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Nov. 2, 1939 Volume 42 Number 6 NOV. 2, 1939 VOLUME 42 NUMBER 6 UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES THURSTON CENTENNIAL ALUMNI NEW It's Easy To Visit Ithaca PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Overnight From OF CORNELL ALUMNI ITHACA NEW YORK AND VICINITY REA RET A*—Folded and interfolded racial tissues LANG'S GARAGE for the retail trade. NEW YORK GREEN STREET NEAR TIOGA S'WIPE'S*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue; packed flat, folded and interfolded, in bulk or and NEWARK or Ithaca's Oldest, Largest, and Best boxes, for hospital use. Storage, Washing, Lubrication, Expert Repairs READING TERMINAL, PHILA. FIBREDOWN*—Absorbent and non-absorbent ERNEST D. BUΠON '99 JOHN L. BUTTON '25 Eastern Standard Time cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING—h WESTWARD Light type, a.m. EASTWARD BALTIMORE, MD. several attractive designs. Read Down Dark type, p.m. Read Up 8:10 9:40 Lv. 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ADDRESS Please mention the NEWS ELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XLII, NO. ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 2., 1939 PRICE, 15 CENTS UNIVERSITY HONORS ROBERT H. THURSTON Other Institutions and Alumni Pay Tribute to First Sibley Director Forty universities and engineering Thurston was born just 100 years ago, upon his capacity for leadership among schools and fifteen professional societies and that he died in his Ithaca home just men?" the speaker said. "I can think of joined Cornell and the American Society thirty-six years ago, having been a mem- no human quality which is more sorely of Mechanical Engineers in honoring ber of the Faculty eighteen years. "In the needed today than readiness to go out Dr. Robert Henry Thurston on the iootn sixty-four years he lived he led a life for into the world with a good heart." anniversary of his birth, October 2.5. which we can all be profoundly grateful. Pointing out that the complexity and Typical of the world-wide recognition Cornell would not be what it is today rapid development of the modern world of the first Director of Sibley College as but for Thurston." have focussed attention mainly upon the leader in his profession is the fact that Thurston at Brown products of the human mind, Dr. Adams delegates of the professional engineering Dr. James P. Adams, vice-president of said: "As a result of all these things, life societies of America, Canada, Great Brown University which Thurston en- has lost some of its humane quality. Britain, France, and Germany paced tered in 1856 and where he received the Must we not now turn our thought to shoulder-to-shoulder in the academic degree of PhB in 1859, spoke of his un- those elements of human nature which procession which filed to the stage of dergraduate days. The speaker pointed spring from the resources of the human Bailey Hall. Also in the procession, out that Thurston was at Brown in the heart? In the last analysis are not these garbed in academic robes and the bright earliest days of the elective system; en- also among the things that really make hoods signifying advanced degrees, were tered the course designed to fit students life worth living: friendship and faith the deans and other delegates from the for business and industry, with about and sacrifice and sympathy and loyalty leading institutions of America, the one-fourth of his time for a year and a and love and beauty and truth? If these President, Trustees, and members of the half devoted to a recently-introduced things languish and die, what of man Engineering Faculty of Cornell, together course in civil engineering. But from his and what of all the myriad of things with Dr. Thurston's daughters, Mrs. J. association with distinguished members which he has created for his use, for his W. Eagan and Mrs. J. Rea Patterson, of the Brown faculty and with fellow amusement, for his convenience, for his and his nephew, Ernest L. Thurston. students who were also to become fa- comfort, for his safety? Robert Henry It was a cold, gray day. Bailey Hall mous, Thurston himself later evaluated Thurston—teacher, scholar, professional was three-quarters filled with others of his college years as having given him engineer. He went out into the world the Faculty, students, some sixty Engi- ability to master principles and Ίearn with a good heart. His life and work, neering alumni who had come back to readily and rapidly by experience,' and his influence, his friendships, and the Ithaca for the event, and residents of said, Ί was ready for life's work. I was place of honor which he occupies today Ithaca. prepared to go out into the world with in our memories are evidences of the fact a good heart.' that he left the world better than he Gherardi '93 Gives Portrait found it." With Professor William C. Ballard, "Could anything in his equipment for Jr. Ίo, Electrical Engineering, at the life have had a more profound influence His Naval Service great organ and President Edmund E. Rear Admiral Wilson Brown, super- Day presiding, it was an impressive intendent of the United States Naval ceremony. Four speakers reviewed Dr. Academy, spoke of Thurston's services Thurston's life and contributions to en- as an engineer officer of the Navy afloat gineering at the four institutions where during the Civil War and from 1865 to he worked. Then followed presentation 1871 as instructor in physics and chem- to the University of a portrait of Thurs- istry at the Naval Academy. He told of ton painted by Professor Olaf M. Brauner, the difficulties which beset the young Architecture, given by Bancroft Gherardi engineer officer in those, early days of '93, University Trustee and a student of steam, in war service in Southern waters, Thurston's. The picture will hang in the and mentioned that his share of the Sibley library with those of other former money Thurston received as a member members of the Engineering Faculty. of the prize crew of the captured blockade The Bailey Hall program ended with an runner, Princess Royal, later enabled him address by Dean C. S. Hollister, '' Look- to purchase his home in Ithaca. That he ing to the Future." It was followed by a was selected as instructor at the Naval luncheon in Willard Straight Memorial Academy is itself a tribute to his ability, Room given by the University for official Admiral Brown said, and: "There can delegates and other guests, and the after- be no doubt that he contributed con- noon was spent at the Engineering Col- structive work of great value in founding lege where exhibits of apparatus designed the departments of the Naval Academy. by Dr. Thurston and photographs and VISITORS SEE THURSTON APPARATUS During his service there his writings and models showing the growth of the Col- Dr.
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