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ORNELL MAY 27, 1943 I VOL. 45 NO. 29 Here Is Your PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY TIMETABLE OF CORNELL ALUMNI TO AND FROM ITHACA NEW YORK AND VICINITY CENTRAL NEW YORK Light type, a.m. Dark type, p.m. Lv. New Lv. Lv. Ar. York Newark Phila. ITHACA SALT William L. Crow Construction Co. EVAPORATED AND ROCK 11:05 11:20 11:10 6:42 FOR ALL PURPOSES 6:52 7:08 7:05 2:44 Established 1840 110:20 :10:35 ί 10:1 2 #6.49 Including Table, Food Processing, Chemical t11:45 t11:59 t11:00 °'7:08 and Industrial Use. 101 Park Avenue New York THE WATKINS SALT CO. Lv. Ithaca Ar. Buffalo Lv. Buffalo Ar. Ithaca WATKINS GLEN, N. Y. JOHN W. ROSS '19, Vle President 2:44 5:30 10:05 12:52 W. W. Clute, Jr. '35 O. H. Morgan '24 °y7:12 °y10:03 8:30 11:32 William M. Leff ing well '18 °9:28 0 12:45 10:35 1:21 6:42 9:35 Lv. Ar. Ar. Ar. New HARRY D. COLE '18 BALTIMORE, MD. 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Selec- with parents and friends of the Class of mately 650 first degrees will be awarded tive Service for those twenty years of age and '43, May Z4, when the graduate students and about 90 advanced degrees. These over came at the beginning of your Sophomore and Seniors in caps and gowns filed to the approximate numbers, with the 2.63 de- year, on September 16, 1940. Pearl Harbor and center section of seats reserved for them. grees awarded at the University's first our entry into the war came before you were through the first half of your Junior year. They were headed by the Class Marshals, midwinter Commencement last January, During the rest of that year, you faced all the Robert D. Ladd of Ithaca and Louis G. will bring the total number of degrees for difficult personal decisions involved in choos- Helmick, Jr. of Fairmount, W. Va. Next this year to approximately 1,408, as ing from among several possible courses of came the Deans and Faculty, marshalled compared with 1,439 for 1941-42.. action: directly enlisting in the Armed Forces for combat service; enlisting in one of the as for many years by Professors Charles This was actually the University's various training reserve corps set up by the L. Durham, PhD '99, and Arthur W. seventy-sixth Commencement, counting Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; Browne, PhD '03, and following them the one in January, but it is recorded as awaiting call by Selective Service; seeking deferment for further training after call by to the stage, the Trustees headed by the seventy-fifth annual Commencement Selective Service; volunteering for some form their marshal, Major Robert E. Treman since the University's opening, and was of civilian war service. Confronted with these '09, and President Edmund E. Day and its fifth in war time. several possibilities, you were given con- the Rev. William Byrne, rector of the President Cites War's Lessons flicting counsel from all sides, including the Church of the Immaculate Conception in highest Federal offices. You were told to stick President Day entitled his Commence- to your studies until directed by the Armed Ithaca, who pronounced the Invocation ment address "War Time Lessons for the Forces or their representatives to do otherwise. and Benediction. Class of 1943." He cited the troubled You were told that to stay in college was a The academic procession had formed at flagrant avoidance of your duty. It was not condition of the world and its effect on Goldwin Smith Hall in the warm sun of until well into your Senior year when, on the Class of '43 during their careers at November 13, 1942., the age for Selective Ser- a beautiful May day, and marched in Cornell. Closing, he referred to the out- vice was lowered to eighteen and, on De- column of twos from the north end of standing record of Cornellians in the first cember 5, voluntary enlistment was stopped Goldwin Smith up the slope across East and, on December 17, the Army and Navy world war and remarked that this day Avenue and up Reservoir Avenue and college training programs were announced, was the twenty-sixth anniversary of that that this confusion was brought to an end. around the circle to the Bailey Hall May 15, 1917, when a Cornell unit led by The perplexities which all of you—women entrance. Edward I. Tinkham Ί6 carried the first as well as men—have encountered since you Men Go To Armed Services entered the University have gone way beyond American flag in combat to the front in With Professor Richard T. Gore, any I could possibly have imagined when I France. Thε President's address follows: addressed you late in September, 1939. Music, at the organ, the program opened In late September, 1939,1 met with the Class Pays Tribute to Students with the singing of the national anthem. of 1943 as it first arrived on Campus. War had I welcome this opportunity to say publicly Colonel Edwin R. Van Deusen, US Army, come to Europe only three weeks before. We that college students the country over have commandant of the ROTC, called to had been seeing the first great Nazi blitz: the met the exigencies of this period in a way brutal conquest of Poland. In this setting of the their feet those members of the Class of that has done them everlasting credit. In- war abroad, I was expected to tell you how to evitably, they have shared in the general con- '43 who had completed the advanced go about your college work.