CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Volume Seventeen

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1914—AUGUST 31, 1915

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• riGURES indicating the probable which is to be torn down very soon. stance of his residence in Switzerland • \ effect of the war on the number The authorities of the College of Civil may enable him to keep the engage- of students are not to be had until Engineering are now looking for a new ment if he has not gone to Germany to the registration is completed this week site for the observatory. serve his Fatherland. Professor Faust and the President announces the results. wrote to him in August and asked him Faculty members say they know of ANOTHER BUILDING for the College if he would be able to come to Ithaca numbers of students who will be unable of Agriculture is now projected. It will next winter, but up to the last week of to return because of the paralysing ef- house the department of plant industry. September no reply to the letter had fect of the war on some kinds ot business. Its site is on the knoll where the Car- been received. The letter may not yet negie Filtration Plant stands. It will Despite thatt there are indications that have reached him. Professor Weese a large enrollment may be looked for. be one of a group of three, standing was born in 1865 and studied at the The College of Agriculture expects an south of the forestry building and west Universities of Breslau, Leipzig, Munich, increase in the number of its students. of the poultry husbandry building. and Rome. He was privatdozent in the ( See the photograph on Page 5.) At University of Munich from 1898 till THE PROSPECTIVE freshmen, for some the last session the legislature appro- 1905, when he was called to the profes- reason, were slow in arriving for their priated $7,500 to meet the cost of draw- sorship of art history in the University registration on Monday and Tuesday* ing plans for this new structure, and at of Berne. On Sunday the chairman of the Fresh- a meeting of the Agricultural College man Advisory Committee answered tel- Council on August 1st steps were taken WORK IS PROGRESSING steadily on the ephone calls from more than a dozen to have the plans prepared. track and football section of the varsity worried landladies who thought their portion of Alumni Field, thanks to the rooms were not going to be rented. But THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT has been generosity of members of the Schoellkopf two special trains came in early Mon- busy in the neighborhood of Risiey Hall, family, who have given $75,000 to com- day morning and the flood tide held all the new women's dormitory. West of plete that section of the new field. The day. the building enough ground has been contractors are pouring the piers for the leveled for four tennis courts for the big concrete stand against the hillside THE OPENING of the year sees several women students' use, and near by a east of the gridiron. On the quarter- new buildings projected. The most im- place has been provided for a basketball mile cinderpath and the two straight- portant of these in its promise for the court. Plans are being made to include aways the cinders are being laid and future is the main hall of the proposed the bank of Fall Creek Gorge in the rolled. The Schoelikopf Memorial train- dormitory system. An anonymous don- park system connected with the building. ing house is so nearly completed that or's gift of $100,000 for this building the football men will have their practice was announced last spring and his ad- Two UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS have quarters there within a week. dition of $50,000 to the fund was made appeared this year in slightly altered known in July. The architects, Messrs. form. The Widow, in accordance with FRESHMEN arriving at Ithaca railroad Day & Klauder, of Philadelphia, are the policy agreed upon by the leading stations this year were not confronted working on the plans. They have vir- humorous magazines of the eastern col- by a horde of competitors for publica- tually determined to use the native leges, has adopted the form and size of tions, rooming agencies, laundries, etc., bluestone for their building material, Life, making the paper smaller and more as they have been in the past. Solicit- and the University has opened a quarry compact. The Era has been enlarged ing on railroad property has been for- below McGraw Hall, near University somewhat in order to facilitate double bidden except to the authorized uni- avenue, within a hundred yards of the column printing. The Sun appears versity rooming agents in accordance site of the proposed building. again in its enlarged form of the past with the plan formulated by the chair- two years. Competitors for all three man of the Freshman Advisory Com- BIDS WILL BE OPENED at the Treas- were on hand early to greet the incom- mittee last spring. The authorized urer's office next Monday afternoon for ing students with subscription blanks agents are employed by the Student the construction of the new drill hall, as of yore. Supply Store, the undergraduate cor- which the State is to build at a cost of poration which operates also the Student $350,000. The plans drawn by the state DESPITE THE WAR IN EUROPE, there is Laundry Agency and the Student Room architect, Mr. Lewis F. Pilcher, are ad- a possibility that this year's course of Agency. These agents wore distinctive mirable. They promise a building of lectures on the Schiff Foundation will be hats this fall by which they could be handsome proportions, with all its vast- given. The lecturer who had been in- recognized—a white hat bearing a white ness, and of beautiful lines. It will be vited for February and March, 1915, al- S on a red shield. of either brick or the native bluestone. though a German, is associated with the Those who know the beauty of that University of Berne. He is Professor AN ASSISTANT for the professor of stone are hoping it will be used. The Artur Weese. His subject is to be the military science and tactics has been building will stand on the knoll south of history of German art. Professor appointed by the War Department. He the Veterinary College. That site is Weese accepted the invitation from Cor- is a retired non-commissioned officer of occupied by the Fuertes Observatory, nell about a year ago. The circum- the regular army* CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Beginnings of Sigma Xi engineers in the formation of a general Cornell for president of the new institu- society to select men in the same way tion and unanimously elected against Dr. Prosser's Account of Early Scien- for membership from those departments his wishes by the other members of the tific Work at Cornell of applied science that he was advocat- board of trustees, Mr. White came to [The issue of Science for August 21, ing for the departments of pure science. the presidency of Cornell University in 1914, contains a noteworthy address Suffice it to say, without relating all the 1867 at the age of thirty-five, familiar by Dr. Charles S. Prosser (B.S. '83, details, that the two movements joined with the best in education both in this M.S. '86, Ph.D. '07), professor of geology forces, and the formal organization of country and in Europe. This position in Ohio State University. It was given Sigma Xi was accepted as the working he held with honor until 1885, and it is as the president's address to the Omega nucleus of a university honorary scientific to be noted that the following year the Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi, society- The minutes of the second two movements looking toward an hon- at Ohio State University, on May 21, meeting of Sigma Xi state that the orary scientific society took definite 1914. It is entitled "The Aims and Ob- proposals of Professor Williams were form. jects of the Society of the Sigma Xi." accepted, and at the fourth meeting he Gave Equal Rank to Science In the course of his discussion of that was nominated for a member of the so- Three things stand out conspicuously subject Dr. Prosser related in an inter- ciety and unanimously elected. This in President White's administration esting way the story of the founding of was in the fall of 1886 and made the which in my judgment are largely re- the society at Cornell. We take the charter membership of the society ten. sponsible for the spirit at Cornell which liberty of reprinting, below, that part At the next meeting four additional led to the organization of Sigma Xi. of his address.] members of the faculty and five gradu- In the first place, although himself a Most of you are probably aware that ate students were elected to member- graduate of a leading classical college, [the Society of the Sigma Xi] was or- ship, so that twenty-seven years have he organized a university in the East ganized at Cornell University and that passed since the first members, similar where the scientific departments, both chapter is known as the Alpha. At to those we have now met to initiate, pure and applied, had the same dignity least as early as 1S83 Professor Henry S. were received into this society. During and in all respects equal rank with the Williams, of Cornell, was thinking about these years it has attained an honored departments of the humanities. the organization of a society which position in the university world, as well Secondly, he called to this faculty in as entrance to most of the institutions should recognize in some way the attain- nearly every case men of ability who of learning in this country in which ment of students in science as Phi Beta either then were or became distinguished science is strong, so that there are now Kappa did in literary lines. During in their several fields of learning. As the commencement week of June, 1886, twenty-eight chapters with a total membership of 7,498, as recorded in the speaker looks back upon his student days there was organized the Society of Cor- at Cornell he realizes that, with one or nell University Geologists by Professor *'Quarter Century Record History of Sigma Xi." So much for the history of two exceptions, all his teachers were men Williams; but its scope was not broad who have attained positions of honorable enough to satisfy him and later he drew this society to which you have been elected members. distinction. They were men that meas- up a preamble for a national scientific ured up to the standard set by President organization which was named the So- Influence of Mr. White Jordan when he wrote that ciety of Modern Scientists. One para- Its aims may be explained in part by it is true that no second-hand man ever was a great graph of the preamble stated that teacher. I very much doubt if any really great in* some account of the spirit of the institu- vestigator was ever a poor teacher. How could he Therefore we believe it is highly desirable to tion in which it was born* In any list of be ? The very presence of Asa Gray was an in- encourage high attainments among the future stu- spiration to students in botany for years after he dents of Cornell University and other kindred in- the ultimate causes which led to the or- had left the class room. Such a man leaves the stitutions by recognizing by some mark of honor stamp of his greatness on every student who comes those who exhibit special ability in investigating, ganization of Sigma Xi should be ranked within the range of his influence. understanding and interpreting the facts of na- very high the influence of Andrew Dick- ture in the various branches of modern science. Sylvester, the great mathematician son White, the first president of Cornell Johns Hopkins University, in his Sprang from Two Sources University, A scholar, an author of re- memoration Day address is reported to nown, a diplomat, statesman, university Independently, shortly before the Cor- have made the following statements : nell Commencement of 1886 two engi- professor and president, he certainly I hesitate not to say that, in my opinion, the two neers, William A. Day and Frank Van ranks among the few really great uni- functions of teaching and working in science should never be divorced. Vleck, planned the formation of an hon- versity presidents this country has had. I believe that none are so well fitted to impart orary scientific society. The following He was a member of the famous class of knowledge as those who are engaged in reviewing fall they associated with themselves '53 of Yale, where he was elected a mem- its methods and extending its boundaries. seven other engineers and began work ber of the honorary societies of Phi Beta Thirdly, President White took a per>; on the formal organization of such a so- Kappa and Skull and Bones, next a stu- sonal interest in the development of th^ ciety, for which they selected the name dent at French and German universities various departments and particularlyf Sigma Xi. The preamble of the first and attache at the St. Petersburg lega- in the research work of the faculty. E printed constitution stated that they tion, then returned to this country and shall always remember his coming into' were "forming a brotherhood in Science served for six years as professor of his- the geological laboratory one afternoon and Engineering." The membership tory and English literature in the Uni- with President Gilman, of Johns Hop" and its activities, however, supported versity of Michigan. For four years he kins University, to look at a collectiofl| the conclusion reached by many in con- was a member of the New York State of Trenton Trilobites which the univeH tact with it that this was strictly an en- Senate, where in association with an- sity had recently purchased. Those two^ gineering society. Some time that fall other senator—Ezra Cornell—he drafted distinguished university presidents spent Professor Williams learned of this move- the law which was passed creating Cor- at least half an hour with Profess**; ment when he attempted to interest the nell University. Nominated by Mr. Henry S. Williams in CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS cussing those fossils from the old Paleo- Ralph Charles Henry Catterall night talks we had together, walking zoic rocks of New York. A scholar and By WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, from Boston to Cambridge, after we distinguished investigator himself in his Professor of English Literature at Yale had been to the theatre or to hear some chosen field, he kept up his research music. work during all those early strenuous Catterall and I were intimate friends It is quite unnecessary in an article years of the university's life, and no for twenty-three years. We first met in published in a Cornell journal, to speak one who was engaged in research work September 1891 in the room on the of his success as a teacher and lecturer. along any line received more cordial en- Harvard Yard which we were to share I was never surprised at this, for the couragement and recognition from any together for one year. I had just been vitality of his mind and his exuberant one than from President White. He appointed an instructor at Harvard and energy, combined with his keen sense of had selected the faculty with care, and he was coming to Cambridge to take humour, made me certain even in the although he might not fully understand his Senior year there; by an exchange early days of our intimacy, that he was an investigation, he had confidence that of letters we agreed to room together bound to be a great teacher. His in- the professor would attain creditable before either had seen the other's face. fluence on all the young men and women results and he gave him and his work So our first meeting was in our own he taught at Chicago and at Ithaca, will most cordial support. Neither did he room. continue to make itself felt long after wait before giving such encouragement We had not been together five min- all his contemporaries have gone. He until the work had been published and utes before we felt like old friends, and was one of the best teachers in America. favorably received; but not infrequently there never came the slightest cloud In friendship he was noble and sincere, a professor received a spoken or written across our affection. For many sum- steadfast as a rock. One could always word of encouragement when without mers before and after his marriage in count on him, one knew always where to such encouragement perhaps it would 1896 he visited me in my summer home, find him. There was in his mind and have been abandoned. It is true that in where he died on the 3 August heart not a trace of anything narrow or those days the number of instructors in 1914. We met frequently in Chicago, petty; his character was spacious, but Cornell University was small, and like- in Ithaca, and in New Haven, and we it had room only for interesting and wise the number of students; but, after spent the summers of 1900 and 1903 to- high thoughts, for true and lasting af- all, there was more of a true university gether in Europe. fections. He was the incarnation of atmosphere in the institution than is to He had an extraordinarily clear and fidelity. be found in some of the present day powerful mind, and his memory was Seven Gables, Huron City, Michigan, which have almost as many thousand marvellous. He seemed to remember 18 August 1914. students as Cornell had hundreds in everything he read, and his knowledge those old days. of English literature was so profound Chinese Students' Conference In such an environment it was only and so extensive, that I asked him why natural after the organization of a chap- he had not chosen that instead of his- Cornell Wins Possession of the Silver ter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1881, to which tory, as his specialty. He replied that Trophy at that time in Cornell only those stu- he loved literature so intensely that he The tenth annual conference of the dents who had training in at least one could not bear to treat it professionally; Chinese Students* Alliance of the eastern of the classical languages were eligible, he wished always to maintain the atti- states assembled at Amherst, Mass,, that the scientific side of the university tude of an amateur, to have literature late in August with more than 150 dele- which in every other way was on an for an avocation. I used to delight to gates present. The program of the week equal footing with the literary side, show off his knowledge before others. included addresses by American edu- should consider the formation of an I would take an enormous anthology of cators and addresses, oratorical contests, honorary scientific society. English poetry, and ask any stranger to debates, and athletic contests by the One of the objects of the Sigma Xi read two or three lines at random. I delegates themselves. Chairman Y. L* Society, as they were enumerated in its have never known Catterall to fail to Tong of Yale opened the conference with first published constitution, was : give the author immediately, though an address of welcome, and President the experiment was tried hundreds of Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agri- inTSLI"!?3^?**11 tbe «£u]ar course of instruction •n scum by original investigation. times; often in the byways of literature, cultural College welcomed the delegates The speaker regrets that this sentence among writers that many cultivated on behalf of the college. Among the has been dropped from the constitution, men never read at alL speakers during the week were F. K. which he believes reflected the spirit of His character was so masculine, so Shah, the Chinese Minister, and T. T« Cornell University during the period of fiercely independent, that on some he Wong, director of Chinese students. the conception and birth of this Society. produced an impression of harshness, Cornell's delegation succeeded in win- Neither is it believed that this spirit has which entirely vanished on closer ac- ning the annual track meet for the third Passed away, for in an address last fall quaintance. He always did his own time and took permanent possession of by one of her distinguished linguistic thinking on all subjects, and was not a silver trophy offered by Harvard sev- scholars, Professor Schmidt, he said : in the least influenced by traditional or eral years ago. Cornell scored 69 out of * NmnbetTiaJooe do not make a great university. conventional views. Conversations with 108 points. Yale was second with 16 7 rhreft indispensable facton in making him were an intellectual delight. I con- points and Princeton third with 8. The ttmveraity are : (1) competent investiga- *1** oi u*na*ing the world'* knowledge; sider myself especially fortunate in hav- team was coached by Frank Sheehan at hed teacher* able to impart the most knowledged , and (3) studenttdts eager fof r ing known him with such total absence Percy Field, and passionately pursuing it. of reserve; for during the long years of The Chinese Students* Monthly\ a mag- our friendship, we spent many hours to- azine published by members of the Al- EXAMINATIONS for the University gether talking on subjects closest to our liance, will be published this year at scholarships are in progress this week* hearts. I remember especially the mid- Ithaca. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

The Return from Europe with John M. Gauntlett *05, of Ithaca. New Teachers in Design Faculty Members Getting Back—Guer- They went through Paris to London and E. J, Kahn and L. P. Burnham Ap- lac and Mauxion French Reservists came home via Liverpool and Montreal. pointed—Professor Mauxion in France Professor E. P. Andrews came home Two additions to the instructing staff Two members of the University Fac- from Egypt via Gibraltar, London, and ulty are absent this year on account of in design of the College of Architecture Liverpool. Dr. W. L. Williams was in have been made necessary by the recall the war in Europe. Professor O. G. the British Isles and came home from Guerlac of the department of Romance of Professor Georges Mauxion for mili- Glasgow. Dr. Albert L. Andrews of the tary service in France. The new men languages was in Europe when the war department of German was in Iceland began. When last heard from he was are Professor E. J. Kahn and Assistant and had some trouble getting away. Professor L. P. Burnham. in Geneva, Switzerland, awaiting a call He obtained passage on a steamer as far Professor Kahn is a graduate of Co- to service in the French army. Pro- as the Faroe Islands, caught a boat from lumbia, B.A. 1903, B.Arch. 1907. He. fessor Georges Mauxion of the College there to Scotland, and from Glasgow received his diploma from the Beaux of Architecture sailed from New York sailed for home. Instructor G. H. Brown on August 16 expecting to join the re- of the French department had little to Arts in 1911, and is the only American serves upon his arrival in France. worry about. He was in Paris and had who has ever won the Labarre prize* Most of the faculty members who were return passage engaged on the American which, next to the Grand Prix de Rome: abroad had returned to Ithaca or were liner St. Louis. (open only to Frenchmen) is the greaij on their way hither this week. Professor planning prize of the school. Sincfl Dr. W. T. Hewett, emeritus professor 1911 he has engaged in active practicij Crane and Miss Crane were due in Bos- of German, has been abroad for almost ton from the Mediterranean on Septem- in New York. a year. He had gone from Venice to Professor Burnham received fro ber 23, as was Professor C. E. Bennett. Munich and Rothenberg just before the President Schurman's family had re- Harvard the degree of S.B. in 1902 an outbreak of war. He went from Ger- MS. in Architecture in 1903. Aft turned, with the exception of J, G. many to London via Cologne and the Schurman, jr., who had remained in graduation he won the Harvard Travel Hook of Holland, arriving in London ing Fellowship, which he held for tw Brussels and had gone from there to on August 28. London. years. After a year's practice he wo; Professor L. M. Dennis returned from the Rotch Scholarship and studied f Germany the second week of September. TROWBRIDGE & ACKERMAN WIN two years and a half more in Europ He had been abroad to make the regular PRIZE FOR BEST HOUSE Most of this time he spent in the Ameri purchase of supplies and apparatus for A prize of $500 and a gold medal have can Academy in Rome. Since then he the department of chemistry. Some of been awarded by Country Life in has had about six years of experience the supplies were shipped before war America to the firm of Trowbridge & with McKim, Mead & White and in was declared and have been received at Ackerman, architects, of New York City, independent practice. Morse Hall, but practically all the ap- for "the best house of the year," mean- Professor E. R. Bossange, although paratus that was ordered is still at Ham- ing a house finished and occupied in born a Frenchman, has not been obliged burg awaiting shipment. An effort will 1913. The prize was awarded to Killen- to return for military service, and will be made to find some way of having it worth, the residence of George D. Pratt give his entire time to design this year sent on. The department will not suffer at Glen Cove, L. L, a house in the early together with Professors Kahn and much inconvenience, because it always Jacobean architecture, constructed of Burnham. keeps a good supply of such material as stone and occupying a commanding po- cannot be obtained in this country. sition on the shore of Long Island Sound. Clubs Going to Denver Other members of the Faculty who Both the members of the successful First Concert of the Christmas Musical returned from Europe in September were firm are graduates of the college of archi- Tour to be Given There Professors Heinrich Ries, Laurence Pum- tecture of Cornell University, Alexander Graduate Manager Kent and Man* pelly, E. P. Andrews, and W. L. Williams, B. Trowbridge with the class of 1890, ager George B. Evans, jr., have com* and Instructors Albert L. Andrews and and Frederick L. Ackerman with the pie ted the advance trip for the holiday G. H. Brown. Those who returned to class of 1901. tour of the Musical Clubs. This winter Ithaca had suffered from nothing more There were one hundred and twelve the clubs will make one of the longest than discomfort and derangement of houses submitted in the competition journeys in their history, going as far their plans. from all over the United States. The west as Denver. They will make the Professor F. C. Prescott had been in jury was composed of Howard Van trip from Ithaca to Denver in one jump* France, Switzerland, and London, and Doren Shaw, an architect of Chicago; and will gite the first concert of the series had cabled that he expected to sail for Guy Lowell, the designer of the new in that city on the day after Christmas- home on September 9. Halldor Her- circular Court House in New York* and On the way back, concerts will be give* manssonn, curator of the Icelandic col- Henry H. Say lor, the editor of Country by the clubs in Omaha, Kansas City* lection in the University Library, had Life. The publishers are planning to Saint Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, To* gone to Iceland for the summer and is exhibit the successful houses and some ledo, and New York. The tour will end still there. Miss Ingersoll of the Library of those which received honorable men- on January 4th. staff returned home early in September. tions in the October number of the This is the itinerary : magazine. Professor Ries had been in Lapland Saturdayt December 26, Denver. Monday, December 28, Omaha. with his family, but they were in Munich Tuesday, December 29, Kansas City. Wednesday, December 30, Saint Louis. at the time of the outbreak of war. They THE PRESIDENT'S annual address will Thursday, December 31, Milwaukee. went to Switzerland and thence to Lon- be given in the Auditorium on Thursday Friday, January 1, Chicago. Saturday, January 2, Toledo. don. Dr, Pumpelly was in Switzerland at noon. Monday, January 4, New York, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

FROMt LEFT TO RIGHT, THESE BUILDINGS ARE THE CARNEGIE FILTRATION PLANT. THE FORESTRY BUILDING, AND THE POULTRY HUSBANDRY BUILDING. PLANS ARE NOW BEING DRAWN FOR A BUILDING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANIT INDUSTRY WHICH WILL STAND AT THE LEFT OF THE POULTBY BUILDING. FACING THE FORESTRY BUILDING. Photograph by J. P. Troy.

OBITUARY ing an expedition in Mexico. He was John Prince '14 Horace M. Hibbard '74 an authority on fishes and reptiles. He John Prince, who graduated last June Horace Mack Hibbard died at his held a fellowship in Cornell University with the degree of M.E., died on the home, 116 West Green Street, Ithaca, in 1885-6. night of Sunday, August 16, after an illness of but a few days. The symptoms on September 18. He was bom sixty Mrs. P. P. Taylor years ago in Ithaca, where his grand- were those of spinal meningitis. Prince father and father had been successful Alice Dudley Taylor, the wife of was taken sick in New York City, where manufacturers. He entered Cornell Perry Post Taylor '89, died on June 13 he lived, and was moved to the home of University in 1870 and graduated in at her home in St. Louis. She was the his uncle, H. S. Alvord, in Vineland, 1874 with the degree of B.C.E. He was daughter of the late Percival S. Dudley N. J., and his parents, who live at interested in various enterprises, in- of Newfield, N. Y. Kosmosdale, Kentucky, were notified. cluding the Cayuga Lake Transporta- They were with him when he died. tion Company, but he retired from Mary Morris Thayer '93 Prince spent four years in Sibley Col- business several years ago. He was un- Mary Augusta (Morris) Thayer, A.B. lege, after graduating from the New married. '93, the wife of George Langstaff Thayer ' Jersey State Normal School at Trenton. '92, died on November 28 last at the He was twenty-four years old. Since Joseph J. Churchyard ['74] Fresh-Air Hospital in Chicago, after he left Cornell he had been employed by Joseph John Churchyard, a lumber an illness of more than a year, which the De La Vergne Machine Company merchant, died at his home in Buffalo developed into consumption. Five of New York. on September 3. He entered Cornell children survive her. Mrs. Thayer and Prince was to have returned to Sibley University in 1870 but remained here her husband had lived for several years College this fall for graduate study lead- °nly one term. For a number of years in the State of Washington, where Mr. ing to a master's degree. He was the before his death he had been president Thayer owns a large fruit ranch on the holder of the Edgar J. Meyer Memorial of the Homeopathic Hospital in Buffalo. Columbia River, northwest of Spokane. Fellowship in engineering research. The fellowship, granted him last spring, was S. E. Meek B. W. G. Root ['04] a reward for distinguished work in his Seth Eugene Meek, assistant curator undergraduate course. of zoology at the Field Museum of Richard Weir Gardiner Root, who Natural History, Chicago, died on June was a student here in 1900-02, died at INSTRUCTION begins in all departments b of illness brought on by exposure dur- Chicago on August 6, 1913. of the Uniyersity on September 24. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

league. In the summer army camp for Professor Bossange and these two college students, at Burlington, Ver- teachers giving their full time to in- CORNELLALUHNINEWS mont, the Cornell men made the best struction in design, that department of score on the range. After the annual the college will have a strong organiza- SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR—$3.00 inspection, last May, Cornell was des- tion. Published by the Cornell Alumni News Publish- ignated by the War Department as a THE PICTURE on the cover of this ing: Company. John L. Senior, President; Wood- "distinguished institution** in the teach- ford Patterson, Secretary and Treasurer. Office number includes a glimpse of Sheldon 110 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, N. Y. ing of military science and tactics. This Court, the private dormitory which was Published weekly during the college year and is a distinction conferred every year on monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. bequeathed to the University by the Issue No. 1 is published the first Thursday of the ten institutions. Cornell won it in com- late Charles L. Sheldon, of Auburn, sub- college year in September and weekly publication petition with sixty others. How much (numbered consecutively) continues through Com' ject to a life interest to be held by Mrs. mencement Week. Issue No. 40, the final one of the efficiency of the cadet corps may be the year, is published the last Thursday in August Sheldon. Mr. Sheldon died on July 28. and contains a complete index of the entire volume. increased by the new armory can easily Single copies ten cents each. Foreign postage 40 be imagined. Provision has lately been cents per year. Subscriptions payable in advance. THE SALARIES OF TEACHERS Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his made by the War Department for the subscription notice to that effect should be sent in appointment of retired non-commissioned From "Science" before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired- officers of the regular army as assistants Wide variation in the pay for the same Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- to the professors of military science and or similar work is one of the most strik- able to Cornell Alumni News, tactics in the land-grant colleges. It is ing situations revealed by the investiga- Correspondence should be addressed— now proposed to assign one or two ad- tion of teachers' salaries just completed CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, ditional commissioned officers to insti- by the U. S. Bureau of Education, under Ithaca, N. Y. tutions where large numbers of students the direction of J. C. Boy kin, editor of are receiving instruction. It is not un- the Bureau. Public elementary school- WOODFORD PATTERSON Editor. likely that the Government will soon teachers may receive $2,400 a year, as some do in New York City, or $45 a ROBERT W, WHITE be demanding a higher standard of mili- Business Manager tary efficiency in the land-grant colleges. year, as in certain rural communities. R. A. B. GOODMAN Even in cities of the same class there Assistant Editor. WHEN the new armory was first are considerable differences in the sal- talked of, two or three years agot it was aries paid teachers. On the adminis- Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press to be a drill hall, an enormous shed, trative side there are county superin- Entered as Second-Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. perhaps of concrete. Fortunately the tendents with pay ranging from $115 to State has been generous enough to spare $4,000 per annum, and college presi- ITHACA, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24,1914 the Campus a building which we should dents receiving salaries from $900 to wish to conceal. And happily the state $12,400. In city school systems salaries NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS architect has been generous too. He have increased steadily in recent years, has designed a beautiful building. The particularly in the western states; and, If a subscriber has not sent in- in general, salaries in city school systems structions to discontinue his subscrip- plans call for brick or stone. It is said that stone would not be much more ex- are fairly well standardized. The aver- tion to the News it is assumed that a age salary of the superintendent of continuance of the subscription is de- pensive than brick. If it can possibly be done within the appropriation, the schools in cities of over 250,000 popula- sired* That has always been the prac- tion is $7,178; the range is from $4,000 tice of the News and it is the custom of bluestone quarried on the Campus should be used in this building. The to $10,000. In the same group of cities alumni publications generally. This no- high-school principals average $3,565 tice is published for the information of University's first buildings were made of that stone and it has proved its dura- and elementary teachers $1,018, Even anybody who may not understand why in the smallest cities listed, those be- this number of the paper is sent to him. bility and its beauty in close competi- tion with almost every conceivable vari- tween 5,000 and 10,000 population, sal- ety and color of building material. If aries are fairly uniform. The maximum HE wisdom of the provision we are ever going to restore simplicity for superintendents in this group is $3r- made last year by the State of and harmony to the architecture of our 600 and the average $1,915; but ele- New York for a new drill hall at Campus we must begin some time, and mentary teachers show an annual aver- this University is emphasized by the why not now, with our new armory and age of $533, with salaries as high as present situation in Europe. Doubtless our new halls of residence ? $1,350 and as low as $104. It is in the one of the effects of the present war will colleges and universities that the widest be a realization in this country of the MORE than one school of architecture variation prevails. The salaries of men need of having a large number of citizens in this country has lost the services of a with the rank of "professor" range from instructed in the use of the rifle and in professor of design, for the war in $450 to $7,500. "Professors" in some the elements of military tactics. The Europe has called home practically all institutions receive less than "instruc- military department here is in a thor- the able-bodied Frenchmen in America. tors" or even "assistants" in others. oughly healthy condition. When it That call has taken Professor Mauxion Salaries of deans of these institutions gets the new armory it will not be be- away from Cornell. But the College of vary from $500 to $5,000. University hind any similar department in the coun- Architecture has been fortunate in re- teachers of subjects for which there is try. It has been giving special atten- placing him with two professors of de- direct commercial demand outside re- tion to rifle practice. Last year the sign, Messrs. Kahn and Bumham, both ceive somewhat higher salaries than Cornell rifle team won promotion from of whom have had the advantages of those in charge of the traditional aca- Class B to Class A in the intercollegiate foreign study and active practice. With demic subjects, but the difference is less CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS than might be expected. The highest sidered in its relation to the rest of is a group picture of the staff of instruc- average salaries for full professors are Europe, The book was prepared in the tion of the department of chemistry con- paid in law and civil engineering. Law form of lectures (the Stafford Little taining forty-one men, with five absent. claims the highest paid professorship in Lectures for 1914 at Princeton Univer- any subject, with one salary of $7,500; sity), Its lack of ponderousness will THE FIRST PREACHER of the year in but there are professors of physics, geol- make it all the more useful to persons Sage Chapel, next Sunday, is the Rev. ogy and Latin who receive $7,000. It is who are studying the causes and follow- Cornelius Woelfkin, D.D,, LL.D., pastor significant, however, that on the basis ing the events of the present war. of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, of the figures reported most college teach- New York, ing, particularly in the first two years, is The Great Galeoto done by men of instructor grade with THE GREAT GALEOTO : a play in three acts. A "GET WISE" MEETING for the fresh- By Jose Echegaray. Translated from the Spanish man women will be held by the Y. W. salaries of $1,000 to $1,200, or by assist- by Jacob S. Fassett, jr. Richard G. Badger, pub- ants who receive on the average about lisher, Boston. Price, 75 cents net, 85 cents post- C. A. in the Barnes Hall reading room $500, usually for half-time services. paid. next Friday evening. Mr. Fassett has put into English what is commonly estimated to be the AMONG THE DELEGATES AT LARGE to NEW BOOKS masterpiece of this Spanish dramatist* the coming constitutional convention in The Balkan Wars The play, or an adaptation of it, has New York State are President Schurman, THE BALKAN WARS, 1912-1913. By Jacob been seen on the American stage under designated by the Republicans, and Gould Schurman. pp. 140; three maps. The the name "The World and His Wife." Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. John F. Murtaugh *98, of Elmira, by Price, $1 net; postpaid, $1.06. But that adaptation used scarcely more the Democrats. of the original than an outline of the President Schurman's volume is op- plot. The result of Mr. Fassett's con- portune. It is helpful to an understand- AMONG THE BUSIEST MEN in Ithaca scientious work is a real translation of ing of those complicated politics of during the last ten days have been the "El Gran Galeoto." It is a well printed southeastern Europe which have in- members of the Freshman Advisory volume of two hundred pages. The volved the Powers in a war. Historians Committee. They have assisted hun- translator's dedication is "to Professor of the conflict now raging all over the dreds of new students to find rooms. A Martin W, Sampson of Cornell Uni- continent will doubtless begin their bat- meeting of the committee will be held versity and his class in dramatic struc- tle narratives with the first Balkan war Thursday evening to organize the work ture." Echegaray divided the Nobel and the expulsion of the Turk from of visiting all the freshmen in their prize for literature in 1904 with Frederic Macedonia in 1912. Dr, Schurman's rooms. Mistral. This play of his has been a book is much more than merely a chron- favorite of Spanish audiences for many icle of the fighting in the two Balkan THE Sun announces the election of years. wars. He condenses skilfully the story Robert Addis Hutchinson '15, of Ithaca, of the rise and decline of Ottoman power to the editorial board to fill the vacancy in Europe, and gives a simple outline of BRIEF UNIVERSITY NOTES caused by the death of Brainard Bailey. the successive efforts of Balkan peoples THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The Cornell to throw off the Moslem yoke. The Chemist promises quarterly publication THE UNIVERSITY CLUB, organized problems caused by differences of race, beginning in January- The September last year, will soon occupy the main language and religion in the country be- number of the Chemist is a pamphlet of floor of Sage Cottage. The rooms tween the Black and Adriatic seas are twenty-seven pages reflecting the stren- leased by the club have been redecorated forth. The Balkan question is con- uous life of Morse Hall. Its frontispiece during the summer. GEORGE S. TARBELL Attorney and Notary Public LAW BUSINESS IN ITHACA We wonder how many graduates have Promptly aad carefully attended to Trust Company Building, Ithaca, N. Y. Andrew D. White's Books Frederick Robinson •*Seven Great Statesmen," - $2.50 '' Warfare of Science with Theology,'' 5.00 EAST STATE STREET "Autobiography," - - 7.50 Photographer for Senior Class 1914 in their libraries at this time. A check to us will bring any of these to you by return mail. HERBERT G. OGDEN E. E., '97 The Corner Bookstores Attorney and Counsellor at Law Patents and Patent Causes 2 RECTOR STREET NEW YORK 8 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

game with the scrubs, he made several games. Gallogly, captain of the wrest- long advances and one of the varsity's ling team, seems to be a fixture for a ATHLETICS two touchdowns. time at least at left tackle. He is a hard Collyer seems at present to have the worker, fights for every inch of ground, Football call over Lahr for the fullback position, is very willing to learn and shows every By M. W. HOWE but whether this will continue through- promise of developing into a first class The Schedule out the season remains to be seen. player. Jewett, a sophomore, had been September 23, Urstnus at Ithaca. Collyer is the heavier of the two men playing regularly at right tackle on the September 26, Pittsburgh at Ithaca. varsity until Saturday, when he was October 3, Colgate at Ithaca. but has not had the experience behind October 10, Carlisle at Ithaca. the line that Lahr has had, Mueller, shifted to the scrubs. He is a heavy October 17, Buckneli at Ithaca. who played on last year's freshman team, rangy player; but he and Gallogly will October 24, Brown at New York. also appears to be a strong competitor have to play their best at all times to October 31, Holy Cross at Ithaca. keep ahead of the other tackle candi- November 7, Franklin and Marshall, Ithaca. for this place, Schiichter, Williams, November 14, Michigan at Ann Arbor. and Whitney, the 1917 freshman quarter, dates, of whom Bailey, Fisher, Jameson, November 26, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. are other contenders for backfield po- McCormick, and McKeage appear to More Experienced Men for the Back- sitions. be the most promising. field than for the Line Many Lost from the Line McCutcheon and Munsick have been Coaches A. H. Sharpe, D. A. Reed The line is a much more difficult prob- playing regularly in the guards positions. *98, and Ray VanOrman "08 have been lem, Munns, Guyer, Williamson, Mal- McCutcheon seems to have a firm hold working with a husky squad of fifty- lory, Williams, and Frick, of last year's for a time at least o.i his pla~e, but Sny- four football candidates at Percy Field line, have been lost to the team through der and Anderson, both men who tip since September 9. The squad, par- graduation, failure to return to the uni- the scales around the 200-pound mark, ticularly the men out for the line, is versity, or other reasons and the have improved in their work during inexperienced, but all the candidates are coaches have their work cut out for them the past week and are destined to break learning fast and prospects are better to whip a line into shape that will ade- into the game sooner or later. now than at the same time for several quately fill the places left vacant by Cool has been working regularly at seasons past. these men. center, but Tilley and Brown, his two If injuries do not break up the back The ends should be well taken care competitors, are both heavier and while field, that part of the team should be of with Captain O'Hearn, Shelton and inexperienced and lacking in some of on a par with almost any set of backs Mehaffey of last year's team to start Cool's aggressiveness will make him in the country by the time the season with. There are a dozen more candi- hustle every minute to keep the place. is well under way. Last season's back- dates out for these places, of whom Owing to the fact that the Pittsburgh field is intact with the exception of W. Lautz, a senior, and Eckley, a freshman game comes on the 26th, the squad was H. Fritz, jr., '14, and his place is being end last year, appear to be the most started at scrimmage work unusually taken by E. A. Hill *15, who was not in likely to make the veterians hustle. early and has been kept at it ever since. the University last year but who played O'Hearn and Shelton are paired at pres- The Ursinus game on the 23d wsa not on the 1912 eleven. He is playing a ent on the varsity, O'Hearn is playing expected to be a severe test of the promising game and may fill Fritz's the same brilliant game that charac- team's strength, but last year Pitts- shoes. terized his play last year until he was bugrgh trounced Cornell soundly and as Barrett is back at his old position at injured in the Harvard game. He is that university always turns oui a quarter, running the team finely and fast getting down the field under kicks strong team Dr. Sharpe is bending picking his holes well when carrying and good at nailing his man, but is most every effort to get the eleven in shape the ball. He will be hard pushed to effective on the defensive, where his to come through the game successfully. hold the place, however, as Shuler, ability to diagnose plays directed at A hard game is expected and Dr. Sharpe Hubbard, and Collins, the 1916 fresh- his position and to break them up is has spent a good deal of time in working man quarter, are all out for the place sometimes almost uncanny. While with the substitutes so that he will have and are all players of no mean ability. Shelton has not had as much experience competent players on hand ready to Shuler and Hubbard are good punters as his captain, he is proving an excellent get into play if any of the regulars are but neither of them has Barrett's drop- team-mate as he is fast and sure and injured. kicking ability. often in practice gets around behind The varsity has been drilled particu- Owing to minor injuries to Philippi the scrub line to nip plays before they larly on the defense. The scrubs have and Lahr, the backfield candidates have are well started. Mehaffey is just as repeatedly been given the ball on the been considerably shifted around in fast getting down the field as either varsity's five or ten yard line with orders recent practices and on account of the O'Heam or Shelton and is heavier than to rush it across the line, but so stub- even ability of the men out for these either of them and it would not be sur- born has been the resistance that the positions no prediction can now be made prising to see him in the line-up regu- second string men have been unable to of the make-up of the team behind the larly before the end of the season. Lautz score except by catching the varsity line in mid-season. Philippi sprained and Eckley are both good ends but are napping on short forward passes. his ankle in practice and Taber has been handicapped by their lack of weight. The varsity won from the scrubs in taking his place at left half and has There is plenty of material out for their first real game of the season Sat- been putting up a good game with his tackles, but all the men are inex- urday, a twenty minute affair, by a dodging method of advancing the ball. perienced. Several of the men have score of 14 to 0. At the start of the In last Saturday's practice, in which been out for the squad in previous years game Barrett kicked off to the scrubs. the varsity played a twenty-minute but none have played in any important On the first play Collins punted to the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

varsity's forty-yard line and the first make it easier for the men to report team immediately started a march after classes. down the field which ended when Collyer List of Candidates went over for a touchdown. Barrett The men who are out for the team are kicked the goal. as follows : Barrett failed in an attempted drop- Ends—R. E. Lawrence '15, Ag.; E. kick shortly afterward and when the G. Lautz '15, ME.; A. B. Mehaffey '15, scrubs had been forced to punt the Ag.; J. E. O'Hearn '15, Ag.; M. N. varsity quickly brought the ball down Shelton '16, C.E.; C. K. Seymour '16, the field a second time, chiefly on long Law; J. R. Younglove '16, Ag.; L. R. runs by Taber. Bailey went over for a Zeman '16, C.E.; David Beale '17, Ag.; touchdown. Barrett had the practice D. S. Conoley '17, C.E.; John DeWitt of kicking the goal, but the score was '17,C.E.; P. W. Eckley'17, Arts; P. W. not allowed, as there had been holding Fitzpatrick '17, Arts; A. A. Kraus "17, • n the line when Bailey made his score. Ag.; J. A. Minier'17, Ag.; J. J. Quinn, After a second attempted drop-kick jr., '17, C.E. by Barrett had been blocked by the Tackles—O. W. Fisher '15, M.E.; E. scrub line breaking through, the varsity J. Gallogly '15, Ag.; J. H. Allen, jr., '16, showed their opponents that that wasn't C.E.; J. C. Ashmead '16, Chem.; C. the only trick they had up their sleeve W. Bailey '16, Ag.; A. H, Bamman "16, by scoring another touchdown. Taber M.E.; H. F. Byrne '16, Law; W. H. THE LIDGATE TROPHY Given by the Cornell Club of Hawaii for the took the ball over this time. Barrett Jameson '16, Ag.; J. A. McKeage '16, best team score in the inlL-rscholastic cross-country run held in the Territory of Hawaii every year. again kicked the goal. M.E.; R. W. Jewett '17, Chem.; W. Named in memory of William Orr Lidgate of the Aside from the scrubs' stubborn de- S. McCormick '17, M.E. class of 1913, who died in Ithaca at the beginning of his junior year. fense when the varsity had the ball near Guards—L. Blog '15, C.E.; K. C. their goal line, the prettiest feature of McCutcheon '15, M.E.; D. B. Munsick their play was a long forward pass from '15, Law; J. N. Butler '16, Law; H. Association Football Collins to Eckley which was responsible Snyder '16, Arts; E. E. Anderson '17, Made a Fall Sport by the Intereollegiage for the only considerable gain made on Arts; R. U. Carr '17, Arts; C. Tilley League the varsity during the afternoon. '17, Ag. In accordance with the decision of the At the conclusion of the game the Quarterbacks—Charles Shuler '15, I ntercollegiate Soccer League to hold scrubs were given the ball successively Ag.; C. P. Hubbard '15, M.E.; Charles the schedule of games in the fall instead on the varsity's ten, five, and one yard Barrett '16, M.E.; C. P. Collins '16, Ag. of in the spring as heretofore the Cornell •me. On the first attempt the scrubs Centers—W. C. Cool '16, Ag.; W. soccer squad is practicing daily at Al- failed to make the distance and on the Brown '17, M.E. umni Field. Under the direction of second attempt from the five yard line Halfbacks—E. A. Hill '15, M.E.; C. Captain W. Creifelds, jr., '15, nine were unable to gain the distance, in A. Philippi '15, M.E.; D. F. Taber, jr., members of last year's team and about three downs, but on the fourth trial a '15, Law; P. K. Roth '16, Law; F. P. twenty new candidates are now work- goal was scored on a forward pass. When Schlichter '16, Ag.; R. N. Decker '17, ing in preparation for the first game. the ball was given to the scrubs on the Vet.; J. R. Whitney '17, Arts. October 31, Princeton at Ithaca- November 9, Harvard at Ithaca. one yard line, the varsity line charged Fullbacks—A. M. Beebe '15, M.E.; November 26, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. so fiercely that when four plays had November 28. Haverford at Haverford, W. C. Collyer '15, M.E.; Charles Lahr November 30, Yale at New Haven. been completed the ball had been forced '15, C.E.; H. C. Edmiston '15, M.E.; back to the ten yard line and was finally A. P. Schock '16, Arts; A. F. Williams Golf.—The Cornell team entered the lost on a fumble. '16, C.E.; L. W. Mueller '17, M.E. Intercollegiate Golf Association cham- The teams lined up Saturday as fol- Robb Coaching Freshmen pionships at the last moment minus the lows : Stewart E. Robb '11, coach of the services of Captain W. A. Mathews '15 Scrul 1915 and 1916 freshman football teams, and was eliminated in the first match !• . by the Princeton team, eight points to Snydu .. ! (Fisher) Jameson has been engaged as coach for the 1918 tool Li McKeage squad. The freshmen have already be- one. Princeton ultimately won the MCh c. (Tilley) Brown r. g (Blog) Anderson gun practice in preparation for the fol- championship by defeating Harvard in the r- t (Byrne) Jewell lowing schedule : finals. In the contest for the individual October 3, George Junior Republic. championship C. T. Lansing '16 and October 10, Second Varsity. Joon DeWitt '17 qualified, and J. S. October 17, Hotchkiss at Lakeville. October 24, Buffalo Central High School. Lewis '16 qualified in the second flight. To Practice on Ihe Hill October 31, Dunkirk H«h School. All three succumbed in their first match. November 7, Elmira Free Academy. The interior of the Schoellkopf Me- November 14, St. JohrTs (Manlius). morial training house is rapidly being November 21, Penn 1918 at Philadelphia. Tennis.—Cornell was not represented ntted up for the football team, its com- The interscholastic cross-country run in the intercollegiate tennis champion- pletion being expected within a week, in Ithaca will take place on Saturday ships last week, although a team had been a™ at that time the squad will com- morning, October 31. entered for the tournament. Captain mence practicing on Alumni Field. All C. O. Benton '15 and C. B. Herd '17 •ootball games this fall will, however, The intercollegiate cross-country run were to have played for Cornell but they M Played at Percy Field, the change in will be held at New Haven on Saturday, were obliged to default owing to Herd's We place of practice being made to November 21. inability to be on hand. 10 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI NOTES Two Books of Special Timeliness and Importance '74, B.S.^Professor H. L. Fairchild of the University of Rochester delivered a lecture on "Ancient Sea Margins in SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN the Hudson and Connecticut Valleys" By ANDREW D. WHITE before the students of geography and Life stories of men who have impressed themselves on the geology at the Columbia University history of their countries. Chief among them : summer session on August 12. STEIN, the great predecessor of Bismarck and the man who by 77, A.B.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ward his moral force held Prussia to its task of resisting Napoleon Foster (Lyra Rosalind Peck 79), of 205 and so saved Europe; Garfield Place, South Orange, N. J., have announced the engagement of CAVOUR, whose will and power laid the foundations of Italian their daughter, Miss Elaine Foster, to unity and Italian liberty; and Harold Livingston Cross, LL.B. '11, of BISMARCK. The chapters on Bismarck will give the reader the Prospect Street, South Orange. Cross clearest possible idea of modern Germany. Here is told the is in the law office of Sackett, Chapman story of Bismarck's suggestion to France that she should take & Stevens, 154 Nassau Street, New Tunis and the resulting formation of the Triple Alliance. York (Sackett 75, Chapman '94, and Price $2.50 net, postage 10 cents Stevens '99). '90, LL.B.—Governor Glynn on Sep- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW D. WHITE tember 2 appointed James A. Parsons has chapters of illuminating interest on this great American's Attorney General of the State of New personal recollections of Bismarck and of the Kaiser, and of his York, to succeed Thomas Carmody '82, share at the Peace Conference of The Hague in 1899. who resigned the office immediately In two volumes, $7.50 net afterward. It is Mr. Carmody's inten- tion to practice law in New York City. AT ALL ITHACA BOOKSTORES PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO. Mr. Parsons is forty-six years old and is a native of Hornell, He has practiced law in Hornell ever since his graduation succeeds Patrick E. Callahan, whose '98. B.S.—Jesse Fuller, jr., of Brook- from the Cornell law school in 1890. resignation takes effect on September lyn, was married to Miss Florence Bea- He has been both city attorney and city 25. The salary of the office is $7,500. trice James at Brooklyn on September 5. recorder of Hornell, and was appointed Mr. Freshman has been assistant in the '99, M.E.—Eads Johnson, junior, is a deputy attorney general under Mr, office of District Attorney Cropsey of Carmody in 1911. His term of office as pleased to announce the arrival of his Kings County since January 1, 1912. baby brother, Lewis McClellan Johnson, Attorney General will expire on Decem- Soon after that appointment he was pro- ber 31, 1914. at 7 Westover Road, Montclair, N. J., moted to the charge of the appeal de- on August 16. '91, M.E.—From army orders of partment of the office and was from August 15 : "Capt. Frank A. Barton, then on in charge of appeals in criminal '00, B.S. ('01)—Robert M. Ogden has resigned his position as professor of Cavalry, is assigned to duty as com- cases in the Appellate Division and the philosophy and psychology in the Uni- mandant, United States Military Prison, Court of Appeals. After his graduation versity of Tennessee to accept a pro- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, upon the re- from the law school he was for some fessorship of psychology in the Uni- time associated with the late James Mc- lief of Col. Herbert J. Slocum, Cavalry.'' versity of Kansas, at Lawrence. The Military Prison at Fort Leaven- Keen, at one time Corporation Counsel worth is now under transformation into in Brooklyn. Afterward he became '01, LL.B.—A daughter, who has been a Detention Barracks for military of- counsel for the grievance committee of named Mary Cowham Senior, was born fenders. There are about a thousand of the Brooklyn Bar Association and for to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Senior at them there now. A new three million three years he was in charge of the prose- Jackson, Mich., on September 13. dollar detention barracks is nearing cution of disbarment proceedings. His '06, M.E.—Henry Atwater sold his completion within the walls of the old most recent work in the District At- manufacturing business last spring and prison, and an entire battalion of de- torney *s office has been the handling of has associated himself with Guenzel & tentioners is already organized. Cap- the beef investigation in an inquiry into Drummond, architects, 332 South Mich- tain Barton was professor of military food prices. igan Avenue. Chicago. science and tactics at Cornell for four '96, Ph.B.; '97, LL.B.—Oliver Dud- '06, LL.B.—The Democratic party in years, 1904-1908, Before he was or- ley Burden, of Syracuse, is a candidate the Eleventh Assembly District of dered to Fort Leavenworth he was with for the Republican nomination for Jus- Kings County (Brooklyn), N. Y., has Troop F, Third Cavalry, on the Mexican tice of the Supreme Court. The Post- offered another nomination to former border. Standard says that his petition has been Assemblyman Karl S. Deitz, but he has '94, B.L.; '96, LL.B.—Edward A. signed by more than five thousand en- declined it. Freshman has been appointed by Cor- rolled Republicans of the fifth judicial '07, B.S.A.—John B. Shepard has poration Counsel Polk of the City of district. The district comprises the resigned his position of consulting agri- New York to be Assistant Corporation counties of Onondaga, Jefferson, Oneida, cultural engineer and is returning to Counsel in the Brooklyn office. He Oswego, Herkimer, and Lewis. Cornell for further study. He expects CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 11 to continue to give his attention chiefly to the agricultural end of irrigation and drainage work. His time, thus far, has been divided between the states of New York, Texas, Washington, and Florida. '08, M.E.—Robert P. Turner has given up his position as manager of the Jno. B, Turner Company, contracting engineers, to accept the position of mechanical engineer with the General Roofing Manufacturing Company, Sev- enteenth Street and Broadway, East St. Louis, III. Turner's home address is 5732 McPherson Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. '09, A.B.—Anna Mary Collins was married on June 18 to George Wright Kellogg (Yale, 1895), professor of Latin at Union College, Schenectady. N, Y. '09, LL.B.—Mrs. William Drennen, of Birmingham, Ala., has announced the engagement of her daughter, Mary Lee Drennen, to William Bew White '09. The wedding will take place on Novem- ber 10. White is in the law office of Tillman, Bradley & Morrow, of Birm- ingham, '10, A.B.; '13, A.B.—Mr. John A. Hofmann announces the marriage of his daughter, Ruth Newell Hofmann J13, to A. Sellew Roberts '10, on August 25, at Hill Crest, Frankford, Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are residing at STOP! 1519 Hays Street, Boise, Idaho, where Roberts is teaching history. r10, LL.B.^-Mrs. John R. Heintz an- LOOK! nounces the marriage of her daughter, Agnes Walker, to William H. Kennedy 10, at Buffalo, N. Y,p on September 16. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy will be at home after January 1st at 101 Windsor Ave- nue, Buffalo, N. Y. '11, A.B.; '13, A.B.—Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Stephens announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Mosby Sign the Coupon for the Widow Stephens ('13), to John Harvey Sherman (11), on September 13, at Christians- for 1914-15. burg, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman will be at home after October 17 at The Coronado, Washington, D, C. '11. M.E.—The wedding of William Welles Lyman '11 to Miss Gladys E, —COUPON Latimer will take place on October 1st at the Palmer Homestead, Montville, ^°n They will live at Binghamton,

» LL.B.—Walter R. Kuhn has been d upon by the Democrats of the hereby subscribe to the ienth Assembly District of Kings Widow for 1914-15. bounty (Brooklyn), N. Y., for the nom- ~ Subscription price $2.50. ination for Assemblyman. COMING! COMING! 13, M.E.—Frank Short has become That Brown Game Number $2.00 if paid before Nov- *£ instructor in the department of ember 15th. Pnyacs and electrical engineering at the 12 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

University of Alabama, After gradua- '13, M.E.—Clinton W. Brown has for the Liquid Carbonic Company in tion he entered the testing department changed his business from the Moon Chicago. They all three live at 3210 of the General Electric Company at Motor Company of St. Louis to the Arthington Street, Chicago, 111. Schenectady. He continued his studies, Certified Roofing Company of St. Louis. '14, C.E.—Roy D. Burdick is em- and last June he received the degree of '14, M.E.—Thomas I. S. Boak's ad- ployed by the Northern Ohio Traction Master of Science in Electrical Engi- dress is 55 Erie Street, Oswego, N. Y. & Light Company. His address is 224 neering from Union College. While Hamilton Building, Akron, Ohio. keeping up these two kinds of activity '14, A.B.—Edmund D. Sickels is with he found time to file about thirty patent the Franklin Motor Car Company of '14, C.E.—Harold A. Mossman is in dockets with the General Electric Com- New York. His address is 604 West the efficiency department of the Re- pany. 115th Street, New York. public Metalware Company, Buffalo. T His address is 133 Vermont Street, Buf- , M.E.—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. 14, M.E.—Lawrence Eddy is in the falo, N. Y. Crawford, of East Orange, N. J., an- mechanical engineer's office of the New nounce the engagement of their daugh- York Central Railroad, Grand Central '14, M.E.^James G. Rowe's address ter, Halcyon, to Dudley W. Wallace '13, Terminal, New York, is Box 577, Butler, Pa. He is in the in- of Montclair, N. J. '14—Donald Alexander, T. B. Crews, spection department of the Standard '13, M.E.^On account of the war in jr., and A. M. Shelton are all working Steel Car Company's works there. Europe, J. S. Whyte has left W. N. Brunton & Son, wire mills, in Scotland. I. Brooks Clarke 'OO, President W. A. Shackleton, Sec'y & Treasurer He had passage booked on a ship leaving NORFOLK BLOUSE FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE Our Norfolk Blouse and Sacque suits are built for comfort, yet they carry a style and finish Glasgow September 19. He will proba- that is just what you want. Through our intimate knowledge of your ideas and requirements bly be with the Macomber & Whyte we have originated a style that is unique. Come in and pick out the patterns you want made up. Rope Company at Kenosha, Wis., on SHACKLETON, Inc.* TAILORS his return to this country. 431 Filth ATC, betw. 38th and 39th Sts. Telephone 1703 Murray Hill Established 1898 ATTENTION, 1914 CUT FLOWERS MAYERS We still have some official Large assortment of all seasonable vane- tics. Floral Decorations for all Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco and BBB 1914 CLASS PIPES occasions at moderate cost a full line of SPECIAL PRICE $3.00 THE BOOL FLORAL CO ! SMOKERS' SUPPLIES Awarded all the official class pipes from '04 to '16 inclusive. Every wearer of Cloth for Fall and Winter in a the Varsity C University Smoke Shop great variety of handsome patterns is an eater of ITHACA HOTEL Carr & Stoddard Burns Family Bread TAILORS He gets it at the Mr. Stoddard was formerly cutter training tables. with Mr. George Griffin Printing Up_ to a Standard Why? Ask your neighbor. Not Down to a Price

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