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In the News this Week: Football Team Gamely Fights Losing Battle with Pennsylvania, 23-13. Un- defeated Soccer Team Wins First League Champion- ship. Comptroller Bostwick '92 Reports on University Investments. Professor Wilder D.Bancroft Challenges Physicians in Predicting Life Extension. Elwyn B. White '21 Answers Faile Ό6 on Faculty Vs. Alumni Stagnation.

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COMPTROLLER REPORTS from current credits and by borrowing STUDENT HEALTH BETTER from the endowment, and must eventu- Endowment Increases ally be met by gifts or appropriations Reduce Number of Colds The University in the fiscal year 1933- from funds not designated for endow- A reduction of 37 percent in the fre- 34 received an average net return on its ment but now treated as such, or from quency of common colds among male investments of slightly more than four current income. students of the University in the past five percent, according to the report of Comp- The Medical College in New York years has been announced by Dr. Dean troller Charles H. Bostwick '91, just re- closed the year with a credit balance in F. Smiley Ί6, professor of hygiene and leased. After payment of all expenses of its unrestricted income of $33,118.17. University medical advisor, as the result handling the securities and transfer of Comptroller Bostwick reports that be- of an intensive drive against colds by the two percent of investment income to the cause of the unsatisfactory financial Medical Department. insurance reserve fund, the rate credited situation of the country, not only was For the five years preceding the experi- to the several funds was 4.0115 percent, the University's income from students re- ment, 1914-19, the average number of as against 4.2.99 percent the preceding duced, but the pressing financial needs of colds treated each year was 1316. For the year and 4.989 percent for the year 1931- the students increased the applications five years of the experiment the average 31. Dartmouth College net return for the for all forms of assistance to them. In number was 1465. The success of the cold year is given by the press as 3.44 percent. addition to the activities of the student prevention classes has encouraged the De- The permanent endowment or income employment bureau directed by Mrs. partment of Hygiene and Preventive producing funds of the University on Louis A. Fuertes; the many opportunities Medicine to continue its plan on a more June 30 aggregated $19,181,901.08, an in- for employment in the University's comprehensive scale. crease during the year of $791,089.18. Of dormitory and boarding departments; this increase, Comptroller Bostwick '91 Watch General Health and the fact that approximately $10,000 reports $771,869.70 from gifts, and the The program for the cold susceptibles of F E R A funds were disbursed through balance from income transferred to prin- is centered around two ultraviolet light the University Placement Bureau under cipal under the terms of the endowments. solaria, in which students take artificial the direction of Herbert H. Williams '15, Among the larger items of increase he sun baths twice a week from October to loans, grants, fellowships and scholar- mentions the gift of $500,000 from H. May for ten minute periods. They also ships were awarded from University Herman Westinghouse '71 under a trust get special instruction concerning diet, funds to the amount of $175,814.41. established in 1915, the income to be alkalinization, ventilation, and sleep. used for the advancement of the science McMullen Scholarship Useful Cold prevention is only one of the many of engineering; $88,561.78 from the trus- The Comptroller's report mentions as features involved in the University's ex- tees under the will of the late John Mc- of constantly growing usefulness in aid- tensive plan for the promotion of student Mullen for the establishment of scholar- ing students in engineering the John Mc- health. A staff of ten doctors is constantly ships in engineering; $80,960.15 from Mullen Scholarship Fund. Established in in attendance at the Department of Daniel J. Tompkins '75 to the general 1913 under the will of the late John Mc- Hygiene and Preventive Medicine. Every endowment of the University; and $50,- Mullen, the fund has been built up from student in the University is obliged to 000. from the estate of Charles W. Wason dividends received on the stock of the undergo a thorough confidential physical '76 for supplementing the collection on Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, a examination once a year. The health of China and the Chinese established by dredging enterprise managed by the trus- each student is followed through each him during his lifetime. tees of the McMullen estate. These year he is in attendance at the University. The market value of the University's dividends are funded by the University as All defects are noted and advice is given investment list on June 30 was estimated received, and income on this fund is dis- for their correction. One member of the at 83.091 percent of the book value. This tributed as scholarships to needy and staff, who is a specialist in mental compares with a percentage on June 30, deserving students. The total in the fund hygiene, conducts conferences with the 1931, of 60.56, and in 1933, of 78.96. on June 30 was $685,731.69. Income avail- comparatively few students requiring Costs Exceed Income able for scholarships has been steadily special attention in this direction. The net cost of conducting the Univer- increasing, last year amounting to New features are being added to the sity at Ithaca during the year exceeded $2 5>54947 medical examination from time to time. the income available for that purpose by The University's complete investment This year for the first time each student $31,145.10, bringing the present accumu- portfolio, financial statements, and bal- undergoes either a tuberculin test or a lated deficit to $664,109. Although ex- ance sheets are given in the report and chest X-ray. The University maintains penditures were $13,445.10 less than that of the Treasurer, George F. Rogalsky its own X-ray equipment and a nominal fee is charged for its use. Last year when budget appropriations, there was a '07, published with it and available for this examination was optional, practi- decrease from budget expectations in the asking. It contains also the detailed cally every student took it. The examina- income received, particularly that from reports and operating statements of tion was extremely helpful in locating 64 students, which fell off approximately Conant Van Blarcom '08, superintendent students, among the 1111 examined, who $47,000. of buildings and grounds; of George S. needed special advice and attention in The University has accumulated in Frank Ίi, manager of purchases; of Mrs. order to prevent inactive symptoms from past years, in addition to this deficit in John B. Grace (Anna Fielden) Ίo, man- developing into a serious condition. Only current income, a liability against future ager of residential halls; of Professor one student had to leave school during income amounting to $1,110,871.37, Simon H. Gage '77, president of the the year because of tuberculosis. which sum has been expended for the Comstock Publishing Company, Inc. purchase of property largely for future with a brief history of the Company; of As a part of the physical examination needs and for plans and studies in antici- the Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. by a health inventory is taken of each stu- pation of building operations, the details L. N. Simmons Ίi, secretary-treasurer; dent, and the yearly change is noted. The of which are given in the report. These and of the various separate funds and figures covering the four years oί the class items have been temporarily financed endowments. of 1934 again indicate the fervency among CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

college students to acquire more faulty BANCROFT DEFIES MEDICS number of other diseases should not be so acute and fatal in animals treated with health habits the longer they stay in Reporting the results of research with sodium rhodanate. college. This phenomenon, which has sodium rhodanate before the National been observed frequently, presents a Academy of Sciences in Cleveland on "In the last 1.^ years, the probable length of human life has increased serious challenge to those concerned November xo, Professor Wilder D. Ban- with health education. College students materially, thanks to medical science; croft of the Department of Chemistry seem to take less exercise, smoke more, but the change has been due very largely extended a spirited challange to the medi- and sleep less from the time they enter as to a decrease in mortality among infants cal profession. freshmen until they graduate as seniors. and children. The probable length of life The prediction he and his associates of a man of 45 has not been increased Dr. Smiley believes that young men and believe justified by their research is that, appreciably in the last quarter century. women who are away from home miss if a person of 45 or over would take Medical science has failed so far as such the attention to their health which there- sodium rhodanate regularly, it would tofore was largely the concern of their men are concerned. parents. He further believes that it is the "The colloid chemist comes in where function of his department to step in the medical man drops out. Sodium rho- where the parents leave off. danate and drugs of that type will A notable improvement, however, is minimize the physical effects of worry shown during the four years in the reduc- and will decrease the tendency to nervous tion of remediable defects. Thus such breakdowns not caused by definite path- defects as bad spinal posture, faulty foot ological conditions. Sodium rhodanate posture, ear and eye trouble all show increases the resistance of the living or- improvement. ganism to infection by inducing better Examine Athletes health. "Drugs of this type will not cure prog- In addition to the general examination ressive lesions and sclerotic conditions; of all students, special examinations are but they will retard the aging of the given to those participating in athletics. colloids of the body and will thereby Athletics are divided into three classifica- delay the onset of such pathological tions depending on their effect on the Wilder D. Bancroft conditions. If every human being of 45 or various organs. While certain students over, for whom sodium rhodanate is not increase his life span by two years or are debarred from the more vigorous contra-indicated, would take sodium more. This is accomplished, they say, by sports, others who require special atten- rhodanate regularly for the rest of his life, decreasing the tendency to nervous break- tion have the form of activity to be en- we predict an average increase in the downs and increasing resistance to in- gaged in prescribed by the Medical De- probable length of life of at least two fection. partment. The most rigorous examination years, provided the medical men will The experiments, a continuation of is given to those who participate in cooperate. intercollegiate sports. Of the 1109 who researches which were concerned at first took this examination last year, 11 were with alcoholism, drug addiction and cer- Will Not Check Results 4' We cannot prove this prolongation of rejected. A total of T-VL injuries in the tain forms of insanity, have been carried life now because every application to a various sports was treated by the De- * on in University laboratories by Professor foundation for money for research is re- partment. During the year just passed Bancroft; John E. Rutzler Jr. '2.6, re- ferred, inevitably and properly, at some 18,660 calls were made upon the medical search fellow in chemistry; and Esther C. stage to a medical man and turned down advisory staff, approximately 4700 less Farnham '2.7, Heckscher research fellow. by him inevitably and improperly, on the than the previous year. Dr. Bancroft challenged the medical ostensible ground that the matter is not profession to run fair tests of the sodium Dr. Smiley looks upon his department yet proved and therefore should not be rhodanate treatment, and declared it is up as largely one for health education and supported. If it had been proved, we to the doctors "to clean house." "The prevention of disease. Every freshman is should have been asking for money for medical profession," he said, "does not required to take a course in personal some other purpose. hygiene in which the importance of good dare to make these tests, because the re- sults will show that we are right." "A few medical men have been inter- health is stressed. An important function ested in our point of view. We thank them of the health program at Cornell is to Physicians Hostile for this and we hope that we may retain correlate the relationship of good health Since the first announcement by Ban- their sympathy in the stormy days that to satisfactory academic standing. At croft and Rutzler of their findings some are to come. mid-term and at the end of each term the three years ago, they have met with "The medical profession as a whole is Medical Department is advised of the hostility from the medical world. The hostile to us, due to the attitude of those records of students who are not making researches have been continued, however, who should be the leaders. So far as we satisfactory grades. In each of these cases based on the hypothesis that drug addic- know, not a single medical school or the medical advisor examines the stu- tion and certain nervous disorders are hospital has shown any active, intelli- dent's health record and determines characterized by an agglomeration of the gent interest in our work. Two deans of whether illness has played a part in his proteins in the nerve cells, and that sodium medical schools have been good enough difficulty. Where such is the case special rhodanate reverses this process. to make clear to us what the attitude of consideration is accorded the student. Hundreds of experimental animals were the medical profession is. We have con- The objective of the Department is to used in the work, some receiving rho- firmed the following views independently : turn out men and women equipped with danate doses and others being deprived of "1. Nothing good along lines of re- the proper conception of the importance it, as controls. The preliminary results, search involving living tissues can come of good health to success in their careers. Professor Bancroft stated, indicate that from chemists. sodium rhodanate improves the general ":L. Our line of reasoning is foreign to TWENTY SENIORS in Engineering health and lessens the nervous irritability the medical mind and the authorities in under the guidance of Professor Roy E. of rabbits and chickens, thereby increas- the medical profession consequently con- Clark Ίz spent Monday and Tuesday ing their resistance to coccidiosis, res- sider our work and conclusions so un- visiting large power plants and the Na- piratory infections, and infectious leu- sound that it would be a waste of time tional Power Show in New York City. kemia. There is reason to believe that a to check either. DECEMBER 6, 1934

'' 3. Since our experimental work is bad period with Switzer and Stofer doing the by hypothesis, ioo and even 500 cases About tossing. The first threat was broken up would not be convincing, because 100 or when Warwick intercepted Switzer's pass 500 experiments done badly have no ATHLETICS on Pennsylvania's 2.5. A 15-yard penalty cumulative value. for holding set Pennsylvania back to its "4. Since our conclusions are unsound own ten, but the Red's next passing by definition, any doctor confirming our VARSITY LOSES GAMELY thrust was checked by Chesley, sub- findings proves thereby that he is in- Pennsylvania Wins 23-13 stitute guard, who intercepted Switzer's competent to do that type of research." The Varsity played two football games short toss on the Quakers' 35. Dr. Torald Sollman of Western Reserve on rain-soaked Franklin Field in Phila- After losing the ball on downs on Cor- University found fault with some of Dr. delphia Thanksgiving Day. The 50,000 nell's 30, Pennsylvania regained posses- Bancroft's experimental procedure. White- spectators who had braved a shower an sion on the Red's 17, where Switzer, in haired Dr. Bancroft defended it and said hour before the game saw the Red team attempting to make an end run from he has been taking sodium rhodanate clearly outplayed throughout the first kick formation, fumbled as his center led himself for two years as a cure for in- half, which ended with the score 16-0. him with the pass and Yencho recovered somnia and prolonger of life. In the third and fourth quarters, however, on the Cornell 2.x-yard mark. Dr. A. J. Carlson of University of the situation was exactly reversed, the After the brilliant Murray had gone Chicago, also elderly, said old men's Varsity tallying two touchdowns and eighteen yards through left tackle and a lives are not worth prolonging unless the threatening to score two more with a fumble had put the ball back to the 15- functions of the body are kept working strong combined running and passing at- yard line, Brown dropped back to the n- well. tack, only to have one of their passes yard line and, with McCracken holding ASHBERY ON TOUR bounce back at them in a 76-yard gallop the ball near the sideline, booted it be- Ray S. Ashbery 'x5, Alumni Field by Shanahan for Pennsylvania's third tween the uprights for a field goal. Secretary, is making his first trip of the touchdown. The Redmen lost a scoring chance year. He is devoting two weeks to visita- The Red power drive of 69 yards for a when Nunn dropped a long pass in the tions with alumni in Philadelphia, Balti- touchdown in the last six minutes of open. The Quakers then turned the game more, Washington, Wilmington, Tren- play was the best football the team has into what looked like a rout by putting ton, Plainfield, Westfield, Summit, New- shown this year. Nothing could stop over a touchdown quickly after Murray ark, and New York City. them as they marched from their own 31- intercepted Stofer's pass at midfield and Since his appointment as field secre- yard line for five consecutive first downs returned to Cornell's 43. Brown hurled a tary, in 1930, Ashbery has been associated until Frederick took a flip pass from long pass to Bradford, substitute end, with the Alumni Representative of the center and went over for the final half- who made a sensational catch on the University, Foster M. Coffin Ίz, and has foot. Even with the game clearly Penn- Red 3-yard line for a gain of 40 yards. devoted a large part of his time to travels sylvania's after Shanahan's sensational Murray dove across on fourth down for about the country. He has visited almost run midway of the fourth quarter, the the touchdown, from the one-foot mark. every state and his present trip is taking Varsity did not lose heart, but pounded Brown place-kicked the extra point and him into communities where he is al- steadily away until the final whistle Pennsylvania led, 16-0. blew, with the score 2.3-13. ready well known. Third Quarter As field secretary he is not connected First Period Cornell's first Grade A opportunity with the work of the Cornellian Council, Not two minutes after the game be- developed in the third quarter when the alumni fund-raising agency of the gan Elverson of Pennsylvania caught a Elverson fumbled a punt on his own 13- University. On his trips he brings news punt on his own 2_i-yard line and ran yard line and Irving recovered. Cornell at of Cornell to the alumni, discusses com- up the west border of the field nearly once deployed into a spread formation mon interests with them, and takes back thirty yards before he was forced out of with two backs and an end loose on the to the Campus a concensus of their views. bounds. The Quakers never hesitated left. The Quakers expected an end run This year he is placing special emphasis from that point to the goal line. With but Stofer jammed straight ahead through on the part which alumni can play in re- Murray mixing passes, bucks, tackle Pennsylvania's right guard. Hauze hit lations with secondary schools. Ashbery plays, and sweeps, they stormed over in him head-on just beyond the line of was chairman of the special committee in fifteen plays. At the ten-yard line the scrimmage, but Stofer twisted loose and charge of Cornell Day last May, when Varsity showed signs of holding up the went for the touchdown. Stofer place- some six hundred secondary school boys advance, but with nine yards to go on kicked the extra point and the score was came to Ithaca for the day, and a major third down, Murray shot a fast wide Pennsylvania 16, Cornell 7. item on his program these two weeks is pass to Elverson, No. 1 man in a right From the way in which the embattled a discussion with key alumni of plans wing formation, and the latter carried to Varsity eleven was now dominating the for the second annual Cornell Day, to be the x-yard line. Murray dove across for play, Pennsylvania's lead appeared none held next spring. In these preparations the touchdown, but his placement try too secure. The Red and Blue's outlook the Campus committee will be working, for the extra point was partially blocked became blacker as Captain Switzer threw as it did last year, in close cooperation by Murdock and failed. Score: Pennsyl- two passes to Stofer and Stiles for a net with William J. Thorne Ίi, of Syracuse, vania 6, Cornell o. gain of thirty-five yards and a first down chairman of the Cornell Alumni Corpora- Cornell's running attack failed to make on the Red and Blue 19-yard mark. tion committee on relations with second- an impression with two opportunities to Here the Quakers braced and took the ary schools. get under way. The Redmen got their ball on downs on their own 2.1, after Ashbery's itinerary is: Philadelphia, only first down on two successive penal- breaking up a pair of passes, then smear- Pa., November x8 to 30; Baltimore, ties, putting the ball on their own 36. ing two line plays. Switzer raced 32. Md., December 3 and 4; Washington, Switzer was thrown for losses twice yards up the side lines with a Quaker D. C, December 5 and 6; Wilmington, after an exchange of punts. The period punt to his own 48, as the quarter closed. Del., December 7 and 8; Trenton, N. J., ended with the Red and Blue in posses- December 10 and 11; Plainfield, N. J., Fourth Quarter sion on its own 41. December 12.; Westfield, N. J., December Opening the last quarter there was an 13; Summit, N. J., December 14; Newark, Second Quarter exchange of punts with Switzer finally N. J., December 17; New York City, The Varsity struck into Quaker terri- kicking over Pennsylvania's goal line. December 18 and 19. tory with its passing attack in the second The Quakers lost eight yards in two plays CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

from their own zo-yard ribbon, and the lost 5 yards by penalties to 35 for Penn- SOCCER TEAM CHAMPS best that Brown could do was punt to sylvania. Tie Haverford 1-1 his own 40. The lineup: The soccer team closed its season Two plays, one of them a lateral, netted PENNSLYVANIA (2-3) CORNELL Cχ3) the visitors nothing. It was then that Penny packer L. E. Nunn Thanksgiving Day by battling a strong Switzer let loose a forward pass intended Gisburne L. T. Hutchinson Haverford team to a 1-1 tie, thus winning for Frederick. Cresci L. G. Borland the first championship of the Middle Hauze C. Meiss Atlantic League for Cornell. The team Bill Shanahan, substitute Quaker back, Stofko R. G. R. Wilson intercepted it on his own 24-yard line and Yencho R. T. Murdock was undefeated, having won league raced 76 yards up the sidelines for a Nye R. E. Irving games from Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, touchdown, with the aid of fine blocking. Murray Q. B. Switzer Princeton, and Lehigh, and gaining 9 Elverson L. H. Stofer His speed carried him past every one but points to 8 for Pennsylvania, the run- Warwick R. H. Condon ner-up. In non-league games, the team Switzer, the passer. The latter cut across Wexler F. B, H. Wilson and would have had him on the X5~yard Score by periods: defeated Hamilton and tied Dartmouth. line but for the offices of Bradford, the Pennsylvania 6 10 o 7—13 The game on Thursday was played on a Cornell o o 7 6—13 substitute end who previously had rain-soaked field at Haverford. The Touchdowns—Murray z, Shanahan, Stofer, teams battled evenly until the second caught Brown's monumental pass. He Frederick. Field goal—Brown (placement). knocked down Switzer. Then Shanahan Points after touchdowns—Brown z, Stofer quarter, when Stokes scored a goal for cut back toward the goal posts and went (placements). Haverford on a pass from Maier. With the rest of the way. A Cornell lineman Substitutions—Pennsylvania: Bradford for the score 1-0, Nathanson in the fourth Pennypacker, Toothill for Gisburne, Chesley period netted a low pass from Oleg dove at his heels on the 10-yard line but for Cresci, King for Hauze, Darnbrough for couldn't reach him. Stofko, Kardevan for Yencho, Neill for Nye, Petroff to give the Red team the point they needed to take the league champion- Undiscouraged although their case McCracken for Elverson, Brown for Warwick, Penneypacker for Bradford, Gisburne for ship. was now hopeless with only 6 minutes Toothill, Cresci for Chesley, Stofko for Darn- In two extra periods the Red and Black to play, the Varsity received the kick-off brough, Yencho for Kardevan, Nye for Neill, and put in motion a straight running at- Elverson for McCracken, Warwick for Brown, booters forced the play continuously into tack from their own 31-yard stripe, Bradford for Pennypacker, Kardevan for Gis- Red territory, but Howard Dugan made burne, Chesley for Cresci, Hauze for King, heroic saves and carried the ball often out marching down the field for 69 yards. Darnbrough for Stokfo, Neill for Nye, Mc- They did not surrender the ball until Cracken for Elverson, Shanahan for Wexler, of danger. they had sent Frederick thundering over Brown for Warwick, Smith for Brown, Suf- The lineup: fredinni for Smith. Cornell: Stiles for Nunn, Pennsylvania's goal line on the final CORNELL (I) POSITION HAVERFORD (I) Frederick for H. Wilson, Batten for Stofer. Brindley G. Tompkinson play of the game. Frederick failed to Referee—J. P. Egan, Duquesne. Umpire— kick the ball over for the extra point and Adler RF Harman C. G. Eckles, W. and J. Linesman—G. N. H. Dugan LF Stokes the score was 2.3-13. Bankart, Dartmouth. Field judge—W. P. D. Dugan RH Seely Hallaran, Providence. Time of periods—15 Bermejillo CH Marshall During that irresistible advance, ac- minutes. complished in 19 plays, the Redmen Johndrew LH McGinley This was the forty-first of the football Hershey OR Maier spun five first downs—which was five battles between Cornell and Pennsylvania O. Petroff IR Brown more than the Quakers made in the which have been held every year since Versluis CF A. Stokes second half. w tntn e s n e Chewning IL Taylor 1893 ^ i gl exception of 1918, Nathanson OL Richie It was a spectacular battle, ending when the University cancelled its sched- with an epic advance by the losers and a Cornell goal: Nathanson. ule because of the war. This year's de- Haverford goal: A. Stokes. graceful tribute to a Pennsylvania gird- feat brings the total score to 19 Quaker iron hero, who did not win his letter This was the last game for several of victories to 10 for the Red teams, with the Varsity's star performers. Captain until the last 15 second of his three-year two ties, in 1906 and 19x6. Pennsylvania football career at Pennsylvania. Oleg Petroff of Montclair, N. J. is a has scored JΊ.6 points to 304 for Cornell, senior, as are Orvis F. Johndrew of Coach Harvey Harmon of the Quakers but won the last time in 193 2-. Since Rochester, Bo I. B. Adler of Goteburg, showed his appreciation for the faithful Gilmour Dobie came to Cornell in 19x0, Sweden, Luis T. Bermejillo of Madrid, and unselfish work of Pete Suffredini by Pennsylvania has had eight victories to Spain, and Hendrik Versluis of Ithaca. sending him on the field, with his arm in six for Cornell, with one tie. Versluis has been the team's high point splints, while Cornell was trying for the Eight oί the Varsity players will be scorer the past two years, and Adler has extra point just after the touchdown, a lost to the 1935 team by graduation. In been star defense man for the same period. minute before the game ended. In this the backfield, Captain Walter D. Switzer way the boy, who has played four years of Williamsport, Pa. played for the last Started American Soccer on the scrubs, was rewarded with a time for Cornell on Thursday, as did A Cornell team took part in the first varsity letter. His arm was broken in a William Condon of Philadelphia and association football game to be played in game between the 150-pound teams of Albert J. Frederick of Elmira. On the America. Early in December, 1906, the Pennsylvania, and Villanova. line, Frank K. Murdock of Natrona Varsity team met Columbia at American The Varsity kicked well throughout, Heights, Pa., tackle, is a senior, as is League Park in New York City, each Batten starring with a beautiful 70-yard Frederick L. Meiss of Rome, center, team scoring one goal in each of the two spiral in the fourth; and Switzer shone at Frank J. Irving of Los Angeles, Cal., end, periods of 45 minutes. George Lawson '06 running back punts, the Red team gain- and Thomas C. Borland of Oil City, Pa., was captain, coach, and right halfback, ing 186 yards in this way to 69 for Penn- guard. and Joannes S. Van Bijlevelt '07 was sylvania. The Varsity made 10 first Nunn at end, Ron Wilson at guard, and manager and left outside forward. The downs to 7 for the Quakers, and gained Stofer and Hack Wilson, backs, are juniors; teams were organized during the wide- 71 yards by rushing tα 89 for the Red and and Stiles, end, Hutchinson, tackle, and spread protests against football as it was Blue. Cornell completed 12. forward Batten, back, are sophomores this year. then played in American colleges. Later passes, gaining 88 yards, to 7 which in the month an Intercollegiate Associa- gained 75 yards for Pennsylvania; and THE SAGE CHAPEL PREACHER De- tion Football League was organized in intercepted none while the Quakers cember 9 is Rev. Francis J. McConnell, New York City, and Cornell became one intercepted 4. Each team recovered one D.D., LL.D., Bishop of the Methodist of its first members. The next year the of its opponent's fumbles, and Cornell Episcopal Church, New York Area. team played four league games, with DECEMBER 6, I934 5

Columbia, Haverford, Pennsylvania, and ON MASCOTS struggles for its publicity by adding lace Harvard, but won only the first. By R. B. ruffles to its new silk football pants. It was not until the season of 1909 There are signs that the students of A parrot lives for 80 years and—unlike that the game began to be called soccer, Cornell again want a bear as a mascot. a bear—doesn't have to be renewed every and from then until 1914 the league This is ominous, because what the stu- little while. His usefulness would by no games were played in the spring, part of dents want they are apt eventually to get. means be limited to games. He could be them usually during the Easter vacation. And there are broken men at Schoellkopf called Ezra or Teefy or Theodore or By 1911, there began to be agitation who might still be young and vigorous, something and be made an ancient for a paid coach in the sport, but it was poetical, trusting and alert but for their tradition in ten minutes. You could use not until the spring of 1914 that one was previous, disillusionizing experiences him effectively at rallies, pep meetings engaged by the team. Percy O. Johnson, with bear mascots. and smokers. And think what a load he an Englishman who had lived in Brook- Students like bear mascots—for about a would take off the popular professors who lyn and successfully coached the team of week. They buy them collars, decorate have to go to alumni banquets at Chicago, Manual Training High School for six^ their quarters, bring them food from Little Rock, Spokane, San Diego and Salt years, took up his duties in March, 1914, restaurants, and try to teach them tricks. Lake City. Teach him a few sentimental in preparation for that year's spring And then their interest wholly reverts to phrases and Ezra, the parrot, could make schedule. cultural studies and warm gin. The bear all the speech that any banquet really In the fall of 1914 the first fall schedule mascot is neglected and forgotten and the wants—or listens to—after the third trip of League games was held, and Talbot responsibility for same falls back on the to the bar. QFrom The Ithaca Journaΐ) Hunter came to Cornell to coach the staff—Dr. Norman Patullo mostly. soccer team for two seasons. By this time Doctor Patullo simply can't stand an- INDOOR POLO SCHEDULE interest in the sport was increasing here, other bear. The last one ruined his happy, The University's new riding hall on and more candidates came out for the Neopolitan disposition, chewed his leg the Dryden road near the artillery stables team each year. In 1916, however, with and tore his pants. At the conclusion of and the heating plant will be formally five league games, the team again had no the season, when Touchdown had been dedicated just before the first indoor polo paid coach, but the captain, William R. shipped in a straight-jacket to the 200 at game, with the team of the nith Field Gargiulo '17, acted as coach and goalie. Akron, Ohio, Doctor Patullo blew all his Artillery, New Jersey National Guard, The next fall James Campbell of Italian fuses, and to keep him on the on December 15. Rochester, secretary of the Northwestern reservation, everybody from President The new building was designed by New York Football Association, coached Schurman down, had to promise there University architects and erected under would be no more bears and positively no the supervision of Conant Van Blarcom the team, but because of the plan of f "informal athletics" instituted by Yale, mountain lions, rattlesnakes or panthers. o8, superintendent of grounds and build- Harvard and Princeton, only two games Bears, as mascots, are common and ings. Through the efforts of Major Ralph were played, with Pennsylvania and unimaginative. Dozens of other colleges Hospital, then stationed here, friends oί Haverford. In 1918 the schedule was have bears as mascots. They smell badly polo at Cornell some years ago con- tributed several thousand dollars for the dropped because of the war, but Camp- and their personal habits are disgusting. erection of such a building. Last spring a bell came back as coach for two weeks in (We refer, of course, to the bears and not to the other colleges.) They are danger- committee of which Robert E. Treman the fall of 1919, and that year the Varsity '09 was chairman obtained an allotment team took third place in the league, with ous, ill-tempered, and unbelievably troublesome. And in the case of Cornell of labor from the CWA to construct it. greater interest in the sport than ever be- It is xoo feet long by 90 feet wide, with fore on the part of the student body. they have been demonstrated to be jinxes. The last time the students got a bear the an unobstructed riding area floored with With the opening of the 19x0 season, football team was immediately ground sawdust and cinders, seats for a gallery soccer attained its first full time coach in down and walked over (reading from left of about 750, and an attractive lounge Nicholas Bawlf, who had come to Ithaca to right) by Colgate, Dartmouth, La- decorated and furnished by Mrs. Farrand. the previous spring to coach lacrosse. A fayette, Penn State and the University of The first indoor schedule of the R.O. native of Winnipeg and a graduate of Pennsylvania. T.C. Polo Team calls for 14 games, of Queens College, Ontario, Bawlf had been With all these wolverines, panthers, which six are to be played in Ithaca: so successful not only in the lacrosse tigers, bull-dogs, mules, goats, bears, December 15, iiith Field Artillery team's record but in arousing the interest mustangs, badgers, and buckeyes now in (New Jersey National Guard) at Ithaca; of the undergraduates in the sport, that the business, Cornell would seem to en- 2.1, Newburg Polo Club, at Ithaca; 2.8, he was engaged to coach soccer and joy a unique and dignified distinction in 1 nth Field Artillery (New Jersey Na- hockey as well. The fourteen years since having no mascot at all. Nevertheless, if tional Guard) at East Orange, N. J. his coming have seen steadily increasing the students insist and must have some January 5, Wilkes-Barre Whips at interest in soccer, both as a varsity and pet to love them and bite them and smell Ithaca; ix, 109th Field Artillery (Penn- freshman sport and as an important . the place up, why not select something sylvania National Guard) at Ithaca; 19, part of the intramural and interfraternity which shall be at once distinctive, United States Military Academy at West program of sports fostered by the Depart- original, imaginative and practical? How Point; 19, Newburg Polo Club at New- ment of Physical Education. He is one of about a goldfish, now, or a parrot? burg; 2.6, 1 nth Field Artillery (New Jer- the most popular members of the coach- A parrot that would sit on the goal sey National Guard) at Ithaca. ing staff at the University and has had post (with a loud-speaker) and could be February 9, 109th Field Artillery much to do with getting the rank and file taught to tell the head linesman exactly (Pennsylvania National Guard) at of the undergraduates interested in out- what he was and to squawk "The Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; 16, Norwich Univer- door sports. referee's a so-and-so! The referee's a so- sity at Northfield, Vt. and-so! The referee's a so-and-so!" every March i, Wilkes-Barre Whips at time that harassed official bore down on Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; 9, Princeton Univer- the home team. There's an idea with some sity at Princeton, N. J.; 9, 111th Field ARCHIE M. PALMER '18, executive sense to it—one that would pack in the Artillery (New Jersey National Guard) secretary of the Cornellian Council, de- customers and reeks with publicity at Trenton, N. J.; 13, Princeton Univer- scribed his summer's trip through Scot- possibilities (if the boys must have their sity at Ithaca. land and England before the Exchange publicity). And it isn't merely copying The dates of the two matches with Club of Ithaca on November 2.7. some hick college in Arkansas which Princeton are tentative. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS any more than you can by comparative LETTERS scores. Comparative anatomy is the only ITHACA, NEW YORK Subject to the usual restrictions of space and good thing, and in this connection I immedi- FOUNDED 1899 INCORPORATED 19x6 taste, we shall print letters from subscribers on any side of any subject of interest to Cornellians. The ately think of Mart Sampson, of beloved ALUMNI NEWS often may not agree with the senti- memory, who was as stagnant as a Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- ments expressed, and disclaims any responsibility whirling dervish. Well, well, well, here tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing beyond that of fostering interest in the University. I am rambling on like a schoolgirl. Corporation. Please give my best to Morris Bishop, Published weekly during the college year who had sense enough to leave the rain- and monthly in July and August: thirty-five WHITE '21 ANSWERS FAILE '06 issues annually. Issue No. i is published in barrel and go back to the Campus, where September. Weekly publication ends the last (SEE ALUMNI NEWS OF NOVEMBER 2.2.) he can gaze out of the window at Par- week in June. Issue No. 35 is published in To the Editor: nassus or at West Hill, as he pleases. Tell August. Dear Ed: I have been reading your him to send me some Citronella. Subscription price $4.00 a year -payable in ad- y letter column and see where Mr. E. H. vance. Canadian postage $5 cents a year extra; for- E. B. WHITE '2.1 eign so cents extra. Single copies fifteen cents each. Faile '06 ME says that we alumni in the Subscriptions are payable in advance and are re- great outside world are the educated newed annually unless cancelled. people, not the professors. Well, Ed, it Rl W. SAILOR '07 has always seemed to me that the Out- HONOR VAN ORMAN '08 Publisher and Editor-in-Chief side World has been overrated as a The Cornell Club of Maryland on liberalizer and educator. I am a paid-up Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 December 3 held a special smoker at the Circulation Manager JAMES W. BURKE '33 member of the Outside World, and be- Altamont Hotel, Baltimore, in honor of Associate Editor FOSTER M. COFFIN ΊX lieve me I sometimes wish I had stayed Ray Van Orman '08, who is shortly to indoors and read a couple of books. Mr. Member Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service leave Baltimore. Officials of Johns Faile talks about professors stagnating, Hopkins University, coaches of nearby Printed by The Cayuga Press but I will pit some of my Outside World colleges, and alumni from Washington, associates, and some of Mr. Faile's, ITHACA, N. Y. DECEMBER 6, 193 4 D. C. were invited. Ray Ashbery '15, against any Faculty team Rym Berry Alumni Field Secretary from Ithaca, wants to name in a two-mile free-style gave the latest news of the Campus and PHILADELPHIA DINNER stagnating race, and if we alumni can't showed the new Campus pictorial. outstagnate the Faculty folks I will eat The annual pre-Thanksgiving Day At luncheon that day at the Engineers the protest flag. Listen, Ed, in the course dinner of the Cornell Club of Philadelphia Club, Ashbery also spoke, discussing of the past thirteen years in the Outside was held at the Hotel Walton last Wed- plans for Cornell Day next spring. nesday. The occasion is always a gather- World, I have had moments so stagnant ing of old football notables but with a that I bred mosquitoes and had to sleep fine sprinkling of intercollegiate track under a net. If you want to see complete NEW TOWN AND GOWN champions, a few Grade A oarsmen and paralysis of the intellect, the ankylosed A new Town and Gown Club to take wrestlers, and an amiable background of skull, you should see an Outside World the place of the old one which was dis- non-combatants. This year, under the Literary Tea, or one of our special Out- banded when its clubhouse at 504 Stewart guidance of Frank O'Brien, Jr. '31, with side World Sixty-Five-Cent Lunches Avenue was sold at foreclosure is being the help of Wilson H. (Nan) Patterson with a classmate who is gradually lead- organized by a committee of which Pro- '09, Chandler Burpee '17, John R. Young ing up to an annuity. There's a still pool fessor Louis M. Dennis is chairman. '2.7, and others, the crowd was well for you! I presume I am what Mr. Faile It is the hope of the committee that the handled and the usual interesting turn- calls '' a man of experience and qualifica- new club may "revive the attractive out was present. tions, of proven ability" (only I call it features and embody those traditions and Bart Viviano '3Z told of the develop- "proved" instead of "proven" because policies of the former club that made it ment and abilities of the members of the Willy Strunk told me to years ago in one such a unique contribution to the social present Varsity team. Regrets, due to ill- of his stagnant moments); but I some- life of Ithaca, and provide in every way ness, were received from George R. Pfann times wonder even after a man is of for those newer features of club life that 'i4 and Perry Lewis, "The Old Sport" of proven, or proved, ability, what he has can be realized in this community. It is the Inquirer, who were to have spoken. proved. Oop, there goes another mos- expected that the new organization will Harry A. Mackey, until recently mayor quito ! I have proven (proved) my ability prove as attractive to residents of the of Philadelphia, and captain of the Uni- to earn enough to support a wife and City of Ithaca, to members of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania football team in spaniel in a small brick enclosure which versity community, and to non-resident 1893, gave a very happy talk on fighting I call the Manor to Which They Are Ac- friends of both groups, as did the older spirit. This man's team gave Cornell the customed, but I am not sure that it is a club in its earlier years.'' worst beating in all the long series, 50-0, mark either of brilliance or virility; who » The Ithaca Trust Company, which took against a team that included Beacham, knows but what I would be better off if over the building of the former club, has Warner, and others whose names are I were back among the Faculty and, as given assurance that if the new club meets famous as football heroes. Mr. Faile put it, out of touch with con- with adequate support the building and ditions. Ed, I think it is a great idea to be The speaker of the evening was Pro- equipment will be leased to it at favorable out of touch with conditions. Conditions fessor Herman Diederichs '97, for most terms. It is hoped especially to revive the thςmselves are pretty stagnant right now of the past twenty-five years head of the old'' round table'' which from the found- in some lines, and you can get more out Athletic Council. He covered the present ing of the original club in 1890 was one of a good book. The people who need status of football at the University of its important features. Sabbaticals are we Outside Worldlings. methodically from every angle in a con- Besides Professor Dennis, other mem- If there had been alumni Sabbaticals in fidential talk that was apparently eagerly bers of the committee are Professor Carl this country, we might never have got listened to by the audience, and told of Becker, Jess J. Dall, Jr. Ί6, James Don- into the jam, or stagnation, which now several remedies now under serious con- ohue '30, Eric Dudley, Professor Charles L. engulfs us. No sir, professors may be sideration by the new committee on Durham '99, Professor Andrew C. Haigh, cloistered, but so is a man on Forty-Fifth athletic control. R. W. Sailor '07, Stewart C. Stackhouse, Street, or Main Street, or in Bentley's The toastmaster was R. W. Sailor '07, Conant Van Blarcom '08, Arthur B. Run; you can't prove anything by it, editor-in-chief of the ALUMNI NEWS. Wellar, and Gerald C. Williams 'zo. DECEMBER 6, I934 BRIEF NEWS OF CAMPUS AND TOWN A FORETASTE of the longer Christmas Masonic Temple auditorium November THE SNOW BALL is the name of the holiday soon to come was the Campus 2.7. Cecil R. Fairs '35 of Roslyn Heights, first of the Student Council's dances, to over the Thanksgiving week end. The president of the Club, was master of be held December 7 in the Drill Hall. Chimes rang out over deserted paths and ceremonies. The program included music Robert L. Armacost, Grad., won a classrooms, but many Faculty sons, and talks by Leslie A. Weight '35 and ticket for naming it. Last year the name daughters, and grandchildren returned to Walter S. Weight '37, uncle and nephew, was New Deal, and the year before, Ithaca to eat turkey, and some professors of Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii; by Virginia Depression Ball. Decorations are always and their families joined the student B. Dominis '38 of Honolulu, Prabhakar in keeping with the name chosen. exodus to ancestral homes elsewhere. L. Kirloskar, Sp., of India, Hildegard Menzel '37 of Greenwich, Conn., Eugene THETA CHI won the interfraternity ONLY WILLARD STRAIGHT was busy, Fan, Grad., of Tungsien, China, and a speedball championship for the third with many of those who remained group of seven Chinese singers. year, defeating Phi Beta Delta Z3-3. gathered in Memorial Hall to hear the disappointing returns of the Pennsylvania TWO INTRAMURAL championship MRS. ANDREW D. WHITE celebrated game. That night excitement ran high teams defeated the best of Colgate's at her eighty-first birthday on November 2.8 over the greyhound races, substituted at Hamilton November 24. The All-Stars, in her home at the Belleayre Apart- the last moment for the promised horses. although defeated by Telluride at touch ments in Ithaca. The two named "Professor Warren's Com- football, went to Hamilton because the modity Dollar" and "Professor Reed's Telluride team had disbanded, and there HONEYSUCKLES bloomed in Varna Gold Standard" ran neck and neck down defeated the Colgate representatives 18-6. November 30. most of the canvas track until the very Omega Tau Sigma won over the Maroon end, when "Gold Standard" won by team at soccer, 2.-0. THE SEISMOGRAPH on the Campus is a nose. still working. On November Z9 it re- NOW BEGINS the winter intramural corded a fairly severe earthquake, esti- mated by Dr. Lewis C. Conant of the TOUCHDOWN, the Cornell bear, failed program, including bowling, wrestling, Geology Department as originating about to appear at the football rally November boxing, swimming, handball, volleyball, 2.,zoo miles away, probably in the vicinity z6 as promised, but Rym Berry obligingly and badminton, with basketball and the of the Caribbean Sea. substituted momentarily in a fur coat indoor relays to come later. These are open to teams of all fraternities and in- while Professor Bristow Adams rem- SOIL EROSION is the subject of a series inisced of his three predecessors. The dependent groups, and the results are duly recorded to count toward the award of four weekly lectures, the first of which, story is that three undergraduates ar- on conditions in New York State, was rived at Burnet Park in Syracuse with a of the '97 Trophy at the end of the year. Last year the winner was Theta Chi, given in Caldwell Hall November z6 by home-made wooden cage on a trailer Professor F. B. Howe, who is on leave to preceded by Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha and succeeded in persuading the keeper act as head of the Federal soil erosion Zeta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Zeta, that they had permission to borrow a service in the State. The next, on Decem- Sigma Nu, and Delta Chi in 192.7-8. bear. The bear, however, thought other- ber 3, was on "Methods of Measuring wise, and bid fair to demolish the cage and Factors Affecting Soil Erosion," by THREE NEW ENTERPRISES for Tomp- before he could be returned safely to his Dr. John Lamb, Jr., who has charge of kins County were discussed by the special own lair in the zoo. Disheartened, the soil erosion research at Arnot Forest. On projects committee of the County De- three students returned to Ithaca with a December 10 Professor John H. Barron velopment Association at a luncheon at broken cage and no bear. '06 will discuss "Erosion Control Meth- Willard Straight November z8 given by ods Suitable for New York Soils," and Dean Carl E. Ladd '12., chairman of the THE PINCH-HITTER that night in his on December 17 Professor John N. Spaeth committee. They are limestone pulver- "State and Tioga" column of the Ithaca '19 will talk on "Soil Erosion Control izers for manufacturing agricultural Journal, had suggested a parrot as a by Forestry and Tree Planting" and D. mascot instead of a bear, anyway, and lime, a sawmill and woodworking plant to convert the thinnings of county wood- B. Johnstone-Wallace will discuss the gave cogent reasons for his choice. His control of erosion by means of pasture piece is reprinted in the news columns. lands into baskets, crates, and barrels, and the construction of homes for em- grasses and clovers. ployees of the salt and cement industries AT FOOTBALL GAMES, by R. B.: at Myers and Portland Point. The work TAU BETA PI, honorary scholastic "When they have drained of this committee is a part of the TERA society in Engineering, has elected to The convivial cup program for the development of the membership David C. Amsler '36 of Students throw bottles— county and to remedy unemployment. Pittsburgh, Pa., Thomas D. Bowes, Jr. "Alumni throw up." '35 of Cynwyd, Pa., Raymond M. THE SEVEN BUILDINGS of the new Brown '35 of New York City, Raymond THE CAMPUS exceeded its $1,000 quota Biggs Memorial Hospital being con- F. Colgrove '35 of Canandaigua, Lewel- by more than twenty percent in the structed by the State between the Tru- lyn W. Collings, Jr. '36 of South Orange, week's campaign for the Red Cross, mansburg road and the Lake north of N. J., Albert C. Hobbie '35 of Rochester, Student Relief Fund, and Ithaca Com- Ithaca, are making rapid progress. The Donald P. Keel '35 of Buffalo, John B. munity Chest. James A. Mullane '35 of power house has most of its machinery Maggio '35 of Brooklyn, Eugene F. Lawrence, Mass, headed the men's installed, and its tall white stack, plainly Murphy, Jr. '35 of Syracuse, Harold D. division, and Katherine M. Doring '35 of visible for miles up and down the east North, Jr. '36 of Cleveland, O., Alden Glens Falls was chairman of the women's side of the Lake, is a new but already C. Paine '35 of New Rochelle, Oleg P. teams. familiar landmark of the countryside. Petroff '35 of Montclair, N. J., Herbert With favorable weather it is expected L. Prescott '35 of East Orange, N. J., COSMOPOLITAN CLUB members gave that all seven will be enclosed in a few Benjamin J. Rabe '35 of Redlands, Cal., their annual international program be- weeks and ready for occupancy some Eugene C. Schum '35 of Erie, Pa., and fore the Women's Club of Ithaca in time next summer. Robert R. Sheridan '35 of Piqua, O. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

FRESHMAN RELIGIONS on the Campus has attracted many mem- MICHIGAN ELECTS OFFICERS Ninety-one percent of the entering stu- bers of the staffs of other universities and At its annual meeting on November 2.2. dents at Cornell University state a prefer- of industrial research laboratories to the Cornell Club of Michigan elected ence for a specific religious denomination, work under the direction of these officers for the ensuing year: president, according to the census of the Cornell specialists. That the University welcomes Richard Bragaw '09; vice-president, University Religious Work. such students is indicated in a resolution Matthew Carey '15; secretary, Thomas Presbyterians and Methodists lead the adopted by the Board of Trustees at its J. Litle, III '34; treasurer, Arthur S. list of 1539 students with totals of 163 recent meeting: Griswold '2.1; industrial secretary, H. and X38, while Episcopalians are third "Members of staffs of universities or oί Wallace Peters '14; sixth executive mem- with 2.Z9. Last year also, the Presbyterian industrial research laboratories who wish ber, Harold Cole Ί6; seventh executive denomination led in preference, but the to work under the direction of Baker non- member, Frank Nitzberg Ίx. Jewish group held the second place oc- resident lecturers in chemistry, and who Following dinner and a review of the cupied now by the Methodists. This year do not seek University credit for such Club's activities of the year, the members the Roman Catholic faith is fourth in the work, may be permitted to do so upon listened to a talk by Dr. Hettinger. Some list instead of holding the fifth place of recommendation by the Head of the De- idea of the interest in his speech as he last year. Jewish entering students are partment of Chemistry and with the discussed Washington affairs may be fifth in number. approval of the President or the Provost gained from the fact that he held his Among the faiths listed which are not of the University. They are to be relieved audience for two-and-a-half hours. represented by churches in Ithaca are from payment of tuition and other ad- Friends, Dutch Reformed, Community, ministrative fees, but not of laboratory SIBLEY JOURNAL Latter Day Saints, Church of Christ, and breakage fees." The Sibley Journal of Engineering for Mohammedan, Hindu, Confucian, Lon- November contains an article on "High don Mission, Moravian, Nazarene, Union, MID-HUDSON WOMEN Temperature Measurement" by Thomas Theosophism. The Mid-Hudson Cornell Women's J. Higgins '3Z, and one on "Automobile Club, with headquarters at Poughkeepsie, and Travel Costs" by Professor Karl D. WOODFORD MEMORIAL N. Y., had its annual fall business meet- Wood '2.0, which is a chapter from his The press reports a residuary bequest to ing on November xo at the home of Dr. forthcoming book, Airplane Design. the University in the will of Isabel H. Helen L. Palliser '14. Mrs. Henry C. This number contains a considerable Schelling of New York of two-sixths of Strahan (Martha E. Wool) *x4, who has number of news notes about the School, her estate, or a sum not to exceed $2.5,000. been corresponding secretary during the a page devoted to *' Engineers in Cornell Mrs. Schelling was the widow of the late last term, was elected president. Mrs. Sports," and a new "Faculty Page," to General Stewart L. Woodford, lifelong Nye Hungerford (Eunice L. Jourdan) '34 which Dean Dexter S. Kimball contrib- friend of Ezra Cornell, former Minister to was elected corresponding secretary for utes a brief article on "Listening and Spain, and one of the first Trustees of the the two-year term. Learning," and Professor Vladimir Kara- University. The bequest is reported made petoff a parable on "Wine Makers and to establish scholarships for men and a Bottle Makers." course on public questions as memorials On the publication board of the Sibley to General Woodford. OBITUARY Journal this year are Aaron R. Longe- He it was who, as Lieutenant Governor necker '35 of Ithaca, editor; Robert R. of the State, administered the oath of Sprole '35 of Belleville, N. J., business manager; Eugene F. Murphy, Jr. '35 of office to President Andrew D. White at WINIFRED IRVINE WOOLFORD '17 died Syracuse, managing editor; John S. Leslie the inauguration of the University in the suddenly November 5 at her home in '35 of Wyckoff, N. J., advertising man- Hall of the Cornell Library, Ithaca, on South Orange, N. J., and was buried in Ithaca. She was the daughter of the late ager; and John H. Palmer '35 of Mil- October 7, 1868, and delivered to him its Judge Frank Irvine' 80, former Dean of the waukee, Wis., circulation manager. charter and keys. In 1870 he founded the Law School, and Mrs. Irvine. Winifred Woodford Prize, given annually for the Irvine was born June 6, 1896, in Omaha, best English oration. It takes the form of RIFLE TEAM WINS Nebr., and attended the Ithaca High a gold medal or, if the winner choose, $100 The ROTC Rifle Team opened its School, entering the College of Arts and in money. It was the first prize to be season auspiciously last week by defeat- Sciences in 1913 and receiving the degree offered at the University. ing the University of West Virginia in a of Bachelor of Arts in 1917. In the fall of telegraphic match, 1897-1856. Jonathan 1918, to have a share in war service, Miss P. Blount '36 of Ithaca, last year's high KATZ CONTINUES LECTURES Irvine went with Gertrude Thilly '17 and scorer, shot 386; Robert M. Richman '36 Dr. J. R. Katz of the University of Mary Bancroft Ί8 to Washington to of Brooklyn, 380; Ronald N. Throop '35 Amsterdam, Holland, who has just com- work for the Government Ordnance De- of Syracuse, 379; Richard M. Bleier '35 of pleted a special six week's course of partment. She was married July 16, 1919, New York City, 379; and John W. lectures at the University, has been in- to Custis Scott Woolford, Pennsylvania Humphreys '36 of Hollis, 373. vited to continue his lectures for the '15, of Baltimore, who had been a Present plans for the team include at remainder of the first term. His subject Lieutenant in the Army and assigned for least six shoulder-to-shoulder matches; will be'' The Study of Substances of High some time to duty at the School of a home-and-home series with Syracuse, Molecular Weight by Means of X-rays.'' Military Aeronautics at the University. and meets with the Prison City Rifle Dr. Katz, world-renowned authority Mrs. Woolford is survived by her mother, Team of Auburn, with the Ithaca Rifle on the chemistry of bread, came to fill the who lives at no Stewart Avenue, Ithaca; Team, and with teams of Candor and Baker Lectureship in Chemistry, estab- by her husand whose address is 185 South Elmira. In addition, 70 or 80 telegraphic lished by the late George F. Baker in Orange Avenue, South Orange, N. J.; a matches will be held. 19x5. An endowment ϊund of $i5o,ooo son, Custis Scott Woolford, Jr., born Last year the Rifle Team shot over 3700 brings to the University annually men June 16, 1910; and by her sister, Mrs. out of a possible 4000 in every match, and eminent in chemistry or in some related Clarence Pope (Lida Irvine) '13, of won the championship of the Second branch of science, who are invited to Orange, N. J. She was a member of Kappa Corps Area, of the eastern division of the lecture on some topic within the lec- Kappa Gamma and was active in the National ROTC Intercollegiates, and of turer's own special field of investigation. Kappa Kappa Gamma Society of North- the National Rifle Association Eastern The presence of such outstanding men ern New Jersey. League. DECEMBER 6, I934

ROBERTS DOES IT AGAIN Concerning Books by Captain Caution: A Chronicle of Arundel. By Kenneth Roberts '08. THE FACULTY CORNELLIANS Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1934. x 4- 310 pages. ADVENTURES IN THE ARCTIC $x.5o. DR. H. H. DUKES, professor of veterin- Eskimo Year: A Naturalist's Ad- Captain Caution is first of all a good ary physiology, has perfected an ingeni- ventures in the Far North. By George story. It deals with the adventures of ous submarine device to measure the basal Miksch Sutton, PhD '32.. New York Captain Daniel Marvin and Corunna metabolism of hens under various tem- City. The Macmillan Company. 1934. Dorman of Arundel and certain assorted peratures. Hens are submerged fourteen vi + 32.1 pages. $3. shipmates of theirs during the War of to eighteen hours in an air-conditioned i8ii, when the British were sweeping the container in a barrel of water of which The key to Eskimo Year is contained seas to enforce their barricade of Ameri- the temperatures are regulated to corre- in the author's foreword wherein he can ports. spond with the seasons. The gases given notes that "It is not an ethnological The armed merchant barque, Olive off are carefully guaged and the amounts treatise. It is not primarily a dissertation Branch, one hundred and eight days out of food used are measured accurately. Dr. upon Arctic beasts and birds. ... it is of Canton bound for the States, Captain Dukes hopes to ascertain from his experi- first of all the story of a glorious ad- Oliver Dorman in command, ran afoul of ments whether it is cheaper for the venture in a glorious country." And that His Majesty's cruiser, Beetle, and learned poultrymen to heat their chicken houses is what it is. at the cost of her captain's life that war or feed the birds more during cold With eyes wide open for anything of had been declared. Taken prisoner by the weather. interest, Dr. Sutton spent his year British, the story tells how Marvin and among the Eskimos of Shugliak, better Corunna made the acquaintance of the DR. WALLACE NOTESTEIN, professor of known to geographers as Southampton rascally slaver, Slade, and of Argandeau, English history at the University from Island. His purpose in going was for the Frenchman, whose friend, Diron, 192.0 to 192.8, in the Saturday Review of ornithological research, and throughout master of the armed schooner, Decatur, Literature for November 10 reviews the book we see that he has one eye open out of Charleston, rescued them all Oliver Cromwell, by John Buchan, under for the creatures of the wild—snowy temporarily and sent them with Corunna the title, "Cromwell the Opportunist." owls, jeagers, swans, and others. But in command to the French port of past the other eye runs an endless pro- Morlaix. Miss R. LOUISE FITCH and Edith Ousts, cession of snapshots of liίe in the Far Corunna's loss of her ship and o£ her A.M. '30, hostess of Willard Straight North. Igloo building. Hunting the polar faith in Marvin; his sturdy Yankee Hall attended the New York State con- bear. Training huskies to the harness. A caution and unswerving purpose to re- ference of deans of women in Rochester whale leaping and splashing in the bay venge Slade's perfidy and clear his own November 9 and 10. in an effort to rid itself of constipation. name; and his final reckless daring in In Eskimo Year Dr. Sutton is not the taking Slade's brig from under the guns PROFESSOR BENJAMIN F. KINGSBURY, scientist telling a technical story to a of the British in the harbor of Fayal, PhD '95 spoke before the Agassiz Club in few co-workers. He is a man who had the make a swift-running story that holds McGraw Hall on November 8, on "The chance to adventure in the Arctic and the reader's interest to the end. Histologist's View of Modern Biology." who wants to tell his friends how he These people are interesting, as are the passed his time there. He makes no at- ships they man, their struggles and tempt to appear learned or heroic, or to THIRTY MEMBERS of the Faculty tennis disappointments, the intrigue and dis- club and their guests attended a banquet paint a glamorous picture where none honesty of government officials and at the Clinton House in Ithaca on Nov- existed. Without apparent intent he officers, and the final triumph of Marvin. ember 10 in honor of the club's president does to some extent debunk the average The reader feels the breath of the sea and and perennial champion, Professor James tale of Arctic life. "Winter is the time in the reading of this stirring tale gains K. Wilson, PhD '14. Professor Wilson de- you ought to be lonely on Shugliak. new insight into a little known phase scribed the history of the club since it Occasionally you are or think you are. of America's history. was founded in 1890 with Professor John But most of the time you are not. Your Captain Caution takes its place with Craig '99 as its guiding spirit. He was friends won't let you get that way. Rabble in Arms, Arundel, and The Lively presented with a racquet in recognition There is no end of hunting and trapping Lady as one more detail on that great of his victory in the fall singles finals, his and travelling, when the weather is fine. canvas of the story of America which twenty-sixth championship since he took When blizzards shut you in there are Roberts is painting so well. his first title in 1915. Milton T. Bush '19, games and wrestling matches, slated one-armed former varsity player, re- specimens to be worked over, drawing- ceived a racquet frame as runner-up to and writing-work to be done. At the Wilson and another as one of the winners post there is candy-making or pie-bak- of the doubles play in the club tourna- ing, the Misson radio, and the organ." ment. His partner, David B. Hand, PhD The reader is impressed with Dr. '30, received a similar trophy. Sutton's honesty in telling his tale. He feels sure that many, many times the Doctor could have laid it on a little CoRNELLiANS who took part in the thicker to make a more thrilling tale or meetings of the American Society of to build himself up, and he is thankful Agronomy and the American Soil Survey for the refusal to do so. Perhaps it was Association in Washington, D. C. No- this honesty, this sane viewpoint that vember 10x3 included Professors Frank brought him what must have been his B. Howe, Harry H. Love, PhD '09, John greatest reward. This was conveyed to H. Barron '06, and D. B. Johnstone- him in Jack's best American: "The Wallace. people likes you, Doc. They tells me just now they's going to help you get all PROFESSOR CLARK S. NORTHUP '93, na- sorts of birds while you're here." Kenneth Roberts Ό8 tional president, represented Phi Beta 10 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Kappa, and Professor Riverda H. Jordon, 06, Dean Carl E. Ladd '12., Professor 95 ME (EE)-Ellis L. Phillips is

Phi Gamma Delta, at the annual session Flora Rose? and Lloyd R. Simons Ίi. president of the Long Island Lighting of the Interfraternity Conference at the Company. Hotel Roosevelt in New York, November DR. H. C. MARSTON MORSE, professor 96 ME (EE)—Malcolm C. Rorty, 30 and December 1. of mathematics at Harvard, who was president of the American Management instructor and assistant professor at the Association, discussed "A Background PROFESSOR CLYDE B. MOORE, rural edu- University from 192.0 to 192.5, begins for Labor Relations" before the Boston, cation, addressed members of the Ithaca next fall a professorship of mathematics Mass., Chamber of Commerce November Board of Education and of the council of at the Institute for Advanced Study at 2.0. He urged restoration of competition the parent-teacher association on "Some Princeton. He will be associated there between national and'' company'' unions, Functions and Responsibilities of a Board with Albert Einstein and other famous and said that "business, industry, and of Education" November 2.0. mathematicians. capital can well afford to give first place to the real interests of the steady and re- PROFESSOR SAMUEL L. BOOTHROYD, PRESIDENT FARRAND, Walter C. Teagle sponsible worker, with the certainty astronomy, gave a popular illustrated '99, Myron C. Taylor '94, and Dr. Nathan that whatever serves his true interests lecture on "The Solar System" at a meet- B. Van Etten '89 were delegates to the will equally serve their own." The con- ing of the University branch of the President's conference on economic secur- clusion to be drawn from our present American Society of Mechanical Engi- ity in Washington, D. C. November 14. experience, he said, "is not that the ele- neers November Ί-Ί.. ments of private capitalism in our present PROFESSOR FLORA ROSE on November system should give way to a new and ill- THROUGH THE EFFORTS of Dr. Erl Bates, 2.3 in Rochester was re-elected vice- defined bureaucratic control of business director of Indian extension work of the chairman of the New York League of and industry, but rather that warfare, College of Agriculture, the Federal de- Women Voters. Professor George E. G. which was a glorious sporting event in partment of conservation has appropri- Catlin, PhD ^4, political science, urged primitive times, has become wholly de- ated $7,000 to be used for reforestation international cooperation for peace, structive to our modern highly organized of four hundred acres of land on three speaking at the convention. society." Indian reservations of the State. '98 BS—Charles H. Blair, University Trustee and partner in the New York PRIOR TO the Beethoven concert given Stock Exchange firm of Jacquelin & De- by the London String Quartet November Concerning Coppet, has leased a nine-room terrace ri, Professor Paul J. Weaver, head of the apartment at 32.0 East Seventy-second Music Department, gave a public lecture THE ALUMNI Street, New York City. of explanatory comments on the program. '98 AB—Frank E. Gannett, guest of honor at a luncheon of the English-speak- PROFESSOR WALFRED A. ANDERSON, '80 BS, '81 MS—Hosea Webster and ing Union in the Dartmouth House, rural social organization, in a report re- Mrs. Webster have closed their home in London, told his hearers that although cently submitted to the New York State Montclair, N. J. and departed for their conditions in America are better than a Planning Board points out that the State winter home at Coral Gables, Fla. has a major social problem in its necessity year ago, this country is not enjoying the '90 AB—Professor Paul Shorey, eminent of assimilating nearly one-fourth of the same degree of business recovery he was professor of Greek at the University of total foreign-born population of the observing in England. Chicago who died last April, was the hus- United States. band of Emma L. Gilbert Shorey '90. He '99 LLB—Walter L. Pate of New York was one of the original faculty at Chicago, City has been renominated delegate-at- PROFESSOR ROBERT E. CUSHMAN, gov- was made head of the Greek department large to the executive committee of the ernment, spoke in Willard Straight Me- in 1896, and became professor emeritus in United States Lawn Tennis Association morial Hall November 10 on "The Con- 1931. Following a stroke of paralysis for election at the annual meeting of the stitutional Aspects of the NRA." This suffered near the end of 1933, Dr. Shorey Association to be held in Cincinnati, O., was the first of a series of lectures and failed to regain his health, although he February 9, 1935. discussion periods on current economic was able to visit his office at intervals and governmental questions sponsored '99 BS—Walter C. Teagle, president of until six weeks before his death, when he by the Debate Association and the the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, suffered a second stroke. Mrs. Shorey Women's Debate Club. announced on November 16 that his com- lives at 5516 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago pany on February 1 would call its entire 111. There are no children. $90,000,000 of 5 percent debentures out- PROFESSOR GEORGE F. WARREN '03 re- ceived praise for his advocacy of the '94 PhD—Professor Thomas N. Carver standing, $8,000,000 of which will be 1' honest dollar" from Edward A. O'Neal, of Harvard recently addressed a joint Retired from cash in the company's president of the American Farm Bureau meeting of the engineering societies of treasury and the balance from bank loans Federation, speaking at the annual meet- Los Angeles, Cal. The meeting was ar- and with serial debentures. This is called ing of the New York State Farm Bureau ranged by Frank R. Oates Ίo. the largest single instance of corporate debt refunding in recent years. Federation in Syracuse November 2.1. '94 CE, '96 PhD—Mrs. John D. Rocke- Professor Warren spoke on the price feller, 3d., daughter of Elon H. Hooker '99 ME (EE)—At the convention of structure and recovery before the Na- '94 and Mrs. Hooker, startled the 450 the Machinery and Allied Products In- tional Grange in Hartford, Conn., No- delegates at a luncheon of the Family stitute held in Cincinnati, O. November vember 19, and before the Association of Welfare Association of America in New 2.2., John W. O'Leary, president, said that Land Grant Colleges and Universities, York City November 1.0 when she as- the Institute would fight Federal restric- meeting in Washington, D. C, on No- sailed members of society who go in for tion on the purchase of labor-saving vember xo. charity merely for the publicity it gives machinery and would stand for self- them. She has been interested in charity regulation of industry and free competi- OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY who since she graduated from Vassar four tion, opposing price-fixing. The object of attended the land grant colleges meeting years ago. Her subject at the luncheon the meeting was to find re-employment in Washington were Provost Albert R. was "The Layman Looks at Family for 5,000,000 former workers in the dur- Mann '04, Dean Cornelius Betten, PhD Welfare Work." able goods industries, and to get the DECEMBER 6, I934 I I opinions of machinery industry leaders as vice-president for Alabama of the South- to the NRA program. eastern Development Board, organized by ΌoBSA; '13 BS; '14SP; '14 Sp—Herbert industrialists and business men of six P. King, who runs a farm near Trumans- states November 19 " to sell the South to ESTABROOK & CO. burg, on November 2.3 was elected presi- the nation." Members of the^New York and dent of the New York State Farm Bureau '08 Sp—Margaret R. Cuthbert is in Boston Stock Exchanges Federation at its annual meeting in charge of literary programs for the Na- Syracuse. He succeeds George W. Lamb tional Broadcasting Company in Radio '13 of Hubbardsville. Warren W. Hawley City, New York City. Sound Investments '14 of Batavia was elected first vice- '08—Helen L. McFarland was ap- president, and Earl B. Clark '14 of North pointed in December, 1933, by Governor Investment Counsel and Norwich, treasurer. Pinchot a member*of the board of trustees Supervision '00 ME (EE)—Julian C. Smith, presi- of the Pennsylvania State Industrial dent of the Shawinigan Water and Powei; Home for Women at Muncy, one of the Company, has reported increased rev- outstanding penal institutions in the enues for his company for the nine months country. Her address is ZIOI Bellevue Roger H.Williams'95 ending September 30 as compared with Road, Harrisburg, Pa. Resident Partner New York Office 40 Wall Street last year. '08 AB—Philip J. Wickser of Buffalo is '02. AB, '05 PhD—Dr. William C. Geer a member of the committee on co-ordina- at the meeting of the American Institute tion of the bar of the American Bar As - of Chemical Engineers in Pittsburgh sociation. This committee will administer November 17 described two of his in- the recent $50,000 grant of the Carnegie ventions of considerable public interest. Corporation of New York to aid the Your Card . . . . In a paper on '' Removal of Ice from Air- Association in its work of raising stand- planes in Flight," he described a pneu- ards in the legal profession. appearing regularly in the matic rubber "overshoe" which, at- '08 AB; '14 AB—Carl J Schmidlapp PROFESSIONAL tached to the forward edges of propellors represented the Chase National Bank in DIRECTORY OF and monoplane wings and inflated, conferences November 19 in which the CORNELL ALUMNI cracks off ice which forms there. He re- banking group which extends loans to Keeps Your Name ported that more than 45 planes will be the city discussed with Mayor LaGuardia and other New York officials a new tax before 5,000 Cornellians who equipped with these de-icers this season may need your services and that their successful use on planes the program designed to supply relief funds. Write for Special Yearly Rate past three years has proved that mail and Harold Riegelman '14, counsel to the Citizens Budget Commission, pointed out Cornell Almuni News passenger planes may fly with practical Box 105 Ithaca, N. Y. disregard of ice conditions. Dr. Geer also that while the administration struggles described a new method of chemically for new taxes there is still time to reduce treating the outer coating of golf balls to "the greatly inflated 1935 budget" close make it permanently white and impos- to $10,000,000 without hurting the sible to discolor. He maintains a labora- public service. tory for chemical research at 6x4 High- '09, Ίo CE—Percy S. Monk is con- UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT BUREAU land Road, Ithaca. struction foreman of the CCC camp at the WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL '03 LLB—Clarence B. Kugler, Jr. is State Park at Fairhaven, N. Y. ITHACA, N.Y. manager of school cafeterias in Philadel- Ίo AB—Harry M. St John is chief phia. His address is Room no, Board of metallurgist of the Detroit Lubricator A Service for Employers Education Building, Twenty-first Street Company. His address is 18815 Lancashire and Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa. Road, Detroit, Mich. 03 LLB; '14—Alfred Huger of Charles- Ίz CE—Arthur T. Fay is an engineer Address ton, S. C. and Joseph W. Robinson of with the United States Coast and HERBERT H. WILLIAMS f25 Director Toledo, O. are members of the executive Geodetic Survey, and is working on the committee of the National Economy recovery of bench marks in New York League which on November 18 sent a State, with his present territory near Utica. petition to President Roosevelt contain- MORGAN'S 1935 CORNELL ing a plan for balancing the national '14 BS, Ί8 PhD—That farmers budget by July 1, 1935. throughout the country are getting back CALENDAR on their feet by means of the Govern- '04 LLB—Supreme Court Justice Wil- ment's refinancing program was the state- Makes an Excellent Christmas Gift liam F. Bleakley of Westchester County ment of William I. Myers, Governor of New Campus Photos Made Especially spoke at a luncheon of the Municipal the Farm Credit Administration, before for this Calendar Bond Club of New York on November zi the meeting of the New York State Farm at the Luncheon Club of Wall Street. Send check to: $1.60 Postpaid Bureau Federation in Syracuse recently. Enoch Bluestone '36 505 WyckoffRd., Ithaca "05 AB—Hendrick Willem Van Loon is He said that the number of applications syndicating a series of articles which for loans received at Washington is appear daily in the New York Mirror. greatly decreased from that of last year. That of November zo is to the effect that '17 BChem—Harold S. Broadbent has governments and civilizations die only been appointed assistant to the vice- YOUR MAGIC CARPET when they have outlived their useful- president of the Westinghouse Lamp is your Bell Telephone; ness, and not by outside political in- Company. ready to transport you fluence. over continents and oceans '17 BS—Alice Blinn is associate editor to people with whom you '06 ME—Robert Gregg, an executive of The Ladies Home Jourhal in Phila- wish to speak. of the Birmingham Steel Company, is delphia, Pa. 12. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'19—Victor Emanuel, New York City of the Harvard Research in International stock broker, has leased an apartment at Law. He was editor of the Cornell Law PROFESSIONAL 11 East Seventy-third Street, New York. Quarterly in his senior year. f *Z7, 'z8 CE—Julian S. Goble is with Ί8 BS, io AM, 'z5 PhD—Alfred E. DIRECTORY Emerson in October was promoted to a the Clinton Construction Company, 1132. OF CORNELL ALUMNI professorship in the department of zool- Beech Street, South Pasadena, Cal. ogy of the University of Chicago. His ad- f2_y—John S. McKee is a partner in the dress is Department of Zoology, Uni- Lake States Engineering Company, gen- METROPOLITAN DISTRICT versity of Chicago, Chicago, 111. eral contractors. His address is 111 West 'zo—Anthony O. R. Baldridge married Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111. secretly in October Jacqueline Hunter of WALTER S. WING Ό7, Gen i Sales Mgr '17, '2.9 CE—Paul J. Cunningham is New York. They will'make their home construction foreman at Fillmore Glen for the winter at 434 East Fifty-second State Park, Moravia, N. Y. Street, New York City. •2.8 BS, '2.9 MS—Dr. Alexander B. 'zz AB—Elmer M. Johnson is chair- Klots, entomologist, has been elected an man of the Tompkins County Consumers' honorary life member by the trustees of Council, organized by the consumers' 60 East 42nd Street, New York City the American Museum of Natural His- division of the National Emergency tory. Council to assist consumers in knowledge 'z8 AB—Rosemarie Parrott is teaching of the grading and labelling of materials French at Wadleigh High School, New offered for sale. Johnson talked over Sta- BALTIMORE, MD. York City. She lives at The Ridge, tion WESG on November 2.2.. He is Plandome, N. Y. chancellor of the Telluride Association WHITMAN, REQUARDT* SMITH at the University, and lives at 7 Ren- '2.8 AB—Mrs. Charles Lash (Elizabeth wick Heights Road, Ithaca. L. Griffiths) lives at 1302. Chester Street, Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural Bakersfield, Cal., where her husband is Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, '13, '14 CE—Burke D. Adams is with Plans, and General Consulting Practice. with the Western Geographical Company the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, doing work in connection with the EZRA B. WHITMAN, CE. Ό1 Paterson, N. J. G. J. REQUARDT, CE. "09 locating of oil. '2.5 CE—James A. Norris is with a B. L SMITH, CE. Ί4 '2.8 AB—Marjorie Hershon is junior coal contracting company at Shamokin, Baltimore Trust Building clerical assistant at Newtown High Pa. He and Mrs. Norris were in Ithaca School, Elmhurst, Long Island, N. Y. for the Syracuse game. She lives at 37 Bow Street, Forest '2.5 AB—Taylor W. Gannett is still Hills, N. Y. KENOSHA,WIS. American vice-consul. He may be ad- '2.9—Arthur R. Levine is engaged to dressed at the Department of State, marry Jessica R. Wolman, of Holyoke, Washington, D. C. MACWHYTE COMPANY Mass., Smith 'Z9, and now with The 'Z5, 'i.j ME—Paul J. Hillegas has been Manufacturers Wire and Wire Rope New Yorker. assistant engineer in the development of Streamline and Round Tie Rods '2.9 CE—Pierre J. Purcell is a Reserve a new type of low-winged monoplane for Airplanes officer in charge of the construction of a manufactured by the Cunningham-Hall JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3, VICE-PRESIDENT new CCC camp at Salamanca, N. Y., Company of Rochester. The new plane R. B. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3, GEN. SUPT. after having completed a similar job in was inadvertently tried out recently by a New Jersey. pilot making engine tests on the ground, TULSA, OKLA. and is reported to have behaved per- '2.9 CE—John Hedberg received his fectly in a high wind. A series offlaps i n PhD degree from Stanford University the rear of each wing and floating vanes last June. He is in the designing office of HERBERT L. MASON, LL.B. Ό0 in the front undersurface permit the pass- the Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Col. age of air through the wings, gaining '30 CE—Alpheus F. Underhill is a Attorney and Counselor at Law increased efficiency, higher speed, shorter salesman with the Federal Cement Com- 18th Floor, Philtower Building takeoffs, and slower landing speed. pany, 72.7 West Church Street, Elmira, MASON, WILLIAMS & LYNCH 'Z5 CE—H. Ross Poulson and Mrs. N. Y. Poulson are the parents of a son, Thomas '30 AB; '30 ME—On October zo Janet Layman, born November 14. Their ad- H. Dalton and W. Lowry Mann Jr. were dress is 545 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, married at the Little Church Around the WASHINGTON, D.C. III. Corner in New York City. After a Carri- '2.6 CE—Walter J. Purcell is construc- bean cruise they will be at home at 57 THEODORE K. BRYANT *97, '98 tion foreman at Fillmore Glen State Park High Street, Newton, N. J. Mann is CCC camp at Moravia, N. Y. rural extension engineer for the New Master Patent Law, G.W.U. '08 Jersey Power and Light Company. 'z6, '33 CE—Archibald A. K. Booth is Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively also construction foreman at Fillmore '30; Grad—The engagement has been 309-314 Victor Building Glen State Park at Moravia. announced of Myra Emerson '30, daughter 'z6 LLB—Henry S. Fraser spoke at of Professor Rollins A. Emerson, '99 Sp., Wells College November zi on "Interna- and Mrs. Emerson, to Walter F. Ryan, tional Law in the Making." Fraser has who is an instructor in the Department of been admitted to practice before the Economics and registered in the Graduate United States Supreme Court, and is School. Miss Emerson graduated from 1715 G Street, N. W. former technical adviser to the League of Pratt Institute last June and is teaching M block west State War and Navy Bldg. Nations committee for the progressive in Ithaca High School. BREAKFAST, LUNCHEON & DINNER codification of international law. He is '31 CE; '31 CE—Arthur J. Bruckert RUTH CLEVES JUSTUS '16 also a member of the advisory committee and Lowell J. Chawner were construe DECEMBER 6, I934 tion foremen during the summer at Fill- '2.1—George Munsick, R.F.D. No. 1, more Glen State Park, Moravia, N. Y. Hartford, Conn.—Thomas M. Weir, Sp., A Glorious Chawner is now taking graduate work at Thamesford, Ont., Can. Retreat... Columbia University. '2.2.—Wallace M. Adamson, 191 Central '31 CE—Edward Thomson is construc- Ave., Madison, N. J.—Gordon R. Mc- tion foreman at Enfield Glen State Park. Cormick, 1509 Green St., Philadelphia, '31 CE—Robert L. Quick is construc- Pa.—Alexander Singer, 149 E. Devonia tion foreman at State Park 36, Fair- Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.—Harold K. haven, N. Y. Smith, Brooklawn Dr., Nullburn, N. J. '31 CE—Gordon B. Hoffman is a civil '2.5—Clifton T. Blankley, 5654 Ridge engineer with the West Penn Power Com- Ave., Chicago, 111.—Charles A. Eaton, pany. He lives at 1731 Kimball Avenue, Jr., Valley Rd., Plainfield, N. J.—Herman INVERURIE in New Kensington, Pa. Karnow, 2.303 Ave. O, Brooklyn, N. Y.— '32. CE—Irving T. Barton is constrμc- Helen M. Moran, 398 East 52. St., New BERMUDA York City—William R. Tayler, 72.2. Glen tion foreman at Fillmore Glen State ^ERMUDA this winter! What a Ave., Westfield, N.J. Park, Moravia, N. Y. glorious decision that is to make. '32. CE—Donald J. Hurley is construc- '2.6—Leonard Tarr, 75 W. Mosholu tion foreman at State Park 36, Fair- Parkway, Bronx, N. Y.—Harry S. Read, Gay days instead of gray days ... one haven, N. Y. 454 Edgewood Ave., Westfield, N. J.— long round of sports—tennis, sailing, '3X CE—Arthur W. Eustance is fore- John B. Tracy, 62.2. Dewitt St., Syracuse, bathing, dancing, riding, driving, man at Buttermilk Falls State Park near N. Y.—Fidelia A. Warburton, Grad., , cycling. Golf privileges at famous Ithaca. Main & Buffalo Sts., Hamburg, N. Y. Belmont Manor. '33 LLB; '32. AB—Emery J. Hey and '2.7—Eugene P. 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