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ECISIVE majorities on October 28 three of four matches. These two were the Pennsylvania, and E. C. Frank, editor of elected Robert F. Patterson '25 of survivors in a tournament which has run the Colgate Maroon] Frank C. Monaghan, D Poughkeepsie, president of the for two weeks. Jr., '27 of Union town, Pennsylvania, and Student Council, Philo D. Atwood '25 of GEORGE DOLL, College Avenue clothier J. C. Colgan, president of the Colgate Cincinnati, Ohio, secretary, and Charles known to many generations of Cornel- Dramatic club, spoke for Davis; and Mar- Wieters '25 of New York, treasurer. Hans, and Mrs. Doll on October 23 lost tin Rosenblum '25 of Middletown and Patterson is a lawyer and left halfback on their fifteen-year-old son, William, who R. T. Colwell, editor of The Bantor, the football team; Atwood represents the died of typhoid fever. Colgate's humorous publication, advo- Department of Chemistry on the Central cated La Follette. Honor Committee; and Wieters is a ACCORDING to figures compiled under A CAMPUS straw vote on the same day member of the Electrical Engineering the supervision of the Registrar, David gave Coolidge the lead, from both Faculty Honor Committee. Considerably more F. Hoy '91, the average scholarship of and students, and showed that students than half of the senior class voted. members of the Sun Board during the 1923-24 session was 74.818 per cent; that favored Roosevelt for New York Governor, BALLOTING took place on October 30 for of the Widow Board was 74.426 per cent. whereas the Faculty gave Governor Smith class representatives on the Council. The more votes. THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for Novem- five seniors elected were Ray S. Ashbery of HEY WOOD BROUN of the New York ber 9 will be the Rev. Dr. Rockwell Har- West Falls, David F. Davis, Jr., of New World and W. O. McGeehan of The mon Potter, of the Center Congregation- York, Harold F. Kneen of Cleveland Herald-Tribune were in the press stand al Church, Hartford, Connecticut. Heights, Ohio, Edward A. Proctor of for the Columbia game last Saturday, to- Washington, D. C., and Thomas L. Stir- LECTURES for the week include an ad- gether with a galaxy of lesser lights, in- ling of Wilmington, Delaware. The five dress before the local chapter of the cluding Allan J. Gould '21, sports editor juniors elected were Frank 0. Affeld, 3d, American Association of University of The Associated Press, and special of Brooklyn, Richard Aronson of Brook- Women by Mrs. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, correspondents for other metropolitan and line, Massachusetts, Walter W. Buckley of president of the Association and of Mills neighboring newspapers. Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Joseph H. College, on the work of the Association Swan of Chicago, Illinois, and Frederick NEWSPAPERS last week predicted that and of the International Federation of Syracuse might soon consider the con- E. Wester of Brooklyn. The two sopho- University Women, on November 3; mores elected were Edward M. Krech of struction of a tunnel between Cayuga and "Venice" by Professor Eugene P. Andrews Skaneateles Lakes to augment that city's Midland Park, New Jersey and Forbes D. '95, the first of a series of five illustrated Shaw of Brooklyn. water supply, which now comes from the lectures on "A Journey from Venice to latter lake. THE PARABOLA Mathematical Club was Athens and Crete," on November 6; and ALEPH SAMACH on October 25 initiated reorganized for the school year at a meet- The Use and Misuse of Universities," on the thirteen members of the junior class. They ing on October 30, when undergraduates Gold win Smith Foundation, by the Right are Edward L. Anderson of Glendale, who had taken or are taking elementary Hon. Herbert A. L. Fisher, fellow of New Ohio; Richard Aronson of Brookline, calculus were welcomed. College, Oxford, and former minister of Massachusetts; Horatio H. Bradley of education in the British Cabinet, on THE WIDOW on October 20 elected John Providence, Rhode Island; Walter W. November 6. C. Whitridge, Jr., '27 of Columbus, Ohio, Buckley of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; and Daniel M. C. Hopping '28 of Bronx- SEVERAL HUNDRED persons gathered in Theodorus S. Chadeayne of Cornwall; ville to positions on its business staff. Barnes Hall on October 29 to hear Oswald Eugene H. Emerson of Ithaca; Raymond SPECTATORS at the fourth annual horse Garrison Villard, editor of The Nation, V. Lange of Brooklyn; Frank D. Rosso- show of the R. O. T. C., held on Upper who was brought to Cornell by the La mondo of New York; Calvin Russell, 2d, Alumni Field on October 25, said it was Follette-Wheeler Club. The speaker pre- of Branchport; Norman G. Stagg of the best yet. The field had been put in dicted that the coming election would Ithaca; and Donald B. Whitney of Phila- excellent condition and the events were virtually wipe out the Democratic party delphia. fast. Cadet Milford C. Howard '26 of in the West. FOREIGN STUDENTS received a hearty Buffalo won the student saddle class and A POLITICAL mass meeting in Bailey welcome to Cornell from President Far- the bending race, and David L. Schantz Hall on October 30 was the occasion of rand, speaking at the Cosmopolitan Club '26 of Allentown, Pennsylvania, won the speeches by Professor Nathaniel Schmidt on October 25. He said that this welcome student jumping event. Mrs. Romeyn for the Progressives and by Robert Wil- was not entirely altruistic, since foreign Berry won the ladies' potato race and Miss liam Bonynge of New York for the students have something to give as well Hester Bancroft won cup and blue ribbon Republicans. Thomas Mott Osborne, who as to get. in the ladies' saddle class. Captain G. P. was scheduled to speak for the Democrats, UNDERGRADUATE ΛVOMEN met in the Hays and Lieutenant E. L. Sibert won was obliged at the last moment to cancel lecture room of Baker Laboratory on first prizes in the jumping events. his engagement; so that party was not November 3, to be addressed by Mrs. FOLLOWING the horse show the officers represented at the meeting. A. H. Reinhardt, president of the American Association of University Women. of the Field Artillery Unit of the R. O. T.C. COOLIDGE emerged the winner by vote of defeated the Seventh Field Artillery team the audience after the debaters of Cornell MEMBERS of the University community from Madison Barracks in six fast chuk- and Colgate,—one student from each and others living on Cayuga Heights were kers of polo, by a score of 7 to o. institution speaking for each of the three notified recently that beginning November THEODORE A. EGGMANN '28 of East St. candidates—had presented the advantages i the rural mail route there would be ex- Louis, Illinois, is University undergraduate of the principal parties in the presidential tended approximately one mile to cover tennis champion, after defeating Thomas campaign. The speakers for the President hitherto unreached parts of The Park- M. Bright '26, of Lansdale Pennsylvania, were Whitney M. Trousdale '25 of Rome, way and Triphammer and Upland Roads. 82 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

MANY HERE FOR HOMECOMING MORE FRAUDULENT CORNELLIANS Attendance at the informal luncheon at SPORT STUFF Two new masqueraders are augmenting the Drill Hall on the annual Home Com- their incomes on the basis of alleged Cor- ing Day is a reasonably accurate index of nell connections. ^Several Ithaca merchants the number of alumni in town for the day. The Fall Homecoming was a good have recently been victimized by a man The figures last Saturday were upwards of party. The weather was all blue and gold passing himself off as W. B. Stewart Ίi, a a thousand. Most of the out of town with a snap in the air. The place looked member of Chi Psi, and formerly busi- Cornellians came just for the game and well. Everyone was gay and the game ness manager of The Widow. "Stewart" miscellaneous visitations, but there were came out the right way. passed a number of worthless checks in three meetings that took the attention of We're having lots and lots of parties, Ithaca, all drawn on the Curwensville a few hundred. aren't we? Just as soon as the Homecom- National Bank of Curwensville, Pa. The Cornellian Council held its semi- ing is over folks start right in getting The other "Cornell man" said he was annual meeting, in a well attended session ready for the Convention in New York. C. A. Maynard '12, working for the in Morrill Hall. Eepresentatives of most It seems to us in Ithaca as if Old Grads had Republican National Committee in its of the classes which are scheduled for re- nothing to do but write special deliver> Boston office. There is no such office in unions next June met in another part of letters and talk over the long distance Boston, nor is there any C. A. Maynard on Morrill for a preliminary discussion of telephone. But as long as they come to the Cornell lists. plans and scope. Though held under the the Convention everyone's for them. So far as reports have come to Ithaca, auspices of the Association of Class If the team improves as much between "Maynard' ' has thus far operated only in Secretaries, the meeting was informal, the Columbia and Dartmouth games as it Cincinnati. He is about five feet eight preparatory to the annual mid-winter did between Rutgers and Columbia we inches in height, heavy build, swarthy meeting of the Association to be held in may be able to give Dartmouth a little complexion, and round face, smooth New York during Christmas week. exercise after all. shaven. He has black hair. He wore a At the annual meeting of the Cornell R. B. blue serge suit. He is about thirty-five Law Association Silas H. Strawn, former years old. He talks very glibly, especially president of the Illinois and Chicago Bar KENISTON REPRESENTS CORNELL on political subjects, and may be quickly Associations, addressed the lawyers on Dean Ralph H. Keniston of the Grad- recognized by his tendency to say "don't "A Feλv Fundamentals." At the meeting uate School was Cornell's delegate to the you know," as the terminus of every Judge Frank Irvine '80 of Ithaca, was twenty-sixty annual meeting of the As- sentence. succeeded in the Presidency of the As- sociation of American Universities, which Tell S. Berna '12 sends the word of sociation by Judge William L. Ransom '05, was held at the University of Minnesota on Maynard's visits. He closes with the of New York, and Professor Horace E. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last following paragraph: Whiteside '22 was reflected secretary. week. He read a paper on "Cooperation "If the friendly feeling, which naturally Three new members of the executive com- Among Universities in the Development exists among Cornell men, is of any value mittee of nine were elected: Edwin J. of Different Departments of Study." to the University, it would be of real ser- Marshall '95, of Toledo, Layton M. vice to all of us if you will cooperate in Schoch '98, of Philadelphia, and Judge LIBRARY FUNDS making public, so far as possible, complete Ransom. At the smoker that evening, The general funds available this year information concerning men like these, so when George D. Crozier '25, presided, for the purchase and binding of books for that any young man who starts to imitate speeches were given by Dean George G. the Library amount to $24,244.92. Of the late but not lamented Denny will be Bogert Ό6, Judge Francis W. Bleakley '04, this sum $5,000 is appropriated for bind- promptly detected. The writer is very Ralph S. Kent '02, and Charles S. Whit- ing. At a meeting of the Library Council glad to see his fellow Cornellians, but there man, former Governor of New York and held on October 14 the usual appropria- is a limit to the extent to which we can law partner of Judge Ransom. Professor tions to departments were made amount- be used as a landing-mat for the indigent." Walter King of Stone the College of to $16,275, and this leaves $2,969.92, the Architecture told stories and an under- balance of the Sage and Fiske Funds, to be FORESTERS STAY BY IT graduate quartet sang. expended by the Council in special grants. A recent tabulation of the occupations of This sum is slightly less than last year. graduates of the Department of Forestry GIVES BOOKS FOR UNION In addition the following sums are of the University, made by Professor Edward Maguire '86 has expressed his available from the funds indicated; they Cedric H. Guise '14 and sent with a news interest in the Union in a tangible manner include the unexpended balances from last letter to former students of the Depart- by sending in the following publications year: ment, shows that 75.6 per cent of those which will form the nucleus of the library Fiske Dante & Petrarch Fund $ 327-43 who have received the degree of M. F. in this building: Fiske Icelandic Fund 409.13 since 1911 are engaged in forestry now, The Cornellian, 22 volumes; Cornell Flower Library Fund 562.56 and 22 per cent are in other lines of work. University, A History, four volumes; The Barnes Library Fund 1,717.08 Of those who received the B. S. degree Register, 1868 to 1908 inclusive; Cornell Comstock Memorial Library from the Department, 48.5 per cent are reports and pamphlets, four volumes; The Fund 161.04 engaged in forestry and 47.6 in other lines. Ten-Year Book, 1888; Cornell University: Lucy Harris Victorian Poets Of the 81 men who are engaged in the General and Technical Courses. Fund 101.34 practice of forestry, 46.9 are in private No definite plans have been formulated I. P. Church Memorial Fund. . 613.85 service, 33.3 per cent in the Federal ser- for the building up of a library in the Botsford Memorial Fund 21.12 vice, 8.6 per cent are teaching, five per Union, but there will be ample shelving in White Warfare of Science Fund 471.07 cent are taking postgraduate work, and 2.5 the main lounge for a good one. Emil Kuichling Fund 238.90 per cent are in State service. Van Cleef Memorial Fund 511.42 A reunion of Cornell Foresters is pro- THE FENCING CLUB, by amending its R, A. Harris Fund 11.16 posed by some, and Professor Guise is constitution, has arranged to take charge Schiff Fund 2,567.26 anxious to find out how many wish one of all freshman, novice, and club champion- and would come, and what year and time ship meets and will direct all fencing Total from special funds $ 7,713.36 of year is preferable. He is, also looking for awards. The Club will give a freshman General funds 24,244.92 items of personal and professional interest cup and will be in charge of awarding the about former students of the Department novice cup given by Rodney Eaton '22. Total of book funds $31,958.28 or the State College of Forestry at Cornell. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 83

The Library of the University of Louvain Building Destroyed by German Armies in 1914 is Being Replaced by Million Dollar Structure, the Gift of Students and Alumni of American Schools and Colleges —Place for War Memorials Provided

UCH has been written about the students and Faculty, yielding consider- as can be ascertained. Presumably as the destruction of the Library of the ably less than a thousand dollars. The fund grows the desirability of the memor- M University of Louvain. Alumni of matter had never been presented to the ial may become apparent. other colleges are well informed concerning alumni until in June the situation was From The New York Tim.es of Febru- the project to rebuild the library building described to the Cornellian Council by ary 17, 1924, we give the following story at a cost of a million dollars, to be raised by Henry J. Patten '84. The Council de- of the rebuilding project with the figures contributions from American school chil- cided that conducting a campaign for as of that date. Since then about $350,000 dren, college students, and alumni. Except funds for another university, however has come in, and at present $250,000 more for a brief campaign among the under- will complete the building. graduates last year Cornellians, how- When Cardinal Mercier visited this ever, have heard nothing directly about country after the Armistice in 1919, he was enthusiastically received by a the project. Committee composed of leading Ameri- At present, up to September 20, can citizens anxious to welcome him in about $470,000 in cash has been the name of this country, and ready to promise^him^almost^anything he might secured. About $280,000 more has ask. been subscribed contingent on obtain- One of the Cardinal's greatest ing the rest of the total required to anxieties was the impossibility of complete the gift of a million dollars. Belgium being able to reconstruct the Thus about $250,000 remains to be ancient library of Louvain University, of which he is the head. This structure, raised. with its priceless collection of books and Of the sum raised, $38,000 was the manuscripts, necessary to scholars and savings in nickels and dimes of the students of all the world, had first school children of New York. Inter- been desecrated and later destroyed in cold blood and without military neces- collegiate rivalry was responsible in sity by the invading army. some degree for the raising of over During this horror, and after it, $100,000 among alumni of Harvard, little Belgium, knowing she was totally Princeton, and Yale. West Point and inadequate to the task of saving herself, Annapolis, similarly, account for per- still fought, shouting the battle cry "They Shall Not Pass," until driven off haps $75,000 between them, each at- the map after gaining time for France tempting to outdo the other. Many and Britain to prepare for the struggle other colleges, men's and women's, and which was to save Europe, and maybe preparatory schools have contributed the world, from domination of the Kasier. liberally, attempting to secure many PROPOSED TREATMENT OF THE WAR MEMORIALS In the fervor of those weeks, American small subscriptions rather than a few OF CONTRIBUTING INSTITUTIONS publications, press and pulpit, shocked large ones. urgent the need, was not within its scope, that any modern army would deliberately Various sorts of contributions are being destroy seats of learning, assured the but that they saw no reason why Cornel- world that one thing we would do was to made to Louvain other than the Rebuild- lians, acting as a Committee of their own restore the Louvain Library when peace ing Fund. Many private libraries ha ve creation, could not carry on the work. came. made their offerings, including most of President Farrand subsequently agreed The Committee which met the Cardinal that of former President Jacob Gould to act as honorary chairman of the Com- in New York renewed this pledge. Schurman of Cornell. The architect of mittee provided Mr. Patten would be The Cardinal, gaining heart and confi- the Library, Whitney Warren, is giving acting chairman. R. Warren Sailor '07, dence, declared that this building, rebuilt by America, would possess a three-fold unsparingly of his time both for the editor of the ALUMNI NEWS, was chosen virtue; first, it would consecrate the sacri- architectural work and to some extent in treasurer of the fund and thirteen other fice of Belgium in 1914; second, it would raising funds. J. P. Morgan & Company Cornellians from various sections of the serve as a warning, as a spiritual barrier are handling the fund for the cause. country have consented to act on the across the road of terror, on which the enemy of the North has traveled again and Two of the most inspiring non-financial committee. No general solicitation is again, as a sort of American signature for gifts, however, have been the gifts of the contemplated, but it is assumed that giv- the future; third, it would stand in Europe University of Chicago and of the Armour ing an opportunity through the ALUMNI as a fit Memorial to those Americans who Institute of Technology, presented to NEWS will, in the main, be all that the volunteered and gave their lives in the Great War. Cardinal Mercier in 1919. Each institution situation requires. An advertisement in Under the inspiration of the Cardinal's gave its rarest book, volumes that re- this issue describes the method of sending visit collections were started; plans drawn, placed identical ones destroyed by the funds to the Treasurer and gives the names and the work of construction commenced. invaders. The University gave him one of of the committee. The plans were entrusted to American six copies extant of the Catholicon of Colleges giving funds to the project are architects and the work of building con- fided to an American firm. But we had Balbus, printed in Venice in 1466. The permitted to erect memorials to their problems of our own, money was sought Institute gave the first edition of Euclid's members who died in service, or to place for all manner of needs at home and of Elements, printed in 1482. Both are their college insignia in the building. more showy things abroad, and it was easy practically irreplacable. Presumably Cornellians complied with to forget. Subscriptions came in slowly. Up to now, despite most earnest efforts, Cornellians have played only a small the minimum requirements in the gifts of only $400,000 have been given out of a part in all this effort, having merely put the student campaign, but no Cornell total of $1,000,000 required to complete on a short drive for funds among the memorial has been planned as yet, as far the building. Most of the amount re- 84 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

ceived has come in small sums, principally FRENCHMAN PRAISES CORNELL rose and cheered Williams as whole- from schools and colleges. For instance, the public schools of New York in dimes Dr. P. J. Baldensperger of Nice, France, heartedly as they did their own eleven and nickels have subscribed $38,000. The who lectured in Baker Labatory on Pales- men. That act affected me deeply. For spiritual significance of this is tremendous, tine on October 15, describes his impres- the losers to cheer the victors shows an over 500,000 children participating. Of sions of Cornell and of his first football elevated spirit. the colleges, Yale has given $28,000, while Harvard has launched a campaign amongst game, that with Williams, in the following As regards the football game, itself, I its alumni from which it is hoped will be article, reprinted from the Sun: have never seen anything more arousing realized a much greater sum. St. Paul's My impression of the first American or fascinating in the line of sport. Full School for Boys at Concord, Mass., have of thrilling moments, at times it literally given their quota. West Point, Annapolis, football game I ever witnessed will always Amherst, etc., have given handsomely. remain indelibly printed on my memory. engulfed my spirits. The tenseness of the The women's colleges—Bryn Mawr and Perhaps it may seem peculiar for a scien- opposing players waiting for the ball to Smith—have also done the same, while tist, interested chiefly in apiculture, to be lifted from the ground, followed by the some four hundred other schools, colleges mention an athletic contest as the most forward rush with one man with the ball and universities are at work. It is proposed to engrave the insignia and vivid impression of my visit to America, seeming to be free from the others, then war record of the givers upon the columns, and, in particular, Cornell University. this player thwarted by someone ap- keystones, fireplaces, of the building to However, although I am a Frenchman, parently jumping from nowhere—all hap- make, as it were, an open book in stone of pens with such rapidity of action that in a notable chapter in the war record of born and raised in Palestine, and have America. lived most of my life among the desert a moment the struggling mass is once The building is about one-third com- tribes of the Near East, my .heart has more being untangled. Of course, I plete; the books received under the terms always been with America. I have been realize that there are scientific intricacies of the Treaty of Versailles from Germany Americanized in the true meaning of the that I failed to observe, but that is the to replace those totally destroyed, are sheltered: the foundations are down for the word, not last Saturday when I first laid whirlwind way my first football game entire building; but $600,000 is needed to eyes on Cornell, or last September when I impressed me. finish. This must be forthcoming quickly first set foot on North American soil, but The tenacity of purpose, the fixity or construction must stop as it has al- of determination, and the stoical bravery ready done on one occasion until certain forty years ago, when I first saw your Yale alumni came to the rescue. There is noble citizens give freely of their bounty of the players were to me nothing short danger of this happening again soon. to aid in uplifting the people of the Near of marvelous. As they crouched there At the inauguration of the new library East, I began to be Americanized. I ready to spring upon each other, I was which is scheduled to take place on the trust you will believe me when I tell you reminded of the African tiger as he makes 25th of August, 1925, the five hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Univer- that I am writing not in the spirit of ready to leap upon his prey, with this sity and the eleventh of its destruction, flattery, but rather in the soul of fact. exception: During the most critical Cardinal Mercier has planned probably the When I first gazed upon your "Cornell moments of the struggle the respect of most impressive ceremony and gathering Crescent," I was struck by the immensity one team for its opponent remained the world will ever have witnessed. Every school, college and university of the of its size. When I looked upon the stad- dominant. The sportsmanship of the civilized world is invited to be present, ium with its tier after tier filled with players as well as the spectators was represented by a member of its faculty humanity, bubbling over with excitement, strikingly superb. There in the stadium and two of its undergraduates, and one of I realized full well the meaning of real Saturday I saw a cross section of the each other contributing group, these carrying the escutcheon or the flag of the democracy, the mingling of common im- fundamental, cultivated American spirit institution or group he represents. As the pulses, common emotions, common sym- of fair play. procession files past the monument, the pathies into an entity of enthusiasm. It may seem irrelevant to bring Pales- emblem bearers will mount the steps, hang Indeed, I did not believe that cold, tine into this discussion, but permit me their shield on the wall of the vast As- sembly Hal], or place their flag in the business-like Americans could rouse them- a short digression on that subject. I be- great Reading Room, and there these selves to such a pitch of frenzy. Although lieve that if we could instill some of that trophies will remain as permanent protest I could comprehend neither the words nor brand of American sportsmanship, which against destruction of the implements of the sense of the cheering, I realized full I am so happy to have witnessed last learning by any army at any time. well from its emphatic sound the defiance Saturday, into the souls of the people of EX-PRESIDENT JACOB GOULD SCHUR- it flung out over the valley. Nevertheless, Palestine, they could get together and MAN spent the last week-end in Ithaca, I Λvould not call your cheering really adjust their various religious and civil arriving on Friday and leaving on Sun- passionate, as Frenchmen's unorganized differences. Then could the British mili- day. He was entertained by the Telluride shouts are, but rather would I characterize tary government devote itself to develop- Association, which gave a reception for him it as being sincere and uttered with gen- ing the vast possibilities of the Holy Land, on Saturday evening, and attended the uine feeling. instead of constantly pacifying the pas- sions of the 700,000 Moslems, the 150,000 football game. Another phase of the match which par- ticularly attracted my attention was the Christian Arabs, and the 70,000 Hebrews, SECRETARY HENRY C. WALLACE of band. Perhaps you are not aware that who are all striving for absolute supremacy the Department of Agriculture, who died Europeans, as a general rule, have un- over one another. Palestine is truly a in Washington recently, was, it will be re- complimentary views concerning Ameri- beautiful palace in ruins; it needs a skillful membered, one of the speakers at Farmers' can music, and still less flattering ideas architect to rebuild it. Week at the College of Agriculture last about American civil parades. When I Before closing, let me say a few words year. A large audience heard him in return to France one of my objects will be about the grandeur of your campus. Bailey Hall. to refute this unfounded opinion. The Since water and trees are far from abun- COLLEGE CATHOLIC CLUBS from ten in- contrast of the white trousers, the red dant in Palestine and Egypt, Mahomet stitutions in the Albany province met in sweaters, and the white caps was all in in his teachings has visualized Heaven as Ithaca on November i and 2. The New- harmony with the beauty of the songs the a place where rivers and lakes are en- man Club and a group from the Con- band played. I will even go so far as to crusted in a setting of rich green foliage. servatory of Music entertained the dele- assert that the precision with which march- Thus, although you may not realize it, gates at the football game. ing movements were executed would do here at Cornell, set amidst such magnifi- THE ANNUALS announces that because justice to many a long trained military cent environs of forest, 'gorges, and of the expansion of the 1925 Cornellian and band on the Continent. waterfalls, you are living in a veritable the larger number of contestants in com- To my mind, the most impressive per- paradise. petitions this year, two more rooms have formance of the whole contest came at I shall soon have completed my pil- been added to the East State Street office. its conclusion when Cornell supporters grimage. As the sole object of the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 85

Moslem is to journey before he leaves Charles H. Blair '97, Floyd L. Carlisle '03, Convention Stage Ready J antes L Clarke '12, Peter A. Clogher, Jr., this world to the sacred shrines of Mecca '04, Foster M. Coffin '12, Dr. Mary M and Medina, so has been my lifelong Dean "Teefy" Crane of Original Cornell Crawford '04, William D. Crim Ί6, ambition some day to tour America. Faculty to Preside at Banquet of Walter P. Cooke '91, Robert E. Coulson Cornell University and Washington are Alumni Gathering Nov. 14-15. '09, Elias A. deLima '86, Gardiner S. Dresser Όo, James H. Edwards '88, my Mecca and Medina. Robert J. Eidlitz '85, Willard L Emer- So far as Cornell alumni are concerned son '19, Walter S. Finlay, Jr., '04, Hon. all roads will lead to New York next week, John Ford '90, James K. Fraser '97, Ed- when old grads from practically every win T. Gibson Ό8, Hon. Norman J. FACULTY NOTES Gould '99, Frederick W. Hackstaff '05, active alumni center of the country will Merritt E. Haviland '77, Lawrence S. gather for the Fifth Convention of the Hazzard '22, Elon H. Hooker '94, Henry PROFESSOR WILDER D. BANCROFT was Cornell Alumni Corporation. At least for R. Ickelheimer '88, Francis Y. Joannes Όo. one of the speakers at the intersectional the two days of Friday and Saturday, John J. Kuhn '98, Edward G. Mac- meeting of the Lehigh Valley, Philadel- Arthur Ίi, William W. Macon '98, Harri- November 14 and 15, the Hotel Roosevelt son D. McFaddin '94, John T. McGovern phia, and Southern New Jersey sections will assume a Cornell color while serving Όo, William G. Mennen Ό8, Raymond T. of the American Chemical Society, held at as the headquarters for all of the business Morse '03, John James Munns '14, Dr. Lafayette College in honor of Dr. Edward sessions and most of the social activity of Walter L. Niles Όo, Jansen Noyes Ίo, Hart, professor emeritus of chemistry at Hon. James O'Malley Όi, Thomas N. the convention. Page '07, Weyland Pfeiffer Ί6, Ira A. that institution. Announcement has already been made of Place '81, Daniel F. Potter, Jr., Ί6, Wil- PROFESSOR NATHANIEL SCHMIDT is one much of the program—the speeches of liam L. Ransom '05, Herbert Reed '99, Miss Katherine M. Rodger '17, John E. of two hundred college professors who President Farrand, President Hopkins of Ross '19, Henry W. Sackett '75, George have endorsed the LaFollette-Wheeler Dartmouth, and Dean Walter L. Niles '02, W. Schurman '13, Dr. Louis L. Seaman '72 ticket, according to a statement from the of the Medical College; the parties to be Mrs. R. Harold Shreve '02, C. Leith third party headquarters. given Thursday evening as forerunners to Speiden '15, Miss Ethel Stebbins '95, Miss Margaret L. Stecker Ό6, Winthrop the convention proper; the reception and Taylor '07, Walter C. Teagle Όo, Alexander MRS. FARRAND addressed members of entertainment for Cornell women by the the Syracuse Y. W. C. A. on October 13 B. Trowbridge '90, Maxwell M. Upson '99, Cornell Women's Club of New York, at Peter Vischer '19, Hosea Webster '80, on "The Civic Responsibilities of Women." the Shelton, Lexington Avenue and Forty- David T. Wells '04, John C. Westervelt '94, Andrew J. Whinery Ίo, John E. PROFESSOR EDWIN W. KEMMERER, ninth Street; and the smoker for the men Whinery '13, Samuel B. Whinery '99, J. Ph.D. '03, formerly at Cornell and now at at the Cornell Club of New York; the Dus ald White Ίo, James G. White '85, Princeton, will sail on November 12 at the luncheons; the election of the new board J. Du Pratt White '90, Roger H. Williams invitation of the Union of South Africa of directors of the Corporation; the forma] '95, James O. Winslow Ίi. to investigate the advisability of re- action changing the name of the organiza- establishing the gold standard in that tion to the Cornell Alumni Corporation; NEW BOOKS FOR THE BLIND country. He will be associated with Dr. the banquet on Friday night; the Dart- The University Library, through the G. Vissering, president of the Bank of The mouth-Cornell football game at the Polo kindness of Doctor Louis L. Seaman '72, Netherlands. Professor Kemmerer acted Grounds. has received from the Permanent Blind as currency and banking expert for the Two additional announcements of parti- Relief War Fund, 593 Fifth Avenue, New American group working on the Dawes cular interest are that the toastmaster at York, the following volumes written in Plan for Germany, and in the last few the banquet will be Dean T. Frederick Braille for the use of blind students: years has helped to adjust the currency (Teefy) Crane, just past his eightieth IN REVISED BRAILLE, GRADE i J of Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico. milestone and one of the two surviving Dumas, Alexandre, The Three Musket- members of the original Faculty, and that eers, 10 volumes. PROFESSOR ALFRED E. ZIMMERN, of the Dean Robert M. Ogden Όo of the College IN REVISED BRAILLE, GRADE 2 University of North Wales, who was acting of Arts and Sciences will on Friday after- Kipling, The Brushwood Boy and The professor of political science at Cornell noon discuss the problem of the limitation Maltese Cat; Barrett, C. R., Short Story during 1922-3, was the Labor candidate of students as it affects Cornel]. Writing, 2 vols.; Diver, Maud, Captain for Parliament from Carnarvon, the home Coupon books admitting to all events Desmond, V. C., 4 vols.; Hamsun, Knut, of Lloyd George. He was defeated by a except the football game will be on sale at Growth of the Soil, 5 vols.; Mason, A. E. vote of 16,058 to 3,401. the Cornell registration desk, in the hotel, W., The Four Feathers, 4 vols.; O'Brien, PROFESSOR JAMES K. WILSON, Ph.D. on Friday morning. The charge will be ten Frederick, Mystic Isles of the South Seas, '14, on October 24 won for the eleventh dollars, including the registration fee. 6 vols. consecutive year the Faculty singles Football tickets, at $2.50 each, should be IN FRENCH CONTRACTED BRAILLE tennis title, defeating Charles M. Nevin secured in advance, direct from the Cornell France, Anatole, Le Lys Rouge, 2 vols. 6-4, 6-2, and 6-2. University Athletic Association in Ithaca. The Library has already received, for The hotel is reserving ample accom- this collection, TarbelΓs He Knew Lincoln. PROFESSOR CHARLES K. BURDICK, modations. It will facilitate the work of This forms a nucleus for such a collection speaking before the Ithaca Rotary Club the committee if applications for rooms, which the Library hopes to increase. The on October 29, said that the League of with a statement of space desired, be made Library will be glad of additions from any Nations had already settled six war in advance to the chairman of the commit- friends who are interested in this work engendering disputes among nations. Pro- tee, Edwin N. Sanderson '87, 52 William for the blind. fessor Burdick visited the assembly of the Street, New York. The American Printing House for the League at Geneva in the summer. The following alumni comprise the Blind, located at Louisville, Ky., puts out FACULTY TENNIS doubles matches were general committee in charge of convention a catalogue of an extensive list of books won by Professor Charles V. P. Young '99 arrangements, names in italics indicating written in Braille, for the blind, any of and Professor James K. Wilson, Ph. D. those who are also members of the Execu- which would be acceptable to this collec- '14, on October 29, when they defeated tive Committee: tion, Charles M. Nevin and Govind V. Wazal- Edwin N. Sanderson '87, chairman, Dr. WILLARD AUSTEN '91 war, Grad., 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, and 7-5. Faculty Walter H. Me NeϊU, Jr.,' ϊo, and Miss Kath- erine R, Buckley Όi vice-chairmen, R. Har- PRESIDENT FARRAND is to be the Found- champions were playing varsity champions old Shreve '02, ex-officio, William F. Atkin- in both singles and doubles for the Uni- son '95, Arthur J. Baldwin '92, Neal D. er's Day speaker at Mt. Holyoke on versity championship as we went to press. Becker '05, Edward L. Bernays '12, November 7. 86 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

In Memoriam—William Henry Sage pit. No sooner had Mr. Henry Sage ar- rived than he contributed an ample sum to HE ALUMNI NEWS has given me frequent visits to Michigan and other grade the Campus and install an adequate space to speak in an informal and T centres of activity. For many years water supply." What William did in personal way of one whose recent death is William's life was one of untiring industry. beautifying the grounds and approaches to mourned by those who knew him and He was at the Ithaca office daily and made the Campus I need not here recall. But I whose benefactions should endear him to fatiguing journeys to the West. It must be may call attention to the fact that William all Cornellians. remembered that in those days the auto- was a graduate of Yale, where he was a I can just remember William Sage's mobile was not invented to annihilate member of the Senior Society of the older brother Dean, while I was a school- time and space and golf had not yet been Scroll and Keys and of the Phi Beta boy in Ithaca in 1853, the year that the introduced into this country. Tennis was Kappa. He was thus acquainted with the Sages removed to Brooklyn. William I just beginning its vogue and a single problems of academic life, and during his did not know until he returned to Ithaca court was constructed at the east of the long trusteeship, from 1888 to 1904, he with his father some twenty-seven'years Seneca Street house where Mr. Sage was able to be of the greatest service to the later. The brothers, especially Dean, had played in the afternoons. University. It should not be forgotten the advantage of the instruction of a re- But in those happy days the greatest that he established a pension system by a markable man and scholar, the Rev. Dr. diversion was walking and Ithaca affords large gift before the Carnegie Foundation W. S. ΛValker, a graduate of Oxford, and incomparable scenes of beauty within easy came into existence. rector of St. John's in Ithaca from 1842 to distance. I recall the delightful excursions Meanwhile the years went swiftly by. 1865. Dean, although he did not go to to Enfield and Taughannock Falls, and William and his brother found relaxation Yale like his brother William and their the Sunday afternoon walks along the bed in salmon fishing on the Ristigouche and children, always had an interest in litera- of Six Mile Creek. The stream had not Dean was the author and editor of a ture and was the author and editor of yet been dammed and where the storage splendid volume on the subject. The several works to which I shall refer later. reservoir now is was a little vale wooded dedication of the volume is, "To my In 1880, a year memorable in the annals with maples and oaks which in the autumn Father, to whom I owe the leisure which of Cornell, Mr. Henry W. Sage and his son displayed their glory of crimson and has enabled me to write it, I dedicate this William came to Ithaca to reside until the golden foliage. Here we often went and a Book/' I mention this because it il- death of the former in 1897, and the re- week ago when the autumn leaves were lustrates a trait of great importance in the moval of the latter to Albany in 1898. Mr. gently falling over a new made grave I re- lives of the brothers. I mean the deep Henry Sage built and occupied the stately called with poignant grief the walks in the filial affection of the sons for their father. stone house now a part of the Cornell distant past, now, alas, never to be re- The happy Ithaca life was saddened in Infirmary, and William erected the brick peated except in unfading memory. 1885 by the death of Mrs. Henry W. Sage. house on East Seneca Street now occupied There were few indoor diversions in In 1892 Dean Sage died suddenly in the by the Delta Gamma Sorority. At the those days. The Lyceum was not yet fishing camp on the Ristigouche which he time these buildings were constructed there built and the only theatre was dangerously loved so much and has described so faith- were few houses in the neighborhood and situated on the top floor of a department fully. In 1895 Mrs. William Sage died and the site was a barren knoll. store. But in the house on Seneca Street two years later Mr. Henry W. Sage. Mr. Henry Sage's family then consisted was always to be found a warm welcome of his wife, her sister, and himself. Mrs. from the host and his wife. William was It seemed undesirable to conduct the Henry Sage was a woman of remarkable fond of whist and was an excellent player. business in both Ithaca and Albany; so in attainments and from her the sons in- One evening a week was devoted to that. 1898 the two offices were consolidated in herited a love of letters and social gifts of A younger sister of Mrs. Sage was a Albany and Mr. λVilliam Sage left forever the town where he had spent so many a high order. When William came to frequent visitor from the Curtin home in na Ithaca his family was composed of his Bellefonte. She had a splendid voice and PPy years. He built a beautiful house wife, three boys, a girl, and himself. It is greatly contributed to the pleasure of near Albany, where he was near his own difficult for one who knew her to speak in those evenings. Then there were home children and those of his brother Dean. measured terms of Mrs. William Sage. diversions of every kind; celebrations of The summers were spent at Hewett Lake She was Jane Gregg Curtin, next to the birthdays and anniversaries. Mr. Sage had in the Adirondacks, where the families youngest daughter of Andrew Gregg an unusual talent inherited from his gathered, and later Mr. Sage purchased a Curtin, the famous "War Governor" of mother of making verses for special oc- residence at Thomasville, Georgia. Dewitt Pennsylvania, and afterwards United casions, and others of the company con- Linn, the youngest son, died in 1901, and States Minister to Russia. Mrs. William tributed stories, and always there was the the only daughter, Kate, married to Sage inherited from her father and her equal- wit and charm of the hostess. Ernest I. White of '93, died in 1922. ly gifted mother a remarkable sense of The society was largely, but by no Mr. Sage in his later years suffered from .humor and unusual conversational powers. means exclusively, composed of University severe illnesses, but he lived to be nearly The life which was led in this attractive people. Although even at that time the as old as his father, and died in his eighty- home for nearly twenty years was one family possessed ample wealth, there was first year. He was happy in the nearness of which it would be difficult to match and no display and all were on a common his children and grandchildren, and in the impossible to describe in an adequate level of intellectual interests. tender and devoted care of his wife, who manner in this limited space. While I was I shall not recite here the benefactions was endeared to his family and friends by later engaged in writing an account of of Mr. Henry Sage and his sons. If the long acquaintance and by the continuance French and Italian society in the sixteenth reader of the ALUMNI NEWS wants a of all the traditions of a happy past. and seventeenth centuries I was struck by vivid picture of what the residence in Mr. Sage was buried in the Rural the remarkable resemblance of that social Ithaca of Mr. Henry Sage and his son Cemetery of Albany. It was a beautiful centre in a small American town to the William meant for the University, let autumn day, and the view over the rolling diversions of the French and Italian courts. him read Judge Finch's splendid Memorial fields to the distant river was softened by At the time of which I am now writing Address pronounced on February 22,1898. the October haze. The leaves were gently the..great business of Mr. Henry Sage, In 1880, when the Sages came to reside in falling and I recalled the years, nearly such a potent factor in the history of Ithaca, the fortunes of the University fifty, that 1 had known Mr. Sage. No one Cornell University, was managed from were at their lowest ebb. The Campus was would have imagined that he was so old. Ithaca by the father and his son William, still an unsightly hilltop. There were To the end he preserved the semblance of and from Albany by the elder son Dean. hollows and elevations and White Hall was middle age. His long life had been a happy The business, chiefly in lumber, involved buried up to the second story in a gravel one and he had been especially happy in CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 87' his friends and family. His sorrows were Publish Fraternity Scholarship Averages those which come to all who live beyond the Psalmist's three score and ten. OR the first time since 1915-16 schol- Kappa Sigma 38 1221 73-057 arship averages of Cornell fraternities *Kappa Kappa What Cornell University owes to him F Gamma 32 929 73 003 and his family I need not repeat here. and sororities have been compiled. David Zeta Beta Tau 27 826 73 . 002 These words of mine are an attempt to give F. Hoy '91, University Registrar, has re- Delta Chi 32 947 72.997 some picture of the man who is behind the cently completed such a tabulation for the *Kappa Delta 40 1116. 5 72.992 year 1923-4. The Sun computes from this Sig ma Alpha Epsilon 35 1123 72.979 name which every Cornellian knows and Eleusis 998 72.888 that the average scholarship of all frater- 33 which he should ever preserve in grateful Scorpion 46 1345 72-385 memory. nity students last year was 74.384, the men Delta Upsilon 33 985 72.378 October 31, 1924 T. F. CRANE having an average of 74.449 and the Beta Theta Pi 40 1174 71-973 women, 74.319. This fraternity average of Siprna Chi 28 888 71.880 Chi Phi 29 846 71.871 THE INTERCOLLEGIATE BALL 74.384 compares with that of 72.4 in Theta Delta Chi 34 1027 71.709 1915-16, except that in that year the Seal and Serpent 3i 931 71.668 Students from Cornell and Dartmouth grades of freshmen were not included. Kappa Alpha 29 892 71.461 are giving an Intercollegiate Ball on Since the scholarship average of the entire Siίrma Nu 36 1123 71.402 Rho Psi 71.398 November 14 in New York. It will take student body has not been given out, 23 324 place in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton, Phi Gamma Delta 32 875 7i 37i there is no way of telling whether this in- Psi Upsilon 34 1058 71.293 and will last from nine till three. There crease of nearly two points in scholarship Phi Sigma Kappa 3i 942 71.163 will be continuous music by Roy Miller's is confined to fraternity students or is Phi Delta Sigma 32 I OO2 70.983 x Alpha Γhi Rho 896 70.888 Orchestra and the Dartmouth Green general, nor can it be said that fraternity 30 Serenaders. Delta Phi 30 795 70.814 students have or have not progressed in Theta Xi 37 1079 70.736 scholarship as compared with non-frater- Alpha Psi 23 745 70.709 NEW YORK SIGMA XI DINNER nity students. In 1915-16, the non-frater- Zeta Psi 26 743 70.643 A Sigma. Xi alumni dinner will be held Siema Phi 22 637 70.4*5 nity average was given as 74.4. Phi Delta Theta 45 1246 7θ i57 on Monday, November 17, at seven p. m., In the table below, the sixty fraternities Delta Tau Delta 36 1230 69.814 at the Fraternity Club, 245 Madison and fourteen sororities (starred) are ar- Delta Sig ma Phi 41 1213 69.721 Avenue, New York. Sigma Phi Sigma 35 883 68.120 ranged in the order of scholarship. It is of Delta Kappa Epsilon 34 815 67.671 "The New Battle Front of Civilization" interest that the sororities rank from will be the topic of the principal address by seventh through forty-seventh places in UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS Dr. Vernon Kellogg, '91-2 Grad., secre- the list of seventy-four, and that the list tary of the National Research Council and of 1915-16 included fifty-nine fraternities. Announcement of the award of the a member of the Executive Committee of The first column of the tables gives the University Undergraduate Scholarships Sigma Xi. Not only is Dr. Kellogg an number of members of each chapter; the for this year for members of the Class of internationally known entomologist, but second the total number of hours for which 1928 has been made by Professor W. A. his contact with human problems in Bel- each chapter was registered last year; and Hammond, dean of the University Faculty. gium during the War and his studies of the third column gives the averages of The Kenney Scholarships to W. E. governments under stress make him the grades received. Hoffman, Agriculture, and Miss A. Gasool, particularly well worth hearing. Supple- STUDENTS HOURS AVERAGE Arts. mentary remarks on the same topic will Alpha Zeta 42 1291 80.086 The Cornell Scholarships to Miss M. be made by Dr. Edward L. Thorndike, pro- Alpha Chi Sigrna 26 721 78.641 Tolina, Arts, and P. L. Moore, Arts. fessor of psychology at Columbia; Dr. Tau Epsilon Phi 17 538 77 508 Omicron Alpha Tau 27 824 The President White Scholarships to Edwin E. Slosson, director of Science 77-447 Phi Delta Pi 14, 436 77-174 D. L. Goldin, Arts, and Julius Marcus, Service; F. B. Jewett, vice-president in Sigma Alpha Mu 27 789 76-355 Artk charge of research of the Western Electric * Alpha Omicron Pi 40 1224 76.325 The Henry B. Lord Scholarships to Company; Dr. Francis Carter Wood, Sigma Pi 36 1161 76.325 * Sigma Delta Tau 76.223 W. C. Dechert, Arts, and W. S. Farrell, director of cancer research, Crocker Labor- 25 703 Theta Alpha 42 i35i 76.021 Arts. atory; and Dr. Michael Pupin, professor 10 308 Alpha Epsilon Pi 75-970 The McGraw Scholarships to R. N. of electromechanics at Columbia. Presi- *Chi Omega 28 867 75-959 Harris, Arts, and Miss M. M. Williams, dent Floyd K. Richtmyer '04 will be * Alpha Phi 38 983 75 723 *Alpha Xi Delta 788 Arts. present to explain the broad program[upon 25 75-723 Pi Kappa Alpha 38 1167 75.660 The Sage Scholarships to J. V. Coleman, which Sigma Xi is embarking. Secretary Acacia 22 589 75 603 Arts, and F. W. Hunting-ton, Arts. Edward Ellery of Union College wilΓJact Kappa Delta Rho 38 1266 75-518 The Sibley Scholarships to R. J. as toastmaster. *Delta Delta Delta 42 1252 75-431 Phi Sigma Delta 15 467 75-173 Sweeney, Engineering, and E. R. Fiske, Reservations should be sent to P. W. Pi Lambda Phi 33 993 75 HO Engineering. Swain, 867 West iSist Street, New York. 1293 *Delta Gamma 33 74 968 The Stewart L. Woodford Scholarships There are about one thousand members F. O. B. Association H 438 74-932 *Pi Beta Phi 3i 945 74-863 to Ida Gurevitch, Arts, and L. Lieberman, of Sigma Xi in New York and the vicinity. Lambda Chi Alpha 57 1711 74.726 Arts. *Kappa Alpha Theta 3i 924 74 583 The John Stanton Gould Scholarships Two CARLOADS, no,ooo square feet, of *Sigma Kappa 34 1019 74-557 Alpha Gamma Rhq 1480 74.461 to H. Rogavitz, Arts, and Miss F. M. insulating material is being put on the 49 *Alpha Epsilon Phi 21 629 74-451 Shattuck, Arts, Drill Hall in the construction of its new Pi Kappa Phi 38 1217 74 . 062 The Horace Greeley Scholarships to roof. Workmen are now relaying the Zodiac 29 911 73-930 F. Hafekost, Arts, and M. Krauss, Arts. timber of the steeper pitches along the Sigma Upsilon 30 921 73.890 Beta Si^ma Rho sides, having completed most of the great 29 857 73-774 Sigma Phi Epsilon 40 1229 73-753 STARTING on October 27, the Lehigh expanse of the center sections. Alpha Tau Omega 40 1213 73-747 Phi Kappa Sigma Valley Railroad inaugurated a system of GAMMA ALPHA on October 31, its 31 985 73 7iι *Delta Zeta 23 703 73.671 motor trucks for carrying local freight be- twenty-first anniversary, initiated Presi- Phi Kappa Psi 39 1280 73 644 tween Ithaca and Geneva, doing away with dent Livingston Farrand, Dr. Rollin A. Alpha Delta Phi 39 1149 73-444 one daily train each way. This policy has Theta Chi 1220 Emerson '99, Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer '04, 38 73-396 been adopted by several other Eastern Alpha Sigma Phi 44 1345 73-388 and Professor Will M. Sawdon Ό8, Chi Psi 27 822 73.230 roads and is being first tried by the mayor of Ithaca, as honorary members. Tau Kappa Epsilon 34 1061 73-074 Lehigh on this division. 88 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 89

views of 'The Control of the Social Mind" LITERARY REVIEW by Professor Arland D. Weeks Όi and "Crystallizing Public Opinion" by Ed- ATHLETICS ward L. Bernays '12. Faith and Life On September 17, the 137th anniversary The Football Schedule Except Ye Be Born Again. By Philip of the adoption of the Constitution, Cornell 56, St. Bonaventure o. Cabot. New York. The Macmillan Com- William F. E. Gurley '77, president of the Cornell 27, Niagara o. pany. 1924. 22.5 cm., pp. xii, 214. Price, Illinois Society of the Sons of the Revolu- Cornell 7, Williams 14. $1.50. tion, delivered an address before the Cornell o, Rutgers 10. This book is the frank record of a Chicago Chapter of the Daughters of the Cornell 14, Columbia o, conversion. The author is a Harvard man American Revolution on "The Adoption of November 8—Susquehanna at Ithaca. who made a great success in big business, the Constitution.'' The address was broad- November 15—Dartmouth at New but was nevertheless dissatisfied with cast the same evening from Station York. himself and his achievement. In a period WMAQ and was printed in The Danville November 27—Pennsylvania at Phila- of ill health he began to study religious and Morning Press of September 18. delhpia. ethical problems, with the result that he A book entitled "Commentaries on found peace of mind and heart. As the Conditional Sales," written by Dean Team Beats Columbia sincere record of a vital religious experience George G. Bogert Ό6, of the College of In defeating Columbia by a score of 14 this book is invaluable. The author is not Law, has just been published by the Ed- to o before a crowd of eighteen thousand narrowly religious in the ordinary sense, ward Thompson Co., Northport, L. I. persons Saturday, the Cornell team but thinks he has something worth while The book covers the legal questions arising effected the greatest "come back" of the for all who have felt the grievous distrac- regarding installment or conditional sales season to date. In fact, except in the tions and the terrible pressure of our of personal property, both at common law matter of a running attack, the team ordinary social and business life and who and under the various State statutes. It looked much like the Cornell teams of the wish to be at peace with themselves. So also explains the intended effect of the past three seasons. And for the first time far as we can determine what he recom- Uniform Conditional Sales Act which was this year Cornell had a punch when a mends is in accord with good psychology drafted by Dean Bogert and is now in punch was needed. Cornell is beginning and is a distinct improvement over some effect in eight States. The book contains to get together. modern cults which have of late had a 241 pages. Four times in scoring position—on or in- great vogue. It is in harmony with the In The Philological Quarterly for October side Columbia's twenty-five-yard line, facts of life. Cornell realized on her opportunities twice; Mr. Cabot has discovered for himself Professor Edward G. Cox, Ph. D. Ό6, of the University of Washington, writes on not a bad average. A third opportunity what Carlyle sought to convince us of was lost when a penalty set the team back nearly a century ago, that the real world is "Classical Traditions in Medieval Irish Literature." Professor A. LeRoy An- on Columbia's eight-yard line, and a a spiritual world; that an essential fourth, a forward pass, was intercepted by feature of a rightly ordered life is an abid- drews reviews the first volume of "The Literary History of Hamlet" by Professor Pease on Columbia's ten-yard Hne. ing faith in spiritual values. Such a faith° The Columbia men, bereaved by the is not easily won, or kept; but we must Kemp Malone, now of Johns Hopkins. In The Pennsylvania Gazette for October sudden death of Percy D. Haughton, their wrestle for it nevertheless. great coach and leader, at a time when The author's mystical interpretation of 17 "The Panchatantra Reconstructed" by they seemed to be firmly established on the Biblical miracles will hardly satisfy the Professor Franklin Edgerton '05, of the University of Pennsylvania, is favorably the fairway to success, fought gallantly. scientific reader who may insist that there They had everything to fight for. Their must have been some reason for these reviewed by Professor Roland G. Kent. practice during the week had been inter- stories as such. Yet there is room for such In The Lehigh Alumni Bulletin for Octo- rupted. They had suffered a shock. But interpretations. We like much better his ber is printed the admirable address on if their morale had been weakened there final chapter, on the conflict of faith and "Government" delivered by President was little evidence of it in their play. They reason, which conflict he insists is neces- Charles R. Richards, M. M. E. '95, at the had determined to carry on because opening of the year at Lehigh on Septem- sary for our complete human life. The Haughton would have wished it; they book should have a wide reading. It will ber 17. His main point was the dependence were determined to make good in memory point the way to peace for many troubled of the country upon good education for of their leader; and directly back of their good government. persons. bench, in the first row, center section, sat Books and Magazine Articles In The International Journal of Ethics Haughton's widow, who had come from In The Modern Language Journal for for October W. Brooke Graves '21, of the Boston, to lend, by her presence, inspira- October "Cuentos y Leyendas" edited by University of Pennsylvania, writes on tion, courage, and high incentive to the Professor Elijah C. Hills '92, of the Uni- "Codes of Ethics for Business and Com- team which her husband had taken from versity of California, and Juan Cano is mercial Organizations." "AbsenteeOwner- the» dumps and with great skill and reviewed by C. E. Anibal. ship and Business Enterprise in Recent patience developed into a modern football A paper on "An Ice-Eroded Fiord: the Times" by Thorstein B. Veblen, '91-2 machine. Mode of Origin of Lynn Canal, Alaska" Grad., is reviewed by C. E. Ayres. Columbia fought hard, with courage in The Geographical Review for October is The Harvard Business Review for Octo- and gameness. The game was closely the work of Lawrence Martin '04 and ber includes a review of "Economic played and closely fought all the way Frank W. Williams. In the same number Geography" by Professor Ray H. Whit- through. But Columbia was up against a Edward M. Kindle, M. S. '96, writes on beck Όi, of the University of Wisconsin, revivifed Cornell team, and no one will "The Terraces of the Lake Melville and V. C. French. The book is published question that the better team won. District, Labrador." by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, of Defensive play of a high order and alert- In The American Political Science Re- New York. ness were primary factors in Cornell's view for August Professor Robert E. Cush- Professor Edwin D. Shurter, of the victory. The Columbia attack broke man writes on "Judicial Decisions on Southwestern Methodist University of down against the stubborn and intelligent Public Law." Professor Robert C. Brooks, Dallas, Texas, has written an introduction defense of the Cornell line, ends, and Ph. D. '03, of Swarthmore, reviews for "A Textbook of Parliamentary Law" backs. Captain Walter Koppisch, one of Harold F. GosnelΓs "Boss Platt and His by Alta B. Hall and Alice F. Sturgis, the fastest backs of the East, was unable New York Machine." There are also re- published by the Macmillan Company. to shake himself loose for the brilliant 90 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS runs for which he is famous. Kirchmyer, thirty-yard line was wide. A little later putting the ball on Cornell's seventeen- a powerful plunging fullback, dented the Pease tried another drop kick from about yard ]ine. But a penalty checked Colum- Cornell line occasionally. But at no time the same territory, and again he failed. bia and Cornell stopped two sweeping was Columbia able to make any con- After rushing for a first down, Whetstone runs by Koppisch and Pease. Affe?d inter- sistent headway. kicked to midfield against the wind and cepted a Columbia pass on Cornell's One of the greatest improvements in on the next exchange of punts more thirty-yard line and the game was over. Cornell's play was defense against the for- rushing by Patterson and Molinet im- New men in the Cornell line-up since ward pass, a fatal weakness earlier in the proved Cornell's position. the last game included Carey, a sophomore, season. Only two Columbia passes out of They exchanged goals for the second at right guard, Evans a sophomore at eleven attempted succeeded. Isaly, es- period, and Whetstone at once began to right tackle, and Molinet, a sophomore at pecially, was active and accurate in cover- take advantage of the wind, for punting. right halfback. ing the passes, but for that matter the Early in this quarter came Pease's fatal Between the halves a dramatic tribute entire defense carried out this assignment muff, Affeld recovering the ball on Colum- was paid to Coach Haughton's memory. in a creditable manner. bia's twenty-five-yard line. Offside cost The Cornell band filed out on the field and Cornell's punting also was better than Columbia five yards, Molinet plowed formed two big letters, P. H. A bugler it had been. Some of Whetstone's kicks, through for eight yards, and Whetstone sounded taps to the accompaniment of with the wind, travelled sixty yards, and made it first down on the five-yard line. muffled drums while the thousands in the on the whole he had the better of the Molinet then swung by Price for a touch- stands stood with bared heads. kicking duel with Kirchmyer and Pease. down, and Whetstone added the extra Among the individuals whose play at- It was a difficult spiral that Pease muffed point with a goal from placement. tracted attention were Henderson, Affeld, in the second period opening the way for A little later another long punt put Kearney, Morris, Molinet, Whetstone, Cornell's score. Columbia in the hole again. Pease's short and Isaly for Cornell; Koppisch, Kirch- End play was also much more effective, punt was downed by Patterson on Colum- myer, Pease, Manning, and Wagner for notably Henderson's. The Cornell wing- bia's twenty-five-yard line, but after Columbia. men did not allow themselves to be blocked Molinet had crashed through for a first The line-up and summary: in this game. Sometimes they missed their down, Pease intercepted a pass, and that Cornell (14) Columbia (0) Henderson L.E Manning man, but they were always down, and on was that. A little later Whetstone tried Kearney L.T Price straight defensive work each was effective. for a placement goal from the forty-four- Morris L.T Wiberg Several times Koppisch swept out toward yard line, but the kick was wide. Affeld C Schimetisch the ends at top speed, but only once did he In the third period, with Cornell again Carey R.G Raphael get by the first and second lines of defense. Evans R.T Shaw defending the south goal, the punting duel Kneen R.E Wagner But football games are not won by de- was resumed, Cornell again gaining. Isaly Isaly Q.B Pease fense only. Cornell played a smart de- intercepted a forward pass on Columbia's Patterson L.H.B Koppisch fensive game, but it was alertness and thirty-three-yard line, and Cornell had an- Molinet R.H.B Sesit Whetstone F.B Kirchmeyer capacity to strike when opportunity other promising chance. Patterson and Cornell o 7 7 o—14 offered that won . The first touchdown Whetstone made nine yards by rushing Columbia o o o o— o was scored in the second period, when the and Molinet planted the ball on Colum- * Cornell scoring: Touchdowns: Molinet, wide-awake Affeld, who was all over the bia's twenty-two-yard line, first down. Whetstone. Points from try after touch- down: Whetstone, 2. field, fell on the ball when Pease muffed a But on a forward pass which gained ten Referee: E. C. Taggart, Rochester. punt on his twenty-five-yard line. In yards Cornell was offside, and thus this Umpire: A. W. Risley, Colgate. Head three rushes, Cornell had scored, a sopho- chance was lost. Whetstone tried a place- linesman: A. W. Palmer, Colby. Field more halfback, Ignacio Sadurdino Molinet ment goal from the thirty-five-yard line a judge: F. W. Burleigh, Exeter. Substitutions: Cornell: Munns for playing his first game on the Varsity, little later, but again the kick was wide. Carey, Wester for Molinet. Columbia: forming the wedge of the attack, and Two penalties for holding then set Hyde for Manning. making the score, by a five-yard swing off Columbia back, and the second proved Time of periods: 15 minutes each. Columbia's left tackle. And in the third costly. Kirchmyer kicked out from his Kirby Wins Quadrangular period, when Molinet recovered a muffed goal line to Patterson, on Columbia's Dartmouth captured team honors in the fair catch by Patterson, his team mate, on thirty-five-yard line. The Cornell left quadrangular cross country race at New Columbia's thirty-yard line, three rushes half signalled for a fair catch, but muffed York Saturday, but Edward G. Kirby of and a short pass produced another touch- it and the ball bounded toward the west Cornell crossed the line first after a desper- down, Whetstone taking it over on a fake side line. Molinet beat two Columbia men ate duel with John Theobald of Columbia. cross buck of three yards through the to it and recovered for Cornell on Colum- Kirby, according to those at the finish, Columbia left guard. It was highly en- bia's thirty-four-yard line. had a six-inch lead, literally leaping across couraging to those who had seen the And this time Cornell made good. A the tape. attack falter on the Williams and Rutgers forward pass Whetstone to Henderson was Dartmouth won the race by bunching goal lines to watch Cornell develop an juggled, but Kearney picked it out of the five runners in the first eleven to finish. effective attack in critical moments. The air and made eight yards. Molinet made The Green had 37 points; Columbia was running attack generally is still well be- first down on Columbia's seventeen. second with 48; Cornell third with 51 and low the standard of previous seasons; of Whetstone passed to Molinet for another Pennsylvania last with 93. It was Cor- continuous and constant application of five-yard gain and after Columbia stopped nell's first race and under the circum- pressure this team is not yet capable. But Patterson, the burly Cuban drove his stances the team did fairly well. Its full certainly gratifying progress had been one hundred and seventy nine pounds of strength was not represented. made in two weeks. power through to Columbia's five-yard The course of the race was that in Van In the first period Columbia, with a line, and a first down. After time was Cortlandt Park, over which the Inter- strong southwest wind aiding her kickers, taken out for a breathing spell, Whetstone collegiates will be run on November 24. forced the battle into Cornell territory and crashed through for a touchdown and At the first half mile the runners were put the Ithacans to a series of severe tests. kicked the goal. well bunched. At the mile Osgood of In the first two minutes two penalties sent In the fourth period Columbia reverted Dartmouth was ahead, but Horton of Cornell back to her two-yard line. Whet- to a desperate passing game, but only Columbia soon passed him, with Kirbj^ in stone kicked out to Cornell's thirty-yard three passes worked, and but one for any third place. At the third mile Kirby went line, Columbia's rushing was checked, considerable distance. That was a pass of ahead. Osgood passed him in the fourth and Pease's attempted drop kick from the Kirchmyer to Pease, for twenty yards, mile, but the Cornellian resumed the lead CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 91 after that. A quarter of a mile from the constitution committee is as follows: Mrs. finish Theobald dashed up close to Kirby, CLUB ACTIVITIES Reginald Pratt (Winifred Lillian Sealy) and they fought a thrilling duel to the tape. '09, Marie Reith Ί6, George W. Conable The order of the finish of Cornell's '90, and Henry C. Frey Ό6. runners was Kirby i, Williams 8, Oven- Alumni Club Lunceons The speaker of the evening was Edward shine 13, Boggs 14, Bullen 15, Forschmidt Cornell luncheons are held regularly in G. MacArthur Ί i. As field representative 22, and McGinn 27. Five men counted. the cities listed below. All Cornellians are of the Cornellian Council, MacArthur Dartmouth finished 3, 6, 7, 10, u; urged to attend even though they may spoke with intimate knowledge of Uni- Columbia 2, 4, 9, 16, 17; Pennsylvania not be residents of the respective cities. versity affairs. Delegates to the Conven- 5, 20, 21, 23, 24. Baltimore—Mondays, Engineers' Club, tion in New York were elected and Soccer Team Eliminated Light and Redwood Streets, 12.30 p.m. November 2i was set for the next meeting. Binghamton—First and third Tuesdays, Michigan The soccer team was eliminated from 12.15 p.m. the intercollegiate race Saturday when it The complete list of officers of the Cor- Boston—Mondays, Hotel Essex, 12.30 nell University Association of Michigan lost to Harvard, 3 to i, at Cambridge. The p.m. week before Yale had beaten Cornell by a for the ensuing year comprises Fred M. Buffalo—Fridays, Hotel Statler, Iro- Randall Όo, president; Arthur L. Rose Ίo, score of 2 to i. quois Room, 12.15 p.m. vice-president; Benjamin H. Micou Ί6, Columbia Defeats Freshman Team Chicago—Thursdays, University Club, secretary; Harold S. Kinsley '14, treasurer, The freshman football team was no 12.30 p. m. and Harold Cole Ί6, industrial secretary. match for the Columbia yearlings Satur- Chicago Women—First Saturdays, Chi- cago College Club, 151 North Michigan Buffalo day, the Blue and White winning by a Few men are better qualified to discuss Avenue. score of 27 to o. The game was played in the Cornell Navy than John M. Collyer Cleveland—Thursdays, Hotel Statler, New York. '17. After stroking his freshman and 12 o'clock. Detroit—Tuesdays, Ivory Room, King varsity crews, Collyer acted as assistant to Coach Courtney in his senior year. He NEW YORK LAWYERS MEET Wahol Restaurant, 118 Michigan Avenue, talked informally at the weekly luncheon The Cornell Lawyers' Association of 12.15 p.m. of the Cornell Club of Buffalo at the New York held its first informal banquet Hartford, Conn.—Second Wednesdays, Hotel Statler on October 24. on Thursday evening, October 23, at the University Club, 30 Lewis Street, 12.15. W. R. (Daddy) George, founder of the Cornell Club of New York. Ninety Cor- Indianapolis—First Mondays, Lincoln George Junior Republic at Freeville, ad- nell lawyers were present. Hotel, 12.15 p.m. dressed the club at the luncheon on Octo- Judge Frank Irvine '80, former dean of Ithaca Women—Wednesdays, Coffee ber 31. His subject was "Junior Citizen- the College of Law, was the principal House, 12.30 p.m. ship." speaker. Introduced as "Plain Frank Los Angeles—Wednesdays, University Irvine," the Judge gave a delightful talk Club, 614 South Hope Street, 12.15 p.m. on the anomalies in the New York statutes Milwaukee—Fridays, University Club, INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES that still list such misdemeanors as the 12.15 p.m. LEHIGH opens the year with 1201 presentation of puppet shows, laws which Newark, N. J.—Third Fridays, Down- students, of whom 489 are freshmen, 269 were enacted a hundred or more years ago town Club, Kinney Building, 12.30 p.m. are sophomores, 231 juniors, 205 seniors, and are still in force though disregarded. Omaha—Third Thursdays, University and 7 specials. John T. McGovern Όo, was the toast- Club, luncheon. AT PENNSYLVANIA State on October master. R. Harold Shreve '02 welcomed Philadelphia—Daily, Cornell Club, 310 25 the Annual Homecoming Day and the the association on behalf of the Cornell South Fifteenth Street. Syracuse-Penn State football game Club of which he is president. Col. Pittsburgh—Fridays, William Penn Ho- brought a total of twenty thousand Henry W. Sackett '75, president of the tel, 12.15 p. m. visitors. association, set forth its aims and ex- Pittsburgh Women—First Saturdays, MOKE than eight hundred students are pressed the hope that young Cornell Congress of Women's Clubs, 408 Pennsyl- working their way through Columbia. graduates would feel free to seek advice vania Avenue, i p.m. One senior in journalism is publicity agent from older men in laying out their careers. Poughkeepsie—Second Mondays, Colo- for a Russian nobleman who came over to Supreme Court Justice James O'MaΠey nel Hotel, 6.30 p.m. recuperate his depleted fortune. A dozen Όi spoke on the delay of justice in the Rochester—Wednesdays, Powers Hotel, or more Chinese students are teaching New York County Supreme Court and 12.15 p.m. mah jong. Two hundred Barnard stu- expressed the belief that if lawyers would Rochester Women—First Saturday af- dents and a hundred or more Columbia not accept unworthy cases this congestion ternoons, at the homes of members. men are downtown bookkeepers and could be relieved. George L. Genung '05, Announced in the daily papers. typists. Sixty tutored prospective fresh- Municipal Court Justice, spoke of the Springfield, Mass.—Mondays, Pick- men. The total earnings of the men and work of the Cornell lawyers in the lower wick Room, Hotel Kimball, 12 o'clock. women who got positions through the courts of... the.' City of New York, and Washington, D. C.—First Thursdays, Appointments Office are estimated to have described the workings of the English City Club, 12.30 p.m. been between $200,000 and $250,000. bench and bar which he had observed Waterbury, Conn.—First Thursdays, OHIO STATE, since its opening in 1878, this summer. University Club, 6 p. m. has granted 15,323 degrees, of fifty-six Worcester—First and third Tuesdays, varieties. Of these degrees President University Club, 12.30 p.m. A BARBED WIRE FENCE now completely William O. Thompson has granted 92.2 surrounds lower Alumni Field. "It was Queens and Nassau Counties per cent. Alumni and former students completed last week. At a meeting of seventy-five Cornell total over 50,000. AN INTERFRATERNITY cross country men and women of the Counties of Queens AT WISCONSIN last year about $190,000 race is being planned for November 15 by and Nassau, New York, held on October was taken in for athletics; of this $170,000 the Cross Country Club, which will 24, the new Cornell Club which was came from football, $15,000 from basket- present a trophy to the winning team. The planned last spring was formally organized. ball, $2,500 from baseball, $1,500 from distance will be only two miles, and en- Mrs. Charles A. Ryder (Dorothy Button) track, and $2,500 from minor sports. Ex- tries from any one house are limited to Ί8, was elected president and Lucy M. penses, including the $60,000 addition to ten, three to count in scoring. Howard Ί6, secretary-treasurer. The the stadium, amounted to $150,000. 92 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

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He secured his 40 is published in August and is followed by an contributions totaling less than four index of the entire volume, which will be mailed on dollars for each name on the honor roll. early education there and in the Genesee request. Subscription price $4.00 a year, payable in ad- A memorial there would cost more to Wesleyan Seminary then came to Cornell vance. Foreign postage 40 cents a year extra. Single in 1868 as a student in the optional course. copies twelve cents each. _ « erect than the present aggregate Cornell Should a subscriber desire to discontinue his subscription which has earned the right to He remained only part of a year. subscription a notice to that effect should be sent in before its expiration. Otherwise it is assumed that erect the memorial. Bronze letters for the In 1872 he was married and three a continuance of the subscription is desired. children resulted from the union. In 1903 Checks, drafts, and orders should be made pay- names of Cornell's dead would cost more abel to the The Cornell Alumni News. than four dollars per name. he was elected president of the Village of Correspondence should be addressed: Canandaigua and served for two years. The Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N. Y. We do not ask a gift for Cornell, but for Editor-in-Chief and ) α t , Louvain—not for the books, but for the Later he served as president of the Flower Business Manager } pR" w W" SAILOATTnTRf °n7 City Poultry Association of Rochester Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 place to house them—not for the utility of Circulation Manager GEO. WM. HORTON the gift, but for what it means—a belated for several years. Assistant Manager, L. B. JUNE '19 answer that will say the educated men and Abbie M. White '77 Associate Editors CLARK S. NORTHUP '93 BRISTOW ADAMS women of America will not suffer the Word has been received of the death on ROMEYN BERRY '04 FOSTER M. COFFIN '12 wiping out of civilization without an effort May 12 last of Abbie Mowry White at HARRY G. STUTZ '07 BARRETT L. GRAND ALL '13 News Committee of the Associate Alumni to rebuild it. There is ample precedent for Farnumsville, Mass. The cause of her W. W. Macon '98, Chairman lateness in America's answers, but none death is understood to have been cancer. N. H. Noyes Ό6 J. P. Dods Ό8 Officers of the Cornell Alumni News Publishing whatever for ineffectiveness. She was born in Farnumsville and made Company, Incorporated: John L. Senior, President; Already fine library collections have her home there all her life. After getting R. W. Sailor, Treasurer; Woodford Patterson, Sec- retary. Office, 123 West State Street, Ithaca, N. Y. been given to help replace the books. her early education there, she came to Member of The Alumni Magazines, Associated The building itself is party finished. The Cornell in 1873 as a student in the science Printed by The Cornell Publications Printing Co. builders are ready to use Cornell's contri- course and remained for two years. Later Entered as Second Class Matter at Ithaca, N. Y. butions to the fund right now. Those of she did much traveling and was identified us that care to contribute will find the with numerous civic movements in New ITHACA, N. Y., NOVEMBER 6, 1924 method described in an advertisement in England. ABOUT LOUVAIN the next page. Let no one hold off from Mrs. Marie B. Partridge '94 modesty. A thousand small subscriptions HE Library of the University of Mrs. Warren Partridge (Marie Maitha will be a more appropriate gift than a Louvain, offering a target for the Hoppe) died suddenly of heart trouble at T single large subscription. We should like invader in 1914, was destroyed as an her home in West Orange, N. J., on July to raise thirty thousand dollars. We should example to those whose ideas clashed 28, after an illness of typhoid fever. feel even better satisfied with thirty with those who conceived themselves to She was born in Lancaster, Pa., on be the destined rulers of the world. The thousand subscribers. It would more September 14, 1872, and later her family colleges of America, in promises informally fittingly register Cornell's approval and removed to Rochester, N. Y., where she given, but perhaps for that reason even interest than a larger amount from a few. finished her early education. She entered more binding, have agreed to rebuild the Cornell in 1890 as a student in the College library for Louvain, at a cost of a million FRATERNITY SCHOLARSHIP of Arts and Sciences and graduated in dollars. T is interesting again to see a report of 1894 with the degree of A. B. During her Cornell alumni have not yet been ap- I the scholastic averages of the fraterni- undergraduate career, she held the Sage proached for contributions, although the ties given in detail in this issue. In itself Scholarship and became known for her undergraduates of last year gave about as it shows merely the relative standing of the high standings in scholastic work. She freely as those of other universities in a fraternities, but in this by itself there is was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, short campaign, that yielded somewhat considerable satisfaction. If a few fraterni- Chi Delta, Geode, and vice-president in her less than a thousand dollars. ties fall below our idea of the probable senior year of the Classical Association. The alumni organizations of Yale, student average, an equal number, at On September 5, 1901, she married Harvard, Princeton, Annapolis, West least, have done better than we had be- Warren Partridge and they had two Point, Columbia, and a few other large lieved any group chosen without regard children, Warren, Jr., who is a student in institutions have given an average of over for scholastic ability could have done. Harvard, and Audrey H., who lives at thirty thousand dollars. About half of the We should like to see the process carried home with his father. million has been raised in cash and a farther, if the amount of time required is At various times she resided in Spring- quarter in contingent subscriptions, leav- not prohibitive. We should like to know field, 111., Clearfield, Pa., and Johnstown, ing a quarter of a million dollars still to Ije what the student average is, what the Pa., and in each of these cities interested raised. As the purpose is to have the gift effect of participation in athletics, journal- herself in civic and literary affairs. She come from the many, rather than from the ism, and other student activities has on the .also was a member of several college and few, the task is infinitely harder but the students' marks. If possible we should literary clubs. sentimental value of the gift is just that like to know the effect of supporting one's much greater. self through college, of various kinds oj EDWARD MOJRRELL, penologist, who The Cornellian Council, whose sole social activities, and of the ownership of was released from a life term in San function is to raise funds for Cornell, puddle hoppers. In short, we should like Quentin Penitentiary after the charges quite properly decided that it would be to know many things of this sort that, we against him had been proved false, spoke inadvisable for it to solicit funds for presume, there is no way of finding out. before the Saturday Lunch Club at Barnes Louvain. It was agreed, however, that a For this much, however, we are grate- Hall on November i and at a public committee of alumni might well undertake ful, as well as for the fact that we don't meeting in Barnes Hall on November 3. the project and bring Cornell's share in the have the job of compiling the figures. He also spoke in two Ithaca churches. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 93 Help to Rebuild LOUVAIN

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'02 MD—Dr. Charles L. Stone is burton Avenue and his residence at 130 ALUMNI NOTES practicing his profession in Brooklyn, Warburton Avenue. He is also a director N. Y., and is attending laryngologist to of the Yonkers Ice Creeper Company, the Methodist and Brooklyn Eye and Ear which deals in- hardware and sporting '87 AB—Dean James E. Russell, of Hospitals. He specializes in ear, nose, and goods. Teachers College, on October 10 spoke be- throat troubles and lives at 471 Clinton Ό8 PhD—Oliver C. Lockhart has been fore the New York Society for the Ex- Avenue. appointed professor of money and banking perimental Study of Education on "Ex- '04 AB—George H. Potter is secretary- in the University of Buffalo. Dr. Lock- peiimental Studies in Education—Past treasurer of the Tri-City Electric Com- hart received his first degree from Indiana and Future." pany in Newark, N. J., and living at 3 with the class of '03. He was engaged in '92 BS—One of the most interesting Lenox Avenue, East Orange, N. J. banking for some years and later went to places in this country to those who have '05 ME—Howard Dingle is vice-presi- Ohio State as professor of economics in to do with storage problems, is the Marble dent and general manager of the Cleve- charge of courses in banking and finance. Laboratory, Inc., which Louis M. Marble land Worm and Gear Company, Cleve- His wife is a sister of Mrs. James Benton is conducting at Canton, Pa. Under Mr. land, Ohio. He is now devoting his entire '98, Dr. Melvin Mix '98, and Professor Marble's direction, research work which time to this concern although retaining his Arthur J. Mix, Ph. D. '15. has attracted nation-wide attention, has interest in the Dingle-Clark Company, Ό8 ME—Herbert L. Trube was married been done on storage of fruit and potatoes. contracting engineers. He lives at 1773 to Miss Sally Jane Brethman on July 28 '93 ME—Professor Guido H. Marx this Radnor Road, Cleveland Heights. last. He is in the insurance business at 71 year succeeds Professor William F. '05 CE—Hoxie H. Thompson is presi- Broadway, New York. Durand, retired, as head of the depart- dent of the Thompson Lumber Company '09 ME—Albert W. Grant, Jr., was ment of mechanical engineering at Stan- of Houston, Texas. His address there is transferred to Chicago, 111., on October I ford. The Stanford Illustrated Review for 5000 Caroline Street. Thompson writes by the Koppers Company for which he is October has a portrait of Marx. that he waited twenty years to see Cornell an engineer. His business address is 1329 '93 ME—Major Henry C. Nelson is win a football game and was in Ithaca Peoples Gas Building and his home ad- living at 203 Pomeroy Avenue, Pittsfield, for the Williams game. He adds that dress is 1454 Lake Avenue, Wilmette, 111. Mass. In a letter received from him, he "twenty years is too long to wait." indicates that, he is disturbed over the Ίo ME—Jerome A. Fried is general football schedule-making and also over the '05 ME—Major Charles L. Williams manager of the Peters-Morse Manu- attention given to Cornell affairs by New has left Wilmington, Del., where he has facturing Company in Ithaca which England papers. He admits that he "may been stationed for several years, and is builds adding machines. He recently sold be bug-house, but a lot of people thought now on duty at Fortress Monroe, Va. his house on Westbourne Lane to Beta Sigma Rho and is now building a house Columbus was crazy." Ό6 BS—Charles F. Shaw is professor of on Cayuga Heights. '94 ME—Fred R. Slater is with the soil technology at the University of Cali- Ίo CE—Calvin S. De Golyer is now Moody Engineering Company, Inc., of fornia. He recently made a soil and farming at Castile, N. Y. 90 West Street, New York. He lives at economic survey for the United States 618 North Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y. Bureau of Reclamation of the Kittitas Ίo AB—Harry M. St. John is now chief 7 Valley in the eastern part of the State of metallurgist of the Detroit Lubricator 95 LLB—Alden C. Buttrick Ί6, who is Washington. The valley contains about Company, Detroit, Mich., and lives at connected with the Security Envelope 90,000 acres and his work was to determine 2045 Lancashire Road, Rosedale Park, Company in Minneapolis, Minn., has the feasibility of reclaiming the desert by Redford, Mich. written in to tell of the recent election of irrigation and the possibility of the land Sewall D. Andrews '95 to the presidency Ίi ME—Harry W. Ford, vice-president paying for the improvement. His address of the National Wholesale Druggists' of the Agar Manufacturing Corporation, is 320 Hilgard Hall, Berkeley, Calif. Association. Andrews is a member of the is now living at 101 Laurel HiΠ Road, Minneapolis Rotary Club and was given '06 ME; '07 AB; Ί6—Samuel Sailor, Mountain Lakes, N. J., in order to be a special ovation by the club when he re- father of Horace P. Sailor Ό6, R. Warren near a new plant which the firm is erecting turned from the druggists' meeting with Sailor '07, and Charles M. Sailor Ί6 died at Whippany, N. J., and expects to start his honor. at his home in Chicago on October 19. operating this month. '96 CE—Mrs. Mary F. Ash has an- He was for many years with the Heywood- Ίi CE—Rafael Gonzales is chief engi- nounced the marriage of her daughter, Wakefield Company, furniture manu- neer of the Isabella Irrigation Service at Harriet, to Frank S. Senior on September facturers, and for the last twenty-seven Quebradillas, Porto Rico. 18 last in New York. years had been vice-president of the '12 ME—Joseph R. Matthai is now Illinois Corporation. '96 PhB—William H. Glasson recently with the United States Fidelity and returned to his duties as professor of Ό6 ME—Harry C. Herpel is assistant Guaranty Company in Baltimore, Md. economics at Trinity College, Durham, superintendent of the tube and pipe mill '12 ME—Jean P. Leinroth is general in- N. C., after a sabbatical leave dating of the National Tube Company at Me- dustrial fuel representative of the Public back to February i. He spent the late Keesport, Pa. His address is 809 East Service Electiic and Gas Company in winter and early spring in research in the Parkway. Newark, N. J. He lives at 22 Hillside Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., '07 AB, Ίi AM, '12 PhD—Irving Avenue, Caldwell, N. J. and in May left for an extended tour of the Perrine is located at 704 Braniff Building, '12 AB, '14 LLB—Mr. and Mrs. Remsen Pacific Coast States. On his trip he visited Oklahoma City, Okla., where he is en- B. Ostrander announce the birth of a son, many Western colleges and universities gaged as a consulting geologist and in Remsen Beeson Ostrander, on July 18. and spent recreation periods in the Yosem- looking after oil investments. He spent He is practicing law at Rockville Center, ite Valley, California and the Glacier last summer with his family in California Long Island, N. Y., and is living at 60 National Park in Montana. His address making an extended study of the geologi- North Village Avenue. in Durham is 710 Buchanan Road. cal conditions in Southern California '12 BS—Paul C. Stark is treasurer of Όi PhD—Professor George W. Stewart, with special reference to oil and gas the Stark Brothers' Nurseries with head- of the University of Iowa, has been made prospects. quarters at Louisiana, Mo., and is de- special editor of the new International '08 LLB—Henry C. Schlobohm is en- veloping a personal apple orchard of Critical Tables to be prepared under the gaged in the general practice of law in fifteen thousand trees. Last November he auspices of the National Research Council. Yonkers, N. Y. His office is at 45 War- was elected president of the American CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 95

In spite of its size and the enormous power developed by this reversing blooming mill motor it reverses many times a minute. Its maximum rating is 22,000 h.p., equivalent to the muscle power of 176,000 men. "The 100,000 Man" Of Napoleon it was said that his presence on the battlefield was equivalent to 100,000 additional men. "The 100,000 man," his Look closely at the pic- enemies called him. ture of this great motor installed in the plant of a large steel company, Napoleon dealt in death. Big Gen- and you will see the monogram of the Gen- eral Electric motors, like the one eral Electric Company, an organization of men in the picture, lift heavy loads off and women who pro- duce equipment by human shoulders, and contribute which electricity does more and better work. to the enrichment of life* GENERAL ELECTEIC 96 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

Pomologicaϊ Society to succeed Dr. '15 AB, Ί8 LLB; Ί8 AB—William D. and Fifth Avenue, New York. He lives on Liberty Hyde Bailey. This year's activi- Smith has been practicing law in Schenec- Gramatan Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y. ties of the society have included a 7,000 tady, N, Y. for the last three years at 437 '17 ME—Harolde N. Searles is in the mile motor tour of orchards and a national State Street. His work is chiefly that of production department of the Western "Eat More Fruit" publicity campaign. counsel to banks and finance corporations. Electric Company in Jersey City, N. Y. '12—Major Clift Andrus has been On August 2i, he was married to Freida He lives at 83 North Walnut Street, transferred from Tacoma, Wash., to Schoeffler Ί 8 in College Chapel, Williams- East Orange, New Jersey. town, Mass., and they are living at i Washington, D. C., where he is on duty in '18 BS—Thomas R. Wagner is the repre- Hampton Place, Schenectady. the Militia Bureau of the War Department. sentative of the Railway Sales Depart- '15 ME—Paul N. Darlington was re- ' 12 AB,' 15 MD—Dr. Leo Edelman is at- ment of the Sinclair Refining Company in cently named secretary of the City Service tending surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital Chicago, 111. His address is 5318 Hyde Commission in Baltimore, Md., following in New York and has a practice limited to Park Boulevard. a deadlock in the commission which lasted general surgery and urology. His office is Ί8, '21 CE—C. Curtis Woodruff, Jr., for six months. He is married and lives at at 930 Park Avenue and his residence in is a civil engineer with C. Curtis Woodruff 2815 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. He is the Allerton House, 45 East Fifty-fifth and Company, builders in Forest Hills, also an instructor in the Johns Hopkins Street. He writes that he is still a bachelor. N. Y. He lives there at 55 Gown Street. University Night School. Ί8 AB—Mrs. James C. Huntington '13 ME—Mr. and Mrs. William A. '15 AB—Mr. and Mrs. Edmund T. (Joanna Donlon) is keeping house at 1323 More have a son, Richard W., born on Kennedy have a daughter, Jean, born Seymour Avenue, Utica, N. Y. She is July 28. They live at 82 Penhurst Park, March 18. They live at 362 Guy Park superintendent of the Atlantic Division of Buffalo, New York. Avenue, Amsterdam, N. Y. Alpha Omicron Pi and has been visiting '13 BArch—Milton R. Williams is en- '15 BS—Arthur W. Wilson is with the the universities of Maryland, Philadelphia, gaged on a series of pictorial representa- Thresher Advertising Service at 136 New York and Maine, as well as Tufts tions of various building projects, in- Liberty Street, New York, and is secre- College. dustrial plants and bridges for various tary-treasurer of the Cornell Club of architects, engineers and owners. He is Ί8 ME—Howard C. Whiston was Plainfield, N. J. He and his wife have a married on October 7 at Athens, Ohio, to living at 143 Farrand Park, Highland daughter, Priscilla M., a little over a year Park, Michigan. Miss Helen L. Tritipo, daughter of Mr. old. They live at 1356 Evergreen Avenue and Mrs. John E. Tritipo. They will live '14 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. in Plainfield. at Mingo, Ohio, where Whiston is with Daley have a daughter, Doris W., born on '15 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Frederick F. the Carnegie Steel Company. October i. They live at 1902 North Tal- Sullivan now have a family of three Ί8, '21 AB—John W. Welles is retail bott Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., and he is children, two boys and a girl, ranging in advertising manager for W. and J. Sloane, secretary of the True and True Lumber age from nine months to five and one-half New York. He was formerly with the New Company. years. They live at 28 Tillinghast Place, York World. He writes that he is "still '14—On June 16 last, Charles M. Taylor Buffalo, New York. blithely single and booting a soccer ball." was appointed assistant secretary of the '15 AB—Arthur J. Putnam is now con- His address is 98 Hillside Avenue, Eagle- Provident Mutual Life Insurance Com- nected with the Macmillan Company, and wood, New Jersey. pany of Philadelphia, Pa. last week visited the University in the Ί8, '21 ME—Robert C. Moffitt is a '14 MD—Dr. Smiley Blanton, of the interests of the Company. His business mechanical engineer in Spokane, Wash., University of Wisconsin, has been ap- address is in care of the Company, 64-66 engaged in mining and hydroelectric work. pointed head of the Child Guidance Fifth Avenue, New York. He attended the first World's Power Con- Clinic of the University of Minnesota. Ί6 ME—On September i, William S. ference in London, England, last July. His '14 ME—Ward E. Pratt is secretary of Unger was appointed assistant superin- address is P. O. Box 1222. the Duriron Company, Inc., of Dayton, tendent of the blast furnaces of the '19—For the past year Ross M. Preston Ohio, manufacturers of acid-proof chemical Carnegie Steel Company at its Home- has been manager for A. L. Webb and Sons, equipment for chemical, textile, oil re- stead Works, Munhall, Pa. He lives at Inc., of Baltimore, Md., the sales division fining, paper, fertilizer, insecticide, steel 5538 Aylesboro Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. of the United States Industrial Alcohol and mining industries as well as acid- Ί6 BS—Clarence W. Bailey is with the Company in the southeastern States. His proof drain lines, sinks and fans for Guardian Savings and Trust Company in address in Baltimore is 119 Cheapside. educational and industrial laboratories. He Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife had a '19 AB—Elinor M. Fish is supervisor of recently bought a new home at 1540 North second son, David B., born on September music in the schools of Somerville, N. J. 3. Their other son is now five. They live Euclid Avenue, Dayton. '19 AB, '20 AM'—Louis A. Turner is a at 2042 Carabel Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. '14 ME—James Moffatt is president of National Research Council Fellow in the Light Alloys Company at Painesville, Ί6 AB, '21 AM—Cornelia P. H. Zeller physics at Harvard. He spent the past Ohio, and his address is Box 26. He was is teaching Latin in the new High School summer traveling in Europe. He is living married last June 11 in the Little Church at Atlantic City, N. J. at 5 Irving Terrace, Cambridge, Mass. Around the Corner in New York, to Miss Ί6 AB, Ί8 CE—Fred C. Griffith is '19 AB—Susan J. Diehl is still in the Mary Jane Booth of Elizabeth, N. J., manager of the New York Telephone Com- switchboard engineering department of and they went to the West Indies on a pany in Utica, N. Y. His address is 1426 the General Electric Company at Schenec- honeymoon. Oneida Street. tady, N. Y. Her address is Dongan '14 ME—Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. '17, '22 WA—Henry W. Jones, Jr., Avenue, R. F. D. No. 8, Scotia, N. Y. Bassett announce the arrival of their first was promoted on October i and is now '19, '20 ME—Eugene F. Zeiner is a son, Kingman Bassett, on July u. head of the wire rope department of the district plant engineer for the New York Bassett is secretary of the Buffalo Meter South Works of the American Steel and Telephone Company in its Long Island Company, Buffalo, N. Y. He resides at Wire Company. He and his wife have a Divison at 360 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, 106 Wesley Avenue. son, four years-eld and a daughter nearly N. Y. He is a member of the University '14 LLB—Howard O. Babcock is vice- three. They live at 7 Grout Court, and Glee Clubs of Brooklyn and extends president of the Frontier Finance Corpor- Worcester, Mass. an invitation to all college men to visit ation with headquarters in the Gluck '17 AB—Brandreth Symonds, Jr., is the former when in the city. He also be- Building, Niagara Falls, N. Y. with S. W. Straus at Forty-sixth Street longs to the American Society of Mechani- CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 97

U N IVERSITY CLUB, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ALLISON ft ALLISON, ARCHITECTS THE FOUNDATION COMPANY, GENERAL CONTRACTOR

REINFORCED concrete may be as permanent as a rock and still lend itself to the intricacies of a beautiful architectural design. The Los Angeles University Club is an achievement in reiiv forced concrete. For its construction The Foundation Company was awarded a certificate of honor by the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

The. he Foundation Company is an organization of construction engineers specializing in the building of difficult superstructures and substruc' tures. The world-wide reputation gained in its early history for trust- worthy underground construction has followed it into the field of general engineering contracting. Among the structures completed by The Foundation Company are buildings of every \nown type.

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CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO LIMA, PERU LONDON,ENGLAND PITTSBURGH LOS ANGELES CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA PARIS, FRANCE ATLANTA MONTREAL MEXICO CITY LOUVAIN, BELGIUM

BUILDERS OF SUPERSTRUCTURES AS WELL AS SUBSTRUCTURES 98 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS

cal Engineers and is a field operator for the '20 BS—Mr. and Bertram Y. Kinzey New York. He is teaching sanitary engi- Associated Glee Clubs of America. His ad- announce the arrival on October 7 of neering. He lives at 506 Highland dress is 1230 Carroll Street, Brooklyn. their second son, John Sargent. They live Avenue, Clifton, N. J. '19/21 EE—Mr. and Mrs. E. Winthrop at 1312 Gieycourt Avenue, Richmond, Va. '22 ME—AHan O. Geertz is still a Taylor have a son, Edward W., Jr., born '20, '21 ME—H. Leary Taylor is special apprentice with the Pennsylvania on May 25 last. They just returned from secretary of the R. J. Taylor Company of Railroad and is at present firing freight a two-months' trip to Europe for business Baltimore, Md., dealers in steamship engines from Altoona, Pa., to Pittsburgh. and pleasure and are now living at 1165 supplies. He lives at 2219 Eutaw Place. His address is noi Fourth Avenue, Moraine Avenue, Hammond, Ind. '21 BArch, '22 M Arch—Elliott B. Altoona. '19 AB—Mrs. Alexander Tishman (Amy Mason is working for the City of Mil- '22 AM; '22 AB—Mr. and Mrs. James R. Apfel) is now living at 1050 Park waukee, Wis., as assistant to the consult- R. Varley (Marie Davis '22) have a son, Avenue, New York. ing architect of the new Riverside Pump- John Francis, born September 17. They '19, '21 CE—Herman P. Odessey is a ing Station, which will be, when completed, are living at 220 North Sixth Street, hydrographic and geodetic engineer in the one of the finest, both mechanically and Olean, New York. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey architecturally, in the country. '22 AB—Mildred S. Bool is teaching at Washington, D. C., having been pro- '21 BS—Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Latin in the Haverling High School at moted from the rank of junior engineer last Campbell of Cohoes, N. Y., have an- Bath, N. Y., and is living at 117 West November. He has recently been in nounced the marriage on October 16, of Washington Boulevard. charge of a precise triangulation party . their daughter, Margaret, to Leslie M. '22 BS—Seymour M. Vaughan is ? which has been running a triangulation Shepard 2i of Caldwell, N. J., where they principal of the High School and teacher survey in South Dakota. After November will reside after a honeymoon. of vocational agriculture at Odessa, N. Y. 15, he expects to be working near San '21 BChem—Hilton G. Wood has re- '22 BS—Mrs. Richard W. Wyse (Edith Antonio, Texas, for two or three months, signed his position with the Westing- then go back to Washington. A. Goff) is living at 5 Cedar Street, house Lamp Company to take a place in Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. '20, '21 BArch—Donald McCormick is the New York sales office of the Dow now with Hitter and Shay, architects, at Chemical Company. His address is 59 '22, '23 BS—John S. Offenhauser is the 310 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Schuyler Avenue, Stamford, Conn. owner and operator of a cotton plantation Pa. He lives at 1426 Spruce Street. He near Texarkana, Ark., and is living in that '21 AB—Wilma F. Judd is teacher of writes that he was recently elected to the city at 519 Ash Street. Spanish and Latin and dean of girls in Print Club in Philadelphia. Richard E. the Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Kan. '22 AB—Mrs. W. Terry Osborne (Esther Bishop '09 is also a member of the club, For the last two years she has been sponsor Platt) writes that her chief occupation he writes, and last spring received the of a Girl Reserve Club with one hundred now is getting acquainted with English prize for the best etching of the year. and twenty members. She writes that over Rugby football at Wolfville, Nova Scotia, '20 ME—Michael B. Weinberg is an fifty per cent of the pupils in the school are where she resides. ice machinery salesman for the Frick from the farms and drive their cars or '22, '24 AB—Oliver D. Comstock is re- Company of Waynesboro, Pa., in its ride horseback to school each day. porting construction news and at present Philadelphia territory. C. Pomeroy Goree '20, '21 AB—Theodore M. Trousdale is is covering the State of Virginia. His '13 is acting in the same capacity for the a fourth year medical student at Johns temporary address is 311 South Third firm in its Atlanta, Ga., territory. Hopkins Medical School and expects to re- Street, Richmond, and his permanent ad- '20, '22 EE; '23 BS—Mr. and Mrs. W. ceive his M. D. degree in June. His ad- dress is 620 Third Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Littell Everitt (Dorothy Wallace '23) re- dress is 606 North Broadway, Baltimore, '22 BS—Clara W. Loveland is cafeteria cently moved to Ann Arbor, Mich. Maryland. and house director at the West Side Everitt is an instructor in electrical '21 BChem, '24 PhD—Herman F. Y. W. C. A. at the corner of Fiftieth engineering at the University of Michigan. Vieweg is now an assistant professor in Street and Tenth Avenue, New York. She He has organized a course in telephone mineralogy at Cornell with headquarters lives at 150 West iO4th Street. engineering and is also doing graduate in McGraw Hall. work. They are living at 917 Dewey Ave. '22 EE—Henry M. Bailey is an electri- '21, '22 BS—Charles G. Peck is in the cal engineer with Crecelius and Phillips, '20 CE—Herbert H. Linnell was sales department of the Kelsey Island engineers, of Cleveland, Ohio. At present married on October 18 to Miss Marian Lime and Transport Company, Cleveland, he is at Powhatan Mine, Belmont County, Richardson at Springfield, Mass. They Ohio. He lives at 10,300 Carnegie Avenue. Ohio, installing electrical equipment in a plan to live in Cuba. He is employed as '21 AB—Hazel A. Dates is teaching in new hoist. His address is 2269 Grand view resident engineer at Central Miranda by Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. the Warner Sugar Company of Oriente, the High School at Groton, N. Y., this Cuba. His address is 356 Prospect Ave. year, and frequently visits Ithaca. '22 AB—PhebeM. King is vice-principal '21 AB—Cornelia M. Cotton is doing and teacher of biology and history in the '20 BS, '24 PhD—Raymond W. Bell is Sherwood High School at Merrifield, N. Y. associate dairy manufacturing specialist graduate work at Syracuse University with the new Bureau of Dairying, United and living at 200 University Place, Srya- '22 BS; '23 BS—William H. Hutchings States Department of Agriculture. His cuse. and F. Esther Davis '23 were married on present work deals with the manufacture '21 DVM—John S. Rathbone is a July 5 last. They are living in Ham- and use of dairy by-products. His address veterinary inspector for the United States mondsport, N. Y., where she is teaching. is 1357 Park Road, N. W., Washington, Bureau of Animal Industry and is living '23 AB—Catherine S. Campion was District of Columbia. at loo Park Terrace, Hartford, Conn. married on May 10 to Russell K. Alspach, '20 EE—William S. Schmidt is still '21, '22 AB—George H. Thornton is Pennsylvania '24. Alspach is an instruc- with the Pennsylvania Public Service manager of the Ardmore branch of the tor in English at his alma mater. They Corporation at Johnstown, Pa., as an Thornton-Fuller Automobile Company are living at 6429 Wayne Avenue, Ger- engineer in its operating department. and living Overhill Road, Ardmore, Pa. mantown, Philadelphia. Karen Jensenius His address is 233 Green Street. He is married, is living in a new house, and '23 was maid of honor. '20 ME—Walter A. Baer is plant engi- extends a cordial invitation to all Cornel- '23 AB—Grace C. Bullen was married on neer for the Weidmann Silk Dyeing Com- lians to drop in. September 19 to Card well E. Belding and pany of Paterson, N. J., and living there '21 CE—S. John Scacciaferro is a they are now living at 7 Birchwood Road, at 400 East Thirtieth Street. member of the staff of Manhattan College, Glen Rock, N. J. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 99

Mr. C. S. A. Williams, whose experience proves to you what a college man can do with the guidance of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Read his story on this page. story of a man who started at scratch HIS IS A STORY for any col- sometime going into business on my own sands of men have made in two years the prog- Tlege man who hopes ever to be account." ress which otherwise they have made in ten. in business for himself. Then he moved faster The difference between early and late suc- Soon there were more promotions; before cess in every ambitious man's life lies most In December, 1916, C. S. A. Wil- long he became assistant to the Chairman of all in one thing: has he, or has he not, liams had been in business four years. of the Board of the Associated Edison Com- a definite 'plan for his business progress? panies. And then, naturally but inevitably, Have you a definite plan? Graduating from Williams College, came the climax. he had started in a humble capacity Mr. Williams was made a President in You believe, as all men do, that you will be with theThomas A.Edison industries, his own right. He became owner and execu- successful. Have you ever paused to con- and worked himself up thru thegrades tive head of the Bates Manufacturing sider how and when you will succeed? Company, manufacturers of the Bates Num- A little book has been published which will of assistant foreman, department bering Machine. help you to answer that question. It is called head, and production manager. Fi- From Storekeeper to President in six years! "A Definite Plan for Your Business Progress," nally he was appointed Chief Store- It is a fine record; and yet it is what any and it contains an interesting chart whereby keeper for the Phonograph Division. earnest man can accomplish who knows how you can definitely forecast your progress six to push hard, and how to take advantage of months, twelve months, two years from now. It was good progress. It proved every outside agency that can hasten his This book tells all about the Modern Business that Mr. Williams would eventually advancement. Course and Service and its remarkable work attain to large success. Mr. Williams would have succeeded with- in hastening the success of morethan out the Alexander Hamilton Institute. The But Mr. Williams was not satis- Institute cannot make failures into successes 250,000 men. fied to attain to large success overnight, nor turn weak men into strong. It will come to you, without cost or obli- eventually. He wanted to find the The Institute exists to aid men who are gation, in return for the coupon below. Fill already on their way to success, to bring in the Coupon now, and set up for yourself shortest possible path to the top. them the joy of succeeding while they are still a definite goal. And looking about him for a means young. Eighty thousand of its sub- of hastening his progress, he found scribers are college men. By means the Alexander Hamilton Institute. of reading, problems and personal advice, it gives them that working In his letter asking to be enrolled for the knowledge of all departments of I ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE : Modem Business Course and Service, he said: business which otherwise would be 208 Astor Place New York City "I want to get a thoro knowledge of manu- theirs only after years of practical facturing along all lines, with the idea of experience. With its help, thou- Send me at once the booklet, "A Definite Plan for Your i Business Progress,'' which I may keep without obligation. I Signature , Please write plainly Business Alexander Hamilton Institute Address ..

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'23 AB—Laura L. Geer is teaching Dr. Edward M. Hanrahan, Jr., 233 East Hemphill, Noyes C& Co. Latin and French this year at Hunter, University Parkway, Baltimore, Md. 37 Wall Street, New York New York. Ί6—George S. Babcock, 39 Oxford Investment Securities '23 AB—E. Lucile Wyman is teaching Street, Rochester, N. Y.—George R. Latin and English in the Penn Yan, N. Y., Allen, P. O. Box 274, Champlain, N. Y.— Philadelphia Albany Boston Baltimore Academy and is living at 119 Stark Ave. Pittsburgh Rochester Buffalo Syracuse LeRoy Grumman, Vista Way, Port '23 ME—Richard Stevens 2d is a cadet Washington, N. Y.—George L. Cooper, engineer with the Public Service Corpora- 150 Lexington Avenue, New York.— Jansen Noyes ' 10 Clifford Hemphill tion of New Jersey and at present located Rodolphus Kent, Presque Isle, Me. Stanton Griffis '10 Harold C. Strong at its Essex Power Plant. Last year he '17—Claude F. Tears, Mutual Oil Com- Walter S. Marvin Kenneth K. Ward competed for the Newark Athletic Club pany, Glenrock, Wyo.—Donald A. Mac- Members of the New York Stock Exchange in the pole vault. He lives at the club. Kenzie, 34 Upland Road, Quincy, Mass.— '24 BChem—Clifford E. Hubach is a Earl E. Hodges, 103 Canterbury Road, chemist for the Los Angeles County Rochester, N. Y.—John Haydock, 3d, 15 Health Laboratory, Los Angeles, Calif. Anderson Place, Buffalo, N. Y.—Frederick His address is 61 o South Hobart Boulevard. E. Neidringhaus, 16 Wydown Terrace, St. The Cascadilla Schools Louis, Mo. '24 BS—Marguerite Pigott is in the GRADUATES GO TO CORNELL Uptown Branch of the Henry Street Ί8—Prof. Herbert J. Metzger, Depart- College Preparatory Boarding School Settlement in New York, doing social ment of Animal Husbandry, Cornell Uni- SEPTEMBER TO JUNE service work. She has sewing classes and versity, Ithaca, N. Y.—Elbert P. Tuttle, A High-Grade School for Boys—Small several clubs to supervise and is also run- 113 Penn Avenue, Atlanta, Ga.—Karl N. 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