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Illlllfllllll ψ m'ψφmίίm ψ w':% :fϊ. ml. w ψ * I '• irjJHLΊIiϊ ALUMN I ^ N EWS kcemher τq. H)40 WHAT ABOUT CO-EDS? THE CORNELL MUSICAL CLUBS in their 43d annual Christmas Trip provide the solution, in Co-ediquette written and composed by Richard H. Lee '41 in which the Cornell Faculty decides the Co-ed Question once and for all—a riot of songs and merriment in the THE AUTHOR Richard H. Lee '41, talented son of manner of Gilbert and Cazenove G. Lee, Jr. '07, composed the hit song "In the Red and Sullivan the White" and "Co-ediquette." PLUS — Familiar Music — Novelties — Cornell Songs ITINERARY SPRINGFIELD NEW JERSEY WASHINGTON DEC. 26 DEC. 2 7 DEC. 28 Technical High School Columbia High School Shoreham Hotel Maplewood MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY Tickets may be procured through the following: SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—Frank H. Briggs '34, Hosts Inc. Hotels, uooMain Street Peter Ham '16, Federal Land Bank, 310 State Street NEW JERSEY—Joseph Kastner, Jr. Ίx, 11 Francis Place, Montclair James E. Brinckerhoff '17, 168 Hey wood Avenue, Orange Benjamin B. Adams '35, Beechwood Hotel, Summit Mrs. Donald B. Saunders '31, 19 Stockton Street, Bloomh'eld H. C. Edmiston '15, 330 Springfield Avenue, Summit WASHINGTON, D. C—Ralph L. Hill, Jr. '31, 1731 Fourteenth Street, N.W. and at the newsstands of the Lee-Sheraton Hotel, Grace Dodge Hotel, Shoreham Hotel Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ELL ALUMNI NEW Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XLIII, NO. 13 ITHACA, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19, I94O PRICE, 15 CENTS COMMITTEE PLANS NEW SPORTS FACILITIES University Hopes To Provide Recreation for All Students Committee appointed by the Board of short, there are real and important edu- ous problems involving finances, person- Trustees to provide for adequate sports cational values in a comprehensive pro- nel, and the scope and quality of the facilities for students in the University gram of physical education, intramural entire program. Vision, imagination, has published a booklet outlining the sports, and intercollegiate athletics. and practical ability of a high order have needs and giving estimates of their cost. Cornell University proposes to see that been brought to the solution of these President Edmund E. Day writes a these values are realized in the life of all problems. Deficits have been turned into foreword on'' The Importance of Physical students, both men and women, attend- profits. One of the finest coaching staffs Training and Athletics in University ing the University. ... It is hoped that in the country has been brought together. Education," in which he says, in part: through the generosity of alumni and The existing splendid relationships with "Actual participation in regular exer- other friends of the University necessary other institutions of comparable aca- cise and sport sufficient to yield a sub- funds will be supplied and the greatly demic standards and ideals have been stantial discipline of the body is an edu- needed additional facilities provided continued and improved. As a direct cational goal which cannot seriously be without delay. Only so will it be possible result, interest in sports has reached a challenged. Physical education for health for the University to bring physical edu- new peak on the Campus, and Cornell and recreation is a recognized aim of cation for enduring health and lifelong students have shown an intense eagerness education for all men and women of Cor- recreation into the constructive experi- to take part in a wider program of physi- nell. Bodily habits and skills which will ence of every Cornell student." cal training and recreation. serve throughout life are what the Uni- The booklet points out that "Accom- "The Department has done everything versity would like to give all its students. plishments of Cornell's Department of in its power to provide proper facilities Competitive play in the spirit of fine Physical Education and Athletics during for the thousands of students who flock sportsmanship and team play in the the last five years have been impressive. to the playing fields. Every penny not spirit of unstinted cooperation are ex- Taking office on the heels of the depres- needed to reduce previous indebtedness periences from which all can profit. In sion, the present management faced seri- has been used to rehabilitate and enlarge PLAN OF FACILITIES NEEDED AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY TO MAKE PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT AND RECREATION OF ALL STUDENTS A VITAL PART OF THEIR UNIVERSITY LIFE LOCATION OF PROPOSED NEW SPORTS FACILITIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY A. Indoor sports building for men, to provide gymnasium facilities which are now inadequate in the Old Armory and Barton Hall. This building, estimated on the basis of present plans to cost $1,000,000, it is hoped may ultimately be erected. But the present efforts of the committee are directed to obtaining funds for (B) a training house for adequate supervision of diet and training and to provide living quarters for visiting athletes—cost, $1x5,000; (C) enlargement of Bacon Hall to .twice its present size, to provide for uninter- rupted practice for track, baseball, football, lacrosse, and other sports—cost, $75,000; and (D) facilities in Cascadilla Creek where ice conditions can remain stable for skating and tobogganing and with suitable layout for skiing—cost, $50,000. Beebe Lake is un- satisfactory because of frequent changes in water level to accommodate the University power station in Fall Creek gorge below it. i7o CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS the athletic plant. Yet Cornell's facilities CLUBS INVITE STUDENTS advertising. Other speakers will be Mary are still inadequate—inferior in many At Home for Holidays B. True '09 of Byron G. Moon Co., Inc., respects to those of comparable institu- Many undergraduates these days are on fashions and advertising; Mrs. Wil- tions." receiving invitations from Cornell Clubs liam Tenzel (Lillian E. Jacobson) ^5, The proposed development to meet the in their home towns to parties being physicist at Montefiore Hospital, sci- most urgent needs is shown over. The given for them while they are at home ence; Mrs. Frederick H. Howard (Lulu booklet and more complete information for the Christmas recess. To some of O. Smith) Ίi of Cor son & Co., Inc., about the program may be obtained these, the Clubs are also inviting pro- finance; Mrs. Lester Vail (Elizabeth from members of the committee: James spective Cornellians from the schools of Pratt) 'xx, home-making; Mary H. Don- Lynah '05, Director of Physical Educa- their cities, to become acquainted with Ion 'xo, on "public affairs as an avoca- tion and Athletics, chairman; Alumni present students and learn about Cornell tion." Other Club members will be Trustee Robert E. Treman '09, vice- from them. Some also are father-and-son tagged according to their vocations and chairman; and Paul A. Schoellkopf '06, parties, to introduce non-Cornellian will take part in discussion and help in John L. Collyer '17, and Victor Emanuel parents to the University. answering questions. Reservations for '19. Not all Clubs have sent definite in- supper are requested by December 2.8 to formation about dates and places of their Mrs. Bernard Alexander (Ruth P. Haines) HEAR ABOUT GENETICS parties, but those known as the NEWS '2.9, 108 East Thirtieth Street, New Cornell Women's Club of the Dela- goes to press are Cornell Club of Buffalo, York City. ware Valley met for dinner November 13 December 2.7, at the Buffalo Athletic ALUMNAE SUCCESSFUL at the Peacock Inn, Princeton, N. J. Club, 1x130; Cornell Women's Club of Hettie M. Chute, PhD 'x9, of the New Buffalo, a tea December 30 at the home Eight Cornellians are among the 100 Jersey College for Women, discussed of Dr. Harriet Hosmer Ί8; Syracuse, women honored at the Woman's Centen- "Some Elementary Problems in Genet- luncheon at the University Club Decem- nial Congress in New York City, Novem- ics." Alumnae were present from Prince- ber 2.S, 12..30; Cornell Club of New ber 2-5-X7, for success in careers that were ton, New Brunswick, and Pennington. England luncheon, December 30 at the impossible for women to enter 100 years Parker House, Boston, ix ^o. Cornell ago. ITHACA HELPS FUND Club of Dayton, Ohio, will entertain In the field of science were named Alice C. Evans '09, senior bacteriologist About 12.5 members and guests at- December 2.3; Dutchess County, Decem- ber 2.7; Western Pennsylvania (Pitts- . of the United States Public Health Serv- tended a Christmas tea and bridge party ice, for her "remarkable and original of the Cornell Women's Club of Ithaca burgh), December i8; Staten Island, De- cember 30. Parties are also planned by the bacteriological research in diseases of at the Masonic Temple December 7, for animals and man," and Margaret C. the benefit of the Federation Scholarship Cornell Clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, Phila- delphia, Pa., Rochester, and Washing- Ferguson of the department of botany at Fund. Christmas decorations were fea- Wellesley College, author, lecturer and tured, and a fashion show was given, ton, D. C. Cornell Women's Club of New York former president of the Botanical Society with a display of gifts from the shop of of America. Mrs. John Bentley, Jr. (Maria Sequin) announces its annual discussion of fields of work for women, following a buffet In medicine were listed Dr. Josephine '2.3. Chairman of the committee was Bicknell Neal Ίo, clinical professor of Helen R. Van Valkenburgh '34. supper in the Clubrooms at the Barbizon Hotel, New York City, December 30. neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and Dr.
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