Vol. XXI, No. 18. [PEICE TWELVE CENTS] January 30, 1915 Delta Upsilon Fraternity House Badly Damaged by Fire Courtney, Collyer and Hoyle to Coach Cornell Oarsmen Five More Names Added to Cor- nell's Honor Roll J. H. Letsehe, jr., '20, Receives the Distinguished Service Cross Three Cornellians on Official List of Aces ITHACA, NEW YORK CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CASCADILLA The Farmers' Loan The Leading Preparatory School for CORNELL and Trust Company Published for the Associate Alumni of On the edge of the University Campus 16, 18, 20, 22 William St., New York Cornell University by the Cornell Alumni Branch 475 Fifth Ave. News Publishing Company, Incorporated. Good living. Athletics. Certificate Privilege. LONDON 16 paU Maαi East S W' α Published weekly during the college year ' 26 Old Broad Street, B.C. & and monthly during the summer forty issues Exceptional for College Entrance Work PARIS 41 Boulevard Haussmu* annually. Issue No. 1 is published the last A. M. 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Atwood, jr., Ferguson, Missouri; Rob- vas, with the help of a card index of un- Mechanical Engineers began a new year ert K. Fetter, Pearl River, N. Y.; Carl sold undergraduates and interested last week with a meeting at which Deaii V. Johnson, Hartford, Conn.; Gordon townspeople, and have brought the total Smith spoke on the aims and advantages John Mertz, C olden, N. Y. and Alex- membership of the association, by Tues- of the society, and Professor Eαmbal! ander Buel Trowbridge, jr., New York day evening, up to 1870. A canvas of on '/Modern Water Power," with lan- City. The one freshman representative the University Faculty, postponed partly tern pictures. The Cornell branch of the is E. W. Calloway, Baltimore. The through diffidence of the canvassers, and American Institute of Electrical En- president of the council, elected by the partly because of the feeling that much gineers has taken in six new members seniors, is William Morgan Kendall, of argument would be called .for in certain from the junior class: Warren H. Clarke, Buffalo, a student in Arts and Sciences, quarters, is likely to be the final effort. Baltimore; George G. Curtis, Rochester; who by virtue of his election becomes It is quite certain to exceed expectations, William L. Everitt, Peekskill, JSΓ. Y.; also president of the senior class. The and perhaps be the campaign that will Herman Halperin, Hamilton, Ohio; life secretary of the class of 1919 is give Cornell a schedule that compares Philip Ryan, Helena, Montana; and Ray- Charles George Seelbach, of Buffalo, a favorably with those of Harvard, Yale, mond A. Van Sweringen, Cleveland. student in the College of Agriculture. and Princeton, for many -oi: ilrj members of the Faculty are known to be devotees SKATING OVER TRIPHAMMER DAM is the CONTEARY TO EARLIER HOPES, the βdί- of intercollegiate sport. distinction achieved last week by Regi- tors of The Cornell Eeview have decided nald Waldo, a senior in civil engineer- not to resume publication this year. The COLONEL BARTON 'B RETURN to Cornell ing, whose home is in Campbell Hall, postponement is indefinite—until there is as professor of military science and tac- N. Y. With some college mates Waldo a more evident demand than at present tics is now assured. He will be released Λvas trying to see how near to the edge for a woman's magazine. If the Eeview from his present duties as soon as some he could skate without going over, some is not revived within five years, the ac- . matters pertaining to the S. A. T. C. in having gone near enough to wet their cumulated moneys now on hand will be the eastern district are adjusted. The skates in the water as i-t gushed out be- added to the woman's dormitory fund. date, though not set, is understood to be tween the dam and the ice. On his last not far distant. The decision gives great attempt he went a trifle too far on very TAU BETA Pi, the honorary engineer- satisfaction throughout the University. slippery ice, and then on down into the ing society, announces the election of pool at the foot of the fall, a distance of eleven new members, juniors and seniors THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT has so far twenty-five feet. He then climbed out, now at the University. Only students modified its former ruling as to admit uninjured, and went about his work as in architecture, chemistry, and engineer- freshmen to the field artillery. In this usual next day. ing are eligible. The new members are: way students who may look forward to in architecture, Kenneth Carver '20, commissions in the corps of cadets may AT A DINNER to be given under the au- Brooklyn, and Frederick E. Steffens '20, begin in their first year. All members spices of the Ithaca Board of Commerce Washington, D. C.; in chemistry, Willis of the artillery unit are required to take sometime in February, Jacob Rothschild, Elwin Martin '20, Newburgh, N. Y., and trigonometry. head of the firm of Rothschild Brothers, Morton P. Woodward '20, Norwood, will be the guest of honor. This dinner Ohio; in civil engineering, Henry John A POSTCARD written by Professor Lau- is the tribute of his associates to Mr. Benisch '20, Brooklyn, and Leon Gil- rence Pumpelly at Salonica on Decem- Rothschild for the noteworthy part that bert Clay '20, New Orleans; in mechani- ber 7 was received yesterday by one of he has borne through more than twenty- cal engineering, D wight B. Hendryx '20, his friends in Ithaca. He is serving as five years in the business^ civic, and Ithaca, Linus Emerson Kittridge '20, secretary and interpreter of an Ameri- philanthropic enterprises of Ithaca. Two Lockport, N. Y., George H. McCarthy can Red Cross commission which has compliments of like sorir have previous- '20, New York City, D wight L.