CORNELL ALVMNI NEWS VOL. III.—NO. 37. ITHACA, N. Y., TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901. PRICE TEN CENTS. BACCALAUREATE SERMON. to issue in the doing of a man's work ALUMNI MEETING. GIFT FROM JOHN D. ROCKE- and the living of a man's life. FELLER. "His life is one great struggle Good Attendance at Barnes Hall Delivered in Sage Chapel, Sun- wholly unfavorable at first to contem- to Receive the Report of the $250,000 Donated to Cornell to day, June 16, by Rev. K. I^ Alumni Hall Committee.— plate, but on second thought less un- Provide Much Needed Accom- Whitman of I hila- Action Taken Regard- favorable. Man struggles because modations for Instruction delphia ing Athletic Field the rest of the universe asserts itself and Research. against him. Nature insists that he on the Hill. Sage Chapel was crowded to the goes to halt is to lose his place. John D. Rockefeller has donated doors on the afternoon of June 16, Perversion means reversion and re- An unusually important meeting of $250,000 to Cornell University. with graduates, their friends and version is decadence and decadence the associate alumni was held This fa,ct was made known to the members of the faculty, to hear the is the highway to death. We struggle Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in board of trustees at their meeting last baccalaureate sermon delivered by on we will to live, and the ills of the the main auditorium of Barnes Hall. Tuesday by President Schurman who the Reverend Beniel L. Whitman, of unmapped country beyond death A large number of the visiting alumni presented a letter from Mr. Rocke- Philadelphia. The speaker had a though having effect in keeping the was present and much interest mani- feller. Although the gift is to be magnificent presence, a wonderful boundaries of that country uncrossed, fested in all the proceedings of the made upon condition that an equal voice, a brilliant diction, and fairly yet the greater reason is to be found meeting. Judge F. H. Hiscock, '75, amount be contributed by others, it is thrilled the hearts of his hearers. on this side of the grave. of Syracuse, presided. generally understood in Ithaca that It was almost four o'clock before "The great struggle then is'for per- The result of the ballot for alumni there are several men from whom the candidates for graduation were in fection. Man as nature drops him is trustees was announced and the elec- the additional amount may soon be line and ready to march to the chapel. not a personality but the material for tions of C. G. Wagner, }8o, of Bing- forthcoming. They began to assemble in front of one. If we are to elevate ourselves hamton and Charles H. Blood, '88, of President Schurman said that be- Sage College shortly after half past it is to be at a cost. Everything in Ithaca were confirmed. fore making the gift Mr. Rockefeller three and were marshaled into line by this life that is worth anything costs. The report of the committee on had sent an agent here, who spent S. K. A. Sze of Shanghai, China, and We elevate in life as anywhere else alumni hall was read by Professor three days inspecting the university. β. H. Searing of Brooklyn. For the by subtraction as well as by addition. Trowbridge, and resolutions were He examined carefully the work of first time in the history of Cornell With nature we have a debit as well passed, empowering the committee to the institution, its equipment,finances,, University almost every one wore a as a credit side. Some things we canvass for the remainder of the sum etc., with a view of making a written cap and gown. In the procession, must leave behind—our brute inheri- required. Wilson and Magonigle report to Mr. Rockefeller. The gift the women, fifty in number, preced- tance. Some things we must win and were designated as architects of the was treated as an investment for the ed the men who numbered close the way upward to them is by the alumni hall, in accordance with the benefit of mankind, and the same care to 250. stepping stones of our dead selves. award of the final competition. and sagacity were exercised by him The services opened with an orches- 'We rise by the things that are under The committee was further author- in making it that men ordinarily tral selection from the Song of Destiny. our feet' and this means constant ized to proceed with the working exhibit in business undertakings. The chorus then sang "I will call up- toil. Toil unending, but we candrawings and specifications to the The half million dollars when se- on the Lord," and later sang the endure it if the thing is worth striving point of procuring estimates of the cured will go a long ways towards Gloria in Excelsis in which solos were for. The secret of attainment is incost of the proposed building. supplying a long felt need for more given by Mrs. Chamot, Professor the real rinding of one's self and one In order that the associate alumni buildings. The money will be used Trowbridge and Mr. Morrison of the has found himself when he has com- might have legal authority to go on in providing additional accommoda- graduating class. The baccalaureate pletely lost himself, a paradox than with the business which will necessar- tions for instruction and research. sermon then followed. Dj. Whitman which few are more true. The physical ily come in connection with the build- The expansion of the university has said in part: loses itself in the spiritual and will ing of an alumni hall it was shown to in recent years been so great that all "The test of reality is ability to act ceases to be a 'blind and restless im- be essential that the association be departments are now crowded to and to be acted upon. Isolation is pulse,' and becomes an executive incorporated. To take the necessary their utmost limits. It is expected suicide. The world is a system of function of intelligence whose great steps the chair appointed the follow- that new buildings will be erected for action and reaction in which each business is to compel us upward on ing committee: H. W. Sackett, '75, the departments of physics and lan- object vindicates its right to a place our way to God. M. VanCleef, '74, E. W. Hufrcut, '84, guages. At the present moment the by doing and suffering. With every The full meaning of life is found P. C. J. DeAngelis, '71, and G. W.campus is torn up with the construc- other form of reality, man is called only in fellowship with God. What Harris, '73. tion of two new buildings for me- upon to prove his right to a place in we need is to hold fast to the fact Professor Dennis brought before chanical engineering and for physiol- the universe by being himself. A that we live by the divine life that is the meeting the action of the athletic ogy and anatomy. man's first duty then is to find him- within us, and that the distance from council approving a proposition to self and when he has found himself the- soul to God is not greater here establish an athletic field for students John Francis Borden has been and his calling is fulfilled it is found than beyond the grave." Continued on page ^85. elected captain of the freshman crew. 282 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. THE THIRTY-THIRD COM- Robert James Moore, William Waldo Stedman, Joseph Welch Stevenson, Design of a Long Distance Transmission Pellet, Walter Edwin Phelps, Charles Alexander Bonnell Tappen, David Rader Plant. MENCEMENT. Carsten Platt, James Patrick Ouigley, Thomas, Ashton Stephen Tourison, Jr., Richard James Donovan, M. E.: Sun- Roy Verbeck Rhodes, Edward Livings- Stanley Spartan Tumbridge, Ernest Ab- dry Investigations into the Strength of Three Hundred and Xwenty- ton Robertson, Frederick Morton Sanders, bott Turner, Henry Ernest Vanderhoef, Ships under Special Conditions. eight Degrees Granted—Ad- Harry Allan Sayer, Woodard Wixom Ralph Dwight Van Valkenburgh, Roy Clyde D. Gray, M.E.: An Investigation dress toy President Sears, John Lawson Senior, William Weston Wallace. of the Cost of Power. Sctaαrman. Arthur Turnbull, Joseph Edgar Uihlein, Royal Rockwood Keely, M.E.: Effi- Ernest Henry Waltman, Asher Porter MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (iN ELECTRI- ciency of Different Forms of Impulse The thirty-third annual commence- Whipple, Robert Thompson Wood, Jos- CAL ENGINEERING). Water Motors. eph Lawrence Zoetzl. Alfred Henderson Knight, B.S. (ME.): ment was held Thursday, June 20, in Forrest Ellwood ("ardullo, Willis Havi- land Carrier, Paul Griswold Chace, Design of a Steamship. the Armory. The class of '91 asBACHELOR- S OE THE SCIENCE OE AGR I" Alexander Suss Langsdorf, B.S. in CULTURE. Henry Rice Cobleigh, John Gorham sembled in front of Morrill and Crawford, George Wilcox Day, Ray-M.E.: Iron in Alternating Current Cir- Eugene Monell Baxter, Ralph Wright mond Nelson Ehrhart, Frederick Jack- cuits. marched in a body to the hall where Addams Stratton McAllister, B.S. in the exercises were, opened with music Curtis, Br}^ai:t Fleming, Harry Mason son Folk, Howard Ludlow Gilbert, Knox, Edwin Jackson Kyle, Adams James Hamilton, Ernest Selah Holcombe, E.E.: The Elements which Determine followed by prayer, after which the Phillips, Roger Marr Roberts, Arthur Louis Illmer, Jr., Charles Albert Kelsey, the Selection of Modern Electric Equip- degrees were conferred. President Gordon, Rtiggles, John Blakeslee Tiffany, William Wirt Kinsley, Jr., Ralph Waldo ments. Schurman then delivered his annual Williom Benjamin Tooley, Gilbert Milli- Lohmann, Henry Hopkins Lyon, Maurice Joseph Oliver Phelon, B.S.