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Hundreds of Applicants for the Officers' Training Camps

List of Faculty Members in the National Service An Undergraduate Demand for Higher Scholarship Standards

Two More Cornell Men Receive the War Cross

Pennsylvania 37, Cornell 0

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hundred Cornell men in the course of the first ten days of the at the Holbrook School in Ossining and have filed their applications for month are Niagara, Otsego, Oneida, entered Cornell in 1914. He has just admission to the third series of Erie, Monroe, and Broome. In his completed his six months enlistment in officers' training camps, which will be- talks he explains the national problems the ambulance service and is now in the gin early in January. This series was involved in the successful prosecution of American aviation corps. Peck earned planned primarily for enlisted men of the the war and especially the problem of money in a novel way to pay his college Regular Army and National Guard and food supplies for ourselves and our expenses. On winter nights he peddled drafted men of the National Army, and allies. "hot dog" sandwiches on the streets of Ithaca. He had had a pushcart made a limited number of graduates and under- IN THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the Cor- with an arrangement for steaming the graduates of certain military colleges nell Law Quarterly, Professor Charles sausages. He carried on the business will be admitted. Cornell's quota of Kellogg Burdick has succeeded Professor with much success and came to be known this number is fifty-two, plus an equal George G. Bogert as faculty editor. Pro- as "the hot dog boy." number of alternates. Applications fessor Bogert is now a major and judge were received up to midnight of Decem- advocate in the National Army. He ber 1st by Col. Frank A. Barton '91, PROFESSOR O. G. GUERLAC of the was the first faculty editor of the publi- department of Romance languages re- commandant of the Cornell R.O.T.C. cation and it owes much of its success The applications came from Cornell turned to this country from France last to him. The first number of the Quar- week. He has been ordered to Washing- men all over the country—men in can- terly's third volume has just appeared. tonments and camps and in various ton by the French Government for ser- Its leading article, which Professor vice with the special mission under M. forms of volunteer service. They came Bogert wrote, is on the proposed uniform from the Cornell undergraduates. Colonel Andre Tardieu. During the last year conditional sales act. The Quarterly an- he was on duty in the press bureau of the Barton said that all the seniors and nounces the election of the following juniors over twenty-one years of age French department of foreign affairs, students to the editorial board: Ralph where his duties kept him in daily touch must have been represented in the pile L. Emmons '18, of Borodino, N. Y.; of applications on his desk. Many of with the Paris representatives of foreign Jane M. G. Foster '18, of Portsmouth, newspapers. Professor Guerlac was in the officers of the R.O.T.C. are seeking Ohio; Olive J. Schmidt '18, of Spring admission to the training course. Ex- Europe in the summer of 1914, and when Valley, N. Y., and Louis W. Dawson the war began he was detained there aminations are held this week wherever . '19, of Boonton, N. J. the applicants are. The list of success- under orders till December of that year. He returned to Ithaca but was recalled ful candidates will be published about THE BOARDMAN SCHOLARSHIP for this the middle of this month. to France in September of 1915 and was year has been awarded to Frederick in active service in the trenches for sev- Schuyler Reese, jr., of Ilion, N. Y. This PROFESSOR ARTHUR W. BROWNE eral months. (Ph.D. Ό3) of the department of chem- scholarship was founded by the late THE CO-OP reports that the year istry has been appointed Chemical Ex- Judge Douglas Boardman, first dean of 1916-17 was the best in its history. The pert of the Ordnance Department at the law school, and its value is $100. It society's fiscal year ends on April 1st, Large. When he accepted the appoint- is awarded annually to the junior in the and therefore the loss of students last ment he was urged by the Ordnance College of Law who has, in the judgment spring was not felt much in that year's Department to attach himself to a of the faculty, done the best work during business. The number of students who headquarters staff. To do so would the two preceding years. Reese is a signed slips during the year was 4,986. have made it necessary for him to leave member of the Gamma Eta Gamma Their purchases were figured until July Ithaca. He has succeeded in convincing fraternity. 1st so that all who graduated might re- the authorities that he can do his work WORD was received in Ithaca during ceive all their dividends. On some days for the government as effectively in the last week of the award of the French during the year 1916-17 the Co-op served Ithaca as anywhere else. He will there- war cross to two Cornell men. One of more than four thousand customers a fore remain here, and he will be able to them is ARTHUR J. PUTNAM '14, who day. This fall the amount in dividends continue his work with his classes and resigned an instructorship in the de- claimed at the window was about $700 accomplish in his spare hours all the partment of Romance languages last less than usual, probably because so work that the Ordnance Department April to join the American Ambulance many of the students did not return to expects of him. Field Service in France. Last summer the University. A correspondingly larger PRESIDENT SCHURMAN is giving a he was promoted to be chief of Ambu- amount of dividends will be paid by series of talks at meetings of county lance Section No. 70, and since then he check or money order. The total divi- farm bureau associations in New York has received a commission. The sixth dend this year is more than $8,000. State. This is a phase of his work for Cornell man to receive the war cross the State Food Commission and the for distinguished bravery is JAMES O. THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB announces state board of the federal food adminis- PECK, a member of the class of 1918 in that next Saturday night, December 8, tration. He spoke in Chautauqua the College of Arts and Sciences. Peck will be American Night at the club. County on December 1st. Other coun- is a son of the Rev. George C. Peck of Professor Samuel P. Orth will speak on ties in which he had promised to speak Baltimore. He was prepared for college "Militant America." 122 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

THE VIEW UP THE CAYUGA INLET VALLEY FROM THE NEW STUDENT RESIDENCE HALLS The nearer trees mark the course of Stewart Avenue, which is the western boundary of the residence hall site. Day & Klauder, Architects Photograph by Roger B. Whitman Opportunities for Graduate Work Here in Summer Report of the Dean of the Graduate School To the President of the University: Of the remainder 55 were students in ing the academic year the energies of the SIR: I have the honor to present the the Summer Session, and 30 were ad- teaching staff and the facilities of the Report of the Graduate School for the vanced graduate students carrying on University are mainly devoted to the year 1916-1917. special investigation under the direction instruction of undergraduates, so that The total number of students registered of members of the Faculty of the Grad- the claims of research and advanced during the academic year was 467, as uate School. study have difficulty in obtaining a hear- against 482 for the academic year 1915- That so large a body of graduate stu- ing. It would be of great advantage to 1916. During the summer of 1916, how- dents carry on advanced studies during the University to make such provision ever, there were registered 213 graduate the summer in residence at the Univer- for advanced study during the summer students, as compared with 147 during sity is a fact worthy of note. The pro- as would tend to throw the emphasis on the summer of 1915. The total number vision made for instruction in certain the work of the Graduate School, and of graduate students for the year 1916- departments by the Third Term in the would make Cornell during these months 1917 was thus 680, as compared with 629 College of Agriculture is the most im- a centre of investigation and research in for the year 1915-1916. Of the 213 portant cause of this development. It the arts and sciences, and in engineering, students registered during the summer is to be hoped that it may prove possible as well as in subjects connected with of 1916, 128 were members of the Third in the near future to make provision also agriculture. There are throughout the Term, which is regarded for purposes of in other divisions of the University for country many summer schools where graduate study as the equivalent of one extending the opportunities for graduate elementary instruction is given. The of the terms of the regular academic year study during the summer months. Dur- location of Cornell University, as well CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 123 as its excellent equipment in the way of estry, 2 Masters in Landscape Design, 2 Robert A. B. Goodman Ίβ, of Grand libraries and laboratories, seems to offer Masters of Architecture, 4 Masters of Rapids, Mich. an opportunity to develop here summer Civil Engineering, and 4 Masters of H. V. MacGowan '17, of Los Angeles. work of a more advanced character. It Mechanical Engineering. Antell was a major and MacGowan can scarcely be doubted that if the Uni- Respectfully submitted, was a captain in the Cornell R.O.T.C. versity were to a greater extent than at During the summer and fall MacGowan JAMES E. CREIGHTON, present a centre of investigation during has been chief military instructor in the Dean of the Graduate School. the summer months this would tend to U. S. Army School of Military Aero- promote productive scholarship among nautics at Cornell University. the members of the teaching staff. New Army Commissions In the Candidates' Battalion are these The Board of Trustees, acting on The Cornell men whose names are men: N. S. Perkins '15, Mount Vernon; recommendations from the Faculty of printed below have received commissions B. W. Shaper '13, Little Falls; Cowles the Graduate School, adopted during the as graduates of officers' training camps, Andrus '16; Rodolphus Kent '16, Brook- year two changes in the statutes govern- second series. The list is still incomplete: lyn; Julius B. Gluck '13, New York; ing the work of the Graduate School. 1908 James Donald Smeallie '15, Amsterdam; The first of these changes was the aboli- Emanuel Fritz, Baltimore; 1st It., Field Arthur K. West '13. tion of the rule which made holders of Artillery O.R.C. Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships 1912 Letter from the Front Henry B. Marsh Ί7 Is In Training for liable for service to the University in the William J. Lang, Dallas, Texas; 1st It., Aviation in France way of teaching or giving assistance in Field Artillery O.R.C. The following is an extract from a examinations. It was felt that the con- 1913 letter written by Henry Birdsall Marsh, ditions of graduate work had changed Herbert W. Arnold, Tucson, Arizona; B.Arch., '17 (son of Clinton S. Marsh materially since this provision was first 1st It., Coast Artillery R.C. '91), from Blois, France, while on a adopted, and that Fellowships and George T. Houston, jr., Chicago; capt., three days' furlough in the ''Chateau Graduate Scholarships should now be Field Artillery O.R.C. Country," just before proceeding to a regarded as exclusively endowments for Don Lee, San Angelo, Texas; 1st It., second school for instruction in aviation: the promotion of research and productive Field Artillery O.R.C. "I have been flying a great deal lately scholarship. The second change was 1916 and have, therefore, been very busy. I the establishment of the new degree of S. E. Bolton, Amarillo, Texas; 2d It., am now breveted. This means that I Master of Science. Formerly candidates Field Artillery, Regular Army. have learned to fly a Caudron machine. for the Master's degree who were not George H. Bradley, Hornell; 1st It., seeking a professional degree became It was at a French school that I received Infantry O.R.C. candidates for the degree of Master the brevet, or, in English, the pilot's George B. Van Buren, Poughkeepsie, of Arts. It is now possible to admit license. * * * 2dlt. certain classes of students who do not "We go, early on the morning of 1917 wish for a professional degree to can- November first, to another school, Mario Lazo, New York, capt. didacy for a degree that is more appor- where we are to learn to drive a Nieuport Thomas H. Dugan, jr., New York; 2d priate to the studies which they have machine and to do 'acrobatics.' After It., Field Artillery O.R.C. pursued than is that of Master of Arts. that, we get machine-gun instruction 1919 before going to the front. That will Several conferences were held during L. E. Bretz, Dobbs Ferry, capt. take at least three months. * * * the year on the subject of tuition in the 1920 "I happened to be the third one of Graduate School which were participated Laurence E. Stevens, El Paso, Texas; the third platoon of thirty-five men to in by representatives of the Board of 1st It., Infantry O.R.C. Trustees, of the State Colleges, and of receive my brevet. The first to get his the Faculty of the Graduate School. As brevet was another Cornell man, a result of these conferences a general At Fort Leavenworth 'Madame' Sherry, who was at the agreement of opinion was reached that Cornell Men in the Officers' Training front with us and who is with me on it is desirable that there shall be a uni- Battalions this trip. I expect to receive my com- form fee for all students registered in the There are about 250 men in the Pro- mission as first lieutenant within a Graduate School. There are still some visional Officers' Battalion at Fort month." differences of view in regard to the details Leavenworth, Kansas, and in addition 591st ORGAN RECITAL of the legislation which it is desirable to about 450 in a "Candidates' Battalion." adopt, but it is hoped that the Trustees The later battalion consists of men who Bailey Hall, Friday, December 7, 5 p.m. may be able at an e^arly date to take obtained marks between 50 and 80 per Professor JAMES T. QUARLES, Organist some action which will open to all grad- cent in the July examinations for com- Concert Overture in C minor.... Hollins uate students on equal terms the oppor- mission as provisional second lieutenants Andante from Sonata VI, Opus 147, tunities and facilities afforded by the in the Regular Army. At the end of a Schubert University for study and research. three months course they may receive A Persian Suite Stoughton During the year 1916-1917, 109 ad- commissions. The Courts of Jamshyd vanced degrees were conferred by the In the Officers' Battalion, just be- The Garden of Iram University. Of these 43 were Doctors ginning an intensive training of three Saki of Philosophy, 33 Masters of Arts, 1 months, are these newly commissioned Reverie Rogers Master of Science, 16 Masters of Sci- second lieutenants: Farandole Bizet ence in Agriculture, 4 Masters of For- Henrik Antell '17, of Brooklyn. From Suite L'Arlesienne No. 2 124 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Teachers in War Service search work for the United Natural Gas O.R.C; W. E. Beitz, second lieutenant, More Than a Hundred Members of the Company, Wilmington, Del.; S. A. Ma- Field Artillery. Staff Working for the Government hood, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, College of Mechanical Engineering War service has called away a large Department of Agriculture; F. H. Professor W. N. Barnard, U. S. Army number of the members of the instruct- Rhodes, research chemist, The Barrett School of Military Aeronautics, Cornell ing staff of Cornell University. Many Company, Frankford, Pa.; T. W. B. University; Professor F. O. Ellenwood, volunteered their services last spring. Welsh, Bureau of Mines, Washington, U. S. Army School of Military Aero- In the summer others were drafted. A D. C. W. A. Adamson, research chemist, nautics, Cornell University; Professor tabulation, made for the President's DuPont Company, Wilmington,; H. G. C A. Pierce, U. S. Army School of Mili- Report, showed that 128 members of the Tanner, research chemist, DuPont Com- tary Aeronautics, Cornell University; staff were in the public service—sixteen pany, Chester, Pa.; L. J. Waldbauer, Professor G. R. McDermott, U. S. professors, twelve assistant professors, research chemist, DuPont Company, Shipping Board, Baltimore, Md.; Pro- thirty instructors, and seventy assistants. Chester, Pa.; A. L. Culbertson, research fessor C. D. Albert, U. S. Shipping Most of the information in the follow- chemist, DuPont Company, Wilmington; Board, Baltimore, Md.; Professor S. S. ing list has been published already in J. H. Michener, Aviation Officers' Train- Garrett, Captain of Engineers, U. S. ing Corps, France; Mark W. Bray, the NEWS. Army; Professor L. D. Hayes, U. S. College of Arts and Sciences Hercules Powder Company, Kenvil, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C Department of History: Hugh Mac- N. J.; J. A. Bridgeman, DuPont Com- Professor D. S. Kimball, special investi- Kenzie, enlisted. pany, Gibbstown, N. J.; J. G. Thomp- gations in connection with aeroplane son, Ordnance Department; H. I. Cole, Department of English: C A. Carroll, manufacture; United States fuel ad- first lieutenant, Sanitary Corps; W. A. first lieutenant, Adjutant General's De- ministration; W. C. Andrae, U. S. Douglass, research chemist, DuPont partment, U. S. Army; F. E. Fiske, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C; Company, Chester, Pa. second lieutenant, Infantry O.R.C.; P. G. McVetty, U. S. Army School of L. H. Boulter, U. S. Army School of College of Agriculture Military Aeronautics, Cornell Univer- Military Aeronautics, Cornell University. Professor H. E. Babcock, New York sity; A. C Davis, U. S. Army School of Department of Romance Languages: State Food Commission; Professor S. N. Military Aeronautics, Cornell University Assistant Professor O. G. Guerlac, French Spring, awaiting summons; Acting Pro- N. N. Tilly, U. S. Army School of Mili- government service; Assistant Professor fessor Paul Work, Camp Dix, N. J. tary Aeronautics, Cornell University; Laurence Pumpelly, American Field Assistant Professor L. A. Maynard, com- W. A. Gavett, U. S. Army in France; Service in France (three months). mission in Sanitary Corps; Assistant G. D. Floyd, British Flying Corps. Department of German: Kemp Malone, Professor E. R. King, awaiting summons; Medical Advisers first lieutenant, Infantry O.R.C. E. S. Ham, National Army; H. E. Dr. S. A. Munford, captain, Medical Department of Education: Assistant Knowlton, National Army; H. Clum, Reserve Corps; Dr. R. L. McKiernan, Professor William S. Foster, first lieu- National Army; J. T. Lloyd, ambulance Navy; Dr. A. J. Goodwin, Medical R.C. tenant, Sanitary Corps. service. H. D. Phillips, Camp Dix, N. J. Medical College Department of Political Science: Pro- R. W. Cowan, inspector of butter in Dr. L. A. Conner, in France; Dr. C. fessor A. A. Young, chief of the research Michigan for the War Department; M. L. Gibson, in France; Dr. Edward L. division of the War Trade Board; R. L. P. Moon, awaiting summons; L. G. Keyes, jr., awaiting summons; Dr. Will- McClung, first lieutenant, O.R.C. Brown, National Army; G. H. Bradley, iam J. Elser, in France; Dr. Thomas Department of Mathematics: J. V. National Army; S. W. Frost, in the Wood Hastings, Camp Dix, N. J.; Dr. McKelvey, second lieutenant, National service of the Bureau of Entomology, Homer F. Swift, in France; Dr. Alex- Army; L. L. Silverman, Massachusetts Washington, D. C; V. R. Haber, await- ander Lambert, in charge of Red Cross Committee of Public Safety; R. E. Gil- ing summons; C. C. Hamilton, awaiting work in France; Dr. Richard Weil, man, captain, Coast Artillery R. C. summons; W. H. Ohlendorf, awaiting Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.; Dr. Foster Department of Physics summons; Thomas Bregger, National Kennedy, in France; Dr. Eugene F. Professor E. Merritt, U. S. Navy; Army; Ernest Dorsey, National Army; DuBois, U. S. Naval Reserve, Washing- Professor J. S. Shearer, Major, Sanitary E. W. Lindstrom, National Army; E. ton; Dr. Burton J. Lee, in France; Dr. Corps, National Army; Assistant Pro- F. Hopkins, leaves in the last contingent Percy R. Turnure, reports to Washing- fessor E. Blaker, U. S. Army School of A. H. Jenkins, National Army. ton; Dr. J. T. Mac Curdy, in France; Military Aeronautics, Cornell Univer- College of Architecture Dr. Fenwick Beekman, in France; Dr. sity; Ralph Brown, first lieutenant, Professor G. Young, Signal Corps, Richard Boiling, awaiting summons; Signal Corps; Paul T. Weeks, Bureau U. S. Army; H. E. Baxter, first lieu- Dr. Kenneth Bulkley, in France; Dr. of Standards; R. W. King, Western tenant, Signal Corps; E. M. Urband, J. C A. Gerster, Camp McClellan, An- Electric Company; L. J. Sivian, Western Aviation Section, Signal Corps. niston, Ga.; Dr. Henry W. Jackson, Electric Company; Austin Bailey, Signal College of Law Camp Dix, N. J. Dr. James H. Kenyon, Corps; G. S. Morath, Artillery, U. S. Professor George G. Bogert, major and in France; Dr. John P. Peters, in France; Army; E. P. T. Tyndall, Bureau of judge advocate, Camp Dix, N. J. Dr. M. H. Sicard, U. S. Naval Reserve; Standards; G. M. Pearsall, U. S. Navy. College of Civil Engineering Dr. Joseph M. Steiner, in France; Dr. Department of Chemistry Professor O. M. Leland, major, En- Ralph G. Stillman, in France; Dr. James Professor A. W. Browne, Chemical gineer O.R.C; Professor W. L. Con- Worcester, in France; Dr. Arthur H. Expert, Ordnance Department at Large; well, captain, Artillery; Professor L. A. Cilley, in France; Dr. Charles Halpin Assistant Professor G. E. F. Lundell, Lawrence, U. S. Army School of Military Nammack, Bellevue Hospital Unit; Dr. Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C; Aeronautics, Cornell University; Pro- W. L. Soule, in France; Dr. R. Stephens, Assistant Professor R. P. Anderson, re- fessor E. W. Schoder, captain, Engineer in France. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 125

FOOTBALL Score, end of first half: Penn, 13; how earnestly the inexperienced players Cornell, 0. had striven to master the game, and how Pennsylvania 37 Cornell 0 } The third period was made up mostly painstaking had been the labors of the The Pennsylvania eleven made its of exchanges of punts, and neither team coaches. With these instructors, ap- victory decisive in the final quarter of scored. When the teams changed goals parently, it was not at all a case of taking the Thanksgiving Day game on Franklin the ball was in Penn's possession on excellent preparatory school material Field. In the first and third periods Cornell's 28-yard line. On the first and building upon a groundwork of basic Cornell played just as effectively as play of the fourth period Light broke proficiency, but of beginning at the be- Penn, and neither team scored. Two through center, dodged the Cornell ginning and working slowly upward. touchdowns and one goal from touch- backs, and made a touchdown. During And I think any.close student of football down were obtained by Penn in the the remainder of the game Penn made will agree with the statement that given' second period. So the score at the end frequent use of the forward pass and two more weeks the Cornell coaches of the third quarter was 13 to 0. But in scored two more touchdowns. The last would have worked out a team qualified the final period Penn scored 24 points score of the game was a field goal, drop- to play ball approximating the modern additional, with three touchdowns and a kicked by Berry from the 17-yard line. Ithacan standard. There were phases of field goal. Having beaten Michigan, the Final score: Penn, 37; Cornell, 0. the Cornell play that indicated this in- conquerer of Cornell, by sixteen points, dubitably—interference, tackling, follow- Penn had reason to expect to defeat THE SEASON'S SCORES ing the ball, and line play. The Red and Cornell by a score at least as large as Cornell, 22; Oberlin, 0. White, at the outset, took the field, and the forty-two points that Michigan had Williams, 14; Cornell, 10. for one quarter played upon the sheer Colgate, 20; Cornell, 0. made against Cornell. It is evidence of basis of recently acquired knowledge, +he fine spirit of the inexperienced Cor- Cornell, 20; Bucknell, 0. Cornell, 20; Carnegie Tech, 0. played, so to speak, by the card, and gave nell team that the Penn score was less Michigan, 42; Cornell, 0. every Pennsylvania adherent a good than that, and that two-thirds of the Fordham, 27; Cornell, 6. solid scare. Then came a 'break in favor score was made in the final period. The Pennsylvania, 37; Cornell, 0. of the Red and Blue, and thereafter by summary: THE SEASON SUMMED UP gradual degrees the Big Red team de- Cornell Pennsylvania generated, until natural failings revealed What the Team Won Colvin left end Van Ginkel themselves under pressure and finally Harris left tackle Maynard Lawrence Perry in the New York became dominant. So that was the way Pendleton left guard Cleary Evening Post Straus center Wray the contest went, and in the end nothing Swanson right guard Dieter Cornell went in for intercollegiate foot- remained to Cornell but her faith in un- Herriman right tackle Thomas ball this year because the university au- derlying principles—which she shoαld Eisenbrandt right end Miller thorities believed that in its functions cherish and will cherish as dearer, more Nethercot quarterback Bell as a developer of manly qualities and as Cross left halfback Straus to be prized than victory. Carry right halfback Light an incentive to the non-athletic student Hoffman fullback Berry to get out into the open air and make A MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASON Referee—C. J. McCarty, Germantown. Um- something of himself it was a desirable, Cornell Daily Sun pire—D. L. Fultz, Brown. Field Judge—Carl if not a necessary, sport to retain. Then, Cornell has just completed one of Marshall, Harvard. Linesman—W. R. Okeson, too, the wishes of the Government in its most successful football seasons. Lehigh. Touchdowns—Miller, Straus, Light, Berry 2. Goals from touchdowns—Berry 4. Goal this respect bore an equally important The fact that we were able to keep a from field—Berry. Substitutions—Cornell: Hunt- part in influencing the attitude of those team which played the best it knew how, ington for Pendleton; Pennsylvania: Weil for at Ithaca. And so, although with one ex- which played every minute of even the Van Ginkel. ception every member of the 1916 uni- games in which it faced overwhelming The Cornell eleven outplayed their versity eleven, together with important odds, speaks well for the spirit that kept opponents in the first period. It in- substitutes and valuable freshman ma- Cornell's football players together cluded runs by Carry and Cross of 25 terial, entered the national service at throughout the season. When the ath- and 37 yards respectively. After the the outbreak of war, a football outfit letic season started we knew that it was latter of these runs, Hoffman failed at a was organized and the regular schedule of a matter of toss-up whether Cornell field goal from the 23-yard line. Then a games, as arranged last spring, was met. would win or lose the majority of its Penn back fumbled and Harris recovered Yesterday, the team appeared on Frank- games, but we also knew that the team the ball for Cornell on Penn's 20-yard lin Field, and played Cornell's twenty- would play the same sportsmanlike line. Hoffman missed another field goal, fifth annual game against Pennsylvania, brand of football it has always played, this time from the 15-yard line. before a crowd of some 25,000 spectators. and in the fulfillment of that aim we Early in the second period a 25-yard The fact that the Red and White was are satisfied. overwhelmingly defeated—37 to 0—may gain by Cross put the ball on Penn's 40- SOCCER CAPTAIN be allowed to stand as an incident—more yard line. Here Hoffman's punt was Emin Hassan '19, of Brooklyn, has or less of a minor incident—of an occa- blocked. The ball rolled toward the been elected captain of the Cornell sion wherein the outstanding feature was Cornell goal. On the 25-yard line Cap- association football team for next year. Cornell's exemplification of her belief in tain Miller picked it up, threw off two He has played two years at center sport as an ideal as well as a practical Cornell tacklers, and crossed the goal halfback. line for a touchdown. Berry kicked virtue—her belief in sport of a sort that goal. Score: Penn, 7; Cornell, 0. stands lofty and serene above all thought THE FORESTRY CLUB has elected John Cornell kicked off to Penn's 35-yard of defeat or victory. Cornell played as N. Spaeth '19, of Rochester, president line, and Penn did not give up the ball hard as she knew against Pennsylvania, for this year, and J. E. Howay '19, of until a second touchdown had been made. and her game contained much to show New York, secretary. 126 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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This scientific and social problems that await Issue No. 1 is published the first Thursday of the undergraduate response to the important solution; the choice of a vocation. college year in September and weekly publication inquiry which the alumni inaugurated is (numbered consecutively) continues through Com- An "orientation course" has not been mencement Week. Issue No. 40, the final one of such a happy event that we reprint the included in the 1917-1918 curriculum of the year, is published the last Thursday in August editorial article in which the Sun an- Cornell University, and The Sun has and contains a complete index of the entire volume. nounced its plan. taken it upon itself to present a substi- Subscription price $3.00 a year, payable in ad- tute therefor in its columns. Each day vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single an article that could properly come under copies ten cents each. ORIENTATION the head of an "orientation course" will Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his Cornell Daily Sun subscription, notice to that effect should be sent in With the sobering influence of war, be published. With the cooperation of before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that Cornell may well turn to the serious task the Faculty and Cornell's alumni, The a continuance of the subscription is desired. Sun will endeavor to fill a want in the of raising the scholarship standard of the Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- University's list of courses—always with University. It requires no gifted mind able to Cornell Alumni News. the hope that, should the plan prove to see that the tide has begun to run Correspondence should be addressed— successful, the University Faculty will against intellectual triflers. Cornell can see fit to institute the orientation course CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, no longer be a home for those "who go Ithaca, N. Y. in its proper place, the University's halls. to college because it is the proper or usual * * * * P V WOODFORD PATTERSON '95, Editor. thing among members of their set, or ROBERT WARREN SAILOR '07, Business Manager. because some of the college side-shows News Committee of the Associate Alumni: allure them, or because they seek to taste OBITUARY W. W. MACON '98, Chairman an unknown experience." The standard Willis Van Valkenburgh N. H. NOYES '06 J. P. DODS '08 must be raised—it is no new realization— Willis Van Valkenburgh, of East Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing and scholarship must be made a goal Orange, N. J., died on November 14. Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President; worth striving for. R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; F H. Wingert, Assistant He was a son of William and Harriet Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, Actively in support of any move that Van Valkenburghof Brookton, Tompkins 220 East State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. would draw definite action from the County. He graduated from the Ithaca ephemeral theorization that has befogged Academy and in 1874-75 attended Cor- Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press the solution of this question for so many nell. At one time he was secretary to Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. years, the alumni of the University re- President White. In 1884 he moved to cently called for a thorough scrutinizing New York, where he was a court re- ITHACA, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 6, 1917 of ways and means that might bring a porter for many years. His son, Howard concrete result. A committee of the B. Van Valkenburgh, a graduate of N articles telling the story of the University Faculty, under the chair- Sibley College of the class of 1912, is founding of Cornell University, the manship of the late Professor Henry A. now with an engineer regiment in France I Cornell Daily Sun is now offering Sill, undertook a study of the problem. what it hopes will become an ''orienta- The report of this Committee of the A. C. Wiechers '11 tion course" to be given by the Univer- Faculty Upon the Question of Scholar- Albert Cort Wiechers died at Pitts- sity. The Sun's new enterprise is a ship, a most interesting document, has burgh on November 26 of injuries re- product of the Alumni Inquiry Regard- recently been published. It contains ceived in an automobile accident in that ing the Recognition of Scholarship. It much of the latest that has been thought city. His home was at 318 Clarkson is evidence that seed was sown in the and written on Cornell scholarship. Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn. He was course of that inquiry last year that The report of the committee makes a connected with the Enterprise Auto- has sprouted in good soil. One of the number of recommendations. * * * mobile Company of Bridgeport. Wiech- suggestions made in the report of the It appears to The Sun that the zeal ers entered Sibley College in 1907. Ill Faculty's committee under the leadership for learning will only in a very few cases health prevented the completion of his of Professor Sill was that undergraduate be heightened by the promise of gold, course. He was the stroke of the cham- students might be led by means of an the bait of a medal, the stenciling of an pion freshman crew of the class of 1911. "orientation course" to a better under- added word on the diploma. Thirst for He leaves a widow and one son, Albert, standing of their opportunities and duties knowledge lies deeper. And the motives jr., who is about two years old. in college. No such course was provided that will prove a stimulus to greater for the current year. The undergraduate efforts are foreign to the material touch. IN THE GAS DEFENSE daily therefore is trying to supply one. One excellent plan is, however, em- Lieutenants H. I. Cole, Ph.D. '17, Its purpose is to suggest a line of in- bodied in the report of the committee. and L. A. Maynard, Ph.D. '15, are in struction which the University itself That is the plan of an "orientation the Gas Defense Service, Sanitary Corps, may adopt. The Sun's notion is that a course" for freshmen—and perhaps for American Expeditionary Forces, France. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 127

ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS not find it possible to start to college, to The Late Franklin Matthews enable him to go to Cornell. This is CLASS SECRETARIES Two Universities and Two Newspapers the second year the scholarship has been Represented at His Funeral The midwinter meeting of the Cornell in operation and two men are now in The funeral of Franklin Matthews '83 Association of Class Secretaries will be Ithaca and getting along very well. was held on Wednesday evening, No- held at the Cornell Club, New York, on This scholarship fund is a part of the vember 28, at his home in the Borough Friday evening, December 28. annual budget of the association. At this meeting the important ques- of Queens. His son, Crosby Matthews, In order to facilitate the work of the was present, but his daughter, Mrs. tion of class reunions in 1918 will come Committee on Scholarship a gift of up for discussion. Myra L. Parsons of Chicago, was kept $250 was placed to its credit at the an- at home by illness. Among those Other topics will be brought to the nual meeting this year by a '93 alumnus attention of the Secretaries and any present were representatives of the New whose name was withheld. (Rumor has York Sun and Times, Columbia Uni- Secretary who has subjects for topics it that the donor was a certain F. Kipp to be discussed should send them to the versity, Cornell University, and the Smith, erstwhile of Sharon, Pa., but Cornellian Council. Dr. Talcott Will- acting Secretary of the Association as now of Pittsburgh.) This gift will soon as possible. iams, director of the Columbia School prove of great value to more than one of Journalism, headed a delegation of WILLARD AUSTEN, man in search of an education at Cor- Acting Secretary. about fifty teachers and students. The nell and points a way in which alumni students of the school are organizing the WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA can do excellent service to Cornell at Franklin Matthews Memorial Associa- this particular time. The annual meeting of the Cornell tion, which will erect a tablet to the University Association of Western Penn- The election of the Committee on professor's memory in the journalism sylvania was held in Pittsburgh on No- Scholarship resulted as follows: For building. To his students he was known vember 17. The attendance was the two years: R. E. Sheldon '04, chairman; as "Boss Matthews." C. B. Auel '92, George W. Case '12, K. smallest in years, but the reason for Mr. Matthews and the Chimes W. Gass '12. that was apparent when the secretary EDITOR, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS: announced that more than sixty Western Thomas Fleming, jr., '05, newly Franklin Matthews was University Pennsylvania Cornellians were in war elected member of the Board of Gover- Chimemaster for a longer period than service—over fifteen per cent of the nors, and member of the Cornellian any other Chimemaster the University membership and including the most Council, gave a report of the joint has had, and, as far as I can gather from active members. However, there was committee meeting held lately in New those who know, he was one of the best plenty of enthusiasm evident and a de- York by the Council, the Associate and most conscientious ringers Cornell termination to maintain the association Alumni and the University Trustees, ever had. to study the financial problems and re- as an active Cornell unit at the service In the third year of my service as lations of the Cornellian Council and of the University and the Nation. Chimemaster, I was one day seized with the Associate Alumni. A general dis- These officers were elected: President, an acute attack of indigestion just be- cussion of this matter ensued and it E. P. Dandridge '05; vice-president, W. fore the 1 o'clock ringing. I tried in seemed to be the general opinion that K. Frank Ίl; secretary, A. N. Slocum vain to locate my assistant, and the if the Associate Alumni is to have a Όl, Westinghouse Building, Pittsburgh; bells remained unrung that time. That central organization such as it should treasurer, H. N. Matchneer '16; regis- was the only time the Chimes were not have, the expense involved should be trar, Paul Hardy '16; governor for three rung during the four years I served as carried by the alumni in general through years, Thomas Fleming, jr., '05. Charles Chimemaster. the eighty-five or more alumni clubs M. Thorp '84 and L. P. Gregory '01, of Imagine my humiliation to learn, and associations and not allowed to be- last year's board, retain their member- next day, that Mr. Matthews had been come a burden on the Alumni Fund, ship automatically for two years and in town and had made a special trip up every dollar of which is urgently needed one year respectively. the Tower that same noon to see the for the actual operating expenses of the The retiring officers, with the exception bells rung. I also learned that he had University. No formal action was taken. of C. B. Auel '92, president, who was afterward spoken to one of the clerks unavoidably out of town, and from The newly elected Registrar of the in the Co-op about the omission of the whom a telegram of regret was received Association requests Cornellians to send ringing and had said that during the and read, made reports. The retiring him all available information regarding five years he served as Chimemaster he treasurer's report was particularly in- Western Pennsylvania men in the ser- had not been absent from his duties one teresting because it indicated that the vice of the Nation. He will endeavor single time! In the following year I had sliding scale of dues adopted a year ago to keep an accurate and up-to-date the pleasure of becoming acquainted by this association is a success. With record on file in his office at Wood Street with Mr. Matthews and I mentioned the about the same number of dues paid, and Oliver Avenue, Pittsburgh. incident to him. the total receipts increased about 25 Mr. Matthews was so interested in the per cent. BEEBE LAKE was frozen over on Chimes that he wrote an article, "Chimes The Association was greatly pleased Thanksgiving Day, but the Athletic and the Art of Ringing Them," which by the report of the chairman of the Association has not yet pronounced the he contributed to the Atlantic Monthly Committee on Scholarships, R. E. ice safe for skaters. The warming house in 1884. I believe this was his thesis Sheldon '04. The Western Pennsylvania at the lake is being made ready for use. for the baccalaureate degree. Cornell Scholarship, amounting to $250, THE REV. DR. SAMUEL A. EHOT, of HAROLD EATON RIEGGER, is awarded annually to a Western Penn- Boston, will preach in Sage Chapel on A.B. ΊO, Ph.D. '13, sylvania man, who otherwise would December 9. University Chimemaster, 1909-1913. 128 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

SIBLEY EMPLOYMENT BUREAU superintendent of that company. After- 574. Mr. A. G. Kessler '08, Lakeside ALUMNI NOTES ward he was employed by the Columbia Forge Co., Erie, Pa., is very much in need & Maryland Railroad and the United of an engineer—about thirty years old— '74, C.E.—F. C. Tomlinson was elected Railways of Baltimore. In 1902 he was to take over the superintendency of his to the office of treasurer of the Ironton appointed general manager of the Vir- company. The work consists of drop Engine Company, of Ironton, Ohio, on ginia Railway & Power Company of forging and general manufacturing; but November 23. This, says The Morning Richmond, Va., and spent six years in it is not necessary that a man have Irontonian, "means not only that Mr. rebuilding and reorganizing the com- training in exactly this line, provided he Tomlinson will become actively identified pany's properties. In 1908 he went to has some general engineering experience with an institution that has made Brooklyn to take the presidency of the and executive ability. Mr. Kessler is wonderful strides in the past few years, Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad especially anxious to fill this position, as thus allying himself with the industrial Company. When the stock of that com- he himself is in the National Naval interests of Ironton, but also that he is pany was acquired by the Brooklyn Volunteers. to resume his place in the social and Rapid Transit Company, he retained religious life of Ironton after a season 575. The Commanding Officer, Water- the office of president and in addition in New York. Few men have a warmer vliet Arsenal, Watervliet, N. Y., is in was made vice-president of the Brooklyn hold on the affections of Ironton people need of young engineers—about 20 to Rapid Transit and its subsidiaries. . and few have stronger recognition for 25 years old—to learn the work of cannon '93, C.E.—Major William R. Doores business ability and integrity than Mr. inspection. The positions will pay of the Coast Artillery Corns, U. S. A., Tomlinson, whose many years with local from $3.28 to $5.00 per day of eight has received his promotion to the rank financial interests have peculiarly fitted hours. At present the shops are being of lieutenant-colonel. him for the duties he is to assume with run in two shifts of ten hours each, and the Ironton Engine Company." '93, B.L.; '95, LL.B.—Lieutenant- time and one-half is paid for all work Colonel John B. Tuck is acting colonel y88, C.E.—Charles N. Green, who was over eight hours. Men demonstrating of the 106th Infantry, Camp Wadsworth, president of the Cornell Society of Civil ability in this work will undoubtedly be Spartanburg, S. C. He was transferred Engineers last year, has a commission as exempted from draft. recently from the 108th Infantry, in major in the Engineer O.R.C. His ad- 576. Mr. Charles A. Ritchey, Presi- which he was a major. dent, Board of Street Commissioners, dress at present is 120 Broadway, New York. '95, M.E.—-James Brady Mitchell Hagerstown, Maryland, wants a grad- and Frederick W. Phίsterer, majors in '89, B.L.—Charles E. Treman of Ith- uate engineer, with some knowledge of the Coast Artillery Corps, U.S.A., have aca has been appointed federal food ad- boiler and power house work as well as both been promoted to the rank of lieu- ministrator for the State of New York business ability, to act as manager of tenant-colonel. Col. Mitchell is on duty outside of New York City by Herbert the municipal light plant. He says they in the Canal Zone. Col. Phisterer is in Hoover, national food administrator. "have a good plant and want to make it Seattle, serving on the staff of the com- The announcement of the appointment still better." manding officer of the North Pacific was made at Washington on November 577. Mr. M. F. Warner, Chief En- Coast Artillery District. gineer, American Zinc & Chemical 27. At the same time it was announced '96, Ph.B.—Professor William H. Glas- Company, Langeloth, Pa., is in need of a in New York City that a federal food son of Trinity College, Durham, N. C, mechanical engineer for drafting room board for the State of New York had read a paper at the annual meeting of work. He prefers a man with one or been selected, and Mr. Treman is a the North Carolina Literary and His- two years experience and with some member of this body. The other mem- torical Society at Raleigh on November knowledge of structural work. It is also bers are the three men who comprise the 21. He discussed the history of pensions desirable that the man be exempt from State Food Commission—John Mitchell, and relief to the Union and Confederate military conscription. Salary from $100 President Schurman, and Charles A. soldiers of the Civil War and their de- to $125 per month to start. Wieting—and Arthur Williams, the fed- pendent relatives. 578. Mr. L. Earle Rowe, Director, eral food administrator for the City of Rhode Island School of Design, 11 New York. Mr. Treman will serve with- '98, B.S.—Charles H. Blair, of the Waterman St., Providence, R. I., wants out salary. He was the state director in Stock Exchange firm of Schmidt & Gal- a young man about 28 or 30 years old New York of the recent campaign to latin, New York, has volunteered his to act as his assistant. The school, organize household conservation of food. services to the American Red Cross for which has enrolled about 1,300 students The new state board met with Mr. the period of the war, and has been and over 70 teachers, offers courses in Hoover in New York City on December 3. assigned to the field service branch, with freehand drawing and painting, decora- '91, Sp.—Slaughter W. Huff, vice- headquarters for the present at Wash- tive design, sculpture, architectural de- president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit ington. sign, textile design, mechanical design, Company, has been elected president of '02, B.Arch.—An interesting illus- jewelry design, and normal art. This the Third Avenue Railway Company of trated article, "Notes on Camouflage," position, which is a new one, is admin- New York. He succeeds Edward A. by J. Andre Smith of New York, is istrative rather than teaching, the young Maher, whose resignation will take published in the November number of man being expected to consult with effect on December 31. After he left The Architectural Record. An editor's students about their courses, assist college Mr. Huff was employed by the note accompanying the article says: teachers in keeping records of attendance, Baxter Electric Motor Company of "Since this article was written Mr. etc. Salary will depend largely upon Baltimore, one of the pioneer manufac- Smith has been appointed a first lieu- the man, and may be $1,500 to $2,000, turers of electric street railway motors tenant in the Engineering Corps of the with advancement. and equipment, and he became general U. S. Army, with prospects of being CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 129 assigned to the newly created Camou- ΊO, LL.B.—George D. Webster is '12, C.E.—Robert W. Austin is in the flage Division. He is an architect of the counsel for The Society for Savings, engineer training camp, American Uni- firm of Smith & Ross, New York." Cleveland, Ohio. This is the bank of versity, Washington, D. C. '05—H. A. Bruce is manager of the which the former Ambassador Myron T. '12, M.E.—Captain Oswald D. Reich, Portland office of the National City Herrick is president. Coast Artillery R. C, has been ordered Company, 215 Railway Exchange Build- ΊO, B.Arch.—Horace W. Peaslee has to Fort Monroe. ing, Portland, Oregon. been commissioned captain in the En- Ί2, A.B.—Frank A. Bond is a sergeant '06, C.E.—Seth W. Webb is a first gineer O.R.C. and has been appointed in the 13th Company, 4th Battalion, lieutenant with Company D, 3d En- architect of public buildings and grounds Depot Brigade, Camp Devens, Mass. at Washington. Hfc designed the new gineers, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. He left '12, A.B.—R. W. Kellogg, the life two million dollar temporary office build- Cleveland and reported at Fort Ben- secretary of the class, has been elected ings and heating plant for the War and jamin Harrison on May 8 for the training to the office of secretary of the Board of Navy Departments now under con- camp was ordered to Fort Leaven worth Commerce of Ithaca. His address is struction by the George A. Fuller Com- about the middle of June and to duty 109 North Tioga Street. with the 3d Engineers at Honolulu about pany. His address is 1504 H Street, Washington, D. C. Ί2, M.E.—First Lieut. George J. August 1st. Stockly has been assigned to the head- ΊO, B.Arch.—Francis S. Marlow is a Ό6, A.B.; '08, LL.B.—Captain George quarters company of the 308th Infantry captain in the Ordnance Reserve Corps. G. Bogert, Field Artillery, National Army, at Camp Upton, L. I. former professor of law in Cornell Uni- Ί0, A.B.—Stanton Griffis was, on versity, has been promoted to the rank December 1st, admitted to partnership '12, M.E.—George W. Curtiss at- tended the first officers' training camp of major and transferred to the Judge in the firm of Hemphill, White & Cham- at Plattsburg and received a commission Advocate General's Department. He berlain, of 37 Wall Street, New York, as first lieutenant in the Ordnance Re- has been appointed judge advocate and members of the New York Stock Ex- serve Corps. assigned to the headquarters of the 78th change. Division at Camp Dix, N. J. ΊO, A.B.—James S. Gutsell is in the Ί3, A.B.—George M. Schurman has received his commission as a second '07—Robert Stanton has received a bureau of fisheries, U. S. Department of lieutenant in the Regular Army and is commission as captain in the U. S. Army. Commerce, Washington, D. C. now in Battery E, 18th Cavalry (dis- His address is: American Expeditionary Ί0, C.E.—First Lieut. Edgar M. mounted as field artillery), Camp Shelby, Forces, France. Stanton entered the Whitlock, Engineer O.R.C, is in Com- Hattiesburg, Mississippi. French army in September, 1914, and pany B, 18th Engineers, American Ex- there became a corporal. He was then peditionary Forces. Ί3, A.B.—First Lieut. Austin P. Story is in the 332d Infantry, Camp transferred to the British army, where he Ίl, C.E.—Victor A. Stibolt is a first Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. got to be sergeant. He is the son of lieutenant in the Ordnance Reserve Theodore Stanton '74. Corps. '13, M.E.—First Lieut. Neill Houston '07—Gustav H. Patterson, formerly of Ίl, C.E.—C. J. Fox has been made a is in Company C, 307th Engineers, Camp Mansfield, Ohio, is now drainage en- sergeant at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. gineer with the Cuban American Sugar Ίl, M.D.—First Lieut. E. Worden '13, C.E.—Arthur W. Beale has been Company at Chaparra, Oriente, Cuba. Phillips, Medical R. C, has been at Fort transferred from the 102d Ammunition '07, C.E.—Louis J. Sieling, engineer- Benjamin Harrison as a student officer; Train to Company I, 107th Infantry, ing contractor, of Red Bank, N. J., is he is now on duty at Portland, Oregon. now stationed at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. building a $70,000 sea wall for the City Ίl, M.E.—W. Fairfield Peterson was of Trenton, and a $35,000 concrete arch married to Miss Marjorie Miller, daugh- '13, M.E.—H. W. Struck's address is bridge for the state highway commission ter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Miller, changed from Davenport, Iowa, to 1312 of Connecticut at Canaan, Conn. of Milwaukee, Wis., on December 1st. Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. He is with Stone & Webster. '08, C.E.—First Lieut. Philip B. Hoge, Ίl, M.E.—H. F. Bellis, formerly with Engineer O.R.C., is engaged in construc- the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, '13, M.E.—J. H. Brodt is a sergeant tion work at Camp Stuart. His address Pittsburgh, is now with Perrin & Mar- in Battery E, 304th Field Artillery, at is in care of the Construction Quarter- shall, New York City. Camp Upton, L. I. master, Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va. Ίl—Laurance Bo wen, of German- '13, B.S.—Leslie's. Ace is still fore- '09, A.B.; '12, M.D.—A son, Stearns town, Pa., has received a lieutenant's man of the White Horse Farms, Paoli, Samuel Bullen, jr., was born to Dr. and commission in the Ordnance Reserve Pa. This year he raised 2,300 bushels of Mrs. S. S. Bullen, 128 Crosman Terrace, Corps. His present address is in care of wheat, 510 bushels of rye, 150 tons of Rochester, N. Y., on July 29, 1917. the University Club, Washington, D. C. mangels, 300 bushels of potatoes, 93 tons '09, A.B.; '12, M.D.—First Lieut. E. Ίl, M.E.—R. P. Heath has been ap- of hay, and 175 acres of corn, 85 acres S. Ingersoll, Medical R. C, has been pointed by the Navy Department to be of which was put into the farms' six silos. transferred from Aviation Section, Signal safety engineer at the Navy Yard, Ί3, M.E.—Captain Louis du Bois Corps, Pittsburgh, to U. S. School for Washington, D. C. Before he received Rees, Field Artillery O.R.C, is stationed Aerial Observers, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the appointment he was in the officers' at Camp Meade, Md. for duty. training camp at Fort Myer, Va. '13, A.B.—William G. Ebersole is '09, B.Arch.—August C. Bohlen is a Ί2, M.E.—H. J. Seaman, jr., is a assistant to the general superintendent first lieutenant in the Ordnance Reserve foreman with the Bethlehem Steel Com- of the Buffalo motor plant of the Curtiss Corps. pany, Bethlehem, Pa. Aeroplane & Motor Corporation. He 130 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

of ordnance and is stationed at Worcester, second lieutenant of the Engineer O.R.C, Mass. • and was attached to the 21st Field Ar- '14, C.E.—Charles L. Maas is in the tillery. He is now assigned to the same construction department of the United regiment at Camp Funston, Leon Springs, Gas Improvement Company; his ad- Texas. dress is 1102 South Forty-sixth Street, '15, A.B.—Lieut. Donald M. Smith is Philadelphia, Pa. attached, as radio officer, to the head- '14, LL.B.—Edward J. Daly is in the quarters company, 111th Field Artillery, school for ground officers of the Aviation Camp McClellan, Alabama. He re- Section, at Kelly Field, San Antonio, ceived a commission as second lieutenant Texas. at the first training camp, Fort Niagara. '14, M.E.—Charles Watt Smith en- In the same regiment at Camp Mc- listed on August 3 in the Coast Artillery Clellan is Lieut. W. Frank Lockhart, Corps, U.S.A., and was stationed at A.B., '16. Chula Vista, CaL; was sent to the '15, M.E.—Edgar B. Tolman, jr., is a officers' training camp at the Presidio of second lieutenant in the Engineer O.R.C, San Francisco on August 27; was com- and is at Camp Grant, 111. isseά missioned a second lieutenant in the '15, B.S.—F. W. Cady, jr., is an in- Signal O.R.C on November 8, and was structor in the U. S. Army School of ordered to Fort Leaven worth. Military Aeronautics at Cornell. His Mineral^kter '14—Lieut. Melville I. Keim is at address is 109 Elston Place, Ithaca. Kelly Field No. 2, South San Antonio, '15, M.E.—H. Follett Hodgkins was was married to Miss Doris Starr, daugh- Texas. married to Miss Ruth I. Simmons of ter of Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Starr of 523 '14, C.E.—Charles H. Fowler, second Syracuse, N. Y., on October 6, 1917. He Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, on August lieutenant, Engineer O.R.C, is in Com- is now with the Savage Arms Company 20, 1917. His home is at 167 Exeter pany B, 6th Engineers, Washington and lives at 805 Rose Place, Utica, N. Y. Terrace, Buffalo. Barracks, D. C. '15, B.S.—A. M. Grimes is now with '13, C.E.—Blinn S. Page has received '14, C.E.—John D. Burrage is doing the Bureau of Markets, Washington, a commission as first lieutenant in the civilian service at an aviation concentra- D. C. His work includes the investiga- Ordnance Reserve Corps and has been tion camp in an Atlantic port. tion of methods of handling perishable ordered to report to the chief of the in- '15, M.E.—Donald Alexander has re- products in transit and storage. spection section, gun division, at New ceived a commission as second lieutenant '15, A.B.—Joseph Silbert is a second York. in the Ordnance Reserve Corps and has lieutenant, Quartermaster Corps, Na- '13, A.B.; '14, B.S.—L. W. Arget- been ordered to report to the Chief of tional Army, at Camp Dix, N. J. singer, jr., is a corporal in Battery F, Ordnance. '15, M.E.—William W. Pickslay's ad- 307th Field Artillery, Camp Dix, N. J. '15, A.B.—John Vincent Thompson dress is Div. Am. Ordnance Base Depot '13, M.E.—Russell H. Wambaugh is a has been appointed a provisional second in France, 613 G Street, Washington, private in Company H, 313th Infantry, lieutenant in the Regular Army, with D. C Camp Meade, Md. rank from October 25, 1917. He grad- '13, M.E.—First Lieut. W. B. Hanford, uated from the Fort Niagara training '15, M.E.—William W. Turner is a Ordnance Reserve Corps, is an inspector camp in August with a commission as private in Battery E, 333d Field Ar- tillery, Camp Grant, 111. '15, A.B.—Perry C. Euchner is a private in the National Army at Camp When you visit Ithaca, live at Dix, N. J. '15, A.B.—Robert C Candee, first THE HOTEL ITHACA lieutenant of Troop H, 1st U. S. Cavalry, has been promoted to the rank of cap- tain. He is at Palm City, California. Club Breakfasts '15, B.S.—Walter Funk's address is 2743 North Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Special Luncheons Pa. He is junior assistant to the de- signing engineer of the Midvale Steel Table dΉote Dinners Company, Nicetown, Philadelphia. '15, M.E.—Donald H. Dew has en- listed with the 23d Engineers and is at All the appointments of a modern hotel Camp Meade, Md. '15, M.E.—Winthrop Kent's address is Exp. Station, Fort Trumbull, New J. A. and J. H. Causer, Proprietors London, Conn. '15, M.E.—John J. Chew is an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force and is CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 131

detailed to special ordnance work. His address is 1912 H Street, N. W., Wash- ington, D. C. '15, A.B.—Lieut. Edmund T. Ken- nedy is in Company B, 109th Infantry, THE CORNELL Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. '15, C.E.—Second Lieut. Robert L. Glose,- Engineer O.R.C., has been as- COUNTRYMAN signed to the 304th Engineers. '15, B.S.—Arthur W. Wilson grad- A JOURNAL OF COUNTRY LIFE —PLANT, ANIMAL, HUMAN uated from the second training camp at Fort Myer with a commission as second Published at the NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, Ithaca, N. Y. lieutenant, Field Artillery O.R.C., and has been ordered to report at Leon Springs, Texas, on December 19. For two months before he entered the train- George F. Warren, Ph.D., Ό3, Professor of ing camp he worked as a "dollar a year" man with the U. S. Department of Farm Management, contributes to our issue Labor in mobilizing agricultural labor. for December, an exhaustive and authorative *i5, A.B.—Felix Kremp has been pro- statement on moted to be manager of the research department of the Crucible Steel Com- pany of America. His address is 316 South Pacific Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. '15, A.B.—E. M. Ostrow is a member of the class of 1918 in the Columbia Law School. He applied in August for ad- THE PRICE OF mission to the officers' training camp, but was rejected on account of defective vision. MILK Ί5_ j. s. B. Pratt, jr., A. Lester Marks, and David W. Townsend all attended the second officers' training camp at Scho- field Barracks, Hawaii. '16, C.E.—Walter P. Daly's address is in care of the Supervising Engineer, We are offering his statement to leading Camp Meade Branch, Baltimore, Md. papers in towns and cities of 3,000 and more '16—Victor H. Davis, graduate stu- population, for publication during the first dent in English in 1914-16, is teacher of English in the Mechanics' Institute, week in December. If your paper does not Rochester. He lives at 284 Ravine publish it (some papers will not care to) you Avenue. can secure it by sending 25 cents for a copy '16, B.S.—Gilbert M. Montgomery was married on August 18, 1917, to Miss of the December issue to Abigail Rawson Burton, daughter of Mrs. Frances A. Burton, of Suplee, Pa., and of the late Rev. John Henry Burton. THE CORNELL Montgomery is operating his own farm COUNTRYMAN of 140 acres at Glen Moore, Chester County, Pa. He was discharged from Ithaca N. Y. the draft because his labor was necessary to the operation of the farm. '16, B.S.—H. B. Raymore is with Hinchman & Pilat, landscape architects, THE CORNELL COUNTRYMAN is for all who study agriculture in schools or on the land—more than New York. He enlisted in the Signal a "college paper" in that its field is beyond the campus; more than a "farm paper" in that it may enter into rural matters at a point where the farm paper must leave off. Its position is that of advanced authority on Enlisted Reserve Corps in September agricultural developments, its purpose to report these developments truthfully and to interpret them in and is still awaiting orders to go into terms of their probable permanence, the degree to which they should contribute to the economic uplift training. and future human happiness of country people. '16, B.S.—Announcement has been The paper is one of the Agricultural College Magazines, Associated. Its finances are controlled by an made of the engagement of Miss Clara incorporated board of professional and business men, of which M. C. Burritt is president. The subscrip- tion rate is $1.00 a year, payable in advance; single copies 25 cents. Advertising rates on application. Gwendolyn Knaus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Knaus, of St. Louis, Mo., to 132 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

L E. Freudenthal '16, of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Freudenthal is manager of the Freudenthal Farms Company, Cornellians are which is farming one thousand acres in the Mesilla Valley. '16, A.B.—Lyman W. Davison is a Making History sergeant in Company A, 306th Machine Gun Battalion, Camp Upton, L. I. in all Branches of '16, A.B.—Gerald M. Tamblyn is a first lieutenant in Company C, 311th the Country's Service Machine Gun Battalion, Camp Meade, Md. He has been appointed battalion The Current Volumes of mustering officer, battalion athletic di- rector, and battalion musical director. '16, M.E.—R. H. Cleminshaw is a THE ALUMNI NEWS first lieutenant in Battery D, 322d Field tell the story of Artillery, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. Cornell's Part in the War '16—Harold L. Bache is a second lieu- tenant in Company M, 308th Infantry, You may wish to refer to a Camp Upton, L. I. '16, B.S.—Albert L. Allen is a cadet previous issue but in the class of January 12, 1918, in the U. S. Army School of Military Aero- can't find that copy nautics at Princeton University. '16—John F. Gallagher is manager of Keep your ALUMNI NEWS in a the sales department of Taylor, Aberge & Co., investment bonds, Colorado Springs. He was a member of the executive com- mittee in his city for the second Liberty Loan campaign. The city's allotment BIG of bonds was fifty per cent oversub- scribed. '17, C.E.—Warren W. Lehrbach is a BEN private in Company D, 303d Engineers, Camp Dix, N. J. '17, A.B.—John P. Wagman is a BINDER private in Battery B, 309th Heavy Field Artillery, Camp Dix, N. J. '17, C.E.—C. Alan Hillman is in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, U. S. and you can find it Aviation Field No. 1, Hempstead, L. I. '17, A.B.—Joseph A. Heller has left The insertion of each weekly issue is a simple process, and Fort Myer, having been commissioned takes but a moment. The volume will look well on a book- a second lieutenant in the Aviation shelf and every number is held so that Section, Signal Corps. '17, C.E.—Robert D. Ingalls, son of W. A. Ingalls 79, of Phelps, N. Y., has it can't be lost. been commissioned a second lieutenant of engineers in the Regular Army and has Each binder holds a year of Cornell History. been ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Bound in Art Vellum—Stamped in Gold Kansas, where he is now stationed. '17, B.S.—Lieut. Donald C. Thomp- To our subscribers $1.00 prepaid son's address is Headquarters 8th Bat- while the present supply lasts talion, Depot Brigade, Camp Devens, Mass. '17, A.B.—John P. Wagman is in Battery B, 309th Heavy Field Artillery, Cornell Alumni News Camp Dix, N. J. '18—Lieut. Marvin B. Robinson is in Ithaca, N. Y. the 3d Battalion, Depot Brigade, Camp Dix, N. J. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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