VOLUME 41, NUMBER 13 DECEMBER 22, 1938 PROFESSIONAL It's Easy to Visit Ithaca CORNELL HOSTS DIRECTORY Good Places to Know of CORNELL ALUMNI Overnight from ITHACA
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VOLUME 41, NUMBER 13 DECEMBER 22, 1938 PROFESSIONAL It's Easy To Visit Ithaca CORNELL HOSTS DIRECTORY Good Places to Know OF CORNELL ALUMNI Overnight From ITHACA ITHACA DINE AT PE N GILLETTE'S CAFETERIA On Colίege Avenue LANG'S GARAGE NEW YORK Where Georgia's Dog Used to Be Air Conditioned the Year 'Round GREEN STREET NEAR TIOGA and NEWARK, or CARL J. GILLETTE '28, Propr. Ithaca's Oldest, Largest, and Best READING TERMINAL, PHILA. Storage, Washing, Lubrication, Expert Repairs WESTWARD Light type, a m. EASTWARD Read Down Dark type, p.m. Read Up ERNEST D. BUTTON '99 JOHN L. BUTTON '25 CENTRAL NEW YORK 8:15 9:35 Lv . New York Arr.11 8:35 8:10 8:30 9:50 " Newark 8:19 7:54 8:35 9:30 " Philadelphia 8:15 7:45 4:15 *5:10 Arr ITHACA Lv. 12:48 *11:51 DRUMLINS NEW YORK AND VICINITY At Syracuse, N. Y. Enjoy a Day or Week End OPEN ALL YEAR ARfOUND in Ithaca CAFETERIA DINING ROOM TAP ROOM GOLF TENNIS WINTER SPORTS THE BALLOU PRESS 5:10 4:15 Lυ. ITHACA Arr. 11:33 12:48 8:05 7:10 Arr. Buffalo Lv. 8:35 10:00 L WIARD '30 R. S. BURLINGAME Ό5 7:15 Restaurant Manager Owner 4:55 "41 Pittsburgh " 10:35 11:45 Printers to Lawyers 3:00 1:20 Cleveland «« 12:20 5:48 9:30 7:40 Arr Chicago Lυ. 10:15 CHAS. A. BALLOU, Jr., '21 *New York sleeper open to 8 a.m. at Ithaca, and at NEW YORK AND VICINITY 9 p.m. from Ithaca 69 Beβkman St. Tel. Beekman 3-8785 In Beautiful Bear Mountain Park . BEAR MOUNTAIN INN Palisades Interstate Park Commission HENRY M. DEVEREUX, M.E. '33 A. C. BOWDISH '26 Manager YACHT DESIGNER Phone Stony Point 1 for Reservations 295 CITY ISLAND AVE. CITY ISLAND, N. Y. NEW ENGLAND Hemphill, Noyes C&> Co. Members New York Stock Exchange Stop at the . 15 Broad Street New York BALTIMORE, MD. INVESTMENT SECURITIES HOTEL ELTON WATERBURY, CONN. Jansen Noyes '10 Stanton Griffis '10 WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH "A New England Landmark' L M. Blancke '15 Willard I. 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PRICE 15 CENTS CLUBS TO ENTERTAIN Cornell Club of Western Pennsylvania STUDY NORTHERN LIGHT Students Home for Christmas announces its annual party for under- Invite Alumni Observations graduate men at the Harvard-Yale- Undergraduates in Ithaca and alumni Research on the aurora borealis is Princeton Club in Pittsburgh, December throughout the country are being noti- being initiated by the University in co- fied of a number of Christmas recess 31, at noon. Darwin F. Carrell '2.3 is operation with Colgate University, chairman of the entertainment com- parties to be given by Cornell Clubs through a grant made to Cornell by the mittee. when the students are at home. To some National Geographic Society which will of these secondary school students are Cornell Club of Cleveland will have as finance the studies for three years. speaker at its father-and-son luncheon, also being invited. Ten such parties Data will be collected on the height December 2.4 at the Mid-Day Club, Dr. had been reported to the NEWS at press and frequency of aurorae at Ithaca and Harry A. Peters, head master at Univer- time; undoubtedly there will be others. Hamilton, spectographic studies, con- sity School. Cornell fathers are invited In New York City the Cornell Wo- tinuous records of auroral intensity, and to bring both their Cornell sons and those men's Club will entertain members of the similar information to be obtained by who are in secondary schools. J. Bentley Faculty who are visiting there, at tea members of the American Association of Forker '2,9 is chairman of the committee. December 18, from four to six, in the Variable Star Observers and the Ameri- In Cincinnati, the Cornell Club of Club rooms at the Barbizon Hotel, 140 can Meteor Society, and by three airplane Southern Ohio will give a Christmas East Sixty-third Street. lines. Cornellians who are willing to recess luncheon with Starbuck Smith, That evening at six the Club will en- make a regular watch of the night sky Jr. '34 in charge. tertain women undergraduates at dinner. are invited to correspond with Dr. Carl Cornell Club of Rochester will hold its Several members of recent Classes who W. Gartlein, PhD ^9, of the Physics Christmas luncheon for undergraduates are employed in New York will tell how Department, for instructions and report December 2.8. they found positions and how their blanks. Data on previous aurorae are also training has fitted them for their work. NEW HAVEN TO DINE desired. Speakers include Stephanie Czech '37, Dr. Gartlein's observing station, a chemist and translator for the Texaco Cornell Club of New Haven, Conn., has arranged a dinner meeting at 6 p.m. few miles north of Ithaca, is connected by Company; Janet Dempster '38, with B. telephone with that of Dr. E. F. Cox on Altman and Company; Mary Ferguson before the Varsity basketball game with Yale, which the group will attend to- the Colgate campus. Whenever either ob- '37, secretary to the production manager serves an auroral display, he communi- of General Motors Corporation; Mar- gether. At dinner, football motion pic- tures will be shown. cates with the other and simultaneous jorie Kane '36, teacher in the Far Rock- photographs are taken to include certain away High School; Brownley Leesnitzer stars. Thus they are able to determine the '35, designer for Lanz of Salzburg; NEW YORK BOWLERS AHEAD B team of the Cornell Club of New altitude and exact location of the dis- Louise Odell '37, tester of recipes and plays . writer for New York Herald Tribune; York finished the first round at the head Only with the last year or two has the Marjorie McAdoo Rankin '35, home- of the Metropolitan Inter-college Clubs' development of cameras and photo- maker; and Jeanne Wake '37, dietitian Bowling League, having won thirty- graphic materials made possible accurate for the Studio Club of New York. seven games and lost eight. It was ahead studies from such southerly points as In Buffalo, women students will be of two Columbia teams, the Cornell A Ithaca and Hamilton. All recently pub- guests at a Christmas party December 2.8 team, and one each from Williams, lished research has been conducted at from four to six at the home of Dr. Har- Harvard, and Princeton. more northerly stations, where summer riet Hosmer Ί8, 84 Ashland Avenue. Captain of the B team is John W. Cobb photography is hindered by continuous Mrs. Vernon G. Caldwell (Dorothy F. '35; its other members, Robert L. Bliss daylight. Cornell and Colgate can now Sullivan) '2.3 will be chairman. '30, John W. Laughlin '35, Robert J. get photographs the year around, since Cornell Club of Buffalo will have a McNamara '37, and Adelbert P. Mills '36. they have at least six hours of darkness luncheon for men undergraduates at in the shortest nights. 12.130, December 30 at the Buffalo Ath- letic Club. MEET TO COORDINATE Cornell Club of Dutchess County is Representatives of all the University's inviting undergraduates and alumni also alumni organizations met with President from Orange and Ulster Counties to its Day at the Cornell Club of New York annual Christmas banquet December 17 December 12. to consider further the at the Nelson House in Poughkeepsie at coordination of alumni activities. Fol- seven. Dean Dexter S. Kimball, Engineer- lowing luncheon, the proposed plan of ing, Emeritus, will speak; Ernest Acker alumni organization, as reported in the '17 will be toastmaster; and Robert P.