Three More Cornellians Are Given Decorations by France College
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Vol. XXI, No. 32 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] May 15, 1919 Three More Cornellians Are Given Decorations by France College Conferences on Program of Centennial Thirty-four Juniors Elected to the Senior Societies A Description of New York Cor- nell Club's New Home ITHACA, NEW YOEK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Executor Trustee Drawing Inks Eternal Writing Ink Chartered 1822 Engrossing Ink Published for the Associate Alumni of Taurine Mucilage Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni THE FARMERS' LOAN Higgin's Drawing Board Paste News Publishing Company, Incorporated. Liquid Paste Published weekly during the college year AND TRUST COMPANY Office Paste and monthly during the summer; forty issues Vegetable Glue, Etc. annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last Nos. 16-22 William Street Thursday of September. Weekly publication (numbered consecutively) continues through Branch: 475 Fifth Ave. ABE THE FINEST AND BEST Commencement Week. 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President Sclmrmaii, Registrar David F. ment of the Colgate baseball gaime, the A parade forming downtown and includ- Hoy, Secretary Woodford Patterson, Pennsylvania track meet, and Straw Hat ing some of the cadets and the band of Charles E. Cornell, Professors W.A.Ham- Day. the R. O. T. C. and of the Ithaca High mond and B. S. Monroe, Lieut. Theodore School, Company D of the New York Twesten, the Secretary of the C. U. C. A. - ITHACA AND TOMPKINS (COUNTY as Guard, the 'Ithaca Band, the Italian for 1920, the president of the .class of usual exceeded their quotas in the pur- Band, the returned veterans, and the Boy 1920, and three members of that class, chase of Victory Bonds. The allotments Scouts, entered the hall at the east end. John C. Atwood, jr., Ferguson, Mo., were respectively $1,156,400 and $1,402,- After a grand inarch and review, the Orville G. Daily, Chicago, and William 400; the pledges, about $1,406,000 and units were drawn up below the balcony; B. Megear, jr., Wilmington, Del. Megear $1,741,000. It is difficult for the old and were there addressed briefly by is chairman of the advisory committee of place to break a fixed habit. The Uni- Judge Willard M. Kent, the presiding seniors who will be selected this year versity ΊS subscription to the fifth loan officer. Amid enthusiasm and applause and who, with the aid of some juniors, -was $100,000. the soldiers were welcomed back in an will be on hand next fall to play the THE WARDEN AND STUDENTS of Eisley •ardent speech by Professor Charles L. elder brother to new students as they ar- Hall gave, last Saturday, a reception to Durham. Then the huge hall was given rive in Ithaca. Although the greater the Faculty and Trustees. A delightful over to varied entertainments: dancing, part of the committee's work falls thus entertainment was provided by the Risley ί a basketball game, contests in boxing at the beginning, its usefulness and women: Anatole France 's play ' The and wrestling, in running and jumping, helpfulness in counsel and friendly warn- Man Who Married a Dumb Wife,'' tran- hurdle races, f' stunt'' races, tumbling, ing continue throughout the college year. slated by Curtis Hidden Page, an amus- selections by the bands, the crowds mov- ing, vaguely medieval sketch, having, as THE BOARD OF EDITORS of The Cornell ing from one exhibition to another as Countryman has been elected for the Rabelais pointed out, a moral as well interest or whim might prompt; for the as a co:mic side. The costumes, the coming year. The new board is headed ball was divided roughly into three parts, by Russell Robbins Lord, of Cockeysville, music, the acting were all excellent; and each under separate direction, and each the large dining room λvith its balcony Md., who is still in service in Franco putting on its attractions quite indepen- but who expects to return to college in afforded, without stage or scenery, an dently of the others, after the manner of appropriate theatre. the fall. Howard A, Stevenson, of In- a circus. Throughout the evening re- terlaken, N. Y., is managing editor; A NEW EDITORIAL BOARD assumed C011- freshments were served free to soldiers, James E. Fuller, of East Hartford, trol of the Sun with the issue for Mon- sailors, and their guests, to the public Conn., associate editor; Donald Hoag- day, May 12. The board is orgaαiized as at a nominal charge. Meeting places land, of Bridgeton, N. J., business man- follows: editor-in-chief, Russell Holt for visitors from the towns in the county ager and Stanley B. Duffies, of Washing- Peters '20, Omaha, Neb.; business man- were provided about the building. The ton, D. C., circulation manager. All are ager, Orville Guy Daily '20, Chicago, 111.: attendance ran well into the thousands. members of the class of 1920. managing editor, Davis Earl Geiger '20, The number of returned veterans, was Ashland, Ky. senior associate editor, seventy-five. This is only the first wel- THE INTERSTATE SCHOOLMASTERS ' Reginald Grower Hammond '20, Chicago, come to Tompkins County boys. In the CLUB held a meeting at Cornell last 111. associate editors, Elwyn Brooks summer, after all are once more back at Saturday. Members of the club are for White '21, Mt. Vemon,.N. Y.; Ewald home, there is to be a field day and bar- the most part principals and superin- John Smith '21, Jersey City, N. J. becue as a further mark of gratitude tendents of schools in the Southern Tier David William Jewett '21, Skaneateles, for work well done and of congratula- counties of New York 'and the Northern N. Y. Bernie Olaf Holmquist '22, Oma- tion upon return to the works of peace. Tier counties of Pennsylvania. The ha, Neb.; Alansoii Work Willcox '22, presdent is H. H. Chapman, of Corning, Ithaca, N. Y. associate business man- EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS in the build- N. Y. and the seteretary, Professor agers, Willard Augustus Kiggins, jr., ing of the Ithaca Trust Company are to James R. Tuttle '14, of Elmira College.