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BRICKETT Representative CORNELL CAMPUS STORE, BARNES HALL, ITHACA, N. Y. 32 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J. WA 4-5084 198 Cornell Alumni News VOLUME 63, NUMBER 6 • NOVEMBER 15, 1960 and as the first weeks and months went A Faculty Member Cares by, I knew that everything he could do to master his work he would do. But REMARKS of Trustee Leslie J. Severing- lege Entrance Board scores were not would that be enough? About this I haus '21 about the counselling of stu- high and that he would be competing wondered all the more as he grappled dents, given at a University Council with students whose general preparation with his studies in English. He could not luncheon and summarized in our last was much better than his; besides, the write; he could not adjust his mind to issue, got enthusiastic approval from his curriculum of the School is a rigorous the requirements of the elementary alumni audience. A tribute to a student one. Would it be fair to put him to such course in English. written by Professor Frederick G. a test; to risk not only his own disap- Marcham, PhD '26, History, indicates pointment but that of his parents, if he Perseverance Brings Success the point of view of one Faculty member could not meet the standards? These "Here I believed I could help a little, toward taking personal interest in views I put to him: he was firm. And so, and so for some part of the first term we worthy youngsters. The University has with my blessing, he applied to the worked together. He improved slowly, printed Professor Marcham's Tribute to School of Electrical Engineering. He but improve he did. And so with other William W. Krantz '60, who died last had his interview with the admissions courses; the struggle was often difficult, August of a congenital ailment. Part of officer. His application was refused. I but he always acted swiftly and never this follows, because it reveals so much spoke to him again about the College of hesitated to engage a tutor. Bit by bit he about the writer and shows one instance Agriculture. put together an adequate record—at of the "conservation of youth" that Sev- "Again he said no. He wished to be- first it was no more than that—and eringhaus advocated for the University. come an electrical engineer; no more, passed his first year's work. The second, no less. These conversations had taught the third, the fourth year, each came a Gives Advice for College me a good deal about him, particularly little more easily, though not without Professor Marcham recounts how he about his attitude to the future and his occasional disappointments. By the end came to know and respect as a friend the strength of character. Perhaps, I began of his fourth year, his steadiness and his boy's father, "Rudy" Krantz, at his ga- to say to myself, I should try my powers improved performance had won him rage in South Lansing. He continues: of persuasion on the admissions officer. five College scholarships. "By this time I had met Bill and knew Maybe this young man, like his father, "The steadiness was what impressed him to be a lively, gentle, and earnest would give more than a hundred cents me, the willingness to do each day's work boy. When he and I spoke of college, I on the dollar. When he said that he as it came along, however late he might kept in mind two things: his experience would work to the limit and meet have to stay up to finish it. He was never in his father's garage — he knew how to Cornell standards, he meant it; he behind, never out of step. Yet he was not work with tools — and his education at would do it. I pointed out to him that he a mere machine. He had his times if not the local high school; a small, rural would have to rearrange his whole life of despair, at least of unhappiness, when school, few of whose graduates went to and build it around study, and that he something he wished to master seemed college.