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In the News this Week: Undergraduates Plan Cornell Day Entertainment as Sixteen Clubs Announce Com- mittee Chairmen. Rowing Schedule Announced as Crews Take to Water for Sixteenth Season Since First Victory at Saratoga. Polo Team to Enter New York Indoor Intercollegiates — Women Play to Crowded Gallery. Faculty Disapproves Athletics Tax but Favors University Control. First Unified Summer Session Under New Plan Offers Innovations. Dean Richt- myer Ό4 Describes Ideals of University.
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TO HUNT ANCESTORS perhaps a million years, as the rocks FACULTY DISLIKES TAX Seek Fossil Remains now exposed in the ravines and gorges at the head of Cayuga Lake. When the Will Support Athletics Within a month a party of students Ithaca rocks are traced toward the south The University Faculty on March 13 of the Department of Geology will set and especially toward the east, they be- head the report of its own committee on out to hunt in the hills east of Ithaca the come red and green, and it is here that the athletic situation, headed by Profes- fossil remains of the earliest land-living probably are lurking the ancestors of sor Frederick G. Marcham, and did not vertebrate animals. They will be led by Paramphibius." favor the proposed compulsory tax for Dr. Kenneth E. Caster 'x^, and the trip In this region the Cornell party, after which 1,517 students voted in the poll will furnish field experience for the mem- visiting the scene of Dr. Willard's dis- conducted by the Student Council, as re- bers of his class in historic geology. If covery, will search for signs of the early ported in the ALUMNI NEWS last week. successful, its results will be of inestim- ancestor of man and beast. The Pennsyl- It is expected that this committee will able value to science. vania tracks were wide and sprawling, represent the Faculty at future meetings 'The recent discovery near Susquehanna, with a groove between where presum- of the Trustees' committee, the next of Pa. by Dr. Bradford Willard of the foot- ably a heavy tail was dragged. The prints which is scheduled for March ±9. prints of a previously unknown animal of the hind feet show normal toes, but Dean Cornelius Betten of the Univer- which lived three to four hundred mil- those of the fore feet show delicate rays sity Faculty issued the following state- lion years ago leads to the supposition such as might have been made by fins. ment after the meeting: that in older rocks not only the foot- Dr. Caster has asked nature lovers and "At the meeting of the University prints but even the fossil remains of an amateur fossil hunters of the region to Faculty held on Wednesday afternoon, earlier fish-like ancestor will be found. communicate with him if they find any the special committee which is repre- Because of the greater age of the rocks similar imprints. senting the Faculty in the study now east and south of Cayuga Lake, Dr. being made of the Athletic situation, Caster says there is no area known on GIVE FOUR MORE PLAYS presented a report of its own tentative earth where the search for this missing The Dramatic Club presented four conclusions for the purpose of drawing ancestor of man and beast could be under- original plays Saturday night in the out Faculty opinion. taken with more basis for success than University Theatre.'' Through the Door'' "The Faculty declared its opinion in in the area from Ithaca to Norwich and by Deane Dunloy was coached by Betty general terms, showing clearly its pur- south to the Pennsylvania line. Stout '35 of Auburn. Lewraine T. Magee pose to support both intercollegiate and "All living quadrupeds," says Dr. '36 of York, Pa., who will be remembered intramural athletics. It also indicated a Caster, "developed from Paramphibius, for her performance in'' Clear All Wires,'' determination to bring these activities as Dr. Willard called the animal whose did well in a poor spot as the neglected more definitely under University control footprints he found. Until recently, how- wife, as did Stanley D. Metzger '36 of than heretofore. ever, no one dreamed that this ancestor New York City as her lover. The majority opinion seemed to favor of all of us had lived much before the age "Written in the Stars" by Annette R. bringing intercollegiate athletics to a of coal. The footprints in Pennsylvania Baker '35 of Hudson gave opportunity self-supporting basis. The proposed com- were made at least a million years before for an outstanding performance by Eva pulsory tax on students met with no the age of coal began. Wolas '36 of New York City, as a hard- favor as a means to that end. The existing '' From these footprints it is suggested boiled stenographer to a movie mogul committee was continued for the purpose that Paramphibius still retained fin-like who was inspired to bigger and better of representing in the future discussions fore feet while its hind feet had developed pictures without ballyhoo and stars. The the general points of view expressed." toes rather similar to those of newts and play was coached by Laura B. Maughan salamanders. If true, the animal comes '35 of Etna. WHILE THE REST of the University closest to being the 'missing link' be- The idealistic artist in '' Aprons with- community votes and hears reports on the tween fishes and land-living vertebrates out Strings" by Ruth Beck, directed by situation of athletics, fifty or more em- of any fossil yet found. However, from Marie A. Prole '36 of Batavia, was well ployees have organized their own Uni- the fact that the hind feet are not as done by Andrew C. Hartnett '38 of El- versity Employees' Athletic Club, with simple as those of the very earliest land- mira. The lines were good and the cast Edgar A. Whiting '2.9, manager at crawling animal would have been, it is did admirably. Willard Straight, as president. The reasonable to suppose that still older But "Co-ed" by Violet J. Brown '35 initiation fee of $1 and annual dues of rocks may disclose fossils of an even more of Brooklyn, co-winner of this year's $2., payable in installments, make the ancient, more fish-like ancestor. Heermans' Prize, was a grand play. Nine organization self-supporting and competi- "While the muds and sands and ooze co-eds in a women's dormitory, in various ' tion is keen now in basketball, Willard in the inland sea which covered the stages of undress, are bull-sessioning Straight having recently defeated College Ithaca region were being transformed when in walks a man, played by John A. Stores, and Residential Halls the Me- into rock, along the shore of the salt Clausen '36 of Passaic, N. J. The situa- chanical Engineering force. water the sands and dust and muds were tion was carried off with ease and natural- also being transmuted into rock. These ness by the entire cast. The outstanding THE LAW QUARTERLY has elected are the continental beds, usually recog- performance of the evening was by four juniors to head its board next year: nizable today by their red or green color. Sharma G. Scutt '36 of Deposit, whose John M. Friedman of Rockaway Beach, The rocks in which the footprints were antics were delightful and thoroughly editor-in-chief; Robert S. Pasley of found in Pennsylvania are of the con- entertaining. The lines were catchy and Maplewood, N. J., business manager; tinental colors. interesting throughout, and we couldn't Frederick W. Whiteside, Jr. of Camden, "But although their history is essen- help feeling that it ended all too soon. Ark., book review editor; and John F. tially the same, the rocks in which the The coach was Mildred E. Evans '35 of Maddever of Niagara Falls, managing footprints were found are not as old, by Utica. R.R. '31 editor. Elections are based on scholarship. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
sented the revision of the curriculum of ANNOUNCE SUMMER SESSION PLANS Arts and Sciences in 193Z. The other First to Combine Five Previous Schools Opens July 8 members of the administrative board are Offer Many New Features Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, Professor of Physics and Dean of the Graduate The forty-fourth Summer Session of the emphasizing the interdependence of ar- School; Dr. Julian E. Butterworth, Pro- University which opens next July 8 and chitectural and landscape design, an- fessor of Rural Education and Director continues to August 16 is the first to be nounced in the ALUMNI NEWS of February of the Graduate School of Education; conducted under the new plan by which 2.1. Given in the College of Architecture, Dr. Herbert H. Whetzel, '04 Grad., Pro- the five previous separate summer schools this is the only work of the sort offered fessor of Plant Pathology; Dr. George H. are coordinated under one administrative in this country. Several new courses will Sabine '03, Professor of Philosophy; and board. Several new courses and some be added to the previous extensive offer- Dr. Robert E. Cushman, Gold win entirely new lines of work will be offered ings in stagecraft and dramatics, and Smith Professor of Government. this year for the convenience of educators, students in this Department will again The first summer session of the Univer- school and college officials, college stu- appear in the performances of the Sum- sity was held in 1893. In 1911 a summer dents, or others who find it convenient mer Theatre. Special courses for tea'chers session of the State College of Agriculture to pursue University work at this time. of industrial education and industrial was established as an independent but A total of x8o courses will be given by arts are to be given for the first time this affiliated unit. In 19x3 the Summer an instructing staff of 160. They include summer with the cooperation of the School of Biology was similarly organ- work in the Colleges of Art and Sciences, State Department of Education, adding ized . Courses in the State College of Architecture, Engineering, Agriculture, to the extensive list of courses offered Home Economics were added in 19x8. and Home Economics; in the Graduate in the Graduate School of Education. Registration in the five last year was School and the Graduate School of Edu- The work of the former Summer 1644. It is expected that enrollment in cation; and in the Geology Field School School of Biology will continue this the 1935 Cornell University Summer at Spruce Creek, Pa. year. The courses are identical with those Session—University and State Summer In addition to their formal University given during the college year and by the Schools will be larger. work, students will have opportunity to same staff; this feature has attracted many enjoy a series of concerts sponsored by the students in the past and is expected to ANDREWSES SEE MANY Department of Music, the performances continue to do so under the new arrange- Visits toCornellians throughout the Far of the Summer Theater in Willard ment. East are reported by Professor Eugene P. Straight Hall, and the playgrounds, Another popular offering being con- Andrews '95, Archeology, and Mrs. tennis, swimming, and other facilities tinued is the integrated course in family Andrews, who have recently returned to for sports. living given by various departments of Ithaca from a sabbatic leave spent in the Schedule Special Conferences the College of Home Economics for Hawaiian Islands, China, Japan, and the home economics teachers. It gives ex- Philippines. Several conferences of special interest perience in selecting, organizing, and Leaving Ithaca last July x8, they spent to students in various fields will be held developing teaching material around some time in the West and were for three here before and during the regular Sum- everyday situations and problems. weeks guests in Honolulu of Dean Arthur mer Session. On July 4, 5, and 6 a sym- L. Andrews '93 of the college of arts and posium on ionic physics will be con- Beginning June 2.4, the Department of Hotel Administration offers a series of sciences of the University of Hawaii, and ducted by members of the Department of Mrs. Andrews. Their expedition from Physics and others. Professor J. Franck, unit courses of one or two weeks, for persons engaged in hotel or hospital there to edge of the crater of Kilauea was formerly of the University of Gottingen described in a letter printed in the and recently appointed professor of work. The summer field school in geol- ogy at Spruce Creek opens June 17. ALUMNI NEWS of October 11, 1934. physics at Johns Hopkins, will be the Returning, they visited Kauai Island non-resident lecturer in that subject this Courses In Every Subject and Albert Horner '13, raising "the best summer. These are but a few highlights of a pineapples in the world." Later the Cor- July 15-zo the American Institute of Summer Session program which includes nell Club of Honolulu gave a dinner for Cooperation holds its national meeting many and varied courses, in drawing, Professor Andrews, and Mrs. Andrews on the Campus to consider problems re- painting and music; philosophy, history, was entertained by the wives of the lated to agricultural cooperative market- government, economics, and sociology; members. There they met also Mung Yee ing. Members of the Summer Session education and psychology; biological Yap '2.9, who is in charge of the Shanghai staff and others prominent in this field sciences; geography, geology, and mete- department of China's foreign office. will take part in its program and its ses- orology; astronomy, physics, chemistry, Through him they were met in Yoko- sions will be open to students in Agri- and mathematics; architecture; engineer- hama by one of the secretaries of the cultural Economics and Farm Manage- ing; agriculture; and home economics. Ghinese Legation, who drove them to ment. All are listed in the preliminary an- Tokyo. There they were invited to tea Two special conferences of interest to nouncement now being distributed to with the Chinese Minister and enter- school officials and teachers will be held inquirers, and will be more completely tained at dinner by three secretaries of July 2.9 to August z: one on the training described in the regular Summer Session the Legation. of home economics teachers in group Announcement which will be published In Tokyo, Professor and Mrs. Andrews leadership; the other, sponsored jointly shortly. A uniform fee of fifty dollars found Kakumaro Kemmotsu fx8 manag- by the State Department of Education covers tuition, for the six weeks of the ing one of the large hotels. After visiting and the Graduate School of Education, Summer Session; the shorter unit courses Nikko and Kyoto, former Japanese on problems of school attendance and cost ten dollars a week. capital, and in Keijo (Seoul), Korea, they pupil adjustment. From August 10 to 17 Professor Loren C. Petry is Director were the guests in Mukden, Manchuria, a conference on vocational education of the unified Summer Session. He has of Lewis C. Perry, Jr. Ίz and Mrs. Perry will be held by administrators, super- been a member of the staff of the Botany of the Standard Oil Company. There they visors, and teacher trainers in agricul- Department since 19ZZ and Professor of visited the club which now occupies the tural education of several states. Botany since 192.5. He is secretary of the former temple which Willard Straight Among the new courses offered this Botanical Society of America, and was converted into the American Consulate, summer is that for advanced students chairman of the committee which pre- and saw his picture as one of a group. MARCH 1935
After two weeks in Peking, they travelled to Nanking and at the Univer- CORNELL DAY PLANS TAKE SHAPE sity found many Cornellians. Later, at Undergraduates Plan Entertainment of Visitors May 11 as Sixteen Shanghai, Mung Yee Yap (now known in China as Yui Ming) entertained the Clubs Announce Chairmen travellers at the American cinema, a Plans for Cornell Day, May 11, are Ίo; Maryland, Roger S. Hall '13; Boston, Chinese theatrical performance, various rapidly taking shape, with a meeting of Mass., Francis Niccolls '13; Chicago, drives, and a supper party at a smart seventy undergraduate committee mem- 111., Alfred H. Hutchinson Ίo; Washing- night club where the entertainers were bers held March 13 to outline the program ton, D. C, JohnS. Gorrell '05 Rochester, all White Russians, of whom they say of entertainment for the several hundred Joseph B. Bloss, Jr. '2.2.; Syracuse, Robert there are large numbers in China, many prospective Cornellians who will visit C. Hosmer Όo; Lacka wanna Club, having been given Chinese citizenship. the Campus. They will eat and sleep at Russell T. Kerby '13; Newark, N. J., Next they visited Hong Kong and fraternity houses, arriving Friday even- Clarence J. Pope Ίi; Albany, Prentice Manila and flew and motored through ing, May 10. Cushing '05; Philadelphia, Pa., Walter the mountain provinces back from the' On Saturday morning the guests will W. Buckley 'z6; Wilmington, Del., coast. Enroute to Bantoc they spent a be shown about the Campus, and especi- Caesar A. Grasselli, 2_d. '2.4; Plainfield, night at Mt. Data Lodge, owned and run ally the colleges in which they may be N. J., John McGlone '06; Lehigh Valley by Percy W. Tinan '03, who has been interested. That afternoon they will be Club, Morris D. Farr 'z6; Detroit, Mich., living there for twenty years and is an guests of the University at a baseball Frank Nitzberg '2.1. authority on the history and folklore of game, probably with Princeton, and it is Although their activities cover a some- the region. hoped there may be a race of 150-pound what broader territory than can be in- Homeward bound, they stayed over crews. Saturday evening President cluded in the Cornell Day activities, the night at'' Silverado,'' the ranch of George Farrand will speak at a brief rally, with a speaking trips of the four travelling pro- P. Dyer '95 above Calistoga, Cal., and dance planned afterward. On Sunday, fessors are closely allied with its purpose. came to New York through the Panama those who wish to go will be taken to By April 1, Professor Charles L. Durham Canal on the SS President Lincoln. Taughannock and Buttermilk Falls to see '99 will have returned from his swing something of the country about Ithaca. around the circle, and Professors Bristow AWARD '94 DEBATE PRIZE Ray S. Ashbery '2.5, Alumni Field Adams, Riverda H. Jordan, and John G. The Ninety-Four Memorial Prize of Representative, is general chairman of Jenkins '13 will be on the road. The $94, established by the Class of '94, was Cornell Day and Professor Herman itineraries of all four are included in our awarded to Stanley D. Metzger '36 of Diederichs '97 is Faculty adviser. Be- calendar of'' Coming Events.'' New York City for his argument for the sides the members of the undergraduate executive committee representing the PLANNERS MEET HERE negative of the resolution that the manu- Officials of the National Resources facture and sale of arms and munitions senior societies, other honorary societies, the Interfraternity Council, the Student Board, Federal planning body, met in should be nationalized. The debate was Council, and The Cornell Daily Sun, as Ithaca March 10 and with Provost Al- held in Memorial Room of Willard printed in the ALUMNI NEWS last week, bert R. Mann '04, chairman, and others Straight Hall on March iz. all sixty fraternities sent representatives of the State Planning Board the next day Metzger was the last speaker for the to this meeting. to consider the work of both bodies and negative. The other speakers, all selected inspect the results of planning in Ithaca as the result of competition, were Arlene Clubs to Send Boys and Tompkins County. J. Tuck '36 of New York City, Phillip Ashbery explained that there are three Representatives of the Federal body Goodheim '36 of Gloversville, and Ed- principal sources of nominations for Cor- included Frederic A. Delano, uncle of ward H. Weeks '36 of Richmond Hill, nell Day guests: through high school and president Roosevelt, who is chairman of for the affirmative; and Ruskin F. Harris preparatory school principals, from the advisory committee of the National '37 of Brooklyn and Harold D. Cohen alumni, and from undergraduates. Names Resources Board; Charles W. Eliot, zd., '35 of Kingston for the negative. which come to him by April 1 from son of the late president of Harvard, Dean Dexter S. Kimball of the College alumni, he said, would be referred to executive secretary; Harold A. Merrill of Engineering presided and awarded the Cornell clubs, whose Cornell Day com- 'zz, associate executive secretary; and prize. The judges were Professor Julian mittees would interview the boys and Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, present Mes- P. Bretz, American History; Royal E. arrange for their transportation to senger lecturer, who is a member of the Montgomery, Economics; and Mont- Ithaca. By April 15 he will also refer advisory committee. gomery Robinson, Agricultural Exten- undergraduate nominations to these club State Planning Board officials besides sion. committees, or make arrangements direct Provost Mann included Robert Whitten Metzger contended that government if there is no club active in the candi- of New York City, consultant, and Jesse control of arms manufacturing would date's neighborhood. Alumni who are C. Merrill Ίγ. Dr. Whitten addressed not decrease the probabilities of war, but not in a club territory are also sending the class in regional planning on March on the contrary might increase them if it names to him. 13. The visitors attended a conference at forced small nations to go into the busi- Sixteen Cornell clubs have already sent the University at which members of the ness by making them more independent to Ashbery the names of their Cornell Faculty of the College of Agriculture of each other than at present, and thus Day chairmen and committees. Many discussed various phases of land use and lessening the chances of international others, he says, are at work, following planning on which they have been work- cooperation to reduce armaments. Thome's suggestions as printed in the ing with the State Board. Those who ALUMNI NEWS of March 7, but have not spoke were Professor George F. Warren THE SUN announces a weekly fashion yet sent him their chairman's name. These '03, Dr. Thomas E. Lamont 'Z7, and Dr. column, "Clothes and the Co-ed," to he urges to do so at once, so that boys in Martin P. Catherwood, PhD '30, of the appear on Wednesdays, beginning March their territories who are nominated may Department of Agricultural Economics zo. It will be conducted by Ruth M. Press be referred to them. and Farm Management; Dr. Frank B. '35 of Philadelphia, Pa., Alice C. Bailey The Cornell Day chairmen of the clubs Howe, Soils; and Professor Dwight '36 of Skaneateles, and Gladys L. Winters which have so far reported are: West- Sanderson '98 and Walfred A. Anderson, '36 of Staten Island, members of the field, N. J., Albert M. Lamberton '09; PhD *Z9, of Rural Social Organization. women's board of editors. Trenton, N. J., Howard T. Critchlow George S. Tarbell '90 attended the ses- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
sions as chairman of the Ithaca City- APRIL 5 Planning Commission. At Chicago: Professor Adams speaks to alumni Last week Governor Lehman, in a COMING EVENTS and at schools At Wilmington: Professor Jenkins speaks to special message to the Legislature, asked Time and place of regular Club luncheons are printed alumni and at schools separately as we have space. Notices of other Cornell the creation of a permanent State plan- At Akron: Professor Jordan speaks to alumni ning council, to continue the work "so events, both in Ithaca and abroad, appear below. Contributions to this column must be received on or and at schools well begun" by the present board of before Thursday to appear the next Thursday. APRIL 6 twenty-two headed by Provost Mann. At Ithaca The Governor said that the recent report Polo, Ridgewood Polo Club of the board had drawn much favorable MARCH Ί.^ APRIL 7 comment, and suggested a permanent At Ithaca Spring recess ends Track, Syracuse and Colgate council of five to be appointed by the At Milwaukee: Professor Adams speaks to Fencing, Varsity vs. Alumni Governor. Among the problems which alumni and at schools Civil Engineering banquet, Willard Straight it would consider he mentioned housing, Laboratory Theatre presents "Uncle Vanya" APRIL 8 rural electrification, air terminals, in- by Tchekov, 8:15, University Theatre, At Milwaukee: Professor Adams speaks to dustrial locations, city expansion, re- Willard Straight alumni and at schools gional markets, and public recreation. At Newark: Polo, Junior Varsity vs. Essex At Philadelphia: Professor Jenkins speaks to Troop, Armory alumni and at schools CLEVELAND SEES MOVIES At New^Ύork: Indoor Polo Intercollegiates, At Youngstown: Professor Jordan speaks to ROTC vs. Pennsylvania Military College, alumni and at schools The Cornell Club of Cleveland was Squadron A Armory entertained at its regular luncheon March Fencing Intercollegiates, Hotel Commodore APRIL 9 At Milwaukee: Professor Adams speaks to 14 with a sound picture, "Ford and the MARCH 15 alumni and at schools Century of Progress." At Ithaca At Philadelphia: Professor Jenkins speaks to Debate with Hamilton, broadcast from alumni and at schools MILWAUKEE BOWLS WESG, 3 p. m. At Pittsburgh: Professor Jordan speaks to alumni and at schools The Cornell Club of Milwaukee held At Geneva: Debate with Hobart an informal supper and bowling party at At Little Rock: Professor Durham speaks to alumni and at schools APRIL 10 the Hollywood Recreational Parlors on At St. Paul and Minneapolis: Professor Adams the evening of March 6. Twenty-seven MARCH 2.6 speaks to alumni and at schools Cornellians and their guests were present. At Memphis: Professor Durham speaks to At Pittsburgh: Professor Jordan speaks to Clifford B. Stevens '35 led the singing, alumni and at schools alumni and at schools accompanied by an accordian. After sup- APRIL II per bowling was enjoyed, the finale being MARCH 2.7 At St. Paul and Minneapolis: Professor Adams At Ithaca a match game between C. R. (Ray) speaks to alumni and at schools Debate with Hamilton, Willard Straight McCallum Ί8-Carl E. Hubert '32. and At Harrisburg: Professor Jordan speaks to Hall alumni and at schools the team of Max Sievert, the host, and At Nashville: Professor Durham speaks to Dayton Worden of Lehigh. alumni and at schools APRIL 12. At St. Paul and Minneapolis: Professor Adams MRS. SAGE DIES MARCH X8 speaks to alumni and at schools At Louisville: Professor Durham speaks to Mrs. William H. Sage died at the age At Bethlehem and Allentown: Professor alumni and at schools Jordan speaks to alumni and at schools of 78 on March 10 at her home in Men- ands. She was the widow of the son of MARCH 19 APRIL XO Henry W. Sage, early chairman of the At Cincinnati: Professor Durham speaks to At Ithaca Board of Trustees, whose first gift to the alumni and at schools Indoor ROTC Horse Show, Riding Hall University was $150,000 on condition MARCH 30 APRIL 2.7 that women be accepted as students. University spring recess starts An Annapolis: Three crews race against Navy William H. Sage died October 2.3,192.4. At Wilkes Barre: Polo, 109th Field Artillery, From 1888 until his retirement in 1904 Pennsylvania National Guard MAY 3 he was a Trustee of the University. He At Ithaca was one of the charter members of the APRIL I Hotel Ezra Cornell, Willard Straight Hall Athletic Association, for many years Last day for filing nominations for Alumni MAY 4 Trustees, University Treasurer's office; signa- was president of the Council, and gave At Cambridge: Two crews race Harvard, tures of ten or more degree holders required the land that later became Percy Field. M. I. T., and Syracuse At Detroit: Professor Adams speaks to alumni He established the pension fund for Uni- and at schools versity professors, made several con- MAY 11 At Baltimore: Professor Jenkins speaks to At Ithaca: Cornell Day tributions for the equipment and beauti- alumni and at schools fication of Sage Chapel, and with his At Dayton: Professor Jordan speaks to alumni MAY 18 brother, Dean Sage, gave and endowed and at schools At Ithaca: Spring Day the University Infirmary, which was the APRIL 2. Carnegie cup regatta with Princeton and former residence of his father. At Toledo: Professor Adams speaks to alumni Yale and at schools Mrs. Sage was the second wife of Wil- Baseball, Yale At Baltimore: Professor Jenkins speaks to Polo, Princeton liam H. Sage. They were married in 1898. alumni and at schools JUNE 14-16 For several years she lived in Ithaca, first At Columbus: Professor Jordan speaks to At Ithaca with the family of Henry W. Sage and alumni and at schools Reunions of the following classes: '69, ,70, later, as the most intimate friend of the '71, '71, '75* '8o, '85, '88, '89, '90, '91, first Mrs. William H. Sage, with that APRIL 3-4 f '95, 'oo, Ό5, '07, o8, '09, Ίo, '15, Ίoy family. She is survived by two stepsons, At Chicago: Professor Adams speaks to *2-5> '2-6> >2-7> >2-8, '2.9, '30, '33 Harry W. Sage and Andrew Gregg Sage alumni and at schools At Washington: Professor Jenkins speaks to JUNE 15 of New York City, and two step-grand- alumni and at schools At Ithaca children, Mrs. William Douglas Burden At Cleveland: Professor Jordan speaks to Annual meetings of the Cornellian Council and Miss Marion Whit. alumni and at schools and Cornell Alumni Corporation MARCH 1935 5
JUNE 17 John L. Gollyer -17, captain and stroke oί At Ithaca the 1916 crew and acting coach thereafter Sixty-seventh annual Commencement About during the illness of Coach Courtney. Collyer is British manager for the Dunlop JUNE 18 Tire and Rubber Company. From 1899, At Poughkeepsie: Regatta ATHLETICS when John Hoyle came to Ithaca, until JUNE I8-II his illness prevented, the Cornell shells At Ithaca CREWS TAKE TO WATER and oars were fashioned in our own boat- Alumni University (tentative) Announce Schedule house. Since then shells have been pur- Again the crew men are making the chased in Seattle, Wash. long trek down the Hill to the boathouse As candidates for the Varsity and ST. LOUIS ELECTS from afternoon classes, rowing with a Junior Varsity boats, Coach Wray has New officers of the Cornell Club of St. will in the ice-bordered waters of the many with experience, including seven Louis are Shurly R. Irish Ί8, president; Inlet, and getting back at dusk as best who rowed at Poughkeepsie last June, Donald E. Huntington '27, vice-presi- they can to the self-financed training most of the sophomore boat which won dent; Theodore A. Eggmann '2.7, treas- table at the Johnny Parson Club for such the Treman Cup and the Forbes mugs last urer; and Vadime V. Netch (Netchvolo- as can afford it; and others to their jobs. fall, and four experienced coxswains. doff) '32., secretary. The spirit that led the Cornell crews to Among those from the Varsity and JV On February 15 the Club gave a formal their first victory at Saratoga in '75 is Poughkeepsie boats are Commodore testimonial dinner at the Missouri Ath- still alive! Thomas C. Borland '35 of Oil City, Pa., letic Association in honor of Franklin W. Coach James Wray looks forward to William C. Babcock '35 of Hornell, John Olin '85, who had been recently ap- having not one but three or four good W. Todd, Jr. '35 of Pittsburgh, Pa., pointed a Trustee of St. Louis University. crews for this sixtieth season since that William H. Foote '35 of Miles, Wis., Emeritus Professor Nathaniel Schmidt historic day.'' We have lots of good boys, basketball captain, Arthur F. Glasser '36 was the official representative of the and they want to row," he says. So far, of Paterson, N. J., Francis C. Hopper '36 University and attended the dinner. the rowing has been intermittent, and of Troy, William G. Van Arsdale '36 of On March to the Club planned to take only in the Inlet south of the boathouse, Castile, and James C. Forbes '36 of advantage of the presence in St. Louis of with the water still covered with ice to Shaker Heights, O. Professor Charles L. Durham '99 with a the north and for half a mile into the buffet supper at the Kings way Hotel, at Lake. Many Promising Oarsmen which they were to entertain prospective But eighty are on the training table; Six of last fall's winning sophomore Cornellians. a new British-built shell is about ready crew are rowing: William A. Drisler of for shipment; and the rowing schedule is Bronxville, stroke, James G. Dodge of AWARD HEERMANS PRIZES announced. The Forbes Heermans prizes for the Lancaster, Pa., Albert W. Hartman of The first race of the season will be Mansfield, O., Robert H. Menges of two best one-act plays on American April zγ at Annapolis, when three crews themes submitted by undergraduates were Pittsburgh, Pa., Robert W. Oneill of will meet the Navy. On May 4 two crews Syracuse, and Elbert W. Sowerwine, Jr. divided this year between Violet J. will race Harvard, M. I. T., and Syracuse Brown '35 of Brooklyn and Seymour A. of Westfield, N. J.; besides Irving A. at Cambridge. On Spring Day, May 18, Jenkins '37 of New York City and Harry Gross '35 of Belle Harbor, who tied for the crews will race on Cayuga Lake in H. Huck, Jr. '37 of Savannah, Ga., first place. First and second prizes total the Carnegie cup regatta against Prince- stroke and No. 7 of last year's freshman $150 and are derived from the income of ton and Yale; and they go to Pough- boat at Poughkeepsie. a trust fund left to the University by keepsie for the intercollegiate regatta Among other promising candidates are Forbes Heermans '78, who was perhaps June 18, where it is announced that at Robert N. A very '35 of Grosse Point, best known as the editor of David Noyes least six colleges besides the five member Mich., Paul M. Brister '36 of Auburn, Westcott's book, David Harum. He was, universities will be invited to compete. Cornelius C. DuMond, Jr. '36 of Ulster however, also a playwright, having For the first time in at least fifty years, Park, Irwin C. Lounsbury '36 of Jamaica, written "The Silent Witness," "Between and probably ever, a Cornell crew will Morton P. Matthew '36 of Berkeley, Cal., Two Foes," and "Love by Induction." row a foreign-built shell. Sims, famous who rowed as a freshman for California, Unknown to the judges, since plays English builder, is completing one Reinald Werrenrath, Jr. '36 of New York were submitted under assumed names, it especially timbered for the rougher City, Frank M. Big wood '37 of Schenec- happens that Gross is president of the American waters under the supervision of Dramatic Club and Miss Brown is vice- tady, Gleeck Thompson '37 of Denver, president. Both are students in Professor Col., who has rowed for Yale, and Alex M. Drummond's course in play Arthur T. Williams, Sp., of Highland. writing, and both have appeared in many Coxswains include John A. Ward '36 of of the Club's productions. By a strange Hollis, William J. Brennan '37 of Fish- coincidence, Miss Brown's play, kill, Allen L. Davison '37 of Pittsburgh, "Borax," produced last week, was Pa., and Joseph M. Steiner, 3d. of White coached by Gross. Plains, freshman coxswain last year. Miss Brown's prize-winning play takes J. Clarke Wray, son of the head coach, its title, "I Would Found an Institu- has three boats of freshmen at work. Of tion," from the familiar statement of last fall's leading freshman crew, those Ezra Cornell about the University. It now out are Frederick M. Huntington of deals with the more serious aspects of Sea Cliff, Frank P. Hill of Forest Hills, F. undergraduate life. "Subway Face," Roy Badgley of Farmingdale, Milton R. which won the prize for Gross, is an ex- Porter of Garden City, Noel S. Bennet, pressionistic laid in New York City. Its Jr. of Albany, Edward B. Lauman of author is a nephew of Joe Weber, of the East Chicago, Ind., Edmund F. Pfeifer of vaudeville team of Weber and Fields. Hackensack, N. J., stroke, and George Both will be produced by the Dramatic M. Holley of Grosse Point, Mich., cox- Club next month. COACH JAMES WRAY swain. Among the other promising fresh- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
men are Elliot H. Hooper of Aurora, In the foils the Red swordsmen trailed The Sun recently related that Coach 111., Robert J. Huffcutt of Buffalo, Henry 4-5, Captain Edwin O. Merwin '36 of O'ConnelΓs freshman heavyweight en- A. Lanman, Jr. of Gahanna, O., Joseph Buffalo and Sandgrund each winning try, Henry Hofheimer, Jr. of New York C. Noback of Scarsdale, and James A. two and losing one. Daniel D. Krakauer City, who weighs about 180, was com- Rockey of Elmira. '35 of Tannersville, however, dropped mandeered from a group playing basket- Henleys Rustle Funds three. The Red team was clearly out- ball in the Old Armory just before the classed in the sabres matches, with Edgar meet with Wyoming Seminary. In that Candidates for the 150-pound crew, be- M. Matthews '37 of Jamaica, John A. meet he was thrown in τy minutes by a cause it receives no financial assistance 2 Ward '36 of Hollis, and Wieman Kretz more experienced opponent, and in 1:54 from the Athletic Association, have to '36 of Rockville Center all losing all in the Syracuse encounter. be not only oarsmen but fund raisers. their bouts. Last Thursday they sponsored an enter- tainment in Willard Straight Hall to Next Saturday the team will face a BOXERS GET TROPHIES help finance their season. Nick Bawlf, team of alumni in the Drill Hall, and on The University's first intercollegiate coach of lacrosse, soccer, and hockey, March 30 will compete in the intercol- boxing team on March 14 elected Luis showed moving pictures of the Olympic legiate championship matches at the Torregrosa '36 of Porto Rico, captain games; members of the Glee Club and the Hotel Commodore, New York City. for next year. Coach Jacob I. Goldbas '34 Savage Club sang; and Yien Shan Chen, presented two trophies donated by Cor- Grad., of Shanghai, dressed in full regalia WRESTLERS TAKE SEVENTH nell lawyers of Utica, largely through gave a demonstration of Chinese sword With only three regular members in the efforts of Paul J. McNamara '07. They fighting and boxing. John M. Chapman top shape, Coach O'ConnelΓs crippled went to Captain David Cramer '35 of '36 of Rochester, manager, and aspirants wrestling team made an unexpectedly Utica, undefeated until the Syracuse for the 150-pound crew arranged the good showing in the preliminaries of the meet, as the best boxer of the team; and program. Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Associ- to Irving A. Jenkins '37, who, starting If the crew is able to raise enough ation championship meet at the Univer- without experience, showed the greatest money, Chapman says they will race this sity of Pennsylvania, and finished in improvement during the season. year at Annapolis April τη and at Cam- seventh place. Boxing is not supported by the Athletic bridge on May 4; they hope to be able George R. Brownell '36 oί Westfield, Association, but Coach Goldbas hopes to invite an opponent for a race on N. J. gained second-place honors in the next season to have a more extensive Cayuga Lake May 11 or May 18, and to 155-pound division after losing to schedule than the four meets of this year. take part in the American Henley at Gregory of Princeton in the final. In the Only three men of this year's squad will Philadelphia, May 1.^. Last year, by second-place bout he defeated Walker of be missing: Sidney Leopold '35 of Brook- sharing in Spring Day receipts and with Yale on decision. In the semi-finals he lyn, in the 165-pound class; Bo I. B. the help of a donation from fraternities, defeated Civitts of Penn State. Adler '35 of Ithaca, who fought at 175 they rowed in borrowed shells at several Gregory T. Shallenberger '37 of Cleve- pounds; and Robert A. Saunders '35 of out-of-town races. This year, by hand- land, O. lost the 118-pound final to As- Cossayuna, in the 135-pound class. In ling the checking at the Junior Prom and man of Lehigh on time advantage and the addition to the remainder, several new from the entertainment last week, they second-place bout to Kinne of Yale, contestants are expected to be available. have raised enough to encourage them to after he had thrown in the semi-finals, row faithfully in their old 1909 shell, Wolf son of Penn State, who defeated POLO MATCHES built for Varsity weight and now passed him here. With a record of ten victories in four- on to them. Three other Red wrestlers were beaten teen games played this season, the ROTC The entire 150-pound crew which in the semi-finals. George J. Morgan '36 polo team competes this year for the first raced last fall is at work now. They of Westfield, N. J., wrestling for the time in the indoor intercollegiate polo comprise Wilfred R. Kelly '35 of Coopers- second time at 135 pounds, lost on time championship matches, which begin in town, stroke, Arthur L. Schwab '36 of to Conrad of Lehigh. Captain Charles C. Squadron A Armory, New York City, on Staten Island, William K. Kellogg '35 of Shoemaker '35 of Philadelphia, who had March 13. That evening they will meet Mt. Vernon, Frederick Peirce, Jr. '36 of suffered a chest injury in practice, was Pennsylvania Military College, one of Wynnewood, Pa., Charles D. English '35 wrestling at 145 pounds, 2.0 below his the most formidable opponents they have of Red Bank, N. J., Stephen G. Burritt usual class. He lost on time to Servis of played. Although no handicaps are '36 of Hilton, Henry H. Sayles '35 of Syracuse, after having thrown Crockett allowed in these matches, their oppon- Elmira, and Thomas D. Bowes, Jr. '35 of ents have a rating of 9 goals with their Cynwyd, Pa., with Charles W. Lock- of Lehigh. Henry B. Weigel '35 of New Rochelle, who was replacing Asa George star player rated at 5, as compared with hart '36 of Youngstown, O. as coxswain. one each for the Lawrence brothers of the Others out this spring for the 150-pound in the heavyweight class, was downed by Scobey of Lehigh. Varsity team. If they defeat their first boat include Howard B. Perry, Jr. '35 of opponents, they will appear again in Newtonville, Mass., Edward A. Robin- Lehigh won the championship for the fifth year, with Penn State second, Prince- New York for the semi-finals on March son '35 of Washington, D. C, Robert N. 2.8 and perhaps for the finals, March 30. Denniston '36 of Ithaca, Frank J. Drews, ton third, Columbia fourth, Yale fifth, and Syracuse sixth. For the first time the team will ship their Jr. '36 of Woodcliff, N. J., and George own horses to an out-of-town game. Dimeling '36 of Clearfield, Pa. Freshmen Lose The freshman wrestling team lost Beat Essex Troop COLUMBIA SABRES WIN 16-2.0 in Ithaca March 11 toa Syracuse On Saturday evening in the Riding The Varsity fencing team lost to a yearling team which thus completed an Hall, the team decisively upheld its Columbia team coached by the national undefeated season. Syracuse gained four record of winning at home, defeating 1Tί t le sabres champion, 10-17, ^ Drill falls and the freshmen two falls and two Essex Troop of the New Jersey National Hall Saturday afternoon. decisions. Robert R. Gibbs of Ithaca Guard, 2.3-8}^. In this game Stephen J. Coach Georges Cointe's proteges won threw his opponent in the 1x5-pound Roberts '38 of Hamburg started in place the epee matches, 6-3, as Morris Sand- class and Harry L. Smith of Buenos of John S. Leslie '35 ,who has been high grund '37 of Rochester, Daniel F. Mac- Aires, Argentina, his in the 175-pound scorer at No. 1 position. He was high beth '37 of Auburn, and James W. Parker class. Just before the meet Milton Baker man with 11, of which three were made '37 of Wilton each won two and lost one. of Watertown was elected captain. before Essex Troop scored. Of the 5 Cor- MARCH 2.1. I935 nell goals in the fourth chukker, Leslie SKI CLUB ELECTS lost but one game of seven this season. made 4, which was the best that Fred- Millett G. Morgan '37 of Hanover, N. Of the freshmen, Thomas A. Rich of erick H. Anderson 'τ,τ, high scorer for H., recently chosen president of the Inter- Hobart, center, was high scorer, making Essex Troop, could do. He came into the collegiate Ski Union, has been re-elected 63 for the season. Robert J. McDonald of game in the second period. president of the Cornell Ski Club for next Waterbury, Conn.,-forward, playing one Although forced to concede the visitors year. Freeman Svenningson '38 of Mon- less game, made 49, followed by Carlton points handicap, the Varsity team treal is treasurer and captain of the P. Wilson of Milwaukee, Wis. with 43, quickly overcame it and led throughout winter sports team, and Joslyn A. Smith and Louis E. Dauner of Cincinnati, O. the game, making 5 or more in each '38 of Westmount, Quebec, is secretary with 35. All four of these men are over chukker. Left-handed Captain John C. of the Club. William Dall '36 of Brook- six feet tall. They have been the backbone Lawrence '37 and his brother Thomas '38 line, Mass, is manager of the team. of a freshman team which frequently has of Smithtown Branch made several skill- The Ski Club has elected seven new scrimmaged with the Varsity, and not ful saves. The game was fast and ranged undergraduate members. Its associate infrequently beaten it. furiously from one end of the tanbark to members are Louis C. Conant, AM '2.9, the other with a record-breaking crowd of the Geology Department, and from filling the stands. The summary: the Graduate School, Roland B. Dear- CORNELL O2.3) Pos. ESSEX TROOP (83^) born of North Weare, N. H., Archibald CHICAGO REUNIONS Roberts No. 1 Skidmore G. Delmarsh of Inlet, and Seymour B. The Classes of '2.0 and '2.2. held the T. Lawrence No. z Crump Dunn of Cortland. record up to March 14 for attendance at J. Lawrence Back Staples Score by chukkers: the luncheons of the Cornell Club of Cornell 6 5 7 5—2.3 FREED ON ALL STARS Chicago. The previous week, however, Essex Troop 1 z 2. z— 7 six members of the Class of '2.3 appeared, Lewis M. Freed '36 of Wilkes-Barre, Scoring: Cornell, Roberts 11, T. Lawrence 4, and 'x4 and '2.5 were next in numbers. J. Lawrence 4, Leslie 4. Essex Troop, Anderson Pa., basketball forward, has that posi- 4, Skidmore z, Staples. tion on this year's all-star team of the At the March 14 luncheon, the mem- Foul: Essex Troop, Crump. Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, bers listened to "Slim" Williams, Alas- Spares: Cornell, Leslie. Essex Troop, Ander- kan sourdough, who gained public son. selected annually by vote of the coaches. Referee, Lt. Pittman, Cornell. He was third high scorer of the League. notice some years ago by driving a dog team from Alaska to the National On Saturday evening in the armory of Pennsylvania has two men on the myth- Capital. Essex Troop at Newark, N. J., a Junior ical team, and Dartmouth and Columbia Varsity team will play a return engage- one each. The Club announces that Roger S. Vail ment. It will comprise Henry Untermeyer Barring the unforseen, only Captain '06 has been added to the committee on '36 of New York City, polo manager, Foote and Jack Wilson of this year's relations with preparatory schools, of playing at No. 1; Bartholomew J. Vivi- Varsity team will not be available to which Alfred H. Hutchinson '09 is ano '34, now a junior in Law, at No. 2.; play next year. Moreover, Coach Ortner chairman; and that Claire W. Hardy Ίi and Albert J. Lindemann '35 of Mil- has several likely prospects coming up is in charge of arrangements for the visit waukee, Wis. at No. 3; with Howard E. from the freshman team which, under to the Chicago region of Professor Bris- Babcock, Jr. '36 of Ithaca as spare. the tutelage of Donald F. Lay ton '2.9, tow Adams, April 3-5. Women Play Well A women's polo team represented the University for the first time Saturday night in the Riding Hall, being defeated by the more experienced Wilkes-Barre Whipettes, 4-9. Anne M. Simpson '36 of Lyons played No. 1; A. Nathalie Colvo- coresses '38 of Phoenix, Ariz., No. 2.; and Virginia E. Yoder '35 of Watertown, No. 3. The Red team led off with two goals, but before the end of the first chuk- ker the Whipettes forged ahead and thereafter kept the lead, scoring seven goals in the last two. The capacity audience was enthusiastic and the game was well-played by both teams. The women were coached by Lieutenant Edward O. Hopkins of the Military Department, who is coach of the ROTC team. They have practiced against the men's team and use the ROTC horses. The summary:
CORNELL (4) Pos. WHIPETTES (9) Simpson No. 1 Brydon Colvocoresses No. z Harvey Yoder Back Sylvester Score by chukkers : Cornell z 1 2. 1—6 Whippettes z 1 3 4—o Scoring: Cornell, Colvocoresses 3, Simpsonz, Yoder. Whipettes, Harvey 6, Brydon z, THE WOMEN'S POLO TEAM Sylvester. Fouls: Cornell, Yoder 3, Colvocoresses. Left to Right: Virginia E. Yoder '35 of Watertown, who played No. 3 on Saturday; Whipettes, Brydon z. Anne M. Simpson '36 of Lyons, No. 1; A. Nathalie Colvocoresses '38 of Phoenix, Ariz., Referee, Lt. Pittman, Cornell. No. 2.; Arlene Coryell '37 of Ithaca, spare. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
for good or bad. They are much more "This belief in the importance of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS certain criteria than, the make-up of individual,"he said, "has ever played an POUNDED 1899 present or previous^* delegations from important part in the growth of Cornell home or school, the transient glory of University. The freedom of the individual Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- athletic victory, the mere ease of travel professor to teach in his own way is tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly during the college year to and fro, and like offerings of colleges. traditional. Just as far as is possible, the and monthly in July, August and September: So it is that an alumnus, cooperating problems and the requirements of the in- thirty-five issues annually. either with the traveling professors or dividual student are given special con- Supscriptions: $4.00 a year in U. S. and posses- with the Cornell Day committee, is sideration. In the Graduate School, col- sions; Canada, $4.55; Foreign, $4.50. Single copies doing not merely a selfish service to a lege and department lines are, at least fifteen cents. Subscriptions are payable in advance cause which interests him. Much more officially, not recognized, the Faculty and are renewed annually until cancelled. important, he is putting before each being made up of individual professors Editor and Publisher R. W. SAILOR '07 prospective student whom he helps bring giving graduate instruction. And each Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON Ί9 into contact with Cornell the proper professor has the utmost freedom, con- Associates: fundamentals of selection in one of the sistent with his relations to his col- L. C. BOOCHEVER Ίi F. M. COFFIN ΊI most important choices oί his Yήe. leagues. For example, it would be entire- Printed by The Cayuga Press ly permissable, so far as any fundamental ITHACA, NEW YORK rules are concerned, for the professor of Greek to direct graduate work in UNIVERSITY'S FUNCTION electrical engineering, though for ob- vious reasons he would probably not find HELPING THEM CHOOSE Richtmyer Summarizes Service Dean Floyd K. Richtmyer '04 in a it expedient to do so! And the Campus Cornell Day this year rises to the dig- Founder's Day address in Willard Straight over, I think it is generally recognized nity of a tradition, having been tried Hall, so well summarized the services of that there is no substitute for the in- experimentally last year with beneficial the University to society and to the in- spiring teacher, whatever his methods. results. It is the hope of those that dividuals whom it trains, that we asked "It was this same general recognition, initiated the movement that designation his permission to print such of his talk as in a large way, that was the basis oί Mr. in schools to attend Cornell Day will be- our space permits. Cornell's desire to put all worth-while come a coveted prize, given each year to He paid tribute to the far-seeing ideals studies on equal footing in the cur- school leaders in both academic work of the Founder of the new University, to riculum; and to give to any capable, and student activities. his modest objection but final reluctant worthy student, opportunity to pursue The work of Cornell Day is of course consent that it bear his name, and to the such studies. limited in geographical scope by present- fact that Hiram Sibley's contribution of day limitations of travel. There seems to $30,000 was to express his admiration of Must Teach Responsibility be no good way of reaching, through Ezra Cornell and of the institution for 4' But I raise the questions: Are we of this method, prospective students from which he and Andrew D. White worked Cornell today adequately standing by places more than two or three hundred so unselfishly and courageously. our belief that undue restrictions on in- miles away. Even by train the limits are He pointed out that the material con- dividual initiative are likely to prove but twice that distance. For that reason tributions of a university are relatively detrimental to the well being of society, the Faculty committee, described last easy to measure; that "we know the size as Mr. Cornell stood by his belief that week, is again traveling to the more of the graduating classs year by year. We there was no better use for his money distant points to broaden the range of can point with pride to the career of this than to found a new university? We are the University. or that distinguished alumnus. We can in teaching, as best we may, the several It is not often realized by the pros- various ways estimate the annual output subjects of the curriculum; but are we pective student that of all the contribu- of our productive scholars. We can count impressing on our students the import- tions that go to make up his college edu- the number of men serving on the brain ance of the responsibilities they well cation, he himself contributes the most trust!" face as individual citizens of the common- valuable part. The University, out of Individual Important wealth, when they enter upon their re- endowments or Government funds, and 4' But there is another service," he said, spective careers for which we have the parents with cash, give the material "as important as it is intangible and un- trained them? And if we do hold these bases of an education. The undergraduate, measureable; and because it is intangible convictions and teach them by both on the other hand, gives to the process and unmeasureable, it is frequently precept and example, are we nevertheless four of the best years of his life, a con- minimized or even forgotten entirely. I sufficiently open minded to meet the ever- tribution that is unequalled by all the refer to the building up of and the hold- changing conditions of the modern funds that go into the educational ing fast to certain ideals which are basic world—as Mr. Cornell was open minded process. No alumnus with ordinary de- to the well being of human society. ..." in his willingness to change his plans if a votion to his Alma Mater can deny this, One such, said Dr. Richtmyer, is better use for his money could be found? for the four years of the college course the tradition of individualism—not neces- "Another of our founder's character- are to him the swift-moving days of sarily "rugged individualism" as con- istics was his equanimity in meeting youth when the opportunities of the trasted with "regimentation," but rather emergencies. Mr. White dwells at length entire world were his for the mere effort '' the recognition on the one hand of the on the calm and unruffled way in which of search and seizure. rights and the prerogatives of the citizen, Mr. Cornell met the personal attacks How simple minded, then, to select and on the other, of his obligations to directed against him. Perhaps he was able the place in which those years are to be his fellows; recognition that the in- to detach himself from the present and to spent for the superficial reasons which dividual is the basic unit of society; and take a bird's-eye view of the stirring are the usual bases of choice. The wise that no society, whatever its artificial events of his life and to recognize that parent gives the child the opportunity, organization, is better than the in- these attacks were mere unimportant in- as often as presented, to view the sur- dividuals of which it is composed; and cidents. How fortunate are those today roundings in which the process might the recognition of the indispensible part who likewise can take an objective at- take place. Surroundings in the broad which individual initiative has played in titude toward the world about them and sense, physical, inspirational, educa- the building up of present day civiliza- view the events of the last five years tional, make their permanent impressions tion in all its complexity. (Continued on page 10) MARCH II, 193 5 BRIEF NEWS OF CAMPUS AND TOWN
SNOW ON THE CAMPUS prevented the points, the Cornell team was led by Wis- CORPORAL JOHN H. KELLY of the usual St. Patrick's Day parade of the consin, Purdue and Minnesota. Frank A. State Police and -Mrs. Kelly have re- architects this year. Two years ago the Taberski '35 of Schenectady was high turned to Ithaca from a motor trip to parade precipitated a snowball fight with man with 90; Robert N. Williams '37 of Florida. Just afterward, the third serious the engineers, which brought forth a Bradford, Pa. made 54; Manford Rosen- hit-and-run accident had occurred in and decree that no more parades could be held heck '37 of Elmira, 51; Mortimer Gold- near the city and the second to result when snow was on the ground. stein '36 of Rochester, 48; and John R. fatally within a month. The body of a Carver '37 of Ithaca, x8. Referee was young woman who had apparently been MYRON TAYLOR HALL, however, Charles C. Peterson, national fancy shot hit by a car was found just outside the was said by the Sun last Friday to be champion, who that day lectured and city on the Trumansburg road. None of celebrating with the formation of a gave an exhibition in Willard Straight. the guilty drivers have been found. "Huey Long Club." It seems that Joseph R. Mangan '34, now a sophomore in CIVIL ENGINEERING students have VETERINARY STUDENTS have re- Law, had recently received from the scheduled their annual banquet, revived cently organized an undergraduate chap- Southern Senator a copy of one of his last spring after several years' lapse, for ter of the American Veterinary Medical speeches. The front page of the Sun March IT, in Willard Straight Hall. They Association. Its officers are Karl E. Put- therefore proclaimed Mangan president invite members of the School Faculty nam '35, of Prattsburg, president; Clark of the new " Share-Your-Wealth-Club," and practicing engineers from nearby. A. Metz '36 of Clarence Center, vice- and David J. Chuckrow '35 as second in Robert R. Sheridan '35 of Piqua, O. is president; Charles E. Hults' 36 of Mara- command. chairman of the committee. Deans Dexter thon, secretary; and George G. Pickett S. Kimball and George Young, Jr. Όo '37 of Ithaca, treasurer. Members of the SPRING did come to the Campus, and Professors Paul M. Lincoln and Her- executive board are Theodore E. Jabbs of though, in the Fastnachtfest held in man Diederichs '97 will be guests of Ithaca representing the senior class; Willard Straight Memorial Room Satur- honor. Robert F. Brown of Bangor, juniors; day evening when many guests in costume Arnold Eder of Astoria, sophomores; and and twenty-five invited German exchange CHI CHAPTER of Delta Gamma cele- James E. Helyar of Stelton, N. J., fresh- students from nearby universities danced brated the fiftieth anniversary of its men; and Bernard F. Trum '35 of Natick, and sang German songs under the aus- founding over last week end. Among Mass., member-at-large. pices of Deutcher Verein. Sylvia Moore the alumnae whom it entertained were '38 of Yonkers won the women's prize Mrs. Archibald A. Lovelace (Esther M. MRS. ROOSEVELT was quoted in the for her Norwegian peasant costume, and Sanford) '88, one of the three living newspapers recently as saying that "at led the grand march. On Sunday morning charter members, and Mrs. J. Walter Cornell, the consensus of opinion of Professor Albert B. Faust of the German Bingham (Florence M. Cornell) '06 of economists was that we would be back Department officially welcomed the for- Palo Alto, Cal., who is first vice-president by 1936, perhaps not at the boom apex, eign guests to the Campus. of the national sorority. but to normal good times again." The Sun points out editorially that'' to begin HAZEL J. THOMPSON '35 of Hastings- WESTERN ELECTRIC Company of New with, a 'consensus of opinion' among on-Hudson has been elected acting York City sent its Director of Thrift, Cornell's economists is unheard of and secretary of the Council of the Women's W. A. Schnedler, to give two lectures on preposterous. Their opinions and theories Athletic Association to assume the March 15 to students in Administrative are as varied as Mrs. Roovelt's hobbies. duties of Charlotte M. Mangan '35 of Engineering. He spoke on "Why Save Mrs. Roosevelt certainly does not know Angola, whose University work this From the Start" before a class of sopho- her Cornell, especially the Lower Cam- term has taken her to the Merrill Palmer mores, and on "Industry's Views of pus. She would have to search the halls School in Detroit, Mich. Thrift, Saving, and Insurance'' before the of Goldwin Smith a long time before seniors. finding an optimistic economist." REPORTED MISSING from her home in LECTURES for the current week include New York City, Gertrude Horvath was the ninth and tenth in the Messenger ELIZABETH LAWRENCE '35 of Red found the next day at Willard Straight series by Professor Wesley C. Mitchell on Hook has been elected chairman of the Hall, where she had signed for a pack of March 18 and 1.2.; and Dr. Joseph Need- women's senior banquet committee, the cards and was playing solitaire. She told ham, reader in biochemistry, Cambridge date tentatively set for June 12.. Catherine the State Trooper who identified her that University, and Terry lecturer at Yale, on Pennock is president of the women's she had come to Ithaca hoping to find "Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Senior Class. Not yet do the girls and employment that would enable her to Embryology," on the Gold win Smith boys organize and dine together. enroll in the University. Foundation, March 2.0. RELIEF ROLLS in Ithaca during Febru- HAROLD TRAPIDA '38 of Newark, N. SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER on March ary reached a new high mark of z,63X, J. is distinguished, according to the Sun, 14 is Rev. Albert W. Beaven, D.D., approximately 13 percent of the city's by the ownership of "Blackie," a black LL.D., president of Colgate-Rochester population. snake measuring six feet three inches, Divinity School and president of the which he captured in the Kittatinnies in Federal Council of Churches of Christ in THE LIBERAL CLUB has elected Mau- July, 1933, and which now lives in a America. rice Abbott '36 of New York City its new glass cage on the top floor of McGraw president. Other officers are Allan B. Hall. REV. LESLIE T. PENNINGTON, whom Campbell '36 of St. Albans, vice-presi- some recent alumni will have known as dent; Sadie Goodman '36 of Ithaca, sec- A BILLIARD TEAM, playing in the for the past two-and-a-half years pastor retary; Walter Balderston '35 of Chicago, game room at Willard Straight Hall of the Unitarian Church in Ithaca, has 111., re-elected secretary-treasurer; and March 7, took fourth place in its first left with Mrs. Pennington for Cambridge, Ward J. Fellows '36 of Claremont, Cal. match of the Intercollegiate Telegraphic Mass. He is to be pastor of the First Uni- and Florence M. Swire '35 of Albany Billiard League. Making a total of Z72. tarian Church on Harvard Square. members of the executive committee. IO CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS
UNIVERSITY'S FUNCTION (Continued from page March 7, and incorporated in a petition '04 LLB—William F. Bleakley, Justice George School of Social Science, Phila- to the Legislature to name a commission of the State Supreme Court, is chairman delphia Branch, in the Social Service to make a study of all laws affecting real of the Westchester County district of the Building. His address is 315 Zeralda estate. Knights of Columbus Mobilization for Street, Germantown. '98 AB—Frank E. Gannett and Mrs. Catholic Action. Ίz AB; '09 AB—Louis C. Boochever, Gannett, of Rochester, were recently at '06 PhD—Dr. Thomas J. Headlee, Director of Public Information, has ac- Miami Beach, Fla. entomologist of the New Jersey Agricul- quired a reputation around Ithaca as a '98 AB; '04; Ίi ME—The names of tural Experiment Station at New Bruns- member of the Polar Bear Club, all be- Floyd W. Mundy '98 and Winton G. wick is quoted as telling the New Jersey cause while on an outing this winter at Rossiter Ίi of James H. Oliphant & Co., Mosquito Extermination Association, Robert E. Treman's '09 country home, and Egbert Moxham '04, of Shields & Co., meeting in Atlantic City on March 7, near Ithaca, he fell in the creek, and have been suggested to the nominating that electro-magnetic waves might be while drying his clothes, the only thing committee as candidates for governors of used in the future to kill mosquitoes. he could find to put on was a bathing the New York Stock Exchange. « '06—Walter Winchell, in his Daily suit. When the rest of the guests arrived, he greeted them in the outfit, and it is '99 ME(EE); '08, '09 ME—John W. Mirror column of March 5, credits Karl said he even played in the snow to keep O'Leary '99, formerly president of the K. Kitchen with trying to patch up the up the spirit of the thing. Chamber of Commerce of the United rift between Douglas Fairbanks and States, is president of the Machinery and Mary Pickford. Ίz AB, 'z9 PhD; '07 AB, '08 AM, Ίi Allied Products Institute; Robert E. '07, '09 AB—Robert E. Coulson repre- PhD—Mrs. Arthur A. Allen (Elsa Friend '08, president of the Nordberg sented the Western Pacific Railroad at a Guerdrum) Ίz, wife of Professor Arthur Manufacturing Company, is treasurer. meeting of the board of directors of the A. Allen '07, head of the Ornithology A survey taken by the Institute among Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Department, is making a special study of machinery trade associations in the on February 2.8. Coulson's road is half- the early history of American ornithol- United States indicates that during de- owner of the latter. ogy, with the idea of restoring many pression years a need for eighteen and a little-known naturalists to their share of '08 AB—Mrs. William R. Barnhill half billion dollars' worth of new ma- recognition. This study took her to (Alice L. Clark) talked on gardens, chinery has developed. It would require London where she worked at the British March 5, at a meeting of the Mineola a labor payroll of over twelve billion Museum and Royal Society; and into Garden Club. dollars to produce it. Suffolk, home of Mark Catesby, who '09 BS—Alice C. Evans, of the Na- '99 CE; '01, Όz LLB; '08 BS; '19, 'zo collected and painted American birds and tional Institute of Health in Washington, AB—Friend P. Williams '99, engineer- plants in Virginia and Carolina from D. C, lectured on "Brucellosis" before secretary of the division of water power 171Z to 17Z8. She received a grant from the seminar of the Department of Bac- and control, George R. Van Namee '01 the American Council of Learned Socie- teriology and Dairy Industry on March and Maurice C. Burritt '08, Public Serv- ties, and the Ruth Capen Farmer mem- 11. She is the first and only woman to be ice Commissioners, and Malcom F. Orton orial fellowship of Alpha Omicron Pi president of the Society of American '19 of the Public Service Commission for 1934-35. Bacteriologists, was formerly with the were among the forty-four State officials Ίz ME—Lewis B. Swift is vice-presi- United States Department of Agriculture who received questionnaires from the dent and chief engineer in charge of re- and the United States Public Health Legislative committee investigating pub- search and engineering design for the Service. lic utilities. Taylor Instrument Company of Rochester. -Joseph Gerard is in the long dis- His address is 37 Hancock Street. '00—George Rector lectured for the tance trucking and contracting business '13 AB; '99, Όi AB, '03 AM; Ίo AB— A & P testing kitchen March 7 on at 100 West Avenue, Patchogue. His Mrs. Bert W. Hendrickson (Blanche W. "Showmanship of Food" at Stern's daughter is nineteen years old and his son houseware show in New York City. Moyer), chairman of the new American is sixteen. His home is on Ho wells Point Home Department of the State Federa- '01 AB; '01 AB—Julian C. Smith is Road, Bellport. tion of Women's Clubs, helped prepare chairman of Shawinigan Chemicals, Ltd. Ίo—James E. Waterbury is a manufac- the programs on "Today's Challenge to Mrs. Smith was Bertha L. Alexander Όi. turer of paper makers' felts at Oriskany. the Home," given at Columbia Univer- '02. LLB—Senator C. Tracy Stagg Ίo—Charles A. Robinson is in the real sity March zi and zz. Dr. Benjamin R. argued against the Nunan bill, which re- estate business at 34Z Madison Avenue, Andrews '99 spoke on "Physical Fit- quires freshmen entering publicly sup- New York City. He lives at 2.2.11 Broad- ness," and Dr. L. Jean Bogert Ίo on ported institutions of higher learning to way. "Fitting Foods to Folks." take an oath of allegiance to the Con- Ίo LLB—Israel Schoenberg is practic- '13 BS—GilmoreD. Clarke, consulting stitution, saying that this law would landscape architect of the park depart- tend to keep foreign students out of our ing law at 39 State Street, Rochester. He lives at 43 Morris Street. ment of New York City and Professor of institutions. Regional Planning at the University, has Ίo—Colonel Guido F. Verbeck, head- '03 AB—Floyd L. Carlisle, head of the re-designed Madison Square Park. Consolidated Gas System, is quoted as master of Manlius School, addressed a meeting of the Manlius Old Boys' Asso- '14 Sp; 'Z9 Grad—E. Curry Weatherby saying that the Power Authority report, is chairman of a committee of the Ithaca ciation on March z in New York City. calling for a drastic cut in the company's Memorial Hospital board of trustees to rate base, is full of errors, and that the Ίo—Dr. James C. Donovan of Goshen make a special investigation of local only body created by law in New York recently operated on a baby born in New- hospital insurance possibilities. Professor State to settle the rate base is the Public burgh without an esophagus. The child Howard B. Meek, Hotel Management, Service Commission, with which the is given a good chance to live, with the is president of the Board, and a member system is in active negotiation. possibility that if he lives to be fifteen, ex-officio of the committee. an operation may be performed to supply '03—S. Richard Davidge, who is '15, Ί6 CE—Major Luis F. Cianchini, an esophagus. spending the winter in Belleair, Fla., was of the z6th Infantry, is on special duty in charge of the dinner arrangements for Ίi ME—Julian P. Hickok teaches as executive officer at the headquarters the annual celebration of the Stone drawing in the High School at German- of the first New York District, Civilian Crabs' Association, an organization of town, Philadelphia, Pa., and funda- Conservation Corps, at the Plattsburg Belleair old timers, on February 19. mental economics evenings at the Henry Barracks. IZ CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 15 LLB—Major Beverly H. Coiner is '2.1 PhD—Dr. Richard P. White, of the Ward & Co. in Chicago, 111. at the New Mexico Military Institute in Agricultural Experiment Station at New '2.6, '27 BS—Muriel Guggolz, of the Roswell. His address is 800 North Lea Brunswick, N. J., gave an illustrated New York City Fencers Club, recently Avenue, Roswell, N. M. lecture on growing plants in pure sand won the gold medal awarded annually in '15 BS—Fred W. Furst is in the United by controlled feeding at a joint meeting the Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Trophy fencing States Forest Service at Baker, Ore. For of the Long Island Nurserymen's Associa- competition. tion and members of all Long Island four years he has been in charge of Wal- '2.6 BS—Rudolph T. Termohlen is with garden clubs, in Garden City, March 6. lowa National Forest near Enterprise, the Prudential Insurance Company, with He lectured on "The Prevalence and Ore., where ten thousand cattle and headquarters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He Seriousness of the Elm Tree Disease" at horses and seventy thousand sheep are was married in December, 1932, and has the New Brunswick Club, March 7; at grazed. a daughter, born February 12, 1935. f 16—Harold L. Bache of J. S. Bache & the Maplewood, N. J., Garden Club, March 4, on "Plant Diseases." '2.7—Edgar Stephen Guthrie of Mam- Co., New York City, is a member of the aroneck is engaged to Hazel Sutton, of '2.3 BS—W. King White, president of board of governors of the newly-organ- Riverdale Park. ized Commodity Club of New York City. the Cleveland Tractor Company, was elected a director of the White Motor '2.8 AB; '2.9 AB—Roger W. Jones and '17—Kenneth F. Hicks is employed Company in Cleveland, O., March 8. Mrs. Jones (Dorothy Heyl) '2.9 announce by the National Biscuit Company, 1x15 the birth of a son, Roger Heyl, on Feb- '23, '14 BS—Isaac Cohen, formerly Glenwood Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. ruary 18. Their address is 1654 Euclid inspector of foods for the New York City His home is in Bryn Athyn, Pa. Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. department of health, is a salesman for '17 AB—Tracy B. Augur is with the the F. & P. Chemical Corporation, manu- '2.9 MF—John E. Aughanbaugh is re- Tennessee Valley Authority, Division of facturers of cleansers, and the Certified search forester for the State of Penn- Land Planning and Housing. He is mar- Laboratories, Inc., analytical and con- sylvania. ried and has two daughters and a dog. sulting chemists, 19 Hudson Street, New '29 ME; '29 AB—Lester B. Knight, Jr. His address is 302 Forest Hills Boulevard, York City. His address is 1379 Fifty- of Larchmont, married Elizabeth A. Knoxville, Tenn. fourth Street, Brooklyn. Field of Rye on March 5. Frederic Eaton, '17 BS—Alfred H. Brooks is landscape '23, '24 BS—Alan G. Leet is farming at Jr. 'Z9 was best man. Knight is vice- architect with the Regional Plan Associa- Dewitt ville. president of the National Engineering tion, 400 Madison Avenue, New York Company of Chicago, 111. They will live '2.3 BS—John W. Ford is district man- City. in Evanston, 111. ager for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Ί8, '21 WA—John K. Gonant was Company of California. His address is '29; '2.8 AB—Arthur R. Levine of New elected assistant secretary and assistant 402. City Bank Building, Lexington, Ky. York City married Jessie R. Wolman of treasurer of the General Printing Ink Holyoke, Mass., March 6 in New York; '24, '25 BS—John L. Schoonmaker is Corporation, a four-million-dollar com- Dr. Stephen S. Wise officiated. Herbert supervisor for the Fifth District of the pany, at the annual meeting in .New W. Levine '28 was his brother's best man. York City on March 5. New York-United States Census of Agri- culture, 1935. His headquarters are at '2.9 AB; '29 AB, '33 MD; '34 MD— Ί8 AB—Samuel J. Stein of Larchmont City Hall, Kingston. Doctors Jerome Engel '19, Rudolph is engaged to Natalie Lewis of New Schretzmann '29, and Dorothy Frame '34 '14 AB—Max F. Schmitt, in charge of York City. are internes at the Mt. Vernon Hospital advertising and sales promotion for the Ί8 AB—Harold P. Kaulfuss is rector in Mt. Vernon. Collins & Aikman Corporation, manu- of the Trinity Episcopal Church of facturers of mohair-velvet automobile '32 AB; '32 ME; '33; '33 ME—Beryl Whitehall, and president of the newly- and furniture upholstery, sailed for Polhemus of Victor and Edwin K. Hass organized Rotary Club there. He lives at Europe on March 13 where he will study of Baltimore, Md. were married in Sage 6 Church Street. recent developments in the manufacture Chapel on March 2. Herbert W. Saltford '19—Howard L. Gibson is with Wal- and use of mohair-velvet, and to estab- '33 and Robert S. Durling '33 were lach's Inc., 542. Fifth Avenue, New York lish a closer relationship with foreign ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Hass will live in City. He lives at 82.4 Bronx River Boad, mills for mutual exchange of constructive Wilson, N. C. Bronx ville. ideas. '32 BS—Peter J. McManus is now '19, '2.0 BS—Louis E. Smith is office '2.5 ME—Robert R. Bridgeman is in traveling as field service man for the manager for Standard Brands, Inc., Cin- charge of time study at the Buffalo G.L.F. Mills. His headquarters are in cinnati division, which covers most of branch of the Ford Motor Company. Buffalo. the Ohio valley. He lives at 42. Dumfries He lives on South Creek Road, Hamburg. '33 BS; '33' AB; '33 AB—Claire M. Avenue, Fort Thomas, Ky. His office is '25, '26 BArch—J. Cabell Johnson, Lasher of Flatbush was married to Wil- at 419 Plum Street, Cincinnati, O. formerly with MacFarland's in Evans ton, ^liam H. Tharp, Jr., March 2. Ethel D. '19, '2.1 WA—Alan L. Eggers is a 111., now represents the Nunn-Bush Shoe Kellinger '33 of Montclair, N. J. and member of the nominating committee of Company in Eastern Pennsylvania with Karin B. Peterson '33 of Manhattan were the New York Curb Exchange Partners' headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. His bridesmaids. Tharp held a national re- Association. home address is 2828 North Maryland search fellowship in botany and was in- '21—John W. Snowden, 3d. is with the Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. structor in Botany at the University Educational Publication Corporation at '2.6, '2.8 AB; '24 CE—Harry C. Beaver, during 1933-34. He is Federal forest 419 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Jr. '26 is a representative of the Kidder pathologist in Arizona. They will reside He lives at 114 East Nintieth Street. Peabody Company in Springfield, Mass., in Prescott, Ariz. '2.1 BS; '25—Raymond B. Mead is where his brother, Paul '24, represents '34 DVM; '32—Professor James E. special agent for the Penn Mutual Life the Travellers Insurance Company. They Boyle, Rural Economics, and Mrs. Boyle Insurance Company, Room 539, Union are sons of Harry C. Beaver, president of announce the engagement of their and New Haven Trust Company Build- the Worthington Pump and Machinery daughter, Elizabeth '32, to Dr. Arthur ing, 2.05 Church Street, New Haven, Corporation, a twenty-million-dollar B. Rogers '34 of San Francisco, Cal. Conn. He and Mrs. Mead (Genevieve E. corporation, in Harrison, N. J. '34 AB—Lindley C. Kent of Syracuse Freeborn) '2.5 live at 60 Forbes Place, '2.6 CE—John R. Zehner is in the con- is engaged to Elizabeth Littlehales, also East Haven, Conn. struction department of Montgomery oί Syracuse. ςjdleet me Under the at Cornell University THE BILTMORE f f Summer Session July 8-August 16, 1935 . . . For an evening of sparkling variety anu. enjoyment... In the Palm Court, the Cock- tail Lounge or amid the brilliant gaiety of the The Summer Session has been of Supper Room ... Jack Denny and his orches- particular value to teachers in tra for dancing . . . songs, wit, dance special- public and private schools who ties, rnelodic innovations—a melange of mer- have returned to the University to secure further training in profes- riment, to climax the pleasure of any evening. sional courses in Education. The Summer Session of 1935 THE BILTMORE offers in the Graduate School of MADISON AVENUE AT 43RD STREET, NEW YORK Education an extensive series of professional courses for teachers, David B. Mulligan, President supervisors, principals, and other school administrators. A preliminary announcement ESTABROOK&CO. THE MERCERSBURG has been issued and is now being distributed. The complete an- Members of the New York and ACADEMY nouncement will soon be issued. Boston Stock Exchanges Thorough instruction; college preparatory- For copies of these, address work being especially successful. Personal Sound Investments interest is taken in each boy, the aim being to inspire in every pupil the lofty ideals of LOREN C. PETRY, Director Investment Counsel and thorough scholarship, broad attainments, Supervision sound judgment and Christian manliness. For Office of the Summer Session catalogue and information, address CORNELL UNIVERSITY Roger H. Williams '95 BOYD EDWARDS, D.D., LLD., ITHACA, N. Y. Resident Partner New York Office Headmaster, Mercersburg, Pa. 40 Wall Street It pays to advertise . if. IF you advertise to the right people. Cornell Alumni are "the right people" for anyone selling a quality product. Both their discrimination and their buying power are above the average. As prospective customers their rating is "A plus." IF you advertise where your advertisement will be read. The people who buy the Alumni News are not cudgeled into it by high-pressure methods. They buy it because they want it. Consequently they read it thoroughly, from cover to cover. And it is small enough so that every advertiser gets pre- ferred space. IF you get your money* s worth for your advertising dollar. And you do when you advertise in the Alumni News. A full-page ad in the News costs less than one cent per reader. We know of no bigger advertising value anywhere. If you advertise in the Cornell Alumni News, you II find It Pays to Advertise. Box 105 The Cornell Alumni News Ithaca CORNELL CLUB LUNCHEONS Many of the Cornell Clubs hold luncheons at regular intervals. A list is given below for the benefit of travelers who may be in some of these cities on dates of meetings. Unless otherwise listed, the meetings are of men: Name of Club Meeting Place Time AKRON (Women) 1st Saturday Homes of Members 1:00 p.m. Secretary: Mrs. Ralph B. Day 16, 245 Pioneer Street, Akron. ALBANY Monthly University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Robert I. Dodge, Jr. '29, 5 South Pine Avenue, Albany. BALTIMORE Monday Engineers' Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: N. Herbert Long '18, 3329 Winterbourne Road, Baltimore, Md. BOSTON Monday American House, 56 Hanover St. 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Anthony O. Shallna 16, 366 W. Broadway, Boston, Mass. BOSTON (Women) 3rd Wed. and 3rd Fridays College Club, 40 Commonwealth Av. 3:30 p.m. Secretary: Mrs. R. T. Jackson '97, 85 River St., Boston. BUFFALO Friday Buffalo Athletic Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Herbert R. Johnston 17, Pratt & Lambert, Inc., Buffalo. BUFFALO (Women) Monthly College Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Miss Alice C. Buerger '25, 3900 Main Street, Eggertsville. CINCINNATI Last Friday Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati 12:00 noon Secretary: Fred J. Wrampelmeier '29, 1155 Halpin St., Hyde Park, Cincinnati CHICAGO Thursday Mandels 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Buel McNeil '27, 1019-140 South Dearborn Street, Chicago. CLEVELAND Thursday Mid-Day Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Irwin L. Freiberger '25, 813 Public Square Bldg., Cleveland. CLEVELAND (Women) Homes of Members Evenings Secretary: Miss Alice S. Goedecke '35, 2116 Lenox Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. COLUMBUS Last Thursday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: George R. Schoedinger, Jr. '31, 78 Auburn Street, Columbus, Ohio DENVER Friday Daniel Fisher's Tea Room 12:15 p.m. Secretary: James B. Kelly '05, 1660 Stout Street, Denver. DETROIT Thursday Intercollegiate Club, Penobscot Bldg. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Thomas J. Litle III '34, 733 Seyburn Avenue, Detroit, Michigan FLORIDA, SOUTHEASTERN 2d Tuesday University Club. Miami 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Archibald R. Morrison '32, Congress Bldg., Miami, Fla. HARRISBURG, PENNA. 3rd Wednesday Hotel Harrisburger 12:00 noon Secretary: John M. Crandall '25, Hotel Harrisburger Los ANGELES Thursday Richfield Oil Bldg. 12:15 p.m. Secretary: W. Hubert Tappan 12, 322 Pacific Mutual Bldg., Los Angeles. Los ANGELES (Women) Last Saturday Tea Rooms Luncheons Secretary: Miss Bertha Griffin '09, 1711 W. 66th Street, Los Angeles. MILWAUKEE Friday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Arthur C. Kletzsch, jr. '25, 2511 Farwell Ave., Milwaukee. NEWARK 2nd Friday Down Town Club 12:00 p.m. Secretary: Lowry T. Mead, Jr. '23, 29 Division Street, Newark. NEW YORK Daily Cornell Club, 245 Madison Avenue Secretary: Andrew E. Tuck '98, 245 Madison Avenue, New York. PHILADELPHIA Daily Cornell Club, 1219 Spruce Street Secretary: Charles B. Howland '26, 9 Guernsey Road, Swarthmore, Penna. PHILADELPHIA (Women) 1st Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon Secretary: Miss Mildred H. Hiller '25, 812 W. Birch Street, Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH Friday Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: John L. Slack '26, University Club, University Place, Pittsburgh, Pa. PITTSBURGH (Women) Monthly Homes of Members Afternoon Secretary: Miss Jane H. Gibbs '33, 1127 De Victor Place, Pittsburgh. QUEENS COUNTY (Women) 3rd Monday Secretary: Mrs. Gustave Noback, Grad., 17 Groton St., Forest Hills, N. Y. ROCHESTER Wednesday University Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: J. Webb L. Sheehy '29, 603 Terminal Building, Rochester, New York ROCHESTER (Women) Monthly (usually Wednesday) Homes of Members Evening Secretary: Miss Ernestine Elmendorf '33, 56 Elmdorf Avenue, Rochester. ST. LOUIS Last Friday American Hotel 12:00 noon Secretary: Theodore A. Eggmann '28, 233A Collinsville Avenue, East St. Louis, 111. SAN FRANCISCO NO regular date S. F. Commercial Club 12:15 p.m. Secretary: Brandon Watson '26, Women's City Club, 2315 Durand Avenue, Berkeley, Cal. SAN FRANCISCO (Women) 2nd Saturday Homes of Members Luncheon or Tea Secretary: Mrs. Nairne F. Ward '26, 2330 Rose Street, Berkeley, Cal. SYRACUSE Wednesday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Robert C. Hosmer '02, 316 South Warren Street, Syracuse. SYRACUSE (Women) 2nd Monday Homes of Members 6:30 p.m. Secretary: Miss Leah M. Bladen '24, 139 Wood Avenue, Syracuse. TRENTON Monday Chas. HertzeΓs Restaurant, Bridge & S. Broad Sts. Secretary: George R. Shanklin '22, 932 Parkside Avenue, Trenton. UTICA Tuesday University Club 12:00 noon Secretary: Harold J. Shackelton '28, 255 Genesee Street, Utica. UTICA (Women) 3rd Monday Homes of Members Dinner Secretary: Mrs. Charles C. Beakes '18, 159 Pleasant Street, Utica. WASHINGTON, D. C. Thursday University Club 12:30 p.m. Secretary: Harold W. Walker Ίl, 318 Southern Bldg. Washington.