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Every event is an bccasion for flowers. In your undergraduate days, the Lehigh Valley sought to earn your patronage by rendering you its best in every detail of service. By the the same means it seeks to maintain and strengthen the tie. Rased solely on its capacity to please you-and not because of "old times' saken-the Lehigh Valley invites your attention to its train service between Xew York or Philadelphia and Ithaca, Rochester, Buffalo,Niagara Falls, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago. The Boo1 Floral Its representatives will welcome your inquiries. Company, Inc. Cehigh Valley Railroad "TheHouse of Universal Service"

+ The Route of The Black Diamond r Ithaca, New York CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XXVII, NO. 11 ITHACA,N. Y., DECEMBER4, 1924

I GHTEES hundred enthusiastic Bronxville, who won the fifty- and one- purchased additional land at the north supporters of the team attended the hundred-yard dashes and helped greatly end of the City of Ithaca, including Percy E second football rally in Bailey Hall in the relay race. Field and the boathouse of Cascadilla on November 25 and most of them marched School, and will soon start on the further OTTOA. STARKE,JR., '27 of Ludington, with red flares behind the band to see the development of the property. The first Michigan, was elected to the board of team off for Philadelphia. Coach Dobie step is to dredge Fall Creek cove and directors and managers of The Sibley told the crowd that the chances of being tributary waters to drain some of the Journal on November 25. beaten were at least ten to one, and that marshes. The development is being car- "with studious engineers and Phi Beta THE SAGECHAPEL Preacher for Decem- ried on with the proceeds of a fund left for Kappas" Cornell could not hope to beat ber 7 will be the Rev. Robert P. Wilder, that purpose by the late Mayor Edwin one of the greatest teams in the country. general secretary of the Student Volunteer C. Stewart. Other speakers were Rev htartin D. Movement for Foreign Missions. BOLD,BAD PIRATES held the stage of the Hardin, Harold Flack '12, Captain Frank THE BOARD TRACK has been laid on Campus Theater in Goldwin Smith on L. Henderson '25, and Robert E. Treman Schoellkopf Field, after some repairing on November 21 and 22 when the Dramatic '09, who presided. The rally was arranged the turns, and practice started on Novem- Club presented "Wappin' Wharf," its first by the Red Key. ber 28, with the close of the cross-country three-act play of the season. It was so ON THANKSGIVIKGDAY afternoon season. well done that the room was crowded for thirty-five hundred spectators watched both performances, arld they were re- THE WOMEN'SDEBATING TEAM which the progress of the game on the grid- peated on November 28 and 29 to crowds will represent Cornell against the Univer- graph in the Drill Hall. Professor Charles fully as large and appreciative. sity of Buffalo on December 13 will con- L. Durham '99 and hlarvin T. Herrick sist of Lucy L. Keate '25 of Falconer, THE TWO PORTRAITS of Former Deans '22 were the official announcers; diversions hlarjorie C. Mchlullen '27 of Schenectady, Albert ITT. Smith '78 and Eugene E. were provided by exhibition wrestling Doris M. Wood '27 of Washington, and Haskell '79 paint,ed by Professor Olaf M. matches, by an unscheduled altercation in D. M. Johnston '28 of Jamestown. They Brauner, which have been on exhibition the audience, and by the workmen aloft mill debate in Barnes Hall the question: at the Cornell Club of New York, are soon raising and lowering huge buckets of tar "Resolved, that the present tendency to- to be brought to Ithaca and hung in the through a hole in the roof. ward a third political party is justifiable." offices of Dean Dexter S. Kimball and THE BOXIR'GCLUB at its first meeting Professor William N. Barnard '97 in the A SCHOOL for officials at basketball of the year at Barnes Hall on Xovember Engineering College. games was conducted last week by Coach 25 elected officers and planned its pro- Howard B. Ortner '18, in preparation for SIGMAXI this year at Cornell is in- gram. The officers are: president, Joseph the interfraternity and independent league augurating a series of meetings at which A. Lazarus '25 of Bayonne, Kew Jersey; games this winter, when student officials representatives from each department of vice- resident, Terry S. Hinklc '25 of will be given practice. the Cniversity will present briefly the New York; secretary, Charles L. Pope '26 substance of the investigations being of Montclair, New Jersey; treasurer, THETAXI won the year's interfraternity carried on in the different laboratories. Norman A. hliller '26 of Evanston, soccer championship by defeating on The first of these, on November 25, was Illinois; and manager, Harry W. Hoff, November 23 the Chinese Club, last year's addressed by Dr. Ralph M. Holmes of the Jr., '26 of New York. champions. This year's winners have for Physics Department, Robert B. Corey, the past three years played in the final THEC. U. C. A. on December 3 started Chemistry; Albert H. Wright, Zoology; match of the season. its annual campaign for funds among the and Sutherland Simpson, Physiology. University community. The goal set is THE LARGEST BAND ever sent with LECTURESfor the week included "The $6,000, which will barely meet the ex- Cornell teams to an out-of-town engage- Peloponnesus" by Professor Eugene P. penses of the coming year, it is announped. ment made the trip to Philadelphia on Andrews '95, being the fourth in his President Farrand addressed the commit- Thanksgiving Day as a result of a drive popular series on "A Journey from Venice tee of undergraduates and members of the for funds which netted $413.74; a balance to Athens and Crete," on December 4; staff in charge of the campaign on the of $265 left from collections in the home and "The Passing of the Old West" by evening of December 2. stadium after the trip to the Dartmouth Lieutenant, Colonel Charles W. Furlong game; and a contribution of $383 left over '02, A VERBAL BATTLE regarding the desir- illustrated, on the Goldwin Smith from the fund to send the scrubs to Phila- ability of permitting "stags" at the All- Foundation, on December 5. delphia. Forty-eight players, the director, Cornell dances in the Old Armory was NORMANP. BROWN'22 is the seventh the manager, and the drum major made waged in the Sun last week. One con- of the alumni track and cross country the trip. tributor contended that he could take no representatives to visit the Campus in the pleasure and was rapidly developing into a A NEW CUSTOM has started in the Col- interests of the teams. He donned the liar and a grouch because of their insistence lege of Agriculture with the holding, on uniform over the last week end and worked on dancing with his lady. To this an- the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of out with the undergraduates, as well as other promptly replied that "stags" were each month, of song meetings to stimulate speaking before the meeting of the Track the life of the party and exp~ssedthe interest in group singing. Cass W. Whit- Club. ney '13 led the first of these, using illustra- hope that Cornell will "produce bigger FIVE TEAMS have been entered in the and better stags." tive slides. on November Zi. The affairs Indep'endents' basketball league and are sponsbred by the ~~iiculturalAs- THE FRESHMAN swimming team on several more are expected before the final sociation. November 25 defeated Ithaca High schedule is drawn up for this winter's School by a score of 56 to 16, narrowly THE COMR.IISSION in charge of the de- games. The winner of this league will winning six of the eight events. The star velopment of Stewart Park, of which play the winner of the Interfraternitv for Cornell mas H. IT. Hooker, Jr., of Robert H. Treman '78 is chairman, has league for the University championship CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

President Farrand Gives Annual Report for Year harmonious architectural development in the future. There is also involved, and now under active consideration, the im- Describes Restriction of Numbers and Plans for New Gymnasium, portant question of landscape develop- Engineering Buildings, and Library Addition ment and definite recommendations in this point are awaited in the near future from N his annual report submitted to the working out a method applicable to our the Architectural Commission." I Board of Trustees on November 22, own situation. It is interesting to note the The report goes on to enumerate the after noting changes in the Board of apparent unanimity with which the in- chief gifts of the year, and to emphasize Trustees and Faculty, the President stitutions which have actively grappled the importance of the Heckscher Research points out that the number of students for with the problem, have reached the con- Fund. "I doubt if any provision in the the year ending June 30 was 5,588 as clusion that certain criteria other than University's repources has done more to compared with 5,502 for the previous year. scholarship must be Considered if a desir- strengthen this fundamental phase of t,he He goes on to discuss the problem of able quality of product is to be assured. University function." restriction of numbers. "During the past Character, personality, and potential capa- Concerning informal study the Presi- year the problem has been met with city for leadership will be given appropri- dent says: ''One of the most baffling partial success by rigid enforcement of ate weight, even though the scholarship problems in college education in America existing requirements and certain arbi- record of the applicant will remain the has long been that of the admittedly un- trary rules with regard to date of applica- most important basis of selection." satisfactory provision for exceptional stu- tion. It is now evident that the increased In connection with his report on new dents. One of the most frequent indict- pressure for admission is not a temporary buildings the President says: "After full ments of our present system is that the phenomenon but is almost certain to consideration of the most important lacks student of exceptional ability is neces- continue, and definite methods of selection in the University's building equipment, sarily penalized in his progress in the in- of applicants are being worked out by the the Trustees have authorized the prepar- terests of the average student of less faculties concerned. The Medical College ation of definite architectural plans for an ability. Recognizing this situation, the has for some years past been forced to enlargement of the Library, for new engi- Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences exercise rigid selection and the problem of neering buildings, and for a gymnasium. has this year adopted a plan of 'informal numbers is now particularly pressing in the While the funds for these improvements study' which is intended to supersede the College of Arts and Sciences and in the are not now in sight, there can be no doubt existing plan of a degree with honors. The College of Architecture. The difficulties that the possession of carefully considered step is an interesting one and its operation of solution are naturally very great in the plans for the needed additions will greatly will be watched with close attention." case of the College of Arts and Sciences on facilitate the obtaining of the necessary The College of Law goes upon a gradu- account of the numbers involved. . . . money for their erection. :~tcbasis in 1925-6. There has been an "The experience of Cornell in this re- "In this connection should be noted an encouraging increase in registration in law. spect is in no way unique. A large number important step taken by the Board in the Speaking of the progress of the Clinic, of universities in the country are facing appointment of an Architectural Advisory the President remarks: "The professjonal the same difficultv and in certain instances Commission, consisting of Mr. M. B. success of that enterprise has been :clear elaborate methods of selection are being Modary and Dean Francke H. Bosworth, for some time and it is a satisfaction to employed. A careful study has been made to whom shall be referred all questions know that the Clinic is now financially of the experience in sister institutions and relating to new construction or alterations practically self-si~pport~itig.It is felt that full usr will hr made of that rxpericncc in of existing buildings, in ordcr to insure :L contrib~t~ionof cxcept,ionnl value llas

f'holo by Ti i.y SOME OF THE MEN WHO HATE FOLLOWED Whetstono Wade Blurria CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 139

been made to this fundamental medico- Pennsylvania Wins Thanksgiving Day Game 20-0 social problem." ('The Board has had before it and is Inability of Defense to Solve Aerial Attack Proves Costly-Cornell is actively dealing as rapidly as resources permit with the question of building ac- Again Superior in Running Game commodations for the various Colleges of the University. Of even more importance FEW swift and dazzlingly effective cornell-of what looked like a golden op- is the necessity of unceasing effort to im- A plays gave Pennsylvania a 20 to o portunity. prove the scale of remuneration for the victory over Cornell on Thanksgiving The game opened auspiciously from thc University Faculties. The increased cost Day. Thus the Red and Blue broke up Cornell viewpoint. Soon after the kick- of living applies obviously to the opera- Cornell's three-year winning streak, and off, the Dobie machine ground out three tion of the physical plant of the Univer- finished,its season undefeated for the first. first downs to midfield, Patterson, Whet- sity as well as to the personal budgets of time since 1916. Pennsylvania wrts stone. and Molinet making consistent the members of the teaching staff. This smarter, and more alert; she had at times progress through the Red and Blue line has made it impossible to increase the brilliant generalship; and her passing and past their tackles. Pennsylvania standard of remuneration as rapidly as game, while not as elaborate as Dart- rallied, and Whetstone kicked deep into had been hoped and as is urgently de- mouth's, successfully penetrated the Cor- Pennsylvania territory. In a few minutes manded if Cornell is to be,able to withstand nell defense. Whetstone had torn through Pennsyl- t,he inducements to its proven teachers to Inability on the part of the backfield to vania to the seventeen-yard line. Again accept positions at higher remuneration in cope with the passing game, a.nd fumbling he went through for a gain, but fumbled, sister institutions. That we have not were the principal factors in Cornell's and Pennsylvania, recovering, got her- suffered more seriously than we have is upset. The game was more closely fought self out of a bad hole. largely due to the devotion of the Faculty. than the score indicates but at its con- In the second period Cornell kept The Faculty as well as the Board of Trus- clusion none could question that the better Pennsylvania on the defensive deep in tees are deeply appreciative of the active team had won. her own territory. A punt by Kruez was effort which is being made by the Cor- In a way it was a repetition of the blocked and Molinet recovered for Cor- nellian Council to meet this problem and Williams, Rutgers, and Dartmouth games. nell on Pennsylvania's twenty-two-yard I wish to emphasize at this time the in- Cornell was beaten largely through her line. Rushes made four yards, but debtedness of the University to the Coun- own errors, loose handling of the ball, Molinet fumbled on the third down, Pap- cil for its disinterested energy in marshal- questionable generalship occasionally, and worth fell on it for the Quakers, and ling alumni support. failure to defend properly against the pass. Cornell had lost another great chance to "No institution of the complexity of And such breaks as t,here were were against strike home. Cornell is, or ever will be, free from her. Then the tide turned. After two ex- problems of difficulty. It is perhaps a Cornell Threatens Early changes of punts in which MeGraw had sign of vigor that such is the fact. I know There were moments when it seemed the better of the duel with Whetstone, that the Faculty of the University is as if Cornell might win. Twice the Red Pennsylvania had the ball on Cornell's keenly alive to the educational responsi- and Whit,e reached the Pennsylvania forty-yard lin~. Like lightning, thc bilities placed in its charge and I believe seventeen-yard line, the first team this Quakers struck through the air. A for- that the problems peculiar to Cornell are year that had rushed beyond the Red ward pass, McGraw to Laird, made a first for the most part recognized and in process and Blue twenty-yard mark. But on down on the twenty-two-yard line and on of solution." each occasion a disastrous fumble robbed the next play McGraw threw a twenty-

THE PIGSKIN THIS \'EAR FOR COltZiELL Photo by Troy Patterson Wester Hoekelman 140 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS - five-yard pass to Thayer, who jumped into the air and grabbed the ball after a Football Scores I CLUB ACTIVITIES Cornell back had touched it. This gave the Red and Blue their first score. Two Cornell 56, St. Bonaventure o. Cornellians made for the oval at the same Cornell 27, Niagara o. Louisiana time that Thayer leaped but the Penn- Cornell 7, Williams 14. The Cornell Club of Louisiana invited sylvania end made a brilliant play and Cornell o, Rutgers 10. the Dartmouth men of Sew Orleans to grabbed the pigskin after seemingly the Cornell 14, Columbia o join them in a luncl~eonheld at the St. pass was grounded. He was only a few Cornell 91, Susquehanna o. Charles Hotel on November I j. -1 direct yards from the goal line and the rest was Cornell 14, Dartmouth 27. !%-ire brought returns from the Polo easy. Cornell o, Pennsylvania 20. Grounds in New Tork. Kruez kicked goal, and Pennsylvania Total, Cornell 209, Opponents 71. Philadelphia Women had the edge. The next meeting of the Philadelphia Within five minutes the swift and alert' Women's Club will be a luncheon at the Quakers had struck home again. Patter- Lincoln Hotel, 1222 LOCLIS~Street, at son's punt was blocked by Singer and and fifty yards, while Cornell completed 12:45 On Saturday, December 6, All Coleman fell on it for the Red and Blue on three out of nine passes for gains of forty Cornell >Tomen are cordially invited, Cornell's forty-yard line. Henderson yards. Anna E. Biddle '10, 5901 Thompson threw Douglas for a four-yard loss, but on For Cornell Henderson, ICearney, met- street,, is in charge of the meeting, the next play McGrau, threw a short stone, and Patterson stood out. McGraw, pass to Douglas, and before the Cornell Kreuz. Thayer, and Douglas were Penn- New York defense could get into action the fleet sylvania's luminaries. The Cornell Club of New Pork \\-as one halfback darted down the north side of The line-up and summary: of seven New York college clubs repre- the field for a touchdown, scored after a Pennsylvania (20) Cornell (0) sented at a formal dinner on the evening of thirty-yard run. pennsylvania was too Craig...... L.E...... Renderson the opening of the new \\-jlliams Club of McGinlep...... L.T...... Kearnev yewyo&. F,dwin 3. Sanderson 'a7 at- quick, too for the Cornel' olem man ...L.G...... orris tellded as vice-president of the Cornell defense. The first half ended with a Robinson...... C...... Reed score of 14 to oj and Pennsylva?in had a Papworth...... R.G...... Carey Club. commanding lead. Rillson...... 1Z.T ...... Evans The dinner was held at the Union League Fairchild...... 1Z.E...... Kneen club on yovember Ig, the party of twenty- The third and Laird...... Q.B...... JITeater nine inclllding President Harry A. Garfield touchdown came in the third period, Douglas...... L.H.B...... Patterson from one of those unexpectedly swift McGraw...... R.H.B...... Molinet and the trustees of rl'illiams College. The breaks that are of modern Kruez...... F.B...... Whetstone new clubhouse is on East Thirty-ninth football. Morris had int,ercepted a Penn- Score by periods: Street, just west of Park Avenue and ad- Pennsylvania...... o 14 6 0-20 sylvania pass on ~~~~~111~forty-five- jacent to the Princeton Club. On the night Cornel'...... 0 yard line. Patterson made ten yards and of the opening the membership committee Touchdowns: Thayer, Douglas 2. Points reported hundred and fifij, mem- though the ball was fumbled on the next after touchdown: Kruez 2 (place kicks). play, Whetstone recovered on Pennsyl- Substitutes: Thayer for Craig, Singer hers. -- vania's forty-five-yard line. H~~~patter- for Fairchild, Butler for Colema11, Leth for Laird, Isalg for Wester, Dewhurst for MUSICAL CLUBS TO GO SOUTH son elected to pass. He was hurried a bit, McGinlep, Fairchild for Singer, singer and the pass was not swift enough. for ~~i~~hild,~i~ld~for Douglas, ?\Iunns With a special program containing some Douglas grabbed it out of the air on for Evans, Thomas for Leth, Maruc for appropriate plantation music, the ?IIusical Pennsylvania's thirty-seven-yard line and Butler, Fules for Thomas. Clubs ill travel South this year on their thirty-first annual Christinas trip. More ran down the southern boundary for a pi?~fe{$j~~c~~~~f~~',"~a'~~~ touchdown, eluding Wester, Cornell's linesman: charley ~~kl~~,~~~~hi~~t~~ than sixty members of the Glee and fastest man, easily. Kruez failed at goal, and Jeffer~on. Field judge: A. W.Pal- Mandolin Clubs will take the Atlantic but Pennsylvania had twenty points and mer, Colby. Time of periods: 15 minutes. coast line in special cars, making their the game. first stop at Baltimore on December 26. Cornell was beaten, but kept on fighting CORNELL IN SIGMA XI The next day the Clubs will appear at to the very end. As a matter of fact, ex- Cornell was well represented at the 11-ilmington, Delaware, and from there cept for Douglas's run for a touchdown in annual dinner of the xew York alumni of they will jump to Birmingham, Alabama, the third period, Cornell gained more Sigma Xi held at the Fraternities Club on for a ~erformanceon December 29. ground than Pennsylvania in the second November 17. Professor Floyd K. Richt- Atlanta, Georgia, will welcome them the half, and was more often on the aggressive. meyer '04 spoke as president of the nation- next day, and their New Year's Eve con- The team made a final bid for a score in a1 society. Dr. Vernon Kellogg, who was a cert will be given in Greenville, North the last quarter, when a twenty-five-yard student in the Graduate School in 1891 Carolina. Starting homeward, they will pass, Patterson to Henderson, put the ball and 1892 and who is now secretary of the appear in the Xew Willard Hotel of Wash- on the Quakers' thirty-two-yard line. National Research Council, spoke on "The ington on New Year's Day, and on Janu- Rushing took the ball to the fifteen-yard New Battle Front of Civilization." Ed- uary 2 they will be in Trenton, New Jer- line, but here two passes were grounded, win N. Sanderson '87 spoke as one of the sey. The trip will end with a concert in the second behind the goal line, and the charter members of the first chapter. the Town Hall at New York on January 3. last hope of a score vanished. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell in 1887. As has usually been the custom, alumni :. Cornell's line defense was impregnable; clubs in the various cities are sponsoring it was better in fact than Pennsylvania's. CORNELLmakes a contribution to its the Cornell concerts and makingarrange- Cornell was clearly superior in rushing, sister institution, Keuka college^ at Perm ments for dances, tens, and other enter- making seven first downs to one for Perm- Yan, by furnishing plans for the latest tai~lment. In Greenville, State Senator sylvania. The Dobie crew made one type of sewage disposal system for a new Anthony F. McKissick '91 is in charge of hundred and fifty yards by straight foot- dormitory being erected there. the program, and in Washington the Clubs ball to seventy for Pennsylvania. These DEANVERANUS A. MOORE'87 was one will be entertained at a tea dance in statistics, however, are more vital to the of the speakers at the annual convention honor of Dr. Sao-Ice Alfred Sze 'or, outcome: Pennsylvania completed six out of the Southeastern States Veterinary Chinese ambassador to the United States. of ten passes and intercepted one Cornell Medical Association, held in Richmond, Willard I. Emerson '19, is in charge of aerial for gains of more than one hundred Virginia, on November 10 and I 1. arrangements in Kew York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Gives Bonus to Cornell "If all the alunlni of all the colleges and SPORT STUFF universities of the Pnited States would Walter R. Kuhn '12 Returns New York follow the example of so many Cornell FWar Award to State Through Univer- alumni and make contributions of their It doesn't require the mantle of snow bonus checks to their respective alma under vil~ich7i-e lie to prove that autumn sity to Further Alumni Fund -- maters, what a glorious commentary it has passed and winter is upon us. The would be for our American institutions of football goal posts are down. The various The follortring letter from TTVnlter R. higher education!" playing fields have been top-dressed, Kuhn '12 comes to the ALU~INIYETW seeded and fenced. The board track is from the Cornellian Council, with the placed and in operation. Most of t,he statement that no doubt there are a FACULTYNOTES pean~~tshells have been removed. The number of Cornellians now receiving a flood lights are in transit from Schoellkopf War bonus from the State of New York s to Beebe Lake. Lights burn far into the who object to receiving it for their own DR. ROSCOETT. THATCHER,director of night and the students are studying benefit and would like to return it to the research of the College of Agriculture and feverishly. State, as Xuhn suggests, through Cornell. director of the State Experiment Station It isn't plcasant to be defeated in foot- Harold Flack '12, executive secretary of at Geneva, mas the guest of President and ball hut there are compensations. One the Council, adds that the Veteran's RIrs. Coolidge for a week-end trip on the does not have to he lugged into the Bureau has ruled that ex-service men may Rlayflo~veron November 15 and 16. The annual December silliness ahout football also make the University the beneficiary of other members of the party were Deans championships. TT-e who Lvere licked can their Federal adjusted compensation, and Walter C. Coffey of the University of pass blithely on to something else, leaving that at least one good Cornellian has al- Minnesota and JTilliam RI. Jardine of it to the passionate old grads of the other ready done this. Kansas State Agricultural College, who places-egged on by thc ingenious and Icuhn writes as follows: mith Director Thatcher are members of diabolically provocative sport writers- "Enclosed herewith please find check the Agricultural Commission recently ap- to humiliate their own athletic organiza- of the State of New York to my order, for pointed by the President. $150 which I wish to contribute to the tions and to make undignified asses of AIRS. AKNAB~TSF~RD COMSTOCK '85 Cornell endowment Fund as an addition themselves by bursting into print over the told of "The Beginning of Graduate Work to my former contribution. In making relative merits of many good football for Women of Cornell," speaking to this present contribution, I desire to ex- teams which did not meet. graduate women and their guests on plain the motive that prompts it, other R. B. November 28. than that of assisting such a 17-orthy ALUMNI ENTERTAIN TEAMS cause. A REsoLnTIoN calling upon the people of Sixteen former cross country men who "I believe that all those who served in Texas to maintain an efficient school live in and near New Tork entertained the the War, and were fortunate enough to re- system and asking for eleven specific varsity and freshman squads at dinner at t'urn to their civil pursuits without physi- provisions by legislation to carry out the the Cornell Club on the occasion of their cal impairment, are at least entitled to be recommendations of the Commission trip to the Intercollrgiates. Bn informal spared the humiliation of having a mone- headed by Professor George A. Works, committee of which Charles H. Taussig '02 tary appreciation thrust upon them for a of the College of Agriculture, was pre- was chairman, arranged the party on the duty performed. The promotion of educa- sented before the convention of the Texas evening of Sovember 24. tion is a governmental function which the State Teachers' Association, meeting in In the course of the cheering and sing- St'ate of New Pork has recognized by an- San Antonio from Xovember 27 to 29. ing, a special cheer was given for Iiirby for nually appropriating enormous sums of The resolution approved completely the his fine xvork and spirit during his four money, not only to Cornell, but to other findings of the survey of the State school years at Cornell. That meet was the last in institutions of learning through the State. systcm which Professor T170rks directed which he ill represent the LTniversity, 'as a strict business proposition, we recently. since he expects to graduate in February. Cornellians are well aware of the fact (and PROFESSORITATHAXIEL SCHMIDT was The members of the teams were seated the same holds true for other institutions) scheduled to address the Rotary Club of alternately with alumni, so that everyone that the tuition fee paid by each student Buffalo on "The Far East" on December got acquainted, and enjoyed the party. is all out of proportion to the present cost 4. On Friday noon he speaks before the Jack RIoakley, John T. (Terry) blc- of the services rendered, and if the Faculty Buffalo Cornell Women's Club on "The Govern 'oc, Clc~mentL. (Frosty) Speiden were to be properly conipensat,ed for per- Near East." 'I j, and Taussig spoke bnefly. It was the forming services in every sense just as PROFESSOR THILI,~reads a paper consensus of opinion that such affairs essential to the welfare of the Xation as FRBXK at the Icant PvIemorial Celebration being might well be repeated, and it is hoped those of a soldier in time of lvar, the tuition that the informal organization of former fee now paid would be but a drop in the held in Chicago this week in commemora- track and cross country men recently bucket. tion of the two-hundredth anniversary of formed will help to bring about more such "It is mith this thought in mind that I the birth, of the great German metaphysi- gatherings. contribute my so-called bonus check to the cian and scientist. Those-present besides the speakers and fund established for increasing the salaries DIRECTORPAUL &I.LIKCOLN of the the teams were Ivan C. (Turk) Dresser '19, of those loyal men and omen who unsel- School of Electrical Engineering was called Alvin G. Cadiz '15, Louis R. Bogert '10, fishly make a personal sacrifice by re- to Philadelphia on Kovember 25 to attend lT7illiamR. TT7igley '07, Harold E. Irish '16, maining at their posts of duty for a salary the first meeting of the program committee Edward Cairns 'c6, William D. Crim '16, barely sufficient to meet the cost of living, for the International Engineering Con- Edward G llncilrth~~r'rr, Clayton IT. so that others may be equipped to combat gress, to be held in that city in 1926. This Cousens ' I 5, Ferdinand J. Burgdorff ' 14, the vicissitudes of life and protect the is the first gathering of the sort to be held, Herbert L. Trube '08, J0hn.E. ST'hinery traditions and foundations of our Nation. a former one projected for San Francisco '13, and Robert D. Spear '19. By this contribution I like to feel that I am in 1915 being canceled because of the simply returning the money to the Treas- War in Europe. PROFESSORRALPH S. HOSXER,head of ury of the State, and thereby indirectly to PROFESSOROTHON G. GUERLACspoke the Forestry Department, spoke at the that of the L'nited States, with the reser- on "The Character of the Premier of Wo~nens'Club of Rome on Sovember 12. vation of selecting the channel, namely, France" before memmbers of the French His subject was "Trees and Forestry." Cornell. Alliance of Rochester on November 22. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

ary Science for reqidents of the State, but Immediately :~ftcrgraduation, hc entcr- *'*\"' k' c. r " * therc are liberal opportunities for both cd the law officesof the lntc County Judge . t nthletes and non-combatants to win John C. IIcCartin in Watcrtown and scholarships nnd prizes by competitive studied law, bcing later admitted to the Published for the alumni of Cornell examinations in academic work. bar. When Judge McCartin died, he University by the Cornell Alumni News There is no way of assuring a position continued the practice for a time, then Publishing- Comvanv.A " Incorvorated. Published weekly during the college year and on a team, even when the team is a poor took in Judge Charles H. Walts as a monthly in July and August: forty issues annually. one, except through diligence, good phy- partner. This partnership ended in 1907 Issue No. I is yblished the last Thursday of September. Wee ly publiration (numbered con- sique, and intelligence. when Judge Walts died and the next year secutively) ends the last week in June. Issue No. $0 is published in August and is followed by an There is no way to insure the right to the firm of Pitcher and O'Brien was ~ndexof the entire volume, which will be mailed on compete except through faithful and formed of which he was the head at the request. Subscription price $4.00 a yeaT, payable in ad- intelligent performance of the academic time of his death. vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a yea7 extra. Single copies twelve cents each. requirements. The catch in the free Throughout his life he was active in Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his tuition proposition in the State colleges politics. From 1898 to 1901 he was city subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that is that the student has actually to work attorney in Watertown and from 1904 to a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks. drafts, and orders should be made pay- during some of his vacations for real 1910 was district attorney for Jefferson abel to the The Cornell Alumni News. farmers. County. Later he served two terms as Correspondence should be addressed: The Cornell Alumni News. Ithaca. N. Y. These observations cover many of the State Senator. He was a member of the Editor-in-Chief and questions that come to us on the sub- American Bar Association, the New York Business Manager ] R. W' SAILoR '07 Managing Editor H. A. RTEVENSON '19 ject; we might add that candidates should Statc Bar Association, and the Jefferson Circulation Manager GEO.WM. HORTON have good hearts, strong muscles, and County Bar Association. Assistant Manager, L. B. JUNE'19 preferably and perhaps foremost, should Associate Editors Besides his wife, he is survived by one CLARKS. NORTHUP'93 BRISTOWADAMB be able, willing, and anxious to forswear son, Seymour, his mother, Mrs. S. H. ROMEYNBERRY '04 FOSTERM. COFFIN'12 matrimony and preparations for matri- HARRYG. STUTZ'07 BARRETTL. CRANDALL'13 Pitcher of Adams, and several nieces and News Committee of the Associate Alumni mony until the end of the fourth-year nephews. W. W. Macon '98, Chairman after matriculation. N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 Orville Benson '88 Officers of the Corneli Alumni News Publishing Orville Benson died at Pcquannock, Company, Incorporated: John I,. Senior. President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson. Sec- N. J., on October 19. retary. Office, 123 West Stat,e Street., Ithaca. N. Y. He was born at Sharon, Colin., on Member of The Alumni Magazines, Associated February 9, 1865 and prepared for collegc Printed by The Cornell Publications Printing Co. Courtney Langdon at Amenia Seminary, Amenia, N. Y. In Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Professor Courtney Langdon of Brown 1884 he came to Corncll as a student of ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER 4, 1924 died at his home in Providence, R. I., on civil engineering and graduated in 1888 November 20. with the degree of C. E. He was a member THE BUILDING OF TEAMS He was born in Rome, Italy, on January of the Civil Engineering Association. -HE alumni dinner to the cross 18, I 861, the son of William Chauncey and He was a bridge engineer with the 3 country squads in New York was Hannah Agnes Courtney Langdon, and Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, apparently a complete success. It leads after receiving a preparatory education in Ohio until 1898 when he entered the one to ponder, however, why a few de- various European cities and at Mr. Spanish-American War. He spent one feats in a sport should result in meetings Noble's School in Boston, he entered year in Cuba as a first lieutenant in the where a few victories leave 11s self-satisfied Harvard with the class of '82, remaining 2nd Regiment, Volunteer Engineers. and motionless. It causes us to wonder three years. He taught modern languages On his return from Cuba he was for just what can be done, not only for cross at Lehigh from 1882 to 1884 and in 1886 two years with the Berlin Iron Bridge country, but for any branch of athletics came to Cornell as instructor in Romance Company of East Berlin, Conn., then that is less than satisfactory. We wonder languages, remaining four years. Then he went with the Edison Concentrating what is satisfactory-championship teams was called to Brown as an assistant pro- Works and the Edison Battery Works always; or champions merely occasionally fessor in the same field, becoming a full as engineer and manager for two years. but contenders always? professor in 1899. From 1902 until his death he was with the Alumni influence in inspiring a team to He was the author of "Sonnets on the American Bridge Company, occupying the give everything it has is often of the ut- War," 1917, and of a translation of Dante's positions of engineer at its Canton, Ohio, most importance in maintaining the Divina Commcdia with a conimentary, plant and East Berlin, Conn., plant, and team's morale. Oftener the alumna1 1918-21, which was reviewed in these assistant to division engineers in the Pitts- effort leads to the improvement of the columns on February 9, 1922. burgh and New York offices of the com- material, exceedingly dangerous ground to On August I, 1894, he was married to pany- tread and an invitation of criticism that is Miss Susan H. Taft, of Uxbridge, Mass. He was in France for two years with the unwholesome and unpleasant. His brother, William C. Langdon, Jr., American ,Expeditionary Forces as a This inclines us to state certain facts was a student here for two years with the major in the Engineer Officer Reserve in advance, and thus perhaps avoid much Class of '92, and has since become well Corps, with the Director General of Tmns- correspondcncc with enthusiasts who known as a director of pageants. portation and Chief Engineer of Railway might misunderstand the purposes of the Fred B. Pitcher '88 Artillery. movement. Fred Byron Pitcher died suddenly in For his military service in Cuba he There are no soft jobs of any kind in his office in Watertown, N. Y., on Septem- received medals and ribbons of the Ithaca by which promising material may ber 2, following a second paralytic stroke. Spanish-American War and Army of earn its way to an education. There arc He was born in Adams, N. Y., in 1867 Cuban Occupation. In France he won many jobs. Most of them are related to the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Pitcher and several medals and ribbons including Al- the business management of ash cans and after attending the public schools in that lies, European War with five bars, Cham- trays of soiled plates. A few have to do village, he went to the Adams Collegiate pagne-Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Ar- with light occupations in offices when in- Institute from which he came to Cornell gonne offensives, and the Second Ameri- telligence, diligence, and skill combined in 1884 as a student in the science course. can Army decorations, besides two foreign are modestly rewarded. He was a member of the Civil Engineering service and one wound chevron. There is no free tuition except in the Association. In 1888 he was graduated He was member of the American So- State Colleges of Agriculture and Veterin- with the degree of B. S. ciety of Civil Engineers, the Society of CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

If father did the washing just once! If every father did the family wash- ing next Monday there would be an electric washing machine in every home before next Saturday night. For fathers are used to figuring

you will find this mono^ costs. They'd say: "The electricity gram of the General for a week's washing costs less Electric------Comnanv on many devices ;hattake the drudgery out of than a cake of soap. Human time housework. Look at it closely and remember and strength are too precious for the letters G-E.They work which a machine can do SO are a symbol of service -theinitials of a friend. cheaply and well." CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

American Military Engineers, the Military when Christians have the spirit of helping Order of the W'orld War, the Transporta- LITERARY REVTEW the ~vorld,the Kingdom of God will soon tion Corps, A. E. F., and the Cornell come, indeed, has come. Society of Engineers. IllSurely there could be no better book to C. Reginald Van Trump '89 A Working Belief put into the hands of a puzzled young Charles Reginald Van Trump died at A C~ecdfor College Alfe?z. By Hugh person who cannot quite find himself in his home in Wilmington, Del., on Sovem- Anderson hIoran, &I.A. Oxon. Sew York. this maze of modern thought. ber 2. Macmillan. 1924. 19.5 cm., pp. 149. Price, Books add Magazine Articles He was born about fifty-seven years $1.25. In The Cornell Cizlil Engineer for Xo- ago at TT-ilmington, the son of Mr. and TTe like this book immensely. For the vember Joseph H. Ehlers '16 describes Mrs. S. R. Tan Trump, members of an person who desires to know what an up- "Chinese Engineering Rfaterials." John old and wealthy Deln~varefamily. After to-date liberal Christian of the essentially G. Sullivan '88 handles the cluestion of getting his early education there, he came but not narrowly orthodox type believes, "Public Versus Private Ownership." John to Cornell in 1886 as a student of mechani- it is to be recommended without reserve. G. Hoyt '97 writes on "The First Tl'orld cal engineering. He became a member of It is carefully written in a simple, pleasing Power Conference." the Christian Association, the Electrical style, and is obviously the product of a The ,VIinnesota Alumni Weekly for No- Engineering Society, and the Lacrosse mind and character intensely in earnest. vember 13 has a portrait of Professor Club. In 1889 he graduated with the de- It deserves, and we predict will have, a George D. Shepardson '89, head of the gree of XI. E. wide reading. Department of Electrical Engineering at, In 1900 he hecame superintendent of He first discusses "Personality, Human hlinnesota. At the recent dedication of the electric and trolley companies in and Divine." The divine personality, he the Electrical Building at hlinnesota TT7ilmington,but in 1903 became blind and says, is to be understood through our Shepardson "noted that the great progress retired to devote the remainder of his life human personalities. And then he adds a in the application of electricity to modern to aiding the hlind. At the time of his thought which to many is startling: that life was due very largely to both scientific death he ~vaschairman of the Del~ware me are ourselves not finite. yet this is and industrial research. He emphasized State Commission for the Blind. He precisely what Jesus taught', when he said the importance of research in universities, founded the Blind Shop in TTTilmington that the kindgom of God, which can alike to train men for later industrial re- where blind persons earned a living by know no bounds, is "within us." search, to assist industrial concerns that manufacturing baskets, brooms, and other "The Origin and Nature of Evil" is a are not equipped with adequate research articles. sensible chapter. TVe are glad to see that facilities, and to foster independent Thomas J. Bridges '91 the devil is disposed of Dnce for all, as thought and development." Thomas John Bridges died at his home merely a dramatic personification of the In a recent number of the -11emoirs of in Fairport, N. Y., on October 31, death forces of evil. the American Academy in Rome Professor being attributed to anemia. "The Divinity and Personality of Jesus Alice TITalton, Ph.D. '92, of Wellesley He was born at Fairport on November Christ" is likewise well handled. There is discusses "The Date of the Arch of Con- 29, 1866 and after attending district in fact little in the chapter that an avowed stantine." school and the Macedon Center Academy, liberal Christian could not subscribe to. The Dartmouth Alumrzi -Wagazine for he came to Cornell in 1887 as a student in And with this discussion is of course Sovember has an illustrated sketch of Pro- the science and letters course. He was a linked that on "The Idea of t,he Trinity." fessor Louis L. Silverman, who was from member of the Christian Association and For Moran the Trinity is a very intel- 1gc9 to 1917 an instructor in mathematics the History and Political Science Xssocia- ligible one-God-in-three-aspects, and he here, and who is now a professor of mathe- tion. In 1891 he graduated with the de- brands the old thinking about three Gods matics in Dartmouth. gree of B. L. and at the same time one God, as wooden, In The Cornell Co~~ntryiiza~zfor Novem- For a number of years after leaving the a kind of t,ritheism. The Unitarians, he ber Professor TTilliam I. hIyers '14 writes University, he was engaged in farming says, by denying the divinity of Christ on "Farm Credit." Professor Rollin A. near Fairport and also took an active and the reality of the Holy Ghost "lost Emerson, Sp. '99, under the title "Where interest in township affairs. He served at much of the fervor, the power and joy of the Shadows Seek the South," records his various times as assessor, supervisor, dynamic Christianity". But really Moran impressions of a visit to South America county superintendent of the poor, village is very decent to the Cnitarians, who will made last year. Professor Howard 4. trustee, and village president. find little fault when he, accepting Stevenson '19, under the title "By Their He was a member of the Ifacedon Rlartineau, goes on to say that the one Works," tells "how Xew York farmers go Center Grange and of Fairport Lodge, God of Unitarianism was not merely the to school at the State College without F. and A. M. For four terms he acted as first person of the Trinity, but rather leaving home." Professor Arthur B. master of the Lodge. He is survived by his "coincided with the larger aspects of the Recknagel continues his serial article on wife, Mrs. Cora TTalbeck Bridges, and txvo Christ of Saint Paul and of Saint John's "Why Practice Forestry?" Gospel and of the Christian creeds." As children, Thomas J. and Dorothy J. In The New York Times for Xovember a matter of fact, there is little use any Bridges, besides a sister, Miss Cora 9 Donald K. Tressler, Ph. D. '17, writes on more in quarreling over the terms Trinity, Bridges, and two brothers, Warren and "Sea Food as Brain Food." Charles Bridges, all of Fairport. Unity, etc. There can be no question that In Science for October 17 Dr. William the Unitarian idea of God, rightly ap- T. M. Forbes, instructor in entomology, PROFESSORMARTHA VAN REKSSELAER prehended, is eminently satisfactory, writes "On Botany on the Campus." '09 of the School of Home Economics while the God-in-three-aspects of the spoke before the D. A. R. at Batavia, New Father, the Elder Brother, and the Com- In the Sigma Delta Chi Quill for Octo- York, on November I 5. forter, is 'essentially the same Divine ber Peter Vischer '19 writes on "Giving the PRESIDENTFARRAND and Dean Dexter Being described in other terms. If God Public What It Doesn't Want." There is S. Kimball are speakers' at the annual be truly ''with us," what matters the a portrait of the author. The editor says meeting of the American Society of Me- language in which He is described? that Vischer "furnishes us with a brand- chanical Engineers being held in Sew Appropriately climactic is the final new angle on an age-old question." York all this week. The Faculty is further chapter on "The Meaning of the Cross." In the Publication, of the Modern represented at the meetings by Professors The Crucifixion w-as the eternal symbol of Language Association for December Pro- TYilliam S. Barnard '97, Roy E. Clark, unselfishness-which is the very esse ne fessor John Tilliam Hebel, A. M. '13, and Frank 0. Ellenw~ood. of Christianity. As the author remarks Ph. D. '20, writes on "Drayton's Sirenia." CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 145

municipal court judge in the Fifth District to come forward for the post,. Among of Manhattan. those most prominently mentioned to '93 CE-John W. Ripley who is vice- head the Department of Agriculture is Arthur W. Gilbert, at present secretary of 'go, '91 MS-Earl Barnes has been president and treasurer of the Robbins- Ripley Company, engineers and contrac- agriculture in Massachusetts. Dr. Gil- giving a series of lectures this fall at bert has had wide experience which in- DuBois, Pa., on psychology, the lectures tors at 50 Church Street, New York, was recently elected a member of the Board of cludes teaching and research work, and taking the place of institutes which have because of his special familiarity with been held heretofore in that city. News- Trustees of the Queens County Savings Bank. This institution has had a peculi- Eastern marketing conditions, is regarded paper accounts praise his discussions arly successful career and has deposits of by many farm organizations and leaders highly and they are reported to have as a logical choice. proved especially interesting. The topic over eleven millions. '96 PhD-The Washington Star carried '07 MD-Dr. Eva C. Reid is chief of the of his first talk was "The Mechanism of psychiatric clinic at the University of Thought and Feeling" and during the a lengthy article on November 2 about the life and work of E. Dana Durand, who is California Hospital in San Francisco. course of it he laid the foundation for sub- During the war, Dr. Reid won the Medaille jects to be taken up in the later talks. now chief of the Statistical Research Division of the Bureau of Foreign and d'Epedemique of the French Government In addition to his public addresses, many for her work. of which have been delivered at Chautau- Domestic Commerce in Washington. qua, N. Y., during the summer gatherings Durand is now at work preparing two '09 ME-Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cox there, he has written a number of books. government volumes for publication. One announce the birth on November 5, of a The list includes "Studies in Education," is the Commerce Yearbook and the other son, Gilbert Riggs. They are living at 30 ('Studies in American History," "When is entitled The Statistical Abstract. He Summit Street, Flushing, Long Island. Knowledge Fails,". and "The Place of has introduced numerous changes and He writes that Thomas H. S. Andrews '09 Women in Modern Society." improvements in each of the books, which is in Cuba for six weeks on a business trip. '93 LLB-William Young, who has are highly regarded by business interests '10 CE-Frederic Viewig is located in been a municipal court justice in New as sources of reliable and authentic in- Trona, Calif.; he is manager of the Ameri- York for some time, was recently named formation about business conditions. The can Trona Corporation. to the Children's Court bench by Mayor article about Durand also tells of his work '10 AB- J. Gordon Martin is treasurer Hylan. The mayor in making the appoint- during and after the War, in which he of the Kumfy-Kab Company of LaPorte, ment declared that it came as the result of made an enviable record both here and Ind. His address is Box 334. support given him by Republicans in the abroad. '10 AB-Professor William F. Russell of greater city. Young began practicing law '05 PhD, '08 MSA-The vacancy in the Teachers' College, Columbia, represented in New York in 1894 and in 1905 was cabinet of President Coolidge caused by that, university at the inauguration of elected to the State Assembly. After serv- the death of Henry C. Wallace, secretary President George W. Frasier of the ing three terms in Albany, he became a of agriculture, has caused many aspirants Colorado State Teachers' College on

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Xovember 21. Russell was formerly a ing, TIT. Va. He writes that Mary Janc E. Eloise Shepard were married on ;\ugust member of the Colorado faculty. Greer arrived at his home on February 29, 16, and arc now living in Buffalo, N. I-. 'I I LLB-Word has been received of I924 and is a real leap-year baby. He is with the Turner Construction the death of Mrs. Emily TT'ilcox Griffith, '15 AB-Raymond V. Puff is sales Company. wife of Heber E. Griffith ' I I, at the family manager for the Illechling Brothers '20 BS-Katherine E. Cromley is teach- home in Utica, N. IT., on May 2, 1924. Chemical Company of Camden, N. J. The ing domestic science in the public schools She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke with offices of the firm are locxt>ed on Line of Rochester, S. T. Her nddrrqs ,iy 92 the clabs of 1910. 111 addition to her Street. Plymouth L%vcnl~(l,South. husband she leaves one son, Haclley, aged '16 JIE-George C. Crahtree is a sales- '20, '22 BS-Leland S. Tyler 1s reprr- six years. man in the mechanical goods department senting The American Agricultz~~istin '12 AIE-Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. of the TJnited States Rubber Company at Orleans, Genesee, and Xiagara Counties in Xaxfield of Sorwalk, Conn., announce 139 Duane Street, New Tork. He lives at New York State. He can be reached the arrival of their second daughter, 118 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island. through the office of the paper at 158 Enst Marcia Anne, at the Norwalk Hospital on '16 LLB-Olcott, Olcott and Glass rc- State Street, Ithaca. June 2j last. They live at 152 East cent,ly announced the association with '20, '21 ITA$-Mr. and Mrs. Karren S. Avenue and Maxfield is purchasing agent them of Alexander M. Hamburg as tax Weiant of Yewark, Ohio, announce the for thc Norwalk Tire and Rubber Com- counsel and consultant on Federal and arrival on Sovcmber 12, of Edmund pany. State taxes. Their offices are located at Taylor \T7ciant. 'I2 illCEdward E. Gruen is associated 170 Broadway, New Pork. Before taking '21, '22 BS--A11nounceme11t ha6 been with Percival G. Bixby and Company, ac- this position, Hamburg was editor of the made of the engagement of Ednard B. countants and auditors in the Marine Prentice-Hall Federal Tax Service. Glddlngs of Owego, S.I-., to Miss Camilla Trust Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 'I 5, '16 ME--k son, William, Jr., was Hugg, daughter of Postmaster ant1 llrs born on IYoveml~er I I to Mr. and Mrs. '13 CE-Captain and Airs. Harry TI7. Charles 13. Iiugg of Cnaenovia, S > Hlll arc now located at Fort Humphreys, TVilliam Insull of LaFayettc, Ind. Insull (;iddings is now In ehnrgc of junior extens- T'irgina. They write thot they move so is with the Northern Indiana Gas and ion work in Tioga County, Sew York. frequently, it is hard to keep their friends Electric Company. '21 BS-James S. Sicholson is engaged advised about their address. 'I 7-Brief news has been received of the in farming and dairying at hluncy, Pa., recent marriage of Walter F. Hallel- to '13 ME-JIr. and Mrs. John E. Brodt 111icIer the name of 8. L, Nicholson and Miss Esther Lanphere of Rapid City, have a second daughter, born on Novem- Son. He is keeping 1)ure-hrcd Holstrin S. Dak. her 15. Their adclress is 105 West Monroe cattle. Street, Chicago, Ill. '17 BS; '18 BS-blr. and Mrs. Edwin I. '21, '22 BS-John R. Fleming is es- '13, '14 AB-Mr. and Mrs. Austin P. Iiilbourne (Elizabeth Alward 'I 8) are still tension ncms editor at the College of Story had a son, Austin Putnam, Jr., living in Santo Domingo. Iiilbourne was Agriculture and :In nssistant professor of born to them on Xovcmber 11. They arc recently appointed manager of Consuelo, journalism in thc Collcgc of Con~merci, living in Chillicothe, Ohio. Story is tllc largest sugar estatc on the island, nntl ancl Journalisn~nt Ohio State rnivcrsity. treasurer ancl sales manager of the Chilli- he writes that with their two children, He is living at 231.1. Keil *%venue,Colum- cothe Paper Company. Philip, aged three, and Edwin, aged four, bus, Ohio '14 CE-Paul L. Heslop is superintend- they are enjoying life immensely on the ent of construction on Hydro-Electric estate. Their address is Ingenio Consuelo, '21, '22 EE-R. RlcConnell hlatson is Project So. 4, Andagueda River, Republic Ran Pedro de Macoris, Santo Domingo. now located in the industrial control of Colombia, South America. He writes '17 hlE-A son, John Haydock, gd, was engineering department of the General that he expects to return to the T'nited born on Sovember I to hlr. and Mrs. John Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y. States in three or four months. Haydock, Jr., of 15 Anderson Place, The work he is doing is chiefly on brick machincry, baking machinpry and syn- '14 LLB-A second daughter, Ann(,. Buffalo, S.T. This is their second child; chronous motor startels. was born on May 18, 1924, to Mr. ant1 the first, Jean Phyllis, is now two years old. Mrs. Abraham S. ("Bunk") Bordon of 205 '18, '19 BS--1 son, James Joseph, was '2 I AB, '24 1lD-Irene Davis is nom an North Vhitney Street, Hartford, Conn. born on September 29 to Mr. and Mrs. interne in the Xestern Pennsylvania Hospital at Pittsburgh, Pa. '14 BChem-Byron S. Proper is now Ralph G. Palmer of 8 Hazard Parkway, sales manager and in charge of the depart- Albion, X. Y. Palmer is manager of the '22 CE; '22 AkB-Mr. and Alis. Frnnk ment of sales of the Eaton Dilseman Com- Orleans County Farm Bureau with head- G. Trau (Imogene Guion) have movctl pany, manufacturers of absorbent papers, quarters in Albion. from TTaco, Texas, to St. Louis, Mo. He at 537 Pearl Street, New Tork. The mills '18 CE-Salyg Xagler is employed as an is now chief clerk in the St. Louis office of of the firm are located at Lee, Mass. engineer with Ford, Bacon and Davis in the Electric Storage Battery Company '14, '15 BArch-Eli hf. Tisdale is a New Tork and is living a,t 2086 Creston and can be reached In care of the firm at member of the firm of Tisdale, Stone and Avenue. He writes that he was married on 1058 South Vandevcnter Avenue. Pinson, architects of Nashville, Tenn. He June 27, 1923, to Miss Minnie Steinhauser, '22 hlF-Felix Franco y Tolosa is non- writes that since they hung out their daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stein- district forester for Sorth Central Luzon, shingle last January, they have been ('up hauser of Sew York, and that they have a in charge of its admillistration and manage- to their necks in work," but that he is son, Alvin 31. Nagler, aged six months. ment. He also sends the information that planning to return to Ithaca in June for '19 BS-Gladys Kitchin is assistant he was married in 1915 and has two the first time since graduating. The offices director of lunch rooms in the public daughters, one eight years old and the of the firm are located at 418 Independent schools of Minneapolis, Minn., and living other a little over a year. at 2820 Girard Avenue, South. Life Building. Tisdale is married and has '22 BS; '22 AB--;\lr. and hIrs. Jamcxs a boy six years old and a* daughter two, '19-The designation of \Tar Alumnus E'. Sumner (Alice I<.Birchfield) have been 110th of whom, he says, \$ill be Cornellians. was conferred at the request of the Faculty living in Chicago. Hc is playing in "Thc '14 ME-Everett S. Greer was recently on hturray McConnell, a veteran of the Beggar on Horseback" and after Decem- named manager of Plant No. 2 of the World War, at t,he last meeting of the ber I will appear in a fell- months' run of Icearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company at Zanes- Board of Trustees. AIcConnell was in the the play in Philadelphia. Later they will ville, Ohio. The concern is a subsidiary of service for a yenr and nine montha. go to their home at 99 Sort11 Sineteenth the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of Wheel- '20 CE; '20 BS-Albert 0. Degling and Street, Flushing, S.T. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 147

'22 AU-Ruth A. I\-oodworth is teach- ing this year in the Ithaca High School. '22 EE; '23 BS-Ernest 1'. Strack and Elinor $1. Watson were married in Lewis- ton, X. T..on July 28 and as part of their honeymoon, crossed New York State via t,he Erie and Barge Canals and Xlohamk River in a canoe, then went down Hudson River. They are now at home at Spring Valley, N. Y. Strack is still westling occasionally. I'le annexed the United States Army middleweight championship and was runner-up in the heavyweight class at Baltimore, Md., last spring. He writes that he lost in the Olympic tryouts on a decision given to Walter D. Wright, capt,ain of the 1923 wrestling beam. '23 BS-Alfonso Sotomayor is in the wine and olive oil business at Cordoba, Spain, and engaged part,icularly in espori- ing to the lTnited States. His address in Cordoha is Calle dc Pedro Lopez 31-33. '23 BS-Since last March, Irving TI-ei- selberg has hern :L topographic draftsman in the office of the president of the War, to sign his bond. Eventually it was discovered that the Borough of Queens. Sew York. Tax Collector had misused the funds belonging to the State. '23 R8-Robert E. Thompson has been Called upon to make good the loss, the old soldier took his located recently nt Great Barrington, medicine, used every cent he had to pay the claim and is llass., in the employ of the 1I:lssachusetts State Forest Servic-e, working primarily now waiting for life's close in an Old Soldiers' Home. with forest nurseries but also rngagrd in other phasrs of reforc~station. '23 AB--Ida G. PIIellefo~it is in the officeof t'he general traffic engineer of the New York Telephone Company. Her nd- Two of them were ruined. Another, a Judge, lost all he had and re- dress is 419 Test Thirty-fourth Street. '23 BS-Gertrude Mathewson is a tlistrict visitor for thc East Scw York District of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, and living at 33 Richmond .$venue, Arrochar, Staten Island, N. Y. Years ago a man in Chicago signed a bond for a friend as Administrator She writes "having acquired some forty- odd families since last June, I feel capable of offering advire on almost any problem. Two of my families will be among the Sew York Tiines's "Hundred Neediest Cases this Christ,mas, but I do not think I am entirely to blame. It is wonderfully interesting io have it finger in such a large number of pies and to have friends (?) The foregoing examples are typical of thousands which emphasize the from Sing Sing to Fifth Avcnuc." folly of acting as Personal Surety under any circ2mstances. Only re- '23 BS-Hoyt S. .ickles is engaged in cently the metropolitan dailies chronicled the suicide of one of the best- farming at Marietta, N. Y. known and most highly respected attorneys in the East who, finding '23 AB-Elizabeth TV. Algeo has been a himself forced into bankruptcy through inability to meet claims on Personal Bonds he had signed for a friend, preferred to die by his own tcchnician at the PIIemorial Hospital in hand rather than to live, as he {

Ohio. His work is chiefly with four-wheel and Manufacturing Company at East Derbyshire Road, Station E, Cleveland hydraulic brakes for motor cars. His ad- Pittsburgh, Pa. He is doing research work Heights, Ohio.-William R. Manson, 5228 dress is 1866 Garfield Road, Cleveland. in magnetic phenomena and is living at South Park Avenue, Chicago, 111.-Win- '23 AB-Myron I. Barker is an in- 756 Franklin Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa. throp T. Scarritt, 716 Parkway, Utica, structor in Romance languages at West '24 MCH. Edgar Coneby is with the N. Y. Virginia University and is living at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing '14-William A. Prescott, Sandy Creek, Faculty Cldb, Morgantown, W. Va. Company at East Pittsburgh and lives at N. Y. '23 ME-Anton P. Wright, Jr., has been 1318 Singer Place, Wilkinsburg, Pa. With '15-Charles V. Ruhe, 43 East Green employed in the construction department him are John S. Ensor '24, Frederick S. Street, Pasadena, Calif .-Frank V. Green- of the Alabama Power Company since Uhl '24, and Roswell C. Van Sickle '23. stein, 1208 Marlin Road, Overbrook, Pa. graduation. He just returned from a three- '16-5. Lester Koch, in care of Du- months' leave of absence which he spent NEW MAILING ADDRESSES quesne Warehouse Company, 2106 Wash- traveling in Europe, and is stationed at '78-Ben Johnson, Box 31, La Cres- ington Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.-Edwin Anniston, Ala. His address is Box 142. cents, Calif. J. Coughran, 77 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, '24 BS-Forrest E. Mather is a poultry '86-Ennis R. Austin, 111 North N. Y. instructor at the University of New LaFayette Street, South Bend, Ind. Hampshire, Durham, N. H. '17-Charles V. W. Morris, 361 Sterling '89-James V; Scaife, Schenley Apart- Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.-William A. Hoff- '24 AB-Elizabeth A. Tower is secre- ments, Pittsburgh, Pa. man, in care of Sanitary Engineer of tary to the Trustees of the Metropolitan '93-Arthur W. Berresford, in care of Haiti, First Brigade United States Marine Art Museum in New York and lives at 142 Frank Low, 51 10 Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Corps, Port Au Prince, Haiti.-George S. Woodland Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. Falls, N. Y. Kephart, 248 Center Street, Bangor, Me. '24 ME-J. Preston Lewis is employed '96-Mrs. Walter C. Nichols, 10 '18-Clarence F. Ackerneckt, 957 State by the Illinois Glass Company at Alton, Granger Place, Buffalo, N. Y. 111. His address is 509 Twelfth Street. Street, Schenectady, N. Y. '05-Henry E. Paine, 374 Laurel '20-P. L. Barbour, Research and Ser- '24 BS-J. Elton Gilmore was married Avenue, Highland Park, Ill. in Albany, N. Y., on November I, to vice Department, Security Trust and '07-Robert M. Davis, 215-29 Ninety- Miss Dorothy Packard, daughter of Mr. Savings Bank, Los Angeles, Calif.-Dr. fourth Avenue, Queens Village, Long Is- and Mrs. George Packard of that city. Donald L. Pease, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. land, N. Y. After a honeymoon through the Berkshire -Leslie N. Duryea, 15c3 Conway Build- Mountains, they sailed from New York 'og-Alfred M. Roberts, 132 Bedford ing, Chicago, Ill. for Florida. Gilmore is superintendent of Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. '21-Richard E. Quaintance, 44 Walnut the Palm Beach Everglades Farms Com- '11-Ralph W. Wiggins, 28 North Street, Newark, N. J.-F. Jean Bright, pany at Palm Beach. Dakota Street, Detroit, Mich.-Henry P. 103 East Seventh Street, Plainfield, N. J. '24 EE-J. Lyndon Ants is a graduate Blumenauer, Box 65, Worcester, Mass. -Ruth A. Lee, Warrensburg, N. Y.-R. student with the Westinghouse Electric '13-Theodore L. Welles, Jr., 2496 Alexander McClelland, 320 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.-Ruby M. Odell, 17 Wildwood Avenue, Salamanca, N. Y. '22-Harold F. Little, 87 Kenilworth Terrace, Rochester, N. Y.-James V. Frank, I I24 Boatmen's Bank Building, St. Louis, Mo.-Herbert D. Tobey, 1015 134 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, 111.- M. 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