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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Vol. XIII. No. 37 Ithaca, N. Y\, June 21, 1911 Price 10 Cents Cornelliana. During the past few weeks several full of a splendidly sombre color. large contracting firms have had rep- "Triphammer Falls in Winter" will The campus never looked better than resentatives in Ithaca to look the appeal particularly to Cornellians. it does now. The early weeks of June ground over with a view to submit- The Committee suggests that here is were rainy. Foliage is heavy, lawns ting bids. There is about 100,060 an excellent opportunity for some one are green and the ivy is at its best. cubic yards of dirt to be moved, so to present a work of art to the Cor- There has been some talk of holding that the work will have to be rushed if nell Club as a nucleus of a perma- the Commencement exercises out of it is to be completed by fall. Matters nent collection of pictures. doors if Thursday's weather is good. will be definitely decided before the The quadrangle would certainly make It has been decided to continue the week is over. The University is to Cornell Art Association's exhibition a better setting for them than the pay the additional expense of grad- Armory does. of paintings through the summer, and ing caused by the transfer of proper- Professor Brauner has made arrange- To make room for the foundations ty formerly in Alumni Field to the ments with the artists so that the of Rand Hall, the new building for University for the College of Agri- pictures may be kept in Ithaca till the Sibley shops, men and teams are culture. the close of the University's sum- now at work excavating a new route Thirty-six fraternities have sub- mer session. The paintings are for the northern end of East avenue. scribed to the "rushing agreement" shown in the exhibition rooms of the They are making a deep cut in the for 1911, with even stronger provis- college of architecture on the third face of the knoll on which Professor ions than before to prevent the hasty floor of White Hall. Several ad- Comstock's house stands. The ave- "bidding" of freshmen. The rule ditional canvases are expected to ar- nue will bend to the east about in forbidding any rushing until the Fri- rive soon from the Albright Art Gal- front of the President's house, will day after registration is retained, lery in Buffalo. The collection is very cross the site of the late lamented and this further rule regarding in- interesting and the art association Sibley Dog, and will approach the vitations to the fraternity house has would have been sorry to send the Triphammer Falls bridge directly in- been adopted: "Invitations are to be pictures back after only a month's stead of by a 300-degree curve. The extended on uniform cards, furnished exhibition. street railway line will take the same by the Association, in a sealed en- The Cornell Club of St. Louis will route, and the change will be an im- velope containing a self-addressed provement in more ways than one. meet on June 27 to hear the news envelope for the return of the cards. from Poughkeepsie. The soil that is removed is taken There shall be no communication with George M. Schurman, the Presi- across the bridge to Cornell Heights the freshman whatever. The freshman dent's son, has been elected assistant and is used for grading the grounds is to be allowed to choose the dates manager of the Musical Clubs. He which will, in the course of time, sur- which he wishes to have and then is is a member of Alpha Delta Phi. round Prudence Risley Hall, the to return the card by mail, in the new women's dormitory. Last Sat- envelope supplied, Saturday morning After a long delay caused by the urday afternoon President Schur- not later than 12 noon." The associa- fact that its make-up is entirely new, man, Dr. White and other members tion referred to in the rule is com- the Catalogue Number of the official of the executive committee of the posed of delegates, one from each publications—all that is left of the Board of Trustees visited the site to fraternity. old University Register—has appear- determine just where that building ed. It is a book of only 128 pages, should foe placed. When the con- The House Committee of the Cor- as contrasted with the Register's 111, tractors begin work on the five or nell University Club of New York and is scarcely more than a cata- six new buildings that the architects has invited Professor O. M. Brauner, logue of the trustees, faculty and are now busy on, some dirt will fly. professor of drawing and painting students. All the descriptive part The walls of one new University in the college of architecture, to ex- which made the old book so bulky building, the addition to the Infirm- hibit some of his pictures in the is npw published in the announce- ary, are already going up. clubhouse, 65 Park Avenue, during ments of the several colleges. In the the summer months. These pictures new Catalogue the names of profes- If the plans of the committee are are now on exhibition and are well sors and instructors are arranged carried out, a great part of the worth a visit of inspection. Especial- alphabetically instead of by seniority, grading of the new varsity sec- ly interesting is "Thor's Portal," a making reference easier. No less tion of Alumni Field will be com- large sea picture showing a magni- than 82 pages are taken up by the pleted by the middle of November. ficent gathering of >thunder clouds list of students. 438 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS DEATH OF HIRAM CORSON. Venerable Professor of English Literature Passes. Away. Hiram Corson, emeritus professor of English literature in Cornell Uni- versity, died at his home, Cascadilla Cottage, a little after noon on, Thurs- day, June 15. He was in his 83d year. His death was not unexpected, although he had recovered from a severe illness in the winter. His son, Eugene Rollin Corson '75, of Savan- nah, Georgia, was with him when he died. Professor Corson was born in Philadelphia on November 6, 1828. His earliest instruction was received in his own home, from his father, a mathematician of exceptional abil- ity, and it was not till he was fif- teen years old that he was sent to school. For five years he studied in private schools near Philadelphia, distinguishing himself in mathe- matics and in Latin and Greek. He had studied stenography and in 1849 he became an official reporter of the United States Senate, for a time serv- ing also as secretary to Senator Lewis Cass. But he showed his bent for books a year afterward when he became connected with the library of Photograph by Robinson. the Smithsonian Institution. There, HIRAM CORSON. during six or seven years, aided by 1828—1911. his connection with the library, he gave his leisure time to indulging ried with it the office of vice-presi- literature and oratory. Before long what was becoming his strongest in- dent of the college, and Professor ho was relieved, at his own wish, of terest, the study of the English, Corson, finding the duties too burden- the elementary instruction in Anglo- French and German literatures. In some, resigned it after a single year Saxon, and the instruction in oratory 1854 he married Miss Caroline Rollin, to accept the more congenial profes- was made a separate department, a lady of French birth and European sorship of rhetoric and English liter- leaving him free to give all his time education, and in 1859 he returned ature in St. John's College at Anna- to the work he liked best and for with his family to Philadelphia. polis. It was while there, in 1870, a which he was nobly fitted—the read- There seems to have been in that city scholar in his prime, that he ac- ing and interpretation of the great at that time a group of persons cepted the invitation of Cornell Uni- works of English literature. For a whose bookish tastes attracted fthe versity to its chair of rhetoric and brief time after the retirement of young Corson. He was a leading oratory, succeeding Professor Homer Professor Shackford in 1886 he as- member of the Philadelphia Shake- Baxter Sprague, who had accepted sumed supervision of the department speare Society, in which Dr. Horace the presidency of Adelphi Academy. of rhetoric, but the coming of Pro- Howard Furness received ftiis first Professor Corson found that at Cor- fessor James Morgan Hart in 1890 great impulse to the study of Shake- nell, with no assistant, the whole bur- freed him finally from that part of speare, and for several years he was den of instruction in English com- the instruction in English which was a public lecturer on English litera- position, oratory and literature was less to his taste. St. John's College ature and kindred themes. His fame too much for him, and after a year, conferred the degree of Doctor of extended beyond his own circle of on the recommendation of President Laws upon him in 1878, and in 1903 friends, and in 1864 Princeton Uni- White, an additional professorship Princeton gave him the degree of versity conferred upon him its de- was created, and Charles Chauncy Doctor of Letters. Mrs. Corson died gree of Master of Arts.

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