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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOLUME 40, NUMBER 35 AUGUST, 1938 m It's Easy To Visit Ithaca Boston's Most Famous Hotel Overnight From PARKER HOUSE NEW YORK and NEWARK, or will be READING TERMINAL, PHILA. WESTWARD Light type, a.m. EASTWARD Read Down Dark type, p.m. Read Up OFFICIAL 7:40 9:10 Lo New York Arr. 6:50 7:05 7:55 9:25 Newark 6:34 6:49 7:50 9:10 " Philadelphia " 6:20 7:45 CORNELL HEADQUARTERS 3:21 *4:45 Arr ITHACA Lv. 11:03 *10:46 Enjoy a Day or Week End for Cornell-Harvard Game in Ithaca 4:45 3:21 ! Lτ>. ITHACA Arr. 10:28 11:03 7:40 6:20 Arr Buffalo Lv. 7:30 8:15 OCTOBER 8, 1938 4:40 7:15 Pittsburgh 10:35 10:40 11:19 12:15 Cleveland " 12:20 11:45 4:55 7:10 Arr Chicago Lv. 8:00 *New York sleeper open to 8 a.m. at Ittiaca, and at Make reservations NOW for the 9 p.m. from Ithaca BIG FOOTBALL RALLY AND SMOKER (STAG ONLY) sponsored by the Cornell Club of New England, Newton C. Burnett, Pres. Friday Night, October 7, 7:30 p.m. PARKER HOUSE ROOF BALLROOM All Cornell Men and Their Guests are invited to attend. CORNELL HOSTS BUFFET SUPPER Good Places to Know $1.50 ITHACA Concert by Cornell Band DINE AT TENTATIVE SPEAKERS: GILLETTE'S CAFETERIA PRESIDENT DAY JIM LYNAH CARL SNAVELY On College Avenue Where Georgia's Dog Used to Be Air Conditioned the Year 'Round CARL J. GILLETTE '28, Propr. For Room and Rally Reservations write: Frank H. Briggs '35, Asst. to Pres. Parker House NEW YORK AND VICINITY Room Rates— Single Rooms from $3.50—Double Rooms from $5.00 In Beautiful Bear Mountain Park . BEAR MOUNTAIN INN Palisades Interstate Park Commission Your Other Hosts in Organization, A. C. BOWDISH '26 Joseph C. Middleton '36 Jacob Fassett III '36 Manager Edwin Webster '37 Arthur C. Hill '37 Phone Stony Point 1 for Reservations Winsor Brooks '38 VIRGINIA ROLAND EATON '27 Under same management: Managing Director HOTEL BELLEVUE THE SOMERSET Glenwood J. Sherrard, President Cavalier Hotel and Country Club VIRGINIA CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XL, NO. 35 ITHACA, NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1938 PRICE, 15 CENTS ALUMNI FUND AHEAD win '91, Waldron P. Belknap '95, Ed- CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS Bequest Forms Ready ward L. Bernays Ίi, Edward D. Bryde Bring Many Changes Representatives on the Cornellian '04, Irene Davis Ferguson Ίi, William Department of Buildings and Grounds Council last week were notified by Archie F. E. Gurley '77, George F. Hewitt, Jr. has this summer had a force of some 300 M. Palmer Ί8, making his final report as Ίo, Maurice W. Howe Ί6, James Lynah workmen making improvements to the executive secretary, that the Alumni '05, Dr. Walter H. McNeill, Jr. Ίo, Campus estimated to cost about $130,000. Fund for 1937-8 had reached a total of George J. Mersereau '99, Thomas Midg- Superintendent Hugh E. Weatherlow Ό6 $152.,678.14, "which sets a new post- ley, Jr. Ίi, Emmet J. Murphy Ίi, terms it a general program of" sweetening depression high." Of this amount, Daniel A. Reed '98, Winton G. Rossiter up," but returning students and alumni Palmer reported $68,561.74 as unre- Ίi, R. H. Shreve Όi, Edward G. Sperry when the University opens September 16 stricted and $84,115.40 as restricted gifts. '15, Ruth Stone Ίo, Robert J. Thorne will see many changes, indoors and out. Comparative figures show last year's '97, Charles H. Thurber '86, John W. Changes in roads, walks, and parking total as $140,62.9.01, of which $86,- Todd Ό6, Alfred D. Warner Όo, and areas will perhaps be first apparent. The 659.67 was unrestricted, and the totals Philip F. Wickser Ό8. New Road which runs from Stewart for 1936 and 1935 as $110,134.07 and Avenue up the Hill across Central and $88,870.84, respectively. AT GEOLOGY CAMP East Avenues has been formally christ- '' The current year has started off very Summer field camp of the Geology De- ened Campus Road by the Trustees, along well," Palmer says. "During July a partment at Spruce Creek, Pa. June 10- with its extension around Hoy Field to total of $5,118.75, of which $4,970.15 July 30 had ten Cornellίans, two from join Dryden Road just over the Casca- is unrestricted as to use, was received. Rhode Island State College, and one from dilla Creek bridge behind the Crescent, During the first ten days of August Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and below Central Avenue it is being $1,081.50, of which $1,016.15 was unre- As he has been since the camp was estab- paved with concrete, levelled off at the stricted, has been received. These figures lished in 1930 through the generosity of intersection, and street signs erected its show a substantial increase over the same friends and relatives of the late Profes- entire length. Asphalt sidewalk has period for the last five years." sor Henry Shaler Williams, Professor been laid along the south side of Campus From Winthrop Taylor '07, chairman Charles M. Nevin, PhD '13, Geology, Road across Sage Green from Central to of the Cornellian Council committee on was again the director. One summer's East Avenue; and Tower Road above bequests, members of the committee last attendance is required of all male stu- Sage Chapel is being straightened, week received a compact file of "Sug- dents majoring in Geology. widened, and a new parking area built gested Forms of Bequest to Cornell Other Cornellians who attended are along its south side above Sage Avenue. University." Taylor's accompanying let- John C. Ludlum, Grad, Albert S. Brown, The road to the Willard Straight west ter points out: "In the last seventeen Jr. '38, R. Douglas Rogers '38, Chester A. entrance wilί also be permanently paved years bequests amounting to more than Roig, Jr. '39, Eric D. Schwarz '39, with macadam, with concrete curbs; $7,000,000 have come to Cornell. These Frederick V. Siemer '39, Robert S. trees are being moved to allow a vista bequests constitute one quarter of the Young '39, Stanley W. Allen, Jr. '40, from Willard Straight Hall to Myron total gifts to the University during that and Durand B. Blatz '40. Taylor Hall, and the slope to the west is period. Since 1919bequests have averaged gradually being smoothed, mowed, and $500,000 annually." ALUMNI CONVENTION reseeded to make it a lawn. Many trees The forms are designed to assist mem- November 4 and 5 are being planted, some seventy-five bers of the committee and others in writ- Cornell men and women of Chicago five-inch pin oaks and plane trees having ing wills which include testamentary are making preparations to entertain all been set along the west side of West gifts to Cornell, but prospective donors alumni who come to the biennial con- Avenue, the north side of Tower Road, are advised to consult their personal at- vention of the Cornell Alumni Corpor- and west of Willard Straight Hall. torneys in preparation of their wills. ation on Friday and Saturday, November Alumni driving back for football Forms included are for a general bequest, 4 and 5. All Cornellians are welcome, for games this fall will find a new pay park- for the endowment of a professorship, for a program that will include discussions ing area on Kite Hill, just above the a scholarship, for a particular purpose, of University questions of particular Crescent. Space for about 450 cars has for a residuary legacy, for specific pro- interest to old grads. President Edmund been levelled and covered with cinders, visions as to use, for establishing a E. Day will be a speaker. with access from Campus Road behind special fund subject to a trust for life, for Sanctioned by the Cornell Alumni Hoy Field. Other improvements in that a trust fund to be established during the Corporation (the general alumni associ- locality include the complete drainage life of the donor, and for a bequest sub- ation) Cornell conventions have been and grading of lower Alumni Field, its ject to the life interest of two lives in held since 1911. This will be the fifteenth. enclosure with a new wire fence, and the being. The first was in Cleveland in the spring demolition of the old board fence around Members of the Council's bequest com- of 1911, the second in Chicago a year Hoy Field and its replacement with a mittee, it is announced, stand ready at later. Then they were changed to the fall, wire fence, with stone entrance portals any time to offer technical advice and and beginning in 1911 met successively and the entrance area landscaped. The suggestions concerning special needs of in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York City, first hard-surfaced tennis courts have the University which can be met through Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Wash- been completed, on upper Alumni Field, gifts and bequests. Bequest forms and ington, Rochester, and Ithaca. At that and between Balch Halls and the women's other information may be obtained at Ithaca convention, in 1930, it was voted tennis courts the land has been terraced the office of the Cornellian Council, to hold the meetings biennially, and the into playing fields. Alumni House, Ithaca. next two, in 1931 and 1934, were in A $15,000 experimental laboratory Newly elected members-at-large to the Ithaca.