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Dean Mann Reports Need of Research in Agriculture

Time for Alumni Trustee Vote Shortened a Month

Central Board Approves Inter- collegiate Athletics

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' J f N explosion in an economizer on and money, as well as of foods that are January 10. The question is, "Govern- ψ \ Friday night so damaged the scarce, and thus to enable housewives to mental restriction of the expression of power plant of the Ithaca Gas carry out from day to day the national opinion in war-time is wise." On Jan- and Electric Corporation that the city conservation program. Accompanying uary 11 the musical clubs and the Uni- during sixteen hours was without electric the menus is a series of questions asked versity orchestra will be heard in a joint service of any kind. With the help of by women of the state about emergency concert. This is likely to be the only University power, stores and houses had foods, with answers by specialists in public appearance of the musical clubs lights again on Saturday, but people on domestic economy. this year. A plan for concerts at various the streets at night found their way, until army cantonments at Christmas time THE OLD YEAR came to an end in a Wednesday, only by snow and moon. was given up by reason of lack of ac- period of unusual cold. Whereas the Intermittent trolley service was started commodations; and the abandonment average December temperature in Ith- on Sunday. The explosion killed one of the Easter recess makes a spring trip aca for the past thirty years is 28 de- workman instantly, and injured three for the clubs improbable. grees above zero, the average for De- others, though not seriously. The pre- cember 1917 is only 20 degrees. Sim- cise cause of the accident is not yet JAMES H. EDWARDS'S name should ilarly low averages are recorded only known and owing to the death of the have been included in the list of those twice, in 1910 of 21 degrees and in 1876 one man near by, is difficult to determine. present at the meeting of the Adminis- of 19 degrees. Moreover, the tempera- tration Committee of the Board of Trus- AVIATION STUDENTS who spent the ture of 22 degrees below zero on Decem- tees which was held Saturday, December holidays in Ithaca had a really merry ber 30 is the lowest on the records of the 15. Christmas. Presents were distributed local weather bureau; lower by two THE LENGTH and the technicalities of from a Christmas tree in the mess hall; degrees than that of December 20, 1884, the new army questionnaire have made a sermon was delivered by the Rev. and January 10, 1904. necessary much outside help for the local William W. Horn; a special entertain- THIS WEEK'S LECTURE in the course registration board. Many Cornellians ment was provided by the management in the history of civilization is on "The in the city have been in regular attend- of the Star Theater, and contributed to Triple Alliance and the Period of Ger- ance at the board's office during the past by the cadets themselves. On New man Ascendency," by Professor Carl L. ten days. Registrants connected with Year's Eve the cadets attended the Ly- Becker. the University have this week an op- ceum Theater as guests of Manager portunity to complete their answers on Gutstadt. PRESIDENT SCHURMAN has received a letter from London stating that the the hill, aid and advice being given by UNIVERSITY PREACHERS for the four address which he gave before the reserve volunteers from the Faculty under the Sundays in January are the Rev. C. officers' training corps at Madison Bar- direction of Dean Woodruff of the Col- Wallace Petty, of Creston Avenue Bap- racks last Decoration Day is being re- lege of Law. The members of the local tist Church, New York; the Rev. Dr. printed by a War Aims Committee in board are Sheriff Lyman H. Gallagher J. D. Adam, Congregationalist, of the Great Britain for use in that country. '95, Dr. Harry H. Crum '97, and Pro- Hartford Theological Seminary; the Dr. Schurman's address was entitled fessor C. Tracey Stagg '02. Rev. Charles A. Brown, of All Saints' "Why America Is in the War." PLUMBING CASUALTIES in Ithaca dur- Episcopal Church, Bayside, Long Island; ing the cold wave are estimated at four- and the Rev. James S. Williamson, Con- SEVERAL CORNELL ALUMNI of New York City have written to President teen hundred, on the basis of as yet very gregationalist, of Plymouth Church, New incomplete returns. Haven, Conn. Schurman to thank him for the address which he gave last Saturday before the AN ANNOUNCEMENT in the issue of AT THE COLLEGE CHESS Tournament Cornell Club there. His talk was given December 15 of the Army and Navy in New York December 26, 27, and 28, on the occasion of the dedication of the Journal will have a very important bear- Cornell finished third, being defeated in club's service flag. One of these alumni ing on the registration in the College the first round by the College of the City wrote: " was in here this morning of Civil Engineering and in Sibley for of New York, and in the third by Penn- and was so enthusiastic over your the remainder of the year. It is an- sylvania, and being tied with Pennsyl- spirited address of Saturday last that nounced that engineering students of vania in the second. Pennsylvania has he said he was almost tempted to em- draft age now undergoing instruction won the trophy three years in succession. brace you at the close of your talk. It in recognized schools, have been granted was altogether one of the most inspiring VICTORY MENUS are being supplied the same tentative exemption from the addresses in connection with war sub- each week to various newspapers in draft as previously announced for medi- jects that it has been my fortune to New York State by the Extension Bu- cal and dental students. They will be hear." reau of the College of Agriculture in allowed to complete their courses, but co-operation with the State Food Com- THOUGH THERE WILL BE no formal are to be enrolled in the enlisted Reserve mission. These menus, prepared by the observance, Founder's Day will be and may be called to duty upon gradua- Department of Home Economics, are marked by two events as usual. The tion. About 6,000 students in 117 insti- designed to effect a saving of time, labor, '94 memorial debate will be held on tutions are affected by this decision. 170 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Trustee Election Set Ahead governs also the time of holding the an- ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS But Seven Weeks for Voting nual meeting of the Associate Alumni. NEW YORK WOMEN The Charter permits the Board of Di- On account of the earlier date of The Cornell Women's Club of New Commencement next spring, the Alumni rectors of the Associate Alumni, at its regular November meeting in any year, York has elected officers for 1918 as of the University will have much less follows: President, Cornelia B. Trow- to fix the date of the next annual meet- time than usual in which to cast their bridge; vice-president, Mrs. Lena Ed- ing. In default of such action by the ballots for the election of Alumni wards Sheble; recording secretary, Fan- Directors, the annual meeting must be Trustees. nie G. Selden; treasurer, Blandina H. held on one of the seven days next pre- The ballots cannot be mailed from Guernee; director, Katherine R. Buck- ceding Commencement, corresponding the Treasurer's office till the usual time, ley; corresponding secretary, Mabel E. to the day of the latest annual meeting. immediately after April 1st. The vote Rose, 950 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn. must be canvassed at the annual meeting Since the Directors this fall made no of the Associate Alumni, and the law choice of a day, May 18 has become the SYRACUSE legal day for the meeting. requires that meeting in 1918 to be held Dr. A. H. Sharpe was the guest of the In recent years a biographical sketch on May 18, the Saturday next preceding Syracuse alumni at their luncheon on of each candidate has been sent out Commencement. Thursday, December 20. Dr. Sharpe with the official ballot. Hereafter, under The vacancy in the Board left by the gave the alumni an idea of the basketball a new ruling of the Directors of the death of Franklin Matthews '83 is to and baseball situation, and related in- Associate Alumni, the nominators of any be filled in the regular manner next spring stances to show that athletic training candidate may send with the ballot also because Mr. Matthews was in the last helped produce good officers. year of his term of office when he died. a paragraph of not more than 150 words The term of office of Judge Cuthbert W. stating their reasons for urging the can- WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA didate's election. Pound '87 will also expire in 1918. The realities of the great war were Elections of Alumni Trustees are gov- vividly portrayed to the members of the erned by the revised Charter of Cornell MEMORIAL TO CORNELLIANS IN Cornell Alumni Association of Western University. The provision for regular THE WAR Pennsylvania who gathered for a smoker elections is as follows: It is not too early for Cornell alumni at the University Club, Pittsburgh, on 'The election of trustees by the alumni to begin consideration of a memorial the evening of Saturday, December 8. shall be by ballot, and shall be conducted which should be erected on the campus The guests of honor were officers in the in the following manner and under the as a mark of honor and pride in the National Army, Pittsburgh Cornellians following provisions: A register of the students and professors who have given home on leave from various training signature and address of each of the said their services to the country in all camps. They included Captain J. K. alumni of the said university shall be branches, military, . naval and profes- Stotz '16, Infantry; Lieutenant J. E. kept by the treasurer of the said univer- sional, said Judge Frank H. Hiscock, Kessler '12, who is already somewhere sity at his business office. Any ten or chairman of the Board of Trustees of the en route to the Western front; Lieu- more alumni may file with the treasurer, University, to a group of Syracuse alumni tenant B. S. Paige '12, Ordnance De- on or before the first day of April in each at a luncheon Wednesday, December 27. partment; and Sergeant A. B. John- year, written nominations of the trustees Mr. Hiscock, according to press re- ston '14, Aviation. to be elected by the alumni at the next ports, said that regardless of what form Sergeant Johnston was the veteran commencement. Forthwith after such this memorial may take it should not of the crowd in point of service and his first day of April, a list of such candidates be the gift of any one man or group of talk furnished the thrills of the evening. shall be mailed by said treasurer to each men, but of all alumni, an expression He wears the French uniform of the of the alumni at his address. Such list from all Cornellians of gratitude, pride Lafayette Escadrille adorned with the shall state the vacancies, if any, then and affection for the men who responded Cross of Honor for bravery in action. existing in the alumni membership of the so promptly and in such large numbers He was asked to tell of his experiences board of trustees; and the vacancies that to their country's call. in France, and told an interesting story will occur by expiration of term at the Judge Hiscock emphasized the con- of the various steps taken in the aviation next ensuing commencement. Each tribution of men made by Cornell to the camps to break in a new hand at the alumnus may vote by transmitted ballot nation, and the special value of the uni- game until he is finally competent to for trustees to be elected by the alumni versity to the nation because of these operate a 200 or 300 horse power cy- at any commencement, in accordance three institutions: clone at unbelievable heights over the with such regulations as to the method Colleges of engineering, which have enemy terraine. He is then prepared to and time of voting as may be prescribed prepared men in the science of engineer- give battle to the Boche under any con- by the alumni and approved by the ing, for which there is at present such ditions, taking observations, dropping trustees of the university or its executive an urgent demand. bombs, or bringing down enemy planes. committee. The candidates to the ex- College of Agriculture, which for years Sergeant Johnston was credited with tent of the number of places to be filled has been teaching scientific farming. the destruction of several German having the highest number of votes upon Teaching of military science, as re- machines and was once himself brought the first ballot shall be declared elected, quired by the land grant act under which down in an air battle far over the enemy provided that each of said candidates the university was founded, and which lines, but succeeded in gliding back to has received the votes of at least one- has given to the men fundamentals the Allied lines and struck the ground third of all the alumni voting at said which enabled so many of them to enter twenty yards inside the French trenches. election." the army as officers, with only slight The thrilling details of his encounters A provision of the revised Charter special preparation required. in the air exceed the most ambitious CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 171

attempts of motion picture hair-raisers LITERARY NOTES "The Idea of God in the Light of Recent and his audience plied him with ques- BOOK REVIEW Philosophy," by A. Seth Pringle-Patti- tions for some time after he had told his son. Islandica, volume x. Annalium in modest story. A translation of Piό Baroja's "La It was announced that the Board of Islandia Farrago and De Mirabilibus Islandiae, by Gίsli Oddsson. Edited by Feria de los Discretos," under the title Directors of the Association had de- of "The City of the Discreet," by Jacob cided to rebate membership dues during Halldor Hermannsson. Ithaca, N. Y. Cornell University Library. 1917. 8vo, Sloat Fassett '12, was published last the period of the war to all members in month by Alfred A. Knopf of New York. active military service of the United pp. xvi, 84. Price, $1. "The Life and Letters of Edward States. In this well printed volume Mr. Her- mannsson has given us an edition of Everett Hale" in two volumes, by his CORNELL A. S. M. E. two works by Bishop Gisli Oddsson son, Professor Edward Everett Hale, jr., The annual Cornell A. S. M. E. dinner (1593-1638), of the diocese of Skalholt, of Union College, an instructor in Eng- was held at the Cornell University Club dealing with the traditions and folklore lish here in 1886-89, has just been pub- of New York on Friday, December 7. of Iceland. Indeed, the second of these lished by Little, Brown and Company. C. F. Hirshfeld and W. W. Macon were works has been spoken of as the first A new translation of Dante by Pro- the toastmasters. Professor D. S. Kim- collection of Icelandic folklore. It con- fessor Courtney Langdon of Brown Uni- ball received a hearty welcome, and tains a few folk-tales complete and others versity, an instructor in French here in spoke of the University, its Faculty, in embryo. It deals with monsters and 1886-90, is published by the Harvard alumni, and students. He gave those serpents, giants and trolls and fairies. University Press. The translation is in present a clear idea of what the Univer- The student of natural science will also blank verse and is printed on opposite find much that is of interest; for the sity is doing and expects to do during pages with the Italian. bishop, all things considered, was a man the war. L. B. Sperry gave an amusing To School and Society for December 22 not easily misled by the excessive super- account of his exploits as an aviator, and Dean Arland D. Weeks Όl, of the stition of his time and country. "He R. B. Lea '15 gave an illustrated talk on School of Education of the North Dakota frequently declares that he deems the the uses of the gyroscope. The list of Agricultural College at Fargo, contrib- popular stories and beliefs which he butes an article on "The Administration those present follows, the residence being mentions to be idle talk, or at best un- of the Smith-Hughes Act." omitted where it is New York City or certain." Like other men of his time suburbs: D. S. Kimball, Ithaca; E. N. he still believes in fairies, "although "The Fundamentals of Botany," a Trump 78, Syracuse; W. C. Brown '81, he acknowledges the difficulty of ascer- new book by Dr. C. Stuart Gager Ό2, Syracuse; W. A. Day '86, Chicago; E. taining the accuracy of some of the published by P. Blakiston's Sons & Co. N. Sanderson '87; G. W. Bissell '88, stories told concerning them, suspect- of Philadelphia, is very favorably re- East Lansing, Mich.; J. H. Barr '89, ing, here as elsewhere, the tricks and viewed by E. C. Jeffrey in the issue of Washington; William Jackson '90; C. deceptions of the devil." Science for December 21. Mr. Jeffrey H. Bierbaum '91, Buffalo; E. Fitts '91, The two works are here printed from says: "Although a physiologist in out- Detroit; A. J. Baldwin '92; Bert a rotograph copy of the manuscript in look, he has properly emphasized the Houghton '92; G. L. Hoxie '92; D. L. the Bodleian Library. In the notes the historical and structural point of view, Holbrook '92; E. T. Adams '94, Syra- editor makes no attempt to deal with so often and so deplorably neglected by cuse; O. P. Cummings '94; C. E. the folklore of the text, leaving that to the cultivators of disembodied plant Houghton '94; L. B. Taylor '97, New- the specialist in these matters; but what plant physiology." port, R. I.; C. M. Eshelman '98; W. W. he attempts he does with characteristic Among timely papers on the war in Macon '98; F. W. Midgley '98; M. W. thoroughness and accuracy. Scribnefs for January is an interesting Sherwood '99, Erie, Pa. C. E. Brecken- narrative, "Victims of Submarine," by BOOKS AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES ridge '00; J. E. Coleman '02; M. W. Robert Daniel Garwood, a graduate W. Ellis Schutt '05, contributes a Offutt '02; C. A. Dawley '04; G. D. student last year in American history story, "Stone of Madness," to The Conlee '05, Amsterdam; C. F. Hirshfeld and political science. Mr. Garwood All-Story Weekly for December 22. '05, Detroit; V. D. Herriman '08; J. W. was an able seaman on the late steam- Parker '08, Detroit; R. T. Turner '08; The current number of The Cornell ship Verdi. When the vessel was C. B. Wigton '08; C. B. Curtiss '09, Bay Review has as its Opening article some destroyed by a German submarine, Mr. remarks, entitled "A Very Present City, Mich.; E. J. Finch '09; J. H. Garwood with the surviving crew drifted Help," on the consolation of great liter- Lawrence '09; J. J. Ralph '09; R. K. in one of the ship's boats for three days ature in a time of stress, by Professor Blanchard Ί0; C. Hartford Ί0; N. G. before coming to land in Ireland. Leslie N. Broughton Ίl. Reinicker Ίl; F. M. Coffin '12; C. E. The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, min- Davis '12, New Haven; W. C. Dixon '13; Dr. Thomas O'Hagan '94 contributes ister of the Church of the Messiah, New R. B. Lea '15, Brooklyn. on "Dante and His Times," to the De- York, is the author of "The Life and cember issue of The Catholic World. Letters of Robert Collyer," an illustrated WHEELING, W. VA. To The Columbia University Quarterly biography in two volumes which is The membership of the Cornell Club for December, Dean James E. Russell published by Dodd, Mead & Co. Dr. of Wheeling has been so depleted, through '87, of Teachers College, contributes an Cqllyer, who was Dr. Holmes's prede- enlistment in national service, that its article on "Seth Low, Leader of Men." cessor in the Church of the Messiah, was secretary, Lieutenant Tom Cummins, To the latest issue of The Philosophical for many years a Sage Chapel preacher, reports the club to be temporarily in- Review Professor Ernest Albee con- and Dr. Holmes has likewise preached active. tributes an extended critical review of here frequently. 172 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Problems of Agriculture meet these obligations effectively, must MILITARY NOTES have 'resources for greatly augmented Dean Mann Writes of a Great Need for LETTER FROM HUNTINGTON '00 More Provision for Research research." The pressing needs of the research A cheery letter to Clarence F. Wyckoff The report of the Dean of the New work, Dean Mann says, are for funds '98 of Ithaca, from Air Depot No. 1, York State College of Agriculture at for more and better apparatus, more Zone of Advance, A.E.F., under date of Cornell University, Albert R. Mann '04, space, and most of all for additional in- December 2, brings news of the location to President Schurman, for the year vestigators, well supported, to take up and work of Captain Frederic Dan 1916-17, is devoted for the most part pressing and fundamental problems. Huntington, M.E. Ό0. He writes: to a record of the year's work in each of "As you can see from the address, I that college's many departments and of The Field for Research am up near the footlights of the big each department's particular needs. Dean Mann speaks particularly of show, building aviation camps back of Present Funds Insufficient several problems which call for funda- the lines. The shells don't reach us; A subject upon which Dean Mann mental investigations. They are in the but the Boche airmen chuck bombs at places emphasis is a need of provision fields of botany, pomology, and forestry us, which is annoying, though there is for more adequate research in the several and in respect to the personal factors about as much danger as in crossing departments. He says: that influence agriculture, problems hav- Broadway at 34th Street. War is not "With the increasing funds for ex- ing to do with farm management and danger altogether. It is mostly mud and tension, the insufficiency of the funds with rural commercial and social organ- monotony. * * * for research becomes increasingly ap- ization. During the coming year and "We are expecting a drive in this parent. Moreover, the enlarged ex- in years following, he says, it is hoped sector early in the spring. I have tension work is bound to increase the that a farm community of some four learned to fly an aeroplane and when it demand for research. The more the col- hundred farms may be systematically comes I expect to establish a new record lege endeavors to apply known principles studied and worked with, to obtain a between here and the coast. For this I to the agriculture of the State, the more better farm organization for the com- shall doubtless receive the Cross de problems requiring careful investiga- munity as a whole. There is need of Guerre inverted. tion for their solution will be encountered. study of the questions of prices and of "I was glad to see that Cornell lost The greatest single need of the College food assembling and distribution. the Penn game; any college that has a at the present time is more funds for War Work of the College really good football team this year should be ashamed of itself. There are research and more men on its staff Special war work of the College re- a lot of Cornell men around here, and qualified by experience and intensive quires a good deal of space for the telling training who are set free for productive four Chi Psis in my immediate vicinity. in the Dean's report. There was a re- investigations. It is most desirable that We are going to try to have a party at arrangement and a speeding up of ex- more permanent research positions shall Christmas, but there are so many regula- tension work. Every department of the be established in the college. While a tions against anything enjoyable that College has made ready to render every measure of good work can be accomp- parties are difficult to arrange. possible service to the State and Nation. lished by means of temporary assistant- "I have built accommodations for "The war situation," Dean Mann ships, industrial fellowships, and the * * men and * * planes, with shops, says, "does not call for measures radically like, these provide only for the more etc., since I have been here; so I feel different from those which have been superficial problems. Research of the that I have helped a little." advocated for the past decade, nor from highest order is distinctly a personal those which will doubtless need to be matter. Much of it cannot be organized CORNELL MEN AT SAN ANTONIO advocated for years to come. There is a to be carried out by temporary assistants Alden C. Buttrick of Ithaca, who is a present opportunity, however, to make under the direction of administrators. student in the training school for ground progress more rapidly than has been Men of the right training and tempera- officers of the Aviation Section, at San possible heretofore, because no such ment need to be set free to prosecute Antonio, Texas, has found a large num- their investigations with the minimum opportunity has arisen and no such ber of other Cornell graduates there. of interruption or impediment. clear call to service has been heard since In a letter just received by President the beginning of the present agricultural Schurman, he writes: Great Opportunity movement. "Many Cornell men are here at the "In few fields of collegiate work is the "Predictions as to the progress and ground officers' training school. In fact, need for large provision for research duration of the world struggle upon as I write, Harold Flack, Sam Halliday, more imperative than in Agriculture. which we have entered represent a vain John Gauntlett, A. L. Clark '14, Howard Brought into being suddenly by an Act effort and are likely to be mere guesses Babcock '14, Silas Titus '02, D. W. Mac- of the Federal Congress a little over a at best. Other countries have gone into Gowan of Omaha, and two other Cornell half century ago, required by law, as the war with the idea that it was an men are talking together on the two cots most of the agricultural colleges are, to affair of months and have fared ill ac- adjacent to mine. A Cornell dinner is teach students, to make investigations cordingly. We should be ready for any scheduled for December 29." of the practical problems which in count- eventuality. Very little which the Col- less numbers confront farmers, and to lege desires to do is of a purely temporary PROFESSOR MARTIN W. SAMPSON is conduct extension work throughout the or ephemeral character. The program now reading the proofs of a volume of states; spurred to rapid development of to which it is committed by the demands "Camion Letters," most of which are the extension activities through the dis- of the people of the State, and by its by Cornell men. The volume will ap- proportionately large public grants for own ideas of helpfulness, is no less good pear shortly from the press of Henry this service, the colleges, if they are to for peace than it is for war." Holt and Company. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 173

THE FOUR MINUTE MEN Term Expires in 1919 Trained Men Wanted One of the many agencies which are J. L. Tiernon, jr.. '95, Buffalo. W. R. Webster, jr., '90, No. 208 Brooklawn CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION quietly but effectively helping in the Avenue, Bridgeport. Conn. The United States Civil Service Com- conduct of the war is that of the Four N J. Weldgen '05, No. 911 Wilder Building, mission announces an open competitive Minute Men, which forms a division of Rochester, N. Y examination for mechanical and electrical the Committee on Public Information. J. P Dods '08, No 900 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. engineers at $1,500 a year, and for speci- At present about fifteen thousand E. N Sanderson '87, No." 252 William St., fication writers at $4 to $7 a day... Com- speakers are enlisted in this movement New York. petitors will not be required to report for the dissemination of correct informa- Term Expires in 1920 for examination at any place, but will tion about the war and the list is grow- Miss Kate Gleason '88, The Gleason Works, Rochester, N. Y. be rated on their general and technical ing at the rate of over a thousand a William Metcalf. jr., '01, No. 410 Oliver Building. education and on their experience and month. The director of this corps of Pittsburgh. fitness. Applications for these positions men is William McCormick Blair, with Dr L. O. Howard '77, Washington. should be made not later than January offices at 10 Jackson Place, Washington, F. C. Robinson '04, No. 3144 Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia. 15, 1918. Announcement is also made D. C. There are now 2165 local groups. J P. Harris Όl, Citizens Savings and Trust of similar examinations for accessory In Ithaca the work of the Four Minute Company, Cleveland. inspectors and ballistic inspectors of Men is in charge of the following com- Ex Officio small-arms ammunition at salaries rang- mittee: Clarence F. Wyckoff '98, Chair- The President of the Cornellian Council. Woodford Patterson '95, Alumni Recorder: ing from $1,200 to $1,900, and for man, Rev. George R. Baker '96, Super- Ithaca. mechanical draftsmen at $800 to $1,800. intendent F. D. Boynton, Professor A. Mrs. G. D. Crofts Ό5, vice-president of the For these positions, on account of the M. Drummond, Professor George A. Associate Alumni; Buffalo. urgent needs of the service, applications Everett '99, G. M. Kisor, Judge Willard Dr. V. A. Moore '87, president of the Association of Class Secretaries; Ithaca. will be received at any time until further M. Kent '98, Louis D. Neill, and Pro- W. W. Macon, treasurer of the Associate Alumni; notice; papers will be rated promptly Professor Martin W. Sampson. New York and certification made as the needs of The following men have delivered four Committee on Nominations the service "require. In all cases candi- minute speeches thus far: District At- Term Expires in 1918 dates should make applications on torney Arthur G. Adams '07, Professor J. N. Ostrom '77, Farmers Bank Building, Form 1312, to be had, with complete Bristow Adams, Edward H. Bostwick Pittsburgh. details, on request to the Commission, '85, Superintendent Frank D. Boynton, Philip Will ΌO, 7 Highland Heights, R. D. 2, Rochester. Washington, D. C. Professor A. M. Drummond, Professor J. A. Pollak '07 625 Mitchell Avenue, Cincin- Charles L. Durham '99, Professor George nati. A. Everett '99, Arthur N. Gibb '90, D. Term Expires in 1919 SIBLEY EMPLOYMENT BUREAU T. Gilmartin, jr., Nathan Hanford, C L. Bradley '08, 706 Marion Building, Cleve- 590. On account of the large number land. Joseph F. Hickey, Judge Willard M. C. H. Tuck '06, Roberts Hall, Ithaca. of vacancies in the grade of provisional Kent '98, C. B. Loudenslager, Jack Frederick Willis Όl, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York second lieutenant of the corps of en- Mertens, jr., Frederick Ming, Professor Term Expires in 1920 gineers of the Regular Army, an examina- Clark S. Northup '93, George R. Phipps, W J. Norton Ό2, 111 Monroe St., Chicago. tion to fill some of the vacancies will Professor Martin W. Sampson, Harry H A. Rogers Ό3, 127 West Mt. Airy Avenue, begin January 21. Special facilities will G. Stutz '07, and C. W. Whitman '16. Mt. Airy, Pa. be afforded for the preparation of can- E. T. Foote '06, Room 601, 77 Franklin St., Some of these men have spoken not Boston. didates who are on duty with the various only at all the local theaters, but in National Guard and National Army Di- every town in the county. "CORNELLIANS" RECEIVED visions. The candidate must be an un- The ALUMNI NEWS will be glad to Through the kindness of Miss M. M. married citizen between the ages of 21 learn of the Cornell men in other places Pitcher '79, C. H. Hull '86, Willard and 29 years and must hold a diploma who are engaged in the Four Minute Austen '91, and Silas Taber '03, the showing graduation in an engineering movement. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS has been able course from an approved technical to complete its file of The Cornellian with school. The Associate Alumni the exception of four numbers. The 592. Thomas I. S. Boak '14, Building Officers numbers still needed to complete the set and Maintenance Division, Western President. N H. Noyes '06, No. 1328 Delaware are: The Cornelian of 1871-72 and 1873- Avenue, Indianapolis. Electric Co., wants two or three grad- 74, The Cornellian of 1876-77 which was Vice-Presidents. J L. Tiernon, jr., '95, No. 619 uates of Sibley College, who have had issued by Zeta Psi, Chi Phi, Delta Kappa White Building, Buffalo. Mrs. G. D. Crofts '05, from two to five or more years' experience 65 Livingston St., Buffalo. Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Chi, and The in the maintenance end of factory work. Treasurer W. W. Macon '98, No. 239 West Cornelian of 1877-78 which was pub- Thirty-ninth St., New York. $24 to $34 per week, with good chance lished by Kappa Alpha, Alpha Delta Alumni Recorder. Woodford Patterson '95, for advancement. If interested, write Phi and Psi Upsilon. During the two Morrill Hall, Ithaca. to Mr. Boak at 379 Hillside Ave., Secretary. R. W Sailor '07, CORNELL ALUMNI years 1876-78, there were two Cornellian Newark, N. J. NEWS, Ithaca. Boards each year, the volumes noted Directors being the ones that the ALUMNI NEWS Term Expires in 1918 593. D. R. Kennedy, Employment Lt.-Col. W. II. H. Hutton, jr., '91, Signal Corps, does not possess. As these books are Manager, American International Ship- U. S. A. Am. Ex. Forces. consulted almost daily as sources of building Corporation, 140 North Broad N, H. Noyes '06, Indianapolis. biographical information, the receipt of Street, Philadelphia, Pa., wants men W. G. Ogden Όl, No. 53 State St., Boston. any of the missing numbers will be R. W. Sailor '07, Ithaca. with technical training to act as foremen, E. B. Whitman Όl, No 1305 John St., Baltimore. gratefully appreciated. superintendents, etc. 174 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

foreign service next spring and will be tells of his arrival in Paris. He writes: unable to take their part in the election * 'Arrived in Paris, I contrived by the of Alumni Trustees, for the reason that grace of heaven and a small pocket ballots cannot be mailed to them in dictionary to get my baggage out of Published for the Associate Alumni time for return within the seven weeks consigne (I had to steal one of my suit of Cornell University by the Cornell before the annual alumni meeting. Both cases), after which I set out at once to Alumni News Publishing Company, the date of the closing of nominations make arrangements for visiting the front. Incorporated. and the date of the annual meeting are Vocabulary in hand, I blundered into governed by the revised Charter of the the presence of the French official who Published weekly during the college year and University. monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. guides and directs the journalists of two Issue No. 1 is published the first Thursday of the hemispheres. college year in September and weekly publication THE SECRETARY OF THE UNIVERSITY " 'Monsieur,' I began,' Voulez—vousV— is preparing a blank form which will be (numbered consecutively) continues through Com- "He glanced up with a smile that mencement Week. Issue No. 40, the final one of sent to an many Cornellians as possible seemed not unfamiliar. the year, is published the last Thursday in August by the University, the ALUMNI NEWS, and is followed by an index of the entire volume. " 'My dear man,' said he, 'your accent and as many other agencies as will en- Subscription price $3.00 a year, payable in ad- is as bad as ever. Sit down and we will vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single close them in their mail matter. On the talk—English.' inside back cover page of this issue of copies ten cents each. "It was my former professor of Ro- the NEWS is printed a copy of this form. Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his mance Languages at Cornell. subscription, notice to that effect should be sent in Subscribers will be doing a service for "There have been times when I have before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that the University if they will tear out this a continuance of the subscription is desired. doubted the wisdom of acquiring Ro- page and mail it in to the Secretary of Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- mance Languages, but I am convinced able to Cornell Alumni News. the University, or to the CORNELL now that their study is invaluable. Correspondence should be addressed— ALUMNI NEWS, as they find most con- Thanks to the assistance of my good CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, venient. The Secretary will send ad- friend, Monsieur G. [Guerlac], I was Ithaca, N. Y. ditional blank forms upon request* able shortly to complete my arrange- Alumni are asked to send in on these ments. 'In the meantime,' said he, 'see Manager: forms, or by letter, not only full informa- R. W. SAILOR '07 all of Paris that you can. It will never tion about any Cornell man in the service be again as it is now'." Associate Editors: of America or any of America's allies, CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 WOODFORD PATTERSON '95 B. S. MONROE '96 H. G. STUTZ '07 but any additional information, be it CONFERENCE OF GRADUATE ATH- R. W. KELLOGG '12 only a scrap, regarding a change of sta- LETIC MANAGERS News Committee of the Associate Alumni: tion, a promotion, a mention in dis- Graduate Managers from a number of W. W. MACON '98, Chairman patches, or a casualty. Co-operation eastern universities and colleges gathered N. H. NOYES '06 J. P. DODS '08 of this sort by Cornell's friends will in New York City December 27, and Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing enable the University to keep track of informally discussed the intercollegiate Company, Incorporated: John L.Senior, President; its own men and help them whenever it R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; F. H. Wingert, Assistant athletic situation and war time athletic Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, is possible to do so, and it will aid in the problems. The consensus of opinion was 220 East State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. chronicling of every honor or distinction that the annual championship games of won by a Cornellian. the I.C.A.A.A.A. should be resumed next Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press spring. Other features of athletic policy NOTICE HAS BEEN SENT to each secre- Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. were discussed but no formal action was tary and each delegate of the alumni taken. Graduate Manager G. E. Kent ITHACA, NEW YORK, JANUARY 3, 1918 associations that suggestions are desired of Cornell, was in attendance at the for the nominations of officers, directors, meeting. J ψ TTENTION is called to an an- and members of the nominating com- ψ fl nouncement in this issue about mittee to be elected at the annual meet- CLASS SECRETARIES' MEETING * the election of Alumni Trustees ing of the association May 18. The The mid-winter meeting of the Associa- next spring. Although Commencement unusually short time and the preoccupa- tion of Class Secretaries was held at the is to be held a month earlier than usual, tion of alumni with more warlike pur- Cornell Club of New York on Friday, the time of mailing the official ballots suits, are likely to make the work of the December 28. Fourteen secretaries or cannot be advanced, for the nominations nominating committee this year espe- representatives of secretaries were pres- cannot be closed until April 1st. Alumni pecially difficult. Friends of the associa- ent. Resolutions on the death of Norton who receive their ballots immediately tion are urged to assist with suggestions T. Horr '82, Professor Charles L. Cran- after that day will therefore have about as promptly as possible. The chairman dall '72, Professor Franklin Matthews seven weeks in which to cast their votes. of the nominating committee is E. T. '83, and Harry A. Hitchcock ΌO were The result of the vote must be declared Foote, 77 Franklin Street, Boston. adopted. The report of the committee at the annual meeting of the Associate on class record blanks was presented, Alumni, and that meeting must be held A SPEAKING ACQUAINTANCE WITH and after discussion it was voted that on Saturday, May 18, in 1918. Alumni FRENCH the regular size of the new blanks should who live at a distance from Ithaca will Dana Burnet '11, has gone to France be eight by ten and one-half inches. have correspondingly less time in which for The Evening Sun of New York, and The new plan of financing the Associate to make up their minds and cast their that newspaper is now publishing letters Alumni through a pro rata tax of the votes. There is a probability that sev- from him. In the second of the series, various local clubs, a plan which has eral hundred of the alumni will be in published on Monday, December 31, he already been approved by other bodies CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 175 interested, was approved by the Secre- ATHLETICS so long a time and so far as national and local conditions permit, and that all taries. The constitution of the Associa- Convention of the N. C. A. A. possible encouragement be given to the tion was amended so as to permit holding The continuation of intercollegiate development of intramural sports with the mid-winter meeting at any time be- athletics "for so long a time and so far a view to promoting the participation of tween December 1 and February 1. as national and local conditions will all students. After a long discussion of the question permit," and "all possible" encourage- of holding class reunions in May, 1918, ment of the development of intramural "Third,—That professional coaching it was voted as the sense of the meeting sports with a view to promoting the and the expenses. incidental thereto be that, first, there should be recommended participation of all students, were among reduced to a minimum. a general get-together, and secondly, the recommendations included in a set "Fourth,—That there be no pre- that class reunions in keeping with the of resolutions adopted at the annual con- season coaching or practice, no scouting spirit of the times should be held, and vention of the National Collegiate Ath- and no training table. that in case not enough members of any letic Association held in New York City "Fifth,—That the number of officials one class should return for a successful Friday, December 28. At the same time at intercollegiate games and their fees reunion, provision should be made for the association declared that athletic be kept as low as possible. suitable combinations of classes. sports should be made subservient to "Sixth,—And further be it resolved, the work of military preparation. Both that this association reaffirms its belief ORGAN RECITAL Secretary Newton D. Baker of the War in the eligibility rules which it has al- The regular organ recital will be given Department and Secretary Josephus ready endorsed, including the Freshman by Professor J. T. Quarles, in Bailey Daniels of the Navy Department sent rule, and therefore recommends that Hall on Friday afternoon at five o'clock. letters which were read at the meeting there be no lowering of eligibility stand- The program is of unusual attractiveness, praising athletic systems in colleges and ards during the present crisis." and is as follows: high schools. Both secretaries em- Baker and Daniels Favor Athletics Concert Prelude and Fugue phasized the importance of spreading In his letter to the association Secre- in G, Faulkes the benefits of athletics among students tary of War Baker said: "The officers' Minuet from First Violoncello and each recognized that intercollegiate training camps held by the government Suite Bach competition was desirable, stimulating were attended by tens of thousands of Chorale in A minor, No. 3 Franck and beneficial. This was the first time young men whose minds have been Gesύ Bambino ("The Infant Jesus") that Secretary Baker had formally ap- trained in the colleges and high schools Featuring the Chimes Yon proved of intercollegiate competition, of the country and whose splendid Humoreske (By Request) Dvorak his remarks at the summer meeting of physical condition was due to the col- Grand Choeur Dialogue Gigout the association held in Washington legiate and high school system of ath- being of a more general nature. letics. They were a national asset of OBITUARY The National Collegiate Athletic As- incalculable value. Mrs. George F. DeWein '97 sociation represents 164 colleges and is "It is obviously important," Mr. Mrs. George F. DeWein (Anna Elisa- said to speak officially for a student body Baker said, "to spread the benefit of beth Haworth '97) died at her home, of more than 300,000. Nearly every college athletics as widely as possible," 2442 Prairie Street, Milwaukee, on college in the country was represented and to "prevent their being monopolized December 18th. Mrs. DeWein was born at the New York conference. Cornell by a few selected representatives. Both in Enfield, N. Y., and received the de- men in attendance were Professor W. W. the training and the spirit of the athletic gree of B.S. in 1897, after specializing in Rowlee and G. E. Kent. field lend themselves readily to military mathematics.^ In 1904 she married Recommendations Already Adopted service. George F. DeWein, (E.E. '97) patent Broadly speaking, the recommenda- "The encouragement of college ath- attorney for the Allis-Chalmers Manu- tions of the National Collegiate Athletic letics by intercollegiate games is in itself facturing Company, and has since lived Association with reference to inter- stimulating and beneficial when it does in Milwaukee, Wis. For ten years Mrs. collegiate competition, the development not lead to such specialization as restricts DeWein has been confined to her home of athletics so as to encourage a more by illness, but never ceased her active the value of college athletics to a few general participation by the under- interest in the affairs of the world and specialists and denies it to the student graduate body, and the adoption of a particularly of Cornell. Besides her body at large." policy by which athletics are harmonized husband, she leaves a daughter, Mary, Secretary Daniels, referring to train- eleven years old. with military training and become an ing camps said, "young collegians who essential factor in the physical develop- had trained in athletics were seen to Stuart Ross Cuthbert ment of young men for such training, possess an incalculable advantage over Lieut. Stuart Ross Cuthbert, a nephew have already been recognized by Cornell their associates who had permitted of Miss Gertrude Nye, warden of Pru- University and the athletic system here delving in Greek roots to deny them time dence Risley Hall, and brother of Mar- is being maintained along such lines. to develop their muscles. * * Inter- garet Ross Cuthbert '08, was killed on The association adopted the following collegiate games stimulate interest and December 28 in an accident while flying resolutions: should be encouraged." at Camp Ben Brook, Fort Worth, Texas. "First,—That athletic sports be made It became known at the meeting that Lieutenant Cuthbert was an officer in subservient to the work of military prep- with the exception of Harvard, Yale, and the Royal Flying Corps, from Canada. aration, and be made therefore, an es- Princeton, practically every university He had served in the Canadian infantry sential factor in military training.- and college identified with the associa- in the trenches last winter and spent "Second,—That intercollegiate and tion would continue intercollegiate ath- several months in Ithaca last spring. interscholastic schedules be arranged for letics. 176 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

List of Local Clubs and Cornell Alumni Luncheon Hours ^Western Pennsylvania.—A. N. Slocum, West- Boston.—Mrs. H. M. Varrell, 37 Concord List of Local Clubs inghouse Building, Pittsburgh. Avenue, Cambridge. The following list contains the names Luzerne County.—E B. Wagner, 15 North Buffalo.—Miss Grace Laing, 306 Bryant St. and addresses of the secretaries of the Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Chicago—Miss Margaret Aherne, 539 Madison local Cornell alumni associations and Delaware.—Alexander Laird, Odd Fellows St., Gary, Indiana. Building, Wilmington. Cleveland.—Miss Florence Rosenthal, 10209 clubs. It was compiled in the office of Maryland.—J. S. Gorrell, 108 East Lexington South Boulevard the Alumni Recorder, Morrill Hall. St., Baltimore. Ithaca.—Miss Rebecca Harris. Kelvin Place. ^Washington.—L. W. Kephart, Bureau of Plant *New York,—Miss Mabel E. Rose, 950 Marcy General Organizations Industry, 1306 B Street S. W. Avenue, Brooklyn. THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNI OF CORNELL UNIVER- Raleigh, N. C—R. W. Leiby, State Depart- *Philadelphia.—Miss Olive Long, 4631 San- SITY. Secretary, R. W. Sailor, Care CORNELL ment of Agriculture. som St. ALUMNI NEWS, Ithaca. ^Pittsburgh.—Temporarily inactive. Middle West *THE CORNELL ASSOCIATION OF CLASS SECRE- Rochester.—Miss Gwendolen Engii h, 39 Vick TARIES. Acting Secretary, Willard Austen, Uni- Cleveland.—Dr. I. J. Kerr, 1015 New England Park A. versity Library, Ithaca. Building. Troy.—Miss Frances McTammany, 170 First St. Central Ohio.—W. J. Armstrong, in care of *THE CORNELLIAN COUNCIL. Acting Secretary, Mohawk Valley.—Miss K. A. Donlon, 1323 Jeffrey Mfg. Co., Columbus. Miss Clara Howard, 27 Morrill Hall, Ithaca. Seymour Avenue. Utica Akron.—L. A. Keane, 197 Spicer St. THE FEDERATION OF CORNELL WOMEN'S CLUBS. *Washington.—Miss J. T. Minnick, 1808 G Toledo,—W. C. Acklin, 1645 Dorr St. Street, N.W Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Clara Howard, 27 *Dayton.—Barton Myers, with Schaeffer Geng- Morrill Hall, Ithaca. Worcester.—Mrs. H. B. Smith, 20 Trowbridge nagel & Co. Road. Alumni Associations Southern Ohio.—Max H. Thurnauer, 3891 Bay Cities of California.—Mrs. Walter Mulford, New England Reading Road, Cincinnati. 1619 Spruce St., Berkeley. '^Indiana.—Temporarily vacant. *New England.—Creed W. Fulton, 58 Pearl St., ^Wheeling, W. Va.—Temporarily inactive. *Changed since last publication. Boston. Kentucky.—Adolph Reutlinger, 123 South Connecticut.—William VanKirk, The Aluminum Third St., Louisville. Alumni Luncheons Castings Co., Fairfield. Chicago.—J C. Carpenter, Marquette Building New Haven.—Frank W. Hoyt, 161 York St. Michigan.—H. V. Welles, 3039 W. Grand The list below is published here for Springfield, Mass.—R. W. Clark, 224 Washing- Boulevard, Detroit. the guidance not only of members of ton Boulevard. Milwaukee.—Morgan Washburn, jr., The Cutler- New York the associations in the cities mentioned Hammer Mfg, Co. New York City.—Foster M Coffin, 65 Park St. Louis.—A. J. Widmer, 1013 Syndicate Trust but also of Cornell men from other towns Avenue. Building. who may be able to attend any of the *The Cornell Lawyers' Association of New York, Kansas City.—George F. Mosher, 310 Republic luncheons. Secretary, L. H. Groser, 30 Broad Street. Building Albany.—Suspended. The Cornell Society of Civil Engineers. Secre- Wichita, Kansas.—Hal M. Black, Wichita Club. tary, E. A. Truran, 33 Lincoln Terrace, Yonkers, ^Louisiana.—Temporarily inactive. Baltimore.—Every Monday, 12:30 to 1:30 N. Y. Texas.—J. L. Jacobs, care of James Stewart Co., o'clock, at the City Club, in the Munsey Building. Brooklyn.—Alan H. Colcord, 551 Second St. Houston. Binghamton.—Every Tuesday at 12:15 o'clock Dutchess County.—P. A. Rieser. 25 South Clover St. Paul.—C. R. Vincent, Pioneer Building. in the grill room of the Chamber of Commerce, on St., Poughkeepsie, Minneapolis.—F. H. Perl, 405 New York Life the twelfth fjoor of the Press Building. Ossinίng.—Judge Milton C. Palmer. Building. Boston.—Every Thursday, 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock, Eastern New York.—C. R. Vanneman, 555 Provi- Duluth.—A. T. Banning, jr., 1009 Alworth Bldg. at the^Quincy House. dence St., Albany. Omaha.—George B. Thummel, Omaha National *Schenectady.—J. J. Matson, Consulting Eng. Buffalo.—Every Tuesday, 12:30 to 2 o'clock, at Bank Bldg. the Hotel Iroquois Parlor G. Dept., G. E. Co. Rocky Mountain.—Adolph F. Zang, 709 Clark- Northern New York.—G. H. Hooker, 8 State son St., Denver. Chicago.—Every Thursday, 12:30 o'clock, at St., Watertown. Utah.—Paul Williams, Care Oregon Short Line the Grand Pacific Hotel. Oswego County.—C. W. Linsley, 52 East Utica R. R. Co., Salt Lake City. Chicago Alumnae.—Suspended. St., Oswego. Logan.—E. G. Peterson, Logan, Utah. Cleveland.—Every other Thursday, 12 o'clock, Otsego County.—E. G. Rathbun, Oneonta. Spokane.—E. V. Price, Hutton Building at the Hotel Hollenden Herkimer County.—F. D. Mclntosh, Little Falls. Utica.—Charles B. Mason, 30 Genesee St. Pacific Coast Cincinnati.—No report this year. Syracuse.—Frederick E. Norton, Syracuse Seattle.—M. R. McMicken, 1630 16th Ave. Davenport, Iowa.—Suspended. Chamber of Commerce. Pacific Northwest.—Frank D. Nash, 500 Bank Dayton.—First Saturday each month at 12:30, Seneca Falls.—M. B. Sanderson. of California Building, Tacoma, Washington. Engineers Club. Binghamton.—A. L. Gilmore, 1104 Press Portland.—H. P. Henry, Yeon Building. Detroit.—No report this year. Building. Northern California.—L. R Goodrich, Thomas Southern Tier.—Frederick B. Gridley, 412 Building, Oakland. Indianapolis.—No report this year. East Second Street, Elmira, N. Y. ^Southern California.—J. E. Mahon, 921 New York.—Every Wednesday at the Machinery ^Rochester..—G. E. Wynkoop, 615 Powers Merchants National Bank Building, Los Angeles. Club, 50 Church Street. Building. Philadelphia.—Luncheon and dinner every day Albion.—L. J. Steele, R.D. 6. Foreign and Insular except Sunday, at the rooms of the Cornell Club of Western New York.—James A. Magoffin, 804 Eastern Canada.—William H. Wardwell, 413 Philadelphia, 1519 Sansom Street. Mutual Life Building, Buffalo. New Birks Building, Montreal. Pittsburgh.—Every other Friday noon at Chat- Niagara Falls.—F. L. Lovelace, 730 Main St. France.—A. D. Weil, 10 rue Ste. Cecile, Paris, ham Hotel, 423 Penn Avenue- Jamestown.—Albert S. Price, 406 Fenton Bldg. Hawaii.—H. A. R. Austin, 20 Kapiolani Build- Saint Louis.—Monthly by announcement. Eastern States ing, Honolulu. Schenectady.—Suspended. Northern New Jersey.—H. E. Eberhardt, The Philippine Islands.—Abraham Gideon, City Mountain View Terrace, Maplewood N. J. Hall, Manila Spokane,—Every Wednesday at the University Northeastern Pennsylvania.—Seth W. Shoe- North China.—Y. S. Djang, Tientsin, China. Club. maker, 827 Electric St., Scranton. Syracuse.—Every Thursday, at 12:30 o'clock, Philadelphia.—R. D. Edwards, 1519 Sansom St. Cornell Women's Clubs at the University Club, East Lafayette Street. Central Pennsylvania.—E. M. Teeter, Box 586, Albany.—Miss Inez Kisselburgh, 364 Hamilton Wichita.—Every Saturday, at 12 o'clock, at the Harrisburg. St. Wichita Club. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 177

cember 10, steps were taken toward or- Department, U.S.R. He is in the in- ALUMNI NOTES ganizing the research work in physics spection division. His address is Al- throughout the state, and Professor bemarle Building, 24th Street and Broad- '86, B.S.—H. C. Chatfield-Taylor has Arthur L. Foley, head of the depart- way, New York City. changed his address from Lake Forest, ment of physics in Indiana University '09, C.E.—Otto V. Kruse is plant 111., to Santa Barbara, Cal. and chairman of the Committee on Sci- manager for the Oldbury Electro-chem- '92, C.E.—Charles C. Huestis is presi- entific Research of the State Council of ical Company of Niagara Falls, N. Y. dent and general manager of the Carbon Defense, was chosen director of the '09, C.E.—Harry M. Spandau is an Mining Company of Carbon, Indiana, movement. assistant engineer in the valuation de- engaged in the strip mining of coal. '00, B.Arch.—George Young, jr., pro- partment of the New York, Chicago & '93, M.C.E.—Harry T. Cory is a fessor in the College of Architecture St. Louis Railroad Co., and is living at major in the Engineer O.R.C. awaiting (absent on leave) has received a com- 1385 East 124th St., Cleveland, Ohio. the call to active service. He is located mission as first lieutenant in the con- struction section of the Aviation Section, '09, C.E.—Frederick W. Brooks of at 702 Nevada Bank Building, Berkeley, Ithaca, has announced the engagement Calif. Signal Corps, U.S.R. He has been in the service in Washington since last July. of his daughter, Miss Alice W. Brooks, '93, B.S.—Blin S. Cushman has given to George F. Wieghardt of Baltimore. up his position as instructor in Sibley '00, Ph.B.—C. I. Halsey, who for the College to engage in investigation for past sixteen years has been in government '09, M.E.—James W. Cox, jr., has the national government in the Case service in the Philippines, has been resigned from the Albany Felt Company Research Laboratory at Auburn. granted a year's leave of absence. He of Albany, N. Y., to enter the govern- ment service. For the present his ad- '93, B.L.; '95, LL.B.—John B. Tuck will spend the year at his former home, West Groton, N. Y. dress is 2111 S Street, N. W., Washing- is lieutenant-colonel of the 106th U. S. ton, D. C. Infantry, Twenty-seventh - Division, '04, A.B.—At the meeting of the Sec- tion of Education of the American Asso- '09, A.B.—Robert E. Treman of which is now in camp at Spartanburg, Ithaca has been promoted to a captaincy S. C. Colonel Tuck was recently ap- ciation for the Advancement of Teaching held in Pittsburgh from December 29 in the regular army. Treman was in the pointed commandant of the Divisional first officers' training camp at Madison School of the Line for the Twenty- to January 1, Professor Elsie Murray '04, of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., Barracks. He received a commission as seventh Division, a school of instruction first lieutenant of infantry in August. for officers, commissioned and non-com- read a paper on " Spelling Ability and Vocabularies of Two Hundred College After a month's training in trench war- missioned, and especially qualified en- fare at Cambridge he was assigned to listed men. Students" and Professor Paul J. Kruse, of the Department of Rural Education, Camp Meade, Md. His new commission '93—Professor William L. Bray, of discussed "The Overlapping of Attain- is in the Signal Corps of the Regular the department of botany in Syracuse ments in Certain Sixth, Seventh, and Army. He has been assigned to Camp University, has been elected dean of the Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Graduate School of Syracuse, to succeed Eighth Grades." '09, M.E.—First Lieut. C. M. French, Professor William H. Metzler, who has '05—F. Ashby Wallace is now at Engineer O.R.C, has been called to been dean since 1911. Professor Bray Wilmington, Del., in the engineering active duty. took his first two years at Cornell, finish- department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours ing his baccalaureate course at Indiana, & Company. ΊO, M.E.—First Lieut. A. H. Hutch- and afterward studied at Chicago and '06, A.B. '08, LL.B.—Professor George inson is with the Depot Brigade at Camp Berlin. Professor Bray was for a time G. Bogert, formerly captain and adjutant Grant, 111. dean of the Syracuse College of Forestry. 308th Field Artillery, has been appointed ΊO, M.E.; Ί'l, A.B.—A son, Ernst F., He is a member of both Phi Beta Kappa major, Judge Advocate Reserve Corps was born on December 17 to Mary and Sigma Xi. and assigned to Camp Dix for duty. He Horton Fischer Ίl and Ernst Fischer of 261 Pierse Street, Kingston, Pa. '95—J. Brady Mitchell has been will be assistant to Lieutenant Arthur W. promoted to the rank of lieutenant- Brown, LL.B. '97, the judge advocate ΊO, A.B.—J. C. Andrews is first lieu- colonel, Coast Artillery Corps, and as- of the 78th Division. tenant, Ordnance Department, U.S.R., signed to duty in the Inspector General's '06, LL.B.—H. H. Halsey is practicing stationed at the Bethlehem Steel Com- Department, Washington, D. C. Lieu- law in Rochester, N. Y. His address is pany's plant at South Bethlehem, Pa. tenant-Colonel Mitchell has been sta- 413 German Insurance Building. Ί0—Elihu W. Fowler has a commis- tioned at Fort Grant, Canal Zone. '06, A.B.—At the regular meeting of sion as captain in the Quartermaster '95, Ph.B.—Major William R. East- the California Academy of Sciences held Corps, National Army, and expects to man, Medical Corps, U. S. Army, has on December 19, Professor . J. Chester sail for France soon for service as an been promoted to the grade of lieutenant- Bradley gave an illustrated address on automobile engineer. His address is in colonel. He is stationed at Camp "The Okennokee." care of The Equitable Trust Company, Greene, Charlotte, N. C, as Division '07, M.E.—Herbert M. Douglass has New York City. Surgeon of the Third Division, Regular. been promoted to a full professorship and Ίl, M.E.—Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Saw- Lieutenant-Colonel Eastman has been head of the department of industrial don of 316 Woodworth Avenue, Yonkers, at Fort Clark since August organizing education in the State College for N. Y., announce the birth of a son, a sanitary train. Teachers, Albany, N. Y., succeeding William Brownell, on August 17. '97, Ph.D.—At a meeting of the Harry B. Smith '98. Ίl, B.Chem.—Harry Eastwood has teachers of physics in Indiana colleges, '08, M.E.—Robert E. Friend has re- left the testing division of the City of held at Bloomington, Indiana, on De- ceived a commission as captain, Ordnance Chicago to enter government service as 178 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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