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VOL. XXIX, No. 8 [PEICE TWELVE CENTS] NOVEMBER 18, 1926 Cornell Wins Thrilling Week-end from Dartmouth in Football and Cross Country- Program Committee Outlines Inter- esting Features for Conven- tion at Philadelphia W. F. Russell ΊO Succeeds his Father, J. E. Russell '87, as Dean of Teachers College President's Report Sketches Past Year and University's Needs and Plans Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed. .Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PROVIDENCE HAKTFORD ESTABROOK δε CO. Sound Investments New York Boston 24 Broad 15 State ROGER H. 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The tone of the notices varies from A PRIZE to the student in the Law filled the Crescent at the Dart- supplication to threats of personal violence. School who best acquits himself in two Tmouth game, who suffered with the It is painful to old Cornellians to think competitive examinations covering the team throughout the melodrama it per- that any new Cornellians are so mean- general field of law has been offered by formed, who screamed, wept, fainted, and spirited as to furnish their wardrobes out William D. P. Carey '26 of Hutchinson, burst blood-vessels when Carey kicked of such unprotected displays. The setting Kansas. Carey was a Rhodes scholar and the field-goal in the last minute of play, of guards in cloak-rooms or the installation received his degree from Oxford, returning had the privilege of witnessing a miracle. of thief-proof lockers would be a woeful here last year to obtain his LL.D. As an The Cornell team, outweighed twenty confession of the collapse of general re- undergraduate he was a member of the pounds to a man, seemed outplayed by a spect for property rights. Fortunately football team; he is a brother of this year's faster, better-drilled, more versatile op- it is not necessary to come as yet to any captain, Emerson Carey, Jr., '27. ponent. In the middle of the third quarter such conclusion. One professional or the miracle occurred. The Cornell players semi-professional pilferer may be re- PROFESSOR MORRIS BISHOP '13, whose continued to be lighter, slower, more un- sponsible for all the vanished garments. sharp-edged wit brightens these pages certain than the enemy. But they began One does not see how a student-fancier and those of The Saturday Evening Post, to win, and continued to win until the would dare to wear his prize in public; Life, Harper's, and other magazines, read foe was beaten by the one necessary tally. ergo, one would not naturally suspect a from his original poems at the Sunday Call it Cornell spirit, call it grit, call it student of the thefts. evening hour in Willard Straight Hall on November 14. In his more serious psychology; to the spectator unskilled in A SMALLER registration than usual has football technique it was simply a miracle. moments, Professor Bishop has translated been reported in the short courses of the ''Beatrice Cenci" and other Italian works. There are some, indeed, who contend that College of Agriculture. The enrollment the bodies of Hoekelman and Molinet this year is seventy-one, compared to 139 APPLE GROWERS in the western part of were occupied for a time by the Archangels last year. This falling-off is attributed to New York State have been saved more Michael and Gabriel. the increased efficiency of the extension than $200,000 by the spray service in- ITHACA, swelled to twice its normal size courses, whereby farmers learn how to formation of the College of Agriculture, by its visitors, was in a rarely festive mood. grow bigger and better beans at home, according to an estimate recently made. The day was warm, the sky cloudless; the without having to come to Ithaca. The average saving to each grower was about $45. Officials at Ithaca and at the beauty of the lake, the valley, the western THE ADMINISTRATION Board of the hills, enraptured the visitors from the flat Geneva Experiment Station passed on American Engineering Council met in the word to the farm bureaus that aphids lands and from cities of steel and concrete. Ithaca November 11 and 12, with head- Gaiety resounded through our streets as if and plant lice were taking a rest this year, quarters at Willard Straight Hall. Dean and the farmers were told they might civilization had been saved from some Dexter S. Kimball, president of the hellish menace. The visitors clearly safely omit the expensive warfare methods Council, presided. The American In- against these pests. The San Jose scale considered the day a vast success; and stitute of Chemical Engineers, the Ameri- Ithaca also profited; in our insularity we was also on vacation, which resulted in can Institute of Electrical Engineers, the less lime being needed. permanent residents had not realized that American Society of Mechanical Engi- there were so many beautiful girls, neers, the American Society of Agricul- THE CLAVILTJX, or color organ, made its sumptuous motor cars, and raccoons in tural Engineers, and numerous State and first appearance in Ithaca on November 6, the world. local engineering societies sent representa- at a concert given by the inventor, A TEAM of debaters from Cambridge tives to the meeting. Thomas Wilfred, in Bailey Hall under the University defeated the Cornell team on THE REV. HENRY HALLAM TWEEDY, auspices of the Cornell Dramatic Club. November 8 by a vote of 237 to 117. The D.D., of Yale, Sage Chapel Preacher for Chords of light instead of music were Cambridge men upheld the negative of November 14, conducted a series of vesper played on the organ, and thrown on a the proposition that this house opposed services at Sage Chapel last week, by screen. the growing tendency of governments to special invitation of the University, and ITHACA HAD ALL the busiest corners in invade the rights of the individual. The under the general auspices of the C. U. C. the world on Saturday. There were Sun, on the morning of the debate, be- A. He was the speaker at the Interde- enough cars in town to save the franc and rated the University community for its nominational Students Banquet held at turn all the Russians into so many million- snobbery in attending in great numbers the the First Methodist Church on November aires. Yet the traffic was controlled in Oxford and Cambridge debates while 8, which was attended by over three almost flawless manner. State troopers, absenting itself from such contests with hundred students. Last spring Bishop aided by some of the enlisted men of the American colleges. The influence of the Charles H. Brent conducted a similar army stationed here, and local police, Sun on the University community was series of services, and it is planned to hold appeared on the scene early in the morn- immediately proved; the University com- other series throughout the year. ing, and kept peace and harmony with the munity absented itself from the Cam- MEMORIAL HALL of Willard Straight benevolent raising of their right hands bridge debate. The Cornell team was now has hanging on its walls banners until late at night. This, considering the composed of Robert D. Jones '28 of bearing the coats-of-arms of ten European state of mind of those 20,000 Cornellians Auburn, Harvey C. Mansfield '27 of universities, as part of the original scheme who saw Carey kick that field goal, was Washington, D. C, and Sidney S. Kirsh- of decoration provided by Mrs. Elmhirst no mean accomplishment. The credit for ner '28 of New York. when she gave the building. On the south this smoothness is divided among the AN UNPLEASANT number of notices are wall are the banners of Salamanca, Paris, Athletic office, the Police, the number of appearing in the Classified column of the Heidelberg, Prague, and Upsala, and Ithacans who walked to ihe game and so Sun and in the cloakrooms of the various across from these the banners of Cam- reduced the jam, a-nd the general courtesy buildings calling for the return of over- bridge, Oxford, Dublin, and Edinburgh.

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