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AMPUS CANINES will have to fessor of organic chemistry at Stanford and tion of the Geneva Station had not been watch their steps until December i president of the American Chemical approved by the Legislature, and that C next as the result of a special ord- Society, on "The Ammonia System of even if it were, its functions are concern- er issued by Commissioner Berne A. Pyrke Compounds" and a second subject which ed entirely with research and would bring of the State Department of Farms and at the time this is written had not been few if any additional students to Cornell. Markets, who says that all the dogs shall announced; and "Locomotive and Auto- They also pointed out that there is no be confined between sunset and one hour motive Engines" by Charles C. Trump '12, danger of a "farmers' bloc" at Cornell before sunrise. Several executions of dogs of the Strumph Una-Flow Engine Com- as long as both Arts and Sciences and En- that worried sheep have recently taken pany, before the Cornell section of the gineering surpass Agriculture in number place. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. of students. THE DELTA CHI House on The Knoll JOSEPH A. LAZARUS '25, of Bayonne, PHI BETA KAPPA, at its initiation has been deeded to the Ithaca Trust Com- New Jersey, won his way through to the exercises on April 12, had as speakers, pany, as trustee for the fraternity; and the finals in the n 2-pound class of the President Farrand, who presided as presi- house, which was given to the University National Amateur Boxing Championships dent of the local chapter, Dean Francke more than a year ago, will revert to the at Boston last week, losing only on a de- H. Bostworth, Jr., representing Phi Kappa fraternity. It had been contemplated that cision which many Boston sport writers Phi; Professor Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, the house would be conducted as a social questioned. unit for law students, but the plan, accord- Sigma Xi; William H. Home, Jr., '23, ing to reports, was found impracticable. PATRICK CON WAY, long a favorite among Tau Beta Pi; Mary G. Willcox '23, repre- Ithaca music lovers, who is now at the senting the undergraduate section of Phi THE HORSE SHOW, held for the third head of the School of Band Music at the Beta Kappa; and Robert H. Carpenter time under the auspices of the Field Ithaca Conservatory of Music, told in an 23, who spoke for the initiates. Artillery Unit of the Department of interview published in the Journal-News Military Science, with the help of the of April 10, how he first came to Ithaca in ETA KAPPA Nu, honor society in Cayuga Valley Hunt, and the Cornell 1894 to participate in a band contest held electrical engineering, has elected the Polo Team, is set for May 12, with twenty in connection with a firemen's convention following juniors to membership: William events, including a polo game between here. At the suggestion of the late Eben- G. Broughton of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cornell and Pennsylvania. ezer M. Treman '72 and Professor Hollis L. A. Burckmyer, Jr., of North Augusta, South Carolina, Donald W. Coleman of GOVERNOR SMITH vetoed the appro- E. Dann, who judged the contest, Con- Brooklyn, Hewlett H. Duryea of White priation of $830,000 for a new plant in- way was the following January engaged Plains, George J. Knandel of Ilion, Robert dustry building for the College of Agri- as band leader at Cornell. The next N. Leonard of Port Richmond, Henry J. culture with the explanation that a special thirteen years he spent in Ithaca and de- bill would later carry a larger sum, in veloped the Ithaca Band, from which McCracken of Hollywood, California, Hayato Nakamato of Hilo, Hawaii, and accordance with new estimates made by grew Conway's Band, which has played William A. Zalesak of Washington, D. C. the State architect. all over the country. NEW ART COURSES are offered this year THE STATE COUNCIL of the New York MRS. FARRAND. presented a new stand in the Summer School under Professors division of the American Association of of colors to the Cornell Unit of the Walter King Stone and Bristow Adams. University Women will meet in Ithaca on R. O. T. C. last Saturday afternoon-on They say that Cornell possesses unique April 26-27 a^ the invitation of the local Alumni Field at the close of a special drill features that favor the growth of a really branch of the organization. President and called as a rehersal for the annual War notable summer school of art, because of Mrs. Farrand will entertain the visitors, Department inspection scheduled for the scenic and studio advantages. and Miss Una Ellis-Fermore of England, April 26 and 27. THE MANUSCRIPT CLUB has decided to holder of the Association's international AMONG THE NEEDS of Ithaca voiced in a have another open meeting similar to that scholarship, who is now studying at recent citizens' questionnaire circulated held two years ago, at which a limited Barnard, will speak at a banquet. by the Board of Commerce, solution of the housing problem, repaving East State number of invited guests may hear author's BURIED TREASURE, unearthed in exca- Street, automobile parking space and readings of the more notable recent con- vating for a new garage on the site of the traffic regulation, and readable street tributions to the Club's "budget." old Billiken Theatre, at the corner of South Tioga and Green Streets, proved to signs on every corner were the most pre- AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS, which have valent suggestions. become increasingly frequent in Ithaca, be only the furnace and boiler of the old culminated last Saturday when a woman playhouse, which had been buried for A ZONE MAP of the city, drawn by the was almost instantly killed and her hus- fifteen years. recently appointed Planning Committee, band seriously injured by an Army truck, A CONTROVERSY, based largely on mis- divides Ithaca into business, industrial, while crossing State Street near Aurora, apprehensions, over the continued growth apartment house, and restricted dwelling at a time when the streets were crowded of the College of Agriculture occupied the districts. The Heights and Bryant Park with Saturday afternoon shoppers. "Correspondence" column of the Sun two are reserved for residences, with an apart- LECTURES for the week include Mr. days last week. A writer on April 12 ment house district along Dryden Road from College Avenue to East Ithaca. Fuertes's two lectures on "Camouflage: questioned where, with the combination the Conscious Application of the Principles with the State Experiment Station at THE DEBATING TEAM met defeat at the of Animal Coloration Thus Far Dis- Geneva and the attendant increase in hands of Brown University at Providence covered" and "Concerning Zoological Art number of students, the extension of State on April 13 by a score of five to four, up- and Artists"; Professor Boothroyd's public influence at Cornell would stop. Two re- holding the affirmative side of the question: lecture at the Fuertes Observatory: two joinders the next day pointed out, that in Resolved, that the French action in the lectures by Dr. Edward C. Franklin, pro- the first place the proposed amalgama- Ruhr deserves the censure of this house, 342 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

ALUMNI OFFICERS MEET tribute to the Semi-Centennial Endow- The tenth annual conference of the SPORT STUFF ment. Others will be interviewed who Association of Alumni Secretaries, to- have paid the amount they subscribed in gether with the fifth meeting of the Alumni the Endowment campaign and many an- One of the most interesting and perplex- Magazines Associated, was held in Cleve- nual contributors to the Alumni Fund will ing of the phenomena of sport is the man- land last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. be asked to increase their pledges. ners of spectators at games. Why does the The hosts were Western Reserve Univer- same person who conducts himself as a sity and Case School of Applied Science. sportsman at a tennis match or a track >01 SELECTS REUNION COMMITTEE Many papers were read that were of meet frequently play the loud-mouthed considerable interest to those engaged in At the weekly meeting of the prelimin- mucker at a baseball game or a lacrosse the work, including several on the hand- ary committee in charge of the reunion of match? In baseball there is perhaps the ling of material for Alumni publications, the class of 1901 held at the Cornell explanation of bad tradition and associa- two on finances in connection with publi- Club in New York on April 12, the follow- tion and in lacrosse that of ignorance of ing committee was organized to take cations and with associations, two on the game. But in each case its an explana- charge of the reunion next June: alumni fund methods, and two on local tion and not an excuse. club programs. Clarence H. Fay, 233 Broadway, New Universities are responsible for the con- York, chairman; Roy M. Hart, 32 Court Among the items of business transacted duct of spectators at their games. The fact Street, Brooklyn, secretary; Roger B. were the authorizing of the publication of that the crowds are frequently large and a manual of alumni work of some 300 Williams, Jr., 67 Wall Street, New York, mixed does not relieve them of that respon- treasurer; Fred L. Ackerman, Durand C. pages, intended as a work of reference for sibility. Alexander, William H. Baker, Earl J. existing alumni offices or for colleges in- We're going after the thing a little more Bennett, Victor D. Borst, Norman C. tending to undertake alumni work; the actively this spring. It's perfectly easy if final merging of the associations of alumnae Brizse, Forrest E. Cardullo, Willis H. each individual assumes all the responsi- Carrier, Carl Dautel, Harold J. Davall, and alumni secretaries upon the abandon- bility for himself and a little of it for his ment of the separate organization of the Robert I. Dodge, Frederick G. Dunham, immediate vicinity. The village wit and Bryant Fleming, Gerald B. Fluhrer, Heat- former; and the decision to hold the next- the noisy partisan need encouragement to convention at Lehigh University. ley Green, "Leroy P. Gregory, Joseph P. keep going. Cold looks wilt them. The Harris, Seward W. Hartley, Harold E. About 115 alumni officers were present few exceptions will be so few that methods Hastings, Anthony H. Hansen, Shirley C. including those of Texas, Stanford, Tor- of violence in their cases will not seriously Hulse, Sidney S. Lowenthal, William onto, and McGill. Fifteen southern col- annoy the other spectators. Metcalf, Jr., Walter Moffat, Frederick W. leges were represented. Returning alumni can do a little mis- Meysenburg, William H. Morrison, Jr., In the election of officers, F. S. Allis of sionary work along these lines. R. B. Ewell Nalle, Warren G. Ogden, George A. Amherst was elected president of the Oldham, Clifford R. Pettis, George E. J. Association of Alumni Secretaries and COUNCIL REPORTS PROGRESS Pistor, Clyde Potts, James P. Quigley, C. G. Proffitt of Columbia was elected The Cornellian Council has made sub- Leonard J. Reynolds, Edward L. Robert- president of the Alumni Magazines As- stantial progress this year towards its aim son, John L. Senior, Arthur H. Sherwood, sociated. Foster M. Coffin, Cornell '12, of increasing the annual income of the Alexander H. Slocum, Arthur J. Sweet, the retiring president of the secretaries University by $250,000 a year, and reports Frederick C. Tag, Nelson O. Tiffany, became a director, and R. W. Sailor, Cor- through April 15 the best year it has ever Thomas B. Taylor, Clarence A. Tryon, nell '07, was reelected editor of both as- had. Henry E. Vanderhoef, George T. Vail, sociations. The Cornell delegation in- The Council had collected $72,148.82 Frank D. Voorhees, Ray H. Whitbeck, cluded, in addition to Coffin and Sailor, through March of this year. This is Frederick Willis, Manton M. Wyvell, and Clara Howard '14 and Walter Duncan '20. comparable with $47,909.58 received last James O'Malίey ex-officio. The principal entertainment feature was year at the same time. With three import- The following members of the class have an intercollegiate dinner in the Western ant months left in the fiscal year, it is already expressed their intentioc of at- Reserve gymnasium at which Newton expected that considerably more will be tending the reunion: Frederick L. Acker- D. Baker of Johns Hopkins was toast- turned over to the University in June for man, William H. Baker, Earl J. Bennett, master. Harold D. (Bub) North, Cornell unrestricted use than has ever been avail- Victor D. Borst, Norman C. Brizse, Ralph '07, assisted the Case band and the Re- able heretofore. Chatillon, Robert I. Dodge, Clarence H. serve glee club in providing the musical Under the direction of Harold Flack '12, Fay, Roy M. Hart, Sidney Lowenthal, program of the evening. On Saturday executive secretary of the Cornellian Walter Moffat, James O'Malley, Arthur afternoon an expedition drove to Oberlin Council, committees of alumni have been H. Sherwood, Frederick C. Tag, Roger B. for a tour of inspection. appointed in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincin- Williams, Jr., and Frederick Willis. nati, Indianapolis, Dayton, Akron, The committee urges all members of the BRITISH HONOR CORNELLIAN Rochester, Niagara Falls, Youngstown, class to be in Ithaca in June, and to At a dinner, given by the American Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Wil- notify the chairman immediately of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgical mington, Washington, and Baltimore. In committee of their intention to return. Engineers at the Engineers' Club, New some of these cities Cornellians are already York, George R. McDermott, Jr., '05 son at work soliciting promises of annual gifts The next meeting of the committee will of Professor and Mrs. McDermott, was to the Cornell Alumni Fund, to be paid be held on April 25 at 37 West Fifty- presented with the Sir Robert Hadfield through the Cornellian Council. Import- eighth Street, New York, at 6:30 p. m. Award of $1000 in recognition of his work ant aid was given to these committees dur- Dinner will be served and any members of in the field of open-hearth furnaces, used ing spring vacation by present undergrad- the class who can be present are urged to in the production of steel, to increase the uates who volunteered to solicit new sub- attend. thermal efficiency of furnaces and lower scriptions during vacation week. JAMES O'MALLEY Όi. the cost of production. McDermott is an In addition to personal canvassing by official of the Illinois Steel Company, committees, forty-five thousand letters THE ANNUAL spring concert of the Uni- Chicago, one of the plants of the United will be mailed by class representatives, so versity Orchestra will be held in Bailey States Steel Corporation. the campaign will take on the nature of an Hall on April 24. Neitra Reigger, mezzo- This is the first time since it was in- interclass contest. contralto, of New York, will be the soloist, stituted by Sir Robert Hadfield four years The Cornellian Council plans partic- and Miss Helen Pritchard, harpist, of ago that the award has been made. ularly to reach alumni who did not con- Ithaca, will also take part in the program. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 343

PHI KAPPA PHI ELECTIONS 106,166, or $3,053,083 for each of the two universities, and praised the recent pro- At its annual spring election on April 13 years. The population of the State is gress of the Cornell teams. the Phi Kappa Phi Society elected the 8,720,159. The Committee calls attention County Judge William F. Bleakley '04 following members from the Faculty and to these figures for other States: California spoke briefly on loyalty to Cornell, and the Graduate School: population 3,426,861, university enroll- President Neal D. Becker '05 of the Cor- Faculty ment 14,359, appropriation for the current nell Club of New York described the new Donald English, professor of economics. year $4,943,500; Iowa, population 2,404,- quarters of the club to be opened next Graduate School 021, university enrollment, University September and invited Westchester Cor- Rex Warfield, rural education, rural 8,840, State College 5,000, appropriation, nellians to become members. economics. University $2,337,657, State College $ι,- Sir Loin, when he was half-way through Frank Dickson, instructor in plant 600,000 and $420,000 for research; Michi- his description of personal Egyptian pathology. gan, population 3,688,412, university en- archeological discoveries, proved to be Mrs. Julia Moesel Haber, assistant in rollment 11,513, appropriation $3,000,000 Charles M. Stotz '21, who two years ago botany. and $2,250,000 for buildings; Minnesota, won notoriety for his impersonation at William Ernest Krauss, instructor in population 2,387,125, university enroll- Cornell of Dr. Vosburgh, disciple of Freud. animal husbandry. ment 16,422, appropriation $3,575,ooo; Songs by a local quartette and show- Leland Spencer, instructor in agri- Wisconsin, population 2,882,067, univer- ing of the Cornell "movies" by Walter G. cultural economics and farm management. sity enrollment. 11,440, appropriation Blackburn '19 closed the program of a Ray Lams Throckmorton, assistant in #3,382,834. most successful Cornell party. agronomy. Buffalo Women Invite Students Luther Shirley West, instructor in At the April luncheon of the Buffalo entomology. CLUB ACTIVITIES Club of Cornell Women, held April 7 at Grace Kinkle Adams, psychology. the College Club, a number of under- Morris Gilbert Bishop, instructor in Westchester Banquet Good graduates home for the Easter recess were Romance languages. invited. The club meets regularly every Approximately a hundred and fifty Lucy Shepard Crawford, philosophy. month. Cornell alumni, undergraduates home for Nellis Maynard Grouse, history. Akron to Hold Banquet Francis Harper, instructor in zoology. the Easter recess, and prospective Cor- The Cornell Club of Akron held no Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw, Jr., in- nellians, sat down to the second annual luncheon on its regular date, Friday, April structor in Greek. dinner of the Cornell Westchester Associ- 13, but announces that at its annual ban- Hoyt Hopewell Hudson, English, in- ation in Yonkers, New York, on the quet, to be held April 21, Dean Dexter S. structor in public speaking. evening of April 9. Started last year as an Kimball will speak on the growth of the Rufus Richard Humphreys medicine, experiment to include the membership of University, and Walter I. L. Duncan '20 instructor in histology and embryology. all the Cornell clubs in Westchester will tell of the progress of the endowment Ralph Lent Jeffery, instructor in County, the association is now working campaign. Reservations may be made mathematics. on a complete program to coordinate the with Robert C. Edmunds Ί8, secretary. James Hart Curry Martens, assistant activities of all these clubs, according to in geology. its president, Raymond P. Morse '03, who Announce Chicago Round-up Lowell Haines Milligan, chemistry. spoke at the banquet. The annual Cornell Round-Up Party Harry Stafford Read, instructor in Egbert J. Moore '99, president of the will be held at North Side Turner Hall, physics. Cornell Club of Yonkers, wlecomed the Chicago, on April 26 at 6:30, according to Gilbert Brown Lorenzo Smith, chemis- guests and presented Supreme Court an illustrated mailing card being sent to try. Justice Frank L. Young '88, who acted as Cornellians of the vicinity. The committee Norman Aldwyn Eager, civil engineer- toastmaster. Judge Young criticized the promises that the party will be fully the ing. University for "busting" so many fresh- equal of former Round-Ups. Reservations Cho Yu Liang, civil engineering. men, citing his own experience as a teacher and checks for $3.50 may be sent to Joseph Karl Dawson Wood, mechanical engi- that first accomplishments of students do E. Ward '99,1532 South Michigan Avenue, neering, instructor in the mechanics of not always indicate their later achieve- Chicago. engineering. ment. At their luncheon on April 12 at the Professor Martin W. Sampson, who had Hamilton Club, Chicago Cornellians heard INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES come from Ithaca for the banquet, took Major R. W. Shroeder of tin Army Air THE PENNSYLVANIA Council on Edu- issue with Judge Young on the policy Service relate some of his flying ex- cation, to which Governor Pinchot dele- of the University in busting freshmen. He periences, notably on his recent world- gated the task of fram ng a State policy pointed out that because of the increasing; record altitude flight. toward higher education, has recom- numbers of students who come to Cornell Rochester Women Meet mended that instead of a single great and the limited facilities for teaching, some The Cornell Women's Club of Rochester State university, which could be built up method of limitation of numbers is neces- meets regularly the first Saturday of each only at great expense to the taxpayers, the sary. The number of students must be month and invites all Cornell women in or equipment and buildings of the Penn- limited in one of two ways, he said; either near the city to attend. On April 7 the sylvania State College, the University of by limiting the number who enter the club met at the home of Jessie T. Ray '12. Pennsylvania, and the University of Pitts- University, or by dropping those who Pittsburgh Banquet Saturday burgh shall be utilized and that they shall have not proved themselves to be desirable The Cornell University Association of thus become integral parts of the higher timber. Western Pennsylvania will hold its annual educational system of the Commonwealth. John T. (Terry) McGovern Όo, the banquet on Saturday, April 21 at 6130 p. m. The following biennial appropriations are next speaker, told of arrangements now at the University Club in Pittsburgh. The recommended: University of Pennsylvania, being made between Cornell, Princeton, chairman of the committee, Malcolm $1,641,312; University of Pittsburgh, $ι,- Harvard, and Yale and Oxford and Cam- Nesbit '19, has not divulged many of his 200,960; Pennsylvania State College, bridge, for a series of international athletic plans but enough have been published to $2,993,914; and a temporary appropria- meets. He spoke of other phases of inter- assure a typically successful Pittsburgh tion of $270,000 to Temple University, national collegiate athletics, mentioned' evening. which hopes a fter afew years to be able the movement now under way to make John W. Todd Ό6 will be toastmaster. to do without State aid. This totals $6,- athletics compulsory in certain American The speakers will include Professor Charles 344 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

L. Durham '99, Henry H. Westinghouse East, the Epirus dispute, the question of teenth and seventeenth centuries Charles '75, a member of the University Board of Egyptian independence, the dispute "be- Estienne, Olivier de Serres, and Le Lectier tween Turkey and Greece, the question Trustees, and Judge Frederic P. Schoon- of the union of Austria and Germany, helped to make France great in producing maker '91. This cast will be supported by reparations, disarmament and minorities. agricultural literature. They have much an array of stuntsters that promises to be The discussions, which are held in the to say about the pear. From Le Lectier's imposing. Union debating hall, have thrown upon the list it appears that France in 1628 had at screen of Oxford opinion a clear silhouette Cleveland Women to Meet of the various nationalist points of view. least 254 varieties. By the time of Leroy, The annual meeting of the Cornell Nowhere is seen more clearly the differences 1867, it was possible to speak of nine Women's Club of Cleveland will be held between the East and the West, the Latin hundred varieties with three thousand and the Saxon, the Continental and the names. The Belgians also did much to May 3 at the College Club, 1958 East American. It is not extravagant to say 93rd Street. Dinner will be served at 6:30 that the Oxford Assembly presents in a propagate different varieties. From Bel- p. m. The officers of the club are: Presi- small scale a cross-section of world opinion. gium and France rather than from the dent, Mrs. Marjorie Wilson Corrigan '13, Steps are being taken to organize similar British Isles have come our American Assemblies in other large and cosmopolitan pears; and it is therefore fitting that many and secretary, Mrs. Bessie DeWitt Beahan universities of the world and to unite these '78. organizations in order to obtain student of the varieties described by Professor opinion throughout the world. Exchange Hedrick and his collaborators should bear COSMOPOLITAN OXFORD visits and interchanges of reports and old French and Belgian names. Pears had decisions on international problems will be begun to be cultivated in New England The following letter from Alexander B. held between the Assemblies, and it is Trowbridge '20 now a Rhodes Scholar at especially hoped that the plan will be by 1629. The French did much for the Oxford is reprinted from the Sun for adopted in many of the large American improvement of the pear on American April 14. Since he has been at Oxford universities, as indeed has already been soil. done at Columbia and Wisconsin. The In 1920 the United States produced Trowbridge has been active in college cosmopolitan character of many American athletics and other things, and was re- universities make them, like Oxford, 14,211,346 bushels of pears from 14,646- cently elected president of the Junior peculiarly fitted for such organizations, 995 trees. Common Room of University College, the and where it is impossible to secure dele- The book is well nigh encyclopedic in gates of every nationality, expert delegates character, and will be indispensable to the highest undergraduate honor in the in- may be substituted to represent some stitution. nations. Practical suggestions and help gardener and orchardist. The illustrations The cosmopolitan character of the stu- of any kind will be gladly given upon in- are wholly admirable. dent body of Oxford has always been quiry to the general secretary of the Ox- Books and Magaziee one of the attractive features of the uni- ford International Assembly. versity life. Situated as it is in the center In The Stanford Illustrated Review for of the educational world between the East April is printed Dr. David Starr Jordan's and the West and enjoying a unique tradi- LITERARY REVIEW Stanford Founders' Day address on tion and prestige, Oxford has always been March 9, with a good picture of the a shrine of the student world. But not until now have the foreign students been author. On the same occasion talks on brought together in one organization The Old Pear Tree "Founders' Day" by Professor Charles D. where the various national points of view The Pears of New York. By Ulysses P. Marx '78 and Professor William F. could be publicly presented to the under- Hedrick, Assisted by G. H. Howe, O. M. Durand on "Research in Stanford," graduate body of Oxford. The Oxford Taylor, E. H. Francis, H. B. Tukey. Re- International Assembly, modeled as it is which appear in this number, were broad- on the League of Nations in form and port of the New York Agricultural Experi- cast from the Stanford radio station. procedure, is now one of the most unique ment Station at Geneva for the year 1921 The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine for movements of Oxford history. Organized ii. Albany. J. B. Lyon Co., Printers. 1921. April includes a sketch, with portrait, of a year ago, it has drawn into its ranks re- 30.7 cm., pp. xii, 636. 2 half-tone and So presentatives of forty-two nationalities. Professor Everett W. Goodhue, now of Its first meeting was under the presidency colored full-page plates. Dartmouth, who was an instructor in of Professor Gilbert Murray, whose prac- This is one of those monumental works economics here in 1911-12 and acting tical experience at Geneva was a great that mark epochs in the history of a sub- source of help to the organizers of the professor of economics here in 1920-1. ject. The work has been done with great Assembly. His first successor was Magbool In School and Society for April 14 Pro- care and regard for accuracy. The treat- Mahmood, of India, who is already well fessor Elsie Murray '04, Ph.D. '07, of known in American universities. ment of the whole subject is comprehen- Wells College points out "Some Uses of the Though modeled on the League at sive, systematic, adequate. Both index and Freshman Test in the Smaller College." Geneva, the Assembly is not bound in its bibliography are all that one could desire. organization by the limitations of the Professor Benjamin R. Andrews Όi, of League, as the admittance of delegates The pear is an Old World product, a Teachers College, writes on "Educational from Turkey, Russia, the Irish Free State native of the Northern Herpisphere. Wild Exhibits." and the United States plainly shows. pears are found in Japan, China, Korea, Delegates from the United States are In The English Journal for April Pro- the western Himalayas, and in the region elected in the Oxford American Club after fessor James A. Winans '07, of Dart- extending from Turkestan through Persia heated debates between Democrats and mouth, writes on "Aims and Standards in Republicans and they have played a con- and Asia Minor into southern and western spicuous part in the proceedings of the Europe and northern Africa. Long before Public Speaking." Assembly. Ralph Carson, Rhodes Scholar In The Journal of Social Forces for from Michigan, was the first American to writing began, men were cultivating the be president of the Assembly. W. Y. pear among other fruits. Pears grew in the November Dr. Worth M. Tippy, '91-3 Elliot, Rhodes Scholar from Tennessee, garden of Alcinous, which Homer describes. Grad., writes on "Social Work of the and E. S. Griffith, Rhodes Scholar from Theophrastus, who died in 287 B. C., has Federal Council of Churches." In the is- New York, have also served as president sue for January Professor Dwight Sander- and the former rendered valuable service a good deal to say about the cultivation of to the cause of the Assembly by aiding pears. Cato (235-150 B.C.) knew six son writes on "Community Organization in the formation of similar bodies in varieties. Varro (116-28 B.C.) at eighty for Rural Social Work." In the issue for French universities. Other Americans writes down for his wife how to grow and March Dr. Wallace E. Caldwell Ίo, of the have served on the Secretariat, conspicuous University of North Carolina, discusses among them being S. W. Washington, store pears along with other farm pro- Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia, who duce. Pliny adds to Cato's six varieties "The Place of Ancient History in the is now general secretary. thirty-five others. From Greece or Italy Social Studies." Professor Charles A. The questions which have been dealt or both the pear was brought to "sunny Ellwood's "The Reconstruction of Re- with by the Assembly are to a large extent ligion" is reviewed by Jesse E. Steiner. those which are considered by the League France. Charlemagne valued it highly and of Nations. Principal among them have ordered his orchardists to plant several In The Political Science Quarterly for been the various questions of the Far kinds for different purposes. In the six- March Professor Austin P. Evans Ίi, of CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 345

Columbia, reviews the third volume of the Wright, of Dartmouth, formerly of Cor- THE STATE FORESTER Cambridge Modern History. nell, reviews Reno Berthelot's "Un Ro- Clifford R. Pettis Όi, State superintend- In The Classical Weekly for March 19 mantisme Utilitaire." Robert Shafer's ent of forests, is the subject of a sketch by Professor Lane Cooper writes on "Mr. "Progress and Science: Essays in Criti- "The Capitol Observer" in a recent issue Franklin and the Origin of English cism" is reviewed by Professor Frederick of The Albany Knickerbocker Press. The Words." C. Prescott. De Lacy O'Leary's "Arabic article in part follows: Thought and Its Place in History" is re- With Conservation Week getting under In the, March number of The Harvard viewed by Professor Nathaniel Schmidt. way and a bit of spring turning a man's Law Review Sir Frederick Pollock reviews, Dr. Glenn R. Morrow '21 reviews "La mind toward alderbedding, consider for a with high commendation, Professor Carl Tradition Philosophique et la Pensee moment Clifford R. Pettis, superintendent Becker's "The Declaration of Independ- Frangaise" by Mme. L. Prenant and oth- of forests for the Conservation Commis- ence." ers. James Ten Broecke's "The Moral sion of the State of New York. In The Saturday Evening Post for March and Religious Life" is reviewed by Profes- Folks who write him letters about trees 24 Morris Bishop '13 has a poem, "Chan- sor G. Watts Cunningham, Ph.D. Ό8, of and tree planting, or read his name in the treys to Order." Kenneth L. Roberts Ό8 the University of Texas. report of the Conservation Commission get writes on "Senators and What Not." In The Freeman for February 21 Emile a mental picture of a scholarly-looking dip- Elsie Singmaster '02 has a story entitled Gebhart's "Mystics and Heretics in Italy" lomat about six feet two, with attenuate "The Truth." In the issue for April 7 translated by Professor Edward Hulme, frame and sharp black eyes. Miss Singmaster prints another story, A.M. '02, of Stanford, is reviewed by They're wrong—all wrong. "Zion Valley," which, while interesting, Temple Scott. In the issue for March 28 The head of the Forest Division reminds does not come up to her other one. Professor J. William Hebel, A.M. '13, you of one of his own sturdy white pine Professor Halldor Hermannsson's "Mod- Ph.D. '20, of the Department of English, eight-year-olds. He is husky, stocky, and ern Icelandic Literature" is reviewed by writes on "Milton's Lighter Moments." fades into back-grounds like the trees of Franz Rolf Schroeder in the Lίtteratur- his woods; his eyes peer humorously at The Journal of Forestry for February in- the world from behind moderately thick blatt fuer germanischen und romanischen cludes a portrait and obituary notice of lenses, and he is forty-five years old. Philologie for January-February. the late Dr. Fernow. Professor Ralph S. Pettis has a number of things to mark In Science for April 6 Dr. Vernon L. Hosmer prints his address on "The Ob- him as a distinct personage in the affairs Kellogg, '91-2 Grad., writes on "Russian jectives of the Society of American of State, but probably the most outstand- Exiled Intellectuals in Berlin." Foresters." ing thing is the fact that he is the State's greatest spendthrift. Health News for November included an In The Literary Review for March 17 He says so himself, and lays title to it on article on "Preventable Cancer" by Pro- Professor Alfred E, Zimmern writes on the grounds that he spent one million "The Post-War World." He pays his dollars a year for five years. Those five fessor James Ewing, of the Medical Col- million went toward the purchase of State lege. respect to the economists who ignore forest lands under the old bond issue. politics, to the pacifists, and to the post- In The Quarterly Journal of Public He is the first graduate of the first war literature of despair. He notes with Forestry School in America. That sounds Speaking for April Professor Alexander M. hope the growing literature of intelligent like a large statement, but it is nowhere Drummond, '12-15 Grad., writes on near as large as the fact that Pettis is internationalism. "Graduate Work in Public Speaking." responsible for the nursery system now in The members of the Department of Public A third edition of "The Field of Philoso- 'vogue throughput American forestry. phy" by Professor Joseph A. Leighton, Pretty soon it will dawn on you that he Speaking collaborate in furnishing 129 is a pioneer. And that is quite proper, be- titles of subjects for graduate study. Hoyt Ph.D. '94, of Ohio State University, has cause he comes from pioneer stock. His H. Hudson, Grad., writes on "The Field of been issued by the publishers, D. Appleton grandfather, one of the first settlers of Rhetoric." Professor Morris W. CrolΓs and Company. The book has been Delaware County, was a lumberman. His thoroughly revised and five chapters, father was a farmer on the west branch of "Attic Prose in the Seventeenth Century" the Delaware River. C. R. P. started out (Studies in Philosophy, April, 1921) is re- amounting to about one hundred pages, to be a civil engineer, and grabbed off a viewed by Professor Everett L. Hunt. have been added. Cornell scholarship with that in mind. In The Cornell Countryman for April But after he entered in 1896 the Forestry Better Times, the welfare magazine (20 School started, and Davy Hoy advised him by 14 cm.) edited by George J. Hecht '17, the frontispiece is a picture of an April to go into the forestry branch. "He said has begun the publication of The Better scene with a verse of Dr. Liberty Hyde there was more chance for a poor scrub Times Syndicate, and publications in fifty- Bailey. Professor James E. Rice '90 be- like me in forestry than there would be in gins an illustrated serial on "The New civil engineering" is the way Pettis tells five different cities have already subscribed the story. to the service. The Syndicate furnishes York State Poultry Improvement Pro- Pettis as a forester in 1899 helped start articles and cartoons by men of national gram." Alpheus M. Goodman '12 tells the first forest planting on State land at prominence on city planning, zoning, "How to Use Explosives in Farm Drain- Lake Clear Junction in Franklin County. age." Professor Howard W. Riley Όi It was the beginning of the State's huge public health, recreation, housing, and reforestation program, now forging ahead other civic and social problems. Features describes "Sizes of Pipes for Water by leaps and bounds. promised in the coming issues of the Systems." Professor Ruth M. Kellogg, In the spring of 1903 he went to Saranac Syndicate include "The Story of Man of the School of Home Economics, des- and instituted the State's first nursery. cribes "The Service Wagon, a Real Con- The system developed there has been Making," by Hendrik Van Loon '05, an adopted by the United States Department article by Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman venience." The first, second, and last of of Agriculture and has been standardized of the U. S. Steel Corporation, a poem by these articles are illustrated. as the nursery practice of the United Margaret Widemer, and another "When a States Forestry Service. It is a textbook TOMPKINS COUNTY is to be made beauti- of the forestry schools. In 1911 Pettis was City Sees To-morrow," cartoon by Gordon made head of the Forest Division. Grant. ful through the efforts of a forest and land- Since then he has been developing scape committee, on which a number of In The Philosophical Review for March nurseries, fighting fires and blister rusts, Faculty members have important places. and pegging ahead. Professor James Seth, formerly of Cor- Now he has the gipsy moth on his hands. nell, now of Edinburgh, discusses "Prag- B. R. MAcMiLLAN, mechanician in the His definition of the gipsy moth is the same matist and Idealistic Ethics." Arthur Physiological Laboratory, will attend the as Sherman's definition of war. In case K. Rogers's "English and American Phi- international Physiological Congress in you never heard about that one it is not in Well's "Outline of History." And of losophy Since 1800" is reviewed by Pro- Edinburgh in July, to demonstrate some course he knows the best stories of forest fessor George H. Sabihe '03, of the Uni- of the apparatus which he has devised for and stream, where stories just naturally versity of Missouri. Professor William K. use in the laboratory at Cornell. grow around the camp-fire at night. 346 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

the alumni are recognizing the magnitude Luhrs and Parker went in at Calleson's of the movement. place for the time being. The usual crop The stability and sanity of alumni work of hand-infections has appeared. is dependent to a considerable degree on Lacrosse Season Opens Published for the alumni of Cornell the deliberations of the Association of University by the Cornell Alumni News Alumni Secretaries. For it the flash of the The lacrosse team opened the home Publishing Company, Incorporated. season last Friday with a victory over Published weekly during the college year and entertainment side of alumni programs monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. does not exist. To it the individual St. John's College, of Annapolis, Mary- Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered con- alumni association is a bit of material for land by a score of 5 to I. The game was secutively) ends the last week in June. 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Checks, grafts and orders should be made pay- that alumni effort is an established and defeated Lehigh, one of the strong teams able to Cornell Alumni News. permanent feature of educational work last year in the southern division of the Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. in this country. Under capable leadership Intercollegiate League. Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 and with sympathetic cooperation from Business Manager E. P. TUTTLE '18 Football Practice Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 educators and administrators it should be Spring football practice is well under Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON made to perform yeoman's service for the Associate Editors way. Ninety candidates are registered; CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS secondary and even the primary functions the daily attendance has averaged be- ROMEYN BERRY '04 WARREN E. SCHUTT '05 of the college and the university. H. G. STUTZ '07 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 tween sixty and seventy-five. For the E. P. TUTTLE '18 FLORENCE J. BAKER most part the candidates include mem- News Committee of the Associate Alumni bers of the last season's scrub teams and W. W. Macon '98, Chairman ATHLETICS N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 freshman squad; a few varsity substitutes Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated; John L. Senior, President; are also out. Captain George R. Pfann is R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- First Baseball Games the only regular. Coach Dobie will carry retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. The home baseball season was scheduled on this spring work for about six weeks, Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated to open here Wednesday with Niagara and the drill will include not only practice University as opponents, Columbia coming in fundamentals, but scrimmaging, in fact Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. Saturday for the first of the season's more about everything except actual games. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. important games. Cold weather has handi- capped baseball practice considerably since FACULTY NOTES ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 19, 1923 the team returned from the spring vacation trip. ALUMNI WORK GROWS That trip may be summarized as follows: PROFESSOR JOHN HENRY COMSTOCK '74, one victory, two defeats, one tie game and now emeritus professor of entomology, ROWTH is likely to be an index, in one game called off by rain. according to the "Fifty Years Ago" column a professional organization, of in- G of the Ithaca Journal-News, had his arm creased interest on the part of the Besides the games reported last week, broken while assisting in an attempt to clients. The increased interest in the a defeat at the hands of Washington and kill the bear which had been purchased Association of Alumni Secretaries and in Lee by a score of 5 to 3, and a victory over by Professor Burt G . Wilder the preceding the Alumni Magazines Associated, whose Virginia Military Institute by a score of year. At that time, Comstock was a stu- convention is described in this issue, is 9 to i, the team tied the University of dent assistant, and the hurt was received an indication that alumni work is receiving Virginia in the first game at Charlottes- on April n, 1873. increasing support on the part of American ville, score 10 to 10, while Virginia won the college alumni. The gain cannot be ac- second game by a score of 10 to 6. PROFESSOR WILDER D. BANCROFT will counted for in any other way, as these In the first game with Virginia, the team go to England early in May to attend the associations have always been active and overcame a six run lead, making four runs meeting of the International Union of helpful, and the conventions always at in the last two innings and tying the game, Pure and Applied Chemistry at Cam- convenient times and places. which was called on account of darkness. bridge. After attending various other There are now alumni secretaries from Flumerfelt was hit hard in the first two scientific gatherings, at which he will pre- 174 colleges enrolled in the association, innings, but Knipe, who succeeded him, sent papers, he will return home in July. representing nearly half of the American was fairly effective. In the second game Virginia drove Hollo PROFESSOR SUTHERLAND SIMPSON of colleges with over two hundred students. the Ithaca Branch of the Medical College It is safe to assume that there are few full off the mound after the fifth inning, hav- ing made nine hits and ten runs. Frederick, will leave late in May to attend the time alumni secretaries or even part time eleventh international Physiological Con- serious alumni workers who are not mem- who succeeded him, held Virginia without further score. gress at Edinburgh, and will spend the bers .of the association. The magazine rest of his sabbatic leave in Denmark, group seems to be equally prosperous, al- The Crews Are Out Holland, France, and Belgium, returning though smaller in numbers and to some The crews are out on the lake, all of to Ithaca for the second term of the next extent a subsidiary organization. them in shells, and practice races or academic year. Alumni in general are recognizing the scraps have begun. Choppy water has duties, privileges, and pleasures of parti- caused quite a bit of trouble, and one after- PROFESSOR HENRY N. OGDEN '89 is a cipation in alumni affairs. The compliment noon the heavy varsity shipped so much member of the Public Health Council of has frequently been paid the movement water that the crew had to pull ashore at the State of New York. recently of several vitriolic attacks, in Glenwood and drain its shell. PROFESSOR JULIAN E. BUTTERWORTH, of semi-popular, pseudo-liberal magazines. Henry E. Luhrs, No. 4 in the heavy the Department of Rural Education, spoke They have been in the main untempered varsity, suffered an attack of grip,neces- on "The Reorganization of State Support by good manners or by knowledge of facts. sitating several changes in personnel. in New York" at the Schoolmen's Week It is obvious from these that others than Calleson, of the junior eight, replaced Convention in Philadelphia on April 12. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 347 Ήe has a pull

LET US FACE frankly this question of "Pull." It does exist in business. The Pres- ident of a Company hires the son of a trusted friend. Why? Not merely because the young man is the son of a friend; but because the President believes that good blood will tell. A Cornell graduate, who is ε general manager, hires a Cornell graduate as an assistant. Why? Not merely because the younger man is a Cornell man, but because the general manager believes that train- ing will tell. From a drawing by J.

N Cincinnati the Board of Directors of a financial institution was favorable introduction to the 200,000 I considering several men for the position of Vice President and worth-while men who are enrolled with General Manager. The successful applicant—the man who now holds you. that coveted position—has written an account of his interview with The Alexander Hamilton Institute the Board of Directors. makes no exaggerated claims and at- tempts to exert no pressure. It asks "I stated my experience," he writes, "and added that I simply for the privilege of laying the full had completed the Modern Business Course of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. facts before thoughtful men. The facts "I then learned that several members of the Board were are contained in a 118-page booklet subscribers to the Institute. They evidently knew that the entitled "Forging Ahead in Business." knowledge obtained from the Course and Service gives a man Reading it may be the means of bring- a thoro grasp of the controlling forces of business, and fits him to hold a responsible executive position. At any rate, ing you in touch with men who will vastly I was selected ..." widen your opportunities for success.

There are men in Cincinnati who say of this man: "He has a pull with the Directors." They are right. But the "pull" is a perfectly legitimate one. The Directors, who owe a part of their success to the Alexander Hamilton Institute training of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, picked him because they 74lAstorPlace,NewYorkCity believed that the same training had made him a man whose judgment Rend me "Forging Ahead in Business" which they could trust. I may keep without obligation. This does not mean that every man who completes the Institute Name Course is "taken care of" in business. Business does not "take care Print here Business of" anybody. It does mean, however, that with the knowledge and Address.... self-confidence that this training gives, you have an added asset—a

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OWNS MAGELLAN'S HELMET Drayton; then he resumed the practice of What is believed to be the brass helmet OBITUARY law in Minneapolis. worn by Fernando de Magellan in 1521 He is survived by his widow, two sons, when he met his death in the Philippines his mother, and two sisters. His Harvard is now in the possession of Major H. D. Frederick M. Stevens '74 roommate said of him: "I knew him as a Selton, U.S.A., who is attached to the Frederick Morris Stevens died in the man of sterling qualities of heart and Cornell Unit of the R. O. T. C. Major Presbyterian Hospital, New York, on mind. His untimely death was the result Selton says he is convinced by the testi- April 8, of injuries received when he was of his conscientious devotion to duty, and mony of the Moros from whom he pur- assaulted two days before. His watch and those who knew him feel a deep sense of chased the helmet, substantiated by chain, a valuable pin, and about a hundred personal loss at his death." Spaniards and priests of the Illigan and dollars in money were stolen, and he was James D. Milmoe '25 Parang districts, that the helmet is thrown unconscious into an areaway. James Deharg Milmoe died at the authentic. Stevens was a student in Sibley Infirmary on April 13, after a week's The Copper and Brass Research Associ- College from 1870 to 1872, and was a illness of a brain malady. ation has sent out the following description member of Kappa Delta. He was for Milmoe was born on July 16, 1900, a of the helmet and story of how it was many years a resident of Danbury, Conn., son of the late Patrick F. Milmoe and acquired: where his body was taken for burial. He Margaret Elizabeth (Mooney) Milmoe "In 1521, Europe was resounding to is survived by his widow. '86, of Canastota, N. Y. He attended the the praises of Christopher Columbus and William W. Lovell '92 Canastota High School, and was scheduled Vasco da Gama. Spain was in a fair way William Wayne Lovell died in the to graduate with the class of 1917, but he to be the mistress of the world, lineal hospital at Raleigh, N. C., on January 16. entered the Canadian Army during the successor to the glories and power of Although he had not been considered World War, deferring his graduation until Rome. Soldiers of fortune and adventur- seriously ill, Lovell had not been June, 1918. In the fall of 1918 he entered ing mariners were nocking to the crimson feeling well for some months, and left Cornell in the course in arts, as a member and gold banner of Spain, and among them Toronto on January 2 for a motor trip of the Students' Army Training Corps. was Magellan, the expatriate Portuguese. to his estate in Lakeland Highlands, Then he secured a leave of absence, re- Spain and Portugal were striving their Florida. He was seized by sudden illness mightiest in competition for world mastery, entering the University last fall as a mem- while passing through Raleigh and was ber of the class of 1925 in the School of and Magellan conceived the idea of find- taken to the hospital there, where he died Civil Engineering. ing for his adopted land a new sea route a few hours later. to the spice isles of the Pacific. Surviving him are his mother, Mrs. Lovell was a native of Niagara Falls, "Through the South American Straits Margaret Mooney Milmoe '86, two sisters, N. Y. He entered Sibley College in 1888, now bearing his name, up the Pacific to Mary and Margaret Dorothea Patricia remaining only two years, and in his the Philippine group, sailed the venturing Milmoe '19, and five brothers, Edward, second year was recording secretary of Argosy, which in history was to make the Cornelius, John, Wheeler Milmoe '17, his class. He had been with the Westing- name of Magellan rival that of Cabot, and Robert Sandford Milmoe '23, all of house Electric and Manufacturing Com- Columbus and the other hero discoverers. whom reside in Canastota. pany for thirty-one years, having served During his stay in the islands, Magellan both in the United States and in Canada, became involved in a quarrel between two '93 FATHERS AND SONS and for the past eighteen years he had So far as is known, the following mem- neighboring chieftains. Taking sides with been engineer in the Toronto office of the Zula, whom he had converted from heathen- bers of the Class of '93 now have children Canadian Westinghouse Company. ism, he was wounded and eventually died. in the University: Barr, Berresford, J. F. Surviving him are his widow, a daughter, Cook, Cushman, Edwards, Fenner, Fort, "His brass helmet fell into the hands of Adelaide, and a son, Thomas. the war-like Moros, and from one of their Gardinier, Rowland, Jackson, W. V. The body was sent to Toronto, and was datus, or chiefs, Major Selton, after pro- Kelley, Lautz, Northrop, Northup, Ripley, interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery on longed bargaining, finally purchased the Schurman, Warriner, and Rollin H . January 22. White. If there are others the secretary helmet. The helmet shows scarcely any effect of 400 years in the moist climate. Earl S. Wallace '13 of the class would be glad to learn of them. The tooling is sharp and distinct, and the The body of Earl Stewart Wallace was The sons and daughters of these members thin brass hasp used to fasten it is still recovered from the Mississippi River in of the Class now in the University will be intact. The helmet is of graceful lines, and January, 1922, at a point near the Wabasha the guests of the Class at the reunion gives one the impression that the doughty Bridge in St. Paul, Minn. He had been dinner on June 16, and it is expected that old warrior was also somewhat of a dandy." missing since the previous November I, they will be accompanied by their parents. when he left his home, 2317 Pleasant PROFESSOR JAMES EWING, of the Medi- THE DRAMATIC CLUB announces the Avenue, Minneapolis, telling his wife that cal College, was on March 30 elected vice- presentation of "Love and Geography," he was going to a barber shop. His car president of the American Association of a three-act comedy by Bjornstjerne was found the following day, abandoned Pathologists and Bacteriologists. He has Bjornson, in the Campus Theater in on the West River Road near Lake Street. also been made a councilor of the Inter- Goldwin Smith Hall April 27, 28, and 30. His death was probably due to despond- national Association of American Museums ency attendant upon ill health; he had FRATERNITY TENNIS COURTS are begin- been forced in September to give up his PROFESSOR G. HARRIS COLLINGWOOD is ning to show signs of life, though the play- work because of a nervous breakdown. working with county agricultural agents ing is done in sweaters because of the Wallace was born on March 21,1891, the throughout the State on a program of continued cold weather. son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wallace of reforestration of waste and idle lands, for THE SAGE GREENHOUSES are utterly Drayton, N. Dak. He entered the Univer- which the State Conservation Commission gone after standing vacant during the past sity of Minnesota, spent his junior year at furnishes seedling trees. Twenty-two winter. The botanical studies formerly Cornell, and finished at Minnesota. He thousand red pine seedlings have been made in them have been transferred to the was a member of Sigma Nu. After study- ordered as a part of this program by glass ranges of the College of Agriculture. ing at Harvard, he entered upon the W. C. Hoag, head of the Seneca Nation of THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for April 22 practice of law in Minneapolis. He went Indians on New York reservations. will be the Rev. Dr. William Fraser overseas with the 88th Division and re- HASKELL M. THOMAS '24 of Florence, McDowell, bishop of the Methodist turned a captain. For a year he was South Carolina, was elected president of Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. president of the First National Bank of the Musical Clubs for 1923-4 on April 13. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 349

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• Cost $10 —you can sell them for thousands Why is a used book unlike a used car? Because the more you use it, the more you can sell it for. Books make brains, and the world pays high for brain power. The bulging dome on the library is worth emulating. It marks the way to bulging pockets. Don't take our word for it. Ask some of the old grads, the men who have gone out before you to sell their books.

Published in Some have sold them for more than the interest of Elec- others. Why? Just ask. trical Development by an Institution that will But, you may say, books are not be helped ί$ what* ever helps the the only thing. You're right. Industry. Still, they help.

This advertisement is one of a series in student publications. It may remind alumni of their op- portunity to help the undergraduate, by suggestion and advice, to get more out of his four years. 350 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

of the University of Missouri, will be a capacity in connection with extensions and ALUMNI NOTES member of the summer school faculty of additions to the water supply system; he the Brigham Young University, Provo, is also interested in several hydro-electric Utah. '74 BS—Professor Herman L. Fair- projects. His present address is 601 North child, emeritus professor of geology in the '97 LLB—Francis M. Hugo, former Fifth Street, Reading, and his permanent University of Rochester, was the speaker Secretary of State for New York, with address is 1904 Cedar Road, Baltimore, at the weekly luncheon of the Cornell Club an advisory committee of clergymen, will Md. of Rochester held at the Powers Hotel on supervise all films to be shown in the '12—Miss Marion A. Lain '12 was March 14. His subject was "The Con- churches and schools of New York. married on September 27 to Roderick servation of the Water Supply in New Όo AB—Edward A. McCreary returned Kenneth Smith, and they are now living York State." recently from a seven-months' business at 520 Fourteenth Street, Bellingham, '80—A daughter, Mary, was born on trip in the Far East. He is in the export Wash. Easter morning, April i, to Dr. and Mrs. and import business at 220 Broadway, '12 ME—Frederick R. Crowell returned Robert T. Morris, 114 East Fifty-fourth New York, and he lives at 374 Wadsworth last August from India, where he spent Street, New York. Avenue. two years building a large jute mill for the '82 BS—The new men's dormitory now Όo PhB—Roy E. Fletcher is in the American Manufacturing Company. He being built at Stanford by the Board of statistical service department of the went out by way of the Pacific Ocean, and Athletic Control out of money received Library Bureau, 380 Broadway, New York. returned by way of the Atlantic, complete- from the income from the Stanford Sta- '02 CE—Shirley C. Hulse is located ing the circuit of the globe, and spent dium will be known as Branner Hall. It temporarily in New Orleans, La., where considerable time in Japan, China, France, will afford rooms and commons for about he is superintending a construction con- Italy, Austria, Egypt, England, and Scot- 150 men and will be a general dormitory tract for the Jarrett-Chambers Company, land. He is now manager of the Dela- on the plan of Sequoia Hall. In appearance Inc., of New York. His address is 621 ware River Cordage Mills, a branch of the it will be like Toyon Hall. Broadway, New Orleans. American Manufacturing Company, and '95, '96 ME—Frederick B. McBrier is '06 ME—John E. Forgy has severed his he lives at i Barrie Road, Narberth, Pa. vice-president of the Erie Steam Shovel connection with the Locomobile Company '12 CE—Walter G. Distler's office is in Company, and his address is 241 West of America, Inc., of which he was procure- the Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. Seventh Street, Erie, Pa. ment manager, to accept a position as sales He is vice-president of the George A. '90; '12 BArch; '22 BArch—Henry Otis manager of the Blue Ribbon Body Com- Fuller Company. Chapman '90, architect, announces the re- pany of Bridgeport, Conn. His residence '13 AB—Miss Irene E. Spindler is now moval of his offices to 171 Madison Ave- address remains as before, Mill Hill, in the New York office of the Dairymen's nue, New York. Associated with him are Southport, Conn. League Cooperative Association lnc., and ; v his son, Henry Otis Chapman, Jr., '22, '09 CE— George F. Wieghardt is associ- she lives at Apartment 330, 130 Post and Charles A. Dewey '12. ated with the Bureau of Water of the Avenue, New York. '96 PhB—Professor Charles A. Ellwood, City of Reading, Pa., acting in an advisory '13 CE—Roger W. Parkhurst is still in India, where he is highway engineer for the Barber Asphalt Company, in charge of the sale and use of their product for Cornell University announces a highway purposes. He may be addressed in care of the American Consulate, Bom- bay, India. Summer Session '14 CE—Adrian K. Webster '14 and Miss Virgie Elizabeth Gambrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gambrell, were in Law married on March 28 in Amarillo, Texas. They will make their home in Vega, Texas, First term, June 25-August 1 — Second term, Aug. 2-Sept 8 where Webster has a large ranch. It enables a beginner to commence the study of law in June, Au- '15, Ί6 ME—George B. Woodle is gust, September or February, and graduate and prepare for working for the National Aniline and the bar in two years and three months; a law student to ac- Chemical Company, Abbott Road, Buffalo, celerate graduation, make up deficiencies, or obtain extra N. Y., in charge of the installation of new credits; others to take law courses for business training. equipment. He is married and lives at 104 Duerstein Street. Courses ;ι6 AB—Edward W. Aycrigg was ap- First term: Contracts, Real Property, Public Service and Carriers, Conflict pointed assistant cashier of the Norfolk of Laws, Taxation. National Bank, Norfolk, Nebr., on Second term: Contracts, Criminal Law, Principles of Legal Liability, Sales, January i. His residence address is 505 New York Practice. North Eleventh Street, Norfolk. Faculty Ί6 AB—Anthony O. Shallna resigned Dean G. G. Bogert, Professors C. K. Burdick, O. L. McCaskill, L. P. Wilson, last spring from the vice-presidency of the R. S. Stevens and H. E. Whiteside (all of Cornell); Proίessor W. W. Cook (Yale); Dean M. W. Ferson (George Washington); Dean W. A. Seavey (Ne- Lithuanian Sales Corporation, to become braska) . associated with the Hon. F. W. Mansfield A law library of 56,000 volumes. in the practice of law in Boston. He has now opened his own office for the general The beautiful Finger Lakes country provides an attractive climate and en- vironment for summer study. practice of law at 366 Broadway, Boston 27, Mass. He received his LL.B. degree For catalogue address at George Washington University in 1921. CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York Ί6 AB; Ί6 AB—Dr. Herbert A. Wichelns of New York University and Dr. Harry Caplan have been appointed CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 351 to the Research Committee of the National '17—Announcement has been made of the United States. During the past few Association of Teachers of Speech, Wieh- the engagement of Miss Helen Stern months, he has been traveling through the elns for a three-year term and Caplan (Vassar '22), of New York, and Mark C. United States, Canada, and Cuba; his for a two-year term. Meltzer, Jr., '17, also of New York. New York address is 233 Broadway. He '17 AB, '21 PhD—Lewis R. Roller is Ί8 BArch—Mrs. Laura L. Jordan has states that thousands of Chinese in this physicist in the research laboratory of the announced the marriage of her daughter, country are stockholders in the Chinese Edison Lamp Works of the General Frances Marie, to Edwin Julius Truthan Merchants Bank. Electric Company, Harrison, N. J. '--• His Ί 8 on April 7 at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and '19 AB—Miss Lucia B. Raymond has residence address is 981 Park Avenue, Mrs. Truthan will be at home after May i accepted a position in the State College New York. at 3432 Clarendon Road, Cleveland of Agriculture, and will reside at 5 Grove '17; '19 BS; '19 BS; '20 BS—Robert E. Heights. Place, Ithaca. DePue '19 is a beef salesman with Swift Ί8 BS—Francis O. Underwood is an '19 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. William S. and Company, Chicago, and he lives at extension specialist in vegetable gardening Bennett, Jr., of Rawlins, Wyo., announce 9754 Walden Parkway. He writes that in the New York State College of Agri- the birth of their son, William S. Bennett, Hal (Henry H.) Liming '19,. Harry (J.) culture at Cornell, with the grade of 3d, on March 20. Bennett was formerly Borchers '20 and Jim (Alastair I. G.) assistant extension professor; he lives at assistant district, attorney for the City and Valentine ' 17 are with the same company, 141 Ithaca Road, Ithaca. County of Denver, Colo., but is now making a Swift-Cornell foursome. Ί8 AB—Max J. Wasserman, of the engaged in the private practice of law at '17 BS—A David Da vies '17 and Miss University of Illinois, is one of thirteen Rawlins. Mildred I. Dunbar of Watertown, N. Y., American students to whom have been '19 BS—Cuthbert B. Fraser is pro- were married on November 14 and are awarded fellowships in French universities duction manager for the King Sewing making their home at 309 Graham Street, for 1923-4 by the executive committee of Machine Company of Buffalo, N. Y.; he Herkimer, N. Y. Davies is county agri- the American Field Service Fellowships for lives at 205 Linwood Avenue. cultural agent for Herkimer County. French Universities, Inc. Six others Amer- '19 BS—Mrs. Margaret E. Cusic has '17 ME—H. Wallace Caldwell is secre- ican college men have had their fellowships announced the engagement of her daughter tary of the H. W. Caldwell and Son renewed. The fellowships were established Miss Anne Elizabeth Cusic '19, to Benja- Company, conveying machinery, of Chi- in 1919 as a memorial to members of the min Theodore Hudson of Niagara Falls, cago; his address is 446 Oakdale Avenue, Field Service who were killed or died dur- N. Y. Miss Cusic's address is 3315 Powel- Chicago. ing the War. The Service is now con- ton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. '17, '22 BS—W. Harold (Pete) Weigel, ducting a campaign to increase the num- '19, '20 ME; '19 BS—A daughter was Jr., is in charge of six country interior ber of fellowships to 127, one for every born on April 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Maynard mission stations in China, which are member who lost his life in the War. E. Hall (Edna L. Dean '19) of Schenectady, reached by long voyages along the Grand '19 AB—Lo N. Lau is New York agent N. Y. Canal. He may be addressed in care of the for the Chinese Merchants Bank, Ltd., American Church Mission, Wusih, China. the first Chinese bank to have a branch in '19-23 Grad; '20, '22 BS—Mr. and Mrs.

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Ferdinand Dietze, Jr., have announced the through the jungle, he says, is a much marriage of their daughter, Miss Charlotte more thrilling sight than a wild elephant. Amy Dietze, '19-23 Grad., to Burton M. Townsend is located in Caluctta, and his BOOL'S Ashley '20 on March 24 at New Orleans. address is 72 Corporation Street. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley are at home at 101 '21 AB—R. Wolcott Hooker is sales for Furman Avenue, Asheville, N. C. representative for the Hooker Electro '19, '21 WA—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Chemical Company, 25 Pine Street, New FURNITURE Mole of New York have announced the York. engagement of their daughter, Ethel '22 AB—Edmund F. Baxter is in the and RUGS Teresa, to Willard I. Emerson '19, son of financial department of the American Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Emerson of New York. Telephone and Telegraph Company, 195 The marriage will take place on June 2 in Twenty-one years Broadway, New York, and he lives at 857 the First Presbyterian Church, Fifth East Ninth Street, Brooklyn. of service Avenue and Twelftfi Street, New York.' '22 LLB—Lester C. Leonard has just '20 BS—Everett W. Lins, sales manager opened law offices in the Second National Our store is well known of the North American Fruit Exchange, is Bank Building, Red Bank, N. J. He was now located in Bowling Green, Ky., and to Old Grads for Quality formerly assistant trial counsel in the office may be addressed in care of the Federated of Edmund Wilson, ex-attorney-general of Merchandise. Fruit and Vegetable Growers. New Jersey. We have just put a new '20 CE—Joseph H. Christian has gone '22—Edwin J. Linnewerth is sales engi- front on our store which to Greenville, S. C., where he is working neer for the metal roofing department of has changed its appear- for J. E. Sirrine and Company, Engineers. the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, ance. We hope our old His mail address is 543 West Washington of New York. He is Connecticut repre- friends will call and look Street. sentative for the company and lives at the us over. '20 ME—Robert H. Schroeter is hand- Y. M. C. A., Greenwich, Conn. ling all mechanical trades for the Crowell '22 BS—Sterling H. Emerson is doing and Little Construction, Cleveland, Ohio. graduate work in genetics at the Univer- His mailing address is The University sity of Michigan and is a teaching assistant Club, Cleveland. in botany. His residence address is 1014 H. j. Bool cs, Co. '20 AB—Harold M. Florsheim lives at Cornwell Place, Ann Arbor. Incorporated 397 Palos Road, Glencoe, 111. '22 AB—Arthur S. Baker is with ; 130-132 E. State State 2i AB—Walter B. Townsend writes William S. Baker and Company, real that he had a fine hunt while spending the estate brokers, 170 Broadway, New York. Christmas vacation with friends in Siron- He lives at 201 West Seventy-fourth cha, Central Provinces, India. He was a Street. hundred miles from the railroad in a dense '22 BS; ?22 BS—Harold A. Merrill '22 jungle, and shot a large tiger, a leopard, and Joseph C. Gardner '22 are in the office two deer, and several peacocks. He expects of John H. Small, B.S. '13, M.L.D. '14, Hotel to spend the summer vacation shooting landscape architect. Their address is 1416 big game in Nepal. A tiger creeping H. Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. Continental '22, '23 AB—Russell N. Chase is a "Center of student in the Law College of Western Reserve University, and is working after- New York's Actitivities" NOTICE To EMPLOYERS The Cornell Society of Engineers noons in the law office of Sydney A. Davies maintains a Committee of Employ- Ί6, 200 National City Building, Cleveland, Broadway at 41st St., ment for Cornell graduates. Em- Ohio. 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