Rochester's Luncheon in Honor of President Farrand Beats All

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Rochester's Luncheon in Honor of President Farrand Beats All Records Dobie Signs New Contract Extend- ing His Stay at Cornell Until 1933 Baseball Team Loses its Opening Game to Columbia by One-sided Score New York 1912 Association Holds Rousing Jubilee Celebrating Advent of Spring

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APRICES of Ithaca weather are considerable talent, many of whom had PROFESSOR CARL BECKER of the history indicated in the facts that on Sun- not been suspected of ambitions in this department is one of twelve lecturers in the C day, April i, the best skating of the direction. summer session of the New School for winter was to be had on Beebe Lake; and Social Research in New York. His topic ELEVEN HOUSES have entered the inter - on Saturday, April 21, quite a sizeable is ' 'European history from 1860 to 1914," fraternity soft-ball league. Others are ex- crowd Λvas in swimming in Fall Creek just and will deal with the alliances that led to pected to enter, besides those who will below the falls at the power-house. the World War. take part in the more strenuous play with A GRIM TRAGEDY connected with the use the regulation baseball outfit. LECTURES for the week include "Amer- of soft coal in Ithaca was enacted on ican Obligations to Europe in the Present HIGH COSTS of building are expected to "swing-out" day, when seniors in their Crisis" by Dr. William E. Dodd, professor delay the beginning of several structures at new sport coats and light knickers, and of American history in the University of Cornell, among them the proposed en- girls with bright-colored skirts sat on the Chicago; "The Naturalistic Viewpoint" by largement of the seating capacity at baseball stands which had been accumulat- Louis A. Fuertes '97; Professor Booth- Schoellkopf Field, and the Cornell Union. ing a coat of soot all winter. It was good royd's public lecture at the Fuertes Ob- business for the cleaners. FIRING REAL projectiles in real artillery, servatory; a reading by Carl Sandburg, the maneuvers of the Cornell R. O. T. C. under the auspices of the Cornell Women's CARL SANDBURG, Chicago's poet of took a good many spectators from the Club of Ithaca; and a lecture by Major realism, appeared in a series of readings scene of the Columbia-Cornell baseball General Henry T. Allen, U. S. Army, re- from his own works at Barnes Hall last game to the vicinity of Turkey Hill last cently commander of the American forces Monday, under the auspices of the Cornell Saturday. The first gun was fired by in Germany on his experiences in Cob- Women's Club. Major T. J. J. Christian, grandson of lenz and the occupied area. INVITATIONS to the "Delicate Brown" "Stonewall" Jackson, and was probably MRS. ANNA B. COMSTOCK is in Wash- annual gridiron review of the year at Cor- the first piece of ordnance using actual ington, D. C., this week to speak before nell have gone to the guest of honor, and ammunition that has been fired in Tomp- the National Council of Girl Scouts. She the others who are asked to share the feast kins County, or the region that subse- will be the guest of Mrs. Herbert Hoover with him. About 100 invitations were is- quently became Tompkins County, since during her stay. sued, of which 50 went to members of the the time of the Sullivan expedition. THE JUNIOR VARSITY crew rode home faculty, 25 to prominent members of the MAJOR J. P. EDGERLY, who has been senior class, and 25 to leading citizens. from Crowbar Point in the coaching launch the coach of the Cornell fencing team, has last Friday afternoon after a collision with GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, tenor of the announced that next year the fencers will piling had ripped a hole in the side of the Metropolitan Opera Company appeared in have a former intercollegiate fencing 1915 shell, which the junior eight is at concert in Bailey Hall last week, with champion and a graduate of West Point as present using, The crew had just com- Flora Greenfield, soprano, in one of the their coach, Major A. J. Anderson. pleted a smart spurt preparatory to turn- most enjoyable concerts of the year. THE ORCHESTRA, under the direction of ing around for the homeward journey THE CORNELL CHEMIST, the publication George Coleman '95, gave the annual Λvhen the mishap occurred. The out- of the students in the department of chem- spring concert in Bailey Hall last Tuesday rigger on Walker's oar, No. 2, smashed istry, has come back to a permanent place night, with Neira Riegger, mezzo-contralto into the piling, wrenching it loose and rip- among the college journals, and looks for- of New York as soloist. The concert was ping a hole in the side of the shell. Coach ward to still further advancement when free, under the Hinckley endowment. Hoyle saw the accident from the launch, which was soon standing by the fast- the new building is occupied next fall. A CIVIL ENGINEERING won all three filling boat, and all the crew were removed new board has just been elected. prizes in the Fuertes Memorial contest this to the launch, which then put out for home, year, with A. W. Crouch '23, of East FRATERNITY RUSHING may be put on a with the crippled shell in tow. satisfactory basis by action of the Student Aurora, in first place. This contest carries Council, which has received a report from rivalry between individuals and between GILMORE DOBIE'S contract as football the committee which it appointed. This colleges as well, since three colleges are coach has been extended to May I, 1933, report presents a history of past agree- eligible to the competition,—Civil Engi- the Athletic Association announces. Mr. ments and their violations, and recom- neering, Mechanical Engineering, and Dobie came here in March 1920, under a mends in a general way the formation of Architecture. With this, the tenth annual three year agreement. After one year of committees to perfect plans that may be contest, M.E. students have won 4 first that term had expired, the contract was adhered to by those who enter into com- prizes, C.E. 3, and Architecture 3; C.E. extended five years to May, 1926; the pacts which may be drawn. The Council has won the largest number of second latest extension means that Mr. Dobie is holds that the regulation of fraternity places, and M.E. the largest number of under contract to coach at Cornell for ten rushing should not be a duty of the Council thirds. more years. itself. The appointment of Leonard C. Han- MARGEL GLUCK, who gave a violin son '23, as assistant football coach is also FIVE CONTESTANTS have been selected recital at the Ithaca Conservatory of announced. For the last two years Han- for the Woodford Prize, in which the final Music last week, is the grand-daughter of son has been a distinguished figure in foot- competition will be held on May 4. One the late Charles Mellen Tyler, for many ball circles playing left tackle, he was one of the five is a woman. years professor of history and philosophy of the strong men of the 1921 and 1922 at Cornell. AN ART EXHIBIT is being held in White elevens. Hanson will succeed Clyde Hall to include the work of all local artists, COLORED RESIDENTS of Ithaca have Mayer, '21, as assistant coach. Mr. even though they are not part of the Col- started a monthly journal to record their Dobie's other assistant, Ray C. Hunt, lege of Fine Arts. The exhibition proves interests, and to promote better under- who has been with him since Dobie came that there are a number of persons with standing between white and colored races, to Cornell, will return again next fall. 354 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

New York Twelvers Splurge larid real estate man; Ted Hunt, of the clever stunt, drawing caricatures of Ed- Bankers Trust Company; Vern Ryder, the win N. Sanderson 87, Neal D. Becker Class Association Celebrates the Arrival well-known lawyer; Looie Boochever, of '05, and others, at the same time philoso- of Spring In Style the Manhattan Knitting Mills; Alan Col- phizing on life in the country. cord, globe trotter; Looie Bowman, the Edwin L. Howard '19, as Gabe Blozopp Under the date line, Special to the Cor- prominent builder of Westchester and of the Petrograd Opera, sang a ballad nell Daily Sun, New York, April 20, the points north; Ham Allport, cable address, written for the occasion and illustrated by chairman of the Cornell 1912 Association, 'Badgerco'; Asa Rogers of Great Notch; lantern slides, drawn by Thomas E. Mur- James I. Clarke harked back to his Sun Sid Segelbaum of Brooklyn, and Admiral relΓi2. editorship days and sent in a special story Dewejr—father of six—the active treas- John W. Ross '19 and Byron E. Wrigley which has been blue-pencilled down to the urer of the organization. '19 in a banjo stunt and W. Horace Whit- following: "For the benefit of those who came late, temore '20 at the piano completed the "The Cornell 1912 Association of New Walt Kuhn '12, was asked by Chairman formal program. York held a rousing spring reunion and Bate to repeat for the second time his now After refreshments a quartet contest dinner here tonight. The menu would famous Freshmen Banquet speech en- was staged with three contesting quartets. have gratified a professional gastronomist, titled Ήow to be Successful Though The result was a draw, all three quartet Honest.' Kuhn '12, spoke well into the the Office Orchestra's rendition of numer- showing a certain lack of coordination. wee sma' hours." ous jazz movements was magnificent and The smoker was scheduled as an annual executed with feeling, the stunts were eso- event but in this case it was also a part of teric and funny, while several interesting CLUB ACTIVITIES the "Get Your Man" Campaign now on at and instructive speeches afforded a climax the Cornell Club of New York. It is ex- to the occasion which f ewτ habitues of New pected that the membership will be doubl- York's festal boards have witnessed dur- Washington ed before the new club is ready next ing the 1923 banquet season. At the annual meeting of the Cornell September. "The Nineteen-twelvers turned out in Society of Washington, held at the Wilson Chicago large numbers. They began to gather Normal School in that city March 27, Colonel 0. D. Steele was the speaker at early at the Office Restaurant, on Third officers Λvere elected, reports read and the weekly luncheon of the Cornell men of avenue near Eighty-sixth street, where adopted, and enough miscellaneous busi- Chicago at the Hamilton Club on April 19. Max Grambow, M.E., '12, by reason of in- ness transacted to consume two hours and New '79 Secretary a half. heritance, is Maitre d'Eats, and by 8 To fill the vacancy which has existed in The report of the secretary, Jean o'clock the party was in full swig. the class secretaryship of the Class of '79 Stephenson '17, chronicled the high lights "After an informal reception to the hon- ever since the death of Calvin Tomkins of the year, including meetings in honor of orable guests and visiting delegates, which '79, Clayton Ryder has accepted a tempor- President Farrand and Sao-Ke Alfred Sze fortunately transpired with a minimum of ary appointment made by Andrew J. Όi, former minister from China, and the broken glassware, the assemblage attacked Whinery Ίo, president of the Cornell Asso- Founder's Day celebration on January 11. the repast. ciation of Class Secretaries. There is im- Attendance at these meetings ranged from "Roy Strempel '12, acted as song leader. mediate need for a secretary to make ar- no to 215. The analysis of membership This is not his regular business, but he did rangements for the reunion this June, for the current year showed 235 dues-pay- it with the air of a professional, leading when '79 will come back along with '78, ing members, of whom 170 are full mem- both orchestra and audience in such never- '80, '81, and '83. to-be-forgotten airs as 'Every Little Move- bers (Cornellians) and 65 are associate ment,' 'The Gang's All Here,' 'Alex. R. T. members (faculty, summer school, winter St. Louis Band,' 'Beautiful Doll,' and others equally course, and families of members.) Of the The Federated Alumni Association of popular when these gentlemen were seniors Cornellians there are 121 men and 49 St. Louis, the organization which has done thirteen years ago. women. Of the associates 10 men and 55 much to arouse general alumni enthusiasm " 'Jic' Clarke '12, president of the asso- women, a grand total of 131 men and 104 in that city, will hold an all-college party ciation, under whose auspices last night's women. at the University on April 26. The invita- function was given, in a few well chosen Elections to the board of governors re- tion is signed by representatives from words introduced Ήank' Bate '12, who sulted as follows: John H. Agate '13, Wil- thirteen colleges, including Perry Post was chairman of the banquet committee liam L. Saunders '17, Meredith C. Wilson Taylor '89, president of the Cornell Club and who acted as toastmaster. '14, Jean Stephenson '17, and Abbie S. of St. Louis. "Passing for the moment over the galaxy Tingley '19. Dinner at seven o'clock will be followed of also-spokes, we desire to report the ex- New York City by a diversified evening including a bridge cellent address of Martin Sampson '12, The Second Annual Spring Smoker was tournament, a squash match, kelly pool whose words beggar description. He was an outstanding event in the history of en- championships, and wide open singing. the honor guest of the evening and his tertainments of the Cornell Club of New Rochester bright wit and original poetic humor pro- York. Over 300 turned out and the roof It has been a notable week for the Cor- voked an enthusiasm unknown in Third does not rest firmly on its base as it used nell Club of Rochester. The annual avenue resorts since the debut of Mullan & to. It is clear that the prospect of new banquet was held at the Powers Hotel Gage. His talk was punctuated with quarters is enlivening the Cornell situa- ballroom on April 14, a strictly stag party round after round of staccato applause tion in the greater city. despite the efforts of a guileless printer or a. from his admiring classmates. John T. (Terry) McGovern was charge wag of a banquet chairman who put at "Chairman Bate next introduced those d' affaires and his introductions were each place a menu card announcing the two lions of all social gatherings for the worthy of his Irish ancestry. "annual banquet of Cornell University last fifteen years, the champion stunsters The old "Big Four" Orchestra, now Alumnae." The hundred and fifty Cor- of 1912,(Carl V. Burger '12, and Tom Mur- known as Paul Whiteman's Collegians, was nellians in attendance pronounced it the rell '12. With becoming grace they took there in force and aroused a storm of ap- best alumni banquet ever held in Roches- such applause as was offered, and the plause. ter. amount thereof was not slight. William J. (Bill) Norton '02, Charles M. All of the speakers were imported from "Some of the notables observed at the Stotz '21 and Anthony O. R. Baldridge '20 • other parts of New York. Judge Cuthbert function were: gave character sketches. W. Pound '87, alumni trustee and associate "Henry Koch, the prominent Long Is- Carl Burger '12 presented an unusually judge of the New York Court of Appeals, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 355

came from Lockport. Dean Dexter S. first to see that every line of instruction is paign and at all times. He made no ap- Kimball of the College of Engineering adequate. Then to make sure that in peal for funds but every Cornell man in came from Ithaca with Louis A. Fuertes certain outstanding departments our pre- the hearing of his voice must have been '97, recently beknighted with the prefix eminence is upheld." moved with a desire to stand behind him "Prof." The aims and needs of the Uni- Dr. Farrand told how he had just taken and help keep Cornell preeminent. versity formed the keynote of the talks. a long trip across the country and how he Philadelphia was greeted by enthusiastic alumni where- COUNCIL GETS PUBLICITY Doctor Georgia L. White, Dean of ever he stopped. Everywhere, he said, he The following comment on the work of Woman, was the guest and speaker at a found Cornell men leaders in the life of the Cornellian Council is quoted from an dinner meeting of the Cornell Women's their communities, everywhere they show- article in the March 28 issue of Dougherty's Club of Philadelphia on Wednesday even- ed an appreciation of their responsibilities Magazine, the house organ published by ing, April 11. The meeting was held at the and devotion to a spirit of service. He was Donald C. Dougherty '13, publicity and home of Miss Muriel Smith. Dean White deeply impressed by the standing of Cor- organization counselor, Cleveland, Ohio. addressed the Girls' High School of West nell men and he felt proud to be at the "Colleges and universities teach their Philadelphia in the morning, showing head of a University which had developed undergraduates almost everything except lantern slides of views of the University them. how much the students are getting for how campus, gorges, buildings and student Dr. Farrand pointed out that competi- little. activities. tion in educational work had developed intensely during the past decade. Uni- "The average undergraduate considers Rochester's Surprise Party versities all over the country are seeking that he is doing Alma Mater or Prexy or the best professors for their various de- the Board of Trustees or some one a nice favor by pushing one of father's checks Two Hundred Alumni Greet President at partments. through the wicket in the treasurer's office Enthusiastic Luncheon Cornell has a most loyal Faculty, he at the beginning of each semester. said, and he paid high tribute to its mem- "The colleges, or most of them wait Cornell men of Rochester and vicinity bers. It is only natural that the best men until the student has grown his graduate's gave President Livingston Farrand a greet- at Cornell, particularly in departments wings and has flown to the fastness of ing last Wednesday noon that eclipsed all where she is preeminent should be wanted Butte or St. Augustine to tell him what a college gatherings ever held in western elsewhere and they are certain to receive debt he left behind him. Then the alum- New York. Indeed it is no exaggeration offers of higher pay than they are now nus finds himself enrolled by Alma Mater to say it was one of the best Cornell meet- getting. There is not the slightest doubt in a postgraduate course—sort of a cor- ings ever held any where. Two hundred that many of them could get higher respondence course in which he gets his and ten men turned out for the luncheon salaries in other universities but devotion lessons about inadequate endowments, col- and their enthusiasm was unbounded. to Cornell, and satisfaction with condi- lege finances and deficits and in which it is President Farrand has a reputation as a tions at Ithaca have kept them from doing proved beyond argument that he (or magnetic, interesting speaker, but never so. There is a grave danger, however, father) paid the college but a third of what have his auditors heard anything that im- that this will not always be the case. It his education cost. pressed them more than this talk, which is not fair forever to expect men to sacri- was entirely impromptu, as he did not ex- fice the welfare of their families in order to "Perhaps he pays some attention and pect to be greeted by more than a few men live in the pleasant atmosphere of Ithaca. shows that he has got his lesson by making at a luncheon on his way to New York. And it would be a pity indeed if Cornell a pledge. And perhaps he does not, be- Every Cornell man who heard him was should lose any of her strongest Faculty cause he is 'not interested,' is 'hard up,' charmed by his clear thinking, his fluent members because of inability to meet to has 'too many other obligations,' 'does not speech, and his carefully and well chosen some extent the competitive bidding of owe the college a cent,' 'wants to think it diction, and he was frequently interrupted other institutions. over' or 'to talk it over with the wife' and by applause as he drew a graphic picture "In a number of her departments," many etceteras. of conditions at the University and dis- he said, "Cornell clearly leads the country. "It is very hard to get the elusive cussed the policy for the future. "The day is past when Cornell can af alumnus by long distance shooting unless One of the most striking statements ford to let any outstanding figure go to —well, unless something is done along the that he made was that Cornell intended to another university if it is simply a ques- lines that Cornell University is following. devote itself to quality instead of quantity. tion of dollars and cents. There is no "The Cornellian Council is the official He expressed his wish that the University question that Cornell in the past has suf- money raising agency of the University. be contented with about the number of fered in letting men leave for purely The Council secures an appreciable total students it has to-day and that all its economic -reasons. yearly through many nominal contribu- energies and efforts be devoted to raising "No university can be prominent in all tions to the Alumni Fund. But it does not the standard of instruction and the stand- lines of instruction. No university has postpone until after a Cornellian has ac- ard of scholarship. more than a handful of outstanding figures. cumulated a degree to speak to him about "As I understand Cornell's attitude" he When in the future Cornell is in danger of money matters. said "we are not seeking numbers. Al- losing an inspiring teacher, who is recog- "The Council gathers the students to- though none knows the maximum for nized as a leader in his particular field, I gether on the campus, tells them how much efficiency in American universities, there certainly shall do my part to see that we their fees do not pay for, and puts on a iβ no evidence that what we consider the hold him even though in his case the gen- 'whirlwind campaign' to get the names on best in our college and university life and eral level of salary standards may be the dotted line when loyalty is white hot. atmosphere could be maintained in in- broken." "And the system is decent. That is, it stitutions of huge size. President Farrand said the budget for does not sign the students up to give "It is a great relief to me that there is no next year will show a deficit and that a amounts they would find difficult to pay disposition in the minds of the faculty and much larger sum should be available for in the early years after graduation when trustees to yield to the pressure for that use in maintaining the Cornell standard. earning power is likely to be small. In- kind of growth. We propose to hold to Dr. Farrand carefully refrained from stead the Council gets pledges to pay numbers no greater than they are to-day, saying how and where this money will be $5, $10, or $15 annually and these are at least until every inch of academic slack " obtained. He paid tribute to the loyalty revocable at will. After the men and has been taken up. of the alumni in supporting Cornell in the women have been out long enough to have "The course of wisdom at Cornell is crisis at the time of the Endowtnent Cam- had a chance to increase their earnings, a 356 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS follow-up is instituted to get these alumni but the batters could do little with Gehrig, Cornell (3) to increase their yearly payments. who struck out ten men. AB R H PO A E Woodin, 2b 4 o o 3 3 i "The Cornellian Council is now working Rollo, on the other hand, had little on Capron, ss 4 o o i 3 o on a program that is calculated to bring the ball. He retired at the end of the Frantz, rf 301100 $250,000 a year, the sum which President Fox, ib 4 i i ιo o o sixth inning, after nine hits and seven runs Farrand declares the University will re- Bickley, cf 411100 had been scored by the New Yorkers. Telfer, If 3 i o o o o quire annually until it has at least $5,000,- Knipe, who pitched the last three innings, Hulnick, 3b 3 o i 2 3 o ooo more of unrestricted endowment." allowed one hit and one run, a home run Tone, c 2 o i 8 2 o Rollo, p 2 o o i 3 o drive by Gehrig, in the seventh inning, Knipe, p i o o o o o ATHLETICS which sailed high over the right field *Weiss i o o o o o fence and was the longest hit yet made on **Smythe i o o o o o the New Field. The Columbia pitcher Totals 32 3 5 27 14 i Cornell Stick Men Win also made a triple in the third inning. *Batted for Telfer in ninth. A second half rally gave the lacrosse Altogether it was quite a day for Gehrig. **Batted for Tone in ninth. team a 3 to i victory over Pennsylvania The visitors got to Rollo for three hits Columbia 40100210 o—8 in the opening inning. Singles by Ken- Cornell 02010000 o—3 State in a well-played game on Alumni Two-base hit, Mannheim; three-base Field Friday afternoon. Although the nedy and Strom and a double by Mann- hits, Fox, Gehrig; home run, Gehrig; home team forced the issue almost all the heim, Woodin's muff of Heinzelmann's stolen bases, Kennedy, Strom; sacrifice grounder and a base on balls to Moeschen hits, Tone, Pease; double plays, Pease to time in the first half, fine goal-tending by produced four runs. A triple by Gehrig Mannheim, Heinzelman to Kennedy to Morgan prevented a Cornell tally. Wilson Mannheim; left on bases, Cornell 5, and Strom's single gave the New Yorkers of the visitors scored a goal toward the end Columbia 4; first base on errors, Cornell 3; another in the third; in the sixth hits by base on balls, off Rollo 2, Knipe i, Gehrig of this period, on a pass from Bash, and the Mannhein and Sprague, Peases' sacrifice, i hits off Rollo, 9 in 6 innings, off Knipe, half ended with Penn State leading i to o. and Kennedy's hit gave them two more i in 3 innings, off Gehrig, 5 hit by pitcher, by Gehrig (Hulnick); struck out, by Cornell rallied in the second half, and Gehrig's circuit drive in the seventh Rollo 3, Knipe 4, Gehrig 10; passed ball, Rooney shooting a pretty goal from completed the work of devastation. Tone; time of game, i hour 55 minutes. directly in front of the net. Hall scored For Cornell, two runs were scored in the Umpires, Courneen, Rochester, and Van Dyne, Ithaca. another, a bit later, on a pass from Clark, second inning on a single by Bickley, and Rooney made his second goal just Sprague's muff of a fly which gave Telfer Runners at Philadelphia before the game ended. In stick work, a base and a wild throw to first by Moes- The track team will compete in the passing, and team play Cornell was super- chen. In the fourth Fox tripled and scored Pennsylvania Relay Carnival at Philadel- ior. The team is improving steadily. on a wild throw by Kennedy. The box phia this week-end. Coach Moakley Cornell Drops First Game score: planned to enter teams in the half-mile, Columbia (8) mile, and four-mile relay races, and also Columbia defeated the baseball team by AB R H PO A E men in the sprints, pole vault, high jump, a score of 8 to 3 on the New Field Satur- Kennedy,2b 513211 day in the first game of the home season, Heinzelman, ss 5 i o 2 4 o and weight events. the contest scheduled with Niagara on Gehrig, p 522010 Moeschen, 3b 3 i o o o i Wednesday having been called off because Strom, If 4 i 2 3 o o AT CALIFORNIA, besides the Stephens of rain. Fine pitching by Gehrig of Mannheim, ib 3 i 2 6 o o Union, there is also a Henry Morse Columbia, who held Cornell to five Sprague, cf 4 i i 3 o i Stephens Lodge of F. & A. M., which was safeties, and Rollo's ineffectiveness were Pease, rf 2 o o 2 i o instituted on October 26 last. The lodge Blatters, c 4 o o 9 o i the dominant factors in Cornell's undoing. recently received a handsome master's The team on the whole fielded effectively, Totals 35 8 10 27 7 4 gavel from the Harvard lodge.

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CREW MANS THE PUMPS Photo by Troy The Varsity boat ran into difficuulty in the shape of high waves while practicing on the Lake during Spring Recess. Shoes and extra T-shirts came in handy ridding the shell of excess water ballast. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 357

phone^ since it speaks not with an individ- peared, Professor Frederick C. Prescott's SPORT STUFF ual voice but for the community. It goes "The Poetic Mind" is reviewed by DeWitt farther than any other agency toward H. Parker. Theodore T. Stenberg, 15-6 unifying and democratizing a community. Spring has finally arrived. The air is Grad., of the University of Texas, reviews Its purpose is not to mold thought but A. Orbeck's "Ibsen's Early Plays." full of bird notes, baseballs and rough rather to crystalize what the people think. language. Flannel pants and dislocated In the Archiv fuer das Studium der It is the author's opinion that the fingers are being much worn. neureren Sprachen und Litteraturen for country weekly has a future of promise. January Professor Oliver Farrar Emerson's All of the teams and crews are swinging Statistics may be slightly against him; in into action and the atmosphere is highly article on "John Dryden and a British 1905-20 in New York the number of Academy" is reviewed by F. Liebermann. electric. The coaches have forbidden country weeklies dropped from 551 to 489. The Engineering News-Record for April their charges to dance and they are being But he is probably right, nevertheless. 12 includes an article by Dean John F. obeyed. This proves the coaches to be The service of the paper is so important Hayford '89, of Northwestern University, only a little lower than the angels and far that it will undoubtedly continue, a dif- on "Winds and Barometric Effects on the beyond any other earthly power in their ferent and a better product. All concerned Great Lakes." approach to omnipotence. Imagine any will realize more fully than in the past that parent or governmental agency getting the country newspaper, like every other In Industrial Mamagement for April the away with that—in the spring time. but more so, is what both editor and com- editor, John H. Van Deventer '03, con- There has been a vast increase in the munity together make it. tinues his serial on "Ford Principles and number of student-owned Fords and a Practice at River Rouge," and William E. corresponding increase in talk of restrict- Books and Magazine Articles Irish '12 publishes the sixth instalment of ing them a bit on the campus. One's In Public Health Reports for March 23 his serial on "The Successful Operation of opinion on this point depends largely on Jessamine S. Whitney '05 presents "A an Engineering Plant." whether or not one operates a Ford. A Report of the Indigent Migratory Con- In the April Journal of Political Eco- Ford Owners Protective Association is sumptive in Certain Cities of the South- nomy "The Evolution of People's Banks" being organized. west.'' There are two plates. by Donald S. Tucker is reviewed by Pro- If you haven't ordered your Spring Day In The Cornell Law Quarterly for April fessor Harold L. Reed '14, of Washington tickets yet it might be wise to do so Professor Nathan Isaacs, of the Univer- University, St. Louis. "Bank Credit and promptly. On another page there is de- sity of Pittsburgh, discusses "The Eco- Agriculture" by Professor Ivan Wright, tailed information on how and how much. nomic Advantages and Disadvantages of '17-20 Grad., of the University of Illinois, R. B. the Various Methods of Selling Goods on published by the McGraw-Hill Book Com- Credit." Professor Roswell F. Magill, of pany, is reviewed by George E. Putnam. the University of Chicago, writes on "The In The Independent for April 14 Edwin LITERARY REVIEW Legal Advantages and Disadvantages of Slosson reviews Dr. David Starr Jordan's the Various Methods of Selling Goods on "The Day sofa Man." Credit." Professor E. F. Albertsworth, of The Country Paper To The Bookman for April Dana Burnet Western Reserve, discusses "Imitative and Ίi contributes "Impromptu," a one-act The Country Newspaper. By Millard Apocryphal Reasoning of Courts." Notes play. Van Marter Atwood Ίo, Assistant Profes- and Comment on recent important cases sor in Extension Service. Chicago. A. C. fill forty-eight pages. Professor Charles K. IF I WERE KING McClurg & Co. 1923. 18.6 cm., pp. xii, Burdick reviews the second edition of "A At the Lyceum on April 21 the Cornell 137. Price, $ι. National Social Science Selection of Cases Under the Interstate Women's Dramatic Club gave a very Series. Commerce Act" by Felix Frankfurter, creditable performance of Justin Huntly This is an interesting and well written and James Brown Scott's "Cases on In- McCarthy's play "If I Were King." It book. Moreover, the subject is not un- ter national Law." Professor Edwin H. was probably on the whole not a wise important. There were in the United Woodruff '88 reviews "Impressions of an choice of play from the women's point of States at the last census 2,318 daily news- Average Juryman" by Robert Stewart view, since the women's voices tended papers, of which only 298 were issued in Sutliffe. Professor Carl Becker's "The constantly to dispel the necessary illusion. towns of more than 5,000 inhabitants, Declaration of Independence" is reviewed Aside from this general criticism, however, whereas there were 10,797 weeklies. It is by an anonymous writer. "Railroads, the observer could have only words of the country weekly that the author has in Rates, Service, Management" by H. B. praise for the performance. The part of mind. Vanderblue and K. F. Burgess is reviewed Villon was taken by Katherine Mont- The six chapters tell us what the coun- by C. E. R. Sherington, of the Depart- gomery '24, who acquitted herself admir- try weekly is, how it is made, how financed, ment of Economics. its value to the community, its problems ably; she had good presence, imagination, In The Cornell Civil Engineer for April and difficulties, and its future and possi- feeling, sentiment. Elizabeth D. W^orman John T. Child '12, of the Rochester bilities. '23 as Louis XI achieved a triumph; she Bureau of Municipal Research, writes on The country editor gets his income from interpreted the part with skill and thor- "Street Traffic Relief—an Engineer's advertising, subscriptions, and job work. ough comprehension of the character of Job." Professor Fred A. Barnes '97 writes A recent New York survey indicated that the king. Margaret P. Bateman '23 as on "Changes in the Curriculum." H. C, the average country publisher took in an- Katherine de Vaucelles had not only the Boyden, of the Portland Cement Associa- nually about $9,000 and spent about $7,- fundamental requisite of beauty but also tion, describes "Recent Developments in ooo, his investment exclusive of real dignity and intelligence. Elizabeth B. Concrete." There is an anonymous re- estate being about $8,000. Less than Lerch '23 made an effective Thibaut view of Professor George F. Swain's "The forty per cent of the publishers said that d'Aussigny, and Evelyn A. Ihrig '23 as Young Man and Civil Engineering." they paid themselves any salary, and only Huguette du Hamel was especially effec- a few more charged off depreciation. In The Classical Weekly, for April 16 tive in the death scene. Helen M. Uhl '24 Many editors have worked for nothing "Italy Old and New" by Professor Eliza- made an excellent Noel le Jolys, and and paid their board because they did not beth H. Haight '09, of Vassar, is favorably Alibeth McCartney '24 as Jehanneton le know what it cost them to run. reviewed by Professor Walton B. Mc- Belle Heaulmiere acted with daring and As to the value of the paper, Dean Danίel. skill. The chief characters were on the Vivian of Ohio State University is quoted In The Journal of English and Germanic whole well supported. The costumes were as saying that it exceeds that of the tele- Philology for January which has lately ap- appropriate and highly effective. 358 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

relatively unimportant by-product of a Allister '22, P. F. McAllister '92, W. J. college education by which, however, most McCarthy '14, C. H. McCollough Ί8, normal alumni set considerable store. One J. G. McEdwards '21, R. A. McClelland cannot take a group of two thousand "ir- '21, Murray McConnel '17, T. S. Maerker Published for the alumni of Cornell regulars" and classify them to anyone's '14, B. H. Milder '13, Percy Murchie Ό6, University by the Cornell Alumni News satisfaction except one's own. A. M. Nygren '23, F. E. Pendleton Όo, Publishing Company, Incorporated. Published weekly during the college year and At this time the problem assumes pro- Weyland Pfeiffer Ί6, A. D. Raymond, H. monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. portions that are unusual. At the coming- Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of J. Roemer '22, J. H. Rogers, F. L. Rohde September. Weekly publication (numbered con- reunions it happens that five of the largest Ί6, W. H. Rometsch, Jr., '21, A. W. secutively) ends the last week in June. Issue No. 40 is published in August and is followed by an classes in the alumni body are holding Shepherd '07, J. C. Smith Όo, H. Snyder index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on request. simultaneous reunions. The class to Ί6, J. M. Steinacher '95, A. F. Stuebing Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- which an alumnus is assigned in the Ίi, W. C. Stowell '23, F. W. Sultan, Jr., vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single copies twelve cents each. Alumni Representative's office deter- '19, S. M. Teeter, Jr., '20, J. F. Tuthill Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his mines which class reunion notices he re- subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in '82, E. M. Urband '13, L. O. Veser '03, before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that ceives, with which group of reuners he is Seth Wakeman, W. W. Walton '14, W. a continuance of the subscription is desired. Checks, drafts and orders should be made pay- listed, and, more particularly, with which Weber '20, T. G. Weillepp Ί8, L. B. Wil- able to Cornell Alumni News. group he lives while he is here. This year liams '14, R. H. Wilson '89, Howard Correspondence should be addressed— Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. the classes of '17, Ί8, '19, '20, and '21 Wolff '22, and C. S. Yawger '02. Editor-in-Chief R. W. SAILOR '07 are holding reunions, a group that, in Business Manager E. P. TUTTLE '18 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 numbers at least, should surpass any that Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON has ever got together. OBITUARY Associate Editors While the number of uncertainties is CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS ROMEYN BERRY '04 WARREN E. SCHUTT '05 obviously greater in this group than in H. G. STTJTZ '07 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 G. Mott Williams '79 E. P. TUTTLE '18 FLORENCE J. BAKER any other, the problem exists in every News Committee of the Associate Alumni class. All alumni are requested to fill in Bishop Gershom Mott Williams, in W. W. Macon '98, Chairman whatever forms come to them at this time, charge of American Episcopal churches in N. H. Noyes '06 J. P. Dods '08 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing calling attention in particular to any Europe, died in Paris on April 14. Company, Incorporated; John L. Senior, President; classification that is unsatisfactory. The R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- He was born at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. Alumni Representative, Morrill Hall, will on February n, 1857, the son of General welcome information of this sort. Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated Thomas and Mary N. (Bailey) Williams. He was graduated from Newburgh, N. Y., Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. New York Club Rooms Academy, in 1871, and came to Cornell in 1875, remaining two years. While in the Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Eighty-one New Members Elected as University he was a member of the Tom Result of Membership Drive ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 26, 1923 Hughes Boat Club and the Ithaca Natural At the April meeting of the board of History Society. He received the honor- T TNSCRAMBLING the war classes in governors of the Cornell Club of New ary degrees of A.M. and S.T.D., at Hobart vJ the office of the Alumni Representa- York, 81 new members were elected. The College in 1889 and 1895, respectively, and tive has been an unsolved problem. There list included President Farrand, who was A.M. at the University of Michigan in has always been a problem in the classify- not satisfied with honorary membership, 1904- ing of every alumnus who does not matric- In 1879 he was admitted to the Michi- but made application for election as a non- ulate in September and graduate in the gan Bar; the following year he was or- corresponding June, three years and nine resident member. dained as a deacon, becoming a priest of months later. In an organization in The total for the campaign to date is the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1882. which everyone must be placed in one of 132 new members. The eight leading From 1880 to 1889 he was located in fifty or sixty mutually exclusive groups, classes rank as following: Detroit, being assistant at St. John's persons whose qualifications bring them '21, 14; Ί8, 10; '19; 10; Ί6, 9; Ό6, 8; Church for two years, rector of the Church into several of the groups require special '13, 7;'12, 6;'14, 6. of the Messiah for two years, and rector of handling. The following is a list of the members St. George's Church for five years. Then Before the war the few cases each year elected last month: he went to Milwaukee as dean of the requiring individual treatment were fairly R. K. Austin '15, W. H. Baker Όi, Cathedral Church; in 1891 he became obvious and could easily be handled by Stewart Benedict '15, G. H. Bissinger Ίi, archdeacon of the Diocese of Northern individual correspondence. The wishes of H. N. Boucher Ί8, C. E. Bryant, Jr, '22, Michigan, and on May i, 1896, he was the alumnus in question are of course the J. F. Cannon '21, H. A. Carey '12, W. consecrated Bishop of Marquette, retiring criterion on which classification is made. Cox, Jr., Ίo, R. B. Coe Ό6, E. H. Cot- from this post on December i, 1916. He The war has imposed a particularly try- trell '19, T. B. Crews, Jr. '14, M. G. Cro- was married on February 20, 1879, to Miss ing situation on the secretaries of the well '12, C. W. Cunningham Ό6, P. L. Eliza Bradish Biddle, daughter of Mr. and newer classes, in which an exceptionally Davidson Ί8, E. L. Davis Ό6, J. S. Dor- Mrs. William Shepard Biddle of Grosse large proportion of the members of each sey '21, W. J. Driver Ί8, C. C. Durland Isle, Mich. class pursued broken courses. In addi- 16, G. W. Egbert '12, C. W. Elmer '19, Bishop Williams preached his last ser- tion to the large ratio, the classes them- Dr. Livingston Farrand, Irving Fay '94, mon on Palm Sunday, asserting that it selves were numerically among our largest. C. A. Flynn '05, F. A. Gerould '15, R. A. would be his final message to the world. At To illustrate the size of the task, take the Gilchrist '19, Ralph Gray '20, Laurens that time an exceptionally large class was Class of 1918. This class entered nearly Hammond Ί6, H. C. Handwerger Ί8, confirmed. Funeral services were held in if not quite the largest class that ever C. F. Hendrie Ί8, L. E. Herrmann '13, the American Church of the Holy Trinity matriculated. It graduated as one of the P. 6. Hoist '19, G. E. Hunt Ίo, C. M. in Paris on April 18. smallest. Husted Ό8, C. P. Johnson '06, G. M. Kel- The perennial question is, does an ler '09, R. T. Kerby '13, A. W. King '07, THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for April 29 alumnus belong to the class with which he C. G. Kinscherf '14, E. W. Kleinert Ί6, will be the Right Rev. Dr. G. Ashton Old- entered, or to the one with which he gradu- R. W. Krass Ό6, H. C. Lamb '03, W. T. ham '02, Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of ated? "Class loyalty" is an intangible, Little '12, H. S. Locnax '23, D. M. Mc- the Albany diocese. CORNELLALUMNINEWS 359

You Are Coming Back for SPRING DAY THE PROGRAM Friday, May 18th 8.00 P. M. Spring Day Concert of Cornell Musical Clubs. Bailey Hall. Tickets $1.50. 10.30 P. M. The Navy Dance.

Saturday, May 19th 9.00 A. M. The Grand Pee-Rade. 10.00 A. M. The Spring Day Carnival on Schoellkopf Field. to Tickets $1.00. 12.00 M. 2.00 P. M. The Spring Day Baseball game with Dartmouth. New Field. Tickets $2.00. 5.00 P. M. The Spring Day Regatta. The Intercollege Race. Princeton-Yale-Cornell —Freshman Eights. Princeton-Yale-Cornell— Varsity Eights. Observation train ticket $2.90 each.

Tickets for all events (except the Navy Ball) should be procured from the Athletic Associa- tion. It has ceased to be Sooά form for houses or individual in Ithaca to procure tickets for alumni. The seat sale opens for members on the Athletic Association on Monday, April 30th. The geneaal sale opens May 1st. Fifteen (15) cents should be added to remittance to cover registration and postage. Checks should be made payable and communications addressed to Cornell University Athletic Association Ithaca, New York 360 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

'89—Dr. Warren P. Laird, dean of the to Professor George H. McKnight, of the ALUMNI NOTES School of Fine Arts of the University of department of English in Ohio State Uni- Pennsylvania, on March 19 was the guest versity. Professor and Mrs. McKnight

; of a score of Cleveland "architects, all will sail in June for a six-months' trip 75 BS, '76 MS—On February 19 Dr. Pennsylvania men, at a luncheon in Cleve- abroad. Frederic W. Simonds completed thirty- land. three years of continuous service as head '93 LLB, '94 LLM—James P. Harrold of the department of geology, University '89—Edward S. West brook is now with is a member of the law firm of Lyle, Har- of Texas. For the past five years he has the Bartlett-Frazier Company, in West rold, Hoover and Devitt, 300-304 The also been secretary of the general faculty Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. Temple, 108 South LaSalle Street, Chi- in that institution. He is now the senior '89 ME; '95; '19 BS; '24—George H. cago. professor in the faculty of the College of Ashley '89, State geologist of Pennsyl- '95, '94 ME—Percy A. Robbins, retired Arts and Sciences. Dr. Simonds lives at vania, and Mrs. Ashley (Mary E. Martin mining engineer, has changed his residence 1909 San Gabriel Street, Austin, Texas, '95) have been living in Harrisburg, Pa., address to 100 Prospect Avenue, Highland and his mail address is Box 1604, Univer- for the past three years, and have made Park, 111. sity Station, Austin. many pleasant Cornell acquaintances. '95, '02 AB, '09 PhD—Frank Carney, '78 BLit—-Judge Arthur C. Wakeley, They are the grandparents of three little for the past six years chief geologist of the Woodford Prize speaker and Ivy Orator of girls, daughters of Dorothy Ashley Ross National Refining Company, has been his class, has been reelected judge of the Ί8 (Mrs. Ralph H. Ross.) Their son, placed in joint charge, with a junior asso- Fourth Judicial District of Nebraska; his Carlyle M. Ashley, is a junior in Sibley ciate, of the entire producing end of the father held the same position just forty College, specializing in air conditioning, company's business; his offices are in the years ago. and was one of the seven juniors recently Eldorado National Bank Building, El- '80 PhB—Dane Coolidge, husband of elected to Tau Beta Pi. The Ashleys live dorado, Kansas. a^ 3037 Riverside Drive, Harrisburg. Mary Roberts Coolidge '80, has lately '95 PhB—Announcement has been made published another of his Southwest novels, '90—Under the auspices of the National of the engagement of Miss Betty Adler and entitled "Lost Wagons," which is published Student Forum, Chester C. Platt, State Henry Waterman '95. For some time Miss by E. P. Dutton & Company of New York, manager of the Wisconsin Nonpartisan Adler has been associated with The Daven- Coolidge is a Stanford graduate and Mrs. League, has been speaking on "Liberal port Times, Davenport, Iowa, of which Coolidge composed the music for "Hail. Movements in Wisconsin" before student her brother is editor, as society editor and Stanford, Hail!" organizations in Eastern colleges, visiting feature writer. In 1919 she went overseas '83 PhB—Dr. Theobald Smith, director Harvard, Columbia, Hunter College, Un- as special correspondent for the Lee News- of the department of animal pathology ion Theological Seminary, Vassar, and the paper Syndicate, and upon her return she of* the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Rand School. His mail address is Box 371, published an interesting book of her let- Research, was on March 30 elected presi- Madison, Wis. ters. She expects to remain with the dent of the American Association of '92 AB—Leave of absence for the au- Times after her marriage in the spring, and Pathologists and Bacteriologists. tumn quarter of this year has been granted will edit the book review page and write

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special features. Waterman studied law ton's edition of the Panchatantra, an lege of South Carolina, has conferred up- at Yale and received his degree as doctor Ancient Sanskrit work of great literary im- on him the degree of Bachelor of Science. of civil law at the Illinois College of Law. portance, since it was the starting point of "Jim" left Clemson in his senior year in After practicing law in Chicago for six some of the Aesopic or animal fables which 1902 after a close vote of the faculty, for years he went to Geneseo, 111., where he are now now to be found in nearly every appropriating, while in cadet uniform, a has been located for the past eighteen Western literature. By comparing the turkey belonging to the local postmaster. years. He is a district trustee of the many differing Sanskrit versions Professor Though not heralded at the time, the affair Kiwanis Club, of which he has served as Edgerton has reconstructed the text in is now recognized through the award of president. what he believes to be the original form. the B.S. Lynah is assistant director of '96 PhB—Fayette E. Mover has been The printing of such a work is of course the purchase section of the General Motors appointed chairman of a committee to very expensive. Corporation, Detroit. investigate the teaching of history in the '05 ME—James Lynah received notice '05 LLB—Alexander Thompson is in twenty-nine high schools of New York. that Clemson College, the A. and M. Col- the lumber and banking business in Hous- The investigation is a part of a survey recently made by the city. '98 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Gan- nett of Rochester, N. Y., announce the ,J yl birth of their daughter on April 9. '98 PhD—Mrs. Benjamin M. Duggar, wife of Professor Benjamin M. Duggar Declaration of Independence '98, of Washington University, died at her home in St. Louis on May 4, 1922, of ft f-i FACSIMILE copy of the Declaration of Indepen- arterial sclerosis. She was formerly Miss v^X^ JL dence has been issued by the John Hancock Mutual Marie L. Robertson, of East Aurora, N. Y., Life Insurance Company. This reproduction is a com- and she was married to Dr. Duggar on Γ October 16, 1901. She had many friends posite reduced facsimile, one-quarter size, taken from a in Ithaca, where she lived for some years facsimile reproduction of the original Declaration of In- both before and after her marriage. She dependence made by W. L Stone, in 1823, under the di- was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. Her rection of John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State. daughter Louise is now a sophomore in The original engrossed Declaration is in the custody of the architecture in the University. Librarian of Congress at Washington. Όo PhD—Dr. William A. Murrill, of The John Hancock Company will be glad to send a copy the New York Botanical Garden, left on of the Declaration free to any person or institution desiring 7*3 March 3 for a collecting trip in Florida. it for framing. He planned to go down the west course from Crystal River to the Keys and back on the east coast as far as Daytona. He JOHN HANCOCK made the Signature famous by was intending to devote himself chiefly to fungi. signing the Declaration of Independence. Όo AM, Ό'3 PhD—Dr. Jacob G. Lip- THE SίQNATURE has been made a Household Word man, of Rutgers, has been elected a member of the Reale Accademia Economico- by the Agraria dei Georgofili of Florence, Italy. On March 14 he gave addresses before the County Agent Conference at New Bruns- wick, N. J., and the Bergen County Board of Agriculture. On March 17 he INSURANCE visited the National Farm School at OF BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS Doylestown, Pa. Όo, Όi CE—The Eastern Paving Brick Sixty-one Years Largest Fiduciary Institution Manufacturers' Association has appointed in Business in New England Alfred S. Mirick Όo district engineer for western Pennsylvania, with headquarters in Pittsburgh. Mirick has been with the New York State Highway Commission, Four-Power Treaty and has served as chief road engineer for the State of Nebraska; more recently he has been engaged in private practice as consulting engineer on municipal and THE MOST IMPORTANT TREATY EVER highway construction. NEGOTIATED BY THE UNITED STATES '04 ME—Norman S. Lawrence has just 8S returned from a five-months' pleasure trip around the world. He is vice-president of the Whiting Corporation of Harvey, 111. Every one should know this treaty '05 AB—Professor Franklin Edgerton, at the meeting of the American Oriental Copies may be had free by writing to the Society at Princeton on April 3-5, read a paper on "Sankyha and Yoga in the JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Bhagavad Gita." At this meeting the directors authorized the publication at the expense of the society of Professor Edger- 362 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

1 ton, Texas, with offices at 1615 Carter of the Higginbotham-Bartlett Company, Lockett and Company of New Orleans, Building. of Dallas, Texas, operating thirty-two and the Krauss Brothers Lumber Com- '07 CE—Henry W. Maynard, who was lumber yards in the State. He was mar- pany of Louisville. Then he entered the formerly with Scovell, Wellington and ried in 1912 to Miss Alice Higginbotham service, receiving a lieutenant's commis- Company, accountants and engineers, and and they have two children, Harriet L. sion. After his father's death he managed more recently in the general accounting de- Lang, seven, and William J. Lang, Jr., the Lafayette and Casa Grande proper- partment of the General Electric Com- three. They live at 4803 Swiss Avenue, ties, later becoming associated with Leo pany, is now with the Salts Textile Manu- Dallas. Fellman, realtor, of New Orleans. Eugene facturing Company. His residence ad- '12 BArch—Daniel D. Merrill resumed Aschaffenberg has been with Leo Fellman dress remains as before, 3089 Broadway, the practice of architecture after the war since his graduation, working in the commercial leasing department. New York. at 5 Beekman Street, New York, and Ό8, '09 CE—Edwin R. (Tommy) writes that he is "keeping the w.k. wolf '13 ME—A son, Clinton Mackenzie, Thomas Ό8 was married on October 7, away by designing everything from small was born on April n to Mr. and Mrs. 1922, to Miss Esther H. Rutter of Law- residences through the gamut of churches, George P. McNear, Jr., 163 Glenwood rence, Mass., and their address is Prospect apartment houses, and schools." His Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. Street, South Dartmouth, Mass. Thomas residence address is no East Sixteenth '14 AB—The firm of Nordlinger and is treasurer and general manager of Locke Street, New York. Riegelman, of which Harold Riegelman is and Thomas, Inc., formed last January '13-15, 19-21 Grad—Charles Moon has i member, announces the removal of its to do general contracting, with offices gone to the Bureau of Standards, and will law offices to 67 Wall Street, New York. at 504 Olympia Building, New Bedford, work in the electrical division, section of '15 CE—Edward J. Thomas is in charge Mass. induction and capacity. of construction work for the Saginaw Prod- ucts Company, a division of the General Ίo CE—Percy S. Monk is resident '13 ME; '21 AB—E. Lysle Aschaffen- Motors Corporation. He lives at 617 engineer on the construction of the berg '13 and Eugene A. Aschaffenberg '21 South Warren Street, Saginaw, Mich. Fortieth Street bridge over the Allegheny have been admitted to partnership in the River in Pittsburgh. This bridge, he says, Meyer Eiseman Real Estate Company, of '15 CE; '17 CE; '17 CE—Walter A. will take two years to build, will cost two New Orleans, which will soon be incor- Priester '15, Oscar F. Priester '17, and million dollars, and will undoubtedly be porated. Lysle will devote his time to John C. Tunnicliff '17 are engaged in the finest bridge in the Pittsburgh district. the residential side of the business, while general construction work under the name, Monk's address is 802 Century Building, Eugene will concentrate upon commercial Priester Construction Company, with Pittsburgh. Charles S. Davis, C.E. '89, is and industrial lines. They have made offices at 1006 Kahl Building, Davenport, in general charge, and he prepared the their home in New Orleans for some time, Iowa. Oscar Priester writes that his older plans, assisted by Monk. their father having built the Lafayette son, now two and a half years old, can ' 11 ME—Marshall Van Derhoef is on an Hotel and the Casa Grande. Lysle already sing the Alma Mater, and always extended European trip. Aschaffenberg was with the Continental adds at the end, "That's where I'm going '12—William J. Lang is vice-president Motor Company of Detroit, A. M. to school." His second son, born on Janu- ary 18, is also headed for Cornell. Ί6 AB—Hugh MacKenzie is an instructor in history in the University of Cornell University announces a Rochester. He was in 1920-1 a fellow in history at Harvard, and the following year an assistant instructor at Harvard. Summer Session Ί6 BS; '17 BS—Mr. and Mrs. John E. Houck (Ruth H. Smith Ί6) announce the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Faith, on November 5, 1922. Jack Houck, Jr., is in Law now three and a half years old. Their ad- first term, June 25-August 1 — Second term, Aug. 2-Sept. 8 dress is R. R, i, Chippewa, Ontario, Canada. It enables a beginner to commence the study of law in June, Au- '17 BS—Miss Katharine Etz is a stu- gust, September or February, and graduate and prepare for dent in the Pratt Institute School of the bar in two years and three months; a law student to ac- Library Science and she lives at in St. celerate graduation, make up deficiencies, or obtain extra James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. credits; others to take law courses for business training. Ί8, '20 WA—Paul C. Wanser is now Courses located in Pottsville, Pa., as district sales First term: Contracts, Real Property, Public Service and Carriers, Conflict manager of the Confederated Home Abat- of Laws, Taxation. toirs Corporation. His business address is Second term: Contracts, Criminal Law, Principles of Legal Liability, Sales, 3 Baird Building, Pottsville. New York Practice. Ί8 AM—Miss Elma G. Martin is as- faculty sistant professor of English in Wilson Col- Dean G. G. Bogert, Professors C. K. Burdick, O. L. McCaskill, L. P. Wilson, lege, Chambersburg, Pa., a women's col- R. S. Stevens and H. E. Whiteside (all of Cornell); Proίessor W. W. Cook lege of the Presbyterian Church. Her (Yale); Dean M. W. Ferson (George Washington); Dean W. A. Seavey (Ne- braska). home is in Montour Falls, N. Y. A law library of 56,000 volumes. Ί8—Adrian Foote Shannon is traffic manager of Crane and MacMahon, Inc., The beautiful Finger Lakes country provides an attractive climate and en- vironment for summer study. St. Marys, Ohio. Ί8, '20 ME—Willis E. Penfield is an For catalogue address engineer for the E-Z Opener Bag Company, CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York Braithwaite, La. '19, '20 AB, '21 BChem; '20 a daughter, Elizabeth White Thomas, was born last CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 363

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June to Mr. and Mrs. Robert White' with the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company '22—Miss Fanny L. Townsend '22, of Thomas (Amy L. L. Flint '20), 188 Lexing- of Clintonville, Wis., as sales supervisor Elmira, was married to Britton C. Cook ton Avenue, Rochester, N. Y. Thomas is for the northeastern division. The com- on December 22 in Utica. They are mak- in the real estate business in Rochester. pany manufactures F.W.D. three-ton ing their home in Utica, where Mr. Cook '19, '20 BS, '22 MF—On February 21 trucks. is stationed as district manager of the Willard R. Hine took charge of a sub- '21, '22 AB—Joseph Seep, 2cl, is study- Mercantile Distributing Company. station of the Southern Forest Experiment ing petroleum engineering at the Univer- '22 ME—Carl C. Weichsel writes that Station of the United States Forest Ser- sity of Pittsburgh; his home address is 607 he is enjoying all the golf and spring vice, located at Urania, La., on the lands West First Street, Oil City, Pa. weather possible, but that it is just a little of the Urania Lumber Company. It has '21 ME—A daughter, Elizabeth May, too hot at times for comfort. He lives an experimental area of fifteen hundred was born on April 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Alva at 5009 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas. acres, upon which there are present a wide S. Walker, 69 Deer field Drive, Greenwich, '22 AB—Reno V. Jones is in the sales variety of Southern species. r Conn. W alker is a general traffic engineer department of the Trumbull Steel Com- '20—John W. Hammond is night super- with the New York Telephone Company. pany, Warren, Ohio. He spent six months intendent of the Rotch Mills division of '21, '22 BS—Edward B. Giddings was on inspection work in various departments the American Cotton Fabric Corporation, appointed on April 15 as county club agent of the plant, and in the research labora- makers of fabric and cord for automobile for Tioga County, with headquarters in tory, prior to going into the sales depart- tires. His home is at 33 Seventh Street, Owego, N. Y. He is in charge of agricul- ment in December. His mailing address New Bedford, Mass. tural extension work with boys and girls. is 538 South Main Street, Niles, Ohio. '20 AB—A daughter was born on '22 AB—Thomas P. Doremus is in the January 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. '22 ME—George A. Hayner '22 and Miss Agnes Wampler of Dayton, Ohio, law office of Wilson and Smock, Red Bank, (Stew) Solomon, 35 Hamilton Place, New N. J. He lives at 9 Vista Place. York, and she has been named Joan were married on March 31 and are living Maxine. Solomon is New York repre- at 22 Cambridge Avenue, Dayton. Hay- '23 BS—Nelson Schaenen has just re- sentative for the basement and annex of ner is with the General Motors Company. turned from a seven-months' trip around William Filene's Sons of Boston, Mass. '22 EE—Leon B. Rosseau is a student the world and after May i will be located in Basking Ridge, N. J., where he has '20-21 Grad—Miss Marion G. Pulley is engineer with the General Electric Com- purchased a large farm. an egg standardization specialist with pany and he resides at 1241 State Street, the Missouri State Marketing Bureau of Schenectady, N. Y. '23 AB—Robert M. Curts is studying the Board of Agriculture, Jefferson City, '22 LLB—S. Hobart Greene has been for a professorship at Princeton, and ex- Mo., now putting on a State-wide program placed in charge of the Mexican depart- pects to engage in research work. of better eggs and cream for Missouri. Her ment of the Selma Mercantile Corpora- '23—Burton J. 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