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CORNELL ALUMNI NEW AUGUST, 1939 VOLUME 41 NUMBER 35 It's Easy To Visit Ithaca Overnight From Cascadilla School We stress readiness ™for college" as well as necessary credits for entrance ^ίo NEW YORK college." and NEWARK or READING TERMINAL, PHILA. All college entrance courses Eastern Standard Time taught in small classes with WESTWARD Light type, a.m. EASTWARD Read Doiim Dcrk type, p.m. Read Up reference to the student's 7:15 9:10 Lv New York Arr. 9:15 7:05 program, personal needs, 7:30 9:25 Newark 8:59 6:49 7:35 9:10 Philadelphia " 8:55 7:45 and the requirements of his 2:55 *4:51 At r. ITHACA Lv. 1:37 *10:40 university course. Enjoy a Day or Week End in Ithaca 4:51 2:55 Lv. ITHACA Ar. 10:26 1:37 Tutoring now in progress for col- 7:50 5:50 Arr. Buffalo Lv. 7:30 10:45 4:55 7:15 Pittsburgh 10:35 10:40 lege entrance examinations in 2:45 12:45 Cleveland 12:20 5:41 9:30 7:10 Arr. Chicago Lv. 10:15 September. *New York sleeper open at 8 a.m. at Ithaca, and at 9 p.m. from Ithaca Fall Term Opens Sept. 18 C M. DOYLE '02 ITHACA, N.Y. CATALOG ON Headmaster REQUEST Civilized Vacationing LOYAL CORNELLIANS... In the wilds of the Adirondacks SUBSCRIBE A visit to the Sagamore, Long Lake, N.Y. will make your summer complete . TO THE SUN AND KEEP IN TOUCH THE HOTEL WITH THE DAILY CAMPUS ACTIVI- SAGAMORE TIES. KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING ON Famed for over 25 years for cuisine THE HILL AND FOLLOW THE BIG and service — Has a wide diversity of attractions: RED TEAMS . Qόlfy Tennis, Boating, Swimming Fishing, $6.00 $5.50 Riding, Dancing FOR THE YEAR BEFORE NOV. 1 HENRY HOFHEIMER JR. '38 (Earn?!! latlg ftutt Co-mαnαger 109 EAST STATE STREET Hotel opens June 29 — Accommodations for 250 — For information and rates apply to ITHACA, NEW YORK Hotel Sagamore Long Lake, N. Y. Please mention the NEWS C UJKΓNJbLO ID XT 17 TL T AJLAIIUT I NEWS Subscription price $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XLI, NO . 3 5 ITHACA, NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1939 PRICE 15 CENTS NEW FACULTY GRADE Sciences, as reported in the ALUMNI NEWS LAWYERS STUDY HERE Of Associate Professor May ii, 1939. At its Commencement Discuss Legal Practice meeting in June, the Board of Trustees A new Faculty rank, that of associate Two hundred practicing lawyers from elected Mark Entorf associate professor professor, has been established by the the ten Central New York counties that of Home Economics, and the following Board of Trustees, effective July i, 1939, comprise the Sixth Judicial District were to be associate professors in the College upon recommendation of the Faculty. expected to be in Ithaca for a Lawyers' of Agriculture: Richard F. Fricke '17, At the request of the ALUMNI NEWS, the Institute opening at Myron Taylor Hall following explanation of the change is Extension Service; Goldan O. Hall, August 17 and continuing until August PhD '2.3, Poultry Husbandry; Frederick given : 19. Arranged this year for the first time E. Heinzelman 'zz, Extension Service; "The problem of ranks of sta'ff mem- by Dean Robert S. Stevens of the Law M. Slade Kendrick, PhD '2.4, Public bers and of tenure in them has received School and the Federation of the Bar Finance; Josiah R. Livermore '13, Plant some attention in the University Faculty Associations of the Sixth Judicial Dis- Breeding; Charles M. Mottley, Biology; this year. In the upper ranks of the staff trict, the Institute offers a program of Leo A. Muckle Ί6, Extension Service; there is a very strong tradition of legal topics discussed by authorities and Allan G. Newhall, PhD '2.9, Plant permanency of tenure. opportunity for lawyers of the District Pathology; Donald S. Welch, PhD '15, "At Cornell, where in contrast with to meet together in Ithaca for study and Plant Pathology; John P. Willman, PhD recreation. Many of them are being virtually all other colleges and universi- '33, Animal Husbandry. ties there have been but two professorial housed in the University dormitories. grades, the tendency has been to extend TO INCREASE NYA AID Cornellians who will address the Insti- security of tenure to the assistant pro- National Youth Administration allot- tute and lead discussions are Allan H. fessorships. It has been almost universal ment to Cornell for the coming academic Treman 'zi, University attorney, and practice to assign assistantships and in- year will be increased slightly over that Professor Carl Crandall Ίz, Civil Engi- structorships to graduate students whose of 1938-39, according to Herbert H. Wil- neering and secretary-engineer of the occupancy would ordinarily be tem- liams '15, Director of the University Finger Lakes State Park Commission, on porary. In a period in which faculties Placement Bureau. Next year there will "Real Property and Mortgages;" Su- generally are not expanding, there is a be available approximately $80,000 from preme Court Justice Riley H. Heath Ίz, noticeable tendency for graduate stu- the Federal Government to pay 585 stu- presenting "The Court's Point of View" dents to remain rather than to step out dents in the University for useful work in a symposium on "Trial Practice in into positions offering not too much at the rate of $15 a month. Last year Civil Actions" in which "The Defend- promise. The College of Arts and Sci- approximately 500 students were thus ant's Case" will be presented by Lloyd ences has found it desirable consequently employed, mostly in University offices P. Stryker of New York City, trial at- to adopt the practice of not retaining and departments. torney for Jimmy Hines in his recent graduate students as instructors beyond This year's allotment is based upon prosecution; and Professor Horace E. a definitely-fixed maximum period. The giving assistance to ten percent of the Whiteside 'zz, Law, and William B. question naturally has arisen whether University's enrollment of graduate and Flannery Ίz of Elmira, on "Trust that practice should not be extended to undergraduate students, as before. The Estates and Taxation." the assistant professors also. increase comes about, Williams explains, Bert T. Baker '97 of Ithaca is chairman "Such a change would of course be because now the enrollment of 1938 is of the committee of the Federation of less drastic if an additional grade of counted, whereas last year the allotment Bar Associations appointed to cooperate associate professor with permanency of was made upon that of 1936. with the Law School. Three other Cor- tenure were interpolated, and this change All incoming students are notified that nellians are also members of the com- was voted by the Board of Trustees on NYA aid is available, and among new mittee: Herbert H. Ray 'zi of Bingham- recommendation of the Faculty. The ac- and old students who apply the work is ton, William H. Coon 'zz of Cortland, tion was taken without settling the apportioned by the Placement Bureau and Lafayette W. Argetsinger '13 of question of tenure, since the Faculty office on the basis of financial need, apti- Watkins. Professor John W. MacDonald through its discussions was convinced tude for the jobs to be filled, character, 'z5, Law, is secretary of the Institute. that a longer study of that complex and scholarship. Pay is at the rate of subject is needed. forty to fifty cents an hour. SWITZER IN TWIN CITIES "These questions are apparently being Twelve Cornellians of the Twin Cities raised at other institutions also. A com- were hosts at dinner to Professor Fred- mittee of the Harvard faculty has pre- erick G. Switzer '13, Engineering, at the sented a notable report which, among University Club, Minneapolis, Minn., other features, has the proposal that the July Z5 He was on the way back to rank of assistant professor be discon- Ithaca from a meeting of the ASME in tinued. Thus they would avoid the San Francisco, Calif. difficulty of making temporary any grade in which the word professor is LONG ISLAND WOMEN used." Officers of the Cornell Women's Club First to be appointed associate profes- of Long Island for the year 1939-40 are Mrs Charles M. Reed (May Eisemann) sor was Julian L. Woodward '2.2., for- 'z6, president; Mrs. Wilbur Ruck (Eliza- merly assistant professor of Economics. beth Karutz) '34, vice-president; Mrs. He was appointed associate professor of Granget L. Kammerrer (Edna Schoon- Sociology upon the establishment of the over) '30, recording secretary; Therese new Department of Sociology and An- F. Stein 'z8, corresponding secretary; thropology in the College of Arts and (jrOLDWIN SMITH FORTICO Elizabeth B. Roche '30, treasurer. 461 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS among the foundation ideas of the new ANDREW D. WHITE, PIONEER University was a '' close union of liberal By Walter F. Willcox and practical education" and among the formative ideas was that of raising the "To Andrew D. White, a pioneer in Morrill Land Grant brought his air castle courses in agriculture, mechanical arts, American University education, greet- down to earth. Because of this dream he engineering, etc., to a level with the ings on his eightieth birthday from the studied the English and continental uni- traditional college studies. Association of American Universities." versities, when he visited Europe im- About coeducation—a much debated Such was one of the messages which mediately after graduating, with far subject then — Eliot promised "to main- the founder of Cornell University re- greater thoroughness than did Eliot in tain a cautious and expectant policy" of ceived on that anniversary.