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Thirty-seven Cornell Men Qualify in Officers' Training Camp J. M. Nazel '18, Wounded in Action, Receives War Cross Substantial Gifts of Liberty Bonds Reported by Cornell Clubs The New England Club Proposes Changes in Amendment Cornell Loses to Usaacs and to Yale in Baseball

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ITY and University united last THE MINOR SPORTS COUNCIL has THE NATIONAL MILK and Dairy Ex- Friday in a memorable observance awarded insignia in basketball to Reg- position, less formally the Milk Show, G of Liberty Day. All exercises on inald H. Allen '18, Ithaca; Frank C. will be held at the Grand Central Palace the Campus were suspended after 3.30; Henry, jr., '18, Perth Amboy, N. J.; in New York City during the week of business places closed at four o'clock. Harold J. Karr '18, Bloomfield, N. J.; May 20. Judged by the number of A huge parade, probably the largest ever William M. Kendall '19, Buffalo; George persons and organizations that have, formed in Ithaca, starting from the Old T. Minasian '19, Glen Ridge, N. J.; applied for space and by the eminence Armory and going through the business ChaunceyJ. Stewart '19, Plainfield, N. J.; of New York as a dairy state, this section, where city organizations fell in, and Lynn Howard Tripp '18, Platts- promises to be one of the most elaborate marched in force to Schoellkopf Field. burg, N. Y. And insignia in wrestling to and varied shows of its kind yet planned. In the line, along with bands and drum C. E. Ackerly '20, Cuba, N. Y.; George Milk and the milk problem in all its corps, were all the military units in P. Bullard '19, Ithaca; Nelson W. Cor- aspects will be illustrated: production, Tompkins County, a total of about three nell '18, Lockwood, N. Y.; Lowell S. food value, manufactured products, trans- thousand, an inspiring spectacle to the Huntington '19, Oneonta, N. Y.; Charles portation, distribution. Various cattle throngs in the streets and the thousands D. Mackey '20, Montrose, Pa.; William. clubs, two railroads, and the New York that filled the stadium. During the H. Porter '19, Lockwood, N. Y.; Le Roy City Department of Health will have review by Colonel Barton on the gridiron, E. Rofe '18, Preble, N. Y.; Ellis C. Staf- exhibits. President Schurman is chair- Frank Burnside and "Tex" Marshall ford '18, Cortland, N. Y.; Arthur L. man of the committee on exhibits; and went through some thrilling evolutions Tuttle, jr., '20, Copperhill, Tenn.; and with him are associated Dean A. R. in the air, to the accompaniment of ma- Richard Weber '18, Camillus, N. Y. Mann and Professors M. C. Burritt, chine gun fire from the Drill Hall tower. SENIOR SINGING is to begin this week. Howard E. Babcock, and Flora Rose, of President Schurman then introduced Dates thus far set are Thursday, May 2, the College of Agriculture. two speakers, fighters from the bloody Sunday, May 5, Tuesday, May 7, SEVEN JUNIORS have been elected to fields of Europe, Lieutenant George Thursday, May 9, and Sunday, May 12, the Mortar Board, the women's honorary Graham and Sergeant T. A. Darke, of at 7.30 p. m., on the front steps of Gold- society of which the Cornell chapter was the Gordon Highlanders. These soldiers win Smith Hall. Owing to the absence lately formed from Der Hexenkreis. The in impressive speeches exhorted Ameri- from Ithaca of many seniors, it has been new members are Louise Eugenie Baker, cans to wake up to the seriousness of the deemed advisable for the singers still in Ithaca; Madolin De Witt, Lima, N. Y.; crisis. Their words struck home. While residence to have some preliminary Gladys Fay Gilkey, Ithaca; Elizabeth the crowds were assembling and as they practice together; and they have ac- Neely, Philadelphia; Emma Virginia surged out through the gates volunteers cordingly met with Professor Dann for Phipps, Buffalo; Elizabeth Hodgson took subscriptions for Liberty Bonds. forty-five-minute rehearsals during the Reigart, Yonkers; and Mildred Marie THE SPORTS AND PASTIMES Association past week. Neil M. Willard of Buffalo Wicker, Livonia, N. Y. Miss Phipps is announces a dancing fete on Saturday has been selected as leader. registered in agriculture, all the others in arts. evening, May 4. The program includes THE ANNUAL CONTEST for the '86 aesthetic and folk dancing, in appro- Memorial Prize in Declamation, held LECTURES THIS WEEK include "Due priate national costumes, by members of last Friday night, was won by Horace Process of Law—To-day," a Phi Delta the women's gymnasium classes, chiefly Ellsworth Shackleton, a junior in arts, Phi lecture on the Irvine Foundation by freshmen and sophomores. A small ad- whose home is in Buffalo. His subject Judge Charles M. Hough of New York; mission fee will be charged and there was "The New Birth of Freedom." "War as a Biological Phenomenon," by will be booths for the sale of sweets and There were ten contestants, eight soph- Professor James G. Needham before the flowers. The money taken in will be omores and two juniors. The prize is a Agassig Club; "The Making of White devoted to work of the Red Cross. cash prize of eighty-six dollars. The Lead," by Dr. A. H. Sabin, of the judges were F. R. Parker, of Elmira Free MANAGERSHIPS in the minor sports, National Lead Company, before the Academy, George A. Everett, of the vacant in consequence of expiring terms, Chemical Society; and a lecture with extension service in the College of Agri- have been filled by new appointments readings from original poetry by Robert culture, and Harry G. Stutz, editor of from the class of 1919. The managers Frost, New England poet. The Ithaca Journal. Professor James A. for the coming year are Wellington Winans presided. THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION is or- Elmer, Ithaca, in basketball; James E. ganizing for the coming year. The fol- Schaaf, Nutley, N. J., in wrestling; and THE PHI BETA KAPPA Society had its lowing officers have been elected, all A. V. Wallace, Goshen, N. Y., in soccer. initiation of new members and annual from the present junior class: president, Assistant managers from the class of banquet at the Home Economics Cafe- Benjamin S. Hubbell, jr., of Cleveland, 1920 are Donald E. Leith, New York; teria on April 22. Addresses were given O. vice-president, Elmore Becker Stone, A. Kinley Hammond, Ithaca; and T. L. by Professor Strunk, president of the Dolgeville, N. Y.; secretary, James Collum, Corsicana, Texas. No appoint- chapter, by Professors Bennett and Rufus Gordon, Chappaqua, N. Y. These ments were made for golf, tennis, and Usher, and by Franklin P. O'Brien '19, officers will be assisted by the Association lacrosse. of Evanston, 111., one of the initiates. cabinet of twenty-four members. 374 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

MILITARY NOTES Frank G. Corregan '16, Oswego, infantry. made to provide for the health of the Nazel '18 Wounded, Decorated Ralpji A. Gerhart '16, Quakertown, Pa., men stationed at the camps. infantry. "I like my work very much but don't A note from Franklin S. Edmonds Harold T. Gray '16, Dubois, Pa., infantry. want to continue at it indefinitely as I '95 G., secretary in charge of the Ameri- J. Phelps Harding '16, Saranac Lake, am anxious to get closer to the real ex- can Y. M. C. A. at Aix-les-Bains, to infantry. citement." Mr. Weil at the Cornell Bureau in Paris, Harold S. Lyon '16, Brooklyn, infantry. W. H. Evans '15 writes to the NEWS states that John Milton Nazel '18, from Amoy, China, under date of Feb- American Ambulance, with the French Albert E. Price '16, Ramsey, N. J., field ruary 27, as follows: army, has been at Aix-les-Bains recover- artillery. ing from slight wounds received in a Herbert Snyder '16, Ithaca, infantry. "All Cornellians in the East are more gas shell explosion. He adds that Nazel Harding F. Horton '17, Ithaca, infantry. than proud of the way our Alma Mater has been decorated with the French war Alfred R. Ebbets '18, Pittsburgh, field has responded in the present war and cross. Nazel was born on March 16, artillery. many of us hope to yet meet our class 1895, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph D. Masson '18, Hammondsport, and college mates in Europe." Nazel, of Philadelphia. He entered field artillery. Cornell in mechanical engineering in Edward D. Mulligan '18, Rochester, field $25,400 Bonds for Cornell 1914 from the Penn Charter School, and artillery. . Cornellian Council Campaign Begins to left for the American Field Service in Robert H. Roat '18, Clinton, N. J., in- Yield Results France on August 28, 1917. Edmonds fantry. With the end of the Third Liberty reports that he is getting along very well. Francis C. Wilbur '18, Albany, infantry. Loan campaign but a week off, the the secretary of the Cornellian Council Third Officers' Training Camp Lloyd D. Bucher '19, Brooklyn, infantry. Raymond C. Dikeman '19, Forestville, states that the Liberty Bonds subscribed Of the fifty-two Cornell men designated for the University and reported up to infantry. by the University to enter the Third last Saturday, total about $25,400. In Edward L. Duffies '19, Washington, D. C, Officers' Training Camp at Camp Up- this total is included about $2400 sent field artillery. ton, which opened January 5, thirty-seven in by Cornellians who are not members have qualified as being eligible for com- George E. Gillespie '19, North Tona- of alumni clubs, in response to the re- missions. Sixteen of the thirty-seven wanda, field artillery. cent issue of The Cornellian Council were undergraduates. The course was Harry B. Hoffman '19, Elmira, infantry. Quarterly. Apparently many of the of three months' duration. The men do Charles E. Krey '19, Washington, D. C, campaigns were not yet thoroughly not receive their commissions at once infantry. organized at the time the reports were but are carried on the list of eligibles and Jacob Mertens '19, New Rochelle, in- made, and the total will be many thou- will be commissioned second lieutenants fantry. sand dollars higher than the preliminary as vacancies occur. Richard E. Quaintance '19, New York report. Practically every club in the The lists of principals and alternates City, field artillery. country has reported either that its were published in the NEWS of December Henry J. Schroeder '19, Saugerties, in- campaign is under way, or that a certain 27. The list of successful candidates fantry. amount in Liberty Bonds has been follows: subscribed. George D. Webster ΊO, Ithaca, infantry. From Burns and Evans The progress of the campaigns is Harry F. Bigler Ίl, Clearfield, Pa., From San Antonio, under date of indicated by the portion of the quota of infantry. April 5, "Eddie" Burns '03 writes to each club subscribed up to Saturday, Albert F. Meehan '12, Philadelphia, Dr. De Forest '84 as follows: April 27. The list of clubs and the infantry. "I have been in Texas since the first quota of each was given in the ALUMNI LaFayette W. Argetsinger '13, Burdette, of August, spending the first six weeks in NEWS of April 4. The list of clubs that field artillery. San Antonio, and then was transferred have reported, with their percentages, Harold T. Canfield '13, Port Arthur, to Houston for three months, sent to follows: Texas, field artillery. Washington for one day and was sent Ithaca women, 333%; Minneapolis, Eugene J. Irish '13, Auburn, infantry. back to San Antonio, where I have been 166%; Pittsburgh women, 108%; Utica, Charles H. Newman '13, Ithaca, field since December 11th. I am in charge of 100%; Duluth, 88%; Geneva, and artillery. Aviation Camp construction work in Buffalo women, 86%; St. Louis, 71%; Leslie Reid '13, Schenectady, infantry. South Texas and Louisiana, and I amBoston, and Bridgeport, 66%; Kansas Wellington B. Shays '13, Owego, in- commissioned captain in the Regular City, 55%; Buffalo, 53%; Chicago, and fantry. Army. Waterbury, 50%; Albany women, 40%; Theodore S. Maerker '14, Lansford, Pa., "I think if you have not seen any of Harrisburg, 32%; Indianapolis, 31%; field artillery. the Aviation Camps that have been con- Seneca Falls, 25%; Boston women, and Edwin C. Reynolds '14, Jackson, Mich., structed recently, you would be very Milwaukee, 23%; St. Paul, 22%; infantry. much impressed with the completeness Spokane, Fulton, Dayton, and Columbia, James N. Senecal '14, Watertown, field of the building equipment. Every effort Mo., 20%; Madison, 18%; Troy, and artillery. is made to have the camps thoroughly Berkeley, 16%; Bay Cities women, 13%; Wilbur A. Mathews '15, Pittsburgh, sanitary and comfortable, and after con- New York City, 12%; Salt Lake City, infantry. struction work is finished and the camps Worcester women, and Kingston, 10%; John P. Watson '15, Plainfield, N. J., occupied, I have been very much im- Newark, 8%; Schenectady, 7%; Ithaca, infantry. pressed, particularly recently, with the 6%; Philadelphia, 5.3%; and New York John N. Ault '16, Linden, Pa., infantry. thoroughness of the efforts that are being women, 5%. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 375

GIFT OP JAPANESE COLLECTION Harden, the first Cornellian up, President Schurman announced re- ATHLETICS landed safely on first base when Sander- cently that a group of Cornell alumni son muffed a throw by Lyman. Whit- and non-Cornellians of Philadelphia and Track Athletics more's first double of the game sent Wilmington had given the University a Two Cornell men placed in events at Harden across the plate. In Yale's half valuable collection of Japanese curios the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last of the first Gordon and Gage, the first and antiques. The. gift was made in Saturday. Walker Smith, after winning two Eli batters, received bases on balls. memory of St. John Chilton, who was a his heat in the 120-yard high hurdles, Ensworth dropped Whitmore's throw, student of Sibley College in 1896-97, and finished third in the final, which was filling the bases. Lyman bunted, Gor- who died recently in Philadelphia. The won by Erdman of Princeton, with don was thrown out at the plate, but collection includes bronzes, brasses, an- Johnson of Michigan second. Erdman's Parker drove a single to left scoring tique china ware, and prints. Mr. time was 15^$. Grigson of Cornell, with both Gage and Boyd. Chilton was for three years in charge of a mark of 11 feet, won third place in the In the fourth inning Whitmore drove the American Trading Company's in-. pole vault, which was captured by Meyers out another double to deep left but he terests in Japan. His wife, a graduate of Dartmouth at 12 feet. was put out at the plate when Bonagura's of Tulane University, made a study of The track team will participate in grounder resulted in a brilliant double the Japanese language and Japanese the only dual meet arranged for this play, Gage to Sanderson to Holmes. legends for two years with a view to col- spring on Saturday when the team of Yale clinched the game in the eighth lecting antiques. The collection can be the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- inning when two base hits by Boyd and displayed in a glass case which contains nology comes to Ithaca for a contest on Parker and Lyman's single brought in about fifty square feet of shelving. The Schoellkopf Field. two more runs. letter to President Schurman, tendering A feature of recent track practice was Whitmore's all around play was a the gift, was signed by H. E. Sibson '03, a brilliant performance by Ivan C. feature of the game. Besides making Harry C. Straus '97, Alfred D. Warner Dresser in the two-mile run. In the two two-base hits the Cornell catcher '00, F. A. Wardenburg, Isaac H. Fran- weekly meet last Saturday Dresser was credited with six put-outs and three cis Όl, and Roger A. Millar ΌO. covered the distance in 9 minutes 31 assists, his throwing to bases being fast seconds, faster time than he has ever and accurate. Bonagura's and Howard's done before, and faster time than is fielding was spectacular. Sawyer's cap- 606th ORGAN RECITAL usually made in the Intercollegiate Meet. ture of Harden's fly in short left complet- Sage Chapel, Friday, May 3, 5 p. m. Baseball ing a double play by nipping Brookmire Professor JAMES T. QUARLES, Organist. Usaacs 3, Cornell 2 at first was perhaps the most brilliant Suite in F Corelli The Cornell team lost a close game to play of the game. The score: I. Preludio the nine from the United States Army Cornell A.B. R. H. P.O. E. II. Allemande Ambulance Corps, commonly known as Harden. If 4 1 0 1 0 Howard, ss 3 0 0 4 1 III. Sarabande the "Usaacs," at Allentown last Friday Ensworth, lb 4 0 1 7 1 IV. Gavotta by the score of 3 to 2. The contest Whitmore, c 4 0 2 7 0 V. Giga went ten innings. Bonagura, 3b 3 0 0 11 Rhapsodie on a Breton Melody, Whitmore's home run in the fourth Cross, rf 3 0 0 1 0 Corwin, 2b 3 0 0 2 0 Saint-Saens gave Cornell her first tally and the Wagner, cf 2 0 0 10 Am Meer Schubert Ithacans got one more run in the eighth. Brookmire, p 3 0 0 0 1 Humoresque, Opus 101, No. 1..Dvorak Needle pitched a creditable game, a *Dragat .' 1 0 0 0 0 To the Spring Grieg game that should have been good enough fMuller 1 0 0 0 0 Marche Funebre Tschaikowsky to win. He allowed eight hits, struck out Totals 31 1 3 24 4 six batters, gave but two bases on balls, *Batted for Wagner in the seventh, Frank K. Foss '17 and Fred M. Gillies and got two of Cornell's eight hits. f Batted for Bonagura in the ninth. '18 are on the track team of the Naval Leahy, the Usaac pitcher, allowed Cor- Yale A.B. R. H. P.O. E. Aviation Section at M. I. T. The team nell eight hits, but he kept them scat- Gordon, rf 3 0 0 1 0 tered. The score by innings: Gage, 3b 2 1 0 0 0 practises on the Tech track and has Boyd, cf 4 2 1 1 0 arranged several track meets with New R.H.E. Cornell 0 00100010 0—2 8 1 Lyman, ss 3 1111 England colleges. Usaacs 100 100000 1—3 8 1 Parker, If 4 0 2 2 0 Batteries—Leahy and Hall, Needle and Whit- Sawyer, 2b 3 0 0 3 0 The all-American soccer team in- more. Holmes, c 3 0 0 7 0 cludes two Cornell men, Florsheim '19, Sanderson, lb 3 0 0 12 3 Yale 4, Cornell 1 Talcott, p 2 0 0 0 0 right fullback, and Dibble '18, left Cornell lost its first college baseball halfback. game to Yale last Saturday" at New Totals 27 4 4 27 4 Haven, when the Eli nine defeated Dr. Cornell 10000000 0—1 Gordon '16, formerly center fielder on Sharpens proteges by the score of 4 to 1. Yale 20000002 x—4 the varsity baseball team, is playing on Bunched hits in the first and eighth Two-base hits—Whitmore 2, Boyd, Parker; the Pelham Bay Naval Training Camp double plays—Gage to Sanderson to Holmes; Saw- innings, coupled with Brookmire's wild- team. yer to Sanderson Brookmire to Whitmore to Ens- ness in the first frame, gave the Blue worth; sacrifice hits—Howard, Boyd; stolen base L. S. Huntington '19, agriculture, of enough runs to win. Talcott, the Yale —Holmes; bases on balls—off Brookmire 3; struck pitcher, was effective after the first out—by Talcott 5; by Brookmire 3 bit by pitched Oneonta, N. Y., has been elected captain ball—Brookmire 3; wild pitch—Talcott; left on of the wrestling team for the coming inning, only one Cornell runner passing bases—Cornell 3, Yale 3; time of game—2 hours year. second base after the opening frame. 30 minutes; umpire—Corcoran. 376 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Using the Vacations terior; A. P. Davis, director, Reclama- find it possible to be of great service to Students of Technical Schools Wanted tion Service, Eighth and E Streets; Dr. humanity. The Club has announced for Government Service W. S. Stratton, director, Bureau of its willingness to cooperate with Ameri- The Federal Board for Vocational Edu- Standards. can students and professors who may cation, acting in an advisory capacity, In addition, the Ordnance Department desire to know more about China either has been asked to put the following in- of the Army wishes to obtain 200 drafts- in a general way or with reference to formation before the undergraduates men for work from May 1 to October 1 special problems. and graduates of American technical at salaries up to $100 per month. The schools. minimum requirement for these positions An Unusual Cornell Year Book It appears through conference with is two years of college training in me- chanical drafting or machine design. The Cornellian and Class Book Com- various department heads that valuable bined in One Volume opportunities exist in Government ser- More highly skilled men are needed for vice for work which will give an excellent positions paying up to $3,000 per annum. The Cornellian and Class Book for 1918 training for occupations in civil life, and For further particulars address Major has just appeared in a handsome volume will lead also to specialized war work. E. M. Bainter, Instruction Section, Ord- of 547 pages. The book is dedicated "to nance Department, 1330 F Street, N. W., Most of the younger technical men the Cornell Students of Yesterday, now Washington, D. C. from three branches of Government Fighting or Preparing to Fight for the service—the Reclamation Service, the In some of these services it is possible Defense of the Republic, for the Rights Bureau of Standards, and the Geological that particularly well qualified men may of Nations, for Democracy and Human- Survey (Topographical Branch)—have be desired for the period of the war, re- ity" from "The Cornell Students of been detailed for special war service ceiving military status and assignment To-day, with Proud and Affectionate either here or abroad. The draft has cut to special war work. Greeting." off from these branches their usual sup- The combining of the two books is a ply of new men. This leaves the per- Chinese University Club war measure, and the single book con- sonnel of these departments so depleted Alumni of American Universities have tains everything that was essential in that it is almost impossible for them to do Club in Shanghai the usual pair. The Cornellian was first their regular work; only with difficulty The American University Club of published in the year 18.68-69. The can they supply men needed for the China, at Shanghai, is composed of Class Book, which appeared first in 1897, Army. nearly three hundred graduates and covered the field of activities of the In this emergency the Government former students of American universities. senior class, and incidentally of the en- calls upon the technical students of the The membership is about equally divided tire University, for the four years of country. From May 1 to October 1 between Chinese graduates of American residence, listing under fraternities, there is much work in these departments colleges and universities and Americans wearers of the C, and other organizations that can be performed by undergraduates engaged in business, medical, educational, common Jto several classes, only those with technical training. . Those particu- and missionary enterprises in China. members who belonged to the senior larly desired are young men of good Organized in 1903, the club has grown class. Individual photographs of seniors, physique below the draft age, and those steadily. Its purpose is to stimulate a and of all professors, assistant professors, members of the enlisted reserve corps stronger feeling of fellowship and com- and officers of administration appeared who will not complete their college work radeship among American university in the Class Book but not in The Cor- before October, 1918. men in China and also to cement the mllian. For the Bureau of Standards.—Re- friendship between Americans and Chi- The readjustment this year has been quirement, not less than one year of nese which is fundamental to the peace worked out in a satisfactory way so that work of college grade in physics and and prosperity of the Orient. one book adequately replaces the two mathematics. (Special mechanical and That the club has a large field is evi- books. The individual portraits appear testing skill is desirable.) dent from the fact that about one thou- as in The Class Book while the absent For the Reclamation Service.—Re- sand two hundred Chinese graduates members of organizations are designated quirement, not less than one year of and former students of American and by stars, most of the absentees being, of work of college grade in civil engineering European universities have now returned course, in the service. The list of the and surveying. to China; more than half of these have senior class is not limited to those For the Geological Survey (Topo- had their training in America. They whose portraits were obtained, but an graphical Branch).—Requirement, not have taken places of responsibility and additional list of senior absentees, with less than one year of work of college grade trust in practically every field of business their records, has been printed without in civil engineering. (Special work in and professional activity in China. portraits. This list is not complete, but map-making is desirable.) Moreover, about seven thousand Amer- includes all those who have "made Men with drafting ability and ex- icans are now living in China, and with something" that would ordinarily be perience also particularly desired. These the growth of American business and listed under the portrait. indicate the minimum requirements; educational interests in China, this The usual junior class list and list of additional qualifications will lead to number is certain to increase. instructors are given, as formerly in The better paid positions. Since China is now rapidly learning Cornellian, while the senior class his- Further information may be obtained Western ways and methods, the Club tory, a feature of The Class Book, is in- by writing to one of the following de- desires to emphasize the importance of cluded in the combination book. The partment heads, Washington, D. C: the study of Far Eastern problems in pictures of the varsity teams for all the Dr. George Otis Smith, director, Geo- American colleges and universities, a four years are not included, but only the logical Survey, Department of the In- field in which young Americans will current year's teams, as has been the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 377 custom with The Cornellian rather than clinic that will determine what the The Class Book. course of treatment is to be and also We note with regret that in the read- serve as a record for comparison. justment the board has not seen fit to Because of the law of the State Board include the honorary societies of Phi of Charities that prohibits the granting Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. This omis- of incorporation papers to an institution sion, which has been customary for the that charges a fee, new by-laws will past six years, is due to the unwillingness probably be devised in order to allow of these societies to pay the price for the the clinic to open, as a small sum will inserts. We had hoped that the board be required of each patient. this year, in readjusting its ideas on the essentials of a year book, would see fit to UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES include these societies even if without The present status of the twelve lead- charge. ing university libraries of America is In appearance the book is very pleas- as follows: Harvard, 1,780,000; Yale, ing. Black leather embossed with gold 1,095,000; Columbia, 685,322; Chicago, covers a well designed, well printed book. 517,936 (including only bound and ac- The class portraits are not as uniform cessioned volumes); Cornell, 489,655; in appearance as usual, but this is largely Pennsylvania, 450,956; Princeton, 397,- because some of the men are in uniform 126; Illinois, 384,452 (exclusive of de- and many of the photographs were partments in Chicago); Michigan, 383,- taken by others than the official pho- 976; California, 355,192; Stanford, 287,- tographer. Many stunt pictures and 634; Wisconsin, 257,295 (exclusive of more scenic views than usual have the State Historical Society library of added attractiveness to the volume. In 201,000 volumes in the same building). size, 8J^ x 11 x 2, the book is exactly The number of volumes added by these that of last year's Cornellian or % larger FROM A CAMPUS WINDOW libraries last year is as follows: Harvard, than the 1917 Class Book, which it more Photograph by 0. D. von Engeln '08 56,404; Yale, 25,000; Columbia, 24,683; nearly resembles. No hint of war-time A misty March day. Goldwin Smith Hall from a Chicago, 35,310; Cornell, 15,378; Penn- window in McGraw. economy is evident, beyond the com- sylvania, 19,433; Princeton, 15,252; bining of the two books. It is economy Illinois, 30,787; Michigan, 15,734; Cali- enough, perhaps, for one year to reduce A RECONSTRUCTION HOSPITAL fornia, 22,308; Stanford, 11,383; Wis- the price to $5 for one book, compared Application was made on April 8 to consin, 11,509. That is, all but three of with $7.50 for The Class Book and $3.50 the State Board of Charities to incor- the other libraries added more books for The Cornellian in 1917. There are porate a reconstruction hospital and than Cornell. great possibilities in this line open for clinic for the functional reeducation GRAY WINS POTTS MEDAL the future. Economies can be effected of disabled soldiers, sailors, and men by binding in cloth, and in the use of a maimed in France in construction work The Potts Medal of the Franklin In- cheaper quality of paper, which will not or injured here in munitions plants. stitute, the highest in its gift, has been materially affect its usefulness, nor to The hospital, endowed by a lady who awarded to Professor Alexander Gray, any great degree lessen its beauty. does not wish to reveal her identity, will head of the Department of Electrical be situated in Stuyvesant Square and Engineering in Sibley College. The Com- On the whole, we think, the book mittee on Science and the Arts of the marks an epoch in the publication of Fifteenth Street, occupying a part of the plant formerly used by the New York Institute recently adopted the following Cornell year books. There has been no resolution: loss to University records whatever in Infirmary for Women and Children. It "Resolved, That the Howard N. Potts combining the two. Whether the board will be opened within six weeks, it is Medal be awarded to Dr. Alexander will return to the old plan of two books expected, and will be in charge of Dr. W. Gray, for his paper entitled 'Modern for sordid commercial reasons after the Gilman Thompson, 61 West Forty-ninth Dynamo Electric Machinery,' appearing war or continue the ideas of the 1918 Street, professor emeritus of medicine at in the July, August, September, and book, will be determined by the board at the Cornell Medical School and consult- October, 1917, issues of the Journal of the time. The single book, however, ing physician of Bellevue Hospital. the Franklin Institute, an exhaustive combining the features of the two, is This clinic is the first of its kind in the discussion of the design of dynamo elec- eminently satisfactory and a careful United States. It will be known as the tric machinery, with the details, both consideration of economies would make New York Clinic for the Functional Re- theoretical and practical, of successful it possible to turn out the new book at a education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, commercial designs and their progres- price which would make for greater and Civilians, and will use new and sive development in the past decade; of usefulness by securing a wider distribu- specialized methods developed by the especial value as a reference work for tion. war. The work of economic rehabilitation the designer of modern direct-current THE TOMPKINS COUNTY FARM BUREAU will not be attempted, for there are and alternating-current dynamo electric reports a membership of 1,006. At the organizations such as the Red Cross machinery." time of organization in 1916 there were Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men 137 members. According to the last which teach cripples useful trades. THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER for Sun- Federal census there are 2,988 farmers Special recording apparatus will be day will be Sir George Adam Smith, in the county. used when a patient first enters the principal of Aberdeen University. 378 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

in our food. Nor is the present a time sity, representative of the Emergency when, we should merely demand that Fleet Corporation, who lectured here pro-German teachers in our schools and last week and with whom eighty-five men colleges shall refrain from utterances enrolled for work. With this encourag- Published for the Associate Alumni hostile to the Government. From our ing start, and with the help of Meyer of Cornell University by the Cornell chairs of German as well as from our Bloomfield, head of the Industrial Ser- Alumni News Publishing Company, other chairs there must be taught, now vice Department, The Sun proposes an Incorporated. and henceforth, a loyal, positive, and intensive campaign during the remain- vigorous Americanism. Pro-Germans in ing weeks of the term in the hope of Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. America have been and are free to choose securing ultimately a Cornell contingent Issue No. 1 is published the first Thursday of the whom they will serve, Uncle Sam or the of some hundreds. college year in September and weekly publication Kaiser; but they must make their (numbered consecutively) continues through Com- choice and abide by it. If they still elect SEVENTY-THREE REUNION mencement Week. Issue No. 40, the final one of to cast their fortunes with the Potsdam The forty-five-year reunion of the the year, is published the last Thursday in August Class of '73 promises to be enthusiastic and is followed by an index of the entire volume. gang, they must take the inevitable consequences. and well attended. In addition to the Subscription price $3.00 a year, payable in ad- features of the general reunion, '73 will vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single For a number of reasons we must con- have a banquet at Prudence Risley copies ten cents each. tinue to teach and study the German Hall on Saturday, May 18, at seven Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his language. One is a military reason. subscription, notice to that effect should be sent in Some weeks ago Canadian troops cap- o'clock. Those that have expressed before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that tured some German soldiers; two hours their intention of being present are: a continuance of the subscription is desired. elapsed before anyone could be found E. H. Bartley, Clarence Beebe, L. G. Checks, drafts and orders should be maσ^e pay- who knew enough German to ask the Boies, T. F. Brinkley, John W. Chamber- able to Cornell Alumni News. prisoners questions of the most pressing lin, I. P. Church, W. H. Denham, S. C. Correspondence should be addressed— importance to the British. More re- Dutton, S. F. Forgeus, N. K. Foster, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, Clarence Finster, W. H. French, H. T. Ithaca, N. Y. cently an American patrol succeeded in creeping close to some German trenches Gilbert, Edwin Gillette, F. W. Halsey, G. R. Jones, E. F. Kinbloe, F. J. Knight, Manager: but were unable to understand a word R. W. SAILOR '07 of the conversation they clearly over- E. S. Lawrence, G. C. Morehouse, W. T. Morris, F. J. Root, W. H. Smith, Avery Associate Editors: heard. It is easy to see how such ignor- CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 WOODPORD PATTERSON '95 ance may sometime prove very costly. Turner, George B. Turner, M. W. Van Auken, H. W. Van Wagenen, F. E. Wad- B. S. MONROE '96 H. G. STUTZ '07 And we must also continue to teach hams, C. F. Wheelock, and T. S. White. R. W. KELLOGG '12 and to study German literature, both for News Committee of the Associate Alumni: what is good in the history of German W. W. MACON '98, Chairman CHICAGO LUNCHEON N. H. NOYES '06 J. P. DODS '08 thought and for the sake of understand- At the regular luncheon of the Chi- Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing ing, as a prophylactic measure, Ger- cago club on April 25, Levy Mayer, a Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President, many's present and future thought. prominent attorney of Chicago, who was R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; F. H. Wingert, Assistant Fortunately it is no longer necessary to scheduled to speak, was unable to be Treasurer; Woodford Patterson. Secretary. Office, employ teachers of doubtful loyalty. In 220 East State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. present. Instead Colonel L. G. Wild- every school and college there are doubt- man of the Signal Corps gave an inter- Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press less patriotic men and women who can esting talk before a big crowd. and do teach German with great success. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. These must be encouraged not to desert GERMAN-BORN AMERICANS LOYAL ITHACA, NEW YORK, MAY 2, 1918 the useful work for which they have pre- Of the eighteen German-born college pared at such expense of money and and university professors who signed the THE TEACHING OF GERMAN effort; and these we must henceforth manifesto of April 27 condemning Ger- employ exclusively in our institutions of man despotism and pledging unswerving That there should be a revulsion of learning. For those teachers who are loyalty to American principles, three are feeling against the teaching and study of traitors to the Stars and Stripes, the or have been Cornellians: Professor German in our schools and colleges in Kaiser can probably find other jobs. If Bernhard E. Fernow, of the University view of recent disclosures is only to be German citizens, they should be interned of Toronto, formerly director of our Col- expected. We now have reason to sus- at once and deported at the first oppor- lege of Forestry; Professor Ernest G. pect that a large number of native-born tunity. Lorenzen '98, of Yale; and Professor Germans and some German-Americans Emil C. K. Wilm, Ph.D. '05, of Boston who have been teaching the German THE SUN ON SHIPBUILDING University. language in American institutions are The Cornell Sun is making a deter- virtually emissaries of the Kaiser and mined effort to enlist the services of stu- CORNELL ARCHITECTS HONORED apostles of Kultur. This propaganda dents for the ship yards during the sum- Alexander C. Eschweiler '90, of Mil- must cease—even if we have to pay the mer. The editors' suggestion that a waukee, and Edward Emmett Dougherty price of giving up much that is good in student army of shipbuilders be recruited 98, of Atlanta, Ga., have been advanced the literature of a people once thought from colleges throughout the country by election to the grade of fellow in the to be racially akin to ourselves. The has the approval of Edward N. Hurley, American Institute of Architects. Only menace of Prussianism is too deadly; chairman of the United States Shipping six altogether were thus advanced this we must guard against permitting it in Board, and the support of Professor year. The total membership of the our schools as we guard against poison Frank P. McKibben of Lehigh Univer- Institute is limited to one thousand. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 379

An Amendment Alumni will in itself give an added in- With such action we .believe it will Boston Alumni Suggest Changes in A. A. terest in the work of the association be- succeed. By-laws Amendment cause we all are more interested in any Very truly yours, project to which we give our money. It A committee was appointed by the D. E. BURR Ό3 should also make a better feeling on the Cornell Club of New England to consider W. G. OGDEN Όl part of those who are primarily interested the proposed amendment to the Associate R. O. WALTER Όl Alumni by-laws which is to be considered in the Cornellian Council fund. Amendments to proposed Section 35, at the annual meeting on May 18. This The hearty approval of the general Article IX, of the By-Laws of the Asso- committee has proposed certain amend- plan by the Association of Class Secre- ciate Alumni of Cornell University, and ments to the amendment, and certain taries, Cornellian Council, and Board of amendments to Article VI, Sections 24 changes in other sections of the by-laws and 27, to make Section 35 effective. in order to make the operation of the THE ORIGINAL AMENDMENT 1—That the proposed amendment to new financial amendment more effective. The following amendment of Article IX, Article IX, Section 35, be amended by Section 35, is proposed for consideration at omitting the entire paragraph headed The committee's letter to the NEWS the Annual Meeting, May 18, 1918: "Club Fees." and the amendments proposed are given SECTION 35. Budget. The Treasurer shall present to the Board of Directors at 2—That it be amended by changing below. their meeting during the Convention, or, in case the Convention is not held before June the final paragraph as printed to read Editor, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS: of any year, at the June meeting of the as follows: We have given careful consideration Board, a tentative budget of the Associate Alumni for the ensuing fiscal year. The "Individual Dues. Each alumnus or to the proposed amendments to the By- Board shall adopt a final' budget, which may include an item covering any deficit alumna not a member of any constituent laws of the Associate Alumni. The sit- of a previous year, and assess the constitu- uation as we understand it is this. The ent clubs for such ensuing year the club by which current assessment for amounts necessary to meet such budget. him or her has been paid, who attends Associate Alumni of Cornell University Quorum for Adopting Budget. A ma- jority of the members of the Board shall be the annual convention or the annual possesses all the powers, privileges, and necessary for a quorum at any meeting responsibilities which the alumni of any which adopts a budget or assesses the con- meeting shall pay fifty cents as annual stituent clubs, and an affirmative vote dues for his or her individual member- college possess. Certain specific func- of a majority of those present shall be tions either by agreement or common necessary for such action. ship." Assessments against Clubs. The assess- 3—That it be amended by the addition consent have been turned over to specific ment against each constituent club shall be determined by a per capita amount not of the following paragraph: organizations, chiefly the Association of exceeding 50 cents, in respect of its mem- Class Secretaries, which aims to conserve bership as certified to the Board by its "The provisions of this section shall Secretary, or, if not so certified, then as take effect when accepted by a majority all the benefits of class friendships, and determined by the Board from the best available information, except that the of those present and voting at an annual the Cornellian Council, which concerns assessment of a constituent club haying itself only with financial aid to the Uni- more than 500 members shall be determined meeting or convention to which this by one-half of such per capita amount in amendment may properly be presented, versity. All privileges and responsibili- respect of its membership in excess of 500 and not over 1,000, and one-quarter thereof and by a majority of the clubs entitled ties not so definitely assigned to these in respect of its membership in excess of organizations still vest in the Associate 1,000. The per capita amount shall be the to delegates as recorded on the books of same for all constituent clubs, except that Alumni. We emphasize the responsi- the Board may vary it as to those located the Secretary on May 18th, 1918, and outside of the United States. No con- such action reported in writing by the bility for alumni action fully as much as stituent club maintaining a club house powers or privileges. shall be assessed in respect of non-resident various clubs to the Secretary." members. No constituent club shall be The way in which various organiza- assessed more than $250 in any one year. 4—Section 24, which is entitled "Del- tions have foregone their custom of Club Fees. Every constituent club shall egates from Clubs and Associations." pay annually a club fee of $1 and in addi- Amend by adding after the words active general solicitation among the tion its assessment as fixed by the Board. alumni for divers purposes, leaving a free Assessments Against Individuals. Each "Provisions of this section" the follow- alumnus, not a member of any constituent field to the Cornellian Council, has been club, who attends the annual Convention ing: or if no convention is held, who attends "And provided further that no club remarkable. Since this is true it was a the annual meeting, shall pay 50 cents as perfectly legitimate request that neces- dues for his individual membership. . or association shall be entitled to dele- sary demands for the finances of the gates on a basis of membership greater Associate Alumni should be made upon Trustees is gratifying evidence of har- than that on which the club or associa- this fund. monious action. Still the essential point tion pays assessments to the Associate But, looking at this present question for the success of the scheme lies in Alumni." from the point of view of the Associate positive action by a sufficient number of 5—Section 27, which is entitled "Vot- Alumni, there is in our judgment a de- the clubs concerned. Success demands ing by Members and Delegates." Amend cided advantage to the Associate Alumni that at least a majority of the clubs take by the addition of the following: in financing its own affairs and, there- definite affirmative action before the "Provided, however, that the right of fore, since the Cornellian Council is will- plan shall become effective. We should any person to vote as delegate or indi- ing to establish this precedent of an or- like to see this action taken at once so vidual member at any meeting or con- ganization financing itself, we are heartily that the new plan can be put in action vention shall be contingent upon the in favor of this being done. We approve for the following year, and we deem this prior payment of current assessment or of the general plan as outlined by the prior action by the clubs of so great dues of the proper amount as determined committee, and have submitted to that importance to the success of the plan that under Section 35 of these By-laws." committee two or three amendments, we should favor a continuance of the which seem to us essential to the success present arrangement until a time when THE FRESHMAN BONFIRE and cap of the changed plans. the necessary favorable action has been burning, usually held on the evening of The fact that the clubs and individuals secured by the clubs. Unless such action Spring Day, is set this year for Saturday are paying directly to the Associate is taken we believe this plan will fail. evening, May 4, on the Library slope. 380 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

OBITUARY the Cuyahoga and Federal telephone tion on Walter Camp's second all- Charles W. Wason '76 systems. American eleven in 1902. He was coach Mr. Wason was a member of the Union, of the Cornell team in the fall of 1903. Charles William Wason, for many Country, Rowfant, and Cornell Clubs, Mr. Purcell graduated in 1903 with years one of the foremost railway men and of the Electrical League. He was the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1905 of Ohio, died on April 15 at his home, on the board of trustees of the First he graduated from the New York Law 9209 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Since Unitarian Church, Euclid Avenue and School, and became a member of the his retirement from business ten years East 82d Street, of which he had always firm of Purcell, Walker, and Gurns, ago he had been in poor health, and his been an active member. attorneys-at-law, in Watertown. He death was not unexpected. Since America's entry into the war was unmarried. Wason was born in Cleveland on Mr. Wason has been military secretary of April 30, 1854. He matriculated at the Cleveland Cornell Club, correspond- Cornell in mechanical engineering in LITERARY REVIEW ing with each of the club's members in Identification of Trees and Shrubs the service, and sending each a copy of Plant Materials of Decorative Garden- the stenographic report of the speeches ing. The Woody Plants. By William at the club luncheon, and other club data. Trelease '80. Urbana, 111. Published by He is survived by Mrs. Wason and the Author. 1917. 16mo, pp. 204. two daughters, Mrs. Harold S. Edwards, Price, $1. of Dedham, Mass., and Mrs. John A. This little pocket manual will be found Rithet, of Victoria, British Columbia. a most useful compilation. It is, in the In recent years he had collected a words of the author, "an attempt to remarkable Chinese library, which, it is make it possible for any careful observer understood, will come to the University to learn the generic and usually the Library. specific name of any hardy tree, shrub or W. Herbert Bostwick '88 woody climber that he is likely to find William Herbert Bostwick died in cultivated in the eastern United States— Norfolk, Va., on February 22 as the re- apart from the extreme south—or in sult of injuries sustained at the plant of northern Europe, anywhere except on which he was in charge. On the 20th he the more pretentious estates, or in was caught in the shafting and so severely nurseries or botanical establishments. injured internally that he died within It accounts for 247 genera and 782 forty-eight hours. He was born in species, with some 375 minor forms, or Ithaca fifty-two years ago, the son of the over 1150 distinct kinds. These pertain late William L. Bostwick, and prepared to 83 natural families." They are for college at the Ithaca High School. grouped in four classes: trees, as usually He entered Cornell with the class of 1888, grown, for groves, avenues, etc. bushes, and remained three years. In college he for shrubberies and hedges; small un- 1872, becoming a member of Kappa became a member of Kappa Alpha, dershrubs, including carpeting plants Alpha. He joined also the Sprague and Fruija, and Undine. After leaving Cor- and tufted evergreens; and woody the Tom Hughes Boat Clubs and in nell he became associated with Joseph climbers and scrambling plants. The 1875-6 was commodore of the Navy. R. Chamberlain '88 in various manu- key to the genera fills forty pages. The After leaving the University in 1876 facturing enterprises having to do with remainder of the book is given up to a he began the practice of engineering. In cotton, sulphuric acid, etc., and lived systematic arrangement of the plant 1887 he became purchasing agent and for some years at Raleigh, N. C. For materials, with keys to species under electrical engineer of the East Cleveland the past ten years he had been in business each genus. For a few complicated Railway Company, holding the position in Norfolk, living in Berkeley, near by. genera only a few species have been for five, years and gaining a wide knowl- He is survived by his widow, who was admitted; in all other cases the author edge of railroad work. He was the first Miss Hermione Camp, a son, Camp, two has included all but the newer or rarer to suggest an interurban line between brothers, Edward H. Bostwick '85, of species. In the descriptions more space Cleveland and Buffalo, and to build it Ithaca, and Lawrence B. Bostwick, of is given to wood, bud, leaf-scar, foliage, organized the Cleveland, Painesville and New York, and a sister, Miss Ada Bost- and inflorescence than to flower and Eastern Traction Company, of which he wick, of Ithaca. He was a Knight fruit. There is a good glossary of became president. In 1896 he was Templar of the Ithaca commandery and eighteen pages and a full index. The elected president of the Northern Ohio a vestryman of the Episcopal Church in little book deserves a wide sale. Traction and Light Company; under Berkeley. his management the Cleveland-Akron Books and Magazine Articles system had large growth. He also be- Henry Purcell, jr., '03 Professor A. B. Recknagel published came a director of the Detroit United Henry Purcell, jr., died of pneumonia in The New York Times for April 14 an Railway Company and the London at Watertown, N. Y., on April 18. He illuminating article on "Fuel and Food Street Railway, which operated lines in was born on February 28, 1880, at from Our Forests." He points out that several Canadian cities. Watertown, and entered Cornell from one cord per acre per year from the Later he turned his attention to tele- Cascadilla School in 1899. As an under- wood lots of New York State would be phones and became a director in the graduate he played halfback on the foot- equivalent in fuel value to 1,125,000 tons United States Telephone Company and ball team and was selected for that posi- of coal. The forests also play a large CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 381 part in furnishing food, directly and in- bination of the greater part of Webb's directly. Even horse chestnuts are now "Engineering Instruments," Fish's ALUMNI NOTES utilized. "Technic of Surveying Instruments," '88 BL—George Judd Tansey has been Professor James E. Creighton writes both rewritten, and a hundred pages of appointed chief of the Enforcement Di- in The Psychological Review for March additional matter. The work is praised vision of the National Food Adminis- on "Miss Calkins's Case of Self against by Professor Paul H. Underwood in tration by General Counsel Boydeή of Soul." The Cornell Civil Engineer for February. The Yale University Press has an- Washington. He will have charge of the Professor Charles A. Ellwood '96 has nounced for early publication the first entire St. Louis zone, covering twelve just published, through the Missouri of a series of fifty volumes of historical states, and will make his headquarters Book Company, Columbia, Mo., a narratives to be known as "The Chron- in St. Louis. There is no pay attached "Syllabus for an Elementary Course in icles of America." They will be edited to the position. Mr. Tansey is president Sociology." It is a twenty-six-page by Professor Allen Johnson of Yale. of the St. Louis Transfer Company, pamphlet selling for. ten cents. Professor Carl Becker will write on which has been absorbed by the Columbia The frontispiece of Bird-Lore for "The Eve of the Revolution" and Pro- - Transfer Company. Previously to be- March-April is a beautiful colored study fessor Samuel P. Orth on "Our For- coming president of this company, he of five summer and hepatic tanagers by eigners: a Chronicle of Americans in was a member of the law firm of Laughlin, Louis A. Fuertes '97. the Making," "The Armies of Labor: Kearn & Tansey. Professor Vaughan Mac Caughey '08 a Chronicle of the Organized Wage- '92 PhM—Princeton University has writes in Torreya for March on "The earners," and "The Boss and the Ma- granted a leave of absence to Professor Genus Gleichenia (Discranopteris) in chine: a Chronicle of the Politicians and Frank A. Fetter, head of the department the Hawaiian Islands"—a study of a Party Organizations." The first edition of economics, to take effect June first. remarkable genus of ferns. Professor of the set will be known as the Abraham He will devote himself entirely to war A. LeRoy Andrews contributes another Lincoln Edition. - It will be limited, on work, and will be manager of the Western instalment, the fourth, of his "Bryologi- all-rag watermarked paper, with photo- Division of the War Camp Community cal Notes." Professor C. Stuart Gager, gravure illustrations, and will be sold Service, which, as an integral part of the Ph.D. '02, reviews Wilfred W. Rob- by subscription at $175 for the set. Fosdick Commission of Training Camp bins's "Botany of Farm Crops" (Phil- "The Contribution of Zoology to Activities, has entire charge of all recrea- adelphia, Blakiston). Human Welfare," the paper read by Dr. tion and social work outside the training L. O. Howard '77 before the Pittsburgh camps. He will have charge of all the In The American Journal of Botany meeting of the Zoological Section of the recreational work surrounding thirty-six for February, lately received, Professor A. A. A. S., is printed in Science for Army and Navy camps in the West and George F. Atkinson '85 writes on "Se- April 12. He thinks that entomologists Southwest. lected Cycles of Gymnoconia Peckiana" have saved the country from one-half '95 BS—George L. Coleman, director —an interesting species of rust fungi. to one billion dollars annually in food of the University Orchestra and Mando- Professor Arthur A. Allen '07 writes in conservation. Further, it seems to him lin Club, has been accepted by the Y. M. American Forestry for March on "The "a self-evident fact, that the prevention C. A. War Relief Committee for war Humming-Birds and Swifts/' There of insect-borne diseases is a matter for work among the soldiers, and will sail are twelve fine illustrations from photo- the economic entomologist and not for about the first week in May. His work graphs. In the same number is an il- the medical man; or, at the very least, will deal primarily with entertainment lustrated description of Hilgard Hall, the for the individual who does not yet for the soldiers. Mr. Coleman was pre- new home of the division of forestry of exist, namely the medical man trained sented with a wrist watch by the mem- the University of California—a building as an entomologist." At present each bers of the University Orchestra, as a of interest to Cornellians in view of the sanitary unit of seventy in the British token of appreciation. fact that Professor Walter Mulford '99 Expeditionary Forces includes two '96 ME—Ossian P. Ward is an archi- is the head of the division. The hand- trained entomologists. tect and structural engineer, with offices some building is three hundred feet long In The Journal of the New York State at 1500 Lincoln Building, Louisville, Ky. by sixty in width, and with its equip- Teachers' Association for March Pro- '97 ME—Kenneth E. Stuart is on the ment cost $375,000. fessor George A. Works discusses the engineering committee of the National "Operation of the Township Act in New In The American Journal of Archae- Research Council, Washington, D. C. York State." He advocates the forma- ology for January-March, just received, This council is a branch of the Council tion of a commission to study the situa- Professor Alice Walton, Ph.D. '92, of National Defense, and deals with all tion in this State and report to the Legis- describes "A Polyclitan Statue" at scientific and engineering problems aris- lature. "Such a study," he says, "would Wellesley College, with an illustration. ing out of the war. undoubtedly result in the" finding of a In The Princeton Alumni Weekly for basis that would be acceptable to the '98 LLB—Judge Willard M. Kent of April 10 Professor Everett W. Goodhue, farmers and upon which a sound but a Ithaca is holding court in New York of Colgate, praises highly "Modern Cur- progressive system of rural schools may City, having been invited because of the rency Problems," by Professor Edwin be established. Such a system will not congested condition of the civil calendar. W. Kemmerer, Ph.D. '03, of Princeton. be possible if we return permanently to He is assisting Judge Gibbs of the Bronx. Walter L. Webb '84 and John C. L. the district system." Professor George ΌO BS—Leave of absence has been Fish '92 are the authors of "Technic of P. Bristol writes editorially on "Lpoking granted by Harvard to Louis C. Graton, Surveying Instruments and Methods," Forward" with reference to educational professor of economic geology, to enable a volume of 333 pages, which is a com- policy. him to take charge of the work of the 382 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Copper Producers' Committee in Wash- awaiting orders. The regiment has- concrete, and are three stories high, with ington, D. C. adopted as its insignia a fighting black a total of about 900,000 square feet of '03 ME—Harold F. Jewett is an cat, with its back arched, and the slogan floor space for the Navy building, and engineer with the Honolulu Iron Works "65th, Treat Έm Rough." about 800,000 square.feet for the Army Company, Teniente Rey No. 11, Habana, ΊO AB—A daughter, Marcia, was born building. It is expected that the build- Cuba. His address is P. O. Box 1614, on April 18 to Dr. and Mrs. David T. ings will be completed by fall. Ensign Havana. Wilber of Ithaca. Wilber is now research Rothmaler's address is in care of the '03 ME—Fred L. Pomeroy is assistant assistant in physics. United Service Club, Dupont Circle, Washington, D. C. traffic manager of the Chevrolet Motor ΊO—Lieut. Donald M. Dey is sta- Company of New York, Inc. His home tioned at Kelly Field No. 1, San Antonio, Ί2 CE—Peter J. Gallagher, who has address is Douglaston, L. I. Texas. He is in the First Training been in Canton, China, for the Standard Oil Company, for the past six years, has Ό5 BSA—Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Chase, Brigade. given up his position and returned to 79 Third Avenue, Gloversville, N. Y., ΊO AB; Ί2 AB—A daughter, Lucia Ithaca to enter the Army. announce the birth of a daughter on Elmore, was born on March 19, to Mr. April 1. She has been named Edith and Mrs. Vasco E. Nunez (Edith P. Ί2 AB—The address of Private Jacob Vivian. Roberts Ί2). Nunez is manager of the S. Fassett, jr., is changed to Head- '05 AB—At the 130th meeting of the Waxing Division, Nashua Gummed and quarters, Camp Gordon, Ga. American Oriental Society at New Coated Paper Company, Nashua, N. H. '12 ME—First Lieut. George W. Cur- Haven on April 24, Professor Franklin Ίl DVM—Second Lieut. Arthur W. tiss, Ordnance, N. A., has been assigned Edgerton read two papers: "A Hindiism Combs, Veterinary O. R. C, is in the to the 120th Ordnance Depot Company, in Sanskrit" and 'The Metaphor of the Remount Service, and has been assigned Camp McClellan, Ala. Car as Applied to the Rigvedic Ritual." to the French Veterinary Hospital, Ί3 CE—First Lieut. Charles Weiss, He was reelected corresponding secretary American Expeditionary Forces. Engineer R. C, has been transferred to of the Society for the ensuing year. Ίl BChem—Harry A. Crown is with the National Army, with the rank of '06 LLB—Harry L. Nuese was ap- the American Glue Company, Spring- captain. He is Acting Post-Adjutant pointed to the staff of the District At- dale, Pa. with the 66th Engineers at Camp torney of Erie County, New York, on Ίl AB—Second Lieut. Jacob Cohen, Laurel, Md. April 1, 1918. Aviation Section, Signal R. C, is sta- Ί3 ME—Announcement has been '07 AB—Louis W. Fehr, a former tioned at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla. made of the engagement of Miss Amy newspaper man of Ithaca, is a candidate Ίl AB—Jesse A. Kingsbury is senior Blanche Firth, of Faribault, Minn., to for the Republican nomination for Con- inspector of materials in the Aviation- First Lieutenant Frederic B. Wipperman, gress in the upper Harlem district, New Section, Signal Corps, and is assigned Engineer R. C. Lieutenant Wipperman York. to the Trego Motor Corporation, New is with the 311th Engineers at Camp '07 DVM—Charles G. Thomson since Haven, Conn. His home address is Grant, 111. his graduation has spent several years in 251 Crown Street, New Haven. Ί3 ME—Donald H. Reeves has re- the Philippine Islands, in the veterinary Ίl ME—First Lieut. John O. Fuchs, turned to Ithaca for a short time, and is service of the Army, in organizing a Aviation Section, Signal R. C, is in testing a new piece of apparatus to be veterinary school in the University of command of the 503d Aero Squadron at used in the operation of airplanes, in Manila, and as prison superintendent. the Concentration Camp, Morrison, Va. the electrical laboratory in Rand Hall. When the United States entered the This squadron has just returned from Reeves developed the machine while ex- war, he returned to America as captain Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla. perimenting in the Government labora- tories at Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, and in the Quartermaster's Department. He Ίl ME; Ί4—The address of Lieut. extensive tests are being made to prove is now major in charge of the Remount Sidney D. Kutner, Engineer R. C, is its efficiency. Depot at Camp Dix. On April 18 Major changed to Constructing Office, Gas Thomson lectured at the Veterinary Service, Army P. O. No. 717, American Ί3 ME—Emile L. Aschaffenburg is a College on "The Horse from the Farm Expeditionary Forces. Warren R. Scott first lieutenant in the Ordnance Depart- to the Firing Line." Ί4 and Ralph Knapp Ί4 are also con- ment, and is on duty as machine gun '07 CE—Captain William J. Turner, nected with the Gas Service. repair officer in the 307th Mobile Ord- nance Repair Shop, 82d Division, sta- Signal R. C, has been ordered to Dorr Ί2 BSA—Kenneth D. Rockwell is a tioned at Camp Gordon, Ga. He was Field, Arcadia, Fla. first lieutenant in the 108th Field Ar- married in January to Miss Helene '07—Captain James A. McKenna has tillery, now at Camp Hancock. Bloom of Atlanta, Ga. been at the front since last November, Ί2 ME—Oswald Rothmaler received Ί3 BArch, Ί6 MArch—Second Lieut. when he reached France, a member of a commission, on March 4, as assistant Elton R. Norris, Infantry R. C, is now the famous "Fighting Sixty-ninth." His civil engineer, with the rank of ensign, on overseas duty. He is attached to company was the first to enter the in the U. S. N. R. F. He is now stationed Company C, 165th Infantry. trenches, and he says that there has not at Washington, in the Civil Engineer been one fatality, so far, and very few Corps of the Navy, as inspector of me- Ί4 ME—Lieut. Frederick W. Heisley, wounded. chanical equipment on the Army and Coast Artillery R. C, is on duty with ' '08 ME—The 65th Engineers, of which Navy buildings now being constructed, the American Expeditionary Forces, un- Archie G. Rockwell is a member, expects by the Turner Construction Company, assigned. to be sent over any day, as they have under Navy supervision, at Potomac '14 ME—Warren Packard has been been packed up for nearly two weeks, Park. These buildings are of reinforced appointed an ensign in the Naval Re- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 383 serve Flying Corps, and is at present in lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve Corps. '15 AB—Russell S. Tarr has been charge of production under the inspector He is attached to the 8th Infantry, Camp transferred from the 27th Minirig En- of engineering materials at the new plant Fremont, Calif. gineers to Company B, 29th Engineers, of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Cor- '15 AB—Sergeant Charles O. Ben ton, American Expeditionary Forces. poration in Buffalo. N. A., has completed his course in the '15 ME—John H. Newman's address '14 AB—Milton Weinstein has been third Officers' Training Camp at Camp is in care of Government Nitrate Plant recommended for a commission in the Sherman, Ohio, ranking second among No. 1, Sheffield, Ala. Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. the graduates. He has been transferred '15 ME—Lieut. William A. Taylor, He may be addressed in care of the to Camp Gordon, Ga. Aviation Section, Signal R. C, has been Quartermaster's Office, Signal Corps, '15 PhD—Peter Juriaan van der assigned to the General Repair Depot, A. S., Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, L. I. Heyde Schreuder is vice-principal of Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind. '14 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Os- Potchefstroom Agricultural College, Cape '15 AB—Captain Clement L. Speiden, wald Ward announce the birth of a son, Colony, South Africa. U. S. R., has arrived safely in France. Howard Oswald, on April 3, 1918. '14 BS—Edwin G. Bishop has been transferred from Key West, Fla., to Company 20, Naval Aviation Detach- Shakespearean Playhouses ment, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Cambridge, Mass. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH THEATRES '14 AB, '14 AM—Henry Chalmers' from the BEGINNINGS to the RESTORATION address is U. S. Tariff Commission, By JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS, Ph.D. Washington, D. C. Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University '15 AB—Second Lieut. Arthur Dole, ΠpO the lover of the drama, as well as to the student of Eng- jr., Aviation Section, Signal R. C, has 1 lish literature, this book brings a wealth of fresh informa- been ordered to Camp Dick, Dallas, tion. The illustrations, which are a noteworthy feature of the Texas. volume, constitute a complete pictorial history of English '15 AB—J. Richey Horner, jr., who theatres from the beginnings to the Restoration. sailed for France last August, is serving "I have no hesitation in saying "It is rather surprising that no- as an X-ray operator in the General that Professor Adams's splendid book body else has recently tried to do Hospital Unit No. 9. on the. genesis and history of the what Professor Adams has here so Shakespearean theatres places Amer- well done: probably scholars have '15 AB—Captain Robert C. Candee ica in the van of Elizabethan scholar- not realized how rich the harvest is in Troop H, 1st Cavalry, U. S. A., ship. Nobody competent to could be. . . Scholars will find stationed at Douglas, Ariz. judge can doubt for a moment that the book invaluable for its accuracy it is bound to become the standard and comprehensiveness; the reader '15 AB—William L. Kleitz has been work on its subject. . . One can- whose interest in literary history is promoted from second to first lieutenant, not conceive the possibility of its less professional, will enjoy its pic- ture of a fascinating circle in Lon- and is commanding the Headquarters ever being superseded. . . It shows lucidity, grasp, research, orig- don life."— The Dial. Company of the 50th Infantry, stationed inality of thought: there is a master- at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. mind behind it. Incidentally prob- "The two main requirements of '15—Lieut. Melvin Adler's address is lems are solved which have long proved thorns in the flesh to the such a discussion are: First, that it in care of the Camp Quartermaster, conscientious theatrical antiquary. sets forth the essential and im- Military Branch, Chattanooga, Tenn. The quaint and contradictory map- portant facts with clearness and au- thority, and second, that it shows '15 CE—Second Lieut. Nelson S. views of old London have at last received thoroughly scientific ex- great accuracy in presenting the Perkins is in the 64th Infantry at Fort amination, with results as surprising many details in which such a subject Bliss, El Paso, Texas. as they are important. Finally, it abounds. Professor Adams has met both these requirements admirably. '15 BS—Walter Funk was married on needs to be said that Professor Adams is the only scholar who has evinced On the main issues he has written March 26 to Miss Frances N. Faunce of full knowledge of the intricacies of with full knowledge and sound judg- Riverton, N. J. Funk is now assistant early theatrical finance, a subject ment."—The Nation. foreman of an eighty-acre truck and fruit which has baffled all attempts at farm in Monmouth County. His ad- elucidation since Malone pioneered the way for a long line of muddling "Since the present cannot be under- dress is R. F. D. 1, Keyport, N. J. investigators."—W. J. Lawrence, Eng- stood without a thorough knowledge of the past, Mr. Adams's scholarly '15 AB, '15 AM—Corporal John W. lish scholar. Author of The Eliza- bethan Playhouse, etc. account of the Shakespearean Play- Roe has been transferred from the 15th houses is an important factor in any Field Artillery to the Army Artillery "Involving as it does such a mass study of contemporary development. Headquarters, First Army, American of detail, the book is remarkably clear He presents a rich store of in its arrangement and method of new material, interesting and im- Expeditionary Forces. presentation, and refreshingly free portant in itself, and made doubly '15 BS—Lieut. Arthur W. Wilson has from dogmatism, pedantry, and the so by his judicious discussion and been assigned to Battery E, 129th Field wearisome accumulation of statis- interpretation." tics."—The Sewanee Review. —The New York Times. Artillery, Detachment 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. $3.50 Postpaid. 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His address is Army Post Office No. 714. tenant in the Porto Rico Infantry, U. S. '16 AB—Second Lieut. Arthur T. American Expeditionary Forces. Army.1 He is at present in the Machine Lobdell, Engineers, N. A., is regimental '15 AB—First Lieut. Norman Renne, Gun Company, stationed at Camp E. S. exchange officer with the 28th Engineers, Infantry R. C, is on duty with the Amer- Otis, Las Cascadas, Canal Zone. at Woodbridge, Va. ican Expeditionary Forces. '16 BS—Albert Hoefer is director of '16—Loft us G. Lorenzen is in Com- '15 CE—Charles F. Radford has been agriculture in the Troy High School, pany L, 129th Infantry, stationed at transferred from the 20th Engineers to Troy, N. Y. He is also supervising about Camp Logan, Houston, Texas. Company A, 41st Battalion, 41st En- five thousand home gardens in the city '16 LLB—Benjamin F. Sovocool has gineers, American Expeditionary Forces. of Troy. graduated from the Third Officers' '16 AB—Second Lieut. John M. Van '16 ME—Eakin L. Wheless is a first Training Camp at Yaphank, and has Horson has been ordered to Columbus, lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, qualified for a commission as second Ohio, to attend the School for Adjutants. National Army. He may be addressed lieutenant of infantry. '16 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Charles in care of the Chief Ordnance Officer, Steinmann, of Edgewater Park, N. J., Army Post Office No. 712, American '16 AB—Laurence K. Callahan has announce the engagement of their daugh- Expeditionary Forces. been appointed a first lieutenant in the ter, Eva Mae, to Andress Stanley Ridg- '16—Announcement has been made of Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, way of Delanco, N. J. No date has the marriage of Miss Aimee Lee Strock, on recommendation of General Pershing. been set for the wedding. of Denver, Colo., to Sergeant George F. '17 AB—Second Lieut. William F. '16 CE—Luis F. Cianchini received a Bettcher, who is now stationed at Camp Stuckle has been assigned to duty with commission, on June 5, 1917, as lieu- Funston, Kans. the 107th Ordnance Depot Company, Camp Gordon, Ga. '17—Allison C. Mills is a lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, and is stationed at present at the plant of the Hess Steel Corporation, Baltimore, Md. '17 AB—First Lieut. Mark H. Ingra- ham, Infantry R. C, is in the Supply Company of the 309th Infantry at Camp Dix, N. J. '17 CE—George R. Thompson is a cadet in the U. S. Army School of Mili- tary Aeronautics at Cornell University.

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