Delta Upsilon Fraternity House Badly Damaged by Fire Courtney, Collyer and Hoyle to Coach Cornell Oarsmen Five More Names Added to Cor- Nell's Honor Roll J

Vol. XXI, No. 18. [PEICE TWELVE CENTS] January 30, 1915

Delta Upsilon Fraternity House Badly Damaged by Fire Courtney, Collyer and Hoyle to Coach Cornell Oarsmen Five More Names Added to Cor- nell's Honor Roll J. H. Letsehe, jr., '20, Receives the Distinguished Service Cross Three Cornellians on Official List of Aces

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HE STUDENT COUNCIL for the pres- the second week by "compete," a hand- dio Association has elected new officers ent year is now complete. The five picked squad >of sixty upperclassmen and enlarged its membership. The Cor- Tjuniors elected last week are John have been making a house to house can- nell branch of the American Society of C. Atwood, jr., Ferguson, Missouri; Rob- vas, with the help of a card index of un- Mechanical Engineers began a new year ert K. Fetter, Pearl River, N. Y.; Carl sold undergraduates and interested last week with a meeting at which Deaii V. Johnson, Hartford, Conn.; Gordon townspeople, and have brought the total Smith spoke on the aims and advantages John Mertz, C olden, N. Y. and Alex- membership of the association, by Tues- of the society, and Professor Eαmbal! ander Buel Trowbridge, jr., New York day evening, up to 1870. A canvas of on '/Modern Water Power," with lan- City. The one freshman representative the University Faculty, postponed partly tern pictures. The Cornell branch of the is E. W. Calloway, Baltimore. The through diffidence of the canvassers, and American Institute of Electrical En- president of the council, elected by the partly because of the feeling that much gineers has taken in six new members seniors, is William Morgan Kendall, of argument would be called .for in certain from the junior class: Warren H. Clarke, Buffalo, a student in Arts and Sciences, quarters, is likely to be the final effort. Baltimore; George G. Curtis, Rochester; who by virtue of his election becomes It is quite certain to exceed expectations, William L. Everitt, Peekskill, JSΓ. Y.; also president of the senior class. The and perhaps be the campaign that will Herman Halperin, Hamilton, Ohio; life secretary of the class of 1919 is give Cornell a schedule that compares Philip Ryan, Helena, Montana; and Ray- Charles George Seelbach, of Buffalo, a favorably with those of Harvard, Yale, mond A. Van Sweringen, Cleveland. student in the College of Agriculture. and Princeton, for many -oi: ilrj members of the Faculty are known to be devotees SKATING OVER TRIPHAMMER DAM is the CONTEARY TO EARLIER HOPES, the βdί- of intercollegiate sport. distinction achieved last week by Regi- tors of The Cornell Eeview have decided nald Waldo, a senior in civil engineer- not to resume publication this year. The COLONEL BARTON 'B RETURN to Cornell ing, whose home is in Campbell Hall, postponement is indefinite—until there is as professor of military science and tac- N. Y. With some college mates Waldo a more evident demand than at present tics is now assured. He will be released Λvas trying to see how near to the edge for a woman's magazine. If the Eeview from his present duties as soon as some he could skate without going over, some is not revived within five years, the ac- . matters pertaining to the S. A. T. C. in having gone near enough to wet their cumulated moneys now on hand will be the eastern district are adjusted. The skates in the water as i-t gushed out be- added to the woman's dormitory fund. date, though not set, is understood to be tween the dam and the ice. On his last not far distant. The decision gives great attempt he went a trifle too far on very TAU BETA Pi, the honorary engineer- satisfaction throughout the University. slippery ice, and then on down into the ing society, announces the election of pool at the foot of the fall, a distance of eleven new members, juniors and seniors THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT has so far twenty-five feet. He then climbed out, now at the University. Only students modified its former ruling as to admit uninjured, and went about his work as in architecture, chemistry, and engineer- freshmen to the field artillery. In this usual next day. ing are eligible. The new members are: way students who may look forward to in architecture, Kenneth Carver '20, commissions in the corps of cadets may AT A DINNER to be given under the au- Brooklyn, and Frederick E. Steffens '20, begin in their first year. All members spices of the Ithaca Board of Commerce Washington, D. C.; in chemistry, Willis of the artillery unit are required to take sometime in February, Jacob Rothschild, Elwin Martin '20, Newburgh, N. Y., and trigonometry. head of the firm of Rothschild Brothers, Morton P. Woodward '20, Norwood, will be the guest of honor. This dinner Ohio; in civil engineering, Henry John A POSTCARD written by Professor Lau- is the tribute of his associates to Mr. Benisch '20, Brooklyn, and Leon Gil- rence Pumpelly at Salonica on Decem- Rothschild for the noteworthy part that bert Clay '20, New Orleans; in mechani- ber 7 was received yesterday by one of he has borne through more than twenty- cal engineering, D wight B. Hendryx '20, his friends in Ithaca. He is serving as five years in the business^ civic, and Ithaca, Linus Emerson Kittridge '20, secretary and interpreter of an Ameri- philanthropic enterprises of Ithaca. Two Lockport, N. Y., George H. McCarthy can Red Cross commission which has compliments of like sorir have previous- '20, New York City, D wight L. MeNully been visiting the countries of southeast- ly been p,aid to prominent citizens, in '19, Rutherford, N. J., and William Lit- ern Europe and also Palestine. He re- 1916 to Roger B. Williams and in 1917 tlewood '20, New York City. Littlewood ported that he was having a great trip, to Liberty Hyde Bailey. enjoys the distinction of having the but had no time to write a. letter. He THE TOTAL SALES of war and thrift highest scholastic standing throughout had just arrived at Salonica after s'x stamps in Tompkins County during 1918 the first two years of the Sib ley course. days in a little Greek boat from Athens. The commission had yet to visit Serbia, amounted to $449,145. Tompkins ranks THE THIRD LAP of the season ticket Eoumania, and Palestine, but expected Lo thirty-first among the ^ counties pf the sale reveals the athletic memberships be back in Paris by the end of January. State. . Of the total siim the Uity of running strong and coming into the home Ithaca is credited with about three- stretch, a probable winner. After the SEVERAL ENGINEERING CLUBS are or- quarters, $305,491. The amount bought first unorganized sale by volunteers, and ganizing for future activity. The Ea- per capita is about $12.50. 206 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Fire in D. U. House While the cause of the fire has not Biography of Major Seaman been definitely determined, Chief Eeilly Third Blaze in Nine Years Does $30,000 Sketch of Nominee for Alumni Trustee is of the opinion that it may have been Damage to tliis Fraternity House. —Papers Filed Last Week. caused by defective wiring, as the elec- The Delta Upsilon House at 6 South tric wires were not in conduits. Another Last week the nominations of E. N. avenue was badly damaged Sunday even- theory is that the fire started in the Sanderson '87, Major L. L. Seaman '72, ing by fire, which was discovered about chimney. and Eoger H. Williams '95 were an- 6.30 o'clock, when tiles from the roof The fire of Sunday night was the third nounced. The biography of Mr. Sander- fell through a skylight and tumbled on in the history of the local chapter of son and a list of nominators of Mr. Wil- the stairway underneath. Fifteen mem- Delta Upsilon. The first occurred at liams were given at that time, but data bers of the fraternity were holding a 5.45 on the morning of December 24, on the biography of Major Seaman and meeting at the time in the drawing room 1909, when the house was completely de- Mr. Williams were not then available. A 0n the first floor. stroyed. There was only about $1,800 sketch Of Mr. Williams will appear later. Investigation led to the discovery of insurance on the building at that time. The following biographical sketch of ^flames in the attic and an alarm was At 11.30 the night of January 2, 1916, Or. Seaman has been furnished by telephoned to the police station. The a fire broke out in the basement of the Howard Hasbrouck '90: ilPire Department responded promptly, but house, but it was checked by the Fire Major Louis Livingston Seaman was itfhen the companies arrived, it looked Department before it got past the first ftorn in Newburgh, N. Y., in 1851, and to the firemen as well as the spectators floor. was a member of Cornell's first four-year -as if the building were doomed. The fraternity carries an insurance class, graduating B. A.(in 1872. He was By efficient work, however, the fire- amounting to $40,000. It is believed that

Moro campaign, and with, the 6th Caval- the University, Authors, and Cornell of Debating Revival New York. ry in the Boxer War in China. He was Interest Shown at Mass Meeting in also in the Zulu campaign in South Afri- Following is the list" of Major Sea- Forthcoming Series of Contests. ca and in the Balkan War of 1913. man's nominators: Howard Hasbrouck In 1904-05 he was with the 2d Imper- '90, R. L. Gordon '95, H. G. Macdonald Interest in debate is reviving under the stimulus now affecting all collegiate en- ial Japanese Army in Manchuria and '01, F. O. Affeld, jr., '97, Chas. H. was honored by the Emperor of Japan Werner '92, Leonard D. Baldwin '92, terprises. A debate rally in Goldwin with the Order of the Rising Sun and Merritt E. Haviland '77, J. G. White Smith Hall last Thursday gives promise the Order of Special Merit for his serv- '85, John DeWitt Warner '72, Robert of active and enthusiastic participation ices in connection with the sanitation of Holmes Elmendorf '06, Calvin Tomkins both among class clubs and in intercol- the army. '79, Lysander D. Childs '06, Clarence J. legiate contests. President Schurman, characterizing debate as a kind of sup- He was the first American officer in Shearn '90, Edward Cornell '89, Harvey plementary and voluntary education, of Belgium and France in the European E. Mole '97, John Ford '90, George L. value to the University and to the student - War in 1914, and was in Antwerp and Genung '05, S. L. Vanderveer '08, Henry both now and in later life, an essential Ghent when they were bombarded by the • Bogart Clark ΌO, Alexander C. Clogher accomplishment, urged the great value Germans. Later he assisted Richard Ό'4, G. W. Bacon '92, John C. Smaltz of training and practice at the present Norton in organizing and equipping the '15. time, when large and vital questions are first Anglo-American Volunteer Motor Hard Cider in a Dry Town under discussion. Even in ordinary Ambulance Corps and helped to care for Hundreds of G allons Confiscated in times such exercise of the faculties as and transport the Belgian, French, and Raids on One-time Drinking Places debating requires may prove invaluable. British wounded. One of the cars—the Who of us is not at some time or other "Cornelia"—was donated by Cornell Reports published last spring that Ith- a professional man with a "proposi- men. In 1916 he was again at the front aca had voted itself dry were strictly of- tion"? at Verdun. Since that time he has been ficial. It happened, however, that the ex- Professor Winans traced the history president of the British War Relief As- piration of license coincided with a new of debating at Cornell and outlined some sociation, Inc., of New York. cider-making season, with the result that plans for the future. Trials for the '94 His principal activities since the the city remained surreptitiously wet. Memorial contest will begin on February Spanish-American War have centered on At least such seems a fair inference (ί 1. The question is The Government obtaining legislation from Congress to from recent events. Ownership of Railways.'' Competition. increase the efficiency and authority of On information furnished the district is open to all upperelassmen. The annu- the Medical Department of the U. S. attorney and confirmed by investigations al triangular debate with Columbia Army, thereby enabling medical officers of excise officials from out of town, po- and Pennsylvania" will be held as to prevent the diseases which in past licemen, assisted by special officers sworn usual, probably early in April. Teams wars have been responsible for from in for the purpose, last week visited fif- will also compete with Colgate, at four to twenty times more deaths than teen places, minor hotels, cafes, and a place yet to be determined, and with those occurring through battle casualties. saloons, formerly licensed, and under the University of Virginia at Ithaca or At the last session of Congress this leg- warrants issued by the county judge Philadelphia. These teams are to be islation was enacted. Among his publi- seized some hundreds of gallons of cider, chosen by competition among sophomores, cations on this subject are the following: the stock in the different places varying juniors, and seniors, and the first trials "The Soldier's Ration in the Tropics from a jugful to seventeen barrels. will also take place on February 1. The —its 'Use and its Abuse" *' Native Samples taken from various containers Varsity Debate Club has elected as Troops for our Colonial Possessions": show percentages of alcohol ranging president for the current year Jacob "Observations in China on the Boxer from 2.32 to 6.52. All of these stocks Mertens, jr., '19, Arts, of New Rochelle, Campaign"; ' The Army Cartridge have been labeled and either removed or N. Y. Debating of course has suffered, Belt"; "The Medical Features of the sealed to await the action of the court; like many other activities, under the Russo-Japanese War"; "From Tokio the owners, 011 February 5, must show weight of new duties and larger excite- through Manchuria with the Japanese"; cause why the goods should not be for- ments. The time may now be right "The Real Triumph of Japan or the feited to the State. No arrests have for renewal of interest, for restoring .Conquest of the Silent. Foe" " Tri- been made, though indictments may fol- debates to their former level, for making umphs of Scientific Medicine in Peace low the court proceedings next month. them what they'were in their palmy days and War in Foreign Lands" " The Among the places visited are some Restoration of the Army Canteen, a at the close of the last century. We may former student resorts, not, however, the Moral and Sanitary Necessity"; "War recall President White's life-long inter- principal hotels or Martin Gibbons's est in public speaking and his regret Correspondent of The Independent, Senate, now a restaurant. 1914-15"; "The Cruicifixion of Bel- that other movements had proved too di- Thus does a cider-raid become a quite verting. A revival, may now be at hand. gium"; and "Congressional Bill for the different affair from the old-time ex- Reorganization of the Medical Depart- cursion by night to Free Hollow. ment of the United States Army.'' DR. GEORGIA L. WHITE, adviser of Major Seaman is president emeritus women at the University^ last week ad- of the China Society of America and THE SAGE CHAPEL preacher for next dressed a meeting of the Ithaca brancli president of the Surgeons' Travel Club. Sunday will be the Rev. Dr. William H. of the Collegiate Alumnae on woman's His clubs are the Metropolitan of Wash- T. Demarest, president of Rutgers Col- preparation for civic duties and her par- ington, the Royal Societies of London, lege. ticipation in the civil life of the state. 208 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Paris working on ' The History of the and then back to camp. We covered ARMY AND NAVY American Field Service,' but I haven't two hundred and fifty-two miles, and saw seen him very recently. I tried to call dozens, almost hundreds, of cities, towns, Three Cornell Aces Out of Sixty on him at the Eepublican Club in Paris and villages which had been almost en- According to an announcement made on Saturday, but did not find him in. tirely destroyed by the Huns. Although by the War Department on January 10, "While I was down at Nice on my Rheims was once a large, beautiful, and there were sixty "aces" in the Ameri- last leave in December, I met the follow- populous city, it is no\v only a mass of can Army when hostilities ceased. The ing Cornell men: Captain J. Harry ruins. We scarcely saw a house that had list contains the names of three Cornell Letsche, jr., '12, Infantry; Lieutenant not been struck during the four years men. They are: Major James Armand Frederick H. Tyler '13, Ordnance; Cap- of almost continuous shelling. The ca- Meissner '18, Brooklyn, N. Y., eight; tain Howard I. Cole '14, Gas Service; thedral is still beautiful,, but terribly First Lieutenant Leslie Jacob Rummell Lieutenant Harry F. Bigler, jr., '11, In- damaged. I understand the French arc '16, Newark, N. J., seven; First Lieu- fantry; Lieutenant William Van Kirk going to start rebuilding the cathedral tenant Jesse Orrin Creech '20, Washing- '13, Air Service; and Lieutenant John B. at once. From north of Rheims, all we ton, D. C.,. six. Putnam '14, Infantry. could see in all directions were trenches, 'i I had a talk over the phone on Sat- shell holes, dug-outs, camouflaged roads, D. S. C. for Letsche Ί2 urday with Major John H. Barr '89, and destroyed villages. There are al- Captain Jay Harry Letsche, jr., '12 Ordnance, who is on duty at Aviation most no civilians in the villages; in fact has received the Distinguished Service Headquarters in Paris. He expects to there is hardly a place for them to stay. Cross for bravery in action in the Ar- leave for America about the middle of Occasionally we saw a peasant who had gonne Forest region. He was wounded January. He told me that Faustine returned to what had once been his twice during the engagement. • Dennis [daughter of Professor Dennis] home. Letsche is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. was in Paris last week 011 her way to "We rode up a few miles north of Letsche, of Pittsburgh, and is a member Germany in the Red Cross service. Soissons to the Hindenburg Line. Thero of Kappa Sigma, and Quill and Dagger. "Lieutenant Colonel William W. we walked for several miles along the He attended an officers' training school Bicker '98, Ordnance, has gone back to trenches. We picked up a few boche and having received a second lieutenant's America, I am told, but Lieutenant Col- helmets, brass shells, guns, bayonets, commission, was assigned to the 157th , onel Paul L. Pierce '06, who was with and other souvenirs just as they were left Depot Brigade, stationed at Camp Gor- him, is still on duty at the Ordnance after the last fight in that sector. don, Ga. He went to France with this Headquarters in Paris. 'ί I am expecting to return to America regiment, and on September 12 was pro- ί' I had dinner one evening with Cap- in the spring. I long to get back to moted to first lieutenant and assigned tain 'Sam' (Maurice W.) Howe '16, Ithaca, and shall be mighty glad to get to the 326th Infantry, 83d Division. who has been in France with the Rainbow back on the old job." On November 11 he was advanced to the Division for a year and a half. Sam Major Straight's Funeral grade of captain and made adjutant has certainly made good over here and In a letter dated December 8, Lieut. of his regiment. has been in many of the big fights from Harold Flack refers as follows to Ma- Chateau-Thierry to the Swiss border. Cornellians in France jor Straight: He says he's seen enough of France now, Second Lieutenant Harold Flack '12, 'ί We were all greatly shocked last however, and wants to go home to get of the Air Service, gives news of vari- week at the news of the death of Willard married. ous Cornell men in the following letter: Straight. Mr. Weil sent word to as "I had the pleasure of meeting Al- " Ήerm' (Herman G.) Place '17, many Cornell men as possible, so that fred (Tommy) Sze '01 at a little din- who was a captain in the Red Cross ser- they might attend the funeral. As I ner given at Mr. Weil's residence on vice in Paris, left in October, I -think, to was near Paris at the time, I attended Saturday evening. As you undoubtedly go back to America to join the Army. and saw there also Major J. H. Barr, ί heard, he is the Chinese ambassador to ' The other Cornell men stationed here Major Shearer, Colonel Joe Beacham, Great Britain and occupies an important at this field at present are Lieutenant Capt. J. H. Sherman '11, and Lieut. position in Chinese politics. Although lie Charley (Charles H.) Ramsey '17, Air A. P. Keasbey '13. It was a very im- has not been back in Ithaca for a num- Service; Lieutenant William H. Chap- pressive sight to see the funeral party ber of years, he is just as loyal to Cor- man '13, Ordnance; and John A. Lynch march up the 'Champs Elysees. The nell and has just as warm a spot in his '08, Air Service. A large number of Americans all saluted as the automobile heart for Cornell as when he left. He Cornell men have gone through here passed bearing the body; the French all thinks that President Wilson should be from time to time to join squadrons op- lifted their hats. There was something elected president of the League of Na- erating on the American front. Lieu- in the whole atmosphere of Paris that tions. tenant Edward M. Urband '12, Air day which seemed to indicate that Paris "I also had the pleasure of meeting Service, was here about two weeks ago. knew that a great American had died.'' at Mr. Weil's dinner Mr. Herbert How- He has been on duty with the French Mr. Weil writes, under date of Decem- land '86. I had heard of him often, but and has been decorated with the Croix ber 14: " As I was compelled to leave had never met him before. He has liv- De Guerre and another French decora- town on business, this Bureau was repre- ed in Paris about twenty years, and is tion. sented at the funeral by Lieut. Flack. a prominent member of the American "On New Year's Day I had a very We sent a wreath of flowers 011 the part colony here. fine trip along the front from Chateau- of the Cornell Bureau and a letter of con- "Theodore Btanton '74 is still in Thierry through Rheims, to Soissons, dolence to Mrs. Straight and the family.iy CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 209

DIED IN THE SERVICE north of Verdun. This regiment was in commission. Later he acted as an in- some of the heaviest fighting of the structor at Pensacola. He spent several Frederick P. Moore, Jr., '08 Argonne offensive—at one time being months overseas, and returned to Ameri- Captain Frederick Pettes Moore, jr., without commissioned personnel through ca soon after Christmas. "was killed in action on July 16, 1918, casualties suffered in battle. A letter Ensign Speed's parents, Mr. and Mrs. "while commanding Company I, 30th In- received by his father from one of the William G. Speed, live in Baltimore. fantry. men in Lieutenant Klein's command J. Carter Knapp '20 Moore came to Cornell from the West- says that he was instantly killed while First Lieutenant James Carter Knapp ern University of Pennsylvania in 1904, advancing against heavy machine gun was killed in action on November 11, ivas a student in the College of Civil fire. while leading his men in the last charge Engineering in 1904-05, later graduat- Lieutenant Klein leaves his parents, made by his regiment, the 312th In- ing in mining engineering from the Uni- Mr. and Mrs. John William Klein, and fantry. versity of California. He was employed two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Klein and Knapp was born on June 25, 1895. by a mining company in Colorado until Mrs. Fay H. Battey, of Buffalo, N. Y. He prepared at the Forestville, N. Y., .June, 1917, when he resigned his posi- ί ί A friend says of him: A man of High School, and entered the Law School tion and applied for admission to an quiet and simple tastes, loved and re- in 1916, becoming a member of Delta officers' training camp. He was sent to spected by all who knew him for his Chi. Before coming to Cornell, he was Port Oglethorpe in August, 1917, for sterling worth, a loyal and devoted a stenographer and clerk in the New training, and in November he received a friend, a true Cornellian, John William York Central offices at Buffalo. •captain's commission and was assigned Klein, Christian gentleman and soldier, He left college in the spring of 1917 to the 30th Infantry. He was with that made the supreme sacrifice that justice to enter the First Officers' Training regiment continuously till his death. s and right might still prevail. In daring Camp at Madison Barracks, where he Captain Moore was a son of Mr. and - the Great Adventure of death he brought was commissioned a second lieutenant Mrs. Frederick P. Moore, of Pittsburgh, honor to his country, to his Alma Mater, of infantry. He was then sent to Camp Pa. He was thirty-five years old. to his family, and to himself.'' Dix as an instructor, being later pro- John William Klein, Jr., '16 Harold B. Bradley '18 moted to first lieutenant and assigned to the 312th Infantry, whidh went to First Lieutenant John William Klein, It is now officially reported by the France last March. jr., was killed in action November 6th, War Department that Lieutenant Harold Lieutenant Knapp leaves his parents, 1918, after crossing the Meuse River in Bartlett Bradley, who last summer was Mr. and Mrs. George W. Knapp, of the vicinity of Dun-sur-Meuse in the Ar- reported missing, was killed in action Forestville, N. Y. goime Forest sector. At the time of when his plane fell in names. his death he was attached to Company Bradley was born on February 3, WAR PHOTOGRAPHS NEEDED X., 60th Infantry, U. S, Regulars. 1894, and prepared at the Choate School, Klein was born in Louisville, Ken- Wallingford, Conn., entering Sibley Col- The ALUMNI NEWS has received from tucky, on August 17, 1894. He gradu- lege in 1914. He was a member of Chi Col. C. W. Weeks, chief of the Historical ated from the Manual Training High Psi and of the varsity track squad. Branch, War Plans Division, General School of Louisville, and entered Sibley He left college in the spring of 1917 Staff, the following request for photo- College with the class of 1916, remain- to enlist in the Royal Flying Corps, and graphs : ing at the University for about a year 'had been flying at the front for about It is requested and very vigorously and a half, when he left to enter business six months when he was reported miss- urged that the alumni of Cornell who with his father. He was a member of ing. An investigation was instituted, have served in any capacity with the Alpha Tau Omega. and it was found that he had been killed American Expeditionary Forces and who Shortly after the United States de- when his burning machine crashed to have snap-shot photographs, taken in clared war on Germany, he enlisted in a the ground. France, forward copies of all such photo- ϋeld hospital corps which was organized graphs, together with the necessary ex- Christopher M. Speed '18 Ίby members of Louisville's medical pro- planatory information to be used as fession. In August, 1917, he entered the Ensign Christopher MacNair Speed, captions, to the Officer in Charge, Pic- Second Officers7 Training Camp at Fort of the Naval Air Service, died of pneu- torial Section, Historical Branch, War Benjamin Harrison, graduating the fol- monia at Baltimore, Md., on January Plans Division, General Staff, Army lowing November with the rank of first 12, shortly after his return to this War College, Washington, D. C. lieutenant, and was attached to the country. These photographs are requested for 333rd Regiment of Infantry, 84th Divi- "Mac" Speed was born on July 28, incorporation in the permanent pictorial sion, at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louis- 1896, and prepared for college at the files, which will serve as the official pho- ville, Kentucky. In March, 1918, he was Noys Latin School, Baltimore. He en- tographic records and history of the transferred to Camp Gordon near At- tered Sibley College in 1914, but left lanta, Georgia. About the middle of before his course was finished, to enlist August, he sailed for England with a in the Naval Aviation Service. He was SENATOR LOWMAN and Assemblyman -replacement regiment. Located first at a member of Chi Psi, and played on the Fenner have introduced into the State "Winchester, England, he was transferred varsity football team. Legislature an amendment to the print- to LeMans, France, and from there was He enlisted in the spring of 1917, and ing law providing for *the publication of sent to Company L, 60th Infantry, U. after spending some time in training at 2,500 copies of the annual report of the S. Regulars, 5th Division, operating Pensacola, Fla., received an ensign's State Veterinary College. 210 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

the first show ends at nine o'clock; and NEW YEAR'S EVE that if students knew they could get to In but an hour the Old Year will be- the Library soon after 9.15 and work dead. through to eleven o 'clock, it is more The city's lights below and on the Published for the Associate Alumni of than probable that many would take hills Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni advantage of the opportunity. The Fill with a somber glow the clouds o 'er- Ne\vs Publishing Company, Incorporated. slight extra expense would be negligible. head; A. new situation confronts us. Let us Managing Editor: R. W. Sailor '07 No star greets Cascadilla's ice-fringed meet it. Associate Editors: rills. Clark S. Northup '93 Woodford Patterson '95 The same may be said in favor of open- B. S. Monroe'96 H. G. Stutz '07 ing the Library on Sunday afternoons. A faint sound, as of shouting revelers,. R. W. Kellogg'12 According to the Librarian's report the Business Manager: R. W. Sailor Comes to my window from a neigh- Circulation Manager: Geo. Wm. Horton Library was open last year on 306 b 'ring street News Committee of the Associate Alumni: days. That is, for 16 per cent of the Young hearts, it seems, the Old Year's W. W. Macon '98, Chairman time the Library was lying idle. The passing stirs N. H. Noyes'06 J. P. Dods '08 number of registered student borrowers Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Pub- With joy, e'en though to them all lishing Company, Incorporated: John L. was only 830, which means that 84.3 years are sweet. Senior, President; R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; per cent of the students prefer to use F. H. Wingert, Assistant Treasurer; ΛVood- books at the Library or not at all. More- They f orward look and wait Tomorrow 's ford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 220 East over, Sunday is the only day many stu- State Street. Ithaca, N. Y. dawn, dents have for inspirational reading, or Careless that men unnumbered what Ithaca, N. Y., January 30, 1919. browsing; and if this habit can be they hail encouraged without interfering with -Do dread, their hands out-stretched to HEROES SALUTAMUS church attendance, which might well be What is gone, Aces of Cornell, we salute you! the students' occupation in the morning, With low-bent heads, and sighing lips Entering resolutely into the bloody busi- then there will be gain in the direction all pale. ness of the war, you have done brilliant of humanizing the place, which is so work for the cause of human freedom ardently desired by many. What has not been belongs to them. The- and have saved the lives of perhaps Past thousands of your comrades. Deserved GILBERT '07 LUNCHEON SPEAKER Their elders had; they envy none its- and undying fame is yours, with the, At the regular luncheon of the Cornell spoil. gratitude of the Republic. Accept the University Association of Chicago on Tomorrow's theirs, for gains more rich hearty congratulations of your fellow January 23, Major Huntley H. Gilbert and vast Cornellians upon your safe return to '07, Ordnance Department, U. S. A., Than man e'er yet has won, by chance the shores of the land for which yoα talked of the work of his department. or toil. fought so daringly. Ensign Malcolm D. Vail '12, who has Tomorrow, ah, Tomorrow! How they just returned from Pensacola, gave a talk LIBRARY HOURS long on naval aviation. Thirty members were The Sun has lately been printing a To launch their bark upon its dancing- present. Many of the club's members number of letters and editorials relating tide are now returning from service and in- to the hours for opening the Library. It And spread their sails, with jest and teresting talks are looked for each week. seems that the Library used to be open ; joyous song, Among others, Lieut. E. E. Sheridan 12, till 10.45 p. m. but last fall, when every- And speed forth whither smiling Hope- U. S. Navy, is expected in a few days to body was doing S. A. T. C. or other war doth guide. duty, the Library was not much used in tell about the fighting of the Navy near the evening and in consequence the clos- Archangel. The luncheons are at the And do I envy them? Most fondly old ing hour was changed to ten o'clock. City Club, 315 Plymouth Place, Thurs- Mem'ries, or bright or said, I oft days at 12.30. It is alleged by many students that the recall early closing of the building so inter- THIRD UNIVERSITY CONCERT But still, unless one's Age has hopes- feres with their evening's work, as a The third concert in this season's more bold whole, that they now find it hardly worth series, on Monday evening, was a violin Than theirs, 'twere best not to have while to go to the Library in the even- recital by Toscha Seidel. Following is lived at all. ing. If there is, as seems to be the case, the Bailey Hall program: a considerable demand for a longer open 1. Chaconne Vitali The chimes will soon ring out the Old period, then it ^ seems to us that the Li- 2. Concert in D minor Wienίawskί Year's knell, brary authorities will find it decidedly Allegro moderate The New Year's welcome, pealing: worth while to go back to the former Romance merrily. closing hour, which was in force some Allegro moderate, a la Zingara May joy be everywhere. Lo! a bright years, of 10.45, or even eleven, as was 3. Romance in G minor Beethoven star fell. formerly the case. Mazurka Cliopin-Kreisler The clouds are gone and splendor fills In this connection we may perhaps be La Chasse , Chatier-Kreίsler the sky. permitted to remind the Library manage- 4. Hebrew lullaby Achron CHARLES V. PARSELL '72. ment that Ithaca is now a dry city; that Gypsy airs Sarasate Ithaca, N. Y. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 211

Two Short Courses in Ag. law degree. For any of these Arts of covering. The treatment of them, elective^ students in law may substi- here illustrates the enlargement of our College to Teach Beekeeping and Cheese tute credits for any of fourteen hours ideas about what constitutes history. and Ice Cream Making. required in any of the S. A. T. C. pro- The style of the book is simple and A six-day school for commercial bee- grams. fresh. It is a very readable work and keepers will be conducted at the College The Faculty of Law also calls atten- will serve the purpose of the adult reader of Agriculture in the week of February tion to a new rule that, beginning in as well as that of the young student. 24, the United States Department of September, 1919, all students who apply For the latter it is equipped with a com- Agriculture cooperating with the staff for admission to the three-year course plete apparatus of maps, pictures, out- of the. college in the enterprise. The in law and who have not theretofore been lines, review questions, topics for further- course, which has been carefully organ- registered in the college must have credit study and discussion, with reading refer- ized, will deal in a new manner with for two years of general college work. ences. The one thing we miss that was. practical problems of the apiary. It will The four-year course will be discontinued a good feature of some older books, is a. be open without charge to all residents at the end of the present academic year, list of important dates; and in the list of the state. in July, 1919. The new rule has spe- of books on pp. 659-61 the place of pub- Dr. E. F. Phillips, George S. Demuth, cial application to those freshmen at lication, the publisher, the date, and (if and George H. Eea of the Government present registered in Arts and Sciences the book is in print) the price should Bureau of Entomology; E. E. Boot, edi- who may contemplate changing to law (have been included. The pictures, while- tor of Gleanings in Bee Culture, and next September. not always well drawn, will compare several New York State beekeepers of The Fraser scholarships in law have favorably with those in similar volumes. prominence will make up the instructing been awarded for the present year, the There is a good index of sixteen pages. staff. first to Malcolm Barrington Carroll '19, We predict that this attractive volume- Another special course to be given by of West New Brighton, N. Y., and the will come into wide use. the College of Agriculture wilΓ give in- second to Eichard Harter Brown '19, of A Latin Vocabulary struction in cheese making and ice Eomulus, N. Y. These scholarships have Latin Vocabulary for the First Two- cream manufacture. This course, which a value respectively of one hundred dol- Years. By Elmer E. Bogart '94, Morris- is open only to those who have had some lars and fifty dollars. They are awarded High School, New York. Boston. Allyn experience, either in the short course of upon recommendation of the senior class, and Bacon. 1918. Narrow 16mo, pp. the college or in actual practice, will which by vote selects two from a list of vi, 65. Price, 25 cents. open on February 24, and continue for members submitted by the Faculty as In this handy vest-pocket volume we one month. Though it is free to residents .eligible by reason of superior scholarship. have the vocabulary selected by the Uni- of New York State the number of stu- versity of the State of New York for dents who can be registered is limited LITERARY REVIEW study during the first two years of the by restricted laboratory space. A History of the American People Latin course. Instruction and practice will be given The History of the American People. The words are listed twice: first al- in the making of several kinds of cheese, By Charles A. Beard and William C. phabetically, with meanings, and second- as well as in the making of ice cream, Bagley, Ph.D. '00. New York. The ly in groups on the basis of frequency sherbets, and ices on a commercial scale. Macmillan Company. 1918. 8vo, pp. of occurrence in the first five books of Applications for entrance to this course xviii, 678. Illustrated. Price, $1.20. Caesar 'a Gallic War, with the numbers should be sent to the Dairy Department, Here is a history very much to our of such occurrences quoted from Lodge's College of Agriculture. 7 liking. The authors have been con- "High School Latin Vocabulary. ' LAW SCHOOL CALENDAR cerned not merely with men and events In Part III some of the words are The College of Law, agreeably to re- but also with ideas and institutions. again grouped according to type; and cent University legislation, has an- Yorktown and Gettysburg have their a fourth part gives several pairs or nounced a schedule of substantially a due place; but the authors tell us also groups of words to be carefully dis- full year's work, including all the sub- about the spread of woman suffrage, criminated. jects of the usual law curriculum. For and immigration, and prohibition, the It is a distinctly useful little book, the work in law, accordingly, the present growth of industry and of the press, and ought to help much in the study and lengthened academic year is divided into and the development of education. teaching of high school Latin. two terms of fourteen weeks each: from Twenty-eight pages suffice for the Books and Magazine Articles December 30 to April 12, and from April Revolutionary War; the Civil War is In The Journal of English and Ger- 14 to July 26, with recesses from March concisely narrated in forty pages; while manic Philology for October, lately is- 22 to March 31 and from June 21 to twenty-five pages are devoted to the re- sued, C. H. Ibershoff, of the State Uni- June. 30. This arrangement is such construction and development of the versity of Iowa, formerly of Cornell, that those who, upon leaving the Govern- South; seventeen to the growth of the writes on "Bodmer and .Milton." ment service, discontinued their studies Far West; twenty-four to the recent ad- at or near the end of a term are enabled vances of industry and invention; Professor Vaughan MacCaughey '08, to resume their work at approximately twelve to immigration; fourteen to com- of the College of Hawaii, wrifes in The the point at which they left off. Fresh- binations of capital and labor; and Aiik for January on "The Hawaiian men in law have in the summer term of fourteen to advances in popular educa- Elepaio." He also contributes to Edu- Arts and Sciences an opportunity to tion. Some of these topics writers of a cation for January an article on "The earn the Arts credits required for the generation ago would not have dreamed Racial Element in Hawaii's Schools." COENELL ALUMNI NEWS OBITUARY remaining but two years. He practiced F. Sheppard '07. The following mem- law for a short time in Dunkirk, later bers of the Board of Governors were Henry H, Stambaugh '81 going to New York, where he had been elected both for a term of three years: Henry Hamilton Stambaugh, of practicing for several years, and was a Edward T. Foote '06 and Arthur P. Ύoungstown, Ohio, died on January 4 at very popular lawyer and jurist. He was Bryant '00. ISίew Orleans, La. He was a student at forty-eight years old. The whole affair was very informal, 'Cornell from the autumn of 1877 till the He is survived by his widow, one sis- winter of 1879-80, when he left college to ter, and one brother. but was nevertheless enjoyed by all those .go into business at Youngstown. present. James Jenkins Lowe '12 Mr. Stambaugh was born at Liberty, Mr. B. A. Behrend, consulting engi- Ohio, in November, 1858, a son of John James Jenkins Lowe died at his home neer, gave reminiscences -of ex-President .and Caroline (Hamilton) Stambaugh. in Portsmouth, Va., on December 30, of Andrew Dickson White, with whom he He grew up in Youngstown, and was for pneumonia resulting from influenza. was personally acquainted. -Mr. Behr- ..almost forty years identified with the "Hi" Lowe was born on April 15, end 's talk was of so unusual and in- industrial development of that town. He 1889, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. teresting a nature that it was especially was one of the organizers of the Brier John J. Lowe, of Portsmouth, Va. He welcome and enjoyed by those fortunate Hill Steel Company and a director in attended the University of Virginia pre- enough to hear it. that company, the Bessemer Limestone viously to entering Sibloy College in The club was fortunate in having Company, the First National and Dol- 1908. He was a. member of the Seal and Woodford Patterson, secretary of the lar Banks, the Stambaugh-Thompson Serpent Fraternity. University, present as its guest. He told Company, the Tod-Stambaugh Company, He is survived by his wife and two of the reconstruction problems of the the Realty Guarantee & Trust Company, young sons. University. This information is of great arid others. For twelve years he served George C. Schempp, jr., '12 interest to all Cornellians, and the men • on the board of the Youngstown Sheet of the New England Club welcomed the George Christian Schempp, jr., died 4& Tube Company. opportunity of hearing first hand from early in January at Athens, Ga. In social service Mr. Stambaugh was Patterson about these problems in which. Schempp was born on May 14, 1889, foremost. The Citizen of Youngstown Cornell men everywhere are vitally in- and before coming to Cornell, (he at- says he was ''most unassuming and re- terested. Of particular interest were tended the University of Washington. tiring, but a leader in all good works for the remarks about the Fiftieth Anniver- He entered Cornell in 1908, in the course .human uplift and advancement in the sary celebration to be held next June. in mechanical engineering, but later city which he loved and honored by an The New England Club is now planning transferred to agriculture, and received exemplary career. His public service to run a special train to Ithaca for the degree of B.«S. in 1912. He was a Λvas most conspicuous in its far-reaching this event, and it is expected that a large member of the Acacia Fraternity. influences, but always performed quietly number of men from this section will and without ostentation. By his life and He had been engaged in agricultural attend this celebration. work for the state of Georgia since his deeds he justly earned the right to be Talks Λvere given by several men re- graduation, and at the time of his death called Youngstown>s first citizen." turned from the service. . Fritz Fenger was an adjunct professor of agronomy Mr. Stambaugh was the president of '07 told of the Navy's experience in in the Georgia State College of Agri- the Community Service Society, the di- the war. The secretary remarked: "We recting agency of organized charities in culture, Athens, Ga. always supposed that Fritz was some the city, and he was generous in his de- He leaves his wife, Beatrice George navigator, but when he told how they votion of time and wealth to work for Sehempp, and four children, of Athens, got mixed up with the U-53, ran over the community's welfare. He left tho and his father and one sister, of Taco- it twice, and dropped ten depth charges bulk of his large fortune to maintain the ma, Washington. The body was taken on it without getting it, we began to philanthropic agencies which he had to Tacoma for burial. have some doubts about our belief of helped to build up. Fritz's nautical ability being well Mr. Stambaugh was a member of founded." Pete Abbott told of his ex- Alpha Delta Phi. He was unmarried. THE NEW ENGLAND DINNER perience in the air service in France. He His brother, John Stambaugh '84, of was one of the first Americans to enter Youngstown, survives him. The Cornell Club of New England held its annual business meeting and dinner Brussels after its evacuation by the James H. Van Buren '93 at the Hotel Lenox on the evening of German forces. Former Judge James Henry Van Founder's Day, January 11. Forty-three The meeting was enlivened by the Buren met an accidental death in New Cornell men were present. witticisms of Ed Savage '98, the musi- York on January 20. He had been in The following officers for the year cal ability and efforts of Lin Hart '14, Boston on a business trip, and upon 1919 Λvere elected: president, Harold L. and the cheer leading gyrations of reaching New York was stricken with Stevens '95; vice-president, G. Houston George Rockwell '13. apoplexy. He fell over an iron railing, Burr '05; vice-president, state of Maine, The New England Club is planning a striking a concrete basement eight feet Harold D. Jones '95; vice-president, big smoker in case the Intercollegiates below the street surface; death was in- state of Rhode Island, Frederic E. Jack- come to Boston this year, and any Cor- stantaneous. son '00 vice-president', Worcester Dis- nell teams or organizations visiting Bos- Van Buren entered Cornell in 1889, in trict, Chester T. Reed '03; vice-presi- ton are assured of a hearty welcome from ihe course in mechanical engineering, dent, Vermont and New Hampshire, J. and the loyal support Of the club. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 213

all-round playing confirmed Hie impres- ATHLETICS sion that this year's five will measure up ALUMNI NOTES The Rowing Situation well with those of recent years. '92 AB—At the Baltimore meeting of The Cornellians got away to a flying The rowing situation has cleared up the American Folk-Lore Society on De- start, and soon ran up a lead which materially during the past week. No cember 27, Elijah C. Hills was elected Eochester could not overcome. Quick races have been scheduled as yet and an first vice-president. passing, speedy floor wτork, and accurate announcement of plans for the season is basket shooting combined to make a fast '95 CE—Ernest A. Truan, assistant not possible at this time beyond that a offensive with wτhich the home team could engineer with the Turner Construction Spring Day regatta is likely. The im- not successfully cope. The Cornell five Company, of New York, was in charge portant point that has been decided, how- ran up twenty points to nine for of the design and construction drawings ever, is that Mr. Courtney will be head Eochester in the first half, and gained for the Administration Building of the coach of the varsity, freshman, and in- fifteen additional points in the second Army Supply Base in South Brooklyn. tercollege rowing squads, that John L. period to five for the home team. His home address is 33 Lincoln Ter- Collyer '17 will be associate rowing Ortner, Cornell's right forward, proved race, Yonkers, N. Y. coach, and that John Hoyle, formerly the most successful scorer of the game, '99 BSA—During the absence of connected with the organization, has caging six" baskets and throwing five Dean Thomas F. Hunt from September again been employed to assist Courtney foul goals out of six attempts. At one 1 to November 30 011 war work, Pro- and Collyer. A modest rowing schedule time in the second half he threw three fessor Walter Mulford, of the depart- will probably be arranged during the coming month. field goals in quick succession. Molinet, ment of forestry, acted as dean of the the speedy center, continued his good University of California College of Ag- Collyer will return to Ithaca in late April or early May to give two or three work at center, throwing four baskets, riculture. weeks' time to coaching the varsity eight while Kendall, at right guard, gave a '00 BS—William Osgood Morgan, at- fine exhibition of defense work, allowing for the race that the authorities hope to torney at law, has changed his office ad- arrange on Cayuga Lake for Spring Day. his opponent, Kirchmaier, but one field dress from the Trinity Building, 111 On account of his business interests some Broadway, to the U. S, Eealty Build- doubt had been expressed as to whether The summary: ing, 115 Broadway, New York. His Collyer would be able to give any time to CORNELL 35 EOCHESTER 14 home is at 232 Orange Eoad, Mont- coaching, but he can make satisfactory Ortner Kirchmaier clair, N. J. arrangements to help out when Mr. Eight Forward Όl AB, '02 AM—Sao Ke Alfred Courtney will most need the assistance of Stewart Green (Tommy) Sze has been appointed one an active and younger man in putting on Left Forward of the Chinese delegates to the Peace the finishing touches before the Spring Molinet Stein Conference. Since leaving college, Sze Day race. Center has held many important business and It is understood that the arrangement Kendall Merson political positions, the chief of which reached this week covers not only the Eight Guard is that of Chinese ambassador to Great spring program, but is more or less of a Sullivan Wattel (capt.) Britain. permanent character. Although Mr. Left Guard '.03 ME—Thomas H. Sidley, who went Courtney retired as active rowing coach Goals from foul: Cornell, Ortner 5 to France for the Y. M. C. A., was two years ago, he has maintained a close Molinet 4, Kendall 3, Stewart 2; Eo- gassed while working in the front lines. interest in roλviiig and he will give quite chester, Wattel 2, Stein 2, .Kirchmaier. He has now returned to this country, a bit of attention to the selection of Goals from foul: Cornell ,Ortner 5 and is living at 1400 West Jackson material, indoor work on the machines, out of 5; Eochester, Merson 4 out of 7. Boulevard, Chicago. . and as much actual outdoor coaching as Substitutions: Cornell, Florsheini for his health will permit. He will be much Sullivan; Eochester, Metcalf for Stein; '04 ME—Charles A. Roberts is a me- more than an ί£ advisory" coach, as his Colson for Kirchmaier. chanical engineer at the Palmer Mill of status has sometimes been designated. Referee, Dreher, Buffalo. the Otis Company, allied with the Bliss In order to take stock of the available Time of halves, 20 minutes. Fabyan Company, cotton merchants. rowing material in the University a call His address is Box 414, Three Eivers, for crew candidates has been issued, and Mass. A DEMERIT SYSTEM has .been intro- registration for varsity, freshman, anrl Όβ LLB—Major Sherman Peer has duced into the E. O. T. C. Cadets begin intercollege crews began Monday, with been discharged from the service and their work each term with one hundred about a hundred candidates for the has returned to Ithaca, where he will credits, from which ^deductions are made freshman and varsity, a few of whom resume the practice of law. His office for tardiness, delinquencies, infraction of have had rowing experience. is in the Savings Bank Building. orders, and general breaches of military Όβ AB, '08 LLB—A daughter, Eliz- Cornell Five Wins discipline. The demerits become matters abeth Eleanor, was born on January 6 to The Cornell basketball team won an of record by action of the commandant Major and Mrs. George Glpason Bogert. •easy victory over the University of upon , recommendation of the company Eochester team at Rochester Saturday commander and after explanation in '07 AB, '09 ME—Clarence A. Peirce by a score of 35 to 14. The Cornellians writing to the delinqiient cadet. The is production manager of £he Diamond showed greatly improved form over the decision is then posted on the Armory T Motor Car Company, Chicago, 111. opening game of the season and their bulletin board. '07 ME—Victor J. Guenther is with 214 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS the- Westinghduse Lamp Company, of the firm of HempΊiill, White & Cham- ice, has been released from the service.

Bloomfield, N. J. berlain, 37 Wall Street. He ( was stationed at Camp Kearney,. Calif., and was ranking officer in the '08 AB, M3 PhD—At the December Ίl BChem—Harry A. Crown is with Chemical Warfare Division. He was in meeting of the American Psychological the Canada Glue Company, Ltd., Brant- ford, Canada. charge of the outline of the study in gas- Association at Johns Hopkins Univer- attack and protection, and was super- sity on December 27, Major William S. '12—Frederick L. Brown, jr., enjoys ί visor of the teaching of the use of gas Foster read a paper on ' The Psychology the distinction of having remained in masks. 7 Government employ longer than any of Morale.' '13 BS—Leland N. Gibbs has been >08 AB—Seth W. Shoemaker has other civilian at Scott Field, 111. For transferred to the Rents, Requisitions some time he was in the Supply Section been made president of the organization and Claims Service, where he assists in formed by the International Corre- of the Air Service in Washington and adjusting claims and making appraisals in November, 1917, was sent to Scott spondence Schools, of Scranton, Pa. He relative to damage claims against the is the principal of the I. C. S. Sdhool of Field, where he has directed the work United States. He expects to be on the Agriculture, and secretary and treasurer of the Maintenance Department. other side from six to ten months longer, of the Metropolitan Certified Milk Pro- '12 AB; '13 AB—A daughter was but says he finds the work very inter- 7 ducers Association. He is also a mem- born on January 2 to Mr. and Mrs. esting. His address is R. R. & C. Serv- ber of the Lackawanna branch of the Howard Jay Carey, of Hutchinson, Kan- ice, A. P. O. 717, American Expedi- Federal Food Administration, and sas. Mrs. Carey was formerly Miss tionary Forces. chairman of the Lackawanna County Louise Banks '12. '14 AB; '17—Leonard J. Trump and War Garden Committee. His address '12 AB; '18 DVM-^Dr. and Mrs. Miss Clara Wilhelmina Keopka were is 827 Electric St., Scranton. George E. Hunt (Bessie M. Harvey '12) married on August 29. They are making >08 ME—A daughter, Elizabeth Shep- announce the birth of a son, George E., their home at Hillcrest Farm, Westfield, pard Coffin, was born on April 18, 1918, jr., on January 6. Hunt was recently N. Y. to Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Coffin, Iδ discharged from the Medical Reserve '14 AB, '17 MD; '14 AB, '18 MD-— Valley Place, Upper Montclair, N. J. Corps, and they are making their home Mr. and Mrs. Watson James Mosier an- '09 PhD—At the Baltimore meeting in Ithaca. nounce the marriage of their daughter, of the American Phytological Society on '13 AB—Lieut. George M. Schurmaii, Miss Merle Marion Mosier, to Lieuten- December 28, Professor Donald Reddiek whose resignation from the 4th Field ant Alfred Latimer Potter, on Septem- was elected a member of the council. Artillery, Regular Army, has just been ber 17, 1918, at Demarest, N. J. '10 ME—Henry G. Mosler is a lieu- accepted, returned to Ithaca on January '14—Lieutenant Lowell Mason, of tenant in the U. S/N. E. F. His per- 24 for a short visit with his parents, New York, and Mrs. Dorothy Martin, of manent address is 3016 Fairfield Avenue, President and Mrs. Schurnian, prior to Ithaca, were married on January 4 at Cincinnati, Ohio. taking up again his business career. Ithaca. Mason was stationed at Ithaca His military service began in June,, for some time as an instructor in aerial ΊO AB—Captain Stan ton Griffis has 1916, on the culmination of our troubles gunnery, but has recently received his been released from duty with the Gen- with Mexico, when he was ordered as a discharge from the service, and has ac- eral Staff, Washington, D. C., and has member of Squadron A of the National cepted a position as head of the invest- returned to New York to resume his Guard of the State of New York to the ment department of Theodore L. Bron- business connections as a member of Mexican border, where he remained for son & Company, 10 Wall Street, New the next six months. He had scarcely York. Mrs. Mason has, for the past resumed his business in New York in twelve years, conducted the Martin School M/ί find Me the winter of 1917 when it became ob- of Dancing at Ithaca. vious that war with Germany was in- '14 PhD—Mrs. Albert W. Smith at- ITHACA ENriRAVINO evitable, and he immediately volunteered tended the recent national conference of -- for service. He went to Plattsburg state leaders who have been identified Training Camp in April, 1917, and has with food conservation work. The meet- since been continuously in the service, Fnrf rav'm ing was held in Washington, and Mrs. first in the National Army and after- Smith presided at the sessions dealing wards in the Regular Army, with the with city work. Before returning to commission of 2d lieutenant, from Ithaca, she delivered lectures in Wash- AT which he was subsequently advanced to ington, Kingston, Jamestown, and Buf- _ THE 1st lieutenant. falo. TOP '13 AB—Lieut. Herman Coors re- '15 BS—Second Lieut. Everett A. ceived his honorable discharge from the Piester is now with Company H, 804th OFTHC service at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky, Pioneer Infantry, American Expedi- .STAIRS. His home is in Golden, Colo. He has tionary Forces. He arrived in France LIBRARV lately been visit.Ίi^1 with Mrs. Coors at about the middle of September and the home of her father, Virgil D. Morse, went into action in the east Toul sector. _ BLD"C. of Ithaca. At the time of the signing of the armis- N.TIOCAST. •'13 BS, '17 PhD—Captain Harold S. tice, his regiment was just above Pont- Bennett, of the Chemical Warfare Serv- a-Mousson. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 215

>15 ME—Ira E. Cole is with the West- Mrs. Bayless is the daughter of Edward engineering department of the Bethle- ern Eleetrie Company, Inc. He may be E. Wdllever, librarian of the Law School. hem Shipbuilding Corporation, engaged addressed' in care of Department 1201, '16—First Lieut. George P. O'Brien in planning buildings for their yards. 463 West St., New York. is assistant athletic director at Camp His address is 135 Cedar St., Bethlehem, '15 AB—Frank L. St. John, jr., has Funston, Kans. He expects to return to Pa. been in the Navy since the beginning of Cornell to complete his course as soon '16 AB—Arthur Golden is supervisor the war. He is now watch and division as he is released from the service. of the statistical department of the New officer on board the destroyer Gamble. '16 CE—Charles Eppler, jr., has been York City branch of the Goodyear Tire His mail address is 5 Tennis Court, mustered out of the service, and is now and Rubber Company, 123 West Sixty- Brooklyn, N. Y. living at 266 East ,One Hundred Sixty- fourth St. He lives at 1315 Prospect '15 BS, '16 MLD—The address of second St., New York. Avenue. Private Lucian C. Bareham is G-2-C, '16 BS—Fred J. Hanun is a corporal '16 BS—Lieut. Leslie Brown, U. S. Headquarters, 2d U. S. Army, A. P. O. in Company M, 51st Pioneer Infantry, M. C., was married on September 26 to 918, American Expeditionary Forces. American Expeditionery Forces. Miss Mildred H. Sliter (Elmira College His home address is Palmyra, N. Y. '16 AB—Anthony O. Shallna, who was '16) at Elmira, N. Y. He is at present '15 BS—Willard J. Hall is engaged for some time an instructor in the Ord- stationed at Quantico, Va., with the in general farming at Canandaigua, N. nance Supply School at Camp Hancock, 165th Company, 10th Regiment, U. S^ Y. On March 1, he expects to take Ga., has been commissioned a second Marine Corps. charge of the Great Bear Farm, near lieutenant in the Ordnance Department. '17 BS—Miss Helen S. Clark is teach- Fulton, N. Y., a six-hundred-acre farm His permanent address is 1102 Blair ing in the department of domestic sci- with a seven-thousand-tree apple orchard. Avenue, Scranton, Pa. ence of the Kansas State College of Ag- Ί5 PhD—Ransom E. Somers has left '16 ME—Captain John K. Stotz has riculture, Manhattan, Kansas. the University Faculty to become a mem- been transferred to the University of '17 AB—George J. Hecht has received ber of the firm of Johnson & Huntley, of Wisconsin unit of the S. A. T. C., Madi- an honorable discharge from the Sta- Pittsburgh, and will also be a lecturer son, Wis. tistics Branch, General Staff, where he at the University of Pittsburgh. '16 BArch—Eobert T. Bickford is in was head of the Bureau of Cartoons, '15 BS—^Christian F. deNeergaard the architectural division of the plant Committee on Public Information, and is was married to Miss Christene de Mund Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dwight Hopkins, on November 23, at Peking, China. '16 BS—Miss Marie H. McCarthy is a chemist with the New York Central Eailroad, at Cleveland, Ohio. When You Weigh- '16 BS, '16 MSA—A daughter, Merle Shirley, was born on December 29 to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Brickman, of Do It Accurately Blue Earfh, Minn. Brickman is in with charge of the department of agriculture in the Smith-Hughes School of that city, and is also coaching the basketball team. CHHTILLON SPRING SCflLES '16 AB—Lieut. Hamilton Vose, jr., is Our complete line includes scales for attached to the destroyer Thatcher, now weighing, assorting, counting, multiplying, estimating, being completed at the plant of the Fore Eiver Shipbuilding Company at Quincy. measuring, testing, and every other purpose for which Mass. He was ordered to his present scales can be used. duty a short time ago, after having Only the highest grade materials, served for more than a year with the American destroyer flotillas off the Eng- assembled by skilled workmen, are employed in the lish and French coasts. He may be ad- manufacture of Chatillon Scales. dressed in care of the Postmaster, New A card request will bring Catalogue C. A. 2. York. '16 BS—James H. Greene is an en- JOHN ςHAflLLONfiSONS sign in the Naval Air Service. He may ESTABLISHED 1835 be addressed in care of the University Club, Akron, Ohio. 85 CLIFF STREET NEW YORK CITfY '16-17 G—Ensign Bourke H. Bay less, U. S. N., and Miss Marguerite Willever were married on December 26, at Ithaca. 216 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS now associate*! in business with his fa- "over there" at least three months. Artillery, returned to this country on ther, Meyer Heclit, dealer in hides and He is attached to Sanitary Squad No. September 2, and is now at Canip Bowie, skins, at 8 Jacob St., New York. Ho 67. His home address is 526 West Sen- Texas, with the 49th Field Artillery. lives at 55 West Fiftieth St., New York. eca St., Ithaca. '18 MS—Chih Lan Chien is teaching ;17 ME—Lieut. H arolde N. Searles, '17 CE—Robert Edward Bassler was agriculture at Nanking University, Nan- Air Service, has returned from France, married on July 31, 1918, to Miss Lil- king, China. and may now be addressed at 85 N. lian G. Kingsland, daughter of Mr. and '18 BS—Miss J. Anna Phillips is as- Walnut St., East Orange, N. J. Mrs. Warren M. Kingsland, of Brook- sistant city conservation agent for lyn; they are living at the Argyle Bochester, N. Y. She lives at 71 Chili '17' CE—Chauncey M. Briggs was re- Apartments, Washington, D. €. Bassler Avenue. cently commissioned an ensign in the is an aero mechanical engineer in the U. S. Naval Reserve Flying Corps, and Bureau of Construction and Repair, '18-—Stewart A. Bead, who enlisted in assigned to duty in the Bureau of Ord- Navy Department, Washington. the Naval Beserve in May, 1917, was recently examined and recommended for a nance, Navy Department, Washington, ;17 AB—Harold C. Strotz is com- D. C. He expects soon to be placed on commission in the Naval Beserve Flying pleting his training in the Naval Fly- Corps, and assigned to the Bureau of inactive duty, and to return to his for- ing Corps at Miami, Fla. His address mer position. Construction and Bepair, Aviation Sec- is Naval Air Station, Miami. tion, Navy Department, Washington, D. '17 BS—Private James J. Clyiies '18—Lieut. Bicknell J. Woodbury, C. He expects to return to the Univer- Λvrites from Toul that he expects to be who was in France with the 15th Field sity to complete his course in mechanical engineering. '18 ME—Wallace H. Collins is an ensign in the U. S. N. B. F. His address is Barracks B, Annapolis, Md. '18—Ensign Bobert T. Deming has been assigned to the Beserve Officers' School, Annapolis, Md. His address is Barracks A. '18—Charles E. Duncan is farrier in the Veterinary Detachment of the 78th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces. '18 CE—Second Lieut. Nicholas A. Walbran is in France with Company F, 118th Engineers. His address is A. P. O. 762. '18 BS—Baymond A. Perry is an in- Another of THE I BIG MAJORITY: || structor in the College of Agriculture Tacoma Grocery ijj at Cornell. He lives at 402 University Co., Wholesalers, I Tacoma, Wash., fa Avenue, Ithaca. use Baker-Vawter ' Machine Book- '18—James A. Meissner has been pro- keeping Binders, 0t€ ':: ttie. on Leaves, etc. moted to the* grade of major in the Air C•••••'' Service, and is expected to arrive in Coιτϊp«tιy before . f this country soon. , His home address is to 45 Lenox Eoad, Brooklyn, N. Y. • to a . . '18—Arthur G. Jennings was dis- -"Let charged from the Air Service at Gerst- ner Field, Lake Charles, La., on Decem- ber 21. He is now living at 304 East Church St., Elmira, N. Y. ' '18 AB—Lemuel C. Goldstein is a student in the Cornell University Medi- for the you to ίαfi cal College, New York. His home ad- liookkiieijiiig fec|tiires an appreciable dress is 2146 Hughes Avenue, Bronx, ' : It- J3 ' ,tO' '.tϊtlί New York. ' Without lJ€ί|jίatttiJtίίii; Γiβίiίβst iίίct€»ίy* - - ' / '18 AB—Mr. Thomas Whittaker, of ' * ' Ithaca,. has announced the marriage of his daughter, Miss June Harriet Whit- ':: taker, to Clifford Alfred Stanton MS, - . iίvΛ\s^r ,?teK»i^aiif. C»U." "~ι on'December 17, at Ithaca, N. Y. N. 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