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Telluride N e"Ws Letter VoL XIII April, 1927 No.2 STAFF DAN C. LIND SA y ____ ........................................................................ Edz"tor EL.UER M. J OHNSON. __________________ Editor Emeritus and Alumni Editor CARLYLE M. ASHLEY.------------·------·-·---·-·-····------··--··--·--Associate Editor FRANK MoNAGHAN ................................................ Comell Correspondent JOHN B. ABBOTT......................................... JJeep Springs Correspondent CONTENTS EDITORALS: Page No. The Cost of the NEWS LETTER.-................................................... 2 Robert Maynard Hutchins............................................................ 2 A ''Pre-Professional'' School._..................................................... 2 The Louis Lathrop Memorial._............................. ........................ 3 The Woodrow Wilson Prize Essay .................................... .... -.... 3 The L. L. Nunn Biography.......................................................... 4 Clmrles DooliUle WakoU _______ ......................... -............................ 5 COMMUNICATIONS: V. Y. Davouil Dies........................................................................ 6 Dean Kimball Speaks Frankly... _................................................. 6 Oliver Cle-rk.................................................................................... 7 Judge James B. Tucker........................................................ ........ 9 Specifications for a Cltancellor, Tom McFaddm ........................ 11 Paul P. Ashworth .......................................................................... 13 Joh.n E. Meehan ........ ----···---··---------··---------··------------------............... 14 E. M. Johnson, Propo~cs a1t Endowed FeLlowship .................... 15 Paut F. Cadman ...... ·-'·: ........ -....................................................... 15 Cabot Coville ________ .......................................................................... 17 Parker Bailey_____ ............................................................................ 18 Robert Dann. ____ .................................... .......................................... 19 Da11e Wegg Deserts Washington for Broad<L•ay .......................... 20 W. F. Courtney .............................................................................. 20 Jolm C. Van Etten ........................................................................ 21 Merr£ll Wrench Freezes in Arizona ............................... - ........... 21 W. L. Cone._ ................................................................................... 21 Deep Springs Notes._ ..................................................................... 22 Cornell Branch Notes .................................................................... 26 Harvey Mansfield ................................ , ........... - ............................ 28 A Telluride Gathering ............................. - ..................................... 2!) B riefinks... ............ ...... .... .. .... ..... .... .. .. ..... ..... ... .. .. ... ... .. ..... 30 Past Midnight .............................................................................. 31 TELLURIDE DIRECTORY .......... ____ ._ ..... _ ............. - ....................... - ... 32 PUBLISHED AT 750 FRELlNGHUYSEN AVENUE - NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Address communications to D. C. LINDSAY 2 TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER TELLURIDE NEWS LETTER 3 laboratories arc connected with many industries. Business is related to art-certain types of THE COST OF THE NEWS LETTER buslnP~s more closely than others. Business has been and is related to government. The udc.nt i 11 the business school ls led to become interested In these relations, and thereby 1 st all to The first issue of Volume 13 of the NEWS LETTEn cost approximately $125. cut a wide swath over the whole field of culture. A cultivated man ls one who can say: 'I am a man; nothlnu human ls foreign to me.' Alm_ost all things human arc relatcct to business. A Was it 1uortlt it? \Vc think so.' 1 t went to a mailing list of somewhat over 300 cultured busin<·~s man ls one who takes them 111. members and friends of Telluride Association. That it was welcome a~d "3 I ntc.rcst In the fnture career at the age of 17 or thereabouts Is a sure means of preventing served to stimulate interest in our problems is evidenced by the response tn the tc..udency toward lmmorallsm and pessimism which arc at present spreading among adole the current issue. scents. The right ontlook on one's future work in life makes for cnth,t,tslasm, concentration and The issue which you arc reading will probably cost about the same as the <:>nergy, and is the best check on the disintegrating forces o( the age, first. Our appropnation was $125 from the Association and $125 from the Allllnni Assoc1ation. A total of $250. It's spent/ . \Ne want one'more issue of the NEWS LETTER. A pre-conventton number m THE LOUIS LATHROP MEMORIAL J unc. We're going to have it though the Editors may be forced to go out with a gas pipe. On page 12 of the last issue of th~ NEWS LETTER ~ note ~~om ~rofe~sor ? ur,~ Certain members in New York and vicinity have already expressed their and one from R. E. Treman was prmted under the title of, A W1dow s Mtte. willingness to contribute. This pertains to an a~ed m,other's offer of $100 towar~ the Cornell Univ.ersi~y War Memorial Donmtory m memory of her son, Louts Lathrop, who dtcd 1n the service of the United States Army in France, in 1918. You uro ollcred this opportunity to keep your StotT out of trouble. We aholl watch It took on! y this to arouse a span tan eo us. mov~men t on the T?a r~ of certain the m11fl anx!ouslf for letter!! conta!nlntt checks ranglnj), from ono to five Dolhus. A full accounting w !I bo made to tho Convention. Telluride me~ t.o attempt to cnd.ow a room m thts War Memonal m memory of our Assocm t10n brother and lll memory of a Cornell man. In fact, even before the NEWS LETTER was distributed, the Editor received n letter from Jack Hoyt of Buffalo, suggesting that memb.crs ~nd friends of ~ellurid~ Associ~ ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS tion in view of Mrs. Lathrop's offer, and 1n v1ew of the sacnfice wh1ch Louts Lathrop made, should individually contribute toward the endowment of such Somethin.g of ability 1 something of I uck, u ndoubtcd I y an un usua I a mo~m t ?f earnest work and stratgbt thinking with a purRose.-We've been dealing m a room. the abstract; calling for "qualities of leadership.' We aren.'t sure of a meth.od The movcmen~ has been started and Presi.dcnt Laylin has appointed a temporary commtttee made up of-Dan C. Lmdsay, john D. Hoyt Frank of determining these attributes in a sixteen-year old appltcant for Tcllunde 1 Association membership but that's the kind we want. Better than that) .Monaghan, Oliv_cr .Clark an~ Dan fleck. :rhe. committe~ has work to do to here's a model for our members who arc young and still busy in preparing gat~er ~ subscnpt10n t~tallmg $!5,000. wluch IS to be gtven to th~ Co~nell themselves for service. Umverstty War Memonal Commtttee 1n order that one room of th1s umt of We ha vc read with interest the announcement that Robert Maynard the great Cornell dormitory group might be dedicated to the memory of I-I utchi ns, a lad of 28 years, has been made acting dean of the Yale Law School. Louis Lathrop. There is every indication that this will be a permanent appointment. Already a number of Telluride men have pledged themselves for an amount Hutchins was made Secretary of Yale University when he was but 23. exceeding what might be considered their prorata donation. If each man While he was proving his ability and maki11g good at that he studied law. It having connection with the Association should contribute a like amount the couldn't have been that he was then intent upon his present position but committee would collect far in excess of the $51000 quota. certainly he was studying with a purpose. He was preparing for service. T\1en It should be necessary to make but this one appeal to members and friends luck came, but it is always important to place yourself in the way of opporturuty. of Telluride Association. No doubt we shall have to do more but here the The faith of Yale in a youth shouldn't disturb us. Still f rcsh in our memory opportunity is offered. The Committee through the Edit<?r of the NE~S is the account of the life of the late Doctor Elliot who in his early thirties took LETTER will be glad to receive pledges from any member or fnend of Tellunde the presidency of Harvard. Association in amounts from $10.00 up. We wish to be prepared to deliver to the Cornell University War Memorial Committee $5 000 at the time of Telluride Association Convention in June. A PRE-PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL AND ETHICAL CULTURE May we ask for the hearty co-operation of all members and friends of the Association? The following recent announcement should interest Telluride Association. THE EDITOR-For the Committee Perhaps there is a thought here which we might use. At least it is another experiment in education, itt educatiott with a purpose. Dr. F'elix Adler has announced a gift by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of $250,000 toward the foundation of a "Pre-Professional" School to be conducted by the THE WOODROW WILSON PRIZE ESSAY Ethical Culture School in New York City. An Opportunity for Telluride Scholars Dr. Adler summarized the objects of the school as follows: Inserted in this issue of the NEWS LETTER is the announcement of a prize "!. To t<ave waste.