CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Volume Nine SEPTEMBER 1, 1906—AUGUST 31, 1907 Published Weekly throughout the College Year Monthly in July and August Forty issues and index to a volume ITHACA, NEW YORK UR1S LIBRARY 3S3ΠH-1 CORNELL JILUMNI 3\[EIVS George P. Schmidt ) Members of ( Albert R. Gallatin Frederick Gallatin, Jr. }• the N. Y. < Eads E. Schmidt Spalding's J. Prentice Kellogg ) Stock Exchange I Charles H. Blair, Jr. C. U. '98 Official FOOTBALL GUIDE Members of the New York Stock Exchange, Con- tain- TRINITY BUILDING Πί BROADWAY, ing Teachers and Students the in School and College, New work with the NEW RULES WeπneαisldealΓountδdnPen HIGH GRADE with full page explanatory pictures. Edited The pen with the Clip-Ctxp by Walter Camp. The largest Football Guide because it keeps pace with thought, is INVESTMENT ever published. 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The house is supplied Bedroom and Bath $3.00 and upward. $ 1.00 extra where two persons oc- with shower baths, steel lockers, etc. cupy a single room. -WRITE FOR BOOKLET.- C A catalogue of the school showing views of the school buildings, and giving full information re- SWEENEY-TIERNEY HOTEL COMPANY garding courses of study, terms and requirements E. M. TIERNEY, Manager for admission will be sent on request. Address C. V. PARSELL, Principal READERS WILL PLEASE MENTION THE ALUMNI NEWS WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Vol. IX. No. 1 Ithaca, N. Y., October 3, 1906 Price 10 Cent* Experiment Station is to do any teaching and which will go into effect the present University Reopened. whatever. These research professorships are year. Enrollment Greater than Ever Before— attractive positions. Looking about the President Schurman praised the at- country and remembering what progress the tention given to outdoor athlςtic sports The President's Address. professors of the northwestern states were making in this line, we picked out a man at Cornell, and said he was delighted Cornell University opened the year as first choice, and I am glad to announce with the manner in which students, 1906-7 with a larger total registra- today Professor Lyon of Nebraska Uni- alumni and friends of the University tion of students than ever before, al- versity as the first person to be appointed to had met his suggestion that the classes though the increase is not maintained devote his entire time to the work of in- vestigation. in our different colleges should organ- at so high a rate as in recent years. We needed a professor in the Sage School ize intercollegiate sports. He urged There is a falling off in the number of of Philosophy. Princeton University has that all student affairs be conducted new students as compared with last made quite a reputation for this work. Pro- in a business-like way and be ultimately year, the figures being respectively 918 fessor Thiily, who made a great reputation in the University of Missouri, is now pro- put under the inspection of an audit- and 953, a difference of thirty-five. fessor of Philosophy in Cornell. ing committee, who should be satisfied There are, on the other hand, 100 We wanted a head for the College of that every cent of money collected and more old students registered than there Civil Engineering. For this purpose, we used is used properly for the purpose were at this time last year. The total drew from the engineering service of the United States Eugene E. Haskell, a gradu- for which it was intended. He recited enrollment, therefore, shows an increase ate of Cornell, who for some years occupied some of Cornell's recent triumphs in of sixty-five. In the matter of attend- a position in the service of the United States intercollegiate athletics, and said: in charge of the engineering work con- ance of new students, this year's record I delight in all these things. I hope suffers only in comparison with that of nected with the Great Lakes. Since his acceptance of a professorship at Cornell, that all men fitted may engage in these last year, the number being greater than President Roosevelt has appointed him to games, save that it does not interfere with ever before with that single exception. represent the engineers of the United States their work. I am sure that those in charge of these sports do not desire students to be President Schurman delivered his in the International Waterways Commission. We welcome all these gentlemen to our members of the team who cannot maintain annual address to the students at noon faculty. the University standard. They do not want last Friday before an audience which them "busted out" in the middle of the year. The President announced as fol- overcrowded the Armory. After a The President concluded with a lows the modification of the elective few words of welcome, he spoke of the eulogy of Charles E. Hughes, nominee system of study in the College of Arts new buildings just completed, and said: for Governor of New York, who was and Sciences: "It is the first time for many years that for two years a professor at Cornell. The Arts course has been changed. Its "This is no place for party politics/" I have been able to announce here that curriculum has been changed. Before, ev- all the room we need for ordinary work erything was elective. The student chose he said, "and I have nothing to say of instruction we have this year." He what he liked. After a long consideration, about parties as such. I do say that continued: some guidance was deemed necessary. They the nomination of such a man to be did not come to professors for aid, however the standard bearer for any great party I must not linger over the buildings; they ready they were to give it, and it became are but instrumental in the hands of men. necessary to devise some means for guid- is enough to hearten the best citizens The old students know that the faculty of ance. There were two means—one an im- of the State of New York/* Cornell University consists of men eminent personal method by means of arranging the in their own fields, their devotion to their curriculum, the other a personal method by The managers of the musical clubs* work. I am glad on their behalf to wel- means of intercourse between students and come to the faculty some new professors professors. Both methods have been adopted having considered a number of attrac- this year. Naturally Cornell University by the faculty of Arts and Sciences. The tive routes, have decided to make the wants the best. We were anxious to get a freshman has certain subjects which he must professor of Design and Composition, and Christmas trip this year to the middle take either in the freshman or sophomore West. This trip promises to be of as the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris has year. These subjects are prescribed, and as the reputation of affording the best train- to the rest of his course, he is advised by even greater importance than those ing in this line, we secured through this the faculty. These prescribed subjects are taken in former years, for small towns source Professor Jean Hebrard, a member in certain groups. Within each group, he is and cities have been eliminated from of the College of Architecture. free to select his individual course or sub- Through the generosity of the State of ject. For the junior year, we assume that the route. Concerts will be given in New York, the College of Agriculture is the student has become acquainted with his Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, St.