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VOL. xxxv, No. 16 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] FEBRUARY I, 1933 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS This number is dedicated to the First President of Cornell, ANDREW D. WHITE LehighΛfolley Service Jo THROUGH CONVENIENT ff SERVICE TO AND FROM ITHACA DAILY Eastern Standard Time The Black The Diamond Star Lv. New York (Pennsylvania Station) 11.05 A.M. 11.35 P.M. Lv. New York (Hudson Terminal) 11.00 A.M. 11.30 P.M. Lv. Newark (Park Place-P.R.R.) 11.00 A.M. 11.30 P.M. Lv. Newark (Eliz. & Meeker Aves.) 11.34 A.M. 12.11 A.M Lv. Philadelphia (Reading Ter'l, Rdg. Co.) 11.20 A.M. 11.30 P.M' Lv. Philadelphia (N. Broad St., Rdg. Co.) 11.26 A.M. 11.37 P.M' Ar. Ithaca 6.26 P.M. 7.48 A.M' RETURNING Eastern Standard Time The Black Train Quest Oiuίses Diamond No. 4 Lv. Ithaca 12.49 P.M. 10.40 P.M. Ar. Philadelphia (N. Broad St., Rdg. Co.) 7.33 P.M. 7.32 A.M. Ar. Philadelphia (Reading Ter'l, Rdg. Co.).... 7.41 P.M. 7.42 A.M. WEST INDIES Ar. Newark (Eliz. & Meeker Aves.) 7.43 P.M. 6.33 A.M. Ar. 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Published weekly or any Authorized Tourist Agency during the college year and monthly in July and August. POSTMASTER: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3587 for undeliverable copies. February 2, THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS J. Dall, Jr., Inc. Professor Burr Talks of Andrew D White A Colleague and Friend of the First President of Cornell Building Construction Addresses the Alumni UT for Ezra Cornell no university methods that scheme of education was Ithaca would have borne the name of Cor- the younger's. He it was who shaped the B nell or would today look down from curriculum and who chose the teachers. N.Y. these heights on the waters of Cayuga. He it was who joined hands with the Yet Ezra Cornell might have lived and bolder leaders of thought throughout died with no thought of such a univer- this country and abroad and rallied to the sity, had not another dreamed of it and enterprise that striking group of non- urged it upon him—another who in due resident scholars—Agassiz and Lowell time won his consent to name it Cornell. and Curtis and Goldwin Smith and all the At the opening of Cornell University, rest—whose very names were to the J. Dall, Jr.,' 16 Telephone in the presence of Ezra Cornell, George world a manifesto of its aggressiveness. William Curtis told those here gathered President ir^ 69 Now let us glance for a moment at that how, ten years before, Andrew Dickson early Cornell whose birth we have been White, then a young professor in the seeing. As never before a university was University of Michigan, dreamed aloud to exist for its students. On that President to him far into the night of the new White insisted. True, he wanted only university which ought to arise in able and earnest students. "I wish it central New York, their native state, to distinctly understood," he said in his ESTABROOK & CO. meet the wants of the hour. President inaugural, "that this is no 'Reform Members of White himself, in that fascinating School*. The function of its faculty is New York and Boston Stock Exchanges "Autobiography" which must always educating sound scholars, not reclaiming Sound Investments remain our best history of the birth of vicious boys. We have no right to give Cornell, has traced that dream much Investment Counsel our strength or effort to reform, or drag, further back, and has told us how he was or push, any man into an education." and Supervision no sooner in possession of his share of his And to the students he said:" In Heaven's father's wealth than he turned to Gerrit name be men. You are not here to be Roger H.Williams'95 Smith—free-minded old Quaker and made; you are here to make yourselves." Resident Partner New York Office Abolitionist like Ezra Cornell—with the 40 Wall Street offer of half if he in turn would furnish Cornell No Nursery what more was needed for the founding "This is no nursery," he used to say of a university worthy of the state of to the defenders of scapegraces. Daily New York. marking he abhorred. To the full he A Strong Influence shared Mr. Cornell's belief in equal op- Quality . When, in 1864, as a fellow member of portunity for women and could see only Service the Senate of New York State, Mr. White good in their association with men in the did meet Ezra Cornell and when, as class-room. At Michigan he had already chairman of its committee on education, fought that battle out. The only differ- Έ H Wanzer he had fought off the plan of Ezra Cornell ence his committee of inquiry could find and his allies to divide the nation's great between class-rooms without women and The Groeer gift of land and had won the old Quaker class-rooms with them was the difference to his own more daring dream, then again between a smoking-car on a railway train that outline for a university found a use. and the passenger-car behind it. But he Aurora and State Sts. It was Andrew White who drew up the never held that all women should be co- Ithaca, N. Y. charter for the new institution—all but educated or that they should not have its financial clauses. It was he who also their separate colleges. More per- drafted its "plan of organization." To haps than even Mr. Cornell he hated all the enterprise it was absolutely necessary intolerance, and he had made the charter to find the man of wealth who could prescribe that in the new university "no R. A. HEGGIE&BRO. CO, share those bold ideas and could care to professor, officer, or student shall ever be endow them. It was a joint enterprise, accepted or rejected on account of any * Fraternity and it is to the greater glory of both that religious or political views which he may they could so collaborate. But for the or may not hold." Jewelers agreement and the loyal backing of Ezra It was President White, too, who Ithaca, New York Cornell those plans, if ever else achieved, placed scientific and technical courses on might sadly have been marred by com- the same level with the humanities and promise or by delay. When they had been insisted on large freedom of election for achieved, the stiff backbone of the older the student, though what he urged was fighter was a better guaranty of their always a choice between carefully framed "ITHACA" persistence than was the more yielding courses of study, and not a miscellaneous temper of his younger colleague. What in liberty. His support of freedom of choice ENG WING Qy that enterprise breathed of freedom and came from no ill will to the humanities. courage, of breadth of mind and of Prizing highly his own classical training progress, was as much the older man's as Library Building 123 N.Tίo£a Street he urged this upon all who could under- the younger's. But in its details and in its (Continued on -page 201, column 2) 198 THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS February 2, CORNELL Has Always Known the Preferred Route Between Ithaca and New York We say "Yes ma'am" to our Cooks Women cooks prepare the food for the Hotel Lexington restaurants.