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Peck earned planned primarily for enlisted men of the the war and especially the problem of money in a novel way to pay his college Regular Army and National Guard and food supplies for ourselves and our expenses. On winter nights he peddled drafted men of the National Army, and allies. "hot dog" sandwiches on the streets of Ithaca. He had had a pushcart made a limited number of graduates and under- IN THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the Cor- with an arrangement for steaming the graduates of certain military colleges nell Law Quarterly, Professor Charles sausages. He carried on the business will be admitted. Cornell's quota of Kellogg Burdick has succeeded Professor with much success and came to be known this number is fifty-two, plus an equal George G. Bogert as faculty editor. Pro- as "the hot dog boy." number of alternates. Applications fessor Bogert is now a major and judge were received up to midnight of Decem- advocate in the National Army. He ber 1st by Col. Frank A. Barton '91, PROFESSOR O. G. GUERLAC of the was the first faculty editor of the publi- department of Romance languages re- commandant of the Cornell R.O.T.C. cation and it owes much of its success The applications came from Cornell turned to this country from France last to him. The first number of the Quar- week. He has been ordered to Washing- men all over the country—men in can- terly's third volume has just appeared. tonments and camps and in various ton by the French Government for ser- Its leading article, which Professor vice with the special mission under M. forms of volunteer service. They came Bogert wrote, is on the proposed uniform from the Cornell undergraduates. Colonel Andre Tardieu. During the last year conditional sales act. The Quarterly an- he was on duty in the press bureau of the Barton said that all the seniors and nounces the election of the following juniors over twenty-one years of age French department of foreign affairs, students to the editorial board: Ralph where his duties kept him in daily touch must have been represented in the pile L. Emmons '18, of Borodino, N. Y.; of applications on his desk. Many of with the Paris representatives of foreign Jane M. G. Foster '18, of Portsmouth, newspapers. Professor Guerlac was in the officers of the R.O.T.C. are seeking Ohio; Olive J. Schmidt '18, of Spring admission to the training course. Ex- Europe in the summer of 1914, and when Valley, N. Y., and Louis W. Dawson the war began he was detained there aminations are held this week wherever . '19, of Boonton, N. J. the applicants are. The list of success- under orders till December of that year. He returned to Ithaca but was recalled ful candidates will be published about THE BOARDMAN SCHOLARSHIP for this the middle of this month. to France in September of 1915 and was year has been awarded to Frederick in active service in the trenches for sev- Schuyler Reese, jr., of Ilion, N. Y. This PROFESSOR ARTHUR W. BROWNE eral months. (Ph.D. Ό3) of the department of chem- scholarship was founded by the late THE CO-OP reports that the year istry has been appointed Chemical Ex- Judge Douglas Boardman, first dean of 1916-17 was the best in its history. The pert of the Ordnance Department at the law school, and its value is $100. It society's fiscal year ends on April 1st, Large. When he accepted the appoint- is awarded annually to the junior in the and therefore the loss of students last ment he was urged by the Ordnance College of Law who has, in the judgment spring was not felt much in that year's Department to attach himself to a of the faculty, done the best work during business. The number of students who headquarters staff. To do so would the two preceding years. Reese is a signed slips during the year was 4,986. have made it necessary for him to leave member of the Gamma Eta Gamma Their purchases were figured until July Ithaca. He has succeeded in convincing fraternity. 1st so that all who graduated might re- the authorities that he can do his work WORD was received in Ithaca during ceive all their dividends. On some days for the government as effectively in the last week of the award of the French during the year 1916-17 the Co-op served Ithaca as anywhere else. He will there- war cross to two Cornell men. One of more than four thousand customers a fore remain here, and he will be able to them is ARTHUR J. PUTNAM '14, who day. This fall the amount in dividends continue his work with his classes and resigned an instructorship in the de- claimed at the window was about $700 accomplish in his spare hours all the partment of Romance languages last less than usual, probably because so work that the Ordnance Department April to join the American Ambulance many of the students did not return to expects of him.