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UMMER School, for the thirty-fifth lowing evening. Those who in former wear. Unless bathers dress up like time, occupies the University build- years attended the plays in the inadequate Eskimos going to and from their sport, Sings and overflows very fetchingly on theater in Goldwin Smith Hall were they will run into the danger of arrest. the Campus. The Quadrangle is extremely particularly enthusiastic for the new DURING the last few weeks Ithaca has gay with all the colors of Nature and of theater in Willard Straight. On July 15 been having what looked like the begin- artifice. Some of our summer scholars and 17 the club presented "The Feast of ning of a crime wave. Burns' Bakery, come here for amusement, into which a the Holy Innocents," by S. Marshall Driscoll Brothers, the Prudential Insur- little mild mental activity may enter as a Ilsley; "A Dollar," by David Pinski; and ance Company, and the Strand Theatre pleasant component. Not a few are "Thirty Minutes in a Street," by Beatrice and other places were robbed, $300 being winter scholars, of Cornell and other Mayor. taken from the Strand. The police got schools, who are here to atone for some ERNEST R. KROEGER, pianist, organist, on the alert, and finally succeeded in miscalculations about courses, marks, and composer, who is giving courses in finding the culprits, two small colored hours of credit, questions to be asked on musical appreciation and musical history boys, aged fourteen and twelve respec- finals, or personal pull with the prof. in the Summer Session, is giving recitals tively. They did all their work in the But the majority of the students are here each Thursday evening, accompanied by daytime, being kept at home evenings by for work; they give up the money and an appreciative lecture. This is Mr. their families to keep out of mischief. their time to find out something they want Kroeger's seventh summer here. to know. A large number of them are not THE RENOVATED and improved Ithaca EVERY DAY they seem to think up interested in "credit," except the credit Country Club officially opened with a tea something new to give Ithaca a more that comes to one who has satisfied an on July 2. The Country Club was metropolitan touch. The latest is a large intellectual curiosity. We could do with started in 1900 under a heavy financial electric sign being installed on the top of some of this Summer School spirit in the obligation. The club has now a model a building on State Street between Tioga Winter School. The University welcomes clubhouse, an excellent eighteen hole and Aurora. It will be a screen on which these students as paying guests, who can golf course, owns fifty acres of land and advertisements of offerings at the local profitably use its equipment. The staff has the use of thirty jnore. It has a mem- stores will be projected from a lantern and the town welcome them, for teachers bership of about three hundred, which is near by. Perhaps later on figures may be and merchants after all like to practice constantly growing. induced to indulge in antics in the manner their trade.' Certain of the undergraduates of the famous Wrigley Boys. THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER for July talk a little superciliously about these six- WHEN THE TWILIGHT INN at Haines ii was the Right Rev. Charles Fiske, weeks Cornellians, but even the super- D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Central New cilious undergrad welcomes these guests, Falls, New York, burned down, Miss Lucille Heist of Geneva, a junior in the York. The Rev. Wallace E. Brown, sometimes with a public cordiality that D.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal College of Home Economics, was almost dismays his elders. High spirits are Church of Foochow, China, was the trapped in the hotel. A few seconds after entirely in order, for now no one is bowed preacher on July 18. under the burden of competitions, degree- she had escaped, the door through which getting, sports, and stern undergraduate she fled was enveloped in flame. She was ROTHSCHILD BROTHERS are also right social duties. There is an air of gayety a guest at the inn. up to the mark. When their annual ten- about Ithaca at this season which ex- CORNELL DAY was celebrated at the day sale opened they hired an airplane to tends from Taughannock Falls to the Pίattsburgh Barracks on July 8. Mr. fly over nearby towns, and drop handbills picnic-grounds of Enfield. and Mrs. Charles E. Cornell were guests announcing the big event. in the reviewing stand. Mr. Cornell, as DOWN at the Cayuga Preventorium at Two STUDENTS, seeking amusement a Trustee of the University and grandson Esty thirty-two children are having a after a hard day's work, found excitement of the Founder, reviewed the parade with grand time. They went out because they by falling into Cascadilla Gorge on July were underweight and in other ways below ii. Neither is a regular term student Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Castle of the R. O. T. C., who is commander of the normal, but are now gaining no end of and, apparently unfamiliar with the camp. Mrs. Cornell presented Cornell's pounds and getting strong and well. They pranks Ithaca scenery can play, they new colors to the unit at a special cere- rise early, when flag raising officially starts tumbled in from the path on the north mony. Cornell has the largest single the day, and keep busy thereafter at side of the gorge. Resctiers helped them delegation at the camp this year, with supervised study and play and drinking up the bank, and they were sent home thirty-two cadets enrolled. Eleven States milk. At seven they tumble into bed. with comparatively slight bruises and and seventeen colleges and military Five puppies, three kittens, and an assort- scratches. The students are Harry Mar- ment of ducks and rabbits help to keep shak and Bessie Schafft. schools are represented. THIS BUSINESS of swimming around them from getting lonesome. THE FIRST of the University Summer Ithaca has got to be taken seriously. The IN CONNECTION with the Conservatory Concerts was given on July 16 by Francis Ithaca Life Saving Committee has se- Summer School, the Ithaca Institution of Macmillen, the noted American violinist. cured the services of Captain Carroll Public Music has been offering a series of THE DRAMATIC CLUB plays have of Bryant of the American feed Cross to public lectures on music. Franklin Dun- recent years added much to the enjoy- give instruction in swimming and life- ham of Fordham University, George H. ment of Summer School, and this year is saving to various organizations and in- Gartlan, Director of Music, New York no exception. They opened the season on terested individuals, as part of the com- City Public Schools, and Dr. Sigmund July 9, giving four short plays, Pinero's mittee's campaign to avoid drowning Spaeth, nationally known music educators "A Seat in the Park"; "Feed the Brute" casualities. At the same time the Chief have appeared. The concluding lecture of by George Paston; "Overtones" by Alice of Police has issued a warning that while the series is to be by Dr. Payson Smith, Gerstenberg; and Strindberg's "The bathing suits may be necessary in the water, Commissioner of Education of the State Stronger." These were repeated the fol- they are not the fitting costume for street of Massachusetts. 462 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Intramural Sports for the various competitive games, but A Freshmen Camp the number was reduced to 613 during the spring months. In all women's sports the Professor Young Reports Over Three Christian Association Wants Alumni to Thousand Students Participating four classes play a series of games for the class championship. Intercollegiate con- Aid in Selecting Students The University had about 3,750 partic- tests in archery were held with Welles- ipants in intramural sports during the ley, Bryn Mawr, Wisconsin, North- In order to give entering freshmen a year 1925-26, according to Professor western, Mount Holyoke, Maine, and chance to face some of their problems Charles V. P. Young '99 of the Depart- Michigan. Field hockey, basketball, ahead of time the Christian Association ment of Physical Education. This figure and baseball matches were played with this year will conduct a camp for fresh- represents the total enrollment in inter- Elmira. men, September 18 to 20, the week-end college, interclass, interfraternity, and Professor Young makes it clear that the before registration. miscellaneous events, and includes about total enrollment in intramural sports does During these two days, time will be fourteen hundred women. not take duplications into account. The given to the unhurried consideration of Intramural sports comprise the formal actual number of students who engaged in such questions as the following: the athletic competitions of a local nature as intramural activities during the year is Purpose of a College Education; the In- distinct from intercollegiate varsity and probably somewhat short of 3.750. telligent Choice of Studies and Life Work freshman athletics, and the informal College Activities; Social Life; Moral and games and contests in which the Depart- Religious Questions in Student Life. ment of Physical Education is not directly SPORT STUFF These discussions will be led by members concerned. It does not include four or five of the Association staff and by Victor L. hundred persons who make use of the Butterfield '27, president of the C. U. C. A., antiquated and inadequate facilities of How much does your golf cost you? who will be in general charge of the camp. the Gymnasium. The new eighteen-hole course of the Butterfield plays fullback on the football The intercollege and interfraternity Ithaca Country Club is finished and in team. President Farrand is expected to events included soccer, basketball, wrest- operation. It is not more than five drop in and meet the freshmen. Other ling, track, baseball, crew, tennis, ice hundred yards from the Quadrangle. Few members of the Faculty and leaders in hockey, lacrosse, swimming, and fencing. courses are more diversified or give a Cornell life will be present. Agriculture won the intercollege soccer better test of a player's game. None The camp will be held at Lisle, N. Y. championship from ten competing teams. commands a more magnificent view of (which is about thirty miles from Ithaca), The interfraternity championship in soccer lake, hill, and valley. It would of course be at the Happy Valley Inn, the old family was won by the Cosmopolitan Club. The a bit more finished if forty wops with forty home of Richard H. Edwards, executive total number of participants in intercollege mops worked on it all day long—but that secretary of the C. U. C. A. Lisle is and interfraternity soccer was 220. The sort of thing costs money and golf in rapidly becoming known as -an excellent winning interfraternity team was com- Ithaca is, and must be, adjusted to Ithaca place for such conferences. prised of natives of seven countries. In incomes. Even so the course is good basketball there were ten college, fifty- enough for any reasonable golfer and is—we The choice of freshmen for such a camp five fraternity, and seven independent believe—the best unsubsidized eighteen- is not an easy matter. For this reason teams with a total enrollment of 360. hole private course in America for which the alumni are requested to write in concerning Intercollege and novice wrestling yearly dues are twenty-five dollars. entering students who will appreciate the brought out 269 candidates. One hundred The main trouble with golf in this privilege and purpose of this conference. and seventy-five men enrolled in inter- country is that it costs too much. There Eight dollars will cover transportation, college track meets, and one hundred en- is a tendency to plan all clubs in terms of board, and room, which will be provided gaged in interfraternity relay races. the best and to meet with new construc- at cost. There will be no other expenses. Baseball, in spite of the unfavorable tion all changes of the fashion in golf The maximum registration for this year weather, attracted 549 participants, a architecture. The Ithaca experiment will be seventy-five. All registrations figure which suggests that, whatever may shows that given a little good fortune in should be in by September fifth, accom- be said about intercollegiate baseball, the natural configuration of the land panied by one dollar as a registration fee, even the sand-lots of the colleges still do frugal forethought can be made to do the which will be deducted from the cost of obeisance to the great American game. duty of debenture bonds and that good the conference. This fee will be refunded Seven college crews struggled through the golf can be given a simple community if the student finds that he is prevented season with eighty candidates. for very little money. from coming. All communications should Two hundred and seventy-six entries in R. B. be' sent to John Fetter, Barnes Hall, tennis matches, including an upperclass Ithaca, N. Y. and a freshman tournament, indicate the OFFICE HEADQUARTERS have opened in consistent popularity of this sport. Ice Willard Straight Hall for the first Inter- hockey, as usual, supplied keen rivalry for national Congress of Plant Sciences, to twenty-six fraternity teams with a total be held here August 16 to 23. Dr. Benja- Invite Cornell Students of 220 players. Delta Tau Delta won the min M. Duggar '98, of the National Re- Through its director, Dr. Reinhold championship. Lacrosse brought out 130 search Council, Washington, D. C., as Schairer, the German Students' Coopera- general secretary of the congress has or- contestants, and seventy men took part in tive Association has issued an invitation ganized his staff here to make preliminary the novice and championship fencing to Cornell students and alumni to attend meets. Because of the inadequate swim- arrangements for the program and for the the meeting of the general committee of ming facilities at the Armory little atten- accomodation of the more than one tion was paid to swimming. There were, thousand expected guests. This meeting the association, to be held at Dresden on however, six intercollege meets, three will bring together for the first time September 4 and 5. It is pointed out that freshman meets, and one university international representatives of every it would be interesting to students of championship meet. branch of the science. American colleges to become acquainted The favorite sports of Cornell women A THREE-DAY institute was held at the with the self-help movement among Ger- are archery, basketball, field hockey, University from July 14 to 16 by the man students, and that a mutual acquain- soccer, tennis, rowing, track, and base- officers of the Parent-Teachers Associa- tance should help towards building up ball. During the fall 750 women reported tions of New York State. better international understanding. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 463 Class Secretaries Continue Reports of 1926 Reunions DDITIONAL reports of the activi- tary; Royal Taft of Scranton, Pa.; Miller '70 of Santa Barbara, Calif. John A. Rea ties of various reunion classes by A. Smith of New York ami Havana, of Tacoma, Wash., the other Jiving mem- A their secretaries indicate that the Cuba; Judge Pascal C. J. De Angelis of ber of '69 was unable to attend. 1926 Reunion was enjoyed by everyone. Utica; the three who were unable to come The headquarters were Sage College, There is an extended stretch of Cornell being the Rev. Sanford F. Huntley, of where the class dinner was held in the history between '71 and '21 but, as the Wessington Springs, S. D. (the senior East Drawing Room Saturday evening. reunions always prove, time does not member of the entire class of forty-one) The Class was joined at the dinner by efface that indefinable something that Charles E. Reeves, of Benton Harbor, members of all the early classes to and makes for loyalty to class and the Uni- Mich.; and Kirkland W. Ingham of including '79, with the exception of '73, versity. Probably there will be further Belle vue, Pa., and Texas. which was holding its own annual dinner. reports in a later issue. Judge O'Neill was accompanied by his About thirty-five were present at the »71 daughter, Mrs. Marion O'Neill Calway; dinner, which was a very enjoyable oc- The Class of '71 has the distinction of Mr. Taft by his daughter, Mrs. Almira casion, everyone being called upon for being the first class to hold a fifty-fifth re- Taft Close, and his granddaughter, Miss some word of greeting. Judge O'Neill, in union with an attendance of more than Janet Close; Mr. Smith by Mrs. Smith; presiding, read a poem, written by a friend one member. Of the seven living members and Judge De Angelis by his daughter, for the seven living members of the class. four were present this year, winning the Miss Annina De Angelis. The Misses The outstanding event of the evening was cup for the highest percentage of attend- Bessie and Emma Speed, respectively a splendid address by President Farrand. ance—thus repeating the honor of five Ό6 and Ίi, represented the interests of The company dispersed at a late hour to years ago when eight of the sixteen living their father Robert G. H. Speed, who had go to Bailey Hall. Judge O'Neill, the first members were present at the fiftieth been the devoted secretary of the class for chime-master of Cornell, and Mr. Taft, reunion. over fifty years. Charles F. Hendryx '69 one of the most frequently reuning mem- Those present this year were Judge came from Cincinnati as an invited guest bers, represented the class at the rally James O'Neill of Neillsville, Wis., secre- of the class, as did also Charles A. Storke when the cup was presented.

THE FIFTY-FIVE YEAR CLASS The class of '71 won the reunion cup for the highest percentage of attendance, four of the seven living members being present. The picture above shows the class appropnopriateln y posed in front of the statue of Ezra Cornell. They are, left to right: Royal Taft, James O'Neill, Miller A. Smith. Pascal C. J, DeAngelis, 464 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

At the business meeting, Judge O'Neill Perhaps more than is usually the case, our well planned meeting was due to the was elected permanent class secretary. these four classes entered into the spirit of untiring efforts of "Chip" Tyson and his He is working upon a history of the class, the joint parties and lived again their committee. The entire class extends them to be published in the near future. undergraduate days of twenty years ago. a vote of thanks. Others from near-by classes who at- The women of Ό6, the "juniors" of the The sidelights were many, but to tended the dinner were Mrs. Willard combination, were also celebrating their "Hank" Kimball goes the palm for his Beahan (Bessie Dewitt) '78, Cleveland, twentieth reunion, and for the "seniors" remarkable address of welcome to the Ohio; Charles Beebe, secretary of '76, '05 it was the second reunion in two years. classes at the Bailey Hall rally. "Chuck" New York; James T. Brown '76, New These '05 women feel that they have Chuckrow, who was in charge of the rally, York; Dr. William L. Cuddeback '76, proved that it is possible to hold successive presented a remarkable program and every Port Jervis, N. Y.; Judge Delmar M. reunions in such close proximity. They one expressed appreciation of his efforts. Darrin '72, Addison, N. Y., his daughter, had voted their twentieth in 1925 the best The Class meeting was held immediately Mrs. Robertson, and his grandson, Charles they had ever had. This year's reunion after the dinner on Saturday night and it Robertson; Henry Ward Foster '77, was even better. was voted to rotate the officers with the superintendent of schools, South Orange, In total numbers the "freshmen" results as follows: James E. Bennett, N. J., and Mrs. Foster (Lyra Peck) '79; showed the way to the other classes. president; Edwin E. Sheridan, Cornellian Prof. Simon H. Gage '77, Ithaca; George There were eighteen Ό8 women registered, Council representative; Oscar G. Miller, W. Graham '76, and Mrs. Graham, Chi- with fifteen each in the other three classes. secretary; and John K. Rewalt, treasurer. cago; William F. E. Gurley '77 and Mrs. After the boat race and senior singing on A resolution wss passed expressing Gurley, Chicago; Merritt E. Haviland Friday, all went to the Risley Organization thanks and appreciation of the work done '77, New York; Willis A. Ingalls '79, Room, where a buffet supper was served. by Ned Sheridan in bringing the Class of Phelps, N. Y.; William O. Kerr '77 and Edna Mertz Carman Ό8 came all the way Ί i to the leadership of all classes, by hav- Mrs. Kerr (Ida Cornell) '84, Ithaca; from Manila to lead the singing, Eleanor ing the largest percentage of subscribers to John N. Ostrom '77, Chicago; Herman Reed Ό8 was accompanist, and they sang the Alumni Fund. B. Seely '76 and Mrs. Seely and son, all the old songs and some new ones—in A vote of thanks was passed for the Chicago. defiance of the proctor. Anna Kirchner work done by the retiring officers, Secre- »96 '07 proved that she still sings a glorious tary James O. Winslow and Treasurer The Thirty-Year Reunion was the most "tenor." Elsie Rand Tucker '07 and Mary Morgan St. John. successful one ever held by this class al- Waite '05 led the cheers. And '05 can Our class will adhere to the Dix Plan, though no regular reunion was scheduled still "give 'em the axe" with all the vigor which means that our 2θ-year reunion will under the Dix Plan and plans were not so of its youth. The only solo entertainment occur in 1930. complete as usual. Returning classmates was a most effective demonstration of the O. G. M. were not so numerous as at the last two Charleston by May Bolger's daughter, >16 reunions but the enthusiasm and interest who came to the reunion with her step- There were many notable features of were greater and class spirit the "best mother, Clara Cagwin. Something of the the decennial reunion this year, but it's ever." The plan of bringing wives, hus- spirit of the occasion was shown by Vera chief claim to distinction lies in the fact bands, and children was continued and Shepherd Huston '05 who couldn't cross that the "1916 Plan" is now likely to be- our "inherited" members seemed to have the Continent herself, but who sent a come the standard for reunions of future just as good a time as the "regulars." The crate of melons from the Imperial Valley. years. In years past many class secretaries plan of being housed on the Campus was On Saturday evening all had dinner to- and committees have discussed the possi- heartily endorsed. gether at Willard Straight Hall. Marguer- bilities of reunions which would cost the Enfield Gorge was visited Friday after- ite Stecker Ό6, secretary of the twenty- same to the alumnus living in Seattle, noon. Class dinner and dance at Republic year class, was toastmistress. Mabel Los Angeles, or New Orleans as to the Inn came Friday night—the best reunion Bessey Ό6, Charlotte Faust '05, and Mary resident of New York or Buffalo. It re- dinner we have had. Dinner Saturday Waite beguiled between courses with mained for the Class of Ί6, relatively a night at the Cornell Grill was followed by many "Do you remembers?" in rhyme. young class, to have the necessary courage a class meeting at which class officers and Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock '85 was the and business acumen successfully to trans- Cornellian Council representative were guest of honor and in her delightful way late into actuality the slogan, "All points elected and final disposition was made of showed how to grow young with the are equidistant from Ithaca." the Class Memorial Fund by devoting the years. Then each one present told some- That the plan was popular is attested income to the purchase of books and thing of her activities since leaving college by the fact that a new record was estab- periodicals for Willard Straight Hall. —Grace Christy Foresman '07 leading off lished for ten-year reunions. The 146 men At the class meeting the following with her now famous goldfish story. who registered at the official headquarters officers were elected: president, John C. Margaret Rolston Fletcher Ό6 success- in the Drill Hall were second only to the Lynch; vice-president, James S. Truman; fully boasted of the largest family. Her men of '09 and Ίo, but it was at their secretary, George S. Tompkins; secretary seven children put her in the first rank, fifteen-year reunions that these latter two for women, Mrs. Clark S. Northup; Cor- although she had some competitors with classes established their high figures of 156 nellian Council representative, Malcolm an even half dozen. and 149. The Ί6 class committee re- C. Rorty. On Sunday many of the classes went ported ten men who were in town but did Our "Thirty Year" will go down in the over to Freeville for dinner at the Republic not register at the Drill Hall. class history as the best so far; but plans Inn. This was one of the most satisfactory A natural result of the "fifty-fifty" idea have already been made and a committee and thoroughly enjoyable event? of the was that men came from all sections of the appointed to bring back in 1929 such a reunion. globe, including the Hawaiian Islands. large and enthusiastic crowd that they can Ίl Nine registered from west of the Missis- have their name inscribed on the Per- We passed the fifteen-year milestone sippi, from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, centage Cup of the Association of Class with a reunion which will linger long in the Utah, Minnesota, California, Washington, Secretaries. memory of those who were fortunate and Nebraska. G. S. T. enough to be present. The thrill of meet- The class headquarters were at Baker Women of >05, >06, '07, '08 ing old friends and renewing acquaintances Tower where a sixteen-piece band im- One of the most interesting combina- made us all feel that it was worth the ported from Trenton, New Jersey quickly tion reunions under the Dix Plan was that effort and we all resolved to meet again at made the Baker court yard the very center of the women of '05, '06, '07, and Ό8. the twenty-year mark. The zip and go of of alumni activity. Practically all of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 465 men lived at Baker Tower, the class faith- five years ago as an indispensable part of The thing suddenly began as one stepped fully following out the new idea in reunions the scenery. I imagine it would be pretty into the Drill Hall. The place oozed with under which no alumnus lives in his tough to go back when they weren't there. joy. Right away they socked you for a fraternity house or in any other habitation This was the second youngest class to reunion tax and then, to take your mind other than the quarters reserved for his re-unite. Without their uniform they off the matter, dressed you up in one of own gang. might have passed for handsome young those monkey suits, which were the gob The women of Ί6 did not hold a reunion seniors. No signs anywhere of premature suits with which the Campus was decor- this year, preferring to adopt the Dix Plan gray hairs, wrinkles, and general decay ated in 1921. Only now they were given a which in 1928 will bring back Ί6 with '17, after five years' exposure to the vicissi- few embellishments in the way of a red Ί8, and '19. tudes of the world and marriage. But after collar and prominent class numerals. The After any reunion, no matter how rela- all, this class always wore a youthful, delight at greeting old friends was marred tively unsuccessful, credit is always due to energetic air! only by the grueling memory test attached a small group of alumni who have carried Who would forget the scenes and activi- thereto. This, however, was often simpli- the load. If ever appreciation should be ties on the Campus in 1921 ? It effervesced fied by a sly glance at their name button expressed it should be to the reunion com- with ideas, expressed in every form from before the rush. Even then, since a college mittee of the men of Ί6. Bub Pfeiffer, pink literature and soap box lectures to education does not guarantee crack pen- class secretary, and Ted Jamison, reunion fascinating mob fights on every subject manship, the spontaneous style was chairman, rendered services that were from "Can a Freshman Choose His Own slightly cramped. Among these new little short of extraordinary. They were Hat?" to "Should Co-eds be Left at found friends were many Faculty faces, ably supported by the other members of Large?" A little friction of ideas to warm eager to greet and to be greeted by those the reunion committee, Dave Visel, Pat the student's mind. The Hill was thor- who not long since had put considerable Irish, Bob Halsted, and Bill Grim, and by oughly awake. The Campus bolshevik was study on the subject, "Short-cuts to the a geographical committee covering the dragged out into the open and squelched Sheepskin," to find that only French and country. in a grand manner. The old place got a the guitar can be learned "Without an >21 good house-cleaning, thanks to "Uncle Instructor." "Ithaca in June would send anyone Pete" and his proteges, before it was It is these who make a Cornell Reunion nuts.''—Shakespeare. turned over to Prexy Farrand. a possibility and a pleasure at any time. This rather trite quotation may well So it was with no small pride that we We are under the impression that there is bear repetition, say the men of '21 after came back five years later to witness the no other similar institution which pre- their five-year reunion. In fact just work of Ezra Cornell and the Class of serves a greater bond between the teacher exactly 113 members of this notable group 1921. Of course we should add Lieuten- and the student. temporarily deserted the wheels of in- ant Twesten, famous for his remark, "I dustry to test once more the veracity of regret I have but one life to give for Cor- What with the clamor of brass bands, this lyrical epigram. nell," while at the same time holding one shouting, laughing, shoulder slapping, and It seemed quite natural to see the frosh, two sophomores, dodging eggs, and general excitement, the immediate reason Campus faces again, which one accepted pacifying the manager of the Ithaca Hotel. for the gathering was sadly neglected,

THE CLASS OF '86 , Forty years out of college may seem but a short time to those of '86 who returned for the reunions. Cornell, they say, hasn t really, changed so much. 466 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

namely, the lunch. But no one returns to very presentable sunset over West Hill some alumni. What a sunrise Saturday Ithaca particularly to eat or sleep. and a Cornell victory. morning! Ah! June in Ithaca! In the words of Milt Gross, the crowd Those who managed to get up the hill But the sunrise was a fooler. A good old "gradually went to Hoy Field." Not to see stopped to hear the chimes and Senior Ithaca rain set in, thereby saving the the ball game: like the lunch, it was only a Singing; and what Cornellian, when he Class of '24 a baseball defeat at the hands means to an end. It was more joy to sees that little group beneath the columns of the '21 boys. But what of the rain? No bounce a peanut off a brother alumnus's of Goldwin Smith, golden in the low sun, one left town. And there were more people head than to see a home run. While the long evening shadows stretching out over than you had time to see. boys were figuring out how they could get the quadrangle; when he hears those songs Then another luncheon in the Armory, out on those three sacks, the unsporting once more, which express his deepest more protracted and more hilarious than alumni were explaining why they were thoughts of the Hill, that he sang himself that of Friday. We were then treated to selling real estate in Florida instead of on those same steps only five years ago; an almost forgotten under-graduate pleas- operating a slide rule, what had become of when he lets his mind run back to those ure—a Troy picture. "Red," or the minute and complete his- last few days at college; I say, what Cor- Who can fathom the fatherly patience tory of their candidate for the Class of nellian doesn't hunt desperately for some of Mr. Troy? They are just the same as 1956- flippant remark to hide a real emotion? they were when they had their pictures taken in undergraduate days, those boys; Finally word was passed around that the The first day ended with a smoker at the they leave their glasses on, they won't be game had finished and the gobs set sail Musical Club Rooms down-town; and then quiet, there is always one who comes for Cayuga Lake, where they would wait every one went to bed to sit up talking, running up late just as the photographer until the race was called off. But recent etc. I may add that a certain seven repre- is all ready and a few minutes later when tradition was shattered and they rowed sented the Class of 1921 at the Senior he is once more prepared, another shows up. them all—eventually. But who cared how Ball. A booth was reserved for them and, To add to his trial this time, several of the long they were kept waiting, lounging on what was still more thoughtful, a special boys unhitched the prize Vet cow and the shores of Cayuga with good company entrance for their particular use. Al- brought her over as an honorary member all about? Remember the days when though it necessitated scaling a very verti- of the Class of 1921. But try as they some of us used to cut classes to get down cal wall and climbing through a rather would the cow wouldn't sit down. Further- to that same Cayuga? Those not inclined small casement window, the service was more the co-eds objected; so the only to reminisce could throw stones at floating not passed without notice; and I under- photographs of the cow and ensemble bottles; while there was one whom I stand that a movement has been started to were made hastily by Ike, the two-minute noticed throwing empty bottles at floating endow this window as a 1921 Memorial. tin-type wonder, aided by a self-appointed stones. The money for this purpose will be that alumni committee, who posed the cow and The freshman crews however, finally saved in by passing the regular entrance on appeared. This race was not so hot. But tried to keep Ike's machinery in an up- such occasions. Come on, boys, don't be a few hours later the varsity crews right position. The picture finally material- furnished a real thrill. You know how it slackers. These seven conducted them- ized and as usual it was a good one. feels with the sound of the oars knocking selves in a pleasant but entirely proper After that, a baseball game with Colgate in the locks, the swish of the water, the manner, the only discord being that —which was a good one. This was prob- lunge of the boats, the hysterical shouting aroused by members of the class of 1926 ably given better attention than the other of the coxies. All this combined with a when they saw their girls mob the hand- as the crowd was pretty thoroughly

rjΛEJS OF '96 Compared with the classes of '71 and '86 one may be inclined to think that these alumni are extremely youthful, As a matter of fact they left Cornell exactly thirty years ago, ^ number of those who appear in thig picture are grandparents. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 467

reacquainted, and Cornell won, which evidently discovered that no Cornellian always helps. can ignore the campus dog. Jack Moakley CLUB ACTIVITIES And at six the banquet at Cascadilla described the track situation interestingly Hall. The affair was started off with a and was presented with a warm hand from "welcome back" from Prexy Farrand com- the alumni. The spirit of the meeting Delaware bined with a thoughtful tribute to the was very genuinely enthusiastic and made The annual picnic of the Cornell Club of class for its conduct during the stormy a fitting termination to a very delightful Delaware was held June 19 on the estate Cornell days hereinbefore mentioned. reunion. of Mrs. H. M. Taylor near Wilmington. Al Treman made a futile attempt to re- The success of this reunion for those of About thirty members were present. sign his job as secretary of the Class of '21 was due to the unflagging efforts of The feature of the day was a baseball 1921 and with a unanimous acclamation Al Treman and Clyde Mayer, and to them game between the "single birds and the was presented with all the flowers in the we offer our heartiest congratulations for a married ducks." Owing to the thinning room. task well performed. ranks of the single men it was necessary for C. M. S. The boys were entertained by Bill them to recruit some of their more ex- Norton '02 with his masterpiece, "She perienced married brethren, a circumstance Spouts and Blows—She Spouts and Miss MAY E. PEABODY, for six years which accounted for their only victory in Blows" and a few other excellent stories. recent years according to a married man. Professor Stone, honorary member of the hostess and employment director for the C. U. C. A., has resigned to accept a Bill Megear twirled for the victors. Walter class, also rendered some humor in his Carpenter for the losers yielded only 28 incomparable manner. "Bull" Durham's position as principal of a new school re- cently erected in Englewood, New Jersey. hits. Otherwise, it was a delightfully hard- address, a little more serious in vein, won fought battle with a final score of 25-11 him a real ovation from the class. After a During the last year in addition to her duties with thύ C. U. C. A., Miss Peabody and no casualties. few other stunts and extemporaneous acts In the one-hole golf tournament a few by the boys themselves, the class moved in has had charge of arrangements for all meetings of organizations and groups at early apples were plucked from the trees a body to Bailey Hall to the big alumni Willard Straight Hall. by ambitious quoit pitchers. An archery "Get Together," which officially marked contest resulted in injury to everything in the termination of the reunion. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT ministers of sight but the target. This was a most enjoyable affair aside rural churches in New York and other The picnic was handled by "Doc" States are registered for the two weeks from a few inappropriate although well Elley, chairman of the Activities Commit- session in the Summer School held by the rendered vocal numbers of a classic nature. tee. Bub North and Bill Forbes led the crowd University for town and country ministers. in cheering. The meeting was conducted Mornings are given over to lectures in Detroit Women by Chuck Chuckrow ' 11. The prizes were such subjects as community organization, The Detroit Club of Cornell Women awarded for reunion attendance. '21 was leadership of boys and girls, and land- held their last meeting before the summer second in numbers back. The "piece de scaping the rural church, and afternoons months on June 4. It was an outdoor resistance" was Prexy Farrand's brief and to visits to churches "near by. Their meeting held at the Edison Boat Club. excellent address, interrupted by the in- clerical garb gives the Campus a dignified Eighteen were present including several evitable campus dog, which interruption appearance, and the ministers seem to be wives of Cornell men in Detroit. Dinner he handled in a masterly way. He has enjoying their busy vacation. was served in the club dining room and

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was followed by several games of bridge. meeting. Dr. Farrand's fine strong appeal Cornell Memories The evening was devoted entirely to to the alumnae was read and appreciated. recreation, there being no business meet- Dr. Caroline B. Morrison of San Francisco, Judge James O'Neill »71 Recalls Early ing, and ended with the singing of Cornell the president, instructed the secretary to Events in Cornell History songs. write to two prospective new members,— Eastern New York Women Miss Ransome, a recent arrival on the The recent reunion of the Class of '71 Coast, and Miss Hilda R. Longyear, like- brought back four of the living seven The annual luncheon of the Cornell wise a new comer to California. Mrs. members, among them Judge James Women's Club of Eastern New York was F. E. Yoakum who will be present at the O'Neill of Neillsville, Wisconsin. In the held at Schenectady, Hotel Van Curler, next meeting will have much of interest to following article Judge O'Neill describes on June 5. Mrs. William D. Smith tell the Club relative to her recent visit to interesting events in the very early his- (Freida H. Schoefflerj Ί8 of Schenectady, Ithaca and the high lights of the June tory of the University. vice-president, presided in the absence of reunion. I was one of the boys who stood in the the president, Dr. Emmeline Moore Ό6. New York crowd at the opening exercises of Cornell William Dalton '90, vice-president of the on the 7th of October, 1868, and listened General Electric Company, gave reminis- The annual Cornell Club golf tourna- to the addresses by President White and cences of his student life at Cornell. ment and dinner of the Cornell Club of New York will be held at the Engineers other notable speakers. Officers for 1926-27 were elected as Country Club, Roslyn, Long Island, on I had passed an examination and se- follows: president, Dr. Marion Collins Ίo; July 27. It is to be an all-day tourna- cured a scholarship in the new institution first vice-president, Frances L. McTam- ment, teeing-off from 9.15 a. m., with the from my district in St. Lawrence County. many Ίo; second vice-president, Mrs. dinner starting at 7.30 p. m. There will be I well remember the wonderful address by William D. Smith; recording secretary, prizes for the low gross and net, for each George William Curtis. It has always Mrs. Melvin D. Casler (Edna Greene) '05; round, for each class and for the day, and seemed to me that Curtis was the most corresponding secretary, Beulah Bailey also a visitors' prize. For the dinner there finished orator I ever heard from any '12; treasurer, Mrs. Charles F. Probes will be "the best stuntsters procurable, platform. Agassiz, the great geologist, (Mildred Burns) '20. swipe singers and raconteurs, not to men- spoke, but his command of English was Michigan tion slow movies of the players." Reserva- not perfect. Ezra Cornell was too weak tions should be made through Harold T. to stand while speaking. I recall the The Cornell Club of Michigan held its Edwards Ίo, chairman, 14 Wall Street, scene very vividly. Mr. White in his fourteenth annual picnic on Saturday, New York. autobiography describes the exercises. June 26, at Camp Brady, about forty San Francisco "In the afternoon came exercises at the miles from Detroit. The regular baseball university grounds. The chime of nine Cornell men of San Francisco and game between the Reds and the Blues was bells which Miss Jenny McGraw had vicinity, including members of the Stan- held as usual. The teams were picked presented to us had been temporarily ford and California faculties, gathered in from former Cornell "stars." After six hung in a wooden tower placed very near and a half innings the game was called— large numbers at the Union League Club the spot where now stands the porch of supper was ready—with the final score of on July i, at a dinner in honor of Dean the library; and, before the bells were Dexter S. Kimball. Oscar H. Fernbach 42 to i in favor of the Reds. The special rung for the first time, a presentation feature was the proof that as baseball ?95> president of the Cornell Club of address was delivered by Mr. Francis players Jimmie Munns '14 and Frank Northern California, presided. Miles Finch, since justice of the Court of Henderson '25, former Cornell football Dean Kimball, who had been attending Appeals of the State and dean of the captains, are still good football captains. the convention of the American Society of University Law School; and this was fol- This picnic marked the last meeting of Mechanical Engineers, of which he is a lowed by addresses from the Superin- the Cornell Club of Michigan until next past president, gave the alumni an inter- tendent of Public Instruction, and from fall. esting report on the new buildings of Cor- our non-resident Professors Agassiz and New England nell and the progress of the University. George William Curtis. Among the other speakers of the evening The Cornell Club of New England will "Having again been taken out of bed were Professor Donald English, Koliang hold its annual Wash on Saturday, July and wrapped carefully, I was carried up Yih Ό8, Chinese consul-general in San 31, at Worcester. Of late years the Wash the hill to hear them. All the speeches has been held on Lake Quinsigamond Francisco; Dr. Clyde Augustus Duniway were fine; but just at the close, Curtis '92, visiting professor at the Summer near Worcester. This is the summer burst into a peroration which, in my weak School of the University of California, and classic of the New England alumni, and is physical condition, utterly unmanned me. attended by Cornellians from Boston, Charles S. Young '95, publisher of the San He compared the new University to a Springfield, Hartford, and Providence, as Francisco Call. newly launched ship—'all its sails set, well as Worcester. The committee has Reminiscences of campus days at Ithaca its rigging full and complete from stem to extended invitations to Coach Jack formed no small part of the program, and stern, iΐs crew embarked, its passengers Moakley and Professor Bristow Adams, Cornell songs and cheers rang frequently on board; and/ he added, 'even while I fresh from their trip to England with the through the club house. speak to you, even while this autumn sun Cornell track team, to be guests of honor, sets in the west, the ship begins to glide together with Harold Flack '12, listed as Yonkers over the waves, it goes forth rejoicing, an Ithacan but temporarily resident of At a recent meeting of the Cornell Club every stitch of canvas spread, all its Cape Cod. of Yonkers, N. Y., the following officers colors flying, its bells ringing, its heart- were elected for the ensuing year: presi- strings beating with hope and joy; and I Northern California Women dent, Frederick W. Midgley '98; vice- say, God bless the ship, God bless the The July meeting of * the Cornell president, Walter B. Mitchell '14. John builder, God bless the chosen captain, Women's Club of Northern California was W. Cunningham '19 was re-elected secre- God bless the crew, and, gentlemen, held on the roth inst. at the home of Miss tary and treasurer. The following were undergraduates, may God bless all the Teresa B. Kane, Laurel Rise, Cragmont, elected directors: Frederic H. Cowden, passengers!' The audience applauded; Berkeley. Many of the members were Jr., '04, Walter K. Shaw '13, Frederick R. the chimes burst merrily forth." away on vacation as is usual in the summer Slater '94, Egbert Moore '99, Clarence E. I had had some instruction in music, months. Bright letters from the absent Carpenter '98, and Judge William F. and I was delighted to hear the bells. I and from Ithaca, formed the feature of the Bleakley '04. thought I should like to play them. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 469

Shortly President White notified the the alarm by ringing the bells. I remem- Like Wordsworth's little maid they say, students that he would receive application ber Mr. Cornell rushing up from his That we are only seven; from those who would like to play them. home. The fire department came and a Our answer back to them is that I received the appointment, and played great many people from the City. In There are thirty-three in heaven. the chimes for two years. I got my fact there was no danger but it caused When after some few fleeting years, board and room rent for this service. great alarm. The scamps who set the We join those gone before, Professor Wheeler and some of the stu- fire, as I remember, were those rooming And Old St. Peter rounds us up, dents at times assisted me. I had the in the north wing of the building. I think He'll find us just two score. honor of playing the chimes for the great some of them were suspended. Then here's to the Class of seventy-one, violinist, Ole Bull. He came to Ithaca to I had in the winter of 1870 a long and To the dead and the living as well, give a concert. The manager of the serious illness, I lay in my room from When united again we shall shout the Opera House brought him to my room January to April. I was carried to my refrain, and asked me if I would not play the home at Ogdensburg, New York. De Cor—nell—I yell, Cor—nell. chimes for the great musician. The Ziba Hazard Potter was my physician. JAMBS O'NEILL '71 chimes were in a wooden building south Students took turns as nurses. I regained of what is now called Morrill Hall. After my health, taught in the High School at I had played a few minutes, Professor Ogdensburg, New York, the next year, GROUND has been broken for a new Bull came into the bell house, took my returned, passed my examination and pasteurization and milk shipping depot hand and said, "Your instrument is much graduated with the Class of '71. I had so to be built by the Dairymen's League at more powerful than my violin." I heard gained in my standing, that had it not the foot of Cascadilla Street. This plant his wonderful playing that night, and the been for my sickness, I could have gradu- will prepare Tompkins County milk for next day I bought a violin, and began ated in the Class of 1870. shipment to New York. taking lessons. There were eleven bells. From the records in my hands, I find DISTINGUISHED GUESTS from England, The largest weighed about 2,500 pounds that the forty members of '71 entered Sir Walter and Lady Riddell, were visitors and the smallest 231 pounds. Can I recall business and professions as follows: at the University for two days recently. the inscription on the big bell? I believe Thirteen became lawyers, and of these, Sir Walter is chairman of the committee I can. On one side the words were: "To four were elected to the bench: Penton, in charge of appointments of British tell of Thy loving kindness early in the De Angelis, Sewell, and O'Neill. Two fellows to American universities through morning and of Thy truth in the night became clergymen: Delancy Wilson and the Commonwealth Fellowship Fund in season." And on the other side: "Glory Sanford F. Huntley. There were four England, and is now making a tour of the to God in the highest, $ peace on earth, doctors, two teachers, three engineers, United States to determine the most good will toward men." and others in different branches of busi- desirable institutions in which to place One night some mischievous boys built ness. the twenty students who are sent over a big bonfire just west of the South Uni- Of the forty boys in the class, seven each year. Last year Cornell was honored versity Building. There was a great survive. A friend to whom I mentioned by having two fellows sent to study in the blaze. It looked from the town as if the this has composed these verses: Chemistry Department. Three more building were on fire. Our class numbered forty in Seventy-one will be sent next fall, one to the Physics I roomed in what is now Morrill Hall, And to-day they are forty strong, Department and two to the College of and the boys had tied a bar across my Although but seven are alive on earth, Agriculture. Only three new students door so that I could not get out and give Still our figures are not wrong. may go in one year to any one university.

THE CLASS OF '21 These youngsters returned 170 strong and threaten to break all records at the next reunion. 470 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

It is depressing that such an excellent vehicle as the author's attractive style ATHLETICS could not have carried a decent burden. The author doesn't know his stuff. He even believes that most college athletes Published for the Alumni Corporation Keen Competition in England are hired. Naively enough, after a debauch of Cornell University by the Cornell Although the Oxford-Cambridge track Alumni News Publishing Company, Inc. of trivialities which he assumes to be the team defeated the Princeton-Cornell team highest intellectual possiblities of the Published weekly during the college year and by a score of 7 to 5 in the meet at Stam- great mass of alumni, he acclaims as "the monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. ford Bridge, England, on Saturday, July Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of most encouraging sign in the college September. Weekly publication 'numbered con- 10, the competition was much keener than secutively* eds the last week in June. Issue No. heavens," the excellent progress Doctor 40 is published in August and is followed by an at Atlantic City last summer and the out- Hopkins of Dartmouth has made with his index of the entire volume, which will be mailed come remained in doubt until the Britons on request. alumni. Dartmouth alumni are the human- had won the half-mile run, one of the last Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- est of God's educated creatures, and vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single events on the program. Cornell contribu- Doctor Hopkins is a very pleasing speaker; copies twelve cents each. ted three first places to the American but Mr. Marks enthusiastically assumes Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his team's score, and a tie for another first. subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in that this is a pioneer attempt, an isolated before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that Princeton won one first place and a tie for instance. He should study alumni. a continuance of the subscription is desired. another. For the Britons, Cambridge He has not scratched the surface. He Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- scored all of the firsts. able to Cornell Alumni News. would otherwise know that at least one Captain Henry A. Russell of Cornell, accomplishment, the raising of require- Correspondence should be addressed— Intercollegiate champion in the 100 and Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. ments for the A. B. degree to four years, 22O-yard dashes, performed brilliantly. Editor-in-Chief and } was the work of that most pernicious form Business Manager j R. W. SAILOR '07 He defeated A. E. Porritt, the British of alumni group, the general alumni as- Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON sprinting star, twice, winning the 100- sociation. Associate Editors yard dash in 10 seconds and the 22O-yard Were it desirable, examples could un- CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 dash in 2i ι-2. In both races the Cornel- ROMEYN BERRY '04 BARRETT L. CRANDALL '13 doubtedly be multiplied. One might list H. G. STUTZ '07 J. J. ELSON '22 lian won decisively and his form aroused BRISTOW ADAMS L. E. REED '23 many examples for Mr. Marks's benefit. much favorable comment from British Harpers, however, has used an article that Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing sportsmen. John E. Sullivan of Cornell Company, Incorporated: JohnL. Senior, President; attacks vigorously without a sound basis H. G. Stutz, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasur- contributed a surprise by winning the er; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 123 in fact. Facts are usually troublesome in West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. shot put from Caleb Gates of Princeton. a very vigorous attack. Sullivan's put was 44 feet 91-2 inches. Alumni should not be disheartened by Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated The other Cornellian to break into the this disclosure of their collective faults. list of winners was Reed V. Bontecou, The picture lacks vision and two-sided- Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. who tied with Stephen R. Bradley of ness. To read this article should benefit us Princeton in winning the pole vault at 12 Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. all. We would learn how people expect us feet 6 inches. The summaries: to act when we herd together. A little Eugene P. Goodwillie of Cornell ITHACA, N. Y., JULY 1926 attention on our part may elevate us, finished a good second to J. W. Rinkel, collectively, to the level of the average winner of the 44O-yard dash, and H. H. country club or better. ATTACKED AGAIN Benson of Cornell was beaten only on the R, PERCY MARKS, the author of a last lap of the two mile run by T. C. During Vacation M best-seller, "The Plastic Age/' has Fooks of Cambridge. Elmo Carruthers, turned his attention to a later phase of Subscribers who plan to spend two Jr., was second to Lord Burghley of Cam- Collegitis in an article in the July Harpers weeks or more of the summer away from bridge in the I2θ-yard high hurdles, and entitled "The Pestiferous Alumni." Col- their present mailing addresses, and who Everett C. Bradley of Cornell tied for lege graduates should read the article; if do not want The ALUMNI NEWS and other second place in the high jump with James for no other reason than that they should magazines to reach them directly, should W. Thompson of Princeton and J. D. S. enjoy the benefit of his list of human request their local post offices, or their Pendlebury of Cambridge. weaknesses, many of which are exhibited homes, offices, or boarding places to hold Cornellians who competed but did not by alumni. It is not unreasonable to ex- copies until they return. score were Philip I. Higley, mile run, pect alumni to exhibit every human Post offices will forward such second- Charles M. Werly, half-mile run, John frailty. It is unreasonable that anyone class mail only if a sufficient amount to Farrand, 44O-yard dash, and Rolin H. should expect the one percent of our cover forwarding postage is deposited in Spelman, low hurdles. population holding college degrees to have advance. If such an arrangement is not eliminated any fault that is common to made, copies are returned to the publishers. Track Events humans. Subscribers may have THE ALUMNI ioo-Yard Dash—Won by Henry A. Mr. Marks has a very useful pattern. NEWS sent directly to their summer ad- Russell, Cornell; A. E. Porritt, Oxford, Take intellectuality or virtue at a low ebb, dresses from this office at no extra cost if second. Time—0:10. apply it as standard equipment for any notice of the change of address reaches us 22O-Yard Dash—Won by Henry A. group under discussion, and enough readers at least three days before the publication Russell, Cornell: A. E. Porritt, Oxford, will recognize common factors in the date of the first issue to be changed. second. Time—0:21 y% group. Thus the author is provided with a Please state also the time of changing back 440-Yard Run—Won by J. W. J. plausible weapon for universal attack. It to your home address. Rinkel, Cambridge: Eugene W. Good- is applied often enough to make attractive willie, Cornell, second. Time—0:49 3-5. light reading. With appropriate modifica- THE UNIVERSITY of Rochester on June tions the piffle herein ascribed to alumni 21 conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws 880-Yard Run—Won by E H. Fryer, can well be turned to illustrate the con- upon Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the Col- Cambridge: Joseph R. Gibson, Princeton, versation of any organized group, political, lege of Engineering. Immediately there- second. Time—i '.59 3-5. religious, social, or what not, up to and after Dean Kimball left for the West, Mile Run—Won by R. S. Starr, Cam- probably including even those of the traveling in his capacity as president of bridge; H. M. O'Connor, Oxford, second. teaching profession. the American Engineering Council. Time—4:26 1-5. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 471

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have been shifted from the shoulders of men to the tireless The Magic Sack— shoulders of motors—a lasting GOOD ROADS-FARM BUILDINGS economic gain. There should be more indus- WAREHOUSES-SKYSCRAPERS tries of which a similar story might be told, for American busi- —all out of the magic sack of cement! ness has found a way to accomplish the seemingly impos- United States produced sible—to pay the highest wage in 1924 well over a half bil- and still maintain the lowest lion sacks of cement, for which costs. Through the applications the largest single use was in the of electricity, the productive construction of good roads. power of each workman may be How much these roads have so increased that, single-handed, helped to make us a nation of he outworks the old-tirne "gang" neighbors needs no repetition. and receives more than the old- But the means by which the time foreman's wage. cement industry made such roads possible are not so well known. Though only five times as many The General Electric workers are employed, the pro- Company's monogram is duction of cement has increased found on the motors that run the grinders, weigh thirty times in the last quarter the cement and sew the century. The lion's share of the sacks. As in so many work is not done by men but by other industries, these initials have helped men electricity—its use has increased to see that electricity more than fifteen-fold. works at lowest cost in ^Abundant electricity has increased money and human In other words, the harder, » each workers production six "fold strength. coarser tasks of cement making GENERAL EL 472 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Two-Mile Run—Won by T. C. Fooks, Junior Varsity: Washington, 15:40 1-5; different ways of learning: differentiation, Cambridge; H. H. Benson, Cornell, second. Pennsylvania, 15:46 1-5; California, 16:07 assimilation, gradation, and re-definition. Time—9:44 4-5. 3-5; Syracuse, 16:19 2-5; Cornell, 16:26; The work closes with a careful and 120-Yard Hurdles—Won by Lord Columbia, 16:36. sympathetic description and discussion of Burghley, Cambridge; Elmo Caruthers, Freshman: Columbia, 11:28 3-5; Cali- the measurement of intelligence. If all Cornell, second. Time—0:15 3-5. fornia, 11:48 2-5; Syracuse, 11:50; Penn- measurers of intelligence to-day were as 2 20-Yard Hurdles—Won by Lord sylvania, 12:11; Cornell, 12:38. cautious and well balanced in their views, Burghley, Cambridge; L. Fletcher, Cam- the lay world would have more confidence bridge, second. Time—0:25. in their conclusions. LITERARY REVIEW There is a careful and full index. Field Events Though there is no bibliography, the Broad Jump—Won by Edwin J. Dike- author has added many useful references man Jr., Princeton, 23 feet 2% inches; Psychology for Education in the notes. As a whole the volume de- Lewis R. Scudder, Princeton, 22 feet 6% serves only praise. inches, second. Psychology and Education. By Robert Shot Put—Won by John E. Sullivan, Morris Ogden Όi. New York. Harcourt, A Book of Literature Cornell, 44 feet 9}^ inches; Caleb Gates, Brace and Company. 1926. 22.5 cm., pp. xiv, 364. Ideas and Forms in English and Ameri- Princeton, 43 feet i}/% inches, second. can Literature. By Homer A. Watt Ό6, Professor Ogden has written a lucid and Pole Vault—Tie between Stephen R. Professor of English in Washington Square Bradley, Princeton, and Reed V. Bontecou, systematic discussion of the nature of the College, New York University, and Cornell, 12 feet 6 inches. mind and the bearing of these facts on our James B. Munn, Washington Square High Jump—Won by C. T. Vangreyzel, method and scheme of education. It will College, New York. Scott, Foresman and Cambridge, 6 feet; Everett C. Bradley, at once take rank among the most im- Company. 1925. 24 cm., pp. xxviii, 1201. Cornell, James W. Thompson, Princeton, portant of scholarly works on the subject. This volume is nothing short of a small and J. D. S. Pendlebury, Cambridge, Education is defined by the author as a library. Perhaps books of selections like tied for second, 5 feet 10 inches. social process of change in the behavior of this will help to convince students that living organisms. The original forms of Crews Make Poor Showing the library as a whole is their proper behavior, instincts, reflexes, and tropisms, workshop. In this well arranged and well None of the Cornell crews was a factor are first taken up. Habits are charac- printed volume the editors have grouped in the Poughkeepsie Regatta. In fact, terized as acquired reflexes. "Since in- selections according to their type or their showing was the poorest in Cornell stinct is the prototype of all selective ad- dominant mood. The epic, the ballad, rowing annals. Varsity and freshman justment, it must furnish the keynote to and narrative poetry fill 334 pages; lyric eights finished last; the junior varsity our understanding of education." poetry fills 384 pages; the drama, 41 pages; managed to beat out Columbia for last Ogden warns us that it is pedagogically history, 66 pages; biography and auto- place. unsound to begin the learning process biography, 66 pages; the essay, 197 pages; The battle for first place, in the Varsity with too much stress on the play side, for and prose fiction (the short story), 90 race was the now familiar duel between this leads to soft pedagogy. The educator pages. Anybody can of course find fault Washington and the Navy. This time with this proportion; for example, why Washington won by about one-third of a should remember that "the same modes of instinctive behavior that can be performed pass over the British and American boat length. The Huskies got away to a drama entirely and print three plays by fine start, and had better then a length, playfully are also performed seriously," and should consider their serious aspect Synge, Lady Gregory, and Yeats? The at the bridge, the three-mile mark. The editors frankly admit their inability to Navy then spurted, but Washington had as fundamental ways of working rather illustrate the drama fully; they select assumed too much of a lead, and managed than of playing. these one-act plays as illustrations merely to beat off the Middies' effort in the final Pursuing the investigation of situation of one direction taken by current play- rush for the line. and experience, the author calls attention wrights. The novel, too, could not be The race was rowed in two divisions, to the fact that all change is saltatory: adequately presented; but the selections the leaders taking a commanding position we leap through a sudden transformation illustrating the short story are typical and in the early stages. Syracuse showed the into something new and different. A new well chosen. way home to the second division, finishing experience is not merely an old or familiar The editorial apparatus in the form of third, about six boat lengths behind the one plus a few new details; it has an introductory notices, footnotes, and bib- Midshipmen. The other five were closely identity and completeness of its own. liographical references is not skimped, bunched, Pennsylvania finishing about The author proceeds to ally himself with and so far as we have tested, it leaves two lengths back of Syracuse, followed by the school of thinkers supporting the nothing to be desired. The book is in- Columbia, California., Wisconsin, and Gestalt or configuration theory. Per- tended to furnish a generous dose of Cornell. The elapsed time between the ception he defines not as a complex of literature in the most palatable form. It finish of Pennsylvania in fourth place and sensory experience and associated imagery, deserves* and will doubtless have abundant Cornell in eighth was four and one-fifth but rather as the experience of a closed success. seconds. circuit of events; it is because of the Washington also won the junior race, closure that we perceive. The new theory A Book of Plays defeating Pennsylvania by a length and a is, we think, sound and illuminating; it is Small Plays for Small Casts. By Eliza- half, while a fine Columbia crew won the in harmony with the newer philosophical beth Hall Yates. Philadelphia. Penn freshman event by five lengths over Cali- view which regards thinking as incapable Publishing Company. 1926. 19.3 cm., fornia. Cornell finished a minute and 10 of analysis into the results of various pp. 156. seconds behind the winners, in this race; sensory and memory impulses; the whole This volume contains seven one-act in the Jayvee the Red and White shell is greater than and perhaps even different plays: The Blind, Coral Beads, The was 45 seconds behind the Washington from the sum of the parts. Man is not a La.ughing Child, Spot Cash, A Rich juniors. The summary: walking theorem. Young Lady, Millennium Morning, and Varsity: Washington, 19:28 3-5; Navy The process of learning depends on The Slave. They have been written with I9 29 3-5; Syracuse, 19:53 4-5; Pennsyl- particularization ("an acquired skilled special reference to the needs of the little vania, 20:03 4-55 Columbia, 20:05 ι-5J behavior is always a result of an act of theater and the more advanced amateur California, 20:06 2-5; Wisconsin, 20:07; perception"). Since there are different actor. They vary in character from the Cornell, 20:08. ways of perceiving, there are likewise cynical humor of The Blind and the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 473

comedy of Millennium Morning to the tragic Slave. They are good plays to read and to act. Books and Magazine Articles In The Cornell Law Quarterly for June is printed the address on "Codification of International Law at Geneva" delivered here on March 24 by Hon. George W. Wickersham, on the Schiff Foundation. Henry S. Fraser '26 writes on "The Extent and Delimitation of Territorial Waters." Professor Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School discusses "Trial of Actions Under the Code." Professor Maurice H. Merrill of the University of Idaho College of Law writes on "Abandonment of Oil and Gas Leases." Professor Lyman P. Wilson By H. W. VAN LOON, '05 writes on "The New York Rule as to Nervous Shock." Notes and Comment on They are going. recent and typical cases fill fifty-two pages. Professor Herbert D. Laube reviews the And there is something very fine about the quiet way in which second edition of "An Introduction to these boys have taken to their unpleasant task.. . There has not Roman Dutch Law" by R. W. Lee. Pro- been any enthusiasm.. . That was right.. . A war like this does fessor Oliver L. McCaskill reviews Ed- not ask for words but for silent deeds... Our boys seem to under- win D. Webb's "Elements of Practice in stand it... At odd moments they drop into the office... There is the New York Courts Under the Civil very little talk. Practice Act." O. C. Doering '27 reviews "Going away?" Edwin Valentine Mitchell's new edition "Yes, sir." of "The Newgate Calendar." Professor Robert S. Stevens reviews the third "Army or Navy?" edition of "A Treatise on the Specific ' Ί don't know yet. I called up my people on the long distance Performance of Contracts" by John N. phone last night. They said it was all right. So I am going to Pomeroy, revised by John N. Pomeroy, New York tonight and then home to say good-bye." Jr., and John C. Manin.ξ "Want to go?" In the Bulletin of the American Associa- "Not particularly. But I suppose it is the only thing to do/' tion of University Professors for May is And that is all. reprinted from Science the recent address by Dr. Vernon Vellogg, '91-2 Grad., on They are going, and many of them never will come back. "Isolation or Cooperation in Research"; The pleasant life of mediocre endeavor has come to an end. To "Functions of the Faculty in Administra- be sure we had never looked at them in the light of heroes. They tion" by Professor Joseph A. Leighton, were nice, lovable fellows. Their outlook upon life was simplicity Ph.D. '94, of Ohio State University, from itself. Graduation and a job. Then, after a few years, another the Transactions of the Ohio College job, a little higher up. Finally a home of their own and some Association; and an editorial on football nice girl to be their wife and a few babies and a car and two weeks' from The Cornell Daily Sun for April 28. vacation to go hunting and fishing. Here and there a man with a In The Journal of Physical Chemistry hobby or the ambition to do, or write, or build, or achieve some for June Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, particular purpose. the editor, reviews "A Survey of Physics" To most of them, however, life meant a cheerful gift to be by Max Planck, translated by R. Jones enjoyed as the faithful days come along. There was no searching and D. H. Williams; the third volume of for hidden motives or for an ulterior purpose. The amiable the "Colloid Symposium Monograph," Divinity of Things-as-they-are ruled their realm. They accepted edited by Harry N. Holmes; and "Textile Chemistry" by F. G. Cooper. whatever came with a smile, and they did not ask questions. And now, without a word of warning, they have been asked In The New York Times for June 13 to face the Invisible Mystery. There was no complaint. They "Florida" by Kenneth L. Roberts Ό8 is packed their trunks and God. bless them. reviewed by Howard Devree. The book is made up of articles published in The They are going. Saturday Evening Post. Thus far they have been my students. But now, in an humble The Johns Hopkins Press has just fashion I am grateful that I have been their teacher. issued a volume of "Addresses" by Hon. May 5, 1917 Sao-ke Alfred Sze Όi, Chinese ambassador to the United States. The volume consists of five addresses on China's special prob- lems. It sells for $1.25. Cornell War Memorial Committee Professor Wilbur C. Abbott, '92-5 Grad., Ίζρbert 8. Treman, '09, has collaborated with Jean Jacques Jus- serand and John Spencer Bassett in a ITHACA, NEW YORK volume on "The Writing of History." It is published by the Scribners and sells for $1.50. 474 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Honor Faculty Member Brauner during the painting of the por- Graphic to Continue trait and his appreciation of the tribute of Students of Professor Kingsbury Present his graduate students. Will Resume Publication at Beginning of His Portrait to University Those present felt with Professor Gage the Next Semester that "it was a rare privilege to gather in In observance of the completion of his honor of a man with such noble ideals and As reported in the June 10 issue of THE thirty years as a member of the Faculty, such beautiful human qualities, who has ALUMNI NEWS, eleven members of the the graduate students of Dr. Benjamin been and is an inspiring leader and trainer Board of Editors and Managers of The Freeman Kingsbury, A. M. '94, Ph. D. '95, of men." Cornell Graphic were severely punished for presented to the University on the after- Professor Kingsbury received the A. B. alleged improprieties in connection with noon of June 10 a portrait of him painted degree from Buchtel College in 1893 and the Police Gazette number of the Graphic by Professor Olaf M. Brauner. in the same year entered Cornell, where he which appeared on Spring Day. The Professor James G. Needham '89, received the degree of M. S. in 1894 and following letter from Chauncey L. Grant presiding at the gathering of friends and Ph. D. in 1895. He received the degree of '26, former managing editor, is concerned former students of Dr. Kingsbury, intro- M. D. in 1904 at the University of Frei- with plans for the carrying on of the duced Dr. Frederick W. Stewart Ί6 who, burg, Germany. He was a fellow in neurol- publication. in behalf of the graduate students, gave ogy at Cornell in 1895-6, and in the latter the presentation address. After the un- year was appointed instructor in micro- EDITOR THE ALUMNI NEWS: veiling of the portrait by Dr. Kingsbury's scopic methods, histology, and embryol- Paul Rhines has suggested that I send daughter, Marguerite, Dean William A. ogy. In 1899 he became assistant pro- to you the dope on our plans to continue Hammond accepted it for the University fessor of histology and embryology, and in the publication of The Graphic in spite of with the following remarks: "Cornell 1902 was made assistant professor of the elimination of the old board. University is happy in having in its Faculty physiology. In 1908, upon the resignation After the action of the Committee on the eminent scientist, Dr. Kingsbury, of Professor Simon H. Gage '77, he was Student Affairs was actually communi- whose portrait is to-day presented to the made professor and head of the Depart- cated officially to us, we had a meeting of University, and the distinguished artist, ment of Histology and Embryology. Pro- the entire board for the express purpose of Professor Brauner, who painted it—two fessor Kingsbury has become internation- preserving the life of the publication which men who are well beloved among our ally known as an investigator and writer we had practically sacrificed ourselves to colleagues. in his chosen field. maintain in the face of the cumbersome "When a man has achieved the high Era debt. This statement may give you rank attained by Dr. Kingsbury, and has the idea that we deliberately challenged patiently and skillfully trained in research OBITUARY the Faculty in order to make a large sale a long line of pupils, many of whom have on Spring Day. That, however, was not become authoritative writers and prac- our idea at all. Our sole purpose was to titioners in the field of medicine, it is Dr. George R. White '88 approach the limit of propriety, and yet fortunate that their devotion to the gifted Dr. George Reeves White died at Pasa- remain within its bounds, meaning nothing teacher leads them to endow the Univer- dena, Calif., on July 5. malicious, but just hoping against hope sity with his portrait, an enduring image He was born at Southampton, N. Y., on that by putting out a snappy, not smutty of the man, which will not be mute, but January 24, 1866 and secured his early issue, we could make a go of The Graphic will speak from its living lineaments a education at Southampton Academy. In in the future. As you know, we stood to message of inspiration to future genera- 1884 he entered Cornell and graduated in gain nothing personally. Everything that tions of aspiring youth. There can be no 1888 with the degree of B. S. He was the we did gain was to go toward the payment finer or more fitting memorial to this type champion high jumper and also a leading of debt left on us by irresponsible editors of man and to this type of service. figure in C. U. C. A. circles. and managers of the recent past. After leaving Cornell, he went to the "This portrait, originating in the affec- Our plan, as determined at our special College of Physicians and Surgeons in tionate esteem ot the pupils and friends of meeting, was briefly this: A new board New York, graduating in 1891 with the Dr. Kingsbury is accepted by the Univer- will function in the fall, made up largely of highest honors of any in his class. For the sity with the feeling of deepest gratitude unsuccessful compets from last year's next two years he was an interne in the and appreciation." competitions. They will be directed by Seney Hospital in Brooklyn, and then The presentation of the portrait in the Norman A. Miller, retired business man- took up practice in New York. When the afternoon was followed in the evening by ager of The Widow, whose position will be Spanish-American War broke out, he en- a banquet in honor of Dr. Kingsbury. At that of general manager. He will direct listed as a surgeon and went to the Philip- this second gathering of Dr. Kingsbury's the policy of The Graphic and will cor- pines. On his return he located in Savan- friends and graduate students Professor respond largely to an editor-manager-in- nah, Ga., and practiced surgery there. Needham again presided, this time in the chief. There will be only two official On June 30, 1908, he married Miss capacity of toastmaster, and read greet- positions in addition to his. Herta Wilson Lulu C. Mosely of Prosperity, S. C., who ings from many who could not be present. will be circulation manager and Shub survives him. He was buried at Savannah, Following the banquet he introduced the Fuertes will be art editor. Under these Georgia. speakers of the evening, Professor Pierre executives will be John T. B. Miller, A. Fish '90, fellow student and colleague; Herbert L. O'Brien '13 Edward M. Brandriss, Fuller D. Baird, Dr. Christianna Smith '19 of Mount Herbert Lawrenson O'Brien died at H. Cusack, and C. A. Krause, on the Holyoke College, who spoke in behalf of Camden, N. J., on June 22 last of heart editorial-photographic staff, and Floyd the women graduate students; Dr. Abram failure following influenza. Mundy, Hobart R. Avery, Daniel W. T. Kerr '95, secretary of the Ithaca He was born in Berlin, N. J., on Novem- Hogan, and Pauline Ace on the business Division of the Medical College; Dr. Rufus ber 28, 1888, the son of Mr. and Mrs. staff. Avery and Hogan will be connected R. Humphrey '20 of the University of Edward L. O'Brie'n. He graduated from merely with the work during the summer Buffalo School of Medicine, who spoke for Camden High School and entered Cornell months in preparing the first two issues of the men graduate students; and Emeritus in 1909 as a student of civil engineering. the fall, as they will not be at Cornell next Professor Simon Henry Gage '77 former After one year he left and for the past few year. Their places will be filled by the teacher, colleague, and predecessor. Dr. years had been associated with Irwin & winners of the sophomore business com- Kingsbury in response expressed his en- Laighton, general building contractors, in petition soon after the beginning of the joyment of the hours spent with Professor Philadelphia. fall term. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 475

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Immediately after the end of the first The ruling of the Committee on Student of the committee was far too drastic. The term the retired board will resume control Affairs was obviously unfair to the credi- consensus of opinion as I have heard it in exactly the same capacity as formerly, tors of The Graphic, largely, we feel, be- expressed has been almost identical to that the same men being eligible for the major cause it was the only action the committee given in a recent article in THE ALUMNI positions in the March elections as have saw themselves in a position to take. It is NEWS where it was deplored that the been in line during the recent spring our purpose then to justify our creditors in University should give students absolutely months. Those who have served during the faith they have shown in us and by no guidance until they have made a mis- the fall term will also be eligible for elec- making the publication a success repay take and then, though it be their first tion. The only difference will be that the them in the future. There are also great offense of any kind, their previous records, business board will not resume office, as possibilities in The Graphic in regard to scholastic and otherwise, having been per- the members have been placed on parole advertising the outstanding features and fect theretofore, punish them with an iron for an entire year. achievements of the more prominent hand. The last paragraph may explain why the alumni of the University. Really, The I may have omitted a couple of names in board has not been divided as in the past. Graphic can be of tremendous service to my outline of the new board; but I have The plan is not to give anyone an unfair the University, and it was to this end we not the official list at hand and can speak advantage in regard to spring elections. were working when we were so rudely only from memory. Essentially, however, Those who function next fall should not be interrupted by our own indiscretion. the board is as I have outlined, and my given executive positions which they would I should like to take this opportunity summary I think is a safe one for publica- naturally expect to resume at election through THE ALUMNI NEWS to apologize tion. time. This would be unfair to those who publicly to the alumni, undergraduates, CHAUNCEY L. GRANT '26 worked so hard last spring. On the other and Faculty as well, on behalf of the entire hand, although they have been defeated in board for our obvious mistake in the con- this year's competitions, there is no reason tents of the Spring Day number. I cannot Winners of Prizes why they should not by virtue of the work help but say, however, that almost with- The following is a practically complete next fall be accorded a fair chance at out exception every opinion that I have list of prize winners for the year 1925-26, elections. heard expressed has been that the action lacking only the Fuertes Graduate Medal, which has not yet been awarded. The forty-one prizes listed range in value from $10 to $300. Of the winners two are graduate students, twenty-four are seniors, thirteen are juniors, and two are sopho- mores. Double prize winners are John Randall Zehner '26, who won the Frank Cascadilla Schools A. Barton Prize in Military Tactics and the second Fuertes Memorial Public Open September 27, 1926 Speaking Prize, and Robert Hine Bard- well '26, winner of the second Jane Miller Classes in all subjects for which Cor- Prize for proficiency in veterinary phys- nell gives entrance credit. Preparation iology and the Anne Besse Prize. The Woodford Prize in Oratory, Milton for Regents, Cornell, or College Entrance Harvey Friedman '26. Examinations. Students entering in Sep- The Jane Miller Prizes: First Prize, tember may complete a year's work in Arthur Trayford '27; Second Prize, time to enter Cornell in February or two Warren Fowler Hoag '27. years7 work by June. Faculty expert in The Sibley Prizes in Mechanic Arts: First Prize, Ngeu Faung Tsang '27; Second the art of thorough preparation. Prize, Herbert Oscar de Postels '26; Third Prize, Walter Merton Perry '27; Fourth Ithaca, New York Prize, Louis Conrad Roess '26; Fifth Prize, Franklin James Huntsinger '26. C. M. Doyle, '02 A. J. Thomas, '06, PhD. '16 The Eighty-Six Memorial Prize in Declamation, Joseph Weintraub '28. The Barnes Shakespeare Prize, Margaret Louise Plunkett '27. The Boardman Senior Prize Scholar- ship, Fϊank B. Wettig '26. The Fuertes Undergraduate Medal, Charles Nicholas Strong '26. AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY The Ninety-Four Memorial Prize in is offered three or four young engineering graduates who have been out of col- Debate, Alvin Randall Cowan '27. lege about three years to become connected with a rapidly growing sales, The Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial engineering and contracting organization, which is doing business in Mary- Medal, Conway Libanus Todd '26. land, District of Columbia, Virginia, and North Carolina. The Corson Browning Prize, Mary Men experienced in the selling of building materials and of mechanical Lynch Johnson, Grad. equipment are preferred. Only men of sound character and training desired. The Guilford Essay Prize, Kenneth Carl All applications will be considered strictly confidential. Walz '27. If your record appeals to us, we will arrange for a personal interview. The Luana L. Messenger Prize, Freder- Applications with complete statement of training and experience should be ick George Marcham, Grad. addressed to The James T. 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of her energy and time to her writing and Ό8 PhD—John W. Turrentine was to her generous interest in organized married to Miss Katharine W. Bacon of charity, and the manifold efforts of women Montclair, N. J., on July 2. Mail ad- DO YOU to better city and state by proper social dressed to him at the Cosmos Club, legislation. Washington, D. C., will reach him. need a position '87—Columbia at her recent commence- '08 BSA—Chester J. Hunn has left his want a position ment conferred the degree of LL. D. on work in Washington, D. C., to fill the Judge Cuthbert W. Pound of the State place in the Department of Floriculture at know of a position Court of Appeals. Cornell which became vacant when his '93 LLB—After being with the United father died. States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of Ίi AB—Mr. and Mrs. James E. Ben- Baltimore, Md., for thirty years, and a nett of Youngstown, Ohio, announce the good share of that time vice-president, arrival of Franklin Seaton Bennett on The Cornell Club of New Alexander P. Knapp has resigned and ex- June 2i. Frank provides the fourth part York maintains a pects to devote some time to travel. in a male quartet. The two tenors are '99 BSA, Όi FE—Walter Mulford is twins. ; Committee on professor of forestry and chief of the n CE—W. Mitchell Price has blos- Division of Forestry at the University of somed out as a rose fancier and grower. Business Placements California. He was vice-president of the He owns seven hundred bushes of one World Forestry Congress held in Rome, hundred different varieties and has won for the purpose of bringing Cornell Italy, from April 29 to May 5 last, which thirteen ribbons at two rose shows. Five men and jobs together was attended by three hundred and fifty of them were won at the Maryland Rose Send your information to or delegates from fifty-five nations of the Show. He also won the sweepstakes prize consult with world. He can be reached in care of the given by the Evening Sun of Baltimore at university at Berkeley, Calif. the Civic League Rose Show. He is Charles Borgos Ί6, Chairman married and has four children, and accord- '03 ME—Chester T. Reed has recently at the ing to his wife, still loves to play poker. been elected president of the Worcester His home is on Overhill Road, Ten Hills, Groupe de Γ Alliance Frangaise for a term CORNELL CLUB OF Baltimore. NEW YORK of two years. An important part of the program is the arrangement for speakers Ίi LLB—Hubert H. d'Autremont has 245 Madison Avenue capable of giving scholarly talks on some returned from a three months' trip to the interesting topic relating to art, literature, Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, New York City or current events in France or among her where he was looking after copper mines. colonies. The group holds eight meetings His address is 606-607 First National each year, held monthly commencing with Bank Building, Duluth, Minn. the month of October and ending with the '12 ME—On May 29 last, Captain meeting in May. Andrew T. Knight graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. He '05 AB—Isaac E. Chadwick is president is now with the Department of Experi- of the Chadwick Pictures Corporation and Rothschild ment at the school, working under the of the Merit Film Corporation at 729 Infantry Board. His address is P. O. Box Seventh Avenue, New York. Bros. 902, Fort Benning. Ό6 AB—Mary G. McCormick has been '13—Aertsen P. Keasbey has returned supervisor of nutrition of school children to Montclair, N. J., to live, after being for in the New York State Department of six years at Mountain Lakes. His new Education since 1918. About two million address is 298 Park Street. He is still in children come under her influence each the asbestos business in New York at 445 year in trying to establish good food habits. West Street. We Carry Miss McCormick sailed for Europe July 3 '13 ME—CarroΓS. Dudley is proprietor to spend the summer. a Complete Line §f of The White Inn at Meridian, N. Y. He Cornell Furnishings Ό6 AB, '14 PhD—Dr. Emmeline Moore and his wife have a son, Carroll S., Jr., has been elected president of the Albany born on August 14, 1925. branch of the American Association of '13 B S Ί 6 AB—Allan C. Fraser and his Banners, Pennants, University Women, an organization of 175 wife, Helen P. Myers Ί6, have a second members representing 40 different colleges. daughter, Janet Louise, born on June 18 Pillow Covers, ;o6 ME—Brian C. Bellows has left last. They live at 119 The Parkway, Wall and Chicago and the Illinois Bell Telephone Ithaca. Fraser is an assistant professor in Company. He is now in the development the Department of Plant Breeding. Table Skins at Very and research department of the American '14 AB, '25 PhD; '23 MS—On May 13 Telephone & Telegraph Company at 195 last, a daughter, Mary Sherwood, was Attractive Prices Broadway, New York. He lives at Maple- born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Harper wood, N. J., and says that he and his (Mary J. Sherwood '23). They live at 5 wife have candidates for the Classes of Summit Road, Natick, Mass. 1935) 194°, and 1944, all boys. Ί5 BS—Arthur W. Wilson, formerly '07 MD—Dr. Jerome Wagner is a with the advertising agency of Thresher surgeon in New York and adjunct pro- Service, Inc., has formed with Ernest M. Rothschild Bros. fessor of proctology at the New York Bristol, Yale '07, the firm of Wilson & Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Bristol, with offices at 285 Madison Ithaca, New York His address is 162 West Fifty-fourth Avenue, New York. They are conducting Street. a general advertising agency. Wilson lives CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 479 at 1356 Evergreen Avenue, Plainfield, He is now with the New York Canners, N. J. He and his wife have a son, Donald Inc., of Rochester, N. Y. This firm owns Moyer, born on May i, in addition to a and operates thirty-five canning factories daughter nearly three years old. in the eastern part of the country. His A Philosophic '15 LLB—Percy W. Phillips was re- address is 143 Wallace Avenue, Buffalo. cently reappointed by President Coolidge Ί8 ME—Robert C. Moffitt reports the Profession to the United States Board oί Tax Appeals, change of his mailing address from P. O. for a term of ten years. He and his wife Box 1222, Spokane, Washington, to P. O. The Law? No; although reside in Washington and on May 31 had Box 743, Seattle. like the law it requires a a son arrive to add to their family of two '21 AB—John K. Holbrook, Jr., is grasp of affairs, economics, daughters. practicing law at 40 Wall Street, New and tendencies* '15 BS—Benjamin G. Pratt, Jr., writes York. He is associated with Gilbert X, Medicine? No; although that he and his brother, William H. Pratt Montague. like medicine its practice '12, are members of the firm of B. G. Pratt '21, '24 ME—JohnC. Gibb was married requires insight into hu- Company, makers of insecticides'. He is at Centreville, Mich., on June 24 to Miss man character. married and with his wife and two and Josephine S. Cummings, daughter of The Ministry? No; al- one-half year old daughter lives at 384 Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Cummings. They DeWolf Place, Hackensack, N. J. though there is in it much are now at home at 1747 Bryn Mawr of that interest in the wel- '15 CE—Carl C. Cooman is a civil Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. He is with the fare of others which dis- engineer with the Rochester, N. Y., Gas Worthington Pump & Machinery Corpor- tinguishes the minister. & Electric Corporation. He is designing a ation. sector gate type movable dam to be in- '21 AB; '23 AB—Arthur G. Pellman This profession is the stalled in the Genesee River at Court and Helen A. Weber '23 were married on underwriting of life insur- Street in Rochester. He is married and June 25 at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia ance. has two children,.Carl Conrad and Mary University. They sailed the next day on What we are saying, and Lucile. His address is 32 Woodrow a wedding trip to Europe. have been saying in these Avenue. '21 PhD—William A. Whiting is head pages, is that we, as a strong Ί6 AB—Weyland Pfeiffer has been ad- of the Department of Biology and Geology and established company, mitted as a general partner in the firm of at Birmingham Southern College, Bir- have to offer to an educated Lloyd & Company, members of the New mingham, Ala. His address is 715 Eighth man not only adequate fi- York Stock Exchange, at 141 Broadway, Avenue West. nancial return for ability New York, Pfeiffer became associated '22 ME—A. Stanley Duncan is in shown, not only freedom with the firm in May, 1925. charge of maintenance and plant engineer- for and encouragement in Ί6 AB—Walter E. Higgins has been in ing at the rule and level plant of the the exercise of ingenuity the bond business in Cleveland, Ohio, Stanley Works, makers of carpenters' and originality, but also a since the War. In June he graduated from tools, at New Britain, Conn. He lives at connection with a business Western Reserve University with the de- 176 Lake Street. which can and does feed, gree of LL.B., and intends to enter the '22 ME—Laurence W. Eddy is a safety as few can or do, your im- practice of law soon. His address is engineer with the Bridgeport Brass Com- measurably strong and im- Cleveland is 2992 Monmouth Road. pany and lives at 26 Longview Avenue, portant hunger for phil- Ί6 CE—Gerald E. Brower is planning Fairfield, Conn. osophic satisfaction in daily work. to enter Massachusetts Institute of '23—Chester B. Scott is in the real Technology for a year of special work in estate and general insurance business at You can obtain complete and aeronautical engineering. His address is confidential information by call' Mentor, Ohio. He was married on May 25 ing on one of our Qeneral Agents 441 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. last to Miss Ann C. Aikins, daughter of or by writing to the Inquiry Bu- Ί6 AB—Leon G. Ruth is in the invest- Dr. H. Austin Aikins of Western Reserve reau, John Hancock Life Insur- ment security business in Buffalo, N. Y., University. Their address is Chesterfield, ance Co., 197 Clarendon St., Boston, Mass. as head of L. G. Ruth & Company. Other Mentor, Ohio. members of the firm are Paul C. Cutler '24 ME—Frank W. Miller is with the '17, and Sanford F. Palo, Dartmouth '20. Yarnall-Waring Company of Chestnut Ruth was married in 1919. He lives at 675 Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. He is in charge of Delaware Avenue. its inspection and service department. OF BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS '17 AB; '20 AB—Sidney P. Howell is The firm makes power plant devices, most A STRONG COMPANY, Over Sixty Yeats of which are made up for special installa- in Business. Liberal as to Contract, superintendent of the Buffalo, N. Y., Safe and Secure in Every Way. agency of the Mutual Benefit Life In- tions. His address is 221 Winona Avenue, surance Company. He and his wife, Germantown, Philadelphia. Marcia M. McCartney '20, have two children, Sidney P., Jr., and Alibeth. They live at 828 Potomac Avenue, Buffalo. '17 AB—Herman L. Lutz has resigned LACKAWANNA from the staff of the Staples High School Attractive scenery andhigh standards of ser* in New York to accept a position on the vice distinguish this fast and popular route to staff of Cooper Union. This summer he expects to receive his master's degree from Daily service—Eastern Standard Time. Columbia. His address is 3463 White LACKAWANNA LIMITED BUFFALO LIMITED Plains Avenue, New York. Lv. New York 10:00 A.M. Lv. New York- 8:30P.M. Newark 10:32 A.M. Newark- 9:08 P.M. Brick Church 10:40 A.M. Brick Church 9:15 P.M. '17 BS—On May 31 last, Harold J. Lackawanna Ar. Ithaca 5:20P.M. Ar. Ithaca-. 7:10 A.M. Humphrey resigned as chief of the Buffalo, For tickets and reservations apply to J. L, Homer, Qen'l, East. Pass. Agent, 112 W N. Y., station of the Bureau of Chemistry, Railroad 42nd St., New York or J. Q. Bray, Div. Pass. 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