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VOL. XX, Nos. 38&39 [PRICE TWENTY CENTS] JULY, 1918 President Schurman Goes to France for Y. M. C. A. Work Meissner '18 Receives French War Cross with a Palm Ruth 16 Seriously Wounded; Breckenridge '20 Missing German Culture Dropped from Schiff Foundation Cornell Men at Hog Island Form Alumni Association ITHACA, NEW YORK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Jas. H. Oliphant The Mercersburg Academy The Farmers Loan & Company Prepares for all colleges and universities: Aims at thorough and Trust Go. scholarship, broad attainments ALFRED L. NORRIS, FLOYD W. MUNDY '98 and Christian manliness J. NORRIS OLIPHANT Όl 16, 18, 20, 22 William Street J. J. BRYANT, jr.,'98, FRANK L. VANWIE ADDRESS Branch 475 Fifth Ave. WILLIAM MANN IRVINE, Ph.D. New York President Members New York Stock Exchange MERCERSBURG, PA. LONDON Chicago Stock Exchange Cascadilla School 16 Pall Mall East, S. W. 1 The Leading 26 Old Broad Street, E. 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STORMS Established in 1888 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XX, Nos. 38 & 39 ITHACA, N. Y., JULY, 1918 PRICE 20 CENTS RESIDENT SCHURMAN has re- member of the Cornell Faculty since ANNOUNCEMENT was made by the β ceived leave of absence from the 1898. He has been professor of machine acting president that the E. I. du Pont University until next October design and construction since 1904, and de Nemours Company of Wilmington, and will devote the summer to patriotic recently has been in charge of the de- Del., had given Cornell University $750 work in France. He left Ithaca soon after partment of industrial engineering in for the endowment of a graduate fellow- the middle of June. The particular work Sibley College. His office of Faculty ship in chemistry for the year 1918-19, for which he has volunteered his services member of the Board of Trustees in the to be known as "The Du Pont Fellow- is the task of addressing thousands of last two years has acquainted him with ship." That company, which is one of American soldiers on the issues of this the whole field of administration. the largest makers of explosives, has war and telling them why America is en- engaged in the manufacture of chemical THE MEDICAL COLLEGE held its Com- listing her whole strength in the conflict. products on a much more extensive scale mencement in New York City on June He goes to France by special invitation in the last few years. It has recently 13. President Schurman conferred the of the War Work Council of the Young appropriated a sum of money to create degree of M.D. on thirty-two candidates. Men's Christian Association of the fellowships and scholarships at leading Dean Polk read the honor roll of six United States. From its workers abroad universities and colleges for the purpose members of the graduating class having that council had received reports that of encouraging advanced students to the highest standing. These members, numbers of the drafted men of the Ameri- continue the study of chemistry. The in order of standing, were Morton can army needed and desired instruction Du Pont Fellowship is to be granted by Ryder, A.B. '15; Leon Loewe, A.B. '15; on the essential facts of the battle be- the University to a graduate student Merwin E. Marsland, A.B. '15, U.S.N.R. tween democracy and autocracy. These whose major subject is chemistry. Leila C. Knox, A.B. (Wellesley) '07; workers had found that our own soldiers Lloyd F. Craver, A.B. '15; and Alfred THE RESIGNATION of Dr. Elmer J. were not so well informed in that respect L. Potter, A.B. '14, U.S.N.R. To the Bailey, assistant professor of English, as the soldiers of Great Britain, which, first three were awarded the John was accepted. Doctor Bailey has been a unlike the United States, began its de- Metcalfe Polk Memorial Prizes of $300, member of the teaching staff in the de- fensive measures after the outbreak of $125, and $75, respectively, for highest partment of English since 1907. war by means of voluntary recruiting and standing, while Ryder and Jacob S. a wide campaign of education. LEAVE OF ABSENCE for the year 1918- Goldberg, A.B. (C. C. of N. Y.) '14 were 19 was granted to Alexander M. Drum- THERE is no question in anybody's awarded the prizes of $50 and $25 for mond, assistant professor of public mind of President Schurman's eminent efficiency in otology. The address to speaking. fitness for such a task. His public ad- the graduating class was by Major Charles L. Gibson, M.R.C., U.S.A. His THE ASSOCIATION of Agricultural Col- dresses throughout the war have been lege Editors, which held its annual con- subject was "Recent War Surgery as informing and inspiring. His talk to the ference at Cornell University last year, Exemplified in France." The prayer and officers in training at Madison Barracks meets this week at the University of benediction were by the Reverend Dr. on Memorial Day in 1917 was published Tennessee at Knoxville. The New York George R. Vandewater. in pamphlet form and largely circulated. State College of Agriculture will be repre- On account of his trip abroad Dr. Schur- A MEETING of the Committee on Gen- sented by its editor, Professor Bristow man resigned his membership in the eral Administration of the Board of Adams, who left to-day for the confer- New York State Food Commission. His Trustees of Cornell University was held ence. It is stated that the meeting will work for the public on that commission at the President's office in Morrill Hall be a special war convention and that the added to the unusual burden of novel on June 22. Those present were Chair- college editors will exchange ideas on the administrative problems confronting the man Mynderse Van Cleef, Acting Presi- best ways to stimulate even further the University, have taxed his strength dur- dent D. S. Kimball, Trustees R. B. Wil- promotion of agriculture during the war. ing the last year, and his friends all hope liams, C. W. Pound, C. E. Treman, and Last year when the conference was held that when he returns in the fall he will R. H. Treman, and Professor J. H. in Ithaca, agricultural colleges as far have gained renewed health and vigor. Comstock. distant as Logan, Utah, and Baton Rouge, La., were represented. DURING the President's absence, Pro- THE TREASURER of the University fessor Dexter S. Kimball, acting dean of reported the receipt from Almon R. PROFESSOR OLAF M. BRAUNER is giv- Sibley College, is, by appointment of Eastman, of Waterville, N. Y., of $3,000 ing an exhibition of his paintings in the Board of Trustees, Acting President in Liberty Bonds for the endowment of White Hall. About twenty subjects are of the University. Many of the Uni- the Eastman prizes for public speaking shown, including portraits, marine views, versity's administrative problems this in the College of Agriculture. Mr. East- and landscapes. summer relate to the special work which man founded these prizes several years THE WHARTONS have temporarily Cornell is doing in the training of men ago, when he was a member of the Uni- suspended motion picture production at for technical or other special service in versity Board of Trustees, and since the Renwick Park studio while arrange- the army, and with the handling of these then he has supported them with an ments are being made for'a new serial. problems Professor Kimball has become annual gift of $100. The endowment G. E. Kent ΊO is at present touring the thoroughly familiar. He is a graduate which he has now given will provide Middle East in the interests of "The of Stanford University and has been a about $120 a year. Eagle's Eye." 442 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS MILITARY NOTES New York until he entered the officers' Wilder Breckenridge '20 Missing training camp at Fort Niagara last Lieutenant Wilder Breckenridge of J.