Vol. XXI, No. 14 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] January 2, ,1919 Donaldson '20 Brings Down Nine German Planes; Gets D. S. C. Allen '16 and Rummell '16 Win D. S. C.; Halley '14 a French Cross Thirteen More Die in Service; One Missing; One Wounded Maj. W. D. Straight Όl Makes Cor- nell a Beneficiary by His Will Alumni Clubs Begin to Renew Their Activities ITHACA, NEW YOEK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CASCADILLA The Farmers' Loan The Leading Preparatory School for and Trust Company CORNELL Published for the Associate Alumni of 16, 18, 20, 22 William St., New York On the edge of the University Campus Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni Branch 475 Fifth Ave. Good living. Athletics. News Publishing Company, Incorporated. 16 Pall Mall East, S. W. 1 LONDON Certificate Privilege. 26 Old Broad Street, E.G. * Published weekly during the college year Exceptional for College Entrance Work and monthly during the summer; forty issues PARIS.. „„.. ... 41 Boulevard Haussmatt annually. 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Meantime a decision of Justice many of the Faculty little more than School of Photography was given-by the George McCann 786 may help toward a a cessation of classes, and even this War Camp Community Service in Ma- settlement of the question in Ithaca. period of rest was shorter than usual. sonic Hall on December 18. Judge McCann vacated an injunction Comparatively few professors found an restraining the police of Binghamton opportunity to attend tlι- » meetings of A BATTERY OF LIGHT ARTILLERY may be from closing the picture theaters on learned societies. Necessary readjust- an integral part of the restored Reserve Sunday. If, as is probable, the case is ments of the curriculum in all the col- Officers' Training Corps at Cornell. This taken to the Court of Appeals, and if leges entailed a great amount of work; new feature has been proposed to the that court sustains the decision on so that committees and administrative University authorities by Lieutenant Col- which Judge McCann ;s order is based, ? officers were as busy as in term-time. onel Eobert Earl Coulson 09, who for there will be no more Sunday movies in The added burden was in part the result three months past has been attached to the state unless the Legislature acts. of the division of the current year into the General Staff in Washington and ( FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, on the three terms. Only Christmas Day itself who visited Ithaca about the middle of evening of December 20, destroyed the was a genuine holiday. Moreover, en- December. No decision has been reached. old boiler house of the Ithaca Traction trance examinations, for which no other The principal requirement which the Uni- Corporation at Remington. Seven of the time seemed convenient or even possible, versity must meet is the stabling neces- nine boilers were rendered useless; there were held during five days of last week, sary for perhaps a hundred and fifty were no electric lights in the city until a kind of labor scarcly appropriate to a horses, the number depending upon the after midnight; and trolley service was vacation. As a whole the recess was number of guns. Colonel Coulson be- not resumed until the next morning. probably unique in the annals of the lieves that the mess halls put up for Cars have been running on a reduced University. cadets could be converted into stables without undue expense. The battery, if schedule ever since. Fortunately a new- THE WINTER COURSES in agriculture, organized, would be in command of a er boiler house, of brick, was unaffected. which began on November 6, run con- lieutenant colonel of artillery detailed Some accident at Eemington is coming to tinuously, except for Christmas Day, here by the Government. be an annual occurrence; fire two years through twelve weeks. The number of ago and a disastrous explosion a year the so-called '' short-horns'9 is this year, Louis AGASSIZ FUERTES '97, repre- ago seriously interrupted the supply of for reasons easily understood, much re- sented by Henry W. Sackett ?75, has light and power. Citizens, patient under duced, the enrollment being only eighty- won, with satisfactory damages, his suit afflictions, are earnestly hoping that three. Quite apart from these courses brought in 1917 against two publishing here is another case of three times and but likewise increasing the winter at- firms for the unauthorized use of his out. tendance, are two tractor schools which name and of reproductions of his paint- THE ITHACA ROTARY CLUB continued the college has planned for the ensuing ings of birds. These paintings Mr. this year its happy custom of a Christ- months, one from January 13 to Febru- Fuertes made several years ago to il- mas auction for local charities. Gifts ary 1, the other from February 17 to lustrate "The Birds of New York," issu- suitable for children are taken to the March 8. ed by the State Museum. The paintings regular luncheon and sold to the high- were not copyrighted. Later the repro- ENTERTAINMENT BY THE ARMY Y. M. est bidders for cash. Later the gifts ductions were published in other books C. A. for the members of the S. A. T. C. are distributed among children whose and were advertised as by Mr. Fuertes, were brought to a close by a farewell Christmas is not likely to be very merry; but without his knowledge or consent. social on the evening of December 16. those, for example, in the Open Air He accordingly brought suit under the During the late summer, the vocational School, the Tuberculosis Hospital, and Civil Bights Law; and his contention of section being already under way, and other homes; and the money is used for injury was sustained by the decision of through the autumn, after the academic relieving distress or providing some com- the court. The decision is important for section was organized, Barnes Hall, serv- forts among the poor.