VOL. XXX, No. 20 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] FEBRUARY 16, 1928 Myron C. Taylor '94 is Appointed by Governor Smith to Board of Trustees Professor George Barger, Famous University of Edinburgh Chemist, Begins Baker Lectures Willard Beahan 78, Trustee for Two Terms and Long Prominent Among Alumni, is Dead Wrestlers and Fencers Win—Basket- ball Team Loses League Game to Pennsylvania 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 PROVIDENCE HARTFORD Don't Forget Ithaca r ESTABROOK & CO. on Your Sound Investments New York Boston Through Trips 24 Broad 15 State ROGER H. 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In this they were brilliantly Class of 1878, Was Long Active Series in Second Term successful, and whereas the cost of the in Cornell Affairs natural thyroxine was so great as seriously George Barger, professor of chemistry to interfere with its therapeutic applica- Willard Beahan, secretary of the Class in its relation to medicine in the Univer- tion, the synthetic product will now be of 1878, Alumni Trustee for two terms, sity of Edinburgh, will be the George available to all at a reasonable price. and one of the country's outstanding Fisher Baker Non-Resident Lecturer in railroad location engineers, died in Alma, Chemistry at Cornell during the second Michigan, on February 5, after a short term. He succeeds Professor Paul Walden illness. His home was in Cleveland, Ohio. of the University of Rostock. Mr. Beahan was one of Cornell's best Professor Barger, who is fifty years of known alumni. He graduated in 1878 age, studied in Holland and was demon- with the degree of B.C.E. He played on strator in botany in the University of the football team, and was voted the most Brussels, in 1901-3. He later attended popular man in his class. He was elected Cambridge University and the University Alumni Trustee in 1900, and again in of London, receiving the degree of Master 1909, for the five-year term. He was in of Arts from Cambridge in 1904, and that charge of the fifty-year reunion of his of Doctor of Science from London in the class to be held this June. same year. From 1903 to 1909 he was chemist in the Wellcome Physiological Recently he had been doing special Research Laboratories, and from 1904 to engineering work for the Nickel Plate and 1910 was a fellow of King's College Cam- Erie Railroads. From 1905 until 1924 he bridge. He was head of the Chemical was assistant engineer of the New York Department, Goldsmiths' College, from Central Railroad. 1909 to 1913, and held the professorship In his earlier days some of his engineer- of chemistry in Royal Hollo way College, ing experiences contained the thrills of University of London, in 1913-14. From fiction. At one time he ran a level on a 1914 to 1919 he was chemist on the staff locating party for the Texas and Pacific of the Medical Research Committee, and Railroad, where engineers worked with since 1919 has held his present position in one hand on a transit and the other on a the University of Edinburgh. rifle as protection against Indian raids. Professor Barger is widely known for Later he was in Chile doing locating and his investigations in the field of biochem- bridge engineering work when a revolu- tion broke out, and he was forced to cross istry, and particularly for his studies of In his lectures at Cornell during the the Andes on a mule. the secretions of the ductless glands, the present term, which all who may be in- hormones, those obscure but powerful terested are invited to attend, Professor He was a past president of the Cleve- land Engineering Society, and in 1926 was substances in the human body which have Barger will discuss the chemistry of so profound an influence upon our physical elected to honorary membership, an hormones, the chemistry of vitamins, and mental condition. honor given to only five engineers since synthetic drugs, chemo-therapy, the One of Professor Barger's most remark- 1921. The Society at the time of his last able investigations is that which he has theory of the action of certain substances illness was making arrangements for him recently completed in conjunction with as depending on residual valency, illus- to write his reminiscences for publication Dr. C. R. Harington of the University trated by the analogy of the blue of ad- in book form. He was also a member of College Hospital, London. Under-ac- sorption compounds of iodine, the action the American Society of Civil Engineers. tivity of the gland termed the thyroid of micro-organisms on carbohydrates and He is survived by his wife, who was causes a form of idiocy known as cretin- proteins, the chemistry of sugars, pro- Bessie B. DeWitt '78. Mrs. Beahan is a ism. In recent years it has been found teins, and purine derivatives, and al- member of the Cornellian Council. that this could be cured by the administra- kaloids. tion of thyroxine, the active principle of Professor Barger's introductory public the thyroid gland. This thyroxine was THE REPORT of Charles F. Adams, lecture was given in Baker Laboratory on extracted from the glands of sheep, but it treasurer of Harvard, to the Harvard Wednesday evening, February 15. The has been extremely expensive because of Board of Overseers shows that the total subject was "International Relations in the low yield—about one troy ounce from endowment of the university on June 30 Science." three tons of the glands. Professor last was $82,036,998.09. The operating Barger and Dr. Harington first took up 6 26 the study of the natural thyroxine, and expenses for the year were $9,3 5> 9 33 by prolonged investigation they as- PROFESSOR HENRY N. OGDEN '89, of the The receipts of the Harvard Athletic certained its chemical constitution and School of Civil Engineering, has been Association exceeded the expenses by structure. Once in possession of this elected president of the Ithaca Memorial $166,816.01. Football netted $453,295.36; knowledge, they next investigated the Hospital trustees. all other sports showed a deficit. 246 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Cornell in Dixie child '74 of Rochester, who is wintering in In the absence of Howard See '09, presi- Miami. dent of the Cornell Club of Atlanta, McFadden >22 Brings Greetings From WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.: On Wednes- Charles D. Orme '17, secretary, presided. day, January 18, at a luncheon meeting, University to Many Cornellians After a general discussion it was decided alumni discussed the organization of a in Southern States to call a business meeting of the club within Cornell Club in West Palm Beach.