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VOL. XXVI, No. 33 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] MAY 22, 1924 The Senior Societies Each Initiate Thirty-Seven New Members Early Returns Indicate Unusually Large Attendance at Reunions Varsity Oarsmen Lose to Powerful Yale Crew in Carnegie Cup Race at Princeton Cornell's Strong Defense and Time- ly Hitting Take Game from Yale—Score 4-3 Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at 123 West State Street, Ithaca, New York. Subscription $4,00 per year, Entered as second class matter May 2, 1900,. u nder the act of March 3, 1879, at the postoffi ce at Ithaca, New York, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PROVIDENCE HARTFORD Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. 37 Wall Street, New York Trustee Executor ESTABROOK & CO. Investment Securities "For the purpose of accommodat- Philadelphia Albany Boston Baltimore Sound Investments Pittsburgh Rochester Buffalo Syracuse ing the citizens of the state" New York Boston Jansen Noyes '10 Charles E. 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This gift by Charles Lathrop member houses, at a meeting of the SPORT STUFF Pack is one of several to forestry schools D Interfraternity Rushing Associa- for the best paper written by students to tion on May 14, presided over by Pro- acquaint the public with the need for fessor Herman Diederichs '97, adopted The prophets of any new or warmed over forest conservation. three rules to govern rushing next fall. doctrine can get a hearing and a certain A BASEBALL GAME between representa- The rules provide, in brief, for no com- amount of following around a university in tives of the English Department and those munication with freshmen before the first these days. This needlessty alarms an- of Economics, played on May 2, resulted day of instruction, no meeting of trains, cient conservatives. A bagpiper can get in a 7-7 score at the end of the fifth inning, and no entertainment of freshmen in the same thing. Nevertheless there are when the game was scheduled to end, and fraternity houses after eleven p. m. Dis- times when to the watcher on the side in a victory, 9-8, for the English Depart- cussion of second term initiation resulted lines the inning of the open minds seems ment at the end of the sixth. in the passage of a resolution that "the unduly protracted and when we wish some of these open minds would clamp ARCHITECTS won what is said to be their question be referred to the separate frater- first baseball game in the intercollege nities for individual action." down on a conviction or two before the closing muscles get loose and flabby and league in six years, defeating Chemistry, 8 to 4, on April 28. OFFICERS of the Interfraternity Rush- atrophied. A mouth which, lacking a ing Association for next year, elected on pucker string, hangs open all the time is DELAYED EXPLOSION of a smoke bomb May 14, are Philip L. Wright '25, Kappa no more irritating than a mind which being used in practice on April 30 near the Alpha, of Warren, Ohio, president; David sags in the same way and for the same Agriculture barns, resulted in severe burns F. Davis, Jr., Phi Kappa Psi, of Brooklyn, reason. about the face and eyes of Private William vice-president; and Whitney M. Trousdale There will be an observation train at Flynn of the United States Army Corps at '25, Kappa Delta Rho, of Rome, Pennsyl- the Poughkeepsie regatta on June 17. the University. When the bomb failed to vania, secretary. Tickets are $5.50 each. Tickets allotted explode when fired, Flynn, after waiting YE HOSTS, society of the hotel manage- to Cornell will be distributed about June the required length of time, was dumping ment course in the School of Home Eco- 5 by the Cornell University Athletic As- it from the receptacle when it exploded in nomics, has elected the following officers sociation, to which applications should be his face. for the coming year: Albert W. Dunlap '24 addressed and checks made payable. OFFICERS for the Summer Survey Camp of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, president; Fifteen cents should be added to remit- of the School of Civil Engineering, to be Arthur V. Taft '26 of Ticonderoga, vice- tances to cover registration and postage. held this year on the east shore of Cayuga president; Clyde A. Jennings '25 of Mont- R. B. Lake near the village of Cayuga, have gomery, secretary; John M. Crandall '25 been elected as follows: Norman R. of Gainesville, Florida, treasurer; and John right to give no award or if so desired Steinmetz '26 of Flushing, chief engineer; Courtney '25 of Ithaca, publicity secretary. to give - it to others. Walter W. Buckley '26 of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, assistant chief engi- FORTY-THREE professors, students, and THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for May2 5 neer; Clifford H. Moore '26 of Yonkers, residents of Ithaca, it is announced, com- will be the Rev. Dr. Samuel Tyler, rector quartermaster; and Harry F. Hartman prise the cast of ' 'Galloping Gamboleers, a of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Rochester, '26 of Roslyn, commissary. Nightmare in Seven Spasms," being given New York. on May 22 in the Lyceum Theater by the AN ADVERTISING CLUB, affliated with MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, vice- Savage Club as their twenty-eighth an- the Associate Advertising Clubs of the president of the Women's Democratic nual Spring Week entertainment. World, has been formed in Ithaca with a Party of New York, spoke at public meet- charter membership of thirty. Professor ing of the Cornell Democratic Club in L'OoiVE, honorary architectural society, Barnes Hall on May 13. She pointed out has elected to membership Scofield De- Bristow Adams is a member of the board of directors. that the party needs the support of all its Long '25 of Omaha, Nebraska, Francis D. members and gave reasons for such sup- HAROLD N. SMITH '26 of Ontario is an- McHugh '25 of Richmond, Virginia, Mil- port. Dean Frank Thilly '92, the second nounced as the winner of this year's Stu- ton G. Dexter '25 of Pawtucket, Rhode speaker, said that students were showing dent Rooming Agency competition, be- Island, Harry I. Johnstone '26 of Mobile, much greater interest in political affairs coming assistant manager next fall arid Alabama, and Hugh C. Troy, Jr., '26 of than they had in the past few years. Ithaca. manager in his senior year. BURGLARS attempted to raid three THE POLO TEAM will meet Pennsylvania FRANCOIS DARRIEULAT, coach of the Ithaca drug stores on the night of April on Spring Day on Upper Alumni Field, ac- fencing squads at the Racquet Club and 29, but made away with valuables from cording to an announcement made on Fencers' Club of Washington, D. C., and only one, that of C. W. Daniels at College May 15. The match will be immediately of the United States Naval Academy, will Avenue and Dry den Road. Here they after the circus and before the baseball come to Cornell next fall as fencing coach. secured about four hundred dollars in game with Yale. He coached the Olympic team which won cash and checks, breaking into the back THE MASQUE offers a prize of $ι oof or an third place in 1920 and has been mentor to window with the aid of a "jimmy" be- original book to be produced during a number of national champions. Major longing to the place which had been miss- Junior Week, 1925. A synopsis and part J. P. Edgerly of the R. O. T. C., who has ing several days. Putney's store on West of the play is due by June 7. The produc- been coaching the squad, has been ordered State Street was entered the same night, tion may be completed during the sum- to the Infantry School at Fort Bennington, but the burglars were frightened off, with- Columbus, Georgia. mer and it is planned to start rehearsals % out taking anything, by the arrivalof per- soon after the University opens in the fall.