Fifty-And Twenty-Five-Year Reunion Classes Start Preparations for Next June's Homecoming Alumni Representative Travels Through S

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

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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. who are intensely interested in the success forced the abandonment of four trains of the idea. These Faculty members have daily between Ithaca and Auburn. The THE DEEP SNOW has caused much felt, whether rightly or wrongly, that the trunk lines of the State have been forced mortality among the flocks of game birds students have practically put up a "hands- to refuse, because of conditions subsequent which have been zealously and effectively off" sign in adopting the student-honor to the freight embargo and to the unusual cultivated in Tompkins County of late plan. But there are growing evidences snow-fall, freight from short line branches, years. The local Fish and Game Club that students and Faculty are getting to- so that the freight haul of the Ithaca- have issued a public request to farmers to gether on this, and it looks as if the prob- Auburn Line has been reduced almost to feed the birds, and have offered reimburse- lems of the system are likely to bring lead- nothing. The new president of the Line ment for the cost of such feed. cannot say when full passenger service will ing men of the Faculty and leaders among THE CORNELL Lutheran campaign in be resumed. the students together in close accord to Rochester, for providing funds for the erec- find solutions to these problems. ALL JANUARY records of the local tion of a Lutheran Chapel here to serve SKATING BY RADIO music is the latest weather bureau, save only that of 1904, city and University, netted a total of more novelty to be installed on Beebe Lake by were broken last month with an aggregate than $16,000, nearly $1,000 in excess of the Athletic Association. A receiving set snow-fall of 31.9 inches. A tractor and the quota. Ithaca's subscription, as an- with a loud-speaker attachment has been from eight to twelve horses have been nounced in last week's issue, was $10,000. 234 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Coffin Travels South R. R.; Birmingham, Ernest F. Hettick Two Classes Start Ίo, Jefferson Bank Building; New Or- Alumni Representative To Stimulate Clubs leans, Edward E. Soule '88, 603 St. Preparations for Fifty and Twenty-Five- Throughout Southern and Gulf States Charles St.; Houston, George L. Noble Year Reunions Begun by '73 and '98 '18, the Texas Company; Dallas, Owen With the definite aim of forming clubs— Carter '13, 407 Praetorian Building; The fifty- and twenty-five-year classes or of strengthening clubs already in exist- Tulsa, Jo H. Cable '18, Mayo Building; are among the first in the field with active ence—in the southern states where there Little Rock, Joseph H. Cochran Ί5, care campaigns for their class reunions in are hundreds of alumni, Foster M. Coffin H. K. Cochran Company; Memphis, Ithaca next June. Bryan M. Eagle '19, 431 Bank of Com- '12, alumni representative, will leave Ithaca Over the signatures of William H. merce Building; Louisville, Adolph Reut- on February n for a tour that will con- French as president and Edwin Gillette linger '13, 1480 Cherokee Road. sume most of the remainder of the month. as secretary, '73 sends to its members a He will stop in Washington and the states letter calculated to bring back at least of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, SPORT STUFF one hundred per cent of the oldest reuning Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, class. Some of it has an application suffic- Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Ken- iently general to warrant quotation for the tucky. Most of these states seldom have Midyear examinations are about over. benefit of the other twenty classes sched- visitors direct from the University. In Silently one by one faces appear—white uled for reunions: only four of the cities to be visited are and drawn—that haven't been seen in "We are not as many as we were in there Cornell alumni organizations. public places for months. The boys are 1873; but we are a strong, vigorous, en- The first stop will be in Baltimore on popping out of the cloister once again for thusiastic class, and loyal as we have al- February 12, for the regular weekly lunch- a bit of air. ways been. No Cornell audience ever eon of the Cornell Alumni Association of As far as I can make out from observa- hears the '73 yell without giving it voci- Maryland. That afternoon Coffin will tion and casual conversation it takes about ferous applause. None of those who knew move on to Washington to meet with the as much work to stay in the place at the the class as undergraduates or who have officers of the Cornell Club of Washington present time as it used to take twenty heard of its achievements and activities and to dine with the board of governors of years ago to make Phi Beta Kappa. Re- since, but render it homage. At the quin- the Cornell Society of Washington. The ports follow collateral readings and pre- quennial reunions we have always been society will hold an informal dance that lims follow reports. Quizzes and examina- strong in numbers, and as joyous as the evening. tions come along each week and every day youngest sons of Cornell. There are The Cornell Alumni Association of there are lessons to dig out. The days are about 100 of us now. Won't it be a source Hampton Roads embraces Cornellians of over wherein one could knock a course cold of pride if 100 per cent of us can get to Newport News, Norfolk, and the sur- by attending lectures, taking notes, study- Ithaca this year? Even if, yielding to the rounding territory. This organization was ing the notes, and hitting the exam. fashion of our class, we appear in bifocals created only last spring. On February 13, All this, of course, marks a tremendous (in addition to the more universal haber- there will be a meeting at one or both of improvement. It means that we shall dashery), or with an occasional cane, or these cities. Meetings will be held Febru- turn out now trained intellects and dis- crutch, of ear-trumpet; even if we have ary 14, 15, and 16 in Raleigh, North Caro- ciplined minds instead of a lot of half any physical disability, when we get to lina, Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, baked loafers with a smattering of super- those hills, tramp over that glorified rec- Alabama. In none of these cities are ficial information. Now that the profes- tangle on East Hill, hear the tinkling there Cornell organizations. sors wear spurs they are getting speed out waters, the tintinnabulation of the bells Two days will be spent in New Orleans. of these colts that we never approached in and see the thousands who are our succes- With over seventy alumni, the Crescent the days gone by when we were urged on sors, we shall throw off the burdens of City has more Cornellians than many of by an occasional "giddap." fifty years and travel back to 1869-1873 the northern centers which boast flourish- Every day in every way we are getting with as jaunty steps as ever before. And ing clubs. February 19 and 20 will be more scholarlv and more scholarly. those scenes and memories and comrade- spent in Texas. More than half of the Just the same, I'm tickled to death that ships will stay with, recreate us, rejuven- two hundred alumni in the state reside in I went to college when I 'did. We didn't ate us." Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth. The study enough to hurt, but we did have '98 started the campaign for its twenty- Houston alumni will meet on Monday, time to read some books that weren't five year reunion when the New York and the alumni of the other two cities will prescribed and to go on an occasional coon group held an informal meeting on January meet in Dallas on Tuesday. hunt—to write verses when the hunch 31 at the Engineers' Club. What should The new Cornell Club of Tulsa, Okla- came and to argue about religion and bat- be done to reach all the class and then to homa, will be visited on February 21. ting averages. make the return to Ithaca well worth while Forty Cornellians live in the city, and The new scheme of things is fine—for was discussed in general terms. It was more than one hundred in the whole somebody else. Not me. R. B. agreed that the New York contingent, State. From Tulsa Coffin will follow the which easily exceeds fifty in number, route of the Christmas trip of the Musical CONTEST McMULLEN WILL should meet once a month until June; Clubs. On February 22, 23, and 24 he will The will of John McMullen, of Norwalk, that class members in other centers should meet with the Cornellians of Little Rock, Connecticut, in which he left the residue serve similarly to energize local groups; Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; and of an estate estimated at $2,000,000 to that Class Secretary Jesse Fuller send as Louisville, Kentucky, returning to Ithaca Cornell University, is being contested in soon as possible a preliminary circular let- on the 26th or 27th. the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Superior ter to all the Class, and that meanwhile Alumni of these sections who may not Court. Two nephews, Frank and James the New York members send personal let- be reached by the local notices can get de- McMullen, of Oakland, California, are the ters to members not easily reached other- tails of the meetings from the following plaintiffs, claiming that their uncle was of wise. committeemen: Hampton Roads, H. Ken- unsound mind and that he was unduly in- The gathering dealt largely in reminis- neth Peebles Ί6, 84 Thirty-second Street, fluenced by his iiiece? Laura A. Hughes, of cence. Colorful pictures of exploits and ex- Newport News; Raleigh, Rowland W. Norwalk. The action to break the will is periences of undergraduate days repeatedly Leiby '15, North' Carolina Department of directed against the executors. Mynderse interrupted the orderly consummation of Agriculture; Atlanta, Frederick H. Ray- Van Cleef '74 is in charge of the Univer- the plans, but the net result was the kind- field '15, Hemphill Avenue and Southern sity's representation in the case. ling of a strong reunion spirit as shown by CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 235

a unamimous adoption of the idea of the interesting talk on his memories of Cor- monthly meetings and by acceptance of in- CLUB ACTIVITIES nell's founder. dividual letter writing assignments as the There could be no Cornell banquet in Class list was called by Fuller. The next Chicago without the alumni song by meeting will probably be held on Thurs- Alumni Club Luncheons Erskine Wilder '05, and Erskine's voice day evening, March 8, at the Cornell Club Cornell luncheons are held regularly in sounded better than ever. The 1922 in New York, and every '98 man who can the cities listed below. All Cornellians are Spring Day movies were also enthusiastic- attend is expected. urged to attend even though they may not ally received. Harold D. (Bub) North '07, Among those present at the first meet- be residents of the cities. nominally of Cleveland but who appar- ing, besides Fuller, were John E. Rutzler, Baltimore—Mondays, Engineers' Club, ently has not missed an alumni banquet in Cloyd Chapman, Edgar Johnston, Daniel 12.30 p. m. any city since 1918, if we may judge from Knowlton, Charles M. Manly, William Binghamton—First and third Tuesdays, recent accounts of alumni activities, was a McA. Smith, Nate Sperling, the Carpen- Chamber of Commerce, 12.15 p. m. large factor in the enthusiasm of the even- ters, Clarence E. and Louis S., Percy W. Boston—Monday, City Club, 12.30 ing. Simpson, Frederick W. Midgley and Wil- p. m. The Cornell Women's Club of Chicago liam W. Macon. Buffalo—Friday, Iroquois Hotel, 12.30 entertained President Farrand at an after- p. m. noon tea on January 31 at "Le Petit Buffalo Women—First Saturday, Col- Gourmet," a French tea-room on upper ENGLISH FOR SERVICE lege Club. Michigan Boulevard. At a recent meeting of the National Chicago—Thursday, Hamilton Club, The guests sat at a long table near an Council of Teachers of English at Chat- 12.30 p. m. open fireplace in which a cheerful log fire tanooga, Dr. Charles Robert Gaston '96, Chicago Women—First Saturdaj^, Col- burned. A pair of tall candelabra lighted the retiring president, spoke on "Why lege Club, 12.30 p. m. the room. Teach English?" Cleveland—Thursday, Statler Hotel, An hour was passed in hearing first- hand news from the Hill and some of the "For years/' said Gaston, "English Lattice Room, 12 noon. plans for the future of Cornell. More wo- teachers have been wavering in their aims. Detroit—Thursday, Hotel Cadillac, men were present than at any previous A recent study made by Professor Pendle- Ivory Room, 12.15 p. m. meeting this season. ton, of Tennessee, shows that thousands of Hartford—Second Monday, University The rest of the President's itinerary aims have been put forward in the last ten Club. includes Salt Lake City, February 5-6; years in the teaching of English. An Ithaca Women—Wednesday, Coffee Los Angeles, February 7-8; San Francisco, analysis of answers to a questionnaire House, Barnes Hall, 12.30 p. m. February 9-11 Portland, February 12-13; shows that some such slogan as 'English Newark, N. J.—First and third Fridays, Seattle, February 14-15; Spokane, Febru- for Service' should be adopted by all Eng- Downtown Club, Kinney Building, 12.30 ary 16. On the return trip President Far- lish teachers. p. m. New York—Daily, Cornell Club, 30 W. rand will stop at Ames, Iowa, for a convo- "Some of the prominent professional 44th Street. cation of faculty and students of the Iowa and business men and some of the leaders Pittsburgh—Friday, William Penn State College, to be held on February 20. in English teaching in all parts of the Hotel, Hawaiian Room, 12 noon. He will return to Ithaca on February 21. country have given answers that express Portland, Oregon—First and third Fri- Durham Shoots the Bull this idea of service in the democracy as the days, University Club. Professor Charles L. Durham '99 com- master purpose, while other leaders have Rochester—Wednesday, Powers Hotel, pleted a rapid-fire tour of the Middle West, stuck to the old formulae of accuracy and 12.15 P m. when in four successive days he spoke at effectiveness in oral and written expression Syracuse—Thursday, Onondaga Hotel. alumni meetings in Milwaukee, Chicago, and development of ability to read in- Tulsa—First Tuesday, University Club. Cleveland, and Buffalo. The four meet- telligently and appreciatively. Chicago Greets the President ings were held on January 30 and 31 and "The head of the English department President Farrand finished the Pacific February 1 and 2. in an influential college for teachers writes Coast section of his trip last Sunday, when Professor Durham was the principal that the big aim is that pupils may get he left Denver for Salt Lake City. Ac- speaker at the annual banquet in Mil- from literature its presentation and in- counts of the Cornell dinners in Indiana- waukee on January 30. On the same terpretation of life and right sentiments polis, on January 30, and in Denver, on night President Farrand was speaking in and sense of values and should get from February 2, had not reached Ithaca at Indianapolis at the banquet of the Cornell composition the ability to be intelligently press time. Alumni Association of Indiana. The Presi- articulate and the ability to play a good The meetings in Chicago on January 30 dent and the Professor joined forces in part in the world both economically and were voted outstanding successes, both the Chicago on the following day, at the ban- socially. dinner of the men and the afternoon meet- quet of the Cornell men of that city. These are only a few of the many ing of the Cornell Women's Club. The ''Bargain Day" luncheon of the opinions he has gathered, Dr. Gaston Over two hundred Cornell men, repre- Cornell Club of Cleveland, held on Feb- said. After examining them all, both in senting classes from '75 to '22, gave a warm ruary 1 at the Hotel Statler, proved to be the form of personal letters sent to him welcome to the President. The toast- the most successful of the season. Not and the form of printed statements in master was Professor Charles L. Durham only did the hundred members in attend- course of study, the speaker held that '99, also of Ithaca. Dean James Parker ance get a dollar lunch for 99 cents, but "back of all English teaching should be Hall '94, of the University of Chicago Law they also had the privilege of hearing Pro- the idea of developing, through English, School, was prevented from speaking by fessor Durham render one of his most stir- ability on the part of students, at what- illness. ring speeches. The club voted that as an ever stage they leave school, to be ready Music was furnished by the Chicago- after dinner speaker "Bull" gets better to take their places a"s useful, articulate Cornell orchestra and stunts were given by every day. members of the great American democ- William H. McCaully '08, John H. Me- John (C. Johnny) Barker '12 composed racy." Ilvaine '14, and "Lou" Tilden, Princeton the words to a new song in honor of the By a number of pertinent examples he '22, who with his accordion has been voted guest. It was most admirably delivered by showed how this can be done through the the hit of the last three Princeton Triangle a quartet consisting William H. (Bill) different elements that make up the Eng- Club shows. Charles F. Millspaugh '75, Forbes '06, Barker, Henry M. (Hank) lish courses of schools and colleges. nephew of Ezra Cornell, gave a brief and Beatty '22, and the famous soprano 236 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Charles H. (Charlie) Clark '92. Words alumni organizations. Robert B. Mc- strained himself sufficiently to cause an in- without the music follow: Clave Ίo introduced the speaker. There ternal hemorrhage. He was taken to the "There is bull that makes you happy, were two other talks by local alumni, hospital and an operation was performed, There is bull that makes you sad, George G. Brooks '94, president of the from which he did not recover. There is bull that helped our graduation, Scranton association, and Seth W. Shoe- Cady was born on January 26, 1893, the In courses where our marks were bad, maker '08, secretary of the class of '08. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Cady of There is bull that has a tender meaning, Gates, N. Y. He prepared at the Mohegan There is bull that everyone can see, Lake High School, and entered the Uni- But the bull that comes from old Prof. OBITUARY versity in 1911 in the course in arts, re- Durham, ceiving the degree of B.S. in 1915. He Is the bull that sounds good to. me." George F. Brown, Jr., '94 was a member of Chi Phi, Scabbard and The weekly luncheon in Buffalo on Feb- Blade, the Savage Club, Sesomah, the George Frederick Brown, Jr., died at ruary 2 was one of the best attended of Mandolin Club, and served on various his home in Montclair, N. J., on June 4, the year. The meeting was held as usual committees, among which were the Fresh- 1922, after a long illness. at the Hotel Iroquois. In addition «to man Banquet Committee, the Military He was born in Brooklyn and lived there Professor Durham the guests included two Hop Committee, and the Spring Hop Com- until eleven years ago, when he went to Cornell judges of the Class of '98, Willard mittee. In his sophomore year he was a Montclair. He entered the College of M. Kent of Ithaca, and George F. Bodine lieutenant in the Cadet Corps, and during Civil Engineering in 1890, but left at the of Waterloo. his junior and senior years he held the end of his junior year. He became asso- rank of captain. Detroit Street Cars ciated with the Progress Publishing Com- For a short time after his graduation he Ross Schramm, assistant general man- pany, of Caldwell, N. J., in 1911 and was operated the Acadia Farms at Gates, ager of the Detroit Street Railway, talked instrumental in establishing The Caldwell N. Y.; then he entered the Air Service, informally on "Your Street Railway Progress; at the time of his death he was and was sent to Ithaca as an instructor in System" to the Cornell'men of Detroit at treasurer of the companj^. He was an in- the School of Military Aeronautics. After their weekly luncheon on February 1. cessant worker, and bearing his illness receiving his discharge he went to Detroit, patiently, he remained active in the affairs New St. Louis Secretary where he became associated with Dodge of the company until August, 1921, when To succeed Arthur J. Widmer '04, who Brothers. has resigned as secretary of the Cornell he was advised to rest. From that time • He leaves his parents and his widow. Club of St. Louis, President Perry Post until his death he was confined to his bed. The body was taken to Rochester for burial. Taylor '89 has appointed C. Marquis '23 He was married in 1911 to Miss Ella as acting secretary. Platt of Montclair, who survives him. He William Therkelson '16 Rochester Talks Parks leaves also his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Therkelson died at the New At the regular weekly luncheon of the George F. Brown, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., Jersey State Hospital, Trenton, N. J., on Cornell Club of Rochester on January 31 four sisters, and a brother. November 26, following an operation. Dr. Charles D. Williamson talked on co- Mr. Brown was particularly interested Therkelson was born on August 30, operation with the National Park Service in boys and young men, and spent much 1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter of the Federal Department of the Interior. of his time in administration and uplift Therkelson of Perth Amboy, N. J. After Buffalo Studies Navigation work among them. He was a devoted attending the Perth Amboy High School, husband, son, brother, and friend, held in he entered the College of Agriculture in At the weekly luncheon of the Cornell highest regard by all who knew him. 1912, receiving the degree of B.S. in 1917. men in Buffalo on January 19, Lieutenant Louis A. Clinton '99-02, Grad. He suffered a nervous breakdown some Kennedy, chief of the traffic cops, led a years ago, which recurred on several occa- Louis Adelbert Clinton, director of ex- discussion of traffic conditions and regula- sions, and it was necessary to send him to tension work at the New Jersey Agricul- tions in Buffalo and elsewhere. He told the hospital for treatment. His condition tural Experiment Station at Rutgers Col- the Cornellians how many red tickets on improved somewhat, but he had a bad in- lege, died of pneumonia on January 21 at their cars it took to get a blue one, and testinal condition, for which an operation the home of his daughter, Mrs. William which way to go when the red, green, and was performed on November 23. Peri- Wood, in Detroit. yellow lights all go on at once. tonitis developed, and he died three days Clinton was born at Grand Rapids, New York Women Meet later. The annual luncheon of the Cornell Mich., on February 13, 1868, a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Clinton. He attended the Women's Club of New York will be held A REPORT ON AGRICULTURE Michigan Agricultural College, receiving at 1.30 p. m. Saturday, February 17, at We continue our summaries of Deans' the Hotel Pennsylvania. Dr. Georgia L. the degree of B.S. in 1889, and came to Cornell as a graduate student in 1889, re- reports (see THE ALUMNI NEWS for No- White, dean of women, will be the guest vember 23, January 11, 25, February 1). maining three years. During that time he of honor. All Cornell women are cordially Dean Mann reports that in the College was assistant agriculturist at the Cornell invited to attend. Tickets may be ob- of Agriculture last year there were 1,109 Experiment Station. tained from Mrs. A. C. Robertson, 315 regular students, 72 specials, 329 winter For several years he was director of the Central Park West, New York. course students, 250 graduate students, Storrs Agricultural Station, at Storrs, Kimball in Scranton and 930 Summer School students, a total Conn., and professor of agronomy in the The presence of Dean Kimball in Scran- (excluding names counted twice) of 2,604 Connecticut Agricultural College. He had ton on February 1 and 2, when he spoke at students. also been assistant professor of agriculture an engineers' banquet and at a Cornell at Clemson College, S. C, and had held The College, he says, needs large and luncheon, provided the necessary stimulus important posts with the United States immediate relief in buildings and facilities for a reawakening of the Cornell Alumni Department of Agriculture. for work. The State program of retrench- Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania. ment has seriously handicaped the work Surviving him are his widow and three Thirty alumni entertained him at the of the College. It is impossible for the in- daughters. Scranton Club at the first Cornell meeting stitution to do its necessary work properly held in the city for many months. Frank W. Cady, Jr., '15 in buildings which had been outgrown Dean Kimball spoke intimately of con- Frank Williams Cady, Jr., died in Grace more than ten years ago. Some relief is ditions at the University, of improvements Hospital, Detroit, on January 25. He had afforded by the new Dairy Building, the made and in contemplation, of registra- been exercising in the gymnasium a short cost of which Cconstruction, heating, sani- tion figures, of the necessity of strong ime before, and in some unusual exerciset tary and electrical work) is $397,021. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 237

"In appropriations for the operation of districts, the College is empowered to dis- the College for the next fiscal year, slight FACULTY NOTES seminate 'agricultural knowledge through- gain was made over the current year. The out the State by means of experiments and chief advantage—and a notable one— demonstrations on farms and gardens, in- came in the form in which appropriations PROFESSOR CLARK S. NORTHTJP '93 vestigations of the economic and social were made, allowing somewhat greater spent two days last week at Culver Mili- status of agriculture, and in other ways,' freedom in adjustment of salaries of teach- tary Academy, where he inspected the and 'to make researches in the physical, ers and certain other classes of employees. work of the English department and ad- chemical, biological and other problems Abandonment of the older rigidly segre- dressed the students in chapel. of agriculture, and the application of such gated appropriation act in favor of one al- investigations to the agriculture of New lowing some discretion to the administra- HENRY HAYDEN (Pop) LANNIGAN, from York.7 Furthermore, by Federal Statute, tive officers of the State's departments 1892 to 1904 instructor in gymnastics here, the College is charged with the conduct of and agencies, affords great relief at a vital has been for some years doing similar work Original researches or experiments bearing point in effective administration." at the University of Virginia. directly on the agricultural industry/ Dean Mann pays deserved tribute to AGRICULTURE has an immense advan- broadly defined in the terms of the acts. the work of former Directors Roberts and tage over other subjects taught in univer- The full working-out of these legal obli- Bailey. Professor Roberts at eighty-nine sities because of the Farmers' Weeks held gations and authorizations has been the is still deeply interested in the great prob- almost simultaneously all over the country sustained purpose of the College, and ex- lems of agriculture. Dr. Bailey is con- at the various state colleges and univer- cellent progress has been made within the stantly adding to his extensive herbarium sities. At Ohio State last week there was limitations of funds provided by the State (which already numbers 55,000 sheets) almost a reunion of Cornell professors who and Federal Governments for the pur- and has begun to publish his privately had a part in the program there. Profes- pose." printed "Gentes Herbarium." sor Rollins A. Emerson '99 was a Sigma The list of papers published and ready, Many lines of departmental activity are Xi speaker and also addressed general with brief summaries, fills over sixteen carefully described, and one inevitably audiences; Professor Mortier F. Barrus pages of the longer report submitted to the gets the impression that practically every ' 11 was a principal speaker in the field of State Legislature. department in the College is engaged in plant diseases; Professor Bristow Adams Extension work has gone forward with work that is of use not only to the students spoke at the newspaper conferences and at vigor. A very impressive showing is made here, but also ultimately to the entire one of the main forums, two of which are hγ the monograph by Vice-Dean Burritt on State as well. held each day. At Michigan Agricultural "The Rise and the Significance of Agricul- Concerning the aims of the College the College, Professor George F. Warren '03 tural Extension," which, filling 97 pages, Dean says: "More difficult than deciding was one of the chief speakers. And last forms the second part of the Dean's re- upon the range and grade of professions week it was recorded in these pages that port. In the first epoch of College activity for which training is to be offered, is the one of the Cornell men went as far as Utah in this work (1894-1904), an attempt was problem of making truly effective the and Montana. The main point is, that made to inquire into the causes of the ex- training even for the vocations nearest the this great exchange of agricultural ideas, isting rural depression and to suggest center of our interest. Are we really fit- involving aggregate attendances of not less educational means for its improvement. ting our students adequately for the next than 100,000 persons, all thinking about The means suggested and used were local stage of their experience? Do we ourselves the same things at the same time, is bound experiments, bulletins, itinerant lectures know as well as can be known what the profoundly to affect American agriculture, and schools, instruction in nature study in demands of life upon our students are to and all those who depend on agriculture,— the rural schools, correspondence, and be? We need to determine, with greater which means about everybody. reading courses. In the second period (1904-14) several special means of exten- precision, what constitutes the best train- PROFESSOR HELEN MONSCH has gone to sion were developed (Experimenters' ing for farming and for the lines allied to it Iowa City to study, in the hospital con- League, farm trains, Farmers' Week) and served by the College. nected with the child welfare research, local organization and financing were be- "With these and related questions in station there, problems in the feeding of gun. A greater public recognition of the mind, under authorization of the Faculty children. She will return to Cornell in importance of agriculture and of educa- a committee has been appointed to make a time to teach in the Cornell Summer tional extension was evident. Some effects thorough inquiry into the aims and organ- School. Assistant Professor Mary F. began to appear in changed agricultural ization of the College of Agriculture. By Henry will handle Professor Monsch's practices. The third period (1914 to the a study of state and federal legislation and foods work in the School of Home Eco- present) was a period of great expansion, regulation, of university organization, of nomics until she returns. in which local organization, made possible practice in other institutions, and partic- by greatly increased financial resources, ularly of the experience of our former stu- was the chief characteristic. Cooperative dents, an attempt will be made to formu- maintain strong courses of instruction, to organization for buying and selling began late the objectives of the college course. sustain the teachings in the fields of exten- among farmers. The outstanding achieve- Further, the professions falling within the sion, and to meet the ever-increasing de- ments were the completion of the organ- field determined upon must be analyzed mands of farmers and farm women for aid ization of the county-agricultural-agent with a view to determining what real in their technical problems of daily prac- system and the establishment of home de- preparation for them involves. Finally, tice, is immediately dependent on the op- monstration agents in more than a third of the curriculum and the subject matter portunity and capacity of the College for the counties, together with the organization taught can be restudied in the light of the research, both pure and applied. Charged of the Farm and Home Bureaus with their facts thus revealed. This is a study that by the State 'to improve the agricultural 70,000 members. The great need now is will probably take more than a year for methods of the State; to develop the agri- for the consolidation of the gains made and completion; in a sense, jt should never be cultural resources of the State in the pro- for rounding out and securing more com- considered finished. The knowledge to be duction of crops of all kinds, in the rearing plete utilization of the service. The gained from it, however, is fundamental and breeding of live stock, in the manufac- county-agent system must be extended to to wise curriculum building and the most ture of dairy and other products, in deter- all the rural communities. The Extension efficient educational organization." mining better methods of handling and Service will then be serving the whole The research work of the College con- marketing such products, and in other State in developing a sound and satisfying tinues to occupy a prominent place. "The ways; and to increase intelligence and agriculture. ability of the College to serve the public, to elevate the standards of living in the rural 238 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

The forty days spent by the President ham, "striped," from the Malayan, about last year in getting acquainted with the 1615, muslin, from Mosul, recently again alumni, and approximately that many in the public eye, about 1609). spent similarly this year, the trips of pro- Interesting from a psychological point of Published for the alumni of Cornell fessors, the Alumni Representative, and view is the chapteϊ on "Folk Etymology." University by the Cornell Alumni News the Graduate Manager of Athletics, are Publishing Company, Incorporated. Does sparrow-grass represent a folk ex- Published weekly during the college year and not in vain. Already the alumni begin to planation of asparagus, or is the latter a monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. show signs of a national feeling justifying Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of Latinized form of sparrow-grass? In September. Weekly publication (numbered con- the appellation "national" to their uni- secutively) ends the last week in June. Issue No. blunderbuss the idea of awkwardness in the 40 is published in August and is followed by an versity; the alumni office is in fact as well use of this firearm has resulted from the index of the entire volume, which will be mailed as in theory the link between alumni and on request. change from donderbuss, "thunder gun." A Pictorial Supplement is issued monthly except the University; and our new President is a in July and August. Buckwheat has no connection with buck, Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- real person to thousands to whom he would but is the same as beech. Woodchuck has vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single otherwise be but a myth. copies twelve cents each. no connection with wood, but is a render- Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in ing of the Cree Indian wuchak. before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance of the subscription is desired. LITERARY REVIEW Slips and misprints are remarkably few. Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- Ypsilanti (p. 367) is not Indian but Greek. able to Cornell Alumni News. Correspondence should be addressed— The statement that "The anglicization of Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. A New Study of Words Montreal extends only to the first two syl- Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 English Words and Their Background. lables," except for the accentuation, may Business Manager E. P. TUTTLE '18 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 By George Harley McKnight '92, Profes- be questioned; the last syllable is usually Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON sor of English in Ohio State University. pronounced so that it rhymes with awl. Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS New York. Appleton. 1923. 21 cm., pp. Hayes and Hawes (p. 384) are rather geni- ROMEYN BERRY '04 WARREN E. SCHUTT '05 xii, 449. Price, $2.50. tives than plurals of Hay and Haw (cf. H. G. STUTZ '07 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 E. P. TUTTLE '18 FLORENCE J. BAKER The world of words—labels, tools of Bates, Ives, Pitts). The remark about gold News Committee of the Associate Alumni thought—is one of the most fascinating the (p. 306) seems to imply that it has no con- W. W. Macon '98, Chairman N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 student can enter. We have come, more- nection with yellow, a connection which we Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing over, to admit the usefulness of visits to had supposed was scarcely to be ques- Company, Incorporated; John L. Senior, President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- this world. Noting men's reactions to tioned. retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. words, we learn constantly about the work- A well written and fascinating volume, Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated ings of the human mind. The conflict be- good for any reader to dip into. tween authority and individual freedom, Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. the contrast between the radical and the Some Thoughts on Woods Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. conservative, the meaning of taste, the Impressions of European Forestry. By romance of life—all these things are as Ralph S. Hosmer, Head Professor of For- ITHACA, N. Y., FEBRUARY 8,1923 well recalled, perhaps, in the history of estry, Cornell. Ithaca, N. Y. Published words as elsewhere. by the Author. 1922. 20 cm., pp. 80. THE BARNSTORMERS Dr. McKnight has not written a history Price, $1, postpaid. In a series of one-night stands, hard as of the English language. He does not Professor Ralph S. Hosmer, who spent any musical trip, with a like need to make handle the Indo-European relatives of his recent sabbatic leave seeing forests and daily a good appearance and to show to English, or syntax, or inflections. His folks in Europe, has had his series of arti- best advantage, the President and the book is of the sort so ably represented by cles, originally contributed to The Lumber Alumni Representative are making diffi- Greenough and Kittredge's ''Words and World Review, reprinted in booklet form. cult trips of the pleasantest sort. The Their Ways in English Speech," which has In their new dress they form a sequaci- former is on his way back from California, delighted readers for more than twenty ous record of the peregrinations of a scient- having spoken in nearly every large city it years, and with which the newer book is ist who has his eyes open to facts of in- was possible to reach; the latter is leaving worthy to stand. He brings much new terest to his science,—forestry. But his for a swing around the south eastern and material into the discussion, for he has eyes were not closed to other sights, bear- gulf states, hitting the high spots of the been a faithful reader of the dictionary as ing on economics and sociology, or, in old south as far west as Texas. well as an accurate listener to the speech plain terms, on human beings. Through- • Neither section has received a visit from both of the street and of the forum. out these carefully prepared papers, the a University officer for years; never on as As a fair specimen of the sort of thing evident record of an enjoyable trip through- comprehensive a trip as either of these; one finds in the book, we may take the out northwestern Europe, runs an under- and usually only incidentally to a trip for chapter on "Words and Culture History." current of the consciousness that forests some other purpose, except, perhaps, In it the author points out how a large serve humanity, and that European those trips in the interest of the Endow- number of words give indications of the forests and foresters have many lessons for ment. state of culture at the time they were born. Americans to learn. One doesn't make much fuss over being Garret, for example, recalls the days when Professor Hosmer describes places and designated as one of the six national uni- the upper stories of buildings had to be persons picturesquely, and one feels, too, versities. The greater agitation is on the equipped for defence (cf. garrison). Stoop that the pictures are accurate. He re- part of those that have not been designated (cf. step) is of much interest in connection ceived definite impressions because he was and resist the allegation of provincialism. with the architecture of our old Dutch impressionable, and went abroad with the Yet, since we are a national university, houses. The dates of introduction of fork determinination to see and learn. with alumni scattered throughout the (as a table implement first cited from 1463) While the booklet makes no pretense to land, what is more fitting than that the and spoon (in the modern sense apparently being a textbook, it is far better than some chief officer and the official representative dating from about 1340) are indications of of the volumes that purport to present the of the alumni should swing around the progress in the refinement of manners. An lessons to be learned from European forests circuit and bring direct news from home to interesting group is made up of the names for the benefit of American students of the faithful? The solidarity of the alumni of different kinds of cloth, which bear mute forestry. The descriptions of Scandina- is as much a test of nationalness as their witness to the variety of sources from which vian forests are particularly satisfying, and geographical distribution or that of the our cloths have come to us (for example, have the additional charm of novelty, as undergraduates. damask, from Damascus, about 1430, ging- compared with accounts of the more fre- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 239

quently described forests of England, Impressions of Many Lands or the shimmering mirage over the Coele- France, and Germany. Syria valley between the snow-capped One feels that Hosmer wrote with a fresh G. M. Dutcher '97 Tells of Experiences in summits of Hermon and the Lebanons. spontaneitjr, as a journalist who looked at Trip Around the World The colors of the tropical sea viewed from the writing as a not-too-serious, and per- the Pali at Honolulu; the luxuriance of haps ephemeral, piece of work. But either On the morning of September 6, 1922, the tropical verdure of Singapore, Penang, from painstaking search for facts at the Mrs. Dutcher and I arrived in New York or Ceylon; the delicate charm of Japan as time, or from a subsequent careful revi- City on the Assyria from Glasgow, thus seen around Nikko, along the Inland Sea, sion, the publication is a rare blending of winning the tourist's blue ribbon—the or near Nagasaki; the somber blackness science minus pedantry with charm minus completion of a tour around the world, on of Athos as we passed in the night; or the irrelevancy. which we had been absent for fifteen loveliness of the bays of Salamis, Nauplia, Except for the original instalments in months. Four hundred years before to the and Naples and of Lago Maggiore; or the The Lumber World Review, Professor Hos- day, Sebastian del Cano and his seventeen ever-changing play of cloud and mist, of mer's papers, revised and augmented in the companions sailed Magellan's Victoria sunlight and starlight upon the unchanging present booklet, are available only in this into the harbor of San Lucar, Spain, com- bulk of the Dent du Midi in the Valais: form and in a limited edition. The re- pleting the first journey ever made around such are some of the pictures indelibly prints may be obtained from the author, the world. In comparison our little ad- printed on the mind. 209 Wait Avenue, Ithaca. venture was quite insignificant; but to us Great cities and famous buildings have Books and Magazine Articles it had loomed in contemplation as a great their full space in memory's gallery. The undertaking fraught with all manner of In The American Historical Review for mystery and charm of Paris and Rome possibilities, for even to-day the risks in- January "An Introduction to the History were even stronger than when I first made volved in such a journey are by no means of History" by James T. Shotwell is re- their acquaintance more than a score of negligible. We were indeed fortunate to viewed by Professor William S. Ferguson, years ago. Few cities can vie with them in complete the trip without serious accident A.M. '97, Ph.D. '99, of Harvard. The new the combination of present glories and his- or illness, for the dangers which we passed "Larned History for Ready Reference," toric past, but with them must certainly through were not a few nor far removed. of which Dr. Donald E. Smith '01 is editor- be classed Constantinople and Peking. in-chief and Dr. Daniel C. Knowlton '98 Like Magellan we set out with hopes in One thinks, too, of Athens and Cairo, of an associate editor, has begun to appear, our hearts rather than clear and definite Delhi and Kyoto, but with all their mar- and the first volume is reviewed by Arthur plans for our course in mind. We be- vels they somehow miss the preeminence I. Andrews. Professor Theodore F. Col- longed to no tourist party and had no of the world's most enduring and splendid lier, Ph.D. '06, of Brown, reviews "L'His- mission; we were just a college professor capitals. Unrivaled among buildings, be- toire de la Regence Pendant la Minorite de and his wife on sabbatical leave, traveling yond per adventure, is the Taj Mahal at Louis XV," in three volumes, by Dom H. from place to place, from time to time. We Agra in purity and beauty of form and ma- Leclercq. "Mystics and Heretics in Italy had planned no itinerary of places or even terial. There are other structures of simi- at the End of the Middle Ages" by Emile countries to visit, and had no schedule to lar form or of similar material but only Gebhart, translated by Professor Edward be kept, except as sailing dates from cer- this one combines the two in majestic M. Hulme, A.M. '02, of Stanford, is re- tain ports had to be arranged some weeks grace and delicate harmony. This build- viewed by Professor George L. Hamilton. in advance, for nearly three of the fifteen ing is a tomb—perhaps the Mausoleum at Professor Preserved Smith reviews "La months were spent on shipboard. Neither Halicarnassus was as fine, but our knowl- Liberte Chretienne: Etude sur le Principe did we set out with any definite purpose to edge of it does not confirm such a judg- de la Pietό chez Luther" by Robert Will. be attained by our journey; we did not go ment. To select any structure worthy of to make a book or even to garner lecture place in a second class one must search In The Journal of Forestry for November materials. Our determination was to keep far, and then finds two of widely different Professor Ralph C .Bryant's "Lumber: our eyes, ears, and minds open and to be style and character, the cathedral at Milan Its Manufacture and Distribution" is re- prepared to utilize whatever opportunities and the Temple of Heaven in Peking. viewed by E. F. might open to us for seeing and under- These, too, possess the qualities which hold In The Physical Review for December standing other lands and peoples, their one to their contemplation and draw one Professor Arthur L. Foley, Ph.D. '97, of conditions and problems. Few people back to them—qualities manifested by few Indiana University, presents "A Photo- have gone armed with so few letters of in- architectural achievements. The colossal graphic Study of Sound Pulses Between troduction, and few even of those we took size and hoary antiquity of the pyramids, Curved Walls and Sound Amplification were used. We had no special influence to the ruined grace of the Parthenon, the pro- by Horns. Professor George W. Stewart, command entree for us. On the other digious elaborateness of the great temple Ph.D. '00, of the University of Iowa, dis- hand we were fortunate to find good at Madura, and the sleek luxuriance of the cusses "Acoustic Wave Filters." Leland friends, old and new, at almost every temples at Nikko embody the glories of as J. Boardman, instructor in physics, stage of our journey to whose kindness and many civilizations. prints "A Study of the Exciting Power for hospitality we owe a large debt of grati- *. Fluorescene of the Diίϊerenct Parts of the tude. Historic memories hallow some locali- Ultra-Violet Spectrum." Having set out the world for to see, it ties. All that is epic in one's nature thrills In The Indiana University Alumni may be asked, what did we see? Perhaps as he sails into the Hellespont, with snow- Quarterly for January William C. Lang- first should be mentioned natural scenery. clad Mount Ida, the plain of Troy, and the don '92 describes "The Indiana Univer- In all the world there is no scene so grand, tomb of Achilles on the one hand, and on sity Memorial Masque." Reuben E. so beautiful as the Himalayas viewed from the other the wreck-strewn shore and the Nyswander summarizes and reviews Pro- Darjeeling. This judgment I have found grave-covered slopes of Gallipoli. No fessor Arthur L. Foley's paper on "The confirmed by all with whom I have com- deeper pathos can stir the soul than when College Student's Knowledge of High pared observations. Almost equal un- one treads the blood-drenched soil of the School Physics" in School Science and animity favors the Grand Canyon of the solemn heights above Verdun and medi- Mathematics" for October. Hamilton B. Colorado as worthy of second place. The tates on the significance of "They shall not Moore '97 (A.M. Indiana Όi), of the stupendous glories of these scenes were al- pass!" One may imagine as he strolls Louisville Girls' High School, reviews most matched by the sunset splendor over amid the marble memorials in West- Professor Henry H. Carter's paper on Manila Bay and in the Straits of Malacca, minster Abbey and St. Paul's that he has "Ruskin and the Waverley Novels" in or the starry miracle of the heavens wit- caught the meaning of the British Empire, the April-June Sewanee Review. nessed in the desert of the Sinai peninsula, but there is something that can be under- stood only by wandering through the ruins 240 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

of the Lucknow residency and standing In Jerusalem and Damascus we observed for independence and the other stages of beside the simple tomb of Henry Lawrence, the different workings of the English and its progress—which we must remember on which there is ever a fresh-laid wreath, the French mandates at critical moments. were achieved not without violence. In or sitting in the little chapel of the British When we were in Smyrna Greek troops all lands those who are struggling for bet- Legation at Peking and then walking were landing to participate in the disas- ter things- for themselves are looking to along the bullet-pitted wall bearing the in- trous campaign, and in Athens we witnes- the American people for both example and scription "Lest we forget." Centuries sed the temporary defeat of the Gounaris sympathy, for guidance and help. The fade away as one stands beside the Sphinx Cabinet. In Rome we saw the great American who stays at home has little and looks up the Nile to the step-pyramid Fascisti demonstration at the burial of idea of what his nation and its history of Sakkarah above the ancient Memphis Enrico Toti, the popular hero of the great mean for other peoples of the world. Like- and wonders whether of the two is the war, followed by a communistic effort at a wise the Christian who knows only his own oldest existing monument made by human general strike. In Germany we got some and can have but slight conception of the hands; or as one in the Cairo Museum insight into the conditions under the significance of the missionary achievement gazes into the face of Rameses II and of the French occupation of the Rhineland. As or of the importance of its steady prosecu- Pharaoh before whom Moses stood. What we sailed down the Rhine "Old Glory" was tion. One who has viewed the situation at memories does one conjure up as he stands floating proudly over Ehrenbreitstein. first-hand can hardly escape deep convic- on the great wall of China; or strolls along In many lands, with peoples of all ranks tion of the value of the work done and of "the street called Straight" in Damascus; and views, we discussed the democratic, the desirability of the energetic extension or looks out across the plain of Marathon nationalist, and peace movements. The of the enterprise for which that splendid or stands on the Palatine Hill overlooking economic and social changes in Asia, Cornellian, John R. Mott, has furnished the forum? Africa, and Europe afforded ample mate- the watchword, "The evangelization of the We made our pilgrimage to the world's rial for observation and discussion. The world in this generation." holy places: St. Peter's at Rome, Santa question of organized labor in Japan, the Of the questions asked us the second in Sophia at Constantinople, the Churches of development of the factory system and the order of frequency has been about how the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem and of problem of child labor in China, the much the trip cost. Such curiosity is nat- the Nativity at Bethlehem, the ruins of the swadeshi or home manufactures agitation ural even though it may be somewhat im- temples of Apollo at Delphi and of the in India, the collapse of the mark in Ger- pertinent. Our experience was that the mysteries at Eleusis, the massive remains many, the problem of unemployment in trip can readily be made for a reasonable of the more ancient shrines of Luxor and England, and then on our return to the sum, though larger expenditure would Karnak, Buddh Gaya and Sarnath with United States the railroad and coal strikes have added to comfort and possibly af- their memories of Buddha, Benares with illustrate the vast ferment of readjust- forded further privileges. The really its Golden Temple, the temple and tomb ment following the war; but they do more pertinent question is whether it paid. We of Confucius at Chufoo, and China's holy than that, they reveal a world-wide ad- felt that it did every day as we tried to mountain—Tai-shan, where worship has vance of the masses to a higher economic utilize the varied opportunities; since our been conducted uninterruptedly for over and social level and to larger political return to our normal routine of life, it has four thousand years. privileges than they have ever known. been paying rich dividends in intellectual satisfaction as well as in the illumination of There were opportunities to talk with As a teacher, the educational situation our daily work from the new stores of men who have helped to make history. In was everywhere a subject of special in- knowledge accumulated. A few have Los Angeles we paid our respects to Wes- terest to me. Opportunities to lecture in asked the true test question, whether we ley an's oldest living alumnus, ex-Senator schools, colleges, and universities, state, would like to go again. To this the answer Cole, who went overland to California in mission, and private, in Japan, Korea, is an unqualified affirmative. 1849 and later served in Congress under China, and India brought me into direct Lincoln. In Tokio we were guests at relations with teachers and students under GEORGE MATTHEW DUTCHER '97 luncheon of Viscount Shibusawa, who was every variety of condition and enabled me Wesley an University. a member of a mission sent by the last to get first-hand knowledge. The prog- shogun to Paris in the days of Napoleon ress is remarkable, the opportunities un- MORE DEANS' REPORTS III, while another of the guests had repre- limited, and the responsibility of the Dean Niles of the Medical College re- sented Japan at the Paris Conference and United States and other Western lands to ports that "the effect of limiting the num- was soon to do so at Washington as well. assist the work can not be shirked except ber of students and thereby exercising the In Manila we talked with both Americans at our own peril. select ion of the applicants continues to be and Filipinos who have been active in the As guests in the homes of English and reflected by the higher standard of work affairs of the islands in the past quarter- American missionaries, teachers, and busi- accomplished by the classes admitted un- century. In Korea we conversed with men ness men we saw the various aspects of the der this provision. There is no doubt that whose official careers stretched over the contact of East and West. Visits to the the average ability and previous training period from the nation's emergence from splendid new Rockefeller buildings of the of these students is superior to any hereto- seclusion till its loss of independence. Peking Union Medical College and to the fore admitted. They are capable of All around the world history was in the hospitals in other cities gave gratifying benefiting by a graduate-school type of in- making. In Yokohama we saw the Crown evidence that the West was entering the struction and our methods of teaching are Prince, the first prince of the imperial suc- East on the errands of mercy as well as of in consequence undergoing revision. The cession to visit foreign lands, return from profit. number of conditioned and dropped stu- his voyage to Europe, which was a most Since our return the first question in- dents is less than before, thus reducing memorable day in his nation's annals. In variably asked has been which country we waste of equipment and effort, which is an Delhi we saw the Prince of Wales wel- liked best. For that there is no answer. important item now that medical educa- comed by the viceroy, officials, native The deepest impression made by our ob- tion is so costly and the demand for it so princes, and the multitudes of India. In servations and experiences was that of the great. No wholly satisfactory method of Peking we attended a reception given by close kinship of mankind, of the solidarity selecting applicants has been evolved and the President of China in the Forbidden of the race, of how much we are all alike we must continue to depend upon the judg- City, and at Canton we discussed affairs and striving for the same great aims. The ment of the administration officers in with a member of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's "unrest" in many lands is not mad vio- choosing wisely. At first regarded as ex- government. In Cairo we saw Lord Al- lence but the same deep-rooted desire for periment, there now can be no doubt con- lenby and King Fuad and witnessed the freedom and democracy which has carried cerning the wisdom of limiting the number proclamation of the nation's independence. the American people through its struggle of students to our working capacity and CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 241 then selecting the best available candi- Finally, additional assistant professor- April of this year." Law holds the office dates." ships are needed in several of the labora- of treasurer, and his mail address is Pip- Such developments as the cafeteria and tory departments; without these the heads papass, Ky. club for medical students operated by the are burdened with executive detail and '77 AB—Dr. M. Carey Thomas has been Y. M. C. A. in cooperation with the facul- teaching which seriously interfere with elected president emeritus of Bryn Mawr ties of the medical schools of New York their scientific development. College. University and Cornell have ίielped to im- Secretary Kerr of the Ithaca Division '82 AB—Dr. Herman M. Biggs has been prove the spirit of the student body; but reports a satisfactory year. In the first reelected president of the American Social proper housing for students and staff re- year's work there were 29 students, of Hygiene Association. mains a serious problem. A permanent whom 16 were Cornell seniors, 16 men and organization of alumni is needed to bring six women. The amount of dissecting '84 PhB—Henry J. Patten is traveling, them into closer touch with the college. material has been nearly exhausted, and and in December he was in Mombasa, The pay clinic has succeeded beyond ex- new sources of supply must be sought. In East Africa. Mail will reach him if ad- pectations, and the attendance for June histology and embryology 158 students dressed in care of the London City and averaged 471 daily. "It has become clear made 260 registrations. The courses in Midland Bank, 5 Threadneedle Street, that the Clinic can render a valuable ser- physiology and biochemistry were taken London, England. vice to the public and medical profession by about 600 students from Arts and '92 PhB—According to Professor Mi- without doing injury to any competent Sciences and Agriculture. A nine-acre chael V. O'Shea, of the Education depart- physician." tract for an experiment station for the De- ment of the University of Wisconsin, the An affiliation has been effected with the partment of Physiology has been provided first business to be brought by the State Berwind Maternity Clinic which promises and this will make possible many impor- Board of Education before the Legislature important results in a field of teaching tant investigations that could not be un- at the present session should be that of which is generally unsatisfactory. The dertaken elsewhere. The most urgent establishing community rural schools in medical direction of the Clinic has been needs of the college are assistant profes- place of the present one-room school- placed under the control of the University. sorships of histology and embryology and houses. The arrangement thus promotes the wel- of physiology. '93 AB—Edward C. Townsend was re- fare of women and of medical education in cently installed as Chancellor Commander a way which promises to become highly of Capitol Lodge No. 15, Knights of effective. ALUMNI NOTES Pythias. His third rank in this order was The seniors were this year invited by the taken in Paradise Park, on Mount Ranier, faculty of the College of Physicians and '74 BS—Professor Herman L. Fair- on August 11, 1919, at an elevation of Surgeons to participate in a symposium on child, of the University of Rochester, at a nearly six thousand feet. He lives in tuberculosis. This will be repeated and recent meeting of the A. A. A. S., was Olympia, Wash., and is an engineer with Cornell will probably organize a similar elected a member of the Council, his term the Department of Public Lands. discussion of cancer to which the P. & S. to expire in 1926. seniors will be invited. The plan will be '94 BS—President Raymond A. Pear- mutually beneficial. "The relations exist- '74 BArch—Something over a year ago, son, of Iowa State College, at the recent ing between the College and the various Benedict W. Law became associated with meeting of the A. A. A. S., was elected a hospitals with which we are associated con- the Caney Creek Community Center vice-president and chairman of Section O, tinue to be cordial and mutually beneficial. located in Knott County, Ky., of which he agriculture, succeeding Dr. Jacob G. Lip- The governing bodies and officers of the writes as follows: "The Center was found- man '00, of Rutgers. New York, Bellevue, Nursery and Child's ed six years ago by Mrs. Alice S. G. Lloyd '95—Announcement was recently made and Woman's Hospitals affords hearty co- in the mountain region of eastern Ken- of the engagement of Miss Gladys Meyer operation invariably, and our clinical facil- tucky. The purpose of the Center is 'to of Berkeley, Calif., and Charles Sommers ities are all that can be desired as long as help mountain communities secure ade- Young '95, of Oakland, Calif. Young is the College continues to be physically quate public utilities through organiza- publisher of The Post-Enquirer, of Oak- separated from the hospitals. In previous tion of the people themselves; to cooperate land. The wedding will take place this reports I have referred to the one vital with public officials toward more efficient month. defect in our organization, the lack of in- civic development; to raise the standard '97 PhD—At the meeting of the In- timate physical and educational relations of public school education, public health, diana Academy of Science on December with one or more hospitals, without which roads, and living conditions.' The Center 7-8 Professor Arthur L. Foley, of Indiana the college can never function with the maintains a training school where from University, read three papers, on "Photo- highest efficiency. sixty to seventy mountain youths are graphic Study of Architectural Acoustics," "The ideal arrangement would be for the educated for leadership and good citizen- "Some Untenable Acoustic Theories," and College to serve as an educational center ship; it has aided in the establishment of "Improved Designs of Sound Condensers." about which a large general hospital and ten affiliated schools in the coal mining '98 BS—Miss Ella A. Holmes is a teacher several special hospitals would be grouped, towns of the Big Sandy valley, most of of biology and general science in the all upon a common site and with a common these being in charge of college graduates; Jamaica High School. She lives at 4 John purpose. The acquisition of sufficient land it has supervised directly, in connection Street. She is a member of the Cornell and the removal of the various institutions with the county boards of education, Women's Club and the New York Biologi- will require large sums of money, which about one hundred public schools in this cal Society. can be secured, I believe, when all con- and a neighboring county, supplying Amer- cerned come to realize that the aims of the ican flags and basketballs, and introducing Όo PhB—Leroy L. Perrine is an ac- medical colleges and the hospitals are really athletics; it has demonstrated Caney countant with the Internal Revenue Bu- identical and can best be achieved by co- methods, including the citizenship club, in reau at 870 Market Street, San Francisco, ordinated effort. The College stands ready various other counties. For the purpose but for the last two years he has been in to participate to the extent of its resources of acquainting the people of the North ill health at San Diego. He is living at and in the broadest manner." with conditions in the southern highland 2048 Third Street. He is a Mason and is The present building has become quite region, a trip was made last spring through married. inadequate. The College must decide if it several states, the principal speakers being Όo—At the annual meeting of the Psi is to remain in the same location and if so four Caney boys. So successful was the Upsilon club of Boston, held on Janu- prepare to add additional stories to the trip in arousing interest in the work that it ary 18, Arthur P. Bryant was elected a present building. has been decided to repeat it in March or director for a term of two years. 242 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Όi PhB—Ralph E. Hemstreet, formerly one," he writes. "It makes one feel glad in Shanghai. His temporary mailing ad- first assistant district attorney and chief of that our country, for the most part, is free dress will be in care of the Standard Oil the Bureau of Appeals in the office of the of such extreme cases. You must admire Company of New York, 26 Broadway, District Attorney of Kings County, has re- the English paying their debt to us with New York. sumed the general practice of law at 177 such unemployment at home. The taxes '19 BS—Miss Florence E. Coupe '19 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. are 25 per cent on incomes over $1200, and was married on September 23 to Raymond Όi AB—Joseph Porter Harris, vice- a higher rate for higher incomes." Edgar Meagher, and they are making president of the Union Trust Company of '15 AB; '16 ME—A son, Donald their home at 61 Bloomingdale Avenue, Cleveland, was one of the principal speak- Howard, was born on September 27 to Mr. Saranac Lake, N. Y. Meagher is in the ers at the dinner of the Buffalo Association and Mrs. Foster Black (May Howard '15), ice and coal business with his father, and of Credit Men and the Buffalo Chapter of 1492 East Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, is a member of the firm of Miller and the American Institute of Banking, held at N. Y. Meagher, builders and contractors. Mrs. the Hotel Statler in Buffalo on January '15 LLB—Lorenzo H. Utter is now Meagher is teaching sewing one night a 11. His subject was "Foreign Trade and located in Friendship, N. Y., as a member week at the Girls' Club of Saranac Lake. American Business." of the law firm of Mapes and Utter. '19 BS—Miss Helen C. Langdon '19 was '05 ME—Dan L. Bellinger is managing Ί6 BS—Miss Lucy A. Bassett went to married in March, 1922, to Robert E. director of the D. J. Murray Manufactur- Albany on February 1 as executive secre- Hughes of Utica, N. Y. their present ad- ing Company, makers of heavy machinery tary of the Travelers Aid of that city. dress is Baker Avenue, Utica. for paper mills and sawmills. His home This is to be a demonstration year spon- '19, J22 BArch; '23—A daughter, Mar- address is 808 Grant Street, Wausau, Wis. sored by the Woman's Club of Albany. garet Louise, was born on January 6 to '08 CE—Having completed the con- Her office will be in the Union Station, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Chapman (Mar- struction work at Josephine, Pa., which her mail address will be in care of Briare, garet L. Batchelor '23). his firm had contracted to do for the Buf- 472 Hudson Avenue, Albany. '20, '22 ME—Victor J. Williams is now falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, Ί6 AB—William A. Prescott is still with in charge of the testing department of the Leon M. Brockway has returned to New the Holstein-Freisian World, but has been Moore Steam Turbine Corporation, and York, where he lives at 1400 University placed in charge of the branch office at his address is changed from Bolivar, N. Y., Avenue. He is interested in the firm of Liverpool, N. Y. He is living in Liverpool, to 393 North Main Street, Wellsville, N. Y. Con way and Reid. but mail should be addressed to the Syra- '20-21 Grad—Miss Marion G. Pulley is '08 ME—Frank W. Hoyt has moved from cuse office, 312 City Bank Building. This with the State Marketing Bureau, Jeffer- is an all-Cornell organization consisting of Philadelphia to 1122 Myrtle Street, Scran- son City, Mo. Frank T. Price Ίo, Maurice S. Prescott ton, Pa. He is associated with Nat. D. '20 ME, '22 MME—Mr. and Mrs. Ί6, John R. Shepherd, Ί9-20 Grad., and Stevens in the sale of power plant equip- Stanley Mott-Smith announce the birth of William A. Prescott '16. ment, and is located in the Bennett Build- their son, Stanley Paty, on October 18. ing, Wilkes-Barre. '16 AB—J. Phelps Harding has been Mott-Smith is an engineer with the B. F. transferred from Detroit, to Minneapolis, Ίo AB—Dean William F. Russell, of Dillingham Company, Honolulu. Minn., by the Procter and Gamble Com- the College of Education of the Univer- '21 BChem—Albert W. Laubengayer is pany, with which he is connected. He is sity of Iowa, is the editor of "Lippincott's instructor in chemistry at Oregon Agricul- now credit manager for the company in the Educational Guides," in a recent issue of tural College; he lives at 633 North Minneapolis district, and his address is which is Professor Sterling A. Leonard's Twelfth Street, Corvallis, Oregon. Vine Hall, 1424 LaSalle Avenue, Minnea- "Essential Principles of Teaching Reading polis. '21 BS—Miss Jennie G. Etzkowitz '21 and Literature." was married on December 30 to M. M. Ί6 CE—Harold T. Sutcliffe is now in Ίi CE—William M. Aitchisori has Murad, of Kansas City, Mo. The wed- the main office of the Pacific Gas and Elec- changed his address from Allentown, Pa., ding took place at the New York residence tric Company in San Francisco, and he of Miss Etzkowitz, and the ceremony was to Parsons, Kansas. He is with the Phoe- lives at Apartment 21, 1370 California conducted by Dr. M. Silverman of Temple nix Utility Company. Street. He was formerly in the Modesto Israel. Mr. and Mrs. Murad are living at '12 BArch—A daughter, Dorothy, was office. 524 James Street, Syracuse, N. Y. born on January 6 to Mr. and Mrs. '17 BChem—Paul Knapp is factory '21 ME—Edward Wilson is sales engi- Charles C. Colman, 12919 Cedar Road, manager of the recently organized Durez neer for the Wilson-Snyder Manufactur- Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Company, Inc., manufacturers of a com- ing Company of Pittsburgh, makers of '12 AB; '13 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Floyd position product from sawdust. His mail pumping machinery, steam engines, and R. Newman (Ruby P. Ames '13) are now address is Box 535, North Tonawanda, turbines. His address is 318 Neville living at Olmstead Falls, Ohio. N. Y. Street, Pittsburgh. '13—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nason have an- '17 BS—Walter B. Balch is assistant '21 ME—Raynard Christianson is now nounced the marriage of their sister, Miss professor of floriculture at the Kansas in Youngstown, Ohio, where he is em- Margaret M. Ross, to William R. M. State College of Agriculture, Manhattan, ployed by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Very Ί 3 on January 20 at Trinity Church, Kansas. He is a frequent contributor to Company. He lives at the Y. M. C. A., St. Augustine, Florida. Very has recently The Southern Florist and to other publica- Room 507. been appointed general manager of the tions in the same field. '21, '22 BChem—Felix R. Tyroler is re- Savannah Creosoting Company; their '19 LLB—William P. Coltman has just search chemist with the William Demuth mail address is Box 1414, Savannah, Ga. returned to the States on a five-months' Company, Richmond Hill, Long Island. '13 PhD—Professor Earl H. Kennard furlough after spending three years in He lives at 15 Kossuth Place, Brooklyn. has been elected an associate editor of The China in the service of the Standard Oil Physical Review for a term of three years. Company of New York. The return trip '21 AB—Miss Cecil Mary By craft of '14 MD—Dr. Smiley Blanton, professor was made by way of the Suez Canal and Chicago and David,Cooley Ford '21, of of speech hygiene at the University of Europe, visiting Hongkong, Straits Set- Cleveland, were married early in January Wisconsin, now abroad on leave of ab- tlements, Colombo, Suez, Paris, and Lon- at the South Shore Country Club in Chi- sence, writes from London that economic don en route, with a side trip to Nice and cago. They will make their home in conditions there are critical and that Monte Carlo. He expects to return to the Cleveland. thousands are without employment. * 'The Orient, leaving San Francisco on March 8 '22 ME—Joseph D. Van Valkenburgh sadness, misery, and suffering oppresses on the President Pierce, and will be located is with the Photometric Products Corpora- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 243

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VoDuright, Alexander Hamilton Institute 244 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS tion, 904 West Lake Street, Chicago. He expects to continue his graduate study of '01—James O'Malley, 300 West 106th needs a recent graduate who is exception- English at Columbia during the second Street, New York. ally skillful in constructing laboratory ap- semester. He has just taken an examina- '04—John F. Shanley, Jr., 810 Broad paratus. tion for a teacher's license, and if success- Street, Newark, N. J. '22 AB—Miss Miriam Cohen is doing ful he will take a position which has been '05—Rollin D. Wood, 5828 Cabanne special research in the bacteriological offered him as teacher of English in the Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.—Arthur G. Wylie, laboratory of the New York City Board of Flushing High School, from which he was 30 Medfield Street, Boston, 17, Mass. Health in Willard Parker Hospital. She graduated. His residence address is 219 '07—Alfred D. Blake, 1188 Forest Ave- Twelfth Street, College Point, N. Y. lives at 308 West Ninety-fourth Street, nue, West New Brighton, Staten Island.— New York. '22 ME—Sidney W. Braun left the New Robert M. Keeney, Midland, Pa.—George '22 AB—Louis Grossfeld has given up York Telephone Company on January 15, F. Rogalsky, 205 Thurston Avenue, his graduate work at the University, but to accept a position as industrial engineer Ithaca, N. Y. with the Bidart Machinery Company of '08—Alvin L. Gilmore, Y. M. C. A., New York, manufacturers of rotogravure Binghamton, N. Y. printing presses. SHELDON COURT '09—Edward J. Kelly, Florence Apart- A fireproof, modern, private dor- '22 BS—Donald E. Marshall has chang- ments, 643 Adams Avenue, Scranton, Pa. mitory for men students at Cornell. ed his residence address to 144 Nineteenth —Henry H. Tucker, 801 Battery Street, Catalogue sent on request. Street, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, N. Y. Little Rock, Ark. A. R. Congdon, Mgr., Ithaca, N. Y. He is a golf engineer, with offices at 166 Ίi—Herbert B. 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