Vol. XXV, No. 19 [PEIOE TWELVE CENTS] FEBRUAKY 8, 1923 Fifty-and Twenty-Five-Year Reunion Classes Start Preparations for Next June's Homecoming Alumni Representative Travels Through Southern States to Help Alumni Clubs Chicago Men and Women Turn Out to Greet President Farrand At His First Stop George M. Dutcher '97 Contributes Observations On Recent Trip Around the World 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, Ne.w York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS HEMPHILL, NOYES &* Co. Trustee Executor The Cornell Society of Engineers 37 Wall Street, New York maintains a Committee of Employ- Investment Securities ment for Cornell graduates. 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CHUCKROW, Chairman Member of the New York Stock Exchange Farmers' Loan and Trust Cascadilla School GRADUATES GO TO CORNELL Company Ithaca College Preparatory School A High-Grade Boarding School for Boys New York Trust Company Summer School July to September, especially for Col- lege and University Entrance No 16-22 William Street Examinations Branch: 475 Fifth Ave Special Tutoring School at 41st Street Assets Over Private Instruction in Any Subject Three Million Dollars Throughout the Year Letters of Credit Trustees Foreign Exchange F. C. Cornell Ernest Blaker C. D. Bostwick Cable Transfers Our 1922-23 Catalog will appeal to that President Charles E. Treman schoolboy you are trying to Adminstrator Guardian Vice-Pres Franklin C. Cornell interest in Cornell Vice-Pres. and Sec, W. H. Storms A postal will bring it. Member Federal Reserve Bank and New York Clearing House Treasurer Sherman Peer The Cascadilla Schools Ithaca, N. Y. FLOWERS Stop Over at by WIRE Ithaca delivered promptly is permitted by the Lehigh Valley Railroad on practically all to any address in tickets. Cornel]ians travelling between New York or Phila- the civilized world. delphia and Chicago can, by reason of the Lehigh Valley's service, take advantage of this without loss of additional business time, as shown by the following schedule: "Say it with Flowers" (Daily) (Daily) Westward Eastward 8:10 P. M. Lv New York (PENN. STA.) Ar. 8:26 A. M. Every event is an 8:40 P. M. Lv. ... Philadelphia (Reading Term'l) Ar. 7:49 A. M. (a) 4:37 A. M. Ar Ithaca (b) Lv. 11:40 P. M. occasion for flowers. 4:53 P. M. Lv Ithaca Ar. 12:37 Noon 8:25 A. M. Ar Chicago (M.C.R.R.)..... ..Lv. 3:00 P. M. Sleepers j Chicago to Jthaca SleeP-jfthlJω¥hOicaΐoCa —P-ίithacatoNewYork (a) Sleeper may be occupied at Ithaca until 8:00 A. M. (b) Sleeper ready for occupancy at 9:00 P. M. PENNSYLVANIA STATION—the Lehigh Valley's New York Passenger Terminal—is in the heart of the city, convenient to everywhere. The Bool Floral Be sure your next ticket reads via Lehigh Valley. Your stop over arrange- Company, Inc. ment can be made with the conductor. "The House of Universal Service" LeMgh Valley Railroad Ithaca, New York • The Route of The Black Diamond • CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XXV, No. 19 ITHACA, N. Y., FEBRUARY 8, 1923 PRICE 12 CENTS UNIOR WEEK itself is certainly erected in the clubhouse for the entertain- needed by the Athletic Association to keep more of an occasion of relief and ment of guests there and another near the the skating preserve on Beebe Lake clear J roguish abandon because it follows so shore of the Lake for the benefit of the of snow from day to day, at an average cost close on the heels of depression. Those skaters. A special effort is to be made to of $400 per week for the purpose. The ex- who pull through the tribulations of block have the sets working in tip-top shape for penditure has been amply justified, -week have a right to feel that they may Junior Week when dancing on skates to whether one judges by the excellence of cavort in celebration of that achievement; radio music is expected to be a feature. the skating surface maintained under those who succumb to the nightmare difficulties, or by the constantly increasing CAPTAIN JAMES H. LUTHER '23 of the known as The Final are bound to have interest among the students in winter basketball team, with a total of forty-four one more fling before they are dropped sports. points, stands second in scoring in the In- off the edge of the Campus. ' Hence the tercollegiate League. Loeb of Princeton JOHNNY COULON, I 10-pound ex-bantam- gayeties. leads the League with a total of 49 points. weight champion, who earned interna- THE DRILL HALL, for the first time, is It is not improbable that Luther will cut tional notoriety in Paris last year by his to be used as the scene of the Junior Prom, down the five-point lead when the League mysterious yet successful defense of his and the decorations are to be more in the games start again on February 10. challenge to all comers to lift him from the form of lights than in draperies. A sound- floor, appeared at a local theatre last week ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES have been at a ing-board arrangement for the orchestra is complete standstill during Block Week, the and hurled a like challenge to Cornell supposed to take care of the acoustics, and athletes doing only so much work as is wrestlers of any weight to lift his feet from to provide for the dancing in front of it. necessary to keep them in physical trim. the floor. One over-wise youth pretends to be wor- All squads, including the baseball men, CONSOLIDATION of the State Agricul- ried about the task of the chaperones if it will start work in earnest immediately tural Experiment Station at Geneva with involves the policing of the darkened area after Junior Week. the College of Agriculture at Cornell is the behind the sounding-board. THE TOWN OF ULYSSES has been made object of a bill to be introduced in the THE HONOR SYSTEM is passing through defendant in an action brought by Stephen State Legislature in the near future. The its most severe trial since its inauguration. Klenatic of Oyster Bay, New York, to re- bill is not opposed by the administrative The first enthusiasm of its supporters is cover $75,000 damages for the death of his body of either institution. The object of waning, or at least is not as ardently ac- daughter, Elizabeth Klenatic, a student in the consolidation is to coordinate the re- tive as at the inception of the plan; the the Summer School who was killed as the search work of the two so that duplication cheaters,—some of whom are always with result of an automobile accident on the of effort may be eliminated. us—are chafing under the restraint that Glen wood Boulevard on July 13, 1922. the system has undoubtedly imposed, and THE COMMON COUNCIL of Ithaca, at its The complaint alleges that the road col- last week's meeting, authorized the Board they are bent on devising methods to cir- lapsed under the weight of the car, and of Public Works to proceed at once with cumvent it; the main body of the students that the township was negligent in not the construction of a new sewer outlet at are impassive and somewhat inert as com- maintaining the highway in a safe condi- the confluence of Cascadilla Creek and the pared with their attitude when the system tion. Inlet, and also a bypass from the present was more commonly a subject for discus- septic tank to the outlet. The present out- sion. New signs have been devised for the THE LANG GARAGE has let contracts for let is worn-out, and has been the source of class-rooms, and a plan of tapping on the the construction of a new fire-proof storage unsanitary conditions in that section. The desk when cheating is suspected, has been garage and for the remodeling of their cost of necessary improvements has been put into effect. The one salient fact about present storage, garage at the corner of estimated at $8,000. the system is that more violations of stu- Green and South Tioga Streets, in order dent honor have been reported by the to provide the extra space which the rapid THE JOHNNY PARSON CLUB in its brief Faculty than by fellow-students. increase of their business demands. space of existence has become one of the most popular better class restaurants in THE FACULTY, on the whole, has had less THE SHORT LINE'S difficulties, noticed the city. The management advertises as to say about honesty in examinations than briefly in recent issues of the ALUMNI its specialties a club dinner at $1.50, after- before the system was adopted, and the NEWS, are still in the process of what is noon tea at 50 cents, luncheon every day students thereby have been deprived of a hoped to be efficient solution. Lack of hub Sunday at 75 cents, and a special certain amount of wise guidance from men sufficient patronage to pay expenses has Sunday breakfast at 75 cents.