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XXXII, No. 7 ITHACA, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 7, 1919 PRICE IX CENTS President Goes Abroad TAU BETA PI ELECTIONS Students Number 5,500 Fourteen seniors and three juniors in the College of Engineering, the College of Trustees Appoint Dean Dexter S. Kimball Enrollment Shows Increase of 185 Over Architecture, and the Department of of the College of Engineering Last Year—Women Registered Chemistry have been elected to Tau Beta in All But One College Acting President Pi, national honorary engineering society. The men chosen were: President and Mrs. Enrollment of students in each of the CIVIL ENGINEERING Farrand sailed Novem- colleges shows an increase of 185 students Frank Bissig '30, Elizabeth, N. J., Al- ber 1 from New York over last year. The total is 5500. There fred P. Windt '30, Rochester, Bruce W. for Italy where they are 1378 women, approximately twenty- Hackstaff '31, Huntington. will spend a vacation five percent of the entire enrollment. lasting until January. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Women are found in every college except They left Ithaca Octo- John B. Atwood '30, Beaver, Pa., Oscar Civil Engineering. Two women are ber 29. W. Diverall '30, Kenmore, George I. registered in the Veterinary College, three Except for a short Finley '30, Pittsburgh, Pa., William L. in Mechanical Engineering, and one in visit to Europe last Mann '30, York, Pa., Otto E. Schneider, Electrical Engineering. An increasing r year and a trip to Central America last Jr., '30, New York, Edgar J. Werlich '30, number of women are enrolling in the Col - winter, President Farrand has had no River Forest, 111., John A. Whittle, Jr., lege of Architecture. '30, Rochester, David Crampton '31, New extended vacation. The Trustees recently Increases in total enrollment are shown Rochelle, William F. Rountree '31, voted him leave to spend the next two by Arts and Sciences, Mechanical Engi- Houston, Texas. months in Italy. neering, Agriculture, Home Economics, The Trustees have appointed Dean ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Hotel Management, and the Law School. Dexter S. Kimball of the College of John R. Onderdonk, Jr., '30, Baltimore, Decreases appeared in the Schools of Civil Engineering as acting president in the ab- Md., Howard G. Smith '30, New Rochelle. Engineering and Electrical Engineering sence of Dr. Farrand. ARCHITECTURE and in the Veterinary College, and a small Shigeo Hirata '30, Tokyo, Japan. decrease was noted in the Medical Col- The appointment as acting president is lege in New York. The latter decrease is the second Dean Kimball has had. He CHEMISTRY due to the limited enrollment of the Col- first served in this capacity in 1918 when Willard T. Haskins '30, Binghamton, lege, and not to any lack of applicants. President Schurman went abroad for War James H. Vuille '30, St. Petersburg, Fla. service. Dean Kimball has been associated with Cornell since 1898, when he became assistant professor of machine design. He College Enrollment was appointed dean in 1920. Grad. '30 '31 '32 '33 Spec. Men Women Totals Dean Kimball has also been elected Graduate School 653 - — — — — 489 164 653 chairman of the board of directors of the Arts and Sciences Alexander Hamilton Institute. A.B 457 41 5 447 528 16 I2l6 747 1863 John T. Madden, dean of the School of B.Chem. — 20 21 22 Q4 2 o6 Commerce, Accounts, and Finance of New Law School 1^8 64 IQO 12 202 York University, was named president Medical College: succeeding to the vacancy created by the — New York . 218 2 — — — I86 34 220 death of Jeremiah W. Jenks, former pro- Ithaca I^ II 20 4 24 fessor of economics at Cornell. Architecture — 31 30 31 87* l6l 18 179 Engineering: — — PROFESSOR TOUT DIES C.E ... — 70 76 63 67 276 276 M.E — 76 ττ6 IO9 1^0 4^7 440 Professor Thomas Frederick Tout, pro- E.E ... - 56 54 67 66 — 242 I 243 fessor of history at the University of Man- Veterinary — 23 33 40 32 I 127 2 129 chester, England, from 1890 to 1925 and Agriculture ... - 148 140 129 266 I8 6ll 90 701 Messenger Lecturer at Cornell in 1928, Home Economics: died on October 23 at his home in London.