Vol. XXII, No. 21 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] February 19, 1920

President Schurman Resigns

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ISITING, farmers, Junior girls, 22, with appropriate exercises in the period of three weeks. A single fee of and chaperons have gone. The Lyceum Theater. five dollars secures the use of the shops V University has played the host— THE EASTMAN PRIZE for public speak- and laboratories of the Department of or alma hostess—an a way unequaled ing, most coveted of academic prizes in Farm Mechanics. Besides the shop work since 1917. And all has passed without the College of Agriculture, was won last there are two lectures each day. serious mishap. Quantities of snow and Thursday night by Harold Leroy Creal, THE NUMBER of college publications ice in the streets made traveling by a senior, of Jamestown, N. Y. His has been increased by The Home Eco- automobile difficult, in places danger- topic Λvas "The American Farm Bureau nomics Reminder, a leaflet which prom- ous; yet ΛVΘ have heard of only one or Federation.'' The prize is one hundred ises to appear either quarterly or once two collisions and of no personal in- dollars in money. A second prize of in a while. Its ambitions may be en- juries. Violation of the traffic regula- twenty dollars was awarded to James larged and more readily realized if the tions led to a few arrests. One young Lee Eothwell '20, of Elmira, N. Y., Department of Home Economics is man, coming to enjoy Farmers' Week whose topic was "Conservation." This erected into a separate college. The with his brother, a short course student, year, moreover, each of the remaining aims of the paper are sufficiently re- had his leg broken 011 the toboggan four contestants received a gift of fected in the title. The present editor slide. An occasional illness is reported. money equal to the second prize, eighty is Alice M. Blinn, extension instructor. On the whole officials and committee- dollars having been contributed for this Thυ principal article in the first issue men are satisfied. purpose by Wallace H. Hook of the is a review of work in domestic economy class of 1912. .The Eastman prizes are EXPECTATIONS of a-record-breaking at at Cornell. the income of a fund given by Mr. A. tendance of agriculturists proved too R. Eastman of Waterville, N. Y., "with A BRITISH-AMERICAN CLUB has re- confident. According to published re- the object of developing qualities of cently been formed at the University, ports the registration at the close of personal leadership in rural affairs." having as its object the discussion of the fourth day showed a decrease from This was the eleventh annual contest. topics and problems affecting the com- last year's of more than two thousand. mon relations of the Empire and the The falling off is attributed in part to THE CHAMPIONSHIP CUP for excellence Republic, with a view to better inter- sickness or to the fear of it, especially in cattle fitting, another prize associated national understanding and comity. The the prevalent influenza; and in larger with Farmers' Week, was awarded to new association is affiliated with a like part to the difficulties of transportation, Ellery R. Barney '22, of Milford, N. Y. organization founded in 1919 at Oxford since blocked highways in many rural The championship class was made up University; indeed it owes its inception sections made it impossible, inexpedient, of winners in special classes in the to the presence in Oxford of several Cor- or risky to leave home even when rail- grooming and care of cattle, horses, nell men during a term following the roads might be reached. Though dis- sheep, and swine. The honors as a whole armistice. Among these was Harold appointing on this respect, Farmers' wore about evenly shared by regular and Flack '12, secretary of the Cornellian Week in every other way scored its usual by short course students. Miss Ida A. Council, through whose interest and ac- successes. Eυperti, a special student, of New York tivity the club here has come into being. PROFESSOR LEWIS KNUDSON, of the City, was victor in a colt-training con- It is hoped that similar clubs may be College of Agriculture, will spend the test, and Miss G. A. Schenck '21, of organized at other American universi- months of March and April in Spain. Rochester, took second prize for an ex- ties. Membership is open to all persons He goes there to deliver a series of lec- hibit of Jerseys. having an interest in Cornell, students, tures on vegetable physiology. Since JOHN P. HENRY, coach of the 1920 alumni, matriculants, members of the leaving Ithaca last October for his sab- baseball team, has arrived in Ithaca, Faculty. Of the Oxford club Lord batic year, Professor Knudson has been ready for his season's work. He has Bryce and the American ambassador are studying in Paris; after fulfilling his already been in conference with the local joint presidents; of the Cornell club Spanish engagements, he will go to the authorities; and the presence of the President Schurman is honorary presi- University of Strasbourg. He will re- Yale basketball team last Saturday gave dent. turn to his college work next autumn. opportunity for a talk with Dr. A. H. PROFESSORS BRISTOW ADAMS and Her- Sharpe, Cornell's former coach. A call THE RECENT CAMPAIGN of the local man Dάederiehs '97 have been elected for baseball candidates will be issued post of the American Legion resulted honorary members of Quill and "Dagger. in the securing of 640 new members. shortly. At the outset Henry will be The team led by Lieut. Col. Bogert assisted by Hugh Jennings '04, man- PROFESSOR NATHANIEL SCHMIDT gave brought in the larger number. Of the ager of the Detroit team. a, public lecture at the Cosmopolitan 806 eligible veterans in Ithaca, all but Club on Wednesday evening on THE ANNUAL TRACTOR SCHOOL iii the 1 ί 166 are now enrolled. A few of these College of Agriculture opened on Mon- Ukraiiia and Her Problems.'' have refused to affiliate. Efforts will day, February 16. Here farmers and THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER for next be continued to induce all the rest to farm hands of the State have an oppor- Sunday is the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. join. The Legion will celebrate Wash- tunity to study both the theory and the Crothers, minister of the First Unitarian ington's Birthday, Sunday, February practice of farm tractors during a Church, Cambridge, Mass. 242 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS President Schurman Resigns Will Retire Next June After Thirty-four Years Service—Sketch of His Career Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman tendered sideration that release from the Pniver- lin, and Gδttingen, and in Italy. Re- his resignation as president of Cornell sity will set me free for other duties I turning to Canada he spent the years University to the Comjmittee on General much desire to attend to. 1880-2 as professor of English litera- Administration of the Board of Trus- "Accordingly I herewith resign the ture and psychology in Acadia College tees, which met last Saturday morning. office of president of and the years 1882-6 as professor of Dr. Schurman asked in his letter that and request that this resignation take metaphysics and English literature at his resignation take effect at Commence- effect at the next Commencement, June Dalhousie College, whence he was called ment, June 23 next. 23, 1920. in 1886 to fill the newly created chair The Committee on Administration "In terminating this official relation of Sage professor of philosophy at Cor- thereupon decided to call a meeting which has extended over so many years, nell. of the full Board of Trustees, and such I should do great injustice to my own His, lectures were substantial and in- a meeting will be held on Saturday, Feb- feelings if I failed to acknowledge with spiring. Speaking without notes, he was ruary 28, to consider the President's sincere gratitude the friendly co-opera- always entertaining without being super- letter of resignation. tion and support which I have always re- ficial and serious without being dull. The announcement that President ceived in such abundant measure from His lectures on ethics at eight o'clock Schurman had resigned came as a sur- trustees, teachers, alumni, and students, a. m. were attended by large numbers. prise except to those who are in his inti- as well as from the staff of administra- He became well known also as a writer mate, confidence, .although persons clo se tion, or to assure them of the regard and on philosophical topics. Up to 1892 he to the President have known that he had affection which I cherish for them and had published, besides several articles, Contemplated such ιa step for some time, of my best wishes for their welfare and "Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of rind in fact, that it had been his wish to happiness. Evolution," 1881; "Agnosticism and Beligion," 1886; "The Ethical Import retire at the close of his twenty-fifth ''And to the great University we of Darwinism," 1888; and '"Belief in year of service. have all loved and served, out of office God," 1890. In his letter to the Board of Trustees and in office,^ join them in undying de- President Schurman said: votion and also in the fervent hope that In 1892, when President Adams re- "I have long been of the opinion that it may always be a center of the freest signed, the two men most seriously con- it is beueficial and salutary to great in- and most intense intellectual activity sidered for the post were Dr. Schurman stitutions, whether of government or busi- and a worthy organ of the highest edu- and Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, then pro- ness or education, that there should be cation." fessor of Greek, who has recently con- reasonably frequent changes in the office At the end of the present academic cluded twenty years of service as presi- of chief executive. The variety of sit- year, Dr. Schurman will have completed dent of the . uations makes it impossible to fix any thirty-four years of service at Cornell, Cornell never lost more from her body particular term that might be generally six as Sage professor of philosophy and of teachers than she did when these men applicable, but it will perhaps be recog- twenty-eight as president. left their lecture halls, Dr. Schurman to nized that there are few cases in which become president of Cornell and Dr. His Career the period can be advantageously ex- Wheeler, in 1899, to go to California. tended beyond twenty-five or thirty Dr. Schurman was born at .Freetown, The University's Growth years. Prince Edward's Island, on May 22, 4ίln conformity with this view I have 1854. Hie family was of Dutch origin Under the wise leadership of Presi- for some time past had it in mind to and settled in New York in the seven- dent Schurman Cornell has. made rapid resign the presidency of, Cornell Uni- teenth century. He was the son of Bob- •strides ahead in important particulars. versity, which I have now held for near- ert and Lydia Schurman and the grand- The last annual report of President Ad- ly twenty-eight years. The war com- son of Caleb Schurman, who was born amfe shows that there were, in 1891-2, pelled me to postpone the earlier execu- at New Eochelle, N. Y. 1,538 students in attendance, of whom tion of this purpose, for I felt in that After studying ιat the Prince of Wales 195 were women; there were 36 profes- great crisis that every one denied the College and Acadia College, and after sors, 11 associate professors, 17 assis- privilege of bearing arms but engaged winning, in 1875, the Canadian Gilchrist tant professors, 51 instructors, and 8 as- in a necessary undertaking—and the Scholarship awarded by the University sistants, a total teaching staff of 123 or universities were as indispensable as of London, he went to England for study, one man to every 12.5 students. The munition factories—was under solemn graduating A. B. from London in 1877, figures of income for that' year are not obligation to remain at his post and ren- and A. M. in 1878, and winning the Uni- at hand; the expenses vvere $568,102.03, der the best service he could to the Be- versity Scholarship in Philosophy. In including extraordinary 'building ex- public. Now, however, that peace has 1877-8 he studied at the Universities of penses; in 1892-3 the income was $509,- been established and must soon be pro- Paris and Edinburgh, receiving from the 335.79 ($107,449.17 being from tuition) claimed I am free, especially as the Uni- latter, in 1878, the degree of D. Sc. and the expenses were $501 $458.01. In versity 's war problems have all been hap- Having won the Hibbert Fellowship, 1891-2 the Library contained 111,007 pily disposed of, to carry out the reso- which was open to the graduates of all volumes and 25,100 pamphlets, total lution I had previously formed. British Universities, he spent the next 136,ί07;items. The first summer ehool, "I may mention also the personal con- two years .in βtudy at , Ber- that of 1892, a private venture, .at- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 243 tracted 115 students. The corresponding every 7.3 students; income, $3,526,439.92 He spent the summer of 1918 in Y. M. figures for 1918-19, quoted from the ($328,054.44 being for tuition), ex- C. A. work at and near the front. President's last report, are as follows: penses, $3,402,877.71; Library, 605,526 Since his accession to the presidency, total number of students in regular items; Summer School of 1918, 1281. besides his reports he has published '' A courses, 4,597 (the maximum figure of President Schurman spent two years Generation of Cornell/' 1898; "Report 5,656 having been reached in 1915-16), away from the University, that of 1898- of the Philippine Commissdon,' ' 1900 (4 of whom 913 were women; there were 9 in the Philippines as president of the vols., jointly); "Philippine Affairs, a 178 professors, 129 associate and as- first United States Philippine Commis- Retrospect and Outlook/' 1902; "The sistant professors, 189 instructors, and sion, and that of 1912-13 as United Balkan Wars/' 1912-13; and "Why 133 assistants (not counting in the ex- States Minister to Greece and Montene- America Is in the War/' 1917. tensive staff of the College of Agricul- gro. He was Stafford Little lecturer at Honorary Degrees ture who are not members of the Fac- Princeton in 1914; first vice-president He has the degree of LL. D. from ulty), a small number of these being ab- of the New York State Constitutional Columbia, 1892; Y'ale, 1901; Edinburgh, sent on leave for one term, total 629, an Convention of 1915; and a member of 1902; Williams, 1908; Dartmouth, Har- average of about one teacher to the State FoΌd Commission in 1917. vard, 1909; Brown, 1914; and Pennsyl- vania, 1917. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Town and Gown Club, the American Academy in Rome, and the University and Union League Clubs of New York, and an officer of the Legion of Honor. On October 1, 1884, Dr. Schurman married Miss Biarbara Forrest Munro, of New York. They have had eight children, Mrs. Catherine M. Ware ΊO-11 spec., Robert '07, George Munro '13, Helen, Jacob Gould, jr., '17, Barbara '23, Frederick, died in infancy, and Dorothy.

NEW PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS Everett Walton Goodhue, '11-12 Grad., professor of economics and sociology in Colgate University, has been appointed acting professor of economics in Cornell University for 1920-21. Professor Goodhue was born at West Barnstable, Mass., on March 17, 1878. After graduating from Dartmouth Col- lege in 1900 he was appointed Dart- mouth fellow in sociology and for two years lived at the South End House, a social settlement in Boston. After teaching for a year in the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier, Vermont, he Λvas appointed, in 1903, instructor in economics and sociology at Colgate. In 1908 he was promoted to a professor- ship. He is a Oongregationalist and is a member of Chi Phi. He married Miss Mary Julia Taylor, of Hamilton, N. Y., on June £7, 1911.

THE POSTMASTERS' ASSOCIATION of the State of New York will hold its annual convention in Ithaca on June 14, 1920. B. Frank Lent, the Ithaca post- master, is a member of the executive committee of the association; and the chairman is Andrew E. Cornwall, LL. B. Ό5, of Watertown, N. Y. 244 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

$2,568,660.53 to Date ggT*7 ...... 1'000'00 cotillion should be held, but as a con- _ _ . „ _ _ _. .._ . Cincinnati ...... 60,100.00 cession, many of the decorations were Tota Λ l is of Februar y -1Λ6 — Distribution Cleveland ...... 202,050.00 Columbus ...... 2*025.00 used for both the Cotillion and the Prom. Dayton ...... 4,955.00 On Wednesday tea dances were given , i ι« n -i π Youngstown ...... 126,960 00 OveΛ r tw o andΊ a half million dollars Illinois by Chi P,si, Phi Kappa Psi, and Theta have been subscribed to date to the En- Chicago ...... 274,206.00 Peoπa ...... 9,560.00 Xi, and in the evening the Musical Clubs dowment, it was announced to-day by Michigan played to a packed house which greeted the Semi-Centennial Endowment Com- 6 mί^Sa'*. .'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'. .".'.'. ','.'. '.'.'. 5'ti25'.oo' the different numbers with the old en- mittee. Minnesota Duluth ...... ' ...... 75,000.00 thusiasm and insatiability as to encores. This total, $2,568,660.53, which does Minneapolis ...... 1.500.00 Numbers sung by the Glee Club included not include a million and a half sub- Madison ....; ...... 400.00 the ''Bang for Cornell," written by scfίbed for a chemistry laboratory, half *** " "' ...... ' 76 485 °° Dana Burnet '11, "No Limiit," "My a million for the Cornell Medical Col- Kansas City ...... 7,847.00 Lady Chloe," the "Alma Mater" and Ί . . xτ ,,. , „.. , ,, St. Louis ...... 10,325.00 lege in New York City, and some other ιowa ...... ^ ...... ι!&26.oo '"Evening Song," -and "The Goblins,"

special contributions, is part of the Loms^iana and Mississippi ..... 2 Iββ'oo sung by a quartet composed of C. M. $10,000,000 Cornell men are raising for Kansas ".'.'.".".'. '.'.'.'.'. .'.'.'.'.'...'. 'soo'oo Christian '21, E. W. Steele '21, A. H. the purpose of increasing salaries of Montana* ..','.','.'.'.'.'.'.'." '.'.'.'.'.'. '.'. iβOO.On Treman '21, land N. A. Burns '22. professor1 s and , instructors and for en- Colorado ...... 1,947.00 Steele also sang "Annie Laurie." The " Oregon ...... 250.00 eral purposes. Washington Mandolin Club was equally well received, , . , . . , . , Spokane ...... 450.00 Subscriptionα s have been received βfrom Seattle ...... : ..... 2,280.00 and .there were several special features, Corneffiaω in thirty-six States and five. Ca r including some soft shoe dancing and a ™° Ί*geles ...... 10,ooo.oo foreign countries, 1933 in all. San Francisco ...... 19,375.00 number of instrumental numbers. As a New York City leads among the con- βoo.oo. whole the program .was. similar to that tributions, totalling $773,302.80 from given on the recent trip. looioo the alumni nnd other ϊriends of the Uτιi Portp' Rico i oo Following the concert, the guests were t 100 00 versity, and $13,760.00 from ίhe alum- w*jgfj hurried to the Armory^, which w&s dec- ίiae. Chicago follows with $274,206 : Albany . . ..:...... 500.00 orated in a way to equal the best of Cleveland, $202,050 Philadelphia, $130,- '. VlV.V.Y.": '.'.'.'.'.'. 1ιo.oo former years. 51 boxes occupied the ΠΠΠ . 'Vr/vπτΓrrα+/vnm *T9« Q«Π and Pίtf« New York City ...... 13,760.00 UUU , ϊ oungstown, $i4fc,yt>υ , ana ±Ίtts Rochester ...... 81,441.00 sides of the hall, for in addition to the burgh, $125,384. Philadelphia ...... ----- 5,163.00 30 fraternities entertaining, there were The following tabulation -shows the *0'1' ^ °' * *' ...... ^' •a number of boxes occupied by inde- total amount subscribed from each of Anonyiαo^ ...... 50,100.00 pendents and townspeople. The Mid- the districts that have reported to date: Musical Clubs' Trip ...... 6,359.73 night Frolic orchestra and the Kentucky New England Total ...... $2,568,659.53 Five furnished music for the dancing. except Connecticut ...... $ 87,626.00 Connecticut On Thursday afternoon tea dances . . A Real junior Week were given by the following fraternities: New Haven ...... 220, (.0 Delta Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Up- Waterbury ____ ...... '. 895.00 Festivities Entered Into with Old-time sdloii, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Sigma, Nθ k Enthusiasm BuJa°io ...... 63,645.00 while seven fraternity dances followed Falίs ' ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! : I : : : 7;Ϊ76:oo CornelΓs first post-war Junior week, the Masque, las follows: Alpha Delta Allegany County ...... }'JSS^2 'm sPite of the '" ftΰL," in βpite of the Wyoming County ...... 1,060.00 * !•-.,. \ -, , Phi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Delta Kappa Ep- Jamestown ...... 410.00 Λveather, which turned warm and sloppy silon, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Sigma Kap- B?SSter' ••::::::::.::•;.:::;: 52;ooJ:oo j^t at the wrong, time, and in Spιίc, pa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Theta Elmira ...... 10,515.00- ulsό, of the eompetiUon cft.>Γ€ .<"i by Chi. Ithaca ...... 24'.8θθ!θθ Farmers' Week, proved a~ real renaΐp- sance of old time About thirt The production of the Masque, "My - z^ y. Junior Week Girl," a "^musical hys- Little Falls 20.00 fraternities had large houseparties, and teria in two spasms, "was .quite -up to Oneonta 350.00 ,.lι e „„ . , , π ,. ' . Walton 500.00 t official program showed that enta- form. As The Cornell Daily Sun ex- Sclienecta.iy ...... oo tainments, including tea dances, even- Albany . . ,; ...... «j OZΪ.OU pressed it, all the necessary elements of ' Olens 'Falls " 5,025 00 ing dances, and breakfasts, were giv love, blood, crime, and fraternity spirit bv Amsterdam' ' '. '. '. '. '. '.. '.. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. δlo'.oo twenty-five fraternities, societies, and were present, the .music was melodious, Poughkeepsie . . . . : organizations in addition to the .presen- amd the absence of vocal talent on the e New γork City ...... 773, 30280 tation of the Masque, the Musical Clubs part of the would-be chorines was more 11 t, the Junior Promenade, the ...... •...••• 10.00 concer than compensated by 'their ardor. Credit Central Pennsylvania ...... 300.00 Sophomore Cotillion, and the Yale-Cor- for the music is due to J S. Stanley 721, Philadelphia ...... 130,000.00 n , . , .' . ... r .Pittsburgh ...... 125,384,00 ett basketball 'gaane staged in the Drill B. Ϊ!. Taylor '21, G. W; Teare '22, and ;.|cranton . .'.'.'.'.'.' .'.'. .'.'..'..'.. ^450.00 ' Saturday afternoon. Hall on J. W. Ross '20. The-play was--written "'''''''''''''''' ' The \cotmion :hac l been the cause of by Fv P. O'Brien M9. Maryland ..... 557δθo mucas a lh controversy during several weeks, The first events on Friday's program ' ° && proportion of the student body were the Majura breakfast at the Dutch Virginia 70 .Όό were ^ ins favor of omitting this one event Kitchen, ιand the Beth LΆmed break- North Carolina 100:00 rt , , , •• ' South Carolina 230.00 froτi wam sthe calendar -.- by way of ecomomy. fast given at the Phi Gamma Delta finallydecided , however, that the House. In the afternoon five fratemί- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 245

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THE ARMORY Photograph by J.sP. Troy These decorations were used, in part, for both the Junior Promenade and the Sophomore Cotillion. It is possible that another year or two will see these activities transferred to the new State Drill Hall if the question of flooring the larger building is settled in a way that will easily lend it to dancing. ties entertained at tea dances—Beta ferent changes of the lighting system Alpha, Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Ep- Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Kappa Sigma, Psi which were used during the evening. silon, Scorpion, Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi, Upsilon, and Zeta Psi. On Saturday the Masque and Savage Sigma Phi Sigma, Sigma Pi, Theta Al- The Junior Prom proved a worthy Club breakfast was held at the Dutch pha, Theta Chi, Theta Delta Chi, Theta Xi, Zeta Psi, and Zodiac. climax to the festivities. The color Kitchen, and the event of the afternoon scheme used in the decorations was was the Cornell-Yale game. Tea dances The Junior Weew Guide, with a cover green and white, and the music was the were given by Pi Kappa Alpha and containing a clever illustration by Bas- same as that which played at the Cotil- Theta Delta Chi iand in the evening the kerville, in addition to a list of the lion. An elaborate dinner was served usual closed dances were held at the vari- events of each day gave photographs of by Alberger and Clapp Catering Co. of ous fraternity houses, while Phi Delta all the houses entertaining, and a short Ithaca, which has catered for this event Sigma gave an open dance. history of the Junior Week idea. for 22 years. There were six supper re- Fraternities having house parties If anything could be said to have lays with about 200 persons in each re- were: Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Sigma marred the festivities of Junior Week, lay. One of the special features of the Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, it would be the crowded condition of the affair was the lighting. Variegated Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Phi, Delta Armory. It is hoped that a new floor lights were placed on the balcony and Tan Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha, may be put into the State Drill Hall in used as spot lights, and each box was Kappa Delta Bho, Kappa Sigma, Phi the near future so that that building individually illuminated with, amber- Delta Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kap- may be made possible for social pur- colored lights. There were also three dif- pa Psi, Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa poses. 246 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

but certainly the measure of his influ- Bled el Blenderman, Dr. Elizabeth BruyΔ, ence has been very great indeed. Dr. Mary Crawford, Miss Esther Davis, Tfeere is no question, too, that he has Miss Margaret Jenks, Dr. Nan Gilbert been and remains a considerable force Seymour, Miss Charlotte Smith, Miss Ethel Stebbins, and Dr. Helen Y1oung. Published for the Associate Alumni of in the American educational worlφ. In Cornell University ΐ?y the Cornell Alumni his reports -will be found sane and il News Publishing Company, Incorporated. luminating discussions of grave educa- The Endowment Campaign Published weekly during the college year tional problems. His& keen interest in and monthly during the summer forty issues Providenbe Cornelliaiis Organize. Al- annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last public affairs, too, has led him into bany Women 98% Subscribers Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered consecutively) continues through studies of political science and inter- The Cornell Endowment Campaign in Commencement Week. Issue No. 40 is pub- national law, which have reflected them- lished in August and is followed by an.index New England is now in full swing. I/at of the entire vohime, which will be mailed selves in many important addresses and est reports from campaign headquarters on request. one or two books. He has always up- Subscription price $3.60 a year, payable at 612 Little Building, Boston, - indicate irt advance. Foreign postage 40 cents a held the dignity of scholarship and he that $87,626 has been subscribed1 to date year extra< Single copies twelve cents each. has never ceased to be a student him- Should a subscriber desire to discontinue and most of this sum has been pledged hit subscription, notice to that effect should self. in the last two weeks. be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise Of his relations with the various col- it is assumed that a continuance of the sub- A series of luncheons and dinners scription is desired. lege Faculties we .shall not here speak; were held in New England last week in Checks, drafts, and orders should be made but we are in a position to say that payable to Cornell Alumni News. Providence, Worcester, Springfield, and his relations with the University Fac- Correspondence should be addressed— Pittsfield, winding up with a dinner in Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. ulty have been notably harmonious and Boston on Friday evening, February 13, his policies have almost invariably found The first Cornell gathering in Provi- Managing Editor: R, W. Sailor '07 favor. Even when they have not, how- dence for five years was held on Febru- Associate Editors ever, he has always been listened to with Olark S. Northup '98 B. S. Monroe '96 ary 9, in a dinner at the Art Club, H. GK Stutz '07 respect and his position of leadership W. A. Viall, secretary of the Brown and Business Manager: R, W. Sailor has never been questioned. He has won Circulation Manager: Geo. Wnv Horton Sharp .Manufacturing Company and in the reputation of being fair. One of News Committee of the Associate Alumni ί 1888-90 instructor in pharmacy at Cor- •W. W. Macon '98, Chairman the older professors once said to the nell; A. C. Burnett '90, of Boston; C. N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 writer, "You don't need to be afraid Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Pub- E. Marsh '07, executive secretary of the lishing Company, Incorporated: Johr L. of speaking your mind to Dr. Schur- Senior, President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer: New England Committee F. E. Jack- Wόodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 220 man if he knows you are flaying fair, son '00, vice-president of the Cornell East State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. that is the main , thing." As Secretary Club of New England; and Professor Patterson points out in'"the Sun of Feb- Printed by The Ithacan George G. Bogeϊt '06 spoke at this din- ruary 16, President Schurman has al- ner and presented various Aspects of the Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca; N.Y. ways endeavored to conciliate arid con- Endowment Campaign. Fourteen Cor- vince the minority rather than to ride nellians agreed to solicit personally for Ithaca, N. Y., February 19, 1920 over them rough-shod. the Endowment Fund throughout the It would be a strange thing if a na- State-of Rhode Island. ture so strong as that of the President'M THE PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION At Worcester the next day, a raging had contrived to please everybody all snow-storm did not prevent the neces- Dr. Schurman's resignation came as the time. Doubtless, like most, he has sity of extra places being set at a Cor- a great surprise to most Cornellians. It not always succeeded in this. Yet the nell luncheon. The news-sheets of the was generally expected that he would numerous expressions of esteem and re- New England Committee says of the spect which his recent action has elicited (ί round out to thirty years his term as Worcester luncheon: lf the enthusiasm testify to the reputation which he enjoys president of the University, retiring at displayed is an index of the financial re- for fair dealing and conscientious devo- the age prescribed by the Carnegie turns, then we expect to see Worcester tion to the interests of the University Foundation, namely isixty-eight. County endow an assistant professor- over which he has presided for almost a This is neither the time nor the place ship, and that costs $70,000." generation. And all CorneΊlians, whether to estimate judicially and impartially Professor C. L. Durham spoke at a they have differed from the President Cornell smoker in Newark, New Jersey, his achievement as president. We are or not, will join in wishing him many too near to Mm personally, and too likely Saturday evening, February 14. years of continued usefulness and happi- A report from Mrs. Frederick D. Col- to be partisan. We muist wait until we ness in the tasks to which he now wishes son ΌO, women's chairman for the Al- can view the period of his presidency to devote himself. bany district, shows that ninety-eight in its true perspective, as perhaps we per cent of all the Cornell women in that may now view that of President White. NEW YORK WOMEN'S COMMITTEE district "have 'subscribed to , the Endow- Only a few commemts are now possible. The New York Women fs Committee ment Fund. In addition, says Mrs. Col- And first we may note the remark- for the Endowment Fund Campaign, sβn/s report, ί f The women who have con- able growth .of the institution in the which has been doing very efficient tributed are all either teachers or work- last £wenty-eight years, as illustrated work, is made up as follows: Dr. Mar- ing for the State, and are suffering- from by figures given elsewhere in this issue. guerite T. Lee, chairman, 66 W. 95th the same malady as are college profes- Just :how far Dr. Schurman is respon- Street (telephone, Riverside 3562), Dr. sors. It would be 'as reasonable to ask sible for this growth, no man can say; Emily Dunning Barringer, Miss Helen the profs -to raise their own funds." CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 247

The latest report from -the Chicago try are men who are .schooled to work sionally led them into humanitarian ef- committee outlines a novel plan for and to conquer by unremitting and stern forts of the most gol darned human reaching every Cornellian in Chicago. It but fair labor. Such workers for the isort. It Λvill suffice merely to .mention is the purpose of the committee to get good of mankind it has been the aim of how, whetn the young Terence was a a subscription from every Cornellian be- Cornell to furnish to the world. senior his organization provided squirrel- fore they ask any non-Cornellian to con- Cornell stands on her record of ser- food for the destitute families of all the tribute. In order to be .sure that every vice of the nation; on this record of squirrels of the county wherever it was man is reacheid, every member of the service she rests her claim on men of shown that the head of the family had committee has definitely pledged himself affairs in general; to men who realize come to an untimely end through the to approach one other Chicago Cornel- their obligations to save the nation from wantonness of students. lian, and has given the name of this unenlightened ignorance and perverse It is this group of scientists, then, prospect to the committee. As each of sophistry. To the great industrial cor- with their riper judgment of later days, these prospects subscribes, he is told porations she appeals for cooperation mellowed by the passage of time, that that his duty to Cornell requires that in and investment. is going to provide entertainment for addition to his subscription he give to Cornellians, their friends, wives, sweet- the Committee the name of one other A College of Nat. Hist. hearts, and all comers, at the Spring Day Cornellian whom he will approach for a revels at the Coimmodore next Monday. subscription. In this way an endless Early Efforts Made to Segregate—May chain of Cornell workers is to be formed. Be Established in New York City True to earlier forms the group has The first paid advertising campaign recently adopted and raised to a state The announcement made last week of of comparative affluence a cannibal for the benefit of an educational insti- the Spring Day Circus to be held in the tution started with advertisements for flea (Pulex anthropophagus). Although Grand Ballroom of tjie Hotel Commodore, legend has it that (ί Pinky'' has bitten Cornell's Endowment Campaign in the New York, next Monday, February 23, New YorJc Tribune and Times of Febru- many of the crowned heads of Europe, recalls an incident that we feel sure of recent years He has found business ary 10. The advertisements are being- but few even of the keenest of Cornell paid for by friends of Cornell and are among his chosen patrons to have fallen historians will remember in any but the off and has become a mere gutter-pup designed to tell the public what Cornell most indefinite and hazy way. University stands for and why the En- of a flea, common as dirt. He has been The Era for June 29, 1903 Vol XXXV, dowment Campaign deserves support. rehabilitated and restored to his for- No. 21), in a summary of the action of mer high sense of savoir-faire by a most the Board of Trustees for that momen- careful reeducation at the hands of these THE PHILADELPHIA DRIVE tous year (page 623), tells of a proposal noted naturalists. They had the expert At a meeting of Cornell alumni at to acquire, in exchange for a tract of advice of Doc Wilder in this undertak- the Cornell-Princeton Club) on February timber which had formerly been used ing and have secured his services only by the School of Forestry, "the resi- after impressing on him the need of a 2; attended by about seventy-five per- sons, Professor Charles Love Durham dential halls on the branch line of the revival among Cornell alumni of the old pointed out that the modern university Lehigh Valley Railroad, near the junc- spirit of play that made the earlier is a work-shop and not a book-shop. tion point known as Hayt's Corners, Spring Days famous. and situate in the township of Willard.'' Like the Massachusetts Institute of Accurate information may be had by Said halls were to be used exclusively Technology, Cornell has emphasized the addressing the Spring Day Committee for a certain small but rapidly growing importance of the universities to Ameri- at the Cornell University Clίib of New group of students in natural history can industry not only as laboratories of {ί York, 30 West 44tjι Street. The official whose zeal in pursuit of their favorite scientific research, but as places where program consists of the Masque show, studies . . . had led them to hold pro- 77 human dynamos are developed for run- "My Junior Week Girl, several num- longed sessions . . . necessary perhaps ning American industry. bers by the Glee Club and the Savage to the pursuit of their hobby, but Cornell University appeals not for Club, and dancing. detrimental to the best interests of the, charity, but as a great enterprise de- Communications are being sent every voted to national service, to men of . . . followers of the more learned branches of the curricula.?' other day to alummi in New York and vision and of foresight, inviting them the near-by States, covering a list of Prominent amdng these young natur- to invest in an institution which during about seventeen thousand. These an- alists were men who have since become the past fifty years has contributed so nouncements are in the form of a leaf- famous along the lime of their chosen powerfully to the upbuilding of the na- let entitled, Tlie Cornell Spring Lamb,— avocations—among whom may be men- tion. Cornel'l does not glibly promise a Publication with Mint Sauce and tioned several prominent members of the that by the word education, in the sense Gravy for the Cornell Spring Day. of special or technical training, all the New York Spring Day Committee—Ter- ry McGovern, general chairman, Bingo ills of the country can be cured. Even STUDIES IN FOLLY by the dreadful experience of the world Wells, chairman of the entertainment war our men and women have not been committee, and Kid Kugler, vice-chair- At the weekly luncheon of the Cornell transformed into perfect beings. We man of the same. Club of Cleveland, on February 12, are still made of thes same old clay, with It should be said in justification of "Ted" Eobinson, of The Cleveland our old-time shortcomings. The great this group of knowledge-thirsters, that Plain Dealer, "The Philosopher of Fol- 77 need of the nation is for trained hearts their entire effort was not devoted to the ly, spoke and music was furnished by and spirits as well as for trained hands mere selfish acquisition of knowledge, Signor Cafarelli, harpist, and Jack Rich, and minds. What we need in this coun- but that their scientific pursuits occa- pianist. There were eighty-five present. 248 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

NORTHERN CALIFORNIANS BUSY Yale Five Defeated Hays Watson '14, of 454 California By defeating the Yale five by the ALUMNI NOTES Street, Ban. Francisco, Calif., under date score of 25 to 23 in an exciting and of February 5, writes to Secretary Flack '74 BCE—Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. spectacular basketball game Saturday, Tomlinson are spending some time in as follows: the Cornell team improved its standing {ίϊ am enclosing herewith a notice California; their address is in care of in the Intercollegiate League and re- Albert G-. Simpson, 800 Citizens' Na- sent out to Cornell University Club men mains in the race for first honors, for tional Bank Building, Los Angeles. of northern California of a luncheon how long, the game .with Pennsylvania '74 BS—The Rev. Dr. George K. Van held to-day in honor of Professor Dex- on Saturday night will determine. The de Water, for many years rector of St. ter S. Kimball. Forty CorneHians were Quakers are now leading the league and Andrew's Church, Fifth Avenue and present at the luncheon and we listened they are playing top notch basketball. 127th Street, New York, has been elected to a -very interesting talk by Dean Kim- The Yale game, played before a big rector of the Church of the Beloved ball. Junior Week crowd, abounded in thrills. Disciple, 89th Street near Madison ''No attempt was made at the lunch- It Λvas a game of long shots, the defense Avenue, and began his work there on eon to obtain additional subscriptions of both teams being of such a charac- February 15. At present Dr. Van de to the endowment fund. However, I ter as to discourage frequent sallies Water is rector of both churches, as the feel confident that our present total of under the baskets. Porter and Molinet vestry of St. Andrew's has not yet ac- $19,000 will be increased to $25,000 as for Cornell and Van Slyck, the Yale cepted his resignation. Dr. Van de a result of the enthusiasm aroused by leader, contributed most of the scores, Water gives as his reason for leaving Professor Kimball '