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Y., APRIL 16, 1914 PRICE 10 CENTS HE Board of Trustees of the Uni- Engeln of the department of geology versity will hold a meeting in and Professor Frank Carney of Deni- Ithaca on Saturday, May 2. son University from former students It is the board's custom to meet late in of Professor Tarr, and has been draw- April or early in May to attend to cer- ing interest for some time in a local tain business, such as faculty appoint- bank pending the selection of the ments, which require its attention be- boulder and the completion of the design. fore the end of the academic year. A DEBATE has been arranged between Cow, the Harvard Lampoon, and the Yale Record. The Princeton Tiger signified its intention of joining the proposed organization. The purposes of the organization provisionally agreed upon are : (1) To promote efficiency and gain the mutual benefits of an association; (2) to aid the advertiser by means of a standardization of type COLLEGE MEN of Honolulu are brought Janus, one of Cornell's honorary de- page and a uniform commission to together periodically by the Y. M. C. A. bating societies, and the Barnard Liter- agencies. The standard size proposed of the city, which has a series of"col- ary Society of Columbia. I t will be is that of Life. lege nights." On each night the men of held here on April 18. The Mexican a certain university provide the entertainment for the rest. Cornell men entertained on March 14. Professor J. M. Young Ό2, of the College of Hawaii, presided. He is on one of the policy of the present national administration will be the subject. APPOINTMENTS have been made to the Freshman Advisory Committee for T H E COSMOPOLITAN CLUB will have a "Brazilian night" next Saturday. Two more national nights are planned, to be in charge of the Filipinos and the Russians respectively. association's committees and is a member of the contracting firm which erected the building. " J a c k " Horner '13,former leader of the Glee Club, sang Cor- next fall. The committee will consist of twenty-one seniors and sixty-three juniors. The members from the class of 1916 were named by the chairman, T H E REV. FRANCIS G. PEABODY, D.D., of the Harvard Divinity School, will preach in Sage Chapel next Sunday. nell songs, and C. J. Hunn '08 gave R. W. White '15, upon the recommenda- THE FRATERNITIES are organizing a several stunts. Talks were given by tion of the 1915 men already on the baseball league. Professor Vaughan MacCaughey '08 and Professor A. L. Andrews '93, both of the College of Hawaii. Fifteen colleges committee. Each senior will have a sub-committee of three juniors. The 1915 men, besides Chairman White, are T H E SENIOR BANQUET will be held in the Armory on Friday, May 8. were represented at this meeting. J. T. Breneman, C. E. Carey, J. M. A VICTORY IN DEBATE was won by a Cashin, Stanley Coville, Arthur Dole, jr., Cornell team in competition with repre- DR. V. A. MOORE and Dr. S. H. Bur- G. B. Evans, jr., G. G. Inglehart, H. C. sentatives of George Washington Uni- nett were in Toronto last week, attend- Kelleran, Slocum Kingsbury, H. H. versity at Washington last Saturday. ing the meeting of the American Pathol- Micou, A. C. Minnix, J. E. O'Brien, Cornell was represented by Harold ogists and Bacteriologists. On Thurs- J. E. OΉearn, A. C. Peters, W. A. Riegelman, Remington Rogers and H. day morning Dr. Moore was in Buffalo, Priester, W. F. Rienhoff, jr., R. S. Saal- A. Wichelns, all of New York City, who going through certain of the packing field, C. W. Stephens, F. F. Stoneman, opposed the minimum wage proposition. houses with a company of senior stu- and H. T. Thurber. The decision of the judges was two to dents who expect to go into meat inspection. In the afternoon he gave an address at the organization of the Western New York Veterinary Medical Association. A MEMORIAL to the late Professor Ralph S. Tarr of the department of geology will soon be set up on the slope west of McGraw Hall. It will consist DEAN IRVINE has arranged a schedule which will permit him to meet his classes in the law school for the few weeks remaining of this term while attending to his duties as a public service commissioner. On Mondays and Tuesdays he will be in Albany and during the latter part of the week he will give his attention to the teaching. one in favor of Cornell. The Washington debaters had won two victories over the University of Pennsylvania before they met Cornell. Rear-Admiral Stockton, U. S. N., retired, president of George Washington University, presided at the debate. The judges were Dr.S. N. D. North, O. B. Nesbit and John Cushing. of a large boulder, which is now lying IN THE CONTEST for the Wood ford in Fall Creek, near Forest Home, and DELEGATES from six college humorous Prize in oratory, to be held on May 1, which will be fashioned into a seat. A publications at a recent meeting in New only five men will compete, instead of bronze tablet bearing a likeness of Haven decided to form an association six, as is customary. The five are H. Z. Professor Tarr and an inscription will with a view to aiding advertisers and Harris (law), of Rochester; HaroldRie- be set in theboulder. Mr.H. S. Outsell promoting the efficiency of the entire gelman (arts), of New York City; F. E. of the College of Architecture is now field of college publications. C. W. Rogers (agriculture) of Canandaigua designing the tablet. The fund to Stephens '15 represented the Widow. Remington Rogers (law), of Brooklyn, cover the expense of the memorial The other periodicals represented were and N. C. L. Zinssmeister (agriculture), was collected by Professor O, D,von the Columbia Jester, theWilliams Purple of Brooklyn. 344 C O R N E L L A L U M N I N E W S Marks of FraternityMen A Slightly Better Showing than in the Comparison Made TwoYearsAgo President Schurman has given out the results of an investigation of the standing of fraternity undergraduates in the final examinations for the first term of this year. A study has also been made of the comparative standing of non-fraternity undergraduates. The results are shown in the accompanying tables. The mark given for each fraternity or society was obtained by multiplying the TABLE A Average standing of fraternity men at the end of the first term of 1911-12 and at the end of the first term of 1913-14, with the number of men in each chapter at the latter date. Fraternity Acacia Alpha Chi Rho Alpha Delta Phi Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Psi Alpha Sigma Phi Alpha Tau Omega Alpha Theta Alpha Zeta Bandhu Beta Samach Beta Theta Pi Chi Phi Chi Psi Delta Chi Delta Kappa Epsilon Delta Phi Delta Tau Delta Delta Upsilon Eleusis Gamma Eta Gamma Kappa Alpha Kappa Delta Rho Kappa Psi Kappa Sigma Lambda Chi Alpha Nayati Omega Tau Sigma Phi Delta Theta Phi Epsilon Pi Phi Gamma Delta Phi Kappa Psi Phi Kappa Sigma Phi Sigma Kappa Pi Lambda Phi Psi Upsilon Seal and Serpent Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Chi Sigma Nu Sigma Phi Epsilon Sigma Phi Sigma Phi Sigma Skull Telluride Association Theta Chi Theta Delta Chi Theta Xi Zeta Beta Tau Zeta Psi Zodiac 1912 77.4 69.5 67.7 74.5 70.8 69.3 72.5 77 74.5 67.2 67.3 69.8 68.8 71.2 67.8 67.2 72.9 70.7 72 70 72.2 67.1 71.8 66.9 69.5 66.9 68.8 67.4 69.2 68.4 69.9 68.5 68.5 66.7 73.2 67.6 76.4 69 67.7 72.3 70.8 70.8 No, 7 28 42 33 34 27 37 37 28 25 13 36 34 30 26 40 37 27 42 26 21 27 29 18 41 30 25 37 36 10 32 25 32 36 19 37 32 39 29 34 26 23 33 20 27 26 37 27 22 30 28 1914 69.6 71.2 68 73.9 74 70 69 72.3 76.2 72.2 80.7 67.7 69.8 67.2 66.4 67 71.7 71.5 73.6 71.8 66.1 69.5 76.1 71 72.5 70.7 71.8 74.2 68.4 70.8 67.1 69.4 68.7 68.8 74.8 69.2 72.7 69.5 68.1 69.2 71 69.7 71.9 74.6 76 71.4 71.6 70.8 72.4 67 67.9 Grand Average ,, 70.7 mark of each member of the chapter in each course he took by the number of hours of University credit given for the course, adding these multiples together for the entire chapter, and dividing the total by the total number of University credit hours taken by all members of the chapter. This process gives a mark which is really the average mark' received by the chapter as a whole for each hour of work done by its members during the term. In Table A the omissions in the column for 1912 are dueto the fact that the TABLE B Percentage receiving a certain grade or better. In this table the percentages accumulate so that each per cent includes those which have gone before. FRATERNITY No. Total 55 3% reed. 90 or better 42 47 3 . 1 % " 85 " " 158 205 13.6% " 80 259 464 30.9% " 75 " " 333 798 52.6% " 70 " " 324 1122 74.9% " 65 " 224 1346 89.8% " 60 " " 116 1462 97.6% " 55 " " 35 1497 100 % " 50 " " NON-FRATERNITY 5 5 1.6% reed. 90 24 29 9• 6% " 85 42 71 23• 6% " 80 71 142 47• 3% " 75 73 215 71• 6% " 70 43 258 86 % " 65 26 284 94• 6% " 60 11 295 98• 3% " 55 300 100 % 50 1911-12 1233 men—70 TABLE C Final average FRATERNITY 1913-14 % *1497 men—70.7% NON-FRATERNITY 262 men—73.9% 300 men—74.2% *The total number of fraternity men returned was 1520; of these 23 were omitted because they had no bearing upon the final average. TABLE D Average for classes, 1913-14, in percentages. Senior Junior Sophomore Freshman FRAT. 72.4 71.4 69.1 70 NON-FRAT. 75.2 75.1 72.4 74.1 TABLE E Average for colleges, 1913-14, in percentages. Arts Agriculture Architecture Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Law Veterinary FRAT. 70.8 71.8 72.9 68.9 70.8 65.7 73.9 NON-FRAT. 76.7 75.4 75.6 69.9 73.5 68.6 75.8. fraternity mentioned was not then in existence. The average mark per hour for the 1,497 men in the fraternities and societies is 70.7 per cent. This average is slightly higher than the average shown two years ago by an investigation of the marks of 1,233 fraternity men. The average then was 70.02 per cent. For purpose of comparison an effort was made to determine, as nearly as practicable, the average mark per hour of men in undergraduate courses who were not members of fraternities. Because of the large number of these men and the labor that would have been involved in determining the average for each of them, a shorter method which was used two years ago was followed. The computation was made of the average mark of only enough men undergraduates not members of fraternities to form a significant percentage of all the men undergraduates in the University not members of fraternities. The names of 300 of these were chosen in the following arbitrary manner : At regular intervals marks were placed opposite the names of persons on each page of the Student List. If the person opposite whose name the mark happened to fall was a male undergraduate, not a member of a fraternity, his name was used in the computation; but if the person was a graduate student, a member of a fraternity, or a woman, then the name of the nearest male undergraduate not a member of a fraternity was selected for the computation. The average mark per hour of the 300 men thus selected, computed in the same manner as in the case of the fraternity men, was 74.2 per cent. It will be seen by a reference to Table C that this average mark for 300 nonfraternity men is slightly higher than the average mark for 262 non-fraternity men in 1911-12. A general comparison shows that the average mark of the fraternity men is 3J per cent below the average mark of the non-fratertiity men. In the list of fraternities and societies will be noticed several whose average mark is considerably above the fraternity average, some even above the non-fraternity average. Some of these are professional societies, or organizations which draw their members from a single college. For example, Alpha Psi and Omega Tau Sigma are made up of students of the Veterinary College, and CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 345 Alpha Zeta is an agricultural society. New Drill Hall Authorized Militia. It would appear that no One of the most significant results of Governor Glynn Signs Bill for a Struc- higher duty could rest on the state the comparison is made between fra- ture to Cost $350,000 than to see that it had among the ternity and non-fraternity menasto Governor Glynn last week signed younger men ofthe state enough trained the character of the marks received. the bill making an appropriation for a men to properly officer such a force as That is to say, an effort was made to drill hall for the cadet corps at Cornell it might be called upon tofurnish. With observe what proportion of each group University. The total appropriation properly trained officers, the citizen receive various grades ofmarks. It was authorized bythe bill is $350,000. The volunteer is not called upon to swell found that only about one-third of one Trustees areauthorized to contract for the death roll ofcamps, and has in front per cent of the fraternity men .ranked the building of such a structure at the of him only the soldier's chance in better than 90 per cent on the term's expense of the state, and fortheir pres- actual battle. No better recruiting work, whereas, of the non-fraternity ent use the bill appropriates $50,000. ground forthe officers of the Organized men whose marks were investigated, When theTrustees voted to ask for Militia could be found than among the more than oneand one-half per cent this appropriation they committed to graduates of the universities which attained that high grade. For those Charles E. Treman '89, of Ithaca, the have the facilities for and devote the ranking above 85 per cent the com- duty of presenting the case before the proper time, even the minimum of parison is even more striking, theper- proper authorities at Albany. After three hours a week for twoyears, to centage of fraternity men being about Governor Glynn signed the bill hesent military instruction. * * * * three, while that of non-fraternity men the pen with which he had signed it It is not too much to expect that a is nearly ten. Above 80percent, the to Mr. Treman, who says he is going state which has provided in such a difference is still great, 13.6 per centof to turn it over to the University. handsome manner for its citizen soldiers fraternity men and 23.6 of non-fraternity The new drill hall will be built on the by building many fine armories costing men attaining that grade. A little more Campus, butthe site has not yet been in theaggregate many millions of dol- than half of the total number of frater- selected. Several places are being con- lars, will, when the matter is brought nity men averaged better than 70 per sidered and a selection will be made to the attention of itslegislature, make cent intheir marks, while the proportion before long. The hall will be large, such provision for an adequate armory of the non-fraternity men who stood probably not less than 200 by300 feet, here, as will put new life into the mili- higher than 70 per cent was nearly but the proportions will perhaps de- tary instruction, and will enable the three-fourths. pend upon the character of the site college tocarry out inmorefittingman- The average for classes, shown in which isfinallychosen. ner *ts patriotic endeavor to qualify Table D, brings out onething which Cornellians are probably familiar with its students to bethe best of the com- President Schurman called attentionto, the fact that the University hasbeen pany officers needed for the future namely, that the sophomore year is the unable for several years to meet the volunteer troops of this great state." critical year. The averages show that requirements of the War Department is true both for fraternity and non-fra- with respect to military instruction, ternity men, although thefact is more but they may be interested in reading Dean ofthe Graduate School strikingly brought out in the case of again what an inspecting officer said Prof. Creighton Elected by theFaculty fraternity men. It isinteresting tonote about the situation a few yearsago. to Succeed Prof. Merritt that freshmen not members of fraterni- In 1909 Captain Penn, of theGeneral The Faculty of the Graduate School ties average practically as high as the Staff, in his report to the War Depart- has voted to recommend to the Board whole number of non-fraternity men ment, said : of Trustees that Dr. James Edwin whose records were used in the compu- "The tone and traditions of the Uni- Creighton, professor of logic and met- tation. The results seem to show, with versity are of thehighest order. The aphysics in the Sage School of Phil- regard to non-fraternity men, that the results of the brief training given are osophy, be elected Dean of the Grad- freshman average ishigh, that the soph- most gratifying considering thelack of uate School. Thepresent dean,Pro- omore average shows a decline, that in the ordinary facilities for proper in- fessor Ernest Merritt '86, resigned sev- the junior year a high standing is re- struction. The original limitation of eral months ago and his resignation gained, and that a further improvement instruction to the freshman classwas will take effect in June. The recom- is shown in thesenior year. With re- due to the absence of proper armory mendation by the Faculty is virtually gard to fraternity men, similar relative facilities to accommodate twoclasses. equivalent to election. Two years ago standings are shown until the senior The present armory is inadequate in President Schurman, in a report to the year, when there is a tendency to fall size to accommodate even the fresh- Trustees, proposed that the Faculties somewhat below the grade of the junior man class, if it were not for thelarge of the Graduate School and the College year. excused list. * * * of Arts and Sciences be permitted to The table of averages for separate colleges is interesting as showing that the difference in average between fraternity and non-fraternity men may be "The main object of the militaryin- choose their own deans and the Trustees struction given at theschools and col- approved the suggestion. Last year leges is to qualify the students to be the Faculty of the College of Arts and company officers of the Infantry Volun- Sciences did select a dean, inthe person teer and Militia. A warwith a first of Professor Nichols. observed throughout the University. class power would necessitate a callfor Professor Creighton was born in In some colleges the differences are not at least 300,000 Volunteers in addition Nova Scotia in 1861. He is anA.B. of so great as in others. to the Regular Army and Organized Dalhousie College, Halifax (1887), and 346 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS a Ph.D. of Cornell (1892). He studied to the stammering impostor, and many Professors toOrganize also at Leipzig and Berlin. In 1903 others have read the warnings against Committee Named to Form a National Queen's University, at Kingston, On- him andhave avoided being swindled Association of University Teachers tario, made him a Doctor of Laws. He by him. He has traveled from New Science for March 27 contains the has taught at Cornell since 1889 and England to California andfrom Texas announcement of the appointment of has been a professor since 1895. He to Michigan. Inthe fall of 1911 he was a committee of twenty-five to under- has been American editor of Kant- arrested in'Detroit and sent to jail for take theformation of a national asso- Studien since 1896, and formany years ninety days. After that theNEWSre- ciation of university professors. The editor of the Philosophical Review. He ceived no complaint about him until committee has been appointed by Pro- is a member of the American Philosophi- his recent visit to Kansas City. fessor Maurice Bloomfield, of Johns cal Society and wasits president in His arrest and imprisonment there Hopkins University, who was the chair- 1902-3. are due to J. W.Taussig '08, who re- man of a conference of eighteen dele- membered the articles in the NEWS three gate professors held at Baltimore last Stammering Swindler in Jail years ago and suspected that ''Alvin November andwho there received his Swift, of Chicago, a Cornell man," who instructions to name such a committee. Arrested in Kansas City and Sentenced wanted to borrow money from him to The twenty-five men on this organiza- for 400 Days get to Oklahoma City on March31, tion committee were chosen from the On Page 348 is a police photograph was the person whohad buncoed so faculties of sixteen universities. It of Alvin N. Fisher, alias Edward A. many three years ago. Hissuspicion was intended that they should repre- Hudson, alias R. L. Swift, alias R. L. was increased by thefact that "Swift" sent the principal subjects of study and Holms, alias R. L. Freeborn, alias Irv- had a bad stammer. A detective the principal universities. They are : ing B. Chittenden, alias John H. Earns, was employed anda trap was set for Astronomy, George C. Comstock, (Wis.); alias Ryerson T. Crane, alias George H. the man. Heproved himself to be an Biological Sciences, E. G. Conklin Fuller, alias George B. Smithers. Fisher impostor. (Princeton), R. G.Harrison (Yale) and is the stammering impostor who forthe Fisher is said tohave been in Kansas Theodore Hough (Virginia); Classical last five years has been preying on the City in 1911, using the name "Chitten- Philology, E. Capps (Princeton) Chem- sympathy of Cornell men and others in den." Hecalled on theFreebornEn- istry, Julius Stieglitz (Chicago); Eco- all parts of the country. gineering & Construction Company, nomics, M.A. Aldrich (Tulane), Alvin The photograph was taken in Kansas the president ofwhich is a Cornell man, S. Johnson (Cornell); Education and City, Mo., where Fisher is now a pris- and obtained $15 with a hard-luck Psychology, John Dewey (Columbia); oner. He was sentenced in police court story. Later he used the name Free- Engineering, Guido Marx (Stanford); there on April 4 to pay a fine of $200 born in getting money from a repre- English, J. W. Bright, (Johns Hopkins), and in default of payment was committed sentative of the Robert W. Hunt En- C. M. Gayley (California); Geology, to the municipal farm for 400 days. He gineering Company in Chicago. As W. H. Hobbs (Mich.); Germanic Phil- had been playing hisoldgame of try- Freeborn, again, he ordered a carload ology, M. G. Learned (Perm.); History, ing to borrow money. The charge made of cement for the Freeborn company W. E. Dodd (Chicago); Law, Roscoe against him by the police was vagrancy. from the A. B. Meyer Building Material Pound (Harvard); Mathematics, C.J. They are advertising the fact that they Company in Indianapolis and got a Keyser (Columbia), Henry Taber (Clark), have him, in case anybody has a more small amount of money from them. Medicine, C. S. Minot (Harvard);Ori- serious charge to make against him. He ordered several tons of reinforce- ental Languages, Morris Jastrow (Penn) In 1910 and 1911 the ALUMNI NEWS ment steel from theE. M. Burr Com- Philosophy, A. O. Lovejoy (Johns Hopwas able to follow Fisher's travels pany of Champaign, 111. The steel was kins), Frank Thilly (Cornell); Physics, about thecountry closely, and warned not shipped, but he is supposed tohave C. E.Mendenhall (Wis.); Political Sci- Cornell men against him. His method obtained mdhey from that company ence, Isidor Loeb (Missouri); Romance was to call at a Cornell man's office, also. Philology, F. M.Warren (Yale). Pro- introduce himself asa Cornell graduate, After his arrest in Kansas City the fessor Dewey hasconsented to act as and ask for a loan onthe plea that he man admitted that he had been in chairman. had lost his pocketbook on the train. jail in Detroit three years ago and that The committee, Sciencesays, maybe As he stammers badly, he usually wrote he had been arrested in Houston, Tex., expected tobegin at once the considera- what hehad to say onhotel notepaper and Los Angeles. tion of the questions submitted to it. and sent the letter to his intended vic- He is now in a place where he will be The first step toward theforming of tim before calling inperson. He usually harmless formore than a year tocome, the proposed association was taken in had a plausible story about being on probably, but it would bewell forCor- the spring of 1913, when a circular his way to some other city where he nell men to remember his description. letter, signed by most of thefull prohad a job awaiting him as an engineer. He is twenty-five years old, about six fessors ofthe Johns Hopkins University He had some knowledge of Cornell, feet tall, and of slender build. He has was sent to members of the faculties which he may have obtained here, for brown hair and blue eyes. The third of nine other universities, inviting them a boy named Alvan N. Fisher was ad- finger of his left hand has been amputated to consider the advisibility of forming a mitted to the University on certificate at the first joint. And hestammers. national association of university pro- from a western school in 1906 and re- fessors, and to send delegates to an in- mained here for a part of one year. THE PICTURE on the cover shows formal conference for thediscussion of Many Cornell men have given money Stimson Hall and a part of Boardman. the matter. The letter contained the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 347 following statement of the reasons actuating the signers of it : The reasons which seem to demand the formation of such an association are fairly evident. The university teacher is professionally concerned with two distinct, though related, interests. Both of these interests canbe furthered by cooperation and the interchange of views, and therefore, by organization; for only one of them has suitable organization yet been attained. As scholar and investigator the teacher is interested in the advancement of learning and thediffusion of knowledge in his specialty; and cooperative effort for these ends is already effectively organized, through our numerous technical societies and the several sections of the American Association. But the university professor is also concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his local institution, with many questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance; heis a member of a professional body which is the special custodian of certain ideals, and the organ for the performance of certain functions essential to the well-being of society; and concerning the character, efficiency, public influence andgood repute of this body he cannot be indifferent. It is on this side that there isneed formore definite and more comprehensive organization. The general purposes, therefore, of the contemplated association would be to promote a more general and methodical discussion of theeducational problems of the university; to create means for the authoritative expression of thepublic opinion of the profession; and to make possible collective action, on occasions when such action seems called for. A favorable response wasreceived in all cases. The proposed conferencewas held in Baltimore on November 17, 1913, on the eveof the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. It was attended by eighteen delegates, from the following universities : Clark (Professors Taber and Webster); Co- lumbia (Professors Cattell andDewey); Cornell (Professors Bennett and Nichols) Harvard (Professor Minot) Johns Hop- kins (Professors Ames, Bloomfield, Love- joy, Morley); Princeton (Professors Capps, Kemmerer, Warren); Wisconsin (Professors Cole, Marlatt), and Yale INTERIOR OF SAGE CHAPEL, LOOKING TOWARD THE EAST END Photograph by J. P. Troy (Professors Harrison, Mendel). After FUERTES PRIZE SPEAKING Warren Packard '14, M.E., "The prolonged discussion of the whole subject it was unanimously voted that the organization of theproposed association should be undertaken; and the chairman, Professor Bloomfield, wasauthorized to appoint a committee, representing the principal subjects of study and the principal universities, (a)to determine what professors, or classes of professors, should be invited to attend a meeting, to beheld at some time during the current year, for the formal establishment of the association; (b) to determine thetime and place of this meeting, and (c) to prepare a draft of a constitution. The Fuertes Memorial prize speaking Application of Electricity to the Mod- contest will be held Friday night in ern Motor Car." Sibley Dome. Seven men have been H. B. Pope '14,C.E., "The Develop- chosen from the fifteen upperclassmen ment of the Water Power ofFall Creek." who entered the contest. Five ofthe S. A. Pope '14, M.E., "Vacuo Hot speakers are registered in Sibley College, Water Heating." one is from the College of Civil En- C. W. Worcester '14, Architecture, gineering, and one is from the College "The Reasonableness of a City Plan." of Architecture, upperclassmen from Adlai Coble '15, M.E., "The Fanchetti these three colleges only being eligible Horizontal Engine vs. the Diesel Engine." for the contest. The men who -will This contest was held last year for speak andtheir subjects are as follows : the first time. It was founded by Charles Y. T. Chen '14, M.E., "The Bulk- Hinckley Baker, C.E., '86, of New York, head vs. the Bulkhead Door." and was named in honor of the late B. P. Goldman '14, M.E:, "The Professor E. A.Fuertes. The first prize Stumpf Una-Flow Steam Engine." is $100 and the second$20. 348 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS SUBSCRIPTION—$3.00 PER YEAR Published by theCornell Alumni News Publishing Company. John L. Senior, President; Woodford Patterson, Secretary and Treasurer. 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He has borrowed money from many Cornell men in various parts of the country in the last five years. He is now in jail in Kansas City. See Page 346. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS, Ithaca, N. Y. back as a class for Navy Day, May 23. 4 minutes 44 4-5 seconds, and the made WOODFORD PATTERSON Editor. The secretary, R. E. Treman, sent out a record of 52 3-5 seconds in the440return postcards to find out which day yard dash. Watt was the "anchor" of ROBERT W. WHITB Business Manager the members preferred. He received the winning team in the four-mile relay about 125 replies, and the great ma- race. His team made a new record, R. A. B. GOODMAN Assistant Editor. jority of those who replied were in favor of meeting with the rest of the classes in June. So far as we have and he ran the last mile in 5 minutes 4 2-5 seconds. C. J. Hunn '08, of the Cornell Club, was the referee of both Printed at the shop of The Cayuga Press heard, no other class has contemplated meets, and several other Cornell men a reunion at any other time than the were among the officials. The Hono- regular one. Those which have reunions lulu newspapers reported the games at Entered as Second-Class Matter at Ithaca, N.Y. this year are '69, 74, 79, '84, '89,'94, great length. '99, '04, '09, andΊ l . ITHACA, N E W YORK, APRIL 16, 1914 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA α CORNELL CLUB OF HAWAII ORNELL alumni will, we are sure, be pleased by the news that Governor Glynn has approved the bill providing for a drill hall on the Campus large enough to enable the University to do the work in military science and tactics which the War Department expects of it. Of course the State of New York will be thereal beneficiary by the passage of the bill, but Cornell men have been more familiar than most citizens with the difficulty under which the military instruction has been given, and are better able to estimate the benefit. Very successful interscholastic track meets were held in Honolulu last month, one of them under the auspices of the Cornell Club of Hawaii, and both of them for trophies presented by that club. The first of the events consisted of the annual relay games, inaugurated last year by the Cornell Club. That event took place on March 14. A week later the annual interscholastic track meet was held. The boys of OahuCollege won first place in both meets. Other schools competing were Kamehameha, McKinley High, Mills, St. Louis College, andtheCollege of Hawaii. Several Hawaiian interscholastic records were Officers were elected recently by the Cornell University Club of Southern California, for 1914-15, as follows : President, Stuart J. Flintham '03; vicepresident, Harold H. Clark ΌO; secretary and treasurer, T. K. Gaily '13. The annual meeting of the club was held on March 17 at the Union League Club of Los Angeles. WOMEN'S CLUB OF ROCHESTER The regular monthly meeting of the Cornell Women's Club of Rochester was held on April 3 at the home of Miss Lillian Coleman '94. Those present were Mrs. E. Roy Bowerman '10, Mrs. William H. Burr '99, Mrs. Charles W. T H E CLASS OF 1909 has voted to have broken, two of the new records being Curtis '88, Mrs. George E. Gardner '96, its reunion with the rest of the classes, made by John Watt, of Oahu, who ex- Miss Eleanor Gleason '03, Miss Mary that is, on the 12th and 13th of June. pects to enter Cornell next year. In C. Gillette '01, Miss Ruth P. Heughes There had been some talk of coming the track meet Watt ran the mile in '13, Miss Alice R. May Όl, Miss Elsa CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 349 Neipp '13, Miss Edna Proseus Ό3, Miss Jessie Ray Ό2, and Mrs. Marvin Thorne '02. The president of the association is Mrs. William F. Donoghue (Mary Heughes) '02; the secretary and treasurer is Miss Alice May '01. T. C. POWER, Helena, Mont., President I. P. BAKER, Vice-President G. H. RUSS, Jr., Ό3, Cashier BISMARCK BANK BISMARCK, N. D. Stem? ^rijπΰ AN ENDOWED PREPARATORY SCHOOL Illustrated Bookon Request Thomas Stockham Baker, Ph.D., Port Deposit, Md. Issues certificates of deposit, drawing BIG SMOKER THIS WEEK 5 per cent interest per annum. Interest Bring Your Dollar to the Aldine Club payable semi-annually. A poster designed by Andre Smith has been mailed to give notice of the Cornell Smoker which will be held at Depository for the State Dakota, County of Burleigh of Bismarck. of North and City the Aldine Club inNew York on Satur- Correspondence invited day night of this week. It declares that nothing serious is intended, just an old-fashioned dollar smoker for Cornell men, with a talk by President Schur- HERBERT G. OGDEN E. E., '97 man, and singing by old Glee Club men. Attorney and Counsellor at Law The Aldine Club is on the top floor Patents and Patent Causes The Mercersburg Academy PREPARES FOR ALL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES : AIMS AT THOROUGH S C H O L A R S H I P , BROAD ATTAINMENST AND CHRISTIAN MANLINESS ADDRESS WILLIAM MANN IRVINE, Ph.D. President of the Fifth Avenue Building, at Fifth 2 RECTOR STREET Avenue and Twenty-third Street. The NEW YORK MERCERSBURG. PA. club's large quarters will be given up to the Cornell men that night. Things will begin happening about eightthirty. The only charge will be one dollar, which will cover eats, drinks and smokes. Frederick Robinson EAST STATE STREET Photographer for Senior Class 1914 Cascadilla School ITHACA, N. Y. Preparation for Cornell in accordance Bring your dollar tothe Aldine Club. CORNELL LUNCHEONS THE NEWS would be glad to receive material for a directory of the weekly luncheons arranged for Cornell men in various cities. A corrected list will be GEORGE S.TARBELL Attorney and Notary Public LAW BUSINESS IN ITHACA Promptly and carefully attended to Trust Company Building, Ithaca, N. Y. with Cornell standards. All prescribed entrance subjects; some Freshman subjects. Winter session opens January 7; the second semester, February 13th. published at intervals. Following is a list which may be incomplete : Baltimore.—Every Monday, 12:30 to 2 o'clock, at Krause's Restaurant, 113 West Fayette Street. Chicago.—Every Thursday, 12:30 o'clock, at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Dinner the first Friday of every month Hundreds ofGraduates have Name Plates and Business Dies on file at Vogelsang's, 6:30 o'clock. Detroit.—Every Thursday, 12 to 1 in our Safes o'clock, at the Edelweiss Cafe. New York.—Downtown Lunch Club, every Wednesday, 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock, at the Machinery Club, 50 Church Street Portland, Oregon.—Every Tuesday at the new University Club. St. Louis.—Every Tuesday, 12:30 to 1:30 o'clock, at Lippe's Restaurant. They—many of them—order from time totime cards and stationery made from these, but there are plenty who don't and we wonder if they remember that we have these here ready for use. THE STUDENTS of the department of chemistry have decided to enter the collegiate baseball series this spring. There will be eight college teams competing for the championship. The Corner Bookstores TWENTY-THREE schools are now entered inthe Cornell interscholastic track meet to be held on May 9. 350 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS A T H L E T I C S men—Bryant, Regan, Traub and Rus- first, one of them ona single and the sell. Regan's work Saturday against other with a pass. Bucknell was good. He isa left-handed Cornell got two hits in the second inn- Baseball twirler, of stocky build. He comes ing, but a double play to the plate pre- The Schedule Virginia, 7; Cornell, 1. Cornell, 5; Virginia, 3 (ten innings). from Wellsville, N. Y. vented a score. Three runs were gath- The new baseball cage was a great ered in the fourth. Bills sent up a high help to theteam. Until this spring it fly which the catcher missed, Grossman Georgetown, 3; Cornell, 2 (ten innings). Cornell, 5; Georgetown, 4. Cornell, 2; Fordham, 1. Army, 6; Cornell, 4. Cornell, 8; Bucknell, 0. was almost always impossible toget any singled, Baugher fouled out, Taber's real fielding practice until the first fly back of second was dropped byBufgame of the southern trip, and the fington after a hard run, and Bills early work in the dark Armory did not scored. Ludwig singled, filling the bases. April 15, Tufts at Ithaca. help to develop batters. Adair flied out. Regan hit a grounder April 18, Lehigh at Ithaca. April 22, Lafayette at Ithaca. April 25, N. C. A. & M. at Ithaca. April 28, Dartmouth at Ithaca. May 2, Williams at Ithaca. May 5, Columbia at Ithaca. May 8, Columbia at New York. May 9, Princeton at Princeton. May 13, Michigan at Ann Arbor. May 16, Princeton at Ithaca. May 20, Michigan at Ithaca. May 23, Yale at Ithaca. May 27, Vermont at Ithaca. May 28, Freshmen at Ithaca. May 30,. Pennsylvania at Ithaca. June 12, Alumni at Ithaca. June 13, Colgate at Ithaca. June 15, Pennsylvania at Ithaca. June 17, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Cornell, 2; Fordham, 1 After breaking even with Virginia and Georgetown in the first four games to the pitcher, whose throw went through the first baseman, arid two more runs came in. Schirick flied out. In the sixth inning Cornell made five of the Southern trip, the team won the hits for a total of eight bases and scored fifth game from Fordham at New York four more runs. Donovan scored in by a score of 2 to 1. The game wasa the eighth on Bills's drive to the club- pitchers' battle in which Bryant proved house. to betoo much forKeelen of Fordham. The score : Cornell scored in the first inning, CORNELL AB R H PO A E when Schirick, the first man up, reached Schirick, c 5 13 9 20 first base on an error. Two easy outs J. Regan, c 0 0 0 0 00 followed, but the Cornell captain scored Donovan, 2b on Grossman's single. In the third inning Bills walked, took third on Gross- Bills, ss Grossman, rf Baugher, cf 5 2 1 120 5 13 0 20 5 1 10 00 3 0 1 100 man's second single, and scored on Gor- Taber, If 3 1 10 00 Dr. Sharpe Thinks the Team Has Made don's sacrifice fly. Fordham's only run a Good Beginning came inthe second as the result of Con- "If thehitting and fielding continue to improve and the pitchers keep up their good work, Cornell should have a baseball team that will win most of its games," said Dr. Sharpe after the return ofthe team from the southern trip. He was well impressed with the team as a whole, but said that the line-up was way's three base hit. He scored on Dooling's sacrifice fly. In this game, Donovan, Bills and Adair were the infielders. Grossman, Halsted, Taber, Gordon and Baugher all played inthe outfield. Sutterby and Ludwig were both tried at first base. The summary : by nomeans final. "The infield isnot yet a unit, and the make-up of the out- Two base hits—Kiernan, Gordon. Three base hit—Conway. Sacrifice hit—Donovan. Sacrifice flies—Gordon, Dooling. Stolen bases—-Schirick, 2. field will depend entirely on the way Left on bases—Fordham, 7; Cornell, 9. Double Gordon, If Ludwig, lb Adair, 3b S. Regan, p Totals BUCKNELL Seeman, 2b Worrilow, 3b Cruikshank, lb Miller, If Storer, ss Sox, c Topham, cf Buffington, rf Brenner, p 10 0 0 00 4 1 2 14 0 0 3 0 0 220 4 1 10 60 38 8 13 27 14 0 AB R H PO A E 2 0 0 0 60 3 0 0 0 10 4 0 0 9 11 4 0 0 3 00 3 0 12 00 3 0 0 6 11 3 0 1 2 10 200 101 2 0 00 31 the men hit. We have plenty of men who can catch flies, but we shall use only those who canhit theball hard. With a hitting team back of the excel- play—Viviano and McErlean. Struck out—By Keelen, 7; by Bryant, 7. First base on balls—Off Keelen, 4; off Bryant, 4. Wild pitch—Bryant. Passed balls—Schirick, 2. Angstadt, p Totals Bucknell Cornell 10 0 130 27 0 2 24 16 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 1 x—8 lent pitching staff, Cornell should have Cornell, 8; Bucknell, 0 Three base hit—Donovan. Two base hit—• a successful season." The team played an errorless game Ludwig. Sacrifice hits—Adair, Buffington. Stolen Dr. Sharpe regards the staff of pitchers as a great improvement over that of last year, andthinks that the in its first appearance at Percy Field last Saturday and defeated Bucknell, 8 to 0. The surface ofthe field was heavy bases—Schirick, Grossman, Baugher, Taber. Hits —-Off Brenner, 9 in five andone-third innings; off Angstadt, 4 in twoand two-thirds innings. First base on balls—Off Regan, 4. Hit bypitched ball— team isbatting and fielding slightly bet- and the airwas chilly. During the last Baugher, by Brenner. Struck out—By Regan,10; ter than last year at this time. The easy defeat of Bucknell he attributed to the fact that the opposing pitchers two or three innings there was a light sprinkle of rain. Regan pitched a strong game, allow- by Brenner, 1. Left on bases—Cornell, 7; Bucknell, 5. Double Play—Topham to Sox. Umpire— Donohue. were inferior tothose met on the south- ing only two hits and striking out ten Army, 6; Cornell, 4 ern trip. He was decidedly pleased, men. He methis hardest test in the The team was defeated, 6 to4, in the however, with thegood showing in the third inning. With a man on third last game of the vacation trip, at West first home game of the season. base and two out he passed two batters, Point. It rained throughout the game. It is several years since Cornellbe- filling the bases, butthenext manup Cornell made a strong start, getting gan a season so well supplied with hit a slow grounder which Regan him- three runs in the first inning. Neither pitchers. Besides Acheson and Johnson, self fielded to first. After that inci- side scored further till thesixth, when of last year's team, there arefour new dent only two Bucknell menreached the cadets pounded Russell's delivery CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 351 for five runs. Cornell had a chance to will get a seat in one of the three crews portunities toscore, asdid Lehigh. The win inthe seventh. The bases were full now at the training table if he shows Hopkins game was hotly contested, and the Army pitcher then forced a sufficient ability. Hopkins, with more experienced players, run by passing Schirick, but Donovan having better stick work, although Cor- struck out. The Army scored one run Cornell Rifle Team in Class A nell handled the ball more than her in theeighth. The hits were : Army, 8; Cornell. 4;errors : Army, 7; Cornell, 5. Butts struck out five men and Russell Won Fifth Place in theWhole League in Average of Scores opponents. In thegame with Swarthmore Cornell displayed more team work, but lost some good chances to four. Unofficial averages compiled by Lieu- score. In the Carlisle game our defense tenant H. T. Bull show that the Cornell played a good game, but the attack, Fencing Columbia Wins the Championship— Cornell inThird Place rifle team, which tied with the Naval especially in the first half, was far beAcademy for second place in Class B low form. The men appeared weak and of the intercollegiate league, had the nervous. Thegame, however, was a highest average but one in that class. hard one to lose, as the Indians scored Columbia won the intercollegiate The team average ofthe Cornell riflemen the winning goal only through a brilliant fencing championship in the finals held in the eleven matches was 951.8 out of flash of speed in the last twenty seconds." Saturday night at the Hotel Astor, New a possible 1000, as against 933 for the Cornell scored six goals in the four York. The Navy was second and Cor- Navy. Washington State College, games, the same number being scored nell third. Columbia won 32 bouts which finished first in Class B, made by the opposing teams. Several injuries and lost 13. The Navy won 29 andan average of 960. The other teams were received, none of which will keep lost 16. Cornell won 21 andlost 24. Pennsylvania took fourth place,Har- averaged as follows : Vermont 924, the men out of the game long. The Wisconsin 924, Oklahoma A. and M. next game is with Hobart at Geneva vard fifth, andYale sixth. 921, Maine 908, Dartmouth 894, Le- on the 18th. high 872, Kansas 859. Two Oarsmen 111 Hyland Probably Outof the Boat for Good—Butts Recovering H. D. Hyland '14, who has been orw- Since the teams having the best twelve averages this year will make up Class A next year, Cornell is sure of a place in the highest class. Only four teams of the twelve composing the Rowing.—The University of Washington eight won the Pacific Coast championship last Saturday, defeating Stanford and California, and will proba- ing No. 4 in the eight in which all the remaining members oflast year's varsity crew have been rowing, was taken ill with scarlet fever last week. Heis now in theinfirmary andis not likely to row anymore this spring. W. W. Butts '15, who has been rowing No. 2 in the same crew, was outof the boat for several days with tonsilitis, but has now left the infirmary. Commodore Gilman was shifted to Hyland's old seat at 4, E. S.Bird '14, stroke oflast year's four, going to6, while B. C. Spransy '14 went from 6 to stroke. The crews have been rowing regularly first class in the season just closed had a better average than Cornell. They are : Michigan Agricultural College 981, Massachusetts Agricultural College 969, Iowa 959, and West Virginia 952. The individual averages of the Cornell men were as follows : Captain S. Coville '15, 192; D. H. Blakelock '17, 189; C. B. Benson '17, 187; W. A. Hoffman '17, 187; E.R.Ryder '15, 187; A. K. Webster '14, 186; W. M. Robinson sp., 185; F. Martindell '15, 183; W. A. Priester '15, 180; Schwartz, 180. Captain Coville shot the high score, 197. bly enter the Poughkeepsie regatta. Freshman Baseball.—Seventy freshmen reported Monday afternoon to Coach Clute as candidates forthe 1917 team. Cheer Leaders.—Hereafter the cheer leaders are to be " C "men. A new method of selection was adopted by the senior general committee Monday night. There is to be a manager of cheer leaders. Arthur Dole, jr., '15, of Chicago, was elected the first manager. Among his duties will be that of ar- on thelake whenever theweather has permitted and aredeveloping rapidly. The high water and rough weather has necessitated theuse of gigs in place of Lacrosse Coach Sawyer Thinks the Squad Showed Promise in the Early Games ranging formass meetings and parades. The plan is to select cheer leaders from among the " C " men after competition and have them officiate in their off sea- the shells on several days recently. The southern trip of the lacrosse sons. A third varsity crew has been taken team, although not altogether success- to the training table this week,con- ful, hasconvinced Coach Sawyer that A NEW BOARD OF EDITORS took charge sisting of the men who made up the he has a promising squad, and he is of the Sun on Sunday night ofthis week third boat during the spring recess. optimistic as to the coming season. for a year to come. The new editor-in- The additional oarsmen, who did not "The men are shaping up nicely," he chief is William L. Kleitz '15, of Glens row during the vacation, have beenre- said Saturday, "and we expect, through Falls; the business manager, P. L. porting at the College Boathouse this hard labor, to win thenorthern cham- Scott '15, of Yonkers; managing editor, week. Mr. Courtney, following his pionship." C. M. Colyer '15, of Central Bridge, custom, has designated none of the The team lost to Carlisle and Johns and theassistant business manager, F. present crews as his varsity or junior Hopkins, defeated Swarthmore, and J. Towar, jr., '16, of Detroit. In its varsity boat, and hasannounced that tied Lehigh. Sawyer reviewed the first number the new board makes a any of the men now rowing at the Col- games as follows : modest and intelligent statement of lege Boathouse, none of whom are in "Cornell was not aggressive enough what it conceives to beitsduty to the any sense cut from thevarsity squad, in the Lehigh game, losing many op- University and to its readers. 352 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS OBITUARY a pilot's license. In November, 1912, world by reaching a height of 4,400 George A. Newbery ['95] he made his first flight over the river meters. The next month he went to George Alexander Newbery, who was a student here in 1891-93, was killed on March 1st, at Mendoza, in the western part of the Argentine Republic, by the fall of an aeroplane. Newbery was much interested in aviation. He had made a record for altitude and was planning a flight across the Andes. Plata and back, about 300miles altogether, and a fewweeks later he joined a German pilot in a flight over the river to Montevideo. He conceived the idea offlyingacross the Andes, and began to try for height records. In May, 1913, he broke all previous records for that part of the Europe with the object of obtaining the best possible motor in the market to aid him in his attempt. He returned with a new Le Rhone, which he installed in his Morane-Saulnier machine, and on February 10of this year he attracted worldwide notice by flying to a height of 6,225 meters. Newbery's ancestry was English. He was born at Buenos Aires on March 29, 1875. In 1891 he entered Sibley College. Although he was here only two years he made many friends inthe University and was a very popular fellow. He was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. After he left Cornell he went to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and graduated there in 1895. The Buenos Aires newspapers spoke of his death as a national calamity and devoted columns to expressions of sorrow from all parts of South America and even from Europe. On hisreturn to Buenos Aires from the United States in1895 Newbery was employed as an electrical engineer by the Rio dela Plata Light & Traction Company. In 1897 he was appointed chief electrical engineer in the Argentine Navy and was promoted in 1898 to be chief electrical inspector, being commissioned to go to Europe to inspect and buy electrical material forthe navy and coast defenses. In1900 he was appointed by the municipality of Buenos Aires to be chief director ofpublic lighting, a post which he held up to the time of his death. He was also professor of electricity at the National School of Industry. Hewas a delegate to the international congress ofengineers at the St. Louis exposition. From there he went to Europe, where he made a study of municipal lighting, the results of which were published in the annals of the Argentine Scientific Society. Newbery was an ardent sportsman and excelled in many forms of sport. In 1911 he won first prize in a South American fencing tournament organized by the Buenos Aires Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima. He was expert in boxing, wrestling and swimming, rowed on winning crews in regattas at Buenos Aires, and won prizes as a yachtsman. He made his first aeronautical ascent in 1907 and after that time his greatest interest wasin aviation. He was one of the first men in Argentina to obtain WHEN the need ofthe t y p e w r i t e r came to the business world, the Remington came. Others followed. Remington was the first typewriter—it is still the first typewriter. First inthe field, the Remington organization began building experience, step by step, from the actual practice of typewriter users—always a step or two in advance of the users' need. Other makes followed. Today the Remington Typewriter βtands unique asthe greatest revolutionizer, the greatest energizer the commercial world has ever seen. And by no means least of its beneficiaries are all other makes of typewriters— for the Remington createdthe typewriter industry and blazed the way— lor the others to follow. 12,500,000 Remingtonwritten letters mailedin the United States aloneevery business day in the year. That tells the story of Remington pre-eminence, of the confidence of captains of commerce in it, of the faith of tens of thousands of efficient employees, of the limitless selection in choice of operators and choice of positions—the machine that has made work for the millions, and millioni for the work. Remington—the first Typewriter Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated) CORNELL CO-OPERATIVEΪSOCIETY Morrill Hall, Ithaca,N. Y. CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS 353 ALUMNI NOTES Moister, daughter ofMrs. Edward Will- Ί l , B.S.A.—D. E. Fink is with the iam Moister, of Montclair, N. J., on U. S. Department of Agriculture asan April 7. Mr. and Mrs. Watson will be entomologist and is at the Virginia '95, Ph.D.—A. Ross Hill, president at home after November 1st at Gren- Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk, Va. of the University ofMissouri, isamember of the committee on statistics and standards of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. This committee has submitted three reports to the chamber : on business conditions in the United States as ofNovember 29, 1913; on the problem ofthe food supply as to wolde, Great Neck, Long Island. Ί l , A.B.—G. M. Wolfson is now working for the law firm of Rounds, Hatch, Dillingham & Debevoise, 62 Cedar Street, New York. His address is 322 West Eighty-seventh Street. Ί l , C.E.—The address of Rafael Ί2, C.E.—Thomas W. Blinn has resigned from the Pennsylvania Railroad service and is now assistant engineer in the maintenance of way department of the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company. His address is changed from Cleveland to Akron, Ohio. breadstuffs andkindred articles, and Gonzalez is 35 SanSebastian Street, Ί2, A.B.—W. E. Weidler has been on the problem ofthe meat supply. San Juan, Porto Rico. He is assistant transferred by the Standard Oil Com- ΌO, Ph.B.—Mr. and Mrs. John Muir sanitary engineer in the sanitation ser- pany of New York from Hongkong, of 17 West Eighty-sixth Street, New vice of Porto Rico. China, to Johannesburg, South Africa York, announce the engagement of their daughter Jessie to Gardiner S. Dresser. The date of the wedding has not been definitely decided but it will take place this spring. Όl, C.E.—Roger B. Williams, jr., has been elected president ofthe new Ithaca Traction Corporation, which on April 1st took over the property ofthe Ithaca New York Lackawaπna to Ithaca Railroad And Return Street Railway Company. He has ACCOUNT also been elected president of the Central New York Southern Corporation, which will soon take title to the property Navy Day at Cornell of the old New York, Auburn & Lansing Railroad Company. The affairs of Saturday, May 23rd these two roads have been in litigation and process ofreorganization for a number of years, and forthe last two years Rate applies from New York, Paterson, Summit and intermediate stations Williams has been one of the receivers of theproperties. The new corpora- Special Train—Friday, May22nd tions are planning important extensions to the Ithaca street railway system and improvements in the service ofboth the roads. Ό8, M.E.—Herbert L. Trube read a paper before the Western Efficiency So- Consisting of Parlor Cars, Dining Car and Coaches. Will leave Hoboken Terminal 10:30 a. m., and arrive Ithaca 5:25 p. m. Sleeping Cars leave Hoboken 9:22 p. m. Arrive Ithaca 7:00 a. m. (Daily) Returning leave Ithaca 10:15 p. m., and arrive Hoboken 6:42 a. m. (Daily). Returning ciety at Chicago on February 27. His Saturday Night, May 23rd topic was "Adiscussion of the problem of human efficiency, with epscial reference tothe industries.-" Trube is the efficiency engineer of the National Veneer Products Company, Mishawaka, Indiana. Special Train of Sleeping Cars will be open for occupancy 9:15 p. m.— Will leave Ithaca 11:59 p.m. and arrive Hoboken 7:42 a. m. Sunday, May 24th Special Train from Ithaca 12:15, Noon, with through Parlor Cars will arrive Hoboken 7:12 p. m. '09, A.B.—A. S. Galajikian has resigned his position asassistant professor of mathematics in the University of the Philippines and will leave the islands this month forthe States. He expects to spend a fewweeks with his parents in Constantinople, Turkey. '09, C.E.—Carl Hawley ("Tip") Watson was married toMiss Clara Honora Tickets The Round Trip tickets will be good going on Night Trains of May 21st and all trains ofMay 22nd, with return limit up to and including train leaving Ithaca 10:15 p. m., May 25th. Hudson Tubes run direct to the Lackawanna Station atHoboken RAILROAD AND PULLMAN TICKETS can be purchased i n advance at 1465, 1183, 429 and 84 Broadway, New York; 505 Fulton Street, Brooklyn; and Broad and Market Streets, Newark, or by applying to Local Agent. CONLON, The Photographer OPPOSITE TOMPKINS COUNTY BANK SPECIAL RATES TO SENIORS 354 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Ί 3 , M.E.—S. D.Mills has left the '05—K. D. Brown, Brooks, Alberta, John Chatillon & Sonsemployment of the Chesapeake &Po- Canada.—E. P. Dandridge, 7038 Rey- tomac Telephone Company to accept a position with the Workmen's Compensation Service Bureau in New York nolds St., E.E.,Pittsburgh, Pa. '06—Eugene Burnell, 2330 East Ninth St., Des Moines, Iowa.—O. D. Manufacturers of SPRING SCALES City. His address is changed from Balti- Roats, White Plains Club, White Plains, more to Summit Avenue, Summit, N. J. N. Y.—Leon C. Welch, 609 Rockefeller for weighing, assorting, counting, multi- '13, M.E.—Parr Hooper is now em- Building, Cleveland, Ohio. plying, estimating, measuring, ployed by the Lanston Monotype Ma- '07—Eugene A. Main, Seattle Hotel, testing and for various chine Company andexpects to be en- Seattle, Wash. other purposes gaged in the manufacturing side of the '08—Charles L. Beaman, 1165 An- business. His address has been changed from Baltimore to3407 Walnut Street, toine St., Detroit, Mich.—Leon M. Brockway, 15 Mentz Apartments, Ni- 85-93 CLIFF STREET, N E W YORK CITY Philadelphia, Pa. agara Falls, N. Y — A. U. Wetherbee, '13, B.S.—L. W. Kephart is in the Office of Farm Management, U.S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 2 C St., Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Herbert Chase, 48 Portsmouth Place, Forest Hills, L. I.—Ralph W. Hiett, Box 505, Long Beach, Ca. '10—Fred A. Flocken, American 3- THE COLLEGE INN NORTON & CURRAN, PROPRIETORS Successors to ZinctCs Log Lunches and Grill Room up Stairs '13, M.E.—G. E. Carman is with Way Prism Co., La Porte, Ind. 108-110 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, N. Y. the Goulds Mfg. Co. at Seneca Falls, Ί l — E . W.Bellinger, 138 Joralemon N. Y. St.. Brooklyn, N.Y.—G. Wollenweber, '13, A.B.—L. B.Allen is in the Chi- U. S. Engineer Office, Chattanooga, cago branch office of the Liquid Car- Tenn. bonic Company. His address is Kenil- '12—M. L. Kaufman, 482 Stone Ave- worth, 111. nue, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Robert L Ή . Printing Up^ to a Standard NEW ADDRESSES Tate, 295Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. Not Down to a Price '91—C. S. Lomax, Lehigh Coke Com- '13—H. Fraser Benton, 1963 East pany, South Bethlehem,Pa. ΌO—A. S. Krebs, 115 Ridgewood Road, Ithaca, N. Y. Ό2—C. G. Rally, 22 Bedford Road, Eighty-fourth St., Cleveland, Ohio.-— Lawrence Spalding, Box 243, Greenville, Pa.—Charles S. Thayer, Box 35, Massena, N. Y.—J. S. Whyte, The THECSϊαGA ^ PRESS17 LTHACA.NY. Schenectady, N.Y. Crescent, Hathersage, Sheffield, England. I. Brooks Clarke ΌO, President W. A.Shackleton, Sec'y & Treasurer A CORDIAL INVITATION I would be very glad to have you drop in and see me when you come to New York and give me a chance to show just what we can do. We have a snap and finish to our garments that will please you. Look me up as soon as you arrive.—I. BROOKS CLARKE ΌO. SHACKLETON, Inc., TAILORS 431 Fifth Ave., betw. 38th and 39th Sts. Telephone 1703 Murray Hill Established 1898 CUT FLOWERS Large assortment ofall seasonable varieties. Floral Decorations for all occasions at moderate cost THE BOOL FLORAL CO. R. A.Heggie & Bro. Co. JEWELERS and makers of special Cornell goods. Watches and Diamonds a specialty 135 East State Street, Ithaca, New York MAYERS Reopened since the fire with entirely new stock of SMOKERS' SUPPLIES Banners, Posters, Pennants and College Souvenirs Cornell and all other important colleges PENNANTS 9x18 25c. 12x30 50c. 18x36 75c. 24x48...$1.00 BANNERS 18x36 $1.00 2 x 4 $1.75 3x 6 $3.00 Mail orders filled promptly ROTHSCHILD BROS. THANKYOU Many thanks for the large number of orders sent me from the sample shirtings sent out. If any were overlooked a postal will bring the finest line for Spring and Summer ever offered. L. C. BEMENT ITHACA, N. Y. HALF Maker ofthe Celebrated DOZEN SHIRTS FOR DOZEN DOLLARS ONE CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS LEGAL DIRECTORY The lawyers' directory is intended toserve the convenience ofCornell professional men in various parts of thecountry. Insertion of a card in this column carries with it a subscription to the paper. Rates on application totheBusiness Manager. WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE K.BRYANT '97, '98 Master Patent Law Ό8 Patents and Trade Marks Exclusively 310-313 Victor Building NEW YORK CITY. CHARLES A.TAUSSIG A.B. '02, LL.B. Harvard '05 220 Broadway Telephone 1905 Cortland, General Practice ITHACA, N. Y. MORRIS S. HALLIDAY '06 General Law Practice 120 East StateSt. WANZER & HOWELL The Grocers KLINE'S PHARMACY L (Incorporated) I Successor to Todd's Pharmacy N THE REXALL STORE E 114 North Aurora St. Every wearer of the Varsity C is an eater of The Lehigh Valley Railroad Burn's Family Bread Offers Special Rates toand from ITHACA for Navy Day, Saturday, May23 He gets it at the training tables. Why? Ask your neighbor. EVENTS OF THE DAY Spring Day Show on the Campus in the morning. Baseball, Yale vs. Cornell, Percy Field. Triangular Intercollegiate Boat Race, Yale, Princeton and Cornell university eights. Ithaca Cold Storage Race of freshman eights, Princeton vs. Cornell. Final heat for the Cornell Collegiate Rowing Championship. J. W. HOOK Fruit, Produce, Butter and Eggs The Lehigh Valley Railroad will runan observation train for the races. 113-115 S. Tioga Street D. S. O'BRIEN DEALER IN FRESH AND SALT MEATS Special Attention Given to FRATERNITY HOUSES 222 N. Aurora St. 430 N. Cayuga St. KOHM & BRUNNE Tailors and Importers ALUMNI WORK A SPECIALTY Write for samples of Imported Goods 222 E. State St. Ithaca, N.Y. J. WILL TREE BOOKBINDER 111 NORTH TIOGA STREET HOLLAND BROS. THE CLEANERS PRESSING CONTRACTS A SPECIALTY Both Phones When in Ithaca, stop at THE CLINTON HOUSE "Ithaca's Popular Hotel" Corner Cayuga and Seneca Streets JAMES B. E. BUSH MANAGER THE SENATE Getting better known each season for the meals and service M. T. GIBBONS 104-106 NORTH AURORA STREET THE ALHAMBRA GRILL Best Food and Best Service in Ithaca Our Steaks are Famous 113 N. 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CORNELL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY Morrill Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. Spalding's for over thirty-five yearshave been the ones to think out, and put on the market, things really new in sport. Are you posted on just what's new this year? Lang's Palace Garage is situated in the center of Ithaca 117-129 East Green Street It is absolutely fireproof. Open day and night. Commodious and fully equipped. Afull stock of tires and tubes and everything in the line of sundries. William H. Morrison '90 Ernest D. Button '99 Send forour Catalogue. Hundredsof illustrations of what touse and wear— For Competition—For Recreation— For Health—Indoor and Outdoor. A. G. Spalding & Bros. 357 South Warren Street, Syracuse, N. Y. ZHE SYRACUSE, N. Y. HIGGINS' DRAWING INKS ETERNAL WRITING INK ENGROSSING INK TAURINE MUCILAGE PHOTO MOUNTER PASTE DRAWING BOARD PASTE LIQUID PASTE OFFICE PASTE VEGETABLE GLUE, ETC. 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