CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Vol. VII. No. 10 Ithaca, N. Y., December 7, 1904 Price 10 Cents

Registration Announced. GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE. 1903. 1904. 1903. 1904- First Official Figures Given Out for All Doing graduate work 177 192 Seniors 9 9 Classes and Departments—Geo- In undergrad. courses 221 246 Juniors 7 10 graphical Summary. Sophomores 10 15 Total 398 439 Freshmen 24 21 The official registration figures for the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Specials 4 5 first term of the year 1904-5 have just Painting 6 2 I903. 1904. been compiled by Registrar Hoy for use Seniors 206 170 Special Painting 3 3 in the Cornell register, to be issued Juniors 135 118 about the first of January. The total Total 63 65 Sophomores 145 139 attendance shows an increase of 217, or Freshmen 220 224 COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING. a little larger than was indicated earlier Specials 20 21 in the year. This year's total is 3230, as 1903. 1904. against 3013 for 1903. Seniors 35 55 Total 726 672 As shown by the earlier figures, the Juniors 56 57 College of Arts and Sciences and the COLLEGE OF uw. Sophomores 71 98 College of Law are the only departments 1903. 1904. Freshmen 150 165 showing a falling off in attendance. Seniors 44 57 Special 1 Some of the suggested reasons for this Juniors 75 79 Total 312 376 condition have already been discussed First Year 113 84 in these columns. Sibley College shows Specials 3 4 SIBLEY COLLEGE. a healthy increase in its total attendance, 1903. 1904. Total 235 224 but a slight falling off in its Freshman Seniors 118 165 class. This may be explained, however, MEDICAL COLLEGE. Juniors 161 201 by the fact that new entrance require- 1903. 1904. Sophomores 270 282 ments went into effect this fall for the Seniors, N. Y. city 57 76 Freshmen 389 378 first time. These require both advanced Juniors, " " 85 68 Specials 4 13 French and advanced German, as well Sophs. " " 44 54 as advanced mathematics, for admission Freshm'n " " 80 93 Total 942 1039 to Sibley, the standard thus being identi- Specials, " " 12 12 INSTRUCTING STAFF. cal with group C of the requirements in Sophomores, Ithaca 29 48 1903. 1904. Arts. Freshmen, " 53 41 Professors 93 103 The College of Agriculture shows per- Assistant Professors 52 51 haps the largest increase among the var- Total 360 392 Lecturers 4 10 ious departments, its registration having COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. Instructors 134 140 jumped from 135 to 184, but it will be Assistants 108 125 observed that most of this increase is in 1903. 1904. the "specials," who are not obliged to Seniors 9 12 Total 391 429 satisfy the entrance requirements. Juniors 12 17 The graduate department has grown Sophomores 15 17 Geographical Summary. from 398 to 438, which seems to be a Freshmen 40 50 The distribution of the students from tribute to the kind of work that is done Specials 59 88 a geographical standpoint remains much in the seminaries and advanced labora- the same as a year ago, though a few tories. The faculty shows a consider- Total 135 184 additional foreign countries are now able increase, the total number of resi- VETERINARY COLLEGE. represented. Following is the number dent teachers having grown from 391 to 1903. 1904. of students contributed by the five states 429. Third Year 17 23 which head the list and by the foreign The following figures show the regis- Second Year 22 27 countries represented: tration for 1903 and for 1904 in each First Year 46 53 FIRST FIVE STATES. class in the various departments of the. 1903. 1904. University: Xotal 85 103 New York , 1691 1808 i52 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Pennsylvania 268 296 For several years it has been more and played, as against thirteen last year. Ohio 121 125 more evident that the Southern trip was Three short trips are being planned; Illinois 120 112 failing in its object merely because the one to Princeton; a second to play New, Jersey 117 142 men, could not stand the long railway Pennsylvania and Columbia, and a third FOREIGN COUNTRIES. joίirn^s between games. The moment to meet Harvard and Amherst. The ex- IP03. 1904. one game was over, they were generally tended Eastern trip of a few years ago Porto Rico 3 3 obliged to pack up and travel two or seems to be a thing of the past, as it Philippines 1 9 three hundred miles to the next place, proved to be a failure for much the same Hawaii .. 1 5 reaching there too late for any prac- reason as, the Southern trip—too much Alaska — 1 tice before the game. They returned to traveling about between games. Canada 26 21 Ithaca to commence their real season Manager J. G. Murphy has been at Argentine Republic 11 9 worn out by the long jaunt, instead of work for the past two months upon the Brazil 9 5 being refreshed by their visit to sun- spring schedule, and now only a few Cuba 8 8 nier climes. final details remain to be completed be- Japan 6 6 THE SOUTHERN SCHEDULE. fore it is submitted to the Athletic Coun- Mexico 6 7 This year the team will leave Ithaca cil and announced publicly. Peru 5 3 March 24, the first day of vacation, and * Australia 4 6 go direct to Nashville. The schedule of (JoStellO ElβCtθd Captain. England 3 5 games to be played there is not quite r

Sw^n 3 2 complete, tat.in a general way it may p]u Tackle WJ^—, Team Nβχt γeap China 2 6 be said that three games will be played -Warner's Advice to Men. India 2 1 with Vanderbilt University, which is lo-

Russia 2 1 rated in that city one game with the j H Costellθ) .^ of Elmira> right

South Africa 2 1 Nashville Southern league team at tack)e ofth e Varsity eleven, was elected

British Columbia 1 - least one game and perhaps two with captain ofneχ t year>g team ata meeting

Central America 1 2 Cumberland University, at Lebanon, kgt Friday eyenmg He entered the

Ecuador 1 1 Tern., about fifty miles south of Nash- University from Mercersburg in 1902

New Zealand 1 I vile, probably a game with the Univer- and , d substitute tackle in the yar-

Norway I - sity of Nashville, and possibly one also gJ durj hig Freshman year and won

Turkey 1 3 with the University of the South at his a(y, n the Pennsylvania game. Un_

Holland - 2 Swanee, about ninety miles from Nash- fortunatd an mjury, t0 his kn€e con- Roumania - 1 ville. Contests with the first three teams tracted ffl the Hobart game this faU pre.

France - 1 named have been definitely arranged yented him from pIaying at his best m

Scotland - 1 the other two games are now being ne- any of the contests Although badly bat. Austπa — τ gCΐ, • , ,. , tered in the Princeton game, Costello

Bulgaria .. - 1 The advantages of this scheme are played pluddly on through the season>

Germany - 1 that the men will .have six or eight good and was Qne of the mainstays ofth e

1903. 1904. stiff contests with prominent teams, e]even He was ident ofhi s Fresh. wlthout 1903. 1904. navmg to chase all over the man class and is a member of Dunstan

~Γ~τ7^~Γ~^«i country to meet them; and moreover, and Aleph Samach.

Change in Baseball Plans, wiii have the forenoons throughout the Atth e close ofth e election; Captain

week for practice along the lines where James Lynah addressed the meni n part Team Goes to Nashville on Southern Trip they find themselves weak. They ought follows-

and Plays AΠGames There. t0 return to Ithaca with a great deal of <Ί desjre to eχpress my thanks fof real benefit from th The baseball schedule for 1905, now e Southern trip. the good> hard ωd consίstent work you almost complete, will contain one dis- EARLY SEASON : LONG SCHEDULE. have done this season, and I assure you tinct departure from the schedules of The spring vacation, coming as it does that the coaches, the officials and all of recent years. The Southern trip will the last week in March, is two or three us appreciate it greatly. If you show as be taken during the Easter vacation, as weeks earlier than usual and more than much spirit and if you work as hard before, but instead of dodging about to one week earlier than last year even. next year as you have this, Cornell's eight or ten different cities on the At- For this reason the team will not have a standing in intercollegiate football will lantic coast, the team will go straight to chance for much outdoor practice before rise in a gratifying manner." one point and remain there or in the going South and must put in good time After reviewing the football season immediate vicinity during the whole while away. The team will return to Coach Glenn Warner said.: time it is in the South. That point will Ithaca April 3, and the opening game of "You must now give careful attention be Nashville, Tenn. During the time the regular schedule comes only two to your studies, for we do not want to four or five teams will be met in a total days later, April 5, which is about the lose any of our good men in February, of eight games. The Cornell team will time last year's team was starting for Also keep in good physical condition and not go outside the state of Tennessee the South. arrange your exercises and your work for any of these contests, traveling at This early opening means that the 'this winter and next spring with the idea the most not more than a hundred miles schedule will be fuller than usual. In of developing and preparing yourself for from Nashville. fact about twenty home games will be the gridiron next fall. I may have CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. 153 worked the team a little too hard this more modern apparatus while the re- it is generally recognized that there is year, as I noticed some of the players mainder will be used for experimental no time when young men are influenced were losing weight at the close of the work. The big triple expansion engine, as when they are in college. Heretofore season, but it was on account of my constructed by the students of Sibley foreign students at the University have anxiety to develop a strong eleven. about nine years ago and which was not felt themselves in a certain sense alien- "After the holiday vacation I intend operated for some time because of a de- ated from the main undergraduate body to get up a class for the purpose of fect in the valve construction, has been and accordingly devoted themselves studying the football rules. We will get put in shape under the direction of Pro- closely to their work, paying little at- together in the evening from 7 to 8 fessor Carpenter and this valuable piece tention to student activities, and min- o'clock and work on the rules and figure of machinery will be used by the stu- gling but little with their fellows. out perplexing situations, so as to know dents in connection with the electrical As a rule only the most energetic and the game thoroughly when next season work. capable men are sent to foreign univer- begins. In addition to this apparatus Professor sities for education and these men after "I am going to offer medals next Harris J. Ryan, head of the department returning home generally become factors spring for the three best punters. The of electrical engineering, is planning a in state and national government. competition will probably be held in the laboratory strictly for electrical engin- Through this club the American and for- latter part of May and will be decided eers, to be installed next year. A por- eign students in the University will, it by the best average distances in five tion of the apparatus will be located in is believed, be brought into closer touch punts or in some such manner. I hope the west wing of Sibley while the re- with international affairs than in any we can develop some good punters." mainder will be placed in the building at other way. present occupied by the dynamo labora- It is interesting to note the number of Sibley Plant Augmented. tory. nationalities represented in the charter This explains the disposal of the old membership of the club. These are Ar- College to Have Space and Apparatus physical laboratory after the new Rocke- gentine Republic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Rou- Now Used by Electric Power System. feller hall of physics will have been com- mania, Japan, Armenia, Russia, Turkey, pleted. It seems to be the intention of China, Holland, Germany, New Zealand,' For some months the faculty of Sib- the trustees to change entirely the sys- India, Peru, England, Australia, Canada, ley College and the University Board of tem of instruction in electrical work at Mexico, South Africa, Sweden and Trustees have had under consideration present in vogue and while in future France. the disposal of the present electric plant students will receive much of their the- The following officers were elected at after the completion of the new power oretical instruction in the physical labor- the meeting last week: president; W. A. system. They are now agreed in the atories, the practical work will occupy Reece, '05, of New Zealand first' vice- decision to turn over the apparatus and the greater portion of their time and president, J. Lorenz, '05 second vice- space to the department of experimental this work will be conducted under the president, K. Wu, '05, of China; secre- engineering. This moλ^e on the part of direct supervision of Sibley College. tary, C. Bues, '06, of Germany assist- the trustees marks the first of a series ant secretary, F. Aleman, '08; treasurer, of changes and additions to the equip- Form Cosmopolitan Club. F. D. Colson; trustees, Professors Hunt ment of Sibley College which, it is be- Olmsted, Bristol, and Fetter; M. Qui- lieved, will place the experimental de- More Than Twenty Nationalities Repre- roga and A. A. Freedlander, '05. partments of mechanical and electrical sented—Movement to be Extended. No steps have as yet been taken to engineering among the foremost in extend this movement beyond Cornell America, if not in the world. The movement begun in the Univer- but it is believed that it will meet with In a recent issue of the ALUMNI NEWS sity several weeks ago for the formation the same hearty favor in other institu- the scheme of correlating the depart- of a Cosmopolitan club was greeted tions. . An outline of the objects of the ments of electrical and experimental en- with enthusiasm by the many foreigners general association is given below: gineering was outlined and the an- and undergraduates in general desirous 1. To promote the organization of nouncement was made of the appoint- of associating in an intellectual and so- societies with similar aims wherever ment of Professor Karapetoff, formerly cial way and last week a meeting was possible. with the Westinghouse Electric and held in Boardman hall at which definite 2. To maintain club rooms or club- Manufacturing company, to a new pro- steps towards organization were taken. houses whenever possible. fessorship in the latter department. He A constitution was adopted and officers 3. To aid and protect students of all will ultimately have supervision over and directors elected for the ensuing nationalities. all the electrical experimental work car- year. 4. To maintain free tribunes, where ried on in the college. The object of this movement is two- lectures may be delivered on any sub- The present University electric plant fold and worthy of more than passing- ject. occupies the whole of the rear west wing notice. Not only are the organizers de- 5. Tα promote the individual welfare of Sibley. In it are contained many gen- sirous of bettering the social relations of the members of the association in erators and motors of greater magni- of aliens at Cornell but it is proposed to whatever country they may be. tude than any at present included in the make the association an international 6. To promote friendly and commer- dynamo laboratory. These will all be one and to bring about the establishment cial relations between the several coun- turned over to the experimental depart- of chapters in the larger universities tries and a higher standard of order, ment and some will be exchanged for throughout the world. justice and living. 154 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. College Papers do not contribute to the college publica- Hon. James T. Rogers of the New York tions and in order to awaken new inter- legislature will preside. A quartette of the Cornell Glee club will furnish the Present Yβap One of Decided Progress est this year William Wallace Gail, '05, with Cornell Publications. editor-in-chief of the Era, presents the music. paper in a truly attractive form with a Last year's banquet was highly suc- Many distinct departures both in form new cover design by W. G. Burwell, '08. cessful, about sixty members being pres- and method of management Have been Other changes are noticed, all of which ent, and every indication points to even introduced in connection with the Uni- seem to relieve the paper of stiffness and greater success this winter. The club versity publications this fall, and in fact pedanticism. Most important of these, embraces the territory of Broome, Όhe- the Sibley Journal alone appears in its "perhaps, is the introduction of verse and nango, Delaware, Otsego, Cortland and old garb. The Widow, The Era and the stories "in lighter vein" in a separate Tioga counties. Daily Sun have all been changed and de- department, the essentially serious and cidedly improved under the new regimes. literary character of the magazine being An Interesting" Souvenir. THE SUN. thus unimpaired. An exchange depart- The Cornell Sun, now under the man- ment has been re-instituted and is in A telegram fifteen years old and of agement of E. H. Kelley, '05, consists of charge of Gaylor Graves, '05. Ernest peculiar interest to Cornellians has been eight pages instead of four as in previous W. Kelsey, '05, is business manager. received by the ALUMNI NEWS from F. Raymond, '92, of Chicago. It is dated, years. A pleasing feature of the paper THE SIBI.EY JOURNAL. "Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1889," and ad- is that the departments have been so The Sibley Journal maintains its high dressed to "C. M. Blackmer, Billiard separated that notices, telegraph, general standard of excellence and is coming Room, Ithaca, N. Y.," and reads as University and intercollegiate news can more and more to be the official paper follows: be found at once. Two columns of tele- for the publication of the results of ex- "Cornell sixty-six, University of Mich- graph news are received daily through a perimental and theoretical work con- igan, nothing. They do not understand special arrangement with the New York ducted in and about Sibley College and the game. (Signed,) J. A. WILLIAMS/' World and as a result students are fam- by the graduates. W. W. Hodge, '05, "Johnnie" Williams was manager of iliar, early each morning, with the more is editor-in-chief and Robert Falkenau, the Cornell eleven which made so fine important telegraphic news of the day. '05, business manager. This feature of the paper has attracted a record in '8g. The message will prob- THE CORNELL COUNTRYMAN. much favorable comment. The manage- ably be framed and deposited in the tro- The Cornell Countryman, a magazine ment is installed in handsomely fur- phy room at Barnes Hall. published monthly by the students and nished offices in the Ithaca Trust Com- graduates of the Cornell College of Ag- pany building. H. N. Morse, '05, is ed- Edward Holmes Re-eleeted Leader. riculture, enters the second year of its itor-dn-chief and H. P. DuBois, '06, is existence in a pleasing form. The maga- At a meeting of the Glee Club held managing editor. zine is illustrated and replete with ex- Saturday afternoon, Edward Holmes, THE WIDOW. cellent articles on agricultural topics. Jr., was re-elected leader of the club for A clever staff of editors occupies the C. S. Wilson, '04, is editor with C. R. A. the coming year. He has sung on the sanctum of the Widow this year. The Bues, M. W. Evans, E. Kelly and Miss club since entering college and has been first issue of the paper at once command- F. M. Cook as associates; P. E. Clapp one of the soloists for the past two years. ed attention because of the extremely at- is business manager. Last year he was appointed temporary tractive form and the witty subject mat- leader of the club for the Cornell-Co- ter. The paper this year is somewhat The Chieagro Smoker. lumbia concert and was afterward elect- larger than in previous years and is ed leader for the year. He was the only printed on a heavy yellow paper. The The smoker given by the Chicago Cor- man nominated for the position, and his editors, so far at least, have not inclined nell Alumni Association last Saturday election was unanimous. so much toward the "stunty" in the cover evening was highly successful. Coach designs but have rather endeavored to Charles E. Courtney was the guest of Julius Chambers Leetures. obtain artistic plates. The regular is- honor, it being his first trip West since sues of the paper contains thirty pages, in 1893, when he took out a Cornell crew Julius Chambers, '70, who for many which are included the usual humorous to row against Western eights on Lake years has been prominent in New York sketches, verses and items. Romeyn Minnetonka. A fuller report of the city journalism, is giving a series of four Berry, '04, is editor-in-chief, Robert A. smoker will be published in next week's lectures at the University this week on Gardner, '05, business manager and NEWS. the conduct of a modern newspaper. Leonard G. Van Ostrand, '06, artistic The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, editor. Bing hamton Club Banquet. "The City Editor and His Training THE ERA. School;" Wednesday, "The Special Cor- Several years ago the Cornell Maga- On Thursday evening, December 15, respondent : the man who is presumed to zine was fused with the Cornell Era and at 8:30 o'clock, the Cornell club of have learned;" Thursday, "The Manag- at the present time the University has Binghamton will hold its annual banquet ing Editor: the man who must have the Era alone which caters particularly at the Arlington hotel in that city. learned;" Friday, "The Editorial Writ- to the literary tastes of the student com- President Jacob Gould Schurman will er : the man who doesn't have to learn— munity. The fact has been deplored that be the guest of honor and deliver the and the Business Manager, who has the more students with the ability to write principal address of the evening and the manufactured product to sell." CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. 155 Universities Discussed. Class Day—W. L. Ransom, chairman; Audience Enjoys Concert. Miss A. C. Kiep, J. L. Crouse, G. L. Genung, John Tinkler, Jr., E. H. Kelsey, Paur's Pittsburgh Orchestra Received Director Bailey Compares Country In- With Enthusiasm—A Little Surprise. stitutions With Those of the City. B. B. McGinnis, W. J. Miskella, B. F. Lies, R. W. Chase, N. G. Brayer, H. J. The University community and many In a short address delivered recently Richardson, ex-officio. interested townspeople enjoyed a genu- before the Agricultural Assembly in Banquet—C. E. Tourison, chairman; ine treat in a musical way in Sibley Hall Barnes Hall, Professor L. H. Bailey, F. J. Newman, S. A. Bingham, C. R. Monday evening, when Emil Paur and director of the College of Agriculture, Rogers, P. S. Rattle, H. G. Underwood, his celebrated Pittsburgh Orchestra gave spoke of "Country vs. City Universities." W. S. FitzRandolph, A. W. Newberry, the second of the series of Chamber con- The address was suggested by Presi- E. M. Welles, Cassius Way, W. P. Hol- certs. These concerts are held under the dent Butler's recent utterances in which man, H. W. Hochbaum, H. J. Richard- auspices of Professor Hollis E. Dann he said that in the future the universi- son, ex-officio. and his department of music, and their ties located in the larger cities would Cap and Gown—H. C. Brown, chair- aim is to entertain and educate the mem- gradually supplant those located in the man; Miss C. C. Faust, A. S. Brainard, bers of the University into a real appre- country districts. The former, Dr. But- H. W. Pitzman, E. A. Rogers, E. P. ciation of good music. The plan was in- ler believes, have much greater advan- Wilder, F. W. Scheidenhelm, H. J. augurated a year ago and received cor- tages in the way of libraries, museums Richardson, ex-officio. dial support; while the two concerts and collections which already exist in The Junior promenade, Sophomore given thus far in the present season have cities and which therefore do not have cotillion and Freshman banquet commit- attracted crowded and enthusiastic to be supplied by the universities them- etes as recently appointed are given be- houses. selves. low : The program rendered Monday even- Professor Bailey said that this argu- Junior prom.—Caldwell Martin, chair- ing consisted of the following numbers : ment had been partly answered by Presi- man; E. Cairns, H. L. Aller, N. H. Overture, "Der Frieschϋtz" Weber dent Schurman in his book "A Genera- Noyes, J. D. Collins, H. W. Slauson, S. Aria for soprano and orchestra from tion of Cornell," copies of which were S. Peer, C. F. Alliaume, W. F. Lee, opera "Joan of Arc" Tschaikowski presented to the graduating class of 1898. Charles Rose, J. J. Wolfersperger, J. B. Mrs. Emma Myers. A further answer lies in the fact that a Phillips, W. L. Umstad, T. F." Crawford, YValdweben from "Siegfried". .. Wagner university does not consist essentially in C. A. Martinez, C. D. Hutton, C. H. Suite, "Peer Gynt," No. 1, Op. 46..Grieg libraries and museums but rather in the Tuck, ex-officio. Largo Handel men in the university. A self-sustaining Cotillion committee—H. H. Van Vleet, (Arranged by Hellmesberger.) country cannot have more than one-half chairman, F. C. Chapman, J. O. New- Violin solo by Mr. von Kunits. of its population situated in the cities ton, C. K. Hartzell, R. M. Keeny, H. L. Songs with Piano Richard Strauss and the other half must be represented Wardwell, W. B. Holmes, A. P. Howes, a. "Lovers' Pledge." in the rural universities. Jr., R. H. Bishop, O. Coors, W. S. Tay- b. "All Souls' Day." Those universities will prosper best, lor, P. M. Price, H. Correll, W. V. Mc- Mrs. Myers. according to Director Bailey, which best Gee, W. S. Stowell, C. J. Gόodier, ex- a. Menuetto from suite serve the interests of their constituents, officio. "L'Arlesienne" Bizet and the country university can attain this Freshman banquet—B. S. Johnson, b. Traumerei Schumann end by bringing its students close to the chairman; C. B. Goodspeed, W. S. Yard, c. Turkish March Mozart great teacher, Nature. R. M. Sleicher, R. J. Hackney, B. V. Overture, "Tannhauser" Wagner "In view of the widespread extension Marsh, H. S. Jones, H. H. White, E. T. The famous orchestra and its still movement," he continued, "the time is Gibson, E. P. Eckert, P. P. Carman, V. L. more famous leader won the audience coming when the university will reach Whitehead, V. P. Herriman, R. E. Wat- in the first number and from that time out and touch every side of life, every kins, P. J. MacNamara, W. G. Mennen, on the enthusiasm steadily increased, enterprise and occupation, and when C. R. Sheppard, R. Van Orman, ex- until the close of the majestic overture we will come to consider that it is bet- officio. from Tannhauser was greeted with a ter to have ten books in one hundred tremendous burst of applause. houses than one thousand books in one Photographs Wanted. house." Then came the surprise of the evening, The announcement printed on page for just as the people were rising to Committee Appointments. 150 from the publishers of "Cornell Uni- leave the hall, the orchestra began the veristy; A History," deserves attention. Evening Song. The audience rose and President Harold J. Richardson of the Although the publication of this work joined in the words and the musicians Senior class has announced the follow- is in a sense a private enterprise, still followed with the Crew Song. Then as ing committees : it merits the support of Cornell men a grand finale the strains of Alma Mater, Senior Ball—S. H. Ehrich, chairman; generally because it will be a valuable played as only a great orchestra could W. A. Reece, C. C. Adams, R. A. Gard- reference book. To make it so, its col- play it, to the accompaniment of a thou- ner, C. A. Flynn, R. P. Butler, Anton lection of photographs of athletic teams sand voices, rose to the vaulted roof of Vonnegut, J. H. Ramsay, W. Kuhlmey, should be as nearly complete as possi- the great dome. Mr. Paur's little coup C. M. Seymour, J. G, Murphy, W. S. ble. Persons having any of the photo- was rewarded with a hearty Cornell Fox, W. P. Allen, G. C. Boldt, H. J. graphs desired should see to it that they yell with his name at the end. Richardson, ex-officio. are included in the history. 156 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. to Cornell alumni, don't you think you tirely apart from the fact that "distance are in duty bound to help boom it a lends enchantment to the view." As little? The next time you meet one of Glenn Warner put it the other day in SUBSCRIPTION, — $2.00 PER YEAR Single copies, ten cents each. Foreign your friends who does not see the paper, addressing his squad, "the season of 1905 postage, 40 cents per year. Subscriptions please show him your copy and ask him has already begun" in the matter of payable in advance. if he doesn't thing he could manage to Should a subscriber desire to discontinue work to be done and plans to be laid. his subscription, notice to that effect should extract five cents' worth of Cornell news Last Friday evening, after the elec- be sent before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the sub- and Cornell spirit out of it each week. tion of captain, Coach Warner and scription is desired. When you attend a meeting of your Cor- others told the members of the squad Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable to the Cornell Alumni News. nell club or alumni association, won't what is expected of them between now All correspondence should be addressed,— you take the trouble to find out just how and September next. They were urged Cornell Alumni News, many of the members are outside the to apply themselves to their University Ithaca, N. Y. pale of our subscription list, and either Office: Lll N. Tioga St. work, keep in good physical condition drop a word or two to help pull them in, and, under their coach's direction, make ADVISORY BOARD. or else send us their names so that we a systematic study of football strategy. JOHN D. WARNER, '72 New York may reason with them for ourselves? That was for the players. Now the CHARLES S. FRANCIS, '77 Troy JOHN C. BRANNER, '82...... Palo Alto, Cal. Scores of our subscribers are already undergraduates generally, and more es- CHARLES H. HULL, '86 Ithaca FREDERICK V. COVILLE, '87 Washington doing these very things, and we hereby pecially the body of alumni, have an GEORGE J. TANSEY, '88 St. Louis thank them for their kindness but there obligation of their own to perform. HARRY L. TAYLOB, '88 Buffalo PERCY HAGERMAN, '90 Colorado Springs are hundreds more to whom the matter In the first place we may say, upon DAVID F. HOY, '91 Ithaca may not have occurred at all. We trust LOUIE B. WARE, '92 Worcester, Mass. the authority of everybody connected HERBERT E. LEE, '99 Buffalo it may occur now. with the team, that the fundamental EDITOR. Our subscription list shows a steady cause of the failure this season was the HARLAND B. TIBBETTS, '04. growth that is most encouraging, but scarcity of good material. This asser- ASSOCIATE: EDITOR. we could .manage to take care of a few tion has already been made in thesr HERBERT C. BROWN, '05. thousand more subscribers, even if we columns, but to bring it home to our BUSINESS MANAGER. had to double our mailing staff to do it. minds with convincing force we have JOHN L. SENIOR, Όl. With a field of some twenty thousand only to glance at the comparative Entered as second class matter at Ithaca P.O. Cornell men in all parts of the world to weights of five teams on the gridiron draw from, we feel that the possibilities this year. ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER η\ 1904. of the paper are not yet exhausted from Michigan's team is reported to have a circulation standpoint. averaged 200 lbs.; Yale, 199 5-7 lbs.; A WORD TO OUR READERS. We are endeavoring to make the NEWS Princeton, above 185 lbs. Pennsylvania, a concise and comprehensive chronicle 180 lbs. Cornell, 171 lbs. To these elo- Sufficient time has now elapsed for the of current history in the Cornell world quent figures we may add the fact that new regime in charge of the ALUMNI If we are succeeding, even to a limited the Cornell men averaged but 21 years NEWS to be fairly broken in and settled degree, the paper should be worth its old, and in experience averaged a trifle in its groove. Henceforth our mistakes subscription price merely to preserve for over one-third of a season. This was may be charged to natural stupidity reference purposes. We sometimes wish the team which was called upon to meet rather than inexperience. We realize we had kept track of the number of in- the husky veterans from Princeton and that this is a dangerous admission to quiries that come into the office every Pennsylvania. make, but we are ready to stand by it. week regarding the events of the past Several reasons are apparent for this Now that you have had time to form few years, which can be answered in a lack of good material at the University. a pretty accurate opinion of the paper few moments by turning to the ALUMNI The other large eastern universities, and its probable value to alumni, we are NEWS files. Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Penn, are interested in the result of your judg- The burden of our song, then, is this: surrounded by well known preparatory ment. And we have a favor to ask of if you approve of the paper, speak a kind schools which act as feeders for their you,—one which we believe your duty word for it here and there; if you dis- athletic teams. It is an actual fact' that as loyal Cornellians should impel you approve, tell us why. In either case, we a majority of the members of the Yale, to grant. think you ought to act in the matter. Harvard and Princeton tearris • were If your verdict is unfavorable, we In presenting to you this dilemma, we graduates of Andover, Exeter or Law- want to know that fact, and the reasons. trust that whichever horn you grasp, it lenceville and were experienced athletes We shall be very grateful to you if you may result in good to the University as before they entered college. Until CόY^ will write us and state the grounds of well as to this paper. nell begins to forge to the front on the your disapprovel. It is rather difficult gridiron and diamond it can not expect, to sit in the editorial sanctum and divine THE 1905 FOOTBALL TEAM. of its own force, to attract men frorfi by instinct, as it were, what impression these and similar schools in the face of we are making upon readers hundreds or Last week we said our final word the established reputation >nd prestige thousands of miles away. about the football season of 1904. We of its rival universities. On the other hand, if you decide that were glad to dismiss the subject and In this discouraging situation it is to you approve of the NEWS, and that it turn to the prospect for next year, our alumni that we must turn for help. has a message of real interest and value which really seems more hopeful, en- They must bestir themselves and work CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 157 hard to stop the How of good material the Christmas recess by adding one day to the other colleges and divert some of at each cud of the vacation. Instruction FOWNES GLOVES it to Cornell. The Cornell clubs and will end on Thursda}^, December 22 and alumni associations already exert a cer- will be resumed Wednesday, January 4. tain force in this direction; but just now Are "a good thing to we need a personal, individual effort More Cornellians Elected. from every "grad" who is in a position have on hand" and to help. We might name one or two Two more Cornellians who were suc- promising players who were directed to cessful candidates in the recent election Cornell this year by the active efforts are Franklin A. Coles, B. S., '84, and all good dealers have of alumni in their home towns. But we Hon. George E. Waldo, ex-72. Mr. must have more than one or two: we Coles was elected district attorney of them on hand* • • • must have a dozen or twenty or fifty Nassau county on the Republican ticket. candidates of merit to develop into Var- Mr. Waldo secured the election to sity men. Congress from his district. He served It matters not whether a "grad" was two terms in the Assembly at Albany SEABOARD himself a player while in college; he is and for several years lias been registrar AIR LINE RAILWAY. interested in the standing of the Cor- of deeds for the borough of Brooklyn, Shortest and most attractive nell team and he knows enough about N. Y. He is a brother of General route to the University to tell a young prep, Waldo, '82, and of Mrs. George A. Or- Southern Pines, Kinehurst rok, formerly Miss Jessie Waldo, ex-'83. and Caniden school athlete forty reasons why he and should choose Cornell for his Alma Mater. If the "grad" goes about it with Winter Sports Begin. ALL WINTER RESORTS the proper spirit, he ought to land his in the CAROLINAS and FLORIDA, Beebe Lake, known to many Cornel- Descriptive booklets and full infor- man long before he comes to the thirty- lians as Forest Lake, is again frozen mation as to tourist rates, hotels, etc. can ninth reason. over and every afternoon is the scene be had by addressing Now is the time for everybody to be- of merry activity. The ice is in excel- W. E. CONKLYN, gin a long pull together for the success lent condition and attracts hundreds of 1183 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. of the 1905 eleven and the NEWS is University and townspeople. Regular confident that the alumni will do their winter practice has been begun by the share. Varsity hockey team and before the end GRAND TRUNK of the week it is intended to have the At a meeting of the University faculty long toboggan slide iced and ready for held recently it was decided to extend Lehigh Valley Route. THE FOOT A Man's Face NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA to BALL DETROIT, CHICAGO and the WEST . . . has a right to health and Solid Vestibuled Trains, Exceptionally Fine comfort. It cannot have these GIRL. Service, and Superior Equipment, consisting unless he insists upon An original Cornell Poster hand of Modern, Up-to-date Coaches, Sleeping Cars, and Dining Cars. SHAVING painted in water colors. Size 9x22 WILLIAMS' STICK inches, price $3.00 post paid and Through Sleepers and Day Coaches, well worth the money. ITHACA to DETROIT and CHICAGO con- It would look well in your den. necting with all lines for the West, North- west and Southwest. For descriptive liter- ature and all information, apply to ROBERT H. HAZELTINE, The ROBERT BUSHBY, T. P. A., CORNELL '99. Cortland,, N. Y. Write him about INSURANCE Corner Bookstores. W. E. DAVIS, Pass'r Traffic Manager. TAYLOR & CARPENTER, G. T. BELL, Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agt., Whether you're insured or not. ITHACA, N. Y. Montreal, Quebec. ROOM 3 SAVI NQS BANK BLDG., Ithaca, N. Y Students should go to The Tompkins Co. National Bank KELLY'S BEGAN BUSINESS for Students' Supplies, Furnishing Goods, IX 1836. FIFTH AYE., 2TTH ST. Shoes, Caps, Hats, Neckwear, Spalding .VXD BROADWAY. Capital $1 0,000. Sportihg Goods of every description, Football and Baseball Supplies. Outfit= Q. M. SWEENEY, Surplus and Profits $125,000. ter for Football Team. Prop rietor. NEW YORK 158 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

Cornell Men in the New York State Phi Delta Theta—Thanksgiving re- Educational Department. cess, 1904, at Indianapolis, Ind. Michigan Central Phi Gamma Delta—Undecided. The Niagara Faϊίs Route* In the roster, just issued, of the re- Phi Sigma Kappa—In the fall of 1906, The Short and Direct Line to Detroit, gents and employees of the education at Ithaca, N. Y. Michigan Points, Chicago and department at the state capitol in Al- Psi Upsilon—Undecided. the West. bany, appear the names of the* following Sigma Alpha Epsilon—December 26- Cornellians. The education department, 29, 1904, at Memphis, Tenn. The Students' Favorite Route. it will be remembered, was formed last For rates and information inquire of Sigma Chi—August, 1905, at Cincin- local agents or write winter by the legislature from the re- nati, Ohio. gents' office and the department of pub- Sigma Nu—Dcember 26, 1904, at New O. W. RUGGI.ES, W. H. UNDERWOOD, lic instruction. Orleans, La. G. P. & T. Agt. G. K. P. Agt. Regent of the university—Charles S. Chicago. 486 Ellicott Square, Sigma Phi—Undecided. Buffalo. Francis, B. S , '77. Theta Delta Chi—February 22, 23, Chief of the examination division— 1904, at Chicago. Charles F. Wheelock, B. S., '73. Theta Xi—Last Friday in February, CORNELL STEEVS State entomologist—Ephraim P. Felt, 1905, at New York City. AND PLATES D. Sc, '94. Zeta Psi—January 2, 1905, at Boston, Assistant in charge of teachers exam- Mass. With Views of Cornell Buildings in color designs. Just the decorations for inations—John C. Bliss, A. B., '89. Home use Editor and proof reader of question The University Swimming club has papers—Annie T. Keyser, ex-gβ. been reorganized and E. T. Foote, '06, Senior examiner in science—Everett elected president. It has been decided Illustrated Booklet Mailed Free. O'Neill, Ph. B, '77. to hold regular meetings of the club Address Senior examiner in modern languages in the Armory on Friday evenings. —John T] Fitzpatrick, A. B., Όo. Races will be held each week and a Examiner in science—Horace L Field, water polo team organized. The Yale ROTHSCHILD BROS. A. B, '02. swimming club has expressed a desire I>ept. G, Itliaca, IV. Y. Sub-Law librarian—W. Burt Cook, to hold a meet with Cornell in Buffalo A. R, '96. early in the winter. If the proper relay Library assistants—Frances K. Ray, and water polo teams can be formed ITHACA, N. Y. A. B., '99, and May C. Nerney, A. B., '02. from the membership this meet will take place. The University of Pennsyl- PHOTOGRAPHER and STOCK DEALER. Fraternity Conventions. vania and the New York Athletic club Kodaks and Cameras for sale or rent. have requested that Cornell enter teams Mail a film, mention this ad and get it developed for ]/2 price returned to you The conventions of the majority of in the winter meets. next day. those fraternities in which chapters have been installed at Cornell are announced as follows: Alpha Delta Phi—March 9, 10, 11, 1905, at New York City. Alpha Tau Omega—Christmas re- A Procrastinator cess, 1904, at New York City. Alpha Zeta—November 2, 1904, at is a man who wont make the effort to obtain when it's sure to do Des Moines, Iowa. him good and wont cost him anything. Beta Theta Pi—July, 1905, at New York City. Just write in for catalogue of Snappy Shoes. Chi Phi—Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1904, at Lancaster, Pa. Everything from Patent Oxfords to Auto Boots. Chi Psi—Undecided. Delta Chi—April or June, 1905, at Chicago. WALL & SOIV, ITHACA, IV. Y. Delta Kappa Epsilon—November 17, 18, 19, 1904, at Chicago. Delta Phi—Undecided. THE TOGGERY SHOPS. Delta Tau Delta—August, 1905, at ON THE HILL New York City. DOWN TOWN 4O4 EIXDY. Delta Upsilon—October 28, 1904, at 138 E. STATE ST. If we should publish the names of Old Cornell Men that write us for goods, we Chicago. would have to buy a whole sheet to enumerate them. Are you on the list? If not, WHY IN oT. We forward anything, express paid one way from a collar button to a rain Kappa Alpha—Undecided. coat on approval for your selection. Greatest stock ever this season. Negligee shirts, fancy hose, pajamas, gloves, sweaters, cravats, hats, etc. Sole agent for the only Linen Kappa Sigma—During the fall of Underwear guaranteed to wear, The Belfast. Let us hear from you. 1906, place undecided. L. C BEMENT. Successor to Henry H. Angt LI. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. 159 Brief University News. scnted to the Cornell Athletic Associa- The jumps and pole vaults will be prac- tion by I. V. Buchannan, '05, coxswain tised in the Armory as usual. The dramatic committee of theof the 1903 Varsity crew, has recently In the Christmas number of Country Deutscher Verein has decided upon been overhauled at Geneva and a new Life in America, Professor L. H. Bailey Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" for 20-horsepower gasoline engine installed of the College of Agriculture has an presentation by the society in the spring. in place of the old one. This launch has article entitled ''Christmas on an Or- A competition for parts will be held in been employed in the past by the assist- chard Farm," being the story of the King the near future. ant coach of the navy in training the Freshman and second crews. family who have a large fruit farm near Trumansburg. Six of the children are A Faculty Gymnasium club has re- college graduates and the management cently been organized in the University. It has been definitely decided to re- sume the holding of Military hops in of the farm has been turned over to the Forty prospective club members attend- the Armory. A series of three will be young men while the parents have re- ed the first meeting of the organization held during the winter, the first of which tired and spend their winters in Florida. and great enthusiasm prevails. The club will take place December 12 from 8:30 will take up basketball, handball, bowl- o'clock until 12 o'clock. The hop poster Under the direction of Leader Con- ing and some of the other gymnasium has an attractive sketch in red of a way of the Ithaca band the University sports. mediaeval herald sounding his trumpet. cadet band is making rapid progress and the prospects of an excellent musi- After fourteen years of unceasing liti- The design for the poster was submit- cal organization this fall are bright. The gation the Fayerweather will case has ted by J. Andre Smith, '02. band at present consists of 28 members been decided by the United States Su- Track men will soon begin training all of whom have had considerable ex- preme Court in favor of the many col- for the indoor track meets to come off perience previous to joining the organi- leges to which the testator bequeathed later in the season. The board track is zation. As yet the band has not appear- his immense fortune. Of these colleges, now being put in place on the Armory ed at any of the drill periods and it is twenty in number, Cornell is one. Its green and is now about ready for use. not likely that it will play on the share of the estate was $305,000 and this This year there will be a straightaway green before the reviews next spring. amount had already been received. 12 feet wide and 100 yards long and a Captain Barton has instilled much en- circular track of 13 laps to the mile. thusiasm in his cadet corps and the Professor B. K. Fernow, late director Mr. Moakley has also arranged for a Freshmen seem to be taking the keenest of the New York State College of For- 12-foot platform for hammer throwing. interest in their work. estry, has been appointed by the Yale corporation to conduct the course of lec- tures at the Yale forestry school usually given by the director of the school, who is at present absent from the country. Dr. Fernow has opened an office in New York city as a consulting forest engineer.

The New York State committee of awards for the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford consisted originally of President Butler of Columbia, Chancellor Day of Syracuse University and President Superior Banking Facilities Schurman of Cornell. Dr. Day's term expired in March and as he was inel- and Courteous Attention at tlie igible for reappointment, at the Univer- sity conference at Albany November 18, Ithaca Trust Company. President A. V. Raymond of Union Col- lege was chosen his successor. The Mercersburg Academy The Varsity basketball team suffered itljara Ifyatή. Prepares for all Colleges and Universities. its second defeat of the season Satur- Aims at thorough Scholarship, AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. day night at the hands of the Cortland broad attainments and Christian Alumni when returning to Ithaca for Athletic club by a score of 13-9. Dowd manliness. Address athletic games, boat races or Commence- of Cortland proved a powerful player WM. MANN IRVINE, Ph.D., President, ment week, should reserve accommoda- and scored five goals. The playing of MERCERSBURG, PA. tions in advance. the Cornell team was lamentably weak at times and an effort will be made to JAS. H. OLIPHANT & CO. MUSIC I!V THE round the team into shape for the Dart- mouth contest on Friday of this week. Members N. Y. StocK Exchange. δutrly iKitφm 20 BROAD ST., NEW YORK. EVElfcY EVENING. The launch "Kitty" which was pre- INVESTMENT SECURITIES- J. A. & J. H. CAUSER, Proprietors. i6o CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

pany at the plant in Catskill, N. Y. He '99, M. E.—M. H. Miner is mechani- Cornell Alumni Notes. is located at 11 New street, Catskill. cal editor of the Railway Age and is '98, M. E.—Charles G. Morgan is located at 86 Quincy street, Brooklyn. Ex-'77 —William Squier Hill is sec- with the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal '99, M. E.—F. E. Blake is connected retary of the Boorum Pease company of company and is residing in Kingston, with the construction of the New York New York city and is located at 101 Pa. State barge canal and has his office at Duane street, New York city. '98, B..S., Agr. '01, M. S., Agr.—Henry Albany. '84, Ph. B.—Delbert H. Decker, whose C. McLallen has moved from his former Όo, B. S.—Announcement is made of return to Washington after an extended home in Laramie, Wyoming, to Mesilla the marriage of Miss Mary Agnes vacation was noted in a recent issue of Park. New Mexico. Walker, daughter.of Mrs. David Walker the ALUMNI NEWS, has offices in the '98, LL. B.—William A. Ansley, who of Butte, Mont., to Glenn Bower Har- Loan and Trust building, Washington, visited in Ithaca recently, is now on the rington, B. S., Όo. The wedding was where he is an attorney and counsel- staff of the New York American and solemnized at Butte, November 15. Mr. lor at patent law. Journal. and Mrs. Harrington will be at home '94, M. E.—Allan Cowperthwait is '99, A. B. Όo, A. M.—Miss Myrta after January 1 at 9 North Washington connected with the A. B. Lee Electric E. Hunii is a teacher in the Batavia street in Butte. Elevator company. He was recently High school, Batavia, N. Y. Όo, B. S.—Hayward H. Kendall has transferred from the Philadelphia office '99, Ph. B.—Clarence E. Corwin is entered the wholesale coal business in to the main office of the company at 220 connected with the U. S. Treasury de- Cleveland under his own name. Broadway, New York. partment at Washington, D. C. His Όo, B. S.—J. K. Bole is secretary of '94, M. M. E.—Thomas Hall will read home address in 22OJ4 One street, the Patterson Sargent Paint company at a paper on "The Steam Turbine," and Washington, D. C. its offices in Cleveland. I. C. Lewis, M. E , '99, a paper on Ex-'99.—The marriage of Miss Emma Όo, Ph. B.—Lee F. Hanmer is director "Superheat and its Application to a D. Robinson to Ferdinand V. Wyckoff, of school athletics of the public schools High Grade Valve Engine" before the ex-'99, was celebrated in Elmira, Octo- of New York city. Engineers' Club of Central Pennsylva- ber 19. nit at its next meeting. Όo, A. B— E. A. Buck is teacher of '99, C. E.—Frederick F. Hall is locat- the sciences in the Trenton, N. J. High '94, B. Arch.; '97, M. E.—John Paul ed on Hillside avenue, Berkeley, Cal. school. Young recently married Miss Margaret Kuntz Oliver of Pittsburg. The wed- ding took place at Coburg, Canada, the summer home of Mr. Oliver, with only MERCHANT TAILORING the members of the families of the bride is today a science. Ask the careful exclusive dressers. They all wear our and groom as guests. creations and will tell you that the place to obtain the newest imported fabrics '96, M. E.—Walter S. Goll is manager cut in the latest fashions and at reasonable prices is at of the Chicago office of the Fort Wayne Electric company. His home is at 514 Fullerton avenue, Chicago, 111. SISSON'S, '96, Ph. B.—A recent issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly contained 156 East State St., Ithaca, N. Y. an interesting article on the pension law enacted by Congress in 1890 by William H. Glasson, '96, professor of political economy in Trinity College, C. H. HOWES, North Carolina. Mr. Glasson is the CASCADILLA author of "A History of Military Pen- sion Legislation in the United States." In speaking of the recently enacted law he says: "This system does not provide ITEACA, TSFΆV YORK. a national gratuity or dignified form of SCHOOL poor relief for indigent and infirm vet- erans for it makes no inquiry regard- FOR BOYS—ITHACA, IV. Y. FREDERICK ROBINSON, ing the soldier's property or income. It pensions alike rich and poor, prosper- Twenty-eight years ago this school was es- tablished as a preparatory institution to Photographer. ous and unprosperous. It is unsound Cornell University, and since that time has in principle, loose in expression and fre- been represented there by over 1,000 stu- FOR SENIOR CLASS 19O4-S. quently absurd in application." dents. 2O5 IV. AURORA ST., ITHACA,N. Y. '97, E. E.—Sterling C. Lines has PRESIDENT SCHURMAN says: "I believe changed his address from the Los An- the Cascadilla School to be one of the best Pre= geles Country club, Los Angeles, Cal., paratory Institutions in the country." to Capalquin, State of Durango, Mex- Strong in its advantages to the individual ico. student. Small classes presided over by specialists representing the training of the NEWMAN, '97, Ph. D.—Thomas L. Watson is best Colleges and Universities of this coun- now located at the Virginia Polytechnic try and Europe. 11 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. Institute, Blacksburg, Va., where he is Fine buildings for residence, recitation professor of geology. and recreation, New Chemical Laboratory. New Athletic Field of *Δ acres on the hills Official Fraternity Jeweler. '98, M. E —J. D. Maguire was recently east of the school, with new club house. elected president of the American Elec- Registration 1903-4 from 26 states. New registrations already entered for Sept. 1905. MANUFACTURER tric and Controller company at 12 Dey Early application carries certain advan- street, New York city. The company tages. Winter ses- High Grade Fraternity Badges, College has a new device for controlling electric sion opens Jan. Seals, motors which is regarded as of consid- 10) 19Q5 . second erable importance in the electrical world. semester, Feb. 6. EC. V. Parsell, A. M., Fraternity and College Jewelry and '98, C. E.—Edgar Johnston is civil Principal. engineer for the Catskill Cement com- Recreation Building and Crew. Specialties. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. 161

Όo, Ph. B. —Leroy L. Perrine, who ΌI, A. B.—B. R. Andrews is now now engaged as a teacher in the Michi- has been in Zamboanga, Philippine Is- curator of the museum in the Teachers' gan State Normal school. Her address lands, for the past four years, has been College in New York city. is 220 N. Huron street, Ypsilanti, Mich. transferred to San Francisco. His Όi, M. E.—William F. Bohne is with '03, A. B.—Robert Ryon is now repre- address is care of the adjutant general, the International Pump company with senting the Beck Engraving company of Department of the Pacific, Market street, offices in St. Louis, Mo. 27 East 21st street, New York city. San Francisco. Ex-'oi.—The marriage of Miss Elean- The main office and plant of the com- Όo, M. D.—Dr. C. Ludwig Ambos has or D. Silsbee to George Warren Wckofϊ, pany are in Philadelphia. moved to 1583 Washington avenue, New ex-'oi, λvas celebrated in Elmira, Sep- '03, C. E.—R. J. Taylor is in Cali- York city, where he purchased an at- tember 14. fornia doing Geological Survey work tractive home. Ex-'oi.—Welton H. Rozier, a mem- for the government. '01, M. E.—S. C. Root has left the em- ber of the Smith, Robert, Robert & Roz- '03, A. B.—Miss Eva F. Humphreys ploy of the American Blower company ier law firm of St. IyOttis, announces that is teacher of Latin and Greek at the of Detroit and has entered the engineer- he has moved from the former offices Wellsville High school. ing department of the Solvay Process of the concern at 1105 Missouri Trust '03. A. B.—Roxley F. Weber is in- company at Detroit, Mich. company building and will continue the structor in chemistry in the Central practice of law at No. 1220 Chemical High school at St. Louis, Mo. building. Όi, M. E.—Willis H. Carrier is engin- THE STEPHENS THE NORMANDIE eer of tests with the Buffalo Forge com- pany. PUBLISHING CO. Όi, A. B.—R. O. Walter has returned from London and is now working with MERCANTILE AND SOCIETY PRINTING Hotel and Apartment House the Equitable Life Assurance company COR. E. SENECA and N. AURORA STS. in Boston. He is located at 20 Concord WM. J. SAUTER, Manager. square, Boston. Perfect Imitation Typewriter Letters—a CHESTNUT AND 36th STREETS, Specialty. Ex-Όi—J. Benoist Carton is now as- sociated with Tracey & Co. in the brok- MR. and MRS. A. D. BRAMHALL, Managers. erage business in St. Louis, Mo. Όi, M. E.—A. B. Tappen formerly "Cornell's Largest Fitting School/ PHILADELPHIA, PA. connected with the Townsend Douney Shipbuilding company has been appoint- My acquaintance with the preparatory ed to a position with the Bowker Chemi- schools of the United States leads me to be- cal company of New York city. lieve that the Ithaca High School stands in SHIRTS. the very front rank." Όi, A. B.—T. Bascom Little is man- J. G. SCHURMAN, Pres. Cornell University. Write for samples aging the estate of H. H. Little with Gets students from 11 foreign countries, offices at 905 Citizen's building, Cleve- and measurement 3.1 States and 24 counties in New York land, Ohio. blank. State. Gymnasium, Baths, 7-acre Athletic CLARENCE E. HEAD, Ό2, E. E.—Henry W. Eels is con- Field, Free Text Books. Both Sexes. Tuition nected with the Steam turbine depart- 1O9 N. AURORA ST., ITHACA, N". Y. and extras $60 and $75 for 40 weeks. Enter ment of the General Electric company any time. For catalogue address at its works in Schenectady, N. Y. A POINT TO INSIST ON. F. D. BOYNTON, M. A., Principal. There are endless numbers of traveling '02, C. E.—Robert Follansbee has people who go regularly from New York to changed his address from Malta Mont Chicago and vice versa several times a to care United States Geological Survey, month, who have never gone over any Washington, D. C. Awarded <*. Grs^nd Prize εvt St. Louis. other road but the Lake Shore & Michigan '02, M. D.—Michael Mislig has been Southern, because this road is "good appointed clinical assistant in pediatrics enough" for them. It's good enough for in the New York Post Graduate Medical anybody, the fastest, safest, most con- school hospital. He is located at 350 venient and most comfortable road in E. 72d street, New York city. America. Once you travel over the Lake Shore and you will not want to experiment '02, A. B.; '03, A. M.—P. B. Mann is with any other road. People who know on the geology staff of the Morris High the comforts and discomforts of traveling, school at 166th street and Boston road, and what they have a right to expect, al- New York city, with his home address ways insist on their tickets reading by way 565 West 113th street, New York. of the Lake Shore. So should you Ex-'θ2—Alden H. Little is a bond and stock broker at 303 North Fulton JL. POINT WELL MADE street, St. Louis. can always be depended '02, M. E.—R. B. Hayes, superintend- upon in an emergency. ent of the department of electric service The point that we wish in Cornell, is in charge of the installa- to make right here is that tion of a modern 3-phase power station DIXOΊV'S AMERICAN in Fall Creek gorge and is altering the A GRAPHITE PENCILS present equipment in the University gift that ' are the very best pencils buildings. yields satis- made for all kinds of ed- faction by the Ό2, A. B.—Clarence A. Hebb is now handful. Christmas ucational work. We have connected with the Brooklyn Standard giving should be gen- been making them for 30 Union. His address is 60 Hinckley uine, so pass the imitation - years and they are as near Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. and choose Waterman's Ideal, * perfection as possible. —ideal indeed in every respect. £,y Ask for them at the '02, A. B.—Miss Winifred C. Benedict Best dealers have full stocks. Ex- ι University Bookstore. is located at the Holy Cross house, 72 changeable always. Send for illustrated JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. Orange street, Albany, N. Y. catalogue of our gift pens, and ink filler. JERSEY CITY, N. J. '02, A. B.—Miss Mattie A. Martin-is L. E. Waterman Co., 173 Broadway, New York. I02 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS.

'03, M. E—J. JΓ. Shirley is in St. Louis '04, B. Agr.—M. C. C. Van Loben collegiate league Cornell has won suc- with the Westinghouse Electric and Sels is located in Sacramento county, cessively for four years. Manufacturing company in connection California, where he is in the stock and The men who will represent Cornell with the operation of its service plant dairy business. in the matches this year are J. R. at the Exposition. '04, B. S. A.—Alfred C. Morgan of '03, LL. B.—Oscar F. Fanning is a Laurel, Delaware, has accepted a posi- Mitchell, '06, team captain, who did such practising attorney at Sag Harbor, N. Y. tion with the United States bureau of excellent work in the Columbia match '03, E. E.—F. C. Gobel is 'serving as entomology as field expert in the cotton and who will play first board. The an engineering apprentice with the boll-weevil investigations. The past other places will be filled by a team summer was spent by Mr. Morgan in- Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- chosen from the following candidates: ing company in Pittsburg. He is located specting fields in the vicinity of Vic- at 507 Kelly avenue, Williamsburg, Pa. toria, Texas. F. C. Lippert, '05; W. Neff, '05; M. J. Ex-'θ3.—Herman I. Desky has been '04, M. E.—C. A. Dawley, who was Clurman, '06, and J. F. Darling, '07. recently elected treasurer of the Che- manager of the Sibley Journal last year mung Co-Operative Fire Insurance and president of the Cornell Society of To Form Traek Association. company with offices at 304-306 Realty Mechanical Engineers, is now in charge of experimental work in the applica- building, Elmira, N. Y. Mr. Desky After an enthusiastic meeting of un- was admitted to the Bar in November. tion of compressed air. His address is Engineering department, Ingersoll-Ser- dergraduates interested in Cornell ath- '03, A. B—The Rev. Thomas B. Rob- geant Drill company, Eastern, Pa. erts is now assistant pastor of the Cen- letics the first steps were taken to or- tral M. E. church of Wilkesbarre, Pa. '04, M. E.—John F. Borden has ganize a Cornell Interscholastic Track moved from Tunkhannock, Pa., to Association. The purpose of this organi- '03, A. B.—E. E. Farnsworth is now Berkeley, Cal. His address is in care of connected with the Great Western Coal the Faculty club of that city. zation is to promote a successful inter- company at the offices in Cannon City, scholastic track meet in May of each Colorado. '04, A. B.—C. P. Brady, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis year, to entertain all promising athletes '04, M. E.—M. Fetzer is an engineer in Denver, Colo., is now convalescent and to encourage them to enter Cornell. at the Phoenix mine at Concord, N. C. and has returned to his home in Buffalo. The necessity for the formation of Ex-'θ5,—Walter Blount is at present such an association in Cornell has been YOUR INVENTION in charge of the exhibit of the Blount Plow works in the Agricultural hall apparent during the past three years. In MA.Y BE WORTHY OF A. at the St. Louis Exposition. Mr. Blount order to raise funds for this purpose a will not resume his course in Cornell, canvass of the undergraduate body is PATENT having decided to enter business. His now being made. loss will be a serious one to the fenc- INQUIRE OF ing team of which organization he was DELBERT H. DECKER, Ph. B., LL. B., a prominent member. THE CLINTON HOUSE. Ex-Ό6.—The marriage of Miss Maude COR. CAYUGA and SENECA STS,, '84. Linsey, formerly a student at the Medi- ITHACA, N. Y. Loan and Trust Bid*., WASHINGTON, D. C. cal College, to Charles Lande of Cleve- A hotel at popular prices conducted on a plan to merit the patronage of the best class of land was celebrated at the home of people. Rates $2.00 and $2-50 per day. There are DRUG STORES and the bride in Lockport on Aug. 26. The Free Bus to and from all trains. there are OTHER Drug Stores. groom is an instructor in the high GRANT MCDONALD, Proprietor. TODD'S is a real proper Drug Store, school in Cleveland and has studied in the entomological course of the Cornell a PRESCRIPTION Drug Store. summer session. H. J. BOOL & CO. Ever need such a place ? If you do, DESIGNERS AND MAKERS Of Special Furniture for Dens, Libraries and this is one on Aurora St. Preparing for Chess Mateh. Students' Apartments. Opp. Tompkins Co. Bank, Ithaca, N. Y. OF CORSΓBU, Preparations for the tri-collegiate chess BUY OF THE MAKER. Words and Music. tournament are now well under way and 8ONOS OF CORNELL it will be held as usual during the Words only. Christmas holdiays. The members of Send him (or her) a Cornell All the Latest College Songs, Marches, Waltzes, this league are Brown, Pennsylvania and Etc. Rocker—The Empire State LENT'S MUSIC STORE, Cornell. Each of these colleges will play 122 N. AURORA ST. the other two and the winner will be man delivers things to any Choice Cut Flowers, awarded the championship of the league. part of the U. S. Decorative Plants, Another important chess tournament to Floral Designs, etc. be held during the recess is the quad- Complete Assortment at rangular league contests in which Col- ITHACA Reasonable Prices. umbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are THE BOOL FLORAL CO., entered. SAVINGS BANK. ITHACA, N. Y. Last year Cornell won the triangular (INCORPORATED 1868. )S league championship with ease. After GEO. S. TARBELL the two tournaments were over an in- ITHACA, N. Y. TRUST CO. BUILDING, ITHACA, N. Y. ter-league match was arranged in which H. GOLDENBERG, Attorney, Counsellor, Notary Public. Cornell played the winners of the four- Prompt, personal attention given General cornered league. 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