September 1, 1914—August 31, 1915
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CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Volume Seventeen LH 1 C3+ SEPTEMBER 1, 1914—AUGUST 31, 1915 Published weekly throughout the college year Monthly in July and August Forty issues and index to a volume ITHACA, NEW YORK a? 7 7984 - I lit VOL. XVII, No. 1 [PRICE TEN CENTS] SEPTEMBER 24, 1914 ITHACA, NEW YORK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS The Farmers* Loan and INVESTMENT PROBLEMS atom £rfjmii far This is a time to scrutinize your investments Trust Company carefully and seek the best advice in connection An ENDOWED PREPARATORY SCHOOL 16, 18, 20, 22 William St., New York therewith. We have NOTHING TO SELL, but are in- Illustrated Boek 9» Branch 475 5th Ave. terested only in what will best meet the special requirements of each individual customer. Closing prices of all securities furnished on Ttans Sbdte B*r, Ph.D., Pirt Dtp«it, ij-kNTbrtv S 15 Cockspur St., S. W. request. LOMUUN I 2g ow Broad SUE c Send for our pamphlet PARIS 41 Boulevard Haussmanit SHIFTING of INVESTMENTS. BERLIN 56 Unter den Linden N. 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Y., SEPTEMBER 24, 1914 PRICE 10 CENTS • 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.