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me MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE 1929 JUNE 1929; SUN MON TUE WEDTHU FRI SAT In the Spring Alumni Fancy Turns to Reunion Davs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [£ 10 11 12 13| 14 15 16j 17 18 1 O ALUMP113^22 a: }m \ , S.Q>' ^£b COMMENCEMENT w April 1929 Ni W Fatal Duel In 1804, as part of an erratic plot by Federalist asleep. He was remembering his son's death on this very spot three years before at the hands of General extremists to cut New England and New York Baker. Burr sat on a rock smoking a segar. Finally from the Union, Aaron Burr, their complacent Pendleton asked: "Gentlemen, are you ready?" Burr tool, was nominated for Governor of New York. rose. His beady eyes sparkled but his face was im Alexander Hamilton denounced Burr's motives mobile. Pale but resolute, Hamilton took his post, his face a cameo against the green background. Pendle in no uncertain terms. Then Burr, giving vent ton handed each a loaded pistol. Again: "Gentlemen, to an insensate jealousy dating back to the are you ready?" "Present!" both replied. Burr fired on Revolution, when his own brilliance was out- the instant. Hamilton rose slowly to his toes, clenched dazzled by Hamilton's military, intellectual and his hands, so unwittingly discharging his pistol, and fell heavily face downward. His bullet flew over social genius, eagerly challenged him.^ As Burr's head, clipped a cedar twig which fluttered to TIME would have reported the Burr-Hamilton his shoulder. duel, had TIME been issued July 16, 1804: Hamilton, agonizing, was carried to his boat. -He murmured: "Take good care of that pistol. It's undis . Hamilton spent the night putting his house in charged. Pendleton knows I didn't intend to fire ..." order. At dawn, he, his second (Nathaniel Pendleton) and one Dr. William Hosack, were rowed from Man So, in part, TIME would have reported the hattan to the Weehawken Palisades. It was hot, hazy. fatal duel, noting also how Hamilton died the The river's oily swell made Mr. Pendleton sick, so Hamilton humorously held his head. Landing, they next day at the Greenwich Village home of sought the well-secluded dueling ground not far above William Bayard, how his burial in Trinity the river. churchyard was a signal for an unprecedented Burr and his second (William Van Ness) were outpouring of public grief. TIME too would clearing the summer's underbrush. Hamilton and Burr have shown how the duel brought Burr's polit nodded each to the other with a pleasant "Good morn ing." While the seconds conferred, Hamilton stood ical ruin in the East, turned his schemes toward gazing across the Hudson, where his family lay still Louisiana and Mexico. Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publica tions, fair-dealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no croups. TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine NEW YORK - CHICAGO 205 East 42nd Street, New York City April, 1929 • THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD 3 The MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD Established 1896 Member of the American Alumni Council Published for the alumni and former students of the Michigan State College by the M. S. C. Association. Published monthly throughout the year. Membership in the M. S. C. Association, including subscription to THE RECORD, $2.50 per year. Unless members request a discontinuance before expiration of their memberships, it will be assumed a renewal is desired. Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. S. C. Association. Entered as second class matter at tha postoffice at East Lansing, Michigan. TJARRY KIPKE, Blake Miller and GLEN O. STEWART, '11, Editor GLADYS FRANKS, w*27, Alumni Recorder ll Bud Hewitt will be on hand to help with the Alumni Golf Tourna THE M. S. C. ASSOCIATION ment, June 22. Send your entry to Union Memorial Building the alumni office now. OFFICERS—1928-29 Arthur C. MacKinnon, '95, President G. V. Branch, '12, Vice-President R. Bruce McPherson, '90, Treasurer Glen O. Stewart, '17, Secretary Listening In EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE E. E. Gallup, '96, Lansing, term expires 1930 ; Frances Kirk Patch, '14, East Lansing, HREE hundred and fifty alumni term expires 1929; Earl E. Hotchin, '12, term expires 1931; Harris E. Thomas, '85, T and friends of New York univer Lansing, ex-offic'o ; E. W. Ranney, '00, Greenville, ex-officio ; Frank F. sity recently gave a dinner at $1080.00 Rogers, '83, Lansing, ex-officio. per plate, under the auspices of the New York University Centennial com mittee. The $1080.00-a-plate fee repre sented the approximate cost of run ning New York university for a single In This Issue hour. Each table was set for twelve "hour men and women" whose com Page bined dinner costs—totaling $12,960— Editorial Comment.. 5 will pay the running costs of that in A College Education Still Worth While—"I Worked My stitution for a working university day Way"—Fraternity House Taxation—Alumni Conscious of twelve hours. How many "hour men and women" has Michigan State? Chicago Alumni Enjoy Annual Club Banquet—Spartan Clubs 6 Alumni Find Oil Tints Expressive of Campus Beauty 7 INCE Knute Rockne became foot Sball coach in .1917, Notre Dame has Lt. Col. Sherburne to Leave in August—Waldo to Conduct played 111 games, winning 92, losing European Drama Tour 8 13. and tying six, the athletic depart "Close Beside the Winding Cedar"... , ; 9 ment has revealed in the football an nual recently released. High School Musicians Guests of College—Class of '14 to Act as Host Alumni Day. 10 Uj ESS than one per cent of Ameri- Athletic Council Announces Spring Calendar. .... 12 JLv can men are college graduates. Yet out of this one per cent have come: Spring Sports Get Under Way _ 13 55% of our presidents, Class Notes 14 36%, of the members of congress, 47% of the speakers of the house, 56% of the vice-presidents, that constitute the sole excuse for a When Solomon said, "In the multi 62% of the secretaries of state, college or a university."—President L. tude of counsellors there is safety," he 60% of the secretaries of the treasury, D. Coffman, University of Minnesota, was not thinking of questionnaires. 69% of the justices of the supreme court." HERE is a rising feeling almost po Forty-two per cent of the people who T tent enough to be called a convic go to football games at Ann Arbor buy programs. UTTTHOever heard of a meeting of tion that many alumni of many col leges are intellectually competent and VV college alumni to improve the America has two-thirds of the library, facilities? Whoever heard of a worthy of a closer and more equitable relationship with the college; that world's telephones and four-fifths of the conference of alumni on the research world's wrong numbers.—Northwestern problems of a university? Whoever the college owes them a greater re Commerce. heard of a meeting of alumni that con turn for their interest; and for the fined its discussions largely to the pro developing of that interest, for its motion of the moral and ethical and own good, should build for the ex Class reunions for June 22, Dix spiritual welfare of the student body? change of amenities a two-way street plan: '81, '82, '83, '84, '00, '01, '02, Whoever heard of a meeting of alumni over which the alumnus could continue, '03, '19, '20, '21, '22, '27, '28. whose primary purpose was that of after graduation, to receive certain Five year classes, '79, '84, '89, improving scholarship within the in services looking toward his intellectual '94, '04, '14, '19, '24. stitution? And yet these are the things preservation.—W. B. Shaw, U. of M. 4 THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD April, 1929 * 3 ft ^-"s. ff-R i list „...—•—-~"; guests ot Victory catds 4 inherit O^"^*^ ^ ^conesUtef^ **&22&*~1? • to, iSSSSTS^ j_ introduce INTERCOLLEGIATE ALUMNI HOTELS If you travel to any extent you should have in your possession at all times an introduction Albany, N. Y., Hampton New Brunswick, N.J. Amherst, Mass., Lord JefFery Woodrow Wilson card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alum - Atlantic City, N.J.,CoIton Manor New Haven, Conn.^Taft ni Hotels...It is yours for the asking...It Baltimore, Md., Southern New Orleans, La., Monteleone Berkeley,. Cal., Claremont New York, N.Y. assures courteous attention to your wants and Bethlehem, Pa., Bethlehem Fraternity Clubs BIdg. Boothbay Harbor, Maine NewYork,N.Y.,Waldorf-Astoria an extra bit of consideration that frequently Sprucewold Lodge (summeronly) New York, N. Y., Warwick means much. Boston, Mass., Bellevue New York, N. 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