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John A. Dix '83 Dies The Committee also appointed Hosea Dr. Felt '94 Retires Webster '80 to the University Engineering Served As Democratic Governor of New College Council. Webster is now presi- Served as New York State Entomologist York State during the Years dent of the Cornell Society of Engineers. Since 1889—Will Become Re- 1910 to 1912 Leaves of absence were approved for search Adviser Professor Harry Caplan Ί6, winner of a John Alden Dix '83, governor of New Guggenheim Fellowship, for a year's Dr. Ephraim P. Felt '94 retired as New York from 1910 to 1912, died in the Har- study abroad under the terms of the York State entomologist on March 31 to bor Sanatorium in New York on April 2 award, for Professor Emile M. Chamot become adviser on shade tree and forest after an illness of three weeks. '91, and for Assistant Professor Guy B. insect problems with the Bartlett Re- He was born in Glens Falls, N. Y., on Muchmore. search Laboratories at Stamford, Conn., December 25, 1860, the son of James The committee also ratified the appoint- after thirty-three years of service to the Lawton and Laura Stevens Dix. He ment of Frederick G. Marcham as assis- State. spent three years at Cornell taking the tant professor of English history and R. S. Dr. Felt became associated with the science course. He was a member of Uhrbrock as assistant progessor of rural State Museum as assistant to the entomo- Theta Delta Chi. education. logist on September 14, 1895,. and suc- Before his entry into politics he was ceeded to the position of State entomo- active in the lumber trade as president of SPERRY SERVICE ORGANIZED logist in 1898. In April, 1923, he left the Thomson and Dix and of the Iroquois The Sperry Rail Service Corporation Museum to work with the Conservation Pulp and Paper Company and treasurer has been orgaized with Elmer A. Sperry Commission, but returned to the Edu- of the American Wood Board Company, '17 as president. Charles W. Gennet, cation Department a year later. and was vice-president of the First Jr., '98, has been named vice-president of Dr. Felt was born in Salem, Mass., National Bank of Albany. the company in charge of all operations. January 7, 1868, graduated from the In 1904 he entered politics as delegate The corporation has been organized for Massachusetts Agriculture College, and to the Democratic National Convention. purpose of extending to railroad companies came to Cornell in 1891. He took the As chairman of the Democratic County the service of its detector cars, whereby degree of doctor of science three years Committee of Washington County in rails in track may be throroughly tested later. One of his first appointments was 1906 he attracted statewide attention and the presence of interior defects may that of specialist in entomology with the and was put forward as a candidate for be located and recorded. Massachusetts Gypsy Moth Commission, governor. He withdrew at that time be- Sperry is a member of Sigma Xi. where he accomplished invaluable work cause of political misunderstandings but Gennet took the degree of mechanical in the control of this pest. in the election of 1910 was elected by a engineer. Dr. Frank P. Graves, State commissioner majority of more than 67,000. of education, in speaking of Dr. Felt's During his administration he obtained STUDENTS RESCUED FROM LAKE retirement, said: "Dr. Felt will retire on a pension and the adoption of the direct primary Thomas E. Miller '28 of Wilmington, nomination system and urged drastic in his new duties will be able to conduct Del., and George J. Olditch '29 of Alta extensive researches in entomology. He economics through the abolition of some Gracia, Cordoba, Argentina, were rescued bureaus and the consolidation of others, will be greatly missed here for his work has from the waters of Cayuga Lake April 8 been highly creditable and has brought and also the imposition of the income tax. when their canoe overturned near Mc- At the beginning of his term there was a distinction to the Museum. In his branch Kinney's Point. They went into the of science he has no superior. In American deficit in the treasury of $1,500,000 and water about three hundred feet from at its close there was a surplus of $4,000, Men of Science, the scientific man's shore and struggled for fifteen minutes Bible, Dr. Felt is starred." He has become ooo; in the meantime the State budget before rowboats from shore reached them. had been increased about $10,000,000. a leading authority in the study of gall- A strong southwest wind was blowing. producing insects. He has done extensive Since the end of his term of office he had research as a pioneer in forest and shade given his attention to his private affairs. THE 1928 CLASS MARSHALS for the tree insects and in the relation of insects He received the honorary degree of LL.D academic procession at Commencement to public health with particular attention from Hamilton College in 1912. this year will be Cyrus Pyle '28 of Wil- to mosquito control. He has published He was married in 1889 to Miss Ger- mington, Del., and Rollin H. Spelman, many volumes on entomology, including trude Alden Thomson. For the past Jr., '28 of Canton, Ohio. John W. White, an extended work on park and woodland three years he had been living in Santa Jr., '28 of Orange, N. J., was named insects; a manual on tree and shrub in- Barbara, Calif. alternate. The appointments were made sects, and many reports, bulletins, and by Colonel Joseph W. Beacham '97, articles in scientific publications. He is NEW APPOINTMENTS chief marshal. also editor of The Journal of Economic Dr. Carl Stevenson of the University FIVE WOMEN were recently made mem- Entomology and chief entomologist of of Chicago has been appointed acting bers of Omicron Nu, honorary society of the Gypsy Moth Bureau. professor of medieval history for the the College of Home Economics. They second term of 1928-29 to take the place are Madeline A. Dunsmore '28 of Hudson THE HONORARY LAW society of the Order of Professor Preserved Smith who will be Falls, Helen C. Allyn '29 of Brooklyn, of the Coif has elected to membership on leave that term. The appointment was Gladys C. Lum '29 of Middleport, Helen Alfred Appel '28 of New York, Harry J. made by the Committee on General Whalen '29 of Bergen, and Rachael W. Pasterneck '28 of New York, and Clifford Administration of the Board of Trustees. Sanders, Grad., of Park Ridge, 111. C. Pratt '28 of Elmira. 344 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Haines scored Skirkowski with a single base, Cooper. Double play, Balderston to right, again filling the bases, but Devers to Steiff to Degenhardt. Bases on balls, ATHLETICS off Froelich 2, off Haines i. Struck out, flied out to Steiff, Polermo was forced by Froelich 3, by Haines 3. Left on bases, out at the plate on Conlon's grounder to St Bonaventure 9, Cornell 6. Time of Win First Home Game Hebert, and McCormick flied out. game, i .40. Umpires, Herold and Divinne With one out in the sixth, St. Bona- Cornell opened the home season on Hoy venture, on hits by Devers and Conlon, Cup for Javelin Throwers Field April 14 with a 3-2 victory over St. started a rally. Walsh, pinch-hitting for John W. Fitzgerald '26, of Brooklyn, Bonaventure in a six-inning game, stopped McCormick, hit into a double play, former varsity track athlete, has presented by a downpour of rain. Cornell scored Badlerston to Steiff to Degenhardt. The a trophy to be known as the Moakley Cup all its runs in the second inning. game was called account of rain. to the sophomore or junior who scores the Froelich, pitching for Cornell, allowed The box score: most points in the javelin throw. The eight hits. His own errors in the fourth cup will be awarded annually for the pre- Cornell 3 inning coupled with a misplay by Balders- AB R H PO A E ceding year, and it will be held by the ton, gave the visitors two runs and brought Cooper, If • 3 0 I o o o winner for the ensuing year. Fitzgerald the threat of more with the bases filled, Hall, ib 3 O o 3 o 0 was a javelin thrower on the track squads but a tightening up of the Cornell de- Degenhardt ib. . . o O o 2 o o of 1925 and 1926. McConnell, cf . . . . O I o o fence halted the St. Bonaventure rally. 3 3 Balderston, ss. . . . 3 O I 0 3 I Crosby started the second inning for Crosby, rf 2 I 2 2 o o Heads Fencers Cornell by singling through second base. Hebert, βb 3 0 O O 3 0 Patsy P. Pirone '29 of Mount Vernon, Stieff, 2b I I O 4 I 0 winner of the University novice fencing Hebert flied to McCormick, but Stieff Gichner, c 2 I I 0 o 4 championship in his freshman year, has walked and Gichner singled. With the Froelich, p 2 o 0 o o 2 been elected captain of the fencing team. bases full, Froelich hit into the infield, and Totals 22 3 6 18 7 3 He has engaged in varsity competition GundelΓs throw to the plate was bad, St. Bonaventure (2) allowing Crosby and Stieff to score. AB R H PO A E during the past two seasons, winning his Cooper flied to Reilly. Hall hit to Polermo Devers, cf 3 o i i o o letter in his sophomore year. Conlon, rf 4 o 2 o o o at third, who let the ball go through him, McCormick, c 3 o o 4 o o Varsity Letters Awarded Gichner scoring. McConnell grounded Reilly, ib 3 o o 6 o o out to Utrecht to end the inning. Utrecht, 2b 3 i i 2 2 o Varsity letters in basketball, wrestling, Skirkowski, If 3 o 2 i o o and hockey were recently awarded by the St. Bonaventure opened up in the fourth, Polermo, βb 2 o i o i i Athletic Council. Freshman numerals in Utretcht leading off vith a double to Gundell, ss 3 o o i o xi basketball, wrestling, and hockey were left. SkirkowsKi hit to Balderston, whose Haines, p 3 i i o i o Walsh x i o o o o o also awarded, as well as varsity insignia throw to Hall was high, and the runner Totals 27 2 8 15 4 2 in hockey and rifle shooting. The awards: was safe. Polermo bunted, and Froe- x: batted for McCormick in sixth. Basketball C lich's bad throw to first gave Polermo a Score by innings: John H. Caldwell '28 of Ithaca, Edward life and let Utrecht score. Gundell also St. Bonaventure 00020 o—2 Cornell 03000 x—3 C. Masten '28 of Woodmere, Theodore hit to Froelich, who threw late to first and Summary: Two-base hits, Utrecht, Schlossbach '28 of Bradley Beach, N. J., the bases were filled. Crosby. Sacrifice hit, Crosby. Stolen (Continued on page 353}

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1872 ooo A. The freshmen, J. V., and fours are not included 000 182 in the record, only Varsity races. The Pough- 182 73 keepsie regatta is included. 74 444 B. Intercollegiates not included in track averages. 444 75 I, OOO Small figures preceedirig give place in indoor 76 I, OOO intercollegiates. Those following give place in 1. 000 77 . — outdoor intercollegiates. '72-'77 525 525

c. Intercollegiates riot included in cross-country 1878 averages. Small figures following give place 79 ooo in intercollegiates. ooo 80 I, OOO υ. The fencing intercollegiates are included where I, OOO 81 ooo a definite ranking to all teams has been given. ooo In other years where the rank in each weapon 82 167 is all that is available the intercollegiates are 167 I OOO 83 1,000 omitted. ; 84 667 E. The wrestling intercollegiates are included. 667 85 I, OOO I, OOO K. Cornell has occasionally been represented at the I, OOO 86 tennis intercollegiates by individuals who won first places. Not figured in averages. 571 87 1,000 200 ooo 400 000 '78-'87 604 59 ί> 534 1888 ,000 625 500 708 89 ,000 300 778 1 (and other superscript numbers) See notes 693 90 ,000 500 637 B and c. 712 91 ,000 417 700 * No record of games played. 706 92 ,000 652 910 OOO 641 — No games played (subject to footnotes B and c.) 93 ,000 789 312 333 ooo 489 ,000 667 ooo t The average of the decade indices, which in 94 737 591 turn are the averages of the figures representing 599 95 500 588 438 200 ooo 1,000 the ten yearly averages for all sports. 454 96 ,000 250 612 ooo ooo OOJ 310 97 ,000 357 612 500 667 627 '88-'97 950 522 609 240 125 333 667 594 1898 800 375 834 333 667 I, OOO I, OOO 716 99 333 529 700 555 500 I .OOO1 250 552 1900 500 1 600 2OO 11 500 515 834 429 3 5 01 ,000 917 500 I, OOO ooo 416 1,000 68 1 542 1 750 02 ooo 650 729 667 I, OOO ooo 555 500 OOO 567 1 03 ,000 478 650 357 I, OOO I, OOO 444 454 500 654 1 04 800 700 650 667 611 333 500 ooo 1 —1 05 ,000 652 600 450 I, OOO 454 205 I, OOO 20O 5OO 606 . 1 . 1 06 ,000 769 819 444 400 192 * 5OO 250 500 400 572 4 1 "7 I, OOO 769 779 I, OOO I ,O00 750 083 i, ooo ooo * 500 688 688 566 8ι 2 ooo1-2 618 606 '98-Ό7 843 756 539 7 293 667 175 375 5°o 544 1908 400 700 I, OOO1 I, OOO1 700 i ooo * 500 786 538 833 l 385 713 09 I, OOO 571 437 600 I, OOO4 500 687 357 250 643 300 577 1 10 1,000 442 687 7H 000° I, OOO 500 467 444 250 333 875 583 333 545 1 1 II I, OOO 560 700 286 I jOOO I, OOO I, OOO 777 i, ooo 250 200 376 333 1,000 , 143 642 2 500 12 I, OOO 481 300 563 2 5oo 462 600 500 286 1,000 643 500 ooo 522 5°° 4 1 13 800 222 611 611 333 500 700 733 OOO — — 167 8θO 750 200 667 507 1 1 14 750 562 800 700 I, OOO I, OOO SOO 875 200 500 910 375 500 333 643 1 2 15 714 538 1,000 312 I, OOO I, OOO 667 750 250 250 875 917 250 333 633 1 1 16 667 591 750 625 I, OOO I, OOO 375 722 500 — ooo i, ooo 333 750 ooo 594 — _ ] 2 .— — 17 — 333 I,OOO I, OOO 375 — — 250 800 626 1 2 2 1 3 623 Ό8-Ί/ 816 501 645 568 783 - 889 - 605 482 333 248 778 558 505 246 600

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Twesten's Army Career prisoners to Fort Marion, Florida. On hill and the shots all went high. My the way one of the Indians disarmed and strides must have been ten feet long." Late Proctor Left Manuscript of Remin- killed a soldier. As luck would have it, the other wagon iscences of Military Career in Goes West Again was at the foot of the hill with a broken South and West After a month's furlough Twesten went axle and the rest of the guard, warned by West to rejoin his company, but the the shooting, were ready with their Theodore Twesten was Proctor in Cor- Presidio in San Francisco was short of men rifles. The robbers were chased into the nell University from 1911 till 1928, from and he was held there. A trip to Omaha λvoods. Two weeks later the command at his fifty-ninth till his seventy sixth year. with a shipment of gold bullion was his Fort Bridger was ordered on dress parade Most of us who knew him then, even those only interesting detail until he joined an and Private Twesten, standing dizzily who had heard his lecture on "Ouster's expedition to Alaska. A whaler had two paces to the front, heard the adjutant Last Fight," had little idea how much brought the rumor of a massacre of whites read an order for his promotion, to date military adventure he had crowded into by natives at a trading post at the mouth from the day of his meritorious conduct. his twenties, how well he had acquitted him- of the Yukon River and the Government He was the youngest non-commissioned self, or how thoroughly he had enjoyed it. hastened to send troops from San Fran- officer in the Army. His rather quiet life in Ithaca was an anti- cisco on the revenue cutter Corwin. Twesten had a narrow escape while climax. From frontier warfare on the Twesten was taken as a volunteer. The serving in one of General Crook's ex- Great Plains he had gone into the Phila- Corwin cruised into Bering Sea but found peditions against the Chiricahua Apaches, delphia police force, and he had left the the rumor false and turned back to who were raiding a wide mountain area in police captain's desk to live among teachers Yakutat Bay, seizing by the way three Arizona and New and Old Mexico under and students. Yet even here on the Cam- British schooners that were poaching on their chiefs Cheto and Geronimo. It was pus there were occasions that brought out the seal preserves. At Yakutat the ex- hard fighting, in a barren country, under flashes of his sturdier qualities—readiness pedition landed and explored the Saint a blazing sky, and against an enemy for duty, fearlessness, and swiftness in Elias range of mountains. always on the run. Government clothing action. On his return from Alaska Twesten was was soon ruined and the soldiers dressed "Five Years in the Regular Army" is sent to Fort Bridger in southwestern like civilian frontiersmen. Crook had the title of a book of reminiscences which Wyoming, where his company had taken little respect for the boundary line when Twesten left in manuscript. He had a post as mounted infantry. From then until the chase led into Mexico and on one story worth telling. In April of 1872, his enlistment expired in 1877 the troops occasion his command was on Geronimo's when he was not quite twenty years old, at Fort Bridger were in the field every trail in the Sierra Madre range in Sonora. he enlisted in Philadelphia because he year. The Utes were uneasy and the Twesten, carrying dispatches back to wanted to see the wild West. The United Apaches, Comanches, and Sioux were on Fort Huachuca, was riding near Fronteras States Army was then only about twenty- the warpath. Twesten earned promotion when a dozen or more Indians on foot five thousand men. Indians trouble be- to corporal and to sergeant. Much of that surrounded him as if risen from the earth. yond the Missouri and the disorders of re- time he was a mounted courier, carrying One of them, known to him by sight, was construction in the conquered South were dispatches from the end of the telegraph Geronimo, then supposed to be far to the keeping it fairly busy. During his five- line to commanders in the field and from south. The chief came up with hand out- year term of enlistment young Twesten one command to another. The courier stretched and spoke to him in English. got plenty of the adventure he had was always a picked man, chosen partly Twesten afterward surmised that the dreamed of. His duties took him from for his sense of locality. His work was Indians had mistaken him for a friendly New York harbor into the heart of extra-hazardous, for he was alone in a outlaw, William Chambers, known as Mexico and from Florida to Bering Sea, hostile and savage country. He traveled Persimmon Bill, whom he resembled. But and he saw some of the Army's hottest light, never made a fire, and never used he had hardly returned Geronimo's Indian fighting. A civilian again, he his gun unless he had to, for his main duty greeting when the chief saw his mistake and drove a stagecoach between the Black was to avoid the enemy. and yelled. Twesten spurred his horse Hills and Hat Creek in Wyoming Terri- Punch Made Him Corporal and cleared the circle. He escaped with a tory, through a country infested with out- It was an inspired punch with his fist flesh wound in the arm. His horse was laws and hostile Indians, and for good that made private Twesten a corporal. shot mortally but ran several miles before measure he hired out for a season as a A detail of eleven men from Fort Bridger it fell. He got another horse at a ranch cowboy. was escorting the paymaster to a post a and went on to Huachuca, bringing his Twesten the recruit got a tough initia- hundred miles north in the Wind River dispatches and the important news of tion of two weeks at Governor's Island Mountains. A six-mule team hauled a Geronimo's whereabouts. and was assigned to Company K of the prairie schooner carrying most of the In Sioux Campaign 4th Infantry at Frankfort, Kentucky. guard, with the tents and provisions, It was in the Sioux War of 1876-77 The company was stationed there for the and a four-mule team hauled an Army that he reached the peak of his military rest of the year, rounding up moonshiners ambulance in which rode the satchel of adventures. The gold-rush to the Black and running down Ku-Klux raiders. currency, the paymaster and his clerk, Hills in 1874 and the opening of Indian Early in 1873 it was employed in putting the driver, the corporal of command of the lands to settlement had enraged the tribes down riots against "carpetbag" govern- guard, and Twesten. On the second day the and by 1876 the whole Sioux nation was in ment in two Southern capitals, Little the ambulance, having set out an hour revolt under Sitting Bull. The Wai- Rock and New Orleans. After ejecting after the big wagon, was held up by robbers Department determined to strike a the Legislature from the State House in One of the gang ordered Twesten, who was decisive blow. Three expeditions, each New Orleans it was besieged in the build- sitting beside the driver, to get out so hopefully supposed to outnumber the ing by a mob for a week until reinforce- that he could reach the satchel. He hostile forces, were sent into the Sioux ments came and cleared the streets. From jumped to the ground. "Then," he country, General Crook from the South, New Orleans the company was sent to the writes, "a crazy idea came into my head General Terry up the Yellowstone River Northwest for the finish of the Modoc and I struck the robber who was holding from the east, and General Gibbon down War. The Modocs, a small Oregon tribe, the wheel mule a fearful blow on the that river from the west. A part of had refused to stay on a reservation and jaw with my fist. As he fell the driver Terry's force was the 7th cavalry under had treacherously killed Gen. Edward whipped up the team and I barely caught Lieutenant Colonel Custer. The troops Canby at a conference. Twesten was one the tailboard of the ambulance. A volley from Fort Bridger were under General of a guard that took several Modoc was sent after us, but we were going down Crook. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 347

In the battle of Rosebud Creek, on Couldn't Catch Custer supplied with fresh meat, for the country June 17, Crook's forces barely escaped "There he goes now, over the bluff. abounded with game, but they were so ambush and were repulsed by Chief Crazy You won't be able to catch him. Better fearful of Indians that the soldiers had to Horse after a sharp engagement. The re- report to Major Reno." do their own pothunting. Twesten's re- treat left Twesten exposed to a crossfire, It was lucky for Twesten, as he was soon port of that outing is not flattering to Cody. with only a mule's carcass for shelter, but to learn, that he had not been told to In the winter of 1874-75 Twesten was he got away with a bullet wound in the overtake Custer, for not a man of the five detailed to accompany a civilian surveyor leg after another soldier had been killed companies that rode with Custer survived to tropical Mexico. After the heat and beside him. Having found the enemy that day. Twesten stayed with Major the tormenting insects of the jungle he much more than a match for his strength, Reno's detachment of the 7th Cavalry enjoyed what remained of the detail— Crook set back and set about making and was in action throughout the day in a loaf of four weeks at Manzanillo while contact with Terry. Twesten, nursing the famous battle of the Little Big Horn. waiting for a boat, a lazy voyage to San his injured leg, was sent north with dis- It was the last pitched battle of the war, Francisco, and a trip to the Yosemite patches sewed into the waistband of his for Sitting Bull and several thousand of Valley. blouse. He was on his way through hos- his followers escaped into Canada. Two kinds of privileged visitors occasion- tile country for a week, in the course of Some peaceful adventures fell to ally diverted the soldiers at Fort Bridger. which Generals Terry and Gibbon joined Twesten even in the years at Fort Bridger. They were the big-game hunters and the forces on the Yellowstone near the mouth In the spring of 1874 he was one of a Eastern scientists. Both kinds came with of the Big Horn, discovered the main body military escort sent with a Government credentials which obtained them military of Sitting Bull's braves not far away, and surveying party into the Arapahoe country escorts. Twesten helped Professor Othniel planned an attack for the 25th. west of the Rattlesnake Mountains of C. Marsh of Yale search for big fossils and Early on the morning of that day Twesten Wyoming. Few soldiers could be spared rode out on shooting trips with General fell in with several troops of the 7th and the expedition recruited a good many Sherman and the Earl of Dunraven. Cavalry on the Little Big Horn River and of "the long haired men of the West." His duties as courier for General Crook's reported to the officer in command, who The elected chief of that party of irregulars command took him regularly to the end told him to give his dispatches to Colonel was William F. Cody, the self-styled of the telegraph line at Red Canyon in Custer. Then, on second thought, the "Buffalo Bill." The "long-haired men" the Black Hills. Prospectors and adven- officer said: were expected to keep the expedition (Conίίnued on page 352}

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THE MURALS OF WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL—COURAGE Photo by Trυμ The series of paintings by Ezra Winter decorating the lobby of Willard Straight Hall is now practically completed. At the right of the Memorial Hall entrance is Courage symbolized by a youth attempting to subdue a unicorn. 348 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

We assume that the record of any of our major opponents will similarly grade down. SPORT STUFF We should like to see the figures. Super- iority in a given branch of athletics, Published for the Alumni Corporation cherished by the alumni, touted by the Three years ago when a university of Cornell University bv the Cornell press, and envied by opponents, will organization needed some loose change in Alumni News Publishing Corporation. probably always find its offset in the order to realize its lofty aims or to pacify Published weekly during the college year and inferiority in other branches, and will not its more disagreeable creditors it gave a monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of be sustained over a period of several dec- dance. Today, under the same circum- September. Weekly publication, numbered con- secutively, ends the last week in June. Issue No. ades with uniformity. stances it brings here some author or artist 40 in published in August and is followed by an either on a straight guarantee or a 60-40 index of the entire volume, which will be mailed The table would, of course, be much on request. more valuable if it were quite complete split. This week and next there is no Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- night without its concert or lecture, vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single and if footnotes could have been supplied copies twelve cents each. indicating the graduation of such and such Cornelia Otis Skinner, Lord Dunsany, Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his heroes, the advent of California competi- John Erskine or what not. The chapter subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that tion, the departure of this coach or that, house must and shall have a new roof. a continuance of the subscription is desired. and other introductions of humanizing Checks, drafts and orders should be made payable When Celebrity X is presented by the to Cornell Alumni News. information. Readers will have to supply LTniversity under one of its many founda- Correspondence should be addressed— their own footnotes, It was our intention tions, and at no admission charge, he Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. not to write a book on the subject, but Editor-in-Chief and ) R. W. SAILOR '07 draws 348. When the same man does his Business Manager j simply to present a table that we felt Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON would be interesting. stuff under the auspices of the College Associate Editors Women's Literary, Contract, and Chowder CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 ROMEYN BERRY '04 MORRIS G. BISHOP '13 Club ($1.50 top) he'll play to 1259 paid H. G. STUTZ '07 M. L. COFFIN WILLIAM J. WATERS '27 COMING EVENTS admissions. Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing The margin is due to more ballyhoo and Corporation; R. W. Sailor, President; W. J. Nor- ton, Vice-President R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; H. G. better salesmanship. Morrill Hall lacks Stutz, Secretary; Romeyn Berry and W. L. Todd, Friday, April 20 Directors. Office: 113 East Green Street, Ithaca, sex appeal. N.Y. Cornell λVomen's Glee Club Concert. Bailey Hall, 8.15 p. m. Even in an idealistic university Youth Member of Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service, Inc. Saturday, April 21 learns the great extra-curricular truth that Printed by The Cayuga Press Baseball, Princeton. Hoy Field, 3 p. m. he sells the most clams who blows his Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Lacrosse, Penn State at State College. horn the loudest. Tennis, Columbia at Ithaca. IiHACA, N. Y., APRIL 19, 1928 Your attention is invited to a full page Wednesday, April 25 advertisement in the rear of this paper Baseball, New York University. Hoy CORNELL'S SHARE OF VICTORY that tells all about Spring Day. Field, 3.30 p. m. R. B. HE INDEX of Cornell's athletic Thursday, April 26 Tprowess, shown in a full-page table in this issue, should provide material for in- Baseball, Columbia. Hoy Field, 3.30 TENNIS ACE PUBLISHES PAPER p. m. teresting speculation. It will probably Francis T. Hunter Ί6, second ranking Friday, April 27 yield many surprises, particularly to tennis player in the United States, and alumni who have forgotten in the dim Track, Pennsylvania relays at Phila- T. Harold Forbes, once a "song and dance past the small game lost on a fluke and delphia. man'7 with George M. Cohen, are remaking remembered only the big victory and its Saturday, April 28 Westchester County journalism, accord- subsequent bonfires. Track, Pennsylvania relays at Phila- ing to a writer in The New York Sun. Some comparisons that may be drawn delphia. from it are manifestly unfair. A schedule Baseball, Dartmouth, Hoy Field, 3 p.m They have been acquiring newspapers in which only a single dual event was in- Tennis, Army at Ithaca. until at the present they own three dailies, cluded counts as heavily in the yearly Lacrosse, Syracuse at Ithaca. six weeklies, and a real estate trade paper, average as a twenty-four-game baseball the combined properties being worth Wednesday, May 2 schedule. A dual swimming meet in- about $3,000,000. fluences the year's results as much as a Baseball, Syracuse. Hoy Field, 3.30 p. m. Speaking of Hunter, the account says dual crew race. Nevertheless comparisons that he "is the thinker—the finanical between different epochs in the same Friday, May 4 planner" of the firm. sport and between different periods in the Baseball, Columbia at New York. total results are valid comparisons. Tennis, Princeton at Princeton. The newspaper account, quoting Forbes, Unfortunately for the accuracy of the Saturday, May 5 says: "We saw that we couldn't possibly table, it was not possible to coordinate the Track, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- compete with the big New York dailies. intercollegiates in track and cross country nology at Cambridge. They have their field, but we thought we under this scheme, whereas the inter- Baseball, Princeton at Princeton. had ours—strictly local news. When we collegiates in rowing, wrestling, and Lacrosse, Hobart at Ithaca. acquired a paper we kept the local editor- occasionally in fencing, tennis, and Tennis, Harvard at Cambridge. ship under our supervision, and we stood swimming, where the complete records and by a month to study the paper's weakness." ranking were obtainable, Λvere included Hunter has been playing tennis since under the proportion of "teams met to >19's REUNION PLANS his Cornell days. He holds with William teams defeated." Occasionally schedules The men of '19 have decided to post- were played without leaving a record pone the 1919 Dix Plan reunion this June T. Tilden the world's doubles champion- that is now available. We should like to in order to concentrate on the Tenth Year ship. He recently appeared at Cornell in have been able to include all these items reunion in June, 1929. A committee will an exhibition with his teammate. More on a completely comparable basis but be chosen to work on the 1929 reunion in recently he was the guest of honor at a saw no way of doing it. the near future. dinner at the Cornell Club of New York CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 349 The Week on the Campus THE COMMON furniture beetle, that makes furniture worm-eaten, lays its AST week and this present one ship test. The test will be a three-hour eggs in crevices of the wood, and these mark the high tide of the annual examination in English literature. Each develop into little white grubs, less than a L flood of lecturers. All day long member of the winning team will receive quarter of an inch long, that at once be- lecturers are lecturing in a hundred lec- $500 worth of books and a medal. The gin to tunnel. They thrive on the diet, ture rooms; and the lecture-addicts, for- judges are to be our Prof. Joseph Q. apparently aided by partner yeast-plants ever craving and unsated, flock to hear the Adams, Professor Charles G. Osgood of in their food canal, and in a year or more imported lecturers lecture through the Princeton, and Professor Alfred K. Potter they turn into beetles that can fly. A long evenings. of Brown. great deal can be done by repeated use of turpentine to combat furniture beetles LORD DUNSANY, of Dunsany Castle, WE WERE VISITED over the week-end by and other household pests. County Meath, Ireland, the famous poet, a party of twenty-five German educators, dramatist, and weaver of fantastic spells, men and women, representing all sorts of DON'T GROW OLD before your time, don't spoke on Saturday on "The Arts and Life." situations in the educational world, from let nervousness wreak your happiness or He was introduced by Professor Morris kindergarten to university. This group chances in life. The man with strong Bishop, of Tuttle Apartments, County of observers was entertained by the steady nerves is full of vigor, energy, Tompkins. Cornelia Otis Skinner, a Division of Education; they visited our ambition, and confidence. You can have brilliant entertainer, edified a large aud- equipment and laboratories, attended nerves of steel, firm step, new courage and ience in Bailey Hall on Thursday with classes, and motored out to the George keen mind by putting nerves in first-class her characterizations. She appeared Junior Republic. shape with mighty LIFETONE TABLETS, a under the auspices of the Clef Club, the new new discovery, inexpensive and efficient. PROFESSOR LARS G. ROMELL, the first organization which seems to be the Band M. G. B. incumbent of the Charles Lathrop Pack in mufti. Professor Harry P. Weld spoke Research Professorship in Forest Soils, at the Sunday Evening Hour in Willard has arrived from Sweden to take up his Straight on "Hypnotism." Professor duties. Professor Romell is one of the THE CLUBS James Franck of the University of Gottin- leading European authorities on his sub- gen delivered a series of five lectures: the ject; he plans to apply to American re- first on "Photochemistry from the Point Chicago search the methods now in vogue in Ger- of View of Spectroscopy" and the follow- At its regular weekly luncheon Thursday many and Sweden. He will be associated ing four on "The Excitation of Quantum April 5 the Club welocmed its president, here in his work with Professor Thomas L. Transitions by Impacts." Professor Wesley Dixon Ί8, back from Nassau to Lyon '91 of the Department of Soils and Franck is the recipient of the Nobel to the present rigors of our revolving Prof. Ralph S. Hosmer of the Department Prize for his researches. H. Van Buren climate. There was an extra good turn- of Forestry. Professor Romell is accom- Magonigle, Fellow of the American In- out for the occasion. Reed Landis, son panied by his wife and their three sons, stitute of Architects and president of the of Judge Kenesaw Landis, gave a talk on Dak, Vigg, and Alv. New York City chapter of the New York aviation, both military and commercial, Institute of Architects, spoke on Friday PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN '03, pro- vivid with anecdote and episode from his on "The Value of Tradition." R. Krishna fessor of agricultural economics and farm personal career. Lall of India addressed the Women's management, has just been appointed On Friday, April 20, at 6.30 p. m. the Cosmpolitan Club on Thursday on the a member of the State Reforestation Club is holding its joint Dutch Supper and conditions in his native land. Commission by Governor Alfred E. Smith. smoker with the Dartmouth Club on the To MAKE SURE that the nation's re- The other appointees of the Governor are seventeenth floor of the Funiture Mart, sources in lecturers be not exhausted, the Nelson C. Brown of Syracuse and Robert 666 Lake Shore Drive. The Cornell and Colleges of Agriculture and Home Econo- W. Higbie of Kew Gardens. The com- Dartmouth Clubs of Milwaukee are in- mics held last week the Second Cornell mission will be especially concerned with vited School for Grange Lecturers. 190 lec- ascertaining the location, value, and area Philadelphia Women turers of the granges in New York and of land in the State unsuitable for agri- culture but available for reforestation. On April 7 the Club was conducted on Pennsylvania registered; the program in- a trip by Betty Anderson Ό8, whose home cluded the discussion of dramatics, farm A CAMPAIGN is under way to stimulate is in old historic Philadelphia, to two out- problems, grange activities, and public the volume of air mail from this city and standing Philadelphia landmarks, the speaking. thereby encourage the Post Office authori- Graphic Sketch Club and Art Center for MEANWHILE the undergraduate orators ties to route the New York-Chicago air the foreign element of the city, and the had their opportunity. A contest was line by way of Ithaca. The local landing Old Swedes' Church. The trip was held last Friday on the subject of "The field is to be considerably improved as a followed by a social time at the home of Meaning of the Constitution;" the winner temptation to aviators. Joseph S. Barr the hostess. Two new members joined is to compete with representatives of Ί8 is chairman of the committee in charge. the Club at the close of the afternoon. eight other colleges of this region to de- THE GENIAL CHAIRMAN of the War Schenectady termine the entry for the national finals, Memorial Fund, Robert E. Treman '09, to be held in June. The contests are con- is the new president of the Ithaca Rotary At the meeting of the Club April 5 ducted by the Better America Federation Club. Harry G. Stutz '07 is the vice- C. D. Lippicott, '24, underground engineer of California; it offers seven cash awards president. for the New York Power and Light Cor- ranging from $350 to $1,500, in order to poration talked on "The Schenectady increase interest in and respect for the THE East Hill Fire Company, No. 9, is System of Traffic Control." Professor Constitution of the United States. It going to get a new hook and ladder, which Vladimir Karapetoff of the College of was obvious last Friday that all the speakers will cost $9,444. Engineering was again a guest of the had the deepest interest in and respect NEWFOUNDLAND is a separate entity of Club. for the Constitution. the British Empire and bears the same A MORE NOVEL undergraduate com- relationship to the Empire that Canada WORK was started during the recess on petition is to be held in Cambridge on does. It has its own parliament, premier, the outing cabin to be erected on the April 30. Ten picked students from Har- and ministry, and issues its own money Morse-Stephens property north of the vard will meet ten from Yale in a scholar- and bonds without regard to Canada. Campus by the Christian Association. 350 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

At some length and with regard for the expressing the soul is now acquiring the BOOKS underlying causes and contributory con- hardness of industry in general; this is a ditions is treated the growth of national- real tendency. . . . Yet the amateur ism and democracy, in France, Germany, is the ultimate conservator of horticul- Present Day History Great Britain, and Russia. In the crea- ture. On him rests the maintenance of World History Today. By Albert E. tion of the German Empire by Bismarck the ideals." McKinley, Professor of History in the we see a situation of far-reaching influence. The chapter in this book which the University of Pennsylvania, Arthur C. "For German unity, though desired by a author himself calls "the most important Rowland '93, Professor of Medieval His- majority of the people, was not the result but the one which will be the least read" tory in the University of Pennsylvania, of popular votes. . . . It was imposed is one on "Candytuft." It explains the and Matthew L. Mann, Principal of the upon the country by the military po\ver of exceeding importance to the science of Richmond Hill High School, New York. an absolute state directed by an absolute horticulture of accurate detailed study of New York. The American Book Com- minister. The empire never wholly lost plants, and the careful recording of the pany. 1927. 20.5 cm., pp. x, 822, xxxviii. the character thus given it. The German results of such study, especially the 29 maps, many illustrations. people were led to believe that war is a making and listing of good herbarium This book, while entirely complete in paying enterprise, and that force is the specimens. This is illustrated by a most itself, is the second of a two-volume final argument in international affairs. interesting account of the writer's exten- series, the first being entitled "World Liberalism, which had been the inspiration sive study of candytuft. "One does not History in the Making,'1 written by the of Germany's best leaders during the pre- discern the differences between plants same authors. Like the first volume, this ceding decades, ceased to be a power in merely by growing them side by side. is of especial value, of course, to the international life.'' The gross characters become apparent at teacher, but, more than the usual text- The nineteenth century is rightly called once, but real diversities are more than book of history, it is also of interest to the the Wonderful Century: an age of intellec- height or shape or color or fragrance or general reader. This is true because of the tual freedom, of enormous advancement in size. Few amateur gardeners distinguish purpose and treatment of the subject, science, of growth of popular education, closely or are sure of the essential marks, which the authors describe as follows: and of social betterment. even though they know the plants by "This book has been written in order to Subsequent chapters set forth the name; and yei the ability to identify, explain how our modern world came to be spread of European civilization through- whether plants or animals or minerals or what it is. For an adequate understand- out the world; the vast expansion of the stars, is perhaps the first requisite in good ing of this present-day life nothing is more British Empire; the partition among the education." valuable than a study of the history of the European countries of Asia and of Africa; Another chapter, headed "307," de- last century and a half. Here are to be the effect of European influence upon scribes a garden plot twenty by forty feet, found the immediate origins of the eco- South America and upon our own country. made by the amateur, in which 307 kinds nomic and political structure of today." The final chapters clearly describe the of plants were grown. The first seven chapters are given to a complicated alliances and rivalries among Other delightful chapters are entitled review of world history down to the the countries of Europe that paved the "The Greenhouse in the Snow," "The eighteenth century: the civilization of \vay for the World War; the causes of the Rock Garden," "The Fruit Garden," ancient times; the remarkable achieve- stupendous conflict; the λVar itself; and "Markets and Catalogues," and "The ments of the early Greeks and Romans; the process of reconstructing a disordered Goals." the Dark Ages, and then the conditions world. Of special interest in the chapter on that led up to the Renaissance and the The value of the book is enhanced by "The Botanic-Garden Idea" is the set ting- Reformation; the growth of these two the numerous excellent illustrations and forth of possibilities of institutional great movements; thus coming down to maps. Each chapter is followed by well gardens on a large scale. The purposes of the close of the seventeenth century, the chosen references for additional reading; such gardens are considered in ten divi- last years of which were marked by the and the subject matter is enlivened by the sions: to popularize plant knowledge di- working out of the cabinet system of addition of pertinent questions and prob- rectly; to conserve the native life of the government in England, and the expan- lems to be solved. There is a detailed and region; to preserve historic plants and sion of European civilization by coloniza- carefully prepared index. species and varieties; to provide a test tion overseas. ground for plants adapted to its territory There follows an account of the French The Garden Lover to introduce new species to cultivation; Revolution, its causes, and the subsequent The Garden Lover. By Liberty Hyde to train gardeners; to supply an adjunct attempts at reform, and the reasons why Bailey. New York. Macmillan. 1928. to the schools; to maintain research; to the first French Republic did not last. 18 cm., pp. iv, 154. Price, $1.50. publish; and to cooperate with other An especially noteworthy chapter has to This volume forms one of the series on similar institutions and agencies for the do with the great Napoleon; not merely The Philosophy of the Holy Earth, or The extension of botanical and horticultural with his brilliant victories and political Background Books. As one of the fore- knowledge. accomplishments, but also with the man, most horticulturists of the country Dr. Thus we see that this small volume is the statesman, and the emperor; above Bailey speaks with authority and also not in the class of the usual garden book all, with the effects of his career upon with the real spirit of the amateur. "The of the day, written in the interest of the France and upon all Europe. growing of plants for the sake of the popular garden clubs, but a serious ex- Further chapters deal with the great plants is the happy privilege of the pression of the true horticulturist, and industrial revolution, the development of amateur." Certainly no one could de- full of wisdom and inspiration. machinery, improvements in the use of light more in that happy privilege than Books and Magazine Articles power, the advance of science, the evolu- does he. tion of the factory system, the iron and Speaking of the present day com- In Th Rochester Alumni Review for coal industries, improved methods of mercial tendencies in horticulture, he February-March Professor Herman L. transportation, and the growth of agri- says: "As in agriculture in general, the Fairchild '74 writes a "Reminiscence and culture; all these, and the social changes horticultural part of it is now largely Appraisement of Henry Augustus Ward." evolving from them, marked a great wave visioned as a commercial undertaking- Miss Gail Laughlin '98, now a lawyer in of growth and change that spread first only; its methods, and particularly the Portland and a member of the Maine over England, then over the Continent, varieties of plants, must be standardized. Legislature, on February 6 participated in and even to America. . . . What was formerly an occupation a debate with President Gray of Bates CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 351

College on the subject of coeducation vs. Geodesy, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- versity, who is to be a member of the next women's colleges. President Gray upheld vey, discusses "The Triangulation of the California Summer Session faculty at coeducation while Miss Laughlin, who Lτnited States." There are obituaries of Los Angeles. took her undergraduate work at Wellesley, Charles B. Wheelock '76, Carl E. Davis In The Columns for March Dr. Milton championed the cause of the women's '91, and Robert LΉommedieu Tate Ίi. Marx '27 reviews "The Wayward Man" colleges. The debate is reported in The Carlos D. Hart, M.E. Ό6, now with the by St. JohnG. Ervine. Harvey C. Mans- Batei Alumn s for February. No decision Western Electric Company at 100 Centra] field '27 reviews Emil Ludwig's "The was asked for. Avenue, Kearny, N. J., at the regional Trilogy of a Fighter," plays dealing with In The Notre Dame Alumnus for March meeting of District No. 5 of the A. L E. E. Bismarck and his contemporaries. Dr. Thomas O'Hagan, '93-4 Grad., who is on November 28-30, 1927, read a paper on In School and Society for March 24 a Notre Dame LL.D., writes on "The "Recent Developments in the Process of Professor Theodore H. Eaton has a note Poetry of Professor [Charles] Phillips." Manufacturing Lead Covered Telephone on "The Bureau of Research Under the In The Cornell Civil Engineer for March Cable." The paper has been printed. School Superintendent.'' Foster S. Bowden '27 writes on "Concrete In The New York State Journal of A book by Edward L. Bernays '12 on Ties on the Pennsylvania Railroad." Pro- Medicine for February 15 Dr. Thomas F. public relations and its function in the fessor Ernest W. Rettger writes on Laurie '07 has an article on "Clinical Ex- present social and economic structure is "Aristotelianism." There are obituaries periences with Urinary Calculi." Dr. announced for early publication by Boni of Edwin Hilborn '91, Elmore D. Cum- Alexander Mason is named as a collabo- and Liverwright. mings '89, Frederick H. Avery '97, rating author. In The American Journal of Hygiene Lawrence H. Smith '07, Alger E. Hunkin In The American Journal of Psychology '20, and Virgil S. Onstott '21. for March Professor Robert Matheson for January Dr. William T. M. Forbes, Ό6 and E. H. Hinman publish two papers, In The Classical Weekly for March 5 '08-9 Grad., writes on "An Interference "Chara Fragilis and Mosquito Develop- "Aristotelianism" by John Leofric Stocks Theory of Color Vision." Jay P. Guil- ment" and "A New Larvicide for Mos- is reviewed by Professor Lane Cooper. ford, Ph.D. '27, and Professor Karl M. quitoes." The new larvicide is borax. "Thucydides: a Study in Historical Dallenbaeh, Ph.D. '13, present "A Study The two papers have been reprinted in a Reality" by G. F. Abbott is reviewed by of the Autokinetic Sensation." Professor pamphlet. Professor Max W. L. Laistner. In the Dallenbaeh contributes a "Bibliography In The Journal of Physical Chemistry issue for March 12 the lecture on "Aris- of the Waitings of Edward Bradford for April Professor Wilder D. Bancroft totle" by John Burnet is reviewed by Titchener: 1917-1927." Professor Chris- λvrites on "The Displacement of Equilib- Professor Cooper. In the issue for March tian A. Ruckmick, Ph.D '13, of the Uni- rium by Light" and reviews "Pyro- 19 is begun a serial review of Professor versity of Iowa, reviews "The Trend of metry" by W. P. Wood and J. M. Cork, Cooper's "The Aristotelian Theory of History: Origins of Twentieth Century "The Theory of Strong Electrolytes: a Comedy" by Kendall K. Smith. Problems" by William K. Wallace. Pro- General Discussion Held by'the Faraday fessor Harry Kelson, formerly of Cornell, Professor Daniel C. Knowlton '98 of Society April, 1927," and the second now of the University of Kansas, reviews Yale is one of the authors of the Webster- volume of "The Annual Survey of Chem- "Die Lehre vom Raumsinn des Auges" Knowlton-Hazen European History Maps istry" edited by Clarence J. West. published by A. J. Nystrom & Co., of by F. B. Hofmann. Professor Edwin G. Chicago. There are four series, Ancient, Boring Ό8 of Harvard reviews the first In The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Medieval-Modern, Early and Modern, and volume of George Sarton's monumental for April Professor Edwin J. Bartlett of World History, and the prices per set "Introduction to the History of Science," the Dartmouth department of chemistry range from $36.75 to $144. covering the period from Homer to Omar by request reviews Romeyn Berry's Khayyam. Professor Dallenbaeh reviews "Sport Stuff." He praises the book in Power for April 12, 1927 Bert "The Case For and Against Psychical Be- highly; the only fault he finds is the use of Houghton '92 and D. C. Weeks had an lief" by Sir Oliver Lodge and others. "frosh." article on "Why Metals Fail Under In- Professor Paul J. Kruse reviews "Psycho- fluence of Steam Once Superheated." In In The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine for logical Principles Applied to Teaching" The Electrical World for May 21, 1927 April Professor Alexander Meiklejohn by W. H. Pyle and "Psychology for Child Houghton discussed "Operating Problems writes on "The Experimental College." Training" by Dean Arland D. Weeks Όi in Interconnections." Houghton is operat- There is a portrait of Professor Frederick of the North Dakota State College. Pro- ing superintendent of the Brooklyn E. Turneaure '89, who has lately returned fessor Ruckmick has a note on "Empirical Edison Company. from a trip to South America. There he Psychology." Professor Louis B. Hoising- visited his son, Stewart Turneaure, In The American City for March ton, Ph.D. '20, writes a note on "The Wisconsin '21, who is engaged in geological William L. Havens Ί6 of Cleveland de- Wittenberg Symposium of Feeling and work in Bolivia. scribes "The Sewage Treatment Works at Emotion." Delaware, Ohio." In Science for March 23 Dr. Carlotta In The American City Magazine for J. Maury '96 has a note on "Trinitasia: in The Historical Outlook for March May, 1927, Russell Van Nest Black Ί6 had a New Molluscan Genus from South "World History in the Making" and an illustrated article entitled "A Few America." In the issue for March 30 World History Today" by Professors Al- Governing Principles of Regional Plan- Dr. λ^ernon L. Kellogg, '91-2 Grad., has bert E. McKinley, Arthur C. Howland '93, ning as Observed in the Philadelphia Tri- an announcement about "The Fourth anq Matthew L. Mann are reviewed by State District." In the Annals of the Pacific Scientific Congress" and Dr. Lena C. Van Bibber. American Academy of Political and Social William T. M. Forbes, '08-9 Grad., has In The Saturday Evening Post for March Science for September, 1927, Black wrote a note on "Lepidoptera of New York." on "The Spectacular in City Building." 17 Professor Morris Bishop '13 presents a In Modern Language Notes for April skit entitled "The Tattoot Collection." In The Michigan Alumnus for March 17 Dr. Coolidge O. Chapman '24, of Williams, In The Cornell Civil Engineer for Feb- there is an appreciative review of Rym has an article on "The Parson's Tale: ruary Paul L. Pierce Ό6, of Pensacola, Berry's "Sport Stuff." The book is also a Medieval Sermon." Professor Clark S. writes on "Florida Highways." Myron reviewed by G. G. in The Oberlin Alumni Northup '93 reviews Albert H. Tolman's W. Turner Ίi, chief engineer of the Magazine for April. '' Falstaff and other Shakespearean Topics.'' Manitoba Paper Company, Ltd., describes The California Monthly for March con- Otto Patzer reviews "Flaubert's Youth" "The Manitoba Paper Industry." Wil- tains a portrait of Professor Joseph A. by Professor Lewis P. Shanks '99 of liam Bowie, chief of the Division of Leighton, Ph.D. '94, of Ohio State Uni- Johns Hopkins. 352 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

He was born in Wisconsin in 1855. land, Park Avenue, and St. Mary's OBITUARIES His father was Eleazer Wakeley, who was Hospital medical staff. He was a member appointed a territorial judge in Wisconsin of the American Medical Association, by President Buchanan, and who served the Medical Society of New York State, Ida Preston Nichols '76 many years on the bench after Nebraska and the Cornell Club of Rochester. On March 29 we mentioned the death was admitted as a State. His mother He was married in 1907 to Miss Eliza- of Mrs. Ida Preston Nichols '76, wife of was a member of the Cooper family of beth Bashore, who survives him, with two Professor Edward L. Nichols '75, on Cooperstown, N. Y., of which James sons, Robert W. and Roscoe Squires, Jr., March 12 in Coconut Grove, Fla. It is Fenimore Cooper was the most distin- and three sisters. guished member. probable that the Cornellians of the Irving D. Robinson '09 eighties and nineties who did not know Wakely graduated with the degree of Word has been received of the death in Mrs. Nichols are far outnumered by those B. Lit. He was a member of Alpha Delta 1918 of Irving Dow Robinson. who look back with gratitude to the Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, the Sprague Boat He was born in Barstows Corners, gracious hospitality of her open-house Club, and the Era Board. He represented N. Y., on March n, 1884, the son of Thursday evenings. At a time when little Cornell at the intercollegiate oratical con- John G. Robinson. commercial and organized entertaiment test in 1878. He was at Cornell from 1907 to 1909, was available, her kindly thought and He studied law at the Columbia Law taking special work in agriculture. skill as a hostess did much to make college School, and practised in Omaha from 1881 life bearable for the lonely and homesick until 1916, when he became judge of the George T. Gould '24 District Court (closely corresponding to among both Faculty and students, and George Tyzzer Gould was drowned last to provide a graceful, simple occasion the Supreme Court in New York State) an office which his father had distinguished July 4, while bathing at Orleans, Mass. where unrelated groups might get ac- He was born in Melrose, Mass., on quainted and charming congenialities before him. He held this until his death. He served for some time on the Board January I, 1903. might develop. Probably her own amazing He attended Cornell from 1920 to versatility made possible her skillful of Education of the City of Omaha, and was a lecturer on civil law at Creighton 1923, taking mechanical engineering. handlings of these kaleidescopic groups. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho. Mrs Nichols was a member of the Epis- University. In 1890 he married Miss Fanny copal Church, alert for the opportunities Twesten's Army Career that life affords for acts of charity and Dalrymple Wall of Maryland, who sur- kindness. vives him. (Continued from page 347) After her student years at Cornell and William H. K. Herron '90 turers of all sorts swarmed to the gold before her marriage she had taken a diggings. Deadwood and camps now William Henry Kerr Herron died in course in art at Cooper Union. She pro- forgotten boiled with excitement. He Cleveland on October 10, of heart and vided the mechanical drawings for some knew Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane kidney trouble. of her husband's earlier textbooks, and Carey, Colorado Charlie Utter and others He was born in Cleveland on' January also many botanical drawings for Dr. whom everybody knew or pretended to 14, 1869, the son of Hiram C. and Mary Liberty Hyde Bailey at various times. know. When he left the Army in April of Ann Kerr Herron. He spent a year at She was the author of charming 1877 he got a job as driver for the Cheyenne Cornell taking civil engineering. childrens' books, among them "Mrs. and Black Hills stage line and success- 7 He spent most of his life as a real estate Corn's Party' which she illustrated fully drove coaches between Red Canyon dealer in Cleveland, developing the section with exquisite play of fancy. A number and Hat Creek during the rest of that known as Woodland Hills. He donated of her short stories for children and fairy year. Coaches before him and behind large tracts of land to the city for park tales were published in Harpers Young him were attacked by Indians or "road purposes. People. She played an active part in the agents/' but he was never attacked and He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Choral Club, which provided the Ithaca he never lost a pound of mail. Calamity Herron, and a son, George W. Herron of of the eighties and nineties with Gilbert Jane, he says, once waited twenty-four New York. and Sullivan opera. Always intensely hours for his coach she believed he must practical in her attitude toward concrete Fredonia Allen '00 have .some kind of a charm, very likely a powerful rabbit's-foot in the boot of problems, she astonished her friends by Fredonia Allen died at ther home in the coach. inventing for her sewing machine a darn- Indianapolis, Ind., on August 27. ing attachment which she used for many She was born in Indianapolis on July Returns to Philadelphia years. 27, 1868, the daughter of Henry and Ann From the West Twesten went home to In the latter part of her life Mrs. Tudor Allen. She graduated with the de- Philadelphia and soon afterward joined Nichols traveled extensively with Pro- gree of Ph.B. the police force. He served there for fessor Nichols, visiting Java, Australia, In 1902 she founded the Tudor Hall twenty-five years, earning promotion to Japan, China, and North Africa. In School for Girls in Indianapolis, and de- lieutenant and acting captain. It was Europe they explored the unfrequented voted her life to its management. In re- at a Pennsylvania-Cornell football game bye-ways. Since an illness in Europe cognition of the high scholastic standing that the late Professor Rowlee, who was two years ago she had suffered a consider- of the school, in 1926 she was made an then chairman of the Committee on able loss of memory. She realized her honorary member of the College Entrance Student Affairs and was looking for a man condition and bore it with distinguished Examination Board. to fill the new office of Proctor, met patience and dignity. Twesten and decided that he had found Her son, Robert P. Nichols Ό6, is with Roscoe S. Wilcox '05 the right man. His conduct of the office Edison at Menlo Park, N. J. Her Roscoe Squires Wilcox dies in Rochester for seventeen years confirmed that judge- daughter, Mrs. Montgomery Throop on March 24, after a three-months' illness ment. (Elizabeth Nichols '05) resides in Shanghai of nephritis. There was a curious accidental propriety but has been in this country for the past He was born in Bergen, N. Y., on June in his inauguration of a university office, year with her husband and six children. 14, 1882, the son of Halsey H. and Anna for his grandfather, August Detlev Squires Wilcox. He received the degree Christian Twesten, had been a professor in Arthur Cooper Wakeley '78 of M. D. the University of Berlin, Schleiermacher's Arthur Cooper Wakeley died suddenly He had practiced medicine in Rochester successor in the chair of theology. One in Omaha, Neb., on March 23. since 1907 and was a member of the High- of the professor's sons, Carl Twesten, a CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 353

graduate of Heidelberg and a councilor in λVood '30 of Woodville, Obie J. Smith, Berlin, fought a duel in 1861 with Baron Jr., '30 of Indianapolis, Ind., and John THE ALUMNI General von Manteuffel, afterward field B. Spring '30 of Ithaca. marshal and commander-in-chief of the Prussian army. He was wounded but Captains and Managers '84—Richard Ware writes that he has lived to enter the Prussian Parliament and Elections of captains and managers been traveling for many months in Europe lead in the formation of the national and assistant managers were recently with Charles J. French '84. λVare's liberal party. Another son, Anton ratified by the Athletic Council. The men address is Union Trust Company, Wash- August Twesten, Theodore's father, came named were: ington, D. C. to America about 1848. The Proctor Joseph W. Stanley '28 of Santa Clara, '94 AB; '95 BS—Jerome B. Lanafield remembered him as a man of strong Cal., 1928 captain of wrestling; Glen D. has recently purchased a fruit farm near character and military bearing. Stafford '30 of Cortland, 1929 captain of St. Helena, Calif., and expects to spend The Proctor had that easy patience wrestling; Earl C. Clark, Jr., '29 of New about half his time there. His address which sometimes goes with great physical Hartford, 1929 captain of hockey; and is 161 West Fifty-fourth Street, New courage and there was a real kindness Thane R. Halstead '28 of Somerville, York. His farm is a few miles from the under his professional suavity. For- N. J., 1928 captain of tennis. Silverado Ranch of George P. Dyer '95. Managers named were Robinson C. bearing as he Λvas generally he was capable '98 BS—Charles H. Blair has moved Glazebrook '29 of Washington, D. C., of red-hot indignation at perversity. "I his office to 115 Broadway, New York. basketball; Arve S. Wikstrom'29 of Mont- am your friend in this affair, my boy," He lives at 40 West Fifty-ninth Street. he used to say, "but next time I'll be clair, N. J., freshman basketball; ΛVilliam Όo—Julian C. Smith, who is vice- your prosecutor." While unschooled in D. Phelan '29 of Washington, D. C., wrest- president and general manager of the the ways of his academic associates he ling; Robert H. Crum '29 of Newark, N. J., Shawinigan Water and Power Company in was wise enough to remain simple and he hockey; and Thomas E. Shaffer '29 of Montreal, was recently installed as presi- kept their respect. Sometimes his simpli- Williamsport, Pa., fencing. dent of the Engineering Institute of city was positively winning. A member Assistant managers chosen were John Canada for 1928. He is also vice-presi- of the Faculty, one inclined to be critical K. Hewson '30 of Madison, X. J., basket- dent of the Dominion Engineering Works of faulty speech, after hearing Twesten ball; Henry B. Williams '30 of Easton, and president of the Quebec Power Com- tussle with the word "baccalaureate" Pa., freshman basketball; Robert I. pany of the Montreal Tramways. declared that the word was a silly and Hood '30 of Corning, wrestling; John B. misbegotten offspring of pedantry and Atwood '30 of Pittsburgh, Pa., soccer; '02 AB—A daughter was born on March ought to be kept out of the way of an Stephen F. Dunn '30 of Scranton, Pa., 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.'Taussig. honest man's tongue. hockey; and Frederick W. Kilborne '30 She was named Ellen for Mr. Taussig's WOODFORD PATTERSON '95 of Moravia, fencing. mother, who died suddenly on March 26. The Taussigs have another daughter, and Varsity Letters Awarded GARGOYLE, honorary architectural soc- two sons. Taussig is a member of the iety, has elected six men to membership. law firm of A very, Taussig and Fisk at (Continued from poge 344) They are Richard C. Murdock '28 of 220 Broadway, New York. Sidney D. Beck '29 of Trenton, X. J., Ossining, George M. Schofield '28 of '02 CE—Charles H. Snyder has been Donald F. Lay ton '29 of Montour Falls, Montvale, Stanley ΛV. Abbott '29 of appointed city engineer of Oswego, N. Y. Isidore Stein '29 of Brooklyn, Robert W. Yonkers, Robert E. Alexander '29 of '02 ME—Warren B. Flanders is assis- Lewis '30 of Grand Gorge, and George N. Westfield, N. J., Erring B. Brauner '29 tant manager of engineering at the South Hall '30 of Gary, Ind. of Ithaca, and Gerald M. Gilroy '29 of Philadelphia works of the Westinghouse Wrestling C Utica. Electric and Manufacturing Company. John T. Holsman '28 of Chicago, 111., CAMERON M. FISHER '30 of New York He has recently been commissioned a William T. Holsman '28 of Chicago, 111., has been elected president of the Cornell lieutenant-commander in the United States Joseph W. Stanley '28 of Santa Clara, Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional Naval Reserve, and assigned to special CaL, Charles L. Johnson '28 of Charles- journalistic fraternity. Other officers engineering duty. ton, W. Va., Hyman Josef son '29 of named are Harry Case '29 L. of Janes- '03 CE—Thomas S. Newman is secre- Middletown, George E. McConnell '29 7 ville, W is., vice-president, Francis H. tary-treasurer of the W. C. Newman of New York, Richard G. Roess '29 of Schaeffer Jr., '29 of Newburg, secretary, Corporation, producers of oil and gas. Oil City, Pa., Glen D. Stafford '30 of and Philip H. Freund '29 of Detroit, His address is 504 South Locust Street, Cortland, and Howard S. Johnson '30 Mich., treasurer. Okmulgee, Okla. of Charleston, W. Va. PROFESSOR DWIGHT SANDERSON '98, Ό6 ME—James M. Acklin is president Hockey C speaking in Binghamton before the Civic of the Acklin Stamping Company in Charles L. Macbeth '28 of Ottawa, Club on March 29, sharply criticized Toledo, Ohio, manufacturers of sheet metal Canada, Andrew G. Sharp '28 of Cleveland Judge Lindsey's proposal of the experi- articles. Heights, Ohio, James B. Taylor, Jr., '28 ment of companionate marriage. It is '09 AB—Winfield S. Keenholts is of Ithaca, Earl C. Clark, Jr., of New not a new solution of the problem, having manager of the Karachi, India, branch of Hartford, and Ernest H. Kingsbury '29 been advocated many years ago. "The the Standard Oil Company of New York, of Ithaca. main criticism of Judge Lindsey and operating in northwest India. Hockey Insignia others \vho advocate some such solution John R. Parker, Jr., '30 of Schenectady, of the family problem is that while they Ίo LLB—Daniel J. Reilly is manager Dudley N. Schoales '29 of Cleveland tell how things are going to be under such of the new Ford Hotel in Erie, Pa. Heights, Ohio, Carl L. λVeagant '29 of a regime, they do not give scientific '12 LLB—Francis P. Cuccia lives at Douglaston, Richard C. Llop '30 of Ithaca, evidence. Wτhat change is likely to occur 8724 Ninety-seventh Street, Brooklyn Donald H. Uffinger '30 of Summit, N. J., under the education now in progress? Manor, N. Y. A son, Eugene, was born Francis Long '30 of Braintree, Mass., We have allowed invention and industiy on March 8. The family includes three and Donald McPherson '30 of Ithaca. to go on, and then adapted ourselves to other boys, and a daughter. Rifle Insignia it. Shall we continue this, or shall we '12 ME—Frederick R. Crowell is Walter H. Bunke '28 of Montclair, N. J. think out some means of changing things general manager of the Delaware River Howard J. Jaffee '29 of Brooklyn, Abbott which will make it necessary to adapt Jute Mills in Philadelphia, Pa. He lives A. Lippman '29 of New York, Willard M. conditions to the best good of the family?" at i Barrie Road, Narberth, Pa. 354 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'13—William R. M. Very's address an interne for two years at the New York Rudd. He is associated with the law firm is in care of the Welsbach Company, Hospital and for three years at the New of Rudd and Griffin of Utica and Clinton, Gloucester, N. J. Mrs. Very, who was York Eye and Ear Infirmary. N. Y. formerly Miss Margaret M. Ross, died '17 BS—Marshall E. Farnham is '21 AB—Walter S. Schmidt is in the recently. superintendent of golf courses at the commerical department of the Buffalo, '14 PhD—Wheeler P. Davey is pro- Philadelphia Country Club. His address Niagara and Eastern Power Corportion. fessor of physical chemistry at the school is Bellevue, Spring Mill Road, West Con- His address is 100 Perry Street, Buffalo. of Chemistry and Physics at Penn- shohocken, Pa. A son, Barrett Evarts, '21 CE—Dr. G. Mina of New York has sylvania State College. He has done was born on December 3. announced the engagement of his daughter, extensive research work in x-rays and '17 ME—H. Wallace Caldwell is presi- Josephine Mina, to Salvatore J. Scaccia- crystal structure, and is the inventor of dent of the H. Wallace Caldwell Realty ferro. Miss Mina received the degree of water japan. Company at 307 North Michigan Ave- A.B. from Barnard in '25, and of A.M. '15 AB—Michael Sophrin on March i nue, Chicago. In January he was ap- from Columbia in '27. Scacciaferro lives formed a partnership with Dwite H. pointed a member of the Lincoln Park at 506 Highland Ave., Clifton, N. J. Schaffner for the practice of law under Board by Governor Small, and in February *2ij '22 ME—George S. Dunham is the firm name of Sophrin and Schaffner. a member of the Chicago Board of director of research of the White Eagle Their offices are at 1011-12 Second Education by Mayor Thompson. He Oil and Refining Company. His address National Bank. Building, Akron, Ohio. lives at 446 Oakdale Avenue. is 140 Seventh Street, Augusta, Kans. Mr. Schaffner received his Ph.B and A. M. Ί8, '19 AB—Dr. Charles F. Acker- '21 AB—George A. Boyd has been ap- from Bucknell and LL.B. from the Uni- knecht is practicing medicine in Schenect- pointed an assistant secretary to the versity of Michigan, and is a former ady, N. Y. His address is 1410 Union American Fore Companies. assistant prosecuting attorney of Summit Street. ; County, Ohio. 22 ME—Sydney G. Berliner, who was Ί8 ME—The engagement has been an- married recently to Miss Eleanor Simon, Ί6 AB; '23 ME; '27 ME—Robert A. B. nounced of Fred W. Sultan to Miss Byrd is now living at 21 Fountain Place, New Goodman is assistant secretary in charge Wagner of St. Louis. Rochelle, N. Y. of group insurance of the Southwestern '19, '20 BS—Stanley A. Tompkins on Life Insurance Company in Dallas, '22 AB, '23 AM—Margaret J. McKelvey January i became manager of the newly Texas. He was married in 1924 to Miss is a teacher in the Thomas Jefferson organized Kodascope Editing and Titling Elizabeth Vardell, Smith '21. They have High School, Pennsylvania and Dumont Service at 350 Madison Avenue, New a two-yea'r-old daughter, Elizabeth. Good- Avenues, Brooklyn. She lives at 8419 York. The organization edits and titles man writes that Carl C. Weichsel '23 is 118th Street. all classes of home motion pictures, re- secretary of the Great National Insurance '22 AB, '26 MD—Robert S. Ackerly pairs broken film, and writes scenarios Company in Texas, of which he was one is a surgical interne at the Post Graduate and continuities. Tompkins lives at of the organizers, and that Robert F. Hospital in New York. His engagement R. D. 3, Somerville, N. J. Weichsel '27 intends to be an actuary has been announced to Miss Pauline and is now working for the North American '19 BS; '20 AB—Arthur C. Booth has Morgan, Mount Holyoke '26. Reassurance Company in New York. recently bought a two-hundred-acre fruit '22 BS—A daughter, Nancy Elizabeth, ?ι6 ME—Jaime Annexy, Jr., is super- farm near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., which he was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Merrill intendent of the Central Sugar factory at is running. He is also connected with the on March i. Merrill has recently severed Mayaguez, Porto Rico. New York Telephone Company. Mrs. connections with the Regional Plan of Booth was Mabel Lamoureux '19. They Ί6 AB; Ί6; ;ι6 ME—Gurney A. Lunt New York conducted by the Russell Sage have two children, Patricia, who is six, is manager of the Cincinnati office of the Foundation, to become assistant planning and Robert, aged three. Their address is International Time Recording Company. engineer for the Regional Planning R. F. D., Pleasant Valley, Duchess He lives at 3901 Oak Street, Manemut, Federation of the Philadelphia Tri-State County, N. Y. Ohio. He writes that Robert N. Olin is District. His address is 1612 Fox Build- Superintendent of buildings for the City '20—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Livingston ing, Philadelphia. of Cincinnati, and that Vernon B. Chase Reeve of New York have announced the '23 ME—Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Edsell of Ί6 is vice-president of the Metal Special- engagement of their daughter, Imogene Cedarhurst, N. Y., have announced the ity Company on Cincinnati. J. K. Reeve, to John W. Snowden, 3d. engagement of their daughter, Lila Ί6 AB—The address of Frank J. Dur- '20 AB; '22 BS; '20 CE; '21 AB; '21 Isabel, to Richard Stevens. ham is 2021 Jarvis Avenue, Chicago. AB; '26 EE—Charles E. Souter is a '23 ME—Charles A. Yeatman was He has a daughter, Marion Anne, born Presbyterian minister. Mrs. Souter was married in La Grange, 111., on December last August. Dorothy J. Stevenson '22. They live at 13 to Miss Jennette M. Hay ward, Uni- '17 BS—Simon D. Shoulkin operates in Delaware Avenue, Long Beach, Long versity of Chicago '26, daughter of Ralph a small animal hospital at 434 South Island, N. Y. She sends in the following B. Hay ward '99. Yeatman is the son of Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y. He received notes: Paul M. Van Camp '20 is working Walter C. Yeatman '99. Mr. and Mrs. the degree of D.V.M. from Ohio State on an engineering job at Freeport, Long Yeatman are living in Long Beach, Calif., University in 1920. Island. Francis D. Wallace '21 was in- where he is on the engineering staff of the stalled as the minister of the Presbyterian Shell Oil Company. 717—W. H. Locke Anderson is general Church at Richmond Hill on March 2. '24 AB; '24 AB; '25 AB, '26 AM—Mr. superintendent of the Canonsburg Pottery A daughter, Carol Elizabeth, was born in and Mrs. Roy C. Lytle now live at 1137 Company. His address is Box 122, November to Chester B. Smith '21 and West Thirty-eighth Street, Oklahoma Canonsburg, Pa. Mrs. Smith, who was Mildred E. Sherk City, Okla. Mrs. Lytle was A. Virginia '17, '19 LLB—Locke, Babcock, Holli- '22. Archibald E. Stevenson '26 is assist- Baugh '24. Lytle writes that Daniel W. ster and Brown, lawyers in Buffalo, N. Y., ant head of the turbine test department Hogan '25 has recently been elected as- have announced the admission to the firm of the General Electric Company. He sistant cashier of the Farmers National of George A. Newbury. lives at 18 Union Street, Schenectady. Bank of Oklahoma City. '17, ;2o MD—Rufus L. Durfee has '21 LLB—Mrs. Ernest Fiedler Neilson '24 BLA—Carl F. Wedell was married opened offices at 27 Arthur Street, Bing- of Newburgh-on-Hudson, N. Y., has an- om March 17 to Miss Evelyn Gram, hamton, N. Y., for the treatment of eye, nounced the engagement of her daughter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. ear, nose, and throat diseases. He was Helen Frances Neilson, to Thomas B. Gram of Buffalo. Among the ushers were CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 355

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THE Mississippi was rising sullenly The world hears little of "the •—ripping jagged crevasses in even spirit of service'' until times of emer- the most stoutly built levees, inun- gency and disaster . . . when a dating wide areas of farm lands, making flood on the Mississippi or in New England, thousands homeless. a storm in Florida or St. Louis commands At one of the many towns facing the the attention of the whole nation. But crisis, a break came spreading ruin through behind the scenes this spirit is always pres- the streets. A government steamer rescued ent. Each hour of every day, telephone 900 refugees, but the four telephone opera- calls of life or death importance speed over tors refused to forsake their posts. The the wires of the nation-wide system, and telephone company notified the operators telephone users confidently rely upon the that they were not expected to stay. loyalty and devotion to duty of the men Friends warned them to leave at once. and women who make this service possible. They decided to remain on duty, and the "Get the message through/' That is the exchange was the only thing in town that daily work of the more than 310,000 Bell continued to carry on. System employees. 356 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

James H. Luther '23, Charles H. Capron development of the Stewart Motor Cor- CORNELL LAW QUARTERLY '24, Fred M. Dorris '25, and Ray S. Ash- poration in Buffalo. He lives on South bery '25. Mr and Mrs. Wedell are living Creek Road Hamburg, N Y. Among the leading articles in the issues of the current volume XIII at 34 Rugby Road, Buffalo. Wedell is a '25 AB—John D. Cooper, Jr., is manager are; landscape architect at 505 Delaware of the homes department of the Calumet The Relation of International Law Avenue. Realty and Mortgage Company in Miami, to International Peace '24 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Addison Ross Fla., a company recently organized by James L. Brίerly Pike of Winchester, Mass., haveannounced Francis S. Whitten of New York to take the engagement of their daughter, Katha- care of his properties in southern Florida The Proposed Rule on Collision rine, to Edgar S. May. end to conduct a general real estate and Damage Alfred Huger '24 AM, '26 PhD—Dr. Richard Beck, mortgage business. '26 CE—Philip R. Garges was married Suspension of the Power of Aliena- assistant professor of English at St. on March 3 to Miss Mary Estelle Tyler tion in New York Olaf's College, Northfield, Minn., will of Aldie, Va. Garges, who graduated Horace E. Whiteside go next year to Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., as professor of English and head of from West Point before attending Cornell, The Strange Case of Florida v. the department of English. Thiel Col- is a lieutenant in the Army. He and his Mellon lege is a German Lutheran coeducational wife will live in Juneau, Alaska. Arthur W. Machen, Jr. institution of about three hundred stu- '26 AB; '26 ME; '26 CE; '27 AB; '27 Confidential Relations and Un- dents, with a faculty of about thirty AB-—-Charles B. Howland is in his second enforcible Express Trusts members. year at the University of Pennsylvania George G. Bogert '25 AB—Rose Spiegel has received an Law School. He lives on Guernsey Road, Stock Issues Under the Proposed appointment as interne at the Mt. Sinai Swarthmore, Pa. He writes that Benja- Uniform Business Corporation Law Hospital in New York, starting January min E. Tilt on, Jr., '26 has given up his Robert S. Stevens i, 1929. She expects to graduate from job with the United Gas Improvement Property and Sovereignty the Cornell Medical College this June. Company, and has joined Mordelo L. Vincent '26 in Tampico, Mexico, where Morris R. Cohen '25 BS—Paul E. Spahn is a salesman they will work for Vincent's father. The Rights of a Testator to Pauper- for the American Radiator Company, Their address is Apartado 15;. Also that ize His Helpless Dependents having the territory on the eastern end of John R. Young '27 and Andrew J. Herbert D. Laube Long Island. His headquarters are in Schroder, 2d, '27 are first-year students River head, N. Y. Subscription $2.00 a year. at the Pennsylvania Law School. '25, '26 BS; '23 BS—R. Donald Perine '26 BS; '26 BS; '27 BS—Mrs. W. Ray- is with the W. Atlee Burpee Company of CORNELL LAW QUARTERLY mond Thompson (Geraldine R. Tremaine Philadelphia. His address is 234 South BOARDMAN HALL ITHACA, N. Y. '26) is assistant dietitian at the Buffalo Fifty-fourth Street. He writes that City Hospital. She lives at 197 Elmwood among the other Cornellians with the Avenue. She writes that L. Dale Davis company is Frederick E. Heinsohn '23. WHAT PRICE ^ '26 is doing domestic educational work EUROPE? '25—Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Gruner of with the Erie County Child Welfare in New York have announced the engage- Buffalo and living at 446 Franklin Street, ment of their daughter, Cathleen Gruner, and that Grace M. Schenk '27 is taking a to Lyman T. Whitehead, Jr. student's dietitian's training course at the '25—Alexander L. Oster is in the law Buffalo City Hospital and is living at 80 VERY LITTLE (£ department. of the Lawyers Title and La Salle Avenue. The SPECIAL SAILINGS of Guaranty Company in Brooklyn, N. Y. '26 ME; '26 BS; '23—A son, Jack S.S. "ESTONIA" ξ/S.S. "LITUANIA' He took his law degree from the University Thatcher, was born to Mr. and Mrs. M. ONLlTOURIST PASSENGERS of Southern California last June. He Birney Wright in October. They live at IN —FORMER Cabin and Second Class Space lives in Brooklyn at 85 Orange Street. Apartment 2, Elizabeth Apartments, AT TOURIST THIRD CABIN RATES Trenton, Mich., where Wright is a test SAIUNG DATES '25 AB—Elias R. Markin is assistant JUNE 16—JUNE 30— f.om NEW YORK engineer for the Detroit Edison Company. to CHERBOURG £^ COPENHAGEN treasurer in charge of credits and collection AUG. 15— AUG. 24 —from COPENHAGEN Mrs. Wright was Hortense K. Gerbereux AUG. 18—AUG. 27—from CHERBOURG W for the H. C. Roberts Electric Supply PORTLAND, ENG Company, Inc., in Syracuse, N. Y. He '26. She writes that a daughter, Joan Orchestra—Dancing—Sports was married last November to Miss Hunter, was born in November to Mr. and Swimming Pool Kathryn M. Stein of Rochester. They Mrs. Harold C. Cheston '23. They are All Expense Student and University Tour; living at 2558 West Grand Boulevard, with College Credit if Desired are living in the Parkview Apartments, Syracuse. Detroit. Cheston is connected with the CHOOL OF FOREIGN TRAVEL, I American Car and Foundry Company. Mgrs. University Tours N '25 AB—The engagement has been S 110 East 4M Street New York, N. Y. C. '26 ME; '23 BS; '25 ME—Harrison L. announced of Luise O. von Roeder '25 Goodman is a field engineer with Goulds to Edgar Dawson. Miss von Roeder lives at 32 West Eighty-seventh Street, Pumps, Inc., in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He writes that John S. Offenhauser '23 is New York. Ithaca president of the Offenhauser Implement '25 LLB—Governor Alfred E. 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Are You Coming For Spring Day? If you are you'd better not wait too long in the matter of arrangements and tickets. A good many house parties previously held at Junior Week have been arranged this year for Spring Day. The fact that Syracuse is this year our guest for the regatta means thousands of additional visitors from central New York. THE PROGRAM THURSDAY, MAY 24th 8:15 P. M.—Savage Club Revue. "Class Day at Heidelbaum." Bailey Hall. Tickets $1.50. FRIDAY, MAY 25th 3:00 P. M.—Lacrosse Game. Colgate vs. Cornell. Alumni Field. Admission 50 cents. 8:00 P. M.—Spring Day Concert of the Cornell Musical Clubs. Bailey Hall. Tickets $1.50. 10:30 P. M.—The Navy Ball. Drill Hall.

SATURDAY, MAY 26th 10:00 A. M.—The Spring Day Carnival. "The Roman Holiday." Cornell Crescent, to noon Tickets $1,00. 12:00 M. —Tennis Match. Pennsylvania vs. Cornell. 2:00 P. M.—Baseball Game. Yale vs. Cornell. Hoy Field. Tickets $2.00. 5:00 P. M.—Spring Day Regatta. The Intercollegiate Championship Race. Syracuse vs. Cornell. Freshmen, Junior Varsity, and Varsity Eights. Observation Train Tickets $3.00 each. Tickets for all events (except the Navy Ball) should be procured from the Athletic Asso- ciation. The seat sale opens for members of the Athletic Association on Monday, May 7th. The general sale opens May 8th. 22 cents should be added to remittances to cover registra- tion and postage. Checks should be made payable and communications addressed to

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'26 AB—William Anderson, Jr., is in gomery Street, Syracuse, N. Y., have '27 AB—Donald C. Bryant is teaching- his second year at the Harvard Law announced the admission to the firm of history and public speaking in Ardsley, School. He lives at 371 Harvard Street, Henry S. Fraser. N. Y. He expects to take graduate work Cambridge. '26, '27 ME—J. Donald MacQueen is in public speaking at Cornell this summer '26 AB—Esther A. Pearlman is teaching an experimental engineer with the Cleve- and in February of next year to go to the French and Latin in the Haverling High land Worm and Gear Company. His New York State College for Teachers at School in Bath, N. Y. She lives at 27 address is 2043 Cornell Road, Cleveland, Alabny as an instructor in English. East Morris Street. Ohio. '27 LLB—Donald P. Blake has hung '26 LLB—The law firm of Hancock, '27 BS—Marjorie S. Burr is in the diet out his own shingle as an attorney after Dorr, Kingsley and Shove at 215 Mont- department of the Boston City Hospital. a year's apprenticeship with a large Chic- ago firm. His office is at Suite 2147, New State Bank Building, 120 South LaSalle Street, Chicago For College Entrance— Thoroughness '27 AB—Paul W. Hessel is in the legal department of the Food Dealers Loan and There are still eight weeks left in the Investment Corporation in Brooklyn. spring term, time enough to review or He lives at 615 Williams Avenue. complete courses in preparation for the '27 AB; '27 AB; '27 AB—Jeannette F. June Regents or College Board Examin- Fowler writes that she is now leading a ations. We admit satisfactory students life of luxury, having been laid up for at any time. some months early in the winter with appendicitis and peritonitis. She lives Dial 2014 Efficiency at 4 Chapin Street, Binghamton, N. Y. Day Preparatory School—September to June She writes that Francis P. Keiper '27 and Cascadilla Summer School—Preparatory and Make-up Helen M. Fien '27 were married on Feb- Private Tutoring for University Courses ruary 6. Mrs. Keiper is teaching English Schools For catalog or information write to at the Hancock, N. Y., High School. Keiper expects to receive his E.E. degree C. M. Doyle '02, Headmaster this June. Ithaca New York '27 BChem; '24 BChem; '26 BChem; '26 BChem—The engagement has been announced of William Noonburg to Miss Achsah Hall of Bedford, Iowa. His ad- dress is 1234 South Fifty-first Street, Philadelphia. He writes that Milton L. Byron '24 is engaged to Miss Margaret A. Wilde of Wilmington, Del., and that Guido R. Henry '26 is engaged to Miss The Bαusch αndLomb Tool- makerj Microscope is rug- Naomi Fry of Philadelphia. ged and stttrdy. Enables '27 BS—Doris Detlefsen is a teacher the ordinary mechanic to in training in biology at the Bushwick make accurate measurements and checks quickly. High School in Brooklyn, N. Y. She lives at 167 Midwood Street. '27 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brandt of Belle Harbor, N. Y., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen D. Brandt, to Everett C. Bradley. '27 BS; '23 AB—Dorothy T. Smith, who has been a reporter on The Geneva SO INDUSTRY, TOO, Daily Times, is now associate home editor of The Dairymen's League Neivs, 11 West CAN LOOK CLOSER Forty-second Street, New York. She is living at 189 Madison Avenue. λVilliam —optical science brings surer methods of control, A. Schreyer '23 is business manager of the precision that mass production demands the News. CTEP by step, optical science has products—that will give us the '27 LLB—Lester D. Melzer is associ- O kept pace with modern research precision even unaided hand work ated with the law firm of Stroock and and experimentation. Year after cannot give ..." Stroock at 141 Broadway, N. Y. He year remarkable new optical instru- The Bausch and Lomb Tool- lives at 2413 Avenue I, Brooklyn. ments are helping push back the maker's Microscope is one of the '27, '28 CE—William L. Cressman is boundaries of man's knowledge. answers to this demand. If it is with the American Rolling Mill Company Now, too, industry seeks this part of your problem to meet closer aid. Everywhere engineers are and closer limits of accuracy and at Middletown, Ohio. His address is saying: "Give us optical instru- yet reduce production costs, we 125 South Main Street. ments for the shop as well as the may be able to help you. We laboratory—that will help us should be glad to consult with you check our tools as well as our about your definite problems. MERCERSBURG ACADEMY Offers a thorough physical, mental and moral train- ing for college or business. Under Christian masters BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL CO. from the great universities. Located in the Cum- berland Valley. New gymnasium. Equipment 635 St. Paul Street, Rochester, N. Y. modern. Write for catalogue. WILLIAM MANN IRVINE, LL.D., Head-master Mercersburg, Pennsylvania CORNELLALUMNINEWS 359

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