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VOL. XXX, No. 12 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] DECEMBER 15, 1927 Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ROOSEVELT MOUNT RpYAL RADISSON SENECA BLACKSTONE OΉENRY PERE MARQUETTE New York, N.Y. Montreal, Can. Minneapolis, Minn. Rochester, N. Y. Chicago, III. Greensboro, N. C. Peoria.Ill. These Hotels Offer You Unusual Service WILLARD Use Them! Washington, D. C. Alumni from the institutions listed below are urged to use Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels when travelling, and when arranging for luncheons, banquets and get-togethers of various sorts* You will find at each Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel an index of the resident Alumni of the participating colleges* Think what this means when you are in a strange city and wish to look up a classmate or friend* You will find at these hotels a current copy of your Alumni publication* You will also find a spirit of co-operation and a keen desire to see you comfortably housed and adequately pro- vided for* Reservations may be made from one Intercol- legiate Alumni Hotel to another as a convenience to you* Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels are a new and vital force in assisting your Alumni Secretary* He urges you to sup- port them whenever and wherever possible* He will be glad to supply you with an introduction card to the managers of all Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels, if you so request* THE PARTICIPATING COLLEGES The alumni organizations of the following colleges and universities are participants in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement: Akron Union Alabama Columbia Maine Ohio Wesleyan Vanderbilt Amherst Cornell M. I. T. Oklahoma Vassar Bates Cumberland Michigan State Oregon Vermont Beloit Emory Michigan Oregon State Virginia Brown Georgia Mills Penn State Washington and Lee Bryn Mawr Goucher Minnesota Pennsylvania Washington State Bucknell Harvard Missouri Purdue Washington URBANA-LINCOLN Urbana, 111. California Illinois Montana RadclifTe Wellesley Carnegie Institute Indiana Mount Holyoke Rollins Wesleyan College Case School Iowa State College Nebraska Rutgers Wesleyan University Chicago James Milliken New York University Smith Western Reserve " City College Kansas North Carolina South Dakota Whitman New York Teachers' Coll. North Dakota Southern California Williams Colgate Kansas Northwestern Stanford Wisconsin Colorado Lake Erie Oberlin Stevens Institute Wooster School Mines Lehigh Occidental Texas A. and M. Worcester Poly. Inst. BANKHEAD Colorado Louisiana Ohio State Texas Birmingham, Ala. Yale . CAΠFORNIAN MULTNOMAH PALACE PONCE DE LEON FRANCIS MARION Fresno, Calif. Portland, Ore. San Francisco, Calif. Miami, Fla. Charleston, S. C. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS GEORGE VANDERBILT ST. JAMES WALDORF-ASTORIA WOLVERINE BILTMORE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Asheville, N. C. San Diego, Calif. New York. N. Y. Detroit, Mich. Los Angeles, Calif. Philadelphia, Pa. Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels COPLEY-PLAZA Boston, Mass. WINDERMERE Chicago, 111. Every Dot Marks an Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel Asheville, N. C, Qeorge Vanderbilt Greensboro, N. C, OΉenry Pittsburgh, Pa., Schenley Baltimore, Md., Southern High Point, N. C, Sheraton Portland, Oreg., Multnomah OLYMPIC Berkeley, Cal, Claremont Kansas City, Mo., Muehlebach Rochester, N. Y., Seneca Seattle, Wash. Bethlehem, Pa., Bethlehem Lincoln, Nebr., Lincoln Sacramento, Cal., Sacramento Birmingham, Ala., Bankhead Los Angeles, Calif., Biltmore St. Louis, Mo., Coronado Boston, Mass., Copley-Plaza Madison, Wis., Park St. Paul, Minn., Saint Paul Charleston, S. C, Francis Marion Miami, Fla., Ponce de Leon San Diego, Cal., St. James Charlotte, N. C, Charlotte Minneapolis, Minn., Radisson San Francisco, Cal., Palace Chicago, 111., Blackstone Montreal, Canada, Mount Royal Savannah, Ga., Savannah Chicago, 111., Windermere New York, N.Y., Roosevelt Seattle, Wash., Olympic SACRAMENTO Cincinnati, Ohio, Sinton New York, N. Y., Waldorf Astoria Syracuse, N.Y., Onondaga Sacramento, Calif. Columbus, Ohio, Ήeil House Northampton, Mass., Northampton Toronto, Canada, King Edward Danville, 111., Wolford Oakland, Cal., Oakland Urbana, 111., Urbana-Lincoln Detroit, Mich., Wolverine Peoria, III., Pere Marquette Washington, Ό.CWillard Fresno, Cal., Californian Philadelphia, Pa., Benjamin Franklin Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming The Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel movement is sponsored by the Alumni Secretaries and Editors of the participating colleges and directed by INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI EXTENSION SERVICE, 18 R41st St , New York, N.Y. DIRECTORS J. O. BAXENDALE MARION E. GRAVES HELEN F. McMILLIN R. W. SAILOR Alumni Secretary Smith Alumnae Quarterly Wellesley Alumnae Magazine Cornell Alumni Ήeivs University of Vermont Smith College Wellesley College Cornell University A. C. BUSCH R.W. HARWOOD J. L. MORRILL W. B. SHAW Alumni Secretary Harvard Alumni Bulletin Alumni Secretary Alumni Secretary Rutgers College Harvard University Ohio State University University of Michigan DANIEL L. GRANT JOHN D. McKEE W. R. OKESON ROBERT SIBLEY Alumni Secretary Wooster Alumni Bulletin Treasurer of Alumni Secretary University of N. Carolina Wooster College Lehigh. University University of California E. N. SULLIVAN LEVERING TYSON E. T. T. WILLIAMS Alumni Secretary Alumni Federation Brown University Venn State College Columbia University NORTHAMPTON Northampton, Mass. CHARLOTTE SHERATON SINTON LYCOMING SAVANNAH MUEHLEBACH Charlotte, N. C. High Point, N. C Cincinnati, O. Williamsport, Pa. Savannah, Ga. Kansas City, Mo. 142 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Merry Christinas Andre Smith says— This is a symbolic picture showing the Spirit of Christmas giving away copies of Sport Stuff. Past the whiskers and the worried look one can just about recognize Author Berry, although perhaps one shouldn't. Mr. Smith is right in both instances. SPORT STUFF is the ideal Christmas gift. But Mr. Berry can't play Santa Claus; his Publisher won't let him. Already hundreds of Cornellians have applied for the job. And why wouldn't they? Sport Stuff is one of the finest specimens of the modern printing and book- binding arts on the market. It is of convenient pocket size, four and a half inches wide, seven inches long. The copy is the pick of the wittiest comment on college life of today. The illustrations are a delight. You can fill a dozen stockings— And if your list is not so long— with cloth bound copies for $15.00 cloth bound copies are $1.50 each with paper bound copies for $10.00 paper bound copies are $1.00 each Send your list and check to The Cayuga Press Ithaca New York And don t forget that copy you want for yourself. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. xxx, No. 12. ITHACA, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 19x7 PRICE 12. CENTS Fraternity Finances Shown Men: Room rent, $217; board, $8.99 Karapetoff Given Medal per week; club memberships, $16.02; total Report on College Expenses Reveals that expense, $1,398.62. Elliott Cresson Gold Medal Awarded to Fifty-three Groups Own Houses— Women: Room rent, $198.03; board, Professor of Electrical Engineering Average Value $58,348 $7.69 per week; club memberships, $8.00; by Franklin Institute total expenses, $1,250. Detailed statistics on the costs of a The total expenses of 629 men for a year Professor Vladimir Karapetoff of the Cornell education reveal interesting facts amounted to $879,736, and of 174 women, School of Electrical Engineering has been on fraternity finances, housing, and $217,497. awarded the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal assessments. The report on college ex- by the Franklin Instutute. The medal penses recently made public by the com- will be presented to Professor Karapetoff mittee of Trustees and Faculty members at the annual Medal Day meeting of the contains this information. Institute in Philadelphia on May 16. The report shows that 53 fraternities A letter to Professor Karapetoff from own their own houses, while seven others Howard McClenahan, secretary of the lease homes. The average cost of owned Institute, follows: houses is $42,264, and the maximum cost My dear Professor Karapetoff: is $137,000. Two houses cost more than I have much pleasure in informing you $100,000. Twenty-one houses were listed that, upon the recommendation of its as costing between $26,000 and $50,000. Committee on Science and the Arts, the The estimated average value of these Board of Managers of the Franklin Insti- houses is $58,348. tute has voted to award to you the Elliott Forty houses reported as to total in- Cresson Gold Medal, "in consideration of debtedness, showing an average of $19,569, the inventive ability, skill in design, and the highest being $75,000 and the lowest detailed theoretical knowledge of kine- $ 1,000. Thirty-seven paid an average rent matics and electrical engineering dis- to a holding corporation of $3,858. The played in the development of computing average rent of the seven leased houses devices." was $i,957 This Medal will be presented at the Sixty houses reported 1,924 members, MISS MARY CORNELL annual Medal Day meeting of the Insti- The daughter of Ezra Cornell, founder of the Uni- tute, which will be held on Wednesday, an average of 32, of which 1,316 live in versity, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday. May 16, 1928, when all of the medals the houses, an average of 22. Payments which will have been awarded during this to national organizations average $11.56 RIEGELMAN CHOSEN HEAD Institute year will be presented to those per man in fifty of these houses. Harold Riegelman '14 of New York, to whom they were awarded. We greatly The average number of meals served counsel for the Tenement House Com- mission, has been elected president of the hope that you will be able to be present weekly in 58 dining rooms was 28, at an on that occasion, in order that we may average rate per week per man of $9.35. Interfraternity Conference, which held its nineteenth annual meeting in New York present the medal to you in person, and Average room rent was $195.65 per year, that, also, we may have an opportunity and the average initiation fee was $85.