Celebrated British Tank Reaches Cornell As War Memorial Class Of

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Celebrated British Tank Reaches Cornell as War Memorial Class of 1911 Organizes Plan for Fifteen-Year Reunion Baseball Team on Southern Trip Plays Six Games— Wins Two Barbers of Ithaca Tell Many In- teresting Tales of Old Days

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VERYONE left on the Hill has en- lent writer of soft words. Those things he Falls, Carmen M. Schneider of Brooklyn, joyed the serenity of the Campus would have changed remain the same; and Meta Ungerer of Lyons. E during the students' absence for students still walk on the grass, no change vacation, except those two collies who feel has been made in the Thanksgiving recess, SLIPS of the pen being as frequent as that the part they must play in the world and the curve on University Avenue still they are, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- of affairs is snapping at swiftly turning makes by comparison New York's Death pany has petitioned the Public Service automobile tires. They have adopted Avenue over on the river seem a pleasantly Commission for permission to change the Central Avenue as their beat, with the safe thoroughfare. It takes a long time for name of the station at Brookton, on the pavement in front of the southern en- thoughts to change, and still longer for Elmira and Cortland branch, to Brook- trance of Willard Straight Hall as their those thoughts to become actions. tondale. The name of the post-office has main office. On usual days they never already been changed, because too much THE BUSINESS manager of the new rest, escorting a car with their barks and mail addressed to Brookton went astray, board is Fayette G. Shepard '27 of snaps down to the weather kiosk and and the railroad reported that they have Evanston, 111., and the managing editor is leaving it only to escort another in the shipments sometimes wandering to Broc- Robert B. Brown '27 of Yonkers. Charles opposite direction up to the Library. ton, N. Y., or the Brocktons in Pennsyl- H. Schaaff 2nd '27 of Washington and Sometimes they have to employ a few vania and Massachusetts. Charles L. Kades '27 of Newburgh are the helpers—one sprightly young Ayrdale senior editors, and George D. LaMont ^η seems to aspire to a membership in the THE TROUT SEASON in this section has of Albion the circulation manager. At the opened, but reports are that the angler firm, and one day a very small spaniel was end of the competition which ended with who has promised his wife to bring home on as office boy. But this week it has been the retirement of the old board, J. Tudor the necessities for a piscatorial dinner has different. The two dogs lie on the stones Bowen '28 of Newton, Mass., and Oscar to adopt the ancient ruse of a visit to the for a half hour at a time, looking about P. Vatet '28 of Pleasantville were elected fishmongers. The water has staid high un- with baffled eyes. If anyone comes out of to the staff as associate editors. usually long this year and wading the Willard Straight, the dogs greet him at streams is hard work. Experienced trout the door and use all their persuasion to get THREE PRAIRIE WOLVES, otherwise hunters believe conditions will be normal him to enter one of the parked cars, and known as coyotes, have been brought to in a week or two. if he does he is piloted down the avenue in Ithaca for an autopsy by Professor a manner usually reserved for only the Arthur A. Allen '08. A band of fifteen of MAYOR FRED B. HOWE did not know swiftest moving machines. And then they the animals have been making things so that his office gave him the privilege of come back, and lie down, and wonder decidedly unpleasant for the sheep in performing a wedding ceremony, and lost a what it's all about and why they don't Orleans County that seventeen State wager and five dollars to a city alderman seem to be as much needed as they were. troopers have been hunting them, and a on the subject. The alderman returned price of $300 has been set on each head. the money with the injunction that it be BUT DOWN town things have been According to two theories, the band are presented to the first couple to be married buzzing. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, either descendants of two tame coyotes by the mayor. With spring so near Dr. Finger Lakes Post 961, put on a big brought East by an Indian woman several Howe should not be keeping the money bazaar, which included boxing exhibitions, years ago, or they were brought in by long, although he wants it understood that Charleston contests, and a beauty con- muck farmers to kill off rabbits who were presenting a newly-wedded couple with five test with apparently half the young ladies eating the vegetables. The autopsy is ex- dollars will not become a habitual gesture in Ithaca competing for the highest num- pected to add considerable information to with him. ber of votes. The proceeds will go toward the present knowledge of the pests. building a new home for the post. In THE CASCADILLA Day Preparatory NIKOLAI TUEVSKY, tenor, assisted by other parts of the town, prohibition agents School has been admitted to the Univer- continue to make their raids, padlocking, Professor Vladimir Karapetoff at the piano, was the artist at the afternoon sity of the State of New York, according fining, and jailing, with the ideal ever be- to an announcement of Clarence M. Doyle fore them of making Ithaca as dry as a musicale at Willard Straight Hall on '02, head of the school. The school has freshman theme. March 28. Mr. Tuevsky was a member of the Russian Grand Opera Company. In become well established in the year since THE Sun, having been captained by one the evening Professor George A. Everett the boarding school was discontinued and son of an alumnus for a year, has chosen '99 read poems of William Drummond. the new regime begun, and is now, having another to take the helm tor the next. A COLLECTION of rare prints, aquatints, been passed by the Board of Regents, con- With the last issue before Spring vacation water colors, and lithographs has lately sidered as of the regular academic high on April 3, Charles B. Howland '26 of been on exhibition in the gallery of the school grade. Philadelphia, son of Professor Arthur C. College of Architecture in White Hall. Howland '93, himself editor when a stu- MOTORISTS have been pleased to learn The artists represented are among the best dent, gave up his place as editor-in-chief of the eighteenth century school. The col- that during the summer two strips of con- to Jervis Langdon, Jr. '27 of Elmira, son lection was brought to Ithaca through the crete road will be laid near Ithaca. On the of Jervis Langdon '97. Under Howland interest of Bryant Fleming Όi and the Trumansburg road concrete will be put the editorial policy of the paper has been courtesy of Messrs. Arthur Ackerman and down from where it now ends to the village more definite on many issues than it has Son. been for some years. Which, if they are line, and the same will be done on the right who believe that a paper should be a JUNIORS elected to Mortar Board in- Dryden road from the Willow Glen moulder of opinion as well as a purveyor clude Barbara Cone of Unadilla, Muriel J. Cemetery into the village. These improve- of news, is as it should be, and the out- Drummond of Forest Hills, Helen S. ments will be made in accordance with the going editor will have no cause for think- Haskell of Malone, Ruth L. Hausner of State Highway Department regulation ing he was a mere figure-head or a benevo- Corning, Rhena V. Madden of Seneca that all State roads be built of concrete. 330 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

British Tank Arrives Ithaca Barbers SPORT STUFF Procured by Major Seaman '72 as Memor- Veteran Hairdressers Now Bob Where ial to Cornell's War Dead They Once Trimmed Beards Ever since the consulship of Ote Wil- liams, the succeeding Sun boards have The gracious white-coated gentleman The British fighting tank America, castigated us daily for our souls' good. who presides over your barber chair and which has been presented to Cornell by Each Easter vacation, when the Sun says "Next" in such a convincing manner the British War Office as the "gift of a changed hands, we hailed hopefully the may be the owner of a Cadillac, a specula- nation to a nation," arrived in Ithaca on new group of editors only to discover that tor in stocks and bonds, or the father of a April io. This tank was originally given we were now to be scourged with scorpions Doctor of Philosophy. These facts, which to the British War Office by an American instead of whips. Whereas a spade had may or may not apply to Ithaca barbers woman whose name has not been made been a spade the new board proposed to alone, were learned in the course of a public and was secured for Cornell through call it a sawed off, unmentionable, misbe- series of interviews with Ithaca barbers. the efforts of Major Louis L. Seaman,'72. gotten shovel—and there was no health in There are now twenty-four barber shops Throughout the War, the front of the tank us. in Ithaca, of which five are located on bore a brass plate with this inscription: On those days when the community the Hill. "Presented to the British War Office escaped, Mussolini or Nicholas Murray The barber business, like every other through Major Louis Livingston Seaman, Butler got it good. business, is not what it used to be. There President of the British War Relief As- was a time when the football team visited sociation of New York. The only good This sort of thing has not been peculiar the Ithaca Hotel barber shop en masse on Hun is a dead one. Tank, do your duty." to Cornell. Among undergraduate editors generally there has been no God but Saturday night for a weekly bath. That Outwardly, the America is a great Mencken and George Jean Nathan was was before the days of showers and hulking shape of battleship steel. Its His prophet. Schoellkopf Field. Old Peter Emig, who sides, despite the battles through which That's why so many professors over still runs a shop in a basement opposite the tank has nosed its stubborn way, fifty started the day blithely singing under Rothschild's department store, recalls scarcely show the effects of the flying that waiting players would sometimes be- the shower only to curse the pan cakes— steel to which it has been subjected. It come impatient at the slowness of some after three minutes with the college paper has never been cleaned since it came from bath incumbent and eject him bodily from —and to throw a plate at the little, the battlefield and still carries the soil of the tub. There was always a merry golden haired daughter. France in its crevices. scramble to see who bathed first. On This morning a new crew of editors Sunday morning it was not an uncommon Major C. L. T. Matheson of the Royal climbs aboard the Cornell Daily Sun and thing to minister to the bodily cleanli- Engineers recently published a set of notes the skipper, Jervis Langdon, Jr., nails ness of several well-known professors and relating some of the experiences through this joyous flag to the mast head: even the President of the University which the America passed. Two of them "The university has not been subjected occasionally refreshed himself in the follow: to a fine tooth combing by the new editors barbers' tubs. "On July 4, 1918, in the big attack with of the Sun. What is wrong with Mr. The days of monogrammed shaving the Americans, which was so entirely suc- Borah and the world we are unable to mugs, when the names of students and cessful, the tank started off a little before state. It is our humble intention to reveal professors alike greeted the casual and less dawn, leading the infantry, and remained our panaceas for various ailments in the fortunate customer from niches in the out all day in front of the attack. During dim, dim future. We intend to become wall, have likewise passed away. The the fight it destroyed several machine-gun happy in these columns, because after all safety razor put an end to that phase of nests and one trench mortar, besides is said and done, this world of ours is not the business. killing a great many Germans. On its such a terrible place." Yet, in spite of the passing of baths and way back it was able to pick up several Perhaps I hang too much hope on a shaving mugs, the actual appearance of wounded Americans and Australians and little thing but there is some evidence that the older shops has changed but little. convey them to the dressing station. things are getting better—that youth is Both the Ithaca and the Cornell Barber "On August 8 it took part in the great again to become youthful and happy and Shop on the opposite corner are located in counter-offensive against Amiens, which wholesome. basements, and both are still reached by made such a successful advance and freed R. B. passing down stone stairways (slippery in the country for many square miles, be- icy weather), which are guarded by iron sides opening up the Amiens-Paris Rail- P. S. In the rear of this paper there is hand rails. Inside there is a little more way once more. Numerous machine-guns an advertisement about Spring Day that simplicity in the wall decorations, the were destroyed, and Germans attempting you really ought to read. pictures and calendars of former days to fire were killed. Upon the tank's firing having given way to white enamel. But into a farmhouse, a large number of Ger- the familiar row of waiting customers, mans ran out and surrendered. On this DR. SIMON H. GAGE 'ηη was elected to busily engaged in devouring the news, occasion the tank America took two head the American Association of Anatom- while barbers hover over those sitting in hundred prisoners single-handed. It re- ists for the coming year at the forty- their chairs, is still there. So is the reading turned at the end of the day without second annual meeting of the society held table (with The Police Gazette), the shoe- casualties in spite of heavy shelling." last week in New Haven. He declined the shine stand, and colored porter, and the overhanging conversational buzz about Plans for the reception of the tank are office, explaining that his other work would make it impossible for him to de- the weather and the relative merits of not yet complete, but the Department of vote sufficient time to it. He was one of various teams and coaches. Buildings and Grounds will arrange to tow the principal speakers of the session of The Ithaca, probably the oldest shop the machine to the Campus at an early April 2, giving an outline of his discoveries patronized by successive generations of date. A military service, at which the in fifty years' investigation of the lamprey students, still attracts a large quota of tank will be formally dedicated as a War eel. In the evening a dinner was given in student trade. This shop was started memorial to Cornell men who fell in the his honor at which he was characterized as when the present Ithaca Hotel was re- War, has been suggested as an appropri- "a great teacher and scientist who was built, after the fire of ^870, by a colored ate ceremony. also ultra-human." barber named George Johnson, who died CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 331 in Ithaca a few years ago. By 1880 the port. The Willard Straight shop intro- Recent years have also seen many new proprietorship had changed hands and duces some novel ideas into the barbering developments for the beautification of was known under the partnership name of trade. An arrangement has been effected mankind. The facial massage, particularly Harry Paris and Adam Emig. Both whereby waiting in line is abolished. The the "mud" massage, is of recent origin Paris and Emig came from Germany. progressive customer parks his hat and and, strangely enough, is used almost Paris later gave up the barber trade aϊid coat, is presented with a ticket bearing a exclusively by men. Women for the most operated a general store in Springville, number, and proceeds to the billiard room part confine themselves to bobs and oc- Illinois, where he died. Adam Emig con- where waiting is much less tedious. casional shampoos in the barber shops. tinued to be an Ithaca barber for sixteen Tipping is not permitted. Also, the shop is Perhaps, they take their massages in the years. He died last fall in Geneva. under the management of Jerome Fiddler, beauty parlors. The hair-singe is another In 1880 the Ithaca was already a Sp. Ό7-8, the only barber in Ithaca who development. Cures for baldness are thriving shop, employing several barbers, was once a student at Cornell. somewhat out of date, but hair tonics, among whom was Frank Eschenburg, a Although the barber shops have changed especially permeating, pungent hair tonics, friend of "Old Man" Courtney. Eschen- little in appearance since 1870, there is a are in great demand. All intelligent bar- burg afterward became proprietor of the vast differentiation in the clientele to be bers keep a score of hair tonics on hand. shop and continued in that position until a found there and in the work required of a According to W. B. Allen, proprietor of few weeks ago, when he retired. He is barber. The physical aspects of these the Cornell Barber Shop, the modern known to thousands of Cornellians. In changes are noted in the absence of style of hair-cutting is just the reverse of 1881 Peter Emig came from Germany at "goboons" for tobacco chewers and of what it was a generation ago. the behest of his brother Adam, and the good-natured atmosphere of fellow- Mr. Allen also commented on the worked at the Ithaca until 1893, when he ship which always attaches to places notable decrease in the number of stu- opened a shop of his own. The Ithaca is frequented by the male of the species only. dents who visit the barber "on the morn- now owned by Brashear and Alexander. Women have changed these things. The ing after the night before." He said, "It's The Cornell Barber Shop was opened in main business of everybody nowadays all bunk about there being as much drink- 1900 under the dignified name of "Jim, seems to be to get the job over as quickly ing among students as there was before Jack, and Tom's Place," by "Jim" as possible. The unshaven professor may the days of prohibition. A few years ago White, "Jack" Sullivan, and "Tom" no longer rest securely on his priority of we used to get a number of these cases Salter. None of the original owners is entrance, for some fair damsel is quite every Saturday morning, but the only now to be found there. White still lives in likely to establish herself on the coveted time an influx is noticeable now is during Ithaca, Sullivan died in 1923, and Salter is pedestal ahead of him unless he watches Block Week, and then it is nothing com- a barber in Toronto, his home town. The his cue. The passage of the Nineteenth pared to what it used to be." proprietorship has passed to W. B. Allen, Amendment has altered the traditional The apparent prosperity of some Ithaca who has worked in the shop since 1911. principles of barber shop decorum. barbers (one has just retired to travel in Although patronized by women this shop A barber is not called upon to perform Europe) has occasioned some surprise in continues its policy of subscribing to Life, many tasks incidental to the trade in academic circles. No figures on the Judge, and The Police Gazette. It does not generations past. One has only to look at average income of barbers are available, take The Ladies1 Home Journal or Good the pictures of the old crews, so in- but an explanation is found in the kind of geniously hung in the foyer of the Old work a barber now does. To use^the Other barber shops patronized by mem- Armory, to realize that at one time even a current barber phrase this is a day of bers of the University community are student's crowning glory was his beard. "extras." A barber no longer looks to O. L. Field's on Dryden Road, C. F. Now a few moth-eaten moustaches of the haircuts and shaves for the bulk of his Sharpe's, formerly Sharpe and Kelsey's, toothbrush variety may be seen on the profits, as these things have become mere on College Avenue, Morris Lisenring's in Campus, but beards, even among pro- incidentals. The big profits lie in the Sheldon Court, and the new barber shop fessors, are decidedly passe. With the massages, the shampoos, the tonics, and in Willard Straight Hall. There are, of passing of beards went the whole time- naturally, in tips. Women have also course, many other shops more or less honored tradition of beard trimming and materially added to the size of the barber's dependent on student and Faculty sup- dyeing. bank roll.

THE THREE NOMINEES FOR ALUMNI TRUSTEESHIPS

Left to right: Frank E. Gannett '98, Joseph N. Pew, Jr., '08, and Ezra B. Whitman '01. Ballots and biographies of these three candidates have been mailed to all holders of degrees of the University. The two successful candidates will succeed Herbert D. Mason Όo and Ezra B. Whitman '01 as members of the Board f Tt + τ 332 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Mrs. Lyman A. Best '89 Michael F. McNamara '96 OBITUARY Mrs. Alice Cone Best, wife of Lyman A. Michael Francis McNamara died sud- Best '88, died at their home in Hemp- denly at Springfield, Mass., on October stead, Long Island, on February 28 after 13, 1924- Henry Farquhar '71 an illness of four months. He was born at Howard, N. Y., on Brief word has been received that Henry She was born at Hornell, N. Y., in February 19, 1870, the son of Michael and Farquhar died in October, 1925. 1868, the daughter of Elisha and Mary Elizabeth Lavery McNamara. After at- He was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on Cone, and attended Hornell Free Academy. tending Canisteo Academy, he entered July 26, 1857, and after attending school In 1885 she entered Cornell as a student Cornell in 1892 on a State scholarship and there, went to St. John's College at Little in the science and letters course and re- remained for a year. After being out a Rock, Ark. From there he came to Cor- year, he returned to the University and mained for two years. After being out one nell in 1869 as a student of civil engineer- his study of law, graduating in 1896 with year, in which she married Mr. Best, she ing and remained one year. the degree of LL. B. During his senior returned to the University and graduated year he was the holder of a University Michael N. Kane 71 in 1892 with the degree of B. L. She was scholarship. Michael Nolan Kane died on June 15, a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. After practicing law in New York for 1924, at Warwick, N. Y. In recent years, she and her husband three years, he moved to Elmira and was He was born at McLean, N. Y., on had lived in Brooklyn and Hempstead, an attorney in that city and Corning for April 1, 1851, the son of Mr. and Mrs. her husband being one of the best known several years. On April 29, 1903, he was Patrick Kane. After attending the train- school principals and teachers in the city. married at Bath, N. Y., to Miss Josephine ing school and State Normal School at Lonergan, who survives him with a son, Besides her husband, she is survived by a Cortland, N. Y., he entered Cornell in 1875 Francis McNamara. as an optional student. After a year he daughter, Mrs. Alice Cone Chase, and left the University. Later he became an two sisters, Mrs. Joanna Cone Smith and A. Alice Sutton '06 attorney and practiced at Warwick. Mrs. Joseph H. Simonton. Anna Alice Sutton died in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 29, after a week's illness. She was born in Ovid, Mich., and came to Cornell in 1902 as a student of arts and sciences. In 1903 she left to become a teacher in Cleveland, and had been located there most of the time since. In her earlier years of teaching she was at various times in the Sibley, Sowinski, and Doan Schools there. Later she was transferred to the Empire Junior High School. At the time of her death, she was teaching mathematics in the Addison Junior High School. Funeral services for her were held in Cleveland on March 31, and her body was sent to Ithaca for interment in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Edward R. Mansfield '07 Edward Raymond Mansfield died on March 4, 1925, at Mellinocket, Me. He was born at Orono, Me., on Decem- ber 31, 1878, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mansfield, and graduated from the University of Maine in 1899 with the degree of B. S. In 1903 he came to Cornell as a student of medicine and graduated in 1907 with the degree of M. D. He was a member of Kappa Sigma and Nu Sigma Nu. After completing his course he took up the practice of his profession, and of late years had been connected with the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Mellinocket. Ethel Lowenthal '26 Ethel Lowenthal died at the Cornell Infirmary on March 22 of penumonia. She was born in New York on Novem- ber 27, 1904, and after graduating from Curtis High School there, came to Cornell in 1922 as a student of arts and sciences and would have graduated in June. Be- sides her father, Henry Lowenthal of New York, she is survived by two brothers, Milton and Jesse Lowenthal of Port THE TANK AT NEW YORK Photo by Keystone View Co. Richmond, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. R. R. The famous British tank America, presented to the University by the British War Office, is shown in the process of unloading from the Cunard freighter Vardulia, in New York. Lewit of Newark, N. J. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 333

hundred alumni, recalling in a most in- CLUB ACTIVITIES teresting manner the high spots in Cornell THE COLLEGE WORLD athletics while he was coaching in 1915- 19. Jack Moakley was also a guest at the New York Group luncheon and extended his greetings to THE UNIVERSITY of Texas is trying to Cornellians of the downtown New York the Rochester alumni. find some way to spend part of its income City District are reminded that there is a from oil lands, which now amounts to weekly gathering of Cornell men at the Dr. George Whipple, dean of the Uni- $2,600,000 and is increasing at the rate of northwest corner of the dining room of the versity of Rochester School of Medicine $250,000 monthly, for needed buildings. Machinery Club, 50 Church Street. and Chemistry, was present. The Supreme Court of Texas has decided Luncheon is held on Wednesdays at 12.30. that not even the act of the 1925 Legisla- Charles A. Taussig '02 and Howard C. Rocky Mountains ture intended to grant the university the Lake '04 are two of the regular standbys, right to spend its own money, can make but the attendance is limited to no special The annual meeting of the Rocky such a disbursement constitutional. But group of men. Mountain Cornell Club, which has its the Legislature also passed another act headquarters at Denver, will be held at the allowing the university to borrow money Rochester University Club of that city on Tuesday, with future oil royalties pledged as John L. Collyer '17, vice-president of April 20, at seven o'clock. The advance security. If the latter act is found to be constitutional, the building program, in- the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company of notice of George W. Ristine, Jr., '01 volving an expenditure of from three to Buffalo, addressed the Cornell Club of promises "an informal affair, an able ten millions, will be begun at an early date. Rochester at the Powers Hotel on March toastmaster and good speakers, with no solicitation of funds." It is expected that 31. He presented many reminiscences of THE UNIVERSITY Travel Association an- the result will be a substantial representa- Charles E. Courtney, the "Grand Old nounces that the steamer Ryndam (22,070 tion of all Cornell men of the Colorado Man," under whom he rowed in 1914, tons) has been selected for the university district. A general invitation is extended. 1915, and 1916. Collyer was selected by trip around the world, which is to start the late Walter Camp as a member of the The Cornell men of Denver meet from New York September 18 next, for All-American crew in 1915. regularly for luncheon at the University eight months, visiting over thirty foreign At the luncheon meeting on April 7, Club on the first Tuesday of each month countries with four hundred and fifty Dr. Albert H. (Al) Sharpe spoke to over a at 12.15. American students and a faculty of fifty.

THE TANK REACHES ITHACA Photo by Troy Almost before fast news agencies could rush photographs of its unloading from a steamer in New York, a Lehigh Valley freight train steamed into East Ithaca with Cornell's war memorial oank. 334 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Class Organizes COMING EVENTS Fifteen Year Class will be Financed un- Monday, April 19 Published for the Alumni of Cornell der Prepayment Agreement Twelfth Messenger Lecture, Dr. Milli- University by the Cornell Alumni News kan: ''Cosmic Ray," Rockefeller Hall, Publishing Company, Incorporated. 4.30 p. m. The Class of 1911, which will be the Published weekly during the college year and official host to the returning alumni in monthly in July and August; forty issues annually. Lecture, Professor George Pierce Baker Issue No. 1 is published the last Thursday of June, has organized its reunion campaign September. Weekly publication [numbered con- of the School of Fine Arts, Yale Univer- secutively] ends the last week in June. 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BRISTOW ADAMS L. E. REED '23 Savantes" and "Le Mariage Force," Uni- versity Theater, 8.15 p. m. The four geographical districts are as Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President; Lecture, J. Puig y Cadafalch, exchange follows: Division I, New York, Vermont, H. G. Stutz, Vice-President; R. W. Sailor, Treasur- er; Woodford Patterson, Secretary. Office, 123 professor at Harvard: "Origin and Spread Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti- West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. of Romanesque Art up to the Eleventh cut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Dela- Members of Alumni Magazines, Associated Century," Baker Laboratory, 4.30 p. m. ware, Maryland, and Canada; Division Track, Pennsylvania Relays at Phila- II, Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Printed by the Cornell Publications Printing Co. delphia. Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. Saturday, April 24 Virginia, and North Carolina; Division ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL 15, 1926 Baseball, Princeton at Princeton. III, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Track, Pennsylvania Relays at Phila- Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, delphia. and South Carolina; Division IV, the UNIVERSITY LECTURES Lacrosse, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. balance of the States,and foreign countries. HERE are being given at present two Tennis, Colgate at Ithaca. series of university lectures which are If a member of the class cannot attend T Performance, Cornell Dramatic Club, of interest both for subject matter treated reunion after he has made the initial pay- "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Le Mariage and the superior qualifications of the ment of $25.00 the entire amount will be Force," University Theater, 8.15 p. m. lecturers. Dr. Robert A. Millikan of refunded. The lump sum is increased California Institute of Technology speaks Monday, April 26 $5.00 if no payment is made in advance. on "The Evolution of the Elements," a Lecture, Professor Charles H. Toll of The class has the guarantee of the success- popular treatment of a scientific subject. Amherst: "The Modern Conception of ful operation of the plan last year, when Dr. Ernst Cohen of the University of Infinity in Our Universe," Goldwin Smith every cent promised was refunded, with a Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland gives a lecture A, 12 noon. surplus left in the class treasury. on Chemistry each week of this term. Tuesday, April 27 In New York City 1911 has been hold- The former series is presented under the Free Concert, University Orchestra, ing bi-monthly luncheons or dinners since Messenger lecture Fund, the latter from under the Gerald Hinkley Endowment, January. The next get-to-gether will be a fund by an anonymous donor which pro- Bailey Hall, 8.15 p. m. on Monday, April 12, for dinner at 6.30 vides for a resident lecturer in Chemistry Friday, April 30 at the Cornell Club. "Mac" MacArthur each term. Luncheon, Class of 1911, Machinery will be in charge of the arrangements. On Such lectures provide an opportunity for Club, 50 Church Street, New York City, the 30th the New York members will lunch the broadening of the student's necessarily 12.15 p. m. at the Machinery Club at 12.15 with specialized work. They may give perhaps Baseball, Columbia at New York. "Shorty" Keasby in charge. The Cornell a different viewpoint on the subjects from University Concert, Rosa Ponselle, baseball team will play Columbia that that which might be presented in regular Metropolitan prima donna, Bailey Hall, afternoon. On Tuesday, May 11, there courses. 8.15 p. m. will be a dinner meeting at 6.30 at the University lectures at Cornell have Saturday, May 1 Cornell Club, under the management of from the days of James Russell Lowell Baseball, Dartmouth at Hanover. "Davy" Davidson. The final get-to- been maintained on a high plane. With Lacrosse, Syracuse at Syracuse. gether before the big party in Ithaca will the greatly increased number of students Tennis, open date at Ithaca. be Friday, May 28, at 12.15 at the Cor- since that day, a wider diversity of in- Banquet, Cornell Law Quarterly Board, nell Club, when "Wint" Rossiter will act terests, and added facilities in auditoriums, Willard Straight Hall, 6.15 p. m. as host. the subject of funds providing lectureships Oscar S. Tyson, O. S. Tyson & Com- is worthy the attention of those desiring PROFESSOR MARTHA VAN RENSSELAER pany, Inc., 16 East 41st Street, New to make gifts to the University. As a '09 was one of the speakers at the mass York N. 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Behind the Scenes blare of trumpets and without boasting of ATHLETICS The Intimate Papers of Colonel House his successes. There is no suggestion of an '81. Arranged as a Narrative by Charles overgrown ego; on the other hand there is Seymour, Sterling Professor of History in undying loyalty to a great idea—the' The Baseball Trip Yale. Boston. Houghton MifHin Com- furtherance of liberal ideas of government. Two victories, three defeats and one tie pany. 1926. 24.6 cm. Volumes i, ii. Fronts, Colonel House is naturally able to was the record of the baseball team on the (ports.). Price, $10. throw some light on the darker problems southern trip, not a bad showing consider- This is clearly one of the most signifi- of the history of the War. It looks much ing that the squad had practically no out- cant books of the year. Not that the as if the Kaiser did not desire the War and door practice before leaving Ithaca, and revelations are so startling, though there that he and the German people were the that most of the pitchers are green. The is much that has never been told before; victims of the military and naval machine team won from Lynchburg and Virginia but it is the intimate picture of a noble which they had developed. Both the Military Institute; and played a tie game and remarkable personality. President and his adviser fought against with Washington and Lee. The Generals The spectacle of an American amateur the policy of utter ruination for Ger- defeated Cornell once and so did V. M. Ii, politician—in the best sense of those words, many, believing that she should be re- while Georgetown nosed the Red and one who is passionately in love with the tained as a buffer state and that the White out in the last game, played at game and will never play it for money—is, economic peace of the world demanded Washington Saturday. so far as we know, unique. Possibly it that Germany should recover along with may be matched in some of the European The first game, against Lynchburg at the other belligerents. In May, 1916, he capitals, but we should hardly know where Lynchburg on April 5, resulted in a Cor- had great hopes that the Allies would ac- to look for an entirely kindred spirit any- nell victory by a score of 9 to 3. Pyle was cept the American offer of mediation on where else. Colonel House was repeatedly effective in all but two innings. He al- terms which would have brought America urged to take office, but invariably re- lowed eight hits but most of them were into the struggle had Germany proved un- fused. He wanted the pleasure of the scattered. The Cornellians got nine hits, reasonable. But the Allies disregarded the game; doubtless the sense of power and Trefts in center field leading with three. offer. A heavy weight of blame rests on influence was gratifying; doubtless the the Allied diplomacy for thus prolonging On Tuesday, April 6, the team defeated desire to serve his country had its share the War. V. M. I. by a score of 10 to 4. This was a of weight; but he apparently never worked long drawn out contest, in which errors, for financial gain either for himself or for The editor has done his work without bases on balls and wild pitches figured in anybody else. He seems not to have been undue praise of his hero and with due re- the scoring more than base hits. Vickers, greatly interested in the distribution of gard for all the evidence. This story of the who started on the mound for Cornell was party patronage; he realized of course that signal service which Colonel House was hit hard in the fourth, and Vitale suc- a party is held together by various motives, able to render his country through his ceeded him. The latter kept the cadets in some based on selfishness and greed; but close relations with the Government is one hand. Rossomondo's batting was a it is our belief that he was himself above of absorbing interest and surpassing im- feature. He got three hits out of Cornell's this sort of thing. He disliked to be reim- portance. nine. The cadets got seven hits off the bursed even for his personal expenses. He Books and Magazine Articles Cornell pitchers. was in politics for the pure love of it. The Wesley an University Alumnus for " On the following day, April 7, the cadets And this detachment, this disinterested January-February contains an article on took revenge, beating Cornell by a score interest in the absorbing game was the "The Work of the American Financial of 9 to 7. Red and White rallies in the very thing that made possible his extra- Commission in Chile" by Professor Edwin seventh and eighth nearly wiped out ordinary career. Men trusted him. He W. Kemmerer, Ph.D. '03, Wesleyan '99, of V. M. Γs early lead. Nash was hit freely, had no axe to grind. He was a patriot and Princeton. The article is reprinted from allowing 11 hits, while Cornell got seven a statesman who sought no selfish ends. The Princeton Alumni Weekly. off Nied. He could not of course be blind to the fact "The Keen Desire" by Frank B. Elser Follard of Washington and Lee held that a certain measure of fame would '06 is favorably reviewed by Delbert crown his efforts if successful; but if he Cornell to two hits in the first game with Clark in The Baltimore Evening Sun for was working chiefly for fame, he kept very the Generals, which was called at the end February 2η and in The New York Times quiet about it. of the seventh inning on account of rain. Book Review for February 28. The New The impression one gets from these Republic in its issue of March 24 also has The score was 6 to 2. Washington and Lee stirring volumes is that of a high-minded hit Degenhardt, Cornell southpaw, for six a review in which it is said that'' 'The Keen statesman, who has also the gift of being Desire' is a highly original and exciting safeties, three of them for extra bases. an almost uncanny politician, staking his book, far and away better than nine- The second game with Washington and political fortunes on a Presidential candi- tenths of the novels spawned within the Lee developed into a pitcher's duel be- date who, because of an unexpected com- last two or three years." tween Vickers of Cornell and Maben. It bination of circumstances, rides to victory; went 10 innings and was called to permit continuing his unofficial connection with "Keller's Anna Ruth" by Elsie Sing- master '02 is favorably reviewed in The the Cornell squad to take a train. Vickers the President and doing much to shape New York Times Book Review for April 4. allowed only five hits and struck out ten the policy of the administration; in 1914 men. Georgetown won the last game by a coming very close to preventing the War; In The Atlantic Monthly for April Dr. score of 5 to 4, after Cornell had assumed following up that experience with the Pan- Vernon Kellogg, '91-2 Grad., writes on "The First Hanging at Mulinuu." an early lead. Vitale, though allowing 11 American Pact which did much to cement hits, was fairly effective. the friendship of the republics of the The second alumni reading list, entitled Western Hemisphere and which served as Have You Ever Read—?, has just been The usual batting order was Trefts, a basis for the plan of the covenant of the published by the Lafayette College center field; Shaw, first base; Merrill, left League of Nations; by his remarkable Alumni Association. It includes a notice field; Rossomondo, second base; Baker, diplomatic skill helping to keep America of the revised edition of "Principles of In- right field; Balderston, short stop; Glasser, out of the War till public sentiment was dustrial Management" by Dean Kimball. third base; Dupree, Hanselman and ready to support the war policy, and at the The review is written by Dean Donald B. Romaguera, catchers. Other players get- same time doing much to keep the feeling Prentice, who says: "Dean Kimball has ting into the line-up were Wendt, second of the Allies toward America what it should added much valuable material to a stand- base and McConnell center field. be; always working modestly and without ard work and has retained his own CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 337

philosophical attitude towards the history Ph. D. '19, of New York University, re- the Eye" by Professor Clarence E. and problems of industrial relations. Dean views the second edition of "The Theory of Ferree, Ph.D. Ίo, and his wife, Gertrude Kimball writes with the authority of long Good and Evil" by Hastings Rashdall. Rand '08, of Bryn Mawr; "The Develop- experience in mechanical engineering and Professor Nathaniel Schmidt reviews ment of Laboratory Equipment in Amer- a background of wide general knowledge. Sirendranath Dasgupta's "Yoga as Philos- ica" by Professor Christian A. Ruck- He avoids making his text a scrap book of ophy and Science." Professor Harold R. mick, Ph.D. '13, of the University of sample industrial forms. He prefers to Smart, Ph. D. '21, reviews O. Hoelder's Iowa; "The Relation of Speed to Intel- generalize forms from a few but sufficient "Die mathematische Methode" and Adolf ligence" by Professor Edwin G. Boring illustrations rather than to particularize." FraenkeΓs "Einleitung in die Mengen- '08 and Carroll C. Pratt of Harvard; "The Another book in the list is "The Child: lehre." Relation of Rate to Quality of Work" by His Nature and His Needs" by Professor In The Psychological Bulletin for March Professor Paul J. Kruse. Michael V. O'Shea '92 of the University Professor Madison Bentley, Ph. D. '98, In Science for April 2 there is an obitu- of Wisconsin, reviewed by Professor of the University of Illinois, prints his ary notice of the late Professor Filbert William 0. Allen. presidential address on "The Major Roth of the University of Michigan by In The Journal of Physical Chemistry for Categories of Psychology" delivered be- Dow V. Baxter. Dr. David Starr Jordan 1f April Professor Melvin L. Nichols Ί8, fore the American Psychological Associa- j2 reviews "Evolution Not Irreligious" by Ph. D. '22, and I. A. Derbigny collaborate tion at the Ithaca meeting on December 29. Walter C. Kraatz and "The Tennessee in an article on "The Reduction of Nitrous There are also abstracts of the following Evolution Case" by Robert S. Keebler. Oxide." Professor Wilder D. Bancroft papers read at the same meeting: "The Professor William Trelease '80 of the Uni- writes on "Blue Wood." He also reviews Mental Matrix and the Formation of versity of Illinois has a note on "Sylloge "The Chemical Action of Ultraviolet Patterns" by Professor Louis B. Hoising- Fungorum." Rays" by Carleton Ellis and A. A. Wells, ton, Ph.D. '20; "Gestalt Psychology and In Bird-Lore for March-April the front- "The Constitution of Matter" by Max Motor Psychology" by Professor Margaret ispiece is a page of four birds, two chuck- Born, translated by E. Blair and T. S. F. Washburn, Ph.D. '94, of Vassar; wills-widows and two whip-poor-wills by Wheeler, "Factory Practice in the Manu- "Gestalt vs. Concept as a Principle of Louis A. Fuertes '97, to illustrate Harry facture of Azo Dyes" by W. B. O'Brien, Explanation" by Professor Walter B. C. Oberholser's paper. Professor Arthur "Organische Chemie" by E. Pummerer, Pillsbury, Ph.D. '96, of the University of A. Allen '08 has an illustrated article on second revised and improved edition, and Michigan; "The Positive After-image of "Bird Photography from a Packing Box." the second edition of "Ueber Kolloid- Twlight Vision" by Professor Forrest R. In the Journal of the American Insti- chemie" by R Zsigmondy. Dimmick, Ph.D. '15, of the University of tute of Criminal Law and Criminology for In American Forests for April Freeman Michigan; "Form Perception in Indirect February Professor Nellie L. Perkins has L. Mulford '92 writes on "Planning and Vision" by Professor Ludwig R. Geissler, an article on "The Need for Socializing Planting." Ph.D. '09, of Randolph-Macon College; Court Procedure in Commitments to the In The Philosophical Revieiv for March "The Effect of Mixing Artificial Light State Training Schools for the Feeble- Professor William C. Swabey, A. M. Ί8, with Daylight on Important Functions of Minded."

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FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS, 1925-26 The President White Fellowship in Honorary Fellowships: James Craik, Physics: Deane Brewster Judd, B. A. ALUMNI NOTES Ph. D. (St. Andrews) '24; Charles Alexius (Ohio State) '22, M. A. (Ohio State) '23. Dickinson, Ph. D. (Clark) '25. The University Fellowship in Agricul- The Sage Fellowship in Chemistry: ture: Oliver Ray Johnson, B. S. in Agri- '71 AB—After twenjty-four years of ser- Ludwig Frederick Audrieth, B. S. (Col- culture (Missouri) Ίo. vice as a circuit judge in Wisconsin, James gate) '22. O'Neill is now enjoying a release from The President White Fellowship in The Schuyler Fellowship in Animal judicial cares and is planning to attend a Political and Social Science: Arnold John Biology: Mabel Craig Wilder, A. B. reunion of his class in Ithaca in June. He Zurcher, A. B. (Oberlin) '24. (Brown) Ί9, A. M. (Brown) '21. lives at Neillsville, Wis. The Fellowships in Political Economy: The Goldwin Smith Fellowship in '79 AB, '85 AM—On April 8, Mary M. Wilson Lewis Farman, A. B. (Cornell) '25; Geology: Fred Robert Neumann, B. S. Pitcher left San Diego, Calif., where she Stephen Mansfield Jaquith, A. B. (Cor- (Chicago) '21, M. S. (Chicago) '23. had spent the winter, to go to Fullerton, nell) '25; John Highberger Patterson, Neb. Mail will reach her there if addressed A. B. (Cornell) '25. to her in care of Mrs. Ella C. Brower. The Fellowship in Greek and Latin: '95 PhD—Dr. A. Ross Hill was the Carδ Lynn, A. B. (Tarkio) '95, A. M. principal speaker at the annual spring A Different (Colorado) '04. school and college conference held at the The Boldt Fellowship in History: University of Colorado on April 8 and 9. Frederick George Marcham, B. A. (Ox- '95 LLB-—Ernest E. Cole of Bath, Kind of Job ford) '23. N. Y., recently gave up Congressional Not a desk and time- The Fellowship in American History: aspirations which he had had for several Elizabeth Marie Becker, B. S. (North- months, to accept appointment as deputy clock job, at either end western) '22, A. M. (Northwestern) '23. of a push button; not commissioner and counsel of the New York The Susan Linn Sage Fellowships in State Education Department. Cole is now the selling of an article, Philosophy: John Reginald Cress well, serving his second term as a State senator be it an automobile, or B. A. (McMasters) '23; Stephen Albert and is a member of the law firm of Cole & any other thing which Emery A. B. (Cornell) '23. Knapp of Bath. creates in the buyer The Cornell Fellowship in English: '96 PhB, '98 LLB—Last fall, James S. more needs, more wear Richard Beck, A. B. (Reykjavik) '20, Truman of Owego, N. Y., sought and suc- A. M. (Cornell) '24. ceeded in getting a senatorial toga when and tear on mind and he was elected to the New York State The University Fellowship in German: nerves* Senate. Now he wants judicial robes and Ernest Kubler, A. B. (Dijon) '23. But the selling of absolute has announced himself as a candidate for future security, creating a The University Fellowship in Architec- justice of the Supreme Court in the Sixth calm mind, a serenity of ture: Thomas Jefferson Baird, B. Arch. Judicial District of the State. He seeks outlook in the buyer. (Cornell) '25. the place now held by Justice David F. Not waiting for your prede- The Edgar J. Myer Memorial Fellow- Lee of Norwich who was appointed last cessors to die; not depend- ship in Engineering Research and the fall by Governor Smith to fill a vacancy. ing on the lucky chance. Sibley Fellowship in Mechanical and '96 LLB—Colonel Edward Davis is now But receiving immediately Electrical Engineering: Robert Parker on duty as military attache at the Ameri- the amount of money and Mason, M. E. (Cornell) '25. can Embassy in Mexico City. Mail should reward commensurate with The McGraw Fellowship in Civil Engi- be addressed to him as follows: Military what ability you show. neering: Shu-T'ien Ki, B. S. C. E. (Pei- Intelligence Division G.S., War Depart- This job is selling life insur- Yang) '23. ment, Washington, D. C. ance. The American Agriculturist Fellowship: '98 BS—Mrs. Tracy C. Marsh (Mabel It has been noted that Fred Fouse Lininger, B. S. in Agriculture Mead '98) lost her husband on March 16 many college graduates sud- (Pennsylvania State) '17. last when he died suddenly of heart denly give up working for The Palmolive Fellowship in Chemistry: trouble. They had been living at Sutter, someone else, go into life George Paul Vincent, A. B. (Hiram) '23, Calif., where Mr. Marsh was principal of insurance, and in a short M. S. (Cornell) '24. the Union High School. Besides his widow, he left a son, Alexander Marsh. time find places on the lists The Champlain Valley Fellowship in of high-ranking insurance Plant Pathology: Arthur Brotherton Bur- '01 LLB—John L. Senior is president producers. rell, B. S. in Agriculture (Ohio State) '24. of the new Consolidated Cement Corpora- There is a reason for this The Potash Importing Corporation tion organized under the laws of the State which is worth thinking Fellowship: Edmund Ellsworth Vial, B. S. of Delaware. The company was formed over. (Illinois) '22, M. S. (Cornell) '24. to acquire the properties of three produc- ing cement companies and is to be con- Complete and confidential in* The Grasselli Fellowship in Chemistry: formation, without any obligation ducted with a view to absorbing other on your part, can be obtained by Harold Talbot Lacey, B. Chem. (Cornell) similar companies in the future. The ab- writing to the Inquiry Bureau, '21. sorbed companies are the Fredonia Port- John Hancock Mutual Life In* The Du Pont Fellowship in Chemistry: surance Company ,197 Clarendon land Cement Company at Fredonia, Street, Boston, Massachusetts, or Christopher John Welz, Chem. E. (Rens- Kansas, the Peninsular Portland Cement by application to any of our selaer Polytechnic) '20, M. S. (Cornell) '24. Company at Cement City, Michigan and Qeneral Agents, The Herman Frasch Fellowship in Plant the Western Portland Cement Company Pathology: Harry Elihu Newland, B. S. at Mildred, Kansas. Senior still continues (Purdue) '24. as president of the Cowham Engineering Company of Chicago. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY* The Williamson Valley Co-operative OF BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS Vegetable Association Fellowship: John '02 AB—A fourth child, a daughter, Gordon Games, B. Sc. (Clemson) '22. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 339

Taussig on:March n. He writes that the Jones Ί8, John H. Courtney '17, and WHAT IS THERE family is now evenly divided with two Edgar S. May '25. Distler's address is boys and two girls. Taussig is a member 2400 Sixteenth Street, N. W. TO THESE of the law firm of Avery, Taussig & Fisk '12 CE—Horace C. Flanigan sailed for at 220 Broadway, New York. Europe on March 25 on the S. S. Olympia 'SUCCESS STORIES" Ό4-5 Grad—Professor Cony Sturgis of for a two months' business trip. Oberlin spoke before the modern language '13 CE—John M. Demarest is as- ROBABLY you have sometimes section of the Ohio College Association at sociated with G. W. Knight, consulting in- wondered, "Where do all the Columbus on April 2 on the subject, dustrial and sanitary engineer of 147 'success stories' come from? Can "Modern languages: Their Relations to Prospect Street, Passaic, N. J. He lives they really be true? Is there any One Another and to the College Depart- at 11 East Eighty-seventh Street, New one thing that can actually make men successful?" ments of Education." York. Our answer will perhaps surprise you. '06 ME—Edward T. Foote has left the '13 ME—Richard A. Dittman is plant For we say without hesitation that most of Cutler Hammer Company to become manager at Hudson, N. Y., for the New the men whose success stories we have pub- manager of commercial sales for the Nizer York & New England Cement & Lime lished would have been successful without Corporation of Detroit, Mich. Mail may Company. the help of the Institute. be addressed to him in care of the com- '13—Hermann Laub, Jr., is secretary We don't take credit for the fine records pany. and treasurer of the Rose & Fisher Com- made by our graduates any more than Yale Ό7 AB—Theodore J. Lindorff is a or Princeton or Harvard take credit for the pany, building contractors in Pittsburgh, success of theirs. We provide no trick form- member of the Floyd-Lindorff Realty Pa. His address is 420 Martin Building. ulas to make men prosperous overnight. We Company at Orlando, Fla. His address is During the coming summer he expects to simply give, them the facts they need to I5i East Central Avenue. travel in Europe, visiting England, France, know about business. If they are big enough '07 AB—Clarence Kimball now has his Germany, Italy, and other countries. to use these facts, they succeed. If they aren't—well, they would have failed any- law offices in the new Farmers' Loan & '14 PhD—Lex R. Hesler is professor of way. Trust Company Building at 475 Fifth botany at the University of Tennessee. Avenue, New York. What the Institute does—and the only He went there in 1919 after having been thing the Institute claims to do—is this: it '08 AB—A daughter, Eleanor Carter, assistant professor of plant pathology at brings success sooner. was born on December 1, 1925, to Mr. and Cornell from 1914^01919. In addition to • • • • Mrs. L. Raymond Smith of 104 Belmont his classroom work, he writes that much The reason why independence comes so Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. Smith is pro- of his time is taken up with student and late for most men is that there is so much to fessor of industrial physics in the Dickin- university affairs, including athletics, fra- learn. son High School. ternity activities, scholarship, and ad- Only a man who knows all the different '08 ME—Leonard M. Gavett was re- ministration. In the past fifteen years he departments of business is qualified to reach cently transferred from Pittsburgh to has published thirty-six papers and two the higher positions, or to enter business for Scranton, Pa., to become district superin- books and has two other books now under himself. And learning all departments from tendent of traffic for the Scranton Bell way. He can be reached in care of the practical experience in each is a matter of Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. university, Knoxville, Tenn. many years. His address in Scranton is 1642 Madison '15 AB—Roger W. Clapp is assistant Is there no way to shorten this process? Must every man's life have so many wasted Avenue. cashier of the Citizens Bank &, Trust years? The men whose success stories you Ίo ME—Clinton L. Follmer writes Company of Tampa, Fla. His address is have read determined to eliminate those that he is engaged in designing a 160,000 P. O. Box 74. He writes "I have three wasted years from their lives; they found a kilowatt generating station for the Con- children, one wife, no real estate." way in the Alexander Hamilton Institute. solidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Ί6 PhD—A fourth son, Robert Sewell, For years we have specialized in the single Company of Baltimore, Md. His address was born on March 6 at the New York task of training men for the higher executive there is 1025 Calvert Street. Nursery and Child's Hospital to Mr. and positions of business. Into the Institute's Course have been built the experience and Ίi AB—On April 1, Samuel B. Dicker Mrs. John C. Orcutt (Ruby R. Murray the methods which have made many of to- became a member of the law firm of 16) of 44 Morningside Drive, New York. day's business leaders successful. Its sub- Sutherland and Dwyer in Rochester, N. Y. Orcutt is vice-president of the Irving scribers learn in months what ordinarily Their offices are in the Lincoln Alliance Bank-Columbia Trust Company in New takes years. Bank Building. York. That the Course is authoritative and practical is proved by the calibre of the men ' 11 ME ' 11 ME—After fifteen years in '17 ME—Gustave D. Stahl is president different pursuits, Thomas R. Cox and who constitute the Institute's Advisory and general manager of StahFs Electrical Council. They are: Winton G. Rossiter are in the same busi- Stores in Berlin, N. H. His address is 195 General T. Coleman duPont, the well ness. Both are members of the New York Main Street. known business executive; Percy H. Johns- Stock Exchange, Cox being a member of Ί8—Donald Hershey is secretary of the ton, President of the Chemical National the firm of Stout & Company, while Genesee Bridge Company of Rochester, Bank of New York; Dexter S. Kimball, Rossiter is with James H. Oliphant & Dean of the College of Engineering, Cornell N. Y. His address is P. O. Box 42. Company. University; John Hays Hammond, the Ίi AB—Lester V. Adams is a chemist 19—M. Warren Benton is the assistant eminent engineer; Frederick H. Hurdman, Certified Public Accountant; and Dr. Jere- in the research laboratory of the General agency manager of the Dunsmore Agency of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at miah W. Jenks, the statistician and econo- Electric Company in Schenectady, N. Y. mist. His address is 38 Haigh Avenue. Some of 120 Broadway, New York. He lives at 44 Grove Street, Valley Stream, Long Island, A booklet has been especially prepared his recent work has been with a new that gives all the facts about the Institute. New York. electric refrigerator, enamels, varnishes, More than 100,000 college men have read and synthetic resins." '20 CE—Emanuel Hirsch is engaged in it. If you would care to have a copy, write '12 CE—Walter G. Distler is now vice- engineering and surveying work on his us. president of the George A. Fuller Com- own at Amityville, N. Y., and expects to ALEXANDER HAMILTON pany, builders. He is located in Washing- open an office as a consulting engineer INSTITUTE ton and writes that in the office are Scott soon. He is married and lives at 100 23 Λstor Place New York City Lehmann Ίo7 Charles Rasch Ίo, Samuel Oreland Place, Amity ville. 340 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, He is secretary to the manager of the '17—Mrs. Murray McConnel, 850 Scars- Professor Burdick, Dean of the southern district who is in charge of utility Cornell Law Faculty. dale Avenue, Scarsdale, N. Y.—Marshall properties under the executive manage- PRACTICE, Professor McCaskill E. Farnham, Bellevue Cottage, R. F. D. ment of Stone & Webster. Cooley and his of the Cornell Law Fl No. 1, West Conshohocken, Pa.—Rexford wife have a son, Robert Heald, born on W. Jewett, 22 North Woodward Avenue, Second Term, July 29 to Sept. 3 June 6, 1925. CONTRACT, continued. Roselle, Wilmington, Del. AGENCY, Professor Thompson of '22 BS—Donald E. Marshall has re- '19—Victor Emanuel, Old Mill Road, the University of Pittsburgh turned to the United States after spending Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y.—Albert Law Faculty. the past two years in Greece. His add- L. Lentz, 141 North Thompson Avenue, WILLS, Professor Vance of the ress is now 14 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, Jackson, Mich. 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