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VOL. XXIV, No. 2 PRICE TWELVE CENTS] OCTOBER 6, 1921 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 Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at 123 West State Street, Ithaca, New York. Subscription $4.00 per year. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1900, under the act of March 3, 1879, at the postoffice at ITHACA, NEW YORK. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS HEMPHILL, NOYES ^ Co. Executor Trustee Ithaca Investment Securities 37 Wall Street, New York Chartered 1822 Trust Company Boston Philadelphia Buffalo Assets Over Scranton Albany Syracuse Baltimore Three Million Dollars Jansen Noyes ΊO Charles E. Gardner President Charles E. Treman Stanton Griffis ΊO Vice-Pres Emmons L. Williams Vice-Pres Franklin C. Cornell Harold C. Strong Farmers' Loan Vice-Pres. and Sec, W. H. Storms Clifford Hemphill Treasurer Sherman Peer Member New York Stock Exchange and Trust Company ALUMNI Cascadilla School PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Nos. 16-22 William Street GRADUATES GO TO CORNELL Branch: 475 Fifth Ave. College Preparatory School at 41st Street WASHINGTON, D. C. A High-Grade Boarding School for Boys New York THEODORE K. BRYANT '97, '98 Summer School Master Patent Law '08 July to September, especially for Col- Patents and Trade Marks exclusively LONDON PARIS 310-313 Victor Building lege and University Entrance Examinations Special Tutoring School BOSTON, MASS. Private Instruction in Any Subject Letters of Credit WARREN G. OGDEN, M.E. '01 Throughout the Year Foreign Exchange LL.B. Georgetown University, '05 Trustees Patents, Trade-Marks, Copyrights Cable Transfers Patent Causes, Opinions, Titles F. C. Cornell Ernest Blaker C. D. Bostwick Fractice in State and Federal Courts 68 Devonshire Street Our 1919-20 Catalog will appeal to that schoolboy you are trying to Administrator Guardian interest in Cornell ITHACA, N. Y. A postal will bring it. GEORGE S. TARBELL Member Federal Reserve Bank and New Ithaca Trust Building The Cascadilla Schools York Clearing House Attorney and Notary Public Ithaca, N. Y. Real Estate Sold, Rented, and Managed Drawing Inks NEW YORK CITY Eternal Writing Ink ROMEIKE HERMAN J. WESTWOOD '97 Engrossing Ink Attorney at Law 111 Broadway Taurine Mucilage PRESS CLIPPING Higgins Drawing Board Paste SERVICE Liquid Paste CHARLES A. TAUSSIG Office Paste is prepared to supply you with A.B. '02, LL.B., Harvard '05 Vegetable Glue, etc. 220 Broadway Tel. 1905 Cortland current information from the news- General Practice papers and magazines on whatever subject may interest you. 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Practice in State and Federal Courts is synonymous with press clipping service. FORT WORTH, TEXAS CHARLES M. HIGGINS & CO. LEE, LOMAX & WREN Manufacturers HENRY ROMEIKE, INC. Lawyers . General Practice 506-9 Wheat Building 271 NINTH ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 106-08-10 Seventh Ave. Attorneys for Santa Fe Lines Empire Gas & Fuel Co. NEW YORK C. K. Lee, Cornell 1889-90; P. T. Lomax Branches: CHICAGO, LONDON Texas 1899 F. J. Wren, Texas 1913-14 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XXIV, No. 2 ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER 6, 1921 PRICE 12 CENTS 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.