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Women's Dormitory Named for Mrs. Comstock '85 (See page 246) ALUMNI NEW VOLUME 43 FEBRUARY 20, 1941 NUMBER 18 \ •'•„<*** From every newvs-crammed corner of the globe\ THE WORDS COME POURING IN! Twenty thousand words an hour the news pours in—from Berlin and beleaguered Britain—from Athens and Taranto and Ben- ghazi—from Rio and Tokyo and Washington, D. C. It fills our newspapers with more words than any of us has time to read. It brings us conflicting reports from every foreign news capital. It comes so fast and changes direction so often TIME that today, more than ever, thoughtful Americans need TIME— 330 EAST 22 ST. CHICAGO To save their time... to verify their facts... and to help them You can start TIME on its way to you for 52 weeks to come by drop- make the news make sense. ping a postcard in the mail today. Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS It's Easy To Visit Ithaca Overnight From NEW YORK and NEWARK or READING TERMINAL, PHILA. 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XLIII, NO. l8 ITHACA, NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 2.O, 1941 PRICE, 15 CENTS FARM AND HOME WEEK brought in the Glee Club, and led by COLLEGE AIDS DEFENSE Brings Many Alumni Raymond W. Kruse '41 they sang several Teaches Men in Industry Defense needs for men, women, and Cornell songs and Richard H. Lee '41 College of Engineering is now giving children, to preserve democracy, were entertained with his simultaneous sing- instruction as part of the national de- ing and whistling. stressed in the more than 700 events of fense training program to about 1,100 the thirty-fourth annual Farm and Home Dean Carl E. Ladd '12. outlined some of men employed and employable in defense Week at the State Colleges of Agricul- the year's changes and developments in industries. Twenty-eight members of the ture and Home Economics, February IO-I 5. the two State Colleges. He spoke of the Faculty and three instructors from indus- Registration of visitors which began retirement last fall of Flora Rose as Di- try are giving courses in Buffalo, Elmira, Monday in Roberts Hall and closed rector of Home Economics, saying that and Ithaca. Dr. Arthur S. Adams, Assist- Saturday noon totalled 13,771. This is she is living in Berkeley, Cal., with ant Dean of the Engineering College, 1,541 more than were here last year, Claribel Nye '14, formerly of the staff who is director of the courses, has when a heavy snowstorm in the middle here, and writes frequently to friends in established a new office in Sibley Hall, of the week seriously interfered with Ithaca. He introduced Professor Mary F. with Professor John R. Moynihan 'x6 travel. Rooming accommodations in Henry and Marie Fowler, the respective as his assistant. Ithaca and nearby towns were taxed to acting Director and Assistant Director First course was offered last October capacity, both early in the week when of the College, and said that again it in Buffalo at the request of Bell Aircraft schools all over the State sent busloads of would be possible for Home Economics Co. and Curtiss-Wright to train graduate students to take part in judging contests to accept only about one-fourth of the engineers in their employ in the me- and attend special lectures and demon- prospective students who apply for chanics of airplane structures. Five other strations, and later when adults began to admission. evening courses have been added in arrive in numbers. Dean Ladd Summarizes Progress Buffalo, all now under sponsorship of Several visitors were heard to say this Among developments in the College of the US Office of Education. One of these, year that the program of continuous and Agriculture the Dean mentioned the new started December 9, was the first in the simultaneous lectures, demonstrations, Federal Nutrition Laboratory, now in United States to be given under the and meetings was specifically helpful in operation by the Government cooperating Federal engineering defense training these times of national emergency. It had with the College; the new horse barn program. More than 800 men are now been arranged around the general theme, with its small animal laboratory for attending these classes, at the University "Needs of the Hour," and many of its nutrition studies; and the recent coordin- of Buffalo and at several high schools in features were of timely interest to rural ation of instruction in Zoology in both that city. dwellers in this period of national Agriculture and Arts under direction of Demand for additional instruction emergency. Governor Herbert H. Leh- Professor Frederick B. Hutt as the be- resulted in the starting of three new man, for example, in his annual address, ginning of " an integrated animal science courses February 17. Additional sections emphasized the importance of efficiency group" in the University. He spoke also were opened in Mechanics and Elemen- in all agricultural processes in this of large scale farming operations carried tary Design of Aircraft Structures, for period, and paid high tribute to the con- on by all Departments of the College, which 353 students were already en- tributions of the State Colleges toward saying that they are self-supporting and rolled; the previous course in Mechanics the welfare of all the people. Another (Continued on page 248) of Airplane Structures is being extended featured speaker was Merrill Mueller, International News Service correspondent recently returned from Europe, who de- scribed at first hand his experiences in the warring countries.