Faculty
Professor Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr. (English) Professor Ernest Albee (Philosophy) Professor George Francis Atkinson (Botany with special reference to Comparative Morphology and Mycology Professor Arthur Wesley Browne (Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry) Professor George Lincoln Burr (Medieval History)* Professor John Henry Comstock (Entomology and General Invertebrate Zoology) Professor James Edward Creighton (Logic and Metaphysics)* Professor Charles DeGarmo (Science and Art of Education) George Matthew Dutcher (History – Summer Session) Professor George Abram Everett (Oratory) Instructor Hiram Samuel Gutsell (Freehand Drawing and Modeling) Professor W. A. Hammond (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy) Professor Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (Economics and Politics) Professor Alvin S. Johnson (Economics) Instructor Alfred Harrison Jones (Philosophy) Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer (Economics and Finance) Professor Lewis Knudson (Plant Physiology) Instructor Benton Sullivan Monroe (English) Professor James George Needham (General Biology, Limnology, and Nature Study) Professor Clark Sutherland Northup (English) Professor Willard Winfield Rowlee (Botany) Leslie T. Sutherland (Assistant, Chemistry) Professor William Strunk, Jr. (English) Professor Frank Thilly (Philosophy)* Instructor Oscar Diedrich von Engeln (Physical Geography) Professor Charles Scoon Wilson (Pomology) Professor Wilford Murray Wilson (Meteorology)
*mentioned in letters
Activities, Awards, Talks and Articles Dates from Cornellian, Class Book, Cornell Daily Sun, and Chinese Students’ Monthly
Activities
1910-1911 Chinese Students’ Club Cosmopolitan Club
1911-1912 Chinese Students’ Club Cosmopolitan Club 1912-1913 Cosmopolitan Club – Recording Secretary (3), Assistant Secretary (2) Corda Fratres Convention (World’s Student Congress 1913 meeting) – Committee on Arrangements Chinese Students Club – Treasurer (2) Phi Beta Kappa Ninth Annual Conference of the Eastern Section of the Chinese Students’ Alliance of America meeting in Ithaca - Local arrangements committee chair
1913-1914 Cosmopolitan Club - President Chinese Students Club Cornell Civic Club Cornell Congress Philosophical Club 1914 Senior General Committee Chinese Students’ Monthly Home News Editor
Awards
1913-1914 Phi Beta Kappa May 5, 1914 –Graduate Scholars in Philosophy award May 5, 1914 –Corson Browning Prize (gold medal worth $50)*
Talks and Articles
1912-1913 December 1, 1912 – “Confucianism and Taoism” - Barnes Hall January 10, 1913 – “Universal Week of Prayer” - Aurora Street Methodist Church January 11, 1913 – “The Convention” - Founders Day at the Cosmopolitan Club March 22, 1913 – “China and the World” - Chinese Night at the Cosmopolitan Club
1913-1914 November 1, 1913 – “The Development of the Concept of Cosmopolitanism” -Cosmopolitan Club November 6, 1913 – “State Religion of China”* - Cornell University Christian Association (C.U.C.A.) Comparative Study of Religion series November 10, 1913 – “The International Student Movement” - Chinese Students’ Monthly November 13, 1913 – “Confucianism” - C.U.C.A November 20, 1913 – “Taoism” - C.U.C.A January 18, 1914 – “The Marriage Customs of China” - Cosmopolitan Club March 7, 1914 – “Chinese Women” - Cosmopolitan Club, Chinese Night March 28, 1914 – “Chinese Women” - Cornell Women’s Club May 12, 1914 – “The Confucianist Movement in China” - C hinese Students’ Monthly 1914 Corson Browning Prize Essay: “A Defense of Browning’s Optimism”
1914-1917 July 22, 1914 – “Cosmopolitanism” - Cosmopolitan Club October, 1914 – “Japan and Kiao-Chau” - C hinese Students’ Monthly November, 1914 – “History of the German Leased Territory of Kiao-Chau” - C hinese Students’ Monthly November,1914 – Book review: A Brief History of Early Chinese Philosophy, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki - Chinese Students’ Monthly January 12, 1915 – Talk on the Corda Fratres Convention held in Columbus, OH - Cosmopolitan Club March 21, 1915 – “The Christian Opportunity in China” – First Presbyterian Church The Spiritual Significance of Secular Callings series March 1915 – Book review: M emoirs of Li Hung Chang, e dited by William Fanning Mannix, C hinese Students’ Monthly March 1915 – Letter to the Editor of The New Republic in “Communications to American Editors on Japanese Demands” - C hinese Students’ Monthly June 1915 – “Does Might Make Right? International Relations and Ethics” published in Proceedings of the Conference on International Relations Held at Cornell University Ithaca, N.Y. June 15-30, 1915. Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1916. November 1916 – “Is there a Substitute for Force in International Relations” - International Polity Club prize, published by American Association for International Conciliation. April 28,1917 –“China’s Entrance Into the War” - Cosmopolitan Club, Chinese Night
**“The committee… were unable to detect in Suh Hu’s essay the slightest trace of alien composition”