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Fifty College Presidents Will March in Inauguration Day Procession on October 20 Anonymous Donor of the Chemistry Building Will Lay Cornerstone of His Gift Varsity Shows Promise in Winning First Football Game of the Season Brooklyn Authorities Are Besieged With Complaints Against R. L. Denny

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EGISTRATION figures first an- THE NEW WINTER SPORTS pavilion is to rangements for carrying out the system nounced as much less than last be erected at the northwest corner of proposed in the revision of the constitu- R year have been revised and show Beebe Lake just east of the intake for the tion made last year. Under the new plan that Cornell has fifty-five more students power canal of the University's electric much electioneering is expected. now than were enrolled up to the first of light plant. This site will permit the con- THE WEEKLY lecture in the course on December last year. struction of a first-class club house, with the history of civilization was delivered sewage disposal into the city sewer system. by Professor Burr on the subject of "Con- THE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION held It will be much more accessible to its stantine." its first assembly for members of the fresh- patrons than the old skating house on the man class, in Roberts Hall, on last Mon- south side of the lake, which will con- PROFESSOR 0. D. VON ENGELN '08 ex- day. tinue in use during the present season. plained to the Ithaca Rotary Club last ALL-CORNELL DANCES are resum- The settlement upon this site by the Wednesday why he expects to visit the ed this year with the first party on buildings and grounds committee of the West Indies during his sabbatic leave. He Saturday, October 15, in the old Armory. Trustees solves one of the three principal and Mrs. von Engeln sailed from New These dances are successors of the plan problems which confronted the Athletic York on October 4 for the Barbadoes for informal hops which was inaugurated Association at the beginning of the year. Islands. He will make a special study of last year. They are open to all students the physiographic and geologic conditions MINIATURE WALLS of several designs in the West Indies. in the University including freshmen, but have gone up on the site of 1 Reservoir are not open to stags. They serve the Avenue. Each, with its own type of PHILLIP HARRIS, who for more than purpose of providing a place on the Hill masonry and mortar joints, is put up for thirty years previous to 1905 had con- where students may dance on Saturday the inspection of the architect in selecting ducted a dry goods store in Ithaca, died evening. the best style for the Chemistry Building. suddenly in New York on October 24 at the age of seventy. THE DRAMATIC CLUB, which had abund- Similar small sections of wall, erected be- ant practice in the week of the little fore work was begun on the residential TRACY DAVIS, familiar to generations country theatre at the State Fair at halls, are still standing on West Avenue. of Cornellians as the proprietor of Tracy's Syracuse, made an early and auspicious The native stone for the Chemistry Build- Bookstore, has a college textbook busi- opening of its Campus season with three ing does not come from the quarry near ness in Berkeley, California. plays last week. It presented "A Night the residential halls but from a quarry on a farm to the east of the University. HERBERT WITHERSPOON, a graduate of at an Inn" by Lord Dunsany, "Every- Yale, grand opera singer, and internation- body's Husband" by Gilbert Cannon, and INVITATIONS to the joint festivities at- ally known as a vocal teacher, arrived in 'Teed the Brute" by George Paston. tending the inauguration of Dr. Farrand; Ithaca September 30 to assume duties on the laying of the corner stone of the Chem- FORESTRY STUDENTS from Cornell the faculty of the Conservatory. istry Building; and the fiftieth anniver- brought signal honor to the University AN APPROPRIATION has been requested sary of the founding of the College of by landing more men among the technical by the Ithaca Board of Public Works to Architecture have been sent to thirty forest assistants appointed as a result of cover the expense of a survey of the city's thousand former Cornellians. recent Federal civil service examinations park and playground system by experts than all of the other forestry schools of ENGINEERING CLASSES under Professor from the National Park and Playground the country together. Sixty-five candi- Henry N. Ogden '89 recently visited Association. It is hoped that this survey dates took the examination for nine avail- Syracuse to study a sewage disposal plant will result in a plan for the complete able appointments. Cornell placed five under construction in that city. and comprehensive development of of the nine men. They are Randolph M. Ithaca's recreational centers, including HOWARD ORTNER '19 and Joachim Brown '20 of New Brighton; Willard R. Molinet '21 are reported by Rochester the new Stewart Park on the Lake. B. Hine '20 of Gloversville Frederick B. papers as prospective material for the A SIXTY-MILE GALE on September 30 Merrill '19 of Schoharie; Bryant D. Dain Bausch & Lomb basket-ball team. Both swept town and Hill, leveling a score of '20 of Peekskill; Robert M. Volkert '20 these men captained recent Cornell fives, trees, and light and trolley wires. The of New York City. Volkert made the and Ortner is an instructor in physical wind held for about five minutes and the highest rating of all those who took the training at the University. temperature dropped twenty degrees in examination. about an hour. MEMBERSHIP TICKETS in the Athletic TENNIS TOURNAMENTS for undergrad- Association had been sold to more than THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for Octo- uates have started, one for freshmen, and thirty-six hundred persons, up to the ber 9 will be the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James the other for sophomores, juniors, and close of the St. Bonaventure game. This MacLeod, Reformed Church, New York. seniors. is considered a satisfactory sale as com- DR. SAMUEL S. MARQUIS, Sage Chapel pared with last year, in consideration of TOWER ROAD, which runs straight north preacher last Sunday, addressed the Cor- money stringency. With the possibility from the Library Tower past the build- nell Forum on "The Human Element in of an abandonment of Spring Day, how- ings of the College of Agriculture, will a Great Industry."' He told of his work ever, it leaves the Association with a need not be finished this year, although the as head of the department of social ser- for developing a larger income. filling from East Avenue to the Agricul- vice in the Ford Motor Company, where tural college campus has been completed. THE FIRST MEETING of the Student he spent several years. It is expected that the earth will have Council took place last Monday in the TWENTY-EIGHT undergraduates have settled sufficiently during the winter to Trustees' room, Morrill Hall. Most of been selected to play with the Mandolin make it possible to complete the roadway the discussion centered around the new Club through its Christmas trip as the next spring. method of conducting elections, and ar- result of the first try-out of the year. 14 CORNELLALUMNI NEWS

Inauguration Day Plans having left educational work to take charge More News of Denny of important Red Cross work in France Fifty College Presidents Will Honor during the war and was, at the time of Over 150 Complaints Filed Against Him— Farrand—Donor of New Laboratory his election, chairman of the Central Com- To be Tried Also on Charge of Illegal To Lay Cornerstone mittee of the American Red Cross, being Use of Fraternity Emblem the active head of the organization. Fifty college and university presidents According to a Brooklyn newspaper, from the United States and foreign coun- more than a hundred and fifty complaints have already been received by the au- tries will be grouped in an academic pro- HELP FOR A SICK CORNELLIAN cession that will represent one of the thorities against Ransom L. Denny, whose S. Jay Kaufman has this note in The greatest concourses of intellectual leaders activities the ALUMNI NEWS has chronicled Evening Globe for September 19: "Some of all time when Dr. Livingston Farrand for more than a year, and whose arrest in months ago we called attention to the is inaugurated President of Cornell in Brooklyn was described in our last issue. plight of an ex-Cornell man who, after Ithaca on October 20. It is significant of Denny is reported to have been held in serving in the war, was a victim of con- Doctor Farrand's position in the world of $1,000 bail for a hearing on the charge of sumption. Several Cornell men came to education that fully half of the one hun- collecting on an alleged worthless check, his aid. He is now in Saranac. The funds dred institutions sending delegates to and meanwhile the assistant district at- are practically gone. Dr. Elliott of Cor- Ithaca will be represented by their pres- torney is preparing a surprise for him in nell will welcome word from any one who idents. 7 the form of a charge of violating Section will aid him/ 2240 of the Penal Code, which makes it a Of but slightly less importance and of Mr. Kaufman's note appeared in The misdemeanor for any unauthorized person wide general interest to the world of Globe for April 14 and was reprinted in to wear a pin, insignia, or button of a science and education will be the laying of the ALUMNI NEWS for April 21. Dr. John lodge, club, or fraternity. It is said that the cornerstone of the new million and a L. Elliott '92, of the Hudson Guild, New this is the first time this law has been half dollar Chemistry Laboratory which York, will be glad to give further informa- invoked against a person posing as a col- will be combined with the inaugural occa- tion about this case and to receive any lege graduate and collecting money under sion to mark October 20 as one of the im- contributions intended for him. that pretense, and that a request is to be portant dates of Cornell history. made to hold Denny in $10,000 bail. The donor of the building has consented to perform the ceremony in person, and NEW STANDS ON THE HILL According to the press, Carlton P. until he is introduced at the exercises on The new varsity baseball diamond west Johnson '06, the Cornell oarsman whose the afternoon of the inaugural day, he will of Bacon Hall is entirely finished; the presence of mind caused Denny's arrest, be as anonymous as a masked figure. The second diamond on the south end of the says Denny is ' 'married to an actress liv- cornerstone laying will remove the mys- same field is nearing completion; and the ing in the Bronx and he works the terri- tery which has surrounded the gift of Cor- foundation for the new steel stands is tory while she plays it. They travel nell's latest building since 1919, when it to be started at once so that they may around in a high-powered car with a Mis- was originally announced. be moved up from Percy Field early in souri license plate." The account con- Interest in the progress of the construc- the spring, according to an announcement tinues as follows: tion work of Cornell's new chemistry from the office of the Athletic Associa- "According to Carl E. Beam, represent- building, which is keen owing to the fact tion. ing the American Society of Civil En- that it will be the largest and most com- For the present, steel stands will be gineers, Denny secured a college fraternity pletely equipped laboratory of its kind in erected only at the north end of the field pin from the society in 1917 under the the world, is heightened by the fact that back of the home plate; these, with thirty name of Thomas H. Olds, of Denver, it is not known now and will not be known sections of wooden bleachers along the Colorado, and never paid for it. until the actual laying of the cornerstone, base lines, will seat six thousand. A "Two engineering concerns to-day in- who the donor of the monumental build- fence will be built this fall around the formed Assistant District Attorney Rus- ing is. field, and it is planned to use the seats tin that they had received numerous com- The inauguration of President Farrand which are set up for Commencement plaints from their employes who had been will be the fourth investiture of a presi- exercises to accommodate exceptional mulcted by Denny. Stone & Webster dent at Cornell during the history of the crowds until others can be erected. had a score of complaints and E. G. institution, which first opened its doors A new steel grandstand is also planned White had thirty. to students in the fall of 1868. The late for the west side of Schoellkopf Field, be- "Magistrate McCloskey, sitting in Andrew Dixon White, one of America's tween the track and Bacon Hall. Accord- Adams Street Court, received six special best known educators and public men, who ing to present plans, this stand will seat delivery letters through the mail to-day represented the United States as ambas- about three thousand, have entrances complaining against Denny, and Johnson sador to Russia and Germany, presided underneath the seats, and will extend only got twenty complaints by letter at his over the University from the date of its part of the length of the field. home. The court telephone was also busy founding until his retirement in 1885. requesting Magistrate McCloskey to hold Charles Kendall Adams succeeded Doc- Denny until they could identify him. tor White and held the office until he left UNIVERSITY CONCERTS "Assistant District Attorney Rustin in- to become president of the University of The University concerts given annually tends to surprise Denny by preferring the Wisconsin in 1892, at which time Dr. by the Department of Music start this additional charge of violating the criminal Jacob Gould Schurman was elected to year on December 1 with the appearance code in illegally wearing a Psi Upsilon pin. head the University. President Schur- of Florence East on, soprano. The next He will ask that he be held in $10,000 bail man guided the affairs of Cornell for number is the Boston Symphony Orches- on that charge. twenty-eight years, resigning from the tra of one hundred members, conducted "Denny, who is ignorant of the new office in June, 1920. He represented the by Pierre Monteux, on December 15,- charge, b' sted that he always signed his United States as minister to Greece dur- which will be followed by a recital by own name to the checks; therefore he ing the Taft administration and is now Josef Hofmann, pianist, on February 27. cannot be charged with forgery; that all minister to the Republic of China. The last number in the series is a joint of the checks are for small amounts, Doctor Farrand, who will be invested concert by Marguerite D'Alvarez, con- mostly $5 and $10, so that it is not a with office this month, was at one time tralto, and Pablo Casals, violoncellist, on State prison offense; and added that the president of the University of Colorado, March 17. most the authorities can give him is a CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 15

penitentiary sentence and not Sing Sing, Cornell Sued for Damages in the laboratory and stock room were and that he will be out again on good be- properly labeled, and that Miss Ham- havior in ten or eleven months." Louise Hamburger '20 Asks $100,000— burger used mercuric sulphide and potas- It is said that letters of complaint have Testimony Shows Chemical Labora- sium chloride for the experiment in ques- been received from all over the country tory Most Carefully Conducted tion, obtaining the latter chemical from and from practically every college, and the shelves in the laboratory, contrary to names of six New Yorkers are given who As we go to press Cornell University is instructions. appeared personally to press their charges. being sued for $100,000 damages by Although it was found that a fifteen- Louise M. Hamburger '20, who was in- year-old boy was in the stock room on the jured by an explosion of chemicals she day in question, the University's defense MICHIGAN IS UNDER WAY was using in her course in elementary was that he was simply an agent of trans- Cornellians in Michigan held a party at chemistry, on January 12, 1916. Miss mission of ingredients in papers, and that Green Lake on September io with the Hamburger brings suit for damages these ingredients had been mixed and definite purpose of identifying the "sub- against the University in Binghamton; tested by competent instructors. frosh" (Cornell '25) with Cornell activi- the case is being tried before Supreme ties. In fact it was in Michigan that this Court Justice Abraham L. Kellogg. CHICAGO'S MEETING thought originated, of telling the young- According to Professor Oliver M. Contrary to Chicago's usual bad luck sters officially that they belong. Several McCaskill, who with Attorney James T. at annual meetings, the weather on Sep- other clubs have this fall entertained the Rogers '93 of Binghamton, represents the tember 15 was "brite and fair." Fifty- new freshmen and undergraduates. University, appeal will be carried to higher eight members of classes ranging from '73 Songs, stories, and smokes around the courts should the verdict be unfavorable to '24 attended. Golf as the main at- fire at the end of the day resulted in some to the University, where it will undoubt- traction held many foursomes still on the definite contacts between the young Cor- edly be reversed. Only three cases of this links when the dinner gong sounded at nellians and the old grads: The freshmen kind have been brought to court in the seven o'clock, and the indoor baseball are to make good on the Hill and in activ- history of the United States, and all of enthusiasts lived up to all the old tradi- ities; they are to write the alumni at them have failed. Professor McCaskill tions except that it was kept in pitchers least once each week, the letters to be says that should a verdict for the plaintiff at the home plate instead of on third base. read at the alumni luncheons; and they be sustained in higher courts, educational After dinner a couple of heavyweights on are to organize a Michigan club at Cor- institutions all over the country will be the piano kept the crowd singing all the nell to meet at least once each year, with besieged with similar actions and Cornell old favorites and some of the new ones some of the alumni attending. and others will either have to buy liability until general hoarseness and lateness of The games in the afternoon showed that insurance to protect themselves at a cost the hour closed the day. Bob Hargreave's ('09) varsity was too which will necessitate a renewal of cam- Hamilton Vose, Jr. Ί6 has been ap- fast for Knibloe Royce's (Ί 6) scrubs. The paigns for additional endowment, or tui- pointed chairman of the committee in score was 18 to 7, but maybe that was tion will have to be raised high enough to charge of the Musical Clubs' concert to because there were more varsity players provide for such contingencies in the be held in Chicago December 27. Those available at one time. Three of them in future. The fact that more than eighteen desiring seats should apply to him at unison defended second base, at least. thousand students have performed the 4314 Vista Terrace. Swimming and diving contests closed the same experiment in the past ten years, The officers elected for the year were day and whetted the appetites for the with the only accidents two which occur- listed in our last issue. chicken dinner which Hal Place '94 had red on the day in question, and that Miss prepared as only he can. Hamburger admitted in her testimony to Cornellians in Michigan are holding having disobeyed instructions in perform- SCHOOL STARTS IN BINGHAMTON their first big meeting of the year this ing the experiment immediately preceding Cornell graduates, undergraduates, and week—eats, drinks, smokes, and election the one in which the accident occurred, those who were soon to become under- of officers, at the University Club in leads to the belief that even should the graduates and hope to become graduates, Detroit on October 6. Movies sent from verdict be for the plaintiff, it will not be met in the University Club at Binghamton Ithaca will be shown. sustained. on September 16 under the auspices of The nominating committee of the Cor- Early in the trial, Justice Kellogg ruled, the Cornell Club of Binghamton. More nell University Association of Michigan from the evidence, that Cornell is not an than fifty were present. presents the following slate: eleemosynary institution, since it receives Acting President Smith sent a word of For president, Fred M. Randall '00 Federal and State support and registra- greeting to "all lovers of Cornell in Bing- and M. A. Beltaire '02; for vice-presi- tion and tuition fees from students, and hamton," and talks were made by Daniel dent, Morris DeF. Sample '94 and J. that it is therefore liable for the negligence J. Kelly, superintendent of schools in Frazer Whitehead '13; for secretary, H. of its employees. The Court explained Binghamton, G. Mead Willsey '13, vice- S. Kinsley '14 and R. P. Matthiessen '18; that his ruling was the best way of getting president of the club, and Foster M. for treasurer, R. W. Standart, Jr. '09 and the case before higher courts. Coffin '12, alumni representative. Carroll Trego '13; industrial secretary, Although the plaintiff originally brought Dr. Frank M. Dyer '02, president of William H. H. Hutton Jr. '91 and Clar- fourteen different charges of negligence the club, was elected the delegate of the ence F. Harvey '02; sixth member of the against the University, these were re- club at the inaugural ceremonies of Dr. executive committee, W. B. Stratton '88 duced to two: as to whether the Univer- Farrand in Ithaca on October 20, with and R. C. Hargreaves '09; delegates to sity was negligent in dispensing chemicals Justice Theodore R. Tuthill '90, Dr. the Associate Alumni, George B. Wal- from the stock room of the laboratory; Charles G. Wagner '80, James T. Rogers bridge '00, Heatley Green '01, H. Wallace and as to whether the containers of chem- '93, and Robert S. Parsons '89 as alter- Peters '13, and Halsey V. Welles '13. icals were properly labeled. nates. According to Professor McCaskill, the George B. Cummings '12, secretary of THE CORNELL ERA has started a com- testimony showed conclusively that few the clubs, made the following announce- petition for members of the business chemistry laboratories in the country are ment of "Courses of Study for the Fall staff. The competition will close January as carefully conducted as Cornell's and and Winter Term, 1921-22." He said that 14 and the winner will be eligible to busi- that the instructors employed are well all Binghamton Cornellians are required ness manager of the Era in his senior trained and experienced. Analysis by two to register in this course: year. expert chemists showed that the containers Required work. Lectures and labora- 16 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS tory work once a week at regular Chamber lieves that "now that secondary schools the teaching of Professor Davenport of of Commerce luncheons. Field excur- Cornell or others who have devoted ear- are standardized and college curricula are nest years to the development and appli- sions to Ithaca October 20, 22, 29, to in- diversified, the old type of entrance exam- cation of a method of teaching without spect the inauguration of the new Presi- inations is not effective." Nor does the lectures. dent, and the Colgate and Dartmouth certificate plan meet the requirement. Certainly the prevailing presentation games. No written reports will be re- "It is a good method when colleges and of almost any sort of hodge-podge of fact and fancy that will amuse and please im- quired. universities want students and entrance mature youth is often worse than a waste First prelim will be given in December boards are concerned with minimum re- of time. It tends even to obscure much at the annual meeting of the club. quirements." But it does not help to slip-shod thinking that is less than medi- Final exam at the annual banquet in sort the material. How shall this material ocre, on the part of both student and in- structor. Bare attendance on such work January. be sorted? Professor Allen be- is almost sufficient to secure credit for Attendance is required at all se sions of lieves there are four good ways. (1) Find completion of the course, which carries the class. No cuts will be permitted. out what quality of work the candidate often but little value beyond that same Fee for the course $2. The fee will not has been doing in school. "It is enough credit. to know in which quarter the applicant Yet, this is the standard method among be required of those who have paid their professors, this lecturing pleasantly. It dues in the Cornell Club of Binghamton. ranks in a class of reasonable size." (2) Use has become a fetish along with the posses- All others must pay the fee promptly to the comprehensive entrance examinations, sion of certain degrees and bold indeed is Miss Anne McNamara. which are designed not to ask for facts the beginner who sets about his task of or formulae, but to test the student's simply showing the way through the sub- Credit for the course—unlimited pleas- ject-matter of his course, looking for real ure and satisfaction in having faithfully power to use his knowledge. (3) Use the work on the part of students and encourag- followed the course. This course leads to psychological tests, which, while not in- ing it when found. His work cannot hope the degree of D.L.C. struments of precision, "are astonishingly to attract numbers when measured against reliable in sorting men into the broader the performance of certain of his colleagues who have had time to master the art of classification of ability." (4) He would the prevailing method. And woe to the SPORT STUFF add a morality and morale score, on the man whose work does not attract numbers. principle that "the smart rascal is danger- And how tired the students, whether ous in college as elsewhere" and must be able or indifferent, become of the never- Optimists who saw the football team ending stream of "lectures." A real and open against St. Bonaventure on October eliminated. "It is great to reform the well prepared lecture is an essential ele- 1 refer more to potentialities than to talented wayward son, but it is greater to ment of the general schedule of work of actualities. On those occasions in the protect the straight sons of worthy par- the student; but it is not all. game when the team got together it ents from pollution." showed lots of power. It didn't show the To sum up, Professor Allen would rate dash, speed and elan—the intuitive ability candidates on a basis of 500: the second- LITERARY REVIEW to do the right thing—that it will have ary school record to count 100; the com- to have before the season is over in order prehensive examination in English, 100; A Good Book on Trusts to win. But then it was the first game. the comprehensive examination in Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, math- Handbook of the Law of Trusts. By In the first period everybody had ? wooden legs. In the second period the ematics, history, physics, chemistry, or George Gleason Bogert o6, Professor of team got together as such and scored two biology (one subject), 100; the psycholo- Law in the Cornell University College of touchdowns. In the second half the gical test, 100; and the morale score, 100. Law. St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing machine warmed up and St. Bonaventure "Such a method is fair and democratic Company. 1921. 8vo, pp. xiii, 675. Price, became a little weary, with the result and conserves the use of college resources $4-50. that the final score was 41 to o. The for those most worth educating, if it be It may not be necessary, but it seems periods were fifteen minutes. The kickers true that the two prime requisites for prudent to explain that the word "trusts" were well protected; no kicks were blocked real success are character and native is here used in its proper legal and English or nearly blocked. The forward pass was ability." sense and not in another once common but much in evidence. Both on offense and now surviving only in Brisbanese and kin- defense the team handled this play pretty THE LECTURE SYSTEM dred dialects. There has long been need of a good American textbook on the sub- well. The following letter from Andrew J. ject. The standard work, never a model Tickets for the Colgate game go on Newman of Lawrence, Kansas, to The of logical analysis or lucid statement, has sale October 10, for the Dartmouth game New Republic is reprinted from the issue suffered so much from expansive editing October 17, for the Columbia game Octo- of that periodical for September 21: that it has become confusing rather than ber 24. These dates refer to the sale to The letter of Professor Beard in your members of the Athletic Association. The issue of August 17th is too unfair to the helpful. The author of the book before sale to non-members begins in each case articles on professorial lecturing in other us has rendered a very real service by pre- on the following day. Tickets for the Col- recent issues to be allowed to pass. Pro- senting a treatise based upon a practical fessor Dickinson Miller and the editor analysis of his subject, discriminating be- gate and Dartmouth games are $2; for have done real service in bringing this the Columbia game $2.50. There is no matter into current discussion, and it is tween fundamental and settled legal prin- tax. Fifteen cents should be added to to be hoped that the discussion can be ciples on the one hand and corollaries and each remittance to cover registration and made of sufficient interest to draw in still illustrative applications on the other. Its others of wide experience and mature style is conspicuous for clarity and con- postage. Tickets should be obtained from opinion in the field. and checks made payable to the Cornell When one measures university lectures ciseness—the latter quality achieved with- University Athletic Association. by the work of Morse Stephens (I heard out sacrifice of accuracy. R.B. him only in his last years) it is a species The Preface contains this statement: of misrepresentation. Possibly Dr. "The object of this book is to give to COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Beard's experience was fortunate. But I have worked as a student in two state practitioners and students a compact sum- Apropos of the difficulties experienced universities and in two of our endowed mary of the fundamental principles of the by our colleges this fall in keeping num- universities; and lectures of the richness American law relating to trusteeships. It bers down, Professor William O. Allen, of of those of Morse Stephens are too rare is hoped that lawyers will be able by the to bear enumeration. Such lectures use of the book to obtain ready informa- Lafayette College, contributes to School should not be set off against work of the and Society for October 1 an interesting type that Professor Beard describes as tion on the large, outstanding problems article on t'College Admissions." He be- the alternative. Let us measure it against in the field, and to gain starting points for CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 17

research into the more recondite and com- Hunt writes "On Debating." Ross W. step in Peking. Deep traps are being dug plicated questions. The law student "will, Kellogg '12 describes "Watkins Glen." for his ample feet. Nets are being woven it is believed, find in the book sufficient Edward J. Murphy }22 discusses foot- in dark corners. Heaps of sand are being material to furnish him that groundwork ball. Colonel J. C. Nicholls, acting com- blown in from our adjacent desert plains. which is the maximum possible of attain- mandant, contributes "A Word to the The Peking bogie man will catch the ment in his preliminary studies." Freshman." Acting President Smith, worthy doctor if he doesn't watch out. This twofold object has been fully ac- under the title "In Memorίam," contrib- There is a small but dangerous group in complished. The qualities already men- utes the following beautiful verses in our town, and a more noisy and more tioned adapt the book admirably to the memory of the late Colonel Barton: numerous faction down south in Shanghai use of students. At the same time it will that won't be satisfied until our people be found much more useful by the prac- Under the flag he lies and government consent to make war titioner than most of the books in the Quiet today, upon Japan. It is an unpleasant fact that Hornbook Series to which this belongs. Never again to rise certain servants of Uncle Sam in China Indeed the law of trusts lends its'elf to At reveille. are seriously involved in these proceed- "hornbook" treatment because the legal Taps on a bugle blown; ings." principles are neither numerous nor par- Silence and rest. "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik ticularly complex. The difficulties usually Into the dim unknown W. Van Loon '05 is announced for publica- presented arise not from the volume or His spirit fares alone tion by Boni & Liveright. It will contain complexity of the law, but from the On the long quest. a profusion of illustrations and will sell volume and complexity of the facts to at $4.50. which the law must be applied. There Never was stouter heart; The Medical College in New York has been a general confusion of legal Never a man is the subject of a recent syndicated doctrine and practical application. This Fitter for soldier's part article by Appleton Street, forming No. confusion the author has happily avoided. Since war began. 22 of his series on "The Colleges and Uni- Besides students and practitioners another Yet he was kind and true, versities of New York." class will find the book useful. It is an Quick to defend; In The Psychological Review for July, excellent desk book for the use of trust Every child near him knew just received, the leading article is by officers, bankers, and others who are He was a friend. Professor Edgar L. Hinman '92, of the called upon to assume fiduciary responsi- University of Nebraska, on "Modern bilities. F. I. His presence came to all Idealism and the Logos Teaching." Pro- Bearing good cheer. Books and Magazine Articles fessor Elijah Jordan, A.M. '08, of Butler Promptly at every call College, reviews the fourth volume, for "The Influence of Certain Fertilizer He answered "Here!" 1920, of the "Annales de 1 Ίnstitut super- Salts on the Growth and Nitrogen-Con- He, without fear or blame, ieur de Philosophie." Dr. Katherine H. tent of Some Legumes," a doctoral thesis Lover of men, Gilbert '12 reviews the Twentieth volume by Alexander MacTaggart, M.S.A. '13, When the last summons came of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian has been reprinted from Soil Science for Cried, "Here!" again. Society, for 1919-20. Professor William A. June. Hammond reviews Francis Holland's Taps on a bugle blown; E. Avery Richmond '21 has reprinted "Seneca." R. B. Cooke reviews DeWitt Silence and rest. as a doctor's dissertation, from the Bulle- H. Parker's "The Principles of Aesthe- Into the dim unknown tin of the American Museum of Natural tics." His spirit fares alone History for September 27, 1920, his Dean Dexter S. Kimball, of the College On the long quest. "Studies on the Biology of the Aquatic of Engineering, writes in Chemical and Hydrophilidae." Peter Vischer '21 published in The Even- Metallurgical Engineering for August 31 R. G. Whigam and Professor Oliver F. ing Post for August 12 an interesting on "Waste Due to Poor Engineering and Emerson, Ph.D. '91, of Western Reserve, article on "A Motor Trip to the Finger Management." The article is one of a are the authors of a paper on "Sonnet Lakes Region." large number which form a sort of sym- Structure in Sidney's Astrophel and The Magazine of Wall Street for Septem- posium on the general subject of waste in Stella" in the July number of Studies in ber includes an article on "The Hunger industry. Philology. for Gold: How It Secures the Position of In The Engineering News-Record for In Science for July 29 Dr. David Starr the Gold Miners," by Vice-Dean Alex- September 15 is published a paper en- Jordan '72 writes on Jonston's "Natural ander Gray, of the College of Engineering. titled "Outline of Highway Research History of Fishes," a rare book dating Elizabeth Elian writes in The Boston Program by William K. Hatt '91, director from 1767. In the issue for August 5, Dr. Herald for August 28 on "Miss Hazard's of the Highway Research Committee of Theobald Smith '81 discusses "Parasitism New Theory of Dealing with Immigrants." the National Research Council. It was as a Factor in Disease." The article is illustrated by a portrait of read at the Conference on Highway Econo- The Scientific American Monthly for Professor Hazard. The theory is simple: mics at the University of Maryland on September includes an article on "Du- "to approach the newly arrived immi- July 27. rability of Furs and Fabrics: Recent grant through a definite knowledge of his Horace Kephart, '81-4 Grad., writes in Methods of Determining the Resistance own customs, of his racial characteristics, Outing for September on "Arms for De- to Wear of Fur and Fabric Hairs" by Dr. of his religion, and of his food habits." fense of Honest Citizens." Leon A. Hausman '14. The Washington Post for August 21, In The Illustrated Canadian Forestry Louis A. Fuertes '97 writes in The North contained an interesting illustrated article Magazine for September Dr. Edward M. American Review for October on "Game on Dr. Schurman and his mission to Kindle, M.S. '96, publishes an illustrated Laws and the Public Mind." China, by Patrick Gallagher, who writes article on "A Tree Three Million Years In The Atlantic Monthly for October from Peking: "I am in a position to say Old." In the August issue he writes on Vernon Kellogg '91-2 Grad., writes on that Chinese of all parties regard Dr. "Mackenzie River Driftwood;" this is "Mountaineering in America." Schurman with friendship and respect. also illustrated. In The Cornell Era for October Herbert His friendly attitude toward Japan will In The Nation for August 10 Theodore Reed '99 writes on "Cornell Athletics," be an asset to him of no small importance." Stanton '76 reviews "Spanish Colonial Romeyn Berry '04 writes on "The New He adds the following word of warning: Literature in South America," by Bernard Baseball Field." Professor Emory L. "Dr. Schurman will need to watch his Moses. 18 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

possible methods; either to call in the of applicants who cannot be ruled out. salesmen, refuse orders, and raise prices; It is clear that the Cornell of the future to take all the orders that come, skimp will be obliged squarely to face the prob- the job, and do the best possible under the lem, and unless some inspired plan of Published for the Associate Alumni of circumstances, hoping that its product will limitation can be found that will really Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni become less popular; or to face the situa- limit, the alumni must stand behind her News Publishing Company, Incorpor- tion, interest more capital, increase the and finance a larger instructing staff, more ated. plant and the output, maintaining the recitation rooms and laboratories, and Published weekly during the college year and monthly during the summer; forty issues annμally. quality, realizing that the market is a per- more residential halls. We shall then Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered con- manent one, that the business has been have to handle new problems, social, secutively) continues through Commencement virtual^ unsolicited, and that it is sus- racial, and spiritual, but fortunately there Week. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an index of the entire volume, which ceptible of considerable increase. is enough intelligence at the command of will be mailed on request. For Cornell, the good old days of the Cornell so that nearly every sort of pro- Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single small university of the late nineties are blem is nothing but financial. And this copies twelve cents each. gone forever. There are dreamers who is especially true of the problem of limit- Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his dream of such a school to come again, but ing enrollment. . subscription notice to tha,t effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that where the prospective student will be pre- a continuance of the subscription is desired. pared in a super high school, where the Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- able to Cornell Alumni News. undergraduate will do work of graduate ATHLETICS Correspondence should be addressed— grade, and the new graduate will be able Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y to teach his professor's seminars for him Cornell Defeats St. Bonaventure Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 the following fall. A school of this sort Business Manager E. P. TUTTLE '18 does not exist, and probably cannot. The football team defeated St. Bona- Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 It is almost obvious that the best that venture by the score of 41 to o last Satur- Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON can be done by raising the entrance re- day in the season's opening game. It had Associate Editors been anticipated that the visiting team, CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS quirement is to retard growth. If candi- ROMEYN BERRY '04 H, G. STUTZ Ό7 dates for admission could be hand-picked which the Saturday before had played FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 FLORENCE J. BAKER it might be possible, if the selecters were Colgate to a 7 to 7 tie, would furnish a E. P. TUTTLE '18 sufficiently broadminded and wise, to real test of Cornell's football material, News Committee of the Associate Alumni: W. W. Macon '98, Chairman reduce enrollment to a stated number, but that expectation was hardly fulfilled. N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 and maintain it at that figure. The After the first period Cornell overpowered Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing the visitors, who though considerably Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President. difficulties in the path of such officers are R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- numerous. Everyone regards his boy or stronger than last year, were unable to retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. his protege as a coming marvel, and his check the rushes and plunges of Cornell's Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. own opinion of him as more accurate than backfield. They did however manage to that of a casual observer. Certain East- make some seven first downs, all, by the way, through the use of the forward pass. Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. ern colleges are experimenting with a plan of apportioning to each geographical Not once did they make a first down division a certain number of admissions, through the line. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER 6, 1921 permitting the alumni in each section to Twice they came to the ten-yard line, select from among those who qualify for once on loose play by Cornell, in the first A LARGER UNIVERSITY entrance those who may enter. This plan period; again in the fourth, when the The news that the University's regis- will be watched with interest, but we sus- Cornell team was made up entirely of sub- tration has now exceeded that of last pect that it will go upon the rocks as soon stitutes. On both occasions Cornell's de- year, in spite of a much stricter adherence as the alumni committee has to choose fense tightened and St. Bonaventure lost to rules governing entrance requirements, between candidates that have been equally the ball on downs. Their passing game will be received with mixed feelings by the highly recommended—much like the re- did however cause Coach Dobie's men alumni and the Faculty. commendations to a fraternity. In other more or less trouble. Cornell's registration has exceeded her words hand-picking is likely to work bet- Cornell's play was about what was to accommodations for some years. In this ter when it is a question of selecting ninety be expected in an opening game. The sense the accommodations referred to are per cent of the candidates, than when team has yet to come together; there was not only the physical plant but the in- only a half or a third of the applicants plenty of individual effort, not a few structing staff as well. This year the can be accommodated. flashes of real ability, but there was little situation in regard to class room space will To return to the factory. To refuse to team play. The team was not especially obviously be worse. Whether the in- take more orders than can be handled is well-handled nor was the selection of plays structing staff will be worse depends pri- a justifiable temporary expedient. To above criticism; but one got the impres- marily on whether the theory is correct skimp the job in favor of quantity produc- sion that Pfann, the quarterback, was that a student who has no entrance con- tion is intolerable as applied to university going to develop with more experience ditions is superior to one who has. A dis- education. But for a business that faces into a reliable pilot, and as the team and cussion of this opens up a broad and permanent popularity and a permanent its individual players gain confidence in fertile field for argument in which there increase in sales, there is but one possible him. Wahl, who succeeded him in the is no solid bed rock of fact. To generalize, move, that of increasing its capacity as third period, has enjoyed more experience however, this entering class being better fast as it needs to in order to keep up and got better results. Pfann however prepared for college study according to with orders, and to reorganize as frequently looks like a comer, not only as a team present standards, shoufd be easier to as is necessary in those departments where leader, but as an offensive back. teach than a class of the same size with quality tends to suffer. Line play was slow at first, but improved more entrance conditions. The situation To apply factory methods to a univer- as the game progressed, the forwards and as a whole should be about as trying as it sity would be foolhardy if carried too far. backs coordinating better after the first was last year, and not much worse. Nevertheless, Cornell has tried to put on period. The linemen showed need of ex- Cornell is in a situation analogous to the brakes and has increased. Presum- perience and a lot of it. They were ade- that of a manufacturing plant whose ably the harder she struggles, the better quate, however, on the defense. capacity is sold up. There are several the education, and the larger the number There was not much for the ends to do CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 19 because St. Bonaventure's running at- Wahl for Pfann, Kay for Brayman, Buck- tack amounted to little. They covered ley for Cassidy, Marshall for Munns, Olney for Lechler, Richards for Brayton, OBITUARY the kicks fairly well. The best punting of Ebersole for Rollo, Sullivan for Sund- the day was done by Carey, who was sub- stron, Post for Kaw. St. Bonaventure, stituted in the fourth period. One of his Lentz for Martineau, Martineau for Lentz, James H. Ebersole '74 kicks went seventy-five yards. Kay did Barry for Kane. Officials—Referee—F. W. Murphy of Brown. Umpire—Ed James Herman Ebersole died in Paris, most of the kicking. His distance was Thorpe, De Le Salle. Head linesman— France, on July 31. only fair, but he seems capable of develop- A. W. Palmer of Colby. Time of periods He prepared at the Hughes High School ment. Hanson did well at goal kicking, —15 minutes. in Cincinnati, and entered Cornell in putting four over out of five attempts. An International Track Meet 1870, taking an optional course, and re- Generally speaking the team seemed The suggestion of an international track- maining but one year. He had lived in considerably better than in the opening meet between an Oxford-Princeton team Cincinnati practically all of his life, and game of last year, and it certainly has and a Cambridge-Cornell team, to be held was one of the city's most extensive potentialities of power and speed1. One at the Queen's Club in London was one travelers, having the distinction of hav- got the impression that the possibilities of the developments of a series of con- ing visited Europe sixteen times, as well of this squad are considerably greater than ferences during the summer between Be- as making extensive tours of the Orient. last year's, but that a great deal of work vill Rudd, captain of the Oxford track He crossed the Pacific five times, and had remains to be done, both individually team, and representatives of the two Amer- toured Japan, China, India, and Austra- and as a team. ican universities mentioned. lia, as well as some of the more remote The six touchdowns were piled up in and unusual regions, such as the Fiji Is- News that such a meet between British- three periods, largely through individual lands, New Zealand, and Central Africa. American teams had been under consider- good work of the backs, though occasion- He departed on his last trip to Europe ation during Rudd's recent visit to this ally some effective interference was de- on June 20. country was made public recently when veloped. There was no scoring in the first the noted Oxonian, who is a recognized Ebersole was one of the managers of period, but toward the end Pfann broke leader in university and amateur sport in the Glenn Estate in Cincinnati, in the away on a thirty-yard run which brought England, sailed for home. care of which he was associated with his Cornell within striking distance, and When Graduate Manager Berry's at- two brothers, William V. Ebersole and Lechler went over for the score early in J tention was called to dispatches bearing Joseph G. Ebersole yj. He had never the second quarter. Another touchdown on this suggestion he said it was true that married, but made his home with his was made in this period after Kaw, Ram- such a proposition had been seriously mother, Mrs. Frances Glenn Ebersole. sey, and Pfann had made some pretty considered. Although no definite ar- In addition, to Ms mother and two broth- runs. Pfann fumbled crossing the line rangements for such a meet had been ers, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. H. but Munns recovered back of the line for made, he regarded it as a highly sporting W. Crawford of Cincinnati, and Mrs. the touchdown. In the third period three and very attractive proposition. Edwin L. Martin of Pasadena, Calif. He touchdowns were scored, one on a forward was an uncle of Chapman Ebersole '16, pass to Wahl, the play gaining about Athletic Notes William G. Ebersole '13, and Newman twenty yards in all. In the final period Upwards of one hundred twenty-five Ebersole Ίo. the substitutes made one more touchdown. men reported for freshman football this The body was returned to Cincinnati Besides some pretty open field running year, seventy-five of whom are now prac- for burial. by Kaw, Ramsey, Pfann, and Wahl, sub- ticing regularly. Coach Paul Eckley is stantial gains were made on line rushes by being assisted by E. J. Hoff '21, quarter- James S. Milford >77 Lechler, who broke through frequently. back on last year's varsity team, and oc- Early in the game the backs fumbled casionally by one or two other men of James Stanley Milford died of heart badly, largely, one gathered, because of varsity experience. failure on July 3 at his residence, "Sar- nervousness and anxiety. Over anxious- Coach Nicholas Bawlf has arrived to anac," Glenroy, Melbourne, Victoria, ness and greenness also proved costly in take charge of soccer practice and pre- Australia. He was sixty-five years old. penalties. One hundred yards of ground parations for the intercollegiate season Milford received the degree of B.S. at were lost because of infractions of the are under way. Some seventy-five men Cornell in 1877, and was a member of rules. seek places on the varsity team. Coach Alpha Delta Phi. He was first president On the line Captain Dodge, Brayton, Bawlf hopes to organize a fraternity soc- of his class, and it had been expected that Brayman, and Kaw, Ramsey, Pfann, and cer league again this fall. Soccer is played he would return to Ithaca for the forty- Lechler in the backfield showed to advant- on the lower Alumni Field level, while the fifth reunion of his class next June. He age. Among the substitutes Marshall, baseball squad uses the upper level. was a lover of all good sport, and was Rollo, Davidson, Wahl, Carey, and Olney known as the father of baseball in Aus- The first fall track meet last Satur- attracted attention. The line-up and tralia. He was president of the Victoria day brought fifty-five men into competi- summary: Piscatorial Council for many years, and Cornell St. Bonaventure tion. The first freshman cup cross at the time of his death was honorary Hansen L.T Dugan country race was won by H. North. secretarjr of the Northern Golf Club of Cassidy L.E Martineau Crew registration totals 319, a new Victoria. His great ambition was the Brayman L.G Cunningham establishment, in the Commonwealth Brayton C Kelly record. There are 154 varsity candi- Jones R.G Eaisley dates. One hundred fifty-four men are Government, of a fish commission ap- Dodge R.T Kane out for the varsity crew, and one hundred pointed "to exploit the wealth, for the Munns R.E McCarthy sixty-five for the freshman. Australian people, of the great waters of Pfann Q.B Barry the Continent." Kaw L.H Green Ramsey R.H Lucco A RECEPTION which marked the formal Although for the past forty years a Lechler F.B Oberlander opening of the new gymnasium in the old resident of Melbourne, Mr. Milford had Score of periods: Cornell o 13 21 7—41 Star Theater building on September 27 retained his citizenship in the United St. Bonaventure o o o o—o was attended by more than five hundred. States. For thirty-seven years he was a Touchdowns: Ramsey 2, Wahl 2, The building is now headquarters for the member of the advertising staff of the Lechler, Munns. Goals from touchdowns School of Physical Education in connec- Melbourne Age, retiring from that posi- —Hansen 4, Carey. Substitutions—Cor- tion about a year ago. He leaves his nell, Rollo for Jones, Davidson for Dodge, tion with the Ithaca Conservatory of Carey for Ramsey, Sundstron for Hansen, Music and Associated Schools. widow and three daughters. 20 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Henry M. Dibble '82 road Administration, when he was made Henry Montgomery Dibble, president mechanical superintendent of the South- FACULTY NOTES of the Bank of Western Carolina, died ern region, with headquarters at Atlanta, suddenly of heart disease on July 12 at Ga. Upon the creation of the Railroad EVERETT WALTON GOODHUE, professor his country home, "Mount Morency," Administration Labor Board, he was ap- of economics at Cornell last year, has near Aiken, S. C. pointed a member, and moved to Wash- taken up his work as professor of economics Dibble was graduated from Cornell in ington, serving until that body was dis- at Dartmouth. 1882 with the degree of B.S., and was a banded at the end of the year 1920, since member of Psi Upsilon. He was one of which time he had been taking a much "A DIGNIFIED and important family" the editors of the Review and was histor- needed vacation. has been removed from the capital of the ian of his class. . He was a member and past president nation, according to the Washington He had been president of the Bank of of the Railway Master Mechanics' Asso- Star's society notes, which state that "Mrs. Western Carolina for more than a quarter ciation, the Master Car Builders' Associa- Farrand and Miss Farrand have been of a century, and was one of the prominent tion, and a member of the American So- active coadjutors in philanthropy and in financial figures in Aiken and that section ciety of Mechanical Engineers. He was social matters. Mrs. Farrand was the of the State of South Carolina. at one time president of the Southern and prime leader in that marvelous ball given He was in his sixty-third year, and was Southwestern Railway Club, and was a on March 4, as a combination of consola- unmarried. He leaves two sisters and a Shriner, a Knight Templar, a member of tion offering to those who mourned the brother. the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons usual inaugural festivities and an oppor- George W. Walker '93 of the Revolution, and the Columbia tunity to aid a worthy cause. . . . She Country Club at Washington, and various was before her marriage Miss Margaret George Washington Walker died on clubs in Atlanta and Savannah. August 30 at his home in West Medford, Charleton of New York and, though a Mr. Gaines was the author of numerous Mass. well-known social favorite, she always technical papers, and made a number of He was born in Binghamton, N. Y., showed a bent toward relieving physical inventions, of which the Gaines locomo- fifty years ago, and was graduated in suffering and from her childhood had be- tive furnace is the most important. While 1893 with the degree of B.S. He was a longed to societies organized for that pur- with the Central Railroad of Georgia, he member of Phi Sigma Kappa, the Glee pose." superintended the design and erection of Club, the Chemiker Verein, and the Sta- the repair shops at Macon, Ga., and mod- PROFESSOR HENRY H. NORRIS '96, tistics Committee. He was well known ernized its locomotive and car equipment. formerly of Sibley College, is to conduct a in the drug trade, having been for the past He is survived by his widow, formerly course in New York for publishers of fifteen years selling agent in New York Miss Frances E. Loomis of New York, to trade papers and house organs. It will and New England with his brother, Wil- whom he was married on October 5, 1897, be a combination of home study and liam R. Walker. a daughter, Clarissa B. Gaines, and a son, weekly class meetings. Mr. Walker was married three years Frederic F. Gaines, Jr. ago to Mrs. Lottie Richardson, of Somer- PROFESSOR WALTER F. WILL COX and With a kindly and at times whimsical ville, Mass., who survives him. He leaves Dr. David Starr Jordan '72 last week ad- turn of mind, his early demise will be also two brothers, William R. Walker, of dressed the International Congress of deplored by his classmates in Sibley and Winchester, Mass., and Dr. Harry A. Eugenists at the American Museum of his numerous friends in the railroad and Walker, of Somerville. Natural History in New York. social worlds. He was a member of the Cornell Club of New England. H. E. W. '95. PROFESSOR BRISTOW ADAMS has been Harold B. Merz »14 invited to judge the newspapers of Florida Frederick F. Gaines '95 The body of Lieut. Harold B. Merz '14 in a State-wide contest to be held at Frederic Freelinghuysen Gaines died arrived in Philadelphia on September 10. Gainesville in mid-November. During suddenly on August 26 at his home in Lieutenant Merz was killed on January the past year he has judged similar con- Washington, D. C. 2, 1919, while on a practice flight near tests for New York, Kansas, and Min- He was born in Hawley, Pa., on March Tours, just a few days prior to embarking nesota. 28, 1871, the eldest son of Stanley and for the United States. He was the son INSTRUCTOR PRIMITIVO SANJURJO did Margaret Gaines. After graduating from of Charles Merz, 6825 State Road, Tacony, not meet his Spanish classes during the the public school at Hawley, he prepared Philadelphia. first week of the college year because his for college at the Wyoming Seminary, Newton C. Rogers '16 bride was detained at Ellis Island under Kingston, Pa., entering Sibley College in the clause of the immigration laws which The body of Lieut. Newton Chauncey 1891, and graduating in 1895. In college restricts new arrivals from abroad to Rogers Ί6 arrived in Hoboken on July he proved to be a good student, specializ- three per cent of those already in the 11, and military services were held at the ing in locomotive engineering, and was United* States from a given country. The home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. elected to Sigma Xi in his senior year. quota from Spain is full, but the instructor Rogers, of Canandaigua, N. Y. During his summer vacations he worked could get in under an exemption provided On October 16, 1918, Lieutenant Rogers in the locomotive repair shops of the Erie for educators, artists, and lecturers. After was reported missing; on Christmas day, and Wyoming Valley Railroad at Dun- a week's detention, his wife was admitted 1918, his parents received word that his more, Pa., thus beginning his active con- through a special dispensation from Wash- machine had been shot down in flames nection with railroading, which continued ington. until his death. behind the German lines, the exact place, Upon graduation he entered the em- date, and cause unknown. Later they PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN '03 ploy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, being were advised that he had been shot down sailed for Europe on September 15 in com- successively draftsman, mechanical en- on September 16, 1918, and that his body pany with William F. Callendar, assistant gineer, and master mechanic. After serv- had been found and buried in Lorraine. chief of the Bureau of Markets and Crop ing the Philadelphia and Reading Rail- Estimates, who is an expert in methods road as master mechanic at Reading, he FRANK (LEHIGH) WINGERT, stationed in of crop-reporting. Together they will was appointed superintendent of motive Ithaca with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, study European systems of crop-reporting power of the Central Railroad of Georgia has been seriously ill, but has now gone to and endeavor to speed up the system of at Savannah, holding this position until the home of his sister in Reading, Pennsyl- transmitting reports on European con- the formation of the United States Rail- ditions to the farmers of America. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 21

of the Meat Division of the United States moted to the position of editor of that ALUMNI NOTES Food Administration, leaving that posi- publication, which is the largest electrical tion to act as adviser to the Minister of magazine in the world. Braymer is a Food in Poland. He has also served as member of the Engineers' Club of New '71 AB—James O'Neill is in his twenty- secretary of the United States Industrial York, and of numerous technical societies, fourth year as circuit judge of the 17th Commission in Washington, expert on the and is the author of several electrical Judicial Circuit of Wisconsin. He lives Minnesota Commission for reorganization textbooks. in Neillsville, Wis. of State government, and in several other '06 LLB—Charles P. Rose is appraisal '74—Melville B. Anderson, professor official and semi-official capacities. Be- attorney for the D. L. and W. Railway, emeritus of English at Stanford Univer- fore going to the University of Minnesota, with offices at 73 West Eagle Street, sity, is spending some time in New York, he taught economics at Harvard and at Buffalo. He is in charge of the appraisal where he is superintending the publica- Stanford University. and valuation of the real estate of the D. tion of his translation of Dante's "Divine '01 CE—Nelson O. Tiffany is president L. and W. Railway in the City of Buffalo, Comedy." Professor Anderson has been and general manager of the Masonic Life which work is being done to comply with engaged on the work of translation since Association of Buffalo, N. Y., "operated an order of the United States Inter-State his retirement from university life. His by Masons for Masons." He may be ad- Commerce Commission affecting all rail- time has been divided between Italy and dressed in care of the Association, Masonic roads in the country. He lives at 729 his home in Menlo Park, Calif. Temple, Buffalo. Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. '85 PhD—James Gilbert White will be the delegate from Cornell University to '01 AB—Joseph Porter Harris '01 and '07 AB—Louis W. Fehr, lawyer and the inauguration on October 14 of Dr. Miss Margaret Matthai, daughter of Mr. newspaper man, is Republican candidate John Martin Thomas as president of and Mrs. William H. Matthai, were mar- for Assembly in the 17th Assembly Dis- Pennsylvania State College. ried on September 24 at "Lexington," trict. He lives at 1867 Seventh Avenue, Arlington, Baltimore, Md. The bride is New York. '92 ME—Andrew H. Green, jr., is vice- a sister of Albert D. Matthai Ίo and '07 CE—Clarence H. Swick is chief of president of the Solvay Process Company, Joseph F. Matthai Ίi. Syracuse, N. Y., in charge of operation and the United States Coast and Geodetic engineering. '04 AB—Howard W. Douglass, city Survey. His headquarters are in Wash- solicitor of McKeesport, Pa., and chair- ington, and he lives at Capitol Heights, '92 PhB, '93 LLB—John Alan Hamil- man of the Allegheny County Republican Md. ton, a Buffalo attorney, has been ap- Committee, was nominated one of the pointed chief deputy collector of internal '07—Charles R. Marsh is secretary of two common pleas judge candidates for revenue, to succeed George B. Wende, the endowment committee of the Clarke Allegheny County at the recent primary resigned. He was admitted to the bar School for the Deaf at Northampton, election. He has issued a statement in 1894 and has practiced law in Buffalo Mass. Vice-President Calvin Coolidge is thanking those who voted for him. for a number of years, with offices in the chairman of the endowment committee. Erie County Bank Building. In 1919-20 '05 ME(EE)—James Lynah is president '08 ME—Max W. Davis has become he was president of the Erie County Bar of Barnard-Lynah, Inc., selling agents for associated with Mr. A. M. Wooster in the Association. He was appointed on two cotton mills, with offices at 321 Broadway, practice of patent and trademark law, special commissions by Governor Hughes, near Worth Street, New York. He is with offices in the Security Building, 1115 and in 1919-20 Governor Smith appointed also president of the L & M Distributing Main Street, Bridgeport, Conn. Davis him a member of the Reconstruction Com- Corporation, 104 West Forty-fourth was graduated from the law department mittee of New York State. He has been Street, New York. of George Washington University in 1912, associated in law with John Lord OΈrian, '05 ME—A daughter was born on July and is a member of the bar in the District Judge Charles B. Wheeler, and Mayor 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo D. Speed, of Columbia, and of the Supreme Court Buck of Buffalo. 628 Delaware Avenue, Detroit, Mich. of the United States. For eleven years '95 LLB—William Burlingame Belden, She has been named Elizabeth. Speed is he was a member of the examining corps the son of William P. Belden '95 and Mrs- the son of R. G. H. Speed '71, of Ithaca. of the United States patent office, hav- Belden of Cleveland, Ohio, is a member of '05 AB—Harold J. Richardson of Low- ing reached the grade of first assistant this year's freshman class at the Univer- ville, N. Y., was superintendent of agri- examiner when he resigned in 1919. He sity, having been graduated last June cultural exhibits at New York State Fair, has lately been associated with the patent from the University School in Cleveland. Syracuse, N. Y. department of the Singer Manufacturing He is taking the combined arts and law '05 CE—During a period of reorganiza- Company, Elizabeth, N. J. course. tion, Harry F. Porter is functioning as act- '09 AB, '12 PhD—Dr. Allan H. Gilbert, '96—Elbert H. Bingham has been made ing general manager of the Upson-Walton formerly of the University of Tennessee, manager of operation and engineering with Company, ship chandlers and manufac- is now professor of English at Trinity Col- the Solvay Process Company, and will be turers of wire rope, marine hardware, can- lege, Durham, N. C. located in Syracuse, N. Y. vas goods, and auto accessories, located at Ίo CE—Wilmer A. Dehuff, formerly 1310 West Eleventh Street, Cleveland, '96 PhD—Dr. E. Dana Durand, since associate professor of civil engineering at Ohio. This company controls the Upson- Johns Hopkins University, has been ap- 1913 professor of economics at the Uni- Walton Company of New York, with a versity of Minnesota, has received an pointed principal of the Baltimore Poly- factory for the production of wire rope at technic Institute, of which he is a graduate. appointment as chief of the newly created Newark, N. J. Eastern European Division of the United Ίo ME—Mrs. Nina C. Walker of Wash- States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic '06 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pinder ington, D. C, announces the engagement Commerce. Dr. Durand has had much announce the marriage of their daughter, of her daughter, Elizabeth Grimes Walker, experience in official and educational Ethel Glendora,' to Professor Charles to John Williams Davis Ίo, the wedding circles. From 1903 to 1909 he was con- Henry Tuck '06 on September 10 at to take place some time this month. Miss nected with the Bureau of Corporations Johnstown, Pa. Professor and Mrs. Tuck Walker is a direct descendant on her of the Department of Commerce and will be at home after December 1 at 129 father's side of Timothy Pickering, who Labor, first as economic expert and later Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. held three Cabinet offices during Wash- as deputy commissioner, and from 1909 '06 ME—Daniel H. Braymer, for the ington's administration, and is a grand- to 1913 he was director of the Census past two years managing editor of The daughter of the late Rear Admiral John Bureau. In 1917-18 he was assistant chief Electrical World, has recently been pro- Grimes Walker, U. S. N., commander of 22 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

the White Squadron, the first United '15, Ί6 BS—Miss Mabel M. Spring '15 lines is junior partner of the firm of Tom- States fleet to enter European waters, and, and Claude S. Gregory were married on lines and Son, consulting and construction after his retirement, president of the June 9 in Christ's Episcopal Church, Port engineers, of Syracuse, N. Y. Isthmian Canal Commission. During the Henry, N. Y. They are making their '17 BS—Henry E. Allanson has been war Davis was a captain in the Air Ser- home in Port Henry. appointed assistant to the chief of the vice. '15 ME—Mrs. Avia A. Tomlinson of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department ; n ME—Miss Eulalie Burgoyne, New York has announced the engagement of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. daughter of Mrs. Percy Burgoyne of of her daughter, Mary, to Hilary Herbert '17 AB—Tracy B. Augur was graduated Plainfield, N. J., was married on August Micou of Detroit. Micou is a grandson last June from the School of Landscape 24 to Lieut. Philip W. Allison Ίi, son of of the late Hilary Herbert, Secretary of Architecture at Harvard, with the degree the late Brig. Gen. James Nicholas Alli- the Navy in the Cabinet of President of M. L. A., and is now in the city plan- son, U. S. A. The wedding took place in Grover Cleveland. ning department of the Technical Ad- the military chapel at Governors Island. '15 PhD—Millard A. Klein is a member visory Corporation, New York. He lives Stanton W. Allison was his brother's best of the firm of Leslie Symmes and Asso- at 33 Crooke Avenue, Brooklyn. man, and Walter R. Jones ' 11 and Richard ciates, agricultural engineers, with offices H. Andrews Ίi were the ushers. '17 AB; '17 AB—Miss Mazie C. Mont- in the Merchants Exchange Building, San Ίo AB—Miss Mildred C. Γrey, of gomery '17, daughter of Mrs. Josephine Francisco. He lives at 2515 Regent Montgomery, was married on August 29 Allentown, Pa., is a candidate for school Street, Berkeley, Calif. director on the Democratic ticket. After to Charles J. Rowland '17. The ceremony graduating from Cornell, Miss Frey taught Ί6 BS—Russell V. Black, who received took place at the home of the bride's for two years in the Allentown High an appointment last spring as town plan- mother in Montour Falls, N. Y. Row- School; then after passing a competitive ning engineer of American Falls, Idaho, land is a member of the faculty of the examination, she was appointed a teacher has spent the summer in that place, per- Walton School of Commerce, Chicago, in the Paterson, N. J., High School, where fecting plans for the removal -of a large where he is engaged as a lecturer and she remained for five years. part of the town to a new site, a part of writer on Federal taxation. the old townsite coming within the area '17 BS—A daughter, Marion Ruth, was Ίi BSA—Ivan C. Jagger Ίi and Miss of a projected irrigation reservoir. His Gertrude Inez Fisher were married on born on September 1 to Mr. and Mrs. H. plans have been approved by the U. S. Strycker Mills of Ithaca. Mills is an September 8 at the home of the bride's Reclamation Service, under which the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anson P. Fisher, in instructor in the Department of Vegetable appointment was made, and he expected Gardening, doing experimental work and Canastota, N. Y. Mrs. Jagger is a grad- to finish up his work about October 1. uate of the Oswego Normal School and has and specializing in canning crops. been for the past two years in the New Ί6 CE—George D. Barnhart is assist- '17 BS—Mead G. Briggs '17 was mar- York office of the Oneida Community, ant engineer in the office of the capital ried on September 28 to Miss Ida Lee Limited. After leaving Cornell, Jagger expenditure accountant of the New York Davis Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. attended the University of Wisconsin, and Central Railroad, New York. His home Leigh C. Fleming of Brooklyn, N. Y. The has received the degrees of M.S. and Ph.D. is at Clayton, N. Y. wedding took place at St. Mark's Metho- He was a member of the faculty of the Ί6 ME—Leroy R. Grumman was one of dist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn; Guy University of Rochester for a short time, the four passengers in the Loening mono- Rickard Ί8 was best man. Briggs is as professor of plant pathology, and he is plane flying boat on August 16, when it assistant secretary with the Discount Cor- now with the Bureau of Plant Industry established a world altitude record for sea- poration, 52 Wall Street, New York. of the United States Department of Agri- planes at Port Washington, Long Island, Ί8—Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. McLain of culture. He has been stationed for some by ascending to a height of 19,600 feet in Massillon, Ohio, have announced the en- time at Sandford, Fla., where he and his forty-eight minutes. Grumman is in- gagement of their daughter, Katharine, to bride will make their home. spector and test pilot with the Loening John S. Knight Ί8, son of Representa- Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, 12 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Seymour tive C. L. Knight and Mrs. Knight, 80 351 West Fifty-second Street, New York. Breckenridge of Cranford, N. J., have an- North Portage Path, Akron, Ohio. Knight nounced the engagement of their daughter, ' 16 AB—Miss Frances Mix, daughter of is prominent in political affairs in Akron, Florence, to William M. Sperry 2d, also Mrs. Frank E. Mix of Minneapolis, Minn., being president of the Young Men's Re- of Cranford. Miss Breckenridge is a grad- will be married this month to Alden C. publican Club, and a member of the Re- uate of Smith College, class of 1916. No Buttrick '16 of Ithaca. Miss Mix is a publican executive committee. He is date has been set for the wedding. graduate of Columbia University, and managing editor of The Beacon Journal of '14 AB—A daughter, Elizabeth Lucy, has also attended the University of Minne- Akron. was born on August 29 to Mr. and Mrs. sota. '18 BS—Announcement has been made Edward duBois Stryker, jr., 13500 Garden '17 CE—Robert E. Bassler has recently of the engagement of Miss Florence Road, East Cleveland, Ohio. received a commission as lieutenant Griffin of Syracuse, N. Y., and Nelson M. (junior grade) in the Civil Engineer Corps '14 CE—Miss Elizabeth Mason Heath, Wells Ί 8. Wells is with Olmsted Brothers, of the Navy. The appointment came formerly a member of the Sunday staff of landscape architects, Brooklίne, Mass. The New York Times, and Van Wyck W. after five days' professional examination in civil engineering. Thirteen men passed Ί8, '19 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Homer F. Loomis '14 were married on September 17 George have announced the marriage of in St. Thomas's Church, New York. The the examination, and Bassler's position was third. He was married in 1918 to their niece, Miss Carolyn Chisholm, to bride is a graduate of Vassar, and during Stanley N. Shaw '18 on September 17. the war was one of the leading women Miss Lillian G. Kingsland of Brooklyn, workers in the Red Cross in Washington. and they are living in Washington, D. C. Ί8, '20 AB—Harold C. Bonofΐ Ί8 and After leaving Washington she was en- ' 17 ME—Announcement has been made Miss Gertrude Barol, daughter of Mr. and gaged in Red Cross work in New York and pf the engagement of Miss Marie Margaret Mrs. Max Barol of Brooklyn, were mar- later edited books for the Carnegie Foun- Reck, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis ried on September 1 at the Hotel Bossert, dation. Loomis is a representative of the Reck, of 416 Fifty-fourth Street, Brook- Brooklyn. After leaving Cornell, Bonofΐ American Telephone and Telegraph Com- lyn, to Thomas Frederick Illingworth studied at the Wharton School, Univer- pany in the Southwest, where the couple Tomlines '17. Miss Reck is a sister of sity of Pennsylvania. will spend the next few months, returning William M. 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'19 CE—Reginald Waldo is engaged in ways preserved by a people who have '20 BChem—Donald C. Blanke has ac- stream gauging on the rivers of the State always lived "far from the madding cepted a position in the sales department of Missouri and the springs of the Ozark crowd." His address is Eighty and Olive of the Federated Engineers' Development region. He finds the style of dress worn Streets, Rolla, Mo. Corporation, Jersey City, N. J. He lives by' the ladies of the Ozarks to be especially at 49 Claremont Avenue, New York. '19 BS, '20 MLD—Norman Toivo New- interesting. Both dress and customs would ; ton has received court permission to 2O BS—Donald Hoagland has changed appeal to those interested in primitive change his name to Norman Thomas New- his residence address to 212 West Eighty- ton. He lives in Wyoming, N. Y. fifth Street, New York. He is still with Roy Barnhill, Inc., 23 East Twenty-sixth NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS '19, Ί 8 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wil- Street. The Cornell Society of Engi- liams of "Coed-Mawr," Overbrook, Pa., '20 AB; '21 AB—Mrs. Henry Schweitzer neers maintains a Registration announce the engagement of their daugh- of Brooklyn, N. Y., has announced the Bureau. Complete records of 2,000 ter, Jean Stager Williams, to Henry J. marriage of her daughter, Miss Gretchen Cornell men are on file. Employers Kaltenthaler, jr., '19, of 6457 Woodbine may consult these records without Schweitzer '21, to W. Herbert Grigson '20 Avenue, Overbrook, Pa. charge. If preferred, we will re- on September 2. Mr. and Mrs. Grigson commend a man to fill your needs. '19—Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Keen of will make their home in Huntington, Long 165 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY REGISTRATION BUREAU Greenwich, Conn., have announced the Island, where Grigson has a position as Room 2602—Mr. Harding engagement of their daughter, Katherine supervisor of physical education and ath- Phone Cortland 4800 Stewart Keen, to Leslie R. Schauffler '19 letic coach. Tailors for Cornellians of New York. '20, '21 AB—John F. Cannon has a Everywhere '19, '20 AB—Malcolm F. Orton '19 and position with the National City Bank, Miss Mary Shanley, a member of the New York. faculty of the Newtown High School, Elm- '21—Kenneth M. Platt and his father, hurst, N. Y., were married on September William F. Platt, are engaged in fruit 3 at Babylon, Long Island. They will growing in Milford, Conn. make their home in Flushing, N. Y. '22—Miss Gertrude A. Burgess of East '19; '23—Mrs. Ward A. Batchelor of Orange, N. J., has announced the engage- Moylan, Pa., has announced the engage- ment of her sister, Helen, to William E. ment of her daughter, Margaret Louise Frenaye, jr., '22 of Asheville, N. C. Batchelor '23, to Louis R. Chapman '19, '23—A marionette act by Lawrence of Juniata Place, East End, Pittsburgh, Robbins was one of the features of the Pa. fifth annual minstrel show given by Camp '19, '20 WA—Victor R. Daly has re- Berkshire for boys on August 13 in Berk- cently been appointed to the position of shire Social Hall, West Goshen, Conn. business manager of The Journal of Negro History. The publication is issued by the Intercollegiate Notes JUST ONE "TRY" Association for the Study of Negro Life THE Evening Post for September 2 had ALWAYS BUY and History, Inc., with headquarters in this to say about summer schools: "Of Washington, D. C. the 596 colleges and universities on the That's the rule when you've '19 BS—As a result of a recent con- official Government list, 479 had summer once used my perfect ference between Chun j en C. Chen '19 and sessions this year, and the attendance, officials of the Bureau of Markets and half a million or more, will probably ex- All-Weather Crop Estimates of the Department of ceed that of the colleges and universities Agriculture, it is expected that more trust- in the 'regular' term. There is now lit- Polish worthy information as to cotton produc- erally not a week in the year when some You'll continue to buy and tion and consumption in China will be American college or university is not in use it because you'll find available. Chen has spent much of his session. Most of the growth in summer it the best for time since his graduation in and about school attendance has come in the past the Department of Agriculture and at ten years. Harvard, one of the pioneers Southern experiment stations in an exten- in summer instruction, had an enrolment Automobiles sive study of cotton breeding, marketing, of 921 in 1912, 1,044 in 1916, and 2,022 and allied subjects, under the patronage this year. Johns Hopkins, which enrolled Furniture of the Chinese Cotton Mill Owners' Asso- but 204 in 1912 and had grown to 594 in and for all ciation. He expects, on his return to 1916, had a registration this year of 949. China next June, to undertake for the The University of Pennsylvania, with a Highly Polished association the development of the cotton summer session of only 750 in 1912 and industry in that country on a scientific 1,045 m I9I6, registered 1,758 in the ses- Surfaces basis. sions just closed. Cornell University, with '19 AB—Miss Louise E. Baker is en- 1,053 in 1912 and 1,658 in 1916, reports "Gets there" quicker m gaged in community work at Roslyn, 2,739 the 1921 session, while Columbia, "Stays there" longer already credited with a record of 3,602 in than any other polish Long Island. A recent entertainment planned by her had on its program about 1912 and 8,022 in 1916, this year achieved Ask your dealer, or -send 75c for a twenty-five of the school children, an the unprecedented registration of 11,809." pint bottle, charges prepaid, and amusing feature of which was a representa- money back if not entirely satis- fied. Send for free sample. tion of film stars. 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