CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Vol. Xlii. No. 4 Ithaca, N. Y., October 19, 1910 Price 10 Cents NEW FRATERNITY HOUSES. Buildings in the Fall Creek and West Avenue Sections. New buildings and changes in old ones have altered the appearance of outlying sections of the campus. On the north bank of Fall Creek, within a hundred yards of Triphammer falls, and near the bridge, where for- merly the woods grew, are two new fraternity houses. Another frater- nity is building further down the gorge, on the south bank, on a ledge almost directly over the Ithaca Falls- The West Avenue neighborhood has undergone a change through the ex- tension of one fraternity house, the rebuilding of another and the com- pletion of the Telluride House. The extension of the Delta Kappa Epsilon house has been completed. The house has been extended east- ward for its full height to a distance of 44 feet. The width of the addi- THE SHELDON MEMORIAL AND G3LDWIN SMITH HALL. tion is 36 feet. A driveway runs through the addition at the height and it is thus made possible to divide fraternity is now well under way and of the first floor from South aveune the house when occasion may require. on Saturday the corner stone will be to a court behind the house. The The third floor has a sleeping loggia laid by the Rev. A. H. Wilson of New greater part of the addition is taken which is ample for twelve beds. In York City, vice-regent of the frater- up by a new lodge room. The addi- its exterior the house will be similar nity. The house is situated on Wil- tion provided for six new studies, six to the one which burned last winter. lard avenue, on the south bank of bedrooms, an alumni suite and The first floor will be of brick and the Fall Creek and just west of the home several other rooms. remainder of stucco. It will be of of Professor Lucien A. Wait. The The new house of Delta Upsilon, slow burning construction and divid- dining room, which will measure 20 which is almost completed, is built ed into three sections by fireproof by 40 feet, will occupy the basement on the site of the old house at South walls. and part of the first floor, being 18 and West Avenues. The old founda- North of the Delta Upsilon house feet high. The kitchens will also be tions have been used except on the the house of the Telluride Association in the basement. The first floor will east side where the house has been has been constructed. This is now contain a large reception hall 33 by enlarged 12 feet. The house will be complete and occupied. The house is 35 feet, a large enclosed porch fac- ready for occupancy about Christ- a model of its kind. It is built of ing the lake, a billiard room and a mas time. The basement contains yellow pressed brick and is fireproof. reception room. On the second floor the kitchen and pantry, but not the The basement contains a large din- there are to be fourteen studies, each dining room as in the former build- ing hall, kitchen and serving room accommodating two men. The third ing. That room will be on the main and the heating and ventilating plant. floor will be given over entirely to floor, and will be 42 feet long by 26 There is also a vacuum cleaning sys- dormitories. The foundations of the feet wide. Besides the dining room, tem in the house. The main floor of house, which are now completed, are on the main floor there will be a the house contains a large reception of concrete. The first story will be of chapter room and library on the hall, a living room, music room, danc- brick and the other two stories of north, a reception hall in the middle ing hall, library and guest's suite. concrete and heavy timbers. Concrete and a music room at the south of the The two upper floors &re used for will be extensively used in the con- house. The second and third floors studies and sleeping rooms. The struction and the house will be fire- will contain the studies and sleeping suite S3 stem is used, each suite con- proot. rooms. These floors are arranged in sisting of two rooms and a bath. Just across the upper Fall Creek suites and will accommodate thirty There are accommodations for about bridge two handsome houses have men. Two separate stairways lead forty men. been completed. These are for the from the basement to the top floor The new home of the Sigma Nu Alpha Chi Rho and Cerberus fra- 38 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VARSITY PRACTICE ON THE PLAYGROUND. ternities. The Cerberus house has a The Work oι a Cornell Botanist During his remarks he said that Cor- fine location on the bank of the gorge, Dr. K. Miyake, Cornell Ph. D. 1902, nell had contributed more to the mor- the property fronting on Thurston now professor of botany in the Im- phology and embryology of the Con- ifers than any other institution in the avenue anή extending back over 200 perial University of Tokyo, is spend- world, through the classic work on feet to Beebe Lake. The first story of ing several weeks at Ithaca. In ad- the pines, by Margaret C. Ferguson, the house is constructed of gray sand- dition to his work at the Imperial Ph. D. 1901, who began her work at stone and the upper two stories of University he has been placed in Cornell in 1897, by the work of W. stucco work. The main entrance is charge of the investigation of the A.. Murrill, Ph. D. 1900, on the hem- at the north and across the south side diseases of ginseng in Corea. For of the house on the brink of the lock spruce, and by Dr. Miyake's this purpose the Japanese government gorge is a .wide porch. work at Cornell on the spruce. Dr. is sending him on a tour of investi- Ferguson is now professor of botany The basement is used for a dining gation around the world especially to room, kitchen and servants' quarters. at Wellesley College, and Dr. Murrill study the diseases of ginseng in the is First Assistant Director of the With the exception of a music room United States. From Ithaca he has and library, the entire first floor is New York Botanical Garden. visited the most important ginseng given over to one large room about gardens in New York state and Penn- forty feet square, in the center of University Scholarships Awarded. sylvania. From here he will go to which are two large fireplaces back to The faculty on Friday afternoon Boston, New York and Washington, back. The west half of the room will awarded University Scholarships to and in a few weeks will sail for be used as the living room and the eighteen members of the class of 1914. east half as a reception hall, but the Europe to visit England, Germany, The value of these scholarships is whole can be thrown together for France and Italy. In Italy he will $400 each. For the sixth successive dancing. The house will accommo- devote some time, at the Naples Ma- time first honors went to the Boys' date twenty-two men and could easily rine Laboratory, to investigating the High School of Brooklyn, N. Y., accommodate more, for the studies marine algae, in connection with some James Sullivan, Ph. D., principal, and sleeping rooms on the second of his instruction in the university. five of the eighteen scholarships be- and third floors are unusually large. In about a year he will return to Jap- ing awarded to graduates of this The Alpha Chi Rho house is north an by way of the Siberian railway, school. Following is the list of of the Cerberus house. It is on a thus completing a tour of the world. awards: lot 90 by 800 feet extending from This is not the first time that Dr. The Cornell Scholarships: Ethel Thurston avenue east to Beebe lake. Miyake has voyaged around the Letitia Cornell, Girls' High School, The first story is of brick and the world In 1904, after two years' Brooklyn; W. L. Felter, Ph. D., prin- second and third are of heavy timbers study in Germany following his grad- cipal. Edward Foreman Graham, and stucco. Across the north end of uation here, he returned by way of Lafayette High School, Buffalo; C. K. the house is a large living room, under the Suez Canal during the Russo- Mellen, principal. which is the dining room. There is Japanese war. The H. B. Lord Scholarships: Kurt a library of about equal size on the During his stay here Dr. Miyake Otto Klaessig and Morris Goldbaum, main floor and also a hall and a re- spoke before the Botanical Seminary Boys' High School, Brooklyn. ception room. The two upper floors on some recent investigations in The McGraw Scholarships: Myra are arranged in studies and dormi- Gymnosperms and their bearing on Bone McNicol, Morris High School, tories with accommodations for about classification. Dr. Miyake has made New York City; John H. DenMgh, twenty-four men. important contributions to this work. principal. Morris Gilbert Bisnop, CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 39 PHOTOGRAPH BY S. L. SHELDON. Yonkers High School; William A. RETURN OF DR. SPRAGUE. services, being wounded twice in the Edwards, A. M., principal. terrible campaign of General Grant The Sage Scholarships: Ruby C.