VOL. XXXI, No. 9 [PEICE TWELVE CENTS] NOVEMBEK 22, 1928 Dartmouth Defeats Cornell, 28 to 0— Brilliant Passing and Running Feature Green's Attack j Faculty Recommends Discontinuance Daylight Saving Plan—Study of Alternatives Varied Program Arranged for Ninth Annual Alumni Convention, in Washington Cornell Cross Country Team Defeats Dartmouth Runners, Score 19 to 36 Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August. Subscription $4 per year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Postmaster: Return postage guaranteed. Use form 3578 for undeliverable copies. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS LAST CALL for the NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION CORNELL ALUMNI CORPORATION i i i Don't Miss this Double Header i i i A Cornell Gathering of National Significance plus A Wonderful Week-End in Washington November 30 * December 1 Mail Your Reservations Today to CORNELL ALUMNI CONVENTION COMMITTEE Hotel Willard Washington, D.C. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS VOL. XXXI, No. 9 ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER zx, 1918 PRICE IX CENTS Convention Approaching headquarters at the Hotel Willard. These Votes Against Daylight Saving certificates will be procured when the Varied Program Arranged for Annual ticket is purchased to Washington, and Faculty Recommends Discontinuance of Alumni Meeting at Washington when full fare will be paid. After the Plan But Votes to Study Next Week necessary 250 certificates have been vali- Alternatives dated in Washington, return tickets will The committee arranging for the ninth be sold at half price. The Faculty, at its meeting on Novem- annual convention of the Cornell Alumni The program at Washington, however, ber 14, recommended the discontinuance Corporation, to be held in Washington, does not exact all of one's time. There of daylight saving time and named a D. C, Friday and Saturday, November will be many opportunities to visit points committee to consider some other means 30 and December i, is winding up prepara- of interest in and about the nation's of accomplishing the same result. tions for what is expected to be one of the capital, and alumni attending the con- The initial daylight saving time experi- most enthusiastic and successful conven- vention are expected to take full ad- ment, put into effect May 1, 1928, has not tions since the first convention at Cleve- vantage of the many opportunities yet ended. It will terminate with the land in 1921. afforded in the city. beginning of the Thanksgiving recess, and The program provides something for all One of the early events of prominence students returning to classes on December alumni who attend throughout the two on the program is the reception at the 3 will find the University once more days of the convention, but it is expected Chinese Legation, to be given by Sao-ke operating on Eastern Standard Time. that the first day of the convention will, Alfred Sze '01, Chinese minister to the According to the plan worked out when in reality, be the second day of a Cornell United States, and Mrs. Sze. Friday the Faculty approved daylight saving week-end, for on Thursday, November 29, evening will be given over to a party for last spring, next year's period was to ex- the Cornell football team closes its season alumni at which R. Warren Sailor '07, tend from the spring recess to the Thanks- against its ancient rival, Pennsylvania, on editor of THE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS will giving recess. Franklin Field, Philadelphia. preside. The recommendation of the Faculty The speakers at the banquet Saturday Alumni who attend the Pennsylvania will go to the Board of Trustees for final evening will include President Livingston game Thursday afternoon will have the action. Alternate plans to accomplish Farrand of Cornell and William J. problem of getting to Washington solved the giving of an extra hour of daylight to Donovan, assistant attorney-general of students will not be presented until later. by the operation of a special train out of the United States. the Broad Street station, Philadelphia, for Early reservations are already being It is understood that two alternatives Washington. The train will leave at made by alumni, the honor of making the are being considered. Classes may be set 7:30 p. m. Thursday evening. first requests going to Miami, Fla. one hour ahead, the first class to be at 7 a. m. Standard Time instead of 6 a. m., The railroads will give the privilege of On Friday, at Fort Myer, Va., there or the lunch hour may be changed so that reduced rates to alumni and members of will be a special cavalry drill, arranged afternoon laboratory periods and classes their families, provided at least 250 will for the entertainment of those attending will begin at 1 p. m. instead of 2 p. m. Of present "convention certificates" at the the convention. The election of directors of the corpora- tion will be an important item on the pro- gram on Friday. Nominations have been made from each of the twelve districts, and the selection will be made at the conven- tion. After these directors have been elected, they will in turn elect three directors-at-large, to make up the full board of fifteen members. The nominations for the twelve districts are as follows: District No. 1, Central New York, Thomas I. S. Boak, '14; District No. 2, Metropolitan New York, R. H. Shreve, '02; District No. 3, Eastern New York, Charles A. Taussig '02; District No. 4, Western New York, John L. Collyer '17; District No. 5, New England, Arthur P. Bryant '00; District No. 6, Middle Atlantic, Alfred D. Warner, Jr. '00; District No. 7, Keystone, Mrs. Frederick A. Weisenbach (Clara Ottilia Koeller) '07, and Benjamin O. Frick '02; District No. 8, Southern, Henry M. Eaton '90; District No. 9, Great Lakes, Conant Van Blarcom '08; District No. 10, Central, CREED W. FULTON '09 Newton C. Farr '09; District No. 11, C. RODMAN STULL '07 Chairman of the Convention Committee (Continued on page 100) President of the Alumni Corporation 98 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS course either of these adjustments requires man's kickoff to Dartmouth's forty-three- Second Period careful study before it can be presented as yard line. That first pass grounded, but The second quarter opened with a practical solution. Wolff ran through left tackle for a first Mauritz Johnson intercepting Wolff's The failure of the City of Ithaca to down on Cornell's forty-one-yard mark. pass on Cornell's forty-yard line and adopt a similar daylight saving period is Marsters added six yards through the running fifteen yards before he was down. seen as one of the principal causes for the other side of the line. Another pass went Line plays failed, and Anderson kicked. decision of the Faculty. Even if the City wild, but the next aerial resulted in the Marsters punted back, after he was thrown were favorable, it would have to conform first touchdown. It was the sixth play of for a loss by Lyon, but Longnecker inter- with a State law which limits the daylight the game. cepted a Cornell forward, running out of saving time period from the last Sunday The ball was on Cornell's thirty-five- bounds at midfield. in April to the last Sunday in September. yard line, and it was fourth down. Wolff The Green reached Cornell's thirty- The University period, as first proposed, went back, pivoted, and hurled a perfect five-yard line, and Marsters kicked, was to operate several weeks before and pass to Marsters on Cornell's twenty-yard Andres, Green center, downing the ball on after this period available for cities by law. line, and the Green star went across the CornelΓs four-yard line. Anderson kicked Recently, leaders in Cornell sports ex- goal line. Longnecker's placement made to Marsters, who ran to the Red and pressed favorable reactions to the day- the score: Dartmouth 7, Cornell o. White twenty-eight-yard marker. A light saving time period, declaring in After the next kickoff by Wakeman, fifteen-yard penalty was overcome by a interviews that it had proved beneficial Dartmouth worked the ball back to the pass, Marsters to Booma, and Henry to Cornell teams as well as offering an Red and White twenty-seven-yard line, Johnson plunged through for a first down opportunity for casual athletics and gen- when a fifteen-yard penalty set the Green on Cornell's fourteen-yard line. Wolff eral outdoor recreation which has been back. Wolff fumbled a pass from center, went through to the seven-yard stripe. enthusiastically received and used. recovering the ball on Dartmouth's forty- Passes failed and Cornell won the ball on five-yard line. It was second down, forty downs on its own five-yard line. Anderson yards to go, and Marsters punted out of kicked out of danger. ATHLETICS bounds on Cornell's forty-yard stripe. Marsters took that kick back fifteen The Cornell drive started, helped along yards to Cornell's thirty-yard line. He Dartmouth Wins by frequent penalties for offside play passed to Booma for nine yards. Booma called against the Green forwards. Scott Dartmouth was too fast and too clever took another pass, this time from Wolff, plunged through center for a first down at for Cornell. Before a crowd estimated at for six yards and a first down on Cornell's midfield. In two plays the Cornell full- 25,000 on Schoellkopf Field last Saturday, fifteen-yard line. back gained six yards, and Lyon added the Green eleven from Hanover, led by its The next play was a pass, but the ball seven yards on Dartmouth's thirty-seven- backfield stars, Al Marsters and Shep struck the earth some distance from the yard marker.