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DIAMOND JUBILEE NUMBER Great Alumni Day at Oak Hill Other Commencement Features Record Reunions of All Classes A Jubilee Symposium

The Discovery of Rush Rhees Recruiting Our Faculty Problems of University Survey University's Founding Reviewed Report of Alumni Secretary Speculations about Football Lively Summ r on Campus

June-July, 1925 0.5 VOL. III W at Other Are Saying:

The following excerpt from a pamphlet just issued by The Metropolitan Life In­ surance Company should be carefully read by everyone and especially to tho e who are carrying life insurance.

"The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has in force 32,500,000 policies, in uring 0 er 22,000,000 individual lives-nearly one-fifth of the population of the United States and Canada. Its assets of over $1,620,000,000 belong to its policy­ holders. This huge sum of money i their aving, held for their protection. "You, the policy holders in the METROPOL­ ITAN and in the other insurance companies are the real governing body in this Republic because you elect legislatures and executives. You are the foundation of political power. You have the right to fair treatment 'on the part of supervi ing and regulating officials. The Metropolitan 0 n over ~75,OOO,OOO of the securities of electric light and power companies. When one of these companies is unfairly treated, it is the people of the commun­ ity, the voters and th~ir dependents who uffer. It is their savings that are depleted. ochester Gas & Electric Corporation DC ester R evievv OF-BY-AND FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

V OL. III J UNE-JULY, 1925 No.5

Unusual Celebration Marks Diamond Jubilee Record Crowd oj Alumni Enjoys Great Day at Oak Hill

T he Diamond Jubilee Commenceme nt camp u?, the scene. Of cou rse, un iversity anniversary of the U ni versity of Roch ester alumni, representing educa ted enlighten­ ha s it elf j oined h hi torical pageantry of ment, corn all super titian. Ye t we ven­ th e seventy-five ears ture to state th at more it co mmemo ra te d . To th an one ecula r funda­ m any of our r a ders ment alist among our thi ch ron icle i uper­ graduate looked ask­ fo r probably a Huous, ance at that dat e in ap­ greater proporti n of pr ehension of weather al u m n i than ev r be­ complication w hich fore are familiar w ith might w reck t he elab­ Com me nce me n t t hi s ora te plans so depend­ year as personal par­ ent upon fair skies and ti ci pants. evert h eless wa rm airs. Bu t the \ feel r eportorially modernists triumphed, obl iga ted to thos un­ th e intellectu als we re fortunates who c ould vindica ted, and ano ther not be w ith us o n th at deep- eared superst ition m morable oc asia n, was di credited. Fo r while th e occasi n it- June th e 13th was no If, undoubted I th e hoodoo day, bu t that g reate t of its kind in very typical ort of a ou r h istory to d ate, i go rgeous J un offe ring d eservin g of a p rman­ w hich mu t hav inst i­ en t r ecord before its ga ted th fir t poetical d etails pass in t o th e rh ap ody regard in g the haz e of dim r e ollec- General Chairman E. R. Foreman,'92, Wear s a Sati sfied Smil e under His Diam ond Jubil ee Cap magic month an d its tion. meteorological a pect. The Com me nc m ent ea on was featured But enough of thi weather r port. Let by seve ra l notable eve nts- the eloquent ad­ us call it " fa ir and warm r" and pa on dress of Dr. Harry Emer son F osdi ck be­ to orne rea l action, of which th re wa a fore a packe d Ea tman Theatre, th e clas ic pl enty. A wa s the ca e la t year, the ak o rat ion of Dr. Sl ater before Phi Beta Hill ountry Club, which will contin ue to K appa an d it f r i nds, th e tributes to Presi­ occupy th e pr emi e until next fa ll , very d ent Rhees upon th e twenty-fifth anniver­ obliging ly urrendered it right for the sa r y of his com ing to R och est er , th e gran t­ en tire day. any alumni golf r , both real ing of 20 6 degr es, including th e fir t doc­ and imi tation, took advanta g of th e oppor­ torate of ph ilo o p hy eve r to be gra nted by tunity to go out arly in th morning for the Univer ity. But more about th ese fea­ a olid forenoon of play on th link , hich ture later , for th e chief conce rn of all we re to b offi ially clo d at 2 o' el ck in a l u m n i at C om rnencem nt time, becau se order to concentrat on th matin pro­ their ole re p n ibility of th e ea on, i gram. . Alumni Day. o ma ny of th la h d d th ug- Saturday, June th e 13th, w a th g rea t g tion th at th y hold th ir r un ion lunch­ d ay, and O ak Hill, ou r oon-t o-be new on at ak I ill, th at th r ure of both 134 R OCH E ST E R ALUM I REVIEW

en masse. This program was calcu lated to keep the active intere t of the crowd con­ centrated between the hours of 3 :15 and 4 :30, and it served that commenda ble pur­ pose most effectively. First on the program was the "Diamond Ru sh." Each alumnus was given a small American flag on a stick and inst ructed to insert it anywhere his prophetic fancy might dic tate within a certain ma rked-off a rea on the law n. Then two assistants w ith a measuring ta pe started at a given point and measured off varying specified dist an ces in d iffer en t d irection s under the voc ifero us guidance of Matinee C hairman Q uinby until commanded to cease. The alum nus belon gin g to the flag near est the point of ce at ion was p rocl aimed the win­ ner , w hen th e proce was repeat ed to de­ termine owne r hip of the second prize. The first pr ize, a dozen Silver K in g golf balls, fell to th e lot of C . W ill ard Burt, ' 15, w hile a heaffer fountain pen was awarded as second prize to Leo F. P ow ers, ' 10. Some of the Gas at the Party Was Confined Ealloons and More Balloons in These Balloons T hen came th e balloon s. W e should the caterer and the club hou e were taxed have men tioned th em before this, fo r they to the limit to take care of the 450 men contr ibute d much to the scene in them­ who turned up at noon and lunched in cla ss selves.. Several hundred of th em, hydro­ groups throughout the club house and all gen-filled, bri ght yell ow and dark . blue, over the verandas. This crow d grew w er e tossin g in th e breezes, tet hered III fes­ teadil y after 2 P. 1\1., until it was esti­ too ns to lon g ro pes. We had difficult y mated that there were close to 600 alumni from t he sta r t in keeping th e am bitious Mr. on th e grou nds by 3 :15, the hour scheduled Quinb y down to his budget , and it is no for th e sta rt of th e matinee. wonder, for much of it was invested in Offi cial Diamond Jubilee Caps th ese balloon, w h ich were floating sky­ A the men arrived each w as reli eved of high throughout the afternoon. hi normal head cove ring and given a jo ckey The balloon swat t ing contest, next on cap of br igh t dand elion yellow cloth with the program, provided many thrills and long navy blue visor and bearing th e sign i­ constan t amusement. Balloons were fas­ ficant numerals, "75," in a diamond outline tened by short st rings to th e bu ttons on top on the front. These cap were worn of the alumni caps. The alumni so throughout the re t of th e day and add ed equippe d were then armed w ith cott on- not a little to the color of th e cene, as did the co tume of some of th e reunion cla e . on picuou among the e we re tho e of 19 15, a brilliant golden yellow tunic, and of 1920, which a the baby among the r gular reunion cla e fit ting ly clad it m n in bright blue romper, leavin g th e neth r limb entirely expo ed. Thi nudity o 1920 underpinning provided tatue que beau y in orne ca e and a rna t cu riou pectacle in other . a tened within the top of each Diam ond Jubilee cap a a circular yellov card, on hich a printed a program of four main Memb ers of 1920 in Rompers, Resting after ~t!uggle­ nt to b participated in by the alu mni Note Class ic Und erpinning, Natural Flnish RO HESTER ALUM I REVIEW 135

stuffed swatters and ent forth in succe sive groupS of about 50 each to wreck one an­ other 's personal blimps, the man who kept his own inviolate to the la t being crowned victor as a reward for having "crowned" all the oth ers. First th e two costumed cla es, ' 15 and '20, were arrayed against each other, Fred W olters, '15, being born off the field by hi classmat es as the conqueror. The next two jousts were wo n by D r. 1ac [aughton Wi lkinson, ' 14, and Carl Lauterbach, '25, respectively. The fina l bet ween th ose three again proved th at you th mu t be served, for Lauterbach, st ill two day hort of be­ ing an alumnus, mad e sho rt shri ft of his rivals to take down th e fir t prize, a high­ grade golf bag, w hile Wilkinson carried away a D un hill pip e as second prize. Two Extremes in Bitter Conflict Foll owin g the regular event, an exhibi­ tion match between Joseph R. W ebst er, '9 4, and C.Raymond aramo re, '20, proved one of th e reall y choice bit of the after­ noon's offerings. So far a we know, Joe Cha mpion Balian Swatt er Carl Laut erbach, '25, Being Acclaim ed by Official Crier J immy O'R eilly, 21 has never been mea sured clea r to th e top, but he is at least 6 feet, 4 or 5 or 6 inche , Ea stman T heatre, and mad e a numb er of while R ay mea sures some w here in th e im­ very good shots which were shown the mediat e vicini ty of 5 feet, makin g no allow­ following wee k in movie houses throughout ance for shrinkage, a condit ion accentu ated th e country. by the romp ers he wo re. P hysically speak­ Some Real Prizes ing, th ey were t he M ut t and J eff a f th e La t on the sta ted pr ogr am was the party, D avid and Goliath enac ted anew, awarding of pri zes alre ad y won and the alth ough th e clima x resembled mor e clo ely d ra wing of "lucky numbers" for other the exper ience of J ack and th e Bean Sta lk, prizes. This important ceremony was con­ for Ra y, br eaking insid e J oseph 's guard, du cted off the club house porch und er the actually "shinne d" up his loft y opponent to effective ball yhoo-ing of D ean Quinby, as­ win the day- which was all he did w in ex­ sisted by his G ood Man Friday, Jimmy cept a big lau gh. O'Reill y, '2 1. A number was printed on Then th er e was th e advertised " Ba lloo n th e progr am card in the cap of each alum­ Ascension," in wh ich a number of red bal­ nu s, while a long series of additional num - loons we re relea sed over th e head s of th e ' bers had also been printed on small, dia­ crowd, to be re t rieved, dead or ali ve, and mond-shap ed yellow cards. Stated quan­ born back fo r th e rew ard in each instance titie of these cards accompanied the pri zes of a carton of cigare t tes.M ost of the se alread y won, while others were thrown out balloon s had no chance for their lif e in th e by th e handful over th e heads of the crowd, tense mob st ruggle following th eir rel ease: to be scrambled for. Duplicat e card s were but the last one dan ced high in th e air and then mixed up in a large box and the win ­ lead the breathless pack a merry chase over nin g, lucky numb ers drawn at random for the hill s and far away before it finally fell a Mohawk cord tire and three more im­ into the clutches of Bob Patchen , ' 16. ported Dunhill pipes. The blind goddess All of th ese balloon event furni hed of cha nce smiled, in fact fairly grinned, on colorf ul materi al for the three motion pic­ Hugh M erson, '21 , who took down th e ture photographers, two of w hom came cord tire. Rov C. Webst er, '78, captured from [ew York for th e occasion , repre­ one of the pipes, but we seem to have no senting national yndica ted film news serv­ record of th e oth er lu cky men. ice. They w ere under the guidance of ,'After 4:30 Be Yourself' I Ar thur K elly, publicit y director of th e This i what the printed program said, 136 RO CH E ST ER ALUM REI E

modate, and al 0 to mak the evening en­ tertainmen t we ather -p ro f. A hal t a called on th e game, and th alumni, forming in two in a Ion column behind the Park Band, who e w lcom services had been donated by the city for the afternoon, proc ede d to parade about th e ro lling acre of our n \ campus, form­ ing in a hollov quare at the fini hing and sing ing the "Carnpu ong." T hey then marched to the entrance of th e tent. wh r R ay P hill ips, '97, and hi ' h lper s were p r­ spiring, an d w re admitted by classes for the big D iamond J ubile dinner. Record Cr owd at Dinner ove r \ er laid in id e for more than 600 di ner , and practically all pl ac \ ere ta ken, th crov d including mor than 50 0 alumni, upplernent d by nt rtainer , help er s and gue t. Thi wa \ itho ut que ­ t ion one of th e larg tRoche ter alumni din ner ev r hid, if not the larg t. It size is ignificant a a baromet r of th increasing alumni intere t in rec nt year. David (Ray Naramo re, '20) and Goliath (Toe We bster, Prior to la t year the averag attendance at '94) About to Enter th e Lists E veryman ' Dinner wa little mar than and it \ a an ea y admonition to follow, 200. A t the great d inner at ak Hill la t w ith t he wide va riety of entertaining passi­ J un e 374 wer e erved, rna hing all pre­ bilitie offer d. A number of different ball vious recor d for th ev nt, \ -hile that games were speedily or ganized on diff erent figure was e. ceded by well over 100 thi part of th e grounds-inter-class, int ra­ J une. cla and int er-intra-anybody. Broom polo Seated at the spea kers' table in th center proved an exciting and popu lar innovat ion, of th e ten t were Pre id nt Rhe , Jo eph tw o cIa e being ar med w ith brooms and T. A ll ing, presid ent of the ociat d 1­ king wildly to wee p a ba ketball over umni, H an. Robert F . Thomp on , f Can­ th oppo ite goal lin e. Many smaller and aigua, j ustice of th e upreme ourt, rou p pitched quoit , othe r threw darts, w ho was to be the chief peak r of the while other ju t plain enjoye d them elves evening, D r. J ohn R. un n, '70, of Te wi th old-time vi it on th e lawn and th e York, pr esident of th e Board of Truste , veranda . Han. James . C utler, W illiam . Ri ley, h matin e program a a whole wa s Ro chester commi ioner of park , w ho had vot d a hug ucce and reflected no little rendered t he committee ge ne rou a i tance cr dit on H . D an Quinby, J r., ' 18, and in planning th e day, and W illiam F. Love, hi n rgetic committee. It wa featured '03, in the role of toa tma ter. eorge by th g neral r union atmo pher e created, Eastman, George W. T odd, ayor lar­ th d finitely heduled program of rna s ence Va n Zandt and larence Wheeler had v n for all alumni and the unu ually also been in vit ed a gu e t of honor but valuabl and attractive Ii t of pri ze . we re un abl e to accept. d 0 bern cle Tent T hrougho ut th e proce s of tak ing in food the hadow b gan to lengthen shortl y an orc hestra from th e Eastman T heatr e aft er o'clock, di tinct ign of activity en livened things mu icall y, and th e entire o b noticed about the huge tent, crowd sang college song , led by rthur by th apple tr e along ide the caddy P. C u rti s, '25, and other member of th Thi tent, mea uring 40 by 190 feet glee club u nder th e general dir ecti on of and 23 f et hi h at the peak, had been C ha rle A.H edley, '2 0. W hen th e d inner er cted by he mana ement t\ a day earlier was we ll alo ng , ind ividual repre en tative in ord r 0 provid for the dinn er, w hich of the twenty-five classe graduated und er he club hou could not po ibly accom- President Rhees began stroll ing up to the - R HESTER ALUM I R E l EW 137 peaker ' table, each pr enting Pre. y with a cigar, to which \ a attached a card b ar­ in g the donor's cia numeral and the name of any building or chool which might have come to the niver ity during that year. Smokes and W tch for Prexy A t the conclu ion P rexy had a mound of t wenty-five . uch cigar. before him wi th no con ta iner, whereat T oa trn ast er Love arose, paid him a fitting t ri bute of love an d ad ­ m iration in th name of all th e a lum ni, to ld him th at he need d a box in w h ich to take home hi iga r and th at th e a lum ni ha d al a decided to give him th ' tim " in which to ma ke th em. H e th en pr e ented the my tified Pre. id nt \ ith a cigar box con ta ining a . mail er ca e hich, up on be­ ing unwrapped , d i closed a thin mod el, o lid gold \ atc h of well-knox n wi make, upon th e inn er ca e of \ hi ch \ ere engraved th e e wo rd : " To R u h Rh e , in ommemora t ion of T\ nty-f e ea r of E. ceptiona l er vice as P re ident of th e niversity of R o he ter. From th e lu m­ Ancel St . John, '06, Glad H e Cam e Back from New York - Im pressionistic Figure Is Hon. Fred J. Slater, '06, n i, J un e, 1925. " Sta te sman of Albany and Charlotte Though momentarily ta ken back , P re. i­ dent Rh ees quick ly aro: e to th e occa ion , as F oll owing th e peakin g, tw o vocalists might we ll be e. peered , and mad e an elo­ fro m the Eastman School entertained with qu ent response, d i losing some of t h things a du et , after which the crow d turned to close to hi heart in th way of a im and face th e rage, which had been erecte d with hop es for th futu re of th e U n ive rsity, uitabl cu rtain, w ings and drop in on e pl edgin g anew his devot ion to th e pu r. uit en d of th tent; th e light were turn ed out, of th o e aims and aga in expressing hi d p and th e my tery of the evening entertain­ appreciat ion of th e great re pan e th e alu m­ ment wa di clo ed. It proved to be th e ni had mad e to the U niv r ity' call la t tuneful old light opera," T he Pirate of fall and at other time. In concl u ion he Penz an ce," given b a regu lar caste from confe sed to a a ional depres ion b ause th e operatic department of the Ea tman of th e lack of ti m in \ hi h to a orn pli h Schoo l of Mu ic, with two dance numbers all th at hi hop called for, but adde d that by memb ers of th e E astman Theatre ball et the alumni had now given him th e " time." before the first act and ano ther such num­ Judge Thompson Satisfies ber between the act . J udge Thompson was th en introduced A Tun eful Climax and pr oved to be all th at w e had claimed The opera was produced by Vladimir for him. Beginning with th e sta tement Rosing and Ro ube n Mamoulian, of the t hat he had lea rn ed hi ea rly precept of operatic de partment of th e Eastman Schoo l living "at the kn ee of a devoted mother of 1\1 usic. It wa s conducted by G uy Fra­ an d across the kn ee of a determined fa the r," ser H arrison and accompanied by a 12­ he made a st ro ng plea for some o f the piece orchestra from the Eastma n T heatre. worthw hile fund am entals of life, w hic h he A leading tenor rol e wa s most effect ively declared are no lon ger mentioned aloud in un g an d ac ted by C ha rles A. H edley, '2 0, fa shionable society. With voice and pres­ presen t di rector of th e U nivers ity glee club, ence that comm anded the atten tion of w hose' cla ssmates we re holding th eir fifth everyone in the hu ge te nt, h is effort proved reunion. T he girls in th e ca te were ex­ an idea l afterd inner speech for such an t remely easy to gaze upon and pleasin g to occasion-a happy com bina t ion of inspira­ list en to. T he entire prod uction was re­ t ion and ori ginal humor, with definite ter m­ markably mooth, ca n ideri ng the handicaps in al fa cilitie . under whic h it wa given, an d reflected 138 ROCHESTER ALUMNI R EVIE

great cre dit both upon th e oper atic depart ­ der ed to the m atinee committee by Dr. Ed­ men t and upon the genera l management of win Fauver , of th e physical education de­ Arthur M . See, ' 12, chairman of th e eve­ partment, and Fred Weismiller, physical ning enterta inment committee. It was an director of the Ce n tral Y. 1. C. A . We harmonious finale to an harmonious day. ack nowled ge th e service of our official pho­ '1 he commi ttee organiza tion, responsibl e tographer , W alter S. Meyers, '06, who along with th e weathe r man for th e out­ furn ishcd the sna p-shot to ill ustra te th i. standing success of thi s great day, wa s enu­ story. And la st, but by no means least, merated in th e A pril-May issue of th e R E­ we pay tri bute to th e alu m ni at la rge, who VIEW. We acknow ledge w ith gratitude by th e spirit and numbers in w hich they re­ their very faithful efforts and cooperat ion. turned to th e reun ion contributed more We appreciate particularly th e gracious than an y oth r age ncy to ins ure fo r our courtesy of th e Oak Hill Country C lub Di am ond Jub ilee anniversa ry celeb ra t ion offi ial in agai n relinquishing their grounds, an outsta nding place in th e a nna ls of ni­ the c operatio n of park and other city offi­ ver sit y and al umni acti vitie. . cials and th e very pr actical a sista nce ren- H. S.

Hundreds Back for Reunions of All Classes

R esponsibl e in no small measure for the crowd on th e g round at an early hou r for real succe of the Diamond Jubilee eel- the matinee p rogram . L ead ing c1as es in bra ion were he cla reunion, which ex­ point of numbers were 191 8 , wi th 35 men, ceeded our xpectation and were largely 1920 with 27, 1922 with 26, 191 5 \ it h 22, in trum en tal in bringing back the record­ and 1895 wit h 20. T he t r iking co tumes brea king crow d for A lumni Day. The of 1915 and 1920 have a lre ady been de­ lurnni Council at it Fe brua ry meeting scribed, and several ot her classes wo re d is­ voted to call reu nion of all classes in honor tin cti ve embl ems of a less striking nature. of th e spec ial occasion, and this action wa s Another cla ss deser vin g honorable men­ anno unced in th e Februar y-March issue of tion is that of 1880, under th e chairma nship the R EVIE . Some skepticism was felt , of Charles H. Wiltse. Of 17 living mem­ ho ever, a to how acti vely all th e classes bers this class brought bac k 12 for its 45th would coo pera te in the effort, particularly reunion, of whom nin e w ere fr om out of tho e cla e w hich had recently held regu­ town and seve r al fr om a con ider able dis­ lar reunion or we re already planning fo r tan ce. This was undoubtedly th e hi gh e t regular reunion within the next year or per centage of r eturning m em bers achie ved \ o. by an y class and also th e la rgest number he alumni office sent out a per anal re­ from out of town. Severa l memb er s of union appeal to all the class cha irmen from classes before 1870 w ere also bac k, th e old­ 1870 down in I arch and early April, fol ­ est on the gro u nds including Co l. Sa m uel lowin thi up \ ith a econd letter in M ay C. Pierce, '60, H arrah J. R eynol ds, of and with a third letter hartly before Co m­ Stonington, Conn., and R ev. C ha rles W , rnencernen t. f 53 cla e a appealed to , 44 Wood,'64, an d Zachary P. Taylor, '69. r ponded., hile a fe of the older cla es R eturning mil eage records were esta blishe d with out-of-to n chairmen were un ucces ­ by Walter G. Parkes, '00, w ho t rekked ful in their \ ell-in ten tio ned effor t, others back f.rom Burton, located on Puget So un d, ho had no r ponded proved to be act ive Washington, Bi shop William F . Faber, '8 0, that 42 cla actually repor ted reu nions of Helena, Mont., and C harles O. B ail ey for a total of 579 alumni, of whom 152 '80, of Siou x Falls, S. D. ' er reported from out of town .Both of '1he following reports of th e individual th total ere increa ed by indi vidual reunion are compiled from dat a collected memb r of cIa not holding reu nion . by the alumni office from th e cla s cha ir­ the 42 active cIa e 3 1 held their men ince Commencement, most of w ho m r union at a H ill. hile thi re ulted enthu ia ticall y voted th e reunion to have in era d d condition, which wa not been the "best ever" : id I for he individual reu nion, it erved IS70-Chairman, Dr. John P. Munn; pl:esent, the d ired purpo of concentrating the 1. Dr. Munn wa the onl y representativ e on th e cene, but he constitutes quite a reunion in RO HESTER ALUM I REVIEW 139

Class of 1900 Celebra te d It s Own Silver Anniversary, As Well As Pr exy's Seated (Left to Righ t :) C. C. Keehn, C.R. Lyddo n, F . L. Sh elp, H. D. Blak eslee. Standing: W. G. Park es, A. M. Stewart, F. L. Bue ll, ]. L. Broughton, E. R .Hay, F. ] . Withington, W. D. Clapp, E. W. Fiske, H. Whitman

hi m self. T he othe r four living members of th e ha rles H. Wi ltse w as elected presid ent and class were prese nt in spi ri t in the fo rm of the secretary. T his was a not able re union, as 12 fo llowing me sage, tran mitted to President of the 17 living members of the cIas we re pr es­ Rhees through the alumni secretary at th e D ia­ ent. mond J ubil ee Dinner: "On this day of days, 1882- hairm a n, Geo rge A. G illette; present, ou r A lma M at er's 75t h, our Prexy's 25t h w ith 3; f rom out of tow n, 1; coming from grea test it s ilv er lini ng, and our own 55th, th e absent di st ance, A. G. Clement, of Albany, N. Y. Mr. me mbers of '70 send you their hea rtf elt g ree t­ G illette reported that he wro te "seventee n long in g. Moriturl salutamus;" Signed: Ezra A. let ters" to the ou t-of- town men, but hi class is Ba rtle tt, G ilbe rt H.F rede rick, P hil ip A. No rdell sca ttered, a nd he pr obabl y forgot to enclose and Cha rles H. Taylor, secre tary. tr an sportati on. 1871- Ch ai rman, Walter S. Hubbell; present, 1884--Ch airman , J . B. M . Stephens ; present, 5; from out of town, 2; coming from g reate t 7; from out of town, 4; coming from g rea test di st ance, D r. Henry P. Emer on, of Middleton, di stance, James \V . G reene, of New York, and M ass ., and Marse nas H .Briggs, of New Yo rk; Cha rles F. P ra tt, of Detr oit ; luncheon at Ge n­ lu ncheon a t Genesee Va lley Club. A t all re­ esee Va lley Club. Judge Stephens gave his class uni on s of this class the u rv ivors of tho e w ho no opportunity to depose him as A lumni Council were class day officers at graduation have served rep resen tative. T he D ix reunion plan w as di ­ a officer. Of the eight surviv ing g ra d ua tes, cusse d and favored. four of th em took part in th e cla ss da y exe rcises 1885- Ch airman,W illia m B. Hale; pr esent, in 1871. 11 ; f rom out of town, 5; coming from greate t 1876- Ch airma n, Joseph T . A ll ing; pr esent, distan ce, James S. Steve ns, of Orono, M e., 3 ; fr om out of town, 2; com ing from greates t Cha rles A. Bake r, of Washington, D. C., Wil­ d istance, R ev. J ohn B. Calver t, D . D., of New liam H.W ilson, of Lowell, Ma ss., and William Yo rk. The class is pla nning to celebra te its N. Hubbell; of New Yo rk ; luncheon at Oak Hill. 50 th re union next year. William B. H al e wa elected pr esident and 1878- Ch airman , Robert B. W ickes ; pr esent, J ames M. E. O'Grady, secretary. 5 ; fro m out of town , non e ; lun ch eon at Oa k 1886-Dr. Edward M. Foote ; pr esent, 5 ; fr om Hill. out of town , 3; coming f rom g reatest distan ce, 1879- Ch ai rm an, J am es L. H otchki ss, assisted Dr. N atha n D. G am ey, of Kinderhook, N. Y., by Selden S. Brown, secreta ry; present, 10; f rom and D r. Edward M. Foote, of New Yo rk; o ut of town , 3 ; coming from g reatest di stan ce, lun ch eon a t Oak Hil l. C h a rles A. Brown , of C hicago ; lun ch eon at 1887- Chairman , E ugene C.Denton; present, Oak Hi ll. 5; from out of town , 2; coming from greatest 1880- Chairman , C harles H. W iltse; present, di stan ce, Dr. A. L. Ben edict and Geo rge C.Dow, 12; f rom out of town , 9 ; coming from greatest both of Buffalo ; lunch eon at Oak Hill. di stance, C ha rles O. Ba iley, of Sioux Fa lls, S. D., 1888- Chairman, A. J . M errell ; pr e ent, 3; Rt. Rev. William F. F abe r, Bi shop of Montana, from ou t of town , 2 ; coming fr om g reate t di s­ of H elena , M ont. , a nd Clarence G . Ca rr, of tan ce, A. J . M errell and W . A. G racey, both l inneapolis, Minn. ; lun ch eon at the resid ence of Geneva. of Ch airman W iltse, 123 Pl ymouth Avenue. 1889- Ch ai rman , Benja min B. Chace; present, 140 ROCHESTER ALUMNI R E IE

9 ; f ro m out of town , 3; comi ng from greatest tance, Ll oyd Tenny, of a hington, D. ., and di stance, George T . Se llew, of Galesburg, Ill., Frederic C. D P uy, of Bo ton; luncheon at Oa k and R oscoe C. E. B rown, of New York; lunch­ Hill. T his ci a rejoice th t it ha 10 t only eon at th e home of " Doc" Bea han. tw memb er by d eath in 23 year, Fred Sali ­ 1890- Ch airman, Lewis B. J ones; pr esent, 14-; bury and Homer A. Po t, from out of town, 8 ; coming fr om g reatest dis­ 1903- Chairma n , J. R. wn on, a i ted by tance, Olin H. Burritt, of Philad elphia, and William F. Lov e, p re ident, and Burlew Hill, orn elius A. Baldwi n and Dr. F ra nklin 'W el­ secreta ry ; pre ent, 12 ; from out of town, none; ker, of New Y ork ; lun ch eon at O ak Hill. luncheon at Oak Hill. mong the rno t activ e 1892- Chairman, Lewi s H. T horn ton, ass isted of those pr esent wa R .. Savage, \ ho met by J ohn S. Wright; pr esent, 18; f rom out of tragic death in an a utomobile accident about one town, 7 ; coming from g reatest di stan ce, D r. week later. Harvey D. Brown, of Philadelphia, and P aul 1904--Cha ir m a n, T. T. H o r ton ; pre ent, 11; A. M eyer, of G re ensburg, Pa.; lun ch eon a t Oak from out of tov..-n, 3 ; co ming from greate t di ­ Hill. Letters we re read fr om the ab sent ees and tance Dr. Horace J. H o\ k, of M t. McGre or , reminiscenc es of th e old faculty g iven by P ro f. N. Y. Thi cia , coming to th e niver ity in H. A. Hamilton, of E lmir a, E dw a rd R. Fore­ 1900 wi th Pre id ent Rhee , di played badge man, Joseph P. O'Hern, J. Stua rt Pag e a nd proclaiming their "S ilver B irthday," one of othe r . Som e clever ve rs es, specially d edicated w hich wa s worn by Pre id en t Rhee . to th e occa ion (publish ed elsewhe re in thi is­ 1905- Cha irm a n,Ed v rd E. M orri ; p re ent, sue) w ere read by T hom as T . Swinburne. It 19 ; from out of town, 8 ; coming fro m g reate t w as v oted one of th e most interesting m eetin g s di stan ce, A rthur Ra n fo rd , of ev York ; held by th e clas since graduation. luncheon at Oak Hill. 1894--Chairman, David G .M eyer; pr esent, 5 ; 1906- Ch a irm a n, Arthur R athj en; p re ent, 13; f rom out of to wn, 1; com ing from g reates t di s­ fro in out of town, 2 ; co m in f rom greatest dis­ tance, R ev. R. M . Trevor, of Hilton, N. Y.; tan ce, A lbe rt Bowen, of Baltimore, d., an d lunch eon at Oak Hill. A ncel to Jo hn, of New York; luncheon at Oak 1895- Ch airman, Richard 1. Saunder s, assi ted Hill. by J ohn P. Mor e ; present, 20; from out of 1907- Ch ai rm a n, G eo rge T . ullivan; pr ent, tow n, 8 ; coming from greatest di stance, Dr. 14-; fr om out of town, 1; com ing f rom g reate t Ri ch a rd K. Wheeler, of Port Huron, Mich.; di stance, Dr. F loyd O. R eed , of Yo nke r , . Y .; lunch eon at th e ummer hom e of R. A. H amilton , luncheon at Oa Hill. T hi las can ide r d Eagle Point, Cone us Lake. joseph L. Hum­ and approved the new Dix reunion plan. ph rey w a elec ted clas chairman and F. Cla rk 1908- Ch ai rm a n, Max Sc hweid ; present, 12; B rown, ecreta ry. The following class awards from out of tow n, 2 ; com ing from g reate t di ­ were an nou nc ed. Henry D. Shed d, for fecun­ ranee, Roy D. Anthony, of Sta t Colleg , Pa.; di ty ( ix chil dren) ; E dwa rd P. Smith, for aca­ luncheon at Oak Hill. Harold E . Ak erl y was de mic excellence; P et er A. Blossom, for literary elected pr e iden t and Alumni Co u ncil represen­ accompli hm ent ;J o ep h 1. Humphrey, for schol­ tati ve a nd Max Schweid, ecretary. The cia s a tic ac hievement ;J ud ge William C. Kohlmetz, approv ed th e p re ent reunion plan, v ith the for in tell ect ual di scipline; R. A. Hamilton, for addition of general reunions at regular four­ cultural ad va ncement. According to John P. ve ar inter val s. Mar e, "The arne rat e of improvement in th e • 1909- Ch airm a n, Cornelius R. Wright, a­ nex t five yea r i not anti cipated becau se of a sisted by S. P a r k Harman; pre en t, 20; fro m lack of room fo r improv em ent. " out of town , 4-; coming from g re a te t d i tance, 1 97- hairman, Raymond G . Phillip ; pres­ H erb ert E. Hanford and a h . C h a e, of Buf­ nt, 15; from ou t of town 5 ; coming from g rea t­ falo, th e latter of whom had not be en back fo r t di ranee, R. A. W ithe r poon, of Shawinigan ten ye a rs; lunch eon at ak Hill. The class all , Q uebec, \ ho had not bee n back for com­ w ore ye llow t ies how ing their numerals, one menc m nt ince g ra duation but vowed he would of which ado rned th e neck of Pre ident R hees, not mi many mor e ; lu ncheon at Oak Hill. 1910- Chairman, Raymond B. Lewi ; pres­ 1899- hairman, Dr. Curti N. J arne on ; pr es­ ent, 22 ; from out of tow n, 3; coming f rom g reat­ ent, 9 ; from out of to vn, 4-; coming from g rea t­ est di stance, W . Walter Levi., of Chicago; e t di tance, amuel M . Haven, of C hicag o, luncheon at Oa k H ill. an d Ibert F . Di llman, of Milburn, N. J.; 1911-Chairma n, Macdonald G. N ewcomb j lunch eon at ak H ill. T he following offi ce rs present, 16; f rom out of tow n , 5; coming fro m \ ere elect ed: Pre iden t, He rbe rt S. W eet; g reatest di stan ce, George G. Smith, of B uffa lo; tr ea u rer, Fr d K . own end; ec reta ry, Dr. luncheon at th e Hotel Roch e te T. P lan we re urti . Jam on. di scussed for th e 15th reunion of the class next 1900- hairman, Farley J . 'W ithington ; pr es­ ye ar and committee we re appointed. ent, 1 ; .f rom out of tov n, 8; coming from great­ 1912- Chairman, Milton K. Ro bin son; pr e ­ e t di ran ee, alter G. Parke, of Burton, Wash ­ en, 14; from out of tow n, 3; co ming from grea t­ in ton, \ .ho tared tha t when the time ca me he est di stance, Albert H. Covell, of O ne ida, N. "dropped hi ho a Putnam d ropp ed hi plow," Y.; luncheon at O ak Hill, fe a tured by a tot al nd F. Leon help , of ev Yo rk; lun ch eon at lack of speeches. o Hill. 1913-Chairman, E .R eed Sh utt ; p re en t, 15; 1901- h irm n, E u ene . Roe er ; pre ent, from out of town, 2; co m ing from g reate t di s­ 1 ; from ou t of tov n, 1; coming from great est tance, Howard E . Bacon , of Moore, Pa.; lun ch ­ di t nee, John . DuBoi, of ewark, . .; eon at Oak Hill. luncheon t ak Hill. Thi cia i planning 1914--Chairman, Al vin A . Miller, ass i ted by for it 25th reunion nex t year. Burt F. Ewell; present, 18; f rom out of town , 1902-Ch irm n, Eu ene Raine; pre en t, 16 ; 1; luncheon at Oak H ill. B urt F. Ewell w as from ou t 0 to\ on, 4- ; comin from greate t d i '- elected Alumni Cou ncil repre en tative fo r next RO HESTER AL U MNI R E VI E W 141

Energetic Class of 1915 in Reunion Tunics-Seated (Left to Right): H. F. Robbins, A. A. Johns, Prof. G. Curtiss (Adopted M ember ,) C: F. Wolters, C. W. Burt, L. D. Sands, R. E. Ross, A. J. Guzzerta, R. It. Barry. -Standing: C. H. Storer, F. A. Ratc.hffe. H. G. Hold en, C. G. Lanni, G. H. Glidde n, G. C. Bair d, C. J. Crawford, E. J. Doyle, F. M. Chesbro, R. L. Schmidt, (Absent Wh en Picture Was Taken -H. L. Alling, R A. Lipscomb, H. Shantz , H. W. Storey.) yea r. The Dix r eu ni on pl an was di scu ssed and N. Y ., Herbert R. C hild , of Ithaca, N. Y., and approved. R ev. Jo hn S. Williamson , of Attica , N. Y.; 19 15- Chairman,F re d A. Ratcliffe ; present, lun che on at th e Red Jacket Inn. The foll owing 22 ; from o ut of town, 4; com ing from g re a tes t officer s w er e elected: Presid ent, P aul S. Me- di tance, C. F re de rick Wolters, of Philadelp hia , Farland; secre ta ry- treas ure r, Arthur R. Mun- Harold F. R ob bins, of E lle n town, Pa., and Har- son ; Alumni Co uncil represen tative , Charle R. o ld S ha n tz, of T oro n to, C a n. ; lu nch eon at Oak Dalton. The cla ss wor e bri ght blu e romper s, Hill , fo llowing a m orning spe n t at th e cottage trimmed with yellow, and ca rr ied rattles, in o f R ob ert F. B arry, C rescent B ea ch, Lake On- d eference to th eir infancy as a reunion cla ss. tario. R ob ert F. B arry w as elec te d president The result of th eir conte t with 1915 ha ve been and F re d A. Ratcliffe, sec re ta ry, for th e next indicated und er th e report of th at ci a . fi v e yea rs . T he cl a ss was brilliantly clad in 1921- C hairman, Frederi ck \V. O rr, a i ted golden yellow tunics. It d efeated 1920 in the by Ba sil R. W eston ; pre ent, 16 ; f rom out of balloon swa tt ing con tes t and in broom po lo, b ut town, 1 ; coming from g rea te t di tance, \V . wa v anqu is he d by th at class in ba eb a ll. Ed w in Vande W alle, of Ca mbridge, M a s. : 191 6- Chairman, S id ney C. Adsit; present, luncheon at Oak H ill. T he pr ent officer we re 18 ; f ro m ou t of town, 5 ; corning f rom g re a tes t continued to la y plan fo r th e fir t regul ar re- distance, C h a rles H. Hawks, Jr., of Wauwatosa, union of th e class next yea r. W i ., an d George H. W alden , j r., of Ne w Y ork ; 1922- Chairman, Alfred proat; pre ent, - lun c heon at O a k Hill. 26; fr om out of to wn, none ; luncheon at Oak 19 17- Chairman, Raymond L. T hom pso n; Hi ll. The cla ss di cus ed and approved of the pres ent, 17; f rom ou t of town, 6 ; corning f ro m Di x reunion plan. It al a play d ome ba eba ll greates t distance, L eland S. Som ers, of Co rn ing, among it own memb er . N . Y ., and Russell B. Williams, o f Sy rac u e ; 1924-Ch ai rman, LeM oyne . Kell y; pre ent, l u n cheon at O ak H ill. T he class discu ssed and 18 ; fr om out of town , 2; com ing from greate t s t rongly favore d th e Di x reunion plan. di stance, Paul K. Taylor, of E van ton, Ill., an d 19 18- Cha irman,E d wa rd M. Ogden; present, F rances Rya n, of Summ it, N. J .; luncheon at 35; f ro m ou t of town, 8 ; com ing from g rea tes t Oak Hill. " D ick" ree ne, rea der of the ni- d is ta nce, Harold F. Gosne ll, of Ch ic ago, Hugh ve rs ity m u ical club, made a big hit, ith a S. D ewey, of Sp r ingfie ld , Ma s., H oward F. reading, " T he W reck of th e De p r te." Mer- R owley and G riffit h M. J enkins, o f Ne w Yo rk ; vy n Br igg withstood a ll comer in matching lu n cheon at Oak Hill, E d wa r d M. Ogden w as coins, a nd a baseb a ll team, led by 'Pat" Ryan, electe d presid ent and Carl A lle n, secreta ry- trounced a team f rom 1917. treasurer. The married father s of the class d e­ feate d th e ba ch elors in baseball, 8 to 7. 19 19- Cha irman , K enneth B. Keating ; pre ­ en t, 15; f rom o ut o f town, 4; co m ing f rom g re a t­ es t di stance, Judson G . H en drick o n, of Cincin­ nati, Arthur J . Steven, of Bangor, Me.,: and Malc olm T utt le, of Brookl yn; luncheon a t Oak H ill. 192 0- Chairman,C harles R. D alton ; p re n t, 27 ' from out of town, 6 ; com ing f rom g reate t di;tan e, arly le B. ewcornb, o f \-Vhiteh all , 142 ROCHESTER ALUM IR E I Other Events Tha t Featured Commencem nt

The 75th annua l Com mencement se sion J. Mercer B rugl r was rna ter of c r­ was melod iou ly ushere d in, as we re the two emon ies, introducin g th Iollov ing : l ame preceding, by the Commencement concert, w. Gray, cla hi tory; Jarne E dmond given to the seniors, alumni and their and George 0 ' ane, clas poem.; harl friends bv members of the Eastma n School F. Cole, class w ill ; Frederic " elling ton, of 1u si ~ fac ulty and adva nced stude nts cla ss prophecy ; and la rk 'Brien, pr i­ on Thursday evening, June 11 , in K ilbourn de nt, who announced the clas gift of 100 Hall. W hile the lat e M r. G are issen and . to be he ld in tru t by D ean ale for future his large chorus we re missed thi s year, th e use at Oak Hill. The cla . then formed a program was unu suall y well rounded and circle about the sta t u e, sa ng the choru o f tuneful, featuring the Kilbourn Quartet "My Lady icotine" an d moked he cla with Max Landow at th e piano, J ean pipe to th e inspiring accompanime nt of th e Cho wn , contralto, J erome D iamond, pian ­ pip e oration by Claren ce H en ry , afte r i t, and Warren Gehrken, orga nist. w hich they ang " T he ene ee" a n d di ­ Friday's Features banded . During the tated prog ram L aw ­ Friday wa not withou t its significant rence H . Ogden provided o rne arn u emen t f atur s. Some of the alumni w ith dau gh­ by emerging from nder o n H all in th e t r or other rela tive in th e Co llege for white-whiskered gui e o f an ancien t alum­ W omen , were intere ted in the class day nu s and reminiscin g o f the good old d ay of exerci e of the enior wo men, held in "Mart in B." Catharine trong Hall at ]0 :30 A . M. At A t 4 o'clock alumni began to ga t her near noon, and directl y following those exerc ises, th e gymnasium for the sche duled e r ie of the crowd gathered at the new dormitory intramural indoor-outdoor ball ga me .By for niver ity women in cou rse of erec tion 4 :30 eno ugh alumni and sen iors had as em­ aero Univer ity Avenue fro m th e Co llege bled to play off the following c h dule : for W omen and witnessed the fo rmal lay­ Theta Delt vs. S igma Delt :P si vs . Com­ ing of the corn erstone of that beautiful new mon s C lub; Delta U vs. eu trals, and tructure, which already bid fai r to equal D eke vs. A lpha Delt. Increased intere t the arc hitectural promise depict ed in th e was shown in t hese games, but if an y record pri l- ay i sue of the REVIEW. Presid ent of results was kept by the physical ed uca­ R hee and Director Howard H an en, of tion department, which conducted them, it the Ea tman chool of Music, poke, em­ was not mad e known. Greater improv ­ pha izing the ignificance of the new bui ld­ ment would re ult if the different g roups in in it beari ng on the student life of the wo uld take th is p rom ising feature more er­ Ea tman School of fl u ic girls and par­ iously a nd organ ize their line-up more care­ ticularly in the U nive r ity atmo phere it fully in advance . If some plan could be de­ ill erve to crea te by it close relationship vi ed for awarding a silver cup for the ith the ollege for \ omen. even t, it might help . The cIa day exerci e of the senior men Sho rtly after 6 o'clock the cene s h ift ed er h ld at 3 P. ., in tead of 1:30 a to th e various frate rnity houses for the rest in r cent year , in the hope of attracting of th e ev ening, and th e siz e of some of the more p ctator . pecial effort wa al 0 fr at ernity reuni on s presaged th e record made to revi e inter t in thi traditiona l turn ou t at Oak Hill t he next day. on­ r mony, and an unu ua lly int re ting pro­ fra te rn ity alumni met at t he arne time for ram r ulted. The cIa met in An der­ a dinner and reunion in Kendrick Hall. on Hall, clad in cap and gown marched Great Address by Dr. Slater out to the t p in double file, ang a cla s Saturday's alumni eve n ts ha ve a lready and a colle eng, then marched around been ch ronicled. Sun d ay was mark ed by th ircle and to th pla nting of their cla s two ignificant addresses-the baccal a ureat e tr ne r the Iemorial rt allery the se.rmon, preach ed by Pre ide nt Rh ee a t th e tr or t ion bing given by J ohn 'haw. F Irst Bapti t Church in the mornin g , and her in in th U ampu ong," the y re- the ann u al Phi B et a Kappa a d dress, deliv­ turn d t t provided in fro nt of the ere d .by Dr. John R. Sla te r, head o f th e nd n t tu , from the ba e of which E ng lI h department, in Kilbourn H all in th r of th c remony 'a conducted. the eve n ing . ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 143

P residen t Rh ee reminded hi s hearers fitting climax on Monday morn ing, June that the founder s of th e University, sev enty­ 15, to all the record-breaking observa nces Ii e years ago, dedi cated it to the nurture. gone before. It was marked by the great­ of youth in liberal thinking and reverent est crowd an d the most impressive scene living, proposing to found a school free that ever characterized gradua tion exercises from ecclesiastical shack les and at the same at Roc hester. t ime loyal to m an's spiritual her itage. Heretofore only the main floor of the Through three-quarters of a centu ry of Eastman T hea tre has been ut ilized for these mar elou s ad vances in knowledge our Uni­ exercises. A nticipating the dr aw ing power ver ity ha s cherished faithfully that liber­ of Dr. Harry E merson Fosdick, the adver­ ality of mind and that loya lty to religious tised speaker, tickets were issued this year realities. If its future is to realize the for the ma in floor and the mezza nine, while br ig h t expectations which the past yea r has all of th e grand balcony was opened for the o en larged and en riched, we and those who gene ral pub lic. T he advance deman d for come after us, he maintained, must "keep these tickets was so heavy that an additional sacredly to that freedom ot tho ug h t, wedded lot was print ed on F riday to cover the loges to that same reverence of m ind." H e urged in the fran t of th e balcony. T here were the seniors to look to the fu tu re, not simply qu ickly taken, an d w hen the exercises be­ on th e present and the past, decl aring tha t gan at 10 o'clock nearl y every seat was th e outlook is br ight ening, eve n for ou r occupied to the top of the balcony, mean­ re tl ess an d st rife-torn time, and tha t ther e ing an audience of nearl y 3,400 people. are igns of a new ap preciat ion of ma n's T he Commencement procession of mem­ spir itual life an d hi s sp ir itual needs. bers of the faculty and Board of Trus­ he su bject of D r. S la te r's add ress Sun­ tees, candidates for advanced and honorary day even ing was " Rocheste r a t Seventy­ degr ees and graduates, all in cap and gown, five," a review of the U nive rsity's history formed in th e Eastman School of M usic to t he prese n t tim e, an d to state that it and mar ched into th e crowded theatre to th r ill ed and delighted the lar ge au dience th e strains of the "Grand March" of presen t in Ki lbou rn Hall is not to exag­ Sa lome, played by Harold Osborn on the gerate. Probab ly no m ore ma st erly or ap­ great th eat re organ, the facult y members, peal ing address has eve r been delivered be­ trustees and cand idat es for honorary degrees fo r e t he I ota cha pte r of Phi B eta Kappa takin g seats on the fro nt stage. After the an d its fr iend s. invocat ion, the cur tains before the rear stage D r. Sla te r traced the development of th e parted, disclosing the full Eastman T hea­ U n ive rsity throu gh three gene r al, th ough tr e orchestra , w hich played t he " M arche over lapping, periods of founda t ion, concen­ Slave, O pus 31," by T schaikowsky, with tration an d expa ns ion. H is task w as no V icto r Wagner as conductor. sim ple o ne in th e tim e allo t ted him , but '. Dr. Fo sdick was then introduced and in he showed a fine sense of propo rt ion s an d a simple, direct manner held the closest car ef ul discr imin ation in th e handling of attent ion of his large audience for a half deta ils, giving evidence of most pa instaking hour , in the cou rse of which he arraigned pr eparati on. T he result w as a finished th e lawl essness of the present day, attribut­ m ast erpiece, in con ten t, di cti on and manner ing it to th e modern cult of self-expression, of d elivery. H e ma de an inter esting story th e " do-as-you-please" attitude toward life, o f th e mater ial he had unearthed , a story w hich in turn he cha racterized as an inevi­ w h ich abounded in human int erest , humor table reaction from th e sta id Victorian era, a n d ser ious phil osoph y. W e are editorially giving us fr ee verse in poetry, ja zz in music, j ea lous that we are u nable to repr oduce it cubism in art and loose living in morals. in these pages. W eare glad to report, " I insist," said Dr. F osdick, "that the state­ how ever , th at it is soon to be published com­ ment t hat mere self-expression i a law of pl et e in bullet in form for distribution life is not good religion, nor good moral among all th e alumn i, and we bespeak a and not even good p ychology." T o the reading and a perm an ent pl ace for it in th e seniors he said : l ibrar y of every a lumnus. "As you begin this last quarter of a cen­ tury in the life of your A lma M ater, you An Impressive Commencement . y o u n~ Com mencemen t itself, held for th e thi rd and she are Both of you have a time in ou r ow n wo nde rf u l auditorium pr o­ splendid outlook before you. May you go v ide d by th e E astman Theatre, proved a fo rw ard in confidenc , but with a cha tened ROCHESTER ALUM IR E IE

pint w hich will serve you, how ever Alumni Dinner and eeting straight the ga te or narrow th e way." Following th exerci , the alumni ad- Dr. Fosdick' s add ress was foll owed by . jou rned to the lu m n i yrnna ium on th the announcement of pr izes and hon ors and campus for th e annual a lumni dinner, Pr i­ the confe rri ng of 201 degr ees, as foll ows : dent Joseph T . lling, '76, of th 0­ Do ctor of phi losophy, 1; ma ster of arts, ciated Alumni, pre iding. n inno arion 5 ; rna ter of science, 3 ; bach elor of arts, wa s introduced directly after the meal \ h n 1-1-2; bachelor of science, in mechan ical en­ Presid en t Alling called to order the annual gineering, 6; in chem ical eng ineering, 3; in meeting of th e sociated lumni, \ hich edu cation, 8; in hom e economics, 8; bac h- in previou s yea rs ha d met before the dinn r lor of m usic, 19. In addi ton to th ese U ni­ w it h very scan t a tte ndance. n am nd­ versity deg ree 15 certificates in mu sic we re men t to t he cons tit u tio n \ as introduced by granted by th e Eastman Schoo l of M us ic, J oseph R . v eb ter , '9-1-, and p dily f the above deg rees th at of th e doct or passed without d ba te under the killed of philo oph y d erves special mention , in­ man ip u la t ion of th e p residen t . giving I ga l a mu ch a it wa the first eve r granted by status to th e new lumni ouncil a th the niver ity. The recip ient w as W arren inn er fu nctioning bod y of the ociated A lum ni. Treasurer L e ter . \ ild r ' 11 L perry, a graduate of Co rne ll U niver­ pr ~ s en t ed ity, \ ho had al a obta ined a master of hi annual report, \ hicil i ' ci nc degre at the U niversity of Illinois. printed elsev her'. Judge J . B.. te­ H arn d his docto rate by t wo and one­ ph ens,. '8-1-, ha in n a n of t he nom in a ting half y ar of work und er Prof essor W. R. comrm ttee, p re ented th e fo llowing Iat of Blo r, head of th biochem i try department o ~ce r s , w ho were duly elected for th en­ in th chool of I ed icine, and w ill becom e SUIng year: an in tructor in that department thi s' fa ll. P resident, Walter Hubbell '71' fir t vice-president, Eugen e .R oe e; '01" ec­ F ollowin g th award of the e degrees and v ice-president, Elan H. H ooker, of Pre id nt Rh c add re ed th e gra dua tes '9 , ew York; third v ice-p re ident, amuel . urging th em to carry on all the best that Haven s, of hicago; fou rth vice-presi­ they had receiv d in their four yea rs at th e '99, niv r ity , r minding them that th ey can­ dent, george G. Smith,' 11 , of B uffalo; v lce~pres ident , not b di connect d with the day that i fifth Howard S .L eRoy , ' 14, ~~ a shm gt on , pa t any ma r th an th e tree can be di con­ of D. C.; si .th v ice-presid nt, n ct d from he oil in which its roo ts are WIlham H. Wilson, '8 5 . of L o well , a .; emb dd d.H e told them that it wa th eir secretary, H ugh A . Smith, '07; trca urer, ta. to build for th e coming day but to R aym ond . Phillips, '97; mernb r of Board of l\1anagers Hcn rv L r itten den budd on th ol d found ation . that it was '12. ' J ' , th~ir o~li atio,n to u e w ha t 'they had re­ . Brief speeches were made by Dr. os- c IV d 10 making greater the institution of ' hich th y had b en a part. dick , w ho w a obliged to leave ea rly in orde r to catc.h a train, and by President Honorary degree we re then confer red Rhees, foIlowmg the bu sin es meeting. he a follo : a ter of rt, 1i er­ ! a tt ~r t ressed th.e n ew problem facing all trud H erdle, ' 18, who ucceeded her fa­ mst rtu trons of highe r learning in th e near th r director of the 1 emorial rt al­ fut ure, ,and . pa r ticu larly those con fron t ing lery; d tor a laws, H a rry mer on Fo _ th e Universiry of R och e ter. di and mbro \ /az y, of Cleveland, The day, as well as thi mo t sign ific a n t m nuf c ur r of a tronomical in trument . CO?1me ncemen t season, was brought to a do tor of i nc , Dr. org v . oler: fittll1 ~ cl ose by th e Presid en t's reception for mar than thirty year h alt h offic r of held In th e beautiful room s a n d corridor~ Ro h t r; do tor of lett r , R o co onk­ of t } ~e M emorial A rt Gallery from 8 to ~in . Bra 'n, , 9, profe or of journali m 10 0 clock .In th e eveni ng, fo llowed by the m olumbia niver ity, The degree a n ~ ua l eruor ball in th e arne urround ing h1ch co n ti n ue~ r nted to Dr. a dick had also been con­ r into the sm a ll hou r s of f~rr d t n earli r comrn nc men upon ue day mornIng. T his combinat ion of b~en}t a n~ t her hI f ther, ran . a dick, we ll -known wa in novation , nece sita te d .) t ie congesn on of soc ial and other f u nc­ due tor of Buffalo and a raduate of the n on dUrIng the last week before Corn­ ni r i in h cl of 1872. me nce mc n t. R H E STER ALUM IR E VI E W 145 Story of the Coming of President Rhees By JOS EPH T. ALLING, '76 . First P ice-Chairman, Board of Trustees

ew to n Cen ter and who had come to kn ow and appreciate P rofessor Rhees. I trans­ mitted th e suggestion to Rufus A. S ibley, t hen president of the Board of Trust ees, and told him what I knew personally of Professor Rhees, for though I never had met him, I had heard of him fro m a n um­ ber of sources.M r. Sibley imme diate ly be­ ga n makin g inquiries, as a result of w hich he determined to go and see P rofes or Rhees in per on. After considerable conversa tion 1 r. Sibl ey a ked him if he wou ld not come to Ro che ter and look the gro und over, meet other tru tees and con ider together th e qu estion of taking over the pre ide ncy of the U niver ity of Rochester. "Professor" Rush Rhees As He Appeared When At fir st Profes or R hees hesitated to do C ptur d for Roch est er so, stat ing that he was not intere sted in anv proposition which took him away from h~s The edito r of th e A I. MNI R EVI EW ha s cho en profession of teaching, and tha t it a ked, in fact in i ted , th at I relate ome . eemed to him tha t it would be a wa ste of of the fa cts conce rning th e com ing of Dr. time and effort to accept M r. Sibley' s in­ and 1\11rs. Rhee to R ochester t wenty-five vitation. He fina lly was persuaded, how­ year ago , beli evin g that they w ould be in­ ever, th at it wa s du e both the U niversity tere tin g to the alumni at t he present time, of Roch ester, as well as his own future, th at w hen w e have just been celebr ating th at he should at lea t investigate, and he ac­ sign ificant event. cordingly prom ised to accept the inv itation Four years clap ed between th e resigna­ to look over th e ground. tion of Dr. D avid Jayn e H ill to enter the I n the cour e of th e con ference M r. Sib­ wider er vice of the Department of State ley had learn ed tha t Dr. Rh ees wa engaged a t Washin gton and th e a rriva l of Dr. to be married shortly to Miss Harr iet See­ Rhees. During thi interregnum the ad­ ley, the daughter of President Seeley, of m ini . tration of th e College wa s con tinued Smi th Co llege . O n his way back to Ro h- by the stand ing com mitte es u nd er the ester from [ew ton Cente r, Mr. Si bley leader hip of Dr. amuel A. Lattimore as went to ortha mpto n and int erviewed acting p residen t for th e first two years. A t P reside nt Seeley and al 0 the future M r . the expiration of that time, and at his ow n R hees. T his int erview, wi th all th at he re quest, he was re lieved of that res pon­ saw and heard , made him still mor e con­ sibi lity, w hich was assumed by P ro fessor fident of th e w isdom of the invitation H enry T . Burto n, w ho pref erred th e life w hich he had extended, and he painted th e of a teacher but ca rried th e execu tive load picture of R ochester to Dr. Seeley in such un t il a perm an en t successor cou ld be se­ terms th at th e latter ag reed with him that cured. O f course, th e Board of T rustees hi s pr ospecti ve son-in-law ought to in vesti­ was not idle during thi s peri od but was per­ ga te th e opportunity carefully before m ak­ sistentl y making in qui ri es and followin g out ing any final decision. suggest ions in order that we mi ght secure As a result Ru sh Rh ees came to R och­ for th e U niversity the very best possibl e ester and exa mined th e buildings, th e af­ head. fairs and th e prospects of the U niver sity. A mo ng other names suggested to us was H e also met the tru tees at dinn er a t our th at of Professor Rush Rh ees, of th e ew- hom e, and th e re ult of it all , afte r du e ton Theological Se m inary locat ed at ew- conside ra tion on both sides, was th at h e wa s ton Ce n ter, Mass. T his suggestion wa un animously called to the position of presi­ sen t to rne by a friend of mine w ho lived in dent, and th at he and his fiancee u nani- 146 ROCHESTER ALUMNI R EVIE mou sly accepted th e call. T hey have now mad e in our call. Tot only has a remark­ been w ith us twenty-five years, an d at the able change ta ken place through their ef­ end of th at time all th e .alumni, as well as forts in the affairs of the ni versit y, but all of th e city of Ro chester, unite wit h the all have learned to love as well a admire trustees in declaring that no mistake was them both.

Recruiting Our College Faculty By R USH R HEES

This is th e most important wo rk of a graduate of W esl eyan , who has do ne his college administration, and in some ways work for the do ctorate at the n iver ity it is th e most difficult. In our experience of Pe nnsylvania. T his past year he has the greatest teachers Rochester has had , carried w ith marked success the classes of since th e first migration brough t K endrick P rofessor Theodore Collier, of B rown, who and Ri chardson and Ra ymond from M ad­ has been absent on sabbatical leave. We i on U niversity and D ewey gave his ma­ believe that we have e u red a I an who ture experience to our new institution, ha ve w ill prove to be a trong teacher. corne to th e U niversity as young men . So O ther appoi ntments hav been made in it was w ith Professor L atimore, Professor both of these departments an d will be an­ Morey, P rofes or Burton and Professor noun ced in more det ail in th e next issue F orbes. So it was also with Professor Sla­ of the R EVI EW. ter , Profe or Gale, Professor C hambers, Profe or H aven , Professor Packard and A new developmen t in the wo rk of the Profe or P erkins and with others of our C ollege is shown by the division a the de­ pre ent sta ff. partment of romance langu a ges, into a de­ T he re ign ati ons of Professor Havens partment of French and a de partment of and Professor Packard this past year have Italian and Spanish. Prof essor f oore will presented th e problem of r ecruiting the continue in charge of Italian and Spanish. facu lty in th e mo t acute form. Each is a F or professor of French we ha ve se­ highly skillful teacher and a sound scholar. cu red F rederick C. Green, Ph. D. , We did our be t to keep them, but each w ho for fou r yea rs pa st has been as­ deemed the new call imperati ve. Our best sista nt professor in the Univer sity of wi h go with th em, and our cong ratula- Manitoba. P rofessor Green i a grad­ ion to the in titutions they ar e to serve. uate of St . A ndrews University (S cot­ But how can we be t fill the gaps they ar e land). H e served in the British army fr0 111 leavin g? L ong conside ration and surv ey of August 8, 1914 till his di scharge in 1920. the field conv inced u that the poli cy which Having been severely wounded in 191 5, he gav u the e men , and th e other great w as attached on his recovery to the Inte lli­ name of our hi tory which I have re­ gence Service because of his knowledge of ferred to, is the one which pro mi ses best French and Geman, and it was in this fo r ou r future. capacity that he was w it h the British army cco rdingly we have appointe d to be of occupation in Colog ne. While there he a i tant pr ofe or of E ngli h, A n ders Or­ won his Ph. D. at Cologne University. b ck, w ho i taking a docto r's degree at Since that time he has also been ma de a olurnbia th i year.I r. Orbeck is a doctor of th e U n iversity o f P aris. As graduate of th niver ity of innesota , au thor, teacher and man he has made an . B. and L , and he tau ght at the enviable record, an d we are most happy to niv r i y 0 ontana for orne tim e be- w elcome him to Rochest er. fore going to olumbia for hi w ork for All told we have mad e eleven appoint­ the doctorate.H e i recommended to u ments to the C ollege fa culty, fou r of them a a man of ma r ed ability. H e ha e tab­ to positions which a re n ew. T his policy Ii hed hi r putation a a ucce ful teacher of strengthen ing w ill be ca rried further and he ha an attract ive and forceful p er ~ ~e xt year, and the alum ni w ill be kept nali y. informed of what is bein g don e to ena ble e have appoi n ed rthur J. l ay to their alma mater to serve the present age b in true or in hi tory. r. ay is a ever more effectively. ROC HESTE R AL U MN IR E VI EW 147 Some Qu estions Faced in [Tniversity Survey By CHARLES W. WATKEYS, '01 Professor of M athematics

T he 'adm in ist rat ion has given me an op­ not to expand int o a uni versit y but to head portunity during the coming year, and at their energies toward improving th eir wo rk th e same time an appalling responsibility, ~s a. liberal a rts college, th e purpose of th e in assigning to me the task of ma king a institution is sharply defined as fo llows: urvey of the University for the purpose . " I t is the pur pose of th e college to pro­ of determini ng the future educationa l poli cy Vide a selected group of men w ith a com­ of th e instituti on. W hile I have not yet pr ehensive backgr ound of inf ormati on about been able to begin th e serious stu dy of thi s th e wo rl d and its problems, and to stimu­ su rvey, th e ed ito r has u rged me to make a lat e th em to develop their ca pacity for preliminary state me nt on th e basis of his rational thinking, phi losophic understand­ a sumpt ion t h a t the alum ni want to kn ow ing, crea tive imagin ation and aes thetic sen­ what it is a ll abo ut. So I am going to sit iveness, and to inspire th em to use their present some of th e educat ional qu esti ons, developed powers in becomin g leaders in w h ich have been recu rring to th e college erv ice to society." world during the last decad e, and indicate O ur first fundamental problem, th en, is orn e of th e m od es of answering them. to det ermine what the functions of the The college of liberal arts connec ted coll ege shall be. H aving determined our w it h a uni ver it y en ro lls at least four types objective for the different types of student of students : ( 1) stude nts preparing for which w e have to deal with, we then ha ve medicine, engineering, dentistry, et c., w ho to consider th e meth od of reachin g th ose w i h pre-professional training; (2 ) students ends. Such questions as th e follo wing preparing for vocationa l work, w ho w ish ari se: Is t he lecture method, with the to specialize in th eir third or fourth year ; daily qui z, th e periodic hour examinat ion, ( 3 ) students w ho wi sh th e four yea rs of developing intellectual initiative on the a liberal arts c u rriculum, and (4) students part of the student, or is it merely develop­ who do not find th em selves during their ing his power of memori zin g w hat his in­ four years in college. . str uctor points out to him? Are our pres­ It is necessa ry to provid e students en­ ent requirements for concentration suffi ­ rolled in technical courses with the liberal cient to assure a reason able rna tery of th e st u d ies, w hich w ill ena ble the technica lly major subject ? Should th e wo rk be .mor e trained men t o enjoy their leisu re widely accumulative in na ture than at present? Is a n d to participate intelli gently in th e duties there an y sounder meth od of m easuring a of citizensh ip. There is also th e need to student's attainment s than by means of see that the co llege of liberal arts may have " ho ur s" and "points"? oppor tunity under fa vorabl e circumstances It is interestin g to see how t hese qu es­ t o dev elop a four-year cou rse without dan­ tion s 'have been answe red at some of th e ger from encroaching specializat ion.T he colleges and universities by some phase of solu tion of this fundam ental problem of the tutorial' meth od of instruct ion, w hich how to meet the needs of the d ifferent types is design ed to obta in the follo wing result: of students varies, as indicated by th e sur­ T he substitution of th e mastery of a su b­ veys pub lished by d ifferent coll eges and ject for th e accumulation of credi ts in universitie s. separate courses; int ellectual initiati ve and Beginning w ith W isconsin in 191 4, a independence on the part of th e stude nt ; number of colleges and u niversities (Wash­ such close and inform al contact betw een in gton, C hicago, Minnesota, Columbia, teacher and tud ent a will, on the one hand , C leveland a n d Dartmou th), have conduct­ bring into pla y th e per ona l influence of ed su rveys, with the desire to make the the teacher, and , on th e ot her hand , both ob jectives more definite and the educational di cover and meet th e indivi dual needs of p rocess more efficient. Each institution has the student. The tutorial method of in­ had its own problems to face , it own st ruction, begun at O xford in 1870, has me thods to co ns ider, 'and the solut ion ha found expre sion in America in three forms: in st r u ct ~on cour~es, ~s been individual in each case. A t Dart­ ( 1) preceptori al . .i n mouth , where the decision s ha ve been ma de at Princeton ; (2) tuton al inst ruction In ROCHESTE R ALU MNIR E VI EW 149 How th e University Came into Existence A Review By J OH N R. SLATER IIead of English Departm ent

R O CH ESTERAD COLGATE : Hi s­ wo uld have been bett er left unsaid , and torical Backgrounds of the Two U ni­ person al feelings w ere at times strongly versities.By J esse Leonard R osenb er ger. stirred. Both those w ho wa nted the college T he niversity of C hicago P res " Chi­ at Hamilton removed to Rochester, and cago. $ 1.50 . those who finall y succeeded in keeping it 10 t R ochest er alu m n i a rc aware in a where it wa s, w ere sincere and able friends vague way th at the fo unda t ion of the U ni­ of ed ucation. T hey could not forsee the ve rsity in 1850 was some how connec ted fut ur e; could not know th at in seventy-five with th e migration of a g ro up of p ro fessors yea rs both inst itutions would be lar ge and and st udents from w ha t is now Colgate Hou rishin g. niversity, Few person s now livi ng, how ­ T he most significant things brought out ever) a re old enough to rem ember w ith ac­ have reference first, to th e movement orig­ cu racy th e circu mstances of th e yea rs imm e­ inating in Rochester for the founding of dia tely preceding th at eve n t. It is ther e­ a college befor e the removal, of Madison fo re a disti nct serv ice w h ich 1\1r. R osen ­ U nive rsity wa s ever pr oposed; and the ber ger has rendered in spend ing mon th s lar ge and importan t share taken in th e ear ly in a laborious and m inute exam inat ion of yea rs of th e uni versity by men like Robert all the document ary materi al bearing on Kelly and J ohn . Wilder and others of the su bject. T he results of his inqu iry a re th e trustees. It has been customary to em bod ied in th is in ter est ing little book ) speak enthusiast ically of Dr. A nderson and wh ich has just appea red fr om th e U niver­ his ea rly faculty, and almost to ignore th e sity of C hicago Press. busin ess men and other citizens who reall y What the ordina ry R ochest er alumn us did most of th e hard wo rk of securing sub­ w ishes to know is w het her th is university scriptions, collecting funds and getting the is merely an offshoo t of Colgate ; w hether college under way. it was altogether d enominati on al in its If these scholarly and int erestin g cha p­ o rigin ; w het her th e men w ho started it ters on th e first decade of our history could w er e zealous bu t narrow person s) intent be fo llowed by a similarly impar tial study up on propagatin g th eir particular type of of th e later history down to 1900, the sec­ ed uca tion w ith spec ial ref erence to prepar­ ond volume wo uld have an appeal equal in g cand ida tes fo r th e minist ry, or w hether to th at of the first. May we not hope th at on th e cont ra ry th ey w ere lead er s of unus­ M r. Rosenber ger may be sufficiently en­ ual breadth, en light en men t) progressiven ess cou raged by the recognition of the first and tol er an ce. T h is book answers th ese volu me to und ertake a second ? qu estion s, and answers th em in a way mo st ~ above book, " Roche ter an d Colgate," i satisfactory to those w ho lik e to be pr oud procurabl e at the University office for th e of their college. It is parti cularly to be mod er ate pri ce of $ 1.50, or it w ill be mail ed postpaid up on receipt of $1.60. A ddre you r recommend ed to read er s who have felt orde rs to th e A lumni Secre ta ry, 44 Prin ce Street. secretl y rathe r doubtful of th e origins of It is att ra ctiv ely boun d and worth a place in the th e univer sit y, pref erring to center t heir library of every alumnus w ho i at all intere ted adm iration and loya lty up on its later in th e past of hi alma mater.- Ed. g row th. T hey can now be proud of both. + + lVI ore than 80 soph eluded the watchful The au tho r' s method is to present lib ­ frosh on M onday morning, ay 4, and eral ex tracts fr om conte mporary w rit ten esca ped by two pecial tr oll y car for and printed records, n ew spaper article? and Buffalo wher e th ey enjoyed their annual public addresses, so arranged an d so inter­ ba n q u e~ at noon. A earchiag party of pret ed as to allow the read er to m ~k e up fift een fr e hmen located th e fun ction ju t his own mind up on th e basis of th e evidence. ~ut He find s noth ing to be asha med of, thou gh a the la t peaker wa running dow n, at the height of the rem oval con tro versy nothing remained for th m to do but give some things we re said on both sides th at th eir rival a yell. 150 ROC HE S_T ERA LUM N IR E V~ I E

th e fa ct that our individual re ponsibility Roch e s t e r R e v i e w carries over from year to year, and w e be­ OF -BY-AND FOR THE ALUMN I OF TH E lieve th at each com me ncemen t sho uld ex­ U NIVERSITY OF ROCHEST ER ceed those gone before. It w ill be no easy Published Hi-Monthly, Augu st and Septcmber c:>c epted task to beat the alu mn i celebrat ion of this June but we are going to sto p wo rrying. Mailed to any address at the Sub scription Pri ce of $1.00 ~hought the same la st June. A lumni per year. Single C opies, Twenty Cents. we Sub scription payments and all ?ther comr,nunications themselve s reall y m ak e a co mme nce me nt, sho uld be ma iled to H ugh A . Smith, Alumni Secretary, and we believe th e last tw o co mme nce ment Unive rsity of Ro chester , Roc hester, N . Y . reunions at Oak Hill have est ablished a momentum, which will bring ev ery par­ H U GH A. SMITH, ' 07 Editor ticipating alumnus b ~ ck for s uccee d i n~ CO ~ l1 ­ GEO. S. CARHART, '2] - AdvertiJing Mgr . mencernen ts, and st ill othe r alumni WIth him.

Cause and E ft'ect For two previous com menc em ents we II II have insured good w eather by simply carry­ ing an old um brell a in the back of our auto­ Much Ado About Much mobile th rou gh out the crit ical period. It has worked so infallibly that we took the eventy-five years have come and gone in ,th hi tory of th e U nivers ity of Roch­ same precau tionary measure this yea r. T he very spec ial nature of t he occasion, how­ t rand 0 has the celeb ra t ion th ereof. ever th e ex tra amount of money spen t and om mencernen t thi year was so un usual in its charac ter and significance that we have th e superla tive need of fa ir skies shook our devoted an unu ual amount of pace in thi s faith a bit as A lumni Day approached. We i su to a story of its variou even ts, but finall y decided it was too grea t a load of we believe that the importance of th e gen­ responsibility for the old umbrella to carry eral su bject justifie both the space and ef- alone so we threw a raincoat into the car fort. e regret that we were unable to w ith 'it an d again breathed easy. For two get thi iamond Jubilee number in th e eventful days the weather man predicte d mail a week or two earlier, but orne de­ showers, and for two eventful da ys it did lay med un avoidable, due to a slight in­ not shower. He did no t know w ha t to di po ition of the editor follov ing the fes­ make of it, but we did. We are not super­ stitious. Perish th e suggestion! We are a tivi ie I plus som e difficulty in collecting all ofh reunion data required, a well as scientifica lly educated man-a careful ob­ orne of he pecia l contributions which we server of cause and effect. we nt after. o judge fro m the man y comments we Speed That Dwarfs Growth have heard regarding the Diamond Jubilee T his is th age of spee d, but th e pity is anniv r ary c lebration, it wa one of tho e th at th e mo re ti me we save by speedy proc­ rar eve nt of which mu ch \ as expected esses of li vin g th e less time we seem to and ju t a much rea lized. A a ma tter of have for things worth wh ile. A ge neratio n fac I it e ceeded our 0\ n expectation , for or 0 ago men wa lked to th eir work an d e peered 0 much th at w really ex- other engagements, o r drove a leisu rely p cted it would fall below what we ex­ joggin g horse, o r waite d for a tardy st reet p c d. ha tatement may eem to bor­ car. They had time to th in k t h ings over, d r on illiteracy, bu t we believe you will to taste life as th ey went alo ng . Many of r p he meaning benea th it. That we th em formed lit erary ocieties or intell ectual wer not di appoint d in the mu ch-adver­ clubs, w he re they met for th e p resentation ti ed celebration wa due to the eff ctive and discuss ion of papers on subj ects in vol v­ or of an effec ive committ ,and par­ ing a little m ental exercise ou tsi de t he ticul rly to the pl ndid co-operation of a routine ruts of eve ryday living. pl ndid body 0 alumni. We descendants of th o e me n tod ay jum p fore the plan for one comrne nc ement into au to mo biles and almos t in variablv re c ually cornple ed we begin worrying violate alleged speed o rd ina nces in ge t ting bou the next one. hi i explainabl by to work or anywhere else, ou r minds co n- ROCHESTE R A LU MN IR E VI E W 151 centrated on the ra k of avoiding coll isions th ey may coast through life. Otherwi se and gett ing somewher e in the shortest pos- th ey a re stuck and must be towed. ibl tim e. We must sav e a lot of time, bu t w hat do we do with it? After accom ­ pli hing on e speedy purpose, we generall y Some Athletic Observations ru h somewhe re else. Too few of us have Until this spring the faculty baseball I i ure for any such cultural pr actices as team , so-called, has suffered utter ignominy ind icated ab ove. in th e intramural league on the campus. evotees of th e " goo d old days" claim In two successive sea ons it checked up but that they produced bigger men. P erhaps one victory. T his spring, however, it dis­ th yare right. O ne h as to stand still cove red a remedy. It went through th e oc asion all y in order to g ro w. season w ithout a single defeat by the simp le exped ient of declining to play a single game. Were not tha t remedy a bit too drast ic, Some City Manager Publicity we mi ght be tempted to recommend it as a possibl e solution of the football difficulti Our city father s are not reputed to be w hich confront us next fall. W e are no t over-zealous in th eir su pport of th e pro­ attempting to pre ent an alibi for our grid­ jected city manager plan for Ro chester. iron agg regation in advance. T he plain et they r ecently, an d no doubt unwitting­ facts in the ca e, which we review on an­ ly , is ued orne publicity which has react ed othe r page, speak for them elves, e upon us in a manner most favor able to the . imply bespeak for that team a ju t ac­ n \ form of municipal govern ment. Sa id kn owl edgment of the iruation confronting publicity w as in th e nature of city tax bill s it and a bit of rea onable pati nee. e for the cu r re n t year. have no right to demand nothing but vic­ Our wn littl e h ou se has depreciated tories, much as we want them, from a ligh t teadily during the past five years under and almost en tirely green quad facing a the well-known in fluence of w ear, tear and hard schedule. W e can and hould de­ w eather , but those elements have had no mand a 100 per cent fighting team, how­ correspon ding effec t on our taxes, which ever, and we can help to make it by the have moun ted just as steadily. They tell influence of considerate and encouraging u that fr esh paint on th e exterior of a support at a time hen uch upport i hou se v ill produ ce this result. "Save the mo. t needed. surface, a nd yo u sav e all," including your as essmen t. But w e have applied no paint during that peri od. W e had purposed t.o ield the brush this summer, here It em to be badly n eed ed , but now we be­ l ieve w e sha ll scrape off wha t little paint th ere is left. How Is Your Personal Ignition? Automobiles an d humans have much in a m mon . Some of the most vital thi ng a bout a n autom obile a re also th e smalles t. L et someth ing go w ro ng w ith an yo n ~ ~f the little elements acco unting for th igm ­ t ion, let th little spa rk stop parkin g w he:e it i n eded and th e rna t expensive ca r 1(1 the worl d becom e an inert mas of jun k. That seem to be the trouble w ith a great many m en. T hey st ar t life with wonder­ ful po sibilities. They s e e ~ to ~l ~ v e plenty of educat ion plenty of nati ve ability, plenty of lat ent po ~e r , but no ~o o r ? i na t i ~g spark. enc there i no explOSIOn lI1 their y t m a n d no actio n. If they ar e fortunate nou gh to stall on a nice, moot h grade, 152 ROCHESTER ALUM IR E l EW has shown some progress, as indicated In siderable anxiety over the lack of consti­ our report on another page. We wish to tutional relationship between the A sociated remind you again that this is your magazine. Alumni and the new Alumni Council, and If you have any criticisms, suggestions or Mr. Web ter wa appointed a committee of other comments to offer, we are hungry to one to draw up an amendment to the receive them. We are hungry also to re­ mythological con tit ution of the A ociated ceive more voluntary contributions, which Alumni for presentat ion at it an nual meet­ will help to insure the future development ing, which would legal ize the assumed of the magaz ine. Am using reminiscences sta tus of the Alumni ou ncil. After a of college days, interesting experiences or hearty vote of th anks t01r. and 'Irs. unusual achievements since college days, all Hollister the memb ers adj ourned to par­ const itute desirable subject matter. Pl ease take of the welcome ref re hrnent s wit h remember that you are all contributing which the hosts had lured th em to the editor and take advantage of your status. meeting. H . A. S. + + + + Annual Report of T reasurer, A lumni Council in A (ti011 Associated A lulnni T he annua l meeting of the Alumni June 12, 1924 to June 5, 192 5 Council \ a held on tIonday evening, June 8, at the pleasant home of M r. and RE E IPTS Mrs, eorge . Holli ter, whose gracious ho pitality wa much appreciated. The Bal an ce on hand June 24, 1924 (Current Fund ) ..$ 953.04 retiring pre ident, J o ep h T . Alling, '76, A nnu al dues and Everyman's pr ided, and about 35 member were pres­ Dinner 1,341.00 ent, de pite the heat. T he annual reports Subscript ions to A lumni Sec - of both the trea urer an d the alu mni sec­ re tary Fund 3,323.25 In com e f rom ALUM ' 1 RE- retary were pre ented, accepted and or­ VIEW •....•...... •. 637.49 dered publi hed in the ALUM IR EVI EW. Mi scellaneou s In com e .... . 304.95 Chairman ]. B. M. Ste phens, '84, of the nominat ing committ ee, presente d the slate Tota l Receipts .... $6,559.73 of officer for the coming year, which was acc pted and ordered presented at the an­ D ISB RSEMENTS nual meeting of the A 0 iated Alumni. Salary $1,999.98 cr ta ry mith pre ented the o-called ALUMX I R EVIEW .•.. . . .•.. 1,924.24 Collection ex pe nse on A lumni Di reunion plan and recommended that Fund 43.60 it b put into operation for future com­ Alumni D ay and Every- mencemen. By the t rms of this plan man 's Dinner 994.90 two group of four cla e each, which General Co mme ncement Ex- pense 53.90 wer in college together, hold reunion each Ex penses of th e Sec reta ry's J une, in tead of all cIa se holding reunions office 442.38 at regular five-year interva l a at pre ent. Mi scellaneous Ex pense 350.20 Th meeting reacted favora bly to the plan but d cided that it hould be con idered by Tota l Di sbursem ents $5,8 09.20 the individual cIa e at Commencement Ba lance on hand in C u rre nt and brought up again for definite action in Fund $ 750.53 the fall. Th cretary al 0 read a letter P erm an en t F und- from •rank L. ubI y, '97, of Pot dam Balance in Monroe C ounty ., offering a ilv r cup to be a\ arded Sav ings Bank June 12, 1924 $1,685.33 annually to the reunion cla howing the Lib ert y Bond s 750 .00 lar. t preentage of returnin g alumni. Interest on bonds and bank I 0 er w gratefully received, but its d eposits ( deposite d in Monroe County Saving s offici I ace prance wa al 0 d ferred for Bank) 12 5.51 fin I ion in connection \ ith the Dix pl n in the f 11. . Ba lance in Permanent orne of the la yer presen t, headed by F und June 5, 1925 $2,560.84 ph R. bster,'9, manifested con- Total Ca h A sets $3,3 11.37 LESTER O. \ VILDER, '11. ROCHESTER ALUMN I REV IEW 153 What Has the Alumni Secretary Been Doing? Annual Report to Alumni Council June 8, 1925

h e ti m e has CO Ole, as p rescr ibed by our sim ilar appeal, w hich went out to the n ev cons titu tion, for the annual acco unt ing alumnae. H e also prepared special cam­ o f the job w hic h you have pl aced in my paign pr op aganda for the November issue ha nd . H ow has t he alum ni office bee n of th e A Lul\ INI R EVI EW and made qui te a occu p ied durin g th e p ast yea r and w hat has com plete report of the campaign in th e it accomplish ed , if a n ything ? I n deferen ce J anuary issue of th e R EVIEW , w hich wa s to you r fe el ings I h all endeavor to m ak e mail ed to all city campaign wo rkers, as we ll thi hron icle as co ncise as eve n ts w ill per ­ as th e alu mni. Beyond these items his mi t. F or it has be n a mos t eve ntf ul yea r, campa ign act ivities were confined to the not onl y becau se o f the importan t pa rt rath er volum inous corres pondence and pl ayed by th e alu rnn i in th e wo nderf ul other secretar ial duties involved in such an ca m pa ign ac hievern n t of last fa ll, but be­ undertak ing. cau e of developm n t w hich have gro w n II. The Alumni Council ou t of that ca mpaign . W hi le mu ch t ime A sign ificant a c hie ~ e m e n t of th e past year i co nsu m ed by det ails a r ising in th e every­ has been the revival and reorgan ization of d ay office ro u tine , I sha ll on ly attempt to th e A lum ni C ounc il on a wor king basis, ou tl in e th e chief .a t iv iti es of th e alum n i growing out of our effective campa ign or­ office d uring the past college year, w h ich gan ization of last fall. T he sugges tion was may be g rouped un d er seven mai n headings, first approved by the meeting held at Presi­ as follow s: dent A ll ing's home earl y in December. T he I. Greater University Campaign reo rga n ization was fina lly effected at the T he acc om plish men ts of th e alu m ni in meetin g held at th e A lpha D elt a Phi house th is cam paign hav e al ready been publish ed on F ebruary 20, w hen th e new constitut ion, in t he ALUl\IN I R "VIEW and are too we ll dr awn u p by you r secreta ry, was submitted kn own t o call for m ore th an passin g refer­ by him and definitely appro ved. With the ence. You r secret a ry cla ims no per son al appointme nt of a fu ll list of committees, as credit for t ho e ac o m plishme n ts. H e was call ed for by th e constitution, following the on ly a cog in th e m achine. evert heless, electi on of officers, it should begin to func­ asid from work on the m agazine, wh ich we tion next fall as th e active, inn er orga n iza­ hop e was in itself a fact or in aro using tion of th e hitherto more or le s moribund alum n i inter est , h is tim e was almo st ex­ Associated A lumni in a manner w hich cl usi vel y occupie d by campaign act ivities seems bound to make it elf felt in the until after mid- N ovember , 'although his fu ture developm ent of all U niversity in­ p r in cip al co n t r ibu tion s to th e campaign ter ests. \ e r e m ad e before it act ua ll y opened. III. The Alumni Review T h roug hout th e y a r, pr ior to its openi ng, W e believe we are ju tified in reporting he se rv ed ac tively on th e G ene ral Cam­ a year of real progr e for the Roc u ESTER pai gn Publicity Com m ittee, bein g respon ­ A LUl\I NI R EVI EW, w hich i about to com­ sib le fo r th e direct-by-mail publicit y, wh ich pl et e its third volume of uninterrupted wa mailed to all a lu m ni , alumnae a nd a progre s. At th e beginning of the year we select ed list of cit izens, and w riti ng tw o of ucceeded in locating an adverti ing man­ the three m ailing pieces w h ich we n t out to age r in th e per on of Georg . arhart, that gen eral list. H e served as a judge in '23 of the E a t H igh School faculty, w ho ha 'co-opera ted ffectivcly \ ith th ecre­ the es ay con test , c o n d uc ted amo ng th e city i~ h ool ch ildren, \ rote news stor ies of th e tary-ed itor in launching the magazine th.e cam pa ig n for ou t-of-town pap ers and had 'a field of adve rti ing-on of th 31m indi­ h are in other a c t iv it ies of that general cated by the editor at previou m etings of th e Board of 1 an ag rs. In th four i u com m it tee. publi hed to date w hav ~arried adver­ In the a lu mn i a m pa ign he lin ed up th e ti ing tot aling 519 gro , WI h rea onable alumni organizat ion by clas es, calle d all exp cta tion of bringing .thi do 0 the m eetings and wrote the first genera l appeal, $7 00 ma rk in our final I ue. a pr - w h ich was mailed to all alumni, al so a 154 ROCHESTER ALUM I RE IE dieted result we 'have increased th e size of by interested alumni. e till ha e n arly the REVI EW, which was originally a 24-page 2,000 copies of thi booklet and hall con­ magazine. In the first issue we ran 28 tin ue thi work in the fall, beli ving that pages, in the second, which was the special with per istence it i bound to yield even­ campaign number, 44 pages, in the third 28 tu al , if not immediate, re ult . pages and in the fourth 32 pages, which is 'T he recent addition to the admini tra­ the size we propose to maintain until we tion staff of Matt. Lav les , with hi \ ell­ can increase it still furth er. In other wor ds, known penchant for uch work, ha al a with the next and final issue, to be pub­ been a di tinct boon in thi re pet, enabling lished in July, we shall have given a total vou r secre tary to co-operate with him in of 164 pages, instead of the 120 pages of followin g up, through alumni and directly, ' la t year, or an increase of 44 pages. T his inqu iries received at the Dean' office and has been made possible, and the additional in making personal vi. itation in nearby co t nullified, by the income from advertis­ town. W e have tarted this \ ark thi ing. We hope to continue this develop­ sp ring and propo e to continue and e. tend ment until we are able ultimately to make it during the summer and coming year. the REVIEW I(l monthly, but we propose to V. Regional Meetings continue it as a bi-monthl y until we can T here have been eight regional meeti ngs afford to publish a monthl y of respectabl e of alumni du ring the year-five dinner size and character. held in ev York, Bo ton, ashington, There ha been continued evidence of Buffalo and C hicago during th campaign, appreciation of the magazine among the annual di nner meet ing of the hieago and alumni, with whom we believe it to be our Buffa lo alumni in February and pril, r ­ mo t consi tent agency for developing and spectively, and the annual me ting of the su taining interest in U niversity affairs. Rochester Schoolma ters' lub in yrac u Furthermore, it ha attracted some favor­ during t he Chri tm as holidays. The alumni able attention on the outside. One of aur office hel ped to organize rna t of the full-page advertiser stated th at he con- meet ings, although the secretary only at­ idered it a more attrac tive publication tend ed th e Buffal o and yracu e meeting. than that of his own alma mat er, which is Mr. Ball was called to Chicago at the time one of America's leading universities. of th e meetin g there and so represen ted the Twice during the year it has been quoted home offi ce, whi le th e five campaign din­ or referred to in the ew Yo rk W orid) ners coinc ided with th e big campaign din ner and at lea t two articles 'have been reprinted in th is cit y. The Syracu e meeting wa the with due credit in the alum ni magazines of largest 'and rna t enthusia tic in the hi tor y prominent eastern universities. of th at organization of Rochester alumni V. Sub· reshman Work teachin g in the schools of th e state, w hile all Thi rna t important activity has at last of th e regional association, partic ularly b n placed on what we hope is a perman- those of Chicago and Buffalo, showed an nt and effective working ba i , aimed par­ encouraging w illin gness to co-up rate in th e ticularly at the attraction of a greater num­ work of th e campaign. ber of de irable out-of-town students.Be­ VI. The Alumni Fund lieving that the real ucce s of th is endeavor This problem is always with us and i of Ii in the awakened intere t and par ticipa­ basic importance, for the A lumni Fund is tion of all ilumni, wherever located, your the heart of all of our orga nize d alumni cretary wrote and publi hed in April the work. When our office was opened, this little, illu trated booklet, "W hy Roch- fund amounted to $2, 420.00 fr om 278 sub­ ter." Thi wa mailed \ ith a circular scribers. It has now grow n, on paper, to letter app al to all alum ni and the en­ $5,009.00 from 622 subseribers. \ Ve u e thu ia t~c r pan e ha been' gratifying a the words, "on paper," ad visedly, as quite far as It ha gone. A a re ult of that a few of th e younger, well-i nt entioned sub­ r 'pon e we have mailed out to date 262 scribers ha ve not carried th eir par ticipat ion addit ional copie of the booklet in variou q~J hav~ beyond th e tage of good int ention , w hile n.titi , to alumni who agreed to some oth ers have been obliged to cancel di tribute them di criminately, and have their subscriptions becau se of financial cir­ nt copy with a per ana l lett er to 124 cumstances, and still othe rs have proved individual, pro pective tudent, who e adamant to aur most persi tent colI ction n m and addr e have been fu rni hed us endeavor . ROCHESTE R ALUM IR E VI EW 155

evertheless the fund weathered th e spects, with increasing evidence of awak­ dreaded stre s of the campaign year in ened interest on the part of the alumni at rather gratifying fa hion. From five sta te­ large. W e all have a big task ahead of us, m en t sent out by the alumni office last to make the U niversity of Rochester as year we collected $3,438.50 from 453 sub- g reat an institution in fact as it appears in criber , while we were ab le to add 4 1 new pro mise. W ith your continued co-opera­ ub criber for a total of $23 1.00 immed i­ tion, so mu ch appreciated at headquarters, a tely prior to the start of the campa ign last we only hope that we can make such a year fa ll. From the firs t statement fo r 1925, as this the rule of th e future, rath er than ent ou t la t mo nth, we have already (o n th e exception. June 8) collected $ 1,634.50 fro m 2 10 ub­ Respectfully submitted, sc ribers, many of w hom have also sent in H UGI-I A. S MIT H , '07. their annual Commence me n t du es and most + + of \ hom are paying on th eir ub criptions to the campaign . A Jubilee Synzposium W e feel g ra t ified that during the past We a re transplanting by thi s river t h ree years, in w hich our alumni office has A g rand old forest tr ee been in ope ra t ion and in all of w hich the T o br a nch and blossom here for ever In fruitf ul majesty. cam pa ign has been either pending or ac­ /! sacrificial knife tuall y on u , w e ha ve be en able to raise. Put to some w ithered roots through this fund one- half of th e secreta ry's ' W ould giv e the tree more lif e sala ry, a intend ed , and practi cally all of A nd sweeten all its fruits. th e maintena nce of the A L UM N I R EVI EW. The mighty bron ze of him whose hand I t needs fu rther developmen t , however, if He wed out th e corne rstone t he w ork is to grow and furni shes a real ' ViII come into thi s promi ed land To dwe ll am ong his ow n. p roblem for the new t rcasu rer and th e Th e w omen then I trust 1· in an ce C omm ittee, as w ell as th e sccre­ In place of Martin B. tary. I t is an ineq uab le situat ion, w hen Wi/l raise a v aliant bust one-fourth of t he alum n i 'are payin g th e Of their Saint A nthony. freight for th emselves and th e other three­ O ur ca mpus with its halls and tr ees fo u rths. Will dw ell within each heart, A shrine of youthful memori es VII. Commencement T ha t n ever will depart. om menc eme nt is ann ually a big job for A bandoned to its fat e th e alum n i sec reta ry's office, and it is a IVe vi ew with fond regret Our own memorial gate bigger job this year th an eve r befor e' be­ A nd its uncancelled debt. caus e of th e spec ial D iamo nd .Special cele­ bration , w ith w hich th e alumni office has The do ctors ha ve a physicollege On cemet ery hill been ve ry mu ch occupied since March. W e For teaching all the lat e t knowl edge h ave a m ost efficient an d wi lling Co m­ O f scalpe l and of pill . m en cem en t organiza t ion, but it is naturally And w hen their scalpels slip the secretary's duty, as th e full-time man Or W hetl their pills miscarry They take you for a trip o n th e j ob, to enlist that orga nizat ion, call Into the cern etery, an d atte n d all meetings, foll ow up cla ss r eunions, serve on all com mittees, help plan T he cla ssro om seems a stag e today­ A ll things are taught through art. the program an d work, ge t out a ll mai lings The text is cast into a pla y a n d attend to th e many secretar ial and And ea ch on e learns a part. ot her det ail s in vol ved. . Th ey sing revu es of classics (The balance of the report under thi s In scant dress as of yore /l tt d dance through mathematics it em is now covere d by th e story of what In curv es draum 011 the floor. actu ally happen ed at Commencement, ap­ pea rin g elsew he re in thi s issue). With fifty million nu gly tored A nd million mor e to be, Be of good che er. We approach our Our wonted thrift can well afford con cl usion . W e promised at the out et to This Diamond Jubilee. be conc ise in our presentation of the year' s But our Corn mencemm t dinner) Th e pride of poorer y,ears) activities. If this is our idea of conci seness, I f ear w ill grow still thinn er w e fancy you are unanimously grateful that Till all food disappears. w e did not undertake to be verbose. But Read at Hi CIa Reunion it has been an unusual year in severa l re- by T homa T . w inburne, '92. 156 RO CH EST ER AL UMNI REVIE

A Sad Spring Sto ry on him, and the antoninns ocored tv ice on a wild pitch and a scratc h hit. Two more runs were scored in th e eighth on a Baseball Record melange of hits and error. Roche ter s Var sity 13-Hamilton a two ru ns were earned on clean hitting by Varsity 3-Union 6 C urt in and O'Brien, but the official or r, Vars ity 2-St. Lawren ce 4 strange as it may seem, insisted on crediting Varsity 2-U nion 8 St. Lawrence w ith th four runs, unearned Va rsity IO-Hamilton 11 thou gh th ey we re. Varsity 2-Syracuse 7 A two-day trip to ' chenectady and lin­ Var sity 6-Clarkson 3 ton added two defeats. nion hatter re­ Varsity 4-Cornell 14 lished th e offeri ngs of Me 'onneII, and Varsity a- St. Lawren ce 13 Titus wa s rush ed to the rescue in the third Varsity 6-Clarkson 7 inning. H e respo nded nobly and the homesters wer e able to notch onlv four hit Varsity 48 O pponents 73 in th e last five an d tv a-thirds inning , but th e damage had bee n done. The fina l count wa s 8 to 2. The records of our baseball and track A victory over H amilton was confidently tea ms during th e past season are indubitable anticipat ed the nex t day, but the Buff and evidence th at Ro chester is one of th e uni­ Blue aggregation was apparently et on versit ies again st whi ch th e charge of pro­ avenging the deb acl e here and succeeded in fessiona lize d athletics cannot be made. turning in a II -to-IO victory, thank to eithe r squa d measured up to th e team s ineffecti ve work by W eb ter in the box and of ot her yea rs, and un successful seasons, at loose fielding back of him. yracu e al 0 least from the viewpoint of victories ga ine d, took our mea sure th e fo llowing week at we re practi call y foregone conclusions. In ­ Syracuse, despite a t w o-run lea d obtained a much as both teams were com posed large­ by aur fo rces in th e fi rst inn ing w hen J ack ly of j uni or s and sophomores, better records C urt in hit one high an d fa r wi t h a man on. in 1926 may be reasonabl y anticipated. The Titus pitched well, but th e su pport ac­ mortality from prob ati on decrees will al so corded him wa s far from inspiring. be low er, it is hoped. T he ga me wi th C la rkson her e provided The baseba ll team was stro nger than ex­ th e faithful fo llowers o f th e team wi th pected in pi tching and hitting, but wea k in something to enthu se ab out, as he visitor fielding. It opened its season by giving were defeated 6 to 3. The R ochest er ba t­ our H am ilton fr iend an art istic trimming ters, led by C urtin, with three healthy in th e game at U niversity F ield, th e final drives and one scratch hit, took kindly to count being 14 to O. McConnell gave a the visit ing hurler 's offe rings. Ca pta in spl ndid exhibition of pitchin g, while th e O 'Brien hit one to the football field, but Ro che ter batter took conside rable liberty got only as far as th ir d, due to an injured \ ith th e offering of two H amilton hurler s. leg. connell did not far e so well in the Cornell , in th e game at Ithaca, made ga me again t nion, al a played here, six merry at our ex pense and han ded us a 14­ day la ter, and the Schenectad ians romped to-4 def eat. T he Itha cans bu nched hit away i h a 6-to-3 victory, aided bv our with our errors and soon attained a com­ unce rtain fielding. St.L awrence' al so manding lead . Jack C urtin's hom er fea ­ no ched a vic tory her e the followin g we ek, tured for Ro chest er. de pite eb ter' plendid pit chin g. He The season w as closed w ith a two-day ~ut ou t th vi itor for ix innings, but a jaunt to the st rongho lds of St. L awr cn e hi t, a pa and an error filled th e ba es, and and Clarkson , and -tw o more defeats were connell wa ent in. " Mac" wasn't meted out to our travel ers. Bruce pitched qui e qual a the Herculean task wi sh ed masterl y ball for St. Lawrence and let u RO HESTER ALUM IR E VI EW 157 dov n with four hit, while the home ters We are not by natu re a cra pe ha nger. cl ubbed 'I eConnell and v eb ter valiantly. We wi h we could paint a purely opt irni tic In the lark on game, ood, a ophornore, pictu re, but to do so wo uld requi re the et the Pot darner down in order for five tempe rament of a oue. I n fact , we be­ in n ings, but \ eakened badly in the eventh, lieve th at much of the di appointment over and lark on eha ed over enough ru ns to athlet ic teams in the past has been occa ­ land a 7-to-6 deei ion. sioned by expect ing ometh ing that wa not The opening track meet agai nst Union there. W e are going to t ry to tell you, found our men again t a migh ty trou ble- therefo re, what is actually "t here," as far orne proposit ion , as the E lectricians had as nex t fall's football squad is concern ed. th eir be t team in year and proc ede d to La t vear's eleven won four traight vic­ cl ean up. apta in P endleton wo n th e low tories, including a defeat of R ennsealer at hu rdle and tied fo r first in the high but Troy, and went pretty we ll u nt il the last t h re t of the Roche ter team , \ ith th e t wo games, wh en it lumped a disa ter­ e rcep ti on of uttle, co u ld mak lit tl e head­ ously a to leave a bad taste in the mouth. way. Suttle ra n a plendid qu arter and T hat team wa s able to w in those four wa t imed in 5 1 6- 10 second . games because it wa compo ed for the mo t Alfred and A llegh en y ca me here on uc­ part of originally green men, w ho had ac­ ce ive Sa turday, a nd bot h not ched vic­ quir ed ome knowledge of th e ga me t hrough torie . f cConnell 's a ll-a round ability gave th ree or four years of pati ent plodding and lfr ed a big adva n tag e, and he rec ived coach ing. But that team has now prac­ ufficient a i tance to ena ble the vi itors ticall y disappeared. The complete line to tak e and hold a co m ma nding lead. ap­ from end to end, including C aptai n-elec t tain P endleton again tarred for R ochest er Ba rt on , has either graduated or defin itel y w ith wi ns in both h u rdl es. In the A lle g­ left college. O f those who could be calle d heny mee t he ti ed th a llege recor d of 16 regul ar backs, there remain only W ebste r 4-5 e onds for th e high hu rdl es, held by and Shannon, who practi call y divid ed one Fran k R emin gt on. H edges, a new-com er position between them last fal l. Rufie in t rack, also made h i presence felt by di ­ H edges i in college, but he ha Quite de­ pl a in g Vi ck's college record for th e javelin. finitely decided that his phy ical condit ion Rufe hurled th e mi ile a distan ce of 156 w ill not permit him to play football, if he feet , inche . would continue to play ba ketball, in which In t he closing meet of th e season H amil­ sport he stars. ton managed to eke ou t a 6+ 1/ 3-t o-6 1 2/3 T he coaches are can equently confronted victo ry . Roche ter ' weakne in mo t of by the problem of building a practically th e field event acco unted for th e defeat. new aggregation out of last fall's scru bs C ap tain P endlet on cl osed his college ca reer and fr eshm n, and buildi ng it in time to by again w inni ng bo th the hu rdl e eve nt. mak e some kind of a show ing, w ith but two John K. C u rtin of Brook lyn and Harold week s of prac tice, at Amher st against what Suttle of W est Bloomfi eld w ere elected bids fair to be the best team Amherst has ba eball and track captains at th e do e of produced in year . t heir respecti ve seasons. Both are athle tes of marked ability, and their team ma tes T he alumni doubtless wo uld like to know shou ld find in th em inspiring lead ers. how a team is to be lined up to meet that lVIATTH E W D. L AWL ESS, '09. situat ion, and 0 wou ld the coaches. T he latter nat urall y would not be foolha r dy + + enoug h to forecast a starting lin e-up ; t hey remain " to be shown" by the m~n th em­ Some Facts and Guesses selves in th e fa ll. But fools ru sh In , whe re About F ootball angel s or wise men fear to tread, and we vent ure to hazard a guess as to th e init ial Our next at hletic in terest centers on line-up , based solely upon. our personal ob­ foo tball. Before th e nex t issue of th e R E­ servation of spring pract ice and our own VI EW comes off the p ress, we shall be in the estima te of the available men last fa ll. midst of the gridiron season. T his i our last editorial opport uni ty, th erefore, to O u r guess would find th e following men prese nt a little adva nce in form ation ~ega r d­ getting into the init ial fray at A mhers t : E nds, Vandeventer, Menzies, Mores, ing the actua l situa t ion ahea d of us In th at im portan t sport. K roner and Makin; tackle and gua rds, 158 ROCHESTER ALUMNI R F~ VI E ~

Horner, Feure r, McNall, Haws, Dunn, the line, w h ich certainly will need it. hi M oress and L oeser ; center, Calloway, wi ll leave H ead Coach Lorenz free to \ ark quarterback , Apperman, K ing or Gordon; with the back field, \ hieh is hi preference. halfbacks, W ebster,Shannon, Kroner, We kn ow th at Coach Lorenz hopes to Barnes an d Wolf; fullback, Trenh ol me develop this team , of which not too much and Kroner, or Makin. should be expected at the outset, a that it W e publish this tentati ve lin e-up simply w ill reach its top form on Thanksgiving to give th e alumni some idea of w hat ma­ Day, inst ead of mi d-season, a it did las t terial is available. T he un certainty of eve n year at R en sselaer. W e dare to entertain a guess is indicated by th e appearance of what is kn own as a "sneaking hope" that several names under several position s. A l it may su rprise us pleasan t ly hefore the sea­ Makin intends to return to college , and his son is over. Such hope is based upo n the kickin g sho uld be utilized, but whet her as fact t hat th e men wi ll he fighting to make an end, insid e th e lin e or as a back rem ains and keep their position s, and also to show to be worked out. Kroner's experience th e skeptical public th at they ca n play some would place him at either full or halfback , real footb all. If th at situation generates a but he has an ideal build for either an end consta nt ly ev ident figh ting spirit, the team or tackle, if so needed. M oress has shown w ill have one stro ng and most desirabl some promise at end, but is heavy enough asset which w as not always in evidence last for either guard or tackle on thi s team. season. H .A . S. The fr eshman acqui sitions ar e Tren­ + + holme, Van deventer, Kroner, Apperrnan , Kin g and L oeser, a brother of Ed. and Art. It was feared th at Trenholme would not L iv ely Sunllner 011 Calnp us be avail able, but he weathered th e June T he mon t h of July finds the old college "exams" w ithout suffe ring probation. This campus in an ything but a quiescent state is good new s, as he is the most promisin g thi s summer. Intellectual and physical pu r­ and experienced freshman back to ente r suits vie with on e ano ther for supremacy, college in a long time, specializ ing in kick­ and both are app arently wi n ning ou t. ing, fo rward passing and defen sive work, W hile summer school is go ing on wi thin the which latter attr ibute should pla ce him at buildings, with a record attenda nce, the fullback on the defense at least . Kron er , campus itself seems to be suffer ing w it h mentioned above, and Va ndeventer are also growing pains. For quite a spe ll th er e w as well above the average in experience and promise. Apperrnan and King, both speedy, a du et of steam shovels working, one on natural athletes, may furn ish th e solution th e excavation for th e addition to th e Mem­ of the quarterback problem, despit e Gor­ orial A rt G allery and th e other diggin g a don 's super ior exper ience, as the latter will big ditch for a new tunnel from th e heating be a senior . plant, back of Anderson H all to Sibley The coaching situation we believe is Hall and th en across the g reen sward and settl ed, although we are not yet able to sidewalks to join the tunnel go ing under make a definite annou nceme nt. The on ly Prince Street. vacan t position is that of assistant Varsity W ork is being rushed on the M emorial coach, a Harry Lawson has been assign ed , Art G alle ry w ith a view of ha vi ng it en­ upon his ow n preference, to resum e his old closed before w inter. This addition, to be jo b of fr e hman coach, vaca ted by G iles built on th e rear of the p resent st ructu re . D enn y, who ha left the department to go will practi cally double the capacity of that into econdary school work. building, thanks to th e generosity of Mr. Bef ore Dr. Fau ver left town , the ath letic and Mrs. J ames Sibley Watson. The new commi t tee had decided upon a ma n for thi s tunnel is made necessa ry primarily by the positio n, an d term s had been tent ati vely new dormitory for wo me n, w hic h is fast agreed upon, but no confirmation of th e ap­ nearing comple tion on U niversity A venue. pointment ha yet been received .H e ha s The unfortunate feature of both operation s had con ide ra ble coach ing experience, both is the fact that th ey have meant the sacr i­ in the ea t and on the coa t, and ma kes a fice of several of th e beau ti fu 1 campus trees. favorable impres ion per sona lly. He seems The new unit course in j un ior high to have orne definite idea s regarding effec­ school education , described in our previou s tive line play and will be a signe d to coach issue, is responsibl e for th e record atte nd- ROCHESTER ALUM I REV IEW 159 ance at summer chool. The total enroll­ is being enlivened by an occasional dance m nt is approximately 595, of whom 365 au tomobile t rips to Watkins Glen and are on th e campu and 230 at Washing to n N iagara Fall s, sw imming parties baseball Junior H igh School, ma ny of them from and tennis, und er the inspiration ~f recrea­ r emot e parts of the country. T he session tion al directors and a social committee.

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The faculty baseball team after five 0'Bri en, for baseball , and Maurice Pe ndle­ ~ninut e s of spring pr actice, a l m~s t su rprised ton , for tr ack. it elf a. we ll as the . porting wo rld in its The followin g officers of the Students' annual sen ior week ga me w ith th e sen iors Association for th e coming year were chosen on Thursday afternoon, June 11. The at the annual election on May 22: Pre si­ final ,score was 14 to 13, in favor of the dent, Joseph W. Bentley, '26; vice-presi­ budding gra duates, and if a little insid e dent, Rufus Hedges, '26; treasurer, Stuart ba eball had been left on th e outside dur­ M. Menzies, '27; secretary, Kenneth E. in g th e last inning , th e old boys might have Jackson, '28. Stuart M. Menzies and pulled th e game out. Manager Kuhn, of Alexander Pettrilli were elected as sopho­ the faCl!lty team , featured th e last inning more memb ers of the Board of Control. by making some w ho lesale subst itut ions as a courtesy to th e prof essors on the side lines The sophomores ruled the campus from and th en r equ esting th e erstwhile substi­ 7 :30 to 12 o'clock, Friday night, May 22 , tutes to remain on th e ben ch, w hen 'he in­ th e hour set for the cessation of inter-class ve tigated th e sco re and learned that the ri valry. A few frosh were captur ed during regulars had a chance to w in. the day and evening and given a little pri­ vate entertainment, but for the first time in The second annual Varsit y Follies en­ several years there was no pitc hed battle tertained a gym nasium full of studen ts staged for the benefit of the upperclassmen. faculty memb ers and sub-f reshman g u es t~ on Saturday even ing, May 23. The sen iors Fraternity social activities culminated in gave a quaint ve rs ion of " W ay Down East­ open house dances held by all the frater­ L ynn." The juniors pr esented an ori ental nities on T uesday evening, June 9, at fantasy, "The Shrieking Sheiks," while the whi ch the different groups exchanged hos­ freshmen entert ained with "Hot Sock." pit alities. The sophomores and fa culty ad vertised their acts as my steries, and they are still The l nt erpres appeared on May 18 and mysteries so far as our ability to cla ssify pro ved to be one of the most attractive them is concern ed. editions in the history of Rochester's junior annual. It is bound in limp suede of a An innovation for Movin g-up D ay was brilliant V ar ity yellow, printed in blue, introduced thi s year, when those exercises and is featured throughout by its art' ark were combined with the annual inter-class and liberal halftones. As it i reported to song contest and held on the steps of the hav e been a financial success, it reflect no Memorial Art Gallery on Thursda y after­ little credit on both editorial and busine s noon, May 28. The scene and the cere­ managements. mony, participated in by President Rhees The U niver ity wa repre ented by four and all the men in college, proved very ef­ men at th e Intercollegiate Conference re­ fective. The sophomore cla ss won the con­ garding st udent activitie , held at ornell te st with a son g written by J. Solomon on May 1 and 2. They were J0 eph Bent­ Roodney. Another new tradition wa s ley, '26, for tudent government ; illiam s tarted when President Rhees presented allaw ay, '26, for athletics ; cra n gold athletic emblems to the following Lee, '26, for music and dramati c , and seniors : Mercer Brugler , for football; Rob ert M. ardon, '26, for publication . Gordon Callaghan, for basketball; Clark E 160 ROCHESTER ALUM I Two Young 'Graduates Join Foster Wood grees with s University Staff D ear Mr. E di tor: In look in g a er th I. I I I. RE I. ' Weare happy to welcome to the grow­ which recently came to me, I nonce vanou ing U nive rsity office staff at 44 Prince good things from you: pe~, but I am truck Street two more young alum ni in th e per­ especially by your ;~ltonal,~.nder th caf,­ sons of ]. IVle rcer Bru gler and Ca rl W . tion ,"A re W e a I ongue- I'ied allege . Lauterbach two of the most promising of The fa ct s you th ere present are not onl our recent 'graduates. Brugler was pr esi­ su rp risin g, bu t al a deplorable. Thi i ti ll den t of the Students' Assoc iation and cap­ a world in '\ hich rrong men need to peak tai n of basketball in his senior year, besides out in public and be hea rd ; and Roche t r starring at end in football and findin g tim e has produced many me n \ ho oice. carr to wi n a P hi Beta Ka ppa key. Lauterbach far alon g th e hall o f thought , and will pro­ won his " R" in both football and baseball duce many more. But t he allege au h t t and was very active in the U niversity Y . be doi ng whate er ca n be done to prepar 1. C. A. Both men, by virt ue of their its men of native effectivenes for reat. r popularity and solid personal attributes, efficiency in public peak ing than they , III w ere natural leaders through out th eir col­ ge t by ju t d rifting or by accide ~t . . ou lege cour e. have ca lled attention to a ma tter Il1 which Brugler will be attached to th e treas­ I thi nk many alumni w ill be intere ted . urer' office, pecializing in securit ies. H e , L. F OST ER ODD, '0 will be granted a year's leave of absence next fall to prepare for his new work in the + + H arvard chool of Business Administra­ Dr. Lauro DeBo i , o f the ni er it}' of tion. Lauterbach w ill act as private sec­ Rom e, one of the prom in ent you nge r las­ retary and general a i tant to President sical scholars of Europe, pok in ath n ne Rh . He does not know just w hat his St rong Hall on th e eve ni ng 0 /l ay . n dut ie will be, but we know that he w ill the timely subject : " here D oe Fascirno perform them. Performance is one of th e Sta nd'?" H e appeared under th e Jee L. habit arl ha acquired. R osenb erger foundation , and the hall , a well filled. + + + + H arold uttl~'26 , has been elected Ex.-'73. Edward Bausch , a memb er of th bu in manager of the Campus for th e Boa rd of Tru tee s of th e Roche t r chool for coming year and \ illiam D . Erwin, '25, the Dea f, gave a brief peech at th e ch 01' adverti ing man ager. forty-ninth clos ing exerci e in June.

lao, Lima, M oll end o, A rica, Tacna, Iquique and Autofaga sta. From Autofaga ta they cro sed th e Andes, v isiting Mendoza, Bueno Aires, M onte video, Sa nto, Sao Paulo an d Rio de Jan­ eiro. On the return voyage to Ne v Yo rk they stopped at Trinida d, Ba rbado and Porto Rico. '82. Arthur G . Clement, upe rv isor of biolog­ ical and gene ral scie nce, tate Department o f Educa tion, was a memb er of the committee that pr epared the new syJJabus in ge neral cience, w hich ha recently been i sued by th e ta te Department of E d uca tion . '89. C.A. Hamilton, superinte ndent of the New York State School fo r th e Blind at Ba tavia, N. Y., gave a brief addre s at the annual alumni meetin g of th e chool, held rece ntly. '90. O.H. Burritt, up erintend ent of th e Schoo l fo r th e Blind at O vert on, P a., gave an informal talk at th e annual alu mni m eetin g of th e New RO H E ST ER ALUMNI REVIEW 161

York Sta te choo l for th e Blind, Batavia, held Di vinity. School , Ca lifornia, ha s been spending in J une. a sabba tical yea r In research work at the Uni ­ '9 2. Rev. H enry Topping, a mi ionary in ver sit y of Heide lberg an d the Unive rsity of Japan, r ecently wrot e a letter to a friend in G ottinge n, G e rmany . He was recently granted R he ter, in w hich he indicated that Japan i a doctor's degree by the latt er in ti tution and t ud yi ng m eans to in ure peace, e peciall y with sa iled for hom e on J uly 4. Before go ing ab road merica. Dr. Johnson served as acting p residen t of Berke­ '97. Frank Paine R eilly i a m ember of th e ley Divinity Schoo l during th e absence of th e law firm of Putney, Twombly and Putney , lo­ president. cated in N ew York C ity. ' 10. W. R. Va llance, assistant solicitor of the '98. William Betz, director of mathematic at department of state, Washi ng ton, D. C., was • ast Hi g h School, Rochest er, is on the facu lty one of the represent ati ves of the United Sta tes of olumbia nive r ity during the sum mer se s- government at a confe rence w ith the represen­ ion. tatives of th e Mexica n government held at £ 1 James A. Hamilton, New York state ind us­ Paso, Texas, to cons ide r smuggling and othe r tr i a l commis ioner, will attend the annual con­ la w in f ractions a long the borde r. Mr. Val­ vention of the International A ociation of Pub­ lance was a ppointed a membe r of th e comm ittee Ii Em ployment Services to tak e p lace in ep­ on mi g r ati on. te m ber a t the Powers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y. Ex .-' 12. C. Storrs Ba rrows has recently been D r. and Mr . . F. Pattison are spendi ng a elec ted presid ent of th e Lion s Club at Roch­ year in Europe, a co nsi derable port ion of w h ich este r. time th ey will stay in Poland. M r. Patt ison '14. Avery As hdown, who has been spe nding was Marylka Mod je ka, a gran d d a ug hte r of th e pa st yea r in study ing organic chemistry at M m e. Mo dje ka . th e E idgenoss ische n Technischer Hochsehule in ' 99. Dr. H e rbert S. vVeet, superintendent of Z u ric h, Sw itze rla nd, w ill assu me th e positi on of the Roch est e r public schoo ls, has been re-en g a g ed research associate in th e dep artment of orga nic f or a p riod of ix year at a n a nnua l sala ry che mistry at th e M assachu setts Institute of T ech­ of $ 10,000. He gave th e a dd res , a t th e co m­ nology. A ve ry good summa ry of M r. Ash­ mencement exe rcises of th e R och est er B us iness down 's th esis w as published in th e March num ­ In tit ute. ber of th e J ournal of th e A merica n Che mica l '02. H arry A. Ca rpenter, head of th e d epart­ Soc iety. m ents of che m istry, bi ology and gene r al scie nce H oward S.LeRoy, fo rmerly an assi tant sol­ i n th e junior hi gh schoo ls an d in W est High icit or of th e Departmen t of State, has become choo l, Roch est er , wa a mem ber of th e com­ associa te d w ith Cha rles H. LeFevr e for the pur­ mittee t h a t pr epared th e new sy ll abus in ge n­ po se of practi cin g law und er the nam e of Le­ e ral cie nce, recently i sued by th e St ate D epart­ fev re and Le Roy, in Washing ton, D. C. ment of E d uca tio n . Ex .-' 16. Ke nneth M . Hend er son, of Chicago, '03. D is t rict A ttorney Willia m F. Lo v e ad­ ha s become engaged to Mi ss Marie Blan chard, dressed the g ra du a tes a t th e a nn u al com me nce­ al so of hica go. m ent exercises of th e R och est er C ity No r m a l ' 18.Loui s E .M einhardt, tea cher of French and Scho ol. Spanish at West Hi gh School, Roch ester, is con­ ' 03. A. B. Sia, v ice-pr inc ipal of West High du cting a pa rt)' on a tour through Eu rope dur­ chool, R och est er , who ha s p en t th e pa st ye a r in g the vaca tion months. o n lea v e of abse nce fo r study at Leland Sta n­ Ex .-'18. '\\7illiam Donald Wray w a ma rried f ord ni versit y, Californ ia, ha s b een offe re d a to Mi s Margu eri te M cD onald on June 22, 1925 teaching fellowshi p at t he Le land Sta n for d at Taunton, Mas. Mr. and Mrs. Wray w ill g r a d ua te schoo l of ed ucation a nd w ill be absen t resid e in Ne w Y ork C ity. f or an other ye a r. '20. M on roe A. Blumen ti el wa elected com­ Ex.-' 04. C ong ressm a n M eyer J ac obste in ad­ mander of Wil liam W. Doud Post, American dressed th e grad ua tes of E as t Hi gh School, R och ­ Legion, at th e annual electio n of officer held e ter, a t th eir com me nce me nt exercises . Dr. rece ntly. J a cobst ein a lso add resse d th e g r a d ua tes of th e George W. Miller, a thletic di rector at Frank­ R och est er Busin ess Insti tute, of w hich h e is lin Academy, Malone, N. Y., became the p~oud pre id ent. father of twin g irls, Na ncy and ona Miller, '05. R ev. Le Roy Halb ert, now pastor of the on Januar y 19, 1925. B er gen P oint B aptist C hu rch, Bayonne, N . J., Rev . John Swan William on, rector of t, r ecei ved th e d egree of Docto r of T heology on Luke's E pisco pa l Chu rch, A ttica, N. ., \ a ' May 12 at th e seventy -fifth annual com me nce­ married to M i E liza beth Walk r on June 23, m ent o f Drew Theologi cal Se m in a ry, Madi on , 1925, at Roch e ter, . Y. N.]. M. George Scheck wa pr ofe or of education Theod or e A. Zorn ow, principal of Madi on thi s la t year a t Dr ake niver it)'. He pr e- Juni or High Schoo l, Roch e ter , is cond uc ting a ented a paper before the 10 \ a A adem of ci­ party on a tour t hroug h E u ro pe d u ri ng the sum­ ence in M ay and wa made a fellov of th e m er m onths. Acade my. A fter graduating from Ro he ter he '09. G eo rge H. J oy, gene r a l m anager of th e ea rned an M . . at Princeton in 1922 and a Porto Rico G as & Co ke Co., at San Juan, r ep ­ Ph. D. at orne ll in 1924, where h \ a el cted r esented th e U nivers ity at th e ce remonie a t­ to th e honora ry fraternitie of Phi Delt pp ten da nt upon th e inauguration of Dr. T ho m a a nd igma i. G .Benner a ch a nce llo r of the U niver ity of T h leading, fir t-pag feature in th e illu ­ P or to Ri co in M arch. trat ed editorial ection of th ev W ork W orld, jun John W, J ohnson, professor of ys te mati th ­ for unday, 28, i a tory by]. om­ in ky, city dit or of the he ter D emocrat ology and homiletics in th e B erkel ey B apti t 162 ROCHESTER AL UM IR E I E

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fEJ Chronicle, on the new mouth tests by mean s John Webster J arne. on has recently been mar­ of which the possibilities of real and wo uld-b e ri ed to M iss Irma Jane Camman at Hornell, opera sing ers are an at omicall y d etermined. T he N. Y. Mrs. Jame on w a a ophomore in the story is interestin gly written and represents a College of Fine Arts, Syracuse Univer it y, g rea t dea l of research w ork in ga the ring th e Frank Valenza was the gues t of honor at a data pr esented. reception given recently at the Pre byterian '21. Ford Leland C rocke r ha s becom e engaged Ch u rch of th e Evangel. Mr. Valenza i an elder to Mi s H elen Jeane tte Balcom e, of Brooklyn, of th e church and i also uperintendent of the N. Y. T he we dding will tak e pla ce in th e fall. Sund ay-school. W, Edwin Va n de Walle, a second -yea r stu­ R alph J. Arl idge ha re igned hi po Ilion a . dent in th e Harvard G ra duate School of A rts teacher of Engli h at Ea t High chool, Ro h­ an d cience, ha been awarded the Philip H . este r, to enter th e employ of Conver e Hough ea r chola rship fo r next yea r by H a rvard Co., of Roch e ter , a a bond ale man. Unive rsity. T he scholarship w ill enable him to cont inue hi s ad van ced stud ies in phi losoph y at Ha rvard. P. J .A lvin Zeller is at pr esent en ga g ed in 3Jn .fflemoriam resear ch wo rk in the State Agricultural Ex pe ri­ I men t Station at New Brun wi ck, N. J . . '22. Cla u Frederick Kirsch w as awarded th e C ha rles Hubbell Lewis, B. S., '86, M . D., el e­ degree of rna ter of cience at th e comm encem ent whe re, d ied at San Antonio, Texa , January 10, exerci e of the Ma achu etts In stitut e of Tech­ 1925, ag ed 63 years; wa a tud ent at the Grand nology. Conse rvatory of M u ic, ew York C ity; w a Karl Adam K reag wa s a g r adua te of th e director of mu sic department in ew York; H­ M ed ical School of Geo rge tow n Unive rsity at ita ry A cademy; practiced medicine in Roche te r, the recent commencement exercises. Mr. Kreag N. Y. but after a short and brilliant ca reer was wa al a commissioned a first li eutenant in th e forced to retire fr om practice on account of Medi cal Corps of th e War Department. failing health ; returned to hi s musical work a nd Ra ymond Reuter receiv ed th e degree of doc­ tau ght at Winston , Sa lem, N.. ; Connecticut tor of philo ophy at the recent comme ncement Literary In stitution , Suffield, Conn.; Georgetown exe rcise of the Ma sachuse tts In stitute of T ech­ College, Georgetow n, Ky.; Stetson Un iver ity, nology . DeLa nd, Fla.: Simmons Co llege, Abilene, Texa ; E.Harri on W ernett is managing clerk for was organist and cho ir director of We tmin te r Barber, Fac kenthal an d G idd ings, New Yo rk Presbyt eri an Ch u rch, Roche ter ; A bu ry . E. City. Church, N ew Y ork C ity; Knox ollegiate In ti­ '23. Jame Franci J ohantgen g rad uated w ith tute, New York City; Fir t P re byter ian h urch, honor fro m th e Medical Colle ge of the U ni­ W ins ton, N. C.; Seco nd B apt ist C hu rc h, uffield , ver ity of Mi chigan.He wa elected a memb er Conn. ; F irst B a ptist Chu rc h, Georgetow n, Ky.; of Alpha Omega Alpha, na tiona l honorary m ed­ First Baptist C h u rch, DeLand, F la.; Fir. t ap­ ical fraternity thi pring, one of th e highest tist C hurch, A bilene, Texas; was p re id en t of honor to be obta ined by a medical student. Dr. th e Music T ea chers' As ocia tio n a t Abile ne , Joh ntgen will enter the ho pita l at A nn Arbor, Tex., 1916-17 ; hi s healt h was again bro ke n by \ 'here he will pecia lize in wo ma n' s urg ery over -w ork in 1917, and he was fo rce d to ret ire. nd ob tetric . F red M. \V all ace, ex-'19, di ed at Ro h e ter, o car Loe er, jr., i now Junior Mecha nica l N. Y ., May 5, 1925, aged 29 yea r, an additi on Engineer at the . . Ex pe rimen tal Model Test to Roch ester's li st of w a r ma rtyrs; w a a p ri vate Bin, W hington Iavy Yard. in Com pany L, 309th Infantry, April +, 19 18­ R\ 'ell ar hall, w ho ha been teaching E ng - January 28, 1919 ; served in the SI. Mi h iel a nd Ii h and directing athletic at the Ca ledo nia A rgonne campa ig ns; was se rious ly woun d ed by High chool, \ a pre ented w ith a go ld watch ma chine g un in th e A rgonne-Meu se offens ive in hy the thletic A ociation. Mr.Marshall wi ll France in October, 1918, w hich w ou nds cI ve l­ leach t Ibion, . Y., nex t ye a r. J oped anthritis and finally resul ted in hi s d ea th

STO TE 1414 w. G. Woodams C'oal 783 South Ave. .B rt oodarns, '13, Mgr. ROCHESTER ALUMNI REVIEW 163 after long and patient suffering in a semipara­ ly ed condition. Sideny J. Lockner, ex-'90, A. H., elsewhere, di ed a t Pittsburgh, Pa., after an illne s of ev­ 195 Main Street East eral months, May 10, 1925, aged 55 year; was a i tant at the Dudley Ob ervatory, A lbany, in the making of a star catalogue of the con- tell a tion , 1890-1893; w a fe llow in physics, C la rk University, Worcester, Mass., 1894; as­ sis tant, H a rv ard Observatory, 1895 ; practi ced If yo u are well fitted you are la w in Detroit, Mich. and Lockport, N. Y ., 1897­ 1903 ; principal, high sc hoo l, Princess A nne, well dressed. Md.; instructor of mathematics at Le h igh U n i­ ver ity, a nd Case School of Applie d Science, C levelan d, 0 .; was h ead of th e mathem atics There is a comfortable, easy­ a nd ph y ics departments at th e U n ivers ity of Akron ; was au thor of severa l text books a nd fitting yet perfectly correct fit treatise , and ha d contrib uted to sever a l cie n­ that is characteristic of high tifi c journal ; was pr ofessor of mathemati cs a t th e n ive rs ity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., grade clothe s. at th e tirne zif hi s d eath. arl Fred erick Roh , ex-'88,M . D. , elsew he re, AMcFarlin suit will fit you di ed at Kansas C ity, M ay 13, 1925, a g ed 6 1 ye a r ; was g rad u a te of th e K an as C ity ni ­ properly; and even after it is ve rs ity l edical Co llege and a post g r ad u a te stude n t at th e U niver. it y of Tuebingen, G e r­ well worn it will De obv iously many; was corone r, Johnson Co ., Neb . : was a "gentleman's suit." ph y icia n a n d su rgeon at G a rriso n, N eb. ; was a pt ai n in th e M edi cal R eser v e Co rps., U . S. A.; ph ysi cian a nd su rgeon a t No rw ay, l a ., 1919 -21. \ Vallace S am ue l T ruesde ll, A. B. , '86, A. M., m ember of Phi Beta Kappa; di ed at Germ a n­ McFarlin Clothing Co. town,P h ila de l ph ia, P a. , May 27, 192 5, a ged 64 W. P. Barrows, Pres. ye a rs; was a n in structor in C a na nda igu a Acad­ emy, Canan daig ua , N . Y ., 1886-1 887; Stetson U n ivers ity , D eland,F la., 1887-1 888; w as stu­ d ent at Johns H opkins U nivers ity , spe c ializing in languag es; returned to C a na nd a igu a Acad­ em y until 1890 ; was in structor in W orces ter HARPER ICE CO. Inc. Aca demy, W orcester, Mass. ; was a prof essor of Latin in th e Germ a ntow n A cadem y, Phil a­ Distributors of Artificial Ice d elphia, Pa., for thirty -four y ea rs and al so was in ch a rge of th e Latin Department at t he Phil­ eh:l';. E. Harper, '18 Joseph H. Harper adelphia C ollege of Pharmacy and Sci enc e for Pr esident Vice-Pr esident th e I ast tw enty ye a rs; was widely known as a successfu l and influential ed uc a to r. Hermann Dossenba ch General Manager Ray K en yon Sa va ge, A . B. ,'03 , A. M ., el se­ where, was ki lled in an automobile accident at Ge ne ral Office, 1980 Ea st Ave Rochester, N. Y., June 21, 1925, aged 46 ye a rs ; Phone, Chase 1707 w as a n in structor of Latin and G re ek in Oswego High School, 1900-1 902; was appointed prin­ cip a l of Lake V iew Sc hool, No.7, Rochester, West Side Branch 770 E merson Street where he se rved successfully until September , Phones Glenwood 250-251 1919, when he became principal of Jefferson John M. Glosser, '24, Supt. Junior High School; stud ied during summer . essions at Teac he rs ' C olle ge, C olum b ia U n i­ v ers ity, from which he re cei ved a diploma ce r­ Our aim is to give service th at is satisfactory tifying him as su pe r in ten den t of public schools; was in struct or in pedagogy at U n iv er sity of to th e last detail-Service With a Smile Rochester su m mer sess ion ; gave sum m e r courses in education at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, Balti­ more 1922 and 1923; was a pioneer in Roches­ ter i'n the mo vement to educate th e for eign­ J. Solomon Roodney, of Kin g ton, N . Y., an born in the way s of America, which proved to undergraduate who completed hi ophomore be so successful that out of it, it is aid, the yea r in June, was in tantly killed in an auto­ present program of teaching E ngl ish to foreign­ ers has g rown ; was president of th e Rochester mobile accident near Delhi, N. Y., on June 24, aged 20 y ea r ; wa member of Kappa Nu f~a ­ Teachers' A sociation in 1912, and throughout ternity and of gle e club and Rag PIck er , w in­ his ye a rs w as a st a unch su ppo rter of ev.er y. "!ove­ nin g Troubadour key in oph omore yea r and ment for th e improvement of th e individual int er-cia s ong ont e t in May; w as on taff of teacher and of the teaching profession, in which he was himself an outstanding example. Campus in fre hman ye ar. 164 R OCHESTER ALUM IR E I E

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