VOL. xxxiv No. 8 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] NOVEMBER 12., CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Freshman Class Represents Great Number of Cornell Families —Relatives Total 901 Registration Figures Show Record Enrollment—Students are Well Distributed I Alfred Swamped by Varsity Team —Freshmen Run Wild Over Pennsylvanians LehighΛfolley Service J. Dall,Jr., Inc. Building Construction Ithaca N.Y. J. DALL JR .' 16 Telephone STAR President 2.369 THE COMFORTABLE AFTER- THE-THEATRE TRAIN TO ITHACA1 Boston Providence Lv. New York (Pennsylvania Station) 11:45 P.M. Lv. New York (Hudson Terminal) 11:30 P.M. ESTABROOK & CO. Lv. Newark (Park Place—P.R.R.) 11:45 P.M. Members of New York and Boston Lv. Philadelphia (Reading Terminal—Reading Co.) 12:05 A.M. Stock Exchanges Lv. Philadelphia (North Broad St.—Reading Co.) 12:12 A.M. Ar. Ithaca 7:30 A.M. Sound Investments ROGER H. 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Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. POSTMASTER: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxxiv No. 8 ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER ix, 1931 PRICE 12. CENTS Morrill Hall Changes University. These, important as they are, Cornell Relationships should not be the first thing thought of Executive Offices in Historic Structure in connection with Morrill Hall. It is, i2j Freshmen Have Cornell Parents and Improved and Freshened—Primarily primarily, the president's building. 486 Report Cornell Relatives the President's Building During the past few weeks, much Totaling $ oi change and improvement have been made Morrill Hall, which at the opening of in the quarters occupied by President The office of the Alumni Representative Cornell'' stood alone upon the brow of a Farrand and now, also, by Provost Mann. has completed its annual analysis of the entering class of students, with reference hill in an open field," has remained OFFICES OF PRESIDENT AND PROVOST throughout the years the center of Cam- to relationships between these new stu- pus life both in actuality to those who are The entrance to their group of offices, dents and alumni. formerly a small and narrow one, has in residence at the University and in the Most of the information detailed below been made into an arched, and heavily minds and hearts of alumni everywhere. has been taken from the entries in con- In Morrill Hall many a famous man beamed door. Through this one enters nection with their registration made by attended his first class, and many a the outside office of the president's the entering students themselves. Each promising student received his first impe- secretary, Miss Carman. Opening immedi- year there are omissions in the tabulation, tus toward future success. ately from -this room is the office of the usually the result of some students for- Changing gradually from a dormitory provost. This is finished with plain walls, getting to indicate that any other and class room to the administrative oak beamed, and furnished with a heavy members of the family were at Cornell center of the University, Morrill Hall has taupe-colored rug, and dark oak chairs before them. The Alumni Office, 31 been perhaps at one and the same time the and sofa, all upholstered in dull green Morrill Hall, will appreciate corrections most prosaic and most mysterious of all leather. This office looks, through its on this list. University buildings. The "administra- large windows, directly upon the quad- The number of Cornell children is tion" to most students comprises the rangle. relatively high, with 1x7 who have Cor- office where they pay their money, the In order to reach the president's office, nell parents. The record, this year, is place where they stand in line for hours, one goes down a passage-way, impres- made in the total number of relatives, and the people who hold the power of sively paneled in oak, on either side of including brothers and sisters, aunts, decision on their right to finish the which are committee rooms of good size, uncles, and cousins, as well as parents. course or their misfortunes in busting out. one on the east and one on the west. 486 members of this year's class state In the beginning, however, Morrill There are also a storeroom, coat closet, they have Cornell relatives totaling 901. Hall was the first necessary piece of con- and wash room, all well lighted and easy Among the relatives represented, in ad- struction. A section had to be in readiness of access from the hall. All floors have dition to parents, are 1x7 brothers, 71 for the first class, as the allocation of been refinished, and new lighting fixtures sisters, 43 aunts, 141 uncles, 7 great funds was dependent upon the actual installed throughout. uncles, and 335 cousins. existence of a building. The Hall was If the door of the president's office is Seven of the new students this fall can named for Senator Justin Smith Morrill of open, and it usually is, a fine vista is trace their Cornell lineage through two Vermont, who took his seat in Congress given, at the end of which is the presi- generations: Dorothy Bonney is the in 1855, and who introduced the bill for dent's chair, unchanged since its first daughter of Alfred Bonney, Jr., Ίi, and granting land to the States for educa- coming, and most striking with its fine the granddaughter of Alfred Bonney '78; tional purposes. carving and massive lines. This office George C. Brady is the son of George E. President White held Morrill Hall very takes up the whole south end of the D. Brady '03, and the grandson of Ed- dear. He personally planned many de- building. It is a room at once austere and ward L. Brady '71; Frances W. Lauman tails of its construction. He wanted it to cheerful, little changed from the early is the daughter of Professor George N. be finished within *' of black walnut and days. The president does not wish any Lauman '97, and the granddaughter of ash, nicely worked." It was President changes made except those necessary to Dr. George W. Wheeler Ίo; Mary E. White who had the "president's chair" preserve it. and Mildred J. Mitchell are twins made and carved in Germany, and then It is fitting indeed, that the president daughters of William J. Mitchell Όo, brought it to Morrill Hall. It was Presi- may have for his domain a place in the and the granddaughter of Delbert Mitch- dent White, who, when one of the con- first building of this great University, ell '71; Mary A. North is the daughter tractors failed, found another to finish where by taking a few steps, he may look of Robert North '05 and Gladys Miller the work of completing Morrill Hall as out upon the growth and the develop- North '04, and the granddaughter of as nearly within the specified time as ments which have surpassed even the William H. Miller *7X, and Judge Safford possible. most optimistic plans of the Founder, E. North '71; John C. Wilson, Jr., is the Of recent years, overcrowding and an the first president, and those others who son of John C. Wilson Ό6, and the inevitable weathering inside and out wished to make the buildings "simple, grandson of Professor John L. Stone '74, have dulled memories of MorrilΓs former substantial, to build them of stone from Jack Vaughn Baker is the grandson of splendor, and have transferred the em- our own quarries; and to dispose them Walter C. Kerr '79, and Mary W. Stein- phasis from the executive chambers to the . according to our future needs and man is the granddaughter of Dr. George files, the records, the "business" of the W. Wheeler Ίo. \Continutd on page 92 9o THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Alfred's x-yard line. He was hurt and was Touchdowns: Goldbas x, Smith, Beyer, I ATHLETICS 1 replaced by Pentecost. Goldbas scored the Pentecost 3, Brock. touchdown on a line buck and Larson Points after touchdowns: Larson 5, Murdock kicked the goal. Substitutions: Cornell, Murdock for Ludlin, Wallace for Kessler, Pentecost for Smith, JUST A BREATHER Starting from its 37-yard line, Cornell McGraw for Goldbas, Young for Allen, The regulars watched from the side- advanced on dashes by Beyer and Beall Joseph for Larson, Freeborn for Falk, Newton for Kossack, Condon for Beyer, Ross for Beall, lines on November 7 as the second and to Alfred's 3o-yard line, where Pentecost broke loose through right tackle for a Lundin for Murdock, Kessler for Wallace, third string football teams overpowered Vanderwarker for Brock, Stevens for Condon.