Muller '39 AL UΛΛN I > N EWS When There's Still Time! PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY You Go Students who live in Sheldon Court usually come back year after OF CORNELL ALUMNI East or West, year. But those graduated have left some desirable rooms. Stop off NEW YORK AND VICINITY at HARRY D. COLE '18 REALTOR Business, Commercial and residential CORNELL properties in Westchester County DAILY AIR CONDITIONED TRAINS Appraisals made. WESTWARD Light type, a.m. EASTWARD RKO Proctor Building Mount Vernon, N. Y. Read Down Dark type, p.m. Read Up 11:05 t1 1 :45ί10:20 Ly.NewYorkA4r. 8:10 8:45 RE A RET A*—Folded and intβrfolded facial tissues 11:20 t12:00 ί10:35 Newark 7:54 8:29 for the retail trade. 11:15 t11:00 ί10:15 ' Philσ. 7:45 8:30 6:40 0 1-6:50 # 6:49 Ar.lTHACALv. 11:45 12:58 If you know of a boy coming to S'WIPES*—A soft, absorbent, disposable tissue, Cornell next year, write NOW fcr packed flat, folded and interfolded, in bulk or Enjoy a Day or Week End boxes, for hospital use. In Ithaca rates and floor plans showing the FIBREDOWN*—Absorbent and non-absorben. rooms still open. cellulose wadding, for hospital and commercial use. 6:40 °y6:541° 9:28 ILv. ITHACA Ar. 111:32112:52 0 0 FIBREDOWN* CANDY WADDING—in 9:35 z9:45| 12:45|Ar.Buffa!o Lv. I 8:30110:05 It costs no more to live in several attractive designs. 7:25 11:15 " Pittsburgh " 10:30 11:35 7:15 5:20 " Cleveland " 12:30 2:15 Sheldon Court. Boys enjoy its FIBREDOWN* SANITARY SHEETING— 10:10 8:40 12:30 Ar. Chicago Lv. comfort and convenience, and the For hospital and sick room use. tDaily except Sunday. °Daily except Monday. *Tradβ Mark rβg. U.S. Pat. Off. iSunday only. ^Monday only. friendly spirit that for thirty-eight 8 THE GENERAL CELLULOSE COMPANY, INC. Arrives 6:49 a.m., yLeaves 7:03 a.m., z Arrives 10:20 a.m. on Monday years has made Sheldon Court a GARWOOD, NEW JERSEY 7 New York sleeptr open to 8 a.m. at Ithaca, and at D. C. Taggart Ί 6 - - - Pres.-Treas. 9 p.m. from Ithaca real home to Cornellians. Air Conditioned DeLuxe, Coaches, Parlor, Sleeping, Club Lounge and Dining Car Service. Write TODAY to: STANTΘN CO.—REALTORS GEORGE H. STANTON '20 SHELDON COURT Real Estate and Insurance Arthur R. Congdon, Mgr. MONTCLAIR and VICINITY Tf_t βOUTt OF THβ UACKΌtAMONO ITHACA, N.Y. 16 Church St., Montclair, N. J., Tel. 2-6000 The Tuller Construction Co. J. D. TULLER, '09, President BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, DOCKS & FOUNDATIONS Especially... WATER AND SEWAGE WORKS A. J. Dillenb ck Ί1 C. P. B ylαnd '31 C. E. Wαllαc '27 T. G. Wallace '34 C. E. B vβ '38 In the Summertime 95 MONMOUTH ST., RED BANK, N. J. When you come to New York this summer you'll be wise to choose a beautiful and com- BALTIMORE, MD. fortable part of town to stay in. WHITMAN, REQUARDT & SMITH In the heart of lovely, tree-lined lower Fifth Avenue, the Gros- Water Supply, Sewerage, Structural/ Valuations of Public Utilities, Reports, venor provides large, airy rooms, fine air-conditioned restaurant Plans, and General Consulting Practice. EZRA B. WHITMAN, C.E. Ό1 and bar, quiet nights for restful slumber, and an inviting atmosphere G. J. REQUARDT, C.E. '09 that cloaks the guest with a sense of good-living that goes so far B. L SMITH, C.E. "14 Offices in Baltimore and Albany, N. Y. to make a visit more rewarding. You'll like the varied advantages that bring so many New Yorkers WASHINGTON, D. C. to live at the Grosvenor the year 'round. THEODORE K. BRYANT LL.B. '97—LL.M. '98 Master Pal nl Law, G. W. U. '08 Hotel Grosvenor Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively FIFTH AVENUE AT 10TH STREET 309-314 Victor Building NEW YORK CITY KENOSHA, WIS. All rooms have tub and shower bath and circulating ice water. Single MACWHYTE COMPANY from $3.50 to $5.00—with twin beds from $5.00 to $8.00. Manufacturers of Wire and Wire Rope, Braided Wire* Rope Sling, Aircraft Tie Rods, Strand and Cord. DONALD R. BALDWIN Ί6, Treas. JOHN L. SHEA '2.6, Resident Mgr. Literature furnished on request Owned by the Baldwin Family JESSEL S. WHYTE, M.E. Ί3, PRES. ft GEN. MGR. R. B.WHYTE,M.E. "13, Vice President in Charge of Operations Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALU I NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly during the summer VOL. XLIV, NO. 34 ITHACA, NEW YORK, JULY, 1942. PRICE, 15 CENTS CAMPUS HUMS WITH SUMMER ACTIVITY Naval Training School Swells Students at University To More Than 3,000 ' * Hep—One, Two, Three, Four—Hep. J. H. Smith. Lieutenant Commander Administration. With some students still Staccato orders of company command- George H. Hamilton is in charge of in- enrolling, Professor Loren C. Petry, Di- ers and the cadence of marching* men struction in communications, and Lieu- rector of the Summer Sessions, says that dominate the Campus as formations of tenant Arthur S. Adams, Assistant Dean Cornell undergraduates are here this khaki-clad young officers of the US of the College of Engineering, continues summer in nearly double the usual num- Naval Reserve step smartly along to mess in charge of the Diesel engine courses ber, there is a considerable increase in in Willard Straight Hall and to and from which have been given here for a year. undergraduates from other colleges, and classes in the Naval Training School now Some forty Naval officers and twenty en- the number of teachers and graduate established at the University. listed men make up the School staff, its students in the regular Summer Session executive offices being fitted up in the shows a marked decrease. 1,000 Officers Here former first-floor "parlors" of Sage Eight hundred officers reported at the College. Give Special Courses School July i for a two-month course of Captain Chippendale is a graduate of Freshmen who requested them were Naval indoctrination. Quartered in Cas- the US Naval Academy in 1915, served assigned to rooms in the buildings of the cadilla Hall, Sheldon Court, and in the on submarines during and after the last University dormitories not occupied by four north buildings of the University war, has seen service on battleships and the Naval Training School officers. dormitories, they are under strict ship's instructed in seamanship and navigation Thirty or more fraternity houses and discipline, with "Reveille" at 5:50 a.m., at the Academy, and recently commanded several sororities are open this summer, setting-up exercises before breakfast; a destroyer division. and a number are running dining rooms, all-day instruction in Navy regulations, some in cooperation with their neigh- Naval etiquette, ordnance and seaman- Summer Classes Busy bors. Willard Straight Hall Has held an ship in the class-rooms of Olin Hall and Although somewhat overshadowed by open house for the new Freshmen, and Myron Taylor Hall; military training and the Naval activities, approximately 2.400 the usual Summer Session program of physical exercise and sports on Alumni additional students are here for summer lectures, concerts, dances, University Field; and an evening study period with courses in the University. These include Theatre productions, and other social "Taps" at lo. They march to meals in 769 registered for the fifteen-week sum- events is being exceptionally well at- Memorial Room and the southwest mer terms in Engineering, Architecture, tended. dining room of Willard Straight Hall dur- the Veterinary College, Law School, and Included among the students this year ing the summer, with a new mess hall the Graduate School; about 12.5 Fresh- are twenty-nine teachers of history, adjoining the dormitories to be ready for men who enrolled June 2.9 in the Colleges social studies, and Spanish in the schools them in September. of Engineering and Arts and Sciences; of seventeen States who were invited to At the end of July, 12.5 of the new and the rest in the regular six-week participate in a six-weeks' "Workshop" officers will be transferred to a four- University Summer Session, the eleven- on Latin America, the Far East, and the month course in communications given week accelerated summer programs in British Commonwealth. Established with with cooperation of the College of Engi- Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, and Home a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, neering. Thereafter, 1x5 additional offi- Economics, or the unit courses in Hotel the Workshop includes informational cers will be added to the courses on these communications course countries and instruc- each month until the tional aids to remedy total is 750, with each their neglect in public group coming to the school teaching. It is di- University for a pre- rected by Professor liminary month of in- Howard R. Anderson, doctrination. Education, assisted by In addition, the 2.00 Professors Frederick G. Reserve officers of the Marcham, PhD '2.6, Diesel engine course in English Histoty the College of Engineer- Knight Biggerstaff, ing have become a part Chinese History; Cor- of the Naval Training nells W. deKiewiet, School, giving it a per- Modern European His- manent quota of 950 offi- tory; and Dr. C. C. Grif- cers in training. They fin, associate professor are quartered and mess of Latin American his- in Sage College. tory at Vassar. Captain B.