VOL. XXVI, No. 39 [PRICE TWELVE CENTS] JULY, 1924 Dean Albert R. Mann >04 Chosen to Start Work of International Edu- cation Board in Europe More Class Representatives De- scribe Individual Celebrations at Recent Reunions Professor Emejitus "Teefy" Crane Celebrates Eightieth Birthday in Ithaca on July 12 Another Fakir Uses Knowledge of Cornell and Ithaca to Borrow Money in Chicago Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August at 123 West State Street, Ithaca, New York. Subscription $4.00 per year. Entered as second class matter May 2, 1900, u nder the act of March 3, 1879, at the postoffi ce at Ithaca, New York. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS PROVIDENCE HARTFOKD Hemphill, Noyes (3& Co. 37 Wall Street, New York Trustee Executor ESTABROOK & Co. 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Y., JULY 1924 PRICE 12 CENTS UMMER School registration this "The Next Step in American Cooperation" nell; the other two Cornellian Yellens are year, not allowing for duplications, by Dr. Edwin G. Nourse of the Institute Max M. Ί8 and Irving '22. A sixth S is 2,281. The final figure for last of Economics, Washington, D. C.; "Land brother is a sophomore at Yale. an Problems in Ireland" by Professor John year was 1,894, d it is thought that this RUSSELL D. BLACK Ί6 has been ap- T. Falconer, head of the Department of year's final count will considerably exceed pointed by the Ithaca planning and zoning that. Seventy-two are registered in the Farm Economics, Ohio State University; commission to map out a general plan of Summer Session in Law, 59^ in Agricul- and "The Pittsburgh-Plus Plan; and the improvement to carry out the provisions ture, and 1,612 in the general Summer General Theory of Markets," by Professor of the zoning law adopted last year. For Session. Frank A. Fetter, Ph.M. '92, of Princeton. six years Black has been engaged in city A FIRE at the cleaning establishment of THE SAGE CHAPEL Preacher for July planning in Akron, Ohio, Ventura, Venice, Holland Brothers on East Seneca Street 13 was the Rev. Dr. John A. Macintosh, and Palo Alto, California, and also with on June 21 cost the life of one employee of the McCormick Theological Seminary, the United States Reclamation Service in and did considerable damage to the plant. Chicago, formerly minister of the First building the model town of American A SEVERE wind storm struck Ithaca ear- Presbyterian Church of Ithaca. Falls, Idaho. ly in the morning of June 21, and another EARL E. ATKINSON, proprietor of the A NEW BUILDING has been started, just on June 28 blew down trees and wires, and Atkinson Press, which has printed many to the rear of Conservatory Hall off De- severely damaged several residences in the of the Cornell publications, has bought the Witt Park to house the admin stration city and surrounding country. building at 106 East State Street now offices of the Ithaca Conservatory of DEAN DEXTER S. KIMBALL has been occupied by The Parisian, a women's Music. Plans call for a three-story build- appointed receiver for the Ithaca Traction furnishing store, and will move his shop ing to cost approximately $50,000. Corporation and sole operating head of the to that location about September i. The BAPTISM on July 13 in the chapel of the line as the outcome a long struggle to put Parisian expects to go to the corner store George Junior Republic of Julia Tucker the company on its feet. In the course now occupied by the Ithaca Savings Kirkland, daughter of Joseph B. Kirkland of the events which led up to his appoint- Bank when the latter institution moves to Ί8 and Eleanor M. George Kirkland '20, ment the Ithaca Trust Company started its new building. and granddaughter of "Daddy'" George, action against the Corporation on a THE FAMILY of Herbert E. Banta '26, founder of the Republic, was the closing mortgage which it holds against the prop- who died as the result of an automobile ceremony of a three-day reunion of Re- erty, and Professor Robert F. Chamber- accident on L^niversity Avenue, have public alumni. Kirkland is the director of lain Ό8 of the School of Electrical Engi- brought suit against the City of Ithaca for the Republic. neering rendered a detailed report after $25,000. The car in which Banta was WALLACE HICKOCK, who has for the a thorough inspection of the property, in riding on November 7 went over the em- past thirteen years been physical director which he advocated replacement of rolling bankment at the west side of University of the Ithaca Y. M. C. A., has announced stock and extensive repairs to the lines. Avenue and he sustained a fractured spine, his resignation on Septen ber 1 to accept THREE CONVENTIONS met at the Uni- which caused his death after a long illness. a similar position at Eornell. versity simultaneously the last week-end A POLICEWOMAN, Miss Alice E. Ellis, JOHN QUINE, who for two years has in June. Two hundred delegates from a graduate of the University of California, been vocal director at the Ithaca Conserv- every part of the country were entertained has been added to Ithaca's police force, atory of Music, has announced his resig- at a conference on home economics ex- after special training on the police force nation at the close of the school's summer tension before going to Buffalo the next of New York. session to return to concert work in New week for the annual meeting of the Ameri- York, where he will also take a limited can Home Economics Association. At THE CORNELL Summer School players number of pupils. the same time more than a thousand opened their season on July n, presenting youngsters arrived at the College of Agri- in the Campus Theater "A Door Must be DR. BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, formerly culture for their annual field days. They Either Open or Closed," by De Musset, of the Faculty and president emeritus of were quartered in the dormitories and translated from the French by Albert the University of California, was in Ithaca their program included a track meet and Graeser '21; "Riders to the Sea" by recently and addressed the local Rotary wiener roast as well as instruction by the Synge; and a slapstick comedy of married Club at its meeting on July 2. junior project specialists of the College. life by George Easton. The plays were THE CLINTON HOUSE, one of Ithaca's The New York State Federation of Horti- repeated on July 12. historic structures, dedicated by Governor cultural Societies and Floral Clubs also DELTA UPSILON is holding an "Alumni William H. Seward of New York in 1831, brought nearly a hundred delegates, in- House Party" at its house at 6 South Ave- and which for years ranked in all America cluding Fo R. Pierson of Tarrytown, nue for the Summer Session. The dining next to the Astor House in New York, is New York, originator of the Mrs. Calvin room is open and twenty-two alumni, receiving a new coat of paint, the first in Coolidge Rose. some with their families, are there for the twelve years. It is again to be yellow, Two ARMY OFFICERS, Second Lieuten- summer. Among other attractions is with white pillars in front of the balcony ants Theodore M. C. Osborne and Ralph listed the first and only fraternity veget- where as late as the sixties Ithaca bands A. Tudor, both of the Engineers' Corps able garden. gave Sunday night concerts. have been assigned by the War Depart- THE SEVENTH university degree to be MAJOR EDWIN C. KELTON, of the Engi- ment to Cornell for study under the pro- awarded to five brothers of the Yell en neers' Corps, United States Army, who visions of a new law enacted on June 7.