOMAS F. (TEE- Company of Philadelphia. FEE) CRANE has returned to Ithaca from DEAN WALTER L. NILES Όo is a member BIG BERTHA'S LITTLE BROTHERS got Deland, Florida, where he spent the winter. of a committee of medical men who are going this week and on the first day a While in Deland Professor Crane's por- raising money for the completion of the hundred rounds of shrapnel were fired trait, which the Class of 1909 will present Cathedral of St. John the Divine in from the cliffs on the east shore of the to the University, was painted by Truman New York. Lake, near Esty's, at a floating target off E. Fassett '09. Myers Point. This was part of the DR. KARL KOFFKA, of the University of DEAN LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY spoke on artillery practice of that branch of the Giessen, Germany, who has been lectur- "The Personality Phase of the Food Pro- R. O. T. C., in charge of Major Richard ing on psychology at Cornell this year, duction Problem" at the thirty-eighth E. Anderson. Four French 758 were used. lectured at Clark University on April 29. The lake was so rough it was difficult to annual meeting of the Florida State locate the target, and also to determine Horticultural Society held April 6 to 9 PROFESSOR EMIL F. GUBA of the De- whether it had been hit or not, but Major at Eustis, Florida. partment of Plant Pathology has been Anderson believed the shooting had been PROFESSOR RIVERDA H. JORDAN pre- appointed assistant research professor in fairly accurate. The firing, at different sided at a meeting of Kappa Phi Kappa, botany at the Massachusetts Agricultural targets, continued all the week. national honorary educational fraternity, Experiment Station at Amherst. ZETA BETA TAU gave a grand party to at which a chapter was installed at Drake PROFESSOR ARTHUR A. ALLEN Ό8 has the children of the Reconstruction home University. This is the first chapter to be been awarded the 1924 Outdoor Life Gold on Saturday afternoon, at the chapter installed west of the Mississippi. Medal for the Eastern States, and with house. Twenty-two children attended, PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN '03 is Arthur M. Hyde of Trenton, Missouii, and twenty-five Zeta Beta Taus enter- one of many prominent economists sup- holds highest honors for his work in the tained them, each member taking charge porting the Stable Money Association, interests of the American sportsman and of the good time of one child, with a few which has as its purpose the study of game conservation. This honor came as a left over to keep things going. monetary reform and the presentation to special recognition for his work on a disease Congress of a program for stabilizing which affects ruffed grouse. AT A RECENT MEETING of the South- erners Club, Samuel H. Shriver '26 of money. Pikesville, Maryland was elected president DR. ROBERT CHAMBERS, professor of THE UNIVERSITY FENCING CHAMPION- of the organization; Robert H. Byrd '26 of miscroscopic anatomy at the Medical SHIP was won on April 22 by S. L. Conner Suffolk, Virginia, vice-president; and College in New York, gave on April 27, '25 of Washington, D. C. Second place Stanley H. Maas '27 of Louisville, Ken- 28, and 29 a course in three lectures on went to H. Reynolds Hays '25 of Mill- tucky, secretary-treasurer. The club will "Recent Advances in the Study of Living brook, and third to Malcolm E. Hill '25 of hold its annual dance on May 8. Cells," at King's College, London, Eng- Oxford New York.

—AND IN 1925, TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER Photo by Troy You may know this is the same spot as appears opposite by the end of Lincoln Hall at the left and the President's house at the right. In between are to be seen Baker Laboratory, Goldwin Smith Hall, and behind it Rockefeller Hall and the tops of Bailey Hall and of some of other buildings of the College of Agriculture And the hills behind are just the same. 370 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

TELLURIDE FOUNDER DIES Lucien L. Nunn, founder of the Tel- OBITUARY luride Association, died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on April 2. He was Published for the alumni of Cornell about seventy-one years of age and had DeForest Van Vleet '77 University by the Cornell Alumni News been retired from active work for some DeForest Van Vleet, former Trustee of Publishing Company, Incorporated. time. the University and United States Com- Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. The Association was founded about missioner in the Northern District of New Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication [numbered con- twenty-five years ago, the Cornell branch York, died suddenly at Dry den, N. Y., on secutively] ends the last week in June. Issue No. the night of April 24, while making a 40 is published in August and is followed by an being established in 1908 and the present index of the entire volume, which will be mailed house on West Avenue erected two years public address. Death was attributed to on request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- later. In accordance with the general heart trouble. vance. Foreign postage 40^ cents a year extra. Single He was born in Fenton, N. Y., on copies twelve cents each. purpose of the Association, the local Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his branch maintains scholarships for men at August TO, 1855, and later his parents subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that Cornell. moved to Candor, N. Y. After getting a continuance of the subscription is desired. his early training in that village, he came Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- Mr. Nunn was educated at the Harvard able to Cornell Alumni News. Law School and at several German uni- to Cornell in 1873 as a student in the Correspondence should be addressed— science course and graduated with the de- Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. versities. He devoted his life and his Editor-in-Chief and ) fortune to educational work. gree of B. S. in 1877. While in the Uni- Business Manager ) R. W. SAILOR '07 versity he was especially well known among Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 He was for a time legal advisor for Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON the undergraduates and was one of the Assistant Manager, L. B. JUNE '19 various mining institutions and later be- leading spirits of his Class. He was a Associate Editors came manager and director of a number of CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS member of Chi Psi. ROMEYN BERRY '04 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 mining syndicates. Later he and his After leaving Cornell, he took up the H. G. STUTZ '07 BARRETT L. CRANDALL '13 brother, Paul H. Nunn, did pioneer work study of law and was admitted to the Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing in the field of hydro-electric power develop- Company, Incorporated; John L. Senior, President. bar. At the time of his death he was one R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- ment. They built up the Telluride Hydro- retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y of the oldest active members of the Electric Power Systems, and in 1902 de- Tompkins County Bar Association. After Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated signed and constructed the Ontario Power becoming an attorney, he opened offices in Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co Company works at Niagara Falls, also Ithaca and practiced here continuously Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. constructing various other hydro-electric until his death. He early evinced an in- systems in Mexico and throughout the ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 30, 1925 terest in politics and was named as the West. Mr. Nunn was an able director in first city judge of Ithaca. Later he served all these enterprises but his interest and for six years as corporation counsel. A BEAUTIFUL BOOK his energy were also given to the develop- In his political career, Van Vleet rose HE enterprise exhibited by the Cor- ment of education. This interest culmin- to be chairman of the Tompkins County nell! an Council in producing the Book T ated in his founding and endowing the Democratic Committee. This brought of Views deserves the whole-hearted Telluride Association. him into contact with State and Federal endorsement of the alumni. The offering affairs and he became, as a result, a close is quite extraordinary, a book that is so personal friend of Governors Flower, excellent in its conception and execution INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES David B. Hill, and Grover Cleveland. that it is not comparable with any existing THE NAME of the Michigan Agricul- When they were campaigning for office, book of the kind. tural College has by vote of the Legisla- he toured the State and nation in their Aside from the planning, the generosity ture has been changed to the Michigan behalf and attained a wide reputation as of those who have contributed paper, State College of Agriculture and Applied a public speaker. cover material, plates, press work, and Science. The new name becomes effective While Governor Flower was in office, he sales organization should not go un- on May 13. The bill passed the Michigan named Van VΊeet as a State civil service noticed. The finished product is a com- House on April 13; and on the following commissioner and he held this office for bination of the best the market affords. day the students excused themselves and two years. This ended his public office- The kindness of these friends of Cornell took a holiday. holding until 1920 when he was selected by has enabled the Council to offer the Book Federal Judge Frank Cooper as a United of Views at a small fraction of its market CHICAGO is suffering from congestion of States Commissioner in Ithaca. About a value. Published in the usual way the the library. Chicago now has over 1,100,- year ago he was reappointed to this office. book would be too costly for any but a ooo volumes, and of these one hundred In 1923 he was named by Governor Smith limited sale. thousand cannot circulate because of lack as a State tax attorney. The same year Here is an opportunity for Cornellians of space. he also assisted in the compilation of to secure a book of views that will be an THREE THOUSAND students of the Uni- data regarding his classmates, and the ornament to the library table, an interest- versity of Southern California, recently publishing of the '77 Class Book. From ing addition to the professional man's assembled in a mass meeting, pledged 1896 to 1901 he was a member of the waiting room literature, and an excellent themselves to the cause of prohibition Board of Trustees of the University. gift to Cornell friends and to prospective enforcement and issued an appeal to other On October 19, 1881, he was married to Cornellians. We suggest the prompt collegiate institutions to follow their Miss Ada Belle Lacey of Dryden, who sending in of the coupon in the advertise- example. survives him with one son, DeForest Van ment. Vleet, Jr. He was buried in the family Such net income as will come from sel- A RECENT CENSUS at the Michigan plot in Green Hills Cemetery at Dryden. ling out the edition will go to the Univer- Union indicates that the average number of sity. That is a minor consideration, how- members entering the Union daily is 2,657, Edwin Hohner '06 ever, as the University can expect sounder of whom 1,300 take their meals in the Word has been received from his former and farther reaching returns than the building. Of the total number 12.4 per employers that Edwin Hohner is dead, but profits made on a book sold below cost. cent are repeaters, going and coming more no details are forthcoming as to where or It will be a graceful and beautiful re- than once a day. Literary students are in when he died. minder of the University that will be the majority (53.4 per cent); architects He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on current for years. and engineers comprise 32 per cent. December i, 1883, the son of George A. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 371 and Thekla Di epenbaeh Hohner. After are now determined by a careful analysis graduating from Masten Park High School LITERARY REVIEW of the situation, including the nature and in Buffalo, he came to Cornell in 1902 as a sizes of the materials to be used. Proper student of mechanical engineering and curing takes a week and in cold weather graduated in 1906 with the degree of M. E. A Good Book on Concrete longer. Tests show that a concrete allowed After leaving Cornell he was with the Design of Concrete Structures. By to dry out immediately is only half as Indiana Steel Company for a time and Leonard Church Urquhart, C. E. '09, strong as it would have been if kept moist later was employed by Joseph F. Ryerson Assistant Professor in Charge of Structural throughout the period of curing. The pro- & Son, Inc., of Chicago, 111. On June 22, Engineering, and Charles Edward O' cess of hardening can be hurried up by 1915, he was married at Chesterton, Ind., Rourke, C. E. '17, Assistant Professor of the use of high temperatures. Tests show to Miss Carrie L. Smith, who survives him. Structural Engineering, Cornell. New that the use of steam up to 80 pounds per William J. Lowe '23 York. McGraw-Hill Book Company. square inch gauge pressure has an acceler- 1923. 23.5 cm., pp. x, 2452. Price, $4. ating action on the hardening of concrete William John Lowe died in San Fran- The authors of this book have done a and that the compressive strength in- cisco, C^lif., on April 23, 1924, it has just good job. In the twelve chapters all creases with the pressure and time of ex- been learned. phases of the subject are adequately posure. Moreover, the application of the He was born on January 30, 1902, at treated, with appropriate formulas, dia- steam accelerates the hardening even after Wilkes Barre, Pa., the son of Mr. and Mrs. grams, and drawings. the exposure to steam ceases. Concrete Richard J. Lowe. After graduating from Concrete has already come to be one of exposed to steam under pressure for the High School at Sidney, N. Y., he the most important of structural materials, twenty-four hours has reached in two days came to Cornell in 1918 as a student in and with further increases in the cost of a compressive strength as great again as arts, but transferred later to engineering. lumber it will continue to increase in im- unsteamed concrete has reached in four In 1920 he left the University and later portance. Some persons still have the weeks. went to the Pacific Coast. notion that you can slap together a mass After a general introductory chapter, Andrew Lang >23 of sand, cement, stone, and water, and the the following topics are taken up: general Andrew Lang died in the University result will be concrete. Only by a miracle. properties of reinforced concrete, beams Hospital in Philadelphia on November 12, There are many factors entering into the and slabs, bending and direct stress, 1922, as the result of injuries received in a making of concrete: the quantity and columns, stresses in continuous beams and football game at Mercersburg Academy. quality of the cement used, the aggregates building frames, foundations, reinforced He was born on July 31, 1902, at Ban- (particles of sand, gravel, broken stone, concrete buildings, retaining walls, arches, gor, Pa., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry cinders, or slag), and even water and the slab, beam, and girder bridges, and forms. Lang. After attending the Binghamton, processes of mixing and curing. Sea water, N. Y., High School, he entered Cornell in for example, cannot safely be used, since We are glad to learn that the book is 1919 as a student in the College of Arts it is apt to cause corrosion of the rein- now being used in more than forty schools and Sciences. Soon after he left and went forcing materials. The proportions of and colleges in America and in six of the to the University of Pennsylvania. cement and of fine and coarse aggregate engineering schools of China and Japan. LANG'S PALACE GARAGE 117-133 East Green Street ITHACA, New York

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A third printing was made in July last. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY FOR? relation between light and darkness is very The book has taken its place as a standard A stimulating and significant address on much the same. treatise on the subject. the subject "What is a University For?" It is hard to accept Leacock's avowal Books and Magazine Articles was recently delivered at the University of that he is writing with all the seriousness In The American Historical Review for Cincinnati by Nevin M. Fenneman. He of which he is capable. If his idea of an April volumes 10-12 of "The New Larned begins with two quotations from a recent incipient university is what he states here, History for Ready Reference," of which student magazine, the first being this: then the Eighteenth Amendment closed up Dr. Donald E. Smith Όi is the editor-in- "Back in the seventies James Clerk- some nine hundred of them in Cincinnati. chief, are reviewed by Arthur I. Andrews. Maxwell, the great mathematical physic- It was a great pity to stop so many Professor Carl Becker reviews Ellsworth ist, developed a tough-looking formula of promising centers of education. Some of Huntington's "The Character of Races as the most abstract type. A thorough study them had even advanced to his second Influenced by Physical Environment, of this formula convinced him that there stage and had dormitory attachments. Natural Selection, and Historical Develop- were wave lengths of certain qualities and Presumably the next step would have been ment." Professor George M. Dutcher '97, properties. Being a research man, he a reading room and then a professor. of Wesleyan, reviews Edouard Driault's simply published this fact and went on That the latter quotation was from a "Napoleon et I'Europe," volume four, about his mathematical researches. I dean and the former from a student is not "Le Grand Empire, 1809-1812." Archi- think that if James Clerk-Maxwell had significant. Students have all ideas from bald Freeman, A.M. '90, of Phillips offered this formula to anybody for forty- the highest to the lowest and so have pro- Andover Academy, reviews Laurence M. eight cents he would not have found a fessors. In fact the particular bit of deli- Crosbie's "The History of Phillips Exeter buyer; but being a research man, it never quescent nonsense which formed the Academy." occurred to him to offer it to anybody for second quotation was taken from a book In The American Economic Review for any sum. A little later a man by the name by a professor of economics, famous as a March Professor Frank A. Fetter, Ph.M. of Hertz, working with Helmholtz, ran literary man, who ought to have known '92, of Princeton, writes on "Economics across this formula, and, after looking better than to throw out this piece of and the Public" and also replies to a letter over the mathematical work, concluded poisoned candy where it was apt to be by G. S. Brown criticizing a review by that since the theory was true mathematic- picked up and swallowed by a student. Professor Fetter of "Portland Cement ally, the waves could be developed in the Professors have much to answer for in Prices" in the issue for December. Pro- laboratory. So after a period of time he this line of sins. First, for failure to clear up their own ideas as to what a university fessor Morris A. Copeland reviews H. F. came out of his laboratory with the Ward's "The Profit Motive: Is It Indis- Hertzian waves; he was in his young is for, and second, for indulging a line of pensable in Industry?" Professor Abbott thirties when he did this. Even then, I insincere and cynical talk that is intended P. Usher of Harvard, formerly of Cornell, think that nobody would have given him to please the less serious student. Partly reviews several economic treatises. Pro- forty-eight cents for his waves. Being a as a result of this and partly as a result of fessor Harold L. Reed, Ph.D. '14, reviews research man, he wasn't concerned with poor teaching, it is not uncommon to hear old graduates talk in this strain: Nothing B. H. Beckhardt's "The Discount Policy the price of them, but he simply gave them of the Federal Reserve System." Profes- to the world and went on about his busi- that I ever got from books did me any sor Roy G. Blakey, of the University of ness of researching. Marconi took Hertz's good. It's the life that counts. Don't be Minnesota, formerly of Cornell, reviews work and in 1899 he threw the first wire- a grind; the gentleman's grade is C. Pro- Eugenio Rignano's "The Social Signifi- less message across the English Channel. fessors are all right in their way, and in cance of the Inheritance Tax" translated It has been estimated that in a few years their place, but don't let them interfere and Adapted by William S. Shultz. Robert each of the thirteen letters of Clerk- with your education. It's not what you M. Woodbury, Ph.D. '15, of Washington, Maxwell's formula will be worth one learn that matters; you'll forget all that; reviews E. H. Downey's "Workmen's hundred million dollars in invested it's the number of friends you make that counts. Compensation." capital." The trouble about such talk is that it Macmillan's announcement for the He follows it with a familiar quotation uses a real truth in such a manner as to spring includes "The Gardener" by Dr. from Stephen Leacock: convey a lie. Every professor knows that L. H. Bailey; a new edition of Dr. Bailey's "If I were founding.a university—and "Manual of Gardening" with new material; I say it with all the seriousness of which I much of what is learned will be forgotten, "A Manual of Vegetable-Garden Diseases" am capable—I would found first a smok- at least in its concrete form. But the by Professor Charles Chupp, Ph.D. '17; ing room; then when I had a little more graduate who can say that what he "Bush Fruits" by Fred W. Card '92; money in hand I would found a dormitory; learned has left him as he would have been without it is indicting both his college and "Systematic Pomology" by Professor then after that, or more probably with it, himself. . . Ulysses P. Hedrick, of Geneva; "Readings a decent reading room and a library. After in the Economic History of American that, if I still had money over that I We are here confronted with two Agriculture" edited by Professor Louis B. couldn't use, I would hire a professor and opposing philosophies as to what is worth Schmidt and Professor Earle D. Ross, get some text-books." while in a university. It is not a question A.M. '13, Ph.D. '15, of Iowa State Col- He goes on to say that it would be hard as to whether scholarship and social life lege; "Education in Its Psychological to find anywhere in the world two such are both legitimate and necessary. . . But two things cannot both come first. Aspects" by Professor Walter B. Pills- opposite ideals brought within twenty bury, Ph.D. '96, of the University of pages of each other. There were only ten The library and the loafing room may both Michigan; and "The Financing of Educa- thin sheets of paper between them. In a be in the same building, but whichever tion in Iowa" by Professor William F. way they did not differ much. The first predominates, the other is subordinate. Russell Ίo, of Teachers College, T. C. page did grudgingly concede in the last The university exists for the intellectual Holy, and others. sentence that truth may also be a good life. The church exists for the spiritual In Health News for April 6 is summar- thing to look for if it does not interfere life; the army exists to fight; the factory ized the recent report of Dr. Lewell T. exists to make goods; the retail store ex- with fellowship and tobacco. No doubt Genung '97, health officer of the City of ists to sell them to the people. All these the writer of the last page would make a Ithaca. institutions do engage and must engage in In Modern Language Notes for April corresponding concession, with the order other activities. The church very properly Theodore T. Stenberg, of the University of inverted. They differ merely as up differs gives attention to social life; also to, better Texas, writes on "Wordsworth's Happy from down or as north differs from south, housing and law enforcement. Just now Warrior and Herbert's Constancy." south is only north up-side-down. The it is much occupied with national, and CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 373

especially with international affairs, and very properly so; but none of these things make it a church. It would still be a church if it only worshiped. When that ceases it is no longer a church. . . . The university exists for intellectual activity. This includes the handing on of knowledge, its increase and the training of THE NEW THOUGHT IN REUNIONS minds. It does not exist for any sort of bodily training or social culture or even to N THAT dim distant day when mother wore the leg- develop character. (Mr. Fenneman goes I o'-mutton sleeves, father never owned but two pairs on to show that the army does not exist of pants and one of those was shiny. merely to improve men's health. Health is needed by soldiers; so is character by the citizen in general. The importance of In that far day of the neolithic or early stone age character is not to be belittled. But a era, when bright color in a necktie was a crime, and college that goes in for scholarship is Uncle Zeke shined his shoes in the kitchen on Sunday really a better place for forming character; morning— so with making friends.) I want to make my fundamental propo- Then, some narrow-minded men formed the habit of sition perfectly clear—that a university thinking in terms of "fraternity" and "non-fraternity." exists for one purpose, not for four, nor for three, nor for two; but for one. It must In this modern day of flaming youth, justly cele- look out for other things, just as an army must, or a modern factory. These are brated and perhaps over advertised, when two pairs of among its duties, but are not the reasons trousers must go with every suit, and you simply can't for its existence. In a university, nothing be anyone if your necktie battles with your shirt—men ranks with scholarship and when the one in both these classifications are learning something new. central purpose is not realized by both professors and students, all other duties Today, father alone thinks in terms of economy. are poorly performed. Mother thinks of her children's opportunity. Daughter Let there be no mistake about the importance of character. It is much more thinks of social prestige and a happy marriage. Son essential in life than scholarship is. And it thinks of travel, speed, pep, get-up-and-go. He is is much more essential to scholarship than helpless without the proper preparation on his hair. most men realize. I doubt if a single university in America is doing all it should in It's a new world—new springs of emotion, new this respect. All should be sending home ideas, new thoughts, new ideals—a better world, we more students who lower the moral tone, hope, in every way. Reunions, too, are riding on the and should do more to elevate those who are kept. This responsibility is especially swell of betterment—the same touch of Barnum and heavy in view of the fact that some stu- Bailey, the same dash of color here and there, but dents lose instead of gaining character in something new has come, something of that war-time college. Intellectual power is too precious spark of democracy and true valuation has been caught a thing to be lodged in bad hands, and and kept alive! those who are gaining it should not be exposed unnecessarily to bad influence. The old classification has gone, gone along with the The plain fact is that the need for character is too universal, the demands are too cigar store's wooden Indian who, some say, rode away imperative, to admit of basing it on the on the magnificent gray horse which once stood in front small chance that any one person will go of the harness shop. Gone, and happily gone, forever! through college. Society can not be said to be organized if only two per cent are Dormitories replacing fraternity houses; democracy given opportunity for full development of replacing snobbishness a fine attitude—vigorous, eager, character. That privilege should be for all whole-hearted, loyal—filling the hearts of two hundred citizens; not for the minute fraction that can go to college. men and women who have come back home again! It may clear up much loose thinking to remember that the public does not support That's the spirit behind 1909 Reunions! a university for the good of the students but for the good of the community. It is not our purpose here to go into an argu- ment to show how a half of one per cent admixture of college-trained people is Leading Editorial from the April 15 issue of the "1909 Back to Ithaca going to affect the whole community. For Gazette." Note: 1909 is the class that had 200 back for its 15-year the present let us charge it off to leader- reunion last June, breaking all attendance records for any class, at any ship, which the public always sorely needs. reunion. Of course, two and three-fourths per cent would make a better mixture. (He goes on to say that the returns on our educational investment ought to be better, but will not so long as we coddle ourselves with pious platitudes about 374 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

college life, the development of character, in the tone of our secondary schools as stores, barns, factories, and incomes as and the making of all-around men. It is would justify reinvesting them with all the being "legalized larceny." His address is really in the schools that character forma- glory that justly belongs to the place in 411 City Line, Oak Lane, Philadelphia. tion should come first.) The schools get which the boy becomes a man. Ίi ME—William G. Merowit is doing the immature just at the time when life business at 333 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, habits are being formed and the impulses N. Y., under the name of William G. and principles of life are being determined. ALUMNI NOTES Merowit & Company. He is a manu- If a young man's character is not on the facturer's agent specializing in electrical right track at eighteen, he should be sent apparatus for industrial plants. He writes to a reformatory and not to the university. '72, 'c6 AB—Dr. Louis L. Seaman and that he would welcome inquiries from Cor- I do not say this in order to dodge or his wife, who have spent the past three nell manufacturers of electrical apparatus brush aside the responsibilities of the uni- months motoring in Florida, have re- who desire representation in Western New turned for the spring to their home at 247 versity. It is just because of these responsi- York. He adds that he also has connec- bilities that it can not afford to accept men Fifth Avenue, New York. tions in Rochester and Syracuse. of undesirable character. The needs of the '87 PhB—Mr. and Mrs. Francis L. '12 ME—David Younglove is manager individual must not be given too great Chrisman are now back at their home in of the washing machine department of the weight when the public good is at stake. Verona, N. J. He writes that he recently American Electric Company, Munsey No man has an inherent right to be purchased a new sedan and plans to drive Building, Washington, D. C. He has educated at public expense. Such ex- to Ithaca for a visit. been moving about considerably in the pense is justified only by the probable '98 PhB—Dr. Daniel C. Knowlton, past year but writes that he now expects returns. teacher of history in the Lincoln School in to remain in Washington. Mail should be Once more, in order to save the feelings New York, will spend the summer in addressed to him at 20 West Linden of those who judge mainly by the sound of study abroad as the recipient of a traveling Street, Rosemont, Alexandria, Va. the words, it may be well to say explicitly scholarship, one of several recently '12 AB—George G. Goetz is one of the that good character should be a sine qua donated by a friend of the school. managers of the Milwaukee branch of the non in a student community. The univer- Όo—Announcement has been made by United States Fidelity and Guaranty Com- sity that realizes its scholarly purpose Mrs. William H. Kearney of Bath, N. Y., pany. His office is at 85 Michigan Street, should have the wisdom to see that the of the engagement of her daughter, Julia, Milwaukee. things which elevate the social and spirit- to William Coon Όo of Batavia, N. Y. ual life also favor the intellectual life. At '13—Lawrence D. ("Shorty") Greene Coon is practicing law in Batavia and was recently gave up his position as Farm the same time it should not lose sight of formerly district attorney of Genesee Bureau manager in Orange County, N. Y., the fact that a central purpose is the cen- County. to become agricultural agent for the New tral need of a good life. The pursuit of Όi—Dr. Harry S. Fish was recently York, Ontario & Western Railway. His scholarship is that central purpose in the named as chairman of the committee headquarters are in New York at the university. which will stage the nationgl Rotary con- offices of the company. It may well be conceded that the break vention in Cleveland, Ohio, in June. For between school life and university life '14 AB—Margaret B. Cornell was re- many years he has been active in Rotary cently elected executive secretary of the might better come a year or two later than circles at Sayre, Pa., where he is a practic- is the custom in America. This is the Los Angeles, Calif., chapter of the Ameri- ing surgeon. He has held four offices in can Red Cross. meaning of the movement for the junior the Sayre Rotary Club, and at the last '14 CE—George A. Chase, Jr., is presi- college which would prolong the period of Rotary International he was chairman of dent of the Home Friendly Insurance secondary education. Probably this is the resolutions committee. Company of Maryland. His address is quite as desirable from the standpoint of '05 CE—Donald F. Stevens is general moral as of intellectual training. But the The Home Friendly Building, Center superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Street and Park Avenue, Baltimore. upper years of the A.B. course are parallel Railroad, Northwest District, at Cleve- '14 MD—Dr. Smiley Blanton has been to those of professional schools. Who ever land, Ohio. His home address is 10706 sent a boy to a law school or medical school appointed assistant professor of psy- Clifton Boulevard, Cleveland. to have his character formed? chiatry in the Medical Department of the Ό6 AB—David C. Munson, who for ten The traditional talk about going to col- University of Minnesota. He is also con- years prior to 1921 was associated with nected with the Minneapolis Child Guid- lege for this purpose comes down to us the firm of Harris, Beach, Harris, & Mat- from a time when the American college ance Clinic, at Lymanhurst Hospital, son of Rochester, has returned to that where they are doing "preventive work in had about the scholastic standing of the t ity to become associated with the firm of present secondary school, or, as time ad- mental hygiene, treating the emotional Wile, Oviatt, & Oilman, with offices in difficulties of children before they reach a vanced, of the present junior college. To the Granite Building. no other school has it been applied so often stage where they are abnormal." This OS ME—John P. Dods is now with the f or so fitly as to the English grammar clinic is in connection with the Board o Columbia Steel & Shafting Company in school. The best rival of that institution Education. Pittsburgh, Pa. Mail should be addressed in this respect was the early New England '15-—Howard B. Carpenter has been to him in care of the firm at P. O. Box 1595. college, whose work was approximately elected a vice-president of the Stevens- that of the higher grades in Eton or Rugby. Ίo ME—Raynor F. Stur^is is secretary Aylsworth Co., Inc., of 53 Park Place, The present college of liberal arts over- and superintendent of the Davies Can New York. The firm designs and builds laps the proper period of tutelage on the Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He writes machinery and equipment for the dye, one hand and what ought to be the period that he and his wife have two future chemical, paint, rubber, sugar, and allied of purposeful manhood on the other. It Sibleyites, Raynor F. Jr., and Malcolm B. industries. begins a little too early for the university Sturgis. They live at 1600 Grace Avenue, Ί6—-William H. Fisher is now assistant and continues too long for the requirements Lakewood, Ohio. f . superintendent of the South West Penn- of John Fiske's "prolonged infancy." Ίi ME—Julian P. Hickok is one o the sylvania Pipe Lines, with headquarters at Many problems in scholarship, discipline, associate editors of The Commonwealth, Washington, Pa. and administration would be simplified by published in Ardmore, Pa., and given making the break between secondary over to discussion of tax problems. Hickok '17 CE; '19 AB—Ellsworth C. Filby has school and college a little later. Along is the author of a recent article in the resigned his position as South Carolina with this change should go such a change publication which attacks taxes on houses, State sanitary engineer which he has held CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 375

since 1919, to become director of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering of the State of Florida. He and Mrs. Filby (Marion C. Fisher '19) will reside in LACKAWANNA Jacksonville. While in South Carolina, Filby has been active in many affairs. He was one of the founders of the Cornell Daily Trains to Ithaca Club of South Carolina, was president of the South Carolina Chapter of the Ameri- LACKAWANNA BUFFALO ΠPWO fast and popular trains LIMITED can Association of Civil Engineers; LIMITED JL via theLackawanna's direct Lv. New York 8.30P.M. treasurer of the Columbia Chapter, Lv. New York 10.00 A.M. route of attractive scenery.Con- Hoboken 10.20 A.M. Hoboken 8.55 P.M. American Red Cross; and a member of venient Parlor and Pullman Newark 10.32A.M. Newark 9.08P.M. the Court of Honor, Boy Scouts of Brick Church 10.40 A.M. Brick Church 9.15 P.M. America. accommodations including Ar. Ithaca 5.20P.M. Ar. Ithaca 7.00A.M. through sleeping cars New DAY NIGHT Ί8 AB, '19 AM—Jay R. Traver has joined the staff of the biology department York to Ithaca without change* of the North Carolina College for Women. Full information as to rates, Before going to his present position he reservations tickets, etc. at was acting head of the department of CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICES New York and Brooklyn biology in Shorter College. or J. L. HOMER, 112 West 42d Street Ί8 ME—Dr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Phone Bryant 2052 Cotton of Asheville, N. C., have an- Newark: J. G. BRAY, Union Building Phone Market 6223 nounced the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy June, to Anthony H. Collins of New York. Ί8 LLB—Harvey I. Tutchings, who is Lackamnna in the law department of the Title Guaran- Railroad tee and Trust Company of New York, is located at 2 Grace Court, Brooklyn. Ί8, '19 CE—-Reginald Waldo is a resident engineer in charge of highway construction for the State Highway De- partment of Missouri. He was married on May 26, 1924, to Miss Maybelle Chandler of Blanchardville, Wis., and they are living at Eldon, Mo. '19; '22 AB—Norman Snyder has left the Warner Metal Company of Bridge- A BOOK TO KEEP port, Connecticut, and is now in the research department of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y. He and his wife (formerly Olive E. Northup '22) are living at i Elmer Avenue. '21 MS—Mr. and Mrs. George N. Moffaf (Agnes Hall '21) of 291 East Northwood Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, have a son, William James, born on April 20. '21 ME—The announcement has been received of the marriage on April 18 at A BOOK OF VIEWS Roslindale, Mass., of Gustav A. Fingado to Miss Ruth Gladys Warn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Warn. OF CORNELL '22 CE—Burke Patterson is now with Thompson Products, Inc., makers of 132 of the finest photographs* of Cornell scenes and automobile equipment in Cleveland, Ohio activities. The volume is beautifully printed and His address is 2046 East looth Street. bound in handsome art leather. '22 AM—Leland L. Atwood is an in- Through the generosity of a group of Alumni the structor in Romance languages in the book is available to you at less than half that which North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro, N. C. would ordinarily be charged. Any income derived from the sale will be given to the University. '23 AB—Albert E. Conradis ranks fourth in his class at the Wharton School of Finance, University σf Pennsylvania, Limited edition PRICE $4.50 Postage prepaid where he is taking special graduate work Distributed by in banking and investments. '23 AB—Ernest D. Leet has been ap- THE CORNELL GRAPHIC FOR CORNELL pointed registrar of the Chautauqua Summer Schools at Chautauqua, N. Y., for the coming season. He is now in his 376 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS second year at Harvard Law School and is Johnson, Stephens & Thinkle Shoe Com- NEW MAILING ADDRESSES living at 58 Walter Hastings Hall, Cam- pany, makers of women's fancy shoes in '73—T., Sidney White, 283 H San Mar- bridge, Mass. His home address is 5 St. Louis, Mo. His address is 6112 Kings- ino Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Strong Street, Jamestown, N. Y. bury Boulevard. '02—William J. Norton, in care of '23 CE—Spencer E. Sisco, Jr., is an '24 BS—George W. Wilder, Jr., writes Stoehr & Sons/G. M. B. H., Unter den engineering assistant with the Public that he is hard at work trying to make his Linden 57-58, Berlin, Germany. Service Production Company of Newark father's farm pay. He is located at '04—Charles A. Roberts, South Carolina N. J. He lives at 104 Scotland Road, Hollow Hill Farm, Colton, Calif., and Gas & Electric Company, Spartanburg, South Orange, and is playing lacrosse for adds, "Don't let anyone kid you into S. C. the Montclair Athletic Club. thinking that California is God's country Ό6—Otto W. Lehmann, 22 West '23 BS; '23 BS—William J. Wigsten —it isn't. Ithaca's not so bad after all." Monroe Street, Chicago, 111. Ίo—William C. Wheeler, 73 Wandle and Gladys F. Barkeley were married on '24, '25 CE—Claude L. Brouwnell is an Avenue, Bedford, Ohio. February 14 last in Elmira, N. Y. They assistant engineer with the Iroquois' Gas '12—Clinton B. Ferguson, Cutler-Ham- are now living at 1005 South Main Street, Corporation of Buffalo, N. Y. His address mer Manufacturing Company, Santa Horseheads, New York. is 300 Fourteenth Street, Buffalo. Maria, Calif. '23—John W. Potts is manager of the '24 AB—Willard B. VanHouten, Jr., Builders' Exchange of Wilmington, Calif. '15—-Stephen G. Rich, 102 Bloomfield has the distinction of ranking among the His address is 1205 Alton Street. Avenue, Verona, N. J. first six of the first year class at the Ί6—Mrs. Russell C. Gourley, (Marion '24 AB—Arnold W. Koehler, Jr., is em- Harvard Graduate School of Business Ad- W. Gushee), 6520 North Camac Street, ployed by his father at the offices of the ministration as the result of recent ex- Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pa. Asbestos Textile Company, 18 East Forty- aminations. He lives at 13 Chauncey '17—Emil Woldar, 707 Arbuckle Build- first Street, New York. For the next Street, Cambridge, Mass. ing, 371 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. month he will be at the mill of the firm '25 BS—Ronald T. Ries is instructing '20—Richard M. Burk, 1037 North located at North Brook field, Mass. in entomology at East Lansing, Mich. He Lawrence Street, Wichita, Kan.—Henry '24/25 AB—Albert J. Scheu is with the writes that there are forty Cornellians on J. Benisch, Box 122, Stonington, Me. the staff there and that the State Legisla- '21—Marcus Sagal, Box 42, Bonnville, ture has just changed the name of the Mo.—F. Earle Fairchild, Shrewsbury, N. J. "ITHACA" institution from Michigan Agricultural '22—Winthrop E. Mange, Paul Smiths, College to Michigan State College of N. Y.—Herbert D. Tobey, 1212 Donald ENGRffVΊNG G* Agriculture and Applied Science. Avenue, Lake wood, Ohio. '25 BS—Elias R. Markin is now em- '23—Charles G. Worthington, Stafford, ployed in the time study department of the New York. Building 123 N.Tio&a Street Hickey-Freeman Company at Rochester, '24—David S. Cook, 121 Thurston N. Y. His address is 1243 Park Avenue. Avenue, Ithaca.

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