VOL. xxxv, No. 16 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] FEBRUARY I, 1933

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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. 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Reminiscences of Andrew Dickson White (Reminiscences from two Journals) By Mrs. William Gorham Rice (Harriet V. Pruyn) (Editors' Note: The ALUMNI NEWS, since the centenary celebration of Andrew D. White's birth, has been repeatedly asked by many alumni to publish some of the talks and writings that were forthcoming at the time of those ceremonies. In this number we begin to comply with those requests. We are publishing in full reminiscences from these journals of Mrs. Rice's father, John V. Pruyn, friend and associate of our first president, and from her own Journals. We are also publishing a part of Professor Burr's speech given at the time of the centenary. This will be continued in the next issue.)

OHN V. L. PRUYN, MY FATHER, came worth, and I) had a conversation with Legislature, and thus Cornell University to know intimately Andrew Dickson him as to the People's College and the was given birth. Andrew Dickson J White in 1864, at the time the latter Land Grant by Congress (which has be- White's dream, which had obsessed his was elected for two successive terms a come a subject of discussion among leisure hours as he walked by the lake- New York State Senator, and spent a members of the legislature), the income of side when a student at Hobart College, large part of four years in Albany. Al- which was given to that Institution by was at last to come true. In his auto- though Mr. White was much the the Act of 1863. Mr. Cornell (Senator) biography, he writes that this dream of younger, their common interests brought has offered to give $500,000 to endow a a non-sectarian University, built in the them at once into frequent contact. My College, and unless the People's College lake country of Central New York, and father, for eighteen years a Regent of the is likely to fulfill the conditions required equipped to meet the need for instruction University of the State of New York,* in by the Act, it is proposed to add the Land and practical training in the sciences and 1862. had been chosen Chancellor, a Grant to this and establish a strong in- humanities, was his companion during position in those days meaning hard stitution. I had a conversation with work and heavy responsibility. his studies both in the United States and Senator Cornell in which he said that his Europe and continued with him when he Deeply interested was Mr. White in offer was absolute to give $500,000 to entered political life. Upon going to Al- the betterment of instruction in his found the proposed college, and perhaps bany to take his seat in the Senate, he native State. Three years of European life more, should circumstances justify it. He found there among his associates, Ezra spent largely in study at the Sorbonne, expressed a very commendable view in the College de France, and the University Cornell, whom he never before had met. regard to the matter, and I compli- Because of their common interest in the of Berlin, had given him a foundation of mented him warmly for his highly improvement of College education, the general cultivation and made his views liberal intentions. He said that it was a friendship grew rapidly. It was through on education of value. It was evident, pleasant circumstance that his family the stimulus of this friendship that Mr. however, that he had, at that time, a (he spoke especially of his three sons) Cornell's plan was conceived and Mr. modest idea of his own powers. In his cordially concurred in his views. autobiography, he says that, from a 4 White's dream came to its realization. practical point of view, he came to the ' I invited all the resident and also the Senate poorly equipped: "I had, indeed, ex-officio Regents to my house this eve- In 1868 received a University education at home ning with the Senate Committee on On Tuesday, October 6, 1868, my and abroad and perhaps had read more Literature and a few other Senators and father's journal says: "I left (Albany) than most college-bred men of any age, Members of the Assembly, chiefly sug- this morning at a quarter past seven with but as to the modes of conducting public gested by Mr. White, to exchange views General Meredith Read for Ithaca to at- and private business my ignorance was on this subject. Our party, fifteen in all, tend tomorrow the inauguration of Cor- deplorable." was not quite as large as I had intended nell University. (the Governor, Secretary of State and He was appointed Chairman of the "Wednesday, October 7th. The cere- three others were unable to come), but Committee on Education—then called monies in the a. m. were at the lecture it passed off very pleasantly and we had the Committee on Literature—and a room in the Cornell Library building. quite a talk about Senator Cornell's proj- member of the Committee on the State The room was, of course, crowded. The ect and the matters incidentally con- Library. Because of his connection with day was one of great interest and excite- nected with it." these two Committees, his work natur- ment in Ithaca. Both Mr. Cornell and ally brought him frequently in contact Not alone the People's College but President White had been quite ill, but with the Chancellor of the University. sundry small colleges of the State had were just well enough to be out today. asked that the Federal Land Grant be Both delivered addresses. Mr. Cornell's In 1865 divided among them. But, as time went was brief and appropriate. That of Mr. One of the first references that my on, none of these colleges could promise White was elaborate and able. Lieut. father's journal makes to Mr. White is on the additional endowment and equip- Governor Woodford made some very Wednesday, January 18, 1865: ment called for by the Act, so the gener- felicitous remarks on placing the Charter, "Senator White was at the (Regents') ous offer of Senator Cornell settled the Seal, etc. in the possession of President office, and we (Dr. Hawley, Dr. Wool- matter. The offer was accepted by the White. [Continued on page 205 *(Founded in 1784). The title of Chancellor is given to the presiding officer of the Board. This Board was an exclusively executive body, with authority to incorporate in the State new Colleges and Academies and to exercise over them the right of visitation. In these days it is an exclusively legislative body of greatly extended functions subordinate to the State legislature, with a Commissioner of Education chosen by the Regents as the chief executive officer. Aided by three assistant commissioners, whom he appoints, subject to the approval of the Regents, the Commissioner of Education performs the executive duties which before then were exercised by the Board of Regents. zoo THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS February 2,

Concerning . . . CORNELL ranged with Syracuse, Hobart, and Baskets Fouls Totals Colgate. The team will meet Yale at New Sports Ferraro, f 0 I 1 Haven and Princeton at Princeton. Williams, f 0 0 0 Basketball The second Varsity and the Freshman McGraw, f 3 4 10 teams will also play regular schedules. The Intercollegiate Basketball league Hatkoff, f 2. 2. 6 Coach Nick Bawlf has the nucleus of a this winter has developed into a very Voelker, c 0 1 1 Lipinski, g 1 2. strong team. Practice will begin im- interesting race for the championship. 4 Houck, g I 0 2. mediately after the mid-year examina- Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Co- tions. lumbia are tied for top honors at this 10 14 Crew stage, each having won two games and Wrestling lost one. Dartmouth follows closely Coach Jim Wray, Commodore Haire Coach Walter O'Connell, who is be- with two wins and two losses. Cornell and the Crew men generally are looking ginning his twenty-fifth year as Cornell's has yet to win a league game. forward to races with Syracuse, the wrestling director, has a very encouraging Carnegie Cup regatta and a brush with The Yale and Princeton teams are squad to mould into a championship the Navy at Annapolis. There was a smart quintets and look like the league team. finalists. flutter of excitement in local rowing The team will complete its original circles over a story that a "Western Cornell's team at the beginning of the schedule, which includes meets with season gave promise of an exceptionally Poughkeepsie" would be held at Long Lehigh, last year's league champions, and Beach, California over the Olympic fine one. Injuries and illness have kept Penn State, at Ithaca. The team will Johnny Ferraro, Louis Hatkoff and course. Southern California interests are wrestle Columbia at New York, and prepared to underwrite the Regatta for Wilson from playing in their best form. Syracuse at Syracuse, and take part in the Last Saturday's defeat at the hands of the $50,000. Nothing definite has been Intercollegiate championships at New reached so the idea remains to be de- Yale team on the Drill Hall floor prac- York. tically eliminated Cornell's chances of veloped. The Junior Varsity will wrestle the winning the championship. Ithaca College team and the Frosh will Tennis and Fencing probably wrestle Syracuse Frosh. The Tennis and Fencing teams are The Yale Game Coach O'Connell is counting on practicing daily and will take part in the The Varsity team continued its plunge Treeter, 118 pounds, Hurwitz, 135 usual number of matches, it is expected. into the cellar of the Eastern Intercol- pounds, Cothran, 165 pounds, Richard- Prospects are bright for a successful legiate League, by dropping this slow son, 145 pounds, Russel 165 pounds, season in both branches of sports. game to Yale, January x8, by the score of Anderson, 175 pounds, and Spellman, 31-2.4. The contest was marked by ragged heavyweight. Anderson and Spellman are shooting and passing on the part of the sophomore and fine prospects. Both THE FROSH Cornellians, and it was only the superla- played varsity football during the past Are Economical tive playing of Dick McGraw, an Ithaca fall. The Cornell-Syracuse freshman basket- High School product, that saved the Hockey game from being a rout. ball game, scheduled in Syracuse, was When the opening whistle blew Yale From January 11 to 14 there was fine cancelled along with other intercollegiate stepped out into a 12.-1 lead. Earl Nikkei, skating on Beebe Lake. The Hockey team competition for the yearlings. But, on the ace of the New Haven squad, who was all keyed up and looked forward to short notice, Graduate Manager Thurs- its five or six game schedule. A January scored twenty-two points against ton of Syracuse called Graduate Manager Pennsylvania earlier in the week, sank a thaw set in, and cleared the lake of ice and upset Coach Bawlf's hockey plans. Berry of Cornell, offering to pay the ex- couple of phenomenal shots before the penses of the frosh team if it would make local team understood what was happen- The material was very promising al- the trip. ing. As soon as the Blue sharpshooter had though lacking somewhat in experience. given a few instances of his prowess, The players agreed, made the trip to Coach Ortner sent HatkoίF into the game Track Syracuse in automobiles, were fed by their to guard him. Although hampered by his The Track and Field team will enjoy hosts, won the game and turned in an injured knee, Hatkoff succeeded in competition in several indoor meets this expense account of $12.. keeping Nikkei away from the basket for winter. Two years ago, when college athletics the rest of the game. Cornell will compete in the historic still were enjoying relative prosperity, it More uncanny long shots by O'Con- and spectacular triangular meet with cost $98 to send the frosh quintet to Dartmouth and Harvard on February 2.5 nell, the tall Yale center, who also plays Syracuse, and that time to take a beating. end on the football team, and by Miles at Boston. The team will compete in the The policy between Syracuse and Cornell gave the Blue a commanding lead and Indoor Intercollegiate Championships at for all athletic tests except football has confidence which it maintained through- New York on March 4 and will hold out the match. the classic dual meet with Yale in the always been that games are played on Cornell's luck was not quite as good as Drill Hall on March 11. This meet as far home and home basis with no guarantees Yale's in the free shooting first half. as competition and a spectacle goes is one being paid at all. Otherwise the match would have been a of the outstanding track and field shows more interesting affair. in America. Plans are now under way to The summary:. have Syracuse and Colgate join in a PROFESSOR GEORGE E. PEABODY Ί8, of triangular indoor meet with Cornell on the extension teaching division of the YALE March 2.5 in the Drill Hall. College of Agriculture was recently Baskets Fouls Totals Coach Jack Moakley will present a well elected president of the Exchange Club Nikkei, f 9 balanced track team. He always does. of Ithaca. Elliot, f 6 O'Connell, c 11 Lacrosse Miles, g 2. THE NURSERYMEN of the state held their Glick, g 3 The Lacrosse team will play eight third annual conference here in the Col- Reese, g o games. Home and home games, on the lege of Agriculture on Tuesday and pay-your-own-way basis have been ar- Wednesday. February 2, 19ββ THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 2.OI

About . . Professor Burr's Speech Just . . The Clubs (Continued from page ipy) Looking Around take it with zest. But he recognized Hαrrisbυrg difference of taste and of aptitude, and he OW DOES THE WORLD lθθk tO yOU The Club gave a luncheon on January would have no study mere drudgery. H boys?" said Rundschauer. "What 18 in honor of the visiting faculty mem- "The best physical discipline," he had is the prospect of youth in this sad pass of bers who were attending the Farm Prod- written ten years before Cornell was human affairs? What, in a word, is your ucts Exhibition. Walter Johnston '12. opened, "comes not by drudgery; men Weltanschauung?" presided and introduced the speakers. Pro- wear out by that. Robustness and lasting "It's a hard question, deserving a hard fessor James E. Rice '90 gave a short talk, strength come only by work with a answer," said the bright senior, soberly. followed by Professor E. S. Phillips, the will." "And you fellows, with all your degrees principal speaker, who told of his recent which are supposed to indicate wisdom, Theories of Teaching trip to Russia. The meeting wa^ attended don't help us much. You give us old by about fifty, including the regular club It was, too, his theory that the under- maxims and precepts, valid enough under members and visitors. graduate should come from the first into the old system, but not much use now touch with trained and mature minds that the old system has gone to hell." Sαn Francisco devoted to the subject taught. He would "Is in a pretty pickle," corrected have no tutors such as he had known at The alumni of San Francisco and sur- Rundschauer. Yale—men supporting themselves on rounding country gave a dinner in honor "You preach thrift, now that thrift is their way to a profession by teaching of President Farrand on January 16. The regarded as anti-social. And why suffer to undergraduates what they themselves two alumni clubs of the men and of the save money, which may be inflated or were no longer studying. Cornell's pro- women were joint hosts, and their revaluated or confiscated any day? You fessors met their freshmen in their first numbers were augmented by non-Cornel- praise Work as the great virtue, but we term and devoted that term largely to lian husbands and wives. George Dyer can't get any work to do, and if we could, weeding out the unearnest and the in- '95 acted as toastmaster, with President we would find that the man who does capable. Professor Tracy Peck in Latin Farrand as the only speaker. The dinner more than his share is a social menace. used to tell us frankly that he expected was voted as being just about the best You tell us of the necessity of old abstrac- thus to save from further waste of time on meeting ever held in San Francisco. tions, such as Loyalty. Loyalty to what? his subject a full third of his class, and Loyalty to the system which offers us The men's club will elect officers for that one of the new university's greatest only frustration, perhaps disaster? Are the ensuing year at the meeting on advantages was that it could thus help you sure that such loyalty is not a crime? February 8. The nominating committee its students to find the courses for which Your world looks very cold and bleak will present the names of Nathaniel J. they were really fit. Cornell, too, had to us. You give us an excellent profes- Goldsmith '14 for president, Robert D. instructors and assistants—a very few, of sional training, and then tell us that the Spear '18 for secretary. whom I became one; but their duties profession for which we are trained has were in the laboratory or in the reading disappeared. You give us a gentleman's Delaware of papers, and not till nearly or quite the tastes for elegant intellectual recreation, The annual meeting of the Cornell end of President White's term was a class and no prospect of the means to satisfy Club of Delaware was held at the Wil- met by a teacher not oί professorial rank. those tastes. You are creating a discon- mington University Club on Tuesday The one exception was that young men of tented intellectual proletariat. How are evening, November 2.9th. Approximately brilliant promise—such as Jordan or as you going to support us?" forty members attended and the meeting Comstock—who had far distanced their "Would you like a job washing my was presided over by President Willard fellows in some field they meant to make windows?" said Rundschauer uncom- R. Heald Ί8. their own were permitted to give in- fortably. A letter of appreciation from Malcome struction in this field. He had observed "Thanks. I'll be around this after- R. Watt, recipient of the i^2- Moakley that in the largest minds devoted to noon," said the bright senior. Award presented by the Cornell Club of science the power of discovering and the RUNDSCHAUER Delaware, was read and a motion was power of imparting it are almost in- passed favoring the presentation of variably found together. He would have another cup in 1933. truth imparted, too, not alone from the TECHNOCRACY, that nine-day sensation The question of accepting the proposal teacher's desk, but through acquaintance which has been sharing front-page honors of the Musical Clubs to give a concert and companionship of teacher with with Huey Long and the French cabinet, either during the Christmas or Easter student. He could never forget how at was the subject of an address by Dean holidays was discussed at length and it Yale in his day student and teacher Dexter S. Kim ball of the College of En- was finally decided that the Club was not hardly knew each other outside the class- gineering on Wednesday, February 1. in a secure enough financial position to room and how even in the class-room the Speaking before the Rotary Club of undertake the responsibility at this time. time of men like Hadley or Woolsey was Ithaca, Dean Kίmball analyzed the The Nominating Committee proposed wasted in hearing recitations. To him Technocratic movement from the engi- the following officers for 1933 and they both study and teaching were things of neer's viewpoint. His analysis included a were unanimously elected: president, delight, and he had no patience with'' the review of the growth of mass production, Franklin Taylor, Jr., '2.4; first vice-presi- Philistines who substitute dates for his- together with a description of the changes dent, William B. Megear, Jr., '2.0; second tory, and criticisms for literature, and that have taken place in the modern in- vice-president, Thomas A. Baker '14; formulas for science." dustrial world. secretary, Thomas Hooker '2.4; treasurer, Dean KimbalΓs views on the social Edward Mendinhall Ί6; trustee, Roscoe President White as Teacher effects of mass production were defined in C. Tindall '08; trustee, Henry S. Pyle a recent issue of the ALUMNI NEWS. '96-8 Sp. For himself, in addition to the presi- dency, he reserved the chair of modern THE ALUMNI NEWS will omit publica- history; and, no matter how busy with tion next week according to schedule be- DEMETRIUS E. HADJIS '31 is teaching administration, he always met his classes cause of the University examinations. at the American Farm School in Salonica, when in town. No lectures in the cur- The next issue will be under date of Greece. (Continued on following page) February 16. 1O2. THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS February 2,

Professor Burr's Speech fornia; and throughout all these years of frank defiance of this voiced by Cornell's (Continued from -preceding page) parallel tasks the correspondence was president as by no other made many foes; close and constant. "Of all of Mr. but it brought into the daylight many a riculum were so inspiring as his or so Gilman's many and enduring friend- whispering campaign against the freedom companionable—warm with his love of ships," says his biographer, "the of science and did much to embolden the humanity and broken by extempore il- strongest and most pervading one, from State universities. Only the other day I lustration from the wide range of his his college days to the close of his life, learned from a letter of President Gilman personal experience. He loved, too, to chat was that with Andrew D. White," and how even in California clerical suspicion with his students. Already at Michigan nearly all the letters used in his book are had to be met. he had thrown open his home to them, taken from their correspondence. Almost and they were in his thought when he everything that the one man was striving The Man Andrew White planned his spacious home at Cornell. It for at Ithaca the other was working for So much, then, for Cornell's debt to was for them that his library became half at New Haven and at Berkeley; and both Andrew Dickson White. But who and museum with its books and manuscripts were hampered almost hopelessly by what was Andrew Dickson White him- and historical bric-a-brac that had prejudice and by poverty. For Cornell's self? The story of his life he has himself played an actual part in the making of cash had gone into buildings and grading, told as no man else could tell it, and I history. Nor may we forget President her founder's fortune had been wrecked shall but remind you of its outline—his White's use of his own purse for the by the panic of '73, and her great landed birth in central New York, his migration university. His salary went always to endowment must be conserved till the at seven with his parents to the growing her needs, and for years he was a lavish flooded market permitted its sale at a just town of Syracuse where his father rose to giver besides—the largest of all in pro- price. What made possible in 1876 that wealth, his college days at Hobart and at portion to his income, for Mr. Cornell's new departure at Baltimore was a great Yale, the years of study abroad and again means were being drained by collateral opportunity. Johns Hopkins, another at Yale, then the professorship at enterprises such as the building of rail- free-minded old Quaker like Gerrit Michigan from which in 1862. he was roads into his Ithaca. Smith and Ezra Cornell had left his whole called back to settle at Syracuse his But some of you will ask—some of you fortune for a hospital and a university— father's estate and thence almost by ac- younger ones who have been reading the and without restrictions upon his trus- cident sent to the New York Senate. Thus books of that able man of science and tees. Of what that unique opportunity came his meeting with Ezra Cornell and student of education, Dr. Abraham might mean Gilman wrote White; and the creation of Cornell University. Even Flexner, who is just now our best known Gilman was the one man named to the while President of Cornell he did not critic of universities at home and abroad trustees by White—as by the heads of escape public honors. In 1870-71 he was —was not this young Cornell, after all, a Harvard, of Yale, and of Michigan—as one of President Grant's commissioners merely undergraduate institution, and the man for their task. Doubtless no other to visit Santo Domingo with a view to its not really a university at all. A university could have dealt with it as did he. Yet annexation; while abroad in 1878 he was in the sense in which he uses the term, Dr. when in i86i Andrew White was begging a commissioner to the Paris Exposition; Flexner tells us, our country did not the help of Gerrit Smith to found "a from 1879 to τ^τ ne was 0UΓ minister to possess until in 1876 his own alma mater, stronghold for pure science," "a place Germany. But these intervals of public Johns Hopkins, came into existence; and where Agassiz and such men as he is service did not mean any slackening of that university was the creation of Presi- sending out may .find what new truth his devotion to Cornell. I can never for- dent Daniel Coit Gilman. His criteria for they will;" when in 1874 ne conditioned get how on the eve of his setting out, in a university are fine and high, and I am the gift from his own purse and four of 1879, ^or tne German mission he took me quite ready to agree with him that the his fellow trustees' that should help aside—I was then his librarian—and creation of Johns Hopkins was the most Cornell through its crisis on a pledge that said: "Before I go, there is one thing I notable step toward their realization in when it could be done this gift should be want you to know." I had never seen America. But how came President Gil- repaid by the endowment of fellowships Mr. White so moved: there were tears in man to that step? for advanced study; there was clearly in his eyes and in his voice. "You will hear view the same ideal as Gilman's at Balti- it said that my ambitions are really politi- Another University more. And later enterprises urged and cal; that I am using the university only as Daniel C. Gilman and Andrew D. shared by the two—the Carnegie in- a stepping-stone. It is true that I once had White were, from their days in Yale, the stitute for research, the dreamed-of political ambitions, and it was not with- closest of friends. At graduation they set national university at Washington for out reluctance that I laid them aside. But out together for study abroad, both of graduate study only—show yet more when Mr. Cornell refused to go on with- them observers of education and prospec- clearly this common ideal. out me and I accepted the Presidency of tive educators. Gilman became an at- For an institution like Cornell to have this university I put them aside—and for tache at our St. Petersburg legation and attempted what Johns Hopkins achieved good and all. They were not my first soon made a place there for White; but would then have been absurd. But even ambitions, nor my highest. This is my this was to them a part of their career of the free wealth of Johns Hopkins might life's wor*k, and there is no office in the study. Both returned to Yale, and when not have achieved it but for what had gift of this people—or of any other— after a year White went to Michigan and already been achieved against two ob- which I rate so high. But, now that we was soon taking large part in the stacles—obstacles that had hampered have no money, I can do little here. What reorganization of that institution Gil- Gilman as they had hampered White— is needed in these days of our poverty is man at New Haven was soon meeting the and in this the share of Cornell had been that we do not fall out of the public eye. same problems as organizer of the great. One of these was the disdain of I can do more for the university abroad Sheffield Scientific School. There in 1863 classical education for scientific and than at home. I am not made for adminis- he was the first to use in Connecticut for technical—the disdain that at Yale made trative routine. Russel can do all that far agriculture and engineering-such funds Sheffield School a poor relation and al- better. I must be where I can observe and from the Morrill act as were soon to be most disowned. It was to fend off this plan. It would be idle now to protest bought over in New York by Mr. that at Cornell President White laid such against misunderstanding; but the day Cornell and Mr. White. But White had stress on the democracy of courses. The will come when men will listen. I may not long entered on the presidency of other was the distrust and suspicion of not see that day, but you will, and I want Cornell when Gilman, having refused that time toward free inquiry, and espe- you to do what you can to make this that of Wisconsin, went to that of Cali- cially in the field of natural science. The clear." [Continued in next issue February 2, THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 103

Reminiscences by Mrs. Rice agreeably and sympathetically described. willing to sign this Convention but they (Continued from page 199) His accurate, cultivated mind and grace both awaited Germany's action. Finally in reminiscence compelled attention. Be- when a serious halt in the deliberations "Mr. Russell, one of the profes- fore we parted, the names of many of the seemed imminent, Count Mύnster, the sors, delivered an address, and I made well-known men of New York State at President of the German Delegation, de- some remarks at the close as Chancellor that period crowded into his speech. Now cided to send to Berlin Professor Zόrn, of the University. I was cordial in my and then there was a sigh for the friends one of their members, to lay the matter remarks of congratulation and wished who had departed, which put a touch of before the Foreign Office. He urged that to dispel the idea which had got abroad melancholy into what he said. Keen in- Mr. White also send someone from the that the Regents were not well disposed deed were his loyalties, yet he seemed to United States Delegation, so Dr. Freder- to the Institution. In the p. m. the cere- have met these departures with courage. ick Holls, the Secretary, was chosen, and monies took place on the University At the time of his mother's death, years he took with him a personal letter from grounds. . . A platform has been erected earlier, he had written to a friend; "The Mr. White to Count von Bϋlow, the for the speakers. A beautiful ch me of relations between my mother and myself Chancellor. In this letter, Mr. White, bells (9 in number) made by Meneely, were very close. I shall always regard it who said he was writing as from man to was presented on behalf of Miss McGraw as one of my greatest blessings that I man, asserted that Germany's position of Ithaca; they had just been hung and have been able to be with her frequently in the world would be greater even than were rung during the p. m., the first during the past year and to stand at her Russia's, where the idea of the Peace tune being Old Hundredth. Addresses side at the last. For years I have dreaded Conference had originated, if Germany, were delivered by Erastus Brooks (who that it might be ordered otherwise." without further delay, would favor the presided), Mr. Weaver, Superintendent of The Conference ended, and we returned Court of Arbitration. For, if she did so, Public Instruction, George William Cur- to Albany. A few weeks later, much to Italy and Austria would at once follow tis, and Professor Agassiz. The day was our delight, we received an invitation to her lead, and, therefore, the world would very pleasant and fall-like. In the evening, go to Ithaca in early July. Mr. White feel that to Germany was due the honour there was a reception in the lecture room asked our son to accompany us for he of being the arbiter of Europe. To surpass at the library. The town was illuminated. said he wished his friendship for the Russia's prestige and obtain the world's At both sunrise and sunset bells were grandfather to be carried on to the highest praise, overcame her scruples, rung and cannon fired. It was by common grandson. and Germany signed. Ί know well,' Mr. consent a general holiday and everything One month later, the Great War broke White continued, 'how the Kaiser now seemed to pass off very pleasantly. The over the world. feels. He is surrounded by countries University buildings and arrangements During August, 1914 we took a motor which are his enemies; the population of are still very incomplete, and it is a pity his Empire has increased tremendously; that the opening had not been delayed trip in Maine, spending a week at a hotel with a beautiful outlook on a long line he needs room and he needs seacoast. for six months or a year. But the notices But he has violated this Convention and of opening had been given and it was too of beach and surf. Having heard by letter from Mr. White that he and Mrs. White he has broken his promise to preserve late to postpone. Some 300 scholars Belgium's neutrality, so I cannot be entered on the opening day." were only eighteen miles away at the Rockingham Hotel at Portsmouth, we with him.' "Finally, with reluctance, we arose to Mr. White's Career arranged on Sunday afternoon to call upon them. leave. He came out with us to the motor For twenty years, Mr. White remained car, accompanied by Mrs. White. It was President of Cornell University, and he [From Mrs. Rice's Journals] dark, and so late were we in reaching our regarded his work there as the most im- Upon our arrival, the Whites took us hotel that supper had long been over. portant accomplishment of his life. He into the hotel dining room, where we sat But this was of small consequence, for resigned, because he felt that some one down together at a small table, and tea we had enjoyed two hours of conversa- younger should be the administrative and toast were ordered. As the day turned tion about world affairs from one who head. Foreign travel, and preparation for into twilight, the ordinary dark modern had taken part in their making. his book, "The History of the Warfare furniture of the ancient room, which once of Science and Religion" so much re- was a part of my great-great-grand- The Last Visit freshed him, that he was able to accept, father's, [Woodbury Langdon's] house, "Four years later, when the United in succession, three positions in the sank into obscurity, leaving in sight States itself had entered the war, we had diplomatic service. Brilliant was his only the handsome, old white wain- our last sight of Mr. White. We had record—as Minister to Russia, as Vene- scoting and woodwork. For two hours promised to be at Auburn in early zuelan Boundary Commissioner, and we sat there listening to Mr. White talk. October for the one hundredth anniver- later, as Ambassador to Germany and all We had hoped for this. He spoke, of sary of its Theological Seminary, and on the phases and advantages of this official course, of the wicked war that is going entering at Albany the Empire State Ex- service were increasingly enjoyed. The on. He said he knew well the Kaiser, press, we found Mr. and Mrs. White on last eleven years of his life were passed in and while Ambassador at Berlin, had board, Mr. White greatly lacking in his the comfortable house at Ithaca in giving had frequent long talks with him, during usual vigor and looking far from well. counsel to young men, in writing and one of which, the Kaiser had told him When they heard that we were, later, to reading, and in the enjoyment of his that England, for years, had been so go on to Ithaca, and other cities, on friendships, the fire of which he possessed difficult to deal with, he had found it Civil Service Commission visits—my the art of keeping beautifully alive. It hard work to go there to pay a visit even husband was a New York State Civil was during this time of his comparative to his grandmother (Queen Victoria). Service Commissioner—they at once in- leisure that, with my husband, I found vited us to spend a night with them. But him in the spring of 1914 at the Peace The Peace Conference we thought Mr. White too feeble to be Conference at Lake Mohonk. He intro- "Mr. White also reviewed some of the burdened with over-night guests, so we duced himself, in a formal yet gracious events of the First Hague Peace Confer- compromised by promising to go to them manner, as my father's old friend, re- ence when he was Chairman of the for luncheon. After Auburn's festivities calling that we had met, during my girl- American Delegation. He said that he ended, therefore, we continued on to hood, in Paris. Interesting experiences of had had at that time great difficulty in Ithaca and to the Whites'. October was at fifty years earlier at Albany which he getting Germany to declare for a Court of its most superb point. Our walk at six and my father had enjoyed together, were Arbitration. Austria and Italy were o'clock among the [See next page, Col. 3 THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS February 2, 19 $$

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS science but lacking an equivalent in tinue investigations on biochemical ITHACA, NEW YORK languages might become as good engi- changes that accompany aging in the neers as students with the regular re- animal body. FOUNDED 1898 quirements. The alumni committees will Professor Ernest Merritt '86: For study Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- be relied on to a considerable extent to of the influence of the conditions of the tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing determine this sort of probability, in ad- upper atmosphere on the transmission of Corporation. dition to the tasks of finding good ma- electric waves. terial and of weeding out the poor Published weekly during the college year Professor Murdock: For work in and monthly in July and August: thirty-five material, tasks that they have heretofore X-rays. issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published in performed in a manner that in general September. Weekly publication ends the last has elicited approbation. Professors Edwin L. Nichols and Ernest week in June. Issue No. 35 is published in Merritt: For studies in luminescence. August and is followed by an index of the en- tire volume, which will be mailed on request. Professor Jacob Papish 'ii Ph.D.: For a Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- HECKSCHER GRANTS study of the occurrence, distribution, and vance. Canadian postage 35 cents a year extra; for- Are Announced association of the rarer chemical ele- eign so cents extra. Single copies twelve cents each. ments. The Heckscher Research Council of Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR "07 Cornell University announced today that Professor Otto Rahn: For studies of Business Manager R. C. STUART radiation from living matter. Managing Editor HARRY G. STUTZ '07 supplementary grants amounting to Asst. Mng. Editor JANE MCK. URQUHART Ί3 about $11,000 had been made for the con- Professor Hugh D. Reed '99, Alan C. Associate Editors tinuance of 18 scientific projects under Fraser '13, and George C. Embody Ίo: MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 FOSTER M. COFFIN ΊZ investigation by Cornell scientists. For the purpose of undertaking genetical MARGUERITE L. COFFIN MILTON S. GOULD '30 The allocation of grants followed a studies and related problems in fishes. Member Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service gift of $10,000 from the Carnegie Cor- Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer '04: For poration made last autumn. A special investigations in the laws of absorption Printed by The Cayuga Press gift of $1,000 made by Mrs. Harry of X-rays. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Snyder of Minneapolis for the promotion ITHACA, N.Y. FEBRUARY 2, 1933 of research in biochemistry and allied Reminiscences by Mrs. Rice fields at Cornell was also allocated at this time to the continuance of researches as- (Continued from preceding page) A NEW TASK sisted by an earlier gift from Mrs. Snyder. rustling leaves in the garden, when, in The Heckscher Foundation for the the distance, the chimes of the University (or Alumni promotion of research at Cornell was played for a quarter of an hour and the I 00KING the economic situation squarely established by Mr. August Heckscher, a lowering sun lit the yellow and russet- L in the eye, one major university at trustee of the University, in 192.0 by a colored tree-branches, was peculiarly least has reduced its entrance require- gift of $500,000. During the twelve years beautiful. But—alas!—our once brilliant ments, temporarily we hope, from the it has been in existence the Fund has host had lost his zest and sat sadly by! As usual fifteen units to twelve. With a cer- provided an income of $445,000 for the he insisted upon it, we took an early tain liberality of interpretation this support of 2.00 separate projects. family supper with them before leaving." might recognize the fitness for university The following supplementary grants These were the first days of October, work of an industrious student from the were made for the academic year, ending 1918. On Sunday, November 10, my junior class in high school. June 30, 1933: journal records; Perhaps it is better to do this than to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft: For "Mr. Andrew Dickson White died close the doors. It is quite probable that researches in photochemistry. (from a stroke) last Monday, the 4th of there will not be enough candidates to November, and was buried on Thursday fill all the colleges who can present Professor Samuel L. Boothroyd Ό4-5G: the 7th, his 86th birthday. So that good fifteen units, properly assorted to meet To continue work on meteors. friend of three generations has gone the rather unyielding requirements as Professor T. Roland Briggs '09 and from us forever! I am glad that we we have known them in recent years. Carleton C. Murdock Ίx: for a study of stopped and lunched with him a month It would seem better to take the step the size and shape of colloidal particles ago. Although as always, kind and more gradually, permitting ample sub- with special reference to catalytic agents. sympathetic, he was then so silent, that stitutions of subjects representing the Professor L. M. Dennis: For investiga- we felt his health was breaking and the same type of work, or even any good tion of rare elements. end not far away." courses in the general requirements the Professor R. Clifton Gibbs '07: For a Lord Bryce, speaking of Dean Stanley's presenting of which indicates an equiva- study of line spectra in the extreme ultra- rare personality, twenty years after the lent amount of preparatory training. violet. famous Dean's death, added in highest Beyond that, except possibly admission Professor Edmund F. Hopkins '15: praise i with conditions in the non-essentials in For a study of the physiological effect of '' The art of friendship is the greatest technical courses, it is unlikely that our iron and certain other elements in the art of life. To enjoy his, was to be university will be compelled to relax its ionized state. educated in that art." standards for admission for the present. Professor Earle H. Kennard '13 Ph.D.: This might also be said of Andrew Alumni who have worked on the com- For research in theoretical physics. Dickson White. mittees on preparatory schools will thus Professor Robert Matheson Ό6-7: For a probably be faced with an enlarged prob- lem. If there is a dearth of applications study of culicid ecology. WORD COMES as the ALUMNI NEWS goes and a temporary modification of entrance George Maughan: To continue study of to press of the death of Elwyn E. Haskell requirements to meet the situation, the the effects of ultra-violet light on animal '79, professor emeritus and former dean of committees will have to be exceptionally physiology. the College of Civil Engineering. Dean alert if the quality of the matriculates is Professor Leonard A. Maynard '15 Haskell retired in 192.1 and had made his to be maintained. Ph.D. and Cv M. McCay: To continue home in Hamburg, N. Y. His wife died Conceivably a group of engineering investigations on physiological effects of several years ago. A formal obituary will students who are over-prepared in purified diets in herbivora, and: to con- appear in the next issue of the NEWS. February 2, THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 105

The Week On The Campus

HESE ARE bad days for the many stu- WHAT IS THE STAND of the Cornell weeks' course. Representatives are here dents who come to college with no economists on the present economic from China, Japan, India, and many Tprovisions but their entrance re- kettle of fish? Why, there seems to be no other countries. quirements and a touching faith in educa- Cornell School of Thought, no Ithaca THE SAGE CHAPEL preacher was the tion. They have been cozened and cajoled Answer, no Program of Panacea. Prob- Rev. John Timothy Stone, president of by the old American tradition of' * work- ably President Nicholas Murray Butler the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, ing one's way through college." ft used would exclaim in moving tones that we Chicago. to be possible, for a youth equipped only show our good sense. A number of our with valor and the ability to do without economists have, as individuals, said THE ROTH QUARTET of Budapest gave a sleep. But now the supply of collegiate some interesting things in public. Pro- charming recital, in the University labor has been doubled, while the supply fessor F. A. Southard of the Department Chamber Music Series. Mozart, Brahms, of collegiate jobs has been halved1. More of Economics sharply criticizes our high and Beethoven. students want to wait on table than want tariffs, which favor the industrial group IT WAS INTERESTING to read the an- to be waited on. There are a dozen and penalize the investor in foreign nouncement of the experiments of Dr. amateur furnace-men to each furnace; and securities. Our rulers cling to economic Charles R. Stockard, of the Cornell this year the furnace-owner avoids the nationalism, now a fiction. We are really Medical College, with the prevention of embarrassment of choice by taking out more international in our trade relations distemper in dogs. Of 163 dogs inocu- his own ashes. And meanwhile the col- than any other country. lated, 92. per cent were immune from dis- lege curriculum has insensibly been PROFESSOR M. Slade Kendrick, Ph.D., temper, and 43^ per cent showed only strengthened until now a college course, '14 of the Department of Rural Economy, slight symptoms. This comes as no properly fulfilled, is a full-time job. opposes the sales tax, affirming that it novelty in Ithaca. The Veterinary Col- WHAT DO the poor fellows do? Why, would tend to decrease buying and in- lege here has been inoculating our dogs they just cut down their overhead, and crease bankruptcy. A tax on saving for about two years; the dogs have overhead means food and lodging. An money would be preferable, or indeed an learned to take it as a matter of course, English theme which found its way into unbalanced budget. just one of the annoyances of civilization. the Ithaca Journal-News (I hope it got an PROFESSOR George F. Warren '03, head THE READING of Professor Martin A) reveals the system. You can get a top- of the Department of Agricultural Eco- Wright Sampson's poems is a moving floor room on College Avenue for $2.. 50 a nomics, speaking before the New York experience. Strange that after his death he week. You insist on making your own Press Association, roundly favored in- admits us to a better knowledge of his bed and cleaning your own quarters, flation. The only alternative, he said, is a spirit than we were permitted in life! ostensibly on account of the landlady's long and perhaps fatal deflation. "De- Strange that even those of us who knew rheumatism, but in fact to hide your con- flation means completing the process of him well must wait so long to learn the sumption of electricity. You buy a double bankruptcies of farms, homes, and other shy and private secrets of his heart! As socket and an electric grill. You get a city real estate. There will be very little he says in his'' Prelude:" quart of milk a day. For breakfast, cereal building so long as the bankrupt proper- Because I wish to speak, and half the milk, 7 cents. Lunch in a ties are on the market. It usually takes Because I cannot hold back from cafeteria, 2.5 cents. Supper, a 5-cent can of six or seven years to complete the de- speaking beans or soup, with the rest of the milk. flation process. If we go through with The things that come through my eyes Add a carrot a day (at 3 cents a pound) deflation, we may expect three or four into my heart, for vitamin content (a man must have his years of the greatest period of liquidation The things that come through my vitamin content), and two or three loaves of real estate that the country has ever heart into my sight, of bread a week, and you have an average known. Practically everything that has And because, even to those I hold dear, daily food expense of about 44 cents. Add has not fallen in price must fall. The last I cannot say these things out loud, thing to fall will be taxes.'' He points out an occasional cake or box of cookies from I write them thus, unashamed before home, packed in with the laundry. On that England has suspended gold pay- ments during thirty-six of the last 136 many people Sundays you take a walk in the country, Of what in private my voice chokes to pick up vitamins under the vitamin years, without disaster, and the United States has done the same thing four times, over. trees. Most of the farmers will let you '' but even in the Civil War, inflation was take all the vitamins you can eat. That DRUM-MAJOR Kenneth Durling of the far less than on a gold basis in 19x0." He Veterans of Foreign Wars sat on a cake of makes your total for board and room proposes the "compensated dollar" as a ice for three hours and thirty minutes. around $5.50 a week. remedy. 'COME OFF your perch' is the latest MANY STUDENTS club together to take PROFESSOR Harold L. Reed, Ph.D. '14 slang"—Ithaca Journal, Jan. Z4, 1883. an apartment, sometimes even a house. of the Department of Economics, has Eight boys in a house (at about $40 a been reappointed a member of the New IT WAS REPORTED in the papers a little month) can get three meals a day (and York State Banking Department Board. while ago that the Auburn Prison not such bad meals at that) for about $2. Welfare League challenged the Cornell per week per head. They do all their own I SEE that Dean Charles K. Burdick of Baseball Team to a game. Dean Romeyn housework, of course, and they learn the Law School was one of twenty mem- Berry of the Athletic Department avers quite a lot about elementary economics. I bers of the Columbia Law School class that he has heard nothing from the feel very sorry for these youths, getting of 1907 who held a reunion with the Auburn Boys. But to show his sports- along on four or five dollars a week. But I President-elect in Warm Springs, Georgia. manship, he is trying to arrange a meet- can't help feeling somehow that it must THE FOURTH ANNUAL school for mis- ing with the Cross Country Team. be kind of fun. sionaries opened on Jan. 2.3, for a four M.G.B. xoβ THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS February 2,

Obituaries Electric Supply and Construction Com- struction of reinforced concrete, floor pany, died in Lancaster, Pa., on No- arches, and cement paving. GEORGE WILLARD CONABLE, B.S. in vember 10, of heart failure. He was born '2.1 CE—Frank W. Gumboldt's ad- Arch. '90, an architect in New York in Williamsport, Pa., on December 3, dress is now 50 Union Square, New York. particularly well known for his designing 1877, the son of Godfrey and Elizabeth He is with the James A. Tyson Agency of churches, died of heart disease in St. Finkbinder Hess. He was a past presi- of the Guardian Life Insurance Company. Petersburg, Fla., on January 2.. He was dent of the Lancaster Rotary Club and '2.1 ME—H. Beitzel Brillinger is a born in Cortland, N. Y., sixty-six years the Lancaster Civic Council. His wife, telephone engineer. His address is UL ago, the son of Frederick and Fidelia Mrs. Dorothy M. Hess, and a daughter, North Thirty-first Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Doud Conable. He was a member of the Mrs. William S. Andes, survive him. Cornellian board. Mr. Conable began his '2.4 DVM—Clayton E. DeCamp is di- rector of the veterinary division of Rare professional career in association with Concerning . . . Ernest Flagg, designer of the Singer Chemicals, Inc., with offices and labora- Building, and he helped to solve prob- The Alumni tories at Nepera Park, N. Y. lems attending the construction of sky- 'z4 BS—Clarence E. Kobuski's ad- scrapers. The Gothic style was followed '85 AB, '97 PhD—Anna C. Bo wen has dress is now 55 Homes Avenue, Dor- by Mr. Conable in the majority of been requested to submit biographical chester, Mass. He is assistant curator of churches designed by him, although a data for use in the fifth edition of the the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum few were Colonial! The most widely International Blue Book. Miss Bowen's at Harvard. known is the Trinity Lutheran Church of name also appears in a recent London '2.4 BS—A daughter, Carol, was born Long Island City, for which he received a publication entitled Principal Women of on October 5 to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mc- medal from the Chamber of Commerce America. Her address is Hotel Richmond, Ncill. Mrs. McNeill was Lillian E. two years ago. Among recreational proj- Batavia, N. Y. Rabe '2.4. Their address is 1900 Albemarle ects he designed the Rye Beach develop- '99 ME—Emmett B. Carter, who has Road, Brooklyn. ment, now part of the Westchester been engaged in management engineer- '2.5 ME—The address of Lewis J. County park system. ing, is now acting as administrator of Trounstine, Jr., who is with the Fulton JOHN H. LEWMAN '93, former prose- the Woman's Medical College Hospital, Bag and Cotton Mills, is now care of the cutor of Vermillion County, 111., who re- in Philadelphia. company at P. O. Box 1708, Dallas, signed after sixteen years to make the '05 AB, '06 CE—The address of Texas. race for Congress when "Uncle Joe" Frederick W. Scheidenhelm is 50 Church '2.5 AB—A son, John Charles, was born Cannon announced his retirement ten Street, New York. He is a consulting on July 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bur- years ago, died suddenly at his office in engineer. He is serving as a non-alumnus bach. Mrs. Burbach was Barbara B. Danville, 111., on December 13. He took member of the Senate of the Department Charles '2.5. Their address is 42.39 St. two years in the philosophy course, and of Civil Engineering at Columbia. Charles Avenue, New Orleans. later received his law degree at Michigan. '09 CE—Arthur W. Harrington's ad- '2.5 BS—A daughter, Georgia Ellen, He was twice mayor of Danville and dress is now 603 State Public Works was born on December 2.9 to Mr. and served in the State Attorney's office Building, 353 Broadway, Albany. He is a Mrs. Frederic W. Baum. Mrs. Baum was longer than any other official. district engineer with the United States Dorothy H. Brown '2.5. Their address is HUGO EDMUND OSWALD '98, attorney Geological Survey. x8 Castleton Park, New Brighton, in Seattle and former superior court Ίo LLB—James R. Robinson, as- Staten Island. judge for Spokane County, Wash., died semblyman from the Ithaca district, '2.6 AB, '2.8 EE—Norman A. Miller's in Seattle on December 11, after a short New York, has been reappointed to address is 112.1. Central Street, Evanston, illness. He was born in Chicago fifty-six several of the Assembly's most powerful 111. He is working in the operations and years ago. He was at Cornell two years, committees. He has been named chair- maintenance department of A Century of studying first engineering and then law. man of labor and industries, and a mem- Progress. He later received his law degree at North- ber of ways and means, the committee on 'x6 AB—G. Cutler Brown has moved western. After living in Spokane for a banks, and is the ranking member of the from White Plains to 14 Caterson Terrace, number of years, where he served on the codes committee. He is also an active Hartsdale, N. Y. He is a division methods bench, in 192.6 he went to Seattle to be- member of the Lewisohn Commission on and results supervisor in the Bronx area come affiliated with the King County Prison Administration and Construction. for the New York Telephone Company. Title Company. He was prominent in '12. LLB—L. N. Simmons, legal as- '2.6 BChem—A daughter, Virginia civic and philanthropic affairs in both sistant to the comptroller of Cornell, has Ruth, was born on December 2. to Mr. cities. His wife, Mrs. Anna M. Oswald, been installed as high priest of the Eagle and Mrs. Gordon O. Andrews. Their ad- two sons, and two daughters survive him. Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. dress is 319 West Twenty-eighth Street, HEINRICH HASSELBRING, B.S.A. '99, Ί6 LLB—A. H. Douglass Van Duser Richmond, Va. Andrews is supervisor physiologist with the Bureau of Plant and Philip M. Liebschutz have an- for the Coateney area of the duPont Industry of the United States Department nounced that Arthur B. Curran Ί6, Cellophane Company. of Agriculture, died in Flint, Mich., on formerly of Wile, Oviatt and Gilman, 'z7 ME—Willard H. Cobb has been September 30, of heart disease. He was has been admitted to partnership and transferred from the industrial sales sec- born at Flint in 1875. ^e received his that the firm name has been changed to tion of the general sales office of the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Van Duser, Liebschutz and Curran, with General Electric Company to the edi- and as a member of Sigma Xi. He had law offices at 510 Terminal Building, torial section of the publicity depart- been with the Bureau since 1909. His Rochester, N. Y. ment. 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ΓROM the flickering light of a neon tube on the skyline of New • York City, a speech was sent to the S. S. President Hoover, 3000 feet away. The small neon tube changed the electric impulses from a microphone into light waves, which were directed to the ship in a narrow beam. A photoelectric tube in the center of a receiving mirror on the ship changed the light impulses back into sound, and the speech was heard on board.

The use of light that can be heard, and of sound that can be seen, has many applications. It can be used for speech communication/ it can serve in fog to guide aircraft on their course and into port/ and it can be used for radio and television broadcasting.

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