CORNELL ALVMNI NEWS

VOL. VI. No. 37-38. ITHACA, N. Y., JULY 20, 1904. PRICE, 25 CENTS.'

and self-discipline are vastly broader, so ling thirty to the minute, Columbia THE THIRTY-SIXTH COMMENCEMENT. that the men God creates may in a very CORNELL CREWS DEFEATED. thirty-six and the others thirty-two. The Held in the Armory on Thursday, June true sense be said to recreate themselves Syracuse Eights Triumphed in Varsity boats had gone scarcely a score of strokes 23rd—515 Degrees were Conferred— and one another. There are many agen- and Freshman Races—Cornell Won when the Ithacans had a commanding President Schurman's Address cies that mould men, many stimuli that Four=oared Contest—Time Slow lead and flashed past the half-mile flag on the College Graduate's —Foote Cousins Rowed in Place in Society. develop their potentialities, many influ- Varsity Eig ht and Four. with open water showing between them ences that feed and nourish the germs of and the nose of the Columbia shell. Even then it was clear that the Cornell The thirty-sixth annual Commence- their inner life. Our homes, our social The Cornell rowing season reached a men had their opponents at their mercy ment of Cornell University was held in environment, laws and manners and cus- father unusual conclusion on June 28th and the farther they went the greater be- the Armory on Thursday morning, June toms, moral and religious codes and sen- vvhen the Varsity and Freshman eights came their advantage. At the mile, it 23rd. The exercises consisted of the timents, all serve to train and discipline were defeated in the Intercollegiate re- was Cornell by three lengths and interest conferring of 515 degrees and the annual the lives of each succeeding generation. gatta at Poughkeepsie by Syracuse Uni- in the contest centered in the struggle of address of President J. G. Schurman. But it is the deliberate purpose, and the versity, a novice in Intercollegiate aqua- Columbia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin The 515 degrees were distributed as fol- primary object of schools, colleges, and tics. In the betting, the Syracuse oars- lows : Bachelors of Arts, 214 Bachelors universities to develope the capacities of for second place. men were " rank outsiders," as the horse- τ of Law, 49 Bachelors of the Science of the human mind. Educated men, there- race men would say, and thei r sweeping W hen Cornell entered the last half Agriculture, 15; Doctors of Veterinary fore, differ from uneducated men by the victories came like a bolt out of the blue. mile stretch Foote was still rowing thirty fact of this development and unfolding strokes to the minute and the red and Medicine, 16 Forest Engineers, 5 Just what happened to the freshman of their mental capacities. The unedu- white boat was seven lengths in the lead Bachelors of Architecture, 4 Civil En- crew few Cornell men would attempt to cated men might be described by the of its nearest opponent. The New York- gineers, 36 Mechanical Engineers, 142 say. When the crew left Ithaca it was zoologist as a case of arrested develop- ers at this point finally wrested second Masters of Arts, 12 Masters of Science considered a winner, not only by under- ment. In education the youth feels the place from Pennsylvania and had the in Agriculture, 2 Master of Science in graduates who have a lively interest in thrill of new and expanding life as he lead of the Philadelphians by a length. Architecture, 1 Masters of Mechanical aquatics, but also by the coaches them- drinks from the pierian springs and Wisconsin was a half length in the rear Engineering, 6 Doctors of Philoso- selves, and in the final practice on the basks in the sunlight of truth and knowl- of the Quakers and two thirds of a length phy, 13- Hudson, it not only sustained the repu- edge. Every one of you has had in ahead of Georgetown. Never raising The President's address, delivered to tation it had made on Cayuga Lake but these years devoted to study and research their stroke a point the Cornell crew an audience that packed the Armory, inspired even greater confidence than a chance to turn the mental capacity steadily gained on the field and crossed follows : that entertained when the men left Ithaca. God gave you into mental power and the finish line a winner by eight or nine "As we come to the close of the aca- In the race the crew rowed almost a min- achievement. The business of education, lengths. The time, as officially announc- demic year it is natural to indulge in ute slower than it had rowed in practice conceived in the most general terms, is ed, was : reflections on the value and object of the on the same course under practically the to transform the capabilities of manhood Λ. s. higher education which the members of same conditions. into man realized, man actualized. Cornell, 10 53 3-5 the graduating classes have during the The Varsity crew was undoubtedly "Power, therefore, is the preeminent Columbia, 11 12 1-5 past years enjoyed. Undoubtedly, what weakened by the strange policy of row- mark of the educated man. He has got Pennsylvania, 11 153-5 ever its value and whatever its aim, the ing the Foote boys in two races, for possession of his faculties and his fac- Wisconsin, 11 182-5 years devoted to it have been full of though both rowed pluckily, it was plain ulties have been developed to their high- Georgetown, 11 34 2-5 interest and delight and now that the to close observers that both were pretty est potency. The men who marry rnπ«i° day of separation has come—the day to well exhausted when the big race was "Three straight and that's one of to immortal verse, the poets from Dante which you have looked forward with so over. And their presence in the boat, them," said the Cornell crowd as the to Goethe and from Chaucer to Tenny- much buoyant anticipation—you meet it after rowing one race, probably did not observation train started on its two-mile son, have been spirits of the highest cul- with sombre-colored satisfaction, with tend greatly toward steadying the nerves jaunt back to the head of the course. ture. Is there a mighty task of reason- more perhaps of regret than of joy. But of the six other men who manned the The freshman race was the next to be ing to be accomplished ? It is done by an the fleeting hours wait not for even the sweeps in the shell. rowed and, according to the rowing Aristotle or a Newton. The greatest most favored of the sons of men, and It is always easy to look back and say sharps, Cornell was to score an easy vic- scientific observer we have ever heard of before this day's sun has set the time of " I told you so," and some did it but tory. When the train reached the start- was that Cambridge graduate, Charles studious preparation and apprenticeship most of those who had an opinion to ex- ing-point the four freshman crews—Co- Darwin. The founders of our Constitu- will have closed for you and the grey press did so on the morning of the race lumbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Syra- tion and Republic were college men. hours of the morrow's dawn will blithely and theirs was a hope that we be not too cuse—were at their stake-boats but they Only the highly educated man is fit for summon you to your appointed work and confident of winning the Varsity contest had to wait in the rain for the referee's the highest functions of life—for those function in the world. Full of high and take too great a chance on it. But launch which was detained at the finish tasks which demand the plentitude of hope and noble ambition, animated too the change in the order of things will be of the preceding race. mental power. And, on the other hand, by the generous enthusiasm of youth, "good for the sport," as the natives Pennsylvania had the inside course in the college graduate may cheer himself you would, I know, desire to play your along the river would say, and we all the youngster event, Cornell and Syra- with the thought that the best things in part with credit or even with distinction. learned a lot from the beating. cuse were in the middle, and Columbia the world, and the highest vocations, are I wish you success from the bottom of Concisely summarized, Cornell won was on the outside. At 4:59 they were open to him. They are open to him, I my heart. Success for you is the earnest the four-oared race by eight or nine sent away and, as in the four-oared race, say : whether he shall attain them de- hope and expectation cherished by your lengths Columbia was second Penn- Columbia got the water first. But the pends upon himself. Your training has teachers and by this community of sylvania third Wisconsin fourth and advantage of the New Yorkers was short- prepared you for that high goal. Be am- scholars and scientists. Let it be yours Georgetown last. In the freshmen race lived for in less than a hundred yards bitious for the best and the highest. to achieve success. Syracuse won by two lengths, with Cor- Cornell had secured a slight lead. Syra- "It is the end of brutes to live but as "The lowest expectation to be enter- nell second, Pennsylvania following, two cuse, Pennsylvania, and Columbia were even the pjy£an philosopher said, it is tained of you I am sure you will not dis- lengths away, and three lengths before pulling thirty-four to the minute, Cornell the end of man to live well and nobly. appoint. If every young man in America Columbia. Syracuse took the six-cor- thirty-two. The question which the recurrence of should make a living;,—for America is no nered Varsity race by nearly three lengths At the half-mile mark Cornell had a Commencement suggests to my mind is place for drones and idlers—this primary Cornell being second, four lengths ahead lead of half a length over Syracuse the this in what way will the instruction duty is especially incumbent upon the of Pennsylvania. Columbia was fourth, nose of the Quaker boat was on a line you have here received, the education we educated young American. I do not be- beaten a length, and holding the same with No. 5 in the Salt City boat, and the have given you and the education you lieve in any education that will not en- advantage over Georgetown, with Wis- Columbia shell overlapped Pennsylvania. have given yourselves, fit you to play a able a .young man to earn his own liveli- consin a poor last. It was the grandest freshman race seen man's part and do a man's work in the hood. Indeed, I feel deeply that every It was anything but 'L ^ίeasaWiϊay for on the Hudson in four or five years and world ? In reply to that question I pro- young man should look forward to pro- the crowd who gathered to see the races. it seemed as though Cornell would win pose to make some general observations viding for a wife and family and his Threatening cUmcίs hung low on the hills by but a narrow margin. on the efficiency αΐ the higher education. education will have been purchased at a all morning and at 2 o'clock in the after- Down toward the lofty bridge that "If God creates man, education re-cre- great sacrifice—his education cannot be noon a few drops of rain began to fall. spans the river the four boats sped, their ates him. Men are born with certain of the right sort—if it do not facilitate At 3:30 when the observation train rolled positions remaining nnchang^C At the natural capacities education develops his advancement to that end, which is up to Highland Station the rain was com- three-quarters it wa# Mill Cornell's race and realizes these capacities. God beyond doubt the chief blessing vouch- ing down in a heavy drizzle, and this, with by half a length. But then the Syracusi- makes men education remakes them safed to man in this earthly career. I few interruptions, continued throughout ans hit up their stroke to thirty-six and, Of course there are limits to the tnodifia- have no patience with the college gradu- the afternoon. inch by inch, they crept up on the Cor ates who deliberately elect bachelorhood, bility of the product of the Divine Arti- The first race of the day was the four- nell boat until, as the two leaders disap- whose social circle is the club, and whose ficer on the physical side narrow limits, oared and referee Armstrong sent the five peared behind a pier of the bridge religion is a refined and fastidious epi- though even the physique may be mould- crews away at exactly 4:15. Columbia Cornell led by barely three feet. cureanism. It would not be worth while ed and recast by proper training but on caught the water first, but a dozen sturdy When the boats next came into sight maintaining colleges and universities for the moral and intellectual side the limits strokes sent the prow of the Cornell boat in a couple of seconds that seemed like the production of froth like that. Cer- of possible modification by instruction to the front. The Cornell men were pul- as many minutes—Syracuse had taken [Continued on page 290.] 290 CORNELL. ALUMNI NEWS

the lead and from that point she never forty-eight sweeps were dug into theand intellect in its highest functioning. ondly, seek the truth and abide by yielded it. A quarter of a mile below water and ripped through it, all propelled Passion and prejudice are the children of the truth as you see it. Thirdly, be the bridge, rowing thirty-four to the by almost equal strength, for fifty feet ignorance. The man who knows can loyal to the highest that is in you-=- minute, the Orange eight led by half a from the dories, the noses of the six keep his heart cool and his feet steady. those ideals of the heart and conscience length and at the mile and a half, rowing shells, staggering under the stupenendous Illiterate and half-educated men suffer which alone make life worth living. no faster, their lead was increased to a heaves of the sweeps, were running on from strabismus or myopia the educated ι These duties we have taught you here : length. Pennsylvania was two lengths an even line. Two hundred yards from man sees straight and sees ahead. They 1 these duties are the outcome of the free, behind Cornell and Columbia, splashing the starting boats Syracuse led by aare doomed to a narrow horiton, whose earnest, and reverent spirit of Alfna badly, was three lengths behind the quarter of a length but no one worried centre is the village store and whose cir- Mater. The world needs them today as Quakers. much for the race was yet young and cumference is the neighboring hills his never before. Go out and exhibit them. It was a splendid stroke these "out- none of the crews had settled into a four mind has in science commingled with ! And the blessing of Heaven will rest on siders" were rowing and they were row- mile swing. At the half mile, Syracuse the might, the order, and the immensity those who loyally, even though groping- ing it well. They caught hard, pulled led by half a length, with Cornell of nature and in history and literature ly strive to do the will of Heaven. That their oars through with a snap, took them a length in front of Pennsylvania who with the age-long endeavor of the hu- it may be yours is the heart's desire of us out of the water smoothly and kept their had a comfortable lead over Georgetown, man race. And because his horizon tfans^ all who work for AlVna Mater here as shell running well between strokes. Cor- Columbia and Wisconsin. Both Cornell cends the limits of space perceived arid you ate to work for her in the larger nell rowed the same long, even stroke as and Syracuse were rowing in fine form of the present time—because in a manner [world to which I now dismiss you—with in the last two or three years, and rowed though the former were rowing a stroke he is the spectator of all time and all ex- ,hope, with affection, and with earnest de- it well. which it would appear would bring them istence—he can take more comprehen- jsire for your best welfare." A quarter of a mile from the finish into the home stretch in better shape sive views of things, measuring the pres- line, with a half length of open water than would the stroke of theSyracusians. e-nt by the past and the petty here by the separating their rudder from the bow of Hope and confidence raised in the Cor- infinite there. The educated man is no GRAND TRUNK=== the Cornell shell, Syracuse raised the nell cars between the three-quarters mark easily excited, or still less dismayed LEHIQH VALLEY ROUTE stroke to thirty-seven and Cornell went and the mile point for then the Cornell He interprets the scenes and events o up to thirty-four. But the Cornell crew crew pulled up inch by inch, overcame the hour in the light of a perspectiv New York and Philadelphia seemed pretty well tired out and crossed the lead of the Salt City men and went projected by things infinite and eternal to Detroit, Chicago and the the line two lengths behind the winners. past the mile flag, leaders by half a ' 'Now whatever you have studied in thi The official time announced was : length. Syracuse led Pennsylvania by a University, you should more or less com West M. s. length and the other three crews were on pletely illustrate the ideal educated ma Solid Vestibuled Trains, Syracuse 10 01 o-o pretty even terms a length in the wake I have described. The lawyer, for es Exceptionally Fine Ser- Cornell 10 12 2-5 of the Quakers. ample, is trained in the principles o vice, and Superior Equip- Pennsylvania 10 184-5 But the Syracuse men had not shot evidence the engineer in scientific ίnentj consisting of Mod- Columbia 10 28 1-2 their rocket in the first mile they had method the scholar in literature ahc That was a rough jolt for the Cornell scarcely begun to row and passing the history so that each in his own wa ern, Up - to - date Coaches, cohorts on the train. The Freshman mile point up went their stroke to thirty- should find it not a thing impossible t Sleeping Cars,and Dining crew was proclaimed the fastest that had seven in a nerve-straining effort to retake exercise the cardinal intellectual virtue: Cars. ever been sent out from Ithaca and to be the lead. Ten Eyck's men were equal I have been describing. I venture t< beaten by two lengths was something to their task and gaining at every stroke, hope that in your several communitie Through Sleepers and quite unlooked for. Some thought they passed the mile and a half point with a you who graduate here today may b Day Coaches, Ithaca to lost their heads others that they were lead of half a length Cornell was a distinguished, by a respect for facts as Detroit and Chicago con- a bit "fine" or a race rowed a minute couple of hundred feet better than Penn- they are, the gift of seeing straight, an necting with all lines for slower than it was known they had sylvania and the rest of the company openness of mind to new ideas, and a gone o^er the course would not have were struggling along a stone's throw calmness and comprehensiveness of view the West, Northwest and exhausted them. But these were pri- from the tiller of the Pennsylvania boat. that will lift your decisions above th< Southwest. For descrip- vate opinions the proclaimed opinion of Coming up to the two-mile mark both blind and passionate judgments of th< tive literature and all in- Cornell men was, " Why, we met a bet- Cornell and Syracuse were rowing thirty- hour, to which individuals and whol( formation, apply to ter crew.'' two to the minute but the men with the communities too easily become the con ROBERT BUSHBY, T. P. A., Cortland. N. Y. The official in charge of the long, mov- orange-tipped sweeps gradually pulled verts—and eventually the victims. W. E. DAVIS, Q. T. BELL, ing grandstand signalled his engineers away from Courtney's men and passed "But no man can be an intellectual Pass'r Traffic Manager, Qen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agt., at either end of the train, their whistles the flag with a streak of light showing leader even in his own village unless he Montreal, Quebec. tooted and the train, covered from end between the boats. Syracuse was row- be a man of character. What you know to end with umbrellas, was off for the ing with beautiful precision but the strain is exceedingly important what you are The Mercersburg Academy* head of the four mile course. There began to tell on some of the men in the is more important still. Your tower of wasn't a word from the Cornell cars. No Cornell shell. From this point to the knowledge is an unstable structure if it PREPARES FOR one was confident of victory for everyone end of the race it looked as though E. T. be not bedded in a foundation of virtue COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES knew the experiment that was being tried Foote, No. 2, who had rowed in the four- and goodness. A tender conscience and Aims at thorough Scholarship, broad attain- in the Cornell boat—an experiment un- oared race, was steadily weakening under a will under control of the moral law is ments and Christian manliness. Address heard of in American Intercollegiate the strain. WM. MANN IRVINE, Ph. D President, something higher than a well-trained, M boating, the rowing of two boys in two At the bridge, the three-mile point, a well-filled intellect, which, without that Mercersburg, Pa. races within two hours. half length of open water shown between higher guidance, is not an enviable pos- At the ice-house, a half mile below the boats. Nutting was still rowing session. And remember that we are con- THE JONES Krum Klbow, all six Varsity crews were thirty-two and in fact never raised a stantly forming our characters by suc- assembled, to be within easy reach of the point in the remaining mile of the strug- cessive acts of will. In the moral sphere SUMMER SCHOOL starting point. Under a big tent the gle. A half mile from the bridge Syra- every man is his own creator. Cherish shells rested, and about them were the OF MATHEMATICS AND THE LANGUAGES. cuse's lead was a length and three-quart- high ideals and live up to them and you forty-eight brawny chaps who were to TWENTIETH SESSION, ers, and raising the stroke to thirty-seven shape yourself into noble manhood. man] them in the great struggle of the day. in the home-stretch they crossed the line But if yon are false to your ideals, or if JULY 6-SEPT. 23. It was now raining steadily and a slight a winner by more than two and a half your ideals themselves be low, every act Rapid reviews for candidates for admission to breeze was stirring up the river still the lengths. Cornell, as is her custom, was of will you exercise means a retrogres- ORNElylv UNIVERSITY and for conditioned water was smooth enough for good racing. game to the finish and crossed the line sion towards the brutish life from which students. The train arrived at the starting-point be- Address GEO. W. JONES, A.M., Ithaca. four lengths ahead of Pennsylvania. The it is the high calling and duty of man to fore any of the crews left the ice-house. time was as follows : escape. During the wait the crowd piled off the 1 Syracuse o 22 3-5 'My Friends of the Graduating Classes: cars to limber up a bit and to engage in 2 ITHACA HOTEL Cornell 2031 1-5 —You go out from these halls at a time some good-natured joshing. When you are looking for a first- Pennsylvania 20 32 4-5 of profound unrest—unrest political, so- Then some gentleman with telescopic class Cafe and the only one in Columbia. _. 20 45 2-5 cial and religious. It is a question town to entertain your friends, eyes " saw them coming" and the crowd τ Georgetown 20 52 3-5 w hether the ancient landmarks will not where you can find everything clambered aboard the cars. It was the Wisconsin 21 01 1-5 be removed and the ancient moorings in season with the best possible Syracuse eight that first appeared and loosened. Is society a community, a service, call at the they swung up past the train with a pow- brotherhood, or merely a herd of animals (The Thirty-Sixth Commencement.) DUTCH KITCHEN. erful stroke that made even the most con- struggling for life and supremacy? Is tainly Ezra Cornell contemplated a fident wonder if they were to repeat the the Republic to remain a democratic or- Music every evening from 8 to 12. worthier human product when he found- performance of their freshmen in the ganization under which men with equal ed this great democratic university dedi- A* and J- H* CAUSER, Proprs. youngster race. Right behind Syracuse rights govern themselves or is it to be- cated both to practical and to liberal edu- came Columbia and Georgetown. Wis- come a tyrannical organization tinder consin, Cornell and Pennsylvania fol- cation. Nay all our colleges and univer- which special interests like capital, labor, One Typewriter a Minute lowed. sities alike disown that bastard progeny. or the military spirit, are to control the The immense additions to the Reming- It was 6:18 when the six shells were The family is the germinal principle of destinies of men, "the heirs of all ages, on Typewriter factory at Ilion, N. Y. , backed down to their dories and two our nation and the soul of our civiliza- foremost in the files of time ?'' Is the re- lave been practically completed. The Lim of these enlargements is to provide minutes later they were off on their four tion : it were treason in our educated ligious conception of the world tenable in mile journey. Georgetown was on the or the production of one typewriter a young men to shirk the primary duty of this emancipated twentieth century? minute, a figure which the sales of the inside course with Columbia, Syracuse, bread-winners. These are vast and fundamental questions. Remington Typewriter are rapidly ap- Pennsylvania, Cornell and Wisconsin "But it is not enough that the educated I attempt no answer to them. But I say >roaching. ranging out to midstream in the order man be the stay and light of his own you will find an answer or as much of Remington Typewriter Co., named. household. As an educated man he is to an answer as you need—if you observe With the crack of the referee's pistol BINGHAΠTON, N. Y. be the exponent and exemplar of mind | certain rules. First, work hard, - A. ADSITT, Local Representative. CORNELL ALUMNI N El WS 29ί

SEVENTY-FOUR MEN WHO ATTENDED THEIR THIRTY-YEAR REUNION.

Photo, by Troy. Sweeting. Smith. Alexander. Wood. Damon. Robinson. Wiles. Fairchild. Stone. Comstock. Upham. Cooper. Tifft. Tomlinson. Tier. Lazenby.

University, a separate table was reserved dinner and made addresses of welcome Henry W. Sackett, New York City; Stan- THE SEVENTMJR REUNION. for this class. In the speeches which and congratulations, both receiving a ley G. Smith, Syracuse, N. Y. followed the luncheon the class was repre- very enthusiastic reception. Robert H. Twenty-three Members of Class Gath- Seventy-six. ered for their Thirty-Year Reunion sented by Mr. R. H. Wiles, who spoke Wiles was toastmaster and a somewhat —Class Banquet Held at Cam- with great earnestness and feeling of the extended toast list was responded to, W. Iv. Cuddeback, Port Jervis, N. Y. pus Tavern on Evening of Alumni Day. influence exerted by the first faculty of excellent speeches being made by Judge Seventy-seven. the University and especially of the work M. L. Buchwalter, Joseph C. Hendrix, Iv. O. Howard, Washington, D. C; Those members of the class of Seventy- done for education by Andrew D. White. W. Iv. Dudley, Prof. Wait, Mr. Wiles, Everett O'Neill, Albany, N. Y. four who took part in the tricennial re- The reunion banquet was held at the and others. union of the class will long remember Campus Tavern in the evening of Alum- J. Ly. Stone read extracts from letters Seventy-eight. ni day. There were present of the grad- received from many former '74 men who Commencement Week of this year. In W. L. McKay, Geneva, N. Y.; H. J. many cases friends met who had not seen uates and former members of '74 the fol- were unable to attend the reunion. Pro- VanNorman, Mansfield, Pa. each other for thirty years. They had lowing : fessor Comstock, who gave so much time separated as boys filled with the hopes of F. B. ALEXANDER, Brooklyn, N. Y. and attention to the preliminary arrange- Eighty. youth they met as men who had J. H. COMSTOCK, Ithaca, N. Y. ments for the reunion, was given a vote W. D. Garlock, Little Falls, N. Y. E. achieved their places in the affairs of the FRANCIS W. COOPER, Pueblo, Colo. j of thanks and was elected permanent A. Landon, Groton, N. Y.; Robt. T. Mor- world. Some had crossed the continent F. A. DARROW, Owego, N. Y. ! secretary of the class. ris, New York City Henry Pierce, Ron- for this meeting, and they felt well paid WILLIAM R. DUDLEY, Leland Stan- cerverte, W. Virginia L,ee J. Vance, New for the long journey. ford University, Cal. Alumni who Registered at Barnes York City Charles G. Wagner, Biiig- Although the formal reunion was not HERMAN L. FAIRCHILD, Rochester, Hall During- Commencement hamton, N. Y.; F. J. Whiton, New York to be till Alumni Day, members of the N. Y. Week. City H. K. Williams, Dunkirk, N. Y. class began to appear in Ithaca during WILLIAM H. FLINT, Ridgefield, Conn. Following is a list of the Cornell men Eighty-one. the latter part of the preceding week. WALLACE GREENE, Washington, D. C. who registered at Alumni headquarters These had opportunity to meet old JOSEPH C. HENDRIX, New York City. Quentin W. Booth, Rochester, N. Y. in Barnes Hall during Commencement friends in the faculty and among the re- HORACE M. HIBBARD, Ithaca, N. Y. W. A. S. Latham, Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Week. The list does not include mem- turning Alumni and to visit old scenes WILLIAM R. LAZENBY, Columbus, O. Oscar Iy. Taylor, St. Paul, Minn. bers of the classes of '69, '74, '79, '84, quietly before the rush of Alumni and JAMES H. PEIRCE, Chicago, 111. '89, '94, '99 and 1901, the names of those Eighty-two. Commencement days. H. B. ROBINSON, Oil City, Pa. men appearing in the accounts of the H. M. Streeter, Scranton, Pa. The headquarters of the class was at WiLMOT M. SMITH, Patchogue, N. Y. class reunions. Professor Comstock's cottage on the Cam- JOHN L. STONE, Ithaca, N. Y. Eighty-three. pus, where many members of the class WILLIAM H. SWEETING, Savannah, Sixty-nine. Charles I. Avery, Auburn, N. Y.; C. R. met and talked over old times and what N. Y. Morris L. Buchwalter, Cincinnati, O. Browning, New York City F. W. Run- had happened since. LEWIS P. TIER, Cleveland, Ohio. yon, Plainfield, N. J. On Alumni Day an effort was made to HENRY TIFFT, Chicago, 111. Seventy-two. Eighty-five. get a group photograph of those who had F. C. TOMLINSON, Ironton, Ohio. A. M. Baldwin, Groton, N. Y.; E. L. come to the reunion. A considerable J. DUNCAN UPHAM, Claremont, N. H. Brady, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. B. Howland, John Van Sickle, Auburn, N. Y. number were gotten together but unfor- j MYNDERSE VAN CLEEF, Ithaca, N. Y. Kingston, Pa. Eighty-six. tunately several who were here could not ROBERT H. WILES, Chicago, 111. Seventy-three. be found at the right moment, and hence CHARLES C. WOOD, Buffalo, N. Y. Charles H. Baker, Seattle, Wash.; do not appear in the picture. A second As guests of '74 there were present John Chamberlin, Buffalo, N. Y.; Wil-George McCann, Elmira, N. Y. picture, a flashlight, was taken in the M. Iv. Buchwalter, '69, R. G. H. Speed, liam T. Morris, Penn Yan, N. Y George Eighty-eight. evening at the banquet, but this photo- '71, John Chamberlain, '73, and Profes- B. Turner, Auburn, N. Y. graph is not so good as the one here sors L. A. Waίte and W. T. Hewett. CharlesS. Fowler, Albany, N. Y.; Harry Seventy-five. published. President Schurman and ex-President Iv. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y.—'88, '93 An- At the Alumni Luncheon given by the White called during the progress of the Frank H. Hiscock, Syracuse, N. Y.';drew S. White, Fayetteville, N. Y. 292 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Ninety. Emma J. Wensley, '97, New York City years of work on the part of a few men A POINT TO INSIST ON. Mary E. Macauley, '98, Rochester, N.in getting and keeping track of all the J. T. Auerbach, Boston, Mass.; G. H. There are endless numbers of traveling Y. Florence L. Williams, '98, LeRoy, men of the class and bringing them into people who go regularly from New York Walbridge, New York City. N. Y.; Mary G. Young, '98, E. Palmyra, closer touch with one another. to Chicago and vice versa several times a Ninety-one. month, who have never gone over any N. Y.; Faith Browning, '99, Brooklyn, NINETY-NINE. other road but the Lake Shore & Michi- J. Francis Booraem, New York City N. Y. Grace E. McGonegal, '99, Roches- gan Southern, because this road is "good George M. Mashek, Escanaba, Mich. ter, N. Y.; Elsie M. Dutcher, '00, Owego, Four Score of Students Dropped enough" for them. It's good enough for N. Y.; Maude W. Martin, '00, Coopers- anybody, the fastest, safest, most con- Ninety-two. from the University. venient and most comfortable road in town, N. Y. Helen L. Young, '00, E. America. Once you travel over the Lake E. P. Allen, Rochester, N. Y.; Frank Palmyra, N. Y.; Mabel R. Crowl, '01, The annual crop of "bust'' notices went Shore and you will not want to experi- A. Bell, Waverly, N. Y. C. R. Kreidler, Syracuse, N. Y. Anna W. King, '01, out from the registrar's office on the 29th. ment with any other road. People who Rochester, N. Y. M. McVoy, Jr., New Asheville, N. C. Alice R. May, '01, These notices inform the recipients know the comforts and discomforts of that their work during the spring term traveling, and what they have a right to York City F. J. Platt, Scran ton, Pa. Rochester, N. Y. Gertrude E. Mock, 'or, expect, always insist on their tickets Rochester, N. Y.; Winafred C. Benedict, has been so poor that they are requested Ninety-three. reading by way of the Lake Shore. So '02, Canastota, N. Y. Ruth Bentley, '02, not to report for registration at the open- should you. A. J. Colnon, New York City Walter Fluvana, N. Y. Julia M. Bligh, '02, ing of college in the fall. If they wish W.Edwards, Scranton, Pa.; Robert H. Warsaw, N. Y. Anna B. Butler, '02, to return next February and repeat the THE Jacobs, New York City Clyde P. John- Indianapolis, Ind.; Frances L. Coons, '02, spring term's work they are usually al- son, Cincinnati, Chio. Kingston, N. Y. Mabel Hale, '02, Ra-lowed to do so. This places them one N0RMAND1E, year behind their class. Ninety-five. leigh, N. C. Mary G. Heughes, '02, Rochester, N. Y.; Ellen J. Nichols, '02, About eighty students have already Hotel and Apartment House, W. F. Atkinson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; W.Buffalo, N. Y.; Laura S. Sheldon, '02, been notified that they were dropped, Chestnut and 36th Streets, P. Beeber, Willίamsport, Pa.; Thomas Ottawa, Kansas Agnes G. Smith, '02, while the faculties in architecture, medi- McNeil, Pittsburg, Pa.; J. D. Newton,Tonawanda, N. Y.; Helen F. Smith, '02, cine and agriculture have not yet reported W. B. ALLEY, Superintendent, New Mexico. Penn Yan, N. Y. Ruth Demarest, '03, their lists to the registrar. When the PHILADELPHIA, PA. Ninety-six. Rochester, N. Y. Eva F. Humphreys, returns are all in, the total will probably '03, Ludlowville, N. Y. Maida Rossiter, be slightly in excess of the number two W. L. Bonharte, Chambersburg, Pa. '03, Appleton, Wis. Elizabeth Tyng, '03, years ago, when exactly 80 were dropped. THE STEPHENS E. M. Kindle, New Haven, Conn.; Ben- New York City; Daisy F. Wallin, '03, L,ast June scarcely any students were jamin Powell, Seneca Falls, N. Y. L,. Gilbertsville, N. Y. Charlotte C. Water- "busted," as the faculty was unusually PUBLISHNG COMPANY W. Simpson, Buffalo, N. Y.; J. S. Tru man, '03, Hudson, N. Y. lenient on account of the typhoid epi- man, Owego, N. Y. W. C. Truman, demic. Owego, N. Y. MERCANTILE AND A comparative statement of the "busts'' Ninety-seven. THE NINETY-NINE REUNION. in 1902 and 1904, so far as they have been SOCIETY PRINTING C. A. Alexander, Batavia, N. Y. G. M. reported, is as follows : Corner E* Seneca and N* Aurora Sts Dutcher, Owego, N. Y. N. I^yon, New Was a Disappointment in Attendance, COIylyEGE 1902 1904 its Members say—Original Plan of J. SAUTER, Manager York City J. R. Rand, New York City. Living- in Tent on Campus not Arts 6 12 Ninety-eight. Carried out—Class already Law 6 10 Planning- for Ten-Year Veterinary 0 6 Perfect Imitation Typewriter Letters— B. M. Duggar, Columbia, Mo.; A. H. Gathering-. Civil Engineering 10 12 a Specialty Emery, Jr., Stamford, Conn.; J. T. Gor- Sibley (M.B. and E.K.) 51 40 man, Owego, N. Y.; J. E. Rutzler, New The class of Ninety-nine made a rather poor comparative showing in point of Medicine 3 0 York City J. M. Sutton, Ovid, N. Y.. Agriculture 0 numbers at the first five year re-union. 3 Nineteen Hundred. About fifty men in all returned but a Architecture 1 0 Frank Allen, St. Andrews, N. B.; H. very much smaller number remained for Total 80 80 H. Foster, Canandaigua, N. Y. A. M.the class banquet on Wednesday night. Garretson, Buffalo, N. Y. F. P. Johnson, Those who came back however, had a It will be noted that with the single Wilmington, Del.: Frank Maytham, Buf- rousing good time looking ovei the im exception of Sibley College, all the facul- falo, N. Y.; W. W. Patterson, Pittsburg, provements at the University meeting ties were stricter than two years ago. Pa. G. H. YoungsWilliamsport, Pa. the members of the old guard, and at-Arts and Law have nearly doubled the tending gatherings of the Alumni and number of "busts," while the Veterinary Nineteen-two. the class. College have jumped from zero to six. E. C. Batchelar, Upper Montclair, N. "TarM Young and ''Bill" Miller, re- In Sibley about twenty-five of the men J.; Douglas K. Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y. presented Ninety-nine creditably in thedropped were in the freshman class, the C. H. Delany, San Francisco, Cal.; F. C. baseball game, between Alumni and theothers being distributed between the Edminster, Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. Ed-Varsity. On Wednesday, about forty other three classes. In Law it is some- QUINO-CANTHARIS wards, Jr., New Haven, Conn.; G. H.men attended the Alumni Luncheon. In what surprising to find that six of the Hooker, Watertown, N. Y.; S. P. Howe,response to the toast, ''The Class of ten unfortunates were in the Junior class, Camden, N. J. F. H. Jennings, Moravia, Ninety-nine", "Tar" Young did finely, which thus suffered worse than the first year aggregation. N. Y.; S. F. O'Day, Binghamton, N. Y.; "surprising us all", as President Schur- DESTRUCTION G. Parsons, Winnebago, 111.; C. A. Taus- man said later "by the cleverness of his Besides these students who were sig, Man Island, Calif.; F, H. Teagle, wit and the lightness of his touch." dropped outright, many others were Cleveland, Ohio; Ralph Ware, Chicago, The banquet on Wednesday night was warned or put on probation or notified 111.; Richardson Webster, Brooklyn, N. the only other time when the class got that they must accomplish a definite Y.; C. D. Young, Columbus, Ohio; J. together in a body. There was singing amount of work during the fall term in M. Young, Paint Lick, Ky. and speeches of an informal sort, which order to stay in the University. Some students will have to make up work in Nineteen-three. kept up a lively interest. "Bunk" Gould, To Strengthen the Hair with "Duke" Coyle and "Bob" Ripley the summer session before they will be G. E. D. Brady, New York City; H. on either side of him, had charge of the allowed to register in September. And Prevent its Falling Out. S. Braucher, New York City G. C. H. banquet—for a while at least. Bruns, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; J. B. Chase, At the solicitation of President Schur- NEW EDITION Morrisville, N. Y. E. A. Duffy, Seattle, man and Charles E. Treman, both of Wash.; T. E. Faxon, Elyria, Ohio E. J. whom this year have done effective work SONGS OF CORNELL Πol e th e Roo(s of he airru b DIRECTIONS 'f " A ,1 , ' " Glasson, Dania, Florida W. E. Huch-in bringing back the Alumni in large CONTAINING gently. After a few Applications ting, Brooklyn, N. Y. Alfred Huger, the Hair will cease falling out. numbers, a permanent secretary was NEW SMOKING AND BOATING SONGS Charleston, S. C; M. L. McCoon, Long elected in the ' person of Norman I. Eddy, N. Y.; J. T. McGinity, Greene Gould, (address Seneca Falls, N. Y.) LENT'S MUSIC STORE, Island, N. Y.; J. H. Middleton, Troy, N. The class also voted to levy an assess- 122 NORTH AURORA ST., ITHACA This Tonic is Recommended Y.; J. C. Pearson, Cleveland, Ohio; H. ment of $2.00 upon each member of the I. Schenck, Dayton, Ohio R. B. Sears, class in order to provide a fund to enable CUT FLOWERS, by Physicians Binghamton, N. Y.; J. J. Shirley, Pitts- the secretary to keep complete records of burg, Pa.; R. J. Taylor, Indiana, Pa.; the class. ..DECORATION PLANTS W. J. Warner, Springville, N. Y. G. M. It is to be regretted that lack of funds, DESIGNS, &c. Welch, Passaic, N. J. R. F. Weber, Sala- ΠANUFACTURED ONLY BY men and preparation prevented the carry- Up-to-Date Methods. Prompt attention given manca, N. Y. W. F. Woodward, New ing out of the original reunion plans, TO MAIIv ORDERS. York City; A. M. Wright, I/yndonville, KIESSEL & FEAHNER, which included in the first place a class THE BOOL FLORAL COMPANY, N. Y. reunion uniform second, a band third, ITHACA, N. Y. and most important of all, means of keep- Hairdressers and Perfumers. Alumnae in Ithaca for Commence- ing the entire class together during all ment. HOWARD COBB IyOuis SMITH CLARK SLOCUM the time spent in Ithaca—at least during CORNELL LIVERY THE WALDORF=ASTORIA NEW YORK The following Alumnae registered in the whole of Alumni day. First-class livery, hack an boarding stables. Barnes Hall during Commencement The whole matter was fully discussed Bike wagons. Only four-in-hands in City. Week: Ruth Putnam, '78, New York by a few of the faithful and pipes are 213 SOUTH TIOGA STREET. Your consideration will be appreciated', City; Anna H. Palmie, '90, Cleveland, already being laid for a big and credita- We earnestly solicit your patronage. if, in writing to advertisers, you mention O. Emma P. Lamphear, '96, Ames, la.; ble reunion in 1909. This means five Telephone 55 Both 'Phones the QQRNBIJ* ALUMNI NEWS. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 293

EIGHTY-FOUR MEN WHO ATTENDED THEIR TWENTY-YEAR REUNION.

Photo by Robinson.

G. F. Ditmars. C. F. Boshart. H. I,. Aldrich. C. M. Thorp. C. A. Brewster. S. H. Decker. C. M. Carpenter. E. W. Huffcut. H. Iy. Shively. C. J. Walch. Ό. H Mead. W. I,. Webb. H. K. Case. W. F. Cassedy, W. M. Bering. F. P. Ingalls. J. B. Burrows. I,. H. Cowles. F. A. Coles, F. W. Carpenter. H. D. Wright. E). G. Story. G. B. Davidson. D. D. Weed. J. Van Sickle. H. J. Patten. S. E. Hillger. H. P. De Forest.

ent and the play "Christopher, Jr." was round oak table of that hospitable organ- glee club and the various tables contrib- '84'S ENTHUSIASTIC REUNION. presented by The Cornell Masque. This ization. Here the members of the Uni- uting to the harmonious whole. Thirty-six of the Fifty-seven Living" student organization has now been in ex- versity faculty and the business men of The business meeting of the Alumni Members of the Class Present at the istence since 1890 and has a long series Ithaca meet and here much of the good was held at four o'clock and after this Vig intennial Reunion—Class At- of successes to its credit. "Christopher, fellowship that for years has existed be- was over the reception to the graduating tended every Function of the Week and Concluded with Jr." was no exception. The make up, tween town and gown has had its origin. class and to the Alumni gave all. an op- Banquet which Broke especially of the young men who posed During the evening many of our former portunity of meeting President Schur- up at 6 A. M. as the women of the play, was excellent, professors came and the informal gather- man and his wife in their home on Kast the stage setting was good and the acting ing which lasted for some hours was in avenue just south of Professor Comstock 's Baccalaureate Sunday, the 19th of June, such that many of the professional com- many ways one of the most interesting residence. 1904, witnessed the arrival of the advance panies on the road would find it difficult and convivial of the week. These preliminary canters had placed guard of the Class of Eighty-four to see to surpass the production. Wednesday was Alumni Day and every all in condition for the real class event that the weather bureau man had defi- By this time a number of the reunion effort had been made by the University, of the day, the Vigintennial Banquet held nite instructions to provide a choice line classes were back in larger or smaller the Trustees and the various reunion at the Ithaca Hotel. A special dining of warm days and cool nights for thegroups and the Dutch Kitchen and "The- classes to make this the day of all days to room had been secured, some of the dec- Commencement Week, and also to seeodore's" held rival entertainments after attract the graduate students. Every orations were new but some were of his- that the commissary stores were abund- the Masque performance that did much train brought more and more of our class- toric interest, especially the original '84 ant and in good condition before the ar- to renew the youth of the participants. mates into the fold and on this day thir- streamer brought back by Krauss and rival of the main army. With a graduating class of nearly six ty-six of the class were in Ithaca. If which formed an appropriate background These matters were attended to early hundred and an Armory that has not in- there was anything in the entertainment entirely across one end of the hall. A in the day. A trip "around the loop" on creased in size in twenty years, tickets line that this group of graduates missed piano was secured for the musician of the trolley line, new to most of the class, for Class Day exercises in-doors were at a it was because they did not know about the class, Webb, who used the instru- crossing Fall Creek below the Fiske premium but those who wished them it. All assembled at 10:30 on the north ment with good effect many times during mansion, now used by the Chi Psi frater- were supplied. Most of the class, now porch of the College of Law in honor of the evening. Huffcut, Mead and Walch, nity as a chapter house, and around the assembled in Ithaca in larger numbers, our classmate Huffcut, now the Dean of representing the law, engineering, and new residence district on Cornell Heights preferred the open air exercises still held the College of Law. We were "took'' by medical professions, had examined and brings the old student back to the Cam- under the trees in front of McGraw. Mr. Robinson of Ithaca, and then had a approved the menu, ambulances and the pus by another new bridge across Fall The Campus in places shows signs of re- chance to see something of the newhospital corps were in attendance ac- Creek just below Triphammer Falls. cent glacial deposits or volcanic erup- schools of law and of medicine before go- cording to orders and shortly after eight The few of the class who took this trip tions but here in the grove it was never ing to the faculty reception at Barnes o'clock thirty-nine men responded to reached the chapel in time to see the pro- more beautiful. Hall. the assembly then sounded and repaired cession of the graduating class in caps On Tuesday afternoon entertainment Many of the older professors were pres- to the mess hall. and gowns march decorously in to hear was furnished the visiting Alumni by aent at Barnes Hall and many of the older In response to the invitation issued to their farewell sermon as students of Cor- ball game on Percy Field between the graduates were also there so the affair members of the class of '83 and '85 to nell. The chapel is the same as of old,Varsity nine and an all-star team of was more or less of a family reunion, the join us if they cared to do so, we were but still is different, for several bays Alumni who had formerly played win- very informality of which added much to fortunate in having with us Browning, have been added, together with a beauti- ning ball. A section of twenty seats had the pleasure of the occasion. Avery and Runyon of the former class ful memorial apse containing the tombs been reserved for the class of '84 and Promptly at one o'clock those present and Bostwick and Atkinson of the latter, of Mr. Sage and his wife. A new organ when the game was called at three o'clock were formed in procession by classes, and these old friends added much to the and a spacious organ loft to accommodate J these seats were filled with an enthus- and proceeded in order of seniority of fraternal spirit of the occasion. the large student choir, together with iastic body of the class. It soon became class to the Armory where the Alumni In the preparation of the menu the rich mural decorations have added much evident that the Alumni team could play luncheon was held. A table had been Ithaca Hotel outdid itself. The table to the beauty of the edifice. The Right ball without much trouble but were sadly j reserved for the Class of Eighty-four, decorations were in brown and gold, the Reverend David H. Greer, S.T.D., de- in need of an Alumni manager. This now numbering with wives and children, class colors, and in these colors the elab- livered the Baccalaureate sermon, an im- want was soon supplied by Bering and over forty. An '84 class flag and an '84orate programme was also bound. The pressive and scholarly address. after this the game went on to a satisfac- class song was provided for each of the programme was illustrated with the group A few more of the class reached Ithaca tory and successful climax, the Alumni class. Judge Hiscock of Syracuse, pre- of the class as it appeared at the end of on Monday and after revisiting old and easily winning with a score of 4 to 2. I sided and each of the reunion classes was the Sophomore year, the group of those new scenes in Ithaca and on the Campus By this time the class had increased called upon in irregular sequence. Mr. present at the ten year reunion and the gathered at the Ithaca Hotel in time to to between twenty and thirty in number George B. Davidson now an attorney at group of the Quindecennial reunionists. go to the new theater which has replaced and by far the larger part of these ac- Scranton, Pa., responded for the class of Special provision was made for the wit- the Wilgus Hall of our student-days. cepted the cordial invitation extended '84 in a particularly felicitous manner. nesses of this important document. Some box seats had been held for those them by the members of the Town and The singing was an unusually good fea- Early in the evening the class was hon- of the class who had planned to be pres- Gown Club and met around the large ture of the luncheon, an orchestra, the ored b}τ a visit from President Schurman, 294 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

accompanied by Professor Hewett and treat" was sounded according to orders reports of the Alumni trustees, H. W. Vice-President from classes '80-^84, Mr. Charles Treman, one of the Alumni and the most successful reunion the Sackett, '75, and Miss Ruth Putnam, '78.Edwin H. Sibley, '80. Trustees. Each was given a cordial wel- class has ever had came to its end. Mr. Sackett's report dealt with the ques- Vice-President from classes '85-'89, come and each in turn spoke a few words The Eighty-four men at the reunion tion of the relationship existing between John Van Sickle, '85. of good cheer to those present. The op- were :— the body of the Alumni and their repre- Vice-President from classes '90-'94, portunity thus presented by having a col- GKORGK D. AIKEN, Gray's Run, Pa. sentatives on the Board of Trustees. He John Ford, '90. lege president actually in our .midst and HERBERT L. AL,DRICH, New York City. said that it was a serious defect in the Vice-President from classes '95~'99, in a measure actually at our mercy was CHARGES F. BOSHART, Lowville, N. Y. constitution of the Associate Alumni that Arthur W. Barber, '95. not one to be neglected. WILSON M. BERING, Decatur, 111. there was no way provided for them to Vice-President from classes Ό0-Ό4, At the conclusion of the remarks of CHARGES A. BREWSTER, Painted Post, inform their trustees in regard to their James Henry Gould, Όo. President Schurman the presiding officer N. Y. opinion and desires in matters of im- Corresponding Secretary, Charles H. of the Class on behalf of his classmates JAMES B. BURROWS, Decatur, 111. portance, and that on that account the Hull, '86. reversed the usual order of procedure and FRED W CARPENTER, New York City. trustees were often at a loss to know how Recording Secretary, Geo. W. Harris, conferred upon the President a special GEORGE M. CARPENTER, Scranton,Pa. best to act in order to meet the approval '73- degree and in token there presented him HOWARD E. CASE, Wichita, Kans. of the body of the graduates. Mr. Sack- Treasurer, S. Edwin Banks, '95. with a diploma bearing the seal of the WILLIAM F. CASSEDY, Newburg, N. Y. ett asked that a committee of not less Director for term of three years, Geo. Class and the signature of its President. FRANKLIN A. COLES, New York City. than nine or more than fifteen be ap-W. Harris, '73 Mynderse VanCleef, '74. Another welcome guest soon appeared LEWIS H. COWLES, Cleveland, Ohio. pointed to investigate the matter and to Auditing Committee, Geo. S. Tarbell, in the person.of Andrew D. White who GEORGE B. DAVIDSON, Scranton, Pa. discover some means of establishing a '91; Geo. Iv Burr, '81; Wm. Hazlitt was and is, so far as the Class of '84 is HENRY P. DEFOREST, New York City. closer relation between the graduates and Smith, '73. concerned, the President of Cornell Uni- DELBERT H. DECKER, Middleton, their trustees. He proposed as a tenta- Two members of the Canvassing Board, versity. When after an hour or so the N. Y. tive scheme that the constitution should Chas. L. Crandall, '72 Clark S. North- time of his necessary departure arrived, GEORGE F. DITMARS, Geneva, N. Y. be so amended as to authorize a commit- up, '93- President White made an address in his WILLIAM V. HAMILTON, Caledonia, tee of five Alumni, whose duty it should usual brilliant style and referred espe- N. Y. be to canvass the opinion of the graduate The report of the committee on nomi- nations was accepted and the secretary cially to the fact that many of those pres- SAMUEL E. HILLGER, Auburn, N. Y. body in regard to important questions was instructed to cast a ballot for the ent had formerly been regular attendants ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, Ithaca, N. Y. and to make a report of the result of nominees. at his lectures. At the close of his de- FRANK P. INGALLS, Brooklyn, N. Y. their canvass to the Alumni trustees. As the order of business was completed lightful heart-to-heart talk, Bering, de IDA CORNELL -KERR, Ithaca, N. Y. Miss Putnam's report was of a more the chairman declared the meeting ad- Forest, Hamilton, Ingalls, and Rose al WILLIAM C. KRAUSS, Buffalo, N. Y. general character and discussed certain journed. arose and recalled to President White DANIEL W. MEAD, Chicago, 111. modern tendencies in education. The mind that even as early as their Sophc EVERETT F. MORSE, Trumansburg, two reports were accepted and approved, more year they had had the benefit of N. Y. and a vote of thanks was extended to Mr. THEC02F special lecture by him and expressec HENRY J. PATTEN, Chicago, 111. Sackett and Miss Putnam for their has been since its organization their appreciation of the circumstance! HUDSON P. ROSE, New York City. promptness, because it has been rare that that had thus paved the way for a friend HENRY L. SHIVELY, New York City. the Alumni trustees have had their re- in 1895 "THE STUDENT'S ship that had lasted for over twent} ELMER G. STORY, New York City. port ready to be acted upon at the annu- years. To show still further their appre STSRE." HERBERT D. SIBLEY, Olean, N. Y. al business meeting. It is owned by students managed ciation of this special lecture course o CHARLES M. THORP, Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Sackett was next recognized by the year 1882 they united in presently by a board of directors chosen from JOHN VAN SICKEL, Auburn, N. Y. the chair and moved that a committee of students and faculty its profits are to President White honorary membership CHARLES J. WALCH, Syracuse, N. Y. nine be appointed to consider the ques- in the class of '84 with all the rights divided among the students. It has WALTER L. WEBB, Philadelphia, Pa. tions raised in the two reports and to re-saved THEΠ thousands of dollars. immunities or privileges here or else OSCAR D. WEED, New York City. port the result of their deliberations at where, thereunto appertaining, and i NELSON A. WELLES, Wyalusing, Pa. the next annual meeting. At the sug- It now offers its services to token thereof presented to him also a HORTON D, WRIGHT, Gloversville, gestion, however, of S. A. Simons, '79, Alumni. Its facilities for promptly engrossed diploma bearing the seal o N. Y. he amended his motion to provide for the filling all mail orders for books and the class and the signatures of the Presi HENRY P. DE FOREST. distribution of printed copies of the re-other supplies, at the most reason- dent and of the Secretary. port of the committee of nine to all grad- able prices, are excellent. "All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry. MEETING OF MATE ALUMNI. uates of the University, at least sixty days And e'en the ranks of Tuscany before the annual meeting. The revised Cornell Cooperative Society, Could scarce forbear to cheer." Held at Barnes Hall on Alumni Day- motion of Mr. Sackett was carried. The A few formal toasts were responded t< Morris L. Buchwalter, '69, Elected chairman has not yet announced the Morrill Hall, Ithaca. at the close of the dinner. Henry P. d< President—Reports Received committee. from Alumni Trustees. Forest, Life Secretary of the Class, an< The report of the canvassing board in the absence of Tuthill, the acting The annual business meeting of th< showed that 1434 ballots were cast an President, wasToastmaster. William F Associate Alumni of the University wa that H. W. Sackett and Miss Ruth Put- Cassedy of Newburg, N. Y., respondec held in Barnes Hall on Wednesday, June nam were elected to succeed themselves. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED. to the toast of *' Auld Lang Syne.'' ' 'The 22nd, at 4:00 P. M. Although the num- The treasurer, S. Edwin Banks, '95, re- Relieves instantly and quickly cures Hustlers" found a ready response from ber of graduates in the city was greatl) ported as follows : SORE MUSCLES, SPRAINS, BRUISES. Willson M. Bering of Decatur, 111. The Cuts, Swellings and all Inflammations. in excess of that of any previous year Balance on hand June 16, '03 $386 * 'Saw-Bones'' were exemplified by Charlej A trial will convince you that yet the attendance at the business meet Received, Life Membership it is better than other remedies. J. Walch of Syracuse, N. Y. Four mem ng was comparatively small and the lack Dues $70 00 SOLD BY ALL GOOD DRUGGISTS. bers of the class were commissioned in of interest, particularly among the young Annual Membership Dues 48 00 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00 bottles. the Spanish American War and to the er men, was very noticeable. $118 00 THK PARACAMPH CO., toast "Tommy Atkins," Oscar D. Weed The meeting was called to order by F. Interest accrued on deposit Louisville, Ky., U. S. A. late of the U. S. Artillery and now of H. Severance, '79, senior vice-president, with Ithaca Trust Co. 6 8ς New York City, responded and gave who took the chair in the absence of vivid account of the experiences of hisPresident O. F. Williams, '69, whose du- $511 01 Paid M. VanCleef disburse- command in the Philippines. "The Fee- ties as United States Consul-general at *' When you see a man who says he ments on corporation $16 16 Chasers" was the toast that brought Singapore rendered it impossible for him never worries, you can be pretty certain Paid Ith. Jr. Ass. for 700 George G. Davidson to his feet, and Her- to be present. The regrets and kind that some one is doing his worrying for bert L. Aldrich, editor of Marine Engi- copies proceedings 23 10 39 26 wishes of Mr. Williams to the Alumni him."—H. L. Meader, Cornell, 'p/. neering replied to the toast "The Ma- were expressed in a letter which the sec- Balance on hand June And at Cornell it is pretty sure to be rine." "Twenty Years After" was theretary, G. W. Harris, '73, read after the 22, 1904 $471 75 topic given to Ernest W. Huffcut and opening of the meeting. By a motion The condition of the treasury is not so the old man at home who carries the the Woodford orator of his class showed he regular roll call was suspended and flattering as appears on the face of the burden. This may be lightened by ten that the added years had added to his the names on the Alumni register were report because a large part of the balance cents on every dollar you spend the year charm of manner and eloquence of dic- accepted in place thereof. The regular on hand is made up of life membership round at tion. eading of the minutes was also omitted dues which, in accordance with the by- Sherwood's. Early in this part of the programme El- and the printed copies were substituted. laws, must be kept on deposit as a per- mer G. Story, the Memorial Orator of The order of business next called for petual fund, and the heavy expense of the class, now practicing law in Newhe selection of a nominating committee printing 7000 copies of the report of the John P.Troy, York City, arose, at what seemed to the :o report a list of officers for the ensuing committee of nine, which was author- toastmaster a most inopportune time, and fear before the adjournment of the meet- zed by Mr. Sackett's motion, will make after a few well chosen remarks effectu- ng. The chairman made the following 1 very severe drain upon the available Official Photographer ally silenced the presiding officer by pre- ippointments : H. L. Fairchild, '74 J. unds. senting him with a beautiful silver lov- \ Newman, '75 F. Irvine, '80; Mrs. A. The last business was the election of TO ing cup bearing the inscription "1884- . Comstock, '85; F. A. Bell, '90; F.>fficers for the ensuing year. M. L.CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 1904. To Henry P. de Forest, from his 'arney, '95 E. Evans, Όo. Before the Buchwalter, '69, had been elected presi- classmates, in appreciation of his ef- ommittee retired for consultation a mo- dent early in the meeting, and the fol- MORSE HALL. CAMPUS. forts as Secretary of the Class of '84." on was made to suspend the order of lowing names were proposed by the com- LAW BUSINESS IN ITHACA This closed the formal programme but usiness and to elect M. L. Buchwalter, mittee on nominations : responses were heard from the Class of 59, as president. The motion was car- Vice-President from classes '69~'74, promptly and carefully attended to. '83 and from the class of '85 and in order ed unanimously. as. J. Chambers, '70. GEORGE S. TARBELL, from each member of the class present. Now that preliminary matters had Vice-President from classes '75-'79, Attorney and Notary Public, At six o'clock in the morning the * 're- een settled the chairman called for the Chas. S. Harman, '75. TRUST COMPANY BUILDING, ITHACA, N. Y. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 295

THE 1901 PEE-RADE--THE FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF CORNELL CLASS REUNIONS.

Photo by T. P. Troy. Tuttle. Kunze. Massey. Tryon. IvOvejoy Newbury. Manley. Kelsey. Tiffany. At wood. Oliphant. Illmer. Hiller. Kinsley. Caine. Metcalf . Crofts. Sheldon. Beach. Alexander. Senior. Willis. Southard. Tag. O'Malley. VanValkenberg. Harris. Gray. Blair. little. Gay.

"when, twenty years hence, we are digni- for about that time, on his way from 275 Cornell men of classes from '86 to THE 1901 TRIENNIAL REUNION. fied old gentlemen returning with our Harvard, he was making a race across 1903 and about forty members of the Headquarters Established in Class wives and families." New York City to get the Black Diamond instructing staff of the University visited Tent where almost 300 Alumni were The advance guard (to use a newly Express which would land him in Ithaca the tent. The visitors often came in Entertained—Pee-rade, Headed coined phrase) reached town on Monday in time for the class Smoker at thebunches, about a third of '94 and a third by Band, a Feature of Alumni Day. night it was Alec, Back, Brick, Layt Kitchen that evening. of '99, arriving just before the University and Ted Gay. Ham Blair was here and At 10:15 o'clock came roll call and the Luncheon and remaining with us until The Triennial reunion of the class of the pipes were laid for a rousing reunion class meeting. the pee-rade started for the Campus. 1901 didn't much resemble any class re- whether five men or two hundred men Now when Alec came up from Wash- Few of the men back of '86 visited us for union ever held at Cornell and didn't would land in town on the morrow. The ington he brought with him a small can- the 1901 reunion was something new in in the slightest degree take on the ap-tent man was seen and he knew just non and a box of shells. The cannon the way of Cornell reunions. pearance of a funeral. There were less where the tent was to go—on the Blair was to be a gift to 1901 and if the class At 1:00 o'clock a dozen of the men than three score of the old crowd on lot on Stewart avenue a few hundred feet saw fit was to be fired at each reunion went to the Luncheon, a half dozen re- hand but every one of them had the best north of South avenue Bandmaster until the last of the Nineteen-one men mained atthe tent to entertain the guests time he has had since Commencement Johnson of the famous Colored Band was had attended his last reunion. Alec pre- and the rest went down town. An hour day in 1901 and everyone will be back at instructed to report with his contingent sented the gun to the fellows and so, as later, in fantastic costume, most of the the next reunion of the class—and that's at 1 p. M.; and "Brick" Metcalf was the roll was called, each man responded clan were back at the tent. The Colored better praise than most reunions provoke. delegated to secure a water-wagon for the to his name, the gun boomed once, and band, of twenty-five or thirty pieces, had The 1901 crowd didn't attend the gath- occasion. forty of the old guard cheered. A small arrived shortly after 1:00 o'clock and ering up by Barnes Hall at 11 A. M. or When the gray streaks of dawn ap- tablet in brass, nailed to the side of the with about a hundred of the "old boys" didn't inspect the laboratory of inverte- peared in the eastern heaven on Wednes- gun, will tell how many men it greeted on hand, the 1901 tent was about the brate zoology at 10 A. M.—they were too day morning and shed their dull light on June 22nd, 1904, and in the trophy livliest place within some miles of the busy : too busy among themselves and too across the Campus, the bubbling kids room in Barnes Hall it will remain until Campus. busy entertaining a couple of hundred who had cavorted about the Armory all reunion day in 1906, when it will greet a The pee-rade started at 3:30, headed other Alumni who were too busy being night, hieing themselves to their homes, greater throng than that which assembled by "Brick" Metcalf and the band. A entertained to attend the aforesaid func- read on every hand the cordial invitation for our first reunion. dozen of the fellows were not there for tions. Some few attended the Alumni of 1901 to all Cornellians to visit them at The class meeting was brief. Heatley the start though all but a couple joined Luncheon—for a little while—for that's their tent that day. "Come to the 1901 Green of Detroit, Mich., was unanim- in somewhere along the line of march. the custom but none lasted through tent," the dodgers began, and come they ously elected life secretary and a tax of $3 With the band dealing forth soul-stirr- the three and a half hours of that seance. did. was levied to defray the expenses of the ing music the company marched np Nor were any among the seventy-five or At 10 o'clock the tent—a sixty-foot reunion and to provide a fund for the life Stewart avenue to University avenue and a hundred who attended the stirring circus tent—opened and when the class secretary. To Heatley Green who was through that thoroughfare to the Campus meeting of the Associate Alumni which banner was unfurled in the breeze and absent because of death in his family, where on the steps of McGraw, the class group was taken. Then to Prexy's followed close upon the heels of thehoisted above our quarters, every 1901 the secretary was instructed to extend house but Prexy wasn't there for the gathering in the Armory. "There will man in the city save two was there to the sympathy of the class. doings at the Armony were not yet over. be lots of time for all that" said they, cheerit. "Sid" Lowenthal wasn't there Between 10:30 and 1:00 o'clock, over [Continued on page 297.] 296 CORNELL ALUMNI N EWS

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. More than five hundred Cornell Alumni ment which is worth its salt can always registered at Barnes Hall during Com- please. To realize a paper of that sort FOWNES GLOVES SUBSCRIPTION, - J2.00 PKR YEAR. mencement Week and more than twenty- would, we hope, be the last resort of a five per cent of the men who attended the Cornell man. We have tried never to be IN ADVANCE. several class reunions were not among lukewarm we have applauded unstint- Are "a good thing to Foreign Postage, 40 cents per year. the five hundred names on the roll. If a ingly or condemned emphatically accord- like proportion failed to register in alling as any situation appealed to us, doing to have on hand" and all Single copies, ten cents each. For rates for pa- pers in quantity, address the office. All orders the other classes there were more than our duty for Cornell as we saw it. In For papers should be paid for in advance. seven hundred Alumni in Ithaca during doing so our opinions have sometimes good dealers have them Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay able to the Cornell Alumni News. the week. Now that is an excellent run counter to the opinions of some of All correspondence should be addressed,— showing and is mighty encouraging to our friends, good Cornell men, but that, on hand Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, New York. the people who have made it their busi- we hope, has been no reason for our part- Offices: in North Tioga Street. ness to get Alumni back for reunions and ing company with them. We are not of Commencement exercises. We have those who are possessed of the humorous ITHACA ADVISORY BOARD. learned the art of bringing Cornell men notion that a paper is infallible, and one TRUST COMPANY. JOHN D. WARNER, '72 _ New York back to Ithaca but we have yet to learn of the articles of our faith has been that CAPITAL $100,000.00. SURPLUS $S8,000.00. CHARLES S. FRANCIS, '77 Troy how to entertain them when they have our policy would always change as soon BANKING FACILITIES JOHN C. BRANNER, '82 Palo Alto arrived. as it were made to appear to us that it OFFICERS. CHARLES H. HULL, '86 Ithaca FRANKLIN C. CORNELL President FREDERICK V. COVILLE, '87 Washington In the first place, reunions will never did not conserve the best interests of our FRANCIS M. FINCH Vice-President GEORGE J. TANSEY, '88 St. I^ouia Cornell. And so, for our friends we MYNDERSE VAN CLEEF Treasurer and Att'y attain their greatest success until Alumn WILLIAM H. STORMS Cashier and Secretary HARRY X,. TAYLOR, '88 Buffalo Day is separated completely from the look not only to those whose views have PERCY HAOERMAN, '90 Colorado Springs DIRECTORS. festivities of Senior Week—until the coincided with our own but to every Cor- Franklin C. Cornell, Charles E. Treman, ALEXANDER B. TROWBRIDGE, '90 New York Francis M. Finch, E. M. Treman, DAVID F. HOY, '91 Ithaca fond parents and admiring Senior guests nell man who sees in this paper a chance John C. Gautlett, Robert H. Treman, IyOuiE Fy. WARE, '92.- Worcester to help in the work of Cornell. Levi Kenney, Samuel B. Turner, are bundled away from the fraternity Louis P. Smith, Mynderse Van Cleef, HERBERT B. IyEE, '99 Buffalo houses before Alumni Day so that the old Two causes we espoused were, we feel, David B. Stewart. Frederic j. Whiton, William H. Storms, Emmons L Williams. EDITOR. grads may at that time occupy the houses of extraordinary importance one met in force. It isn't the mothers and friends success, the other failure. In the success GEORGE D. CROFTS, ΌJ. of the graduates that the old grads come of the former we rejoice because it is the N. W. HALSEY & CO. hundreds of miles to see it's the men of beginning of a new era at Cornell—an era ASSISTANTS. their class and they want to meet them in which Cornell men are to build their BANKERS. G. N. PEASE, '04. H. B. TIBBETTS,'O4. at the place in which they spent four Cornell the failure of the latter we la- M. R. GARLOCK, '04. S. J. FLINTHAM, '04. BONDS FOR INVESTMENT. C. P. OBENDORF, '04. C. G. SPENCER, '04. years with them. The solution of thement for it evidences a disinterestedness, H. Su DENISON, '05. W. Iy. RANSOM, '05. problem is the beginning of Senior possibly, which is discouraging. We refer INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS. F. S. CROFTS, '05. Week on Thursday of the preceding in the first instance to the establishment FISCAL AGENTS FOR CITIES AND CORPORATIONS. week and bringing it to a climax with by the senior class of the policy of each BUSINESS MANAGER, the Senior Ball on Tuesday evening. graduating class pledging itself to collect JQHN 1,. SENIOR, ΌI. This was the plan suggested a year ago a stated sum, $10,000 or more, after gradu- 49 Wall St. "The Rookery, and the one defeated only because it in- ation, to be employed in the upbuilding NEW YORK. CHICAGO. Entered as second class matter at Ithaca P. 0. convenienced a few good people in the of Cornell and in the second instance, Write ROGER H. WILLIAMS, Cornell, '95. making of their social engagements. to the disinterestedness of Alumni in elections to trusteeships, evidenced by ITHACA, N. Y., JULY 2O, 1904. In the second place, the programme FIRST for Alumni Day needs a thorough re- the small ballot polled and by the can- novating to take the mustiness out of it. didacy of no more than enough persons NATIONAL BANK There's no fun in talking about it—that It now consists, and has for some time to fill existing vacancies. Cornell Library Building* defeat on the Hudson—but there are consisted, of the inspection of various In athletics the year has been an un- those good people who would ask us, if exhibits on the University Campus, a propitious one. But better things are in Capital and Profits, - $330,000*00 we saw them, how the citizens of Cornell, general reception at Barnes Hall, the store for next year when Mr. Glenn War- ITHACA, N. Y- who saw the races, took it. What said the University Luncheon, the meeting of the ner, '94, will be in charge of football and citizens when the struggle was over? Associate Alumni, a reception at the baseball and the men who have given They said not a word; they were mum. home of President Schurman, and the Cornell her great place in rowing and ITHACA So we would like to be, for the disap- Alumni banquets in the evening. That track athletics will again be at the head pointment is too keen for expression. It may be a wildly exciting day for the old of those branches. was an afternoon full of bitterness and it men or for the men who are on in mid- And finally, to the people who have Savings Bank. will take a whole year and another after- dle life but it is not the kind of pro-taken a sympathetic interest in our little noon like those we saw at Poughkeepsie (INCORPORATED l868.) gramme the men who are holding Ten- corner of Cornell work we send our last year and in 1902, to take away the year, Five-year and Triennial reunions hearty thanks. They are not all "jolli- ITHACA, N. Y. bitterness of it. want. They want the Alumni baseball ers" by a long way and for the assistance We say only this : They were fairly game on that day—the day they are inand encouragement they have given us DO YOUR BANKING BUSINESS WITH won Syracuse at the time of the races town and not the day before—and they we are grateful. had the better crews. The freshmen want it just the same whether it conflicts THE TOMPKINS COUNTY may have been a minute faster one day, with the Iyuncheon, the meeting of the or two days or three days before the Associate Alumni or the reception. And NATIONAL BANK. races but between the time the referee the best way of ascertaining that they (Began business in 1836) started them in their one great struggle want it is by playing the game on that Capital, $100,000. Surplus and Profit*, $125,000. of the year and the time they crossed day, noting its popularity or unpopu- Hot faces cooled and the finish line they were just eleven larity by the gate receipts, and counting refreshed. Williams' seconds slower than their friends from OFFICERS. noses at any function that conflicts with Shaving Stick. R. H. TREMAN, H. I,. HINCKLKY, Syracuse. They lost to a crew that on it. No, dear reader, there will never be President Cashier, that day was their superior in speed and a great parade of all the reunion classes, J. C. GAUNTLETT, A. G. STONE, the championship hung on the single each headed by a band, from Barnes Hall Vice-President, Aβs't Cashier. struggle of that day and not on races that to the Armory; the surroundings are not were not rowed. If Syracuse won from stirring enough. But a baseball game A POINT WELL MADE a better crew, more glory to her. And might be something different. A baseball can always be depended the Varsity would have won, say some, game at Princeton (where all but a dozen upon in an emergency. if the Foote boys had been held for the members of a class can be gotten back for The point that we wish to big race and had the four been aban- a Triennial reunion) brings out every make right here is that... doned and others say t'would have won class, even the old men, all in fantastic ^DIXON'S AΠERICAN had Coffin been at stroke. But these garb, headed by bands and having an en- GRAPHITE PENCILS things were not and so the citizens say , are the VERY BEST pencils tertainment which does not send them made for all kinds of educa- T'was fairly won by an able foe they tional work. We have been away disappointed. There would be bands making them for 30 years and outrowed us. And beyond that, they are and the like if there were a game, and they are as near perfection as mum. And right they should be mum dascadilla bcKool possible. there would be bands if each class had its Ask for them at the Uni- for Nutting and his men rowed a gallant quarters in a house or tent on or near the The grounds of the school ad- versity Bookstore. race and went down fighting desperately Campus. For the men who have gradu- join the Campus of Cornell. The JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. and with face forward. ated in the ten years last preceding each atmosphere of University and the JERSEY CITY N. J. ''Cornell has a great past," says Mr. Alumni Day the change must be made spirit of high attainment in studies Ten Eyck of the Syracuse crews. Ay, if they are to be taught the reunion and athletic sport, pervade the THE AMERICAN AUDIT COMPANY. sir, a very great and honorable past a habit at the start. school life. To this environment F. W. IyAFRENTZ, C. P. A. past equalled by no other college in the s added the individual attention of President. land. And next year when we again a corps of skilled teachers. Ther. E. MANWARING, THKO. COCHEU, JR. gather by the river that flows by Vassar- With the close of the year—the first in Vice President. Sec'y and Treasurer. plan of instruction is flexible, and C100 Broadway. ville we will gather confident that those which this paper has been edited and provides for preparation for any NEW YORK -i 33rd St. & 5th Ave. traditions will be sustained and that Cor- ( (Waldorf Astoria). managed by Alumni exclusively—we ourse in the college. Complete CHICAGO—Marquette Building. nell will lead her foes to the finish in the have a few observations to make. And BOSTON—Exchange Building. modern equipment. Unique recre- ATLANTA—Prudential Building. same old way that has been her custom the first of these is that it is quite out of ation building finely equipped WASHINGTON, D. C.—Colorado Building. in that past. SAN FRANCISCO—Belden Building. the question that any editorial manage- ymnasium. LONDON E. C—4 King St., Cheapside. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 297

Orrie Cummings, never handsomer and CORNELL ALUMNI NOTES. dispensable to the running of the Uni- THE '94 DECENNIAL REUNION. Harry Place, quite as popular, a little versity. The fantastically arrayed gen- Sixty-two Members, Including1 most of more fatherly and Jack Towle, not a '94, M.S., Όo, Ph.B.-Marguerite Hemp- tlemen about Alec howled their approval the Luminaries, Attended—Some day older, though the father of I don't stead, Όo, of Meadville, Pa., and Ben-of his sentiments. Then Alec told him Reminiscences and Some Obser- know how many children. John L jamin F. Kingslmry, '94, were married what we thought of 1901 and "Davy" vations on the Dormitory vigorously nodded li is approval—of Question—E. E. Bogart Ahern - I must not omit him. He hadat the home of the bride's parents, Mr. Elected Secretary. been to see me from time to time, and and Mrs. E A. Hempstead in Meadville course it was the best class that ever judging from his appearance and what on Wednesday evening, June 22nd. The went through the University and of course The Ninety-four men began to arrive he could say for himself and what a bride was attended by her sisters, Miss it knew how to hold a reunion (our on the Saturday before Commencement, Justice of the Supreme Court said about Louise Hempstead, Όo, and Miss Helen friends in the Law School agreed to that and from east, west, north and south him on one occasion, I had about made Hempstead. Other Cornellians present as we came by with our band). Alec continued to arrive till about onehundred up my mind that if any criminal was were Miss Cornelia Trowbridge, '99, Miss concluded with a brilliant flight of ora- men and women—nearly half of those convicted in Erie County it would be Adelaide Young, '99, and Charles F. tory in which he asked Davy to bear to who graduated—were again in Ithaca. owing to the fact that John was too busy Flocken, '01. Dr. and Mrs. Kingsbury the faculty and to the trustees the cheer- There we found many familiar and some to handle his case. Imagine, then, my at home in Ithaca. ing word that 190 r was not a dead one but unfamiliar objects of interest. We found grief and surprise at the following story '00, M E. -William J. Mitchell, Όo, was very much alive and would come back the same street cars wending their way which John told to a group of his admir- and Miss Kathryn Furey were married in 1906 for a Five-Year reunion that would up the hill with the same polite consid- ing friends. A certain crook not many at the home of the bride's parents at make all its predecessors look seriously eration for the order of their going, but generations removed from the Emerald Lock Haven, Pa., on June 29th Mr. and indisposed. If we had a carriage we in addition we found a new route laid out Isle was arranged one day when John Mrs. Mitchell will live at Elmira where should have taken "Davy" along for with fearful and wonderful curves over was in court. As the man had no counsel Mr. Mitchell is assistant to the division there are few such on the Campus. the hill north oί the Campus, by which present at the time, John was assigned to superintendent of the New York and The pee-rade then moved down Cen- route we caught constantly shifting defend him. After bail was secured, Pennsylvania Telephone and Telegraph tral avenue to the Armory to much more scenes from the "panorama of lake and John handed him a card and advised him company. inspiring music and in much better mood hill and dell so dear to us all. We found to call at the office to discuss the case '01, LL B. —Miss Eloise M. Potter of than for two years we tramped down the the familiar beauties of the gorges, the whereupon the astute criminal returned Philadelphia and Neil W. Andrews, Or, same lane with the muskets that came favorite walk of Goldwin Smith, thethe card with the reply : "Ah, I don LL.B.,were married at Philadelphia on down from Valley Forge. It was after way to Forest Home, winding beneath want dat ting. I'm goin to git a lawyer June 29th. 4:30 when we reached the Armory. The the giant oaks. We found the well to defend me." '01, B.S.A.—Milton M. Underdown, Luncheon was just breaking up so the known buildings on the Campus, and Last to be mentioned, but by no means 'or, and Miss Josephine L Prince of 190Γ cheer was given for each of the others risen and to arise. We saw some last in importance, is our devoted secre- Keating Summit, Pa., were married ai reunion classes. Then to the town. of our old friends among the faculty tary, Professor Bogart. Bogart had been the Methodist Episcopal Church at Keat- P. Wall was our first host and he was yet some we sought in vain. No more in charge of arrangements five years ing Summit on June 23rd. relentlessly examined and cross exam- could we see the ever active, forceful before when we had our first reunion, 'or, LL B. — Miss Rose S. Andrews of ined. Of course 190; was the best class heads of Sibley and of the College of Civil and the wear and tear which he had then Chattanooga, Tenn., and Albert H. Bee-that had ever been at Cornell and of Engineering. No more could we listen undergone in dealing with the local hotel be, Or, were married at the Pilgrim course P. Wall & Son had robbed us while that ideal college professor, Moses problem had deprived him of most of his Church, Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, while we were in Ithaca and were now Coit Tyler, made his country's history a hair. We thought that he ought to have June 22nd. Mr. and Mrs. Beebe will be living lives of ease and luxury on our living personality, over which he cast a some sort of reward to compensate him, at home in Seattle after September 1st. fathers' dollars extracted from us. Messrs. mantle wrought of royal purple and of so we voted to have him act again this Taylor & Carpenter were next serenaded gold. Yet while we missed these loved and we did a march through the store, year. This he did, and he assures me Meeting of Board of Trustees. and respected leaders, we felt that their that he has spent the greater part of his every third man carrying away a box of spirits still dwelt among the dear old time for the last five years trying to in- The spring meeting of University trus- Huyler's with him. Then to " Louie's" scenes. struct the hotel management how to pre- tees was held on Wednesday morning where we entertained ourselves and hus- Some of us were admitted within the pare a suitable dinner and to serve it on of Commencement Week. tled Louie off to the Kitchen, the band sacred precincts of Sage. No more as*bf time. Thinking that the lesson had been Dr. J. A. Walz was called from the playing " He's a jolly good fellow." At old by "the classic James" to await in the learned, he ventured to send out an-Harvard faculty to a new professorship the Kitchen we had " Doc" Beaman and reception room the advent of one of the nouncements to the members of thein German. Dr. Walz is a graduate of a few more good fellows as guests until vestal virgins who abode there,—but now Class then when the hotel management Northwestern University and of Harvard, 5:30 when we adjourned until eight. The to ramble at will through Cornell's only served dinner over an hour late, poor old and also studied a number of years in Smoker was held at that hour with most dormitory and to observe the good times Bogart's face was the saddest ever seen. Germany. of the fellows present. Some fiftv or which the dormitory affords—to the His sorrow was so great that every man's C. C. Thomas was appointed assistant sixty men from other classes were there women. For when in the joyous Com- pangs of hunger were allayed by sympa- professor in marine engineering. After and we sang and " talked it over" until mencement season we saw the Campus thy with the more poignant grief. The taking three years of undergraduate midnight. Late in the evening President deserted by men and given over to the outcome was that we made Bogart per- work at Leland Stanford, Mr. Thomas Schurman called. fair inhabitants of the only dormitory, manent secretary—he being used to it— took the degree of M.E. at Cornell in And thus the 1901 Triennial ended. did we not feel that we had returned to and appointed two other good men to act There were not half the men on hand find Cornell a female seminary ? And did with him. Five years from now we are Professors J. McMahon and J. H. Tan- who were expected yet those who were we not feel the suggestion of a doubt going to have a good dinner, on time, if ner were promoted to full professorships there held a reunion from which they whether we wished our boys to attend a it is necessary to build a hotel ourselves. in mathematics, and Dr. B. H. Buxton derived more pleasure than—judging University which provides a home only The following 1894 Cornellians at- was appointed professor of experimental from what other men say and act—do for women? Yes, we know that the Uni- tended the reunion : pathology in the medical college in New most Alumni who return to reunions. versity has always needed every available J. L. AHERN, E. P. AIXEN, W. J. York. Not one of them was there who went dollar to meet the immediate require- ANDREWS, G. E. BARNES, F. A. BEi.iv, Trustees Kerr, Shepard, Sibley and away disappointed and feeling that his ments of its unprecedented development, H. W. BEU,, E. E. BOGART, T. B. BRY-Woodford, whose terms expire this year, reunion had been a dirge to them it was and yet, would not dormitories pay asSON, D. BUNTING, H. H. BURROUGHS, E. were re-elected. the greatest pleasure they had seen since well as many other forms of investment? S. CoivE, A. J. COLNON, A. COWPERTH- The State appropriation of $250,000 leaving college. They had a good time And would they not contribute quite as WAIT and wife, O. P. CUMMINGS and wife, for agricultural buildings at Cornell was with one another—for they were to- much to the real needs of the student as J. R. DAVY, W. R. DEI^EHANTY, J. W. accepted on the conditions prescribed. gether all day—and they had a good any chair, or any collection of books, or Dix, F. B. DOWNING, MISS E. I. FEE- The present scheme governing sab- time with a lot of good fellows, the men any recitation hall ? Thoughts like these HAN, F W. FIELD, H. L. FORDHAM, W. batic leaves of absence was made to who visited them at their tent. And the come to the mind after ten years, and are H. GAI^AHER, J S. GODDARD, R. B. apply to professors in Sibley College who sentiment of every 1901 man on leaving an essential part of the reunion. GOODMAN, M. B. GRISWOU), J. P. HAU,, desire to absent themselves at shorter Ithaca was that all would be back in Wednesday morning most of us went MISS N. E. HOAG, C. S. HORNER, C. intervals for the purpose of engaging in 1906, each bringing with him two or three to headquarters at Barnes Hall, where we HosTER, W. F. HUNT and wife, Miss J. practical work. of his fellows to make our Five-Year re- had a real good time. Some of us had M. JENNESS, S. I. KEHI.ER and wife, W. union the greatest the good folk on the met frequently since graduation others G. KRANZ, B. S. LANPHEAR, MISS M. T. (The 1901 Triennial.) hill and in the town have seen—like the saw each other for the first time in ten LEE, J. A. IvlGHTON, W. H. IylGHTY, I. Triennial only five or six times as large. Mrs. Schurman received the class, a busy years. The years had treated many B. MACOMBER, D. A. MASON, W. A. salute of three guns was fired in her THE FAITHFUL. very kindly. There was "Ad" Weber as MAY, W. MORRISON, Iy. A. MURRAY, F. honor, the class cheer was three times EDWARD R. ALEXANDER, calm and youthful as if he had no statis- P. PAI.EN, W. F. PALMER, R. A. PEAR- given and we were off to Davy's. CHARGES C. ATWOOD, tics to compile and no decisions of theSON, A. H. PLACE, C. A. RICH, H. G. Now time was when none of us thought WIUJAM H. BAKER, courts on labor questions to discuss. RICH, P. A. ROBBINS, C. C. ROSEWATER, Davy's sanctum the most pleasant place GEORGE C. BEACH, There was "Jimmy" Hall as young and C. S. SANDERSON, MRS. KATH. SIMPSON, to visit on the Campus but that wasn't JOHN H. BI,AIR, debonair as though he were not the dean S. S. SKATER, J. M. STODDARD, H. W. on the afternoon of the 22nd. Sergeant THOMAS A. CAINE, of a graduate law school—the Harvard STRONG, W. G. STRONG, GEO. S. TAR- Little and gunner Lyon fired the salute GEORGE D. CROFTS, of the West. Just as youthful too, BEUv, J. W. TOWLE, C. H. TREAT, A. F. of honor, Alec led the cheers for "Davy", ROBERT I. DODGE, looked Ray Pearson, now a full professor WEBER, J. WESTERVEI/T, C. A. WHEE- and the chant "Davy, come out, come WIU,ARD W. EWJS, at Cornell. Soon we were to see Sam I/3CK, L M. WII.SON, E. P. YOUNG. out, come out," brought forth the Czar CLARENCE H. FAY, Slater, smiling and happy, for politics HERBERT L. FORDHAM. had made him Assemblyman and Sena- of the University. Alec made the speech. JOHN S. GAY, tor, with higher honors hovering near. He told the Registrar that 1901 (the class, HOWARD E. GEER, Then there was Charlie Wheelock, who The Summer Session opened on July by the way, that dedicated its Class Book EDWARD T. GRAY, is absorbing all the land values in North 7th with an attendance of about 700, in- to him) thought him one of the "best fel- JOSEPH P. HARRIS, Dakota; and Dr. Barnes, just the same cluding 145 Porto Rican teachers who are lows" on the hill and one of the men who, CHARGES P. HIXI^ER, except a little more absent minded and taking a special course in pedagogy. as Morse Stephens used to say, was in- SHIRLEY C. HUI.SE, 298 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

, JR., Young. Brown was hit by a pitched Schutt Won Oxford Scholarship. gard law only from the academic point ball. McNeil's running catch of Rice's of view,—as the result of an evolution or LOUIS C. KARPINSKI, Warren Ellis Schutt, 1905, will be the foul retired the side. as something merely to be analyzed and CHARI,KS A. KKΪVSEY, first representative of New York State at WlIXIAM W. KlNSlvKY, JR., The Alumni took the lead in the fifth. defined but the particular strength of Oxford University as a holder of one of EDWARD J. KUNZE, After Brown had been retired, Chase got a his work lay in a constant appreciation the Rhodes scholarships. Mr. Schutt BASCOM LITTLE, base on balls, and scrambled to second of the fact that law is not a thing de- was selected at a meeting of the scholar- in a melee. Towle sacrificed him along to tached from life for the purposes of ped- HARRY O. IVOVEJOY, ship committee held on June 27th. The third. agogic treatment. He had ever in mind SIDNEY S. LOWENTHAI,, committee was composed of Nicholas LAYTON S. IVYON, C. Young sent the ball just inside the that the object of the College was not Murray Butler of Columbia; President LYNN S. MANLEY, third base line for two sacks, scoring only to teach the law but also to prepare J. G. Schurman of Cornell; and Chancel- JAMES H. MASSIE, Chase, and Taylor put one in the same man for the active and efficient practice lor J. R. Day of Syracuse University. place, scoring Young. McNeil struck of law as an art. To borrow a figure WILLIAM METCALF, JR., Mr. Schutt's competitors in the final out. from our oarsmen, he got his men out of FRANK D. NEWBURY, choice were George M. Falion, St. Fran- the crew room and upon the water as NORRIS OUPHANT, Sharp fielding retired the Varsity. The cis Xavier College; H. N. MacCracken, soon as the ice was broken and he kept JAMES O'MALLEY, sixth witnessed more excitement. John- New York University; A. J. Jalion, Col- them working in the boats till the time RALPH W. ROBBINS, son walked. Miller broke a bat, forcing umbia University; and R. C. Willard, for the long, hard race had come. It JOHN L. SENIOR, Johnson at second. E. Young got four Hobart College. CHARLES L. SHELDON, wide ones. Brown struck out and Chase is this feature of his work that is re- Mr Schutt prepared for college in the GEORGE L. SOUTHARD, singled to right, bringing Miller home. membered by our graduates with partic- Ithaca High School and entered the Uni- FREDERICK C. TAG, Chase was caught off first, and a melee ular gratitude. versity with the class of 1905. He held NELSON O. TIFFANY, followed, in which E. Young finally sur- a State scholarship and a University WILLIAM C. THRO, rendered, out of breath, between third scholarship and has maintained a high CLARENCE A. TRYON, and the plate. standing in his work since entering. He SIDNEY L. TUTTLE, Fast work by Johnson and McNeil has also made a remarkable record as a HENRY E. VANDERHOEF, prevented the Varsity from becoming long distance runner and has been one RALPH D. VAN VALKENBERG, dangerous in the sixth. In the seventh of Cornell's best point-winners at the In- ROGER B. WILLIAMS, and eighth the Alumni had men on tercollegiate meet for the past two years. FREDERICK WILLIS. bases, but Umstad was inscrutable. Mr. Schutt will leave for England late in In the eighth, Brewster was put out by the summer. The scholarship to which C. Young's sensational one-handed catch. he has been elected allows him $r,5oo a ALUMNI, 4 VARSITYL Costello was retired by Towle's brilliant year for three years. Captain McNeil's Men Won Clos! e Game running catch. Champaign walked. from University Nine—Pitching- of Welch singled between right and center, Young, '99, and Batting" of and Champaign was on third. Pres- Towle, '94, and Chase, '03, Sketch of Professor Cuthbert W. the Features. ton's pop fly killed the chance. Pound who has Resigned from The Alumni added one in the ninth. Faculty of College of Law. The Alumni baseball team downed the After Towle was out, C. Young reached Varsity Nine on Tuesday afternoon of first on Rice's error. Taylor was called Cuthbert W. Pound, professor in the Commencement Week, by a score of 4 to out, for being hit by a batted ball. Mc- College of Law since 1895, resigned from 2. The superb pitching of Charles V. P. Neil pounded one over second and Young the University faculty on June 15th and Young, '99, made it an easy task, for he ran all the way home. the University thereby lost one of the had Captain Brewster's men at his mercy The Varsity was dangerous now. ablest members of its instructing staff. throughout. Only in the ninth inning Brown hit past Taylor. Rice flied out to Professor Pound was born at Lockport, was the 1904 team dangerous, but the Towle and Lovejoy rolled a grounder. N. Y., on June 20th, 1864, and is a lawyer CUTHBERT W. POUND. batting rally then was promptly nipped Umstad hit to center, and Towles's fail- by profession. He was city attorney of "Besides his work as a member of the in the bud. ure to throw the ball home permitted Lockport for three years, i887~'9o, and faculty he has taken a man's part in the The weather was very warm, and it Brown to cross the plate. State Senator from the Twenty-ninth social and political life of this communi- was a hard ordeal for the men not in Brewster was safe on a wide throw by district in i894-'95 In '95, he became ty. His friends are many, both on the athletic training, but they stood bravely Johnson, but then Costello sent an easy a member of the faculty of the College hill and in the town, who will miss the to their task and displayed much of their one to Chase, and the game was over. of Law and has since given courses in charm of his sagacious and humorous old-time form. "The Youngs" proved The score : Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, talk, enriched with pertinent allusion again an invincible battery. Towle, '94, Partnership and Corporations. Governor and with apt quotation from the best of ALUMNI. R. H. P.O. A. K. played brilliantly in center. Roosevelt appointed him State Civil the English classics. When he meets Towle, '94, cf. 0 2 3 0 c Service Commissioner in June, 1900, to J. B. Chase gave a lively exhibition at C. Young, '99, p. 2 1 0 2 c his friends, then cant, sham and senti- succeed Willard A. Cobb, and in January shortstop. Harry Taylor was at times Taylor, '88-'93, 2b. 0 I 2 3 2 mentalism fly out of the window and sen- picturesque in his fielding, but at the bat McNeil, (capt.) '95, ib. 0 0 10 0 I of the following year his nominationtiment and good sense come in at the Johnson, '95, 3b. 0 0 1 I he shared the honors with Chase and 3 was sent to the Senate by Governor Odell door. Miller. '99, If. 1 0 0 0 0 and confirmed without a reference. Towle. It was a good game. K. D. Young, '94, c. 0 0 8 2 0 "We are all sorry indeed to have him The Varsity presented a changed line- Brown, '02, rf. 0 0 0 0 c Professor Pound has won a high place leave us but his interests demand a re- up which worked well. Costello was at Chase, Ό3, ss. I 2 1 2 2 in the community in which he has lived turn to his old home. His native city shortstop, Champaign in center and for the last nine years. He has made a and indeed the State itself can in the fu- Totals 4 6 27 10 6 Lovejoy in right field. Umstad pitched, host of friends in Ithaca and the most ture bestow upon him no professional and and held the Alumni stars well, consider- CORNELL- R. H. P.O. A. K. enthusiastic of them are the men who political honors that are not the just de- ing their past performances with the Brewster, If. 1 0 1 0 c have been most closely associated with serts of his ability and character. " willow. Costello, ss. 0 0 2 2 0 him, the faculty and students of the Col- Champaign, rf. 0 0 0 0 c lege of Law. The following, from the Towle, '94, hit the second ball pitched Welch, c. 0 I 6 0 c pen of Professor E. H. Woodruff, expres- and was on first before Brewster returned Preston, ib. 0 0 14 2 I Michigan Central it to the diamond. "Tar" Young's fly Brown, 3b. 1 I 2 5 c ses the sentiment of Professor Pound's The Niagara Fails Route, to Brown rendered possible a pretty Rice, 2b. 0 0 0 5 I pupils and of his associates in the Lovejo}'-, cf. 0 0 0 0 I The Short and Direct Line double play to first. Taylor went out, faculty : Umstad, p. 0 I 0 3 c to Detroit, Michigan Points, Brown to Preston. "To his colleagues in the Law Faculty Chicago and the West. Taylor's error made Brewster safe. Totals 25* 17 3 Professor Pound's change from profes- Costello advanced him and he stole third. *Brown hit by third strike. Taylor struck by sorial work to professional activity is The Students' Favorite After Champaign flied out to Towle, Tay- batted ball. more than the ordinary mutation to Route. which academic life is subject it is al- lor's bad throw gave Welch a base and Alumni, o 1—4 For rates and information in- let Brewster score. Preston fanned out Cornell-. 1 o o o o o o o r—2most like the breaking of a family tie. quire of local agents or write Whatever good results may have been at- after Welch stole second. Karned runs—Alumni, 1. Left on bases— W. H. UNDERWOOD, With two outs in the second inning, Alumni, 9; Cornell, 8. Two-base hit—C. Young. tained in recent years by the College of Stolen bases—Miller, Chase, Brewster, Welch, Law have been due in large part to the Gen'l Eastern Passenger Agent, "Bill" Miller, '99, drew four balls and E. 486 Ellicott Square, Buffalo. Rice, Umstad, Preston. Struck out—By Young, spirit of harmony in its faculty, to its Young beat out an infield hit. The um- 8; by Umstad, 4. Base on balls—Off Young. 2; pire called D. K. Brown, '02, out on a off Umstad, 7. Hit by pitcher—Brown. Time of unity of effort and genuine warmth of bunted third strike. game—Two hours. Umpire—B. F. McCormick. fellowship in daily work. All this im- Chicago & Alton Ry. plies a relation that is something more Brown was safe on Chase's error. Rice Captain Chosen. "THE ONLY WAY'' forced Brown and stole second, but was than that of mere co-workers, and will thrown out at third. Lovejoy struck out. A meeting of the Varsity team wascause the regret at his departure to linger to and from the The Alumni had hard luck in the third. held at the close of the game, and L/eon with us long after he is engrossed in the Chase singled to left. Towle was called Cowles Welch of Greene, N. Y., wasvery different responsibilities of the ac- St. Louis Exposition out on a close decision. "Tar" Young unanimously chosen captain. tive practice of law. CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY. "As a teacher of law Professor Pound, sent Chase along to third. Umstad No junior having played on the nine Tickets on sale at all Offices. threw Taylor four wide one. McNeil this season, the office fell to a sophomore. although a young man, brought to the ΛVrite for Exposition map met the ball with his knuckles, and Welch was Varsity catcher in his fresh- lecture room a wide experience of men time-folder. Chase was out at the plate. man year, but greatly improved this sea- and affairs, and this is a possession of pe- FRANK BOWMAN, culiar value in teaching a subject which, The teams went out one-two-three until son, so that he is now one of the best District Passenger Agent, the last half of the fourth, when, after backstops Cornell has had. He has also perhaps more than any other, deals with Champaign had struck out, Welch drew improved greatly at the bat and is one of men and affairs in a very direct and prac- 711 Hale Bldg., 1326 Chestnut St., a base on balls. Preston could not find the surest hitters on the team. tical way. In his classes he did not re- Philadelphia, Pa. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 299

EIGHTY-NINE MEN AT THE BANQUET HELD AT THEIR FIFTEEN-YEAR REUNION.

Photo by Robinson.

JOHN W. ANDERSON, Detroit, Mich. served, President Schurman introduced all to come and see us. Furthermore, THE EIGHTHINE REUNION. WIIΛIAM K. ARCHBOLD, Syracuse, as toastmaster Mr. Frank H. Hiscock, there are seven or eight banquets this Thirty-two Members of the Class At- N. Y. saying : evening of the different classes, and I tended—Banqueted on Evening- of FRANK B. V. BARDOI,, Buffalo, N. Y. "I have great pleasure in welcoming have already accepted an invitation to Alumni Day-Will Publish Fif- HERBERT B. BARIGHT, Mount Her- you all again to our midst. We have today dine at one or more and hope to be pres- teen-Year Book in Fall. mon, Mass. a far larger number of old students and ent at all of them. Under these circum- JOHN H. BARR, Syracuse, N. Y. Alumni than ever before, and Mr. Robert stances you will not expect from me any June 22nd, 1904, has come and gone, LEONARD T. BEECHER, New York City. Treman, who is in charge of this lunch- protracted remarks at the present time. and the '89 Fifteen-Year Reunion is a H. BURR BESEMER, Ithaca, N. Y. eon, always can feel in advance that it "We meet under very happy auspices as thing of the past. A success ? Of course. HUGH T. BURTT, Lockport, N. Y. will be a success. As announced, wecompared with last year. What a year of We always were a success. WrcuAM W. CHURCHIU,,* New York have about twenty-five per cent more prosperity we have had, a year of un- Some came early, Saturday of the week City. Alumni than ever before. I have the sim- broken satisfaction ! At the beginning before, others could only spare a day, but Miss FANDIRA CROCKER, Mt. Clemens, ple duty of presenting as toastmaster we felt elated that the disaster of a year everybody had a good time. John Wil- Mich. one whom we all admire and love, Judge ago appeared to have left no lasting effect kinson, in a great hurry to arrive, was LEONARD C. CROUCH, Syracuse, N. Y. Hiscock of Syracuse." on the progress or patronage of the Uni- obliged to pay a fine in a wayside village ARTHUR M. CURTIS, Corning, N. Y. When the applause which greeted versity. And so far as we can judge by for the privilege of coming through it so FRANK L. DODGSON, Rochester, N. Y. Judge Hiscock had subsided he said : the events of the year, that first belief fast in his automobile. Gorsline, Dodg- ARTHUR L. DOWNS, Mattituck, N. Y. Mr. President and Fellow Cornellians : seems to have been sound. Our attend- son and Stern also came " 'cross country" FRANK S. FIELDER, New York City. —I am sure you will allow me to act as ance is ever growing we have run from but had no mishaps—at least, they did RALPH H. GORSLINE, Rochester, N. Y. your mouth-piece in expressing the grat- 2,000 to over 3,000 in the last five years. not acknowledge any. GRANT S. HOPKINS, Ithaca, N. Y. ification which we all feel at this gather- "This year, we have the privilege of During the day the regulation program HENRY JESSELL, Ithaca, N. Y. ing. It has always been one of the glo-welcoming a number of new men to our was followed, which included looking CLARENCE S. MALLERY, Owego, N. Y. ries of Cornell that we did not always faculty. We have of course a larger fac- over the Campus to view the necessary VOJTA F. MASHEK, Chicago, 111. follow the lead, but upon the other hand ulty than we have ever had. I desire to changes, attendance at the Alumni gath- HENRY N. OGDEN, Ithaca, N. Y. have often led the older universities. mention the admirable spirit of harmony ering and at the Alumni Luncheon, where ROBERT S. PARSONS, Binghamton, But in one respect we have had occasion, and devotion of our faculty. I say what we had a table rilled by ourselves, and lis- N. Y. many times, to envy them and that was I have so often said before in this hall— tened to the speeches. Afterwards we Miss JENNIE PYLE, London Grove, Pa. in the great percentage of old students the faculty is the University. went to the business meeting and then CLAUDE R. SCOTT, Wellsville, N. Y. and graduates who come back to furnish "Mr. Chairman, I will not detain this called on Dr. and Mrs. Schurman. DEBLTON V. SEEBER, Limerick, N. Y. inspiration to their Commencement exer- audience. It is for the Alumni to give Scott, Anderson, L T. Beecher and CHARLES B. SHINAMAN, Syracuse, cises. In this respect we have this year inspiration and I hope that next year F. M. Whyte were in town the greater | N. Y. taken a long stride. As President still larger numbers will come, for after part of the week, but for various reasons ADELTUS B. SMITH, Manchester Cen- Schurman has said, we have a larger all, Cornell is what its own students and could not remain until the end. Snyder, tre, N. Y. gathering than ever before. 433 have alumni make it, and we feel it a matter who could not attend Commencement at HoxiE W. SMITH, Elgin, 111. gathered here today as against 325, the of the most vital importance that you all, made up for it by spending a few LEON STERN, Rochester, N. Y. largest number upon any other occasion. should all keep in touch with your Alma days here the week before. The re- CHARLES B. TREMAN, Ithaca, N. Y. "The first duty I shall have will be to Mater." mainder of the faithful, thirty-two in FREDERICK E. TURNEAURE, Madison, furnish perhaps the opening inspiration No list of speakers had been announced number, gathered at the Clinton House Wis. of the exercises, by calling upon our but at the conclusion of President Schur- Wednesday evening for dinner and a FRANK E. WADE, Buffalo, N. Y. President to tell us a little of what has man's remarks, every eye instinctively good time. President Schurman and ex- FRANK N. WATERMAN, New York happened during the last University year, wandered toward former President An- President White were welcome callers City. happenings in which he personally has drew D. White. Mr. White was the next during the evening. Miss Crocker and FREDERIC M. WHYTE, New York City. taken so large a part. " speaker and Judge Hiscock, in introduc- Miss Pyle were the only ladies of the JOHN WILKINSON, Syracuse, N. Y. President Schurman spoke briefly as iug him, said : class present to respond to the roll call. follows : "We have all noted with interest, I am During the evening—and until well "You will observe the Judge with his sure, the statement that the faculty is into the morning—facts about every indi- THE ALUMNI LUNCHEON. usual practice of careful statement said really the University. That must be so. vidual of the Class, present or absent, that I would furnish the inspiration per- There are perhaps three bodies which were brought out. But few failures were In Attendance Broke best Record by haps. I am very glad that he put it in contribute to the University : The bene- recorded, while many successes in pro- Twenty-five per cent—Frank H. that form because it gives me an oppor- factors, the donors who supply the fessional life, as inventors, or in business, Hiscock was Toastmaster and tunity to leave it to others to supply the money with which to build up the Uni- came to light. We always were a modest Speakers Included Former President White, and inspiration. versity there is the Board of Trustees Class, at least, we never believed in blow- M. L. Buchwater. "I am not going to give you a history of which is concerned in its business man- ing our own trumpet when we could in- the work of the year because I have agement but these bodies simply make duce some one else to do it for us, so this Never in the history of the University had placed at the door, within the hall, way for and lead up to that other and same modesty forbids dwelling further did so many Alumni return for the class so that I might not take the time of the third body, and that is the faculty and on our achievements. It is safe to say, reunions and never before did so great representatives of the classes, my report we all subscribe to the further doctrine however, that every member of '89 pres- a throng attend an Alumni Luncheon as presented today to the Board of Trus- that that body ought to be left largely to ent this year, will return in 1909, if alive, as were present at that held in the tees, in which the operations of the Uni-its own self-government, unlimited and and will then join in inducing others to Armory on Wednesday, the 22nd. 433 versity for the year are described. I will undisturbed by outside interference, out- come. graduates were gathered there, ranging present you all with copies with my side influence or outside attempt to con- all the way from the class of '69 to the A fifteen-year book will be issued in compliments. trol its actions. class of 1903. The Armory was gorgeously the early autumn for the members of the ' 'There is another reason why I need not decorated, as at the Senior Ball on the "The two great men who more than all class with a full detailed account of the I speak at any length on this occasion. preceding night, and the whole scene others have been identified with the reunion and all the history known of the We have a reception at our house for the was as inspiring as any Cornell man founding and building up of this great different members of the class. I old students and I remember that Mrs. could hope to see. University realized that fact. They were The following Eighty-nine men were j Sehurman exteuted an invitation to you jboth of them grim, determined, aggres- present : | After an excellent collation had been [Continued on page 302.J 300 CORNELL. ALUMNI NEWS

THE CLASS OF 1904 OF SIBLEY COLLEGE.

Photo by J. P. Troy.

year. The speech was most appropriate, uous strife with men and women who are passed. The rivers, lakes, mines, forests, THE CLASS DAY EXERCISES. and was extremely well received by the our equals and superiors we are thrown fields, within our boundaries supply the τ Seldom has a Better Programme been audience. It follow s in full :— with individuals who seem to be moved essential wants of each of us stimulat- Presented—C. B. Dowd's Class Ora- The class of 1904 is about to take its with an insensate greed for riches and ing the genius and the worker to new en- tion a Brilliant Effort—Class place in that magnificient body of Cor- power, and with Bishop Spalding, we are Memorial, $1,000 and a deavor, adding materially in national Pledg e to Raise nell graduates which has preceded it. at times driven to the belief "that the progress and prosperity. Our country $9,000 more. For four years we have striven togeth- power of persevering labor for high and has become the admired of the world, er, for four years each has made some ef- unselfish ends, the spirit of sacrifice and flourishing under the most perfect con- It seemed to be the general verdict of fort to achieve honor for Cornell. devotion, faith and hope, the love ofstitutional systems, furnishing a haven the large audience that assembled in the On the gridiron, the track, the field liberty and independence are diminish- of rest for the oppressed of all countries. Armory and in the Quadrangle grove on and the water, the class of 1904 ha." fur- ing." Here those sturdy builders of the nation, Tuesday morning, June 21st, that seldom nished its full quota of athletes men With a full realization of the duties with unstinted efforts, and indubitable has a class day programme gone off sowhose brawn and brain have inspired in consonant with good citizenship, comes courage, by herculean labors, with noble smoothly and enjoyably as did that of us a splendid class and college spirit. a keen desire to cope with this growing and lofty motives, established this, our 1904. There was little in the exercises that And perhaps, more than any of its pre- evil, and one's best feelings are forced to country. Here they lived and died lives was original or different from those of decessors, our class has been blessed with rebel against such an omnipresent cor- of privation and virtue, free from the previous years, as the nature of the cere- a true feeling of friendship, smothering ruption. The source lies in a depreciated stain of political immorality and infamy, monies and even the order of speeches is personal ambitions for the good of that moral sensitiveness. Today the common in order that we might take up their la- firmly established by precedent, but the great whole, the University, with one and people are supreme. They are filling thebors and if possible, work out a glorious speakers were unusually skilful in ad- only one aim in view, and that the ad- universities and public offices by their in- future for the republic. Each of us must justing their addresses to the occasion vancement of her best interests. dustry and votes. They are paying the assume that responsibility, and so live as and to the audience. None of the speeches But we have now passed through all taxes and can determine the policy of to promote the welfare of his country was inordinately long, for one thing, as this competition and strife, and still we the nation and its leaders. Instead of and its citizens each should make his has been the case in some years. The are entering into a much sterner and doing so they serenely enjoy the gifts selfish desires subservient to the great orators all seemed to have something to more exacting contest. Into this con- bestowed, blinded by flattery, with a good of all each must place his honor say they said it in a concise and happy flict our training for the past few years I craving for money, with an utter disre- above wealth and power, and his country manner and when they had finished should send us, girded about with cour- j gard for honesty, they leave their coun- second only to his God. saying it, they sat down. No grander age and fortitude. The broad and lib- try the prey of unscrupulous office The path of duty is a straight and nar- words of praise could be accorded any eral training, the continual friendly com- seekers. row one with no turns, and no loitering entertainment. petition, cannot but make stronger, abler This is indeed the reign of the com- places. As representatives of the broad- The Seniors assembled as usual in front men and women. More than all this, mon people, and when the commonalty est and most liberal educational institu- of the Library to march to the Armory. more than the mere learning, the victo- is morally corrupt, what can we hope tion in the world, our duties are dupli- Incidentally, the march was a rehearsal ries and triumphs, stands that noble from those whom that commonalty has cate. What we owe to the University, for the more imposing academic proces- friendship and good fellowship, which placed in power. Give us a pureminded, we owe to the State. The one cannot be sion of Commencement Day. The line four years spent at Cornell cannot but upright, incorruptible commonalty and subjected to shame and dishonor at our was one of the longest ever seen on such engender even in the narrowest mind. we will have honest men in public life. hands unless the other is a part of that occasions at Cornell, and when the Here we have been friends, purely This is our duty, here is the place same degradation. As we cherish every black-robed figures reached the Armory friends, and friendship has grown with where we can utilize that unselfish spirit, memory that has taken root in our short and marched proudly in before their ad- association, based on unselfish motives, which has impelled us for the past few sojourn on these educational summits, so miring friends, the effect was impressive without mercenary designs. It is this years, put away ignoble ambitions for also we must cherish and preserve the in the extreme. friendship which we shall miss more the good of the whole. Base your patri- honor and dignity of the institution and The Armory had already been decorated than anything that we may have ac- otism on great principles and support it nation that number us among their mem- for the Senior Ball, to occur on the fol- quired while at Cornell. by great virtues. bers. Natural instinct, fortified by a love lowing evening, and the green palm It is this spirit which should animate Ambition and corruption have gradu- of honor, a brotherly friendship, a true leaves and colored bunting formed a us, in the carrying out of our future du- ally sapped the vitality of great nations respect for the rights of others, will ever pleasing background for the sombre ties, wherever they may take us Para- in the past, and they have fallen in in- spur us on in our endeavor to become gowns of the graduates. mount among these future duties is that famy and ruin, stripped of all power and true Cornellians. Divers are the ways we President Harold E. Santee of Hor- of citizenship. What is our duty as citi- prestige, with but the sad remembrance travel, divers are our interests, save two, nellsville presided at the exercises. The zens, how can we lend an assisting hand of their pristine valor and glory. In a our Alma Mater and the State. Wherever programme was opened with an invoca- in the conservation of the nation's best republic such as ours, each citizen owes "We go, whatever rounds to see, tion, delivered by Professor Charles interests ? Simply by becoming honora- reciprocal duties, and especially at this Our hearts untrammelled, will fondly turn Mellen Tyler. ble citizens, men who can be trusted in period in our history, each one has im- to thee" Following the prayer came the class any position at any time, men who will posed upon him, a trust to which he can- our Alma Mater, our Country—each a dav oration, delivered by Charles Bernard bridle their lower natures, stifle unworthy not prove recreant with impunity. We leader, and the advancement of both, our Dowd, of Cortland, who in his Sopho- ambitions, and work with this friendly, cannot afford to say to posterity "We daily interest. more year won the '86 Memorial prize in brotherly spirit, with the highest good of were incompetent and unworthy." This The class poem, written by Miss Sarah declamation and spoke on the Intercol- the nation always at heart. We are en- nation has been granted unlimited and M. Gaither of Flushing, was read by legiate debate stage in the following tering upon a field of steady and contin- invaluable gifts its resources are unsur- Miss Lilla G. Simmons, of Worcester, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 301

THE FACULTY AND CLASS OF 1904 OF THE CORNELL COLLEGE OF LAW.

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Mass., as Miss Gaither was prevented by than its practical application to instances Richardson, of Lowville, accepted on annual concert of the Musical Clubs. It the serious illness of her mother from met in our every day university life. behalf of the Juniors. was an appreciative audience, ready to being present at the exercises. The The second may well be brought forward At the conclusion of the exercises the listen attentively to the classical selec- poem was a witty commentary on the as we are about to become graduates of this annual Senior picture was taken on the tions, or to laugh merrily at the clever various achievements of the class, and institution and it seems especially apropos terrace in front of Lincoln Hall. hits on students and faculty. was effectively read. Miss Mary M. when we consider that the success of our From a musical point of view, the pro- Crawford, of Nyack, then read the class class memorial may depend upon the gramme was one of the most ambitious essay, reviewing the struggles and tri- close application of what it teaches— Δ Resume of the Festivities of yet attempted by the clubs, and the suc- umphs of the four years gone by. namely, man's love for an object, whether Senior Week. I cessful rendering of the difficult pieces Charles Earl Kelley, of Dayton, Ohio, it be his profession, his business or his Few Commencement Weeks since the j reflected great credit on the musicians was memorial orator, and made formal Alma Mater is measured only by what founding of the University have been and their instructors. ''The Sword of announcement of the plan for the 1904 he is willing to do and sacrifice for more successful from every point of view Farara," in which the Glee Club was memorial. He said that the class tax it. Then with this spirit let us strive for than that of 1904. Beginning with the accompanied by a full Orchestra, was so had been successful in liquidating the the ideals which are ours and as we labor Baccalaureate sermon, delivered in the beautifully rendered that the audience class debt, and that more than the neces- for that success which we all hope to at- Chapel on Sunday, June 19th, by thewas not satisfied until it had been repeat- sary $1,000 remained in the hands of the tain, let us keep ever in mind the familiar Rev. David H. Greer, Bishop coadjutor ed. The cello solo by L. R. Wosila, '05, treasurer, to be turned over to Life Secre- words of Phillips Brooks that "on what of New York City, embracing the Class was another number of genuine merit. tary Cecil J. Swan, of Elmira, as the first field, or in what uniform, or with what Day and Commencement exercises in the The popular hit of the evening was the installment of the $10,000 memorial left aims we do our duty matters very little, Armory, the Concert of the Musical Clubs song " You will have to read the answer ultimately by the class of 1904. This gift or even what our duty is, great or small, and the Masque performance at the Lyce- in the stars," sung by Edward Holmes, when completed will be the largest given splendid or obscure. But to find our duty um, and the reunions and other gather- '05. The verses were written especially by any class that has ever left the Uni- certainly, and somewhere, somehow, to ings of Alumni, the week was thoroughly for the occasion and were timely and versity. do it faithfully makes us good, strong, enjoyable to all who participated. The I clever. The Armory exercises were concluded happy and useful men, and tunes our weather was ideally bright and pleasant, I The Glee and Mandolin Clubs had prac- by the address of President Santee, which lives into some feeble echo of the life of yet cool, and the impression of Ithaca tically their full strength available for was in part as follows : God. and Cornell, gained by those who came the Concert, and both had several new "We are about to leave these halls and And now, my friends, I bid you fare- here for the first time, could not but be selections on the regular programme and grounds which association has made sc well. We need not become lost to each most pleasant. among the encores. At the conclusion dear. The world stands before us just as other by merely becoming graduates of The Senior week performance of theof the entertainment the audience dis- cold as it ever was but are we not better this University. Our sheepskin is not aMasque was presented at the Lyceum on 1 persed in a happy frame of mind, most able to meet it than when four or five barrier to future classreunions but should Monday evening, and proved thoroughly j of them repairing to the Chi Psi and years ago we heard these same words ut- j rather remind us that here each year we enjoyable. The play was the four-act ί Alpha Tau Omega fraternity lodges, tered at our high school commencement ?I may find many of the old familiar faces. comedy, "Christopher, Jr.," dealing with j where pleasant dances were held. On We came here for a higher education Life is going to be more practical, many I the experiences of the somewhat shift-I the following day similar functions were perhaps a professional course we depart phases of it will be discouraging but let less son of a wealthy London merchant. held by the Chi Phi and Theta Delta Chi feeling that the benefits derived have not us gain inspiration from our association W. Paul Allen interpreted the title role fraternities, and on Friday afternoon the all been gleaned from a close application here, and as we return may our records effectively, while H. P. Henry, '05, was round of Senior Week gaieties came to a to books. How much more liberal has all show that Alma Mater is as dear to the firm and irate parent, Christopher, close with the annual boatride given by our education become from that close us and is honored as much by us as alum- Sr., and L G. Van Nostrand, '06, repre- Kappa Alpha. personal contact with men as distant ni as it ever was in our undergraduate sented the spirited and excitable Mrs. from us in ideas as they once were in days." Colt. G. R. Wilkins, '05, as Dora Hed- The Senior Ball—Its Decorations miles. The procession then formed again and way, took the leading female part with among the Finest that have Men have here become friends whose the Seniors, keeping step to some of the grace and success. Between the second Adorned the Armory. first feelings were most antagonistic. songs they had practised at the Senior and third acts, Robert L Dempster, '04, The effort to secure novelty and origi- Corners have been rubbed off, some by singing, marched to Stimsoπ Hall, where came before the curtain in the guise of a nality in the big dances held at the Ar- pretty hard rubbing reserve has de- the Ivy was planted, accompanied by fit'chorus gkΊ, and gave one of his popular mory year after year was really successful veloped into good fellowship, bashful- ting remarks by Robert L Dempster- song and dance specialties. this season, and the Senior Ball, which ness into confidence, and today each man Ivy Orator. Tuesday evening, at 7:00 o'clock, the marked the climax of the Commence- stands before his fellow with a greate^ Once more the line formed and the Seniors held the last of their series of ment Week festivities, was a distinct appreciation of human nature. Truly class proceeded to the grove in the Quad- singing sessions on the steps of Board- achievement. environment and association are the rangle, where the exercises were comple- man Hall. A big audience of students The feature that made this year's func- strongest factors in the formation of ted. Edwin M. Slocombe, of New Ha- and Commencement guests gathered on tion stand out apart from its long series character but in an institution as great ven, Conn., read the class history, giving the lawn nearby and listened with de- of predecessors was the unique decorative as our own, the diverse nature of such an interesting resume of the noteworthy light to the programme. The series of scheme. The ceiling was no longer a factors makes for the most liberal educa- events in the career of Naughty-four. meetings had developed a large reper- low-hanging, closely woven mass of bunt- tion. William A. Murphy, of Chicago, the j toire, and all the favorites were rendered ing, which gave a cramped, oppressive It is here that I would pause to voice winner of this year's Woodford prize, j at this final performance. effect to the big hall, but an airy canopy two lessons which we have learned from then read the class prophecy, an unusual-I The latter part of the evening was of thousands of palm leaves, woven to- this education. The first is one oftly clever "bunch'' of predictions about the devoted to the Senior Ball at the Armory, gether in broad cone shapes, and blended brought before us in our college course— various notables of the class. The described in detail below. beautifully in hue with the colored that although man is a victim of circum- programme was concluded by the presen- Wednesday evening the Lyceum was streamers on the side walls. This inno- stances he largely molds these circum- tation of the historic class pipe, through packed to the doors by Senior Week girls, vation in decorative work was inspired stances by his own acts. This is a truth Howard W. Douglass, of McKeesport, chaperons, and fond parents and relatives, by a desire to avoid the risk arising from which needs no demonstration further Pa., to the class of 1905. Harold J. | assembled in the playhouse to hear the a great mass of light bunting in close 302 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

proximity to hundreds of electric wires men and women everywhere who hold regard to Cornell University that the denomination or in any college which is and glowing lamps. The result not only high ideals, who are interested in higher things which made me uneasy and un- controlled by any single religious de- proved satisfactory as a precaution against education and who above all, believe in happy once produce not a ripple in my nomination. fire, but a decided success from an striving for good manhood and woman- mind. I am not a pessimist but an opti- Gentlemen, I can speak from experi- aesthetic standpoint. Heavy arches of hood and good citizenship. In your mist and I am most so in regard to the ence this morning. I was a professor of pure white reached across and above the behalf, I may express to him now how future of Cornell. the University of Michigan. I saw that room and lent added spaciousness to the glad we are, and how much it adds to There has been one occurrence that university driven, in the name of relig- hall. the pleasure of this occasion, that he has strengthened and increased that feel- ion, by petty colleges in various parts of Japanese lanters, fitted with incandes- once more is able to come back and be ing as nothing ever has. I have referred the State. I saw its president treated cent light bulbs, were suspended from with us." to the fight we had to obtain our charter with ignominy. His answer was that he the ceiling, and the current was made to A tremendous burst of cheers and ap- at the beginning of the University. It would never appeal to the legislature vary in intensity to the harmony of the plause greeted the first president of the was very bitter, it was very long, it was again. "But wait until my boys get into music. The gradation from the brilliant University and it was some minutes be- disheartening. The attempt to found a the legislature and then justice will be illumination for a quick two-step to the fore he could speak. When finally the university here which should not be un- done the State University." So it was softened light accompanying a slow, ovation ended, Mr. White began : der the control of any sect or denomina- at Cornell, at Wisconsin, Michigan and dreamy waltz, was quite bewitching. tion which should give the people of Minnesota and so many other colleges. Mr. Chairman, President, Ladies and This feature of the decorative scheme the State scientific and classical educa- Therefore it is that I once more reiterate Gentlemen:—As I came into the room, was introduced a year or more ago, and tion which should provide for the tech- and emphasize the doctrine to those who and as my thoughts were taking the has evidently come to stay. nical side as well as the classical, pursued are going west and south, where this evil channel which I supposed they were to in the denominational colleges met with of trying to pull down the higher educa- As befitted the " final fling" of a class follow on this occasion, I was presented bitter opposition. tion of the State to the lower level of the that has done things during its -under- to an old friend, who sits on my left—a denominational colleges. graduate career, the ball was complete in member of the first class which was grad- It was therefore with sorrow, with a all its appointments. The music was in- uated in the "days of small beginnings," real distress of mind, that this last winter At this moment there is one of the spiring, as it always is when it peals out as my friend has said, the class of '69. it seemed to me for a time that the State most interesting phenomena in the world from the horns and drums of "Patsy" They were mostly from Ohio and I re- was back in that respect where it was to be observed in our southern states. Conway's "Famous Ithaca Band," or member that two of them interested me thirty-six years ago. I was for a time There is a great chasrn broadening be- ripples gently forth from the reeds and especially they all interested me, but disheartened. I wrote in a letter to the tween the north and south. In its sys- strings of George Coleman's I/yceum these two especially, Foraker and President—perhaps as disheartening a tem of education, its universities, its sys- Orchestra. Buchwalter. letter as I ever wrote—Ί have given up tem of public schools and libraries, the hope that the people of New York will south is far behind the north. My feel- Among the gowns, white was the pre- Buchwalter, again discussing with me ever understand what Cornell means. ing here is in favor of everything which vailing hue, while here and there was a about those early days, completely We have got to begin again. Appeal to shall enable the institutions of the south pretty shade of pink, a somber black or a changed the channel of my thoughts and individuals we are lost as far as the to compare with the institutions of the delicate blue, lending to the scene the I could think of nothing else but those legislature is concerned'. north. Now, I wish to say to any and charm of contrast and of moving color. old days. Among other things he re- all of you who happen to go south, to The programme of dances comprised ferred to the dedication of the chimes on While I was in that state of mind on the any southern men who may be here pres- thirty-two regulars, eight extras, seven the afternoon of the day on which I was subject, my friend Professor Bailey, Sen- ent, that I have noted the opposition blind extras, three "Seniors choice," two inaugurated, and alluded to the fact that ator Stewart and the others, were fight- which has been overcome in this State "Mzupzis," two triple extras, and one he was present and heard the address of ing a magnificent battle which they car- and in the Northwestern States and I ap- leap year extra, making a grand total of George W. Curtis. That set me in a to- ried to victory. And then it was that I peal to any of the southerners who may fifty-five numbers. tally different train of thought from any found that the people of the State of New be present and who shall cast in their Even after dawn peeped in at the great which up to that time I had indulged in, Tork have in forty years learned some- lot with our southern sisters, to support windows of the Armory the merrymak- for it brought back to me most vividly thing of the mission of Cornell. They τ not merely popular education, but the ers danced gaily on. The staid Seniors, that day of small beginnings, that da) of did a great deal more than I expected upbuilding of worthy State universities, looking ahead scarce twenty-four hours rough beginnings, when having been they would. When Mr. Cornell, Mr. building and equipping them as they to the moment when they were to receive taken out of a sick bed in the morning Lord and others besides myself fought ought to be for the work which has to be their sheep skins and be no longer under- and carried to the Cornell hall to make a the battle of thirty-nine years ago, we done, scientific, technical, classical, and graduates of this great institution, tried speech, I was finally brought up and were beset by all the other colleges in all the rest, and no longer to allow them to banish the thought by plunging even seated where I could hear these t™o ad- the State except Columbia. There came to be kept down to the standard of where more desperately into the gaieties of the dresses. I remember that Mr. Curtis, down there the best of men, powerful they are today. hour. Some of them, gazing at the dam- one of the noblest and best of men, one men. They made very strong arguments sel by their sides, realized only too well of the most perfect orators who have against us. I thought, in the thick of Gentlemen—pardon me for detaining the harvest of tradesmen's bills that spoken here indulged in a metaphor. the fight last winter, that the people of you so long, and interposing in what would spring from this festal sowing, and The inauguration exercises had taken the State of New York in all these inter- ought to be a more peaceful occasion, a they, too, sought to drown such haunt- place in the morning. There had been vening years had learned nothing. I dis- line of serious thought. It was prompted ing cares in fresh revelry. It was not until gathered an assemblage who had been covered that they had learned a good deal by what has occurred during the last four o'clock in the morning that the fare- drawn to us by the bitter struggle for our and that they had an opinion of their winter. I thank you for the kind wel- well function of Naughty - four was charter. "You see," said Mr. Curtis, own that fhey had made up their minds come which you have extended to me.'» brought to a reluctant close. Then the "that the ship is now launched, and as that the work of Cornell University had The ovation tendered Mr. White at the guests, with expressions of gratitude and she glides over the waves, on her deck is been good and that they were determined conclusion of his address was scarcely felicitation to Chairman George Pease of her chosen captain," and he pointed to to stand by it, and in my opinion this less hearty than that which followed his the Ball Committee, dispersed to their me. last winter marks an epoch, perhaps the introduction. When the demonstration homes and the Senior Ball was over. greatest epoch in the history of the Uni- was over Judge Hiscock called upon Gentlemen, it is a literal, physical fact versity. that this statement struck me with such Judge Buchwalter of Cincinnati, one of (The Alumni Luncheon.) force that it made me feel as I had felt All I wish to say is that you have had the eight members of the class of '69. an exhibition then of something which sive self-made business men and both of at sea and I absolutely became sea-sick. Judge Buchwalter said : I preached upon here in the early days them had a determination that there There came upon me the thought of all Ladies and Gentlemen :—If I thought of the University that I have talked should be built up here a great and suc- the responsibilities involved. At my I were as old as some of my friends have upon for nearly forty years to the stu- cessful University. And yet they both side was Mr. Cornell, who had worn him- sought to impress, or if I looked as old dents and graduates of this University recognized when it came to the details of self out in the initial effort to start the as some of those old boys in '74, I should and especially those going west. It is, education and the outlines of study in University and I thought of what seemed be anxious about my health. I regret that the only hope, the main hope, for the University that those should be left the very insufficient means, of the unfin- that I have not been back here more fre- advanced education in the newer states to the men who were experts in that ished buildings, of the faculty and larger quently. I believe that if I state two of this country is in the action of the direction, to an able president and body of students than we had dared to propositions, you will agree that I might States themselves. It is in the realiza- faculty. And one of them, H. W. Sage, think of and among them my friend, be excused for past absences. One is, tion by the State that the State has a as one of the greatest marks of ability McElroy. My heart sank within me and we came with the opening of Cornell duty to higher education and the time and wisdom, helped and was largely in- I felt as I have felt on a good many voy- University. We had spent three years has come to discharge that duty. strumental in getting to this University, ages since, that I wished I were on what elsewhere. We had fought the battle of the man who is still with us, and under seemed to be firmer and sounder founda- I do not depreciate in the slightest de- the freshman and of the sophomore else- whom the University has reached a tion. gree the work of the intermediate col- where and we had but one year at Cor- leges they do good work in the various nell for any development of class senti- height of success and prosperity beyond Well, gentlemen and ladies, I have denominational colleges, but the Univer- ment, and I am reminded by President the fondest dreams of the most hopeful lived to realize the dreams which we sity work of the United States must no White that we did not have the class yell men of the earlier days. then had. I have alluded to this fact at longer be done by them. It has gone be- in '69. Then again, the eight men whom "The other man, the founder of our various times in speeches to you but when- yond that, far beyond it. We have dis- you sent out have necessarily, like the University, gave to it that other man as ever I come back here, there looms more placed all that, and here and now my rest of you, been in a hard struggle. President who in the early days of small and more above me a reality of Cornell word is to the great number who go west. President White when he sent us away, beginnings laid the broad and enduring which far transcends even the greatest I say to you, stand by your State Univer- said, 'You came here men of energy, foundation for that success which has dreams I had in those early days or any sities, stand by those institutions which we want you to go into the world as men come in later years and the fruits of periods since. alone represent the large body of theof energy.' which we are all enjoying today. We of Speaking of sea-sickness, I am a better people of the State, without reference to "We have sought to obey that com- Syracuse used to think that we had some sailor than I once was. I have just made denominational or political claims. If mand, we have labored, and not always claim upon Andrew D. White as a fellow my twenty-fourth crossing of the ocean you are interested in a local or denomi- had time and opportunity to return. We townsman but of late years, we have and I would say to you who are inter- national college, do what you like for it, have obeyed the Rooseveltian idea of es- been rather forced to conclude that he ested in my welfare, that once being the but remember what I say, that after all tablishing large families. I believe I must be best described as a citizen of the very worst of sailors, like Horace Greely, the higher education of the United States might speak for the entire class that they United States and as the townsman of all I am now a very good one. I will say in does not rest and never can rest in any have large families. [Continued on next page.] CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 303

SEVENTY-NINE BANQUET HELD AT TWENTY-FIVE YEAR REUNION OF THE CLASS.

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fred Millard. Omaha while from dozens he was a typical Uncle Sam dressed in his latter days, he has grown more calm. THE SEVENTY^ REUNION. of others came greetings, regrets, and becoming clothing. He did represent At college, his life was correct, pure, and As Many Alumni Return therefor as tokens of loyalty. the truly, average successful, energetic true and it was full of courage as a boy for Eig hty-nine's Gathering—Let- It was a satisfaction mingled with sur- American citizen. We have seen, weand as a man. He had the best im- ters Received from Those who prise that so widely scattered a class have been taught, that it is the powerful promptu judgment that I think I ever could not Attend—Report by Walter C. Kerr. brought back so many after the lapse of man struggling up from the hardest be- knew in a fellow-being. Judgments a quarter of a century. But it empha- ginnings that makes the greatest ending; ought not to be impromptu at all times, Around the table at the Clinton House sized the old time reputation of Seventy- that it is he who from necessity has to be but there are times when they must be thirty-two members of the Class of nine for doing things. our great scholar, our successful men. and when you had to rely on it, his was Seventy-nine responded to the roll call. The day was devoted to the old place But that is hot always so. One of the a sure one. I am sure that he is reflect- They were the visibly faithful, but quite with its scenes, some changed and others greatest reasons for admiration in Wil- ing credit upon this University for his as many more were there through letters familiar. The evening brought the per-liam Sage's career was that it showed to ability as a debater, scope as a statesman, which expressed the old spirit which has sonal class contact around the reunion the sons of rich men that they could be and his integrity as a man. never waned. The attendance was re- table where each informally said what, industrious, that they could reach excel- "I am too long already. At some other presentative of the class in its under- ever seemed uppermost. Aside from rem- lency in scholarship as the poorest man time, I will tell the boys something about graduate days and of its later accomplish- iniscences and the declaration of good of the country. the eight men who were in the class. ments. There were present: fellowship, the drift of remark was in "To the early memories, Jennie McGraw There were only three ministers, two WHITNEY T. NEWTON, President. favor of the maintenance of scholarly at- belongs. I remember when stalwart, lawyers, one teacher, afterwards in the W. P. ABBOTT. tainment in the midst of the pressure of grey horses pulled the bell upon the hill, consular service. When McKinley was FRANK E. CALDWELL. the modern tendency towards technical just in front of where the present library unable to give him the consulate sug- ABRAHAM CANE. education. All opinions were fairly rec- stands. I can see her in the carriage. gested, he said, Ί have only one place STANFORD J. GIBSON. onciled to the belief that no great danger It was a great pleasure to her. She was left. It will not suit you.' It was in the WM. N. GOKEY. threatened the standards of academic the sweetheart of the early college life, Philippines then not much known, even W. T. HEWETT. education because of the compensating I and I pray that somehow kind providence to the president, but soon after, the class CHAS. W. HINKLEY. factors that attend the evolution of the will work out a way that in some meas- of '69 in Williams, rolled into Manila WIUJS A. ING ALLS. new forms of training needed in theure her will and benefits may yet be some- Bay on Dewey's flagship." WALTER C. KERR. broader field which education is nowhow realized. Following Judge Buchwalter C. V. P. 4 CHARLES L. KNAPP. called upon to cover. 'Another little character in the Cornell Young spoke for '99, and George B. MRS. S. O. LAWSING (Mary F. Conde). Far into the hours of the night ran the Library ought not to be forgotten. The Davidson, for '84. Judge Hiscock then EUGENE A. LANDON. interchange of views after twenty-five Cornell students had a right to member- called upon James Parker Hall, '94, Dean EDMUND L. MAGNER. years of experience, and no record could ship in Cornell Library down in the city. of the College of Law at the University MISS HARRIET M. MILLS. briefly record the multiplicity of things, There was a very sweet, gentle little wo- of Chicago. Mr. Hall said : JOHN F. MONTIGNANI. relevant and irrelevant, that brought man, I think her name was Allie Davis, "Some of the reasons to be given why a ELLIS MORRIS. pleasure to the classmates who thus lived who served very faithfully and earnestly. ten-years reunion is a particularly happy MISS MARY M. PITCHER. again the good old days. Parting at last, I have not heard certainly what became one are to be given now. One of them LUTHER H. PORTER. all resolving to attend the thirty year re- of her. I have heard that she had gone is that we have been away a long time CLAYTON RYDER. union in 1909, the quarter century of '79 as a trained nurse and came back to this and the older graduates tell me that the FRANK H. SEVERANCE. closed. city and died. She was a very saintly second ten-years passes much more quick- MRS. FRANK H. SEVERANCE (Lena L. WALTER C. KERR. little woman. I had hoped that some of ly than the first. The reason for this is Hill). the earlier boys might be successful that given in answer to the inquiry, Why enough in life to do something for the do married men live longer than single SEWARD A. SIMONS. (The Alumni Luncheon.) GEORGE F. SIMPSON. library in her name, for it deserved it. men ? They do not really live longer, it k WILLIS H. TUTTLE. "I did get back sometime after'76. I ' I remember walking one Sunday along seems longer. ADDISON WEED. cannot give you the exact date and I hadSix-mile creek with Captain Foraker,my "The class secretary tells me that statis- GEO. M. WELLES. a very happy reunion. I think I was old roommate, and we met George W. Cur- tics show that larger numbers come to a FREDERIC J. WHITON. enough to bring my good wife and leave tis and Lowell. The one had just fin-ten-year reunion than any other. When FRANK A. WRIGHT. the two oldest boys at home. I remem- ished, the other just begun his course. a man has been away ten years, he has EDWIN M. WYCKOFF. ber distinctly that President White and I never saw so pretty a spot as Six mile ordinarily made enough so that if he did CHAS. M. YOUMANS. Goldwin Smith were still with you then. creek, when the moss was on the logs not have the fortune to get a return tick- Around the table sparkled the old time I remember seeing him seated by the and on the rocks. We viewed them at a et when he left, he can buy a round tiip wit and the tales of the old days were re- sweetheart of his youth, whose hair had distance; they seemed to just trot along ticket. In ten years, his business does vived with a vigor that diminished the turned gray, I understood, in her anxiety hand in hand as we did as school boys not press him so but that he can get away interval that had intervened. over his journey back from San Domingo. it seemed it was a renewal of their boy- a few days. Characteristic letters were read from "I have many fond memories of thehood life. I never have seen from Low- "In ten years a man has calmed himself; Caroline Cook Jackson, San Francisco University in my time and among them ell's pen and if there is no gem inspired he has gotten into order to do business. Gus Parke, Minneapolis Edward C. Rus- is the memory of Ezra Cornell. I do not by that creek, I feel that his work was The class in ten years ought to have sel, Helena Zach Chandler, Transvaal, know as it occurs to other minds, but to not quite complete when he died. a more mellow view of life they South Africa; Calvin Tomkins and H. T. me as I would see him upon the street "My roommate at 130 Mill street was ought to learn the merit of compromise. Foot, New York Harold Gifϊord and Al- with his tall figure and stooped shoulders, quick and impulsive in those days. In Get the best you can and wait until you 304 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 0 WABASH RAILROAD is still included in the curriculum of all students of footology. The route to take to \ A study of thest sub- FIT J jects has always ,iepaid the student, and con- THE WORLD'S FAIR vinced him that, In his WEAR walks through life, his knowledge of thes»j facts St. Louis, Mo. LOOKS will make his jouiney a The only Line from Buffalo with its own The pleasant and easy hne. Professor is Rails to Main Entrance Exposition. • • • still teaching the To aid the student in his study we shall be pleased to send free, OUR Rates from Buffalo, fifteen day ticket, $J9 75 lesson that has been ILLUSTRATED ART CATALOGUE. Rates from Buffalo, sixty day ticket, 23*70 his pet hobby for SHAW STOCKING CO., 25 YEARS. He has students everywhere. College Dept., - Lowell, flass. Season Ticket, good until Dec* 1st, 28.40 For Information and Sleeping Car Berths, can get something better. They have break away on the rushing, first bn the gone a long way and are like the man hill and then downtown, and the thing Address who was about to be married. He had was repeated until everybody got wrought JAMES QASS, R. F. KELLEY, made up his mind that woman was a very up over it. N. Y. S. P. A., Gen'l Agt. Pass. Dept., agreeable creature and that any difficul- "It happened that Governor Corritill was ties might be overcome by compromise. spending the season here in Ithafca and 287 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A few months after, his friend remember- very justly, I think, he got considerably ing his confidence regarding the matter, disturbed and annoyed over the Way the than other people. Engineering Society and the Michigan asked him how it worked. 'Splendid- fellows were keeping up the rushing all "Now to live four years,from sixteen to Engineering Society. His work at Mich- ly,' said he. 'The first question that over the Campus and village. One day twenty or twenty to twenty-four, in an igan will begin with the opening of the came up was the way we should furnish when he was in the city, they got going atmosphere where every man was meas- University in the Fall. one of the rooms, in red plush or leather. right down on State street. He was a ured by merit and not by money was a My wife said red plush, I wanted leather. great deal disturbed and tried to do some- lesson never to be forgotten. We compromised and took the leather.' thing to stop it. He was not vfcry suc- Six 1904 "Vets" Eligible to Ap- "Another thing peculiar to the life here. cessful and finally he rushed up to one pointments as Meat Inspectors. "Furthermore, in ten years, one must It was the first place, and I think the last, of the upperclassmen surveying the own that there is some good in every- where there was perfect freedom. A Of the sixteen members of the gradu- scene. 'See here,' he said, 'this is a thing and there is apt to be some bad in man came and went at his will, to recita- ating class in the New York State Vet- disgrace, why don't you stop that riot?' everything. You will be glad to know, tion. He did what he liked did as he erinary college, all but six will begin the "The young man replied. 'W^ll, Gov- too, that the members of the class are pleased, and was subject only to the re- practice of their profession some time ernor, this is not my riot, I am not man- well satisfied with the University. We strictions of a decent American citizen- this summer. aging it. If you wish to you $re wel- notice a number of changes here, some ship. There was a spiritual freedom. A Six members of the class, J. A. Mad- come.' of which display considerable regard for man could think exactly as he pleased den, C. H. Haring, J. B. Tiffany, B. J. the comfort of the Alumni. One I no- "That man in those days was known as and it was not laid up against him. Cady, J. J. Gallagher, and W. I,. Beebe, ticed this morning : the chimes ring at "Bob". Wiles, but now as I see him sit- "We came here into that atmosphere of have passed the civil service examina- quarter of nine instead of eight. That ting here and remember bo**> •«"-<* »αt ipiπiuai, iiiccilectual an 1 physical free- tions for the position of meat inspector, coiisiociatiofi tor ilic xihitϋm wίi-o Iivwi dom and I believe that has made every Bird ar e i*o%v -eltgibfc for stick appoint- had a hard night of it touches our hearts. I address him as Robert Wiles and call man of us a better man, stronger men ments. Then one of the famous jokes that was upon him to speak for the class of '74." than we would have been without it." current at my time has had its basis Mr. Wiles spoke in part, as follows : Pictures Missing from this Issue of At the conclusion of Mr. Wiles' re- knocked out that is the enlargement of "I know very well that at a meeting like the Alumni News. marks the luncheon was over. Sage Chapel. this is not a place of serious thought and Photographs of the classes of '94 and "We have seen the marvelous beauty of we expect a man who has something to '99 do not appear in this issue because the Campus and what struck a number of say to attempt to be jocular but coming Professor Gardner S. Williams of the none were taken on Alumni Day. The us more than the prosperity of the Uni- back after thirty years and seeing class- College of Civil Engineering, group of the class of 1904 could not be versity has been the growth of the trees. mates and professors, the old resorts, Resigns. used as the individual figures in the One expects to see new buildings but to changed for the better, but still familiar, Gardner S. Williams, professor of hy- photograph were too small for clear re- many of us, especially those living in my thoughts are turned in serious chan- draulics in charge of the hydraulic labo- production. cities, the growth of trees is not custom- nelsand I feel little like jesting. As I grow ratory at Cornell since '99, has resigned ary. We are glad that the University older, I think less and less of the things from the Cornell faculty to take the chair "βowlΓs Largest Fitting Scfeool." has such abundant prosperity that its man learns from books. I set less and of Civil Engineering at the University of faculty is widening the realms of knowl- less value upon the courses and tasks for "My acquaintance with the preparatory schools of the Michigan and the directorship of that United States leads me to believe that the Ithaca Hlfh edge, that it is keeping up its traditions which they gave our degrees thirty years School stands in the very front rank." department in the university. J. (i. SCHURMAN, Pres. Cornell University. and is a force in the affairs of the nation. ago. Neither do I believe in the intel- Professor Williams was born in Sagi Gets students from England, Russia, Italy, China, Ire- When we come back here at the end of lectual discipline of college courses. I land, Brazil. Cuba, Canada, Porto Rico, Mexico, 31 States naw, Mich., in 1866, and studied Civil. and from 24 counties in New York State. Has won 70 our ten years, we can believe that there do not believe that I got any discipline State and 18 university scholarships in eight years. Gym Engineeering at the University of Michi- naslutn, Baths, 7-acre Athletic Field. Free text books' is more than half truth, even looking from the work I did in college. gan under Professor Greene whom he now Both sexes. Tuition and extras $60 and $75 for 40 weeks. with moderation at the heading of the "You might easily say that this man Enter any time. For catalogue address succeeds. During his college course he F. D. BOYNTON. M.A., Principal, ITHACA, N. Y. very excellent advertising matter solicit- thinks nothing of his college course. On was assistant engineer of water works ing our return, that we are the members the contrary, I think the four years I construction at Bismark, N. D., and resi- of the greatest class of the greatest Uni- spent here were not only the formative dent engineer in charge of water works COTRKlyl, & I.EONARD, versity on earth." years of my life but they did more to construction at Owosso, Mich. He gradu- ALBANY, N. Y. When Mr. Hall finished his remarks it stamp themselves upon my inner life ated from Michigan in 1889 and took the CAPS, GOWNS was close to 4 o'clock and some good than all other influences. position of civil engineer to the Russell AND HOODS people were becoming uneasy about a re- "I want to tell you some of the things Wheel and Foundry company, of Detroit, to the American Col ception scheduled to be given at that which made an impression upon me for Michigan, the largest manufacturing con- leges and Universities hour at the home of President and Mrs. as long as I live. In the first place, the cern of its kind in the country. In 1893 Send for bulletin. Schurman. But Judge Hiscock had one spirit of democracy, as it was in the old he was appointed civil engineer of the more speaker, Robert H. Wiles of Chi- days, between the members of a class SHIRTS made to or- Board of Water Commissioners of Detroit. der. Write for Samples cago, and the mere mention of hiswas a great thing. These people were Six years later Professor Williams was and Self-measurement name started a tumult at the tables where not merely pleasant socially intercourse Blank. appointed to the professorship of hydraul- CLARENCE E. HEAD, sat the men who were in the University with them helped in the rounding, shap- ics in charge of the hydraulic laboratory log North Aurora Street. from '70 to '80. Introducing Mr. Wiles, ing, and making of a better man. This A full line of Cornell at Cornell. Since that time he has been flags. Prices run from Judge Hiscock said : was the only absolutely pure democracy consulting engineer to the Lake Superior 25c. to $4.00. "I think in earlier years of the Univer- I ever saw in my life. The advantages Power company of Canada. He has also sity, it was more customary than now to of birth and money counted for naught. constructed the dam and filtration plant test the merits of college students, espe- "We had a lot of men with plenty of of the Ithaca Water Works company dur- WANTED. cially those entering the classes by the money, comfortable but careful with ing his residence in this city. measurement of physical strength and money sent from home, and we had men College Students during their va- Professor Williams has written numer- cation can easily make $20 to $30 we went through those processes at Cor- who lived on money earned from day to ous articles for engineering magazines. per week. Write for particulars. nell. I remember in the year '73, they day—self-made men and I tell you in He is a member of the American Society THE UNIVERSAL MFG. CO., had a very strenuous time settling the all my four years I never saw nor did it of Civil Engineers, the New England merits of the then freshman and sopho- occur that any man was barred out be- Water Works Association, the Detroit PittsTburg, Pa. more classes. They did not seem to cause he had more money or less money